; .-1"*. tOrrOM 41T-OHOTNIIT STREIT THE D'AiL PR-EB6, TARLYR Cuß PRA WEIR, pueblo to the ()airier. ritettedio Subeoribere out or the City et Si .DOLLAIte PRA ARIII 411, POUR POLLARA 70A Etna: MONTRS, TERRI Mimosa roa Six bloirreettlyariebtr In tetra= for *be tine Odom; THIS TEX-WEEKLY. PRESS, . *MO to listroOrtbers out of the 01t7 'at Tawas' Boz.- a.isa 111 Maur, In Mviacs. . ' NOTICES. • J grTHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE. ilatual Fire Insurance Donipany of Philadelphia wits b.l betel - on.110IIDAY; Jaunari WIN at 12 o'clock Itooaihotthisßoardot Trade,No.,sos OFINCT 4 ' NUT . Street, at w hich time -an .eleetiori williCO held for welfelfirectore. , T. NLLWOOD CHAPMAN, j a g,* I • • _ , Secretary. ',ANNEAL, MEETING . Or TIME — Stoolihtddets. et the FARMERS' WESTERN . Me BRET COXPANT will be held at the WESTERN MARKET .11.0XEL,Aio. 2129 .11.4EKET.street, on FM: DAY,theilith instant at o'clock.P. M., to pled Mem -,tOr-thiretiditts-Set‘r• - J. V: SINES, Ja., 389.61 , 1 - , . • • Secretary. ViPHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION. FOR sr THE BELIEF OF DISABLED FIREMEN.— Vl4s,Adjonrpea T3trenty-eighth Annual Ideating of the -Aaiaefrtrt!ir will be beta on SATURDAY EVENING, Jimmy 11th, 1662, at 7x &dock, at the RALI# OF Tax -mg ; ASSOCIATION. 318.4 t ,Wfd." - J, PASCOE, Assistant See-Mary. pyVak FAME INSURANCE COMPANY, Office 400 CELBSTNUT Street. . - PHILADISLPHIA, TallUSTril t 1862. -' , ..At &Meeting of the _Board 'of Directors of the Fame • litluitMee Company, bold this day, a eembanunal Ditiri debd YbroOpercent was declaiedi Payable on and after the firstday of rebrilbrit 1 86 2. , WM& 1. BLANCHARD, Secretary. re/ FIVE OF • THE run..A.Dairmtte. . 'City Passenger BallwaY Company, 2100 OAST , I' Street—January 10152.-Tbo - Board of Direct:no bare THISDAT declared a taridoal of ONE DOLLAR and MIT CENTS per share on the Oasaal,Stook from O,e earnings for the past six' montlie. payable to the Stookhoklers or their logabrepresentatires on and atter We 18th init. The transfer books will tie closed antiltho 16th inst. - la7-10t ' AM. W. 40LICET, Secretary, orptior; OF THE RIDGE &VENUE. AND ZIIAN&YIINK PASSENGER BAIGIVAY ,•• `ollCPANY::coraerof RIDGE audGOLUMOIA avenues. ". • . P mow ' • • • 6 ISM _ 4 ;:f1 Daft ' a.; ‘, ' ' re" ay - OFrIVE OF:THE'rßitfilltrOltil AAD DODTHWARK,pIittaDIGLPHIa. 9/ITY PAS; DPIOICB ItAILDOAD COMPANY; - BUMS , (late *teat, below, Ftiarth. • Poltaoahonta,,Xatinary 20562. Thelloaritof Directors have this dap declared a dirt or Three and Cue-halt Per Cent. on the Capital Mak* . ; Patel the Mantilla's for the past WY months, papa. Sib to the atockheldent or their legal-#PMentativee on Sao after,t4elath inst. , , ' Vhillnuitifer'books will be aoica tuitiljbelsth inst. • Of AS. R..AriBOTTi t3eerebsry. ff (WOFFICE or THE PHILADELPHIA AND DABBg• EAMBOAD COMPANY. ' - • December 28, 1861. • The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this Cont. )any will be held at the Depot, on.DARDY Avenne;be thetas forty-ninth *lid Fiftieth streets. on MONDAYt day 61,3tonoary, Ufa, at P. Id., at which tiara an deotionforillesident and Directors to serve for the en maths year viln-bit • The Supplement tratihe Charter, approved ale twenty eighth day of February last, will be submitted for accept.: anceor rejection; • TICOMANSPARKS; ' de3o-tiala / Secretary. ITOFFICE OF THE MARANON AND BROAD MOUNTAIN PAILDOAD COMPANY, , KoUltt 7 111 RD Street. • :The Animal Meeting of the Stockholders of this Com 'Nur tide held on :MONDAY, January-I;th, 1662, at 1 o'clock P. zir., at the Office of the Compaby, at which time and place an election will be holdfortcPreeldent and ts'el.ve Directors to nerve the ensuing your. dOO-neat* N. B. BROOK, Secretary. Tr-OFFICE OF THE FMANKFORII AND ROULDIVADE PHIhADELPHIA. CITY PAS. RENOIR RAILROAD COMPANY, BERM (late Chatham) Btreatebelow FOURTH . Pichansauts, December 29,1861; The Annual Koettng Of the Stackholders of the Frank. Cord and fiouthwaric Philadelphia City Passenger PAW. toad Cattupany will be hold at the Office of the Company, .on MONDAY, January Mlth, 1862, at 12 o'clock H.. at nadolY" time and place an Efemion will be held for Prost. Klent una Twelve Directors to serve the ensuing year. 410-thilB ‘ OIIAB. It. ABBOTT, Secretary. lir OFFICE OF THE ENTERPRISE 1.. N SUNANCE COMPANY, 400 WALNUT ST. „PIILADHLIIIIE, DO:0111ber 28, 1861. NOTICE.—The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of the Enterprise - Insurance Company will be held on 7fioramor,the 18th day of January, /802, at 10 o'clock 4.11-: at the Office of the Company. Aki Election for Twelve Directors to wove the ensuing Year will Fie held on the same day, at the same Place, be- Direm the hours or 10 o'clock A. N. and 2 P. 11. .o.lB' ONARLES W. COXE, Secretary. orOFFICE OF THE PHILADELPHIA CITY PARBSNGRII RAIL W ' °RYAN Y. • DSOEMDER UM. " The' Annuli Sleeting of the Stockholders of the PELL LADEDPRIA. OPIY PASSENGER RAILWAY 00N. PANY will be bold at No. 25 MEROHANTS' EX %MANGE, on XONDAY, the 13th day of January, 1862, at twelve o'clock M., at which time an Electionfor Prod deaf nod Biz Directors to serve for the ensuing year 'beheld. WM. W. ,l l 1 .., ...; , • ':: : ,.9 . ':: - ' ''.:•-' ft't ft C._ C. --•- • , • : ...,,,,.- • . . 1 . c" • ,MSI " 7 .2.4 - 5 , I I .. "., \,;,' ' l_c _ lK l . '-fri . ,,,0 ~..- • - -..-:.,-..,- .. tr tt ' 4 fi nk • - -:-.-,----.-- 111 -- "4, . , 7 - _,<, - ... • ~:,-:- I. ig,._ :. itt4 . ., .: -- - _ . ~,roe\ Il• L 4 . . .., ~ ~- . •••• . PI . , a t __,_..,,..,..,. 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NAVAL ENGAGEMENT NEAR NEW ORLEANS, ,ZEE, WAR, IN MISSOURI. .10:T.1.311'01 . 13:t*ra0)410:44ifliki:o EFFECT OF GEN. SIGEL'S REKONATION. RETREAT OF THE REBELS UNDER GENERAL JACKSON. The Military Keys of the Country THE WAR IN KENTUCKY. The Rebel Defence! at Bowling Green and Columblis. A Louistille correspondent of the New York Tribune says: The rebel defences in the shape of fortifications are really formidable only on the Mlesiesippi river, 'But, even if they, together with those on the Cum• beilaisd and Tennessee and about Bowling Green, were more extensive, ,and better provided with armament than they . are, • they would be of but little effect toward impeding the Union advance upon Tennessee, and thle simply: 1. Because the rebels have no artillerists to serve their guns with anything like efficiency. I venture to assert that not ono in fifty of the pretended prac titioners of the Brief gunnery among them would be pronounced fit for active duty by competentjudges. There has been'for a long while a solcalled artillery camp for instruction opposite this place, on the right bank of the euitiberland, which afforded use a fine opportunity for observing the mode of schooling and. the progress of the recruits. They lay for months in camp without, even a single piece whereivlth to learn the manual. Latterly they received a few guns, but I have yet to hear of their practice at the target. I ascertained bat a few days ago from an intelligent Kentuckian, who spent nearly the whole of October and November at Bowling Green that, save a few salutes in honor of arriving generals and " Southern 'victories," no exercises whatever were had in all that time by the " artillerists " at that point. The marksmanship of those . at Columbus was strikingly illustrated by the battll of Belmont, at which the only damage done by them, according to their own officers, was the bursting: of their big gest gun. 2. Because there is no necessity Whatever for a direct attack by the Union forces upon any of the fortified positions of the rebels. A knowledge of the topography of Southern and Western Ken tucky, and of the vast latitudinal extent of the rebel lino of defence, from Columbus to the vicinity of Somerset, near the Upper Cumberlaud, will bring any ono to that - condemn. It would require an .army of at least 150,000 men to cover effectively the front of over 125 miles from Columbus to Somerset, while the rebels have hardlyl3o,ooo for that purpose. Their armies at Bowling Green and Columbne really - represent two wings, with nothing for a centre be yond a brigade at ilepkineville and the forte on the Cumberland and Tennessee, to the right and left of which there are entirely unprotected gaps of from 40 to 00 miles. If, with a forms at Bird's Point, - Cairo, and Proinenh, eufficient to check any aggres- ' sive movement by Gen. Polk, a Union corps of 25,000 men ehould advance from Green River upon' 11opkinsville, or bo carried up the Tennessee or Cumberland under the protection of gunboats, and take a position near the State tide, it would at once isolate the army at Columbus from that at Bowling Green, white it would threaten the rear and could ho made to out off the means of supply and retreat of either. The right of Columbus at Bowling Green could easily be flanked, menacing them with an at tack in front, while passing a column down the turnpike from Munfordsville to Glasgow, from which point it could also get into their rear and en tirely prevent all communication with Central Tennessee. Such a distribution of the Union forces would inevitably result in an abandonment of Co lumbus and Bowling Green and falling back, on the part of tho rebels, in the direction of Memphis and Nashville, or in encircling them with a cordon of Union columns that could either separately destroy them by attacks in front and rear, or starve them into surrender by isolating them from the South. Should the Bowling Green army fall back into Tennessee to escape that dilemma, the battle de cisive of the fate of Tennessee will probably bo fought along the base of the romp of bills already • alluded to, farther above. 1f disastrous to the rebels, Nashville will fall, and the job of freeing the Mississippi Valley from rebel rule be more than half finished. Polk's army will he readily die ; parsed, end another army, far a second stand against the Unionists, the rebels will never be able to collect. Their generals know this fully well, and hence they are now moving heaven and earth to increase their means of defence. Breclunridge's Brigade A letter in the Nashville Union and American says that " General" Breokinridge's brigade is lo cated "north of the Big Barren, in the direction' of Glasgow." That is to say, the rebels have dis covered the danger of a flank movement from Co lumbia, on the east of Bowling Green, and have sent out Brecklnridgo's brigade to oppose some sort of check to such a movement. They will need to put forward more than one brigade, From General lileCoolE's Army. WHAT GEN. BUELL IBS DONE POR THE ARHY IN KENTUCKY—TIM WAY TO BRIGADE AN ANNT— MIL NELSON'S POSITION—ABOUT TIM NEXT FOR WARD NOVF.TtENT. [Correspondence of the Ciucinnati Commercial.] CAMP WOOD, MUNPORDSVILLE, Ky., Jan. 4. The rebels may bo short of coffee and corn s wheat and whisky, and also of money, but they are cer tainly better supplied in one respect than we are, and that is in the matter of generals ranking "high up in the figures." By some means or other, the rebels afford three majors and countless briga dier generale to their army in Kentucky, while, strange to say, the Union Government can not afford one. Wo have had rumors of ap pointments; but the appointee has never made his appearance. Major generals have been flitting about and around us, but the "dark and bloody ground " is likely to be rebaptized by a " briga dier general commanding." We have had an inti mation of a major general from the civil list, but the once-militui general has not walked forth General Buell is only the acting major general, as you are aware. Why aro wo not entitled to a ma jor general ? Perhaps we have not deserved one, as the two previously "acting major generals " cer tainly did not win the commission, but may it not be said that General Befell has? I believe you oc casionally indulge editorially in a slur at the work done and doing in this State. I sincerely wish that the editor who "got on the rampage," as did Joe Gargery'a wife, could have witnessed the formation and disciplining of the main army in this State. General Anderson loft the chaotic mass as ho found it, only increased in dimensions. General Sher man, on taking the mass in hand, immediately proceeded to so increase the confusion as to render the object unrecognizable. I had a week's care ful study of the army at Camp Nevin, when Gen. Sherman left it. Confusion worse confounded is the beat description I can give of it. Augmented into vast proportions since then, separated into di visions and brigades, stretched along the wide fron tier of the occupied Dixie of the rebels, it is under as complete control and management as the best singlezegiment in the State. Oen. Buell had to reorganize, after the departure of Sherman, in eve ry department and every respect. Gen. Sherman, in fact, is half " States Rights," and ho appeared to manage the State feeling in the army - by dividing the brigades in each a manner as to compose each of several regiments from the same States. Thus Indiana had two or three brigades, Pennsylvania had ono, Kentucky several, and so on. General Buell bee avoided any of the natural results of a rivalry on the part of different States by redividing the army. For instance, General Negley has two Pennsylvania, one Isdiana, and one Wisconsin regiment in his brigade, and thus all through the whole army. But while General Buell and Achilles McDowell McCook have been laboring to produce this perfect organization, the only re ward hnsbeen an indiscriminate shower of vitupera tive adjectives upon their devoted heads by the newspapers. IVe have interesting ueivs to-day from General Nelson, and which I think will still be news by the One tjaveaches you. Ten miles east of this the First Wisconsin Regiment has boon engaged.in building a pontoon bridge for General Nelson. The bridge is reported finished, and thed . duipany of the First Wisconsin are to return here to build another at the ferry at this point. General Neleon encamped near the river on the let list , and is preparing to cross at a moment's notice. General Nelson's division—be is acting as major goaeral—mnat not be looked upon as the left wing of General McCook's army. The main force—the central oolummi—are composed of these two brigades, and they aro to act in concert. lam led to infer that they will noon be joined in one force, and under one general —McCook. The point of arming for General Nel sw's division is what is familiarly known as the "'Tipper turnpike crossing." This " upper pike" is en old Louisville and Nashville road. By a glance at the map, the reader will perceive it stretching due north from Glsogow to New Haven and Bardatown. At a point twenty miles south of this the turnpike road, from Mumfordsville south, and the one over which General Nelson is marching, approach to within eight miles of each other, and a branch road connote the two. Tbo workmen speak of baling the bridge—rail road bridge, I mean—iloishod by Tuesday. They will not succeed in completing it so soon—not be- fore next Friday or Saturday. But even if they do, it does not follow that General McCook's divi sion will push forward. As I telegraphed you, the railroad, four snifesheyond the river, to destroyed for a distance of four or five miles. Gen. McCook will not move forward in force until all this is re paired. Beyond the" river about eight miles, the country, for three or four miles to the north, is commanded by a series of hills, which are in pos session of the rebels. I do not think they will make a stand ,there, but from the point they could easily shell should we move forward over -five miles. - .vdo not think General McCook will move from his present position until he has posses sion of the points iralioated. At any rate, You may set it down as positive that our next move forward brings on a battle. Then look out for stirring and startling news. LATE SOUTHERN NEWS. The Effects orthe Blockade The following articles, being a portion of a cargo recently arrived from Havana, were sold at auction last welik,.by Messrs. La Roche .b Bell, of Sayan. nab 1,038 sacks coffee, various brands, brought from 65 to 66:10. per pound; 20 pieces army and, navy cloth brougbt $lO to $12.50 per yard ; 20 car boys carbonic acid brought $1 per pound ; 100 hhds. clarified. and brown sugars brought 8 to lie. per pound ;'8 8 roams letter paper brought $9 to $10.50 per ream. From Wlliiillllollrg, [Correspondence of the Petersburg krprei.s.l - Jan. 1, 18(12.—Although we have not bad a visit from our enemy, still, wo have anticipated one. In this we have boon die appointed; but they are probably satisfied that they never had bettor quarters for the winter, and likely never will again. Our gallant General Ma gruder bus accomplished agreat work in our midst. ' --mot opt hrax6xs skill and prudence coma toe to lone me enemy °lit In inottat ho hes also kept the whole Peninsula awake and ttetire, that the enemy might learn, through their lici t that we were a unit in sentiment and in ac tion. Ile set a noble example before his command of industry, energy, and temperance. When the din of battle is over it will be seen that our nom mender has accomplished as great a work in pre venting a battle as ho could have done in a full and complete conflict with the enemy. The health of the army, we trust, is improving. While our city is filled with the sick, and while death gathers home many a noble and brave spirit, yet wo have reason to believe that sickness in our midst is decreasing. Naval Engagement near Mobile. [From the Mobile Evening News, Dee, 26. j About midday yesterday the stout gunboat Flo rida, C. . S. N., concluded to celebrate Christmas eve by a small set-to with the Lincoln cruiser New _London, which was lying off the mouth of the har bor. The Florida ran down to the westward of Sand Island t and challenged the New London to come on, which she did, .and for an hour or two a lively cannonade at long taw furnished an exci tingly-interesting exhibition for the entertainment of the great audience which viewed it—the 4,000 men who garrison Forts Morgan and Gaines, as welt as the crews of the blockading vessels, being tho spectators. The Florida could not come to (deaf) quarters with the enemy by reason of the shout water of a batintervening, and could she have got out it is likely km would have had more than she could attend to with the several blockaders that were lying of in deep water. The engagement was lengthy, and many shots were fired on both sides, and ended by the New London backing out, as usual. The Florida was not touohed, but it is thought that three o her pills took (Abet on the enemy. All but these throe were seen to strike the water, but the thousands of oyes which watched could not tell where these three went to if they were not stopped by the New Line lion. She was evidently hard hit, for after hocking Out of the light she signalled the fleet, and ono of them ran down and lay alongside of her for several hours, rendering assistance, it is supposed. From _the. South Carolina Coast—Con. federate Account of the Recent Engage ' meat- - The Charleston Courier, of Friday last, has the following : The eonfitoting. rumors throughout the oity, Wednesday and Thursday; of fighting at Port Royal, caused much excitement. It wen stated early on Wednesday morning that despatches had been received saying th,t the enemy had landed at a point near Port Royal ferry; that they had been met by our forces and driven back to their gun boats. This was partially confirmed by a despatch received in official quarters, stating that the enemy bed landed near the ferry, and driven in put pick ets, but that Generals Pemberton and Donelsen had taken a position to meet them, should they attempt to advance beyond the range of their boats. Passengers by the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, on Thursday afternoon, state that the fighting of Wednesday was renewed on Thursday, and very heavy firing heard in the direction of Coosawatchie and Pontaligo. The accounts given of the first tight state - that' our troops, consisting of. Colonel Jones' regiment and three companies of Colonel Ponovant a regiment, met the enemy Ott landing at Chisholm's place, and, making a brilliant charge, repelled and drove them back to their gun boats. Our men scoured a number of small arms which the retreating forces threw away in their flight, and also took ono prisoner. In the pursuit, a portion of Colonel Jones' mon rather impetuously advanced within range of the gunboats, when a shell (rein a howitzer fell and exploded among them, killing six and • wounding *we've. The wounded men were brought up to the hospital, un der the charge and treatment of Surgeon Hough, of Colonel Jones' regiment The' enemy's force was said to be about three thousand five hundred, and our own but very little over a thousand. The loss of the enemy in the engagement was not asoartained. It was also re. ported that our battery at Page's Point had been attacked by three gunboats, and the battery aban doned, after removing all the guns but one. A despatch from Gen. Pemberton states that the fight was renewed on Thursday morning. A correspondent of the Courier says Gen. Leo is in command at Pocataligo, S. C. The correspond. out also says that very heavy firing was heard on the first instant in the direction of Savannah, and there was much anxiety in camp to hear from that quarter. The Charleston Mercury of Friday says: Our loss, beyond those killed and wounded by the shells of the boat howitzers, was but tritliag. Of the enemy's loss we have no definite account. When they finally departed in their boats, they left four killed and many wounded on the field ; but it is known that, besides these, they carried off with them numbers both of killed and wounded. Early yesterday morning the enemy again ap proached the main in much heavier force than on the preceding day. Gen. Gregg's brigade, which was stationed in the neighborhood, fell back a short distance to secure an advantageous battle ground, and, at lest accounts, the Yankee forces were ad vancing up the Combahee road, the skirmishing between the pickets being heavy and continuous. Of the results of the action of the day we have no news whatever; but the fighting was steadily maintained until quite late in the afternoon. At 5 o'clock P. Al yesterday, official despatches were received, announcing that the enemy's gun boats bad again opened a sharp fire of shells upon White Point, but for what purpose was not known. We have advices that, on Tuesday hut, a Yankee gunboat entered Bull's Bay, and chased a schooner that wee coming from Santee, by the inland pas sage. The steamer was crowded with armed men on deck: She ran the achooner up a creek, but finding the water too shallow, oeased the pursuit. From Western Virginia. RICHMOND, Tan s.—Conflicting reports roach us from the mountains, but it is evident that the Federalists are making demonstrations there at various points. Tho mail agent from Staunton tells the postmaster hero that Colonel Johnson, at Alle gheny, says that he can hold his position, but ap prehends that his supplies will be interrupted.— Petersburg Ea., Wooden Shoe Manufactory They have at Raleigh an establishment for the manufacture of 'wooden shoes, of ' which the Standard thus speaks: The enterprising manufacturers have in their employment some thirty hands, and are turning out about ono hundred pairs of shoes per flay. The shape and size of the shoe are firartnarked and `sawed out, then scooped out and fashionedlat the bottom, and sand-papered , and lined, and painted, and topped with leather, and thus finished in various rooms in the same building. Most of this work is done by machinery driven by steam. The wood is gum and poplar, which is well steamed before the shoe is mad°. %understand that these shoes aro notually lighter than the leather brogan of the same number, and, as for durability, the bottoms will last until the next war. We learn that Messrs. Thuim k Props, who aro finishing ono bun dred.pairs per day, have more orders than they can fill. Wooden shoes are worn in the northern part of Europe, and in some localities in this country; but we suppose that this is the first manufactory of the sort by machinery and steam which has been esta blished. THE WAR IN MISSOURI. Sigel's Resignation A St. Louis despatch to the Chicago Traunc says : News from Rolla states that resignation bas created groat excitement among f trodp3. Many other German officers have resigned. - - - The Grttud Movement The Chicago Post Bays: We have information regarding army movements in the West, which may be of considerable sigralearlCO in relation to the general movement of the Grand Anaconda, which is expected to first crush and then swallow up the rebellion. Brigadier General Jim Lane, of Kansas, has been appointed a major general, and is assigned to a new department, to include Kansas, Arkansas, and the Indian territories. Ile is to have a command of twenty4lve thousand men, including six thousand cavalry, with which, it is supposed, he is to swoop down through Western Missouri, exterminate the re bellious Creeks and Cherokees, and Nuelch the re bellionin Arkansas. Three of the regiments now in Camp Douglas, Chicago--the Fifty , seventli Infan- try, Col. Baldwin, the Fusileers, Col. Wilson, and Col. Brackett's cavalry—have received orders to re. portto Gen. Lane, and to be in readiness to march at once. Tho general is expected to arrive in Chloe• go, on his way to the field. some time this week. All this, by itself, is perhaps of little consequence. But the appointment of Lane takes away the pre sent command of General Hunter, who, we orb credibly informed, is to have command of the Mis sissippi expedition. No better officer could have been selected for that important work, General Bunter is a thorough and accomplished soldier, and one of the very best mon to be at the head of an army in the Geld that we have got. Taken together, these movements upon the no. tional chess board indicate that our great armies in the field are not to spend the entire winter idly in camps ; but that a stupendous effort is shortly to be made to crush out this monstrous rebellion with a swiftness that shall be all the inoro surprising on ac count of the apparent inactivity that preceded tho grand movement. PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1862. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. From Fortress Monroe FORTRESS Mositoz, inn. 8, via Baltimore.—The Steamer Connectecut, from New York, arrived this afternoon, and is to edit this evening for Port Royal. Judge Marvin, of the Admiralty Coart at Key West, takes passage in the Connecticut. Tho Wench Steamer Catinat arrived in the Roads, from Now York, this afternoon: The rebel batteries at Cranny Island have boon Practising alltlay The steamboat „MOM Z has sailed for Port Royal with the snails: for small sire and lightdraugbt of water will make her useful in that vicinity. The iteamboat Rancoctts has sailed for Hatteras. No Southern papers have heenireeeived hero today. 'Retreat of' the Rebels under Jackson. BALTIMORE, January 9.--The correspondent of the American, writing from ifagoretown, January 7, says "Reliable reports from Hancock last night, state that the rebel force under Jackson had been driven by the Union army, under Gra. Reynolds, from that vicinity to Bath, Morgan county, whore they attempted to make is stand, but were finally re• phlsed and are now in full retreat on the road to Winchester." - — rannanicu, January B.—Thorn isno now 1110V9._ inept bore or up the river. It is believed that Jackson has been joined by Generals Anderson and, Loring's Brigades and gone to attaok Geberal Kel-• lay. All eyes aro now turned toward Romney.' Jackson's rebel force probably exceeds 10,000 men,. Gen. Hamilton, of our Second Brigade, is moo voring from a savors bilious attaok. Last night was the coolest of the season hero, but tha tram arise...fel:table and, wake no complaints of hardship's. -, The Indinn Tribes The St. Louie Republica?! nye Reports in relation to the 'dissatisfaction of num-, boys of the eopper•eolored inhabitants of the Indian Territory with the Confederate Government are. confirmed by every succeeding account that reaches us from that quarter. The bravo, undaunted, Opothleyholo, a chief of great popularity and in fluence, remains a firm and steadfast chempion of the Union. Ile has gathered about him between four and five thousand Cherokees, Seminoles, Creeks, and Choctaws, who have declared their unswerving fealty to the Government that has be friended them, and determined to do 'nil in their poWer to check the warlike endeavors of some of their tribes attached to Jeff Davis' army. , About the middle of December, Opothleyhelo nt tacked'withgreatfury the camp of Col. Cooper, on' Bushy creek, near the Verdigris river, and drove his force of 1,500 men a distance of several miles,, taking a large number of scalps, and achieving a marked victory. The effect of this triumph can best be judged from. the following, which la from the Fort Smith Times: An express arrived 'yesterday from,Col. Wattle, from which we learn his regiment is on the move to aid Col. Cooper. Nothing has yet been heard from. Captain Parks and his company. It is feared that, they hare all been killed, and Wattlo's mon are highly exasperated. We learn that Colonel Mclntosh, in oommand of the troops on this frontier, has ordered eight com punks of Colonel Young's regiment, five companiet of Colonel Greer's regiment, and Colonel Whit field's battalions, to tho assistance of Col. Cooper, against Opothloyholo and his Jayhawking allies. Obsequies of General linker in San Fran- The obsequies of the late General E. D. Baker took place to San Premise° on the 11th ultimo. The ceremonies were very imposing. Every class of society was 'represented in the procession, and men of all parties joined iu the general lamentation over the loss the nation has sustained. The people of the Pacific coast have given indisputable testi mony of the high estimation in which they hold ttie deceased. During the movement of the military procession the Russian frigate in San Francisco bay fired minute guns. SPEECH OF'HON. CHAS. SUAINER ON TILE TRENT AFrAIR Idr. SUMNER. bin President, ovary principle of in. ternational law, when justly tend authoritatively settled, termites a safegnanl of peace and a landmark of civilize• lion. It constitutes a part of that cot% which Is the en. prente law, above all municipal land, binding the whole commonwealth of potions. Such a sentiment may les by a general °ohne eon of nations, 119 at Munster, Vienna, or Paris; or it may be through tho general accord of tree. lice ; or it may be by a precedent established under seich consptcuous circumstances, with nil nations as assenting witnesres, tient It shalt at onto become In lksif a com mending rule of international conduct. Especially it this The cane, If disturbing pretension, long mnintalned to the detriment of civilization, are practically renounced by the Poner which has maintained them. Without nay Congress or treaties, such in precedent has been es tablished. both a preet-dent ought to Ito considered and under brood In its true thargems,...in untlertatimi,ta , ....b4a I shall w.tat (or niYa , dralonni hat 1 shall lineal (rankly, aceistaies to the stise freedom of public debate ' Mid the plain teachings of history on the question Involved, trusting sincerely that shat I say may contribute some thing to elevate the honest patriotism of the country, and perhaps to secure that tranquil judgment which ',till render this precedent the herald, if not the guardian, of International Mummy, Two old men and two younger associates, recently taken from tho BMW' ninil packet Trent on the high retie, by order of Captain Wilkes, of the United States Levy, and afterwarce detained in custody at Fort War ren, have been liberate.] and placed nt the disposition of the British Governient. Tlllll hoe been done at the instance of that Got eminent, courteously conveyed, and tout ded on the assumption that the original Lupton, of these men Ai as an net of violence was an a ff ron t to the British nag and a violation of international law. This Is a simple outline of the facts. But in order to appreciate the value of this precedent, there are other matters u filch must be brought Into view. These two old men were citizens of tho United States, and for ninny years Senators. Ono woe the author of the fugithe-elave bill, and the other was the chief author of the filibustering system which has disgraced our national borne and disturbed our national peace. Occupying places of trust and power in the service of tit iir coun try, they conepited against it, and, at tact, the secret ti alters and conspirators become open rebels. The pre sent rebellion, now surpassing in proportions, and also in wiskedness, any rebellion in history, wee, front the be ginning, quickened and promoted by their untiring energies. That country to which they owed lure, honor. and obedience, they betrayed and gave over to violence and outrage. Treason, conspiracy, and rebellion, each iu succession, have acted through them. Tho incalcu lable expenditures which now task our national resources, the untold derangement of affairs, not milt at home but aloe abroad, the levy of armies almost without an example, the devastation of ex tended regions of territory, the plunder of peaceful ships on the ocean, and the slaughter of Nina-- citizens on the murderous battle-held—such aro some of the consequences proceeding directly from them. To critry tinware still further the gigantic crime of which they were so largo a part, these two old men, with their two younger assmiates, atoll) from Charleston on board a rebel steamer, and, under rover of darkness and storm, running the blockade and avoiding the cruisers in that neighborhood, succeeded in reaching the neutral island of Cuba, white, u ith open display and the knowledge of the British consul, they embarked on board the British mail packet Trent, bound for St Thomas, salience caw limo to embark for England, in which kingdom one of them woe to play the part of ambassador of the rebellion, while the other Sias to play the same part in France. The original treason, contplracy, and rebellion of which they were so heinously guilty, store all continued on this oyage, which became a prolongation of the original crime, declined to still further excess, through their am bassadorial pietenbions, which, it teas hoped, would at ray its o great nations against the United States, and enlist them openly in behalf of an accursed 'sleet:Mold ing rebellion. While on their way, the ambassadors were arrested by Captain Wilkes, of the United States steamer San Jacinto, tin accomplished officer, already well known by his scientific explorations, who, on this occasion acted without inch tuitions front his Govern moth it, in this arrest, he forgot for a moment the fixed policy of the Republic, which hoe been flout the be ginning like a frontlet bolds eon the OW, and trsnscentl cd the law of nations, as the United States have always declared It, his apology must be found lu the patriotic, im pulso,py which be xas inspired, and the Widen exam ples which he could net forget. They were the enemies of kits country, embodying in themselvea the triple es sence of worst enmity—treason, conspiracy, and rebel lion ; and they wore a pretended ambassadorial charac ter, which, as he well knew, according to high British authority, rendered them liable to be stormed. If, in the ruder of an honest nature, Captain Wilkes erred, he might w ell buy : " Who can he wise, mated, temperate, and furititts, Loyal end neutral In a moment l No man. The expedition of my violent love Outran the painter reason. " Who could refrain That had a heart to love, Raclin that heart Courage to make his love known 1" _ . . If this transaction ho regarded exclusively in the light of J3ntlNh precedents; if we follow the seeming authority Of the British admiralty, speaking by its greatest volco ; and especially, if we accept the oft-repeated example of I:111110h cruisers, upheld by the British Government nattiest the oft-repeated protests of the - United States, we shall not find it difficult to Antillean) it. This act be comes questionable only when brought to the touchstone of these liberal principles, which, front the cattiest times, the American Government has openly avowed and sought to advance, end which other European nations have accepted with regard to the sea. Indeed, Great Britain cannot complain except by now adopting those identical principles; and should wo undertake to vindi cate the act, it can be done only by repudiating those identical principles. Our two cases will be res ersed. In the strtigglo between Laortes and Hamlet, the LAW corn- Istants exchanged rapiers; so that Hamlet was armed with the rapier of harrier, and Laertcs was armed with the rapier of Hamlet. And new, ou• this seneltne ques tion, a similar exchange has occurred. Great Britain is armed with American principles, while to us are !enmity those British principles which, throughout our history, have been constantly, deliberately, and siemnly re. Ected. Loral 11116aell, in his despatch to Lom nicafutl la Ittr. Seward, coatenta himself by sayffif 4 "it appears t hitt herinitt ttl irillllala have boon ford mi taken from on board d British vessel, the ship of a nuu tt al Poster, while such iwasel sad. pursuing a lawful curd innocent voyage—an act of tbilencii width was an anon t to the Ti, itch flag, and a violation of interim- Venal law." Belo is a positive assertion that the ship, notorfeusly Loving on board the rebel einlwarie4, wits pursuing a lawful and innocent voyago; hut there is no specification of the precise ground on which the act In ',nestled' is regarded as a violation of international Of coerce, it is not on affront; for an accident can never be on affront to au individual or too nation. But public report, authenticated by the concurring testimony of various authorities, English and continen tal, forbids us to continuo ignotant of tine precise ground on which this act is presented as a rlola thin of intiruational law. It was admitted that a tinted States man•of.m or, meeting a British mail I.lranar her owd the territorial limits of (hoot Blituin, might subject her• to visitation and search also that lino United States ship•of-war might put a price crew on board the British steamer, and carry her oft to a port of the Untied States for adjudica lion by a prize court there; but that she mould have no right to Moore the emissaries, who were not, appa rently, officers in the military or naval service, and carry them off as prisoners, leaving the ship to poraue her voyage. Under the circumstances, In the exercise of a, belligerent right, the British steamer, with all on board, might hare been captured and carried off; but, according to thoßritlsh law Mum, on whose professional opinion the British Cabinet has acted, the whole proceeding was vitiated by the failure to take the packet into port for condenmation. 'I his failure has been the occasion of touch unprofessional objurgation; and it has been em phatically repeated that it P.n.s impossible is consent that lira custody of the twin id oats In question should bo do let mined by a navy officer on his qiiarter.deck, so as to stipertedo the adjudication of a prize court. This lion been 'confidently stated by an English writer, assuming to put tie case for his Ooveratnent as follows ff It is not to the right of search that me object, but to Maio/lowing seizure without process q r taw. What see deny Is the right of a naval officer to stand in place of a prize court, anti adjudicate, sword in hand, nab a one rote slept/4o on the yea deck 'ranch Is a part of our tet Mot y." • Thus It appears that the present complaint of the Bel- Mb, Gorerroneet Is net founded on the assumption by the American vier steamer of the belligerent right of search ; nor on the ground that this right woe exercised on board a neutral 'Vessel, between two neutral ports ; nor that it was exorcised , on hoard a mall steamer, sustained by a subvention from the crown, and officered 'in part Iron:tam royal navy' nor that it wee exorcised in acute where the penalties or oentraband could not attach; but it is founded' simply and precisely on the idea that persona other than apparent officers In the military or naval see; vice, cannot he taken out of a neutral ship at the more will of theofficer who exerchos the right of search, and without any form of trial. Therefore, the law of notions has been violated, and' the conduct of Captain Wilkes, must be dleavowed; while Alen, who are traitors, con spirators,, and rebels, all In one, are allowed to go free, Surely, that Criminate, though dyed in guilt, Should go' free, is boiler than that the lawof nations elionld be vio. especially in any rule by whlcb our is restricted and the meal of peace Is enlarged; for the law of nations canrad be violated without overtmming the protection of the Innocent AD a ell as the guilty. On this general prin. Ciplethero Cita Ire no question. It it but an illuatration of that important maxim, recorded in the Latin of For tescite, ft Better that many guilty should escape than ono Innocent Man l,hould finger," with this dilference, that In the presto! VINO u few guilty escape, while the innocent everyndiers me the sea obtain now security. And this security becomes mere valoable es a triumph of chill settler, - when it Is considered that it was long refusal, even at the cannon'a mouth Do 'h'f'dsforp,tft, air, that the question involved in this controversy it s fr ictly a question of la w—precisely like a question ,f trespass between two neighbora. The Bri tish Cobbler Logan proceedings by talents, the opinion of their law whiten, precisely as an 111110111 W begins pro ceedings In a snit at law by taking the opinion of his attorney. to make such a question a case of tour, or to Rigged lAA War to a proper mode of deciding it, Is simply to revive, in Wessel proportions, the exploded ordeal by battle, and to Imitate those dark ages when such pro •ceeett.p. nos-ffoettly declared to be the beet and meet honorable Mode of deciding oven an abstract point of late. "It vat a matter of doubt and dispute," says an emit Idatorien, "whether the none of a eon ought, to be reckoned etgeug the children of the fatally, and succeed equally with their uncles, If their father happened to die aline their, grandfather was aro. An assembly was called to defibeasta on this point, tend it was the general ophnotinhatlro 1,6 t to be remitted to tho examine Bo n dud decision of ;Itelgrs. But the emperor, followhm a better coney, andtlenofus of dealing honorably with his people and tiobles,Amioluted the matter to he decided by battle between Vela Xnareptene." In similar spirit ban It been latterly PrePortd, amidst the amazement of the civilised World, to Withdraw4he point of law now raised by Great Britain fromleaceful adjudication, and submit it to trial by mallet. 'Bolt the irrational anachronism of such a promeltion*ccoies more nagrantfrom the inconsistency of the MO which-takes it ; fur it cannot be forgotten that, In tinuhrpast, en We identicakpoint of law, Great Britain Traeledently held an opposite ground from that which she Mw takes. ,ThelrJffteieplaintseems to hove born narrowed down to wiriesle point ; but it Is not to be disguised that there are pi - Litter points on which, had the ship been untried Into Port for adludicattou, controversy must have arisen. Not to omit anything important, let me ear that the tired following points, among others, have been I:e• sented in tied nose: 1. That the seizure of the robed. emissaries, without taking the ship into port, wee prong, inasmuch as a ettiov,officer is not entitled to substitute hin4seif for a judicial E, ihnna7. 2. That gad the ship been carried into port, it would not have been liable on account of the rebel emissaries, bummed, its.3entrul ships are free to carry all persons not sypatmOtty to the military or naval service of the enemy. , ' 3. Xre derpatches contraband of war, so as to rendor the thtp Habit. to sdzuro 'pirse telttan I shall consider in their order, giving special ettpltion to tho first, which is the pivot of tho Iltilish c,tuplpint If, in this disci:orlon, I shall expose grioances which it mere bitter to forget, be assured it is Irvin no 'willingness to awaken theelumbering animosities they num to justly aroused, but simply to exhibit the prourfv4sWelt on thin question which the United States early rind constantly maintained. A outation of international law should not he presented On any ireilt,e arglellitiliflM act hontinem. It would be of 11111 show that Caplet - 111%111;ra wns sustained by British nether!ty and practice, if he were condemned by fidel - national law as interpreted by his own country. It belongs to on now, nay, lot it be our pride, at ally cost of indishhistprepossebsietis or transitory prejudices, to up bold that law in ell its force, as It was often declared by the bey Mien In our history, and Illustrated by national acts; nod let us seize the present occasion to consecrate its Positive and unequivocal recognition. In exchange for the tirtiOners set free, we receive from Great 'Britain a practical meta, too long deferred, to a principle early propoui.4o by our country, and standing forth on every page ot history. Thu same voice which gs k i , for their him - Minn, renounces in the seine breath an odious pretension, for whole generations the scourge of peaceful commerce. (Meat Britain, throughout her municipal history, has practically contr ibuted to the estalillslunent of freedom I.,c)m.d erirothar nations. There are M least seven is stitntiond or principles which she has given to civiliza tion: Paid, the trial by jury; secondly, the writ of ha• beau cotpaa ; thirdly, the freedom of lire press; fourthly, bills of lir. [lntl fifth' y, the represent at ive system; al xthly, the rage and orders of debate, constituting parliamentary law; and ;monthly, the principle that the air is ton pure for a slave to breathe—long ago declared, and first made a renlitj j by British law. No other nation can show such psueeful triumphs. But while thus entitled to our gratitude for glorious contributions to municipal .Itor, we turn with dimwit and sorrow from much as filch iDe , hoe sought to fasten upon international law.: m liiunicfpal questions, (treat Britain drew inspi ration frets her env native common law, which was instinct with ft terioin i but especially in maritime goes floes-riding under the law of nations this Power seems to have toted on that ohnoltiout principle of the Roman law, posltitely discarded in munielpal questions, Quart priottp(placuit le ti;s *went ha bet, and too often, under this Inspl.rellen, to have imposed upon weaker nations tier own nrbii;t!ry will. The time Sans been when the pro tonacil 10 . f.ivereignly orpr the enalgurrottailing the Bd. fish isree„es.. far as Cape Ifinisrerre to the south, and Van ttatry'lg. flOrwar to-.the north. Burtirtragi - from title breliliminber pt et-5tet,,, ,, , less local -hat hardly less 'oftener.,-, were avowed. The boast 01 0 Rule, Britannia, rule the waves," was practically adopted by British courts of adniiralty, and universal maritime rights were subjected to the op,cial eNigencl, a of British interegq. In the consciousness of Wrointli, and with a navy that could not be opposed, this Power has put chains upon the see. The cennuereo of tho Coiled States, as it began to whiten hit ocean, wit., cruelly decimate...l by these arbi trary preteneluns. American ships and cargoes, while, 1u the langdaee of Lord Musa, a pursuing a lawful and innocent voyage," sutler,' from tire British admiralty costs more than from rock or tempest. Shipwreck was less frequent than confiscation ; and when it mane, ft was easier to bear. But the loss of property stung lees then the outrage of Impressment, by which foreigners, tinder the protection of the American flag, and also Atnethean cltizene, without any form of trial, and at the mars mandate of it navy officer, who fur the moment acted as %judicial tribunal, worwiltogged away front 010 deck width 'should have been to them a sacred altar. This ontrage, which was feebly virelleatol by the municipal claim of Great Britain to the services of tier own eulfjeets, was terforeel arrogantly and per petually on the high erns, where municipal law is silent, and International law alone prevails. The belligerent right of search, derived front interria• ,tonal law, woo employ ed for Cris purpose, and the quar ter-deck of every British cruiser Wan made a floating tidgmenbeent. The practice began early, and was con tinued ronetant4; nor did It discriminate among its vie time It Is mentioned by Ur. Jeffereon and repeated by a British writer on International law, (fiat too nephews, of Washiiigtort, on their way home from Europe, seers ravished from the protection of the American flag, with out any judicial proceedings, and placed as common Sea l-M.l under the ordinary flrserplino of British ships of se or. The victims were counted by thoueands. Lord Castlereagh himself admitted, on the floor of the house of Commons, that at Inquiry instituted by the British Government lied discovered In the 13raish fleet three thousand hive hundred men claiming to be impressed Ame ricans. At our Department of State six thousand Cases were recorded, and It seal estimated that as ninny more might have occurred of which no Information hurl been re eel% ed. Thus, according to this official adinfolon of the British minister, there was reason to believe that the quarter-deck of a British man-el-war line boon made n Ileatarg judgment-neat titres domain() five hundred times, while actordlog to the records of our own State 'Department, it had been macho it floating judgment•seat six thousand binge and upwerris ,• and each time an American eitiren had been taken thorn the protection of Iris flag without any loon of trial known to the law. If pretension so intrinsically lawless could he sanctioned by preceth nt, Great Britain word have succeeded In in terpoleting it Into the law of nations. Protest, argument, negotiation, correspondence, and war itself—unhappily the last reason of republics as of kings--were alt employed to seta by the United States to procure a I enunciation of this intolerable pretension. The aid* papers In our diplomatic history are devoted to this purpose ; and tho only serious war in which we base been engaged, until eminnoned to eircounter this re bellion, was to overcame by arms this very pretension, which would not 3 hid to reason, Beginning in the last century, the correspondence Nat last closed by the recent reply of AIL Seward to Lord Lyons. The long-con tinued (motion of conflict la new happily removed, and the pretension disappeam forever—to take Its place among the curiosities of the past. But Ido not content myself with asserting the per ; elstent opposition of the American Government. It be ' longs to the mei:mord that I should exhibit this opposi tion and the precise ground on \finial it was planed, being Identical with that now adopted by Great Britain And hero the testimony is complete. If you will kindly - follow Ills you shall see it from the beginning in the public life of our country, and in the authentic recent% of our Government. This British pretension aromas] rind startled the Ad minietratima of Washington, and the pen of Hr. Jeffer son, Iris Secretary of Stale, Was enlisted against it. In letter to Themes Pinckney, our minister at London, dated Juno 11, 1702, he said : "The sitopled rule will be that the vessel being Amerl tan shall be evidence that the teamenlon hoard her are such." In another letter to the same minister, dated October 12, 170.2, he calls attention to a case of special outrage, on follows : "I inclose you a copy of a letter from Mossre. Blow end lifellieddo, merchants of Virginia, complaining of the • taking