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MoCCELI;AN TIES. '
- PATENT -
MoOLELLAN 'TIES.
- PATENT '
,McCL.ELLAINT - TIES.
-- -PATENT •
• - MoOLELLAN TIES.
PATENT -• MCLELLAN SCARFS.
PATENT
MCCLELLAN SCARFS.
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PATENT
MCCLELLAN SCARFS.
J. iCtsliimotars l AT J; A. ESHLEMAN'S
AT J.- AASHLEMAN'S I AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S
-AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S I AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S
-ATJ. A. ESHLEMAN'S I AT J. A. EsHLEMAN'S
NORTHWEST CORNER OS'
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
- SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT. s
'THE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA:
`THE ONLY, CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
'THE ONLY,ORAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
TEX ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
P. B. The above articles, being PATENTED, cannot
S. obtained elsewhere.
P.S. No. S. Men's Furnishing Goods, in every variety.
P.S. 10,8. PATENT. ENAMELLED COLLARS,
-la FOR A QUARTER.
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tLOARS ARD MANTILLAS.
CLOARK ! CLOAKS! OLOAK8!
WATER.PROOP-OLC7S.C!LOA,KS,
in endless tarietS; -
LIGHT AND DARK MOTU MOAN/4
of every shade.
,DLADK ClLOTH..atoess,
of ibsertf Quality •
'HUGH BILII- VELVET 'CLOAK&
• •HT NEW STYLE,
lIVERT NEW MATERIAL;
THE LLSOZsT STOOK
TEI YOST BIALSONABLE' PEIOICEI IN THE CITY
VIM%
513 South Etat= Simi.
G REAT BARGAINS -
• • LOTEW oLOARI3, -
: • : ' - •• - Todoee out,-
aiaL4Titiirr 4«iiOAIL ANDIitAIiTiGLA STORM,
W. owww TENTH and MOM ft.
.11•11.61 . JAMB HOUSTALL. • •
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CHandsosce styles
of wall-made , serviceable gar.
=seta. The beet mad e,de, the best fittlog, sad the best
Statertaki for the price. A large stock from which to
aged.- COOPER A UONAED,
dell S. E. ooe NINTII and MARKET:
L 0 - A 1C , 13!
NJ The Largest, Cheapest, and Beat-assorted Moot
bribe sib'.
soiraa a co.,
No: 96 South TENTH Street,
Deli Opposite Franklin Market.
CtWX.ERIES.
eAI3-APPLE CIDER,
OLD CURRANT. WINE,
Cant USUAL SUPPLY,
JUST RECEIVED
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN FINE GROCERIES,
418-tf Corner of ELEVENTH and VINE Ste
MACKEREL, HERRING, SHAD,
eaLEKIN, ito.-11000 bbls Mess Nos. 1,2, and II
large, medium, and null, to adaartad
winos et choice, latemminght, fat deb.
%MN MAL Sew : Halifax, bataart, and Labiador sR
or choice. enaLtles.
boxes extra new scaled Itertings.
2,000 boxes extra new No. 1 Herrings.
4,200 boxes largo Magda/ha herrings.
' 11110 bbbs. Mackinse White Flab.
110 bbl.. new Neonomy bless
20 bbl.. new Halifax galnion.
1,000 Quintal. Grand Bank Calash.
1100 boxes Herkimer County Obsess.
kioakaaa hos** tor sale by .
. mars/ a soon*,
lac -sro - : 148 wrinTr! ,rIT
COMMISSION- HOUSES.
SHIPLEY, HAZARD, &
• HUTOHINSON,
011118i2MT MUT,
'9olkKill.lll9l 1111a0.11AMT.
SILLS OP
PEALADEIXATA-11.4.11DE
GOODS.
CABINET 'FURNITURE.
nABINET FUR.NITURX AND BIL,-
mar Lump TABLES.
MOORE & .CIAMPION,
RR South SWORD Street,
elieheetten with their extenfdve Cabinet Banco ere
lettersanuteottirina alPerfOr article of?
BILLIARD TABLE%
Sul lava now on bend a full supply, finished with the
NOM' a' I)ANIPION'E IMPROVED "lIIISHIONB,
wild* eniwronounced, by eB who have used the!, to be
liirwto ell others. -
r the Quality and finish of those Pales the men.
Illiotaters Wee to their numerous patrons throughout the
V who anatatonlat with the oluersetee of their week.
HOLIDAY GOODS
TiIt.NGING VASES.
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Ornamental Flower Pots.
Parlor Vases for Growing Flowers. ,
, Bsitete for,Jerdiniers. ,
• psolserahl NO Vase for Flowers.
Antique Vases for Mantels.
Vases P.egainsance for Parlor.
' Bul' awl Terra Cotta Vases.
Lara Flower Pots and Vases.
Barden Vases and Pedestals.
• Brackets for Busts and Figures.
.s' v-inis I great variety of articles suitable for Christ.
*BM Newt ta, for sale retell and to - the trade.
nweroorna 1010 CHXSTAIGT street, Philadelphia .
del - B.
. A. HARGIS N. •
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER
& CO.,
lioethesart Corner 710IIRTII aral RAGE Street;
PIEGLADELPIIIA,
WHOLESALE DRUG-GISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
/0111 SIGN AND DOMESTIC
'WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS.
YArrILOVOIIII4 Or
TA= ILIAD AND MO PAINTS, PUTTY, ay,
►gtAT/ 71/11 TIM CILIERATID
FRENOH ZINO PAINTS.
Ashes sad consumers eusplierll st
VERT LOW MIOEB FOB OAKS.
_IIIIBT ILECEIVED, per « Annie Kim
bear iron Liverpool, *coder, Wearer, b Nee.
iintiprependions:
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!strati awaltl, in 1 f lam
4ti 'Meet BleeeiTemit In 1
, b ism
retrace liethekone in
10 be Yin gal Colonial, in I b bottles.
Ven-be OL Onneinl Beet, in lb bottles. '
_l4lO Calomel, in 1 in bottles.
ASO Ng_outkin i
WOTOMBAL B nn.
BOTHIIR,
• • - 47.101 MO'Noeth SECOND, 44rati.
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: ip . I) STATES ARMY AND
' ' Way SUPPLY AMMON AND WIN EX—
NW
TO NANWPAOTUDIDB, IffeBOUANTS,' aid IN.
' TIONOION and those if Ming to forward Packages to
Sterattesiot the Army, or Naval Stations of the collet
ea r r .
log secured especial privileges for visiting all the
delaitimeate both of the Army and Navy, and all the
eta* . of the •various military stations, and the naval
' jumble the Coast undGull,for the purpose of introducing
MI selling to the
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nrDvaelf: e A r t t e m en s e t , nts,
tMleilit a P ry Storekeepers,
Om%SoQ aatann aa g r sand rßamcunrl NA Otae
Km, all articles required for the use, convenience, corn.
SWAM neeiesity, both of the - A=4d Navy, we have
Wirse , the above•entitled AGSNO an Y AND DAMP
*Oh its headquarters in the city of Waeh.,
Under this arrangement—entirely complatsothd
vottilliMg,thrtitudt an the departments both of the Army
Stantiorae Can offer unequalled recipe/to Her.
=itufaCtnrerif, and Inventors, in Mann@ of
w ill hit of time, and the many expenses unavoidable
llitragh VW tumid tedioni thannele of. Bale to, the De
, Camp, and Naval Stations. ThoSe Wishing
themeolvee of the benefits of this thorough and
ylirgardzed system of agency, can do 00 by
,
' semVitut -el their geods to our address by
' ' • sat prima - and explanations - by letter. All
• 'WY camp delivery marked to our address,
D. O. All moods, Inventions, wares, or
of - whatever nature, ordered, by • this
". li at ' Ulte jaikt.fOt on delivery.. Letters of inquiry
w
gs NIA Ygompt attention. .
ME stifeltred,' ith small means, can fi nd pro.
' milderibuit in this organization. A few are
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3posibi illhial'e Botal, - Washlngton, D. 0. ,
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VOL. 5.-NO. 142.
NOTICES
APPEAL FOR . THE SUFFERING
POO/C—Hundreds In our city are now suffering
from 'cold, hunger, and imams. That loathsome and
appalling disease, small-pox, prevails largely at preeeut
among the destitute. '""THE HOME MIrSIONARY
SOCIETY Or THE -CITY - OF PHILADELPHIA ",
appeals most earnestly to the public to furnish the aid
necessary to enable its agents to relieve this want and
distress. This Society ban been laboring among the poor
of this community for twenty-six - year:, and many
thousands whom it hue aided by its timely assistance and
counsel can testify of its efficiency and SUCCOss in this
very important work. During the last seven years It
has sent to good homes in the country no leas than eight
hundred and four chi/dren,—the offspring, mostly, of
drunken part-tits—and nearly all of them have done well.
Donations of Money,- however small, may be sent to
the Treasurer, Mr. TMOS. T. MASON, No. 434 MA-B
EET Street.
. .
Donations of fuel, food, and clothing will be very ac
ceptable at this time, and may be sent to the Office, No.
42 North FIFTH Street, or they will be called for on a
note being addressed to Mr., JOHN P. AURISON, eame
GEORGE H. STUART, President,
MAO R. SMITH, Vice President.
R. ix. HORFLIDR, Secretary. inT-tnthetit
IirINS URANCE COMPANY OF THE
STATE OF EICENBYLVANIA,
JalsoAjor 16, 1862.
The following gentlemen have been duly elected as Dl.
reckon; of this Company for tho year 1862:
HENRY D. SHERRERD,
CHARLES MAGALESTER,
WILLIAM B. SMITH,
WILLIAM R. WHITE,
GEORGE IL STUART,
SAMUEL GRANT, Jr,
TOBIAS WAGNER,
THOMAS B. WATTSON,
BERRY G. FREEDAN,
CHARLES S. LE With
GEORGE O. CARSON,
EDWARD 0. KNIGHT,
JOHN B. AUSTIN. . . .
At a meeting of the Directors, held this day, HENRY
D. SHERBERT), Esq., was unanimously re•etected Prc•
eident of the Company.
jal6•dt WILLIAM HARPER, Secretary:
OFFICE OF THE GIRARD COLLEGE
PASSENGER RAILWAY CO., Corner of 00.
UMBIA and RIDGE Avenues,
PRILADELPHU, Jan. 18, 1862.
Al a meeting of Stockholders of the GIRARD COL.
LEGE PASSENGER RAILWAY COMPANY, held
THIS DAY, the following gentlemen wore elected as
°Mears for the ensiling year:
PRIMIDEINT,
E.B. EDWARDS.
.DIRMOTORIEI s
CHAS. THOMSON JONES, )
JOHN LAMBERT, ,
WM. S. GRANT,
HENRY CROSICEY,
ANDREW A. BUTLER.
OaCMIZTART AND TREASURER,
WILLIAM B. BLIGHT.
F THE INSURANOE
BTU AISERIO A,
stenia,Jannary 16, IH2.
we, to serve one year,- in the
rth America," the following
Er:OFFICE 0:
CONFLICT OT NO
PHILAD
At an Election for Alrecto
"Insurance Company of Nor
gentlemen were
ffin,y dul chosen •
Samuel W Jones,
John A. Brown,
Samuel Y. Smith,
Charles Taylor,
Ambrose White,
John B. Neff,
Blohani Woodt
I. William Welsh,
William E. Bowen,
James M. Dickson,
B. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
George L. Harrison,
Francis IL Cope,
Edward IL Trotter,
Clarke.
Beaters, held this day, AR
was .unanimonsly re-elected
CHARLES PLATT,
Secretary.
Edward 8
' And at a meetingof the DI
TRIM G. COFFIN, Eta., •
President.
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/ELPHIA, WILMING.
MORE BAIL%) d.D 00 5I•
07. TIDE PHILAD)
TON, AND BALTII
PANY,
At the Annual Meeting of
day, the following persons w
rectors for the ensuing year:
Namtiel M. Felton, John O. Groome,
?dormice. Robinson, • 3, J. Cohen, Jr.,
Wm. Littleton Savage, Thomas Keko,
John A. Duncan, Columbus O'Donnell,
Jesse Lane, Enoch Pratt,
Joseph Bringhurst, Thomas Donaldson,
Frederick A. Curtis, I Wm. W. Corcoran,
_ Edward Austin.
JANUARY 13, 1862.
the Stockholders, held this
aro unanimously elected di.
At a meeting of the Board of I.lr actore, held this day,
SAMUEL M. FELTON was nnanirnottely elected Pre.
aldent, and ALFRED HOENER, Secretary and Trim
mer. A. HORNER,
-jal6•St t Secretary.
97. OFFICE OF THE FAIRMOUNT AND
ARCILSTREET CITY PASSENGER RAIL-
WAY COMPANY. " PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 13, 1802.
At the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this
Company, held this day, the fellowing-named persons
were unanimously re-elected to servo for the ensuing
year:
NIESIDEXT,
CHAS. B. DUNGAN.
DIRECTORS.
.TOS. M. CARDEZA,
FREDERICK FAIRTHORNE,
D. T. PRATT
ISRAEL PETERSON,
RICHARD PETERSON.
jal4-tutheSt .INO. T. LANCE, Secretary
a:re OFFICE OF THE MAHANOY AND
BROAD MOUNTAIN RAILROAD COMPANY,
. No. 238 South THIRD Street, January 13, 1862.
At the election for Dineen of the Mehauoy and Broad
Mountain Railroad Company, held THIS DAY, the fol
lowing gentlemen were elected President and Directors
„
forth° ensuing 3ear :
PREEIIDSIST,
JOHN P. BROOK.
DIZEOTORS.
1 John Bancroft,
F. B. Humber,
Honry 0. Gibson,
John 11. Towns,
George C. Potts,
Charles E. Smith.
B. B. B BOOK, Secretory.
Burd Patterson,
Jobn Brock.
Jobn Gibroo,
Davis Pearson,
.1. Dutton steeie,
-Joseph B. , Lewis,
jel4-tutha.Bt*
OFFICE OF THE RELIANCE MU
-If' 3NBIIRANOE COMPANY OF PIMA
DELYIIIA , Jan. 8,1862.
The Anneal Meeting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany will :he held, in pursuance of the Charter, at Oto
Office, No. WS WALNUT Street, at 12 o'clock M. on
MONDAY, the lid day of -February next. And an
Election for Twenty Directore, to eery° for the ensuing
year, will be held at the lame place,' on the day named,
between 12 o'clock If. and 2 o'clock P. If.
lail.thstatfeB B. M. RINOIitILN, 6C.Y.
EAST SIAILANOY RAILROAD COM
PANY. PHILADELPHIA, January 16,1862.
The Eighth Instalment, of FIVE DOLLARS per
share, of the Capital Stock of this Company, will be pay
able on tho let February next, at the Company's 00100,
407 LIBRARY Street.
ABOHIBALD MaINTYBE,
jalB•thstutfei Treasurer and Secretary.
aTa PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 13, 48 62.
—The annual meotiug of the Stockholdors of the
UNION CANAL COMPANY, of Pennsylvania, will bo
hold 228 WALNUT Street, (Farunhar bulkllng,o
on TUESDAY, February 4th, next, at 11 o'clock A. M)
jal4•tfe4 • O.,•TUOMPOON, Secretary.
orOFFICE OF THE MINE HILL AND
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN RAILROAD COM,
TART, PUILADELPFIIA, Ist 110., 13, 1862.
At a meeting of the Board of Hanagera, held 11th inst.,
a Semi-annual Dividend sae declared of FOUR AND A
HALF per cent., (eonal to Two Dollars and Twenty-five
Cents per sham) out of the profits of the Company's bri
efness, pa) able jo tho Stockholders or their legal repre
sentatives on Wafter the 20th inst.
The Transfer Book will be closed until the 224 inst.
joie. t2O WILLIAM DIDDLED, Secretary.
orOFFICE PENNSYLVANIA RAIL
ROAD CO.—MI..OEI.mm, Jan. 11,1802.
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.—Tho annual Meet
ing of the Stockholders of this Company will be held on
MONDAY, the third day of February, 1862, at 10 o'clock
A.M., at the SANSOM,STREET HALL.
The annual 'Election for Directors will be held on
ItIONDAY, the third day of March, HQ, at the Mee of
the Company, No. 238 South THIRD Street.
By order (Oho Board.
jalit.tfe3 'EDMUND SMITH, Secretary.
OFFICE OF ,TOE•PENNHYLVANIA
COMPANY FOR INSURANCES ON LIVES
AND "GRANTIIM ANNUITIES, 804 WALNUT St.
- - -Priminsvent.C, January 2, 1862.
The Annual Meeting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany will taksi places! their °tics, 804 WALNUT Street,
on RIORDAN, 20th inst., at 12 o'clock ; and at the
pawn time an will be bold. for thirteen, Directors
Teethe e 2o*- nsulug scar. WILLIAM B. HILL,
, jsB4 • . ActuAry.
FAME INNURANCM COMPANY, Office
11
NO. 4ft DriEBTNUT Street. PnthanaLtnts, January e, 1861
At a racethip of the Board of Directors of the Fame
Insurance Company,- held this day, a said-annual Divi
dend of Three per cent ,war declared, payable on and
after the Ant day of rebrnarY, 1882.
JaTtfebl BLANOIIABD, Secretary.
OFFICE OF THE WEST PHILADEL•
PIMA I'AfillErfOßß RAILWAY COMPANY.
PIIILADELPLIId, January 14, 1402.
The Board of Directors of the Company have this day
declared a Dividend of FIVE PER CENT. on the Capi
tal Stock 'for,the last six months, payable on and after
the 24th instant.
The Books for the Transfer of Stock will bo dosed on
the 16th instant, until the 24th instant. "
ajal6-n - smet WE. MARTIN, JR., Treasurer.
MPHILADELPHIA, DECEMBER
20th, 11361..—Tbe Annual Meeting of the Stock•
ot the LOCUST MOUNTAIN COAL AND IRON
COMPANY will be bold at their Office, No. 230 Boutb
TIIIBD Street, on MONDAY, the 20th day of Januarrt
A. D. 1802, at 11 o'clock A. M., when an Election will
bitted for seven Directors, for the ensuing year. The
transfer book of the Company will be closed for fifteen
days previous to the day of election. -
delt-tja2o .108. 0. 411OPPU0K, Secretary.
OFFICE OF. THE RELIANCE MU
TUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, OF PRI
ADELPHIA, JLIWARY 11, 1862.
The Directors have this day declared a Dividend of
SIX PER CENT. on the capital stock of the company,
and on Um certificates of profits outstanding, for the year
ending' December Slit, 1861, without deduction for
State Tag, payable in cash to the Stockholders, on and
after the 16th Met.
Also, a Dividendof EIGHT PER CENT., payable pro
rata on the capital stock and premiums earned, out of
the pronto of the company - for the year ending December
filet, 3.801, for which certilicatee of pronto, behring inte
rest; will be delivered to the stockholders, and to the in
sured entitled to receive the same under the provisions
of the charter, on and after the 211 lust.,
No certificate will be leaned for any less sum than ten
dollars, nor for any fractional part of one dollar. Some
less than ten dollars, and not less than ono dollar, aro
credited to the Insured on the books of the Company, and
if, within any period of ten yearn, the said credits amount
to ten dollars certificates therefor will be issued,
of profits are liable, equally with the car
tel stock, for the losses and engagements of the Cromna•
ay, and maybe converted into capital stock at any
time, at the option of the holder.
B. M. railbamAN,
jal4.tnthelOt eecretary.
LOW '8 BROWN WINDSOR,
BONNY, GLYCERINE, AND OTHER. FANCY
SOAPS, BIOMES, AND PERFUMERY.
NOTION, TO TDB TRADE.—The firm of Low, Sons
& Rea.* 830 Strand, London, is this day dissolved by
efiluzion of time, and the business will, in future/ be
Continued at thei name &Wee* under the firm of
BOW= LOW, EON, 8 BANDON.
Mr. Daydon has been practically engaged, for nywardS
of twenty yetirS, in the manufacture of the above artielee;
fora considerable time ho has most successfully repro-
Rented the late firm, and in thoroughly conversant with
every branch Of the buelneue ale fact, coupled with the
Intimate knowledge of the trade for upwards of forty
years of Mr. Low, the senior partner,will be a sufaclent
guarantee that the high reputation of these manufactu
rers will be fully maintained. 830 STIUND, I,ONDON.
December 11, 1861. , • - jolt-waft
WINE SHIRT• MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber would invite attention to hie
IMPROVED ODT OF Kilns,
Which he makes a specialty in hie bupinees. Also, con
stantly receiving
NOVELTIES POE GENTLE'RICIPO WEAR.
W. SCOTT
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING 'STORE,
110. 814 , CHESTNUT 52WEET,
Nag-tf Four doors below the Continental.
Ctt s(!: rtss+
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1862.
Sacred Poetry.*
Sacred poetry is extremely difficult to write,
if wo may form a judgment on the few suc
cessful achievements in that line. Above all,
hymns mid metrical versions of the Psalms of
David generally exhibit a singular careless
ness in rythm as well as in rhyme. From
Stemhold and Hopkins down to Tate and.
Brady, the Psalms cc done into verse" are ter
ribly unpoetic. Wesley's hymns are as far
above the average as Watts's are below it.
James Montgomery produced a few sacred
lyrics of merit. Thomas Moore, secularist
and sinner though cc the unco' righteous" con
sidered him, has written some of the best
Sacred Songs in the language. But we re
peat, the verses generally put into hymn-books
are poor indeed—defective in the rythm which
ought to make their music, too familiar and
common-place in language, by no means ex
amples of decent grammatical expression,
and, above all, distinguished for bad rhymes.
The Bev. T. H. Stockton, Chaplain to Con
gress, lately published a volume of "Poems:
with Autobiographic and other Notes," which
we had the gratification of noticing at some
length. On that occasion, we drew attention
not alone to the lofty poetic feeling of that
part of the volume which is in blank verse, but
to the superiority of the poetry, in its con
struction, a more mechanical but most im
portant part of the execution. We said that
his constructive power was so great as to have
enabled him to produce blank verse as good as
any we have had since the time of Cowper.
We have now to draw attention to that part of
Mr. Stockton's volume, nearly a third of the
whole, which consists exclusively of rhyme.
This portion, we are informed, principally
consists of poems written in youth. Tho
poem, however, entitled cc Columbus : or the
Discovery of the New World," is of later date,
and, in point of merit, is worthy of preceding
all the others. Herd is a noble passage, allu
ding to the period before the Western Conti
nent was visited by Europeans ;—it has the
grand dignity, with the high imagination, of
Southey's loftiest strains
It seem'd some chosen one
Must somethue mark tho ANGEL OF THE BUN—
Vll9re, evelyeve,
More and more loth to leave
This secret yet unknown,
He linger'd on the western horizon :
There strotoh'd symbolio clouds from pole to pole,
In now-vthito mountain lines :
Lit up their peaks as with voloanlo fire ;
Smoothed down their yellow slopes like golden mines;
Spread out the prairies in their purple pride :
And opon'd far and wide
Lakes, bays, and gulfs, all calm and bright,
And fall of isles of light :
And then, to wake the world's desire,
Lifted his great round shield,
Drew bank the folds that dimm'd its radiant field,
And turn'd its whole of glory on the wholo
Then, thoughtful of but one thing more,
Inclined its rim
Tothe ocean's brim,
Blazed a broad path from shore to shore,
And sunk from sight.
And here, after mentioning what sea and
winds had told to the needless ear of man,
of the vast continent which lay beyond that
world of waters, called the Atlantic, the pool
describes the Discoverer :
. And yet—not all!
When God's time comes, no want may lag
behind it:
There was a world to find—no found the man to
- find it.
A grave and godly 'karinore,
Care-worn and earlysere,
studioue and wise,
Beyond compeer,:
Not dull of sense or 'BOW to Nature's
But bonor'd with the Spirit's curer mill •
lie now for many a year
Had sought the Bidden Prize :
In many a famous Port—with canvas idly furl'd
In many- a splendid Court—where lips of
mockery curl'd •
Be begg'd a boat- 2 0, find a world!
At length a Woman's hand
Conferr'd the high command,
And made the venture of her jewell'd store,
For seas of pearls, and diamond cliffs, and conti
nents of era!
Among the sacred lyrics written by Mr.
Stockton, perhaps the finest was that on the
occasion of the laying of the Atlantic Tele
graph. In simple songs of praise, however,
this poet undoubtedly excels. There is beau
ty, there is melody, there is the true fervor of
poetry in his hymns. Here, for instance, is
one, the eimple truth of which must assure
the reader that it was poured out from the
fulness of the poet's soul:
TDB EXISTENCE Or GOD.
We need not soar above the skies,
Leave suns and stars below,
And seek Theo with unclouded eyes,
In all that angels know : -
The very breath wo here inhale,
The pulse in every heart,
Attest with force that cannot fail,
Thou art, 0 God ! Thou art!
If, 'midst the over during songs
Of universal joy,
The chime of worlds and chant of tongues,
The praise that we employ,
Alay breathe its music in Thine oar,
Its meaning in Thy heart;
Our glad oonteasion deign to hoar,
Thou art, 0 God! Thou art!
We must not part from Mr. Stockton with
out showing that he can be fanciful, as well as
poetic, when ho pleases. The following is a
charming composition, graceful as well as
imaginative :
VIE INVITATION.
Where the Lily-isle eleeps in the lap of the hills,
Like a babe in its cradle, a bird in its nest;
Where the plaint of tho doves and the lapse of tho
rills,
Like the voices of angels, sink deep in the breast ;
'Whore the breezes blow cool, and the willow grove
shades,
And the urns of tho mountains pour down their
cascades;
There thy brother, enraptured, calls—Sister, love!
come !
For the spirit of Eden has hero fla'd her home
The wild eagle calls shrill, on the oliff top alone,
As to waken the ear of the heroes above ;
'While young Liberty smiles from her azure-hued
_ throne,
And her favorite sons bless the land that they
love.
Here the Spirit of Beauty, midst fountains and
flowers,
Has embrighten'd her colors, and painted the
bowers;
And her rosy cheeks flush, and her starry oyes
shine,
For her dwelling on earth is so like her divine
Here the crystalline brook ripples softly around,
And the willows, like sentinels, compass the isle ;
Hero the freshest of verdure is spread on the
ground,
And the choicest of flowers in their loveli
ness smile;
Here the wild rose and woodbine their fragrance
declare,
And the perfume of violets hallows the air.
'Tie the censor or nature ! and sweetly a voice
from the heavens proclaims—Let the island
* rejoice !
In the midst is a fountain, that springs from its
bed,
Like a beautiful naiad, to gaze on the vines ;
And a shower of diamonds around her la shed,
And a halo of rainbows her temple entwines.
Like a iono round the margin, and looking below,
Whore their images whiten like figures of snow,
Bend the sad nuns of nature, the pale lilies bond,
And complain o'er the heaven they cannot ascend.
Through the arch of the prociplee gleaming afar,
On the shore of the lake that now glietens • in
light,
'Midst tho grcen•bosom'd hills that ne'er echoed
with war,
The most lovely of villages breaks en the sight.
There tho fano of Religion shines bright in the sky,
And the cots of the villagers gladden the eye;
There's the home of 'bur childhood ; and far, far
away,
Like the vapors, the mountains seem melting
to day.
I have tested the strength of my beautiful boat,
And its safety is sure as if broad as the lake ;
Lilt s ° the glide of a duck is the ease of its float,
And the beamings of sunshine bespangle its
wake.
It is white as a cloud never tinged with a hue,
And its sapphirine path as the heavens is blue ;
And the breezes blow fresh through the vaporless
dome,
And thy brother, enraptured, calls—Sister, love
come
We have before us a,. short poem, by Mrs.
Juliet, "Legend of
the Infancy of our Saviour : A Christmas
Carol:" It is founded on a tradition in the
Gospel of the Infancy, ono of the Apocryphal
books rejected by the Church, that a prince's
son, afflicted with the leprosy, had been
cleansed and cured by being washed, by his
trusting - pother, in water with which the in-
* Poems: with Autobiographic and other Notes. (11.
lustrated by Barley, Hoppln, and others.) By T. H.
Stockton, Chaplain to Congress. 12rno. pp. 821. Phila
delphia: W. 8. RA. Martien. Legends of the Infancy
of our Saviour.
A Christmas Carol. By Juliet 11. L. Campbell, 12mo
pp. OS. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1862.
fent Saviour had been washed, during his so
journ in Egypt, after the murder of the inno
cents. Out of such slight materials Mrs.
Campbell has made a poem of no moan merit,
and breathing of the balmy East. Hero is a
portrait, like a beautiful miniature in an
illuminated Missal, of the Virgin Mother:
They passed into the pleasant land ;
And ceased their journey, where
A lady, stately as the palm,
And as the lily fair—
With paly rays of glory bleat
Amid her golden hair—
Sat, throned, on an emerald hill,
Illumining the air.
Couched at her feet the crescent moon,
And in her arms a Child,
More glorious than the cherubim,
Serenely sat, and smiled.,
Here, too, are the concluding stanzas, which
tell the final action of the legend :
She filled a basin at the fount
With water pure and clean :
She dipt. the Infant's radiant form
Low in the crystal sheen :
And through prismatio waves, that dashed
In tiny swell between,
Glimpses of rainbowed glory flashed
In crimson, gold, and green !
The leper clapped hie little hinds,
Such wondrous sight to see !
The leper clapped his lothly hands,
And laughed with hideous glee,
As ho caught the drops our precious Lord
nailed to him sportively.
The leper clapped his little hands,
And wagged his lothly chin
When Jesus left the wondrous bath,
And ho was lifted in,
And cleansed, from flesh, the leprosy,
And washed, from soul, the sin.
While, le! a healing bounteousness
O'erflowed the vessel's brim,
Past all the nations of the earth,
And down to egos dim
As to the music of far spheres,
Thus sang the seraphim :
"The purest maiden in the earth
Is a mother undefiled. !
The Power that framed the universe
Rests in a little child I
A God is man ! a man is God!
And wrath is reconciled I"
We notice in thia poem the use of out-of
the-way words, not always appropriately in
troduced. Thus : "It chid the chime of
atabal "—but the atabal, which is a Moorish
drum, has no chime in its scum Alcahest,
noctum shade,- sacred mithridate, horrout
hair, and vert, are surely too reccr.lite in a
Christmas carol 3 Nor does " the ruby sea"
adequately designate the Red Sea.
THE REBELLION.
The Particulars of Col. Garfield's
Victory in Kentucky.
THE PLANS OF GENERAL BUELL.
THE PRESENT MILITARY CONDITION OF
mlssoulti
AFFAIRS AT ROLLA.
THE FEDERAL TROOPS ANXIOUS
TO ENGAGE PRICE.
GENERAL GRANT'S ORDER TO THE TROOPS
ON THE CAIRO EXPEDITION.
INTERESTING SOUTHERN NEWS.
THE LAST OF BURNSIDE'S EXPEDITION
LEFT FORTRESS MONROE,
The Rebels Chum a Victory for Ilumphrelt
Marshall in Kentucky.
BOMBARDMENT AT PENSACOLA.
A Breach made in Fort Barancas.
WARRINGTON AGAIN BURNED
THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
Col. Garfield's Vrctones.
The Louisville Journal of the 4th inst. says
Wo have the pleasure of announcing another
glorious victory of the Federal arms over tho rebels
in Eastern Kentucky—indeed, we may say a series
of victories. Col. Garfield, commanding the Eigh
teenth Brigade, entered Paintsville on Tuesday,'
7th instant, with the Forty-second Ohio, Fotirteenth
Kentucky, Col. Cochran, (late Moore,) and throe'
hundred of the Second Virginia Cavalry. Upon
their approach, the rebels fled, leaving their en
trenchments. They were pursued by the cavalry,
which drove in the rebel vanguard, killing
three and wounding many, while our loss was but
two killed and one wounded., In the precipitate
retreat, Humphrey Marshall abandoned and burned
a large amount ol stores, and we took fifteen pri
soners. On Thursday, oth inst., Col. Garfield loft
Paintsville with eleven hundred men, drove in the
enemy's pickets below Prestonsburg ; slept on their
arms ;_ before daylight on Friday "Inth moved
towards the enemy still under Friday
at the
forks of Middle Creek; after skirmishing, engaged
the main body, 2,500 strong, with three pieces of
artillery ; fought them till dark with the aid of
a reinforcement of seven hundred from Paintsville,
drove them from all their positions, the enemy
carrying (Alimony of his dead and all his wounded,
but leaving twenty-seven killed on the field. We
took here twenty-five prisoners, nany horses, and
.a quantity of military stores, losing two killed and
twenty-five wounded ; the enemy's killed could
not have been less than sixty. The flight of Mar
shall was complete and precipitate, and on Satur
day Colonel Garfield crossed the river and occupied
Prestonsburg.
There has been no more brilliant movement since
the rebellion broke out. Col. Garfield was expect
ing the arrival of Col. Lindsay's regiment at Paints
villo, anti several regiments under Gan. Cox, but
with daring bravery ho led his inferior numbers
against Marshall, drove him before him for three
days, and completely routed him, "horse, foot, and
dragoons." On Saturday last we stated that our
friends anticipated by the 10th to the 12th reaching
Marshall's position, and compelling him to tight;
and on that very day, the 11th, the stars and stripes
were flouting victorious over the town of Prestons
burg. For wall•concertod strategy, celerity of
movement, and recklessness of opposing odds, Col.
Garfield certainly bears off the palm. It is to be
hoped that this second repulse of the rebels from
the Big Sandy will convince thorn that it is useless
to contend against loyalty on the soil of Kentucky.
The Flans of General Buell.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Tires, writing
from Diunfordsville underdato of January 13, says:
For several weeks I have been of the opinion
that the general idea of the plan of the campaign in
this section is erroneous. Several letters, purport
ing to have been written from this point, have boon
published, in which the forces on both sides have
been stated, and the designs of General Buell set
forth in plausible style. The idea is the ono gone
rally entertained in Kentucky, viz: that General
Buell will flank Bowling Green and march directly
upon Nashville. I believe the statement to be un
warranted, and not authorized by the facts. Unless
I am greatly deceived by tho position of the forces
in Kentucky, Gen. Buell, when ho takes the field,
will march in another direction altogether, and that
the forces hero, and to our left, will not move on to
the capital of Tennessee. Howover,l must acknow
ledge I know wilding about it, but yet am as well
posted es those who pretend to lay down the roads
to ho used and state the number of miles each divi
sion is to march.
Tho utmcist impatience is exhibited hero to learn
the result of the expedition from Cairo. Its desti
nation beyond Columbus will develop, in a degree,
the whole plan of the campaign for the Western di-
vision of the army. Our threatened advance on
Bowing Green drew a very large fordo of rebels
from Columbus, and opened the way for the advance
from Cairo. At present we keep these troops at or
near Bowling Green.
THE WAR IN MISSOURI.
Missouri's Paorticatxon.
Tho St. Louis Republican says ;
General Price's prestige, as a military com
mander, seems to have been "played out," as the
phrase goes. We hear little about him now-a
days, and what we do hear possesses compara
tively small interest, as ho is no longer a person
to bo feared, since his army has proved so ludi
crous a failure latterly. At one time the rebel
lion in Missouri looked formidable, but the en
ergy of Fremont, and the patient industry and
skill of Halleck, have exerted an almost won
derful influence in reducing it to pigmy propor
tions. From an army of fifty thousand mon at
Lexington, Price's command has dwindled and
attenuated itself down to a demoralized and de
spairing mob of scarcely one•six,th that number.
The best estimates of his force do not place it above
eight thousand fighting mon, and these are in a con
stant state of fear and trembling at Springfield, lest
they shall be driven immediately out of the State.
Desertions are of daily occurrence, whilst enlist
ments have altogether ceased. Not more than five
thousand of the "Missouri State Guard" have been
induced to transfer their services to the " Confede
rate States," and the remainder contemplate quit
ting soldiering in tote on the expiration of the terms
for which they engaged.
It is said that the conditions upon which General
Price was to be allowed a command in the Confede.
rate army were that he should recruit five thou
sand men from the State Guard" for the war
under the authority of the Richmond Government.
Wo anticipate that now these five thousand, if so
many have been obtained, will bo removed from
Missouri, and the campaign in this State be for
mally, as it is at present in fact, abandoned. Thus
will close, in humiliation and shame, the wicked
attempt of Jackson and his co-laborers to coerce
the people of Missouri to make war upon the Union.
From Rolla.
[Correspondence of the Ilepublwan.]
ROLLA, January IC 1862.—There have been 'few
'or no items of news transpiring hero sines Friday
last. The severe °hangs of the weather to Intense
cold has dried up almost every fountain of news,
and everything is patisin. along
. with usual equani
mity, except the unmisulable algae of preparation
for a movement of Homo kind in some direetion.
Gen. Curtis keeps a - watchful eye on the South
west, and I am satisfied he is, and will be at all
times, ready to move at a moment's notice, and with
an effective force. )
It is rumored here 'among outsiders—and doubt
less the fact is know at headquarters—that the
enemy moved out from Springfield on Friday or
Saturday last doubtless with a view of attacking
Col. Carr in his positlOVnear Lebanon. Whether
the sudden change in {ho weather will chock their
movement, remains toi be soon—although it is be
lieved it will; but wilether it does or not, Col.
Carr will be amply sindained. I confidently be.
Hove, before to-morrow, a number of regiments,
well supplied with artillery, will bo on the march.
I have been unable to ascertain in what force the
enemy took up the line t of march, but doubtless he
will' appear with his whole available force. Our
troops are in good spirivy and an easy and certain
victory Is anticipated. S.
THE LAIR
Admirable Order ot,OemGrant to Govern-
neut Trooi4On—ihe
The following admiMble general order was pro
mulgated on the 14th inst. :
linanQuanTana, MOBICT OF CAIRO, Jan. 13.
GENERAL' ORDER,"NO 3.
During the absence of the exhibition now starting
upon soil occupied almost solely by the rebel army,
and when it is a fair inference that every stranger
met is our enemy, tho following orders will be ob
served :
Troops, on marching, will be kept in the ranks,
company officers being bald strict!) , accountable
for all stragglers from their companies. No firing
will bo allowed in camp, or on the march, not strict
ly required in the : performance of duty while in
camp. No privilege will he granted to officers or
soldiers to leave their regimental grounds, and all
violations of this order must bo promptly and sum
marily puni,shed.
Magma -having been brought upon our bravo
follows by the bad conduct of some of their num
bers, showing, on, all" occasions when marobing
through territory occupied by sympathizers of tho
enemy, a total. disregard of the rights of citizens,
and being guilty of wanton destruction of private
property, the General commanding desires and
intends to enforce a change in this respoot. In
terpreting consfleation . aots by troops themselves
has a dernoralLing effect, weakens thorn in crest
proportion to the demoralization. It makes open
and armed enemies of many who from opposite
treatment would become friends, or at moat non
combatants. It is ordered, therefore, that the
severest punishment be infficted'urtm every soldier
who is guilty of taking or destroying private pro
perty, and any commissioned officer guilty of like
conduct, or of countenancing it, shall be deprived
of his sword and expelled from the camp, not to bo
permitted to return on the march.
Cavalry advance guards will be well thrown out;
also, flank guards of oavalry or infantry. When
practicable, a rear guard of infantry will bo re
quired, to see that no teams, baggage, or disabled
soldiers are left behind. It will two the duty of
company commanders to ace that rolls of their com
panies are called immediately upon going into camp
each daf, and every member accounted for.
U. S. OrtAxr,
Brigadier General Commanding. "
NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES.
We have received copies of the Memphis payers
from the sth to the 7th of January, from which wo
make some interesting clippings. The corre
spondent of the Nashville Union writes under data
of the lot inst., from Bowling Green, as follows:
Gen. Johnston has called upon the Provisional
Government of Kentucky for a levy of 30,00 amen,
of whom 25,000 are to he entered into the infantry,,
and 5,000 into the cavalry service, for one or throe
years.
A legion to be used for the purpose of en fore
ing, State laws, tre collection from. county officers
of the State revenue, and for police purposes, is
also to be formed and placed under the direction of
the governor, The State troops, whenever two or
more brigades have been received, will, it is under
stood, bo placed under command of Col. Wm. Pres
ton, late United States minister to Spain, who is to
receive the appointment of major genera). The
levy of troops called for will, when formed into
companies end regiments, be transferred to Um
Confederate service, and the legion act in the capa
city stated.
Governor Johnson,wll/ at once issue his procla
mation in pursuanca, of the call made upon the
State, and will arisi Who may offer themselves,
skitlar ,
tieneral ,hoWert 5 ers
Helens, near alaysfield, entuoky, arrived hero yes
terday. It is one of the largest and most effective
in the service.
- -
Gen. Floyd's brigade, from Virginia, are, upon
arrival, to be stationed at Soottaville, about twenty
five miles fromlbis place, and equally distant from
orithe Ibtryof , the D. and N. - Railroad, at
which place they will debark.
Gen. Hindman is still falling back. There are no
Fedora's, with the exception of a few scouts, this
side of Green river. All is quiet above. '
The editor of the Port Smith Evenvtg News
says he has been shown a private letter from Rich
mond, which gives strong assurances that General
Price will he appointed major general of the De
partment of Arkansas and .Missouri ; that General
McCulloch will be assigned to the command of a
division of cavalry in Virginia, and that Col 111 -
Intosh will receive an appointment to a brigadier
generalship.
The Southern Mothers of Memphis acknowledge
the receipt of fifty dollars, through the hands of
the mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas, being the con
tribution from the negroes of that city, for the relief
of the Arkansas soldiers
The following are the latest advicos from Texas :
The San Antonia News has received the Drowni
ville Flag of the 12th, and from it obtains intelli
gence to the 22d day of the Beige of Matamoras and
other news items of interest :
The drama had continued as it eommeneed—can•
non and small arms by day, with a change of scene
by the burning of buildings at night. We have no
account of,the killed and wounded, as the hospital
has been removed to the other side of the river.
By a letter in the Flag, we learn that the difil
culty-in Coahuila is fast ripening, and that forced
levies are already being made in Monterey. Says
the writer : " Several of your Texas refugees, lately
established in this city, refusing to pay up, they
were ordered to close their stores, but doomed it
more prudent to pay than to go book to Texas."
From the Flag, and also by private teller to ono
of our citizens, u o learn that they have had ex
citing times at Brownsville the last few days. Tho
United States steamer .73razos Sandap de Cuba,
from Havana, mounting four guns, having followed
the English schooner Eugenie Smith, Captain
Smith, hound Tiem Havana to Matamoras,• and
loaded with bagging and calico, owned principally
by Mr. Zaoharie, of New Orleans, she was brought
to by a shot from tho United States steamer, just
as she made the bar. Sne was then hoarded, and
Mr. Zaoharie, and Thomas Rogers, of Texas, were
madeprisoners. The hatches of the schooner were
then broken open, and nothing contraband being
found, she was permitted to depart. The United
States steamer went toward Galveston with the
prisoners.
We find the annexed paragraph in the Galveston
(Houston) News of the 26th :
Wo learn from a gentleman just from Brownsville
that a vessel laden with twenty thousand stand of
rams, owned by Mr. 'Lacharie, of New Orleans, was
recently captured off Brazos Santiago by the block
ading fleet. We learned no further particulars.
The captured oargo also embraced powder and mu
nitions of war. The vessel was cleared from Ha
vana for Matamoros, both neutral ports, and was
not, therefore, liable to capture.
The TV/;; says that "Wellsburg is turning out
from eight to ten brass °own per ereolt,. 51)1310 et
them are rifled.
We find the following itoms in tho Little Rook
Tournal of the 31st:
On firiday night last Mr. Edmundson, the gentle•
man who revealed the organization and design of
the infamous Abolitionaybawking society in the
northern part of this itate, which was recently
crushed out, was murdered by some of the gang at
his home in Izard county. Mr. Ecimundson was
called to the door of his house about ton o'olook
at night, when'he was instantly shot down by guns
in the hands of six men (disguised) who were in tho
yard. Great excitement exists in the neighborhood,
and t engeanee to the death sworn ag.amst every
jayhawker who may bo caught. Mr. Edruundson
was formerly a member of our Legislature, and an
estimable citizen.
Tho Fredericksburg (Va.) A r CIAS says :
A sensible citizen of Lancaster county, while other
people wore fretting, wont to work and made eight
bushels of salt with night cords of wood out of the
salt water at his door. Let somo man below got a
few salt•pens and supply this neighborhood.
p Mr. Newton bus proposed that the Legislature
grant bounties to those who promptly manufacture
salt from seawater.
A few days since a shell from one of our guns in
a battery, not a hundred miles from this city, fell
without explosion. It was found by a group of lit
tle Africans, who, supposing it to contain some
thing good, put it into a the and gave it a roasting.
Fortunately the explosion which ensued frightened
them without serious injury.
The Charleston Courier inquires :
What are the planters agreeing or intending to
do as to planting cotton for 1502 ? Boum have ad
vised and agreed that no cotton be planted unless
the blockade and war aro removed from us early in
January. , Others urge that for domestic consump-
Com and other obvious reasons, some portion of a e rop
should be planted.
We have expressed an opinion, as a hint and a
basis, that each planter should givo to cotton one
fourth, and not more ; and, if preferable, one-fifth
of the area of his last crop. What do the planters
say 7
Louisiana Troops.
According to the report of Adjutant General
Grivat, there ero at the present time 23,677 troops
from Louisiana in tho Confederate service. As to
the organized militia of the State, no returns
having been received from most of the parishes, the
full force cannot be stated. Reports from nine
parishes show that there is an organized force in
these parishes amounting to 5 ) 808. The first divi
sion, under command of Major General Lewis, is
30,489 strong, and the regiment of Confederate
Guards numbers 762 men—making a total militia
force reported se organized in the State of 37,143
men. The grand total of Louisiana troops, in and
out of the State, is 60,750.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
Important from Fortress Monroe.
FORTRESS Mormon, Jan. 16, via Baltimore.—
The bark John Trucks, with tho D'Epinouil Zou
laves, the schooner Col. Satter/y, with the signal
corps of Goneral Burnside's oxpodition, the hospi-
tal sloop of the expedition, and Beyond other ves
sels of the fleet, left with a favorable wind this af
ternoon.
The steamer Constitution, from Boston, arrived
this forenoon; destination unknown.
, A French war steamer, said to be dm Guirrere
de la Mer, , arrived below this afternoon.
The regular Thursday flag ; of truce today took
to Craney Island several passengers for the south.
The boat brought back the following released pri-
Sentra :
Capt. Brewer, brigade quartermaster, Rhode
Island Brigade ; Lieut. Knight, of the First Minne
sota ; Capt. A. G. Kellogg, of Company X, Second
Connecticut, and a private. Nineteen citizens also
came over to go North.
The only news in the Southern newspapers is an
exaggerated account of the affair between Hum
phrey Marshall and Colonel Garfield, in which it is
stated that the former was retreating when
he was attacked. The fighting is said to have
been very hot, and the rebels; of course, gained a
victory with small loss!
Ono hundred and aixty Union prisoners of warms
oxpectedliere tomorrow, to be exchanged and sent
!Ncrtt:
The gunboat Riwde Island arrived , from Galves
ton this morning. Her' dates are, Galveston, Deo.
28th; Ship Island, Met; Mobile, 31st ; Fort Piek
ens, Jan. 2d; Key West, Jan. Bth; and Pert Royal,
Jan. 12th. She brings a large mail.
Tho gunboats Loves, New Londoth and Water
Witch, left Ship Island on the 31st ult for Biloxi.
The result was not known, but as the Rho* Island
was leaving the New London was seen returning,
with three schooners in tow.
The Rhode Island captured the schooner Venus
off Onlveston. She was bound from Point Isabel
for Franklin, Louisiana, with a cargo of tin, ooppor,
lead, and wood, valued at $lO,OOO. She was sent
to Shipasland.
The rebel steamer Florida is inside of Horn
Island, and the gunboat Wissahickon is off that
place.
The Bombardment at Pensacola,
The rebel batteries at Pensacola having repeat
edly fired at our small vessels, Fort Pioltens opened ,
on the rebel steamer Times, which waa landing,
stores at the navy yard on the Ist inst. The rebel
batteries responded, and the firing was continued
till evening, Fort Pickens firing the last shot. The
rebel guns were well served, and most of the shells
buret insideof the fort. Only ono man was wound
ed, however. One of our shells made a large breach
in Fort Barraneas. In the evening our firing eat
Warrington on fire. The oonfiagration continued
all night, and the place was still burning,on the
evening of the 2d, when the Rhode Island left.
The light of the fire was seen at a distance of 25
Miles at sea.
The Rhode Island will sail for Philadelphia this
morning. In consequence of tho fog, she was de
tained off the capes all day yesterday.
The steamer Mount Vernon, which arrived hero
yesterday to coal, left her station off Wilmington,
N. C., on the 12th.
TllO Chippewa and Monticello wore off Cape
Fear and Fernandina, and the Amanda, oft New
Inlet.
The Mount Vernon encountered a storm on
Tuesday night, and arrived hero yesterday. She
passed a part of the Burnside expedition off Hat.
terns.
The 11fritnt V 071071 reports that she burnt the
light-ship stolen by the rebels, under tho guns of
Fort Caswell, on Now Year's night. She was being
fitted out for a gunboat by the rebels.
The rebel steamer Gordon is on the stooks for
repairs, aceording to the reports of contrabands now
on board the Mount Vernon, in muss:queue of the
damage received in her encounter with the Mount
Vernon, on the 16th of December last.
The Workmen m the Navy Yards.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The House Oommittee
on Naval Affairs have before them the subject of
the employment of workmen and laborers in the
several navy yards, their pay, So., and will soon
report whether any further legislation is necessary.
The ray of the Officers of the Army.
Tho reduction in pay por month which the com
missioned officers of the army will ho subjected to
if the Senate bill passes both houses will be as
follows :
Present Proposed
ear, Pay.
AGAraeneral $163 00 $ 3O O
Brigadier tionisrari ~, .-.-..______,— soa-00 , --- 240
Colonel 218 00 200
Lieutenant Colonel ' 104 00 • 180
73/lejor 175 00 150
Captain 118 50 120
First Lieutenant 108 50 100
Second Lieutenant 103 fie ' • 80
Surgeon General 228 33 * 200
Surgeons, ton years' service 223 00 180
Surgeons, less than ten yanrs.... 187 00 150
. Surgeons, Ore years' service "137 00 120
Surgeons, less than Sao years.... 120 00 100
Paymaster General 228 33
_2OO
Deputy Paymaster General 211 00 180
Paymaster 187 00 150
Chaplain .. .. 80,
All military storekeepers .. , . 120
Luke Defences
The House Committee on Lako Dofenoes has had
but two meetings. It will recommend the erection
of fortifications at the Straits of Mackinac, and
probably also at Fort Gratiot, which commands
the St. Cloud river at its narrowest part. Other
points may be suggested, but there is a feeling in
committee•rooms that in " wooden walls" we are
so much stronger on the lakes than our Canadian
neighbors that few land works aro required.
The Clothing Investigating Committee.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
WASIIINGTON, Jan. 16, 1862
It will be recollooted that a Commission was in
stituted by the Governor of Pennsylvania to ex.-
amine into the manner in which the uniform cloth
ing furnished the troops of that State was furnished
by Mr. Robert L. Martin, in charge, of the Girard
Rouse concern, during the Months of April and
May last. In obedience to printed circulars issued
by the said committee, much information was
elicited from the various persons engaged in the
manufacture of the said clothing, which informa
tion was embodied in a lengthy report given to the
public, some time afterward, through the columns
of a Philadelphia cotemporary. Upon its appear
ance, it was discovered that a communication, ad
dressed the committee by Military Storekeeper
George Gibson, (n . ow Capt. George Gibson, Eleventh
Regiment United States Infantry,) in reply to ono
of their circulars, was accidentally suppressed.
Captain Gibson, upon learning this fact, immedi
ately addressed the editors of that paper, enclosing
them a copy of his letter, and desiring that it
-might be published. As it has never made its ap
pearance, and as we now happen to have a copy in
our possession, we give it publicity for the first
time, knowing full well that it will be read with
interest by the wide circle of friends of Capt. Gib
son, and throughout the Keystone State, as well as
the army (both regular and volunteer) now serving
on both sides of the Potomac about Washington.
Captain Gibson, it will be recollected, is the son
of the late Chief Justice Gibson, of Pennsylvania,
and nephew of General George Gibson, commissary
general of subsistence, whose remains were buried
with imposing military honors some time since at
the Congressional Cemetery. For the last eight or
nine years ho has been identified with the manu
facturing and issuing of clothing, camp and garri
son equipage to the army of the United States, and
although at the present time nominally in command
of a company of the Eleventh Regiment Regular
Infantry, yet, from his long experienoe and inti
mate knowledge of issuing to the troops, lie was
especially detailed by General McClellan to ap
prove all requisitions made upon the clothing de
partment at Washington. The quartermasters
of two hundred regiments at present stationed in
his neighborhood will bear witness to the kind and
gentlemanly manner in which he uniformly com
municates information concerning his own, and
other departments not properly coming in his
sphere.
The following is a copy of the letter referred to :
U. S. CLOTISING DEPOT,
WASIIINGTON, D. C., July 27,1881.
BENJ. HAYWOOD, Esq., Chairman of the Com
mission for Investigating the Alleged Frauds in
Clothing and Provisioning the Pennsylvania Volun
teers.
DEAR Sin : In reply to your letter of the 20th of
Juno, I would state that the position at present hold
by mo is the same that was held by me during the
months of April and May last—namely, Military
Storekeeper attached to the Quartermaster's De
partment of the Army.
At the request of Governor Curtin, of Pennsylva
nia, I accompanied Robert L. Martin, Esq., who
was presented to mo for the first time at the Gover
nor's room, at the State Capitol, to Philadelphia, for
the purpose of assisting by my advice in organizing
a temporary establishment for the manufacture of
ten thousand suite of uniform for the first quota of
volunteers of that State milled into Government sac
vice, based somewhat upon the plan s° admirably car
ried out at Schuylkill Arsenal. GoVerner Curtin in
formed me that he had appointed Mr. Martin special
agent for the State who would snake all the necessary
purchases. Hence I felt that my mission was
simply to bring to his aid the experience of those
whom I had so recently commanded at the arsenill.
Accordingly, I lost no time in presenting to him
Messrs. Hughes and Montague, the Swop army
inspectors of clothing and bootees, believing that,
from their long experience ' they would be able to
give him much excellent advice, and oven make
the necessarypurchases for him should ho desire it.
In 'addition, the corps of cutters, under the Charge
of Mr. Hughes, worked manfully in behalf of the
State the second day the Girard House was opened.
In regard to the articles purchased by Mr.
Martin, I mu free to confess that they did not meet
my entire approval. lie spoke of the great dif
ficulty experienced by him in purchasing the dif
ferent kinds of materials needed in such largo
quantities, and it was only upon being assured that
he could not do better that I thought it advisable
(upon being consulted by him) that certain kinds
of goods should be used in the manufacture of the
garments.
On ono occasion Mr. Daniel Cochrane (who was,
I believe, in charge of the cloth roans) called my
TWO CENTS.
attention tcr.somo gray cassimore as being much in•
forior to this balance of the delivery m which it
came.
Upon e xa mming it, I discovered it to be Much
coarser and infdror in texture. I immediately
directed Mr. Marfn's attention to this fact.
Owing to my havivig loft Philadelphia previous
to the closing out of the Girard house concern, I
am unable to speak advisedly regard to the
number of garments manufactured there. Quite a
large proportion of the Work was made up gratui
tously by the ladies of the city, consequently
should not have been charged for, I do not, in-
deed, know that it was.
In relation to any allowunee, commission, vr
profits haying been realized by any of the persono
employed by the State from patties-furnishing the
geode, I have no'knowledge.
The clothing furnished by the G'sard Henan con ,
cern, I am Told, created great dissatisfaction among,
our State volunteers.
As will be perceived from the foregoing, my con•
neotion with the establishment was exceedingly
slight indeed. I performed my duty as far as. &
wan able up to the time that I was informed by the'
'General Government that my services were required
in Washington, when I paid my own bill at the
" Continental Hotel," and took my departure
from Philadelphia.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Very truly, dear sir, yours,
• One. 011380 N, In,
Q. M. D.-
State Agencies
A few words relative to the objects and duties of
those who haVe been appointed to look after the
interest of the State troops, may be neither illtimed
nor unimportant to the public. The anxiety and
suspense of the' relatives to be assured of the life
and comfort of the soldiers, heeled many to make
long journeys to Washington to communioate
personally with them. Many arrive here penniless
mid alone, and, except through accident, unable to
see or even hear from those they se anxiously seek.
Many of tho soldiers are takers Suddenly ill,
others die, and some we placed under arrest for
trivial offences against strict military discipline.
'Under these oircumstaneee, unless some person is
epoch - illy charged with the duty of looking after
their interests, it Is altogether' more thait likely
that, under the immense press , of publie business,
the soldiers may be neglectedor forgotten. Imagine'
a father or mother arriving here to look after a son'.
Strangers in a .strange' city, they are unable to
find anybody who takes satfusient interest in them
to instruct them as to how they may accomplish
the objects of their minion. Several States have
already appointed agents to conduct the business
and look after the health and comfort of their
troops. The noble old State of Vonneylvania—God
bless her !—has proved in this confilot a Chevalier
Bayard, sails pour, Salta reproolis. Foremost in
the field to defend the 'Onion, she will be the last
to consult measures of expediency or expense to
watch over the faithful guardians of her honor.
Occupying the position, in no more rhetorical or
figurative idea, of Keystone to that grand old arch
which has in its short existence challenged the
admiration of the world, it is to be hoped will never
consent that one single stone shall ever bo removed
from the base that supports all alike. Her response
ko tho call for soldiers has been hoard in the
measured tread of one hundred thousand Penn
sylvanians to the field of battle. The old
banner of the State now waves Bide
,by side
with the stars and stripei in every field where
armed traitors threaten the integrity of the nation.
Many of her EOM have fallen in defence of the old
flag upon the field of battle, others have sickened,
and others have died. "'rue to •her instincts of
benevolence, she has looked beyond the bullet that
speeds &loyal heart before its creator. Wisconsin
and New York have followed in her wake, and now
It cannot be said of the troops from those States
that the poor soldier is buried down by the roadside
without a friend to care for him, or an inscription to
mark the spot of a patriot soldier. Were it not for
this humanity on the part of these States, many of
their volunteers would be buried in a trench on the
roadside, or in the middle of some Virginian farm,
or, perhaps, huddled together in 'some overcrowded
hospital, with none to communicate to their friends
a knowledge of their situation. If those who have
unthinkingly objected to this office as useless were
on the spot and saw the pale, distitietedwiies, the
sorrowful parents, and grief-stricken sisters, apply
ing hither and thither from one department to an
other without obtaining satisfaction - from any, and
finally to return '(as we have seen) as sad and as
sorrowful as they came, they would abate smite
tehat their senseless Clamor. Not alone kindness,
buthumanity itself has dictated this office.
Not long since, an old - man arrived here, papal.,
less and- alone, from.Whesonsin, having travelled.
over 1,200 miles to see his only son. A stringer:
In a strange city, he'estuf the picture of deSolation .
surrounded by feetivity. And what lien ha more
desolate thin a wanderer in a orowdedelfy without
one single tongue to greet, or one single faze to re.
cognize you! This old man, with:one foot almost
in the grave, came to bid farewell to his only son.
Alas! mysterious are the ways of God: His eon
laid expired the very day his father had set out on
his journey, and his body was already, under the
direction of the agent of the State of Wisconsin,
'Col. Mansfield, on its way honie. The sad in
telligence was communicated to the old man,
and although he wept bitterly, yet his
grief was alleviated by the feet that
his' body would find a resting place down
by the rustic church, where his yoathfhl prayers
had first ascended to the throne of God, and his
forefathers were reposing in the eternal sleip of
the just. And who among us would not prefer to
have our body rest in the old church-yard, side by
side with our sisters and brothers, fathers and
mothers? Americans though we are, and though
the continent is ours, yet "do our hearts still cling
around the old homestead, and our prayers ascend
in spirit from the old church where the first thoughts
of God were impressed upon our youthful hearts.
"Amusements in the Twenty-eighth Penn
sylvania Regiment.
We have received a play bill of the "Geary
Thespian Corps," printed is excellent style, which
reads as follows :
‘, One for nil—all for One:,
Third Entertainment of the
GEARY THESPIAN CORPS,
of tho
Tiventy.eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
(Col. John W. Geary,)
At Camp Goodman, Point of Rocks, Md.,
On the evening of January 21, 1862, at 6 o'clock,
• '
Brindisi, from Lucretia Borgia Orchestra.
Comic Song J W. Anthony, (I.)
Ethiopian Eccentricities.. ....... P. Hoary, (P.)
The Drama, in two arts, of
THE LAST MAN,
Or, The Miser of Eltham Green.
Geoffrey Dale, the miser—Admit. Thos. 11. Elliott, (H.)
Henry Wentworth Corp. Wm. Hiles, (D.)
Haler Battergato .Capt. Wm. H. Woodward, (E.)
Lawler Weaver Corp. Frank Stanley, (M.)
Jacob Codling A Spicer, (P.)
Stephen Dalton] • Thos. Baker, (M.)
Henry Dare Wm. H. Ashton, (D.)
David Dare Chas. N. Stewart,(D.)
Landlord of the Golden Bull Wm. J. Hammer, (I).)
Waiter Corp. John C. Craven, (B.)
Officer Allan Loner, (D.)
Lucy Dale, the raiser's niece S H. Steck, (B.)
Alice Gurton4old maid of Eltham..J. W. Lippincott, (B.)
Barbara Gay, pretty maid of Kent... Louis Bitting. (O.)
Ten years are supposed to elapse between the ads.
.
Waltz Orchestra.
Bong George P. Henry, (-P.)
Grenadier Drill John Hays and Members of Co. K.
Echo Galen Orchestra.
To conclude with
THE TOODLEB
.Bergt. W. 31. Uughea, (M.)
........F. F. Wonley, (D.)
Arr. Timothy Toodlea
Charles Fenton
Fenner Acorn
George Acorn Corp. IlayVard, ?D.,
Lawyer GIIL Sergt. Dortno, (D.
Fanner Fenton Corp. Goo. T. Dames, (D.
ianner Fento-
Second Farmer..... ..
Third Farmer
Landlord
Nnry Acorn
iarW Tabitha 'foidles ---
(D.)
The Strategic Importance of Memphis—
A Religious View.
In the course of some remarks, urging the Pres•
byterian Assembly recently in session at Augusta,
Ga., to make Memphis their next place of meeting,
Judge Swayne, of tho latter city, said:
Although our city is in the infancy of its pro
gress, wo count about 55,000, (estimated bystrangers
at 50,000.) As to accessibility, we may be rather
conceited, but wo think no city in the Confederacy
may bo compared with ours for this. By reference
to the map, it will be seen that Memphis is geo
graphically and almost exactly the centre of the
Confederacy. It is intermediate to our northern
and southern boundary, our eastern and western.
It is approachable for nearly , a thousand miles
above and below, by ono of the grandest rivers in
the world. It is the,tormini of converging roads'
from every point of the compass—the Memphis
and Charleston road, the great artery of the South,
leading from all the Atlantis States, with its nu
merous connections from the right and the left;
the Memphis and New Orleans road, and its con
nections ; the Memphis and Kentucky road, with
its connections; and the Memphis and Little Rook
road,
Thus, you see, that no place can be more witless'.
bits to the Assembly, covering, as this representa
tive body does, the entire Confederacy. You, of these
old States of the seaboard, speak of our city as
" the West." We know no " West" there but the
country beyond. The giant strides of our country
westward you have not realized. To realize this
progress—to conceive that one-half of the area of
your Church lies west of the Mississippi, and to
take in the great idea of the entire country—l in.
vite you to the bluffs of Memphis, from which com
mon centre you may contemplate the whole, and
from whom heights you may survey the entire field
of operations of the Church—religious, benevolent,
and educational.
It is suggested, also, that Memphis is a military
oamp, which involves a compliment. It is not now
a military camp. The hosts who were there, and
the thousands on thousands of brave hearts from
her own baron, have passed on to the seat of war.
She is rather a hospital, where the forms of oar
women, like angels from Heaven, are ministering
round the beds of the sick and wounded.
And it is also suggested that Memphis is exposed
to the enemy. Memphis is desirable to the enemy
strategetteally and retributively for her prompt
patriotism and large-heartedness ; but we think
they mill not be able to command forces to take
and hold her. And, Mr. Moderator, probably they
are net so fond of attending religious meetings as
THE WAR PRESS.
-
Tar' Wes Pane will be sent M . subecribitte by
mail (per auntunin * t vino) e . ....
area Coelee
Five I , II 8.00
Ten " 151.0411
Larger Orbs will be charged at the same rate, aisle
20 twee will coat 20 copies will cost 100 sag
100 copies 2120.
For a Club of Twenty-one or aver, we WM Ma
Zitra 00Pr to the getter-up of the Club.
Post:motors ere remelted to act tte Agents leg
THa Wee Pease.
p.ir'Advertisemente 'lnsetted at the usual ratch gist
lines constitute a square;
toaelect the time of the sittingof the Amway to
be present there; and, I may add, if they do; with
your prayers and your arms, and tithlkod of right,
you may have ,an opportunity to help welcome
them, and furnish them occasion to inn:umber qttes
Greenes of the Revolution, and the valor of Pies
byterian arms and hearts of the other days that
ti Wed men's souls."
I will only add to what I have said, that if it
shall be the pleasnro of the Assembly to sit is
phis, they will be cordially and hospitably revolved
by the people of Memphis.
Weekly Renew of the Markets.
PRILAVELYIII.3, Jan. 17, 1862.
• Bre/less hat been light this week, owing, in stonier
measure, to the inclemency, of the weather, and
there are bit fan changes ter note in any of the
Isading articles. Eark—guereitrto is !grant et the
adranoo. -33readstaffs—Time Ise na feeling for
Mar and Wheat, with sales at tally former rater.
Corn and• Oats are dulf. Coat and Iron are ihnt.
'e Cotton market continues at to stand-still; the
firmness of holders limiting operations . . In• Gre
ceriee and Piovieloror there is mero• doing. Fish,
Fruit, ani•N•aval Storer are quiet. Rico, Zak, and
.hoodsateady in price. Tear and Tobacco arescaroe
and high. Wool is satire. Whielry irrather
&mixer &the close.
The Dry Goods - market is inactive;
trade has not yet opened: Prices• are well main,-
The -Plour market haeundiirgene no ; the
receipts are light, and holders-are firm in their do
mande, but there is very little inquiry except for
high grades of extra family, of whieh.lo,oooharrels
sold, part at $5.75a0,-and part on private terms . ;
including extra at $5,624a5L76;. and superfine at
$5.25. The sales to the retailers and bakers' range
from $5,31,1 to ss.sCoper WA for common and good
superfine; $ 6:62}a5.75 - for extras ; $5!873,t0 s6i2fy
for extralemily ; $6.3.7i. up to $V for fancy lots,
according to quality. Rye Flour and Corn Meal
are dull ; sales of the- former at - $3.75; and- the
latter at 53 per barrel. _Amide of 34:101ible-Biandy
wine was made at 5332,1--;
. - .
Wan/LT.—The market .is fpirly supplied, and the
demand is 'good at previous quotations. with sales
of 45;000 bus comnidthi' Painasylinniered, at
,13081370 per be, and small lots of White, at ,143 a
1500. Pennsylvania Bye brings Ile in store. Corn
comes forward slowly; and is in steady. deraind at
full prices; sales of 20,0t1kbus prin . ae dry nail , yel
low, at 58a5810, part from the oars;-old yellow hr
worth 60c. Oats are unchanged ; .25000 bus-Penn
sylvan's sold at 3800. There is very little Barley
here, and some New York brought 800 per bu. or
white Beans sales aro reported at $3 per be.
Pnovisions.—The market , has • been very quiet,
with but limited transactions-in any description.
Small sales of Western andnoity-paoked• mess at
$12a12.75 per bbl, cash and short time. Prime is
held at $8.50, but without sales: City-packed Mess
Beef sells in lots at 512a14,. cash. Western is in
fair re9post. The receipts of Bead Herearelarge,
and prices range at $4a4.25. Beicon---There is very
little inquiry for any description, and prices are
nominal. Sales of Hants at °acres plain and fancy,
and Shoulders on private terms: Green-Meats-arc
more abundant; sales of Hams, in salt and pickle,.
at 5.18.60. Lard—The demand has again, beea
limited, and prices have declined ;..ealettof 1,000-tos
and bbls, part to arrive, at 7/aBo,oash. Kegs sell
in a small way at 83a80. Butter supplies come
forward slowly, and it meets a moderate demand;
sales of 200 kegs packed at 9a9io, and Roll at 13n
16c per lb. Eggs sell at 140 per (loran, which is a
decline.
PciETALS.—The Iron market is ustehange;d; hold—
ers are firm and buyers purchase sparingly ; salet
of 600 tons No. 1 Anthracite at $2O; No. 2 at $l9.
cash, and 1,000 tons White Forgo at VI: Boot&
Pig is worth $23a24. Charcoal Blooms are held
at $60a65, 'without sales. Bar and Boiler Iron.
are steady.
LEAD.—There is no stocklere and no sales-hawk
been reported to alter prices, Alch /844er 100-
pounds.
COPPER is Very quiet,. and in the absence ad
sales we quote English Sheathing at No, and Yellow
Metal at 220, 6 a.tonths.
BARS.—The reoei . pta of Qeeroitron are light, and
the stook on hand is about °Mangled ; there ig a
good demand with further salee.of 25.hhda time
ground No.at ,s3l..per tort; for Tanners! bark
prices are entirely nominal, none having been offer
ed for Isom° time past.
BEESWAX is scarce, and prime yellow, if honk
Would command. 32tt3.30p0r lb.
CANDLES.—Prices WS steady for both,SperMand,
Adamantine, but. there is very little demand for ,
any description.
. COAL.—There is very little doing; owing to the
soarcity of vessels and the high ratetof froight.to
the Eastward, orders from that nation handsaw,
off, and trade.-is.quiet—the isgniry.baing, wear
confined to the want of the city trade =lto Ira
South.
Cosesi.—The stook has been increased by Us*
arrival of & 'cargo of ltio and one of Lagnayrar,
the demand is moderate but holders .very,Aw•
sales of 2,200 bags Hie at . 174410, 300 bags Lilt,
payra at 2210, and 140 bags Jamaica at 220 elle
VcerroN,:f4the - latSsiliiiiign.liditteett-have- INA;
little of no effect upon the market. The stook it
light, and holders very firm in their demands, with; -
small sales-el low and good middling Uplands at 33S
n 330, and South Amerimus at 35460
lDnua<s AM) DrEs move slowly;, sales Sodai
Ash, ,in lots, at 2Fa3o, 6 mos, note generally held et.
the ratter rate. Caustic Boda is rather scarce.:
Opium ranges from $5 .50 to $5.024, 6 mos.Qu.klt';
and Terra Japonica are held for an advance" In
dig) is firm, and commands full prices.
EItiTELERS are steady, withfurther sales of pal=
Western at 37a38e per lb. .
lina. 7 -Mackerel are very dull, there being very ;
little demand, except for small lots from store; .
Bales of No. la at $10a10.25, per bbl ; 2e at $8; 86 •
at $6.25 for large ; $5.504.75. for medium, and $4
for small. 600 ibis Eastport Pickled Herring sold,
on private terms, and small tots at $2a3.50 per Md,
assn quality. Codfish axe held firmly at $3.25.
No change in Shad or Salmon.
FRIIIT.—There is very little doing, and the stooks
of all kinds are nearly exhausted. Sales of Bor—
deaux Almonds, and 3,000 bushels African Peanuts,
on private terms. Of Oranges and Lemons there
are few or none hero. Domestic Fruit comes for
ward slowly. Sales, of Green Apples at s3a4 per
bbl, and Dried Apples at 5a74e vex to for old and
new, as in quality. - Unpared Dned Peaches range
front 6 to 100 for old and now quarters and halves.
Cianbcrriea are worth ssalo per bbl for common to
choice quality.
FBEIGIITS to foreign ports are firm ; to Liverpool
we quote flour :at 3s, grain 12d, and heavy weds'.
at 32s tida 355. A ship, to arrive, was taken up for
the same destination on private terms. A ship is
on the berth for London at 3s ad for flour, 134 for
grain ' and cloverseed at 353. Small vessels, snit.
able for the West Indies, are scarce and much '
wanted; a schooner was taken up to the north side
of Cuba at 40c for sugar and $3 50 for molasses,
foreign port charges paid. To Boston there is
considerable offering, and not much freight room. -
Coal freights nominal.
GINSENG continues scarce; sales of crude at 55e
per lb cash.
GUANO.—There is nothing doing, and no trade is
anticipated until the opening of navigation. -
HEMP is held with more firmness, and there is
vely little stook here to operate in.
RIDES are dull; an import of 2,630 Porto Ca
bello has arrived and remains unsold.
Hors aro very dull, and sell in a retail way at
20a220 per pound former( Eastern and Western.
LoarnErt.—The demand continues limited for all
kinds, but prices have undergone no change. A
cargo of yellow pine sap Boards sold at $13.50 per
M feet ; white pine Boards are dull. Laths era
held at $1.20a1.25, with sales only in a small way.
MOLASSES is but little inquired after, and the
market is quiet; sales of Cuba Muscovado at
260, on time,
New York Syrup at 32a.300, and 'a
cargo of the former on private terms.
NAVAL STORES.—The market is poorly supp lied
with all descriptions; common Rosin i s selling in a
small way at $5.50a0.75, medium grades at s7a
7.50, and fine at sBal2. Tar is worth s9al2, and
Pitch s7aB. Spirits of Turpentine meets with
more inquiry; small sales at $1.60a1.6.3 per gal
lon, cash.
Oms.—Linseed continues to sell freely at 85 a 861
per gallon. Fish Oils are firm, and for winter
Sperm holders have put up their prices, and are
now demanding $1.05. In Red Oil there is nothing
doing. Lard Oil is quiet, with sales at 70a760 for
City and Western wmter; of Oeal Oil prices are
less firm; sales at 45 a 500, and some outside lots
below the former quotation.
PLASTER.—Thore is more.coming forward; the
last sale was at $2.25 per ton.
Recv.—The stook is very light, and holders have
put up their prices; sales at 'fano cash, now ge
nerally held at the latter rate.
Sair.—Prices are looking up; an invoice or
3,000 sacks Liverpool, ground and fine, and two
cargoes of Turks Island, have arrived since our
last notice, one of which has been disposed of pri
vately.
SEEDS.—There is more demand for Oloverseod,
with sales of 2,000 bus fair and prime at $4 25a.
$4.50, including some from second hands at $4.50e
$4.70. Timothy is more inquired after; sales at
$1.50a51.75 per bus. Fla:teed is soarce, with small
sales at $2.15552.18 per bus.
SVOAR.—There is rather more inquiry, and prices
are firm ; sales of 100 hhds Cuba at 7:aBlc ' 800
boxes Havanah at 71a8c on time, and 5,000 bags
Brazil on private terms. •
Srinrrs.—Brandy and Gin are firm, but very
quiet. ' New England Rum is selling at 32a330.
Whisky is unsettled and lower; sales of Ohio at
24a250, Pennsylvania 24c, and drudge at 230 per
gallon. •
TALLOW is unchanged. Sales of country at Sie,
and city-rezidered at 928.91 e cash.
Tonacco.—There is little or no leaf in-first hands'.
For manufactured there is a good inquiry, particu
larly for sutlers' supplies, at full rates.
WooL has undergone but little alteration since
our last report; a few of the mills hsve changed
their machinery for the manufacture of the finer
descriptions of cloths, which has oaused more in
quiry for finer fleece, and the low grades axe quiet
at quotations.
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King, (B. L.,
.Wm. J. Harranl;-; ZD.S
Lott Bitting, (D,)
THE WOMAN'S ,HosrrrAr..—The first annual
meeting of the contributors to the Woman's Hos
pital was held of that building, North. College ape•
nne, on Thursday last. The report of the managers
for the previous year was read, and the bylaws
were brought forward for the approval of the meet•
ing. These, with the charter and the report of the
managers for the previous year, were then ordered
to be published. After some minor business, the
managers for the ensuing year were then elected.
The following is a complete list
President—Mrs. Thomas Wood.
Treasurer—Mrs. Maria Horton.
Recording Secretary—E. F. Hanoway.
Correspondin_„,. Secretary—Ann Preston, M.D.
Managers—Mrs. E. H. Cleveland, M. D., Mtn
Elizabeth Dorsey, Mrs. R. L. Fussell, M. D., Mrs.
Thomas Halloway, Mrs. Thos. L. Kane, Mrs. Eliza
beth W. Lippincott, Mrs. Anna D. Morrison, Mrs.
Susan Parrish, Mrs. Thomas H. Bowers, Mrs. S. R.
Price, Mrs. Commodore Read, Mrs. Martha G.
Richardson, Mrs. Richard G. Stotesbury, Mrs. Mary
Tyler, Mrs. Martha A. Warner, BEM Anna Wharr.
ton, Mrs. Caroline R. Yarnall, Mrs. Sohn F. Gilpin.
Mrs. Mary E. Named°, Mrs. Captain Turley, Mrt.
Emily Parker.