111 : 111.. OMR* NO. 417 CRIISTNOT , - - lEJ:PIi if et 141:-Itratic4 - ="ejable ,to •th• eel. of tl. Ults fie "Doii4ui iiii**l4")tocei Doc.seliaiolltzeie Morns,. items 11) ?.1. 1 40 4 , Strifitz.-Itoitevacidei elm°. for 10:1*404.10.r5t, . r TRIMZEiLit ihimitben oat of an Oily St Tau Dot. 'Oran* • airritn. DRY °OOPS. GABAT .B4 I tqr AI NS FINECLOAKS, TO CLOSE OUT THE STOOK PAM - MANTILLA, CLOAK, AND FUR ' EMPORIUM, ittilStiniti STREET, '-.- ' PREVIOUS 10 REMOVAL. 2 SVEOPSIS OP REDUCTIONS. - - FROSTED Awns CLOUTS, !rota $26 to E2O-From s'l2to SIT. Flososo Baioaa etosso, From 11/ to I;4—From 111 to 17.50. 131101 TA SILLUitt OH SAHLI CLOTH °LOA'S, irionl $lB to sl4—From $l6 to SIL 131ALSEM Oa OSTIM OLOTI( °LOAM , - From $A to 014—From $lO to 012. VILTIT CLOTH CLOAVII. From WO to 622—From 636 to 626. rINI BLACK BEAUS CLOAKS, From 1646 to 1626—Froza 06 to $2O FLT= BGAZIC 81101111 °LOW, From $25 to sl9.so—Prom $2O to $l6 - mnts Bl,llolr. Bswssscossa, from 515 to 512—From $l2 to 59 IP/xer Buvla OLoAILS, Brom $4O to SSO —From WO co $2l , FAXON COLORED BRAVER ()LOAM rpm 6th to 11118—From $lB to .13.50. LTOIB VXLYS? °LOAM), rrom,9o to 165- I .From 1170 to 11,60 OUR JURDEPAETWENT, Wbieh;is replenswith every desirable 'style ma downy eon, rtn be open to inspection at prices corresponding tisibe general rag:talon; paittoulartaation, among mob tan infinity 'of •eptelitlea, being, if not impessuble, at all weenie. ansatisfactory. • de3l-1m FLANNELt3:--A LARGE ASSORT - MINT. O➢' SalJairdvale FLANNELS, ail widths, _ Deachdale and Saxons FGANNELS, Shaker and Welsh FLANNELS, at verylow grime. GRIST BARGAINS IN BLANKETS. We am cloning out our entire mock of - • Eine all Wool BLANKETS, Fine Rochdale BLANKETS, Heavy Cumberland BLANKETS, Cradle awl Crib BLANKETS, at last AMERIUAN, FRENai, AND BOOTON BLANKET SHAW LS—alt grades, at tow prices. Heavylllealt Moire 'Antiques at 60 cents, worth 81. Super'Black Noire Antiques at 02X cants, worth 81.26. WINTER DRESS GOODS OF EVERY VARIETY. MEMMEREM EN'S Arfil All BOYS' WE kit. 60 tol6•cent laden Cassimeres, Satinets, 11 Coalman ; beat in the market. • OLIO Caesimerea ; beet in the market. Careiteerea; best ever sold for the money, Black Clothe ft r Ladies' Wear. Black Broadcloths for Yen's Wear. Boma Bargains In our Cloth Stock. 'Talton' attention is invited. COOPER, *& OCNABD, 8. X. corner NINTH and IdAHIENT. CLOAKS AND SHAWLS Reduced In Price. Good Stock of Cloaks. - Blanket Long Shaals Cheap. Biagi( Thlbet Shawls Cheap. - - Black Blanket Square Shawls for 81. Broche Shaikh' at half price. COOPER. k CONARD, ia9 S. E. corner NINTH and MARKET Ste TYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and .• ••.• ARCH, open toAsy, a fn eh assortment of Doubie•fered Black Figured Silks. Solid Colored Bxown Figured Bilks. Blues, Modes, avec% and Purple Silks. EPEE & LANDELL keep' the very heaviest Plain Black Theis Silks. Beavy.bordered Stout Black Silks. Widow's Bilks, without gloss. ' Bich Plain Silks, for city trade. $2,50 . BALMO RAL SKIRTS, full - Balmoral' Wholenale. 4; Balmoral" Retell. ya" , . LYRE & TANDEM. CNWrERTRWAIT C 0. ,& Have now on band A LABGS lITOCK MUSLIM,: - • Which will be sold at prices LOWER. THAN THE MARKET RATES. Also, GREAT BARGAIN.; IN PRINTS, 2,000 yards' of which will be sold very tow. Ja4.62a HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Detainee, at 18% cant,; Calicoes, 12% cents. Black and fancy Silk ll.mdkerchlors. 240,-Ties, Gloves, Gouts' Shawls.' Missed' and Ladles' Stmets In v trloty. ;taco assortment of Dregs Goods Balmoral Skirts is groat Tatletli at J. H. "TOIOSS', WS ARCH Street. 11.—On 'hazel, Sack straws and Solitaires, mudo by and sold for an Invalid. 'They arVnlce games as wen as preeents,• and any ono would caller a favor by Inirrilas tog the lame. del2-tf HEAVY CLiatiKINGS. Broils and Black Bea!elan, 760 to BM°. Malay beau/Coatings and elosidngs ritnallacti Cloths and Beavers. Good .took Osasknores at old prices. COOPER OONABD, dead - B. E oor. ?TINTO and INABIENT HOVSE •-F RNISEIING DaY GOODS . .431IIIPPARD, VAN HABLINGDN, & ADDISON, Importers and Dealers in Linen, and Nouse Nurnieldng Dry Goods, etc. Haws now on hand a hill assortment of Linen Sheeting, 'Table Cloths, Manias, Table, Diaper Towelling, eto., etc, Imported under the old tariff, or bought • great sao sifloe • N.B.—Five Per cent:allowed on purchases to above, paid for on.delipery. n 02712 O.O.A.Kti AND MANTILLAS. CLOAKS !. CLOAKS ! CLOAKS! , WATICII moor MOTH (11,02003, hi endless variety; - LIGHT A2,TD DARK CLOTH. °LOAM, of Beery shade • ".DLACS CLOTH CLIMES, • of event etudftV; "BLACK BMX-VELVET CLOAKS, EVERY NEW.-STYLII, • • EVERY NEW MATERIAL; • • • THE , LARGRBT STOCK • AND THI 806 T ENASOZIABLE ritIONS Di THE CITY IVENS, 0016 - , N 0.23 South NINTH Street. G REAT BAAGAINS. - Lerrss , CLOAKS, To close out, At the - ANCII-OTHEET ()LOAN AND MANTILLA STORN, q. W. mutt . TENTH sad ANON db. saM-1112s JACOB HOBBTALL. CIAIAILS—; lowing styles of woll..made, eerylotable gar. =ate The beet mute, the beet little& sad, the best material+ for the prim 4. large stock from which to select., -- COOPER d CIONABD, - WO S. E. cor. EIRTM and MARKET. ' OLOAK 13! • V The _Levet, Cheapest, and Beet-amotteeittock In the city. BOUGH t CO., 21 South TIME Opposite Franklin Market. COMMISSION MOUSES. &UMW, HAZARD,, • • • . do - - HUTCHINSON, so. 111 s 01128111 MT STRUT, 01411NI$1110A MllBO Hi NTS ' VOX MI /ILO 01 FEIILADELPH.IA-WIADE GOODS. GROuIERIES. CRAB-APPLE CIDER, OLD' CURIUM' VI7NE, OUR 11,817A{, SUPPLY, JUST RECEIVED. ASUERT C. ROBERTS, ,DkALibit IN TINE GROOEBIU, jaEkt jUBLEVENTif and VINE Ing AA etMLNILIOL, MERINO, SHAD, 9.11.11014' ito.=2ooo tibia Mar Noe. 1, 11, sod 111AOKIIIIKG Ipso, atitioin, and audl, pootiod NOlamp of 10. rho olPoonsulo b is t, tlett, rail IW- O op, of eloPi gookitlo. OW Immo asks row soome mamma. 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A duel termina ted the dispute, and Quin was slightly wounded. Quin, who was a purist in pronunciation, nevertheless sounded some words incorrectly, after a fancy of his own just as John Kemble insisted on pronouncing aches as a word of two syllables, and sometimes was saluted, from the gallery, with the cry of "Black Jack 1 How's your (zilches?" Once, in " Coriolanus," when Quin said "lower your fasces," the centurions of the Volscian army, deceived by his pronuncia tion, imagined that he said " lower your faces," and all bowed their heads I As we luive already mentioned, Quin's repu tation was made, by his performamie of Cato, in 1731, on. the retirement of Booth. One nigiit,'While 'playing this part, a Welshman, named - Williams, when speaking the line "Caesar sends health to Cato," pronounced the two proper names Keever and Keeto, know ing, perhaps, that some eminent scholars de- Clare that Cicero should be pronounced Kikero. Quin, who was at once annoyed and amused, coolly , interpolated the remark, " Would ho had sent a better messenger!" The affronted Welshman challenged Quin to fight him, and when they met in the street, outside the thea tre, drew his sword, which compelled Quin to act in self-defence. In a few passes, Williams was killed. Quia was indicted and tried at the Old Bailey for murder,.. but a verdict for manslaughter only was brought against him. At a time when Correctness is costume was much disregarded, Quin was particularly care less. He dressed badly. At the age of sixty he played Chament, in "The Orphan," in a long, grizly, half-powdered wig, hanging low down on each side of his breast, and down the back; a heavy scarlet coat and waistcoat, trimmed with broad gold lace, black velvet breeches, black silk neckcloth, black rolled stockings, square-toed shoes with old-fash ioned paste buckles, white gauntlets, and a broad old scolloped hat. Fancy that dress for' the youthful Chained, in deep tragedy! In the gallery of portraits belonging to the Garrick Club, in London, chiefly collected by and purchased from the elder Charles Mathews, who paid $25,000 for them, is a characteristic likeness of Quin. It repre sents a burly man, with Coarse, but expressive features, in which one notes the laughing, juicy eye of Falstaff, and the sensual look of Justice Greedy. It is exactly such a face as one might expect James Quin to have. Leaving Quin, we come to "metal more attractive "—to lively, clever, and excellent Kitty Clive. Few actresses are better known. She figures largely in Horace Walpole's let ters, and Douglas Jerrold has given a charm ing sketch of her in his "Story of a Feather." She was the daughter of an Irish gentleman, named Rafter, and was born in Dublin, in 1711. At the age of seventeen her voca abilities obtained her an engagement at Drury Lane Theatre, theii managed by Booth, Wilks, and Caber. For three years she was cast in very .small pits: but was usually sent on to sing a solo between the acts of a play. At last, when she was twenty years old, accident threW her jute_ the part of Nell, in Coifey's bal lid-farce "The Devil to Pay," and, giving it all. the natural force of broad comedy, she rimmed, as it were, to make it her own property. From that time, during the next thirty years, she was the first comic ;Orem on the British stage. The next year, at the age of twenty-one, she married Mr. Clive, a barrister, said to have been elder brother of Robert Clive, afterwards ennobled as Baron Clive of Plassy, for his brilliant successes and conquests in India. The union was not happy, and soon ended in separation.. Mrs. Clive continued on the stage —prosperous, popular, and only miserable be cause she fancied that it was as a votaress of Melpomene rather than of Thalia that her fame should have been realized. She was fond of attempting serious parts, and in which she did not succeed. Her Portia was popular because, in the trial scene, she used to give a capital imitation of a barrister well known in London, whose peculiarities of manner and accent she bit off cleverly. But such mimicry was surely out of place. ' Her power was in broad come dy—in which she never was surpassed. She was constantly squabbling with Garrick, and used to bully him terribly for not allowing her to appear in tragedy and serious comedy. In like manner, Liston and Keeley have believed that Nature intended 'them for the serious drama, and that Circumstance, that unspiritual god, as Byron calls it, made them come dians and farceurs. We have heard of Liston'o playing • Hamlet, and we have seen Keeley amusingly serious and grotesquely intense, on his benefit-night, as 'Richard. Mrs. Clive quitted the stage in 1769, at the age of 68, after having been over forty years on the stage. Garrick, who knew her value, entreated her to remain with him a few years longer, bpt she declined, saying that age was coming , ore and that she had made money enough. , "How much 7" Garrick asked. She sharply-answered "As much as yourself— and more, for know when I have enough, and you never will.", She spout the last seventeen years of her life in elegant retire merit near Horace Walpole's famous Straw berry Bill, Twickenham, near London, and died in December, 1785. She was a constant visitor to her neighbor Walpole, where her off-hand manner, ready wit, and fearless sarcasm made her the nightly terror, the, bite noire of all the card-cheating, scandal-mongering old tabbies who formed his nightly ted-table . coteries. She wrote, at va rious times, for her own benefits, four petite pleces T of 'Oa& only, the first was published. These are "Bevis in Petticoats," acted in 1763; "Every Woman in her Humor," in 1760; "The, Faithful Irishman," in 1765; and "The Island of Slaves,"' in 1761. This last was a translation from Marivaux's "Isle dealselavea," executed for her by a friend, and adapted for the stage by herself. Among the many virtuous women—and their name is Legion—who have adorned the theatrical profession, none preserved a higher reputation than Kitty Clive. She was visited, all through her life, by persons of both sexes of high rank and character. She is said to have been fully as amusing off the stage as upon it. Vivacious, satirical, blunt—her con versation was varied and entertaining. Dr. Johnson highly esteemed her, and delighted in her conversation. Ile said, " Clive, sir, is a good, thing to sit by, she always under stands what you say." Not to be outdone in complithent, she said, "I love to sit by Dr. Johnson ; he always understands me." John son said to Boswell, years alter she had left the stage, " Mrs. Clive was the best player I ever saw." John Kemble, who recorded the conversation during a visit which Mr. Siddons paid Johnson in 1788, the year before he died, mentions that Johnson said "Mrs. Porter in the vehemence of rage, and Mrs. Clive in the sprightliness of humor, I have never seen equalled. What Clive did best, she did bet ter than Garrick ; but could not do half so many things well ; she was a better romp than any I ever saw in nature. Pritchard, in com mon life, was little better than a vulgar idiot ; she would talk of her gaumd ; but, when she appeared on - the stage, - seemed to be inspired by gentility and understanding." In the original cast of Colman's " Jealous Wife," the characters of, Mr. Oakley and Mrs. Oakley were performed by Garrick and Mrs. Pritchard, 'arid Mrs. Clive was the Lady Freetove. There are two portraits of Mrs. Clive in the. Garrick Club. One, by llogarth, repro /fields her' as the Fine Lady in F 4 Lethe ," the other is said to have been painted by Verelet ; if so, it is a great curiosity, for the artist happened to die the year before the actress was born. Sprenger Barry is an Irish actor who ob tained great celebrity in his time. His father was a silversmith in Dublin, and he succeeded to the business and a competent fortune. Ho also bad $7,500 as his wife's dowry. But in attention to business and a padsion for the atricals made him bankrupt in four years, and, at the age of twenty.flve, he made his debut on the Dublin boards as Othello. No first ap pearance was ever more successful. His voice nes full, harmonious, and manageable, and his person was considered the perfection of manly beauty. At one step, Barry - sprang into the first position. Crowds used to assemltle to see him perform, and boxes were engaged, for his nights, weeks in advance. There are two portraits of Barry—" silver tongued Barry" he was called—in the Garrick Club. One shows him in his private cha racter, the other shows him with his wife, in Hamlet and the Queen. They confirm the tra dition of fine person, regular features, and wonderful expression. Two years after Barry's first appearance he was a - favorite in London, playing rivalry with Garrick at Drury Lane ; in Garrick's double line, too—tragedy and genteel comedy. Of course two such suns could not shine in the same firmament, and Barry soon removed to 'Covent Garden. There began a great con test—the rivals playing theft' principal parts against each other, with various success. The grand struggle was in the part of Romeo, and that great critic "the town" decided that Barry played it better than Garrick. Macklin, however, who loved to be satirical, said of the rival Romeos, " Barry comes swaggering into the garden, talking so loud that the servants would inevitably take the alarm, and toss him on a hlanket! Garrick sneaks in like a thief in the night, as if he were afraid of the watch dog, and trembling at the sound of his own voice." The Contest became tiresome to the public at last, and was satirized In numerous squibs and epigrams, of which the following is one: " Well, m hat's to-night," says angry Ned, As up from bad he rouses: "Romeo again !" and shakes his head, " Ali ! plague on both your houses." In 1758 Barry joined with Woodward in building the Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, but the speculation Sailed on their hands. In O'Keefe's "Recollections" he says: "As a set-off against the powers of harlequin's wooden sword, Barry had Nat Lee's Alexander the _Great got up in fine style, particularly the triumphal entry into Babylon, which, in splen dor cf show, exceeded Mossop's ovation in Coriolanus. I have not been inside the walls of a theatre for upwards of twenty-six years; therefore know not how they manage these affairs now : perhaps in a superior way, but I hardly think it possible. Alexander's high and beautiful chariot was first seen at the farther end of the stage (the theatre stretch ing from Eownes' streetto Temple lane). He, seated in it, was drawn to the front, to triumph ant music, by the unarmed soldiery. When arrived at its station to stop, for him to alight, before he had time even to speak, the machinery was settled on such a simple, yet certain, plan, that the chariot in a twinkling disappeared, and every soldier was at the in stant armed. It was thus managed : Each man having a particular duty previously assigned him, laid his hand on different parts of the chariot; one took' a wheel and held it up on high—this was a shield; the others took the remaining wheels—all in a moment were shields upon their left arms; the axle-tree was taken by another—it was a spear; the body of the chariot also took to pieces, and the whole was converted into swords, javelins, lances, standards, &c. Each soldier, thus armed, arranged himself at the sides of the stage, and Alexander, standing in the centre, began his speech. I have seen in my day operas, ballets, pantomimes, melodramas, &c., at Covent Garden, Drury Lane, the Hay market, and the Opera Rouse, but never saw anything to equal, in simplicity and beauty, this chariot manceuvre of Alexander the Great." Barry and Woodward also built the theatre, George's street, Cork, which was opened in July 1761.. Barry's salary, after this, when he and his (second) wife played at Drury Lane, was seven thousand five hundred dollars a year, besides benefits. This was an immense sum for the time. He died in January 1777, aged fifty eight. His death was hastened by gout, partly hereditary, and partly the effect of high living. In the characters of Othello, CastaZia, (in "The Orphan,") Lear, Jajfier, and Essex, ho has been known repeatedly to draw tears from the performers who were at the wing, waiting to come on in their ofin parts. Barry's insinuating manners must have equalled Sheridan's. On one occasion he said to a creditor who dunned him, "-Waite up stairs, and we shall talk this matter over." "Not I," said the man; "you owe me one hundred pounds, and if you ger, me up stairs you won't let ate leave you until you owe me two hundred." Beyond this is the fact that, having been arrested for debt, he actually per suaded the sheriff's officer, who had the ca. sa. to pay off debt and costs, and also lend him ten guineas ! Sheridan never equalled this. Enough for to-day. Mrs. Margaret \Vol fington shall be presented in this column to morrow. As the heroine of Charles Reade's novel and of his comedy of a Masks and Faces," (in which we have a pleasant recollec tion of Miss T. M. Daveoport,) she is already well known to the public of the present day. New Publications. Mrs. Southworth's new story, which has the solitary fault of beingloo brief, Is entitled "The Broken Engagement ; or, Speakmg the Truth for one Day," and will be published to-morrow, by Peter son /6 Brothers. The scene is in London, where Mrs. S. now resides, we believe, and relates the misad. ventures, during a single day, of a young gentle. 33:1811 who indulges in the novelty of plainly speak ing the truth. The result is he is disinherited by his uncle, turned out of a situation by his em ployer, jilted by his lady-love, and within an inch of being consigned to a lunatic asylum. lie re trieves bituself, however, and finally weds the wo man of his heart, The events are rapidly related in a piquant rnannat. We 'moon:lend some of our playwrights to turn this wouvelette into a lively one-act fares, for it is highly dramatic. Ve have received from J. B. Lippincott and Co., and also from T. B. Peterson 16 Co., two new books published by Messrs. Harper, New York. Ono is a volume by John S. C. Abbott, (author of the Life of Saint Napoleon), entitled " Practical Christian ity, a treatise specially designed for Young Mon," and the other is a novel, called "The Pilgrims of Fashion," by libation Cornwallis. Mr. Abbott's little volume is a sensible and practical argument for Christianity, and Mr. COrnwallis' novel, which commences in 1779, and comae down to the close of 1891, including en account of the Battle of Bull Run, Is readable enough—but requires closer aria oism, on account of, its author's pretension—ho dates from ' , Fifth Avenue hotel," just as Macau lay's letter to his Edinburgh constituents was dated from " Windsor Castle,"—than we can be stow upon it today. This we will say now—Mr. Cornwallis evidently has considerable talent, though he has to learn how to construct a story. We have received the Atlantic Monthly, from Peterson .4 Brothers, and also a Boston pamphlet entitled "The Indisiolublo Nature of the Ameri can Union, considered in connection with the as. slimed right of Secession,"—a letter to Mr. Peter Cooper, Now York, by Nahum Capon, of Dorches ter, Mass. Three new numbers of "The, Pulpit and the Rostrum " have come to hand containing a Thanks giving Sermon, by the Rev. Dr. Burohard, New York ; Henry Winter Davis' Address, at Brook lyn, on "The Southern Rebellion, and the Consti tutional Power of the Republic for its Suppres sion;" and Wendell Phillips' recent Lecture at New York, on " The War for the Union." SUCCESSFUL FESTIVAL.--Tho ladies' festival, held on the evening of the Bth of January, at San som•stroet Rail, in aid of the Volunteer Refresh ment Saloons, yielded the handsome eum or one thousand and four dollars, which was equally divided between the two saloons. On the oeeasion of the presentation, yesterday' afternoon, a largo number of ladies and gentlemen were present, when suitable addre.ees wore delivered by Revs. Smiley, Rutter, Brainard, and Brisbane. A SECOND WINSUIP.—" Professor" Ira Field, a gymnast of Troy, is rivalling Dr. Winship. He recently lifted sixteen hundred pounds. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1862. SKETCHES OF CITY LIFE. A THIEVES' BALL It is the province of a reporter to make the most susceptible incredulous, by plain narrations of facts. lie knows by experience what they do not know, oven by imagination. There be by-ways and by places, in a groat oily like ours, that chests slippers never tread, where crime lives in commu nities, and shame forgets to blush because It is dei fied and worshipped. if we should state that in a central hall, where religious meetings of ate erra tic theology are weekly held, a conventicle of miserable women meat of Thursday nights, to dance and drink, and otherwise forget their sorrows, we might be gainsaid. If we should point to the host of perjured husbands and wives, of whose derelictions we aro daily acquaint. ed—many of whom occupy responsible and coveted positions—we might be doubted. And if we should, anxious to reveal the darkest chapters of our muni cipal history, state that even the thieves, the out lawed and the banned, wore in the habit of hold ing stated and publio congregations, for profane pleasure, where the recklessness of vino was made manifest, and all of the sensual, tho depraved and the estranged was exhibited, we should, for our verification, depend not upon the assertion, but the indubitable evidence. Relying upon the latter, we will example a ball that came off on Wednesday night, in South street, not a hundred miles from Tenth. A tioket before us reads something in this way : "BLUE GULL AS4E6IBLY. FIREST GRAND GALL TO DE GELD anager—Peter Brine. A csietauta—John Tabbin, Wm. Buyorn TICKETS, GEE DOLL/It EACH.. We were informed by ono of the officers that this ball bad been devised, by professional thieves, for the benefit of a conviet, who had lost his health in the penitentiary. Unable longer to steal, he had been befriended by his associates, and half tho "knucks, (pickpockets,) "serewsmen," and "(tracks men,". (burglars,) " koniackers," and "shovers of the queer," (counterfeiters,) till thieves and "sly Molls," (female thieves,) had donated their moneys to this most charitable of purposes. At ten o'clock wo entered the hall, accompanied by a posse of detectives, United States Marshals, and "men about town." A broad. shouldered man, with ono eye and a deep scar across his forehead, stood at the door as wo passed up a pair of dirty steps. Ile recognized the officers, addressing them as "fly cops" (detectives), and looked at us signifi cantly, saying: "The little Juicy!" (young newspaper man), at which he placed a thumb upon his eyebrow and gyrated his fingers. To evidence his prudence, as well as his knowledge, this indivi dual further said : " Will I blow ? Dammit, never, my boy !" Atwhieh he was so amused, that ho struck his hat revengefully, forcing it down upon the bridge of his nose, until the ono eye alone was revealed, and the great scar hidden. We passed a bar and refreshment saloon, att' tended by a negro and a white girl, the former of whom was very obsequious and the latter very sly. During the whole evening the negro attended to his functions, waiting upon the lewd and intoxicated, With the punctilio of a colored vestry man who had just been taking up the collection, and imagined himself stilt at church. He bowed respectfully to the most sensual, and said " Madame" in the softest, of tones to soma that should have been madames years before. When we left the place, at throe o'clock A. M., be was still bowing and pouring out gin and water, but the white girl had been unable to stand the pressure and was fast asleep. Tho ball room was a plain apartment, nearly square, lighted by some side jets and a chandelier. Double rows of yellow settees were arranged around the room, and the musicians, whose violins seemed to have taken the diptheria, were squeak ing and fuming behind a row of chairs. The floor-managers wore forming the sets, running hither and thither, introducing couples, and ar ranging them in their places. They wore all thieves, and generally pickpockets or " shovers" of bad money. Their attires wore in the highest degree charaotoristic—white gloves, pulled over large, coarse hands, and immense pins, that shone like Drummond lights, in prismatic patterns of scarfs Their vests wero likewise " loud" in co lors, and reddish-brown was a predominant hue in pantaloons. Their faces were familiar to patrons of the Rogues' Gallery, being largo at the jaws and narrow at the foreheadi with sallow complexions, and eyes that flickered with the restless keenness of the professional thief. There was very Hide formality in the mode.of introduction. "Sally, my love," said ono of the managers, that seemed to have taken flash Toby Cracket for his prototype; "come hear, my dear, I want to make you acquainted with n pertickler friend o' mine. Mr. Mimes, Miss Luff; Miss Luff, Mr. Legato !" Mr. Logue at once led Miss Luff to her place in the cotillion, and after dancing for one set, they were both observed to adjourn to the refreshment saloon, for the purpose of drinking, or, as Mr. Lo gees observed, to " wet their whistles." However, the music finally burst forth ; the mas ter of ceremonies gave the order—" First couples, few-wards !" "Swing corners !" eta., and all the motley assembly—thieves, cypriaus, and counter feiters—threw down their feet, like the ring of so many bogus pieces, and kept up a clatter Strikingly indicative, in view of the place, of the music of a treadmill, or the hum of prism shuttles. There were many married women on the spot, whose consorts were men about town—gamblers, eta. There were many, likewise, that wore un married, but a remove or two above the third class, having some domestic, if not social position, and professedly true to a single male friend Thelargor proportion were otherwise—unoonsoiously wretched ones, superbly clothed (but at what cost), and full of smiles that will be wrinkles tomorrow. These were wandering up and down, called always by their first names, as "Em," or "Kitty," and re sorting, after each set, to the bar, whore they drank raw liquors in fearful quantities, until the flushes in their cheeks came up ruddier than the rouge, and under each painted eyebrow the eye ball glared wild and inflamed. Many of these women were perfections of vital and locomotive beauty, and some of them seemed to be of amiable temperaments. They were often tastefully garbed, but frequently rude in speeoh, and often masouline in voice, walk, and -stature. They evidently aped the manners and tastes of the stronger sex. Few better assemblages of dancere could bo found, their movements being supple and full of sinew. The prevalent characteristic, among both mon and women, was the use of slang phrases. Slang is, at beet, a modification of vulgarity and pro fanity, and from the lips of a woman is most die tasteful. The women generally addressed their partners as 44 My John," or 44 Littleone," or "Pret ty feller," and the laughter always partook of the nature of a guffaw, or an indistinct oath. Toward ono o'clock the hilarity became height ened into fiendish, almost terrible glee, and some of the participants gave manifeatatione of their native ferocity. The atmosphere seemed to grow close; the bar was more than ever patronized; loud boasting, 'verging upon wrangling, com menced, and the attentions of the gentry toward the ladies were a trifle rough. Some or tiro, Municipal police had strayed into the room, and their appearance was resented by the thieves, who leered contemptuously upon them and said, "fiat cops," with impunity. Finally, loud curses broke from the ladies' dress ing-room, and a rush ensued for that quarter. It was found that a thief had offered some indignity to a woman, who resented it, and ho had stabbed her in the palm of the hand. Thereupon all til4 amazons sot updn him, threw him upon the floor, and beat him lustily, while he struck out, knife in hand, to the right and the left. Not a woman of the party screamed or gave tokens of terror; full of gin, and accustomed to such emergencies, they rather enjoyed the occasion and improved it. In the meantime, a United States officer took ad vantage of the sparse assemblage in the bill-room to attempt the arrest of a counterfeiter, for whom he had a warrant. The latter drew a revolver, and would have blown the officer's bead off, had not a friend wrenched away his weapon. It Was about this time that our reporter became uneasy. Ho saw the restless eyes of the desperate men around him, a hand carelessly thrust in their pocket, and ho was certain that every such hand grasped the handle of a dirk. It had boon whis pered about that a " huey" was represented in tho room, and without the protection of the officers the safety of this " buoy" would have boon incon siderable. Groups of thieves gathered in the cor ners, talking rapidly, and the more timid of tho women were tying their bonnets and calling for their beaux. ,To have quarrelled with a a thief would have been insane, for detection in the crowded room was out of the question. We amused ourselves, for another half hour; in hearing from a welbinformed officer the stories of the knaves around us, and when again emerging into the starlight, with the heavens flecked and the city wrapped in snow, we felt that they who would make crime a romance -and deify or beautify sin must be indeed of warped morale and a flighty brain. DEATH Or AN EBTENDIED MERCHANT.—Mr. John Danett, who for quarter of a century past has been connected with the trade between Phila delphia and Laguayra, died at his residence in this city at en early hour yesterday morning. The deceased wee a most estimable merchant—wealthy, charitable, and amiable. Me was a member of the Corn Exchange Association, and that body will adopt appropriate resolutions with regard to him at their meeting today. THE REBELLION. THE WAR IN KENTUCKY. BRILLIANT VICTORY AT SOIRSET, Death of Gen. Zollicoffer. ROUT OF HIS FORCES. THE FEDERAL TROOPS IN PURSUIT. - AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI. REPORTED BATTLE AT IRONTON. FEDERAL FORCES DEFEATED OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE GUNBOAT EN GAGEMENT ON THE MISSISSIPPI. Thci m ßebel Generals of the South. A LIST OF THEIR NAMES, AND PLACES IVIIERE 'IWEY ARE STATIONED. TIIE FEMALE TRAITORS IN WASHINGTON, No Further Intelligence from the Burn- side Expedition THE REBEL FORTIFICATIONS ON THE UPPER POTOMAC. SUFFERINGS OF THE PEOPLE IN THAT REGION. &c., &c., &c. GENERAL BUELL'S DIVISION. A Brilliant Victory at Somerset, Ky. CINCINNATI, Jan. 20.—A battle was fought at Somerset, fiy., on Saturday, between the Federal troops under General Schoopff, and the rebels under General Zollieuffer. The engagement was commenced in the morning, and lasted till nightfall, General Zollicoffer was killed, and his army en tlrely defeated. Tho loss is heavy on both aides. [SECOND DESPATCH.] The Federal Victory Confirmed. LOUISVILLE, Jan. 20.—Ganeral Thomas tele graphs to headquarters that, on Friday night, General Zollicoffer came up to his encampment, and attacked him at six o'olook on Saturday morning, near Webb's Cross•roade, in the vicinity of Somerset. At half•pnet 3 o'clock, on Saturday afternoon, Zollieoffer and Bailie Peyton had been killed, and the rebels were in full retreat to their entrench ments, at Ann Springs. The Federal troops wore in hot pursuit. No further particulara have been reoeived, nor any account of the losses on either aide. The Scene of the 'Victory. The scene of the late victory is Somerset, the capital of Pulaski county, Kentucky, and is situated six miles north of the Cumberland river, and ninety miles east of Frankfort, the capital of the State. The Late General Felix K. Zollacolfer Was well known to the public as a politician and editor. Ho was born in Mowry county, Tennessee, on the 19th of May, 1812. Ile was a printer by trade, and when quite a young man ho published a paper at Paris, Tenhessee, and subsequently was proprietor of the Columbian Observer. Being elected State printer, he hold that office till 1842, when he removed to Nashville, whore for time he was editor of an old lino Whig nowapaper of that city, called The Banner, using his position as A stepping stone to a membership in the Federal Congress. That position ho finally attained in 1853, and continued for three successive terms to hold it. But his ambition was not limited to that goal. Ile wanted to he Governor of Tennessee, and even aimed at the highest Federal honors. But the Democratic party of that day had gotten complete control of Tennessee, and ho could not, therefore, hope to obtain tho bounds of his desires, save through some now medium. Ho tried tho Know• Nothing organization. That failed him. Ills star passed into obscuration, and when Seces sion turned up he embraced it, as the means of converting himself from an opaque' political body into a living light in the popular atmosphere. Ile became a general in name, and name only. 110 was naturally a Blow, heavy man, lymphatic in his temperament, and inert in action, but a fine de bater, when roused, as hie dissuasion with A. H. Stephens proved, in 1854, in Congress. Disturbance among the Negroes sit Ken tucky. Tho Frankfort (Ky.) Yeoman of January 17th says: We have just learned from a reliable gentleman of New Castle the circumstances of a very unusual oecurrenco in that place, just before Christmas, which we deem it proper should be plmed before the people of Kentucky. Some forty or sixty ile ums, all slaves, had been engaged in killing hogs for one of the citizens of Now Castle, at night. About that time, and after the work was over, they paraded the struts of the town in a body, between the hours of ten and tw , leal, altering all sorts of disorderly sounds, singing political songs, and shouting for Lincoln. 'they seemed to take spe cial pains to make their unusual and disorderly de monstrations in front of the residences of ono or two prominent Southern Rights citizens. They con tinued their tumultuous proceedings for an hour or PO, without interruption from either officers or citizens, and finally dispersed of their own accord•; We deem it duo to the peace and security of the Commonwealth to give this information to the pub lie, in order that other communities may be put on their guard, and prepare to suppress in their inci piency all such dangerous movements on the part of the slave population. We also learn from the same gentleman, that about the same time, or shortly after, a party of slaves in Henry county, belonging partly to Union, and portly to Southern Rights men, made off from the county, taking with them a wagon awl horses, with a full supply of provisions belonging to their owners, and made their escape into Indiana. They were immediately pursued by their mestere into Indiana and overtaken ; but the own ers were notified by the population that they should not arrest the slaves, and, in fact, were themselves notified to leave the State without delay. A second visit of the same and other parties, with propor certificates, as the gentleman who gives us the fasts is informed, was made with the same result. We are also informed that numerous houses and barns belonging to residents of leery county, have recently been fired and burned to the ground by the negroes, and that in consequence a general feeling of insecurity prevails throughout the entire com munity. GEN. HALLECK'S DIVISION. Affairs in Missouri—Reported Battle near Ironton—Six Thousand Rebels, under Jeff Thompson, Defeat Eight Hundred Federal Troops. Tho S. Louis Democrat, of January 17, says Information of a reliable character reached this city last night to the effect that, yesterday, a large body of rebels, numbering about 6,000 men, in command of Jeff Thompson, advanced upon a yederal detachment of 800 troops, under Col. Mills, a t a dieznoe of about twenty-throe miles from fron ton, and gave 11, - ,,m battle. A desperate conflict ensued, resulting in the loss of many killed and wounded on both sides. The Federate, overpowered by numbers, had, at latest accounts, fallen back a distance of eight miles, leaving a quantity of baggage in the hands of the enemy, and were still retreating towards Pilot Knob. At Pilot Knob considerable alarm existed, and Colonel Carlin was making every preparation for the impending struggle at that point. An attack was thought to be inevitable last night, but will not probably take place until to-day. The Wisconsin regiment which loft hero on Wednesday arrived safely at Ironton yesterday. A buttery of the First Missouri Light Artillery, under command of Major Schofield, started from this city yesterday, and will probably reach Pilot Knob this morning. The rebels had not destroyed any more of the bridges. The Big river bridge is being rapidly rebuilt. This news came to us in a manner which loaves no doubt of its general correctness. We have had no information of so large a body . of Federal troops being thrown out, ns is stated in this report, to wards the supposed locality of Jeff Thompson and his band, and, we think, in that respect, there may be some exaggeration. The arrival of the Eighth Wisconsin will make the force at the Knob a little over throe thousand. 7 hey have the advantage of some heavy guns and strong position; but, on the other hand, the troops, it will be remembered, are fresh, and not well dis ciplined. If Major Sohofield and his battery 'aro permitted to pass through without detention, we shell rely greatly upon the assistance which he will be able to render the officer in command, Colonel Catlin. The Gunboat Engagement near Voluu►- The Navy Department hes received the following official report of the recent gunboat engagement near Columbus : UNITED STATES GUNBOAT ESSEX, Wm'. D. Porter, commanding Port Jefferson, January IS, 1862. FLAG OFFICER A. 11. FOOTE : SIR : On the morn. ing of the Ilth Gen. MoClornand sent on board this vessel and informed mo that the enemy were moving up the river from Columbus with several vessels, towing up a battery. I immediately sig. nailed Lieut. Com. Paulding, of the St. Louis, to get under way and prepare for action. A very thick fog coming on, wo were compelled to steam slowly down the river; but about 10 o'clock, or a little after, it rose, and showed us a largo steamer at the head of Lacese's Bend. We heard her whis tle the moment we were seen by them. Shortly after whistling she waajoined by another large and a small steamer. We pursued our course steadily down the river. and: when within long range the large steamer Ored a heavy shell gun, which struck the sand bar between us, and riceochatted within about 200 yards of thiiveeael and burst. We at this time did not return the Ore, but continued our course down in order to near the vessel. By this time the largo steamer was joined by her Consorts, and they opened a brisk fire Upon us. I now hailed Lieutenant Commanding Paulding, and dircoted him to try ono of his rifle cannon. Ile in stantly fired and sent his shot completely over the enemy. I than opened from my bow guns, and the notion became brisk on both sides for about twenty minutes, the enemy firing by broadside. At the end of this limo the enemy hauled off, and stood down the river, rounding to occasionally and giving us broadsides. This running fight continued until be reached the shelter of the batteries on the Iron Banks above Columbus. We continued the action, and drove him behind his batteries in a crippled condition. We could distinctly see our shells ex plode on his decks. The action lasted over an hour, and terminated, as I think, in a complete defeat of the enemy's boats, superior in size and number of guns to the Essex and St. Louis. On the 12th, Gen. MoClernand requested me to make aro onnoissenco towards the Iron Banks. I did so, and offered the enemy battle by firing a round shot at their battery, but they did not re spond, nor did I see anything of their boats. I have since been informed, through the General, that the boats of the enemy were completely disa bled, and the porde became so great at the Iron Banks that the gunners deserted their guns The fire of the St. Louis was precise, and the shot told well. Thenofficers and men' of this vessel behaved with firmness, Mr. Riley, the first master, carrying out all my orders strictly, while the officers of the gun divisions, Messrs. Loving and Ferry, paid par ticular attention to the pointing of their respective guns. Mr. Britton, my aid, paid all attention to my orders, and conveyed them corrootly and with alacrity ; in feet, all the offieers and men on board behaved like veterans. Your obedient servant, W. D. PORTER, Commander. Flag Officer Foote, in forwarding this report, says: CAIRO, January 13, 180. Sin : I forward a report from Commander Porter. 'be rebel-gunboat shells all fell short of our boats, while our shells reached and ranged beyond their boats, showing the greater range of our guns, but the escape of the rebels showed the greater speed of their boats. Your obedient servant, A. H. FOOTE, Flag Moor. Bon. GIDEON WErAms, Secretary Navy. LATE NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. The Rebel Generals of the South [From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 16.) 1. Samuel Cooper, Virginia, adjutant general. 2. Albert S. Johnston, Texas, commanding in Kentucky. 3. Joseph E. Johnston, Virginia, commanding Northern Virginia. 4. Robert L Leo, Virginia, commanding South Atlantic coast. 5. P. G. T. Beauregardi Louisiana, commanding Army of Potomac. aR OF.NTE • : ; a , 'N. , I . . • . . 1. David E. Twiggs, Georgia, resigned. 2. Leonidas Polk, Louisiana, commanding at Memphis. 3. Braxton Bragg, Louisiana, commanding at Pensacola. 4. Elul Van Dorn, Mississippi, Army of Potomac. 5. Gustavus W. Smith, Kentucky, Army of Po tomac. t- 6 Theophilus EL Holmes, North Carolina, Army of Potomac. 7. William J. Harcloo,Goorgia, Missouri. 8. Benjamin Huger, South Carolina, command ing at Norfolk. Jamas Longstreet, Alabama, Army of Po tomao. 10. Sobn B. Magruder, Virginia, commanding at Yorktown. IL Thomas J. Jackson, Virginia, commanding Northwestern Virginia. 12. Mansfield Lovell, Virginia, commanding Coast of Louisiana. 13. Edmund Kirby Smith, Florida, t allay of Po tomaa. 14. George B. Crittenden, Kentucky, command ing East Tennessee. ItNIGADIZR 6ENMIAL9 IN TIM PIIOVISIONAL MOVE 1. Milledge L. Bonham, south Carolina, Army of Potomac. 2. John B. Floyd, Virginia, commanding Army of Kanawha. 3. Henry A. Wise, Virginia, waltingor.lers. 4. Ben McCulloch, Texas, Missouri. •5. 41Ienry R. Jackson, Georgia, resigned. G. *Robert B. llama, Virginia, killed in .as lion. 7. *William H. T. Walker, Georgia, resigned. 8 *Bernard E. Bee, South Carolina, killed in aotion. O. Alexander R. Lawton, Georgia, commanding Coast of Georgia. 10. *Gideon J. Pillow, Tennessee, Kentucky. 11. Samuel R. Anderson, Tennessee, Kentucky. 12. Daniel S. Donelson, Tennessee, Coast of South Carolina. 13. David R. Jones, south Carolina, Army of Potomac. 14. Jones M. ',Villiers, Alabama, commanding Coast of Alabama. 15. John C. Pemberton : Virginia, Coast of South Carolina L 10. Richard S. Ewell, Virginia, Army of Pots 17. John 11. Winder, Maryland, Riohmond. 18. Jubal A. Early, Virginia, Army of Potomac 19 Thomas B. Flournoy, Arkansas, died in Ar kansaa. 20. Samuel Tones, Virginia, Army of Potomac. 21 Arnold Elroy, Maryland, Army of Potomac 22. Daniel 11. Hill, North Carolina, Army of Po tonna. 23. Henry 11. Sibley, Louisiana, Texas frontier. 24. William IL C. Whiting, Georgia, Army of Potomac. 25. William 11. Loring, North Carolina, Western Virginia. 26 Richard 11. Anderson, South Carolina, Pen sacola. 27. Albort Pike, Arkansas, Indian Commissioner 28. Thomas T. Fanntloroy t Virginia, rosignod. 29. Robert Toombs, Georgia, Army of Potomao O. Daniel Ruggles, Virginia, Louisiana. 31. Charles Clark, DlLsissippi, Army of Potomac 32. Roswell S. 'Ripley, South Carolina, Coast o South Carolina. • 33. leaao R. Trimble, Maryland, Army of Po town°. 34. John B Grayson, Kentucky, died in Florida. 36. Paul 0, lobar[, Louisiana, Coast of Texas. 36. Richard C. Catlin, North Carolina, com manding Coast of North Carolina. 37. Felix K. Zollicoffer, Tennessee, Eastern Ken tucky. 38 Benj. F. Cheatham, Tennessee, Kentuoky. 30. Joseph K. Anderson, Virginia, Coast of North Carolina. 40. Simon B. Buckner, Kentucky, Kentucky. 41. Leroy Pope Walker, Alabama, Alabama. 42 Albert G. Blanohard, Louisiana, Norfolk. 43. Gabriel J. Rains, North Carolina ' Yorktown. 44. J. E. B. Stuart, Virginia, Army of Potomac. 45. Lafayette McLain( ' Georgia, Yorktown. 46. Thomas F. Drayton, South Carolina, Coast of South Carolina. 47. Thomas C. Ilindman_, Arkansas, Kentucky. 48. Adley IL . Gladden, Louisiana, Pensacola. 49. John Porter McCown, Tennessee ' Kentucky 50. Lloyd Tilghman, Kentucky, Kentucky. 51. Nathan G. Evans, South Carolina, Coast o South Carolina. 52. Cadmus Id. 'Wilcox, Tounessoo, Army of Po tomao. 53. * Philip St. George Cooke, Virginia', died in Virginia. 5L R. F Rhodes, Alabama, Army of Potomac. 55. Richard Taylor, Louisiana, army of Poto mac. 56. Louis T. Wigfall, Texas, Army of Potomac. 57. James 11. Trapier, South Carolina, Coast of Plorida. LB. &Italica G. Fxenoll ? Ntagiasippi, Army of ?o, tomao. 09. NY)lllltra .h. Carroll, Tennessee, hasi , Fen nesaeo. 60. Hugh W. Mercer, Georgia, -. 61. Humphrey Marshall, Kentucky, Kentucky. 62. John C. Breckinridgo, Kentucky, Kentucky 63. Richard Griffin, Nicciasippi, Army of Poto mac. 64. Alexander P. Stewart, Kentuoky, Ken tucky. 05. William Montgomery Gardner, Georgia, on furlough. 66. Biel:Lard B. Garnett, Virginia, Army of Po tomac. 67. William Mahone, Virginia, Norfolk. 68. L Cajon Branch, North Carolina, Coast of North Carolina. • - - 69. Maxey Gregg, South Carolina, Coast of South Carolina. Thom) having a * affixed are dead, or have re Biped since the aommeneement of the w ar. The following Confederate Generals are gradu ates of West Point, the date of their graduation being prefixed : Class of 1815. Samuel Cooper. Class of 1820. John H. Winder. Clam of 1822. Isaac R. Tremble. Class of 1825. Daniel S. Donelson, Benjamin Hu ger. Clara of 1820. Albert S. Johnston, John B. Gray son. Clam of 1827. Leonidas Polk, Gabriel J. Rains. Clam of 1828. Thomas E. Drayton, Hugh W. Mercer. Clam of 1829. Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Theophilue H. Holmes, Albert G. Blanchard. Class of 1830. John B. Magruder. Class of 1832. George B. Crittenden, P. St. George Cooke, Humphrey Marshall, Richard C. Gatlin. Class of 1833. Daniel Ruggles. Class of 1835. Jonas M. Withers. Clam of 1830. Joseph R. Anderson, Lloyd Tilgh- man. Class of 1837. Braxton Bragg, William H. T. Walker, John C. Pemberton, Arnold Ekes, Henry 11. Sibley, Jubal A. Early. Class of 1838. Win. J. Hardee, James IL Tra pier. Class of 1830. Alexander R. Lawton, John P. McCown. Class of 1840. Richard S. Ewell, Paul 0. Her bert, Richard B. Garnett. Class of 1841. Robert S. Garnett, Samuel Jones. Clam of 1842. Earl Van Doren, Gustavus W. Smith, Mansfield Lovell, James Longstreet, Daniel 11. Bill, Richard A. Anderson, Lafayette MoLaws, Alexander P. Stewart. Clare of 1843. Roswell S. Ripley, Samuel Ci French. . Class of 1844. Simon B. Buckner. Class of 1845 E. Kirby Smith, Bernard E. 800, William 11. C. Whiting. TWO CENTS Clam of 1848. Thomas J. Jackson, Cadman M. Wilcox, David R. Jones, William M. Gardner. Class of 1848. Nathan G. Evans. Clam of 1854. J. E. B. Stuart. GENERALS WHO 'WERE NOT GRADUATES A? WEST The following generals were appointed to the old United States Army, without Fussing through the West Point Academy: David E. Twiggy, appointed in 1812; William W. Loring, in 1838," Thomas T. Fauntlerny, in 1836. Tho following generals first saw service in the Mexican war: M. L. Bonham, Henry It. Jackson, Gideon J. Pillow, Samuel R. Anderson, Charles Clark, Thomas C. Hindman, John C. Brookinridge, Benjamin F. Cheatham, Richard Griffith, Albert Pike, Adley H. Gladden, Maxey Gregg. The following generals participated in the Texan ware and the wars with Mexico : Ben McCulloch, Louis T. Wigfall. The following generals saw no military service previous to the present war: John B. Floyd, Henry A. Wise, Robert Toombs, Richard Taylor, Thomas B. Flournoy, L. Pope Walker, F K.. Zollicoffer, William Mahone, L. O'B. Branch, William H. Car roll, R. E. Rhodes. Some, however, received mili tary educations at State institutions. Virginia has sixteen Generals in the Confederate armies, South Carolina nine, Louisiana eight, Goor gia seven, Tennessee eight, North Carolina six, lientueky . seven, Maryland four, Alabama four, Mississippi four, Texas three, Arkansas two, Florida one, Missouri none. The following were born at the North, though previous to the present war they wore citizens of Southern States: General Cooper, born in New York; Ripley, in Ohio; Pemberton, in Pennsyl vania; Whiting, in Massachusetts; Pike, in Massa- ohusetts ; Ruggles, in Massachusetts; Blanchard, in Massachusetts; French, in New Jersey: The - following Confederate Generals are South Carolinians, viz : Huger, Bonham, Bee (dead.JD.,, R. Jones, Ripley, it. H. Anderson, Drayten, Evans, Trapier, and Gregg; and the following 'are natives of South Carolina, though citizens of other States, viz : Longetreet, of Alaoama ; Lawton, 01. Georgia; Denclson, of Tennessee ; Withers, of Ala bama; Hill, of North Carolina; Gladden, of Loui siana, and, Wigfall, of Texas. THE FEMALE TRAITORS. THEIR REMOVAL TO THEIR NEN PRISON QUARTERS -A DESCRIPTION OP THE BUILDING. AND VIP. ACCOMMODATIONS FOR VIE PRISONERS [Special Correspondence of Tte Prem.] WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 1899. On Saturday afternoon, at 5 o'clock, the female traitors confined in the Sixteenth•street prison, a description of which I gave you in a former letter, were, by order of Provost Marshal Porter, removed to the Old Capitol prison, where quarters have been provided for them. Before entering the carriage that was to convoy them to their new quarters, the Prisoners took en appropriate farewell of all their guards—Mrs. Oreenhow saying to one of the sol diers, "Good-bye, sir ; I trust that in the future you may have a nobler employment than that of guarding defenceless women." Mrs. Greenhow and Baxter then advanced to Liettt. Sheldon, who. had charge of the prison quarters, and thanked him for the uniform courtesy and kindness he had shown them during their confinement; while little Rose Greenhow, who, at the request of her mother, will be imprisoned with her, threw her arms about the Lieutenant's neck and embraced him. When Rose Greenhow entered the prison at old Capitol Hill, she naively remarked to Lieutenant Wood, "You have got ono of the hardest little rebels here that you over saw. But," said ahe, "if you get along with me as well as Lieutenant Sheldon, you will have no trouble." Mrs. Green how then, turning to her daughter, said to her, "Rose, you must be careful what yen say here." Rose, however, did not seem to think that the cau— tion was at all neoessary, and that she would fare well in her new quarters. The prisoners are quartered on the second floor,. in the northeast end of the jail.. Each room is , furnished with a round table, two chairs, and a bed—comfortable, though not extravagant in style. The prisoners aro incarcerated in separate roomai and to Mrs. Greenhow was given the choice of her accommodations—the daughter being provided for in the same room with her mother. Each. of the apartments contains a grate fire. In foot, their ac commodations are of the most comfortable charac• ter, and, although not so rich in adornment as those of the Sixteenth-street prison, still they will have no cause of complaint. This morning, when the rain was- descending, in torrents, and the sidewalks and streets wore of the most impassable condition, we again visited the Sixteenth-street jail, the late quarters of the pri soners referred to. As we approached• the prison we wore again challenged by tho'guard, who this time was sheltering himself from the rain in the' doorway of the building. We had soon faces at' the windows of the upper stories when we entered, hero a few days before, but now they wore gone. But one person, we knew now confined in the prison, was Miss Ellie Poole, whose duration, by-the.by, at this place is of short duration, she having. been re leased on her parole, and will leave this city to morrow for Fortress Monroe, from which point she will proceed South. The form of the lieutenant,. however, soon appeared at the window, and for the second time we entered the room. The picture of Gertrude Greenhow, the deceased daughter of Mrs. Greenhow, first attracted. our at tention. There was the same smile there—the same strange fancy of the eye of which we have written before—so young and yet so fair—and for the moment we were ontrenoed. Turning for the moment, and the beautiful portrait of Mrs. Moore, and the fine noble picture of her husband, a son•in law of Mrs. Greenhow, now in our army, diverted our sight; then the Lieutenant welcomed us, and wo took a seat with him before a bright Ciro glowing on the hearth. Now that the prisoners had departed, we were invited up into the rooms formerly occupied by them. The room in which Mrs. Greenhoiv was lately incarcerated is situated in the second story back room. The same apartment was formerly oc cupied, at intervals, by the Phillips family—Mrs. Phillips, her daughters Lena and Fannie, Miss Levy, Mrs Banter, Mrs. Lowe, Mrs. 11. Pusey and her daughters. Mrs. Basler was confined in the third story front room. Besides this, Mrs. Greon how was allowed the use of the library, the property of her husband, who was a lawyer. The library is chiefly stored with law books, interspersed with books in the French and Spanish languages. Most of the time of Mrs G. was spent in this room, which was neatly furnished, and containing, besides, a sewing machine, upon which the lady named did a great amount of sowing during her confinement. After night set in she employed her time reading as well as writing, and many of the fugitivo verses written by her are still preserved. Shufre quently remained in this room until midnight be fore retiring to her apartment for the night. On .the desk of the sawing machine, this morning, we found standing two bottles of fluid, whieh were frequently used by her in her correspondence to her friends outside of the prison, so as to disguise it to the eyes of the guard. The plan pursued was to interline her letters by one of the fluids, which, on the application of a second, only known to those Who were in the seorot, was rendered perfectly in telligible. Thus it was that contraband informa tion could be conveyed by her to those who aided and abetted her in her treaseas The walla of the room of art. Balder, the panels of the door, and the 7alls of the entry ad joining her apartnin't, are covered with soribblings i 4 104 1. - 1,71, of quite a medley nature, prose as w'',l as poetry—some of them quoted from other authors, and a number of thorn original. Tho most of these writings are parodies on our national songs, wlifc, not a few of them are flings against the offi cers of the lovernment. Ono of them, written on the entry wall, to the left of the doorway, roads thus : " I had a vision last night. Methought I saw Abe Lincoln, Win. IL Seward, Simon Cameron, Andrew Porter, and others, praying to Almighty God, as Dives bad done, for the mercy they denied to harmless women. And the Alnbighty God an swers : Have I not said as ye mete it unto others, so shall it bo measured unto you again? Depart from my eight, ye cursed, and take up your abode in the hell prepared for Abraham Lincoln and hie Government, and all who assist him in his abominable persecution.' " Fronting the doorway on the right we read again the following inscription : "We must sustain the Constitution of the United Stelae ; we must break down Southern institutions that we may put the proceeds of all the negroes in our pockets. We must impress Southern women and children and other such like chivalrous and mag nificent acts. These are but a specimen of the inscriptions to be read at every turn within and outside Mrs. Basler's apartment. Hardly any portion of the room is to be discovered that does not contain some such memoranda, even to the window-sill. On Saturday morning she sent to Lieutenant Sheldon, by one of the guard, the following rhyme, jotted down upon a small piece of paper : TO LIEUT. SHELDON. I pray you, good Lieut. Sheldon,' Since 1 trouble you 60 very seldom, To send mo cat, or trap, °riles., To catch these horrid littlo mice. These troublesome Milo Government creatures Have tried to mar my Southern features; They began the war against my clothes, And last night really La my nose! The fact that the cooing of those buildings have contained a few mice probable gave rise to the communication, written in a spirit of pleasantry rather than otherwise. Other specimens of the poetry of the parson named might bogiven, but this will suffice. We are informed by Lieut. Sheldon that of all the prisoners confined here, Mrs. Groenhow was the most lady-like in her manners and in her conver• !ninon. She is possessed of the finest education of any lady who has ever visited Washington; and although rather severe et times in her denunoia lions of the North, yet she has shown herself to be. THE WAR PRESS.' TIM W.ta Puss will be rat to ggesclba e i b ' mil (per annum to advance) at. 1111.01/ • d.s.B Conies " tt live s 1 15.,011 T en i 6 u u 19.00 Larger Clubs will be charged at the same rate, time 20 copies will cost $24; ao copies will cost WOO 100 copies $l2O. fora Club of Twenty-one or ever, we will used N Saba Copy to the getter-up of the Club. W Postmasters are requested to act aa Ape's ail Mil WAIL Passe. Itar Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. Pig constitute a amare. aria Nataaannia=mmr pessessecl. of a woman's heart in her sad moments, as witness' the parting from her guard on Saturday. She bad a &Teat boner of being conveyed to Fort ress Monroe, as was first feared by her, and her change is the .'nest acceptable one that sho could have. The prison will' be cloud tea:arrow, and the building will be ;Dated to other parties. As we have said before, 1504 - -Poole leaves for Fortress News tomorrow. • - COL. .. '- OSCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. From Fortress Iltoorrom FoarnEss BioNnoz, Jan. 39; via Baltimore-it Bag of trnee went to Craaey Island to- y, whim two persona, who came down from Bsitimoro•tnat eight to go South. The following is all the news contained the Southern papers that have been received : Rx• President Tyler is very ill at Richmond. A despatch, dated Macon, Georgia, says thattills accounts from the wheat region are very favorabltr, and that the orops never appeared more promisinffi thus early. The following brigadier generals have been con firmed: Remy Roth, Virginia ; Johnson R. Duncan; Louisiana; and S. Wood, Alabama. Dates from Havana to the 9th inst. have been re ceived at Now Orleans.. The French fleet, consist- - ing of a line-of-battle ship, three first-class frigates and three propellers, left for Vera Cruz on the 2d. It was reported at Havana that Vera Cruz wee abandoned by the Mexicans on the arrival of the I , ""&ipaniall. fleet. The combined land forces are under I command of General Prim. The Confederate steamer Calhoun arrived at Harana on the 6th, making the number of one hundred end one rebel vessels that have arrived there since the blockade. Business was extremely dell on the island. Nine Norfolk* Day Book gives a rumor that the Feerntaries of the Federal Navy and Interior have resigned, and that Meserx. Colfax of Indiana. and Holt of Kentucky, will succeed them. The papers contain nothing in relation to . the Burnside Expedition. The IL S. steamer Sumpter arrived hero yester day afternoon. The troops on board the steamer "Constitution. will come ashore tomorrow morning for exercise. From Washington. Wasnrsinron, Tan. 20.—The report that General Wool has sent a notification to Norfolk to remota the women and children oat of that city, is not con firmed by official intelligence. The Commissioner of Indian Affairs left to-day for the West. • The Mon. Mr. Stanton, Secretary of War, en tered upon his duties to-day. A large number of army officers, in full uniform, paid their respects to him. Preparations are being made at the navy yard to test tbe strength of the rifled guns finished there. One of them, a. 31pounder, has been enclosed with heavy timber, and will be fired with constantl,y inereming charges until it bursts. More Troops for Canada. Sr. JOHNS, N. 8., Jan. 2.o.—The steamer Ilibemia, with troops, arrived at this port this morning. HEADQIIARTERS ELEVENTH PA. CILYALIZT, CAMP HAMILTON, JAM. IS, 1952. TO .THE EPITOR THE Pnusa : 111 yoar issue of January 9th inst., under the head of Washington correspondence, the following notice, dated Wash ington, January 7, appeared, via: ,4 Cox.. He.n.z.ex.—Col. Harlan has been removed from tho service " I would remark, for the information of my friends, that the board of examiners, before Col. Harlan, was directed to appear under the act of Congress, commeiaeed its sittings on or about the 27th Ds cember, 1861. They concluded their proceedings at s.orclock P. M., January 8. On Saturday, 28th December, the board reviewed Col. Harlan's regi ment with a perfectly satisfactory result—adjourned' to Thursday, January 2, and handed in their ver dict to Gen. Wool on the Bth January, 5 P. hi The documents of the board were forwarded on thei 10th from Fortress Monroe to Baltimore and the some day to Washington, arriving there January 11, at 1 o'clock P. M. ; the earliest date the result oTtliiihottrd could have been scut to Washington was therefore January 11, 1852. But January 9, '1862, the Hew York Herald published that Col. Harlan had been removed from the service on the recommendation of the board of examineri, and The Frees published a similar notice on the Eith. January. Now, air, to show the animus of this conspiracy, please publish the following 'special or der of the War Department : ADJTITANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, WASHINGTON', January 15, 1862. To Major General John E. Wool, Commanding Fortress Monroe, 4-c.; 4.c. GENERAL : The proceedings of the board of of- Beers convened at Fortress Itionree, Virgiaia, by special orders No. 143, Headquarters Depart ment of Virginia, have been laid before the Secre tary of War, who directs me to say that he dolma Col. Harlan to be retained in the command of his regiment. I am, General, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, L. Tnomes, Adjutant General. [OFFICIAL.] WM. D. WHIPPLE, Ass't Adju't General. By publishing the aboveyou will correct a moat offensive error, and much oblige your innumerable friends. Yours very truly, JOSIAH lIARLAN, COL Eleventh Pa. Cavalry, Commanding the Reg't. The Rebel Fortifieattons on the Upper The Poolesfille (Md.) correspondent of the New York thrall, writing under date of January 15th, says: There aro tour large rebel fortifications between_ Point tf hocks and Leesburg visible from Professor- Lowe's balloon. They aro all large field works, • mounting from ten to twenty-five guns. They have. only become visible within the past week, and are located as follows: One fort is located between.. Edwards' Ferry and Leesburg, about midway be-, tween the two points. Another is opposite Ball's. Bluff, about half a mile from the Poteuiac. A third is opposite Conrad's Ferry, about three quarter/Ler a mile from the ferry ; and fourthly, there is alert on the top of one of the Kittootan mountains, near Point of Rocks. If these are not humbugs, for the purpose of masking other foitificationS, then, they are intended to guard the approaches to Leisabarg. It is the general impression among military teen, however, that these forte are only decoys. if they be actual fortificatione, the one between Leeeiharg and Edwards' Ferry is intended to defeld the road from,tbe ferry to the town, while the one above it and the one near Conrad's Ferry are /Mended to sweep the road from Conrad's Ford to. Leesburg, and the fort near Point of Rocks, on the mountain top, can be for no other purpose than to guard the way from the Point of Rooks tolieesbing, Whether these forts will ever be, brought. into play agaiset our troops or not depends greatly on the manner in which the campaign will be onducted by our go. nerais ; for there is not much likelihood, at pre sent, that there will he inuoh fighting below the Point of Rothe. The, Suffering of the People of Virginia. The same correspondent, writing from Point of /toCliti under date of Tan. 17th, says :j To the kindness of Captain Chapman, the gentle manly provost marshal at this place, I am indebted fur most interesting and reliable newa from Somas's. It gives ono of the moat doleful pictures of the con dition of affairs in Virginian-biota have yet been made public. The news comes in a letter secretly trans mined from a Union man in Loudon county to his daughter in Maryland. It is long and minute in its details, and was evidently intended for more eyes than those of the lovely and patriotic young lady to whom it was addressed. Read the following ex tracts, which I am permitted to copy from it and transmit to you: The people of the South thought cotton was king; but they never knew how im portant and useful the Yankees were to them. They aro in want of everything except " nigger nap,. and "fulled linsey.' It is made here, and is selling at four dollars per yard—formerly one dollar. Yon would be surprised if you were to see our stores, how empty they ire—not a yard of calico to be had at any price. There is but one store in Lovetsville now. Mr. Lockett has a few goods yet. Mr. Slater has not over a eartload of goods in his acre. I will give you a statement of some of the prices of goods here, and I will state nothing but what I know to be true: A spool of cotton, twenty-five cents ; indigo, fifty cents an ounce; saltpetre, fifty cents a pound; tea, four •dollars per pound; coffee, seventy-five cents per pound ; sugar, twenty cents; molasses, one dollar and twentyfive cents, and no more to be had; salt, twenty cents a pound, and some persons cannot butcher for want of it. Pepper is one dollar and a half per pound, and none to be had. I had soma hands working on the dam lest week, who insisted on having some whisky. I went to Mr. Lockett's, and bad to pay five dollars and a half for a gallon not three weeks old, and well watered at that. Mother has often wished for a few barrels of Uncle Wetty's old rye. We had option and a half of the old rye that we brought with us frem Maryland left. They found it out, and came and bid it up to ten dollars per gallon ; then she let them have it. Every one hero is using rye coffee instead of Rio. A. T. M. Fuller was at Richmond two weeks ago. He told me that coffee was one dollar per pound there. sod that the best used half rye, and charged three dollars a day for board. I was at Leesburg last Monday. Heard a soldier say that he had to pay twelve dollars for a pair of coarse boots. Loather is very high, and there is no oil to finish uppers. You will see by these things that the blockade is very severe, and no doubt you will think that the rebels must soon give up; but they have the sword, and are the last to suffer; they are the aristocrats, and their pride will not suffer them to admit that they are in want. One of them did admit it to me last week. He said, "I never thought it would come to this." The common people are the first to suffer, and especially the poor, and they are ell Union men. We divided our pepper and salt with the Union men, but could not supply all. My heart aches for those who have no salt. They cannot lay up any meat, end will get no fish this year.' The militia were forced out to build a fort and throw up entrenchments. Some refused point blank to go, and they sent armed soldiers after them, and they made them double quick it at the point of the bay onet. The general impression is that they CU emu , pel them to fight against the Government uadele (Continua on Fourth Page.) "vide Seward." Col. liarlan not Removed Potomac
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