THE PRESS.
PITBLIf3IIND DAILY, (817PDAY8
DY JOHN W. FORNEY.
1071101. NO. 417 OHNSTNI3T STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
9 1NTAILIrm CliesTs Pica wasc, payable to the Clanger.
/ ii - dead to Subscribers est of the City st au Doman
slsl SLIINOM, POOR DOLLARS FOR E/011T MONTHS, THEIR
DOLLARS VOX SIX MONTHS—IRV/166b1, to advance for
he time ordered.
TIIE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Mailed to Subscribers out or the City at TIMM Pos.
SAiB Pll Amitux, 1O adTazice.
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
PATENT
McCILELLAN TIES.
PATENT
McCLELLAN TIES.
PATENT
MCLELLAN TIES.
PATENT
McCLELLAN TIES.
PATENT McCLELLAN SCARFS.
PATENT
McCLELLAN SCARFS.
PATENT
MCCLELLAN SCARFS.
AT J. A. ESFILEMAN'S ! AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S
AT Z, A, ESHLEMAN'S AT J, A, ESHLEMAN'S
f.%.T J. A. ESHLEMA.N'S ! AT J. A. ESHLEMAN'S , '
AT& A. ESHLEMAN'S AT J. A. EWILEMAN'S
NORTHWEST CORNER OF
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT_
SEVENTH AND CHESTNUT.
THE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
SHE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
SHE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
•IHE ONLY CRAVAT STORE IN PHILADELPHIA.
P. S. The above articles, being PATENTED, cannot
.41e obtained eleewbere.
P. S. N 0.2. Mon's Furnishing Goods, in every variety
P.S. N 0.3. PATENT RNAM.ELLED COLLARS,
10 FOR A QUARTER.
de7—.tuth3m
VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber would invite attention to hie
IMPROVED GUT OF SHIRTS,
Which be makes a specialty in his business. Also, con
otantly receiving
NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
J. W. SCOTT.
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE,
No. 814 CHESTNUT STREE T,
ja9-tf Four doors below the Oontinental.
CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS.
GREAT BARGAINS
IN
LADIES' CLOAKS,
To close out,
At the
ARCH-STREET CLOAK AND MANTILLA STORE,
N. W. corner TENTH a-id ABOB 869.
•n3l.bm JACOB 110B8FALL.
CLOAKS—
Handsome styles of well-made, serviceable gar
ments. The beet made, the beet fitting, sad the beet
materials for the price. A large stock from which to
select. COOPER & COWARD,
drle S. E. cor. NINTR and MARKET.
CL 0 AK 8!
The Largeet, Cheapest, and Best-assorted Stock
In the city.
HOUGH. & 00.,
No. 25 South TENTH Street,
Opposite Pranklin Market
IRMO 00 WO ORM; 0103 *1
SHIPLEY, HAZARD, &
HUTCHINSON,
Ro.llll CHESTNUT STREET,
VOMMISSION MEROHANTO
FOR !RI BALI OF
-PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GOODS.
0.21-6 m
GROCERIES.
CRAB-APPf:E - aI3ER, -
OLD CURRANT WINE,
OUR USUAL SUPPLY,
JUST RECEIVBD.
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
DEALER IN FINE GROCERIES,
565-tf Samar of ELETJENTH mid VINE St 6
MACKEREL, HERRING, SHAD,
SAMSON, bbla Mess Nos. 1, L and 8
MACKEREL, large, medium, and small, in assorted
packages of choice, late-cangla, fat fish.
bbls. New Halifax, Eastport, and Labrador Her.
elms, of choice cnolitiog.
0,000 boxes extra new waled Herrings.
8,000 boxes extra new No. 1 Herrings.
1,000 boxes large Magdaline Herrings.
360 bids. Mackinac White Fish.
SO bbl,. new Economy Mesa Simi
46 bbls. new Halifax Salmon.
1,000 tudnUda Grand Bank Voddeb.
100 boxes Herkimer County Obsess.
An store and landing, for sale by
MURPHY a BOONS,
easS No. 148 NORTH WHARVES.
CABINET FIIRN/TIIR.E.
(lABINET FURNITURE AND BID
LMRD TABLZB.
dr, OAK-PION,
110011 E
No. 281 South SECOND Street,
otennection" with their extensive Cabinet Business are
Dow manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
and have now on hand a full supply, finished with the
aloowie & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who hays wool thorn, to
&aporior to MI others.
For the Quality and LIMA of these Table* the manu
facturers ref& to their numerous natrons throughout ea
Union, who are familiar with the character of their work.
au26-6m
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
ROBERT -
SHOEMAKER
& co,
grodhe„,,t Qonier FOITETH and BADE Sired%
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
MORETON AND DOMESTIO
WINDOW AND PLATE GLAM.
KANUFACTIFFIZRO OF
WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTEI, PUTTY, &O.
AGENTS ICE TEE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
- Dealers and eentramere =applied as
VERY LOW PRIOEB FOR CASH
oc3l-am
INTRITE LEA:
OIL.
Red Lead,
White Lead,
Litharge,
Sugar of Lead,
Coppernii,
Oil of Vitriol,
Calomel,
Patent Yellow,
Chrome Red,
Chrome Yellow,
Age& Pottl,i,
Illnriatic Acid,
Epsom Salta,
Rochelle Salts,
Tartaric Acid,
Orange Mineral,
. Soluble Tart.
Sub. Carh. Soda,
White Vitriol,
Red Precipitate.
WETHRR:
Druggists and Mani
Nos. 47 and 491
jalB-tf
WINES AND LIQUORS.
PURE PORT WINE.
DUQITE DO POBTO WINE, BOTTLED IN
PORTUGAL IN M.
Physicians and invalids In want of a reliable article of
pure Port Wine can -be supplied by inquiring for the
above wine at CANTWELL & KEFFER'S,
Southeast corner GERMANTOWN Avenue
and MASTIGE Street.
IrNESSY, VINE-YARD PRO
it9p:rietors, Bi n a% Tricoahe A flo., Marett,
sod other approved brands of OOGNAO RBA.NDE, foe
We, in bond and from
OANTW store, by
ELL 3 KEEFER,
liouthesit corner GERMANTOWN Avenue
and MASTER (reek
-.STUART'S PAISLEY MALT WHIS
Buchanan's Goal BaWhish7,
Old Tom Gin, Old London Gin,
London Cordial Gin, Bolklen'eGia,
In bond and atom.
CANTWELL a EIFFEL
Boutheima corner GERMANTOWN Mantle
and MASTER Street.
riOUAVE CHAMPAGNE.—A new
.4E4 brand—an excellent article. Imported and for sale
at a price to nit the times, by CANTWELL & REF
rigs, southeast corner of GERMANTOWN Avenue and
EIABTER Street.
RIIDESHEIMER-BERG, WJBEN.
HEIMER, and HOCHREIMER WINE, In oases
of one dozen battles each ;• warranted pure. Imported
end for sale low by CANTWELL A KEFFER, south
east corner GERMANTOWN Avenue and MASTER
Street.
RMA.N'S DRY CATAWBA
WlNE.—This approved brand of Cincinnati wine,
:the beet article out for " cobblers," for sale pare, bot
tled and in cases, by CANTWELL A KEEFER, south
east corner GEBNIANTOWN Avenue and MASTEN
Street. ee24-tm
MOTELS.
A CIA.RD.-THE UNDERSIGNED,
late of the GIRARD ROUSE, Philadelphia, nays
leased, for a term of years, WILLARD'S HOTEL, in
•
Washington. They take this occasion to return to their
old friends and customers many thanks for vast favors,
and beg to immure them that they will be WA happy to
• Me them to their now (Milner
. . .
SYKES, OHADWIINE, a co.
WAiilanaroir, July la, 1861. •078-Ir
LARD AND GREASE.-50 tierces
A—A.prime Leaf lard;
50 tierces White Grease,
.Direct from the West, and in store. For sale by
MURPHY k KOONS,
N 0.146 NORTH WILIAYEG.
, DRY AND IN
White Precipitate,
Lunar (Mastic,
Sulph. Morphine,
Morphine,
Acetate Morphine,
Lae. Sulo.,
Ether Sulphuric,
Ether Nitric,
Sulphate Quinine,
Cerro. Sublim.,
- -
Denarcotized Opium,
Chloride of Soda,
Wetherilre ext. Clutha
Tartar Emetic,
Chloride of Lime.
Crude Borax,
Refined Borax,
Camphor,
Raab" CoPavia.
L & BROTHER,
ufacturiag °herniate,
orth SECOND Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
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VOL. 5. - NO. 153.
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
G REAT BARGAINS
FINE CLOAKS,
TO CLOSE OUT THE STOCK
01 MI
PARIS MANTILLA, CLOAK,
AND FUR EMPORIUM,
708 OHESTAIIT STREET,
PREVIOUS TO REMOVAL.
SYNOPSIS OF REDUCTIONS.
pt.t.)41.4D Thesveß CL011.9,
From 820 tOlivi—From S to $ll.
FROSTED BEATER CLOAKS,
From $lB to sl4—From $lO to $7.50
BigowN SMALSIEDT OR 134113 LE CLOTH OLGA'S,
From BB to $14.-From 316 to VI
BLAOK SEALSKIN OR OTTER CLOTH CLOAKS,
From 818 to sl4—From $l6 to $l2.
VELVET CLOTH CLOAKS,
From WO to 022—From 635 to No
FINE BLAOK BEATER CLOAKS,
From 546 to s3s—From $35 to $2O.
FINE BLACK Tht.tvatt. CLOAKS,
From $25 to sl9.so—From $2O to $l6
FINK BLAME MUTER GLOATS;
From $l6 to sl2—From $l2 to $0
RANEE BEAVER CLOAKS,
From 640 to s3o—Froms3o to $27
FAROE COLORED BRAVER CLOAKS,
From $2l to slB—From $lB to $13.50
LYONS VELYNY CLONES,
From $9O to s6s—From $7O to $55
OUR FUR DEPARTMENT,
Which le replete with every desirable style and descrip
tion, will be open to inspection at prices corresponding
to the general reduction- particularization, among such
an infinity of analitiee, being, if not impossible, at all
Wrenta, unsatisfactory_ deal-1m
V_REAT REDUCTION IN PRICES
VI OF MANY STYLES OF WINTER GOODS FOR
FIFTHEN DAYS LONGER,- BEFORE TAKING
THEM INTO STOCK, viz:
Figassa and Plida
Plain and Gay Long Sliawki.
Dark Dress Goods, Poplins, &c.
Plaid Flaunele—Pink, Blue, and Brown.
Ladies' Scarfs, reduced 30 per cent.
One lot of L. C. Hdkfs., at 15e.
Two lots do., at2sc., a bargain.
One lot of Linen Diaper at 51.25 a piece.
Hoop Skirts-75, EIN, $l, And $1.12.
Nice assortment of Gingham&
Ladies' Merino Vests, all sizes.
Mimes' Merino Vests, all sizes.
Gloves and Hosiery of all kinds.
Gents' Silk Handkerchiefs, splendid assortment at
.7. H. STOKES',
ja2s tf 702 ARCH Street.
FAMILY DRY GOODS STORE.
EYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and ARCH,
have in store a fine stock of
GOODS FOR FAMILY CUSTOM.
Good plain colored Silks.
Fashionable figured Silks.
ISmrable black Silks, plain and figured.
Linen Skirtings and Linen Sheetings.
Beet makes Long Cloth Shirting Dinslins.
Table Linens and Demi& Towelings.
Blankets, fine Quality and large size.
Marseilles Quilts of all sizes.
Cloths and Cassimeres for men and boys.
White Rods, very fa stock.
Black goods of every descripdon. ja23
BARGAINS IN BLACK SILKS AT
H. STEEL & SON'S,
No. 713 North TENTH Street. above Ooates.
1 lot Black Silks at 70 cents.
11ot Elk* Sakti at 75 slid 81 zeia4.
1 lot Black Silks at 87, 90, and $l.
1 lot Black Silks at $1.12% and $1.25.
1 lot Black Silks at $1.31, $1.37%, aad $1.50.
1 lot Black Silks, yard wide.
_ BARGAINS IN FANCY SILKS.
W 9 are 91941 PE 9111 9Ur Iltinh of
Fancy silks at a great sacrifice,
preparatory to taking stock.
Fancy Silks at 50, 56, 62%, 75, 87, sad $1
Superior qualities of Fancy Silks $1 12% to $2.
Also, our entire stock of
DRESS GOODS,
ia 2 a M /en than colt prices,
MUSLIN'S ! MUSLIN'S ! MUSLINS !
MUSLIN'S BY THE PIECE—MIFSLINS BY
THE BALE.—Now is the time for hobsekeepers to- buy
their Sheetings and Skirtings, as all kinds of domestic
goods are rapidly rising, and there can be no possible
diminution of prices. We atilt have a few boxes of
Wanisutta, Williamsville, Black Bock, and other popular
makes. Good Mublins at 8, 9,10,11 cents. The best 12-
cent Muslin in the city. Our Pillow-Case Muslim, and
our 10.4, 11-4, and 12-4 Sheeting, purchased some time
since, are from three to four cents cheaper than can bo
foubd elsewhere_ COWPEETHWAIT & CO.,
ja22 N. W. cor. EIGHTH and MARKET.
SHEPHERDS' PLAID CASHMERE.
One case just opened.
Black and White Checks, double width.
Fine All-wool Cashmeres.
ja2l SI.I9BPLESS BROTHERS.
NEW BALMEALS.
Four hundred imported Balmoral Skirts,
At prices lower than before offered.
ja2l SHAItPLESS BROTHBBB
R U SSIA CRASH ;
In medinm and fine qualities.
Scotch Crash and Towelling.
ja2l SHARPLESS BROTHERS
EMBROIDERED MUSLIN CUR
ITADTS—dit very low Dricee, to gall tho [(took.
SHAMPLESS BROTHERS,
ja2l CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets.
MEN'S WEAR-BOYS' WEAR.
50 to 75. cent Umon Cassiineres, Satinets, dio..
Cussimeres i beet in the market.
131.10 Cazaintaree ; boat in ilia market
61.25 (rassimeres -, beet ever gold for the money.
Black Cloths fc r Ladies' Wear.
Black Broadcloths for Men's Wear.
Some Bargains in our Cloth Stock. -
Tailors' attention is invited.
COOPER et CONABD,
jag S. N. corner NINTH and MARKET.
CLOAKS AND SHAWLS
B.educed , in Price.
Good Stock of Cloaks.
Blanket Long Shawls Cheap.
Blank Thibet Shawls Cheap.
Black Blanket Square Shawls for $l.
Brache Shawls at half price.
COOPER & CONA.RD,
ja9 S. E. corner NINTH and MARKET Ste
"PYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and
ARCH, open to-day, a fr sh assortment of
Double-faced Black Figured Silks.
Solid Colored Brown Figured Silks.
ismer, %Ave, Or rQtai, cad Purple SAL 014
EYRE & LANDELL keep the very
heaviest
Plain Black Dress Silks.
Heavy-bordered Stout Black Silks.
Widow's Silks, without gloss.
Lich Plain Silks, for city trade, Jag
$2.50 B . ALMORAL SKIRTS, full
Balmorals Wholesale.
Balmorals
386 LYRE it LADTPE.&&.,
EAVY CLOAKINGS.
Brown and Black Sealskin, 75c to $1.50.
Cheap heavy Coalinga and Cloakinge
Fine Black Clothe and Beavers.
Good stock Cassimeres at old prices.
0001.$11 OMAHA
del4 13. E. 655. NINTH and MARKET
KERSEYS. =COMPLETE MA
CHINERY for Pulling and Finishing Kerseys,
Flannels, &c., for sale, with Room and Power, if re
quired, ready to start work. Address "Box No. 1062,"
Poet Office. ja2B.6ltt
COPARTNERSHIPS.
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP.-
Notice is hereby given that HENRY CONNELL,
of the city of Philadelphia, late grocer, and HELEN
WARDELL, of the said city, single woman, have enter
ed into a Limited Partnership for the business of dealing
in Groceries and Provisions. The said partnership is to
be conducted under the name or firm of Henry Connell.
The general nature of the business intended to be trans
acted by-the said firm or partnership is the dealing in
Groceries and Provisions.
The general partner in the said firm Is Henry Connell,
end the special partner is Helen Warrell.
The said special partner has contributed to the common
stock of the said firm the sum of six hundred dollars in
caeb.
The said partnership is to commence immediately, and
to terminate on the 31st day of December, 1866.
HENRY CONNELL,
HELEN WARRELL.
January 15, 1862. j a 17 - f6t*
riWSOLUTION,—The CQpartnerohip
-CY formerly existing between the undersigned, under
the firm of VANDERVEER, ARCHER, & CO., was dis
solved Dec. 31, 1861, by limitation. The business will be
settled by B. F. ARCHER and F. B. REEVES, at No.
46 North WATER Street. C. P. VANDERVEEB,
B. F. ARCHER,
F. B. BEEVES.
Philadelphia, January 10, 1603.
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.—The undersigned have
this day formed a Copartnership, under the aria of
ARCHER & REEVES, for transaction of a WHOLE
SALE GROCERY business, at the old stand, No. 45
North WATER Street and No. 46 North DELAWARE
Avenue. BENJAMIN F. ARCHER,
FRANCIS B. BEEVES,
Philadelphia, Jan. 10,1661 jal3-t[
COPARTNERSHIP
RAM. MORRIS this day retires from our firm.
His sons, THEODORE H. MORRIS and FREDERICK
W. MORRIS, are admitted as sartners ; and the, busi
ness will be continued as heretofore..
MORRIS, WHEELER, de 00. ,
Iron Merchnto,
1608 MARKET Street.
Philadelphia, Dec. 31. 1861. ial-tf
LEGAL.
ESTATE_OF JOHN F. ZEPLE-
IammER, A LUNATIC.—Firet account of
WILLIAM H. HORN, Committee of Person and Estate.
COMMON PLEAS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY.
The Auditor appointed by the court to audit, settle,
and adjust the said account, &c., will hold the first meet
ing, for the purposes of his appointment, on MONDAY,
the 10th day of February, 1862, at 4 o'clock P. M., at his
office, No. 702 WALNUT Street, in the city of Philedst,
phis, where all persons interested may attend.
ja29. wfni st* EDWARD WALN, Auditor.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION
on the Estate of ROBERT WRIGHT, deceased,
having been granted to the undersigned by the Register
of Wills for the City and County of Philadelphia, all per
sona indebted to said Estate will ,please inane payment,
and those Laying claims against said Estate will present
them to ELIZABETH WRIGHT.
Adminietratrix,
No. 416 South TWELFTH Street.
Or to her Attorney, WM. B. HOOD,
de2o-f6t 268 South FOURTH Street.
CORD PRINTING, BE 8 T AND
DiILI maw* in theiixiii, air, 1111WWA.LT BROWN 8,
South TEUBDj
'1,1“e55,
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1862.
Spanish Confidence Men
Every one understands what is implied by
the term confidence-man, but it is vain to
search for definition or derivation in the
dictionaries. Certainly it was not to be look
ed for t as a very modern compound ? in the
time-honored pages of Johnson; but we are
surprised that it was overlooked by Dr.
Worcester, and also by Dr. Noah Webster,
in the massive dictionaries which they re
spectively compiled. In these, the Word Is
not. What it represents, however, is as old
as the bills. An early instance, not to speak
irreverently, was when smooth-faced Jacob
cheated Esau out of the blessing and heritage
of Isaac, their father.
Confidence-men abound everywhere, ex
hibiting great address, judicious tact, and
diversified ingenuity—very badly applied.
They - figure in fiction, sometimes, but less
frequently than might be anticipated. The
local department of newspapers appears to
have been specially reserved for relating their
adventures. The local reporter, when he gets
hold of an adroit confidence-man, never quits
him until he has turned him inside out, giving
all his antecedents, actual or--imagined. We
remember how c. Colonel Cross " was handled
in this amusing manner.
The Spanish novel of "Gil Bias" has had
almost as many readers, in its English ren
dition, as " Tom Jones " or " Gulliver's
Travels," though not so many as " Robinson
Grusoe " or " The Vicar of Wakefield."
:Whoever traced the adventures of Gil Bias
must have had no small familiarity with the
confidence-men of Spain. "Gil Blas " has
generally been attributed to Alain Rene Le
Sage, a Frenchman, who published it as his
own original composition. Sir Walter Scott,
who wrote a biographical sketch of Le Sage,
treats as a mere absurdity the assertion that
Le Sage, strictly speaking, did not write " Gil
Bias." Since thus vindicated, Le Sage's
obaljongcd as far back as
the year 1788, by De Isla, a Spanish author,
has been thoroughly investigated, and, in
1820, another Spaniard, Don Juan Antonio
Llorente, published a close examination of tha
case which established, we think, that " Gil
Blas " and the " Bachelier de Salamanca"
were originally one and the same romance,
which must have been written by a Spaniard,
and that Le Sage turned the single romance
into two. The remarkable familiarity with
Spariish localities, Spanish manners in town
and country, Spanish costume, the names and
traditions of the Spanish nobility, and the
secret events of court history in Madrid,
could scarcely have been native to Le Sage,
a Frenchman, who never set foot in Spain.
Some other day, we may more fully sum up
the evidence, pro and con, and are persuaded
that the judgment must be against Le Sage.
We were reminded of " Gil Blas " because,
writing upon confidence-men, one cannot for
get some of the characters and incidents of
that singular story. Indeed, from first to
last, it abounds in picaroons, male and fe
male,—some of them thoroughly artistical in
their operations. We shall relate one in
stance.
Gil Blas, son of a Spanish gentleman-usher
(or lady's man) and of a femme de chambre, is
educated by his uncle, a canon of the church,
who starts him into the world, at the age of
seventeen, to push his way in life and conquer
fortune. He gives him a rew aucats and a
mule, with permission to sell the animal on
his arrival at Salamanca. Before he reaches
that city he is captured by a gang of highway-
Men, Who ledge him la n eaVC Where they re
side. Here he is retained some time, half
captive, half-cupbearer. At last, he escapes,
giving liberty to a fellow-captive, one Donna
Mencia, a rich widow, who resides near Bur
gos. The lady 'is grateful, and, when he
waits upon her at her castle, bestows a hun
dred ducats upon him, to equip him properly,
follows this up with a hag containing ton times
that sum, and puts on his finger, as she bids
him farewell, a ring worth thirty pistoles.
Gil Bias, who had not then reached the age
of eighteen, and was wholly ignorant of the
inuocontly confidoe his Wry to his
landlord, at Burgos, who advises him to push
on for Madrid, where, of course, a rich widow
or some other fine lady must fall in love with
him, arid thus make his fortune. Bonifaee,
to show his own friendship for this very ver
dant youngster, helps him to a valet, whom he
recommends as faithful, prudent, sober, and
honest to a fault. Master and man, mounted
on good mules, push on for - Valladolid, which
they reach on the following afternoon. cril
Blas, fatigued with his journey, retires to his
bed-chamber and takes a siesta. Ambrose,
the pearl of valets, goes out into the city, and
returns soon after his master awakes, having
bees to church (he declares, with a pious air,)
to return thanks to Heaven for having pre
served them from all evil accidents between
Burgos and Valladolid.
Just before supper-time, the landlord lights
in, with much state, a handsome lady, richly
dressed, who is squired by an old usher, a lit
tle black Moor carrying her train. She inquires
whether the stranger was Signor Gil Blas of
Santillana and receiving an affirmative reply,
joyously announces herself as cousin-Ger
man to the Marchioness, Donna Mencia of
Mosquera, whose honor he had protected and
whose liberty he had restored. She shows him
a letter from Donna Mencia, in which Gil Bias,
en route to Madrid, was strongly recommended
to the gratitude and hospitality of her cousins
—Donna Camilla, the beautiful lady, and her
brother, a cavalier named Don Raphael;
Donna Camilla, thinking that too much could
not be done for the brave young gentleman
who had rendered such essential service to her
cousin the Marchioness, insists on taking him
to her own house, recommending him to see
his portmanteau well secured, "because,"
she said, " there are a great many rogues in
"Valladolid." They reach a handsome house,
go up stairs to a fine apartment lighted by
twenty or thirty wax candles, (a sign of
wealth in Spain,) and there meet Don Raphael.
All three partake of a sumptuous supper, at
which, it is to be feared, Gil Bias takes more
wine than was exactly good for him. They
put the daintiest morsels on his plate. They
" fool him to the top of his bent" by delicate
flatteries. They insist that he shall be in no
hurry to quit Valladolid, and Don Raphael
invites him to accompany them, next day, to
his country-house in the vicinity, where he is
to hunt, fish, walk, ride, and feast. This very
hospitable gentleman even leaves the room in
order to give directions for this rural visit to
his necessary attendants.
Gil Blas remains tete-a-tete with the fair
Donna Camilla, who, south to say, had been
making eyes at him all the evening—thus im
buing his mind with the soft idea that he had
Made a conquest. What followed we give in
Gil Bias' own words : ac So she took hold of
my hand, and looking at my ring, said : g You
have got a pretty diamond enough, but it is
a very small one. Are you a connoisseur in
stones?' When I answered in the negative.
I am sorry for it,' she said,' for you might
bave told me what this is worth.' With
these words, the showed me a large ruby on
her finger, and, while I examined it, added,
4 An uncle of mine, who was Governor of the
Spanish colonies in the Phillipine Islands,
made me a present of this ruby, which the
jewellers here value at three hundred pistoles.'
g I believe it is well worth the money,' -I said,
g for it is extremely beautiful.' Since you are
pleased with it,' she replied, i I will make an
exchange with you.' And immediately she
pulled off my ring, and put her own. on my lit
tle finger. Having made this exchange, which
I looked upon as a genteel way of making me
a present, Camilla squeezed my hand, and
looked at me in the most languishing manner;
then starting up abruptly, wished me good
night, and withdrew in great confusion, as if
she had been ashamed of disclosing her senti
ments."
Gil 131 as retires t 4 his bed-room—to think
before he sleeps. A thousand ducats in his
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1862.
portmanteau ; a ruby, worth three hundred
pistoles ; and the evident conquest of Camil
la! At last he sinks into repose, Waking late
next morning. Ambrose, his faithful and pious
valet, should not have let him sleep so long—
but, perhaps, that excellent servant has gone
to church. But, missing his portmanteau,
which was on the table when he went to bed,
the idea suddenly arises that pious Ambrose
might have stolen it. He opens the chamber
door and loudly calls. None of DonßaphaePs
servitors reply, but an old man crawls up
stairs, who says that all the rest departed be
f9re daybreak—that it was a tafrllelleglicelec,
of which he was landlord, and that Camilla had
hired it, the evening before, for a great lord
who travelled incognito, and even paid the rent
beforehand. Luckless Gil Bias! The land
lord at Burgos, to whom he had foolisldy,told
his story, had • sold him to Ambrose, Camilla,
and Raphael, by whom he had bean completely
cleaned out—for even the ruby given to him by
the pretended niece of the Governor of the
Phillipine Island, turns out, on valuation by a
lapidary, to be worth three ducats.
WThe adventure 490 not end here. Gil
Blas, after some vicissitudes, becomes assist
ant to a famous Doctor of Valladolid, San
grado by name, whose practice, in all dis
eases, is to bleed the patients and make them
drink a great deal of warm water. While ca
gaged in this capacity, Gil Blas is called in to
visit a sick female, whom he recognizes as the
adventurer who had so dexterously acted the
part of Camilla. Moreover, when he took her
hand to feel her pulse, he perceives his dia..
mond ring on her finger. She did not recog
nize him in his physician's attire. A strong
desire to recover his ring seizes him, and,
with a friend's assistance, he executes it.
His friend assumes the disguise of an al
guazil (Spanish detective,) and heads fire
others, dressed up, with arms, moustaches,
and alarming whiskers, to represent a detach
ment of police. They go, when twilight has
set in, to Camilla's lodgings, where they find
Camilla in bed. Gil Bias, in ordinary cos
tume, discovers himself to her, and desires
the pseudo-alguazil to take her to prison.
Frightened almost to death, she surrenders
the ring, but declares that Don Raphael had
carried away the.thousand ducats, on the night
of the robbery_ She also gives up a pearl
necklace and valuable ear-rings, and also
(which was rather a mean proceeding) a silver
candlestick. The party assure Camilla that
they will report favorably of her to the cor
regidor, and retire, in great spirits, to sup in
an adjacent tavern. In the midst of their re
past, a real alguazil and twelve real policemen
come in, all well armed. It appears that
Camilla's servant, suspecting that Gil Blas'
party were not the real footpads of justice,
bad followed them to the tavern, ascertained
the accuracy of her conjecture, and had re
venged her mistress by informing the police.
The upshot of the adventure was the imprison.
meat of Gil Bias and his friends for some time,
and the total confiscation of ring, necklace,
ear-rings, - and candlestick—none of which
cc portable property," as Mr. Wemmick would
call it, ever was restored to Camilla. Of her,
no further mention is made, but, farther on in
the volume, Don Raphael and Ambrose, the
pious valet, turn up again, in several other
(‘ confidence" eases, not less ingenious than
that which we have related here, and, reali
zing the adage that "the pitcher carried often
to the well breaks at last," end their lives in
an Auto da Fe at Toledo—having been con
demned to the flames by the Inquisition.
In the Bachelor of Salamanca, which Le
Sage acknowledged to be a translation from
the Spanish, and his Adventures of Guzman
d'Alfranche, as well as Juan de Lunas' Laza l
rillo de Tormes, and Quevedo's History of
Paul the Sharper, will be found numerous de
tails respecting Spanish confidence-men. It
will go hard with us if we do not find some
teireapondilig ekainplea, in the criminal re
cords of France, of undoubted talent and
sharpness similarly misapplied.
Regimental Banda.
To "face the music," during the present
war, requires some financial boldness. It ap
pears from a return made by the Paymaster
General of the United States army that the
annual cost of each regimental band is $7,602 ;
that there are seven hundred, regiments of
volunteers in service,.and that, consequently,
the collective cost of their music is $5,321,400
a year. To this must be added the expense
of clothing, subsisting, and transporting these
musicians, and the liability to pay $lOO bounty
to each of them, if kept two years in service,
or until the war is ended. The number of
musicians in the army at present is 17,500--
being as large as the whole United States
army before the war. Strictly speaking, the
only music actually necessary in a regiment is
of the simplest description, produced by
drums, fifes, and bugles. Of course, the
present costly system cannot be permitted to
continue.
THE newspapers of the South and Europe
are denouncing. as an &Welty the Of.drArtkais of
the c , Stone Fleet," in obstructing the South.
ern harbors. Gentlemen of the South, your
remonstrances and denunciations are exceed
ingly out of place. The chalice is of your
own preparing—drink it. You commenced
this rebellion by destroying your own harbors,
by placing obstacles in Norfolk, Charleston,
Savannah, Mobile, New Orleans, and Galves
ton. You removed the lighthouses, removed
the buoys, and destroyed every guide to com
merce and navigation. If you found this so
efficient in commencing a rebellion, why may
we not test its efficiency in closing the rebel.
lion 7
The Rebellion Record
Let us take four great historical eras in later his
tory—the English Revolutions of 1649 and 1688,
the American Revolution of 1776, and the French
Revolution of 1789—and see how inadequately,
though laboriously. they all have been described,
by various writers. Clarendon and Burnet have
treated of the first, Macaulay of the /mond, Thiers
of the fourth, and a host of authors of the third,
which established us as a nation. Read all the vo
luminous publications on these stirring events,
and, at beet, but a fraginentary and Unfair idea Can
be conceived. Suppose, however, that some one,
in each instance, could have collected and combined
the best accounts of all public transactions, written
as Ithey occurred by persons who participated ill
them, together with anecdotes, traits of cha
racter, descriptions of places, and the best
poetry which these stirring events elicited, and
the result would be—precisely such a work as
cc The Rebellion Record," which really is a Diary
of the occurrences of the present war, collected
and collated by Frank Moore, of New York,
whose Diary of the Ameriean Revolution " had
fully proved his peculiar fitness for this peculiar
book snaking Six monthly parts, (illustrated with
portraits, maps, and plans,) make a volume, of
which the second is now completed. The first
volume gave the contemporary history of the Re.
hellion from December, 1880, to June 1861 , and
the second continues it to the close of last Septem
her. We havii already signified, in two words,
what this book is—a contemporary history, the
accuracy of which "he who runs may read." Ac
cepted in the 11. S. courts as legal evidence, the
Rebellion Record has already achieved a sta
tion of historical authority Its contents
have been collected from a vast number of
sources, from rebel as well as from loyal ac
counts, so as fairly to exhibit all views of the ques
tion. The second volume contains the fullest ac
count of the Battle of Bull Run, and we must do Mr.
G. P. Putnam, the publisher, the justice of saying
that his narrative, as a looker-on, has not been sur
passed in force, clearness, and graphic description.
The volume (made up of Diary of Events, Docu
ments, Poetry, and Incidents, and an excellent and
copious Index,) contains some 750 pages imperial
five, and is substantially bound in cloth, gilt-let
tered. It contains twelve portraits on stool and
various maps and diagrams. The third volume
will bring the work down to February 1, including
full Official Reports of the Capture of the Forts at
Hatteras inlet, with a Map of the Coast of North
Carolina; The Battle of Carnifex Ferry, with a
Map prepared by General Benham ; Capture of
Colonel Mulligan by the Rebels; -Attack on Fort
Pickens, with Map prepared by the Coast Survey ;
Battle of Ball's Bluff, Va.; Bombardment of Port
Royal, with Two Maps and all the Official Reports,
Narratives, and Incidents ; The Capture of Mason
and Slidell, together with the Official Reports and
the various accounts of the affair pro and con.
Published by G. P. Putnam, New York, and sup
plied to subscribers in Pennsylvania and Dela
ware, by John Mania, 83 South Sixth street,
Philadelphia.
THE REBELLION.
THE BATTLE NEAR SOMERSET.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
AFFAIRS AT FORTRESS MONROE.
1 )4 0:)_4 1 hk1 :i;1') 444 YO:LCIf ki=4:i•V
OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM COMMODORE GOLDSBOROUGH.
Late News from the Upper Potomac.
THE ENGLISH PRESS OX THE RE
LEASE OF MASON AND SLIDELL.
&C./ &c.
GENERAL BUELL'S DEPARTMENT.
Further Particulars of the Battle near
Somerset.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, wri
ting from the camp near Somerset under date of
the 23d inst., says:
The battle, unlike the most of the war grows
larger the more that is known of it. One hundred and
ninety-two dead bodies of the rebels were buried
up to Tuesday- night, and they were still found
thick in the woods. It was first supposed that the
forces engaged were about equal, but it is now
known that the enemy outnumbered ks two to one.
The regiments under General Thomas' command
at the time of the fight were the Tenth Indiana,
Fourth and Twelfth Kentucky, Second Minnesota,
Ninth and Fourteenth Ohio, and First and Second
East Tennessee These eight regiments could not
bring, at the utmost, over six thousand men into
the field ; and of these only about one-half were
actually engaged in the combat, The consolidated
morning report ofvthe troops at Mill Spring last
Friday has been found. Crittenden had under him
at that time, and there, one thousand three hundred
and twenty-two men sick, and fourteen thou
sand two hundred and six 172871 fit for duty. And
by papers found on the person of Gen. Zollicoffer,
it appears that two new regiments reported for duty
at Mill Spring on Saturday, the 15th. The testi
mony of all the intelligent prisoners whom we took
is to the effect that tho whole force moved from
their camp to the attack of Sunday, except a small
guard on the north side, and 4, White's old Regi
ment," a shattered and demoralized body of men
on the south side of the river. Not less than fifteen
thousand men marched out to give battle, at they
supposed, to three regiments of Union troops.
It must not be thought, however, that this large
force was at all available to Crittenden. A great
proportion of it, perhaps one half, was the raw,
drafted levies of two-months men, lately raised in
Tennessee. They have been coming to Crittenden
in squads of from one to five hundred for weeks.
Just organized into regiments, and armed princi
pally with shot-guns, they could not be supposed to
add much to the strength of the rebel army, and,
in case of such a panic as occurred, were an element
of positive weakness; and they were even further
useless, because they had no hearts for a fight
against the Union. One of them, coming near our
lines, rushed across to us, exclaiming "I am a
Union man," and immediately commenced firing
,trn his late comrades! Wo understand that there
!are about ten thousand of such troops at Knoxville.
'Me mean to carry guns to them, and make them
bur first soldiers from their part of the country!
4 There was one advantage which we had, and
!which will tell everywhere in this war. It was in
the-superiority of our arms. The rebels had but
few arms of precision ; and these ineffective at long
ranges. Our deadly - rifles, throwing the heavy
Minis ball, cut their ranks to pieces before they
could touch ours. Their men were brave. Bat
tle's regiment was led by its lieutenant colonel
across the field, as one of their men said to me,
"like a lot of boys on a rabbit chase." The Fif
teenth Mississippi came up to our guns and fought
us hand to hand ; but bowie knives are of but lit
tle avail against bayonets and discipline.
The rebel artillery was of no use to them what
ever, while ours was very effective.
And more than all, we overmatched them in the
coolness and firmness of our men and otfieern, and
in good generalship. General Thomas was at first
inc dulons as to the possibility of being seriously
attlEked. The idea that the enemy would leave
their fortified camp to I:.come out and give us a fair
field fight, seemed preposterous. But though it
tags Gen." Thomas a good while to get the steam
Up, when it is up he moves With forty hundred
horse-power. He advanced to the very front of
the fight, made hislispositions most promptly and
skilfully; and when the enemy broke, he pursued
them most energetically.
Tuesday morning a detachment of our troops
crossed the river and took possession of the rebel
camp on the south side. Here were the same evi
dences of wild penis in the abandonment of every
thing. The fortifications were even stronger than
those pn this side, but they did not remain in them
to fire 'a shot. They passed through Montieello,
frightened, disorderly mob, proclaiming that they
were pursued by ‘c thirty thousand Yankee devils."
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
From Fortress Monroe
FORTRESS Morn - too, Jan. 29—via Baltimore.—
some negroes arrived here at seven o'clock this
morning, having deserted in a small boat from the
apposite shore, east of Sewell's Point. They wore
cooks in the Third Alabama Regiment, which is
encamped in that vicinity. They report that the
last of the iron plates for the steamer Merrimac
were put on yesterday, and that she was to be
launched to-day.
A large steamer, reported to bo the Merrimac,
but probably erroneously, made its appearance at
Craney Island yesterday afternoon.
The troops at Newport News slept on their arms
last night.
A flag of truce, to-day, brought from Norfolk
Lieut. E. Connolly, of the New York Sixty-ninth,
from Columbia, South Carolina.
The tugboats James Murray and E. H. Her
bert, of Baltimore, and the las. P. Levy, Alert,
Alitio; and Champion, of Philadelphia, sailed
ills afternoon for Hatteras, to join the Burnside Ex
pedition. .
The steamer Eastern State also sailed for Hatte
ras this afternoon.
John McMahon, a recruit in Company F, Union
Coast Guard, Ninety-ninth New York Regiment,
shot Michael Dolan, a private in the same com
pany, this morning. The act was done delibe
rately. The motive is said to have been an old
family quarrel.
The U, 0, steamer Hartford arrived from Phila
delphia this afternoon.
Official Despatches from Commodore
Goldsborough.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Official despatches from
Commodore Goldsborough, dated January 26th,
addressed to the Navy Department, were received
this morning. Seventeen of the naval vessels were
at that time in the Sound, over and beyond the
bulkhead, and wider the immediate command of
Commander Rowan, in full readiness for operations
of any kind.
General Burnside was preparing his foreleg to
move in connection with the fleet.
Commodore Goldsborough says : " Things now
look hopeful, and I sincerely trust that we shall
soon be at the enemy. Any decided approach now
to this quarter, on the part of the rebels, with all
the farces they can muster, would, to a moral cer
tainty, result in their speedy capture and destrue•
From the Upper Potomac
SANDY Hoax, Maryland, January 30.—Since the
retreat of the rebels from Bolivar, the weather has
been too foggy to observe their movements. A
heavy BROW storm prevails this morning.. It is
known that our shells, on Tuesday, were not with
out effect, and several were killed and wounded.
The enemy's shells were harmless. There are no
signs of the weather clearing at present.
'The Burnside Expedition.
A correspondent of the New York World,
writing from the Burnside Expedition, under date
of Jan. 23, says •
Inasmuch as the publication of this is to be coin—
cident with the intelligence of our descent upon the
foe, it is proper to allude here to the points of
attack, which are well known in the fleet to be
Roanoke Island It is about fifty - miles up Pam
lico Sound, twelve miles long, three miles wide,
and said to be fortified by the rebels on the south
ern, western, and eastern shores. The most feasi
ble approach to the island is by Goatan Sound,
which is about ono mile wide, with two chamois,
and nine feet of water in each. gen. Burnside's
intention is to proceed to the scene of operations
as soon as he , gets 7,000 men over the " Swash."
To-day there are about 4,000 over, and to-morrow
night may see us off by moonlight.
In another letter he says : Our enemy is said
to be vigo'rously' at work. Contrabands, who
have come into the camp of the Forty-eighth Penn
sylvania, about six miles above the inlet, report
that up to Sunday last the rebel force at Roanoke
Island did not exceed 2,000 men, with one battery
of six guns at an eligible point on the lower end
of the island. They did not seem to be aware of
the approach of this expedition until Sunday,
the 12th, when they immediately set to work,
and have now constructed another battery about
mid-way of the island, and have likewise been
materially reinforced. General Williams thinks
there are about three thousand rebels there. The
gale and the accidents which befel the expedi
tion necessarily detained it two or three days,
but it was certainly thought that we should have
come down on the enemy before this week had ex
pired
Consolidation of Cavalry.
General Stoneman, chief of cavalry, has recom
mended the consolidation of the seventy-seven regi
ments of volunteer cavalry now on the rolls, into
fifty regiments. He advises that the field and line
officers already mustered in bo examined by a
board of officers, who shall sift out at least a third.;
and recommends that the men also be sifted, and
those not fit to be horsemen mustered as infantry,
or mustered oat altogether. There is a prospect
that these views will prevail, and that we shall not,
as was feared, after running from the extreme of no
cavalry to that of too muoh cavalry, run back again
to the first blunder.
The Foreign Press on the Surrender of
Mae on and Slidell
The London Ttmes, of the 9th, congratulates
Xnglich nation on the pacific result of its honorable
eonduot in the cue of the Trent, and then proceeds
as follows :
It is a great victory, though. it is but an escape
from being obliged to conquer. We are but where
we were before lee were so grossly insulted. We
have but curbed for a moment the insolence of a
neighbor who took pleasure in continually pro
voking its, and lead "permitted himself at last to
go beyond the possibility of sufferance. We have
done nothing to set up monuments to commemo
rate; we have only held our own in the great com
munity of nations, and read a necessary lesson to an
ill-mannered companion. There have been times in
our history—times when we had net the strength
we could now
-put forth—when we should have no
such real joy as we now feel in the hindrance of
such a conflict. There are other nations, which,
even at this age of the world, would not have
thought it consistent with their renown to manifest
suet patience and long tufo:lag under outrage as
we have exhibited. If the same experiment had
been tried upon France, we question whether the
same forbearance would have been afforded to
the aggressor, or the same readiness to receive
a tardy and grudging reparation, We have
manifested a delibeeation and a tranquillity
under insult which even we could not have shown
towards a people for whom we thought it right to
make fewer allowances, or whom we feared more.
The Government of the Federal States had done,
in mere wantonness, what no nation of the old
world had ever dared to do. They had invaded the
sanctuary which England extends to all political
exiles who seek her protection ; and to this wound,
inflicted on her most sensitive pride, they had added
an insult to her maritime flag, and a menace to her
security in traversing the seas. On all hands it is
now admitted that the offence was at once insult
and wrong, and it is no great triumph, therefore,
that it should have bean followed by repara
tion. If we had had to deal with a friendly
and courteous people, we should have had no
occasion for preparations of war. If a French or
an English captain, while the two nations are
upon their present terms, were to gratify a crack
brained freak, or an insane thirst of notoriety, by
some piratical outrage against the foreign flag,
neither Government would wait to see whether any
miserable advantage could be gained by the cir
cumstance. The act would be at once disavowed,
and the booty returned, with apologies and compen
sation. Thie WM the course which, if Federal
America had been courteous or even shrewd, Fede
ral America would have pursued. Mr. Seward
missed a great opportunity when he failed to act as
a European statesman would have acted under
similar circumstances. At this moment there is no
great sympathy here for either party. The attrac
tion we feel tOwardS a weaker nation invaded by a
stronger and richer nation is repelled by the very
detestation of slavery; and, if Mr. Seward had
seized the opportunity for a graceful and a cour
teous act, we would not answer for how far our
countrymen might have been tempted from their
rigorous neutrality. It was a gross blunder for the
shrewd !Idolater of shrewd people to nuts the
chance of a great advantage only to do the same
act at last under circumstances of unavoidable hu
miliation.
We have every reason to be satisfied with the
position which this country has held throughout.
Tire have never deviated from grave and courte
ous, dismssio», and have never de.seggzled to re—
tort the wild invectives which came from the other
side of the Atlantic. The War Departments have
manifested an efficiency which gives us confidence
in ourselves, and will give us security from future
insult. The Government have acted with a rare
courtesy and temper, but have displayed, together
with dignified deliberation, firmness, promptitude,
and courage. Nor will we refrain from adding,
what every one will feel while he reads this news,
that the man upon whom the nation instinctively
relied while the crisis lasted, deserves our warmest
gratitude now that the peril is overcome. It is,
indeed, a rare triumph to grace the latter seam of
a life so happily prolonged, that Lord Palmerston
has found, and has used, the opportunity to curb
the arrogance of the only people which has in this
generation entered systematieally upon a course of
offence toward England.
[From the Liyernool Mercury, January 10,1
The surrender of the illegally-captured Confede
rate commissioners is one of the most cheering
pieces of intelligence that it was ever our happi
ness to publish. Apart from all other considera
tions, the mere faot that war with the North would
necessarily have brought us into relations of vir
tual alliance and co-operation with the South, ren
ders it matter for the heartiest congratulation that
peace has been found compatible with national and
self-respect. In no point of view is the peaceful
settlement of the Trent question more Satisfactory
than in enabling us to keep cleat of b. dangerous
and discreditable intimacy with the slave-owning
Confederation.
[From the Manchester Guardian, Jan. 10.]
The Federal Government have acceded to all
which we thought proper to require, and if they
have not done so in the way most nonduelve to' the
saving of their own reputation, either for fairness
or independence, they themselves are the chief, if
not the only, sufferers by the course which they
have preferred. We cannot refuse, too, to make
large allowance for the difficulties they must have
encountered in confessing an error to which that
attention was called by the challenge of a foreign
Power, and reversing an act which the unreasoning
public opinion of their country had hailed with
tumultuous approbation.
We have got our terms hewever, and we Ml
cept them, with unmingied satisfaction, in the
spirit in which they are offered. Mr. Seward's
language in making the ameede breathes a lofty,
candid, and courteous spirit rarely to be met with
in the diplomatic communications between Govern
ments which have the misfortune to fall out. Long
may the love of right above country and the dread
of no consequences but dishonor which guide the
movements of the Federal Secretary's pen con
tinue to animate the relations between the two
countries!
[From the London Horning Herald, Jan, 2.]
At last we have decisive news from America. The
City of Washington brings a telegram from Lord
Lyons, stating that " the Government of the United
States had consented to deliver up to him the pri
soners taken from the Trent, when and where he
pleased." Despite the boasts of the New York
press ; despite the commendation bestowed on Cap
tain Wilkes by the Secretary of the Navy ; despite
the feasts at Boston and New York, and the vote of
thanks by which the Rouse of Representatives
identified itself with the outrage of the Sam Jacin
to ; despite even the frantic efforts of a miserable
faction in this country to encourage resistance to
the demands of our Government, and to render in
evitable the war which they passionately depre
cated, Mr. Lincoln has preferred the safety of his
country to the popularity of his Administration,
and has refused to involve the United States in a
contest which must have annihilated what remains
of their power, their credit, and their commerce.
We give to him, if to no one else, honor for the part
be has played.
* * * * *
[From the London Globe, January 91
The Federal Government has released the South
ern commissioners so illegally seized by Captain
Wilkes, and has published the correspondence on
the subject by way of justification. The news was
speedily confirmed by . the official telegram from the
Foreign Office. Coming so closely on the heels of
the doubts inspired by the contents of the E groptes
advices, the cheerful announcement caused a lively
sensation, and created a very satisfactory feeling in
all quarters. With very limited exceptions, and
chiefly in a section of the Tory camp, there has
been no desire for war with the Federal States,
and hence the news of peace was received with
pleasure.
-at
We have neither claimed nor recognized anynew
rights. Mr. Seward and his colleagues, therefore,
might just as well have surrendered the envoys at
once, upon these so-called American principles, as
have detained them in prison for two months ; and
upon other principles their conduct in so acting
would have given them a higher standing among
nations than they can claim now. The long delay ?
the yielding to s formal application, backed by in
dubitable force, admit of an'unpleasant interpreta
tion. We are not willing to place that interpreta
tion upon these proceedings, reserving our judg
ment until the text of the whole correspondence is
in our possession.
Russell on the Surrender of Slidell and
Mason and the Union Army.
From the letter of Mr. Russell to the London
Times, dated at Washington, December 27, we take
the following paragraphs:
EFFECT OF THE SURRENDER OF MASON AND
MIMI
The effect in this country, when it is known, will
be exceedingly great, for such a dish of humble pie
cannot be taken into stomachs which have been
disordered by cocktail-talking without a great deal
of nausea. Do not imagine that the real intelligence
and worth of the people will disapprove the act.
The men I allude to are the writers in the " sensa
tion " press and the bunkum orators, as well as the
more 'violent Abolitionists, - who, by insulting me
naces and intemperate pledges, have bound them-
selves to oppose the concession, no matter how just
it might prove to be.
AMERICAN HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND
The Union can get more than half a million of
men to fight for hoe, at a dotittattAble expiito, it
is true, but moved in the main let us admit, by
love for the Union ; but she could, I ear assured,
raise a million to fight against England. That is,
the bate of Great Britain is at least twice as strong
as the love of the Union among many millions of
Americans. They will be disappointed this time.
If Mason and Slidell are surrendered without any
extravagant tnreats in the press, or without any
indignation meetings, we may hope that friendly
relations will be preserved for years to come, as it
will be a token that in a crisis the sound sense,
patriotism, and desire to do what is demanded by
justice and right predominate in the United States
over the violence of popular passion. Let us stand
by and see if it will be so, and let us be thankful
meantime that we are spared the war which would
have been forced on us in vindication of our honor
had the Government here been deaf to the voice of
reason.
THE POPULACE AND THE ARMY
The respectable public will find itself quite mis
takob if it supposes it is master of the situation. It
is in for the war for the Union, and it must abide
the consequences and submit to all the agencies it
has evoked. Perhaps it rubbed its eyes a little on
Christmas morning, when it saw dragoons with
drawn swords at all the angles of the streets to keep
order in Washington, where the sight oT a soldier
a year ago was a strange phenomenon. The dra
goons are there skill, and I was reprimanded by
one of them yesterday for cantering down the
street. They are nominally to keep order, and
perhaps they may be withdrawn when the holy
days are over; but it is certainly such a spectacle
as I never beheld elsewhere in America. The peo
ple take to it quite naturally. Then there are
heavy . patrols through the streets, just in the old
Austrian fashion in Milan not long ago.
SUPERIORITY OF THE UNION ARMY
The action at Dranesville has given this army
more confidence, and has been admitted by the
Confederates to be a serious disaster for their men.
The superior arms of the Federalists must in the
long run establish a moral as wit a.e q physical
advantage over their opponents. A fowling-1)1We
TWO CENTS.
is but a poor match for an Enfield rifle. While the
South is cut off from Europe, unless by the chance
Npassage of a vessel through the blockade, the
orth is importing arms by tons of thoussade, and
the hamburg steamers each week are freighted
with munitions of war for the Federal troops. • All
that ought to give victory—in numbers, wealth,
and resources—is on their side, and still their pro
gress is not sure, and is very slow. But of its ul
timate rapidity and success I have no doubt, and
never had any, with the important proviso that
th. 4 am‘hrle pay icczes and eve moncy to the GU'
vernment to carry on the war.
A Crime at Alexandria
[Special Correspondence of The Press.]
WASHINGTON. thirl, 29, 1862.
A drunken man is a pitiable sight at any time. A
drunken soldier, and one from the ranks of the
Union army, is, from the very nature of the circum
stances of the present period, dead eight indeed.
The :went sit‘lisgehLtegulations, prohibiting soldiers
from visiting the cities, except in cases of emergency,
have given the deathblow to much of the intempe
rance that would otherwise characterize the sol
diers of the army. Yet this evil is not alone con
fifsed to Washington and the neighboring caries.
At Alexandria, where a number of troops are sta
tioned, the sin of intemperance has for some time
past been increasing to a fearful extent. Notwith
standing the exertions made by the provost guard
•ot that city to prohibit the sale of intoxicating li
quors to soldiers, the command is, in a number of
instances, persistently violated, and seemingly by
the authority of persons high in command. From
all that we can learn upon the subject, and we do
not speak unadvisedly, the fault does not alone rest
at the door of the provost guard. In fad, it is al
leged that the military governor has, in more than
one instance, granted to the men a license and a
protection entirely at variance with the rules of
military regulation. And thus the efforts of the
provost guard have been thwarted by the interfer
ence of a functionary further advanced in the
scale of military rank.
IL Did the evil but cease here, the cause of com
plaint would not be so great. Was the fault com
mitted that of only selling liquor to the soldiers,
the offence might in some degree be palliated, hut
it is to the effect produced by these vile compounds
that we have especial reference. Soldiers who
drink will become intoxicated ; and, naturally
enough, becoming disorderly and unruly, they sub
ject themselves to arrest. The arrest takes pisco,
and they'are sent to the slave.pens—enelosures of
brick—which are of the filthiest description, and
so small in size that the men who are huddled there
together—frequently as high as sixty or seventy at
a time—are unable to lie down, but are compelled
to stand up during the entire period of their liner.
ceration, and without shelter.
Thus it is that more men are disabled from the
active service, by this course of life, and by the
attendant means of punishment described, than
would ? in proportion, result from an actual engage
ment. Take these men from the slave-pens after a
night'S debauch, and inhaling, as they do, the
miasma arising itom these foul holes after a long
incarceration, and they are subjects fit for the hos
pitals—in fact, for their graves.
We have no doubt but that this crying evil is
soon to be remedied. The attention of General Mc-
Clellan, we understand, is to be directed in this
quarter, and whoever is guilty of this criminal act
of injustice we are sure will receive a speedy and
jot reward,
THE CASE OF COLOAXL BERDAN.
For some months past, Colonel Berdan, of the
" Sharpshooters" of that name, has been devoting
ell his energies to the object of obtaining for the
men under his command en arming with Shiltp l §
and Colt's rifles, in preference to the muskets used
by the soldiers of our army. This application was
based upon the fact that these men are composed of
a majority of the finest shots in the army; and, the
Colonel being en ambition§ man, was desirous of 4 o
complishing the most effective work with the ma
terial furnished hint. The following note, which
was yesterday sent to Colonel Borden, disposes of
the difficulty alluded to :
GEN. WILLIAMS: One thotaand Sharp's, and 0116
thousand Colt's rifles, have been ordered for the
Sharpshooters. " A. V. Commits.
This matter was brought about by the interference
of General McClellan, who laid the ease before Afr.
Stanton, and who immediately "Ordered the articles
just named The Sharp's rifles are to he here in
fifteen days, and the others to be forthemning to
daY, as they only await the order of the Colonel.
There were a number of obstacles in the way to
wards the accomplishment of this end ; but, as the
sole cause o f the difflculty has now been removed,
we forbear making any comments. Certain it is,
that the Colonel has fought his way bravely and
manfully, and that, too, with only one idea in
aslYilaglanlit and glorification of the
men who have placed themselves under his com
mand—two regiments at this time, the third await
ing marching orders. This brigade, as it will be in
a very few days, is to be detailed only for special
duty, and will not even be permanently attaehad
to any division. They will no doubt do creative
service during the war. As has been before stated,
General Ripley, ohief of ordnance, is to be suc
ceeded by Brevet Major Alexander Brydie Dyer.
A LIFE MEUBERMP,
A few days since, Major General McClellan was
made a life-member of the American Bible Society,
by the Juvenile Missionary Society of the First
Presbyterian Church, N. L. The certificate was
presented to tbe Oeneral by Mr, Adam Warthman,
of Philadelphia, and a reply will be made to the
children in a few days.
Last evening, on the occasion of Mr. Tom King's
benefit, (a testimonial one tendered by the citizens
of Washington,) a present of a splendid gold watch
was made to him by his many friends. The affair
took place between the acts, and during the inter
mission. The presentation was made on the part of
the donors by Lieut. Wm. King, in language neat
and appropriate. Mr. King's reply was full of
warmth of feeling and gratitude of heart
LETTER FROM HARRISBURG
[Correspondenee of The Press.]
HARRISBURG January 29, 1862
After a week or more of talk, the resolution to
investigate the Tonnage Repeal has paased. The
vote was 92 yeas to 1 nay. No one wished to be
placed on the record against an honest investiga
tion for an honest purpose. It became so palpa.
ble, however, as the very needless discussion pro•
greased, that the real purpose of its movers was
more to damage the Pennsylvania Railroad than
to correct abuses in legislation, that one Phila
delphia member (Mr. Dennis) did vote against or
dering the committee, while many others who
are willing to investigate will oppose any repeal of
the act to the bitter end. Others were in favor of
a joint investigation, if one was to be had, at all.
Others still were in favor of giving this committee
power to examine into other alleged abuses ; but to
this the opponents of the road objected most de
cidedly, and why ? Are they fearful an investiga
tion would disclose unpleasant facts? Do they
wink at one rumor and wake at another of the
same character? or does it better subserve some
political or personal purpose to raise the cry against
a single corporation which has done more for the
credit at Pennsylvania than all of its opponents
combined ? This is the secret of it. There is a
party here seeking for political capital—for any
thing to keep their own heads above water. They
imagine it is to be found in this movement. Hence
their tears over the passage of the act of last win
ter. Hence their clinging to a tax on our inland
commerce against the interests of our groat Com
monwealth. Hence their adherence to an old-fogy
system of tonnage duties on a single thoroughfare—
a policy which is abandoned by all the world
besides. A few members, perhaps, of Allegheny,
are controlled by their prejudices and passions.
Others aro under pledges to a party convention,
and can never look beyond the half bushel in which
they trot their little round; They leek only to
silt, never to the influences which guide the states
men or the legislator pledged to promote the
interests of the State at large. Some men never
get fairly out of the nest in which they were batched.
Pennsylvania holds a good many such, and a liberal
supply of them are here this winter.
The resolution relative to the expulsion of United
States Senator Bright was offered out of order, or it
would have received different treatment. Perhaps
it would not have passed, because the Breckinridge
Democracy pounced upon it with a solid No ! It
required two-thirds to take it np out of order, and
the effort was a failure.
Why is it that The Press is not allowed to be
told on the North Central railroad within forty
miles of Baltimore? A friend of ' mine coming
through that city last week inquired of the news
boy for Philadelphia papers. He replied that he
had the morning papers, but was not allowed to
sell them till he got some forty miles towards Har
risburg, because, if he did, he could not dispose of
his Baltimore papers. Is this an arrangement of
the Baltimore newspaper dealers, or is it because
true loyal papers can't be tolerated in that pesti
lential atmosphere? At all events, such a prohibi
tion looks a little queer to the traveller and
SPECTATOR.
A Question for Literary Men
[ For The Press.]
I have a book before me, printed in London,
whose title-page (without date, but yet, from ap
pearance, some 50 years old) bears the words "The
NEW whole Duty of Man." The oh/ work, to which
the one in hand is opposed, appears to have been pub
lished in Cromwell's era, but by wham I know not,
and am inclined to believe (if my memory serves
mo right) that its authorship is a vexata questio
among the learned. Perhaps lam mistaken, and
this "NEW whole Duty" may be the one whose
author's determination was that of Junius stat
nominis 'umbra. Had William Law, the pietist,
anything to do with this new work, as at the bottom
of the title-page occurs snob a name in conjunction
with four others ? Anyhow, lam in the dark, and
shall be glad if one of the bibliopoles, who read
your excellent journal, will open the cloud forme.
January
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
THE MONEY MARKET
PnttAngtente, Jan. 30, 1162,
Reading Railroad shares were active, with salmi after
three o'clock at 21 3.10, an advance of upon the do
sing prices of yesterday. 'hue is the more remarkable
in view of the fact that the old leading items at the New
York stock board are very flat and have been so nearly
all this ine.htb, the variation in New York Central, for
instance, being but three per cent. from the price at its
commencement. Cleveland and Toledo forme an excep
tion, which is accounted, for by a change in its affairs
for the better, begetting a sudden vitality therein.
City Baer; were a shade weaker. Government seven eml
throovtcntho per cont notes, which are ggitilid is Le 16
leading speculative in New York, and, to some extent,
here, sold at 97x. Pennsylvania Railroad shares appear
to be coming upon the market in large blocks, and the
prjce declined X below the Quotations of yesterday morn
ing. Reading Railroad shares roma hon itun tly t o
21 1.10811 r , r„ under pressure to realise, the quotations
from New York showing the market there to be heavy.
West Branch bonds continue to advance; three thousand
dollars of them sold to-day at 82X.
The money market remains ateltdilY in the Condition
pleletOUSIV SWAM.
The Mayor's message, submitted to ()Minas to-day.'
affords a very clear exposition of the financial condition
of the city, its receipts, expenditures, indehteduess, and
means of payment. We commend the medifastrterthS
careful attention of our readers. It will doubtless
will atudled by all intere44 in city loans, and it de ,
servo to be well considered by all the tax. payers.
Drexel & Co. quote New York Xxelinnge pare);
discount; Baltimore, paresl.lo premium; Boston, par
0% premium; Gold, 23, o 3) premium; Country Funds,'
% to % discount.
The fall ix cotton in Liverpool reportA 1, 7 the droto,,
Saxon at rortland is the subject of much diversity of
opinion, some inclining to think it owing to expectation',
of large receipts of cotton from India and elsewhere,
while others attribute it to supposed intentions of the
itritibh Government to break the blockade of our South•
ern porta.
The t. ecretary of the Treasury has addressed a note to
Collector Barney, of New York, respecting the liability
of duty, under the act of December 24, of certain teas
imported from Canton on board the bark Penguin, by A
A. Low & Co. The Secretary holds that the act of
August 5 provides that all merchandkv ig t ram it, at ma
date of the passage of that act, shall lit Subject to the
duties that were in force at and previous to the time of
the passage of the act, and that the act of December 24
does not alter this provision. The question is now raised
whether the act of December 24, imposing a duty of DP
cents per pound, applies to tens on shipboard on the 6th
o f August, the dale of the prctions sot, The Booretari
holds that it does not, and that the merchandise in ques
tion is entitled to free entry If the collector is satisfied
that it was actually on shipboard and bound to the
'United States, from the country of production, at or
before the date of the passage of the act of August 5,
1861.
At the meeting of the Directors of the Cleveland and
Toledo Railroad Company, held in New York, an agree
ment for a final settlement of the suits pending in the
Supreme Court of Ohio against it, to compel It to main
tain and run that portion of the Northern division of the
road west of Sandusky (which had been reeently
Gated by the officers of the company) win approved,
The terms of adjustment provide for running a portion
of ite trains by way of Sandusky and Clyde, thud reliev
ing the company from the maintenance of the road west
of Sandusky, by way of Port Clinton. This arrangement
bermonlets the interests of the towns on each division&
and satisfies local Interests and teeliug, and removes an
incubus which has hitherto been banging over the com
pany. The financial condition of the company. Is under
stood to be highly satisfactory to the directors, and tho
general condition of the road and company indicates tho
861hif,41%gfaant of a PedifkbNAß 6411 lb its interests , and
gives great encouragement to the stockholders, of an
early resumption of dividends.
The New York Eeening Post of to-clay says :
The stock market is tame to-day. The tone of tho
Inglieh press is not regarded as satisfactory, and this,
together with tee apparent indisposition of Congress to
adopt a liberal and sweeping system of taxation, which,
after all, le the real hitch in the Government finances,
tends to check the upward movement, and prices of the
leading securities are barely maintained. Some of the
railroad shares continue active under the steady buying
Of the tipaper.money chum," palatially Fete, lime
and Toledo.
One of the weakest of the speculative list is Illinois
Central. The stock ha• recently been preened for sale
by persons informed of the intention of the Government
to enforce its privilege of having free transportation for
its troops and war materials in time of war, a clause to
that effect being embodied In the company's charter.
The sales to-day were at eilm . The decline in trite hay
been attributed to the heavy flood at Cairo, but the lose
of the large receipts supposed lo be unquestionably due
from the Government, and some hostile legislation in tits
Illinois State convention, are no doubt the real causes of
the depression.
After the board the matket was week, New York Cen
tral galling down to S. Erie closes at BM, T 96, 1 0.
42, Nock Island MX.
Governments are' dull and heavy. The registerel
sixes of 1881 are X per cent. lower. The coupons are
comparatively steady, 84,44c49%. Seven thirty notes)
are weak at 97x97*.
There is a good supply of laner ott call at ir COUt
rt
aa a full demand . t here - is a better 118 gortmont of
paper in market, but fates for A No. 1 names are un
changed, Bes6,,ti 41v cent.
The gold and foreigh exchange speculation seems to
have come to a stand still. Gold is dull to-day 1031;0
10334', and flrst,Clatig bills on London at 112 X all 3
Geld Is tilflee within Mt hem , of iij-6=ON (Adak
now being the rates for buying and selling.
The gross earnings of the Vermont and Massachu
setts Railroad in the year ending November 30, 1861.
were $200,6413; expenses and interest, $161,197; net
eßrning , l ?" 39 ; 35 /- The earnings gh?Yr o diminution of
654,177, and the expenses 631,180, as nolnkared with
1860. The debt of the road is about 6800,000, and it
has earned during the year one and a quarter dollars per
share over the expenses, Interest, and sinking-fund con
tribution.
The Fremont and Indiana Railroad has lately changed
hands, and its name been altered to the Fremont, Lima.
and Union Railroad. There le some talk, now that the
road Lae been sold, that it will soon be completed to
Lima, the intersection with the Dayton and Michigea
road.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange Sales,
January 30,1883.
REPORTED By S. E. SLAYMAgEII, Philadelphia Exchange.
FIRST BOARD.
1
'8 Penna R 401 f 2 N Penna E.cash. 7,1(
40 do .......... 40K 5 do ..• .. • . 7%
26 do .. .. .. .. 40,4 50 Reading It ..45 . ..20 44
5 d 9 ~ ~,,P:5; 49 CA4 du 1420 44
51 do . . ,
...,b5. 40K X
50 do h0... , 20 41
24 do .. . . ...... 401( 50 do 1)5..20 44
2 do 401( 100 do 65..20 44
26 do 40K 50 do b5..20 44
100 City Os B 91 50 do b5..23 44
13C0 do IL ...sctie. 91 60 do 95..20 44
1500 do New. 9634 100 do b5..20 44
4000 Penna It let In ss.loo e ti 3 Cnnt ,t: 4mi? 11,..nix
1000 do ..1am..54.100yi No if 0 1.00 Tress N. 911(
17 Hazleton C0a1... 41 50 Areli.street 1t... 16
33 do .. ... ... 41 29 Lehigh Val R„.. 56
50 Chest & ....... 31 300 Leh N 68..b5wn.10234
50 do .. . ... ... 31 I d 0.... Scri p.. 36%
1000 Reading Os 'ie... 76 11000 Sun 4 Erie It 7s. 843
....--.... ...
BETWEEN
8000 City 6 Now_ 0134'
2000 C & Amb Os 15.. 90
BOARDS.
1000 0 Amb 134. ITO.. 91
7 Cam & Arab
BOARD.
3000 W be, .80w0. 8 2 g
8 Vataxissa R Prf. o,‘
1000 2d & 3d St R ism. 08
1000 N Pa Rlat m Sp. 0:14:
SECOND
100 Reading 11....b5. 21
100 do b 5. 21.
100 do 3ds. 21
100 do .Ihs. 2/
60 do
150 do .15. 21
100 do .1)6. 21
40 Or & Coates R... 18%
10 do 18%
55 Leh N 1634
AFTER
1500 City Os 11 0.... 913(
60 Penn Il 404(
1000 do m,lOO
1000 do ....Ist m. 1003
2 Cato dr !dub 10...1217(
200 City Os 91
OARDS.
100 Qua Prf..ebs.
so ao rre,odyff, $
2131ettal Cord... 41
CLOSING PB
Bid. Ask.
POI' Os .• .... . 91 91X
Pblle re 91 91X
Phila Oe new... 96 98x ,
Penne be 82X 83X
Readingll 20 94 21
Rid. Ask.
Elmira 7a'73... 60 70
Long Island R. 10% 10%
Leh Cl & Nev.. mg 62g
Leh Cl k N Berp 86% 86%
N Pews R._ 7g 8
N POBIIS N .9S ea
N Poona 108,x,: 183 61
Catowisaa R Con 2 2%
Catawinsa Prof.. 8% 53(
Fr & South'k R. 30 ..
-
/Wing BO! '79 8 9) , 99
B.'dg If 65'50'46 ab Nr 99
Read M. 65'86.. 76 76X
Penns II 40N 40.
Forma R2dm 69 91% 91%
24 &al etult.B. 49 4934
!Race It Vine-et. 3 b
W Phila B 51 5334
Spruce & Pine.. 93i 9.4"
Green & Goatee 18% 19
Chu.t Wuhtut 34X 51
Arch Street....-19 17
Morrill Cl Eon.. 39
Morrie OI Pret.llo
669( 67i(
Scb Nay Be 'B2
Bch Nay Imp Be 75
Bch Nay Stock. 63(
Sib 17. v Pra, „ IEN IS
Elmira 7 7,V
Elmira B Prof. 13)( 14X
Philadelphia Markets
The Breadstuff's market continues inactive) on account
of The inclemency of tl,e weather, about 00 bbie goal
extra Flour sold at $5 02X, and 60D bbls good Western
extra faintly at $5.87X Ifr W. Sales to the trade are
limited $5.2505.37 for superfine, $5.5005.70 for extras,
$5.1506.25 for extra family, and $6.500.6.75 for fancy
lots, as to quality. nye Flour is quiet, and selling in a
small way at $'3.5003.C2 h. Corn !Steal is iptlet i and
Penna. scarce at Ls34pr
tVints,r is steady in price, with rather more inquiry for
shipment. 607,000 bus red sold at 13.3.20.34 c, mostly at
133 c, in store; white, in small lots, at 14001.45 c. Rye is
steady at 72e73c for Penna. Cornlsdulland rather
tomer ; about 3,000 bus new yellow sold at 55a556e, in
More, outs urc ateAdY iii MO, MAI !PAIN kw /Jana,
sold at 350, measure,
BAUK.—Thero is none arriving, and first No. 1 Quer.
citron is wanted ut fully former rates.
Corros.—The demand is limited, and the market is
very dull to-day.
Cinocsarms PROTISIONS.—Thers is no change in
the markets for either. and there is not Inneltdoing in the
way of sales.
tai 8
are quiet, and 154 Imo PI'IMO 41011' OM nt $1,50
qi+ bus.
straiiy; Ws selling at 2.4) e2se: drudge at
2334 gallon.
PHILADELPHIA GAS WOuica.—The twenty
seventli annual report of the Philadelphia Gas Works
shows the amount of gas manufactured at she several
•erke hfIOPSIDe" to the city, 4 1 '4 1 9 !be year 1001 , to be
032,049,600 cubic f •et, being 7,031,000 less than the pre•
vions year. The total amount of gas in We under thu
trust, from the commencement to the present time, is
6,512,506,000 cubic feet. The largest consumption of gals
in twenty-four hours was 3,044,000, on the 23d of De
cember, and is the largest for that perixl in the history
of the tenet. The timelier of public lampA, on the let
inst., was 0,617, of which number ChM aro now lighted
by gas. There MVO been laid during the year 132,136
feet of street mains, and the entire length, now belonging
to the trust, is 2,10E008 feet or 408 miles. The number
of meters and service-pipes furnished has been 2,829.
The total number now in use is 42,673 meters and 40,788
services. The number of applications registered during
the year has been 11,594. The whole number of gas con.
smilers, now on the books of the trust, is 44010. The
exPerimente with clay retorts have boon continued,
through most of the year, on a scale of considerable mag
nitude, and hare again failed to yield results as economi.
eel as are obtained by iron retorts worked in the usual
way.
DEATH AT A STATION-HOUSE.—A woman,
named 6118411 Stan, was taken to the Second-distriet
station, on Wednesday night, about ulna &dock, in a
push-cart, being so much intoxicated tisai she was unable
to walk. After remaining in the station-ho Use about au
hour she died. The coroner held en inquest.l
LA' EmsLosioN.—On Wednesday evening,
about eight o'clock, a flula lamp exploded at a dwelling
Louse on Race street, above Eleventh. -The dress of a
woman wee get OR firs, 09 W a§ only 01,0 11 1 la
inntt, •-•
JANUARY SO—Evening