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the press.
FUBLIBHKD DAILY, (BUNDAYB IXOEPMD,)
BN JOHN W. FORNEY,
OFFICE No. 417 CHESTNUT STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
TwiLTS Cents Pe» Week, payable to tie Carrier.
Hailed to subscribers out of tbe City at Six Dollars
Fla Annum, Four Dollars fob Eioht Months,
Thrib Dollars for Six Months —invariably in ad-
TRnco for the time ordered.
THE THI - WEEKLY PRESS,
Hailed to Subscribers out of the City at. Threb Dol-
RARS PRR ANNUM, in advance. "
COMMISSION HOUSES.
COFFIN, & CO.,
220 CHESTNUT STREET,
Agents for the following makes of goods
PRINTS.
BUNNELL MFC, CO GREENE MFC. CO.
LAWNS.
BUNNELL MFG. CO.
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Cionadaie, Forestdale, Auburn, Blatersville, Oontredalo,
Jamertown, Blackstone, Hope, Red Bank, Dorchester,
Newburyport, Nanmeag, Zouave, Burton, Greeno
Mfg. Co.’s A. A., B. A., C. A., and other styles.
BROWN COTTONS.
Burnside, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Chestnut, Glenville,
Mechanics’ and I'mtners 1 .
CORSET JEANS—Glasgow, Manchester.
DENIMS AND STRIPES Grafton, Jowott City.
Hadieon, Blatersville, Agawam, Koystono, Choctaw.
CANTON FLANNELS.—Slatersvillo, Agawam.
BILESIAS Smith's, Social Co., Lonsdale Co.
WOOLENS.
ARMY BLUE CLOTHS, KERSEYS, and FLAN
NELS.
BROAD CLOTHS.—Plunketts’, Glenliam Co., Ac.
CASBIMEBES Gay A Son, Saxton’s River, Ac.
SATINETS.—Bass River, Converßville. Lower Val
ley,'Hope, SlaffordvlHo, Converse and Hydo, Converse
Bros. A Co., Shaw Mfg. Co.
KENTUCKY JEANS.—Rodman, Mystic, Gold Medal.
DOMET FLANNELS.—WILLIAMS'S Angola, Sax
ony, MeriKO, and other styles:
LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored Cambrics.
PLAID LINSEYS, COTTONADES, St c. [foKS-3m
CLHIPLEY, hazard, &
O HUTCHINSON,
No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
FOR THE SALE OP .
PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GOODS.
Be2B-6m
DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
1862. spring. 186 2.
W. S. STEWART & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS,
NO. 303 MARKET STREET,
Buyers are invited to call and examine a fresh stock of
NEW AND DESIRABLE GOODS,
fionght exclusively for GASH, and which we will offer on
Hie most favorable terms.
Our stock comprises, in addition to a complete assort*
went of
BLACK AND OTHER STAPLE SILKS,
A variety of Seasonable
DBXSS GOODS,IN, NEW AND APPROVED STYLES,
specially adapted to City Sales. fe2s>3m
yAED.GILLMORE, & Co.,
Nos. GIT CHESTNUT and 614 JAYNE Streots.
HftVS fiiv open ihelr
SPRING IMPORTATION
OF SILK AND FANCY
DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS,-WHITE
GOODS,
LINENS, EMBROIDERIES,
Bought in Europe, by one cf the firm.
To which the attention of the trade is particularly in
cited, ' fe2l-2m
gELLINO OFF
BTOCK OP
CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, DRIL
LINGS, MARSEILLES, &c.
Twenty-five per cent, under formor priccß.
A. H. GIBBS,
feZl-lm No. S3l MARKET Street
JAS. R. CAMPBELL & Co..
IMTOBTEBS, AND CASH DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
No. 727 CHESTNUT STREET.
Having organised a RETAIL DEPARTMENT In
connection with their WHOLESALE TRADE, will ex
tiihit, at all hhodb, a line of Goods by the yard, piece,
cr package, at such rates aa to commend their stock to
fha attention of cash buyers. ja2B-tf
LOOKING GLASSES.
JAMES 8. EARLE & SON,
fiXAHfIJFACTUBEBS AND XMFOB.TKBB
o r
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS,
PINE ENGRAVINGS,
picture AND pobtb&h fbahisb,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGBAPH ALBUMS,
OARTK-DE.VISITS PORTRAITS,
EARLE’S GALLERIES,
810 CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Cabinet furniture.
CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL
LIABD TABUS.
MOORE & CAMPION,
80. 201 South SECOND Street, '
Ip fffywttnHAn with Ihfll* Cabinet Bonness are
fciow manufacturing * superior article of
TABLES,
jAod have now on band a full supply, finished with the
3HOOBE A CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
Which are pronotmccd, by all who have uaed them, to bo
pnperior to all others. j ~
Fov Hm duality and finish of these tables the menu
bcturers safer to their numerous patrons throughout
pm Union, who are familiar with the character of their
Wroth* fe26*6m
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
JJOBERT SHOEMAKER
& GO.,
Northeast Corner FOURTH and BACH Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
lit
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, Ao.
MEETS FOR THE CELEBRATED
- FRENCH ZINC PAINTS,
Dealfn acvl consumer! supplied at
VBRY LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
fel2-2m
IUTE LE
' Bedbaad,
White liead,
.Litharge,
Sugar of Lead,
•Oopftna,
-Oil of Vitriol,
Oalotnel,
flint TeHow,
Chrome Bed,
Obroau TeUow,
4gnl Fortie,
iHaitatic Add,
Tartaric Add,
•Orange Mineral,
:3olnbteTart.
-Bub. On*. Boda,
While Vitriol,
WedViedSitate,
WETHKBL
Droggiat* and Haw
Ba. 47 and 40 £
JaU-tf
rnERBAPXNS, OYSTERS BTEWED
' X AND mm, AND OHIUKIN SALAD.—IuTI
fa Ann Oirdi ind other notice* will bo dlitribotad In *ll
•arts ofthe city, with punctuality. A .
Tho undersigned is at all times prepared to present, fct
ttbo liwpection of Ladies and Gentlemen, a list of the
SHnw neoMsair for a large or small entertainment, as tot
■a«e mar be, thereby •Toiding all unnecessary yroAuloa
mndwasta: tod flatten himsair, that by hli long expo
irtence In business, be will be able at all times tp fliye, as
flumtnftiro entire safbfiection to all who favor nun wlu
toir Mtirontos. HINBT Oitaar,
Ho. SM Booth TWNUTH Street, ohon SPEDOA.
DRY AND IN
Wblte'Prectpitate,
Lunar Caustic,
Harootine,
Bulph. Morphine,
Morphine,
Acetate Morphine,
Lac. Bulph.,
Ither Bnlphurlo,
Ither Sltric,
Sulphate Quinine,
Oorro. Sublim.,
Denarcotized Opium,
Chloride or Soda,
Wetherill'e eat* Qinehe,
Tartar Emetic,
Chloride of Lima.
Crude Borax,
Beflned Borax,
Camphor,
Benin Oopnda.
[iL ft BBOTHBB,
miaetnnng Chomiate,
forth SECOND Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
VGL. 5-NO. 179.
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES.
"VrOTICE.—We, tlie subscribers, have
M ibis day entered Into a Limited Partnership,
agreeably to the provisions of the act of Assembly, pass*
ed the first day of filarih, 1836, entitled 44 act rela
tive to Limited Partnerships,” And the supplements there
to, and do hereby certify that the name of the firm under
which said partnership is to be conducted, is “ EDWARD
M. NEEDLESthat the general nature of the business
to be transacted is the purchase and sal o of Fancy Dry
GOddd, flJid 6ti»e? bueihesss incident thereto, and the
same will be transacted iu the city of Philadelphia: that
the name of the general partner of said firm is Edward
M. Needles, residing in the city of Philadelphia, at No.
1123 Mount Vernon street, and the name of tho special
partner is Thomas J. Megear, Also residing in the city of
Philadelphia, at No. 141 Arch street; that the capital
contributed by tbe said Thomas J» Mcgear, special part
ner, is five thousand itallar*, in c«wh * that tha period a
which the said partnership is to commence is the. first
day of February, one thousand eight hundred aud sixty
two, and that it will termmato on tho thirty-first day of
January, ono thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
EDWARD M. NEEDLES, General Partnor,
THOMAS J. MKGEAR, Special Partnor.
Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 1862. fo3 m-7t
TVfOTICE. —TBE PARTNERSHIP of
Xi LINCOLN, WOOD, ft NICHOLS is this day dis
solved by mutual consent. Tho business of the late firm
will be settled by THOMAS H. WOOD, of tho firm of
WOOD ft CARY, who will curry on tho business at the
same place, No. 725 CHESTNUT Street.
* H. E. LINCOLN,
THOS. H. WOOD,
R. E. NICHOLS.
Philadelphia, Fob. 26,15D2. f027-8t
PORT RICHMOND IRON WORKS.
—COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. —JOHN H.
TOWN®, formerly of the firm of Merrick ft Towne,
has become a member of the firm of I. P. MORRIS ft
CO , to take effect from and after the Ist of January,
1862. Isaac P. Morris withdraws from active participa
tion iu the conduce of the business,
ThA tltif of the new firm Is I. P- MORRI9, TOWNS,
A 00. ISAAC P. MORRIS,
LEWIS TAWS,
JOHN J. THOMPSON,
fell JOHN H. TOWNE.
mHE UNDERSIGNED have formed
JL a Copartnership, under'tho firm of J ACKETOHE
ft LAYEKGNE, for the transaction of a general Com
mission aud Importing business, at 202 and 204 South
FRONT Street. P. JAUKETCH*,
teB-lni F. LAVEBGNE.
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.—IS
v/ RAEL MORRIS this day retires from our firm.
His eons, THEODORE H. MORRIS and FREDERICK
W. MORRIS, are admitted as partners; and the bad
ness will be continued as heretofore.
MORRIS, WHEELER, ft CO.,
Iron Merchants,
1608 MARKET Street
Philadelphia, Dec. SI, 1881. jal-tf
FROrOSAIiS.
IVTOT ICE.—PROPOSALS FOR
JLI FURNISHING U. S. NOTES AND BONDS.
Treasury Department, Feb. 26,1562.
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received.at.the office
of the Secretary of the Treasury until WEDNESDAY,
the sth day of March next, for furnishing ninety millions
of United States Notes and two hundred millions in
Bonds, to bo issued under the authority of the act of
February, 1802, entitled '** An not to authorize the ißsne
of United States Treasury Notes, and for the redemption
or refunding thereof,’* &c.
Notes and Bonds will be required of the denomina
tions and in the proportions as follows:
Thirteen millions each of United States Notes of the
denominations of ss, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100 s, aud 500 s, and
twelve millions of the denomination of 1,000.
OF REGISTERED BQNP& ’ '
Fly© million of the denomination of. $5O
Fifteen do do do 100
Fifteen do do do 500
Forty do do do 1,000
Fifteen do do do 5,000
Ten do do do 10,000
OF COUPON BONDS.
Eighty millions of tho denomination 0f.*1,000
Twenty millions of the denomination of 500
Proposals will be received for tbe delivery of all of one
or more denominations of notes and bonds, complete, in
cluding tbe engraving, printing, numbering, and paper,
or separately for the engraving, for printing, and for
paper. The engraving must be iu tbe highest style of
mt, and the paper of the best quality.
Proposals must Btate the number of sheets and the ag
gregate representative value of each denomination which
they undertake to furnish daily, and the least number of
days required from notice of award before commence
ment of delivery.
Models of notes and bonds must be submitted, and
specimens of-work accompany them. *
Models of notes on the facs will be in the same form
as now used, and on tho backs will state the privilege of
legal tender, and other privileges stipulated in the law.
Models of bonds will, in addition to the usual stipula
tions, have tho statement that they are reimbursable
after five and payable twenty years from date.
It is expected also that, as far as practicable, the dies
and plates will be Bnch as have not been heretofore used
except for work of the United States.
Xach proposal must he accompanied by a statement of
the bidders’ lacllitiGS for executing the work, the num
ber of presses in use, hands employed, security of build
ings occupied, and capital invested
Proposals by incorporated companies must be accom
panied by a copy of charter and the names of the officers;
aud proposals by unincorporated associations by tlie
articles of association and names of parties.
Bolide for the faithful and prompt execution of the
work as proposed or finally agreed on, in the sum of fifty
thousand dollars, will be required; the names of the
parties offered as sureties and their written coasent to
become such, together with a certificate of an Assistant
Treasurer as to their sufficiency, must accompany each
proposal.
The Secretary of the Treasury ressrvos the right to
reject any or all the bids, and to vary the amounts spe
cified, as in hie opinion the iotererta of the puolic service
may require. f»2B-5t
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited
till the 10th day of March, 1362, at 12 o'clock M>,
for supplying the TJ t S; Sub. Dep’t with 8.000 head af
BEEF CATTLE on the h.x>f.
The Cattle to be delivered at Washington City, and
each animal to average 1,300 pounds gross weight: no
animal admitted which weighs less than 1,000 pounds
gross.
The Cattle to he delivered at such times and in such
Humilities u tho Government may reauire. No Cattle will
b£ required under this contract before the Ist day of
Apxii, 1502.
Ueifers and Bullocks not wanted.
A bond with good and sufficient security will be re*
Huired.
Government reserves to itself the right to pay in Trea
sury notes.
No bid will bo entertained when put iu by contractors
who have previously failed to comply with their contracts,
or where the bidder is not present to respond to his bid.
Bids to be directed to Maj. A. BECKWITH, 0. S., U.
6. A., Washington, D. O.
Form or Bm.
I, A B, do hereby propose to deliver to the Govern
ment good Beef Cattle on the hoof for per hundred
peuxids gross weight. The Cattle to be delivered at ——*
according to the terms of the enclosed advertisement.
The Cattle to he weighed on the scales, and the weight so
determined to he the purchase weight I hereby agree
to give a good and sufficient bond forthefulfllmcnt of the
contract, and to receive Treasury notes in payment for
the Cattle. felB-tm9
Deputy quartermaster
GENERAL’S OFFICE.
Philadelphia) 27th February, 1562.
PROPOSALS,, will be received at this Oflice until
THURSDAY, at 32 hi., the 6th day of March, 1862, for
supplying the Quartermasters Department sixty (60)
TRAVELLING FORGES, with lU&chsMlthj And Shoe
ing Tools complete.
The Forges to be similar to those made by the United
States Ordnauco Department. They are required imme
diately. . • G. H. CROSSMA2T,
fe2S-6fc Deputy Quartermaster General.
Army clothing and equi
page OFFICE, N. E. eonier TWELFTH toi
GIBAED streets.
Philadelphia, Fobruary 27,1862,
WANTED TO PUfiCHASS INDIA RUBBER ARMY
BLANKET 9.
Proposals will be received until 12 M. MONDAY, 3d
March, at this Office, stating the number on hand, and
the price at which they can be delivered immediately,
G. IL GROSMAN,
Deputy Qmartermaster General.
Army clothing and equi
page OFFICE,
Philadelphia, February 28, 1862.
SEALED FBOPOSALS are invited until WEDNES
DAY, MflMli £ih, At 12 M, for furoiglijpg
s 60,000 TENTS D’aBBRE, FRENCH PATTERN,
A sample of which can be seen at this office, to be made
or linen or cotton, and delivered in New York and Phila
delphia. Also,
ARMY GAITERS OR LEGGINGS,
of good strong linen or cotton duck, a sample of which
canto at thiaoittce, Each bid is invited for 1,000 to
10,000 pairs of thege Leggings, and bidders are required
to state bow soon they can deliver them.
Bids must be endorsed
Proposals for Tents D’Arbrfe, or,
Proposals for Gaiters or Leggings.
The names of proper securities will be required in the
proposals. G. H. GROSMAN,
mbi Deputy Quartermaster General.
LEGAL.
TN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR
JL THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADEL
PHIA.
Estate of ANN HILT, deceased.
The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle,
and adjust the account of JOHN HILT, Administrator
of ANN HILT, deceased, and to make distribution of
the balance m the hands of the accountant, will meet the
parties interested, for the purposes of his appointment,
on FRIDAY, March 7,1862, at 4 o’clock p. M., at liis
office, No. 131 South FIFTH Street, (2d Door,) in the
city of Philadelphia., ' fe26-wfm 5t
rf THE ORPHANS 5 COURT FOR
THE CITT AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA.
Estate of ISAAC W. MOORE, deceased.
Tne Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle,
and adjust the account of GEORGE GILLINGHAM
and RICHARD S. MOORE, Administrators of the Es
tate of ISAAC W. MOORE, deceased, and to make dis
tribution of the balance, gives notice that hQ will
attend' to the duties of his appointment on MONDAY,
March 4, A.D. 1862, at 4 o’clock P.M., at his office,
southeast corner of SIXTH and WALN UT Streets, Phi
ladelphia. I[fe2lfrmw-st] D. W. O’BRIEN, Auditor.
EDUCATIONAL.
EIXCELSIOR NORMAL INSTI-
Hi TUTS, a first-class Country School for both
sexes, located at GABYERBYILLE, Bucks county, Pa.
The next session will commence March 31,1862, and con
tinue twenty-two weeks.
The Bohool is organized with three deportments—the
PREPARATORY, the NORMAL, and the ORNAMEN
TAL. Btudents of all ages, and every stage of advance
ment, are admitted on terms of equality.
The healthfulness of location and thoroughness of in
structup are unsurpassed.
Terms—For board and tuition in common English,
S 3 per week.
por catalogues and particulars, address
RfcT.F. R. 8. HUNBICKEE, Principal,
fo!3-lm* OARVKBSVILLE, Backs co., Pa.
Bordentown female col.
LEGE, Bordentown, N. J.
This institution is pleasantly located on the Delaware
river, ljtf hour’s ride from Philadelphia. Special Atten
tion is paid to the common and higher branches of Eng
lish, and superior advantages are furnished in vocal and
instrumental music. German and Trench are taught by
natives, and spoken in the family. For catalogues, con
taining full particulars, address
Bev. JOHN H. BBAKILEY, A. M.,
ja29-2m* President
QELF-ADJUSTING CLOTHES
O WRINGER.—This improvement will wring water
from any article of the most delicate texture to a bed
quilt better than by hand, without the least Injury, and
adjusts itself, bo that it is superior to all other wringers
anti modes of wringing. Purchasers can use them one
month and, if not satisfied, return them uud receive their
money. For sale by L. E. SNOW, at office of JOY,
COE, A CO., FIFTH and CHESTNUT Streets.
Ladies are particularly invited to call and see them.
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MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1862,
THE REBELLION.
Important Movements on the Upper
Potomac,
GEN. BANKS’ DIVISION ACROSS THE RIVER.
Our Forces in Possession of Harper’s
Ferry and Charlestown.
The Rejoicings of the People.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION UP THE TENNESSEE
RIVER.
OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE FEDERAL
COMMANDER.
GEN. HALLECK’S ORDER CONCERNING THE REBEL
PRISONERS.
JEFF DAVIS’ NEW CABINET.
A Sharp Debate in the Rebel
Congress.
ANOTHER OFFICIAL REPORT PROM GEN.
BURNSIDE.
&C. &cc.
ADVANCE OF GEN. BANKS’ DIVISION.
Occupation of Harper’s Ferry and Charles
town by Gen. Banks’ Division.
Harikr’s Ferry, Feb. 28, P. M.—l have fall
authority to inform yon that Gen. Banks occupied
Harper’s Ferry on Wednesday, unopposed, With
all the necessaries for a permanent occupation.
The advance took possession of Bolivar Heights,
and yesterday pushed reconnoissances to Charles
town, capturing a few prisoners.
Loudoun Heights are also occupied to prevent any
flank movement by the enemy. To-day Charlestown
was occupied by a strong force, and will be held
against any attack. The plans of the commanding
general are not known, but the movement is proba
bly to cover the reconstruction.of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad and bridges.
A train of cars passing the Berlin station was
fired at to-day by the rebel battery, but no harm
was dose.
The troops are in excellent condition, aud well
protected from the inclement weather. No acci
dent has occurred in transporting troops and sup
plies over tbe river.
The inhabitants are almost in a state of starva
tion, and profess Union sentiments. There has
been no opposition—not a shot being fired.
The pontoon bridge was a complete success, not
withstanding the severity of the weather.
Hundreds of refugees have returned to their
desolate homes, and those remaining arc overjoyed
at our presence.
Nothing reliable has been heard from Winchester,
but current reportssay that it has been considerably
reinforced. A small body of tbe enemy are sup
posed to lie south of Loudoun Heights, four or five
miles back from the river, but not in sufficient
strength to create any alarm.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Harper's Ferry aud Charlestown, Vir
ginia, in Possession of the Federal Troops
—Rejoicing of the People.
HAnpen’s Fenny, Vs,, Feb. 2f.— A pontoon
bridge arrived here by train from Baltimore, yes
terday morning, in charge of Captain Duane and a
corps of engineers, who had it thrown across the
river at half past three o’clock, ready for service.
General Banks was about the first to cross, fol
lowed by Hamilton’s brigade, the Third Wisconsin
being on the right of the advance.
Colonel Geary’s command had been in possession
of Harper’s Ferry for several days, having crossed
over by a rope ferry on Monday. Knapp’s Bat
tery succeeded Hamilton’s command, and General
Gorman’s brigade and squadron of Miohigan caval
ry, under Major Atwood and Captain Fisher, fol
lowed, and reached the “sacred soil ” at dusk.
The inhabitant* of Harper’s Ferry, Camp town,
and Bolivar, received our troops with orerj de
mongtratfon of rejoicing and joy. “Yankee Doo
dle ” and “ Dixie ’* were performed by the regi
mental bands respectively as they reached the
land.
Col. Geary, who was in Harper's Ferry, learning
during the forenoon that Secession scouts were on
Loudoun Heights, and within rifle shot of the bridge,
crossed the Shenandoah with tour companies, who
ascended the mountain on three sides, and routed
two companies of their cavalry, who were evidently
observing our operations. The Colonel held the
mountain until our position on the Virginia side
was safefrom attack.
Capt. Hampton's battery also passed over the
bridge and took position on Bolivar Heights last
night. This batter; is now attaohed to Gen, Hamil
ton's brigade, which also occupied the same position
in advance of other commands.
The signal oorps, a division which was stationed
in Bolivar during the transit of the army, rendered
important service.
The river was quite high, and consequently a
strong current was running, but not the least ap
prehension was felt for the safety of man or beast,
and no acoident occurred.
Intelligence from Poolesville states that on Tues
day night the rebel batteries opposite Edward’s
Ferry opened on the canal storehouses there, and
also directed several shots at the locks of the canal,
with the evident intention of destroying them and
draining the canal above. It is also sUed that
they have strengthened their earthworks in front
of Leesburg to a formidable extent.
A high wind prevails to-day, which will test the
permanency of the bridge. At the hour of writing,
11 A. M., no accident has transpired.
A few rebel scouts, from Charlestown, hare been
observed beyond Bolivar Heights, reconnoitring,
but no large holies hive been seen.
Hundreds ofrefugees are thronging Sandy Hook,
anxious to return to their inserted homes.
Eater from Harper’s Ferry.
Harper’s Frrrt, February 23. —Yesterday j
morning th. First squadron of Michigan
Major Atwood, approached near Charlestown. !
They discovered no large body of rebels there,
but captured three cavalrymen and three fine
horses.
It ys rumored here that Winchester has been
largely reinforced by troops from Manassas.
Asa train was passing Berlin this morning, a rebel
battery opposite threw twelve shells at it. Ten
fell short and two passed over.
The pontoon bridge withstood the gale of last'
night without moving. Wagons with forage,
provisions, and camp equipage are crossing this
mornmg
Official Report of an Expedition np the
Tennessee River to Eastport, Miss.
Washington, March I.—Despatches were re
ceived at the Navy Department, to-day, from Com
modore Foote, enclosing -a report from Lieutenant
Gwin, in whioh he says be returned to Cairo on the
23d, after having gone up the Tennessee river, in
the gunboat Taylor, as high as Eastport, Mississippi.
He iB happy to state that he has met with an in
creased Union sentiment in South Tennessee and
North Alabama. He saw a few Mississippians in
Laidin, McMary, Wayne, and Deoatnr, and a por
tion of Hardiman, all of which border upon the
river. The Union sentiment is strong, and those
who do not express themselves openly loyal are
only prevented by their fears of the military ty
ranny and coercion which is practised by maraud
ing bands of guerilla companies of cavalry.
Learning that a large quantity of wheat and
flour was stored in Clifton, Tenn., intended, of
eourse, to be shipped to the South, (a large portion
of it having been bought for a firm in Memphis,)
on his way down he landed there and tooAn board
a thousand sacks and one hundred barrels of flour
and some six thousand bushels of wheat. He also
considered it his duty to take possession of the
above in order to prevent its being seized by the
rebels, or disposed of in the rebel country.
The glorious successes of our armies, at Forts
Henry and Donelson, he says, have been most bene
ficial to the Union canse throughout South and
West Tennessee and Alabama. The Union men
can now begin to express their loyal sentiments
without fear of being mobbed, especially along the
banks of the river.
He brought down, under arrest, a man named
WilliimP. Poole, who has been active iu oppress
ing the Union men in his vicinity. He has warned
the inhabitants of the different towns along the
banks of the river that he would bold Secessionists
and their property responsible for any outrages com
mitted on the, Unionists in their communities, and
had enlisted seventeen men, and brought down a
ptylion of tho refugees.
The Reconnoissance to Wmton, N. C. —
Official Account.
Washington, March I.—A despatch from Com
modore Goldshorough to Secretary dated
“ United States steamer Philadelphia, off Roanoke
Island, February 23d,” says: The reconnoitring
party sent up the Chowan river has returned. It
did not go up beyond Wintou. There the enemy
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY. MARCH 3. 1862.
in considerable foroe opened a heavy fire upon the
vessel in advance (the Delaware), with a battery
of artillery and musketry, whioh induced our foroe
to attack it in return, both by landing the Ninth
New York Zouaves aud with the guns of the vessels
that could be brought to bear. The enemy soon
took to flight, and tho bouses he occupied as quar
ters were burned- Not a man on our side, of either
arm, was injured.
Colonel Corcoran on hig way to Rich-
Washinoton, March I.—Tbe War Department
has receivedthigbly satisfactory reports from Gone
ral Wool at Fortress Monroe in regard to the mili
tary condition of that important fortress, and its
state of preparation for any military operations
which circumstances may require.
During the last week interviews were held be
tween Uenorai Wool, on the part of the United
States, and Howell Cobb of the rebel army, re
specting the exchange of prisoners of war. It is ex.
pected that an arrangement wilt be made which
will speedily release all the United States prisoners
and regulate the exchanges in future.
The laßt accounts from Colonel Corcoran, received
by the War 'Department, represented him to be
on bis way from Columbia, South Carolina, to
Richmond, to be exchanged.
Provision has been made in the Western ghges
for the safe keeping and support of the prises*ra
taken at Fort Dohelson and elsewhere in the West-
The duty of providing for our prisoners coming
from the South when they reach Washington has
been assigned to Quartermaster General Meigs.
By means of Bteamers, which were passed uhove
the broken lock on Green river, at Bowling Green,
a means of transportation ha3been established for
our troops to their destination.
Tbe outposts of our forces are tea miles on the
Memphis Railroad,
News from Nashville of yesterday has been re
ceived. The enemy is rotifoating toward the Ten
nessee ri.YSf, It is stated that tbe rebels
evacuated Columbus, and concentrated their forces
at Chattanooga,
A great ohange has already occurred iu the poli
tical feeling of the people of Tennessee. The War
Department hss authorized the raising and arming
of volunteer troops in that State, and the indica
tions are that a large force of loyal Tennesseans
will soon be under arms to aid the UiutodlStateg
forces.
The policy of the Government is energetically
directed toward supporting the loyal feeling in all
the Southwestern States, and placing them in the
attitude of resistance to rebel authority.
Abundant evidence is afforded that a truly loyal
feeling exists, whioh, although for some time over
powered and silenced, is now ready to avail itself
of the presence of the United States forces for its
manifestation in meeting the enemy in battle.
General McClellan has returned to Washington.
The Judiciary Committee of bftth Houses have
agreed on a general confiscation bill, which will be
reported shortly.
Statistics, just made public, show that the health
of the troops on the Potomac is rapidly improving.
This result is due to the recent clear, cold weather.
All of the extra ten millions of demand treasury
notes were paid out to-day.
The Committee of Ways and Means of the Hvuse
are finally revising tbe tax bill to-day.
There is nothing in the official telegrams last re
ceived to show that the rebels are evacuating Co
lumbus, nor has any information been received
from General Buell, sinee tbe announcement of the
taking of Nashville, when ho was within four miles
of that city.
The newspaper reports of thß rebels being sur
rounded at Murfreesboro’ havo not yet been con
firmed.
All is quiet acroßS tbe Potomac, opposite Wash
ington. No news of public interest from that section
of tho army has been reoeived to-day.
From Fortress Monroe.
l'oirrr.Kss Monroe, February 28.—There is no
thing"of tho slightest interest transpiring here to
day.
The steamer Express, Captain A. L. Colmary,
left Old Point at 10 o’clock this morning to go up
tbe James river to receive another boat-load of re
leased,..prisoners, who were, by previous appoint
ment, to have been sent down from Richmond. The
Express waited at the usual rendezvous until i
o’oloek, when the Rancocas brought an order from
General Wool for her to return.
The Rancocas had previously gone over to Cra
ney Island aud reoeived a despatch from General
Huger announcing that the prisoners would not be
sent until Saturday.
Gen. Halleck taking Measures for the
Better Protection of. Prisoners of War.
St. Louis, March I.—Gen. Halleck, in a general
order, issued'this morning, in regard to prisoners of
war, directs that where any considerable number of
prisoners are captured, the officers shall be sepa
rated, as soon as possible, from the privates. A
complete list shall be made out as soon as possible,
stating the name, rank, and regiment, of each per
son. One copy of this list shall be sent to head,
quarters, and another furnished to the offioers in
charge of them.
As a general rule, offioers will not be given pa
roles until they reaoh the depot, and then only by
the general commanding the department. Medical
officers will not be separated from tho privates, but
will be required to attend to their own sick and
wounded. For this purpose they will bo given spe
cial paroles, allowing them every facility.
In the case of the sick or wounded, no distinction
Will bo made between friend or foe. Presents
from the friends of the sick and wounded will he
distributed to all alike. Prisoners will be rationed
the same as our own troops. The commanding offi
cers of departments will receive articles of clothing,
and comforts which may be sent to prisoners by
their friends.
He will permit them to receive fromj’and trans
mit to their friends open letters, which must be in
spected by a proper officer. The money sent by
should not be delivered to prisoners, except
in small sums, and an account shenld be kept of
such funds, to be disbursed upon orders from the
prisoners to whom they belong. When a prisoner
is exchanged or released, he paid the balance
due him.
Chaplains will be allowed free intercourse with
the prisoners to give them religions instructions.
Their friends will be permitted to visit them only
when the commanding officer may deem it safe and
proper, and then under snob regulations as he may
adopt.
THE BURNSIDE EXPEDITION.
U. S. Steamer Delaware, Roanoke Island, )
February 22,1862. j
ELIZABETH CITY—CONTRABANDS—SENTIMENT OF
THE TEOFLE—VANDALISM' OF THE REBELS—-
EDEHTOa—HOBTH RIVER—EXPEDITION TO WIX
TOX—DASTARDLY ATTACK—BURNING OF THE
TOWN—RETURN TO ROANOKE, ETC., ETC.
[Correspondence of The Press.)
We rested a day or twe from our labors after the
taking of Cobb’s Point and Elizabeth pity, The
weather was unpleasant for some hours after our
letting go anchor; the wind northeast, bleak and
Taw: but shifting to the westward, the cloudß
floated away, the sun came peeping out, and the
city looked quite pretty beneath the fanciful rays.,
which beamed down through the shady trees whioh'
line the place. There was but the one drawback
to our satisfaction as we gazed upon it—the entire
absence of all business, and the utter desolation
with which we were greeted after the scattering of
the rebel farces. Negroes would come to the
wharves in squads ef three and four, gaze at us r ,
have a little chat among themselves, walk leisurely
away and disappear up the long avenues. This
was all the Bign of life that could be observed, with
the exception, perhaps, of a stray cow or pig that'
were reaming the meadows, not heeding the silence
around them, nor yet the strange crafts that were
riding to tbeir anchors in tht waters of the Pasquo
tank.
For a day or two this lasted; then, one by one,
two by two, and so on, until as high as one dozen in
a single boat, both whites and blaoks, would oome
off to us; whites complaining of the depredations
of the rebels upon their property; blacks, aontra
bands, of the ill treatment of their masters, and to
give us such information as they thought would
benefit us. Others, again, would tell us of the
Union feeling in such a county, and such a plMfl,
but some of it, I am sorry to say, was far from be
ing correct, as the cowardly attaok made on ns at
the town of Winton will amply testify. . But of
the vandalism of Jeff Davis’s minions, there is not
a doubt; as they set fire to Elizabeth oily in vari
ous parts, and plundering the citizens upon whom
they were quartered and abasing generous hospi
tality, they leaped upon their horses, whioh were
also stolen, and roamed the oountry round, at their
will, clear of the range of our guns, and at liberty
to trespass as, and where they pleased.
On the evening of Tuesday the 11th, the haul
si a mi, Underwriter, Varney, and Whitehead
weighed anchor, and left for Edenton. Edenton is
situated near the mouth of Roanoke river, at the
head of Albemarle Sound, and, lying in a bay or
cove surrounded by TOWS of the tall poplar and the
stately cedar, presents a most pleasing, picturesque,
and handsome appearance. The little expedition'
arrived at its destination early on the morning of
the 12th, and at once commenced its work. Guns
were destroyed at a point below the town, and two
schooners with assorted cargoes were mside prizes
of; the fleet then anchored off Edenton, and Cap
tains Murray and Jeffries visited the shore, and
assured the inhabitants their rights and property
would be respected. "Where anything "Secesh ”
however, woe difcovered, it was destroyed. A
strong Union feeling developed itself on the return
of the flotilla; women, old and young, came to the
beach, and waiting opportunities, would w|TC their
handkerchiefs energetically to the gnllant tars, who
were leaning over the bulwarks, and casting many
a wistful glance at tbe petticoat fraternity. Getting
under weigh at 3 P. M., having their prizes iu tow,
the boats steamed slowly out of the Sound, leaving
tho vale of Edcnton, with the sotting of the sun,
afar on their port quarter. They arrived at Eliza
beth City at 11P. M., their signal lights down, the
Pasquotank, as they approached, heralding to ns
their suocesß.
The tJnderwriter, Louisiana, and Seymour,
early next morning, ran down the Pasquotank
rirer, into the Croatan sound, and thenoe up North
river to a canal—the Pawtucket —and burned a
rebel schooner, which was running through to Nor
folk, laden with freight. Taking the captain and
Crew of her prisoners, they returned back to the
mouth of the river and anchored, joining us who
had subsequently followed them down the Pasquo
tank. We ourselves, the following day, made an
exploration up North river, without discovering
anything to interest, and, returning, proceeded to
Elizabeth City. We lay there a day or two, weighed
anchor, and ran to Boanoke Island, received our or
ders, and on Monday, the 17th, left for Elizabeth
City; signalled the squadron lying there to follow us
immediately, and, running down the Pasquotank, we
entered Albemarle sound, and shaped our oourae
toward Chowan river. We anchored near the head
of the sound on the night of Tuesday, the 18th, and
early next morning woigbed, and steadily proceeded
on our mission. We came to for a little whilo at
the month of Boanoke river, and sent one of our
boats to the town of Plymouth. She returning, we
again hove up anchor, and, emerging into the
Chowan, gallantly and briskly plied our way toward
the town of Winton. Winton is situated on tho
Chowan river, forty- seven miles from tho mouth- A
ferry-house on the beach, and a houiq fyr two on
tha bank, is or was the only of jtg prox
imity, as the town itself W* a half milo from
tho rivef, It waa on the roooipt of nrl-ate Intelli
gence, frofil parties residing there, of the Union
feeling existing, and hut awaiting the approach pf
our trtjopß to develop itsoif, that the expedition
was planned and sent up, But our reception was
anything but agreeable, as you will learn as you
peruse this letter. Our party consisted of the gun
boats Delaware, Louisiana, Whitehead, Loch
wood, Barney, Morse, Umicltbach, and Perry.
Tho.three latter had on board Hawkins’ Zouaves,
numbering over one thousand men, and a pleasant
time -nntioipatcd by everybody connected
with the little fleet, and there was considerable
grumbling on the part of those who were not suf
fered to go, as they, like us, expected we would
have a handsome greeting and pleasing reception.
We ran uj> the Chowan quite smartly; plenty of
water under us, and having no fears of the enemy,
we were olose to the ferry-house on tho benoh 4.20
P. M., on'the evening of the 20th. The crew had
been piped to supper some few,momsnts before,
and several of us were standing on the forecastle
ready to let go anchor and come to for the night.
The Perry was about one mile astern of us—the
Delaware— and tho balance of the fleet at least
SeVCh of Sight miles mere, when a most villainous
attack was made upon us. We were within fifty
yards of the shore and the house on the beach,
when a large .number of men were discovered
sheltered in tho. rear of trees, and armed with
muskets preparing to fir*. Ere we could stop
the engine or back her they lot us have it, and
bullets flew down on. us like hailstones. Captain
Bowan, who was on the hurricane deck, ordered
the steamer ahead so as to pass them, and allow us
an opportunity to work our guns and do execution,
as the high bank, and our short distanoe from it,
prevented us from having satisfaction. When tho
firing ! from the enemy commenced, as I have
said, the men were at supper, but they quickly
rushed up the hatchways, and threw themselves
flat on the deck, nntil the rebel's fire diminished,
when they jumped to the guns and, taking a posi
tion with our vessel, we loadad with shell and
shrapnel, and their roar, as they thundered on
their vengeful errand, made, all hands grin with
delight. The Perry , below us, also opened fire,
and it needed but a few shell and shrapnel to make
the scamps dear. We ceased firing at £.20 P. M.,
and passed back by the embankment, and ordering
the Perry to follow, kept on down the river some
seven miles below the town, and anchored in com
.pubywith tho balance of the squadron, who there
joined us. Two hundred and Jive bullet holes
were fouiid in various parts of our craft, yet no
one was hurt. Several had their clothes ripped by
the affectionate proximity of the leaden messengers
as they sped on their way.
Our plans were laid during the night, whilst at
anchor, and in the morning at 8.30 we weighed,
and all of ns steamed steadily up the rirer. Wo
opened fire on the houses on the bank, when within
range, bat none was returned, and we landed the
Zouaves with a eouple of field-pieces, and they
maTOhed to the town and burned it without encoun
tering any opposition. But few people were about
the place, all haring left, some so quiokly that the
breakfast-tables were still standing. Zouaves are
always hungry; and of course they partook where
guoh cases occurred, and enjoyed with & zest that
which had been lain for those unworthy. The fire
hundred Union people we were to see did not show
themselves, and there is no doubt tho attack was
long intended and known to all, and every one will
agree the firing of the town was a necessary and a
deserved punishment. The Zonaves were re-em
barked, and we returned down the rirer, anchoring
nt the month at dark, and on the following morning
proceeded to Boanoke Island, where we are still
lying, awaiting reinforcements, ordnance stores,
Ac,, ore wo can proceed on our next <f pleasant
tour.” However, a day or so will start us, and
whether it will be Newborn, or Suffolk, I am una
ble to say.
I send you a specimen of North Carolina chiro
grapliy and orthography, and you will not fait to
perceive a Yankee schoolmaster is needed some
where
Hampton.
Manassas Junction Ya Fobuary the 11
Dbax brother I sent my seif to write you a fuw lines
in anewear to your kiede letter wbich come to hand last
night it found n.e in Terry good heith, and 1 hope wbttl
Ui&sd few lmae reaches you they may find yon and the
rest of the familey injoymg gooo heltli yon stated in
your letter that you heard that I had bin very sick—me
and Mark white. I have nogttn sick since you loft, but
Marcus A white was and was sent to rich
mond and be died their, but I ha? bin in better hetth
since you left than ever I was in my life Mark times is
about the same they was when you loft we are gktiog
Afrpg Yttry well Aa well as cold be expected but 1 would
likto come home anti see all the folks but I dont no
when ever I skal be able to come if I could come home
and see all the girls one time more It would revive me up
I hav not got nothing to rite at all we have not got
much nuso in camp, only we heard last night that the
y antes had taken toanoake Hand Mark give my love
and best respects to all of my inquiring friends and tel
them to rite me, for I would bo glad to hear from them ell
Mark tel mother not to sell henry, for I hope that I will
come home by the time that he gits large enuf to rid, for
you no that I sed I was a going to mak him out run
yourn at four yeres old rite me if Joseph £ Perry has
left home yet Isaac W Miller sends hig love to you and
ses he would Ilk to see you nothing more at presant
.plies excuse my bad spelling Mark We have snow here
now It anode last night we go on picket to murrow and
stays four days we shal go to the same place that we
went to the last time that you went with us lam in
hope that I Bhal git the chance of ' going out to the ad
vance post again, their wheare the minks kild them
chickens at I would try and keep the minks away from
tho hen coop Isaac w miller told me say to yon that he
was shaking bread like the verry old devd to carry on
picket with us now I recon that I hav Bed a nuf about
the matter and so I will come to a close write me soon
Your afectionate brother until deth
Patou A Perry
To Mr Marcus W Perry
How Secretary Stanton’s Order was £*e-
cuted at Chicago.
The Chicago Tribune , of Thursday, contains a
long and humorous account of how Secretary Stan
ton’s order-in relation to military’ intelligence was
executed in that city:
Our paper) says the editor of the Tribune , hM
just gone to press, the feeders and folders and mail*
ing boys were busy. The newsboys were beginning
to dig themselves out of the stray corners, up al
leys, and out-of-the-way places, and make their
toilets for the day by a strong shake of their gar
ments. Just at this hour enter a file of policemen—
(< we stop the press.” The big cylinder felt a thrill
through all its iron nerves, and stopped. It was
not alone in so tiling. Every press in the city
stood still. The Tribune building was invest
ed, and egress barred. Our neighbors shared
the same rote. Instructions hastily issaed by
their chief left a liberal margin to the fancy and
discretion of those who executed it. In some in
stances one fair copy of the paper alone was taken.
In the offiae of the'Fast a policeman, in the exube
rance of hie zeal, pounced upon the entire edition,
seized a mail bag and crammed the whole down its
maw, and, as he gave it a final oompress with his
boot, cast his eyes on a small and dingy pressman,
as If debating whether it was not in his line of duty
to add him to the contents of the bag, and take him
along as a sample. With great forbearance he
closed the saok, shouldered it, and bore it away to
the police station, whither specimens of all the
forthcoming morning issues were gathered.
In some casosthe editors themselves were bagged,
as well as their papers. The “ ukase” was putlnto
the bands of some German polioemen, who did not
understand English very well, and ahooking work
they made of it. Night editors and reporters had
gone home two houre before, but a selection was
made of some one to represent each paper, and thus
the process went remoiseleesly on, until (he potioo
offioe at tho court-house bad its full complement.
The editor of the Chicago Post, we are told
ously remonstrated, but in run. The policeman
took him by the collar, and the wretched man was
speedily added to the group at the police office.
From Louisville, Ky.
Extreat from a letter dated Louisville, February
25,1862:
“lam off for Nashville in the morning on the
Jacob Strader to pay my regiments (eight). Their
pay qrjU amount to about #250,000. We shall bo
accompanied~by a large fleet aid many thousand
soldiers. The levee ie lined with boats and the
streets filled with regiments. The Mill Spring
boys are here, and were presented with beautiful
flags by the ladies of Louisville. The soldiers are
all delighted at the idea of making a strike at
geceeh. I think the fightihg is pretty well over.”
The lowa Legislature has adopted reso
lutions recommending Adjutant General Nathaniel
B. Baker for appointment as brigadier general of
the United States.
NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES.
Jeff Davis* New Cabinet.
A Richmond paper gays the following will, in all
probability, constitute the Cabinet of President
Davis:
J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Secretary of State.
General Lee, Secretary of Wat.
_ Brigadier General GwrgC Randolph, Of Virginia,
Secretary of the Navy.
C. G. Memminger, of South Carolina, Secretary
of the Treasury.
Mr. Henry, M. C., of Kentucky, Postmaster Ge
neral.
. Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, Attorney Ge
neral.
Gasconade in tlie confederate Congress.
Richmond, Feb. 27.—The Senate to-day con
firmed B. Hill and J. J. Pettigrew, both of North
Carolina, as brigadier generals.
A resolution was unanimously passed to enter
tain no pence propositions excluding any portion
of the soil of any of the Confederate States, and
declaring that the war bo continued until the
enemy he expelled entirely from the Confederacy.
In the House, Mr. Miles, chairman of tho Mili
tary Committee, reported a bill creating the office
of Commanding General of the Confederate army
during the war.
Indications are strong that thi3 bill will pass.
Pending its adoption, the House went inte secret
session.
Stirring News ften Ccntreville.
A private letter received from Centreville last
night stated that the Confederate forces had re
ceived orders to send their sick to the rear, and
put themselves in marching order.
By passengers who arrived on last night’s train
the above report is oonfirmed, and they also state
lb 9 women and children were ordered to
leave yesterday morning.
We understand from the same source that the
Yankees have succeeded in cutting another road
through the woods te Fairfax,— ljtjnch.Virginian.
A New Orleans Editor on the FortDonel
son Victory.
The Heir Orleans Bee of a late dato has the fol
lowing :
,dlel “ k *»
underrate the calamity of Fort Donelson. Wo shall
certainly not do ao. We feel in all its severity a
disaster which opens the Cumberland river to the
invading host, delivers the city of Nashville into
their hands, and compels the Confederates to con
struct a new line of defence ferfcher South. We
have no word of censure for the noble Tennesseans
and others who fought at Fort Donelson with heroic
constancy and valor, repeatedly driving back the
enemy, and only withdrawing when their compara
tively feeble numbers wero threatened with anni
hilation by a force ot 70,000 men. For them let US
exhibit unqualified admiration, and speak in terms
of unstinted eulogium. They did all that men
could do, and only yielded under the full convic
tion that they wore powerless to do more.
We do not feel called upon particularly to criti
cise and condemn the conduct of the Confederate
authorities. We are all aware that shameful ne
glect and apathy have contributed in a great
measure to tho serious reverses our troops have
sustained. It is undeniable that for months the
President and bis Cabinet wore entirely aware of
the gigantic preparations of the Federalists for a
raid in the Southwest. No attempt at concealment
was made, but, on the contrary, the papers of Lou
isville, St. Louis, and Chicago, were perpetually de
tailing. with the utmost candor, the constantly
increasing numbers of the Federal army in
Kentucky, its several divisions, its plan of cam
paign, the strength of the gunboats, the ob
ject they were designed to effect, and
the like. With all this information before
it, the precautions taken by our Government were
fpsuffitfent, and tho measures adopted for with
standing the menaced attack were inadequate. To
have felt a confident hope of successfully thwarting
the Federal plans, we should have - had at least
fifty thousand more troops in Kentucky and Ten
nessee. Cut what avail censure and reproach
now? Want of foresight and of energy hag
wrought mudh evil, but, ineUad of an unprofitable
and foolish waste of time in fruitless lamentation,
our duty and that of the Government is clearly
to pursue such a policy as may enable U 9 to retrieve
§ast errors, and to rescue the South from the
angers which environ us.
What, then, should we de ? What does the crisis
call for? It seems to us certain that the time has
now arrived when a general call te arms has be
come an inevitable necessity. We have no holiday
task before us. It is no ordinary military display
that will suffice to drive the invader from our soil.
We have all sworn to vindicate, at the hazard of
life, the cause of Southern independence. That
cause is now in peril, and it must be sustained sy
all who ptofeK its promised blessings to a life of
misery and vas&alage. We must not seek to dis
guise the strength or courage of the enemy. Both
are indubitable, and they are only to be overcome
by equal numbers and a more devoted courage.'’
- The Southern Reverses.
A writer in the Richmond Examiner, refer
ring to the defeat of the rebels at Fort Henry and
Roanoke Island, says:
It is high time that these surrenders should cease
—for, considering the character of the war in its
consequences to us, they have been truly amazing,
commencing with that of the cavairy at Alexandria
do.wn through that of Colonel Pegram, at Rich
Mountain, that of Commodore Barron, at Hatteras,
& c., to the present lamentable instances.
At Fort Henry, a brigadier general unwounded,
having a garrison almost Intact, lowers his flag over
a iIOZOS guns of the largest calibre, and with a
hackneyed compliment yields up his bloodless
sword. How withering and humiliating to our
Southern manhood was tha sorrowful reply of the
Yankee commodore! That the general should
have neglected to make preparation for preventing
the enemy from assending the river and horning
tho railroad bridge may he passed over, beoaose no
commission oan make a man a commander unless it
be given by Nature; but, if the statement as to his
surrendering be true, is he to be retained upon the
rolls of the Southern army as an officer ?
The Roanoke affair is perfectly incomprehensible.
The newspapers are filled with extravagant landa.
tons of our valor—the annals of Greece and Rome
offer no parallel—whole regiments were defeated
by companies, and we yielded only to death! Our
men finally surrendered “with no blood on their
bayonets,” and what is the loss ? Riohmond Blues,
two killed and five wonnded j McCulloch Rangers,
one. killed and two wounded j the other four com
panies lost in all two killed and eleven wounded.
Comment is needless. The whole army had better
surrender at once, for it will eventually come to it.
Floyd After the Battle.
Hero is a hit about Floyd, from to, Lynchburg
(Ya.)Zf ejmbiican'.
“ This brave and gallant man, after his brilliant,
but unsuccessful, defence of Fort Donelson. re
treated with a portion of his brigade to Nashville.
Upon his arrival at that place he was enthusiasti
cally welcomed by the citizens, and, in response to
the cells of an immense crowd who visited him at
his quarters, spoke aa fallows: > This,’ said Gene
ral Floyd, ‘is not the time for speaking, but for
action. It was time for every man now who loved
his country to enlist in the army, and for the war.
Not a day ought to be lost.’ He spoke feelingly
of the fight at Fort Donelson, where only ten
thousand effective men fought for four days and
nights against a feres of forty thousand of the ene
my. But Nature could not hold out any longer;
men required rest, and after having lost over one
third of his gallant force he was compelled to re
tire, not, however, without leaving over one thou
sand dead of the enemy on the field. He spoke in
high terms of Gen. Sidney Johnston ( who he said
had net slept a Wink lii three nights, and also that
his plan was a wise one to entice the enemy to our
mountain fastnesses, away from the water courses,
and then to drive him back and carry the war into
his own country.”
Proceedings of the Rebel Congress,
In the Senate, at Richmond, on Monday, Mr.
Phelan, of Mississippi, presented the following:
Besolved, That the Committee on Military Af
fairs inquire into the expediency of taking possession
and control by the Government of all the oetton, to
bacco, and other produots within the limits of the
Confederate States, with a view to the destruction
of said products, or any portion thereof, whenever
the same may be threatened with oaptnre by the
enemies of the country; and that said committee
report as soon as possible, by bill or otherwise.
The resolution was referred to the Committee on
Military affairs.
Mr. Dortch, Of North Carolina, presented the re
solutions of the Legislature of Virginia calling for
an investigation of tho Roanoke lid and disaster.
Referred to the Committee on Military affairs.
Mr. Sparrow, of Louisiana, presented a resolution
that the Committee on Finanoe be instructed to in
quire into the expediency of suspending the col
lection of duties on foreign imports during the ex
istence of the war, or during the blockade, and to
report by bill or otherwise, which was adopted.
Mr. Sparrow, of Louisiana, presented the joint
resolution of the Legislators of Louisiana request
ing Congress to take some stops to suspend duties
on foreign importations during the war, which was
laid on the table and ordered to be printed.
In the House, Mr. Perkins, of Louisiana, offered
a bill for the admission, duty free, for a limited
time, of all imports, save from the United States.
Referred to the Committee of Ways and Meanß.
Also, a bill for allowing to members of the Cabi
net Beats upon the floor of Congress, in aooordanoe
with the provisions of article VI, section sixth, of
(he Constitution. Mr. Perkins asked its immediate
passage.
Mr. Foote, of Tennessee, favored the bill. He
thought it among the wisest provisions of the Con
stitution that the members of the Cabinet should be
allowed to defend their measures upon the floor of.
Congress. But he held, and should maintain, that
the bestowal and exeroise of the right implied that,
if the Cabinet should, after such discussion, be de
liberately voted doVn on a vital question, it would '
become the imperative duty of suoh Cabinet to re
sign and give plaee to others who should be in ac
cord with tho popular sentiment as tbhs Indicated.
A refusal thus to yield to publio opinion, deliberately
expressed, after careful consideration, would justi
fy a oivil revolution. He did not propose to amend
toe bill, but thought it right to say, tn supporting
it, he did so with toe intention of maintaining for it
the construction he had indicated.
Mr. Smith, of Virginia, inquired if Mr. Foote
considered toe resignation of toe President involved
in this forced resignation of toe Cabinet ?
Mr. Foote said no. The resignation of toe Eng
lish ministers does not involve toe abdieation of toe
British Queen.
Mr. Smith supposed tost no analogy oould be
drawn between a hereditary sovereign and an elect
ive President. He wished to know what became
of the President’s constitutional tight to appoint
and oontrol bis Cabinet officers?
Mr. Foote had no fear that* a President would
ever defy public sentiment hy retaining a Cabinet
after the popular condemnation of its polioy. If
he refused, ne deserved to he btMight to impeach
ment, and if needs be, to the bloat. On a vital
question of war and peace, if the public mind
should decide in opposition to the President’s
polioy, he would yield. If he failed, he would be
a usurper, and deserved punishment as suoh.
The subject was finally referred to toe Commit
tee on toe Judiciary.
Mr. Marshal, of Louisiana, offered a resolution
authorizing the President to destroy tojpcoo and
cotton when necessary, to prevent them from
falling into toe hands of the enemy. Referred to
the Committee on Military Affairs.
TWO CENTS.
Mr. Conrad, of Louisiana, offered an amendment
calling upon loyal citizens to eftbot this destruc
tion, with the promise of compensation by the Con
federate Government.
Mr. Boyce, of South Carolina, submitted a bill
authorizing the President to appoint a commander-in
chief of the army. Referred to Committee on Mi
litary Affairs.
Mr. GardeDhire, of Tennessee, introduced a me
morial, signed by cortain iadies of the State of Ten
nessee, praying the abandonment of the
flag of toe Confederacy, and the substitution of a
new one, to consist of a cross on a blue field, with
thirteen stars arranged in toe cross. Referred to
the Committee on Flag and Seal.
Mr. Smith, of Virginia, introduced a bill which
declares that, upon information given to a general
commanding in the field of any officer in tho army
beiDg under the influence of intoxioating liquor,
be shall appoint a court of inquiry, consisting of
throe officers, to inquire into thqquits, and if the
act of drunkenness be asoentoined, if. shall bo tho
duty of the President to. order, tjjat tho namo of
the officer so offending, shall, bo from the
roil of the army,
Messrs. Bonham, of South Carolina, and Wilcox,
of Texas, opposed; the bill, and Mr. Foote, of Ten
nessee, spoke, in its support. Referred to the
Committee Military Affairs.
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
ENGLAND.
Population, Rrvkxuk, Ac.— I Tim aggregate amount
of revenue derived from taxation in tho three years
ending Dec. 3, 1860, in the United Kingdom, was
£191,827,391. In 1858 it wan £51,591,424; in 1859,
£63,249,023; in 1860, £66,985,94-1 { in 2801 it was
£08,6Q3,8f?1. Proportionately to tho moan of popula
tion Rud revenue from taxation on April 0) 1001, Plug*
land would havo 485 representatives instead of 500, tu at
present; Scotland 74, instead of 53; and Ireland 99,
iiTbtead o! 105.
The National Expenditure, —An official account
shows ihat for the United Kingdom, for tho year ending
31st December, 1861, the excess ot exjuinditncp oyer
ir.com? TO *C3i?H,2<>7i
Thh Albert memorial fund at the Mansion House, Lon
don, hag reached £30,000.
It was mentioned yesterday, with reference to tho
America adviettfj tiiat “ the State of Pennsylvania was
to pay Its dividend* on the 2&t Just., and £500,000 would
then have to he remitted to Europe.” Of cbia remittance,
however, only about £100,060 is oxpected to consult &f
Pennsylvania dividends The remainder is likely to bo
from contractors and others who have received consign
ments of European goods and wha have been waiting
payment from the Government. To one importing house
alono the Government are stated to bo indebted £400,000.
—London Times, Feb, 13.
Coal Mine Aooiobnts. — A Parliamentary return
si&teß that in tho ten pears commencing with 1801,
605,154,940 tons of coal liavo been raised in Great Bri
tain, and the number of lives lost at the work has been
8,466—a life lost for every 71,480 tons of coal raised. The
5,060,000 tons which are b» ought to London every year
must therefore occasion, on an average, no less than 70
deaths, or about one every five days. In some imningdis
triefs the deaths are described as being far beyond this
average; in Sonth Wales, for instance, and in the South
btaflbrdshire and Worcestershire district, they have been
double the average.
Secret Societies, —The Young Mon’s (Roman Ca
tholic) Central Society of Ireland has issued a manifesto
against secret societies, and in explanation of the princi
ples of its own organization.
FRANCE
French finance has taken a new turn. The loan of
four millions sterling, which was to inflate the Imperial
credit, and to trim the market for the prosperous recep
tion of the great conversion scheme, iB suddenly stopped.
Its publicity took, aw&y blmosfc its only virtue, and the
French Government, which had arranged the loan so as
secretly to “ rig the market/’ was so- completely dumb
founded by its being generally known and discounted,
that it declined to complete the negotiations. This change
of M. Fould’s subsidiary plan will much increase the
difficulty of Ills already critical operations on the Bourse,
upon which we may be certain muck &f his financial
scheme depends.
France has now found a gold field. Advic©3 re
ceived In Paris s*ato that a productive gold field lias, been
discovered at Cayenne. The climate, however, is notone
to attract “ diggers/’ and it is also announced that capi
tal is required to work the n\\ne profitably.
The dispute between Switzerland and Francs relative
to tho Talley. desDappes affair has not yet terminated.
France instate that there was no violation of the Swiss
territory; the Federal Government insists that there was
a violation of its territory; but, being unable to alter the
conviction of M. Tkouvenel, seems inclined to discon
tinue the controversy. As, however, the French Govern
ment haß placed gendarmes in the valtey to prevent by
force any arrests, the Federal Government has protested
against this measure as a restriction of tbe sovereignty
of the Confederation.
An appeal from a judgment of tbe Tribunal of Pre
miere Instance lately came on for hearing before the Im
perial Court, at Paris, In which the parties interested
were Mr. Fhalen, a wealthy American, residing in Paris,
and M. Troyon, the proprietor of a house, in which the
former occupied a rnroblted apartment. Early last year
Mt Troyon inserted the following AdvftPHSißeht lu the
journals! To be Jet, a handsome apartment, furnished,
occupied by Mr. and Mre. Pbalon, at 43, Rue de I'Uni
versitc, at a rent of 30,000 f. a year.” Mr. Phalen did
not approve such publicity being given to his name, and,
after protesting in vain against the continued Insertion of
the advertisement, he sued M. Troyon for damages,
which were laid at 6,QW francs, On the other
baud, M, Troyoi \ who wanted to sell his house,
sued Mr. Phalen for franca damages, be
cause be had refused to allow intending purchasers to
see the apartment. In giving judgment on these cross
aclions, the tribunal decided that, as Mr. Phalen’s occu
pancy did not expire till the Ist of October, he was not
bound to admit persons to see the apartment until after
tbe Ist of July, WhPre&E the adVtftittmehfe were inserted
in February; that the introduction of Mr. Phalen’B name
was altogether unjustifiable; that Mr. Phalea had, by
these proceedings on the part of Troyon, been troubled in
tbe peaceful occupancy of his lodgings, and was entitled
to compensation; that Troyon’s complaint of a refusal to
show the apartmett was unfounded, as ha had no right to
send persons to see it gnsj| he had given due notice to the
occupant that tbe home was to be let. The tribunal
therefore decided thai Troyon must omit the name of his
tenant in all future advertisements, and condemned him
to pay 200 f., with all costa of suit. Against that judg
ment M. Troyon appealed, but the court confirmed the
former judgment.
According to the ultramontane journals, Mgr, Chigt,
the Papal Nuhfcio,ha« received 57,6d5 visiting cards since
bis arrival in Paris, and has informed Cardinal Anto
nelli of this formidable demonstration in favor of the
temporal power.
Tn s great legal question whether the French civil code
permits the marriage of priests remains for the present
undecided. The Court of Perigueux, after hearing ft
moat brilliant argument from M. Jules F&vre && be
half of M. BtOu de Lauriere, n priest, whom the
mayor refuses to marry, and after an expression of opi
nion by the judge advocate against the prießt, found it
self unable to pronounce a judgment, two judges being In
favor of the plaintiff and two against him. In conse
quence oi this division, the case will be argued again
ncxtmontti, with an additional judge on the bonch. In.
asmucli as whatever the coming decision may be, it will
undoubtedly be followed by an appeal, and a recourse to
the Coart of Cassation, a splendid field of (litigation is
opened. '
French Census. —The Moniieur publishes a table
containing the classification of the population of the
French empire by and position, according tothectn*
bub taken in 1861. Tho totul population of the 89 de
partments amounts, as already- stated, to 37,332,325, of
whom 18,642,604 are males, ard 18,739,721 females. There
are 10,210,856 bachelors, 7,503,024 married men, 928,724
widowers, 9,417,541 spinsters, 7,457,115 married women,
and 1,795,065 widows. The department of the Seine con
tains 556,654 bachelors, 411,163 married men, 3G,644 wi
dowers, 439,487 epfoßtorSi 410,527 married women, and
90,i80 widows, making a population ol 1,953,660.
The Annuaire des Posies gives the following particu
lars respecting the business of the post office during the
year 1861: From the Ist of Janaary to the 31st of De
cember the post office received 274,000,000 letters, ef
which 2,149,498 were returned ’ to the dead-letter office,
owing to the addresses being incorrect- Out of the
274,000,000, the number prepaid was 246,000,009 f tko
rest wire paid to* l>y lh* perdpn? Yfbo received thorn* and
both together brought in a sum of 56,600,000 f., including
the additional charge on 815,408 registered letters, con
taining a declared value of 521,800,670 f.
The ironworks in the neighborhood of Lyons are de
scribed as fully employed, the proprietors finding it diffi
cult to supply all the orders received.
PRUSSIA.
A letter from Berlin says: 11 The House of Lords
here will Immortalize themselves. At the instigation of
one Herr Von Frankcnberg-Ludwigsdorf, tha whole of
the members of the Upper House are going to sit in front
of the photographer's tripod, and descend down to their
unborn posterity by a ladder Of ounbeanis. (HoriOUf
idea! The lords else bad despaired of aught hut present
fame. Their portraits are to be put either in an album,
or set in a frame, and preserved for ail times among the
archives of the House. The studies of the future histo
rian of Prussia will now bo almost exclusively turned in
the direction of physiognomy; and we may, therefore,
expect the rise of new Lavaters."
ITALY.
Till Italian Government is stipulating for the right % of
taking an active part in the Mexican expedition, and
the Emperor of the French is disposed t? concur in
the proposal, A mort formidable obstacle to-the attain
ment of this object will, of coarse, be-found in thehosti
lity of Austria, who, if invited to take a pari in the af
fair, will resist all efforts to bring ber into contact with
die detested power of which she tuts refuged torecoguize
the existence.
Another competitor for the throne of Mexico has been
started by the Legitimist party. The new candidate is
the young Duhe Bobert of Parma, to whom, it is urged,
the Emperor Napoleon ought to give the crown, as com
pensation for the losb of bis own. In the eyes of these
Legitimists, even uncrowned princes are sacred things,
which must be tenderly cared for, and nations are only
collections of yulgur animate, intended to nurse And
! cherish them. We expect that Punch will now become
a candidate for the throne of Mexico.
It is announced that the Prince of Capua, (me of the
"Uncles of the late King of Naples, has accopted a seat in
the Italian Senate.
The Italian Parliament has ratified the project of Mr.
Palmer, of Newcastle, and M. Lafitte, of Paris, for es
tablishing a line of steamers from Ancona to Alexandria,
in opposition to the Austrian line from Trieste.
Tub Navy Department has received orders to prepare a
steam frigate for despatch to Mexico. The commander
has outers to place himself at the disposal of the allied
squadron, and to act under the direction of the French
admiral.
Tub cotton manufacturers of Genoa, who employ up
wards of 25,000 bandit have hold a meeting to consider
tbs means of alleviating the effects of the present crisis
in the cotton trade, which is so severely felt at Genoa
that several large manufacturers have already suspended
their works. A committee was appointed to report on
the matter.
The Jksvjts.—The number of Jesuits In the entire
world ksnounte to 7,251 i Italians, French, 343
Austrians, 542 Belgians, 206 Dutch, 136 GaUiclans, 563
Gennasß, 740 Spaniards or Portuguese, 265 Englishmen,
126 Irishmen, 240 North Americans, and 220 belonging to
the other States of the New World. The number of Je
suits present, at Borne last June, was 289. They have
three provinces in France, that of Parle containing 1,053
members, that of Lyons 626, and that of Toulouse 634,
In Italy the prevlmce of Boine numbers 462 members;
that of Turin 277 ; Veuetia contains 226, Naples 463, ana
Sicily 267. Many Italian Jesuits live at home on ac
count of the suppression of their colleges; a num
ber have been sent to Germany, Belgium, England, and
America. The most considerable foreign missions are
those of the Jesuits.
WiilH IK BtiXEt <fco.—Two American travellers, for
getful of tile Adage that at Romo one must (to as the Bo*
man* do, got into a row recently for not taking off their
hats when a procession issued from a church ou the
Piazza di Trevi, carrying the hOBt with the usual so
lemnity. As the two gentlemen alluded to rendered
themselves rather conspicuous by standing erect and
covered smidst the kneeling and bareheaded spectator*!
one of the priests remonstrated with them on the sub
ject ; but, finding that they would neither withdraw nor
uncover, he proceeded to knock their hats off : a
scuttle ensued, and the priest rejoined the procession,
winch, makings round, soon after returned to the same
spot. The Americans had resumed their hats and their
staudj but tbe priest, instead of condescending to fisti
cuffs ft second time, sent ft couple of gendarmes to remon
strate with tbe offenders, which they did in their usual
brutal fetjle, inflicting a staggering blow in the breast
with the butt eud of a mußketon oneof the travellers, and
a compliment of a similar kind on tho other. The best
piece of advice to overscrtipnlous Protestants on Buch oc
casions its to turn into a side street, if they object to rais
ing their hats on passing the procession.
PlO NON 6 has nearly onlUvei all the member* ot till
Sacred College who had attained the cardinalitian dig
nity when he was elected Pope—between fifty and sixty
emiventissivii having been summoned from their earthly
honors during that period; and if his Hol!ness*s health
allows or his wielding the Pontificate a little longer, he
will find himself in the lingular ospition (for ft Pope)
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being surrounded by cardinals who have all owed to him
their elevation tn the w-lTd pitt-tfe. Blit if We ftro to
credit tiio cnbattaNcnl CHknlutioim of various kinds which
are put forth tn demonst* ate the approaching demise of
the Sovereign Pfmilff, we cannot anticipate that ho will
po entirely outlive his contemporaries and’ formor go
heirs to the Papal throne an to liavo no other cardioila
tbun those or his own making.
One of thepe arithmetical nr chronological prediction*
is sufficiently ciirtop in jfo ?ajr/Cidfihce with actual dates
to he quoted Tor the amusement of your reader*. Pre
mising that iho sympathetic number reqithlte for the
complement of tlie calculation is 10, the author of it
starts with Pope Pius VI And his successor Pins VII; •>
and 7 are 13, ami 10 23. Pius VII died In 1823. Piu
VII was succeeded by L*o XII; 7 and 12 nrn jy, and 1 >
JP. Leo XII died in 1820. After Leo Xllcaruo Piui
Vfll | 32 anil 8 are 20* ami 10 30. Pius yj[( dlfid in
1530,' l'he calculator then sums up t»eo XII, Pins YUI,
and his successor, Gregory X VI, making, with the aid! ■
tlonof 10, 40. Gregory XVI died in 2846. Next comas
the climax of the present Pontificate, the period of which
is to he ascertained, according to the calculator, by the
sum of the last five Pontiffs—Pius VIE, Loo XU, Pius
VIII, Gregory XVI. and Pius IX—which numbers, with
the addition of 20, amount to 62; crgo t Pio Nouo's reign,
this numerical magician predicts, will conclude in 13&L
Science, Art, and Literature.
Die late President Felton, of Harvard, used to
combat the notion that bard study is unbealthful. Ha
declared that iio one ever died or ovor injured hirnseif by
close application.
The last of the sons of the celebrated naturalist*
Audubofa, dk4 In New York last week* agod 8T years.
He inherited much of tho tslont of his father, and when
taken ill was engaged in preparing a new edition of the
“ Birds of Amet ica.”
Ball’s statue of Washington is progressing with in
creasing promise. . The sculptor has got the horse com
pletely modeled, and ig upw WtiglifrftrOttt tha man that
Is to mount him. The hollow trunk And the protube
rant straw wisps of the core are a present disfiguration,
except to those who de'.ight in watching the growing of
an idea. Mr. Ball has dropped from the shoulders of his
first little model a adds a grace
dignity h«7uiy to he tim tight habit
if ft tfvuHfti, Jia lijj 90BCl\ia«t (B repent it til ttie
lostol t'Siiiy.
» Only One.” is the title, at once pleading and pro
mining, of n handsome folio volume, published for tb»
benefit of the Now York Infirmary for Women and
Children, and comprising a number of original papers,
contributed by various prominent American writers, and
illustrated with engraved steel portraits of Bryant and
Lowell, and a view of Florence.
Boston artists have now got what they have long
needed—a studio building—and tho rapidity with which
the apartments of the new edifice on Tremont street
have been occupied ehows the want has been well sup.
plied. The artists there domiciled liavo opened a joint
exhibition of their works in one of the larger rooms, and
wisely putting the fee at ten cents have secured a largo
attendance. _
—Japan will contribute some six hundred articles to
the international exhibition of 1802, including articles
of lacciuer ware, straw work, china porcelain, manufac
tures of paper, carvings in ivory, paintings, and books.
—A Orman welter, Adolf Henze by name, has just
published, tn L< ipzig, a book entitled “ Ckirogrammato
mancy,” intended to prove that a person's character
may be suggested by his writing, for, says the auth >r,
“ handwriting is tho faithful and unalterable hand of a
mental clock; it is the wondrous telegraph of the mental
being; it produces a daguerreotype of the internal work
shop, and supplies ns with a key to tlie mont hidden
secrcis of the miner' arid the heart.” Mr. Henze main
tains, with proofs from Ills collection of sixty thousand
autographs, that oil good-humored poets write with a
smooth hand, and all savage ones with a spluttering
band, and advances many other similar theories 9,
patti&v shades of theory. J
Shortly after his arrival tn this country, Agassiz de
livered several lectures on Ichthyology in the old Crosby
street Medical College. Prof. Bedtletd got up a dinner in
honor of “ the immortal Swiss,” as some called thft team
ed stranger. To this dinner were invited the different
scientists or the city. In the meantime, a fisherman had
caught a rare fish and conveyed it to Agassiz. It was
enough. Immured tn a private room assigned to him In
the college, he set to work on the study of his new
acquisition. An attempt to inject the specimen proved
both difficult and tedious. At length the dinner hour,
three o’clock, had nearly arrived, when » scion tlfio
gentleman, asßlating him, ventured to suggest that it wag
high time to go to the dinner, to which the absorbed phi
losopher replied, in ntte_r astonishment, “Leave this to
go to dinner! My dear sir,' these opportunities are rare ;
time is precious. This specimen can enly last a few
honrs; and I find" it already affording valuable proof Of
its alliance with a SDooioa of the Mediterranean Sea,
Sir, I dare not trifle with such an opportunity. The fact
lam of I may never again have another ae
favorable an opportunity to determine." The fish philo
sopher resumed his study, and the Agassiz dinner want
off like the play of “Hamlet.” with ISomUi left out.
Dramatic and Other Items.
Mr. Obanfrau.as Ain Trenchard, took a benefit at thr
St. Lonis Theatre on Friday night.
Waugh’s Panorama of the Rebellion opened at Wr
man's Hall, St. Lotub, on the 24th lilt.
Mr. J. S. Clarke h&l been re-engagod by tha manage
ment of the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, and wtt
appear this evening aa Bob Tyke, in the “ School of Be*
form." ••
Wattack's old theatre, under the name of the New York
Athena'um, will be opened this evening under the flaa*
nftgemeut of Mobbhl Lewis pbTfer nnii George Byer, Tor
the purpose of prodneipg a new adaptation of « Vnole
Tom's Cabin.”
Mr. Jarrett’a combination company, consisting of Hr
and Mrs. J. W. WaUack, E.L.Davenport, Mr. Wheatley
Mark Smith, Mrs Burrow, opd others, are playing (•
crowded liouire&t the B&stoh Academy of Music, fir,
Wheatley had a benefit last Monday night.
At the Washington Theatre, Miss Chesney, a «* young,
beautiful, and talented” debutante, is playing a very
successful engagement.
M- J. Wilkes Btoetii and Mrs, Farren are playing it
the Hollidayislreet The&lpd, Baltimore.
Mr. Bam Cowell was on a professional tour in Scot
land ; be was to be at Dumfries on the Ist uU„ and at
Frco Trade Hall, Manchester, on the 22d,
The “Colleen Bawn,” with Mr. Collins as Myles r«
CpppaUen, and Miss John Wood as tha heroine, ban
met with great eureees at NibioSs Garden* New York.
Mr. Scallan as Danr-y Jfiznn, and Miss Welles as Nftstaft,
have been particularly noticed by the New York critioa
for their excellent impersonation.
Mibs Charlotte Thompson is playing to good houses at
the National Tfaeatre r CJncitmfttff
The Detroit papers announce Professor Anderson as
giving prestidigitatoriai entertainments to large bousdf,
in that city.
Miss Annette Ince is the chief attraction at Me Vickerie
Theatre, Chicago.
The “Black Swan ” is giving concerts In Montreal}
A play called “ The Macarty,-or The Ptep o' Day,**
with Mr. and Mrs. Waller in the cast, was brought out
at Laura Keene's Theatre, New York, on Saturday era
ning.
Madame Ansa Bishop .is announced- for a concert im
Albany on to-morrow (Tuesday) night.
Pani<7 VrMHwßSftud vrife closed a highly gucoenfttl
engagement at Baltimore on Saturday night;
Tom King's circus, with Dan Gardiner as clown, l«
performing in Washington.
Amusements in Richmond are at a-discount, (r Little
Ella Wren” is announced to give dramatic readings.
Father Kempt with his Old Folks* troupe, U
giving “ Sunday” concerts, bo popular in England, to tha
Bostonians, in Tremont Temple. It* is said that tha
troupe will embark for England in May.
Blr. Hackett commenced an engagement at the Ac*«
demy of Music, Boston, last Tuesday night, as Falttaf.
Mrs r M*ryEi Lorten retired from the losßMAlp of tha
Louisville Theatre on Friday night.
General Tom Thumb was at the Louisville Maaonto
Temple on Monday.
[For The Press.]
u God 1$ & Union Man. 11
In T/ie Press of this morning, an article from tha
Louisville Journal contains- the following para*
graph :
“ There is a retribufibnin the glorious.victories which
grace our Heaven-inspired cause. When the Unloa
troops marched through one of our town? WitU tllO bdft&te
ing B ters and stripes waving qror ttianj a beautiful rain*
bow* (a bewoi promise, let us hd»—a^covenant of honora
ble peace) appeared in the heavens A little boy, per
ceiving it, ran to his mother,’ exclaiming: 'Mother)
God is a Union man!' His- mother asked him his rea
sons for thinking eo. He replied that ‘-ho had seen hU
flag in the sky, and it was red, white, and blue !* Every
soldier in arms, and every patriot who loves the land ha
Itrsa in, reel, that Gog is ft Vltioil mfthi for tilt, natioa
hao been lli. peculiar care,find ttj people have been HU
people. The Union troops, then, ore God's soldlert,
lighting for the right and for the truth. Lot them go on*
then, conquering and to conquer. * Thrice is h? armed
who hath bis quarrel just,' and what cause so just m
that which wars for the proferva'ion of our Union, rear
ed(by patriot prayers and patriot blood T'
The beautiful incident immediately suggfigtet
the following impromptu liuea r 4
The soldier's tread, as he march'd along,
Kept time to tho patriot's Union song.
As the nation's bturner ha waved;
From window and door the crowd look'd forth
To see brave of tbfi loyal Nortiit
And they shouted, U -The State will behaved t"
The sun look'd down from his throne above,
And he seem'd to soy,, with a glow of love—
“ Bright, bright be the path of the true;
Aw, away to tho field of blood 1
YdU march in a cause both wise and good,
To the tune-of Bed, White, and Blue.'”
The clouds as thsy aped in their noiseless path.
Responsively shouted, but notin wrath,
All h&tt to the brave Union bore I
And iho tears oljoy they shed ou thoir way.
And their echoing thunders seemed to say,
We share Hi yonr valorous joys.
They paused in their flight, and in glory arrayed,
A beauteous bow as a banner displayed,
Which augured the conquest of peace.
O mother! asL6l&lE&ed & bright boy as he ran,
Our God whom wo serve la a Union man l
And the Union can never cease.
My patriot boy ! why, why think you so 7
The rebels all boast that Jehovah doth know
Thgir cause is the right and the true!
But mother* I’ve seem as the soldiers passed bp,
Owl's banner afloat o'tr their heads iu the sky ;
That flag of “ the rod, whito, and blue!”
O, God's for the Un ton / rebellion be'U crush,
And the tumult of war he will speedily hush,
And our banner in triumph be waved
O'er the East and the West, o'er the North and the
South;
And He in Ids mercy will fill every mouth
With shoutings—Jehovah hath saved 1
His bow in the clouds is his banner on high,
Ita promise la peace, and rebellion shall die,
The Union be stronger than ever!
No treason at home, nor proud envy abroad,
Bhall sunder in madness one strand of the cord
That binds us iu Union— no, Hsvga !
Piub.tpiprfliA, feb,S7i
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