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THE PRESS.
YUBLIBHXD DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXOEPIKD,)
BY JOHN W, FORNEY,
-OFFICE No. 41T CHESTNUT STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
Cents Fee Week, payable to the Oarrier.
Hailed to subscribers out of the City at Six Dollars
Pee Annum, Four Dollars for Eight Months,
Three Dollars for Six Mosths— invariably in ad
vance for the time ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Mailed to Subscriber* out of the City at Turhb Dol
lars Feu Annum, in advance.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
COFFIN, & CO.,
220 CHESTNUT STREET,
Agents for the following makes of goods
PRINTS.
BUNNELL MFC!. CO. .... GREENE MFG. CO.
LAWNS.
DL'NNELL MFG. CO.
BLEACHED COTTONS.
XiOnfldale, Fores Male, Auburn, SlatersriUe, Ceniredale,
Jameetovro, Blackatone, Hope, Bed Bank, Dorchester,
Nevrbnryport, Nanmeag, Zonave, Burton, Greene
Wfg. Co.’e A. A., B. A., C. A., and other style*.
BROWN COTTONS.
Burnside, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Chestnut, Glenville,
Mechanics* and Farmers*.
COBSET JEANS Glasgow, Manchester.
DENIMS AND STRIFES—Grafton, Jewett City.
iMadlaoni Blatersville, Agawam, Keystone, Choctaw.
CANTON FLANNELS.—Siateraville, Agawam.
BILESIAS.—Smith's, Social Co., Lonsdale Co.
WOOLENS.
ABMY BLUE CLOTHS, KERSEYS, and FLAN
TNKLS.
BBOAD CLOTHS—Plunketts’, Gienham Co., &e.
CABHMEBES.—Gay A Son, Saxton’s Blver, Ac.
SATINEIS—Bass River, Couversvtile, Lower Val
3«y, Hope, StaDordviße, Converse and Hyde, Converse
Bm, & Co., Shaw Ufg. Co,
KENTUCKY JEANS—Rodman, Mystic, Gold Medal.
DOMET FLANNELS—WILLIAMS’S Angola, Sax.
■any, Morimo, and other styles:
LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored Cambrics.
PLAID LINSETS, COTTONADEB, Ac. [fe26-3m
SHIPLEY, HAZARD, &
HUTCHINSON,
No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
FOR THB SALS OF
PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GOODS
w2B-ftn .
DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
1862. aPHINQ - 1862.
W. S. STEWART & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBEBS OF
BILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS,
NO. 305 MARKET STREET.
Stayers are invited to call and examine a fresh stock of
NEW AND DESIRABLE GOODS,
Ibooght exclusively for GASH, and which we will offer on
- the most favorable terms.
Our stock comprises, in addition to a complete assort
ment Of
BLACK AND OTHER STAPLfi BILKS,
-a variety «f Seasonable
- DRESS GOODS, IN NEW AND APPROVED STYLES,
-specially adapted to City Sales. fe26-3m
Y AB D,GIL.L.MOIiE, St Co.,
Nob. 61T CHESTNUT and 614 JAYNE Street!.
Have now open their
-SPRING IMPORTATION
OF SILK AND FANCY
;3>RESS GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE
GOODS,
LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, &o.
Bought in Europe, by one cf the firm.
*To which the attention of the trade la particularly in
cited.
gELLING OFF
STOCK OF
<3ASSIMERES, VESTINGS, DRIL
LINGS, MARSEILLES, &o.
Twenty-five per cent* under former prices.
A. H. GIBBS,
f*2l-lm No. S3l MARKET StMOf.
JAS. R. CAMPBELL & Co.,
IMPORTERS, AND CASH DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS,
AT THOLISALI AND RETAIL,
No. 727 CHESTNUT STREET.
Bavin* ereanlsel a RETAIL DEPARTMENT in
Connection with their WHOLESALE TRADE, will ex
titbit, at ail aeaeons, a line of Good, by tho yard, piece,
- cr pock age, at such rates as to commend their stock to
flho attention of caeh buyers- ja2S-tf
ROOKING GLASSES.
JAMES 8. EARLE & SON,
MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS
LOOKING- GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS,
FINE ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
CABTE-PE-VISITS PORTRAITS,
EARLE’S GALLERIES,
816 CHESTNUT STREET,
paHiADELPHXA.
CABINET FURNITURE.
aTLABINET furniture and bil
fL/ LXABD TABLES.
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 261 Sonth SEOOND Street,
In connection with their extensive Cabinet Badness are
-‘glow manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
find have new on hand a foil supply, finished with the
mOOBK A CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
.Which we pronounced, by all who have used them, to be
Superior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these tables the manu
facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout
‘jpfco Union, who are familiar with tbe character of their
tmki Is26*6m
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
•ROBERT SHOEMAKER
& CO.,
Northeast Corner FOURTH and BACE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPOSTERS AND BEALERS
IX
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
fWINPOW AND PLATE GLASS.
KattorAOTUBBBS OT
■{WHITE LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, Ao.
AOEHTB FOB THU CXhHBRAMD
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealer* and consumer* supplied at
VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
M2-2m
OTTHFTB LEA]
Bed Dead,
Whit* Lead,
Litharge,
Sugar of Lead,
■Copper**,
-eu of Vitriol,
-Calomel,
Patent Fallow,
-dtmaeßtd,
'Chrome Fellow,
Aqua Fords,
•Wurlatlo Acid,
Bpeom Salta,
BoebeHe Sett*,
’Tartaric Add,
Orange Mineral,
Soluble Tart.
Sob. Garb. Soda,
White Vitriol,
Bed Precipitate,
WETBS3
Drnggists *na Hi
Noe. 47 and 41
TfIERRAPINS, OYSTERS STEWED
: X AND FBIXD, AND OHIOKIN SALAD,—Inti
; nation Cards and other notice* will be diatribnted in all
•arte of the city, with punctuality.
The undersigned is at all tlmee prepared to present, for
' Ohs Inspection of Ladle* and Gentlemen, a list of the
lilnua BlMiawp fern largeasmulleatesUlttMaat, a* th*
Bus mar be, thorebr avoiding all unnecessary profusion
and mate; and tetters himself, that bp hlalong expt
arlance in btuinaaa, he trill be able at all time* to give, ae
heretofore, entire satisfaction to all who favor him with
their patron**.. HENRY JONES, Caterer,
No. Its South TWELFTH Street, above BPHBOH,
l, DRY AND IN
WMte Precipitate
Lbaw Oahaßa,
Narcotina,
Bulpk. Morphine,
Morphine,
Acetate Morphine,
Lee. Ralph.,
Ether Sulphurlo,
Sther Nitric*
Balphete Quinine*
Oorro. Sablim.*
" Denarcotized Opium*
Chloride of Soda,
Wetherill’a ext. Ginoha,
T«rW SmeUo,
. Ofilorideof Lime.
Ornde Borax,
Beflned Borax,
Camphor,
Batin Gopawla.
ELL A BBOTEBB,
innfactoring Ohemiste,
North SECOND Btreet,
' PHILADELPHIA.
VOL. 5-NO. 180.
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES.
"VTOTICE. —THE PARTNERSHIP of
Dt LINCOLN, WOOD, A NICHOLS ia this day dia
solved by mutual consent. The bnainesa of the late firm
will be nettled by THOMAS H. WOOD, of the firm of
WOOD A CAKY, who will carry on the busineaa at the
same place, No. 725 CHESTNUT Street.
H. E. LINUVuXI,
THOA H. WOOD,
B. E. NICHOLS.
Philadelphia, Feb. 26,1862. fe27-6t
T3ORT RICHMOND IRON WORKS.
A —COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.—JOHN H.
TOWNS, formerly of the firm of Merrick & Towne,
hu become a member of the Ann of I. P. MORRIS &
GO-, to take effect from and after the let of January,
1802. Isaac F. Morris withdraws from active participa
tion in the conduct of the business.
The title of the new firm is I. P. MORRIS, TOWNE,
& CO. ISAAC P. MORRIS,
LEWIS TAWS,
JOHN J. THOMPSON,
fell JOHN H. TOWNE.
rpHE UNDERSIGNED have formed
J- a Copartnership, under the firm of JAURETOHS
A LAVKRGNE, for the transaction of a general Com
mission and Importing business, at 202 and 204 Sonth
FRONT Street. P. JAUKE TOHE,
F. LAVBBQNE,
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.—IS-
V/ SASL MORRIS this day retires from our firm.
His sous, THEODORE H. MORRIS and FREDERICS
W. MORRIS, are admitted as partnersand the bad
ness will be continued as heretofore.
HOBBIS, WHKLKB, * 00.,
Iron Merchant,,
1608 MARKET Stmt
Philadelphia, Dec. 81,1881. jal-tf
PROPOSALS.
Notice.— proposals for
FURNISHING U. S. NOTES AND RONDS.
Treasury Department, Feb. 26,1862.
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 be issued under the authority of the act of
February, 1862, entitled “ An act to authorize the issue
of United States Treasury Notes, and for the redemption
or refunding thereof,” Ac.
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, 108, 20s, 90s, 100 s, and 500 s, and
twelve millions of the denomination of 1,000.
OF REGISTERED BONDS.
Five million of the denomination of, 850
Fifteen do do do 100
Fifteen do do do 500
Forty do do do a 1,000
Fifteen do - do do 5,000
Ten do* do do 10,000
OF COUPON BONDS.
Eighty millions of the denomination of 1,000
Twenty millions of the denomination of. 600
Proposals will be received for the delivery of ail of one
or more denominations of notes and bonds, complete, in
cluding the engraving, printing, numbering, and paper,
or separately for the engraving, for printing, and for
paper. The engraving must be ia the highest style of
ait, and the paper of the best quality..
Proposals must state 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 befpre commence
ment of delivery*
Models of notes and bonds must be submitted, and
specimens of work accompany them.
Models of noteß on the face will be in the same form
as now used, and on the 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 the statement that they are reimbursable
after five and payable twenty years from date.
It is expected also that, us far as practicable, the dies
and plates will be such &b have not been heretofore used
except for work of the United States.
Each proposal must be accompanied by a statement of
the bidders’ facilities for executing the work, the num
ber of presses in übb, hands employed, security of build*
lugs occupied, and capital invested
Proposals by incorporated companies must be accom
panied by a copy of charter and the names of the officers;
and proposals by unincorporated associations by the
articles of association and names of parties.
Bonds 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 coagent to
become such, together with a certificate of an Assistant
Treasurer as to their sufficiency, must accompany each
proposal.
Th« Secretary of the Treasury reserves the right to
reject any or all the bids, and to vary the amounts spe
cified, as in his opinion the interests of the public service
may require. fe2B-5t
QtEALED PROPOSALS are invited
kJ till the 10th day of March, 1862, at 12 o’clock M.,
for supplying the U. S. Sob, Pep’t with 6*900 head of
BEEF CATTLE on tbe hoof.
The Cattle to be delivered at Washington City, and
each animal to average 1,300 pounds gross weight: no
uiimed admitted which weighs less than 1,000 pounds
gross.
The Cattle to be delivered at such times and in each
quantities as tbe Government may require. No Cattle will
be required under thiß contract before the Ist day of
Apjil, 1862.
Heifers and Bullocks not wanted.
A bond with good and sufficient security, will be re
quired.
Government reserves to itself the right to pay in Trea
sury notes*
No bid will be entertained when put in 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, O. S., U.
B. A., Washington, D. C.
Form or Bin.
I, A B, do hereby propose to deliver to the Govern
ment good Beef Cattle on the hoof for per hundred
pounds gross weight. The Cattle to be delivered at ,
according to the terms of the enclosed advertisement.
The Cattle to be weighed on the scales, and the weight so
determined to be the purchase weight. I hereby agree
to give a good and sufficient bond for the fulfilment of the
contract, find to receive Treasury notea in payment for
the Cattle. fe!B-tm»
Deputy quartermaster
(SENEGAL'S OFFICE.
Philadelphia, 27th February, 1862.
PROPOSALS, will be received at this Office until
THURSDAY, at 12 M., the 6th day of March, 1862, for
supplying the Quartermasters Department sixty (60)
TRAVELLING FORGES, with Blacksmiths and Shoe*
ing Tools complete.
The Forges to be similar to those made by the United
States Ordnance Department. They are required Imme
diately. G. H. CROBS&fAN,
fe2B-6t Deputy Quartermaster General.
Army clothing and equi
page OFFICE,
Philadelphia, February 28,1862.
SEALED PROPOSALS are invited until WEDNES
DAY, March sth, at 12 M, for furnishing
V *O,OOO TENTS D’ABB RE, FRENCH PATTERN,'
A sample of which can be seen at this office, to be made
of 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
can be even at this office. Bach bid ia invited for 1,000 to
10,000 pairs of these Leggings, and bidders are required
to state how soon they can deliver them.
Bids must be endorsed
Proposals for Tents D’Arbre, or,
Proposals for Gaiters or Leggings.
The names gf proper securities will be required in the
propCHDlfl. G. H. OfiOSMAN,
Deputy Quartermaster General.
EDUCATIONAL.
Excelsior normal insti
i TT7TE, a first-class ‘ Country School for both
Boxes, located at CARYERSYILLE, Bucks county, Pa.
The next session will commence Starch 31,1832, and con
tinue twenty-two weeks.
Tbe school is organized with three departments—the
PREPARATORY, the NORMAL, and the ORNAMEN
TAL. Students of all ages, and every stage of advance
ment} are admitted on terms of equality,
Tbe bealtbfulness of location and thoroughness of in
struction are unsurpassed.
Terms—For board and tuition in common English,
$8 per week.
Tor catalogues and particulars, address
Rev. F. R. S. HUNSICKEB, Principal,
fel3-im* CABYSB3YILLR, Bucks co., Pa.
BORDENTOWN FEMALE coin
LEGS, Bordentown, N. J.
This institution is pleasantly located on file Delaware
river, 1# 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' Mtt 816, German and French are taught by
natives, and spoken In the family. For catalogues, con
taining foil particulars, address
Rev. JOHN H. BBAKKLEY, A. M.,
ja29-2m* President.
TjWERY LADY WHO WISHES TO
J-J BE BEAUTIFUL should purchase HUNT’S
COURT TOILET POWDER. It is used by tbe Court
Beauties in Europe, and it is the only Powder that will
not injure the skin or rub off. Price, 12, 25, and 50
cents. HUNT’S BLOOM OF ROSES, a beautiful, na
tural color for the obeeka or lips • it will not wash off or
Injure the skin, and remains durable for' yews. Price
SI. These articles are quite new, and can only be ob
tained of HUNT A CO., 133' South SEVENTH Street,
above Walnut. AU kinds of Fancy Soaps and Perfu
mery. fel9-2m
Hanging yases.
Ornamental Flower Pots.
Parlor Yases for Growing Flowers.
Baskets for Jardiniere.
Pedestals with Yase for Flowers
Antique Yases for Mantels.
Yases Renaissance for Parlor.
Bostic and Terra Cotta Vase#.
Lava Flower Pots and Vases.
Garden Yases and Pedestals.
Brackets for Busts and Figures.
With a great variety of articles suitable for Christ
mas presents, for sale retail and to the trade.
Warerooms 1010 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia,
dell 8. A. HARRISON.
QELF-AD JUSTING CLOTHES
|U WBINGEB.—This improvement will wring water
from any article of the most delicate texture to a bed
quilt better than by hand, without the leant injury, and
adjusts itself, so that it is superior to all other wrings
and modes of wringing. Purchasers can use them one
month and, if not satisfied, return them and receive their
money. For sale by L. E. SNOW, at office of JOT,
COE, A GO., FIFTH and CHESTNUT Streets.
Ladies are particularly invited to call and see them.
A/TRS. JAMES BETTS’ CELEBRA
-IV- TED SUPPORTERS FOB LADIES, and th*
only Supporters under eminent medical patronage. la*
lies and physicians are respectfully requested to call only
tm Mrs. Betts, at her residence, 1089 WALNUT Street.
Philadelphia, (to avoid counterFeUo.) Thirty thousand
tnvalidi have been advised by their physicians to use her
appliances. Those only are genuine bearing the United
• States copyright, labels on the box, and signatures, and
also on the Supporters, with testimonials. ool6*tuthstf
TYRIED FRUIT .—Bright new half and
U mixed Peaches.
Choice New Tork State Apples.
Choice New York State Blackberries.
New Ohio Apples, part sliced, in white bags.
In store and for by
RHODES A WILLIAMS,
YelB-tf 107 South WATER-Street.
RAISINS.— 300 boxes Layer Raisins;
' ■ 800 half boxes Layer Retains;
800 boxes M R Bunch Balsins :
300 half boxes M B Bunch Raisins.
Sew and choice fruit, now landing and for sale by
v MUBPHT A BOONS,
j%7-tf No. 146 NORTH WHABYE&
T A K D. —A consignment of pure Jersey
,1 .A and Western Lard, in small kegs, just received and
for sale by , RfiO&fiS A WtUtilA-MS,
fe26 . 107 South WATER Street.
PAMPHLET PRINTING, AND
L ever, other of Printing, of the most
raperior quality, at the mort nasouabla nSSi at BING
WALT A BROWN’S, Bulldlit, M BiHO,
IHUD Street, MK
Jlmu.
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1862.
OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTER FROM LONDON.
(Correspondence of The Press.]
LondoNi February 13, 1862.
Little has yet been done in Parliament. With a
good deal of abuse'about tbe manner in which the
American Government surrendered Mr. Mason and
Mr. Slidell, there has been a general declaration
that, at present, it would be unfair to the United
States to recognize the Southern Confederacy. This
is in opposition to the assertions in The Times,
founded on what Mr. Russell, its special corre
spondent, has written home, that the United States
army and navy would be compelled by the severity
of the season from even attempting any aggressive
movements in the Sonth. That gentleman’s pre
dictions are that the South must eventually win,
and tbat the North must finally acknowledge Se
cession as a fixed fact. "
The correspondence between the English and
American Governments on the Trent affair has
been published, and 1 must do Lord Russell the
jnstice of saying that his language to Lord Lyons,
all through, was moderate and fair. A farther Cor
respondence Is expected to be published immediate
ly, and then we shall see what more was said. Un
doubtedly, the whole tone of the British Government
has become moderate. Lord Russell’s correspond
ence with Mr. Yancey firmly repudiates all idea of
recognizing the Sonth, until the South has won her
independence.
The news of a few Federal victories would have
the best effect on the public mind here.
The non-eopply of American cotton, so muoh
oomploined of in Lancashire, has really been of
great advantage to the manufacturers. Within the
last five years, the increase of cotton factories has
been enormous. Every man with cash and credit
rushed into the trade, by which fortunes have been
made. What is the result? The production of
oottsn goods was three times greater than any
possible demand; yet, with their warehouses filled
with calicees and muslins and such textile fabrics,
the Manchester people kept on spinning, weaving,
dyeing, and printing cotton pieces. This hasbeen
ohecked, but there are cotton goods in Lancashire
alone, (to say nothing of Yorkshire and Lanark
shire,) to supply the world for throe years to come.
Net a word has yot been spoken in Parliament
relative to the keeping back, by Lords Palmerston
and Russell, of Mr. Seward’s despatch ot Novem
ber 30th, in which he virtually surrendered Mr.
Mason and Mr. Slidell, by informing the American
Minister here that the United States Government
had not directed and did not accept, to justify,
Captain Wilkes’ arrest of the Confederate Ambas
sadors. No doubt, when the cost of the hasty war
preparations come under discussion, this point will
be notioed. The Rothschilds are said to have been
let into the secret, through Mr. Lowe, (one of the
Times' editors and a member of the Palmerston
Government.) and to have operated in the funds,
so as to gain £250,000 in three days. Then, on a
rumor of the contents of Mr. Seward’s letter, the
I\lormng Post , which is Palmerston’s own news
paper, strongly denied that Mr. Seward had writ
ten one word abont the Trent or Captain Wilkes.
The speech from the Throne, at the opening of
the Session, was singular in not containing any
Ministerial programme. One of the Opposition
papers, noticing it, said it was impossible to oritielse
a blank sheet of paper. But, in the original draft,
there certainly was a programme. The Times, as
usual, had a copy of the Speech in advanoe, and,
last Thursday, before tbe Speech was read In Par
liament, published a general and very exact sum
mary of its contents. After denying that the coun
try demanded or desired Parliamentary Reform, the
Times added, “ But the present is a great opportu
nity for the scientific legislator. The whole domain
of Law lies before him, and he may transform the
tangled wilderness into a trim and well-kept garden.
We are happy to learn that a Bill to Facilitate the
Transfer of Land will form one principal measure
of the Government during tbe present Session, and
it will yrohahly Ic announced m the ft-oyal Mes
sage- Other bills for the Reform of the Law are
also ready or in preparation. It is to be hoped that
the Laws of Marriage in the three kingdoms may
be brought into harmony with justice and with each
other, and that such' changes will be made in the
administration of the Law of Lunacy as will pre
clude the possibility of another -Windham case.
Such mill probably be the Ministerial programme
for the present Session.” Ido not attempt to assign
any reason for the omission, but the Queen’s Speech
had not evon one word of a Ministerial programme.
Evidently, it originally contained it, as the Times
announced.
Ministers will be opposed, in all probability, on
their policy of joining France and Spain in the in
vasion of Mexico. The Times, in anticipation of
this opposition, is arguing strongly in justification.
It says 11 the Mexicans are indebted to British sub
jeots in the sum of at least £12,000,000 sterling,-
which is about three-fourths of the whole foreign
debt of the Bepublic. The basis of this debt con
sists’of the money, nearly £7,000,000, whioh was
advanced by Englishmen abont forty years ago to
give the infant Republic a fair chance of starting
in the world. That obonoo was a fair one indeed.
The interest of the debt would have been less than
£400,000 a-year, whereas the surplus revenues
of Mexico under Spanish dominion had been five
times that sum. Nevertheless, default was made
so aanstantiy in the payment of these dues
that the debt is now swelled by arrears of interest
to twice its original magnitude. Conversions, ar
rangements, agreements, pledges, and guarantees
were given and repeated from time to time without
the least result. Portion a of revenue were set aside
for the satisfaction of the bondholders so formally
and distinctly that they,became actually British
property, but they were misappropriated all the
same. At length the President of the Republic
consummated this long series of robberies by de
spatching an armed foroe to break violently into the
house of the British Legation, and steal from it up
wards of half a million of dollars belonging to Bri
tish subjects which had been deposited there for
Security.” :
The Paris papers anticipate that Lord Palmer
ston’s Ministry will be broken up on this Mexican
intervention, and deolares that, ever since the pro
posal to make an Austrian Archduke King of Mex
ico, England has desired to back out of the affair
altogether. Perhaps ee. Yet, Leopold of Belgium,
uncle to Queen Victoria, father-in-law of the said
Archduke Maximilian, is believed to be at the bot
tom of the whole intrigue. The Emperor of Aus
tria would, doubtless, be glad to see his brother
elevated to a throne in America, but that he will
surrender Venetia to the King of Italy, as the price
of such elevation, your correspondent, in common
with many more, begs leave to doubt.
The great difficulty which Palmerston’s Govern
ment hkve id dread is—Finance. Oar national ex
penditure here greatly exceeds our national in
come, and the latter is likely still farther to diminish.
W. E. Gladstone is an able and eloquent man, and
has made one good hit, in establishing a Certain
degree of free trade with France, but he will find
it difficult to impose several millions of new taxes
without making the Government very unpopular.
It is dreaded now that the late warlike prepara
tions, all of which were unnecessary, have cost
nearer three than two millions sterling.
Parties in the House of Commons are now so
evenly balanced tbat no one would be surprised at
finding the Government outvoted on some public
question. Parliament, eleeted under Lord Derby’s
Ministry early in 1859, Would be dissolved, for
Palmerston is not the man to surrender office with
out a struggle, and the result may be to give him
a House of Commons almost as evenly balanced as
the present. A second defeat would make resig
nation inevitable, and then—who would head the
new Ministry? My own opinion is that the Bake
of Newcastle would be the man.
Immediately after tbe death of Prince Albert,
two hiontiis ago, tbe Queen removed from Windsor
Castle to Osborne House, her marine rosidenoe in
the Isle of Wight, that garden of England. Thenoa
she has not sinee removed. It is necessary that a
great many documents of varions descriptions be
submitted to her, as she never affixes her name to
any paper without knowing its contents. Prince
Albert used to read these documents, thereby
saving her much trouble. After his loss, the
Prince of Wales did this, but he has left England
on a foreign tour, and the duty is now performed
by the Duke of Newcastle—a significant proof of
her confidence.
There are various reports as to the Queen’s
health—seine very painful ones. She has not quit
ted the grounds of Osborne House for two monthß.
She has only twice.seen Palmerston in that time.
Once, she presided at a Ministerial Meeting, when
It was necessary to obtain her consent to the Queen’s
Speech. She nurses her grief, but no one knows
what her state of health is. Of course, she de
clined to promise to open the Great Exhibition on
the first of May. It is not expezted to be a great
success, There is a rumor that, in Whitsun week,
early in June, she will go to her Scottish residence
of Balmoral. /That is all that seems known. '
Just now, when the public mind is unusually
agitated at the certainty of a much deficient reve
~nue and increased taxation, a Parliamentary paper
h~a3 been published, wbioh will not. alleviate those
unpleasant feelings. It is the contract between
Queen Victoria on one bond and tbe Grand Duke
of Hesse;Darmstadt on the other, for the marriage
of Princess Alice of England to a Prince, the grand-
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MARCH I, 1862.
son of the said Grand Duke. Hesse Darmstadt ia a
small German State, with a population of less than
900,000, an area of only 3,800 square miles, moun
tains included, and a revenue of about £650,000 a
year. The heir to this small duchy is a poor match
for an English princess, but he is aProtestant, and by
our Royal Marriage Act, she cannot marry a Catholic
and must look for old-maidism or a poor German
prinoe.
The Hcese-Darmstadt ruler agrees to settle
40,000 florins a year, South German currency, for the
expenses of the young couple’s joint establishment.
As the value of a florin is one shilling and eight pence
British, this settlement comes to £3,500 a year—
which is far from a prineely revenue. Queen Vic
toria agrees to give her daughter £30,000, the
interest thereof to he applied to defraying the ex
penses of their joint establishment—this will make
£1,200 a year more. Further, the Queen agrees to
pay £6,000 a year, for life, for the sole and sepa
rate use of the Prineess. If she beoome a widow,
her dowry, from Hesse, is to be 20,000 florins, and
double tbat if, at her husband’s death, he be Grand
Duke. Moreover, she is to have a house at Darm
stadt, completely furnished—as is always provided
for a Dowager Duchess, and a better house if she
become Grand Duchess Dowager.
This document, dated August 14,1861, is signed
by tbe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chan
cellor, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl Russell, Vis
count Palmerston, Sir George C. Lewis, and Carl
Graf Von Gortz. The universal question it has eli
cited here is—Whence will come the Prinoese’B dow
ry of £30,000, and her £6,000 a year? In April,
she will be nineteen, and aooording to the usual
> longevity of pensioners and of the Guelph family, is
likely to live fifty years longer. Here is a sum of
£300,000 additional to the dowry, but add on the
accumulated interest of this sum for half a oentury,
and the amount will be tremendous. Tax-payers
ask, and I do not wonder, is Parliament to draw
all this money from us, or will it be paid by
Queen Victoria, to whom Prince Albert left
the whole of his property, estimated at a total
of one million sterling ? There are half a dozen
Royal children, independent of tho Prince of
Wales, all to be provided for, and must the publio
provide the means? From cradle to grave, each
Royal child, at this rate, will cost John Bull olose
on a million pounds sterling. From these figures,
let me turn to “metal more attractive.”
There are rumors that Charles Dickens is pre
paring to meet Ins multitudinous readers, in the old
manner, with a green-covered monthly serial, il
lustrated by “ Phiz.” Perhaps so— but his pub
lishers have assured myself and others that they, at
least, have not yet had intimation of any such in
tention. Last Friday, by the way, Dickens com
pleted his fiftieth year, having been bom at Land
port, one of the suburbs of Portsmouth, on Februa
ry Tth, 1812. The house has been swept away by
improvements, and the station of the London and
Southwestern Railway ocoupies its site.
Charles Lever, now Rritish consol at Spezzia,has
produced the first number of his new story, also in
the monthly form, with the accustomed pink covers,
and illustrations by “Phiz.” It is called Ear
rington, and, in locality and characters, is as in
tea&ely Irish as Harry Lorrequer and Charles
O'Malley. He may say, in Rob Roy’s words,
“ My foot is on my native heath.”
« Phiz,’ ’ first known as illustrater of Dickens and
Lever, is really an artist named Hablot K. Brown.
His life-long aspiration has been to gain reputation
as a landscape-painter. Many of his landscapes, in
oil, have been admired at the Exhibitions of tbe
Royal Academy- It is as a humorous book-illustra
tor,’however, that he has got a considerable inoome.
When the Pickwick Papers were commenced by
Diokens, to carry off a series of humorous designs by
the late Mr. Seymour, who contemplated making
sport of cockney sportsmen, the first number con
tained four such designs. But poor Seymour com
mitted suicide before the appearance of the seoond
number, and Brown was engaged to supply ins place
as artist. He has ever since continued in that capa
city towards Dickens, and it cannot be domed that
he has greatly contributed to build up his friend’s
reputation as a writer, by bis own capital sketches
of the leading characters. - Brown etches nearly
all of Mb own plates, in this following the example
of George Craikshank.
A friend of mine, possessed of the mania of auto
graph-collecting, asked “Phiz” fer his autograph,
ODoaupon atime. The artist oomplied, and made a
blot of ink on the paper, then a key, and lastly the
obverse of a penny—commonly called a brown. This
was the signature : a blot, cookneyishly Aaspirated,
■nes’lla-blot— the next represented a ley, and the'
effigies of royalty upon a copper ooin made the,
Brown.
Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has' published his
Strange Story in two thiok volumes, at twenty
four shillings, instead of spreading them over three,
at a gninea and a-balf. Of conrse, the work will
be sold much cheaper in America. It cannot be
considered popular here, though every one reads
it. A tale of modern magic is out of plaoe in this
second half of the nineteenth century—notwith
standing the credence given to spiritualism, clair
voyance, table-moving, and table-rapping. Bulwer
has commenced a series of Essays on life, literature
and manners, the first of which appeared in this
month’s Blackwood. They are too recondite for
popularity—too soholastic—too much overlaid with
quotations, by way of notes, from learned writers.
In else, is new being published some
capital stories of English country life, entitled
Chronicles of Carlingford'- The first of these,
completed last month, related the adventures of a
rural doctor and his family, ineluding a charming
she-Auatralian named Nettie, and the second, com*
menced this month, called Salem Chapel, has for its
hero a young clergyman, frosh from Homerton Col
lege (a manufactory of dissenting ministers), whose
first “call” and “placing” are in Carlingford, to a
non-conformist chapel. So far, the story is wonder
fully good, showing the poor young man over-pa
tronized by the rich bakers, butchers, and grocers,
who constitute the lay-governing power of his con
gregation. It is believed that Miss Marian Evans,
author of “ Adam Bede,” is to be credited with the
authorship of these racy “ Chronioles." She is in
Italy, but may have sent the manuscript on.
Mrs. Browning left an unpublished poem of some
length, which her husband, now in London, is
editing. AU of it is said to be in type, but its pub
lication is postponed. It is alleged that Mr. Brown
ing desires to write a biography of his late wife, un
doubtedly the best of all female English poets, and
hesitates about prefixing it to the new poem or
spinning it out into a separate relume. Whether
in prose or verse, Bobert Browning is a very diffuse
writer—unwilling to blot a single line of his own—
and it is'to be feared that he cannot resist the
temptation of making a big book about his wife.
After an unusually long delay, said to bo caused
fay some family difficulties about private papers,
the Life and Correspondence of John Wilson
(“Christopher North,” of Blackwood's Maga
sine) is announced as nearly.ready. His daughter
has undertaken this biography. As a general rule,,
men’s lives ue net well written by their nearest
relatives, who usually slur over all incidents which
have a tendency to take their hero off his pedestal.
Lockhart's Life of Scott, and the Life of Herald
Griffin,'by his brother, are exceptions, but we late
ly had a life of Hr. Marshall HaU, by his widow,
whioh is only a lengthened eulogium. One can
not imagine Kit North’s life written by a woman—
not that there was any thing coarse in it, but be
cause he was so essentially manly in his manners
and habits, feelings and actions, frolic and fun.
When he was elected Professor of Moral Philosophy
in the University of Edinburgh, the wonder was
how he could tame his high spirits down to the
sober realities of the position. He did—and great
ly surprised friends and foes. -
Railways of the World.
There are 31,800 miles of railroads in the United
States, of which there are 20,683.51 in the free,
and but 11,11113 in the slave States. Total cast
of the entire lines has been $1,192,302,015. Last
year there were only 631 miles built, against a
previous annual average of 2,000 miles. But
although the construction of roads decreased, the
traffic on all the Norhtern roads was greater than
on any previous year. The condition of our rail
roads is favorable at present.
The length of railways in operation in Great Bri
tain and Ireland is over 10,750 miles, 300 miles of
which were built last year. Their entire cost of
construction amounts to £355,000,000 (about $l,-
775,000,000.) There are .5,801 locomotives, 15,076
passenger carriages, and 180,574 freight cars, used
on these railways. Last year they carried 163,435,-
678 passengers, 60,000,000 tons of minerals, and
29.500,000 of general merchandise.
■’France has 0,147 miles of railway, worked by
”000 locomotives; 3,500 miles of new tines are
being constructed. Total cost of completed lines
$922,200,000.
Prussia, 3,162 miles in operation; Austria, 3,105
miles; the other GerjuM States have 3,239 miles;
Spain has 1,450 miles; Italy, 1,350; Home, 50;
Russia, 1,289; Denmark, 202; Norway, 63; Swe
den, 288; Belgium, 955; Holland, 308; Switzer
land. 600; Portugal, 80; Turkey,,Bo; Egypt, 204.
In the British colonies, there are 1,408 miles in
the East Indies; Canada, 1,820; New Brunswicjs,
175; Nova Sootis, 99; Victoria, 183; New South
Wales, 125; Cape of Good Hope, 28; making a
total of 14,277 miles in operation in the British
Empire, the entire cost of which has been $2,080,-
765,000.
In Mexico there are 20 miles of railway; Cuba,
500; New Granada 49 i (Panama Railway); Brazil,
111; Chili, 195; Pern, 50; Paraguay, 8.
The total length of railway s in the world ia69,733
miles. fThoir estimate cost is about $5,877,200,000.
Nearly one-half tbe length of lines belong to tho
United States, and one-fourth to Great Britain and
Colonies. The oost of the latter, however, is about
twice that of our railroads.
Ah Omeh.— The Louisville Journal says
that on the day of the inauguration of Jeff Davis,
about one o’clock P. M., the clouds assumed a sin
gular yellow hue, and a seemingly preternatural
darkness overspread the land. Candles and gas
lights were brougbt into requisition. The strange
phenomenon lasted fifteen or twenty minutes, and
passed suddenly off.
THE REBELLION.
OFFICIAL NEWS FROM TENNESSEE.
OUR GUNBOATS THE TERROR OF THE REBELS
ON THE CUMBERLAND.
THE PURSUIT OF PRICE.
AFFAIRS AT FORTRESS MONROE.
Non-arrival of tho Released Federal Prisoners.
ARRIVAL OF THE NASHVILLE AT WILMINGTON, N. C.
Rebel Atrocities in East Tennessee.
Secretary Chase on the Port Boy at Contrabands.
&c. &c. &c.
Letter from Fortress Monroe.
[From Our Special Correspondent.]
Fortress Monroe, March 2, 1862.
A FLAG OF TRUCE
The express left here yesterday morning under a
flag of truce for Hog Island shoals, James river,
where she was to meet the rebel boat from Rioh
mond, and which was expected to briug Colonel
Corcoran and about 400 released Union prisoners.
She reached her destination about noon, and cast
anchor to await the arrival of the rebel. The lat
ter, however, tailed to make her appearance, and,
after waiting for nearly twenty-four hours, re
turned without having accomplished the design of
her mission.
The Rancoeas also wont under the flag of truce
to meet the rebel tug from Norfolk, taking with
her the remainder of the baggage and “ wearing
apparel” of that paragon of holiness, the Rev. Dr.
Wiimer. Tbe reverend gentleman is said to bo in
good health, and is not cast down at the recent
Union victories.
FAST DAY IN DIXIE.
The high and mighty (Prince Jeff) ruler over cot
ton, niggers, poor whites, and planters, has declared
that Friday, tbe 28th of February, must be observed
as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer through
out bis dominions. Is this on account of the
triumphs of the Union army, and ere they getting
tired of the rebellion and invoking Divine pardon?
Jeff is about played out, and ho knows it.
No rebel papers wore published on Friday; and I
am without any news from Eecesaia.
The steam transport Constitution arrived here
this morning, from Boston. She brings a large
amount of stores.
Mr. W. H. Heiss, superintendent of the Govern
ment telegraph, having secured a quantity of tele
graph cable, will commence to lay it in a few days,
and before long this point will be eonnected direct
by telegraph with the North. Truly, war is a great
civilizer.J Union.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
Baltimore Maroh 2 —The steamer Express,
Captain Colmary, left Old Point yesterday morn
ing, at 10 o’clock, for James river, to receive the
Union prisoners who were expected on Friday.
They were not met, however, according to appoint
ment, and having remained at the usual meeting
place until noon to-day, the George Washington
was sent up with an order for the Express te re
turn unless something had been heard from them.
She accordingly came back, arriving at 2 o’clock
this afternoon.
At 3 o’clock, yesterday afternoon, tho rebel
steamer Jamestown, which, with the Yorilown ,
is stationed off Hog Island, steamed down to the
Express with a flag of truce, to ascertain the cause
of her appearance in the river on two successive
days.
She slopped abreset of the Express at a few rods
distance, and lowered a boat, with a lientenant on
board, to oommnnicate. He was informed of the
eirand of the Express, and that she was aoting
upon information furnished by Hen. Huger, when
he explained that his commander had no know
ledge of any prisoners ibeing expected, and having
keen the Express on two days in succession, he sent
him down to learn thwoccasion. He expressed him
self satisfied, and, returning to the Jamestown,
she went back to her station.
The Jamestown has been armed with a gun at
her bows and another at her stern, and has a sharp
iron cut-water projecting some three feet from her
bows at the water-line. She is supposed to bo com
manded by Captain Barnard.
Having been twice disappointed in relation to the
expected prisoners, ‘it is not known when they will
be sent down the river. It is also uncertain whether
Colonel Corcoran will be among the number.
Another interview took plaee yesterday off
Craney Island, between General Wool and General
Cobb, in reference to a general exchange of
prisoners.
We hear, via Norfolk, that the steamer Nash
ville arrived at Wilmington, N. C., yesterday,
having run the bloekade at that plaoe.
A quantity of telegraphic cable has arrived here
foT the completion of the line across the bay. As
soon as the soundings can be completed, the cable
will be ?st«ndefl te Cape Charles. This will be
within two or three days, it is supposed.
OFFICIAL NEWS FROM TENNESSEE.
■Washington, March 3.—The Secretary of the'
Navy to-day received a letter dated Cairo, the 27th
ult., from Flag-officer Foote, who says:
“ I have the honor to forward a communication
from Lieutenant Commanding Bryant, the subject
of which I have just telegraphed. The captain of
the steamer who brings the despatch says that six
miles below Nashville there was a battery on a high
bluff, which had mounted fifteen guns, but several
of them were thrown into the rirer before the Cairo
arrived. He also reports that a strong Union feel
ing was manifested in and near Nashville, and that
Governor Harris, after vainly attempting to Tally
the citizens and others, left on Tuesday morning for
Memphis.”
Ho also says “ the gunboats are the terror of the
people at Nashville and at points on the Cumber
land river, and that on hearing of my arrival, and
-supposing that the gunboats would proceed imme
diately to Nashville, the enemy retreated panic
stricken. The unuunally high water of the river,
enabling the boats to ascend the river, was Provi
dential.”
The ■ following is the enclosure in Commodore
Foote’s letter:
Gunboat Cairo, Nashville, Feb, 39,
Flag Officer A. if. Foote, Commanding the Flo
tilla m the Western waters :
- Sir : Uncertain that my letter of the 23d reached
you, I repeat that I departed from Clarksville for
this point, by the request of Brigadier General
Smith, commanding at Clarksville, and arrived
here this morning, preceding seven steamboats con
veying an army commanded by Brigadier General
Nelson.
The troops landed withont opposition. The banks
of the river are free from hostile forces. The rail
road and suspension bridges here are destroyed.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
A. C. Bryant, Lient. Commanding.
The Pursuit of Gen. Price.
The St. Louis Republican says
Nov that Gen. Price is out of the State of Min*
gouri, never to return with his army, in which di
rection will he go? Gen. Curtis had driven the
broken and fleeing columns some twenty miles into
Arkansas at the latest accounts, and was still in
hot and eager pursuit, hourly capturing prisoners,
and falling upon transportation trains. Two cr
three attempts to make a stand nave been under
taken by the rebels since our forces reached
Bpringfield, but only to be routed and put to
Bwifter flight. It is not probable that Gen. Price
will offer further battle, or aooept it, if such a
thing «m b« avoided. Ilia troops are running for
safety.
The Secession Missourians, with their allies, ap
pear to be making for the Arkansas river, and will,
perhaps, try to take refuge at Fort Smith; but as
they will have to travel some eighty or ninety miles
first, their being taken captive as a whole is not
entirely out of the question, if the pursuit is con
tinued on the .part of Gen. Curtis with the aelerity
that has distinguished his past operations. Or, per
haps,, the Confederates have ordered np to Van
Suren a number of boats* to bo ready to transport
Price's army down the Arkansas river to Little
Rocky where an effort may be made to defend the
State capital. To this point we think Gen. Price’s
movements are tending, and happy will he be if he
can escape so far.
Little bookie built on a commanding bluff and
might be formidably fortified. The Federal forces
in pursuit are, however, strong enough to take and
occupy the place, reclaiming the United States ar
senal there, and recovering the State to the Union,
if now is deemed the best tipie for so doing. The
divisions ai present in Arkansas can well be spared
from other fields to continue the expedition until
General Price’s army is completely destroyed, even
if they have to go to Little Kook, whence they may
proceed in time to look in at the capture of Mem
phis. 'Whilst General Curtis 7 command can suhsigfc
on the enemy's stores, as it has lately been doing,
there doeß not appear to be any good reason why
the chase should be given up.
Rewards for Gallantry*
The President will nominate as major generals
Brigadier Generals Smith, McClernand, and Wal
lace, who commanded divisions at the battle of Fort
Donelson, and as brigadier generals the colonels
commanding brigades* there.- Subordinate officers
will also receive proper promotion. The President,
through the Secretary of War, will, in his order of
the day accompanying the announcement of these
deserved rewards of valor, strive to pay the just
tribute to every man, high or low in rank, who
contributed to the glorfcug rtfulti
Poote and his" brave officers will doubtless not be
forgotten.
llow our Officers at Fort Donelsoa Be
came Cognizant of the £scape of Floyd.(|
The Fort Donelson correspondent of the Chicago
Post any a :
An officer of the army, who took part in the
battle of Donelßon, and who has a personal know
ledge upon the subject, has related to me an
important circumstance connected with the sur
render of the rebel army at that place. Historians
inform us that Borne was saved by the “ cackling of
ft goose,” and the history of the battle of Donelaon
should not fail to relate how the rebel fortress was
(possibly) lost by the escape of a contraband.
During the night before the surrender, a negro
came through our linos into the camp of Colonel
Lauman. Jio stated that his master was an officer
of General Floyd's staff; that tho General had run
away, taking a great many soldiers with him; that
he (the negro) did not want to go, and managed to
escape in the hurry and confusion of their depar
ture. Colonel Lauman took the negro to General
Smith, to whom he told the same story. General
Smith questioned him closely, and threatened, If ho
found bis story false, to hang him on the nearest
tree, to which the negro assented. The negro was
then taken to General Grant’s quarters, where, for
the third time, he told the story of Floyd's flight
and his men. It was already near daylight, and
soon after dawn an officer arrived with the letter
from Buckner, proposing to surrender, upon
conditions, "in consequence of the difficulties
incident to an unexpected change of command
ers." This was suddenly furnished as proof
that the negro’s story was true, and upon this
proof General Grant wrote his reply to Buchner’s
note. That reply made him a major general. I
do not donbt that he might have written it in tho
same language if he had not discovered the sudden
retreat of Floyd ; but no judge of human nature
will assert that a man would not feel more in the
humor to write such a note with the knowledge
that his enemy hed already begun to retreat than
he would under the supposition that he was still
ready and willing to " fight it out.”
The negro who furnished the important informa
tion of Floyd’s escape was brought downfrom
Donelaon a few days since, and is now here in the
service of an officer, On the way down the Cum>
berland, it is said, he was claimed as a slave by a
Union man living near that stream. But, inas
much as the negro himself professed to belong to
one of General Floyd’s officers, this claim waa
doubtless a mere pretense. M.
From Columbus, Ky.
The Cairo correspondent of the Cincinnati Times
writes as follows on the 2Cth ult. :
A flag of truce was sent from Columbus to our
gnn and mortar boats on Sunday, while they were
on the point of opening fire en tho fortifications:
but what proposition accompanied tho flag, no one
but the Parties immediately interested seems to
know- The proposition from the rebels mußt have
been important, though I learn it did not concern
any armistice, or refer to tho prospect or possibility
of an evacuation.
Active movements are going on here, but for
what purpose no one can conjecture. The gene
ral belief is, however, that it is the intention of the
military authorities to attack Columbus as soon as
practicable ; and before the week is over the banks
of the Mississippi will witness a violent conflict that
will decide the fate of the stronghold of Western
Kentucky.
More Rebel Boasting.
The enemy asseverate their intention, it is said,
never to surrender, but to defend that key of the
Father of Waters to the last extremity. They de
olare it cannot be taken, and that they might as
well give up their cause as those, so considered,
impregnable. fortifications. They reiterate that
they will fight to the death, and perish, if need be,
to the last man amid the ruins of their entrench
ments.
"So Peleus promises with pompons breath:
Pray, will performance follow all his words
Tbe Evacuation of Nashville.
No further doubt is entertained of the evacuation
of Nashville and its possession by onr forces, as par
ties have arrived here who passed through the Ten
nessee capital on Sunday, and found that the enemy
had abandoned it, and were rapidly moving South
on tho Nashville and Chattanooga Railway; the ad
vance having reached Murfreesboro’, the capital of
Rutherford county.
It is said Governor Harris has fled with General
A. Sidney Johnston, Pillow and Floyd, and that
their destination iB Charleston) S. C. The people
Of Tennessee have deolared again and again that,
if Nashville fell, the entire Confederacy would be
open to the “ Yankees,” and that the doom of the
South would then be written.
Have they not spoken truth ? Is not tbe rebellion
rapidly falling to pieces? Can any human power
make them one again ?
Reported Peace Propositions from the
South.
Parties assuming to know say, as I mentioned in
iny telegram yesterday, that the Confederacy is
now anxious for recognition, excluding Kentucky,
Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and Ten
nessee, and that if the Government will allow Cot
tondom to form a pro-slavery Republic, they will
let the border States go.
Of course I do not vouch'for the truth of the
statement; but it is characteristic of the rebels.
Great Alarm in Secessia.
Two or three persons have arrived here this
week from New Orleans, and they say that the in
telligence of the late Federal victories has spread
like wildfire through the South) and that conster
nation reigns among the rebels in Louisiana, Ala
bama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. The Union men
have begun to take heart once more, and to believe
that the promises of protection from onr Govern
ment are to be redeemed at last.
The most violent and unreasonable of tho enemy
are excessively alarmed,, and say nothing but a
great defeat of the North oan prevent the engulph
ment of the Confederacy, which must hereafter be
nerved by tbe strength of desperation, and, if ne
cessary, devastate their fields, and lay waste'their
villages and cities.
Along the Mississippi.
Everything at points to Columbus as the
next place of battle, and if it does not occur there,
it will be in this as in many previous instances, that
all signs fail. All military optics in this depart
ment are now fixed on Columbus, and a hostile shot
is now expeoted there that will "go echoing through
future history.
Cairo is very active just now; the wharf being
lined with transports, and the town full of bustle,
mud, and obnoxious people. Yesterday was quite
a soft and gonial day overhead, but in painful con
trast to this odious Tophet and its miry propensi
ties.
The Tennessee River Bridge not De
stroyed.
[From the Clarksville Jeffersonian, Feb. 18.]
The Tennessee river bridge has not been de
stroyed by the Federate, as was reported, nor
is it injured. A gentleman arrived here on Thurs
day who crossed it on a hand-car, and states that it
is all right. He came through from Memphis to
Paris on the railroad, and took hand-car from Paris
to the bridge. At the bridge he found that a por
tion of the trestle-work on the south side of the
Tennessee river had been torn away to prevent
the passage of trains; but the bridge was uninjured.
He then got another hand-ear bn this ride of the
break, and came on here. The fact that the
Federals permitted the bridge to stand when they
could have destroyed it shows the confidence they
have in their ability to obtain possession of the
oountry along the road. They may possibly find
themselves gloriously deceived, and their faith,
like Dead Sea fruit, " turn to ashes on their lips.”
Destruction or Tobacco and Cotton,
A proposition having been introduced into tho
Confederate Congress for the destruction of tobacoo
aud eotton, the Richmond Whig says:
Preparations for the destruction,of these two
articles cannot be too speedily made." If Congress
does sot act, an order from the War Offico to all the
military authorities of the Confederacy should at
once be given requiring them forthwith to take
steps for insuring tne destruction of these articles.
If .the selfish policy of foreign Governments leads
them to seek their own interests by virtually riding
in our ruin, let us show them that, if fall we must,
we will fail not unavenged, but can and will spread
ruin over the earth.
Tbe Norfolk Day Boot of Thursday has the fal
lowing comments on the Whig’s remarks:
A meeting, we learn, was held in Riohmond last
evening, for the purpose of considering the action
proposed in the above paragraph. To agree upon
what is right and judicious in the premises, and
to seouro uniformity of action, is a consumma
tion devoutly to be wished, and we hope that this,
the object of the meeting, may be Attained.
Rebel Atrocities in East Tennessee.
The horrors of rebel supremacy in East Ten
nessee have not yet been told. A member of the
Forty-ninth Indiana' regiment, now at Cumberland
Ford, says that three hundred refugees, East Ten
nesseans, have enlisted within a week, from whom
he gathers the following almost incredible stories of
the barbarities inflicted on the Union men by their
rebel tyrants:
One man sixty-five years old, attacked by a large
force, refused to surrender, and after being mor
tally wounded, having first slain four of his assail
ants, was propped up on the road ride and sixty
balls .fired into his body. Another was hanged
without trial, and his son compelled to rit beneath
the gallows and witness the agonies of his dying
father. Two others, unobtrusive quiet oitizeus,
wore cttUed at midnight from their bods, and in tho
Sresenoe of their wives and children brutally shot
own, and not content with this villainy, their
homes were stripped of everything. Even the wear
ing apparel was taken from their wives and little
ones, and they turned naked into tho street. Many
equally brutal instances are related by honest, oan
did men, whose testimony none would doubt. Such
are the sufferings of a people whose only crime is a
refusal to become traitors.
Maryland and Jeff Davis.
In the Muyl&nd House ef Delegates a few days
since, Mr. Johnson, of Baltimore county, submitted
the following:
Preamble and Resolution on the subject of the
course the State mill pursue in the present re
bellion.
'Whereas, Jefferson Davis, ft pretended presi
dent of a pretended Confederacy, in a paper styled
an inaugural, delivered by him in Riohmond, Va.,
on the 22d instant, has repeated an assertion often
recklessly uttered in publio bodies of the so-orited
Confederate States, that “ Maryland, already united
to us by hallowed memories and material interests,
will, when able to speak with unstified voice, unite
her destiny to the South and whereas, it is due
to the intelligenee, patriotism, and good name of
our people that snob assertion be at onoe repudiated
by their representatives here assembled; therefore,
be it
Resolved by the General Assembly of Mary
land, That such assertion is an unfounded and
gross calumny upon the people of tho Stato, who,
sincerely lamenting the madness and self-inflicted
misfortunes of our brethren of tho South, noting
under a delusion oaused by the arts of the aspiring
and criminal ambition of a few designing men, are
but admonished by the sad condition of such breth
ren, of the fatal results sure to follow from the
course which they have pursued, aud are more and
more convinced of the obligation, alike of interest
and of duty, to abide with undying attachment to
tho Union devised for us by our fathers, as abso
lutely necessary to our social and political happi
new, *94 prsFsrYfitfoa of tbe Yery liberty which
they fought and Died to aobieve for us.
which were read tbe first, and by special wder,
TWO CENTS.
two-thirds concurring, a flecond time, and passed
by yeas 53, nays 5.
Affirmative. Messrs. Bowie, McCollister,
Kemp, Purnell, Hammond (of Franklin), Buhrman,
Biggs, Johnflon (of Franklin), Harris (of Franklin),
McCoy, Dove, Lewis, Hardoastle, Price, Wolf,
Stockdale, Hugg, Taylor, Alexander, Mathews,
Findlay, Berry (Speaker), Westcott, Smyth,Walton,
Dunbar, Nutwelf, Johnson (Baltimore county),
Given, Ensor, Pearce, Kerr, Dougherty, Gubby,
Wright, Turner, Phelps, .Carroll, Ores well, Mcln
tire* Mortem Bowie, Ben* Thomas, Rohror, Dun
lop, White, Lowe, Chamberlain, Little, Everhart,
Waters, Hammond (Howard county), Donaldson—
S 3.
Negative. —Messrs. Dent, Harris (St. Mary's),
Bond, Magruder, Carrico—s.
Bald preamble and resolutions were then sent to
the Senate.
Jeff Davis, Now and Then.
The tone of the last message* of Jeff Davis to the
rebel Congress is so very mild in comparison with
his earlier public documents during his occupation
of the Presidential chair of the would-be Republic
that we have been at the pains to place side by side
his most striking utterances, as taken from Ins
several public papers:
f Jeff Davis’ Inaugural, [Jeff Davis’ last Message.]
Feb. i&, ifcoi.j
Looking forward to the When tho war first broke
speedy establishment of a out, many of our people
permanent Government to could with difficulty be per
take tho place of this, and suaded that it would be
which, by its greater moral tong or serious. It was not
and physical power, will be deemed possible that any
better able to eotnb&t with thing insane as a persist
tbe many difficulties which tut attempt to subjugate
Brine from the conflicting those Slates could be made,
interests of separate na- still less that the delusion
tionß, I enter upon the du- could so far prevail as to
ties of the office to which I give to the war tho vast
have been chosen with the proportions which it has
hope that the beginning of assumed.
our career as a Confederacy I have to communicate
may not be obstructed by that since the Message at
hostile opposition to our en- the last session of the Pro-
Joyment of the separate ex- visional Congress, events
istence and independence have demonstrated that the
which we have asserted, Government had attempted
and which, with the bloea- more than it had power
ing of |’rcvi<t?iicc, we ins successfully to achieve,
tend to maintain.
Going Ashore.
A Roanoke correspondent of the Buffalo Courier
says:
I have just returned from the island. I have
been there two days; have seen and talked with
fenuine Secesh. The, are the greatest set of men
ever saw. Talk about neen Yankees—the, can’t
begin with these men- The, are tbe most misera
ble-looking set ef men I ever saw. The, think we
ore going to take aw»y their religions rights, and
even imagined we were going to take them to New
York and hang them.
Tbe fallowing is the battle song of the Fifty-first
regiment, os sung by them as they approached the
coast of North Carolina:
Say, rebels) will you meet ns,
Say, rebels, will you greet us,
Say, rebels, will you beat us,
On North Carolina shore I
In the name of God we’ll meet you,
With the sword of God we’ll greet you,
By the grace of God wc’li beat you,
Oii NdHli CM6llfai febore, s
Singing glory, hallelujah,
Singing glory, hallelujah,
Singing glory, hallelujah,
To God forevermore l
With the sword of ** Jeff” you meet us,
In the name of ‘(Jeff 1 ’ you greet us,
In treason’s cause to beat us,
On North Carolina shore;
But eur flag shall float forever,
And our Union none shall sever,
And treason punish ever,
On North Carolina shore.
Oh! then, glory, hallelujah, ■*
Oh! then, glory, hallelujah,
Oh ! then, glory, hallelujah^
To God forevermore!
The Captured Rebel Generals Buckner
and Tilghman—En route for Fort War*
ren.
The movements of the rebel Generals Buckner
and Tilghman, who are now en route for Fort War
ren, Boston harbor, have excited some interest in
the oities and towns through which they have
passed.
AT BUFFALO,
say the Courier , of the 27th:
A large crowd gathered at the depot last night to
witness the arrival of the captured rebel generals,
Buckner and Tilghman, The train which brought
them—the Lake Shore train, due here at five mi
nutes past six—was delayed about half an hour;
hut the erowd did not diminish on that account, so
great was the desire to see these fallen chieftains.'
“Hit there they come!” A squad of armed
soldiers bo? made a lace through the crowd* and
down between the rows of loyal men stalk the two
traitors. Buckner steps first upon the platform—a
tall, muscular, proud-looking man, dressed in a
gray military coat, and wearing a genuine South
erner’s slouched felt hat. The orowd see "Mn\ now,
for the first time, and tho building rings with
cheers for the Union, and groans and hisses for all
rebels. Buckner turns and gives them one look,
like that of & snared tiger upon his captors, in which
more rage and scorn were concentrated than we
thought the human countenance capable of, and
pft&ee9 into the cart
Right alter him comes Tilghman, jauntily dressed
in a fatigue suit and a foraging cap, a smaller man
than Buckner, fair, with a blonde moustache,
suavity and politeness written in every line of his
face. A shout comes from the crowd, “Three
groans for the rebel Tilghman!” JBfctftrnf and
lifts his cap, and bows and smiles, as though ap
pearing on a balcony to answer a nattering sere
nade; then follows Buckner into the car, and the
crowd disperse.
AT noCHBSTfeIt
There was quite b gathering of spectators at the
depot when the train arrived, all eager to see the
distinguished characters. Few were gratified, as
they did not leave the train. They were in a
sleeping car, with doors guarded and curtains
closely drawn. Supper was ordered from Congress
Hall, and taken to tne cars on salvers, and a right
good supper it was, The priMnors wera in a ohoer
ful frame of mind, ate heartily, and did not appear
to have suffered muoh so far from confinement or the
exposure of the campaign. A Rochester exohange
says : Buckner is a man about five feet nine inches
high, rather stout,,and nearly fifty years of age.
Tilghman is sOßOWbftt taller, of spare build, and
about forty years old.
[lt would thus seem, from the newspaper ao
counts, that the relative height of the two generals
was materially changed by the trip from Buffalo to
Rochester.]
AT SCHENECTADY.
Says a Schenectady exohange of the Ist inst.:
Generals Buckner and Tilghman passed through
here this morning en route for Fort Warren. Col.
Cutts and a guard of eight men were in oharge of
the prisoners. Their train, due here at thirty-five
minutes past five o’olock, was delayed by the
breaking of a shaft on the engine, near Schwartz’s
Mills. An engine was despatched from here after
the train, and brought them down. A large crowd
assembled here at the depot to gaze upon the faces
of (he traitors, bat found the sleeping ear looked,
and conld not get a sight.
AT ALBANY
Albany, March I.—The two rebel prisoners are
comfortably located at Congress Hall. No train
has yet departed on the Albany and Boston road
Bince their arrival, owing to the detention pf trains
by enow drifts. The crowd that hung around the
hotel, anxious to get a view of the prisoners, were
dispersed by a ruse that they had left. It waa
not until this belief was made general that a per-'
son could get into the hotel or out of it without
elbowing his way through a dense orowd of excited
people. It is quito probable that the; will leave
some time to-day.
Tilghman appears the more sociable of the two.
He is pleasant and affable in his manners to all who
converse with him—a favor that no person is grant
ed except those who are called in officially to see
Colonel Cutis, who remains constantly in the rwffl
with them, and does not leave them for a moment.
Gen. Buckner, on the_other hand, appears some
what sour and morose occasionally, ana is often un
natural. A person who was in the room on official
business with Colonel Cutts, conversed with the lat
ter person freely, and, as he was about to loave>
remarked to General Buckner, " I hope to see you
again, Generalto which General B. replied, in a
gruff way, "Yes, I suppose so—on the gallews.”
General Buckner is exceedingly severe in his de
nunciations of Gen. Floyd, and ealls him a cowardly
poltroon, thiofj and every other bad name that he
can think of; is even worse in his denunciations ef
him than iB generally indulged in by the Northern
press. To a military officer who had an opportuni
ty of conversing with General Buckner, the latter
gentleman stated that after Fort Donelson bad be
?om? invested, and all hepo of escape out off, Floyd
proposed to his fellow officers to make their escape
under cover of darkness, and leave tbe soldiers un
der their command to their fate. This remarkable
proposition General Buckner and his associates in
dignantly rejected; but Floyd soon after disappear
ed, and was not to be found when wanted.
Secretory Chase and the Fort Royal Con
trabands.
Secretary Chase has communicated to Mr. E. L.
Pieroe, at Port Royal, his approval of that gentle
man’s report on the 11 contrabands. ’ ’ He says:
" The whole authority of this Department over
the subjects of your report is derived from the fifth
seotion of the ait to provide for the collection of du
ties, end fer ether purposes, approved July 13,1801,
by which the President is authorized to permit com
mercial intercourse with any port of the country de
clared to be in a state of insurrection, under suoh
roles and regulations as may be prescribed by the
Secretary of the Treasury, who is himself autho
rized to appoint the officers needed to carry into ef
fect suoh permits, rules, and regulations.
" As incidental to this authority alone have I any
power to sanotion any measures for the culture of
the abandoned estates in the Port Royal ae any
ctfeer distil?*, I* ia i “deed, in the highest degree
essential to commercial intercourse with that por
tion of the oountry, that the abandoned estates be
cultivated, and the laborers upon them employed.
I da not hesitate, therefore, to continue your
agency, with a view to the general superintendence
and direction of such perscßS as may be engaged in
such cultivation and employment.
" It is understood that an association of judioious
and humane persons has been formed in Boston,
which may aot in concert, or be consolidated with
a similar association, in New York and other cities,-
and that, through the agency of these associations,
or one "of them,,persons may be employed to pro
ceed, with the sanction of tbe Government, to take
charge of the abandoned plantations nnder the
general plan suggested by yourself, and which is
fiillj approyed ey
“ You vriU therewith receive copies of orders ad
dressed to tbe quartermaster of New York and tbe
general commanding at Port Royal, directing that
transportation and subsistence, with all other pro
per facilities, be afforded to tho persons thus en
gaged.
“ You will therefore receive applications for the
employments indicated, and will select and appoint
such applicants as you think best fitted, and assign
each to his respective duty; it being understood
that compensation for services to be rendered will
be made by the Association, while subsistence,
quarters, and transportation only will be furabUed
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Southern War Songs.
The following war songs of the rebels have been
forwarded by a correspondent at Clarksville, Toon:
SONG FOB TUB SOUTH,
or *« the mighty nations in the Eftfit or in the Wash
Our glonons Southern nation is tho greatest and the
best;
We have room for all true Southrons, with our stars and
bars unfurled.
And a general invitation to tho people of the world.
Chorus.
Then, to film Doya! to arms, boys I make no delay.
Gome from every Southern State, cornu from every way;
Our army ißti’t large enough; Jeff Davis calls for
“more,”
To hurl the vile invader from off our Southern shore.
Ohio Is our Northern line, far as hor waters flow,
And on the South is the Bio Grande and the Gulf of
Mexico ;
While between the Atlantic Ocean, wk&pe tho sun
to rise,
Westward to Arizona, the land of promise Uos.
Chorus.—Then, to arms, boys! Ac.
Wlide the Gulf States raise the cotton, the others grain
and pork,
North and South Carolina's factories will do the finer
work.
For tbe deep and flowing water falls that course along
onr hills,
Are “just the things” for washing sheep and driving
cotton mills.
Chorus.—Then to anus, boys ! Ac.
White the North Is in commotion, and her « monarcli'a"
in a fret,
We’re teaching them a lesson which they never wilt for
get ;
And this they fast are learning, that Dixie's not a fool,
For the men will do their fighting, while the children gu
to school.
Chorus*—Them to arms, boys! Ac.
Our Southern boy* are brave and true, and are joining
heart and hand,
And are flocking to the stars and bars, as they are float
ing o'er our land;
And all are standing ready, with their rifles in their
hand,
And invite the North to open - guavas dawn South in
Dixie's land.
Chorus.—Then, to arms, boys! Ac.
THE SOUTHERN WAGON.
Come all ye sons of freedom, and join our Southern band*
We’re going to fight the enemy and drive them from out
land.
Justice is our motto, Providence our guide,
So jump in the wagon, and we'll all take a ride.
Chorus—Oh, wait for the wagon,
The dissolution.
The South is our wagon,
And we’ll all take a ride.
Secession is onr watchword, our rights we all demanJ,
And to defend our Amides, wo pledge our hearts and
band,
Jeff Davis Is our President, with Stephens by his side,
Bravo Beauregard our general, will join ua in the ride.
Our wagon is plenty big enough, the running gear la
good,
It's stuffed around with cotton, and made of Southern
wood.
Carolina is our driver, with Georgia by bersfde,
Virginia trill hold her flag up, and we'll all take a ride.
Tbete are Tennessee and Texas also in the ring.
They wouldn't have a government where cotton wasn't
king.
Alabama and Florida havo long ago ropllod,
Mississippi and Louisiana are anxious for the ride.
Missouri, North Carolina, and Arkansas are stew;
They must hurry or we'll leave them, and then what
will they do 7
There’s old Kentucky and Maryland won’t make up their
mind, j
So i reckon after all we’ll take them up behind.
Tbe Tennessee boys are in the field, eager for tho fray;
They can whip tbe Yankee boys three to one they say j
And when they get In conflict, with Davis by their side,
They’ll pitch into tbe Yankee boys, and then you'll see
them slide.
Our cause is just and holy, our men are brave and true;
We'll whip the Lincoln cutthroats, is all we have to do.
God bless our noble army; in Him we all confide.
Bo jump into the wagon anil we’ll all lake a rids.
A Letter found in a Rebel Camp at Roa.
The following letter, found in a rebel camp at Roanoke
Island alter it was taken possession of by our forces, hM
been cent us by an attentive correspondent *.
Elk Dale, near Woodville, >
JABUAff 2s, XW* {
Mr. Welch: Sir, your letter reached its destination
a short time ago. I now mako the attempt to reply, but I
can aßeure you in the beginning that It will not be at all
interesting. lam sorry to hear of your indisposition, for
it must be a bad place to be sick. I hope you have entirely
recovered by thiß time.
Thor
have stood a draft. Some drow clear to go;
others are very much grieved at the thought of going
away in the “mtthh ” When they were ordered to turn
out they commenced growing old fast; dates war*
changed; some would doubtless have turned gray if they
could.
1 am truly glad to hoar of the roturu it four g»l]*at
captain Johnßon. I gncss he enjoyed a cordial welcome
from his Ilarvcy boys. Does he look at all like a Yan
kee ? After spending so much time with them, I hope he
has not imbibed any of ttielr principles.
We have most dreadful weather now; it has been rain
ing all the time for two weefca; it is eery cold to-day, and
is raining, snowing, hailing, &hd blowing | (ho wyalhor
has, of late, been almost as changeable here as, I under*
stand, it is on the coast of Roanoke.
1 begin to think that the Yankees fear the little brave
band of soldiers on that small island they thought would
be so easy to take.' You have not been attacked by great
Sutler nor Burnside ; you need not fear an attack.
Don't you pity Sir. billy Sutton, justmarrled, the honey
moon not over, hod bo dratted ! You must try and com
fort him if he goes to Roanoke; we will try to console bin
wife.
My last year's school is up, but I am not at leisure yet,
for I have found my way into another school-room,
though not so pleasant as the former. I have
pupils, and it is very dqll, law ten miles from horns,
though that need not make me unhappy, for I bear from
the dear onea there once a week rognt&rly, but every,
body Is a stranger to me, and that sociability among
■neighbors that /have always been accustomed to, does
not seem to exist in this corner of the globe, Thofamitr
is very hind indeed. I trill leave you to giless where it is.
Flense esieuse the brevity sf this letter i His very late,
and I mutt conclude. I know you will not expect me to
fill this great, large sheet of paper ; I hate to write any
on it, it is so ordinary, but it is the best I can get; the
Yankees hare deprived us of good paper, as well as many
other necessaries. I expect you will find this letter Terr
full sf mi. takes. I have four dark-eyed gly|, ilriiUßil us
reading fairy-tales, ami chattering same as a parcel of
squirrels. Respond soon to your friend,
GENERAL NEWS.
Death of an Oddity.—Joseph Garliug
house, janitor of the New York State Senate, is
dead. “Old Joe,” ashe was ealled, was a peculiar
man. He had a great fund of aneodote. His life
■was full of adventures and hair-flreadth escapee*
He was ene of the early settlers of Western New
York, and “ reughed ” it with the frontiermea
when all west of Oneida was a wilderness. He was
engaged, on different occasions, in conveying seve
ral of the Indian tribes of the State to Western re
servations. His experience was not only interest
ing, but partook of a romantic character, fit vu
sheriff of Ontario county, and was a “power” at
one time in Western New York. Joe Garling
house was a man of regular habits. It was Mg
boast that he was never confined a day by siok
neES, and never drank a glass of liquor in his life.
A man convicted of killing game ha§ Jjfeij
excommunicated from the Scotch church of Gallo
way, the clergyman refusing, after he had passed
through bis term of imprisonment, to baptise his
child, for the very reason that the landed proprie
tors of Galloway had suffered great loss from time
to time through the applicant’s destroying their
game. That is a remarkable specimen of Sootoh
logic.
The revenue of the Russian Empire for
the year, arising from ordinary sources, amounts to
two hundred and ninety-six millions of roubles,
and from extraordinary sources—namely, from the
loan of 1800—fourteen and a half millions of rou
bles. The ordinary expenditure is stated at two
hundred and ninety-four millions, and the extra
ordinary expenditure at sixteen and a half millions
of roubles.
Tiiß gold regions lately opened in Vancou
ver’s Island are very valuable. The mining
‘ 1 holes’ ’ are described as shining with gold. When
the “hed rook” was laid bare, it was found stud
ded or paved with “ lumps” of gold, and every
shovelful contained a considerable amount, in some
oases to the value of S5O, and required no * l wash,
ing,” the nuggets or pellets of gold being picked
out by hand.
Tiie column, over sixty feet high, on which
the statue of O'Connell will be placed, is nearly
finished It will be placed on the exact site of tha
old court house, in the town of Ennis, Ireland,
where tbe great Tribune stood when he poured
forth his burning eloquence at the memorable Clare
election in 1823.
PISQBACEITL AiTAIK IN CHICAGO.— A Chi.
cago paper oomes to us with two columns of matter,
leading off with the following head-lines, in large
type: “ Feast for the gossips; the wife of an ex
alderman forms a disgraceful plot for the ruin of
her husband; how tbe sobeme was frustrated j aris
toorntie domestic disagreements; seen. mag.; {4n
nubial infidelity ; a base son-in-law, etc.”
An eminent mathematician—a professor of
the University College—being challenged to find a
rhyme to “ Timbuctoo,” promptly replied with the
Mewteg irreverent verse;
“ If I were a cassowary*
Ob the sands of Timbuctoo,
I would eat a missionary,
Skin and bones, and hymn-book too /"
Hon. James B. Gardenhire, the leading
Republican politician of Missouri, candidate of that
party for Governor in 1860, and Attorney General
of tbe State several years ago, died at bis resi
dence in Howard county, Missouri, on the 19th
ult.
Prof, Jambs 11. Faibchiip, of Oberiin, Ohio,
came near freezing to death on the road home from
Wellington last Sunday night. He had fallen in
sensible, when somebody picked him up.
Bosses on the Lakes—The marine losses
on tbe St. Lawrence and lakes during the year
isfii, amounted to $302,625 on steamers, and ?50i t -
T 22 on sailing vessels and their cargoes. The num
ber of lives lost was 116 ; that of last year was STB.
The gallant Second Kansas, that was so
badly out to pieces at been trans
formed into a cavalry regiment, with full ranks.
Four ex-Presidents of Harvard College
are now living—namely, Jaied Sparks, Edward
Everett, Josiah Quincy, and Dr. Walker.
* Rations have been contracted for to foed
tho 7,000 rebel prisoners to be confined at Camp
Douglas, near Chicago, at 111 coats per diem.
Missouri A. Kmur,