the press.
fVBUBBIP (SUNDAYS EXOSPYRD,)
BY W. FORNEY,
OFFICE i>- <l7 CHESTNUT STREET.
T Jl/ DAILY PRESS,
O SJ fS Pes Week, payable to the. Carrier.
Uatied to obgcribers oat of the City At Six Dollars
Pkr Amro? Your Dollars tor Eight Months,
THREE Do* ,ars for Mouths—invariably in ad-
We*tor™iim6oriareA
>HE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Maile to Subscribers oat of the City at Three Dol
lars f * Ankcm, in advance.
/ IIOMMTSSIOrj, BOttSBS.
JELLING, COFFIN, & CO.,
220 CHESTNUT STREET,
.Agents for the following makoe of goods
PRINTS.
DUNNJCI.L UFO. CO GBEENE UFG. 00.
LAWNS.
DUNNBLL MFC. CO.
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Lonsdale, Forestdale, Auburn, Slatersville, Centred ale,
Jame&town, Blackstone, Hope, Red Bank, Dorchester,
Newburyport, Naumeag, Zouave, Burton, Greene
?Hfg. Co.’s A. A., B. A., 0. A., and other stylos.
BROWN COTTONS.
©urneide, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Chestnut, Glenville,
Mechanics’ and Farmers’.
CORSET JEANS.—Glasgow, Manchester.
DENIMS AND STRIPES.—Grafton, Jewett City,
SWadison, Slatersvillo, Agawam,.Keystone, Choctaw.
CANTON FLANNELS.—Slateraviile, Agawam.
SILESIAS.—Smith’s, Social Co., Lonsdale 00.
WOOLENS.
ARMY BLUE CLOTHS, KERSEYS, and FLAN*
JHELB.
BROAD CLOTHS.—Plunketts’, Glenham Co., &o.
CASSIMEBES.—Gay A Son, Saxton’s River, Ac.
SATINE7S.—Bass Blver, OonTcrarillo, Lower Val
?ley, Hope, StafTordville, Converse and Hyde, Converse
*Bros. A Co., Sbaw Mfg. Co.
KENTUCKY JEANS.—Rodman, Mystic, Gold Medal.
FLANNELS WILLIAMS’S Angola, Sax
• Oby, U&fcl&O, &iid dthfir styles i
LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored Cambrics.
PLAID LINSEYS, COTTONADE3. Ac. [fe26-3m
6HIPLEY, HAZARD, &
HUTCHINSON,
Ho. 112 CHESTNUT STBEET,
COMMISSION HIBCHARia
FOB THK SALS OF
PHILADELPHIA-MADE
GOODS.
Be2B-6m
DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
1862. HPBINQ - 1862.
W. S. STEWART & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
‘SILKS AND FANCY DKESS GOODS,
NC. 303 MARKET STREET.
- Buyers are invited to call and examine a fresh stock of
NEW AND DESIRABLE GOODS,
• bought exclusively for CASH, and which we will offer on
-the most favorable terms.
Our stock comprises, in addition to a complete assort
- meat of
BLACK AND OTHER STAPLE SILKS,
-a variety of Seasonable
DRESS GOODS, IN NEW AND APPROVED STYLES,
-{Specially adapted to City Sales. f025-3m
YA*i:d, gill-more, & Co.,
Baa, GIT CHESTNUT and 014 JAYHH Streets,
Have now open their
SPRING IMPORTATION
OF SILK AND FANCY
DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE
GOODS,
LINJKNSj EMBROIDERIES, &CL
Bought in Europe, by one cf the firm.
'To which the attention of the trade is particularly in
vited. fc2l-2m
JELLING OFF
STOCK OF
CASSIMERES, VESTINGS, DRIL
LINGS, MARSEILLES, &o.
Twenty.fiye per cent, nailer former prices.
A. H. GIBBS,
fe2l-lm No. S3l MARKET Street
JAS. R. CAMPBELL & Co.,
IMPORTERS, AND GASH DEALEEB IN
DRY GOODS,
AT WHOLESALE AND BETAIL,
Ho. 727 CHESTNUT STREET.
Having Mg&niasd a RETAIL DEPARTMENT In
<3onnection with their WHOLESALE TRADE, will ex
hibit, at all seasons, a line of Goode by the yard, piece,
or package, at such rates as to commend their stock to
the attention of cash buyers.
LOOKING GLASSES.
JAMES S. EAKLE k SON,
MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS
o r
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTING 9,
FINE ENGRAVINGS,
PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
'CABTE-DE-VISITS PORTRAITS,
EARLE’S GALLERIES,
816 CHESTNUT STREET,
jalS PHILADELPHIA.
CABINET EURMTUKE
CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL
LIABD TABLES.
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 261 South SKOOND Street,
is connection with their Oabiuat Business are
•&0W manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD-TABLES,
.And have now on hand-A fall supply, finished with the
3XOOBE A CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who hare uaed them* to be
ouperior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these tables the manu
facturers iefer to their numerous patrons throughout
;£he Union, who are familiar with the character of their
fe2B-6m
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
JgOBERT SHOEMAKER
& CO.,
Northeast Cora6* FOURTH and RAGE Street*,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS AND HEADERS
Ilf
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
3THIXE LEAD AND ZING PAINTS, PUTTY, *O.
AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealers and consumers supplied at
VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH.
fe!2-2m
RITE LEAD
Bed Lead,
Whits Lead,
Litharge,
Sugar of Lead*
Oil of Vitriol,
Oalomelt
Patent Yellow,
'Chrome Bed,
<Gbrome Yellow,
liana Portia.
Muriatic Add,
Epsom Saits,
Rochelle Salts,
Tartaric Acid,
-Orange Mineral,
SolnhleTart.
Bub. Garb. Soda,
White Vitriol,
Bed Precipitate,
WETHER
Druggists and Mai
Nos. 47 and 49
j«JMr
White Precipitate)
Lunar Lunatic,
Narcotine,
fiuluti. Marohinot
Morphine,
Acetate Morphine,
Lac. Sulpb.,
Ether Sulphuric,
Ether Citric,
Sulphate Quinine,
Oorro. Subllm.t
Denarcotized Opium,
Chloride of Soda,
Wetherill’s ext. Gincha.
Tartar Emetic,
Cfilorideof Lime. •
Crndfi Borax,
Refined Borax,
Camphor,
Beam Gopavfa.
LL A BROTHER,
raufacturing Chemists,
I North SECOND Street,
PifiLADttLFHrA.
Terrapins, oysters stewed
AND FRIED, AND CHICKEN SALAD.—lnvi
tation cards and other notices will be distributed in Hi
-partfl of th« city, with punctuality*
The undersigned is at all times prepared to present, for
Jtae inspection of Ladies and Gentlemen, a list of the
r 6hJngs necessary fora large or small entertainment, as the
case may be, thereby avoiding aU unnecessary profusion
•end waste; and flatten himself, that by his long expe
rience in business, he will be able at all times to give, ae
.heretofore, entire satisfaction to an who favor him with
toclr patronage. HENBT JONBB* Caterer,
No. 260 South TWELFTH Street, above SPRUCE,
•cl-flta
i, DRY AND IN
VOL 5.-N0 181.
COFARTDiEKSHIP NOTICES.
"VTirrRIE— TBE PARTNERSHIP of
Xl LINCOLN, WOOD, A NICHOLS ia this day dis
solved by mntuai consent. ''The businosa of the late firm
will be setUed by THOMAS H. WOOD, of the firm of
WOOD & GARY, who wit! carry on the business at the
same place, No. 725 CHESTNUT Street.
H. E. LINCOLN,
THOA H. WOOD,
B. E. NICHOLS.
Philadelphia, Feb. 26, 1862. fe27-6t
TJOttT RICHMOND IRON WORKS.
J. —COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE. - JOHN H.
TOWNS, formerly of the firm of Merrick A Towne,
has become a member of the firm of I. P. MORRIS A
CO-, to toko effact from and after the Ist of January,
1862. Isaac P. Morris withdraws from active participa
tion in the conduct of the business.
The title of the now firm is I. P. MORRIS, TOWN®,
A CO. ISAAO P. MORRIS,
LKWIS TAWS,
JOHN J. THOMPSON,
fell JOHN H. TOWNS.
THE UNDERSIGNED have formed
a Copartnership, under the firm of JAURRTOHH
A LAVJCRGNE, for the transaction of a genera! Com
mission and Importing business, at 202 and 204 South
IBQHT Street, P, JAVKE 7CHR,
feB-lm F. LAVEBGNE.
POPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.—IS-
V-/ BAEL MORRIS this day retires from our firm.
Hie sons, THEODORE H. MORRIS and FREDERICK
W. MORRIS, are admitted as partners; and the bad
ness will be continued as heretofore.
MORRIS, WHEELER, A GO.,
Iron Merchants,
1608 MARKET Street
Philadelphia, Dee. 31,1861. jal-tf
ffiOFOSALS.
JEON-CLAD STEAMERS.
Navy Departmhnt,
Wabhinqtvn, February 20) 1862.
The Navy Department will, uutil the 24th of Of arch
next, receive propositions for tbe complete construction
and equipment of iron* clad vessels for river, harbor, and
coast defence.
These vessels, with the excepton of those for tbe Mis
sissippi river and its tributaries, will be propelled by
■crews j those for the Mississippi river aad tributaries
may bo propelled by padale-wheels. The hulls will be
either wholly of iron (which would be preferred) or of
iron and wood combined, us the projectors may consider
most suitable for the object proposed, but their sld.sand
deckß'inust be protected with an iron armature sufficient
to resist the heaviest shot and shells.
The vessels for the Mississippi river and its tributaries
are not to draw more than six feet water wnen fully
equipped and armed, at which drafts they are to be able
to maintain a permanent spcel of nine knots per hour in
still wAter, and carry suilicieut coal in the bllflksrs for
®ix Raya steaming at that speed Their armament wifi
consist of not less than six eleven-inch guns.
The vessels for harbor defence are not to draw more
than twelvejeet water when full equipptd and armed, at
which draft they arete be able to maintain a permanent
speed of ten knots per hour in smooth water, ami carry
BUillciettt COAL Hi the bunkers lor seven days l steaming at
that speed. Their armanent will consist of not less than
from two to four eleven-inch guns.
The vessels for coast defence are not to draw more
than twenty feet water when fully equipped and armed,
at which draft they are to be able to maintain a perma
nent 'Speed (I illteeii knots per hour at sea, and carry
sufficient coal in the 4 buukers tor twelve days’ steaming at
that speed. Their armament will consist of ono or two
fifteen or twenty.inch guns.
The guns of the vessels for harbor and coast defence
are to train to all points of the compass without change
In the vessel's position.
Tho propositions must state the number of vessels,
subject to the election of the Department, which the
party proposes to furnish complete in every respect, em
bracing armour plating, steam machinery, and equip
ments of ail kinds, ready for service, excepting only the
ordnance and oidnance stores and provisions; the propo
sition mufet be accompanied by descriptions, specifica
tions, drawings, and models ot such character that the
work could be executed from them.
The place of delivery mußt bo stated; the time within
which the vessel or vessels are to be completed, aud also
the total sum to be paid for each.
It will be stipulated in the contract that one-fifth the
total amount will be retained by the Government until
sixty days after the reception of thu vessel, in order to
give it a trial, the remaining p&ytaiuU Wug made with
due regard to the proper performance and progress of the
work; the contract will al*o embrace forfeitures for fail
ure to perform the conditions specified.
The bids must be accompanied by the guarantee re
quired by law, that, if a contract is awarded, it will be
promptly executed } and the names of the partieß who are
to become the sureties to the amount of the face of the
contract will aleo be stated.
The Department will consider any other propositions
that may be presented : in which the draft of water above
named is not exceeded.
The Department will be at liberty to accept or reject
any or all the propositions. fe22-swfit
IVTOT ICE. —PROPOSALS FOR
il FURNISHING U. 8. NOTES AND BONDS.
Treasury Djpartubst, 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 farnisning ninety millions
of United States Notes and two hundred millions in
Sondß, to be ißsnofl under the authority of the act of
February, 1862, entitled “ An act to authorize the issuo
of United States Treasury Notes, and fur the redemption
or refunding thereof,” Ac.
Notes aud Brnds will be required of the
tlouß and m the proportions as follows;
Thirteen millions each of United States NoTes of the
denominations of ss, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100 s, and 500 s, aud
twelve millions of tbe denomination of 1,000.
OF REGISTERED BONDS.
Five million of the denomination of. ....,a,a,...» &&Q
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 da 10,000
OF COUPON BONDS.
Eighty millions of the denomination of 1,000
Twenty millions of the denomination of 500
Proposals will be received for the delivery of aU 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 iop
paper. Tbe engraving must be la the highest style of
art, and the paper of the best quality. *
Proposals must state the unuiber of sheets and the ag
gregate representative value of each denomination which
they undertake to furnish daily, and the least number of
days require.* from notice of award before commence*
mein of lit)livery.
Models of notes and bonds must be submitted, and
specimens of work accompany them.
Models of notes on the face will be in tbe same form
as now used, and on the backs will state the privilege of
legal tender, aud other privileges stipulated iu tuu law.
_ Models of bonds will* in addition to tbo usual stiDuliu
tions, have the statement that they are reimbursaole
after five and payable twenty years from data.
It is expected also that, as far as practicable, the dies
and plates will be such hb have not been heretofore used
except for work of the United States.
Inch proposal must be acconnranied by a statement of
the bidders 7 facilities for executing the work, the uum
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;
and proposals by unincorporated associations bp the
articles of association and names of parties.
Bonds for the ftutliful 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 aud their written co leant to
become such, together with a certificate of an Assistant
Treasurer as to their sufficiency, must accompany each
proposal.
The tecretary of the Treasury reserves the right to
rejr-ct any or all the bids, aud to vary the amounts spe
cified, ae in bis opinion the interests of the public service
may require. fa2B-6t
SEALED PROPOSALS are united
till the 10th day of March, 1862, at 12 o’clock M.,
for supplying the U. S. Sob. Dep’t with 6. 01 K) head of
BEEF CATTLE on the hoof.
The Cattle to be delivered at Washington City, and
each animal to average 1,300 pounds gross weight: 119
animal admitted which weighs less than 1,000 pounds
gross.
The Cattle to be delivered at such times and in such
quantities as the Government may require. No Cattle will
be required under this contract before the Ist day of
April, 1062.
Heifers &hd 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 bo entertained when put in by contractors
who have previously failed to comply with their contracts*
or whore the bidder is not presßßt to respond to hi 9 bid.
Bids to be directed to Maj. A, BECKWITH, O. 8., U.
S. A., Washington, D. O.
Form or Sid.
I, A B, do hereby propose to deliver to the Govern
ment good Beef Cattle on tho hoof for per hundred
pounds gross weight. The Cattle to be delivered at
according to the terms of the enclosed advertisement.
The Cattlo 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 tbe fulfilment of the
contract, and to receive Treasury notes in payment for
the Cattle. felS-tm9
DEP Ut Y QUARTERMASTER
GENERAL’S OFFICE.
Philadelphia, 27th February, 1862.
PROPOSALS* wili 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 bo similar to those made by the United
States Ordnance Department They are required imme
diately. G. £L CROSSMAN,
fe2S-6t Deputy Quartermaster General.
Army clothing and equi
page OFFICE,
Philadilphia, February 28, 1862.
SEALED PROPOSALS are invittd until WEDNES
DAY, March sth, at 12 M, for furnishing
j. 60.000 TENTS D’aBBRE* FRENCH PATTERN;
A F&uipleof which can be seou at this office, to be made
of Imen or cotton, and delivered in New York and Phila
delphia. Also,
ARMY GAITERS OR LEGGINGB,
of good strong linen or cotton duck, a sample of which
can be seen at this office. Each bid is invited for 1,000 to
16,000 pivSrs of these Leggings, and bidders are required
to state how soon they can deliver them.
Bidß must be endorsed
Proposals for Tents D’Arbre, or,
Proposals for Gaiters or Leggiugs.
Tbe names of proper securities will be required in tho
proposals* * G H. GROSMAN*
mhl Deputy Quartermaster General.
Assistant quartermaster’s
OFFICE, corner TWENTY SECOND and O
Streets. Washington, February 28, 1862.
TWO HUNDRED EXPERIENCED TEAM ITERS
can obtain immediate employment on application at this
Office. Wages $25 per mouth and a daily ration.
J. J. DANA,
mh3-6t Capt., Asst. Quartermaster U. S. Army.
EDUCATIONAL,
Excelsior normal insti
. TUTE, a first-class Country School for both
sexes, located at CARVE RSVILLE, Bucks county. Pa.
The next session will commence March 31,1862, and con
tinue twenty-two weeks.
The school is organized with three departments—tbe
PREPARATORY, the NORMAL, and the ORNAMEN
TAL. Students of all ages, and every stage of advance
ment, are admitted on terms of equality.
The hcalthfulnees of location and thoroughness of in
struction are unaurpaafled.
Terms—For board and tuition in common English,
$3 per week.
For catalogues and particulars, address
Rev. F. B. S. HUNSICKER, Principal,
fel3-lm* OABVKBSVILLE* Bucks co., Pa
Bordentown female col.
LEGE, Bordentown, N. J.
This institution is pleasantly located on the Delaware
river, Ijltf hour’s ride from Philadelphia. Special atten
tion is paid to the common and higher branches of Eng
lish, and superior advantages are furnisned in vocal and
Instrumental music. German and French are taught by
natives, and spoken in the family. For catalogues, con
taining full particulars, address
Rev. JOHN H. BBAKELEY, A. M.,
ja29-2m* President.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1862
Post Office Money Orders.
Thera is now boforo tho consideration of
Congress a bill “ To establish a Postal Money
Order Servicea system which has long been
in operation in England, successfully, because
it yields a considerable revenue to the State,
and affords considerable accommodation to
the public. Before we state the several pro
positions of this measure, which has long been
required in this country, we shall mention
some particulars connected with its details and
operations in England.
Some officers of the General Post Office in
London, as far back as 1702, started tho mo*
ney-order system as a„ private speculation.
Persons in the General Post Offices of Scot
land and Ireland soon followed this lead, and
tiie system was thus generalized throughout
the United Kingdom. The commission of
16 cents in every 480 cents, (a pound ster
ling,) was charged, but the department was
so badly managed, as to yield small profit to
its projectors, aud small accommodation to
the public. In August, 1838, the money
order system was taken out of the hands of
private persons, who received a pecuniary
compensation, and was attached to the post
office.
The commissions were then fixed at 12 cents
for all orders less than two pounds sterling
(960 cents,) and 36 cents for all sums between
forty and one hundred shillings. In 1838,
there were issued 188,921 orders, in this ar
rangement, to the value of $1,505,623. In
1859, this number and amount trebled, and in
1840, tho increase was again three-fold. In
November 1840, the commissions were re
spectiYOly reduced to six and twelve cents. In
1838, tho whole London business was done by
three persons. In 1841, the increase of busi
ness made it necessary to augment this force
to thirty-seven, and there are now, in the Lon
don department alone, some 230 persons em
ployed.
The increase of tho number of orders is
sued has been great. For example, in 1811,
when the reduced rates came into operation,
the number of money-orders in the United
KiDgdomwas 1,552,845, representing payments
of $15,637,538. In 1851, ton years later, the
number of orders had increased to 4,061,023,
and the amount paid to $44,402,104. In 1861,
were granted 7,229,146 orders, representing
$69,292,020. On this sum, the Post Office
received $607,670 for commission, leaving
a clear profit to the deparment of $142,370.
In the last ten years, though over 2,500 post
oflices, out of 11,000, grant money orders, the
whole loss, by defalcations of officials has been
only $1,335. The number of orders annually
granted by the British Post Office is about ono
to every four inhabitants. The system has
been extended to Canada, Malta, Gibraltar,
and is to be carried out in Australia and the
Cape. That is, an order granted in England
will be cashed at a post office in these places,
and vice versa .
The money-order itself is a draft from one
postmaster to another, and is paid at sight, in
specie, (the smallest bank note value in Eng
land being $25, and $5 in Ireland and Scot
land,) to the person In whoso favor it is
drawn. The name of tho person who sends
it is not marked on it, nor tho name of him
to whom it is to be paid. The postmaster
who issues it,-sends a letter of advice to the
postmaster who is to pay it, in which both
names are recorded, and payment will not be
made unless the receiver endorses it and can
mention by whom it is sent. Until last year,
no sum above $25 could be remitted by one
order, but $-50 may bow be sent for a com
mission of 25 cents. British experience
shows that not one money-order in 500,000
gets appropriated by the wrong person. -
The money-order bill, which passed the
House of Representatives on February 25,
and is now before the Senate Committee on
Post Offices, contains nine sections. They
give; 1. The Postmaster General tho power
to establish an uniform money-order system
in all post offices which he may deem suitable
therefor, it being the duty of the deputy post
master, in each case, to issue orders, imme
diately send advice with particulars to the
postmaster on whom it is drawn, and in no
case, under penalty of being-fined for the mis
demeanor, to issue an order without first re
ceiving the amount from the person who ob
tains it. 2. Each person, on applying for an
order, must enter his name and address, and
those of the person to whom it ia to be sent.
3. The amount of an order not to be less than
sl,nor more than $3O, and the commission pay
able to be five cents for a sum from $1 to $lO j
Un cents from sio to $2O, and additional five
cents for every additional $lO, or less amount.
4. Gives tbe deputy postmaster power to issue
a new money-order, in lieu of one which it is
desired to modify or change, on payment of
a new commission, or to repay the amount, on
receiving back the order from the person to
whom it was issued, but without refunding
the commission. 5. Order not to be valid or
payable, if not presented before 90 days, but
to be renewable, on payment of a new com
mission. In case an order is. lost, a duplicate
may be issued, on legal proof of loss and pay
ment of sccoild Colnmis^lon. 6. Payee of an
order need not attend the office to receive the
money, but can endorse the order to another.
7. Deputy postmasters to receive, as com
pensation, (subject t 6 Post Office-Consoli
dation Act of 1825,) one-third of the
whole commissions on orders issued, and
ono-eighth of one per cent, on the
amounts paid at thoir offices. 8. Postmaster
General to have power to transfer to deputy
postmasters such money as may be required
over and above the current revenue of their
offices, to pay money-orders drawn on them,
9. Postmaster General to have power t.
employ such clerical force as may be neces
sary to carry out the provisions of this act—
their payment to be paid out of the revenue
accruing from such service; but any de
ficiency that may arise in the first year to
be appropriated out of any money in the
Treasury arises from the revenue of the Post
Office Department.
It is obvious that some of these provisions
may be amended, but the main enactment is
good. Section 6 should treat with the case of
money-orders sent to firms and not to indi
viduals ; and Section 7, giving deputy post
masters commission on the issue and payment
of money-orders, adopts a principle wholly
ignored by the British Post Office. This work
is there considered as part of tho postmaster's
routine duty, not to be paid for by any ad
dition to his salary. In cases where—as in
cities and large towns—the money-order sys
tem imposes much extra labor, the plan is to
increase the clerical force, and to pay for
such increase out of the funds of the Post
Office Department, like other clerks’ sala
ries. If the deputy postmaster is to have
a commission, one-third of tho amount re
ceived on orders issued seem* too considera
ble, and the amount on moneys paid too
small.
Philadelphia County Prison,
The fifteenth annual report of the Inspec
tors, made to the State Legislature last month,
has just been printed, and Dr. John B. Biddle,
Preside&t of the Board, has sent iis a copy,
from which we glean the following particulars.
The number of commitments for 1861 was
12,901, against 20,800 in 18G0. “The com
mitments for intoxication were 2,BSd; for va
grancy, 2,664; for disorderly conduct, 5,719;
for assault and battery, 1,668; in all 12,901.
Four-fifths of tlio entire commitments to tho
Prisofi are thus referable to drunkenness—the
commitments for vagrancy and disorderly con
duct being, almost without exception, cases of
drunkenness, and most of those for assault and
battery being also due to excessive indulgence
in intoxicating drinks.”
The Board recommends some modification
of our license system,—the interposition of
taxation as a check upon the extension of tho
evil.
Reporting that 5,463 out of 12,901 com
mitted to the prison were discharged by the
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MABCH 5, 1862.
committing magistrates, and 324 by the Grand
Jury, the Board again suggests a reform in
our present system of magistracy, which it
condemns as “an engine of fraud, extortion,
and oppression.” It suggests that our civic
magistrates, instead of being elected, shall be
“ appointed by the Executive or from tho
Courts,” (meaning by the Judges?) that they
should have legal knowledge, and he induced
to accept the responsibility by remunerative
salaries and a good-behavior tenure. This is
what The Press has recommended, hitherto
without effect, ever sir.ee its establishment,
Tho necessity of erecting a new prison, of
increased size and improved arrangements, in
connection with a House of Correction, is
urged. The expense, in these difficult times,
will probably he an obstacle to this, and, if
our local magistrates possessed legal know
ledge, in which most of them are deficient,
tho present prison would be fully adequate
for the reception, and even the classification,
of prisoners.
Among other matters referred to in this
report, is the sanitary condition of the prison;
only two convicts having died in 1801, t: the
lowest percentage of mortality since the erec
tion of the prison, being a death-rate of only
twenty-nine hundredths of one percent.(,o.29.)
The Board have every reasdii to congratulate
the Institution upon the skill, zeal, and atten
tion of the Physician, Dr. H. Y. Smith.”
The Board also acknowledge, with etjlo
ginm, the services of Mr, W. B. Fmkks,
Superintendent of the Prison; of Mr. J. K.
Hcwell, the Clerk, and other officials. ,
The actual cost to the county for the sup
port 6f the Prison, was $44,988 for tho year
1861 j in 1856 it was $90,352, whence were to
he deducted profits of the manufacturing de
partment. If we had proper local magistrates,
the committals would be reduced about one
half, and tho cost of maintenance at least two
fifths.
The Prison Inspectors’ Report, which we
have glanced at here, is weil worthy of the
attention of the tax-payers of the city and
county of Philadelphia.
FOREIGN ITEMS
The British volunteer excitement seems to be
dying out. The rich volunteers won’t pay any
more money. Even the National Rifle Association
has the utmost difficulty in raising two thousand a
thousand a year from subscription.
Dn. Holmes’ novel of Elsie Vennor has just made
its appearance in Paris, in a translation by M.
Emile Forgoes
Another prize fight—a trial battle for the next
championship mill—came off in England on the
11th ult. The combatants were Joe Goss, of North
ampton, and William ltyall, of Birmingham. The
ring whs pitched in a suburban district of London!
The stakes were eno hundred pounds sterling a
ifide, and Goss made a deposit to subsequently figbt
Jem Mace, the present champion, for twe hundred
pounds sterling a side and the championship.
Goss and Ryali fought thirty-seven rounds', at
which time they were allowed seven by
the referoo to fight or draw. They accepted the
latter, after being engaged, in three rings, during
three hours and eighteen minutes, the last round
occupying fifty minutes, with no work done. Goss
had his right scapula (shoulder blade) fractured
during tbe fight.
A Russian student at Heidelberg has committed
Buicide in the cause of science. He wished to try
on himself iho effect of cyanuro of potassium. He
did so, and has left a record of the different phases
of hiß self poisoning.
A Paris letter says Colonel Charras, Minister of
War in France undortho republic of 1848, has.been
offered a command in tho army of the United
States.
Japanese Contributions to the World’s
Fair. —Japan, it is said, will eon tribute smas six
hundred articles to the international exhibition of
1862, including articles of lacquerware, straw work,
china porcelain, manufactures of paper, carvings’in
ivory, paintings, and books.
Austria is building five iron-plated frigates, for
the protection of the Adriatic coast from dreaded
Garibaldian descents.
The Russian Government is placed in great difft
cuity, in consequence of the anathema launched by
the Israelitish clergy against the spy system. All
tho best rpies ia tho Russian aorvtoo were deers;
their refusal to do this work any longer has coin*
pletely disorganized a department of the State.
An Austrian journal published in Vienna is dis
posed to have somebody or other bell the cat.
“ Let ns," says the editor, “ take Garibaldi in a
cage to Vienna and exhibit him for the benefit of
the wounded ”
Mr. Heheert, M P. for Kerry; Mr. Tennison,
of Leitrim, and Col. Henry White, late member
for Lvngfwd, sr? vmvHtly named in connection
with the vacant Irish peerage. Mr. Herbert,
however, bas Dot acted uniformly with the Govern
ment on lato occasions, so that, although Lord
Palmerston often exhibits a forgiving disposition,
it is probable that the choice witi He between Col.
White and Mr. Tonnison.
In -France, along the meridian of Central Ger
many, another infliction is felt. The Progress, of
Lyons, says i ** The cold, which is bad enough
even for those who hare well-secured and heated
dwellings, is a fearful addition to the misery of our
poor suffering work people. Lyons, however, is
more favored than the north of the department. 0
In Baden Baden, hitherto the great gambling
centre of Germany, the Grand Dnke and his minis
try have determined to terminate tho license of the
gamingtable at tbe expiration of the existing con
tract. There can be no doubt of the sanction of the
Assembly to this excellent measure.
GENERAL FREMONT’S DEFENCE.
A supplement of yesterday's New York Tribune
contains a long defence of General John G. Fre
mont against the charges of the committee on the
conduct of the war. It fills five pages. The Ge
neral states that he has only answered the leading
points breughtforward, &s he did not desire to dum
ber his defence with merely personal debates. He
says:
“When, in July last, I was assigned to the com
mand of tbe Western Department, it comprehended,
with Illinois, ail tho States and Territories west of
the Mississippi river and the Rocky Mountains, in
cluding New Mexico.
‘‘Nospd&ial object was given me in charge to do,
nor was I furnished with any particular plan of a
campaigß, The general discussions at Washington
resulted in the understanding that tbe great object
in view was a descent of the Mississippi, and for its
accomplishment £ was to ratae and organize an
army, and when I was ready to descend the river
I was to let the President know-' My command
was then to bo extended over Kentucky and down
the left bank of the Mississippi.. For military
reasons it waß judged inexpedient, to do so in the
beginning.
“Full discretionary powers of the ample kind
were conferred on me. Not a line of written in
structions was given me. The leading object of the
campaign being settled, the details of its accom
plishment and tbe management of my department
were left to my own judgment.
“ While at Washington I informed* myself fully
of the unprepared condition of tbe West, and its
want ol* arms, from the Governor of Illinois.”
The Genual then goes on to show that Ffoin the
utterly unprepared condition of the Western loyal
troops, from the threatening aspect of the rebellion,
from the want of any kind of artillery or fortifica
tions, and from tbe raw condition of the Federal
levies, he was forced to bay arms, to erect fortiQoa
tions, and to oversee the gigantio field of operations
from Cairo to the Rocky Mountains.
Tbe emergency, General F. thinks, justified him
in taking $300,000 from the U. S. Assistant Treasurer
at St. Louis, and a despatch from Hon. M. Blair
shows that he acted with his concurrence* for Mn
Blair says ; (l You will have to do the bestyou c&q,
and take all needful responsibility.” In reference
to General Lyon. General Fremont says that his de
feat at Springfield docs not lie at his door. Had
General Lyon been able to adhere to his (General
Lyon’s) own programme before that battle, the do*
feat would nothaveoccurred. About Colonel Mul
ligan’s defeat at Lexington, General F. says that
General Cameron was calling on him for 5,000
troops to go to Washington, and the danger of Cairo
required other thousands of soldiers from his de
partment, so that hO could hot do thing iu the
world at once. However, the general says:
“On the 14th, General Sturgis was directed to
move, with all practicable speed, upon Lexington.
Genera] Pope’s despatch of the 16th gave me every
reason to believe, as he did, that a reinforcement of
4,000 tutu, with artillery, would bo therein abund
ant time, and, if the committee will take tho time
to read the accompanying papers, it will be seen
that, from every disposable quarter where there
were troops, the promptest efforts were made to con
centrate them on Lexington, but chance defeated
thoso effofts.”
In regard to the contracts for mortars, Ac., Gene
ral Fremont giveß an extract from a letter from
Hon. M. Blair urging him to buy mortars.. So for
as the other contracts were concerned, he disclaims
any ‘'jobbings” and boldly justifies them from tho
necessities of the oase. In closing his introduction
to the testimony, General Fremont says:
“It is not grateful to me to hAve been myself
compelled to set out the merite of my administra
tion ; but it was necessary in order to eall attention
to points, which otherwise might not havo boon
presented, and which are necessary to a clear un
derstanding of the subjects inquired into. Many
sets which have been censured, were, I think, for
tbe public good. I know they were with that in
tention. I do not feel that in any case I over
stepped the authority intended to he confided to
me.
“ Myself, and the officers and men acting with
me, were actuated solely by a desire to serve tbe
country, and-1 feel assured that this is realized by
tbe people of the West, among whom wo were
acting.”
Tbe accompanying despatches) letters; and docu«
rocDts are very voluminous, and one would have to
sift them at length to ascertain their precise value
THE REBELLION.
A FEDERAL RECOMOISSAHCE TO COLUMBUS.
THE TOWN IN RUINS.
EEBELS HETREATHfG TO FORT RANDOLPH.
Another Stringent Order from General Halleck.
THE SUFFERINGS OF A UNION MAN IN TENNESSEE.
No More Passengers to go South.
The Federal Prisoners not Heard from.
GENERAL HALLECK’S DEPARTMENT.
Columbus ia Ruins.
Cairo, March 3.—[Special to tho Republican .]—
Columbus has been evacuated and burned by tho
rebels* ;
The gunboat Benton, with General Cullum and
Commodore Foote, went down the river to day on a
recozmoiesaxice, and found that tho rebels had fled,
having removed their gunp, and laid the town of
Columbus in ashes.
Everything was destroyed that oould not be oar*
lied away.
Tbe rebels retreated to Fort Randolph. The
whole town of Columbus is nothing but rums.
The guns have also beeu removed from the island
below.
The War ilk Missouri,
St. Louis, March 4.—General Halleok, in an army
order, .says:
15 On tbe recommendation of the Governor and
several judges of the Statei it is directed that ail
licensed attorneys, counsellors, and proctors be re*
quired to take the oath of allegiance prescribed by
the 6th section of tbe ordinance of the State Con*
vention, passed October IC, 1861.
“ Judges of the State Courts vyill refhgg pre
sent any one to practice within courts who refuses or
neglects to take such oath.
(C The Board of Assessment, in tho city of St.
Louis, for tbe benefit of the suffering families driven
by the enemy from Southwest Missouri, having com
pleted its labors, and rendered its final report, is
noreby dissolved.”
The Sufferings of a Union Man in Ten*
nes&ee,
A Celro correspondent of the St. Louis Dtvmcmt
gives the* following account of the sufferings of a
Union man of McNairy county, Tennessee. The
correspondent says:
The gunboat Ty/er, which reached this place last
night, from 12»5Stport, Mifeiaaippi, brought down a
freat many fugitive Unionists, among whom wa3
ielding Hum. of Purdy, McNairy county, Ten
nessee. This gentleman is a slaveholder, the
largest laudowcer and the largest tax-payer in
his county. He has opposed Secession from tho
time it was first whispered until now; aud in
March last, when it was sought to carry Tennes
see out of the Union, and in June, when an ordi
nance of seeessiou passed by the Legislature wai
submitted lo the people for ratification, he labored,
by act, by word, and with his influence over others,
to defeat it. *
Last November, when Governor Harris called for
the remainder of tho left &flef his first call
—Mr. Hurst took the stump, and spoke fearlessly
against secession, and so bitter was he in one of his
speeches, delivered in the court-house of his county,
that Governor Harris ordered General Davis, who
was then at Corinth, commanding & brigade of db&U
militia, to arrest him. This was done. Mr. Hurst
was taken to Nashville, and there tried for treason
on the i)ih of last December, by Judge Humphries.
Pending the trial, six witnesses were introduced by
the prosecution, who swore that they had heard
Hum say in a speech, that he would rather trust
the Black Republicans to protect his right to sla
very than the Southern Confederacy, and that if
Governor Harris quartered Confederate troops in
bis (Hurst’s) county, to distrain the property of
Union men, he would tear up tho railroad aud
burn the railroad bridges that were in his county.
Upon this testimony— Mr. Hurst introduced none—
ke was pronounced guilty of treason, and thrown
into a dungeon, where he wns kept thirty-scran
days. During this time Judge Humphries was ap
plied to by a great many, including Unionists and
Secessionists, for the retease of Mr. Hurst. This
was finally granted, upon tbe prisoner giving his
own bond in the sum of §2J,000, to keep the peace
wiih the Southern Confederacy for two years, or
during the war.
Mr., Hurst went home and kept the peace, so far
as speeabmakiug wns concerned, but did not hesi«
tato to speak his sentiments in common converse*
tion, and on the 7th instant he was rearrested, by
order of General Polk, and taken to Columbus,
where be was .informed that the charges against
him were those of being a man of string pr?j’idioCBj
and one who would defend his views with despera
tion.
General Polk further told him that the recent ex*
petition of the Northern troops up the Tennessee
rendered it necessary that ail those who were dis
posed to bear to the Federal? OQlBUUS
ications concerning the Confederacy should be im
prisoned, and it was for this reason that ho had
been arrested. He whs allowed, however, under a
guard of three men, to go home and collect evi
dences of his loyalty to the Confederate Spates. He
exercised one liberty after another with his guard,
until he was permitted to withdraw at pleasure,
and converse with his ostensibly witnesses. With
their assistance, Mr. Hurst planned and made his
escape, one evening. The night following, he
walked twenty-two zuiles 1 and reached the bank of
the Tennessee river, where, having heard of the
surrender of Fort Henry, he expeoted to hail a
boat. He met other Union refugees at this place,
by appointment, and with them lay on the bank of
the river sis days, wailing for a steamer. Finally,
the gunboat Tykr came up the river, which he
hailed, and, with three or four of his companions,
was taken on board.
The county which the gentleman comes from
borders on the Mississippi line. It polls 2,500 votes,
1,000 of which were <ja§t ag*un§t section IrtSt JuD9i
In one of Mr. Hurst's last speeches, he indulged in
come bitter denunciations of the Southern Confede
racy, and called upon as many of his hearers—
about 700 in ail —as endorsed his sentiments, to form
themselves in a separate body. About 400 with
drew* every one of whom is now looked upon os an
enemy to the Confederacy, and are being daily ar
rested for treason.
Mr. Hurst reports a great many loyal persons
along tbe Tennessee river, and says if they had any
arms to defend themselves from the outrages of the
disloyal, they would rise up Ho has received as
surance here that the authority of the Federal Go
vernment will soon be re-established in his section,
and he will return to Savannah, up the Tennessee
river, where rebel authority is not strong enough
to prevent his working for the Federal Govern
ment.
Missouri Rebel Scrip,
The St. Louis Republican of Saturday says
Gov. Claib Jackson has been heard from. He
is not with General Price aud the (tel“<te4 liters
whom he solicited to “come to him.” He is not
giving assistance in tbe field to the struggling Mis
sourians, now being forced farther and farther
away from their homes on account of listening to
his eloquent appeals and obeying his impudent de
maDds. He is not giving his counsels and the in
spiration of bis presence to Rains, and Parsons, and
Mcßride. He is not situated so as to hold daily
communications with Deaoen Tucker and cheer
him on with words of comfort and consolation. A
few days ago he was in Memphis, in company with
Gen. M. Jeff Thompson and other worthies, where
he made a speech. So far as we are informed, he
had nothing to say of military operations in Mis
souri, and did not enliven his hearers with accounts
of any more Confederate viotories in this State, or
of any symptoms of driving out the “ Hessiau in
vadere” from our borders, “ from the Nishnoboine
t 6 the St. &hd from the DesmoSace to the
Neosho.”
Governor Jackson seems to be now engaged in
the enterprise of bolstering up the solvency of the
rebel Missouri State Government. He maintains
the soundness and credit of the indefinite bushels
of scrip Btrewn broadcast throughout the southern
part of this State and the border counties of Ar
kansas, declaring it as good as any similarcnrronoy
in the South. There may be some truth in tbe lat
ter part of this statement, but if all the I. O. U.’s
of Dixie stand no better chance of being redeemed,
unless at tbe end of the war they are assumed by
tbe United States, the holders will never get rich
upon their olairns. The bogus Jackson Govern
ment has not a footing in any county of the State,
and it would therefore puzzle financial minds' to
discover where the means are to eome from to take
up bbj pan of this immense indebtedness. We will
do G overnor Jackson’s sagacity, at the expense of his
honesty, the credit to record our belief that, when
issuing tbis scrip, by the quire and ream, to “ pay”
for the plundered fauna, stables, and stores of the
Southwest, he never woe so erAsy as to imagine
that it would be redeemed by his imaginary Go
vernment. The scrip business was merely an irre
sponsible arrangement to cover downright robbery.
We infer, from the report of Gov. Jackson’s
speech in the Memphis Appeal, whatever language
be may indulge in to the contrary) that the rebel
Missouri scrip is not considered first-class money
down in Dixie. It would seem there is an impres
sion in that quarter that it is not good for much,
and it is to remove this impression that the Gover
nor speaks. When he succeeds in convincing the
people of Tennessee that this paper is anything
like par currency, we would advise him to send
agents into Southwest Missouri to bring about the
Eame feeling there. If the sorip is really good for
anything, it would be a great consolation to a num
ber of parties about Springfield, Neosho, Cassville,
and vari6\i§ other pSintS, lA Ufi&W it.
Unpublished Incidents of the Fort Donel
-800 Fight.
Tne New York Tribune's Fort Donelson corres
pondent gives the following incidents, not published
before, of that desperate fight:
A FAIR SOUTHERN TRAITRESS,
A young man belonging to one of the Tennessee
regiments —he held the rank of first lieutenant in
his company—was very dangerously wounded iu
Saturday morning’s strife, and was not expected to
live when I left Dover, where he lay in much pain
and in more remorse.
The young man told me ho was a native of Har
risburg, Pennsylvania, and bad resided there until
tbe autumn of 1659, when he went to Columbia,
Tennessee, and there engaged in the praotloeof the
law with considerable success. While in that Stato
ho became acquainted with and enamored of a
young woman of culture and fortune, a distant re
lative, I understand, of General Pillow, and was
soon engaged to marry her.
The love stream of iho young couple Bowed
smoothly enough until the fall of Sumpter and the
secession pf Tennessee, when the affianced husband.
| a strong advocato for the Union, returned home, de
signing to wed after the troubles were over.
The betrothed pair corresponded regularly; but,
fome weeks after tho lover had gone to Harrisburg,
the girl, who had suddenly grown a violent Secea
eipnist, informed him that she would sot become his
wife unlcfs he would enlist in the rebel service and
fight for the independence of tbe South.
Tho young man was exceeding loth to take suoh
a course, and remonstrated with his beloved to no
purpose, and at last, in the blindness of his attach
ment and in the absorbing selfishness of ]MHtoni ho
informed bis parents of his intention to win his mis*
tress on tbe tented field.
In vain they endeavored to dissuade him from his
resolution. He went to Tennessee, raised a com
pany, reoeived the congratulations of his traitorous
mehd§, and the copldua caresses of his charming
tempter.
Last December the lieutenant proceeded to Donol
son, and, a few days before tho fight, hoard his be
trothed was the wife of another.
His heart had never been in the cause, though
was In another’s keeping; and, stung by romorso,
and crushed by tbe perfidy of his mistress, be had no
deßire to live.
Unwilling to desert on the eve of battle the cause
he bad embraced, lest ho might bo chargod with
36w»rdico, he resolved to lose tbe existence that had
become unbearable to him ; and in the thickest of
the fight, while seeking death without endeavoring
to inflict it, he received a mortal wound.
Befoie this, the misguided and betrayed lover
has ceased to think of her who so cruelly deoeived
Lixuj for the Lethean stream of death is flowing
around the eternity-bound island of his soul.
The double traitress will soon know all; for her
lover dictated a letter to her from his couch of
pain.
A POT PATRIOT,
A mere boy of about fifteen years, from Darke
county, Ohio, being in Illinois, had enlisted in one
of the regiments raised in the southern part of that
Stale; but as he was in very delicate health, his
father was extremely anxious to have him released
from the service, though the youthful soldier great
ly desired to/emainin it. While at Forts Henry and
Donelaon the boy was very ill, but still insisted
upon performing bis duty.
His father arrived at Donelson on Friday, the
Hth itst,, intending, if possible, to take him home<
Ho had an interview with some of the offioers, but
could learn nothing of his son. Whilo looking for
him industriously among his companions, he learned
to hiß surprise and horror, that the poor boy, after
fighting gallantly on Thursday, had died from ex
posure while lying, without fire or sholtor, upon
the frozen ground on that bitter and desolate night.
A BULLET-RESPECTED LIEUTENANT.
A lieutenant of a company in one of the Ohio re
gimenis, while preparing for ft «llßrg9, had his
pipe shot from bis mouth. lie laughed and lighted
again, and soon after its fire was extinguished by a
rebel rifle ball, which killed a man three feet from
him ; »nd wbite wondering at his narrow escape he
reoeived a shot through his cap, and another struck
hirseubbard; and yet he w&9 unhurt.
The lieutenant now thinks he was not born to die
on the battle’field.
The proverb that lightning does not strike the
same tree twice must be truer than that balls do
not dcrign to do mischief to soldiers more than once
during an engagement.
TUJB DIFFICULTY OF DYING.
A number of our soldiers were wounded five or
six, and even seven times, none of the wounds
proving seritus; find ikft variation of & quar
ter of an inch would have oaused death in nay one
of the instances. Truly, to chaiige the aphorism,
in the midst of death we are in life.
• PJS4TH AT A LONG RANGE.
Ono of the enemy, a member of the Alabama
Rifles, bad his head shot off by a shell from ono of
Mnjor Cavender’s Parrott rifle-batteries (tho First
Missouri) at a distanco of two and a half miles,
while peeping above the breastworks. The shot,
of course, was accidental, but it proves the efficacy
of Cavender’B guns, and the terrible execution they
are capable of doing at a very long range.
A 31 AN WOUNDED WITH FALSE TEETH,
A lieutenat in an Illinois company was shot with
a musket in the left cheek, the ball passing through
his mouth, which was open at tbe time, and, knock
ing out three false teeth, carried two of them into
tbe tbigh vf bis sergeant at bis side, making a pain
ful but not serious wound.
ULTRA-PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS.
Curious stories are told of some ultra-profes
sional journalists on the field, who, in the midst of
the danger and horrors of battle, never lost com
plete recollection of their calling or of the disa
greeable duties it imposed.
They never moved out of range until they had
completed their notes, though the shot and shell
foil like bail; and wnduoted tbeir business as
calmly as if tiej were reporting a polliical speech
cr obtaining “items” at au agricultural fair.
NOVEL MODE OP OBTAINING INFORMATION.
One of the correspondents is said to have locked
Gen. Buckner up Ina room at Dover, and kept him
there in spite of threats, until he had taken a pen
cil-sketch of bis person.
Another declared to Gen. Bushrod K. Johnston
tfcatfce would give him borriblo antecedents unless
he furnished the materials for a brief biography.
Bushrod blustered at first, but when the news
paper scribbler began putting down and reading off,
“ £ K. Johnston, anative of Massachusetts, form
erly C&fi of tbs editors of Lloyd Garrison ’o anti
slavery jo urnal, but compelled to fly to Tennessee
on account of having been detected in a forgery of
bis father’s name,” etc., Bushrod became a sup
pliant, and gave the inexpressible fellow the main
events of his lifo.
THE RULING PASSION STRONG- IX BATTLE.
The representative of a metropolitan journal b
stated to have run up to a wounded officer, who be
lieved himself mortally hurt, and bogged him not
to die yet, for the sake of tbe , which he bad
tbe honor to represent, remarking, if he had any
last words to utter, that they should appear in the
best form, in the earliest possible issue of his widely
circulated and highly influential journal.
The officer turned away his head in abhorrence
and disgust, and some of his fftesds compelled th«
painfully persevering reporter to retire; but the
prolessor of the quill insisted that he could make a
better speech for the wounded soldier than he couid
for himself, and hoped he would remember not to
give any other member of the press the least hint
of hisdyifigst&timeDte.
MISFORTUNES OF A PROFESSION.
I am very willing to believe, for the honor of
journalism, that such stories are untrue; but I fear
they have some foundation, as there are men in our
p?di££si6fi Who, in tbe discharge of their duties, for
get they are anything but machines, and, to the
furtherance of their desires, sacrifice every senti
ment of humanity and every prompting of sensi
bility.
They do not know tbat tbe mistaken journalist
who loses sight of what belongs to a gentleman may
earn success in his vocation, bnt must forever de
spair of the respoct and esteem that render his pro
fession not only useful but honorable.
How the Rebel Authorities of Tennessee
Made their feople Enlist.
The correspondent of the St. Louis Republican ,
writing under date of February 25th, says*:
The outside world is not aware of one-twentieth
of tho means tbat were used to draw the people of
Tennessee Into the rebellion, and I propose to give
you an idea of the means adopted.
Tennessee has always been noted for being “ the
volunteer State.” Her people have always been
ready upon the sounding of the first note of war to
immediately repair to the standard <?f their s9gg
try. This pride of being sons of the “ volunteer
State” was appealed to, and they were asked if
they would wait to be drafted. The ambition of
the young was stimulated by visions of conquest,
and stigmatized and dishonored if they failed to
enter the service. Even to those odvfl&ood in
years, these appliances were used. The igno
rant were told that, if they suffered them
selves to bo drafted, they would be subjected to
many hardships, would receive no pay, and but
half rations, and he placed in front of the battle j
and when they still remained obdurate, the; were
threatened with being driven from their homes.
Some were severely punished in every conceivable
way, and others again actually tied and dragged
off into the servioe, as was tbe case in some of the
counties in West Tennessee. Union men were not
appointed or elected to positions of honor or profit
in the rebel army, and, when actually in the ser
vioe, were not placed on picket duty, or allowed
furloughs, for fear of desertion. Others, who were
not cultivators of the soil, were compelled to vo
lunteer to save their families from starvation, busi
nvss of all kinds being suspended at the breaking
out of hostilities at the South.
Official Report of Col. Webster, t. S. A.,
Chief Engineer of Gen. Grant’s Staff.
Major General IT. S. Grant, Commanding:
The fortifications made by the enemy for the de
fence of this position were very extensive. A com
plete and accurate survey of the works and vicinity
would require more meatiß and time than oan now
be commanded.
Tho water batteries, upper and lower, which
were intended to subserve the primary object of the
position, the control of the river navigation, were
well located for the purpose. At the lower and
principal one were mounted nine pieces—eight 32-
pound guns, and a 10-inch columbiad. At the
upper, one gun, of the exterior form and dimen
sions of a 10-inch columbiad, but bored as a 32-
pounder, and rifled; also, two 32-pound carronades.
Both these batteries are sunken or oxoavated in
the hill side. In the lower one strong traverses are
left between the guns, to secure them against an
enfilading fire. Hie olovation above the water, say
thirty feet, at tbe time of the gunboat attack, gave
them a fine command of the river, and made the
task of attacking them in front an arduous one.
Tbe range of the guns in aro was, however, quite
limited.
[Here I am obliged ta emit a portion of the re
port which is an explanation of a diagram accom
panying it. The outworks resting on each end
upon creeks and the baokwater from the river
which msdo an impassable barrier.]
These defences consisted in the main of what have
come to be oal!ed a rifle pits—shallow ditches, the
earth from which is thrown to the point affording
shelter from the fire of the attack.
The strength of the profile of this work, whioh
has evidently been very hastily executed, varied at
different points.
Along tho front of tho oxterior lines; the trees had
been felled and the brush out and bent over, breast
high, m&kiDg a wide abatis , very difficult to pass
through. Tbe lines run along a ridge, cut through
by several ravines, running towards the river. Tho
hillsides ri§§ \fy abrupt asceete te a bright ?f p?r
hsps 75 or 80 feet.
Our army approached tho place with very little
knowledge of its topography. Our first line of bat
tle was formed on the 12th inst., in some open fields
opposite the enemy’s centre. On the 13th we were
established on a lino of heights in general parallel*
ism with the enemy’s outworks, and extending a
distance of over three miles.
Various elevations and spurs of hills afforded po
sition for our artillery from which wo annoyed the
enemy, but which were not of such a commanding
character as to enable us to achieve decisive results.
Tbe raDges were long, and the thick woods prevent
ed clear sight.
During tho next two days our lines werogradual
ly extended to the right and left, our skirmishers
thrown out In front, keeping up an active, and, as
we since learn, effective fire on the enemy’s ouU
works.
On the 13th & gallant charge wag mado agafrst
the enemy on our right, and was probably only
TWO CENTS.
prevented from being successful bj the fall of the
colonel leading it, who was severely wounded.
Up to the 15lh our operations bad been chiofly
those of investment; but we had not gained a po-<
Billon from which our artillery could be advan
togcously used againat the main fort,
Gn the 15th the enemy, seeming to grow uncom
fortable under the constricting.prooess, came out of
his entrenchments and attacked our right with great
force and determination, achieving considerable
success in the forenoon. This active movement ne
cessitated active retaliation. On the loft wing an
attack was ordered on the outworks, and the right
was reinforced and ordered to retake the ground
loßt in the morning.
How well both orders wore executed need not
here bo stated. On tho right our former position
was regained and passed, and, on the left, a success
ful aei-ault gave us possession of a position within
the enemy’s lines, and opened the way to a still
better eno, which nightfall alone prevented us from
occupying with our rifled artillery, which would
re*<h!y bar* fttßummUd tho enemy’s main works,
This repulse from ground so hardly won In the
forenoon, and, probably, still more our possession of
a vantage ground within their lines, induced the
enemy to capitulate on the morning of the 16th.
I have the honor to he, very respectfully, Gene
ral, your obedient servant.
J. D. Webster, Col. Chief of Staff.
A correspondent, speaking of the above report,
says:
Colonel Webster is colonel of engineers, and chief
of Genera] Gnmt’g staff, fie is a gentleman of vast
military knowledge and skill, having served in the
regular service for a number of years, and of which
branch he is still a member. Duringthe whole period
of the investment he was much exposed tc the
enemy’s fire, while reconnoitring the enemy's
works. As an officer there are none more efficient
or competent, and I am convinced his services are
highly appreciated by General Grant and all promi
nent officers in the army. Colonel Webster is ably
assisted by the services of Lieut. Jenney, a promts*
ing and accomplished young officer.
A Hairs at Fort Donelson.
A Fort Donelson correspondent of the St. Louis
Republican says:
BOW TUB REBELS TREATED AN IRISn REGIMENT.
A remarkable instance of rebel meanness occur
red with the Irish regiment, taken at Fort Donel
son, which will doubtless interest your readers, and
I will give it as I learned it last summer. They
had been working on the railroads about Nashville
until All that kind of employment had ceased, and
having spent all their former earnings, which we
know Irishmen of their class are proverbial for do
ing quickly, they found themselves without meanß,
and were thus actually forced to take service in
tho rtbel cause to obtain bread for themselves and
families. Promises, which were showered upon
them and all other poor men entering the cause, by
the rebel leaders, they often failed to perform; and
1 understand these Irishmen, asaconsequence, were
hard to manage. Knowing these things as I do, al
though thd battle of Fort Uouelsoh was a hard
fought one, I am satisfied if the hearts of
the rebel soldiers, and especially the Tennesseans,
had been in the fight, we would have witnessed
still more eanguinary scenes—such as were wit.
nossed at Orloans, in tho Indian wars, and the
doings of the bloody First Tennessee Regiment in
Mexico. Rut instead of that, I heard several of
these men say they were glad they were taken
prisoners, and still others say, although in the
midst of the battle, that they had never fired a gtm
at tho Union army.
In addition to the various means cited to obtain
reciuits for the army, and draw men into the re
bellion, there were many others that would re
qtifrfe to 6 much liioe to enumerate. Thousands of
politieians and reckless men desired a breaking up
of society, hoping to get a position, pecuniarily or
socially, in the new order of things, which they
?9\>!4 swr ?sp?et to obtain oiborniso. Snob
demagogues and leaders can never be too severely
punished. Rut, though driven from home by the
madness of the hour, 1 should dislike much to see
the privates who have been seduced into this re
bellion §uffer any VRbrfffl? pmlttor
How tlie Rebels of Tennessee Obtained
Gnus.
It may be interesting to your readers to know
how the numerous shot-guns and sporting- rifles
found at Fort Donolson were obtained. The bo
gus Legislature of Tennessee passed an act, in
November ot last year, requiring every man, un~
tier a penalty of twenty-five dollars fino and ninety
days’ imprisonment, to deliver up his gun. A
great maDy were given up* some were hid* and
some destroyed, but by this means' Governor Har
ris succeeded in obtaining many guns from- the
eitizens, many of whom were good Union men,
who thought, by giving up their guns, to escape
having to go into tho seryi<?e tbeiSHlyttf—*tiie
Governor even intimating eo much in a
tion to the people; butshortiy following that procla
mation was the one calling out the militia of the
State to the amount of 80,000 men.
Stringent Order of General Grant.
I was glad to learn that Gen. Grant had promul
gated the most stringent orders against plundering
tbe inhabitants, and also stealing property taken in
battle fctfore surrender; and would have been glad
if more stringent means could bo adopted to bring
such cases to light, and as we hope to live together*
again as a united people, all such causes of com
plaint should be strictly guarded against.
Miscellaneous.
An incident of remarkable note occurred on the
evening of the surrender. •
General Grant received the official notice of his
appointment of Major General of ths Department
of West Tennessee, wiih headquarters at Fort
Donelson, almost at the very instant that he took
possession, showing the confidence the authorities
had in his ability'to take the place.
I have just learned that Paggctt, who had re
?«”°7 9rg*s?*?4 § t«p« pf rebel omtry in
Callaway county, Kentucky,“has, since tbe battle
at Fort Donelson, disbanded them and gone homo.
I must not foil to mention a subject tbat I have
heard frequently spoken of, by Federal officers,
since the battle. I allude to the rebels having
spread the blankets of the wounded ovor them:
during the cold weather, before the surrender,
which, in the oonfusion of the battle, was, perhaps,
as much tuj they could do to assuage their suffer
ings This, in connection with the universal (ac
knowledged by them) kind, treatment extended to
the prisoners, speaks well for the American name,
and gives mo to hope tbat after the rebellion is
conquered, we can yet live with them as brothers
and equals.
NEWS FROM THE REBEL STATES.
The Rebels in Need of Gunners.
The St. Louis Republican says-;
The; want bear; artillerists at Columbus. Tho
Confederate ordnance officers have written to seve
ral Southern cities urging the “absolute necessity,
of enlisting men immediately,” to take charge of;
some big guns on tbe fortifications-tbere. This is
another evidence of the determination not to
evacuate tbe place without a fight. The induce
ments offered show, too. that they are greatly in
need of gunners, and that there is a backwardness
on the part of people about volunteering in this
service. At Memphis they are raising $10.4)00, 1
with which to pay two hundred men a bounty of
fifty dollars Cfiiih, in addition to the same amount
by tbe Confederate Government, and have great
difficulty in obtaining recruits at Ihese rates.
newspapers seem to be quite solicitous on the sub
ject, evidently feeling that Memphis has a vast
interest in the successful defence ofColumbus. Yfe
do not think this sentiment is likely to decrease
very materially within the next few days.
A IU be* Paper on their Late Reversesr
The Mobile Register says:
Since the late reverses to our arms, we nojic? •
quite a deplorable disposition to growl and grumble
against the Government of tbe Confederacyto
charge upon it tbe responsibility of- these disasters/
and to complain generally of the administration of'
affairs. This seems to US all wrong:—transparently
and absurdly wrong. It evidenoea do judgment)
and is far from speaking well for the possession of'
those stable qualities of fortitude and: patient de
termination which it is believed the Southern, race
possesses, and whioh are essential to our success-in
this war, and to the maintenance of a sustained,
career of national greatness in the future. If our
confidence in the ability and rectitude of our- Go
vernment is so little that it is to be overthrown by
a few insignificant reverses;.if our patriotism.is of;
so poor a quality that it may feel disheartened by
thtm, we are not tbe people to deserve, or to-win,.
or to sustain our independence.
It is os unjust to the Government to charge it
with the responsibility of losses as it would be to.
charge with cowardice and inefficiency the brave
men who are directly their victims, and experience*
the misfortunes of war through stress of circumr
stances and overpowering numbers. We must make*
i>f> our misdi to beaf A CeHttifi amd&fit dU&§ts&
It is impossible that such a war as this should be a
career of uninterrupted successes. We are engaged
with an enemy who marshals the most majestic
military strength that modern, times have tv*i
nested, Hmotmlb us along land and coast frontiers
of near five thousand miles in extent. Is it possible
tbat our Government should have the means- or the
prescience to make every post impregnable whioh
the foe may choose to select for an assault with
overwhelming force ?
The enemy is ranging along our lines on coast
and frontier, and is prepared at any moment to
concentrate an overwhelming force at any weak
point he may detect. Our Government has neither
the men nor munitions, nor the supernatural fore
sight to enable it to have a powerful force at any
position whioh the enemy may ohoosa to select.
With such a foe we must force ourselves to the con
clusion—rendered doubly distasteful by our inva
riable successes in its outset—that tho war is a war
of “ give and take.” We must take the bad with
tbe good, and may conoeive ourselves especially
ftfiua&u if the latter se far p?ads&Uhates that the
war will be shortened as much by the successes of
our arms as by the self-exhaustion of the enemy’s
efforts.
We should not he disheartened if we hear of a
succession of such small successes as have encour
aged them, as a flODsequonoo of tko grand advance
and general offensive policy of the enemy. Theca,
effect tittle to directly weaken our. vital strength,
while they nerve tbe valor and determination of the •
nation to Us best efforts and sternest resolve. Wa.
make them pay doarly for these small successes,
HEd trues in blood every step that they tdvanae
upon our soil, and they do not weaken oujv vital,
strength, for our grand armies remain intact, and
must be overthrown and destroyed ere the, aause of
the South will look gloomy.
T? fessp the grand armies of Kentucky and. Vir
ginia strong, and to strengthen them,, will be tho
poliov of the Government, and we zxay probably
soon near tbat the forces, whioh are popularly con
sidered already too small at somo paints, are being
weakened to reinforce the grand armies. It may
be that some of these points, whera tho forces have
been so weakened, will be successfully attacked.
Grumblers will then have a flue text, of oourse.
But let them not be hooded. The groat armies are
tbe true bulwarks of our safety. On them we must
relv whe& the enemy attempt to pour their solid
Column of a hundred or a hundred and fifty thou
sand caen into the country. How could euoh forces
be Confronted with our troops scattered in squads
of five thousand to twenty-five thousand at ail the
d ivers points on coast and inland frontier whioh tbe
people adjacent thereto think should certainly be
defended by the best efforts of the Government?
Wo must keep our groat armies massed in such
strength as to ne able to give battle to the StfOftgMt
armies of the enemy.
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Affairs in Nashville before its Evacuation
by the Rebels,
Tbe Louisville Journal of Saturday says:
Mr. Charles Matthews, from Nashville, called on
115 yesterday, On Thursday lust ha was impressed
by the Confederate troops in that city, and employ*
ed in carrying meat to the Chattanooga railroad
depot. Tbe next day they tried to impress him
ngein but be escaped across the river in a canoe to
Edgefield, where ho heard that Col. Kenaott’s cn
valry. of Iren. Mitaholl’g division, were. lie told
there how things wore going in Nashville, and on Sa
turday piloted them to the river bank where they
seized tho steamboats Hillman , Runyon, and
Minnetonka, and wont across to Nashville amid'
the loud cheers of the citizens. About thirteen
of lie enemy's cavalry, tie Texas Rangers,
and Forrest’s Tennessee regiment, were in tbe city •
and Kennett’s cavalry gave chase to them, and took
ten prisoners. Mr. Matthews heard Gen. Floyd
before the great body of the rebels had left Nasb
vU!?i ie&t (b,y would go and male a stand at
Chattanooga, and Mr, M, believes they have done
so. Gen. Floyd said, within his hearing, to Gen.
Johnson, that ho thought it best to fall back to
Chattanooga and defend the Cotton States, letting
Kentucky and Tennessee take care of themselves.
There was good reason why tho pooplo of Nash
ville wished the presence of the Federal troops.
Tbe outrages perpetrated there by tbe rebels were
fearful. Some of tbese outrages are unfit for pnb
iication, and hanging would be too good for the au
thors. Last Thursday four citizens were shot be
fore their shop-doors, because they wouid not open
their shops for robbery and pillage. One lady was
run through with a sabre before the eyes of Mr.
Matthews, because she would not submit to shame.
Seizure of the contents of jewelry stores, clothing
stores, provision stores, and all other kinds of stores,
and of dwelling-houses, was general, Some build
ings were burned.
Our informant says that the First Kentucky regi
ment, the First Tennessee, and the Second Ala
bama, stacked their arms in front of the State
Borne, burned them up, and set out, or tateadod
setting out, for their respective homes, on Wednes
day of last week.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
From Fortress Monroe—No Nfews.,
Fortress Monroe, March 3.— There was no flag
of truce to-day, and, consequently, tier? ig H 9 BOTH
from the South.
The expected released prisoners have not been
heard from.
General Wool has refused to permit any mors
passengers to go South.
The Constitution, on her way up to Newport
News, was fired on by the rebels, but was not
damaged.
The FortlliGatiom of Cape God, Maas.
Major Phinney, F. Cobb, E. S. Smith, B N.
Attwood, and other gentlemen of Massachusetts,
are before the military committee of Congress, in
relation to the construction of fortifications at Pro
vinoetowni and a military road aoross Gape Cud
The appearance of the British war steamer Ri
natdo in Prorincetown harbor, to roooivo Mason
and Slidell, startled the people of Massachusetts
with a lively appreciation of tho importance of that
point. The harbor is dupable of aaaommodaling
the whole British navy, and, in the event of a war
with England, it might afford them a valuable ooal
ing station.
Brigadier Generals in tbe Army,
The number of brigadier generals appointed
from the various States, and for the regular army,
is as follows:
Maine, two; New Hampshire, one; Massachu
setts, two; Vermont, two; Rhode Island, two!
Connecticut, three; New York, six; Pennsylvania,
nice; Maryland, one; Virginia, three; District or
Columbia, five; Kentucky, two; Tennesseo. one;
Obin, five; Indiana, two; Illinois, two; Michigan,
three- Total, fifty one.
From civil life the following brigadier general*
have been appointed from the difieren. States :
Maine, two; Vermont, one ; Ma.-,aetiusetts, two;
Rhode Island, one ; New York, sixteen; New jer
sey, two; Maryland, three; Pennsylvania, three j
Delaware, one;. Virginia, one; Kentucky, four:
Ohio, three; Indiana, four; Illinois, one; Miohigan,
two; Missouri, one; Minnesota, two; Kansas, one;
lowo, two; California, three; Wisconsin, two;
Washington Territory, one; Daootah Territory,
one. Total, fifty-nine.
Connecticut and’ her Son*.
If Connecticut can boast of originating a-Brother
Jonathon, a Com. Hull, an Ellsworth, a Lyon, and
to lave traihed and brought out a Piztnam, (V Hed
ger Sherman, an Eli Whitney, a Fulton, a Joel
Barlow, a Colonel Humphrey, a Colonel Colt, ■
David Busbnell, an eleetrie, Morse, and scores ot
other worthies—she is Mb? bßffliliftted in giving ori*
gin to an Arnold, a Jefferson Davis, an Alexander
H. Stephens—the parents of the two latter men were
residents of. North-Kill ingly. The father of Jeff
Davis moved from Black-Rock district, the north
west earner of North, Killingworth, about sicty-lwe
years ago, aDd it is said Bettled at first near Mariet
ta, in Ohio, whence there was an easy transit to the
then wild lands of Mississippi; about the time ofth*
Jefferson purchase of Louisiana—faenoe thy cam*.
The father of A. H. Stephens-moved from the north
east distriot of North- Killingworth sixty-tw-i y, are
ago this coming summer, and settled in Georgia.
Probably the President and Vico President of the
Rebel Confederacy were born after their parents
18ft CdlfiOfitidUt. Tloy hitve numerous cousins now
living in tbe neighborhood. The old gentleman from
whom I got my information—by name of Stephens,
eighty years old—was cousin to- Vice President
Stephens’ father, and his first wife was cousin to
President Davis’ father. His children, of course,
fife tecobd OOUSlbfi to loth the rebdl Presidents,
□e traces tho genealogy of these men back several
generations. He says Jeff Davij was tho son of
James Davis, who was the son of James Davis—all
of whom he can remember. A, H. Stephens was
tbe son of Israel Stephens, and grandson of Agjpg
Stephens—ail iiving since his memory. No wonder,
with such a Yankee element at their head, the de
luded Southerners fight pretty well.
Letter from Mound City*
[Correspondence of Tbe Press.]
Mound Citv, Illinois, Feb. 27, 1862.
This town, whioh is located a few miles above the
confluence of the Ohio and MMseippl gt (jgjfQ, if
again attracting the notice- of Western capitalists*
and is regarded a? & place of much future import
ance. It is but a few years since it was started M
a town or city project, and -it now contains a popu
lation of. somo twenty-five hundred inhabitant!.
Among its improvements nr* the largest marine
ways and boat-yard, wcßt of the mountains/ and-th*
largest iron foundry and machine shop in Illinois.
The Union Block, embracing twelve spacious brlok
stores, twenty-two and a half feet front each, by
one hundred in depth, and a total river front of
two hundred and seventy feet, has been converted
into & Government hospital. Openings have been
B?»de- in the partition ws!!s upyft f»sb floor, and 1
email track has been laid, upon which small hand,
cars-are used to romove the sick and wounded.
The establishment is the largest and most oompiete
in the United States. It contains now about one
thousand sick and wounded, who aro under the ear*
and attention of the Sisters of Charlly.
All branchos of business have flourished here
for'the past few months. In fact, this young city
is one of the busiest and.most attractive towns in
the West. I understand, too, that arrangements
have been made with a partj in Now York or your
city for an early completion of the Vincennes and
hSound City Railroad, and you should not be sur
prised to gng tfe? pJboo with a population of ton
tkou&hd Within the next five years. The Mobile
and Ohio Railroad will 'soon- be extended- on. the
opposite side of the river to this point, and thus
bring here the entire through-passenger buainesAof
th» Illinois Central roadi The soldiers here or*
noxious to extend their trip to New- Orleans, where)
we have reason to believe, a strong Union sen
timent prevails, and that a numerous party will
greet the old flag with, three times three. M-.
JFpr The Frew.]
Life and Time.
[FROM THX FBBNCU OF « LAMARTINE.”]
I have arid in my. heart, of this life what to make T
Shall 1 foUow.wliere journey'd the masses of yopp.
Like a lambkin that skips as the dam skips before.
And Ibua copy of mortals each mortal mistake?
One seeks over oceans hop'd treasures in chase,
And the waves swallow up, his adventurous sail,;
Whilst tJot.other,, of glory—df genius prevail—
Will, intoxicate, die in bar crnol umonico.
With the passions croating tho iutricato snare,
That one founds a tlronc, and ascends but to fall;
Of far sweeter voices this hist* to tho call,
And dctiphoM his lata Iu ths eyua of the ftir.
Theldlor sloops on tuniri hunger'd abode,
ThOtHusbandmaa cultures Ids fields as he may,
The Learned stiHppndor, the Sold ierA-still slay.
Whilst the Beggar.reclines at tUeslile of tho rood.
Meanwhile, wliUhor.go they 7, tlioy go as tho leaf
Which the fury, of winter drives rudely away;
Thus go, failing.out, generations torday,
Sown by Tin#, and now gathered, in momenta so. brief.
They YratW nßhtiiaci but bin tumihas notmiaa’dl
Like a rivny.that sw&UoWAtltd Bands, as It flows,
I have 3een him devour these shadowy foes t
They ara barn—?they are dead—did they ever exist !
As for aoft,.l>will trumpet tho name I adore,
’My-tho din of the city, in vale far awajr,
At tlit sat cl tlio sun, at tho dawn of the day,
Whether toartl on tho ocean, or firm on the Rhoro I
earthlings have said to tne, Who, then, is God 1
The Oub whose great spirit pervadeth aH space!
Whoso step all Its measuro cau instantly truon!
And who lent to the sun ail his blaxo, with a nod 1
The One, who, from Chaos, made Worlds at a birth,
And the Universe pois’d in tho void at his feel;
Who enclosed all the oceans in boundaries moet,
And launch’d, with a stance, all the light of the earth!
The One who regards not to-morrow, to-day;
The One who, since time, reproduces his pow’r;
Who sees In the future as well as tide hour,
And calls back tbe Ages liis baud flung away \
It Is lie, ’tlfl the Lord '—lot my accents Imply
The numberless names of his glory and might;
As the harps at his altars to worship iuvlte,
Will I ebaunt to his praise ’till he bid that T die t
W. J. w.
tiREAT Product of Iron. —Blast furnace
No. 3, of the Laokawanna Iron and Coal Company,
at Scranton, Pa., made during tho Inst four week*
the largest amount of iron ever produoed in that
length of time hy a single furnace in the United
States, and probably in tbe world«rtha yield of tha
last week amounting to tho unprMtolod nrwiMt of
3,0 j tons.