The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, March 22, 1862, Image 1

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    THE PKESa.
PVBIiIBHID DAILY, (SUNDAY* BXOVIBD,)
BY JOHN W. FORNEY,
omoi N«. 41» CIIUHTNDT STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
ttrn.Ta Cists Paa Wkbi, payable to the Carrier.
Hailed to subscribe™ oat of the City at Six Poi.i.A«e
Pn imros. Font Dollars eoi Eiaaf HoSfSS,
3hliai Dollars voi Six Mouths—invariably in ad
vance for the time ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Hailed to Bnbecribere out of the City at Thrrr DOl
<m Pro Ahnuh, to advance.
DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
SPiUNG IMPORTATIONS
MEN AND BOYS’ WEAR,
Including Goods suited for
MILITARY PURPOSES,
Novr iu Store,
HO. 631 CHESTNUT STREET,
And for SiUo by
OE COURSEY, LAFOURCADE, & CO,
itih2o>lm
1862. SPBIN<K 1862.
WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT.
J. R. CAMPBELL & CO.,
No. 727 CHESTNUT STREET,
HA VS NOW IN STORE, SINES OP CHOICE
GOODS, TO OVHICH THEY INVITE THE
ATTENTION OP CASH BOYERS.
'.MUTE GOODS—In all their Varieties.
JE.IKEKS—AII Qualities and be Bt mahog.
TABLE DAMASKS— Napttoa and-Doyliea.
i'i.. C. HDKFS—Towels and Toweling.
GINGHAMS—Super, Pancy and Solid Checks.
vLAWNS— New and Choice Styles.
*4>R GANDIES, and Paris Printed Jaconets.
DRESS GOODS—In Tory desirable Btyloß.
.■3}LACK. SILKS —Choice Brands.
' yLANNELS-Of the best makes.
SLEACHED GOODS-A full line.
SPRlNTS—American and Engll»b.
CHINTZES, BRILLIANTSS
PERCALES.
TOGF.THEB WITH MANY OTHER GOODS,
ADAPTED TO FIRST-CLASS TRADE, ALL OP
WHICH WILL BE OFFERED AT
LOW PRICES.
1862. aPR IN a. 1862.
W. S. STEWART & CO.
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS 07
SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS,
NO. 305 MARKET STREET.
We invite the attention oi the trade to a full line of
BLACK AND OTHER STAPLE SILKS,
As «ftso a great variety of
NEW STYLES OE DRESS GOODS,
Bought for cash, and which will be offered on the most
favorable terms. f«2o-3m
SPRING GOODS.
M. L. HALLO WELL & Co..
333 MARKET and 27 NOBTH FOURTH STS.,
Wholesale Dealers in
SILKS AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
Have open a large variety of freshly-imported
SPRING DRESS GOODS,
To which, with a handsome assortment of
- BLACK AND FANCY r SILKS,
.SHAWLS, MANTILLAS.
WHITE GOODS.
EMBROIDERIES*
. And other goods in their line, they invite the attention
of city and country dealers. mh4-tf
YABD.GILLMOKE. dt Co..
Nos. 617 OHEBTNUT and 611 JAYNE Street*.
Have now opon their
SPRING IMPORTATION
OP SILK AND FANCY
DRess Goods, shawls, white
goods,
LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, &<t.
Bought in Europe, by ono of the firm.
To which the Attention of the trade Is particularly In*
vited. fe2l-2m
IMPORTATIONS.
HOSIERY. GLOVES.
GENTfc’ FURNISHING GOODS,
LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS,
WHITE GOODS, AND
EMBROIDERIES.
THOS. MELLOR & Go..
tuW?-0m 40 Mid 1C North THIRD Street.-
1862. strihg. 1862.
SIEGEL, BAIRD, & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
or
DRY GOODS,
SO. 4,7 NOBTfI TBIHdYiBBIT.
miLABELPHU.
Sferchants visiting this city to purohaso Det
goods trill find our stook largo
and admirably assorted, and at
Lot Fioesai. la certain olasses
of Goo da wo offer inducements to
purchasers unequalled by any other houae in
Philadelphia. mhlB-2m
gPRING STOCK
SILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS.
A. W. LITTLE & Co,
mhlfi.tf No. 335 MARKET ST.
gELLING OFF
Stook or
CASBIMERES, YEBTINGS, DRIL
LINGS, MARSEILLES, &o.
Twenty-fire per cent, nnder former prices,
A. H. GIBBS.
feil-lm No. 53] MARKET Street
SEWING MACHINES.
;ELER & WILSON
SEWING MACHINES,
628 CHESTNUT STREET,
mm.ffln PHILADELPHIA.
YOL. S.—NO. 196.
The Coming of Spring
The winter has gone,
The spring has coxuo,
The twitter of birds ia heard \
The voice of the lark,
While yet it is dark,
And the jubilant old blue bird.
Under the bog
The solemn frog
With his deep bass voice croaks out;
And the farmer's boy,
With his laugh of joy,
Commences to sing anil shout.
All nature sings;
And inanimate things
Rejoice, with the vigorous brutes ]
Tbo men from the town,
And from all arouad,
Arc mailing to buy spring suits’!
SPUTNfc SUITS ! Hurrah \
In the time of war
Economy's practised by ull! •
Hurrah for spring clothoa,
Which aro worn by thooo
"Who buy at the great Oak Hat.i. !
Thereafter*! of this paper are solemnly warnoft against
the dangers ot continuing to wear winter clothes in
spring time. Lose no time iu hanging your clothes on
appropriate pegs.
Rapidly travel to the great OAK HALL, southeast
comer SINTII au<l MMIKBT Street*, and buy good,
cheap, fashionable SPRING ItAIMhSfT.
WANAMAKEB ft BROWN,
(OAK HALL,
It Southeast corner SIXTH and MARKET.
WHOLESALE HOUSES
A N D 5 4 - I N C H
Sky-blue kerseys,
SUPERFINE INDIGO-BLUEJSATINETB,
BLACK CADET AND OXFORD Do.
PRINTED Do, In variety.
BLACK AND FANCY MIXED DOESKINS.
FANCY CASSIMERES AND MELTONS.
IK STORB, AND FOR SALE BT
JOSEPH LEA,
fo2o-lf 198 AND 130 CHESTNUT STREET
COMMISSION HOUSES.
COFFIN, & CO.,
920 CHESTNUT STREET,
Agents for the following makes of goods:
PRINTS.
DUNNELIi MFG. CO GREENE MPG. 00.
LAWNS,
DUNNXLL MPG. 00.
BLEACHED - COTTONS.
Lonsdale, Foreatdalo, Auburn, 81atersville, Centred ale,
Jamestown, Blackatone, Hope, Bed Bank, Dorchester,
Newburyport, Naumeag, Zouave, Burton, Greene
Mfg. Co.’s A. A., D. A., 0. A., and other styles.
BROWN COTTONS.
Burnside, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Ohostnut, Glenville,
Mechanics’ and Tanners'.
CORSET JEANS.— Olapgow, Manchester.
gTDENIMB AND Jowntt' City,
Madison, Slateraville, Agawam, Keystone, Ohoctaw.
CANTON FLANNELS. —Slateraville, Agawam.
BILESIAS.—Smith's, Social Co., Lonsdale Co.
WOOLENS.
ARMY BLUE CLOTHS, KERSEYS, and FLAN
NELB.
BROAD CLOTHS.—Plunkett* 7 , Glenham Co., Ao.
CABSIMEBKS.—Gay ft Som ftaton’a River, Ao.
SATINETS.—Boss River, Converevilla, Lower Vol
ley, Hope, Staffordville, Converse and Hyde, Converse
Bros, ft Co., Shaw Mfg. Co.
KENTUCKY JEANS.—Bodman, Mystic, Gold Modal.
DOMEX FLANNELS.—WILLIAMS'S Angola, Bft*-
ony, Merino, and other styles:
LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored UambriCß
PLAID LINSEYS, COTTONADBS, ftc. [fe26-3oi
OHIPLEI, HAZARD, &
O HUTCHINSON,
, No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
FOB THE BILE OB
PHILAHELPI-lIA-MAI3E
GOODS.
BeSB-6m
CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS.
Q.LEN ECHO jMILL.B*
GERMANTOWN, PA.
McOALLUM & Go.,
HANUFAOTUBEBS, lIIPQBTEBS, ANDUEALEB3
£O9 CHESTNUT STREET.
(Opposite Independence Hallq
CARPETINGS.
OIL CLOTHS, Ac.
Wo have now on hand an extensive stock of CArpotinga,
v? ra <m\ and other mahoe, to wtrioh we call the attorn
tion of cash and short-time buyers. mii7-[3m
JjIOURTH-STREET
CARPET STORE,
No. 47 ’ ABOVE OEESTNUT, No. 47.
J. T. DELACROIX
Invites attention toKJs Spring Importation of
CARPETINGS.
Comprising every style, of tbe Newest Patterns and
Designs, in VELVET, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY BRUS
SELS, IMPERIAL T&RKE-PLT, and INGRAIN
CABPETINCB.
VENETIAN and DAMASK STAIR CARPETINGS.
SCOTCn RAG and LIST CARPETINGS.
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, in every width.
COCOA and CAN lON MATTINGS.
DOOB-MATg. RlTftg, SIIEKP SKIVfI,
DRUGGETS, and CRUMB CLOTHS.
▲T WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
LOW FOR CASH.
J. T. UELACBOIX,
mhMm 47 South tTOUHTH Sb'ML
CARPETINGS.
J. F. & E. B. ORNE,
NO. 619 CHESTNUT STREET,
(OPPOBITK STATE HOUSE,)
Have received, per sterner Edinburgh, and other
late arrivals, their
SPRING IMPORTATION OF
NEW CARPETINGS:
CROSSLEY’S
YARD- AND-A-HALF- WIDE VELVETS L
9-4 MEDALLION DO,
ENGLISH BRUSSELS,
EXTRA-QUALITY TAPESTRY,
BRUSSELS CARPETS, WITH BORDERS,
(cf ue# designs, for Hells and stairs).
INGRAIN AND THBEE-PLT OABPETIKGB, of
extra uu&litjr.
also,
500 PS. J. CROS3LEY & SON’S
TAPESJtRT BRUSSELS CARPETS,
FROM 87b TO Si PR. YD,
Together with a complete eetortment of
OH, CLOTHS,
STAIR AND FLOOR DRUGGETS,
RUGS, MATS, Ac.,
All or new, choice selections, and
AT MODERATE PRICES.
J. F. & E. B. ORNE,
mh3.tr OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE.
CARPET WARE
HOUSE.
OLDDEN & RICKNER.
833 ARCH STREET, TWO DOORS BELOW N'INTH,
SOUTH SIDE,
Hare this day opened their New Stock of CAB PFTS, of
ttie boot English manufacture. The newest Patterns in
Velvet, Brußeel*, Tan- Brnwdi, 3-Ply Ingrain, and Ve
netians, Oil Clotbs in all widths, Canton Hatting, Mats,
Druggets, Ac., bought before the late advance, selling at
the lowest prices for oasu. mhlß 12t
HATS AND CAPS.
IQCO BPRING STOCK IQCO
AOU/Ue complete. JLOO/V»
C. H. GARDEN & Co.,
Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in
HATS, CAPS, AND FURS:
STRAW GOODS,
FANCY SILK AND STB AW BONNETS,
Artificial Flowers, Baches, Feathers, Ac.,
Ho. 600 and 603 MARKET Street, 8. W. oerner of
SIXTH Street.’.
■#" A large and complete Sloftk. best terms and .
the lowest prices. Cash and prompt “ time buyers" are
particn'arly invited to examine our stock. mhl-2n>
XTEBQSENE LAMPS. WHOLE-
I\. BALK DEPOT AND MANUFACTORY, No. 1U
South SECOND Street, below Chestnut, and No. 1 CAR
TER Street, Philadelphia. In consequence of new im
provements in machinery and increased facilities for
manufacturing, we are prepared to furnish the trade with
LAMPS lamp-trimmings of every deecriptitm at
greatly reduced prices. COUNTRY MERCHANTS are
invited to examine our stock which consists of near styles
and patterns of lamps, and alt articles pertaining to the
business, as low as can be purchased elsewhere*
nAS-lm*lp at, e, PM9TT«
f!ms;
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1862
Cartes dc Visile
It is a remarkable fact that, the great disco
veries of modern times, which starllo us by
their magnitude and simplicity, are never acci
dental. There is always some antecedent, in
experiment or thought, which conducts to
them. AVliat. strikes tile world as curious is
that, very frequently, two or more persons
have simultaneously arrived at the same con
clusion, —that is, made the same discovery, in
places distant from each other, at one and the
same time. *\Ve shaft mention a few such in
stances :
Electrotyping—which is called Klectro-me
ialhirgy in English and Galvanoplastie in
French—was simultaneously announced to tho
world by Thomas Spencer, a mechanic in Li
verpool, and Professor Jacobi, ot St. Peters*
burg, iii tho year 1839’. Tho line of their ex
periments had been different, for Jacobi was
an educated mail of science, with the chemical
laboratory of an University to work iu ■ and
Spencer was only a carver and gilder. As early
as 1801, Dr. Wollaston bad coated copper with
silver by means of the electric current, ex
cited by tlie voltaic pile. But Spencer and
Jacobi, after a lapse of nearly forty years,
showed liow to make the result useful.
So, the Electric Telegraph, first put into
action, in lfril, was a conclusion arrived at,
by Wheatstone, in Englnnd, much about tlie
same time with the discovery (or rather ap
plication) by Professor Morse.
Yet more remarkable, as showing file accu
racy of science, was tho discovery of the
planet Neptune, by Loverrior, the French
astronomer. He announced in Juno, 18-IG,
within ten degrees of where it new planet
might lie seen on New Year’s Day, 1847. The
attention of astronomers drawn to that part of
the heavens. Guile,* a German savant, first saw
the predicted pliuiot, and Loverrior had made
an error of only two degrees in its place. At
the same time, Mr. Adams, a young geome
trician of Cambridge University, England, led
into tlie same mathematical oaloulations that
Loverrior had made, arrived at the same re
sult. Humboldt, in the fourth volume of his
“ICosmos,” speaks of “the certainly earlier
labcrs” of Adams, who, however, did not an
nounce his discovery until after Levcrrier’s
was before the world.
As to Photography, the case is equally
strong Early in the present century, Wedg
wood and Sir. Humphrey Davy severally im
bued substances with a solution of silver, and
obtained negatives of the slides ot a magic lan
tern, but did no more, from inability to Jir the
images just obtained. In 1830 the world was
startled by the announcement, in Paris and
London, that M. Daguerre and Mr. Fox Tal
bot bad simultaneously discovered how to
lix, severally, on a metallic plate and upon
paper, the images of the camera obseura—
Daguerre employing silver-plated copper, and
Talbot using chemically - prepared paper,
lienee the names of Daguerreotype and Tal
bot ype, originally applied to the respective
discoveries, both of which now come under
the generic term of Photography , fronj two
Greek words, signifying writing by light. We
need scarcely say how rapidly Photography
had advanced from 1839 to 1802. There is no
home in this country so humble, in which may
not be found at least one cnsnmple of what has
become at once a social and scientific art. Ma
nuscripts have been multiplied by its moans;
hooks illustrated; paintings, sculpture, and
engravings copied; landscape and architectu
ral views produced—nay, bank-notes have been
forged by means of this instant and exact sun
painting. The art bus become universal. One
of the correspondents of yesterday’s Press,
writing from Fortress Monroe, informs us
that a photographic establishment has bean
jistablisbed at Newport News, of wLleh lhe
• soldiers eagerly availed themselves.
There are varieties and fashions in photo
graphy, as in most oilier things. Three years
ago, every one might be found studying tile
Beautifuq by means of the Stereoscope—an
application of science which, we hope, will
not get out of favor. "We hoard of one gen
tleman who expended over seven hundred dol
lars on a stereoscope, with an immense quan
tity of the duplex views. He could travel over
the world, see its past and present, by means
of photography and optics, and was content to
j pay largely for the pleasure.
Less than two years ago, some gallant Pari
sian, who was about £6?i,g his present-making
tour of calls on New-Year’s Day, had his full
length photographed, in miniature, and
mounted on a visiting-card. Armed with a
pack of these, he called on Ills friends, and
left this novel carle de visile. At once, the
idea was accepted as admirable, and from that
day, all over the civilized world, wo suppose,
the carte de visite has become a social institu
tion. Strictly speaking, the full-length alone
constitutes the carte. The face alone, or the
face with bust, Is a vignette. The process of
producing either photograph has been so
plainly described in the New York Mercury
that we shall here adept it;
The likeness having been first photographed on
prepared glass, in a “ negative ” form (that is, with
all the portions of tho picture intended to be dark
taken white, and all the lighter portions taken
dark, which reversal occasions the title of (< nega
tive it is placed between strips *F thin paporj
find exposed to thft bright sunlight on a house- top,
when the “positive” (or correctly re-transposed
picture) is tnropferred, inaoy number of copies de
sired, to the white paper. These pictures are se
cured to Btout 03rd*paper : And than “ n with
liquid oheinicdl preparations, after which they ore
dried, cut, sometimes colored to suit the taste or
fancy, and thus completed. Such is a carte de
visite . When a vignette is required, a
HBgAIiVA is tAken on gloss, and all those pOTtiOtii Of
the picture are then rubbed out except such as may
be wanted for the vignette. The subsequent pro
ceedings are the same, including the “printing"
by the sun, and soon.
The prices vary, according to the style, from
$2 to $5 the dozen, but the average price for
a single carte is twenty-five cents in this coun
try, a. shilling in England, and a franc in
France,
Originally intended for private use, these
miniatures have wonderfully attracted public
favor. In London, in the week following the
death of Frinco Albert, (which occurred on
the anniversary of Washington’s) • ver half a
million caries de visile hearing his resemblance
were sold in London alone. In Paris, when
tire melancholy event became known, one shop
sold, in a single day, 30,000 of these Albert
caries. We have an instance nearer home:
Wo announced in The Press, one jßerUing,
that McAilißter & Brother, 728 Chesnut street,
had received a new carte de visile of Mrs. Lin
coln. Before that afternoon had closed, ap
plications had been mads almost exclusively
by ladies, for a thousand copies of that
likeness.
The collection of cartes de visile haring com
menced, it became necessary to provide some
way of preserving them. The photographic
album was invented, each containing leaves so
thick that places can be left for tho insertion
of the likenesses. The manufacture of these
albums has become so important, in Philadel
phia, Boston, and New York that we shall gjyp
some particulars here.
In Philadelphia, tho albums are almost ex
clusively made by J. B. Lippincott & Co.
Having a large bindery, with skilled laborers
of both sexes attached to it, and not doing
enough, at present, in book-producing to keep
their hands busy, Messrs. Lippincott went
largely into the manufacture of Photographic
Albums, which is carried on in their establish,
ment, 144 and 146 North Filth street, where
their printing office also is.
The Albums are made of double cards
within, and are variously bound in cloth, mo
rocco, Turkey morocco, Genoa velvet, and
carved wood, and are more or less embel
lished—with plain gilt edges and ornaments,
gold, bronze, and, in some cases, with the
edges illuminated. The binding ia ftf tbs v*ry
strongest, to admit tho album, when open, to
lie flat on the table. The extent of the busi
ness may be estimated from the fact that over
one imndred persons are daily employed; that
eight persons are daily at work (in another
establishment) preparing the gilded and me
tallic claOps and ornaments for the covers, and
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1862.
that M r. Collins, of Minor street, is paid about
$l,OOO a month for the cards of which the in
sides are made. We believe that Mr. Collins
also chiefly supplies tho photographers with
the cards on which their miniatures are finally
mounted. The size and price of tho Albums
vary—from a small one, bound in cloth, with
gilt edge add clasp, holding twelve portraits,
price 75 cents, to the oblong 4to, bound in
Turkey morocco (or velvet), antique, with
two clasps, holding one hundred portraits, at
from $10.75 to $11.50. There is alarger Album,
imperial 4to, lor tho full-sized oval portraits,
from twenty to fifty, at from $9 to $25.
"Working with fuil force, and even in extra
hours, Lippincott cannot keep up the supply
of these Albums to this city and other places.
Wo believe that some other binders are in the
Album business, but not very largely. We
have seen some good specimens from Miller Si
Buvlock, 1102 Sansom street.
Messrs. Lippincott simply supply Albums,
and do not deal in cartes de visite. There are
various vendors of these in Philadelphia,
none of whom, we believe, make the Albums
that they sell. Tho principal photographers
who make cartes de visite are Gutekuust,
McClees, Gennon, Broadbent, Relin, J. W.
Queen Be Co., and James Creamer & Co. Mr.
Reimer makes eseullent photographs, bat we
do not know whether ho makes carles de visite.
Mr. Gutekunst is largely employed by Me Allis
ter &. Brother, who, j edging f: om their oxten
sivo catalogue, probably sell more caries than
any other bouse in this city. The run, at pre
sent, is for portraits of military officers, states
men, clergy, eminent foreigners, landscapes,
public buildings, and copius of engravings from
paintings by tho old masters. In New York
and Boston, where tlie drama and literature
have more numerous representatives, carles
dc visile of actors, singers, and authors arc ill
great demand. .1. S. Earle & Son are also
iu tlie business, we believe. The vendors
in each city do not confine their sales, of
course, to photographs made for themsfilvos.
They purchase good carles dc visile in all
parts of the country.
In Boston, the manufacture of Photograph
Albums is almost entirely engrossed by J. E.
Tilton & Co., 1(31 Washington street. They
make about one hundred sizes and styles, va
rying in price from 50 cents to $50 —holding
from 12 cards to -400. They were among tlie
first, if not the very first, to import them
from Paris, but one of the firm, a practical
binder, soon applied himself to the manufac
ture and improvement of tho article at home.
They produce handsome Albums, and espe
cially claim the merit of having what tlioy call
whole as against the broken-backed Albums of
Philadelphia and New York, There ia adif*
lercnce of opinion regarding the comparative
stability of the two descriptions of binding.
All we say is that, having duly examined them,
we give tlie safe Scottish opinion, that “ baith
are best.”
Tilton & Co., who almost- wholly supply
New England and Canada with Albums, have
a large trade in tlie carles de visite, and do con
siderable business here and in New York.
They print from two to five thousand cards
daily—as the weather may allow. They im
port considerably, hut their own Photographer,
Mr. Black, of Boston, makes by far the greater
number of their carles. We have ascertained
that, at present, the chief demand is for por
traits} of popular military men. Burnside,
Goldsborough, McClellan, &c., and Major
Theodore Winthrop, the author-soldier, who
was killed at G reat Bethel, aro in great de
mand. "When the Trent afiair was fresh, they
could not produce portraits of Captain Wilkes
fast enough to satisfy the demand. The Pre
sident and Mrs. Lincoln go off well.
Popular authors, native and foreign, are
in great request in Boston, also, some actors
and actresses. Some fancy pictures, poems,
and copies from well-known paintings, are
much in favor—siieU -as Whittlex-’s Barefoot
Boy and its companion, the Little Match Girl;
Longfellow’s Children, by T. Buchanan Read:
Miles Standl.sh, by D|riey; and
wooing. Such of Messrs. Tilton’i" photo
graphs, as we have seen, have very favorably
impressed us. Their catalogue contains many
hundred notabilities, and fte number increases
daily.
Three years ago, when Stereoscopes first
came in, Appleton & Company, the New York
publishers, went largely into that business, with
so much spirit and success as to make it a de
cided feature in their establishment. They
have since extended it by producing negatives
on their premises!, and by dealing, to a large
extent, in the cartes de visite. They were the
first in N ew York to manufacture the albums;
these wo have not seen, but their cartes de
nsite are very good. At present, as in every
other case, the run upon them is for portraits
oi' successful Generals. Tne distinguished
men of Europe and America meet with a i ar g e
sale. The Appletons’ cartes de visite are pro
duced, by their own artists, in two galleries in
the rear of their fine book store, in Broadway.
-We have found it impossible, at a short no
tice, to obtain a complete list of the photo
graphers who are most celebrated for their cartes
de visite. In Washington, Messrs. Brady &
MeClees are deservedly at tho top of the tree.
Baltimore, we understand, has not shone in
this line. Philadelphia we have already ac
counted for, In Chicago, we hear well of
Fassitt & Co. In Portland, T. R. Burland
ranks highest. In Louisvillo, Webster & Co.
are superior. Jn New York, among a crowd
of photographers, wo would assign the lead to
Study, Fredricks, Anthony, and the Apple
tons. We have not ascertained who are the
principal protograpliers in St. Louis and Cin
cinnati. It is to the credit of Philadelphia
that her cartes de visile arc not anywhere sur
passed.
This fashion is too good not to become per
manent. No doubt it has received a great im
petus from the War. Naturally enough, the
gallant men who took up arms in aid of the
violated Constitution of their native land would
desire to leave some personal memorials to
those whom they loved and left. The carte de
visile then becomes an institution. It is now
bo well established that its permanency maybe
assumed as a certainty. Besides family rea
son for having such records, there will always
prevail a strong curiosity to look at the like
ness of eminent or noted persons at home and
abroad.
Philadelphia Magazines. — Two of these—
Godey's and Peterson’s —hare come to hand. Mr.
Arthur’s we never .... Godey’s lady's BooA for
April opens with a beautiful frontispiece, well en
graved on steel, and a double fashion-plate, colored,
with seven figures. There are other plates of spring
fashwßS) a variety of illustrations connected with
female attire, and the usual quantity of accompany
ing prose and verse. Peterson’s todies’ Maga
zine has, for frontispiece, a steel engraving of
“Ruinous Prices,” afttl Hughes’ popular painting)
Colored and plain fashion-plates ; “ Caught in the
Snow-storm,” (a beautifultwood engraving;) dress
plates, patterns, music, and very readable letter
press. Both magazines m&y he marked AI.
Burnham’s Publications.— We have to mention
that Mr. T. O. H. Burnham, of Boston, has just
published several new works of merit. “Cadet
Life at West Point,” by an officer of the United
States army, gives a history of a oadet’s career in
our great military college, as veritable as that of
“ Tom Brown at Oxford.’’ Ivery aspirant for that
course should read this book. “ The Old Lieu
tenant and his Son,” by Norman Maoleod, is ths
reprint of a popular English novel—the heroes of
which an two sailors, father and son. The Decla
ration of Independence, Washington's Farewell Ad
dress, and The Constitution of the United States,
all in a volume, tiny enough for the vest-poeket, is
another of these publications, and two more will be
immediately forthcoming—vis , a beautiful edition
of the Koran, (Sale’s translation,) and Mrs. S. C.
Hall’s new novel, “ Can Wrong be Right." Mr.
Burnham's publications, whloh are very neatly got
up, are on sale at Peterson’s and Hazard’s, and by
all other booksellers in this city.
A JocniiAU PrV.hiction Vbmwed.—Tho Rich
mond Enquirer hag the following, in connection
with the Roanoke Island affair : “An authentic
anecdoie of Mujor Hugh W. Fry has reached us,
and is so thoroughly characteristic of the mao, that
ISA c&LLck g!vine 51 yabtiv-tiwii During
the beat of the conflict, Major Fry, with a battalion
of infantry, was conveyed to the island to reinforoe
its defenders. Upon debarking from the steamer
upon Roanoke, Major Fry jocularly exclaimed,
- AH passengers for Fort warren will please take
the coach on the left-hand aide.’ The sally pro
voked a general outburst of laughter, but within
two hours afterwards the joke was proven to hare
been prophetic; the jocose Major and hie cam
onions were all ticketed for Fort Warren."
The Monitor Waiting for the Merrlmae.
THE CAPTURE OF YANCEY
AFFAIRS AT WINCHESTER.
THE SOLDIERS IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
They are Prohibited from Writing any More
Letters,
From Fortress Monroe.
Bautiworb, Maroh 21.— A1l was quiet at For
tress Monroe yesterday.
A Bevere northeut storm has prevailed there for
the last two days.
Several small vessels had dragged their anohors
and gone ashore; but they would be got off without
diffioulty.
Nothing has been heard or seen of the Mem
mac,.
The Monitor ocenpies her usual position above
the fleet. She hu received some alterations and
additions, that will materially add to her improgna.
bility.
The telegraph lino has been partially undor-run,
but tbe bad weather has pnt a stop to further ope
rations.
The Capture of Yancey.
New y'otivj March 21.—A letter received by the
Rhode Island yesterday, by Captain Davids,
superintendent .of the Naval Machine Works,
dated on board tbo gunboat A. R. Guyler , at Key
West, the 10ih Instant, says : “ Day before yester
day the; steamer Water Witch overhauled a
fcbooncr while attempting to ran the blookade.
Among those on aboard was Win. L. Yancey, dis
guised In saiior clothes. Be was recognized and
delivered over to the fort.” - Tho writer of this
letter is known to Captain Davids, who dees not
question the statement.
From the Army at Winchester, Va.
WmcHESTER, March 20.—A portion of General
Shields' reconxoissance has returned from Stras
burg.
j aoksoa is reported to be near Mount Jackson.
Last night the provost marshal made an unex
pected descent neon a gambling house recently
opened at Winchester, and arrested four of the
proprietors and several army officers who were
present. The latter were released on parole, but
the proprietors were placed in jail. The apparatus
and other property of the establishment, valued at
$6OO, were also captured.
From Washington.
Wasuikctox, March 21.— As our forces extond
the authority of the United States on the Atlantic
const, numerous applications are made by mer
chants and shippers to the Treasury Department,
for permission to trade with the recaptured ports ;
but these are uniformly refused. Nothing is done
to interfere with tho blockade. Permits, however,
are granted by the department for iuUraal trido
elsewhere.
The public debt and all foreign drafts are prompt
ly paid at maturity, no matter what may be tbe
pressure in other respects on the treasury.
The statement that Mr. Sickles' nomination, as
brigadier general, was unanimously rejected by the
Senate, is not correct.
The deserters from the rebel army at Acquia
Creek, who hare been brought up the river, took
the oath of allegiance this morning.
They say that the rebels ieft all their oannon at
tbe Acquia Creek batteries, and fled in a panic,
fearmg the advance of our troops. Before leaving
they fired some of their cannon with such charges
as buTst them.
The deserters also state that private soldiers in
tbe rebel army have not been able to get any news
papers all through the campaign, the officers not, al
lowing the soldiers to reoeive any papers at all.
Tho Navy Department has to-day no advices of
the capture of Wm. L. Yancey.
The Senate Committee on Finance have to-day
completed a more liberal tax bill than the one
which originated in the House,
The Hon. John C. Underwood will address a
Union meeting, which is called for to-morrow, at
Fairfax fiourt House. Tbe handbills for the meet
ing have been circulated all over Fairfax couuty.
Tbe writing of letters by soldiers in the army
of the Potomac, now advanced in Virginia, is pro
hibited by an order .issued from headqnartors
llow long this rule will be enforced it is impossible
to say. Those who have friends in the army, and
receive no letters, will understand the reason.
Around the Camp-Fires.
[Special Cerrespovtence of The Press.}
’ * At Night, March 17.
We left the division sf six o'clock on Saturday
znorniDg, encamped at a& unmentionable pl&oe. In
the inidat of the previous evening’s chilly, cheer-
Ices rain, the regiments, one after another) had
h&H&l hy Ihft ¥6S.d-§ide f and In five mlouteß thOlr
camp-fires were blazing for a mile stretch. It
was tired night when we sipped our warm ooffee,
and dabbled our fingers in the savory grease of
beef. Never were appetites so keen, and rations
so acceptable. The soldiers then lay down in tho
fields, with their feet to the fires, and their faces
to the rain. A few of the officers were accommo
dated in the adjacent fahn-housest sleeping in rows
upon the bare floors. Others stretched themselves
prone in the wagons and ambalances, thereby in*
commoding the teamsters. Others placed rails
upon the ground, and slept uneasily with tha sharp
edges galling their flesh. Many of the soldiers did
net sleep at all, but sat moodily around the fires,
watching the embers crackle and grow cold, or
leaned against their muskets, gore of foot and 6?
heart, praying for the morning to dawn.
The few farm-boys that had not been frightened
from home came into camp betimes, on Saturday,
to dispose of fresh eggs. Twenty- fiyo cents a dozen
are freely given and more messes than one partook
at breakfast of chickens and geese that had never
passed through the commissary’s hands.
lueffecUml efforts were made to find fording over
creek, the turnpike bridges cf which had been
burned bv the rebels some months before. Your
correspondent followed a cart-track through a
woods and a swamp, and, after narrowly escaping
being washed from his horse, recovered himself four
miles out of the way. Retracing our steps, we had
a full view of the memorable field where two rural
foraging parties had met by chance, and two hun
dred that followed tho forage were left dead in the
road—
*t £ r e evening to be hidden like tbe grass,
Which low beneath them, but above shall ggow
In its next verdure.*’
Most of tt« JeaJ of that contest hod fcceu buried
in a field to the left, and we rode over to their
place of interment. A few pine trees stood aloof
from a picket, and near them the soil was uneven
and npbeaved • The hoof of the horse struck some
thing that gave forth a hollow sound, and at the
next step he sank almost to the knees in the clay.
A boot, enclosing what had been a human foot, pro
truded from the surface, and we were literally
riding over the graves of the slain. The airseemed
to grow close; stealthy eyes and sounds were astir;
the silence was supernatural ; the animal prioked
up his ears, seeming to feel the ghostly influences
of the place, and with a sharp rattle of the spur,
that quickened the pulse and chilled the blood,
we turned from the Aloedama, and looked back a
moment with a shudder, and a feeling of relief.
The miserable village that has given that battle
field a name looked desolate on the moist morning,
and an old hag of a woman, with a broom that
likened her more than ever to a witch, grinned and
fcodded a£ we trotted by .her hovel. Few of the
houses hereabout have window-panes in them,
owing to the concussion of the guns at the battle.
We joined the advance of the reserve corps as it
filed into the tuinpiW. A smart rain was falling at
this time, and the men suffered exceedingly from
laek of rest. Nevertheless, oonsoious that a warlike
purpose compelled their march, they were cheerful
and even jocose. The calm, courteous countenance
of General , the friendly, intense faoe of
General , and the lithe, agile flrame of - ■ ■■
greeted us in the line. They were all superbly
mounted, and looked upon their division—to our
mind the finest oorps in the army of the Fotomao—
with pardonable pride.
At ten o’clook the head of the division crossed
creek, and the rain began to fall in deluges.
The raindrops were barbed and Btruek pitilessly,
soon wetting to the skin through the thickest gar
ments. The saddles were soaking and oozy, and
the horsemen averted their heeds to avoid tho
pelting of the storm. Those on foot, heavily laden
and weary with th,e mar eh, found the footing inse
cure, and every runlet a torrent. Up and down
the hills the huge column moved, stopping and
resting at times, but the rain neither stopped nor
slackened. At , the former huts of the divi
sion stood invitingly and unoocupied, and the men
looked toward ‘them wistfully. But tho orders
were peremptory, and, with many a sigh and oath,
the battalions filed off to the right and rattled
down a dirt by-road toward the turn
pike. The agonies of a long march In
the storm were here aggravated by reason of
the terrible character of the way. The loaded
wagons sank to the axles in the slay; the footmen
almost Bwam in the slime; the artillery urged its
way slowly and falteringly, with the shoulders of
soldiers at the wheels; and the eavalry plunged
in the depth;, into gulfs that would swallow
them from sight. Frequently the quartermaster’s
and commissary's teams stalled, and the men waited
helplessly for the advance, all the while beaten by
the rain. At dark the regiment reached the vioi.
nity of the head of the column, and' although the
fields were deluged, and the.roads were like rivers,
they prepared to encamp.
The rain did net eease till star morning few
slept, though all were weary; andjwho shall
wonder when the melancholy fact is related that in
the clear dawn of the Sabbath three addicts Were
found rigid on the field, wrapped in their damp and
saturated blankets.
It was not theirs to fall in the mad
desperate sortie, or the terrible siege. They had
battled, net with men, but with tho otomeute, and
died a-field,but alas I ingloriously and negleeted.
Other divisions, ss wo afterwards heard, suffered
still more in the storm of Saturday. Several, in
deed, were drowned in fording the swollen orceka,
end a New York regiment lost in this way many
horses and four men. The night was one that will
be long remembered for the sufferings it entailed.
Our regimentß are well situated near the ,
Where, for the present, they remain patiout, but
confident that their time of action is near at hand.
G. A. T.
The Ambition of our Military Leaders.
[Special Correspondence of Tho Press )
Faiufax SeHiHAitr, March 19.
The'gossip of the camps is significant, as repre
senting the views of sis hundred thousand IaCQ,
who will, when the war is over, direct the destinies
of the Bepublio. At present, the soldiers have little
of political import to say, bciug chiefly concerned
with scrutinizing military movements and talents.
There appear to be two factions among the people:
the friends and tbe enemies of Gen. McClellan. In
'Washington the enemies of tbe young commander
are bitter, unrelenting, and severe; his friends are
zealous, active, and numerous The enemies of
McClellan, hr rather of the policy that he has in
augurated, seem as yet, undecided upon the choice
of a favorite, many preferring McDowell, others
Halleck, and others Fremont. The latter, indeed,
is at present, attracting more attention than any
other general, and his friends aro of tho intense
school, who forget no opportunity to push his claims
or clamor his applauses. The troops, likewise, are
disposed to take the appointment of Fremont (o hi?
Mountain Department as a ooneession to his ability,
and I have heard a hundred comparisons between
the t( Pathfinder” and Gen. McClellan. As the
matter now stands, few would be surprised to hear
of great suceefsea achieved by Fremont, and few
would be disappointed if he signally failed to esta
blish his reputation.
It has seemed to mo, in moving around Wash
ington, among Congressmen and in the Depart
ments, that this balancing of military strength is
bnt preliminary to tho balancing of political
strength. In other words, there aro people abroad
who wonld like to urge General Fremont and Gene
ral McClellan for the Presidency of the United
States. Nominations are made in this way years
beforehand, and one can guess the drift of parties
prior to caucuses or conventions. The radical
anti-slavery people intend) if no mishap intervenes,
to keep the name and services of General Fremont
before the people; the remnant of the Democratic
organization intends, if affairs remain as they are,
to force upon General McClellan a Democratic no
mination for the Presidency. And, beiwesH these
two, the “ progressive-conservatives” may stand,
selecting Mr. Lincoln as their representative, and
recommending him alike to tho patriotic soldier and
the patriotic citizen.
I stood at breakfast to-day, around a camp-fire
of the Third Regiment of Pennsylvania Reserves,
when a group of colonels, majors, and other com
missioned officers, were upon this theme. There
were partisans of the Fremont school assembiad,
hut the mass of soldiers seemed still confident of
the ultimate success of General McClellan.
“lhave a name, gentlemen,” said an old Dou
glas Democrat, “that will be welcomed by all
the people, citizens and volunteers; ills that of
‘Old Abe!’”
No one could mistake the feeling that greeted
this enunciation, and X have elsewhere remarked
that the President possesses the confidence of she
entire army. Amidst all the factions and vitupe
rative criticism, that have assailed this or that gene
ral, none have found salient points in the. ad
ministrative conduct of Abraham Lincoln, It may
savor of disorganization and faction thus to anti
cipate political changes, while the rival arms are
yet in the balance, and our civil struggle about to
assume its most desperate form; bnt, however
melancholy tho foot, it is Still true that thousands
of leading people in Washington regard the war
only in its bearings upon the future politics of the
country.
I do not know, indeed, but that many of oar
generals subserve their military to their political
ambition. To use a vulgar comparison, they have
one eye for the cartridge-box, and another for the
ballot-bog, And while there are many gallant
commanders who hope nothing, wish nothing more
than tbe restoration of the old Union, there are not
a few who have moved so long - iu politioal circles
that they insensibly glide into the old channel of
chicanery. lam forced to admit this from the oc
currences of certain interviews with oertain gene
rals. Their interrogations have uniformly had a
political bearing, as, for instance: "How decs
McClellan stand with the people?” or, “Is there
much enthusiasm abroad with respect to Halleck?”
Indeed, party Conventions have always availed
themselves of popular enthusiasm, as in the case of
tho elections of Gen. Haxrisou and Geu. Taylor,
and the nomination of Gen. Scott in 1852.
Our Presidential nominees, for tho next five
terms, will probably be made from the army or
navy. It ia not aiittle strange that os yet we have
had no President selected from the Amerioannavy.
A majority of our Presidents have been soldiers—
why U6ne sailors? Those who make their calcula
tions for popular And political favorites must not
forget that half the successes of this war have been
gained by our tars—the Footes, Duponts, and
Rodgers. How these will be pitted against our
land-leaders remains to be seen. £do not bSIiOYO
that the officers and friends of the navy are alto
gel her blind in this regard, and much of the wealth,
influence, and interest of the country is now turned
toward our operations on the seas and in the har
bors.
General McDowell, the commander of the First
corps d’armee, is at present an object of much
attention. HIS corps is composed of three of the
best divieions of the army, and these will enable him
to retrieve the disastrous fortunes of Bull Run. As
schemes are now on foot of a meet magnificent
character, the General and his gallant Pennsylyg
niabO will hot be without opportunity.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
Order Rfgnlatiiig Newspaper Correspondence
—A Sterm—Meditations at my Window.
[Correspondence of The Press.J
An order was issued last evening by General
Wool, which promises to have g upgt beneficial
effect in impressing sensation correspondents with
the importance of a stricter adhesion to the truth,
and a sterner repudiation of oanards, of which we
have any number, even in the dullest of times.
The order decrees that in future all oopy to be
forwarded to newspapers for publieation shall be
first submitted to the revision of the general, or his
aid-de-camp.
The issuing of the order has been more directly
necessitated by the course of certain journals,
whose representatives at this point,-'as well as
elsewhere, have been transmitting informatics
concerning the movements of troops, the de
parture of! vessels, etc., as well as aiding and
comforting the enemy by the publication of hints
and predictions, apparently harmless, but really
contraband of war.
All news which it is proper that the public should
be acquainted with will, of course, be permitted to be
sent, as heretofore; but concerning army move
ments, contemplated or actually progressing, the
members of tho press are instructed to keep
“ shady Should any of them attempt to evade
the umbrageous order, ho will straightway be fur
nished with a special pass to the Monumental City.
Captain George W. Mindll, of General lllmey’s
staff, is here on business. _ The oaptain is a Phila
delphian and a graduate of the High School. His
many friends will be glad to learn that he is in the
enjoyment of good health.
Last night wei were visited with a most severe
storm of rain, which has continued almost through
out the whole of to-day. It feels as damp, and
dicmal. and rheumatic as a “rainy Sunday’’ while
I write, although a bright ooal fire is glowing be
fore me. The rain is falling in a steady stream this
very moment, and (here upon the windoir-pane it
draws a thousand thin diagonals, that very much
resemble the rafters of a spider's cobweb. Looking
through these rafters, I Bee a hopeless stretch of
mud, that calls to mind the roads of Washington,
But I might stand here until night, gazing upon the
lifeless prospect, without discovering the least ma
terial with which to prolong my letter. Therefore
I shall close at pr.ee, and hurry off to the nid-jle
eamp, whose .signi '.ere will make my letter valid.
A Patriotic|M her and a Rebel Son.
A few days since iiirs Tilghman, accompanied
by her daughter, Mrs. Lowry, came to this elty,
•Bd put up at the Revere House, for the purpose
of visiting' Gen. Tilghman, the rebel prisoner at
Fort Warren. There waa some difficulty in obtain
ing the required permission, but, ob Saturday, thO
mother and sister were allowed to. vißlt the fort,
and have an interview with the prisoner. The
first exclamation on meeting him was: “ Oh, my
rebel sod,” and, during tho conversation, sbe said,
“ When I beard you was taken, I thanked God that
yon were resoued from Secession inflaenaes, and
were I to hear there was any chance of your being
exchanged. I would go on my knees to the President
to prevent you from again joining the rebels, for I
had rather have yon remainhese during ycurllfo
than to know you were among the traitors of the
country.”
Mrs. Tilghman received her permit to visit the
fort direct from Secretary Stanton, whom she ad
dressed, stating that though her sou waa a rebel, he
was atiil her son, and she felt it her duty to visit
him, if permitted. Sbe left for Philadelphia, ac
companied by her daughter, on Saturday afternoon,
expre«ipg her obligations to Col, Dimmiok and
others for taoir kindness: and attention.— Boittm
Gazette.
LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS,
rßomniTioii or cot. rums.
ANOTHER CALL FOB TBOOFS.
CONSCRIPTION THREATENED.
The Rebel Confederacy Without a Flag,
ATTACK UPON JEFF DAVIS' MESSAGE.
Charleston papers of the Bth inst. have been re
ceived. From the extracts which ire present, it
will bo seen that Jeff Davis is rapidly falling into
disrepute, and no longer enjoys the confidence of
the Southern people, 'to is charged with apathy—
from which it is not' ••• nferred that any qualin
of loyally disturbs bis c- science i but simply that
he is paralyzed with the thousand terrors that en
viron him, and, like the imprisoned felon, who
dreads to bear the warrant of his execution, is
startled With the slightest token of his doom.
A Proclamation from GovernorPickens
State of South Carohha, Headquarters, )
March 5, 1862. {
The President of the Confederate States, through
the Secretary of War, has called on me, as Governor
of South Carolina, to furnish five more regiments
for, and during, the war.
Now, then, under this requisition, I do hereby
call for men to come forward BS YftlUllteerfl, indi<
Yianaiiy and separately, or by companies now
formed, of not less than sixty-eight aggregate to
each company, and to be organized according to the
principles luid down in the resolutions of the
Council hereunto attached. Tenders of service
will be made ift WfU»Dg to the Adjutant Gener&Ts
office in Columbia. Those volunteering as indi
viduals will be formed into companies as soon as
possible, the officers to bo appointed by the Go
vernor and Council.
The Secretary of War, in his requisition, gaya
th&t il each soldier will receive a bounty of sf)o
when the regiment or company is mustered into
service, and will be allowed transportation from his
home to the place of rendezvous, n and will also be
clothed, supplied, and armed at the expense of the
Confederate states, No man liable to duty will ha
allowed to enter any other company now in service
for any term less than the war, until this requisi
tion for live infantry regiments be complied with.
If these regiments are not formed by volunteers,
by the 2<\th litst., then a conscrijitiou. will be Vlfide
lo vied the balance of the requisition, UpOD prin
ciples which will be announced in general orders of
detail, issued by the Chief of the Military Depart
ment, in conjunction with tho Adjutant and Inspec
tor General.
I ne&(l not itt&ke &h appeal to the people to meet
this requisition. The country is in danger. We
have met with reverses. There is no alternative.
We must fight for our homes and our altars. No
people are fit to be free unless they are willing to
march through the perils of severe conflict and bit*
tie. This State was the cradle of the revolution.
Let her sons now hang out their battle flags from
every home. Let us make the State one entrenched
camp, and if we are to full, let every freeman find,
at least, a soldier’s grave. Let all come to their
99«Btfj’s«alli If ws are brave and true thsreis
no permanent danger. Without difficulty and
peril independence iteelf jvould not be valued. No
people were ever free without dangers and strug
gles. _ Our true safety is to meet every danger with
more indomitable courage, and to riso higher with
any and every disaster. In the war of our first
Devolution South Carolina pasßed through far more
desperate trials. Under the guide of the God of
Battles we must rise to our destiny, and from our
very defeats gather renewed strength in the defence
of our firesides and of our homes.
Given under my hand aud the seal of the State, at
Columbia, this, the sth day of Slaroh, in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-two, and of the independence of the State
of South Carolina the eighty-six til.
F. W. PwKBSs.
Resolved, by the Governor and Council, That,
in view of the recent requisition for troops for the
war by the Confederate Government, no person not
now under orders, subject to military duty in Sonth
Carolina, shall ba permitted to antes oosP«fc.ai«
service for a less time than for the war.
Resolved, That the Chief of the Military Depart
ment, together with the Adjutant General, proceed
at once to devise a scheme by which all the arms
bearing white male inhabitants Of South Carolina,
between the ages of IS and 45, shall be enrolled, as
well those now in service for a less period than the
war as those not in service, from which roil the
troops raised shall bo selected, by lot, except such
volunteers as shall come in as hereinafter provided.
Resolved. That Individual volunteers, for iafaotry
service, will be received until the 20th of March
inst., who shall be organized into companies, batta
lions, and regiments—all officers to be appointed
and assigned by the Governor and Council, and tho
troop? organized shall bo mustered immediately
into Confederate service.
March 6. P. J. Moses, Jr., Secretary
The Confederacy without a Flag.
Xbe rebels appear to be in a quandary upon the
question of selecting an ensign. Anything sugges
tive Ot desperation, perfidy, and bombast would
probably answer their purpeso. The Charleston
Mercury, of the 6th instant, is somewhat of the fol.
lowing opinion :
There is no mistaking the very general dissatis
faction existing with the “ stars and bars,” adopted
in the early Biage of this revolution by the Pro
visional CoDgreßß, as tlia o<iEfeJ er&le enaiga. A
cognate variation of the United States flag, similar
in ideas, pattern, and color, squinting strongly at
“reorganization,” and undistinguish&ble at a dis
tance by sea or land, it Is united neither to the taste
for national independence, the sectional .fooling,
nor the practical uses of the Southern standard.
Congress itself, stimulated, we presume, by the ac
tion of the army of the Potomac, at its last session
took the matter again in hand. The committee sat
and reported a flagt whioh has been erroneously
Suhlished as adopted by Congress—red field and
lue union, decked with four white stars, intended
to imitate the four corners of a St. Andrew’s cross.
We are informed that this flag was not adopted, no?
any other | but that the body having shown a pre
ference for another ensign, transferred the whole
subject over to the new Congress, now in session.
Our readers may have noticed among the commit
tees of the new House of Representatives, one “on
the flag end 96fllJ* Matter is, therefore, opeq
for determination.
Four different flags have been proposed.
The first is that for which the Provisional Con
gress indicated a preference, without ad?Ptjßg it,
handsomer than the “stars and batß,”
and onlike any other standard, it has a look of
singularity of design which we do nob fancy.
The second is the battle flag of the army.of the
Potomacy adopted by Generals Beauregard and
Jcbfidto3 r to avoid mistakes of troops in future.
Though rreft and handsome, it is objectionable to
some religious denominations—the Israelites, if not
the Homan Catholics—in a country in which Church
and State are separated. It, therefore, is not like
ly to be chosen.
The third is unique and handsome. The division
is similar to that of the old Knight Templars’ flag,
but the colors and centre are different.
G. A. T.
The sun, with a ray for each State, dispenses
with the borrowed stars, while smtyf pjatic of lati
tude of our country, source of our agricultural
wealth, and also of the warmth and geniality of
Southern character.
fourth and last is a flag of peculiar dignity
and simplicity.
[The Mercury hero gives a fearful ft fid WOTlller*
ful cut of a flag, consisting of two right-angled
triangles, and an immense black bar sinister , and
thus continues:]
It fe altogether unlike the ensign of any other
nation, and especially unlike that of the Yankee
nation. Those that imagine that a flag should be
symbolical, will find in the colors of this one—
white and black—an obvious significance. Such a
standard would typify ourfaith in tho *» peeu
liar institution” and be an enduring mark of
our resolve to retain that institution while we
exist as an independent people. For maritime
uses this proposed flag, although it discards the
everlasting Yankee stor§, §pd the worn-out oombi*
nations of “red, white, and blue,” would be dis
tinguishable at as great distance as any other that
can be devised
The Mercury's Opinion of Jeff Davis'
Message.
Our renders have already noticed the imputations
cast by President Davis, in h's xnossage, upon the
Provisional Congress, by the plain insinuation that
the required appropriations had not been made for
the creation of a navy, and that the present defi
ciency of troops was caused by the early legislation
of Congress, The corrections of these charges and
the vindication of the Provisional Congress from
all blame, by Messrs. Conrad and Miles, the chair
men of the Kaval and Military Committees, have
been published in tho Abstracts af Congressional
proceedings. These iucidonta, and the necessity of
such explanations, form a fitting commentary upon
the secret sessions. They constitute an agreeable
episode to ibe earnest and successful efforts of the
friends to prevent the publication of
ibe records.
' The President also seems to speak with gratifica
tion of the efforts he has made to build up our navy.
Being 9smlYW totally unable to seo any aause
of gratulatioD in the condition of our navy or river
defences, we beg leave to submit a few foots and
observations upon them.
During the last days of the first Congress, at
Richmond, which W&a in September, the Govern
ment sent in its proposed appropriations for naval,
coast, and river defences. Our readers will remem
ber that Congress cannot, by the Constitution, either
originate or inorease any appropriations. They
must ba called for by the Government. The objeat
of this provision of the Constitution is to make the
Government responsible for all expenditures Now,
how much money do our readers suppose the Go
vernment required for our naval, coast, and river
defences? Why, the enormous sum of fifty thou
sand dollars! Great Indignation, we are informed,
existed in Congress at the insignificant amount
called for. It was equivalent to saying that no
money was required. This pitiful sum would
hardly put afloat one flrst-cla?9 HOR'Clad gUSbOfitii
Under the pressure of members of Congress, the
Government was induced, at length, to ask for two
millions of dollars. The amount called for ought
to bave been ten millioDßi If we could not build
speedily a navy % we could have bought one
already built. We might bave had, by this time,
len or twenty Sumpters scouring the ocean of our
Yankee foes, and sending our name to the four
quarters of the world. As it ia, don any one Ull
what has been done with even the two millions of
dollars the Government called for and appropriated
in September, and when it will be available ?
In regard to the “efforts” which have not been
IS the pud Skilled IDS*
cbanlcs of the South for the prompt creation of a
navy, and to show bow the Executive Departments
“ have done all which human power and foresight
could enable them to accomplish” fit tome, WO would
rjinpiy stare that there are some bulfdozen ship*
yaroß in Charleston, undbr the superintendence of
educated shipwrights, and capable of employing
sbip-carpeDtcrs, who ctfuld be procured hore, and
might have been engaged far the last year in
making gunboats. There are the Messrs. Marsh k
Son, Kirkwood A Knox, the Jones Brothers, James
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V AdTortfsemonti tniarted at the usual tout. Qhft
Unee constitute a square.
Addison. C. AF. Degnan, C. Brandt. These are
shipwrights find boat-buildera, There are riggers
and joiners and carpenters in numbers, who might
have been at work. The foundries and workshops
of Messrs. Cameron A Co , J. M. Bason A Brother,
W. S. Uenery A Co., Smith A Porter, Lockwood A
Johnson, and South Carolina RailfPftd ITftrfcshopffi
doulj have turned out: largely of ongioeg, OlA*
chicory, and plating. But alt efforts on the part
of these skilled moohanics to get contraots, and
supply the military necessities of the country, were
long unavailing. Their proffers were steadily de
clined, The following is a speoirnon of the un
sparing efforts of the Naval Department, acting in
subserviency to the views of the President The
country will appreciate the fatigue consequent
upon such exertion:
Statu# or AMisHim, i
Navy RiniMosD. Jan. 2,1802. J
J/r. James G. Marsh, Charleston, S. C.:
Sir : This Department cunnot, at this time, en
gage in the construction of a war-vessel upon the
plan presented by you. The plan embraces foa-
which arc regarded na now and eminently
useful, and which the Department may hereafter,
when less taxed than at present, adopt.
The model Is returned, in accordance with your
request, by express. . _,
I am, respectfully, your obd’t serv’t,
S. H Mallory, Sec’y of the Navy.
Willnn only the last six week* has it been at
tempted to employ the shipwrights and boat •
builders of Charleston. Many boats might have
been constructed end arc n&t. Recently we learn
that gome few cor.tracts have been given out,* but
they are not all employed now. Let our readers,
from these facts, judge of the extraordinary fore
sight and unsparing efforts,of the Executive con
-9?raißg tbs Cssfedsrate navy,
Richmond Items.
The Charleston Mercury’s correspondent, under
date of March 3d, writes from the rebel capital
thus .
Shall the cause fall because Mr. Davis is incom
petent? The people of the Confederacy must an
swer this plain question at once, or they are lost.
Tennessee, under Sydney Johnson, is likely to be
lost. Mr. Davis retains him. Van Dorn writes
that Missouri will bo abandoned unUu the claims
of Piioe nre recognized. Mr. Davis will not send
in his nomination. A change of Cabinet is demand
ed lDßtantly to restore public confidence. Mr.
Davis is motionless as a clod. Jinell’s proclama
tion to the people of Nashville /ms lh(t
yoivng mr.n, already ctlssatl'Jitd With JohllSOll ,
to lay dvivn their arms , and paved the way to th®
campaign of invasion in the Mississippi Valley.
Mr. Davis remains as cold as ice. The people
must know, and feel and be felt. The Government
must be made to i&m**.
The arrest, of Botts A Co., and the proclamation
of martial law, b?iß stirred up the city in a measqro.
Botts has kept his house ever sinoe the State sece
ded. and there openly and violently sustained Lin
coln in all of his usurpations. Stearns, th&dLtUler,
and Hechler, the butcher, arc said to have plotted.
The whisky sellers are much disgruntled. The
close of their shops puts not less than 500 able men
upon the parish—excellent stuff 14 to fill up” the
army. If we include all the barkeepofg god At
taches, the list will bo swollen to 1.500.
Pegram, the bold commander of the
Is an uncle of Col. Pegram, who was captured at
Rich Mountain. lie is a fine looking man, of 45 or
50, a sincere Christian, gentle as a woman, cool and
intrepid as it is possible for a mag fog, JJjg
daring attack upon the piratical junks, during the
British war with China, procured for him a gold
medal from the Queen, and other high testimonials,
and accounts, in great part, for the cordial atten
tions he received lately in England. He brings
postago stamps, treasury BQtaSj ftUd ft 7DTJ full sup
ply of powder for the two 6-pounder rifles which
the Nashville mounts.
Weekly lie view of the markets.
PhilAdhlphiAi March 21, 1982.
There are to Important changes to note in the market!
for any of the leading articles cf produce, and the week*!
business has been moderate for the season. Breadstuff*
continue unsettled an<J Ml, and prices generally rula in
favor of the buyers. Bark is firm. Coal is inactive,
the scarcity of vessels limiting operations for shipment.
Iron is held above the views of buyors, without much
doing in the way of sales. Cotton is very dull. Fish
and pi nit aro firm, and of tkelatu? tUreisVerrliLiU
stock to operate in. 'Groceries are also firm. Of Pro
visions,. the week's e*»les have been to a fair extent; the
market, however, is dull at the close. Naval Store!,
Oi!*, and Itice remain quiet. Salt is firm. Seeds are ia
good demand. GUiViPfe64d has advanced. Tallow, Teas*
and Toi &cco ucclmnged, and business is inactive*
Whisky continues dull, and Wool very inactive. la
Dry Goods there is rather ruoro doing; but the spring
trade opens slowly, and there is no .material change in
the market.
The Flour market is dult and unsettled, with but
little disposition to operate either for export or home uae
at the rates now current, and only about 8,000 bbls found
buyers at 55.12^a , 5 25 for superfine, 62 for
eklraa. So Gs«r6 for family, and J3G.25 for TfllJC)’ braodS,
mostly extra family, including some on terms kept se
cret. Thero is a sternly homo consumptive demand
within the above range of pricey, and fancy lots al $6 50
®7 kid, etwrilcg to finality. Bye Flour U gtcadvi
with sales at $3.25, and Pomi'a Corn Meal at £2 75, but
without much* doing in either; a sale of country flt&ol
was also made at s2.sGj(f bbl.
WblE AT.—The offerings are light, and it is in fair re
quest at steady prices; Rains of 25.000 bus at
fos rtd. ftLd white at 137&145c, Including Homo Kentucky
at the lattpr rate, atil Southern at 145015. c, mostly in
Store. Penna Bye is Selling freely at 70c Ooru is in
fairrt-iiiu-si, with sales of 25,00: busyellow ats4c,afloat,
6&D>e in store nt 52058 c, damp sorts At oi)e, au<l som®
badly, dumped at 2Sc. 0«t» a|y jn||; ffufdiaki l’tmrm »t
£3sr3&c for Dtlawnvu oud PcDUtli NCW YorK BtUlOf
commands 89tS0c 4P* bus.
PROVISIONS lhere Is very little change in prices,
but the market is dull, with sales of Western aud city
pucktd bimb Pork at 513.50®14, and prime at slo®ll.
City-packed roeeg rmigfiij from $l4 tO SIS. GASh.
western ia selling at spio bbl. The recoipfß of dressed
Hogs have fallen rif, a id they are celling At S&.6U tho
ICO lbs. Bacon—The market is quiet, and the receipts
and stocks of ull kinds light. Sales of 250 tes plain and
fancy Hams at 6®Bc ; new Sides at G®6J{c, aud Shoulders
at carti and timo. Gmn %Uau with »
good (letuiiHl at steady prices. Sales of Thum in salt at
and in pickle at Sides at s®s)(c (
and Shoulders at t»4ft c. Lard is in fair demand, and
pi ices well maintained. Sales of 1,800 tes and V>bU prime
at cash and time, and part gp pflViHo toriHß \
500 pkg:*v ixtuutry at “ «a-7 v, »nd 600 kV§i) ht
a sale of 660 kegs city rendered on private terms. But
ter ie unchanged, and there is a good demand for fins
qualities. Eggs are lower, and selling at 14c dozdt),
Cheeae is unchanged,
WliTALlWnwro liM been vwp IlHliJola- ! n Pig
Iron BiDCt our last notice, anil some of the mukura maui
fesl no disposition to operate at present rates; sales of
I,COO ton. Anthracite ut $2l cash, and No. 2 at *2O.
Giiarcoai Itloonis are held at gGO, six motths, without
sal o B »?® r Boil , er 'r™ a, i’ Strirtii nnd the mills ut
well on For orders?. Lead—There is nothing (loillg, and
Very little here to operate in. Copper Is vary dull, and
there l ave been no further sales of Sheathing or Yellow
Metal; The latter is worth 250, six months.
BARK.—lbere is very littlf Quercitron hero; B*loB Of
§9 feMff Ist Ni>. lut Sii3 50 ty tone Of TflaJU6I t y , BftPk
prices are nominal, and there is little or none coming
forwaid.
BEESWAX is steady, and 1,500 tbs prime Yellow Bold
at33#r, cash.
CANDLEb are dull, but prices unchanged, Qaloß of
Sperm at 2Pc, aziij fjli-jntuto Adamantine at lOalSo iff
jb, on-lime. •
COAL.—There is rather doing both for shipment
and home use. Prices are tower, ranging from $'2.7&a3
ton for Schuylkill white ash, am] 5?3®3,10 for rod a*h,
delivered on board at Richmond The sales to home con
sumers range from S 3 76 to $4.25 for small agrj Jgj-gp gjgeg,
GOPPifiE.—The Tutkrket ia quiet, and hPNVTT} WO )]nH
lb their view?, with Bates of 000 bags Bio at oilc,
the former f r low grade, and Laguayra at 21)$®42c,
cliieft > at the latter rate, on time.
tfOTTOy.— | g vory movement in the mar
iet, au(3 holders are <leoi»Hlli»S »fi advance. Salt* Of ISO
Wea low grt*]? middling IttiT UplftUdS ttt 180300 V
m caeb.
DRUGS AND DYES.—The transactions have been
limited. Opium is vory dull, and has declin d. Soda
Ash is selling in lots at 'i% ©2# c. There is no Lpgwvefi
in fitSt h&litlS, hfi<! It I** scarce* and wauted A Of
Soda Ash is also reported, to arrive, at'£2.C6# the 100 lbs*
FlSH.—There are butfow Mackerel comioq forward,
and holders have put np their prices 25c IPbbl. Tho
Btore quotations are 810.75 a 11 for large Is, $9 50®9 for
No, 2, hßd ijf" fitrlarre 3b, MBbU have adrannod, and
are firm at $3.P0®3.7d, with sales at the latter rate.
Flckltd Herring sell at S 2 50®3.5D bbl. Prices of
&bad and Salmon remain without change, with limited
sales.
FEATHERS arc but little inquired after, with sales of
good Western at3?©3sc $Q fcjnif,
fruit —rue want or supplies of all descriptions re
stricts operations iq foreign. Sinai) sates of Oranges and
Lemons, from second hands, at $2.25&3 box. Do
mestic Fruit of all kinds is (juiet; sales of 250 bushels
unparea Peaches at s)£®9c for old.crop quarter* and
pew halves; pat Pd Peaches are scarce, Sales of Green
at 4e>Gc bb), as in quality. Dried Apples Bell
at 6 lb f ; >r old and now crop.
FREIGHTS to Liverpool are dull at 2s 6d®2s Oil for
flour; B®lod for grain, and 2os 7d®2Bs for hoavy goods*
To London, the rates are as last qnutod. To Sau Fran
cisco, the jutes are nominal. Small vessel*, suitable fpy
tho West 1 fite sc&r<’©. A schooner was taken to
I'orto Rico <if and 5?*1.75 for sugar and molasses. To
Bogtc n. the rales ure stoutly a*. 28c for flour, 7c for grain,
and 5® 0c for measurement goods. C’uul vessels aro scarce
aMI wnnkd.
GINSB.I'O i a quiet, unit without sales of either crude
oroUnfici!
GUANO.—TIh'I'S i 8 idofo lfiqtHr.ir for all kinds. Sales
of remthii:, which is scarce, at M)#tJo pur ton.
HAY is kt-iliui; at 70®SOc tho JOO ib*, and the demand
fair.
hide,-, ,ir- ijuiut, tut without »ny furttaor arrivals or
Ssb»Byo pvi« IrirjViVVk, -
HOPS ero hut little inquired after, Small sales at
JB®2lc for first sort Eastern and Western.
LUMBER.—Supplies are beginning to come forward
more freely, but no sales of any moment rppQftCfii
. HOLASUJJfI !* flrim, ■« 'lb a inquiryi Sales
of 500 hlida Cu a Muscovado at 20®27c, and 160 bbls
fcyrup at 26®31c, all on time.
NAVAL BTORES.—Tliorols vory Utile doing in the
way of sales. There is some inquiry for the medmut
grades of Ilosin, at bbl. Tar and pitch
are nominal. Spirits of l'urpentlno is hold at $1.15®12d
3? eallon, cash.
OlLB.—Pprrm and Whale are steady, 7>ut the sales
are mostly confined to store lot*. Lard Oil I* held with
firmness: sales of winter at 67®70c ? coah ? and 72®7pp, pu
tlfiV*. Linseed Oil s«lls at SiaiB*c, cask. Tbe TC9?iptS
of Ooal Oil are large, aud prices unsettled; soles at 25®
86c* for refined.
Imports of Spt* - in and Whale Oil and Whale’abono into
the United Status for the week ending March 10* 166*2;
Spnrm, Wbaloi Wb'baos,
bins bills. fti.
V. 423 1,775 29,30*
rrevlouslj* reported.
From Jan. 1 to date 1,223 1,775 29,300
game time last year...,. 6,3)7 11,286 239,ftft
PLASTER IS It&rce. Soft is held at a? 3 25 ton.
RlCE.—There Is very Utile hero, and it soils at 7®
7jgc, cash.
SALT.—About 4,500 Backs Liverpool ground And fine
bare arrived, aud remain unsold. Tho market is firm.
SALTPETRE ia am! b hU&n wfus& rn&is* W* #M?
crude: refined is stlHbg at 16®l8o tb. in Quality.
SEEDS.—There is a good demand f<>r ClovorstwJ, and
it has advanced; 2,500 tus sM.i wHhln'the week at $4.37
04.60 for common; aua $475®5 fer Rood an*' choice
loin, Tinimhyis Bforcri »nd worth A 2 2502 37K pap
tMia, Fiimaticri is taken on tvirmtl try thu ernthnrs at
$2.10&2.1&. ihu Inst ealo of Red Tape was at $2.50
SFOAB.— Supplies of Cuba come forward more freuty,
and the ritnmnd is fair, with sales of 600 bbls at 6}j 9s9|
oi» ÜbiD, fAP IMO ai.»l good grooery
SPIRITS are firm, wlib a email burineas to note la
Britney and Cin. N. E. Bum is selling at 36®370,
Wbinky is held firmly; sales of Pennsylvania and Obto
bbt* at 2&ft ®2GJ{ c; and drudge 24c 4P* gallon.
TALLOW is firmer- s&lm of cityirondmdatßUaOd,
and country cash.
TOBACCO.—The demand is limited, and butersare
holding off for supplies from the Southwest; soles of
Mason A Co.'s leaf at ll®l2j{c, on time.
>VPGL —There is no chaugo to uotfo*» and very llttto
inquiry, except for fine; tho law gradn era ocgleotet
and doll, with a few small sales of domeitio and foreign*
mostly of the lattor, at previous quotations.
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