THE PUEBS. rCBMSHZD DAILY, (SUNDAYS BXOBPIBD,) BY JOHN W. FORNK*. OYTIUE Ho. 417 CHWBTNUT STREET. THE DAILY PRESS, Qbhts P«r Week, payable to tbs Oarrler. H*g«d to nbsoribfin out or the (Jity at 811 Dollikb FOUB DOLLASB V 0» UIOHT MoiffHS, «VMixa Dolaabs fob Six Mosthb— lnvariably in ad ■ Vance for the time ordered. the tri-weekly press, M*ll£d to SubseribsM eat of tbs Oily »t TuftEß Dal- y f i»a Fu Ajcnuh, in advance. DRY -GOODS JOBBERS. SPRING IMPORTATIONS BIEN AISH BOYS’ WEAR, Including Goods suited for MILITARY PURPOSES, Now in Store, NO. 631 CHESTNUT STREET, And for Sale by JDE COURSEY, LAPOURCADE, & CO. mh2o-lm 1862. WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT. J. R. CAMPBELL & CO., No. 727 CHESTNUT STREET, SAVE NOW IN STORE, LINES OF OIIJICE GOODS, TO WHICH TiIET ISVITK THE ATTENTION of cash bu VERS. 'WHITE GOODS—In all their Varieties. &.IKEKS—AiI aualities and bo st makes. TABLE DAMASKS—Napkins mist lien. /A,. C. HDKFS—Towels and Toweling. GINGHAMS—Super, Fancy anil Solid Checks. '•T.A'WNS—Heir and Choice Styles. ORGANDIES, and Paris Printed Jaconets. .DRESS GOODS—In very desirable styles. SILKS—Choice Brands. FLANNELS—OI the best makes. BLEACHED GOODS—A full line. .PRINTS—American and Englinh. BRILLIANTES AND PERCALES. TOGETHER WITH MANY OTHER GOODS, ADAPTED TO FIRST-CLASS TRADE, ALL OF WHICH WILL BE OFFERED AT LOW PRICES. 1862. SPRING. 1862 W. S. STEWART & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, NO. 303 MARKET STREET. We invite the attention of the trade to a full line of BLACK AND OTHER STAPIihi SILKS, As also a great variety of NEW STYLES OP DRESS GOODS, Bought for cash, and which will be offered on the most ■Cavomble terms. f025-3m SPRING GOODS. IVL L. HALLO WELL & Co., 333 MARKET and 37 NORTH FOURTH STS., Wholesale Dealers in SILKS AND FANCY DRY GOODS, Sara open a large variety off reshly-importeS SPRING DRESS HOODS, '*To which, with a handsome assortment of BLACK AND FANCY SILKS, SHAWLS, MANTILLAS, WHITE GOODS. EMBROIDERIES, And other goods in their line, they invJte the attontion fcf city and country dealers. mh4~tf YARD.GILLMOHE, & Co., Nos. 617 CHESTNUT and 611 JAYNE Streets. Have now open their BPMNC IMPORTATION OF SILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE GOODS, LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, &o. Nought in Europe, by one of Ibe firm* SV> which the attention of the trade la particularly In vited. RSI-Sm IMPORTATIONS. HOSIERY, GLOVES, GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS, WHITE GOODS, AND THOS. MEL LOR & Co., 40 and 43 North THIRD Street. mbl9-3m 1862. sjkihb. 1862. BIEGEL. BAIRD, & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF DRYGOODS, so. 4t kobth thud stbdit. MILADELMIA. Merchant; visiting this city to pnrehMs Dht Goods Krill find our Stock large and admirably assorted} and at Low Figures. In certain classes of Goods we offer inducements to purchasers unequalled by any other house in Philadelphia. mhlB-2m gPRING STOCK gILK AND FANCY PRESS GOODS. A. W. LITTLE & Co., mhl&.tt No. 335 HABH.ET ST. SEWIHG IHACHTNJ&. & WILSON SEWING MACHINES, €2B CHESTNUT STREET, mhll-3fn TTEROSENE LAMPS. WHOLE JV. BALE DEPOT AND MAHTTPAGTORY, No. H 4 South BECOKD Street, below Chestnut, and Ko. IOAB TKB Street, Philadelphia. In consequence of newim* provements in machinery and increased facilities for manufacturing, we are prepared to furnish the trade with XiAMPS and lamp-trimmings of every description at greatly reduced prices* COXJNTBT MERCHANTS are invited to examine our stock which confisfsof new styles and patterns of lamps, and all articles pertaining to the Ittiainesa, as tow as can he purchased elsewhere. mhS-lm*lp M. B. DTOTT. A/rONUMENTS AND GRAVE UIL stones »t very reduced price* »t Marble Work* of A. FTNINiUETE, BIDGK Aveirne, below Eleventh fctowet. mhlB-3mif 1862. EMBROIDERIES. PHILADELPHIA. YOL. S—NO. 201. WHOLESALE HOUSES. AND 54-IN O H SKY-BLUE KERSEYS, SUPERFINE INDIGO-BLUEJSATINETS, BLACK CADET AND OXFORD Do. PRINTED Do, In variety. BLACK AND FANCY MIXED DOESKINS. FANCY CASSIMERES AND MELTONS. IS STOPS, AHS FOR SAtS hr JOSEPH LEA. roZO-lf 138 AND 130 CHESTNUT STREET COMMISSION HOUSES. COFFIN, & CO., 220 CHESTNUT STREET, Agents for the following makes of goods: FEINTS. BUNNELL MFG. 00 GREENE HFG. 00. LAWNS. DUNNELL MFG. 00. BLEACHED COTTONS. Lonsdale, Forestdale, Auburn, Slate ravillo, Centred ale, Jamestown, Blackstone, Hope, Bed Bank, Dorchester, Newbury port, Nauraeag, Zouave, Burton, Greene Mfg. Co.’s A. A., B. A., C. A., and other styles. BROWN COTTONS. Burnside, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Chestnut, CHenville, Mechanics’ and Farmers’. CORSET JEANS.—Glasgow, Manchester. DENIMS AND STRIPES—Grafton, Jewett City, Madison, BlateraviUe, Agawam, Keystone, ChoctaWi CANTON FLANNELS.—Slatersvilte, Agawam, SILESIAS.—Smith’s, Social Co., Lonsdale Co. WOOLENS. ARMY BLUE CLOTHS, KERSEYS, and FLAN. NKLS. BBOAD CLOTHS—Plunketts’, Glenham Co., do. CASSIMERES.—Gay & Son, Saxton’s River, Ac. SATINETS—Bass River, Conversville. Lower Val ley, Hope, Stafford-ville, Converse end Hyde, Converse Bros. A Ca, Shaw Mfg. Co. KENTUCKY JEANS.— BodniAn, Mystic. Gold UedaL DOMET FLANNELS.—WILLIAMS’S Angola, Sax ony, Merino, and other styles: LONSDALE Naukcens and Colored Cambrics PLAID LINgETS, WTTONAPE9, An. ffeSS-Sna GHIPLEY, HAZARD, & O HUTCHINSON, No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET, COMMISSION MERCHANTS TOR THE RAI.K OF PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. se2B-fim CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS. Q.LEN ECHO MILLS, McOATjLUM & Co., MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS, AND DEALERS fO9 CHESTNUT STREET. (Opposite Independence Hull,} CARPETINGS, Oil Cloths, &c. We have now on band an extensive stock of Carpetings, of onr own and other makes, to which we call the atten- tion of cash and short-time buyers. JIOURTH-STREET CARPET STORE, No. 47 ABOVE CHESTNUT, No. 47. J. T. DELACROIX Invites attention to bis Spring Importation of CARPETINGS, Comprising every style, of the Newest Patterns and Designs, in VELVET, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY BRUS SELS, IMPERIAL THREE-PLY, and INGRAIN CARPETINGS. VENETIAN and DAMASK STAIR CARPETINGS. SCOTCH BAG aud LIST CARPETINGS. FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, in every width. COCOA and CAN! ON MATTINGS. DOOB-MATS, BUCS, SHEEP SKINS, DRUGGETS, and CRUMB CLOTHS. AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, LOW FOR CASH. J. T. DELACROIX, mh&-4m 47 South FOURTH Street JJEW CARPETINGS. J. F. & E. B. ORNE, NO. 519 CHESTNUT STREET, (OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE,) Have received, per steamer Edinburgh) and other late arrivals, their SPRING IMPORTATION OF NEW CARPETINGS: CROSSLEPS YARD-AND-A-HALF-WIDE VELVETS. 8-4 MEDALLION DO-. ENGLISH BRUSSELS, EXTRA-QUALITY TAPESTRY, BRUSSELS CARPETS, WITH BORDERS, (of new designs, Tor Halls and Stairs]. INGRAIN AND TtIREE-PLT CABrSIINQH, 01 extra auaiity. 600 PS. J. CROSSLEY & SON’S TAPESTRY BRUSSELS CARPETS, FROM 87 J TO ©l FR. YD., Together with a complete assortment of OIL CLOTHS, STAIB AND FLOOR DRUGGETS, BUGS, If ATS, AO., All of new, choice selections) and AT MODERATE PRICES. J. E. & E. B. ORNE, mM-tr OPPOSITE STATE BOUSE. BCH-BTBEET CARPET WARE HOUSE. OLDDEN & RICKNEB, 832 ABGH STREET, TWO DOORS BELOW NINTH, SQOTH SIDE, Bare this day opened their New Stock oF CARPETS,* of the beet English manufacture. The newest Patterns in Velvet, Brussels, Tap. Brussels, 3-Fly Ingrain, and Ve netians, Oil Cloths in all widths, Canton Batting, Mats, Druggets, &c., bought before the late advance, Belling at the lowest prices for cash. mhlS-lit LOOKING- GLASSES. JAMES™ rIsARLE & SON, MANUFACTUREBS AND IMPOBTKKB LOOKING GLASSES. OIL PAINTINGS, FINE ENGRAVINGS, PICTURE AND POBTBAIT FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, CABTK-DE-VISITS PORTRAITS, EARLE’S GALLERIES. 816 CHESTNUT BTR.EET, PHILADELPHIA. HATS AND CAPS. IQ/?0 SPRING STOCK 1QI»9 JLOD/Ve COMPLETE. AOU/V. O. H. GARDEN & Co., Muiufactnrera el and Wholssats Dealers in HATS, CAPS, AND FURS; STRAW GOODS. FANCY SILK AND STRAW BONNETS, Artificial Flowers, Ruches, Feathers, Ac., No. 600 find 60S MARKBT Street, S. W. mnm» * SIXTH Street ST" A large and complete stock. The beat terms and the lowest prices. Cash and prompt ** time buyers** are particularly invited to examine our stock. mhl-2m WATCHES, JEWELRY, Ac. j AFEESH ASSORTMENT, at LESS THAN FORMER PRICES. FARB & BROTHER, Importers, 324 CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth. mh2o-tt CHEAP BUTTER! CHEAP BUT TER! only 12 eta. per pound, at No, Sl2 SPRING GARDEN Street. mh26-tf TTERY CHOICE WHITE RYE V FLOUR, only 2# eta. per pound, at No. 812 SPRING Garden Street. mti2s- tf 9 BBLS. (iOOD COOKING BUT e) TER for nle -.try cheap at So. 812 SPRING CAR. PEN Street. mh2S-tf C jjt |)ms. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. Quiet—Court JVimurs—The Queen to Visit Scotland—The Prince Albert Memorial—Au Obelisk in Hyde Park—The Queen's Health- Tli? Prince of \Vpl?H— Hta.Trip to Lgypt nnfl (lie 'Holy Land—Marlborough House—His Prospective Hesidence and Income —Abdica- tion of Victoria Possible—Parliament—Ses sion to be Short—Courts of Justice.hi the Metropolis --Government Finances —Couli- iieiital Affairs- Lilerui'y tio^siiv—The Hra- iua, [Correspondence of The Press. J London, March 15, 1862. The ancient saying that there was “nothing stirring except stagnation ” is very applicable to the present condition of affairs hero. Europe generally is troubled more than pleasant, but Eng land is vory quiet. At this season, except that Fashion is slightly less hustling in Lent, London is generally very much alive —taking its tone from the Court. Queen Victoria’s little dinners always drew a cer tain number of invited—no, of commanded guests, for the etiquette is, not that Royalty requests the pleasure of one’s company, but orders it. Indeed, so very autocratical is the system, that, supposing you had arranged to give a dinner to a number of your own friends and received a card from the Lord Chamberlain of the Queen’s household desiring you to dine, on the same day, at the Queen’s table, there is no refusing, on any other plea than that of positive illness. Not to go would be a sort of petty treason, and you would have to send a circular round to your own guests stating that the Queen’s commands, compelling you to dine at Buckingham Palace, also compelled you to uu-invite them . Not that, except the honor and glory of the ttung } there can be much comfort or satisfaction in having one’s legs under the Royal mahogany. First of all, the guest must put himself into a Court dregs, which makes him look like a footman io pri vate life, with knee breeches and silk stockings, lace cravat and ruffles, amplest of waistcoats and sbad-bellyist of coats. Then, if he does not keep his own carriage he must hire one, looking like a private vehicle, fof it is doubtful whether, since creation commenced, any one ever walked to a royal dinner—and the idea of going thither in a cab would probably have a mortal effect on the enormous porter, in scarlet and gold toggery, who receives your card of invitation when he admits you. Nor, supposing all the preliminary trouble ended—supposing that you have found your way into the drawiDg-room, and bowed to the Queen, and stealthily looked round at the pictures, and counted over (all this time in solemn silence) the spots or flowers on the carpet, for the tenth time, and marched in file into the salle ‘de manger— supposing all this, do not imagine that you are going to eDjoy yourself. No, indeed. None but Mark Tapley could be “jolly” at such a feast. Royalty has already dined, about three o’clock, probably off the hereditary leg of mutton and tur nips, and has added the usual quantum of rice pud ding, find the bit of old Cheshire, or rich Stilton, or double Gloster cheese, and imbibed the accustomed mug or two of Guinness or Meux. This repast, oalled lunch, is really agood, homely, filling dinner, and at the solemn repast, five hours later, people are expected merely to sip and taste through several courses, so that one is reminded of the famous feast of the Barmecide. The viands are of the best, the adsi7ie perfect, the vintages superb—but one can merely taste. Royalty’s appetite was blunted on the leg of mutton and the pudding, the cheese and the bottled porter, and the guests should have taken the edge off theirs by a similar process. At these sadly solemn reunions dull silence grimly reigns. There is not even a whisper to your neighbor—if you knew him. The etiquette is do not open your mouth unless Royalty expressly con descends to speak to you. Do hot expect such a compliment. That is reserved for a few favored guests in the immediate vicinity of the regal hos tess. The dinner occupies from sixty to ninety mi nutes, and, when ended, the Queen rises, all other ladies rising and retiring with her. The male guests remain some ten minutes longer, silently sipping their wine, or whispering in small knots with bated breath. At last, the senior officer of the House hold present rises on his hind legs and majestically gives “The Queen”'ns. a toast, which every one drinks. If any male member of the Royal Family be present, he bows an acknowledgment. Coffee follows, and then the guests depart—a few to the drawing-room where the maids of honor are yawn ing, the rest going home, where it is to be supposed each man gets out of his livery, at once, and gets rid of his gnawing hunger by means of oysters and stout. Such, I am informed bo one who expe rienced it, is the routine of a royal dinner. He was an East Indian, and suffered much. This season has not witnessed even one of these Court dinners, for the Queen continues devoted to her grief. She haß moved from the Isle of Wight to Windsor, which she left on the 15th December, the day after Prince Albert died. She has not since set foot in London, nor is she likely to do so for months. In a few weeks she will go to ScotltlUdi What is called i( the Court” is an abeyance during the present season, to the grief, because to the loss of the London tradesmen. Each of the Queen’s balls, to some 3,000 of the nobility and rich gentry, in reives an immense expenditure on the part of the guests for dress, carriages, jewels, <fee. ; and she used to give three of these annually. Besides, these balls gave rise to others—and all this is very much dulled this season. GERMANTOWN, PA. The stun already raised for a Memorial to Prince Albert, in London, amounts to forty thousand pounds, and, on the Queen’s sugges tion, an Obelisk will be the Memorial, placed in Hyde Park, on the site of the Crystal Palace of 1851. Surely, an out-of-the-way place, and an unsuitable Memorial. In Egypt, an Obelisk was symbolical of something, three thousand years ago. In England, at this day, it will be simply a tall stone. That to be erected, consisting of a singlo block, will be of red or gray granite. The expense of quarrying such a monolith must be very great; say 100 feet long, and 12feet in diame ter—the weight will be 600 tons. Rather a oumber some article to convey, first by sea, and then by land. The obelisk of Luxor, originally standing in front of the groat temple of Thehes, which was erected in Paris in 1836, is 72 feet high—that of Peter the Great, in St. Petersburg, is 93 feet. The cost of removing the Luxor obelisk from Thebes, and erecting it on the Place de la Con corde, in Paris—on the exact spot where Louis XVI was beheaded !— was two millions of franos. The day before yesterday, The Times coolly came out with a proposal that all the local subscrip- j tions for Albert Memorials should merge in that to erect the Obelisk in London, for that the big stone will probably weigh 1,000 tons, and that the cost will be, “ perhaps, from first to last, nearly half as much as the cost of an iron-plated frigate.” The Obelisk idea is very unpopular, and the site is so low that the monolith will look on it, at a little dis tance, like a factory chimney, tall and tapering. Not a syllable is breathed now of the Qnesn’s health. She goes out a good deal into the air, in carriage drives, and has a few occasional visitors to dine with her. Hat her grief continues heavy, and public business, or such of it as depends upon her action, is greatly in arrears. Sending off the Prince of Wales on a tour to Egypt and the Holy Land was not wise, for he had much assisted his mother, since her loss; but she resolved to carry out every one of Prince Albert’s plans, and this was one of them. Next Lord Mayor’s day, the Prince of Wales will be of age, and will then have a separate establishment as heir apparent, with Marlborongh House as his re sidence. No doubt, John Hull will have to “fork out ” very largely for fitting up and furnishing this palace, which adjoins old St. James’, and was built and inhabited by the famous John Ghurohiil, Duke of Marlborough, the espeeial object of Macaulay’s contempt and dislike. It is not more than a stone’s throw from the ate of Carlton House, long the favorite residence of another Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Fourth. When this gentleman, Beau Brummell’s “fat friend,” came to age, in 1783, Parliament voted him £lOO,OOO for an outfit for his household, and a grant of £56.666 a year for his support. Besides this, he had about £20,000 more from the Duoby of Cornwall. Ho was entitled to the accumulation of this last, during the twenty-one years of his ma jority, but George the Third pocketed all Ufa arrears, alleging that they were his, as he had paid for the education, clothes, lodging, and board of his hopeful son during all that time ! FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1862, LETTER FROM LONDON. What old Palmerston will ask Parliament to vote the present Prineo of Wales is only known to him self and the Queen at present. Butitoannot be much. There is now, on the credit-aide of the Coutt’s hank, a nioe nest-egg of half a million sterling, (£500,000,) the accumulated savings of the Duchy of Cornwall’s income during twenty years, which is a pretty sum to commence with, and the net annual revenue of the Duchy is £38,000 per annum. More improbable events than the retirement, in a short time, of Queen Victoria, in favor of her son, have taken place within our time. The young man, fond of reading and a good linguist, (as all bis family have been,) ha 3 steady' habits and fair but not brilliant capacity. His course, hitherto, is said to have been so strictly moral tbat his first lapse int* vice has not yet ocourred. Prince Al fred, the sailer, has more brains, they say. But PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1862. tbc Princess Alice is believed to be the cleverest of the family. What a lengthy preface is all this to the little fact that there is no news worth mentioning? The only debates of interest have been on the Govern ment plan of education, and upon Amorican affairs. Three motions—Gregory’s, Lord Campbell’s, dis posed of, and T. B. Horsfall's, to be finished on Monday—in Commons and Lords,brought the official avowal that the Palmerston ministry would not in terfere with the Amerioan blockade; that it was a blockade, in fact as well os in law; and that Napo leon bad never even hinted to England a desire to recognize the South, have greatly cleared our po litical atmoßpbere. The Navy Estimates, to the tune Of over £ 12,000 000, wore all voted in tiro nigbte, by ibe Commons. The Army Estimates, exceeding $15,000,000, are nearly all put through. The law-lords aro chattering, in the Upper Ifouse, about Law-reform, a subject on which Lord Brough am <ipeg not now speak—because ho is flfc his country bouse, in the South of France, not far from the place where Napoleon the First disembarked on his return from Elba. The Government itself, which commenced the Session without a programme, goes in merely for the money-votes. It would not surprise me to find the Session ended in June, which would be two months earlier than usual. Last night Mr. Layard, Under Foreign Secre tary, told Mr. Griffith, in the Houso of Commons, that Baron Ricnsoli, late Primo Minister of Italy, had assured the British Government that no farther cession of territory to France was intended. Na poleon has been accused of wanting Genoa and Sar dinia. At last, London is to have proper Courts of Jus tice. Last night, Mr. Cowper obtained leave to bring in a bill to supply the means for defraying the expenses of erecting new Courts of Justice. He believed that it was possible, by Enlarge and comprehensive scheme, to concentrate the court? in one locality lying on the north side of the Strand near Temple Bar, and it was proposed to defray the expense out of the funds which had accumula ted in the hands of the Court of Chancery, and which now amounted to £1,400,000. I know one man, nearly bankrupt, whose for tune must be made by the sale of the land, hitherto worthless, wanted for these Courts. What may arise out of the financial difficulties of the country, the expenditure being much greater than the revenue, still remains a dark question. Mr. Gladstone will soon bring on his Budget, as the Financial programme of “ways and meaus” is called, but perhaps you know a 3 much as himself, at present, how he is to raise the wind. The Ame rican tariff and the American troubles have nearly cut off the Anglo-American trade. It will never do, in time of peace, to inorease the income-tax. By the way, it is a fact, but generally forgotten or unknown, that, when Peel imposed the income-tax, iweriiy yearS ego, he announced that Queen Victo ria had intimated to him a desire to share the burdens of her people, by paying her share of this tax. Therefore, her annual allowance being £385.000, out of which she must pay salaries and all expenses of household and living, the Queen pays one thousand four hundred and forty-four pounds a year as income-tax. It seems generally acknowledged that, in the Queen’s present condition, unable or unwilling to pay much attention to public business, n 0 party at tempt will be made to turn Palmerston out of office. In his seventy eighth year, it is considered that his chance of life is not very great. Whenever he drops, parties in this country will be completely reconstructed. The placid condition of affairs here contrasts fa vorably with the troubles all over rest of Europe. Russia, plagued to death by the patriot-' ism of the Poles, and unable, as yet, to carry out the emancipation of the serfs. Prussia, with a 8 quabbie between the Legislature and the King, who, had be common sense and half the liberality of his son, Victoria’s son-in-law, might ratsonably aspire to the Imperial Crown of Germ any. Aus tria, in debt and put of credit) doubly fearing an outbreak in Hungary and Venctia. Greece, with a very pretty rebellion, as it stands. Turkey, sinking beneath a lokd of debt. Italy, aspiring to national ity, but compelled to retain that imperium in im qterio, the Papacy. France, compelled to retrench expenditure, and with the first serious difference, since he mounted the throne, between Napoleon and his Parliament. Everything shows a troubled future abroad—all is quiet m England, except cot ton-labor, -which is down to starving and stealing point. There is a trifle, but no more, of literary gossip. Thackeray, who has a large fixed income from Smith, Elder, & Co., for editing the Comhill Ma gazine, has lately taken a large, ancient, house in Kensington, a region onoe the haunt of the belles and beaux, the wits and lops of Queen Anne’s time, and has erected a stage tor private theatricals. Here, in the present month, he has brought out “Love!, the Widower,” dramatized by himself, and baa sustained a leading role, it is said] with no small success, before a select audience, “few and fitting.” No account, in detail, has yet been print ed, but it is declared that the drama is entitled “ The Wolf and the Lamb,” and that it was suc cessively offered to and declined by two London managers—Mr. Buekstone, of tbe Haymorket Theatre, and Mr. Alfred Wigan, of the Olympic. Thackeray’s story of“ The Ad ventures of Philip,” in tbe Comhill Magazine, will be wound up in tbe May number, lam told. Hr. Firmin, the same on dit adds, is to make a fortune in America, by some patent medicine or so j and Philip is to DO* come a rich man after all. The Comhill Maga zine is not as good, by any meanß, as it was at first, whereas Sala’s Temvle Bar improves. The success of Mr. Fechter, as lago, so much greater than in Othello or Hamlet , is cramming the Princess’s Theatre to the ceiling each night he plays. Difficult though it be, Mr. Fechter creates sympa thy for the double-dyed villain he represents, and his facial expression tells as much as his utterance. Qfcaries Kean, at the Drury Ague, is playing OtM lo, in the old conventional manner, doubling the energy of all the common-place points which Fech ter’s Othello entirely repudiated. Evidently, Kean wants to show that he thinks nothing of Fech ter. One of the tricks to draw houses is the an nouncement that Mr. Kean wears the Identical dress his father had on when seized with his last fa tal illness on that very stage of Old Drury. Of Boucicault’s“ Life of an Actress,” now all the rage at the New Adelphi, himself playing the old French man, I say nothing—as you must have seen it long ago. While writing about the drama in thi3 country, I learn that Frank Talfourd, eldest son of Sir Thomas N. Talfourd, bo well known as an author and a judge, died at Mentone, in the south of France, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health. He was in his thirty-eighth year, and though a barrister- at-law, lived by his wit, as a writer of burlesques. Every one liked Frank Tal fourd, and his loss will be lelt in,.the social circle of Loudon playwrights. London publishers are stirring. Murray pub lishes the third and fonrth volumes of Lord Ma hon’s (Earl Stanhope,) Life of William Pitt, com pleting a work, which, it strikes me, would bearre publisbing in America, Charles Darwin, whose “ Origin of Species ” so muoh stirred the stagnant waters of modern science, has an illustrated ootavo ready, 11 On .the Various Contrivances by which Orchids are fertilized by Insects.” George Borrow, author of “ The Bible in Spain,” has three volumes of a new work entitled “ Wild Wales: its People, Language, and Scenery,” and Hepworth Dixon, editor of the heavy Athenmum, has rehashed his “ Personal History of Lord Bacon,” and is bringing it out as “The Story of Lord Bacon’s Life.” Leigh Hunt’s Autobiography and Correspondence, edited by his son Thornton, is selling well and is highly amusing. Carlyle’s Life of Frederick the Great, whioh was looked for about May—light summer reading i—is likely to he still further delayed, if the report be true that, from the vast quantity of materials, he must complete it in three instead of two volumes. Mr- Dyceis engaged on a new edition of his Shakspeare—not a mere reprint, >))( will) D«iV notes and some new reading. Aposthumous volume, by the late Hugh Miller, the Scottish geologist, is announced in Edinburgh. Bulwer’s “Strange Story” has a large sale, but is far from popular. In one of his new Essays (vide “ Caxtomana,” In this month’s Blackwood), he contends that Shakspeare and all great writers enter into the minds oi the characters they oreate, and correctly describe scenery which they never saw, simply by clairvoyance ! Mies Eellog, from New York, is said to be the forthcoming “bright particular star’ ’ of the Italian Opera, at Her Majesty’s Theatre, (Mr. Mapleson, manager,) and is already paragraphed “as likely to revive the Lind andPiocolomini furore." Those who have heard her say she is the best young vo calist in the world. Methinks, having so little to write about to day, tbat this letter is more than adequately long. Pray Heaven your readers may not think it tiresome. [For The Press.] A strong evidence that the prominent men among the rebels know that a large part of the people are opposed to thoir ruinous enterprise is thoif energetic attempt to disarm the population under pretenee of requiring the arms for the troops, exacting the surrender and delivery of weapons under severe penalties. This has been the expedient, in all ages, of individuals or factious classes attempting to ac quire dr to retain domination over the masses; therefor the use of the cloth-yard arrow was inter dicted by the Norman conqueror; therefor the stringent game laws in most of the European mo narchies, and now it is resorted to by the upstarts who are endeavoring to trample down into subjec tion the masses of the people, who are in everything thßir superiors, except in iniquity, treason, and ishon esty, . C. LETTER FROM NASHVILLE. Heavy Freshet Bridges Washed Away—A Railroad Accident: The Particulars—“ Pony JK prrps”—Visit to tho Gimlioat Cairo—Cun. veikliou of Newspaper Kditora; They are Addressed by Governor Johnson—Arrival of Brownlow—Colonel McCook and Captain Markham—Paying Respects to the Governor. [Special Cwreepondeuce of The Press.] Nashville, March 17,1802. I am afraid that the two last letters £ transmitted will reach you together, and fearfully behind time. But it will be no evidence of neglect upon my part, as I will illustrate : There baa boon an oxoeediDgly heavy freshet, and two bridges between thiß city and Galatin havo been washed away. In addition to this drnwbaok, the regular daily mail and passenger train from Louis ville, on Saturday, met with a serious accident. Whon about ten and a half miles from this city, under a heavy pressure of steam, the locomotive, tender, and baggage-car woro precipitated down an embankment thirty or forty feet high, breaking both legs of the ongincer, badly scalding and bruis ing the fireman. A boy, who was ridiug upon the locomotive, jumped off, and was uninjured, but com plained sadly about losing his cap. A complete wreck was made of the cars which were drawn over the bluff; the passenger cars fortunately becoming detached, the travellers suffored only from alarm. After the smash-up, it was discovered that the freshet of the preceding night had washed away the road-bed at different points; and there bring no signal of the danger ahead, the casualty could not have befeh avoided. This xnay occasion protracted delay, as there are but two locomotives upon the road between this city and Bowling Green. It has been subsequently ascertained that the road will have to undergo many repairs, as the damage sustained by the freshet is ?f an alarming extent. The Louis ville mail reached this city about 7 o’clock, Satur day evening, having been transported from the scene of disaster by “pony express.” At the solicitation of the commander of the iron gunboat Cairo y I visited hia vessel yesterday afeor noos, and was moat heartily pleased with tho task. The engravingin the War Press, some months ago of the Mississippi-built gunboat was a perfect pic ture, and very creditable to your artist. From one of the officers of the Cm ro I learn that she is 160 fc6t ifi Uttglh, £2 ift breadth, and draws six feet of water. Her armament consists of 13 guns, exclusivo of a Dahlgrenhowitzerupondeck. Fourof her guns are sixty-four pounders; there are also two rifled cannon, capable of throwing shot or shell. Near each and in exquisite order, are small arms; pikes, boarding-cutlasses, and army revolvers. The crew number about one hundred and fifty men. It will be remembered that the Cairo was sent to assist in tho demolishing of Fort Donolson; but as the gunboat came within view of the da maged fortifications, with the stars and stripes waving at every parapet, their late arrival was lamented by all on board, who would havo boen only too happy to have been participants in the bombardment. Captain Bryant, lieutenant com* mending, although quite a young-looking man, has been in the service of the country exceeding fifteen years. He is proud of his vessel, nad represents that the Cairo is, throughout, a model of naval architecture. At the request of Senator Johnson, the proprie tors and editors of the daily newspapers assembled in the Governor’s room, at the Capitol, on Satur day morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock. The Governor, in the most affable manner, re quested the gentlemen to say nothing in any way praiseworthy of the traitors or their odious trans actions, and uncommenting upon Southern docu ments and institutions to be guarded and discreet. Ho entreated! of them, to eequiegee with him in tSe good" work which he had undertaken to perform, and to promulgate such doctrines as would necessarily tend to awaken the sleeping and ,crushed* sentiments. Hie'remarks to the gentlemen could be construed into nothing but the words of-a friend. He spoke more in sorrow than in anger, and told them that, had Secession tri umphed, worse than chaos would have been the result. "Without placing any actual restrictions upon them, the enjoined them, by all they held S&Cl ( £d, t 6 to tHeir allegiance, and agua cherish the instrument conceived by our fore-* fathers, which, unquestionably, was the foundation of the success of our republican mode of govern ment. The gentlemen representing the Banner, In my estimation, from their hearts never ap plauded the Secession dogma, but the terri ble storm spared no one, and they withered with the rest. I presented a letter of intro duction to these gentlemen, tendered mo by dee. D. Prentice, Esq,and from nly first interview with them, I hesitate not to state that 1 am,of the con-, vietion that they dispossess the doctrine of heresy expounded by Jeff Davis. The gentlemen con nected with the Patriot , I am informed, main tained ihe doctrine of Uxiox quite a period subse quent to the inauguration of Secession. They are under the impression now, however, that the Fede ral army in Tennessee may sustain defeat, and maintain that, should they avow Union sentiments, notwithstanding they do it not in sincerity, they could hope for no meroy at the hands of the Jeff Davis crowd. But the representatives of both pa pers retired amicably, and I anticipate cheering results. The editor of the Times , to keep pace with the proprietor and his associate oditors, who are all officers in the Southern army, thought that the request of the Governor was au imposition, and, in reply to a remark made by Mr. Johnson, that the exigencies of the case demanded the prompt carrying out of his suggestion, said that “ that was merely a.difference of opinion.” He was very cool throughout, but good natnred, and told the Gover nor that he had embraced the oanse of Secession very reluctantly, and added, that although he found it difficult te renounce it at present, ho would endeavor to be a submissive citizen. The Times, however, expired vfith thq i?su? of this morning. Eequiescat in pace. Quite an excitement was produced in the city on Saturday upon the reception of the news of the ar rival of the redoubtable Parson Brownlow, of Knox ville, who bas been in captivity for the last three months. According to his own representations, he has been quite ill for some time past, but felt re turning vigor upon coming in sight of the Federal pickets. He looks well, considering the tribulation he has endured, and rejoices that he is once again in a free country. He gives a sad pioture of the results of Secession in East Tennessee, and says the people are not only nearly barefooted, hut suffering for various articles of food. If the newspapers in this city deeline to espouse the cause of the Union, it is intimated that a new journal will be started, and that the eccentric Parson will superintend the editorial department. Brownlow is atthe St. Cloud Hotel, where are also Gov. Johqson, Representa tives Maynard and Etheridge, and Mr. Wm, A. Browning, private secretary of Andrew Johnson. A few weete age the generals and man; of the commis sioned officers of the Confederate army of this vi cinity, boarded at the St. Cloud, and the room in the possession of Mr. Browning was actually the same as occupied by Gen. Beauregard. Col. McCook and Captain Markham, who were both wounded at Mill Spring, are at present in the oity, and ready for another battle. Colonel Robert MeCook, or Col. Bob, as he is generally called, unlike officers generally, never wears military clothes. To-day, be has on a slouched hat, black coat, and cassimere pants. Some time ago an order was issued for officers to dress in military costume, and Colonel Bob, for a day or two, wore a blue sack with brass buttons; but, upon being made fun of by his soldiers, he pulled it off, and has never been discovered ala militaire since. Colonel McCook is now acting brigadier general. He has six brothers, all of whom are in the army, in some capacity. The father, it is said, was a sharp shooter at Fort Donelson. Soma of the soli a men of Nashville havejiaid their respeots to Gov. Johnson, and most of them represent themselves as Union men. Some fifty gentlemen called upon the Governor to-day, all of whom profess devotion to the cause. On the streets and in the hotefo, however, no increase of Union sentiment is perceptible. The speech of Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, in opposition to the con fiscation hill, is extensively read by all the citizens here. I saw yesterday, for the first time In this place, eh intoxicated soldier. I was sitting in the publica tion office of the Patriot, and one of Unale Sam’s Hibernians did actually come in without stepping. He managed to find his way to a pile of white paper, and after daunting the “ Srun ’freraey, and Shelf Dais,” fell upon the floor and went to sleep. But there is an organization here, called the Pro vost Guard, and our adopted corporal soon after fell into their hands. S. Prom S. C. UphCm, 403 Chestnut street, we have the Illustrated London News and Illustrated News of the World, both of the Bth instant. The latter gives, as its supplement, a fine portrait of George Gruikshank, the great English o*rio*tttnst. This is one of the “ Drawing Boom Portrait Gallery of Eminent Personages,” an increasing series, all finely engraved on steel, from photographs expressly taken, and now amounting to nearly 180 portraits, each with a biography. A few years since such portraits would have been cheap at two dollars each —now they are given in, gratis, with' a pic torial paper. Mr. Upham also sends us fac-similes of Confederate bank notes, issued in Winchester, Blobmon.d, Charleston, and Tennessee for sums varying frtto five to fifteen cents each ! - Harry Lorrequer. Peterson and Brothers have issued, in a gay illuminated cover printed in many colors, a war-edition of “ Harry Lorroquer,” the first, and among the best of Charles Lever’s military novels. A very amusing romance it is, ana likely to bo much read, by many a camp fire, during thp.presoat war. INTERESTING FROM WINCHESTER. FULL PARTICULARS OF THE VICTORY. THE OAIXANT CHARGE OF OUR RIGHT THE REBELS RETREAT IN CONFUSION GENS. BANKS AND WILLIAMS IN PURSUIT. That a victory so complete ami overwhelming as that at Winchester, should havo been achieved with comparatively so little loss of life on our side, may seem a matter of surprise* when wo consider the vastly greater numerical strength of the rebels, and tho natural advantages of their position. We should be less surprised than gratified, however, to reflect that its attainment was due to the watchfa skill of such an officer as Shiclda, and tho iutrepidi= ty of soldiers enlisted in tho causo of the Union. In proof of which wc give tho following details; The Reconnoissance to Strasburg—lts Object. The object of the recohhoissauce made by General Shields to Stra&burg may now be stated. It was to throw tho enemy into the trap which has so fatally sprung upon tbe rebellion. Discovering the num ber and position of the rebels. General Shields re tired hastily, posted his men about two miles north of Winchester, in a few teats, as though the force was unable to attempt pursuing forces, and there, after the withdrawal of General Wil liams’ division, awaited tho effect of his movement upon the enemy. The result showed that the scheme entirely succeeded. Ah soon as tho rebel General Jackson hoard that the division of General Williams had moved towards Centreville, he imme diately took up his march to Winchester. In the meantime he had received reinforcements, and Generals Longstrect and Smith, of tho rebel army, had tlieir commands united to that of th » v Sti>ne<-W*U Jackson. So prompt aod unexpected was the attack of the obomy, that it touk our gene rals by surprise, but everything was ready for the emergency. Saturday’s Skirmish, On Saturday afternoon, at about a quarter past 2 o’clock, our advanced pickets on the Strasburgroad discovered the rebel cavalry, under the madcap Ashby, about half a mile beyond them, reconnoi tring the woods on both sides of tho turnpike, aod steadily advancing. Oar pickets fell back half a mile to the hamlet of Kcrnstown, four miles from Winchester. The rebels were thus confirmodin the belief that our fomgbero did not exceed fire gaud men. Thoy then gave chase. Comiog up with our men, Ashby cried at the top of his voice, “There they are, boys, now give them h—.” Steadily did the troopers advanco as our men wheeled to aim and fire. That fire sent many of them reeling from their saddle?, god thICW tho rest into such confusion that before they could again be rallied our gallant little band of infantry was beyond the reach of their power, without having lost a man killed or wounded. Meanwhile skirmishing progressed on other points along onr advanced linc ; and oup pickets were everywhere rallying on our reserves. Gen. Shields, hearing of the advance of the rebel cavalry, sup posed it to be a manoeuvre of Ashby alone for the purpose of watching our movements. As they were approaching so boldly and so closely, however, he ordered four advanced companies of infantry, en gaged in protecting the supply train, to rafly to the support of the more advanced pickets, and try to hold the rebels in check till he could move down the division. These four companies were made up of one from tho Maryland First, one from the Twenty-eight Penssylvapfe, one from tho Forty sixth Pennsylvania, and one from the Twenty eighth New York. Their regiments had already marched under Gen. Williams. General Shields Wounded A battery of artillery was also ordered forward, and tien. Shields, .after ordering out the division, rode to the front, accompanied by his staff. While engaged directing tbe tire of the artillery, and the defence generally, a shell from the rebel battery of four guns, which now began to play on us, burst near him, and a splinter from it struck him in the left arm, just above the elbow, fracturing the bone and creating a painful wound. His adjutant gene ral, Major Armstrong, who was standing near, re marked, “General, you are wounded in the arm.” “ Yes,” replied the gallant Shields, “ but say no thing about it.” He then gave a fresh order to the artillery, and continued on the field till he satisfied himself that all was right. Halt and Bivonack of the Rebels. Our division began to arrive in force on the field towards dark, and the rebels perceiving this did not push their advance, but halted about three miles from Winchester for the night, lighted their camp-fires and feimacked. while our army lay be. tween them and tho town. It wa3 generally be lieved that a general engagement would take place on tbe next day (Sunday), and the expectants were not disappointed. The Sunday Battle. About ten o’clock, reinforcements of five regi ments of infantry and two batteries of artillery were announced, arrived from Strasburg, under General Garnett, by the vociferous and prolonged cheers which proceeded from their lines. The attack was not now long The fcasmy ad* vanced his army, which now consisted of sixteen regiments of infantry, numbering IT,OOO men. five artillery, with a total of twenty-eight pieces, and three battalions of horse, under Ashby and Stewart. His line of battle extended about a mile on the right of the village of Kernsfcown, and a mile and three quarters on the left of it, and the village lay on the road between tho rebel right and centre. There is a mud road branching from the turnpike, a mile or so from Winchester, to the right of the road as you go to Strasburg. This road passed through the left of tho enemy’s cen tre, and was one of thoir points of defence. Be. yond that there is a grove of trees, and farther A ridge of hills, with a stone wall running along its summit about breast high. This was the rebel line of offence and defence on the right of our line. Onslaught of the Rebels. Our most advanced regiment was the Eighth Ohio, of General Taylors brigade, and on ib the rebels made a furious onslaught about half past ten o’clock A. M., with the intention of turning our right flank. The Ohio Eighth met them gallantly, withering them like autumn leaves before the breath of winter by their deadly fire of rifles. Five several times did the enemy emerge from the woods, and from behind their stone parapet, with vastly superior numbers, and try vainly to accom plish their object. Our left wing, consisting of the Thirteenth Indiana, Seventh Ohio, and a battery of tbe Fourth regular artillery, under Captain Jenks, had a feint made on it while the real attack of the enemy was being directed against our right wing. The feint on the left was a heavy fire ef artillery, posted on both sides of the village and the turn pike, which, however, did trifling damage. Our battery replied, silencing those of the enemy, though tbe firing was well maintained, for a long time, on both sides. Out Centre and Right Wing. Our centre consisted of the Fourteenth Indiana, the Eighth and Sixty-seventh Ohio, and the Eighty fourth Pennsylvania, and two artillery batteries be longing to the First Ohio artillery, and the cavalry, consisting of the First Michigan and First Ohio, were drawn up in the rear. The whole of our cavalry amounted to no more than eight hqqdr94 men, and this arm played a very unimportant part in the action on either side. Our right wing was made up of the Fifth and Eighth Ohio Tegiments and a battery of the First Virginia regiment. The reserves consisted of the Twelfth Indiana, the Thirty-ninth Illinois, and a squadron of the Michi gan cavalry. General Shields was unable to ap pear on the field in person, and the command in the field devolved upon Acting Brigadier Kimble, who led our eentre, and our right was commanded by Acting Brigadier General Tyler, while Colonel Sul livan directed the operations on our left. Our Right Wing Charge the Enemy. The battle'raged along the whole line with great fury from eleven A. M. till half past two P. M., when General Shields, who received aceounts of the progress of the fight on his aouch, ordered the right, where the contest raged the hottest, to charge npen the enemy. That was an awful charge. The left of the enemy prepared desperately to repel oar gallant troops, but the rush was as irresistible as the tide in the bay of Fnndy. Previous to this time our line of battle had beensomewhatohanged. The Eighty-fourth Pennsylvania reinforced our right, and also a battery of artillery. Our whole foroe now engaged was about six thousand men, while that of the enemy was, at the lowest esti mate, eight thousand. The rebels had also changed their tine, and, extending both their wings, pre sented a concaTO front to our army. They had also reinforced their left wing, and the charge to be made by our right was all-important in its conse quences. On it, at three o’cloek, depended the fate of the entire battle. The gallant Tyler led the charge, sword in hand, at the head of the line. The rebels fired irom the woods with artillery and small arms, whilo our men advanced against their mur* dereus showers of lead and iron, returning few shots, and reserving their fire. Up to this time the armies had not been much nearer to each other than three hundred yards, unless in some few instances. The wood was soon cleared at the point of the bayonet, our men discharging their pieces at twenty, and even five yards’ distance from the re bels, and then dashing at them with the bayonet. The rebels fought well, however. They contested the ground foot'by foot, and marked every yard of it with blood. Retiring behind their stone wall, on the ridge, our men jumped after them, and drove them along in the greatest confusion, and With fear ful slaughter upon their eentre. The Rebels Retreat in Confusion. The panio communicated. Kimble ordered a charge aloDg the whole tine, and for a short time the fighting was most desperate. The rear of the cannon was no longer beard, unless ia occasional bursts of fitful explosions, and the rattle of mus ketry was more boisterous tbau ever, and sounded like the noise made by a very close thunder clap, except that it was sharper and continuous. The rout of the rebels had fairly commenced, however, and two of tboir guns and four caissons wen new ours, and though many of-them turned and Bred again and again at our pursuing host, many more ■threw away muskets and bayonets without hesita tion. Darkness and the extreme fatigue of ear troops, however, saved tbe enemy for the time, and w* retired about two miles and biyeuaeked till Monday morning. Arrival of Banks and Williams—Pursuit. At daybreak General Shields ordered the rebel position te be attacked, and the enomy, after reply ing by a few shots &om his artillery, continued his retreat. Meantime, General Banks, who had been at Harper’s Ferry, arrived, and, taking command of the troops in person, is now continuing the pur suit with about ten thousand men, and at the latest aocounts had pressed the rebels beyond Middle burg, cutting off many stragglers and pressing the enemy very sorely. The object is to oapture his whole force, if possible. It was not till yesterday morning that any of the force of General Williams arrived on tbo field, and then they were too late to participate in the action. They joined in the chase. The less on Both Bides, The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded will feet up about SOi) men, of which 225 were kill- TWO CENTS. ed. The number of prisoners taken from them is 236. These figures are independent of what they have lost, and will lose in the pursuit. The regi ment which lost most on the side of the rebels was the Fifth Virginia. Our loss iu killed so far as ascertained is less than 100, and about 300 of our men are wounded. Though the enemy bad a much larger force, four pieces of cannon more than our army, the selection of fight ing ground and every other advantage, yet all the trophies of the occasion belong to the Union army. The less on cur ride was heaviest in the Eighty fourth Pennsylvania regiment. Of the five com* panics of three hundred men, in all engaged, they lost Col. Murray, as dashing and brave an officer as ever drew a sword; one captain, one lieutenant, twenty-three privates and non-commissioned offi cers killed, and sixty-threo wounded. The loss in the Eighth and Fifth Ohio regiments is about seventy-five and sixty, respectively, killed and wounded liieut.. Col. Thoburn, of the Third Virginia, is among the wounded on our side. Those are the only field officers killed or wounded in the Union fore6B. The Irish Battalion. The rebels had an Irish battalion of one hundred and fifty men, of whom forty were killed on the field and nearly all the rest wounded. Captain Jones, who commanded the Irish battalion in the rebel army, is a prisoner in our hands, with both his eyes shot out by one bullet. FROM ISLAND NUMBER TEN. The Bombardment of Monday. The Island No. 10 correspondent of the Chicago Times mites rather a desponding letter under date of the 22d lost. Wo extract a few paragraphs which will show the extepgjys scale upon which the siege is being conducted: The Strength, Shill, and Secrecy of the Rebels Each day makes a revelation of added strength +o the enemy’s works here ; and the industry shown by them in continually strengthening their old batteries, and adding sew ones, evinces their conception of the importance of this point, and the determination to make a long and desperate fight. Indeed, that the gunboats alone, without the co operation of land forces, will be able to drive them from here is, to say the least, doubtful, do far we have obtained no decided success, though shelling them continuously for over a week, and in fact we have not succeeded in drawing the fire from a por tion of their batteries, though our gunboats and a portion of Colonel Buford’s command have been temptingly exposed. They are very cautiou3 in Rowing #§ exact location of their cannon by firing them and thus giving us the range. Perhaps, too, economy of ammunition is necessary, joined with an inclination to be foxy, and induce us to believe that we may safely venture farther down. But Commodore Foote thinks too much of his gun boats, and appreciate! to ? well {by opnpmong conse quences that would attend their loss, to venture with them upon foolhardy experiments. His flotilla ia now not guard of the river proper, but of Missouri, Kentucky, and Cairo, for we have above Island No. 10 no army now that could withstand a well-§issipljßsd and effective force of 23,000 men, and It Is precisely at this junc ture in the Southern armies that we should look for bold and desperate measures—they are necessary to retrieve & failing cause and cheer disheartened troops. The Rebels Illuminate f j|s River. The anxiety to get a boat down to New Madrid seems to be understood by the Secesh, and they, being fearful of some of the tugs attempting a passage in the dark, have built at night enormous fires at the head oi the island, and assisted the illu mination with a revolving refleotor? that at intervals throws its rays entirely across the river, making the Kentucky shore distinctly visible. It is a scene for a painter. Above, some two miles, are the low, black hulls ef our gunboato, surrounded with their transports, and, at short intervals, send ing an enormous shell high up in the darkness, to strike iu their fortifications} which lay firm and silent, disdaining to reply, while at their very base runs the turbid and turbulent current of the Father of Rivers. So strong is the light that occasionally the dim outline of a soldier can be seen going around the fire. The island itself is almost sub merged* and; being covered near the banks with a thick growth of bushes, it soems the covert at once of secrecy and danger. Vulnerability of Our Gunboats. The enormous guns which we well know the Secesh have there, fired full upon our gunboats from the elevation which the bonk of the river gives at this point, would no doubt disable our float ing forts, as we should, in passing, be obliged to present our broadsides and stern to their aim, and it may not be generally understood by your readers that these are the most vulnerable parts of our iron-clad western boats, the bow being intended always to face the enemy, and therefore triply shielded. Imperfect Knowledge of the Enemy’s Schemes. The tenacity with which they hold on here proycs YfllviaWe time to them, &ud when driven from here it will doubtless be seen that, while fighting at Island No. 10, they have been busy as beavers erectiDg stronger and more for* midable fortifications at points lower down. Where these points ai-e, we will only know when we get to them, find, perhaps, as in this instance, shall bo surprised that such natural facilities for defence should be overlooked. The l,<‘i!)o miles of-river from Sfc. Louis to the Gulf is very imperfectly known to our goncrals, and we are dealing with an enemy perfectly acquainted with every wind ing, cape, and headland. A new Battery Erected bf Gen. Pope. A well- founded rumor is current here that Gen- Fope had erected another battery two miles below Riddle's Point or Tiptonville. If so, it will com mand the river down to the overflowed lands on the Tennessee shore, and thus prevent the enemy’s passage between Island No. 10 and the Kentucky shore fortifications, and with Tiptonvllle and other points farther south. Monday’s Operations. A special despatch to the Times, received on Monday last, from the steamer Pollard, says: While approaching the gunboat Mound City, the current"was very strong, and we were carried very close to the enemy’s upper battery, which, from appearances, is silenced. They opened a fire upon us from their third battery. The first shot fell about fifty yards from us. We immediately steamed away from them, and, when close alongside the gunhoat Mound City , they threw the second shell at us, it falling about one hundred yards from us. The Mound City then ordered us to leave from alongside of her, so as she could open fire upon them. Our mortars immediately oommeneed firing, one of the shell; falling in the enemy's third bat. tery. The guns on the island then commenced, their shots falling on sboro, about one hundred yards from the Mound City, • The guns used on the island were rifled. We could plainly soo all the rebel steamers and gunboats. The names of some of them could be read. Among them were the Yazoo, Simon, and Mor rison. They all had a heavy head of steam on, and seemed to be taking on troops. We could also see their gunboats. St. Lonis, March 24. —The News claims to have reliable information that there are 25 rebel boats— -9 gunboats, and 16 transports—hemmed in at Island No. 10, between Commodore Foote’s flotilla above, and Gen. Pope’s batteries below. Thoy cannot es cape, and must eventually fall into our hands, un less the rebels, to prevent this, should burn them. The same paper expresses the opinion, with a show of plausibility, that there is a co-operative relation between Gen. Grant’s expedition on the Tennessee river, and Commodore Foote’s flotilla at Island No, 10, and Gen. Pope’s army at New Mad rid ; and that the operations of one have an inti mate connection with the other. It may be deve loped, also, in a day or two, that, when it is time to take Island No. 10, Commodore Foote will take it. In the meantime, we may direct our eyes to the Tennessee river, in the expectation of wit nessing most important and decisive events in that quarter. PARSON BROWNLOWS NARRATIVE. SIX MONTHS’ EXPERIENCE AMONG THE REBELS. -The correspondent of tho Cincinnati Commercial of the 16tb, ohronicles the arrival of Parson Brown low in Nashville; his enthusiastic welcome by John son, Etherigde, Maynard, and other distinguished loyalists, and his statement of six months’ experi ence among the rebels. Although annoyed and persecuted all summer and fall, and standing in constant danger of assassi nation by his rebel enemies, the Faison was deter mined to defy them all and hold out, too, in Knox ville. But after the bridge-burning in the early part of November, his friends prevailed on him to act upon an intimation of the rebel Secretary of War, that a safe conduct te the North would be giVSfi te the bnost part of Unionists if thoy should be willing to leave tbe State; and, accordingly, an agreement was entered into, in accordance with which the Parson was to be escorted to the Union lines by a guard sufficiently strong to protect him against all violence. Upon the strength of this agreement, he arranged bis private affairs with a view to a prolonged absence, and was about ready to leave, when, notwithstanding the assurances of the rebel Secretary of War, he was arrested on the 6th of December, upon a warrant of the eivil au thorities, sued out by some of his personal enemies, and thrown into the county jail. The prison was crammed full of Unionists —no lesa than 150 being confined at the time. The Parson was made to occupy a narrow, damp, badly-ventilated room, with no less than 25 others. So little thero, that half of the occupants were obliged to stand np while the other half were seeking rest. There were neither tables, chairs, nor beds. The food wasmisorabio. Only a chance for washing was given to the prisoners. The drinking water was hauled in barrels from Holston river, and left standing in front of the jail. The rebel guards, having a habit of washing their bands and faces in the barrels, Brcwnlow remonstrated with them from the prison window. The response he uniformly ob tained was, 11 By God, sir, the water a Jeff Davis man washes bis hands in is good enough fur a d —d Lincolnite te dnnk.” During his imprisonment some Secession leaders visited and promised him in stant liberation and future protection of his person and properly if he would take the oath of alle giance to the Rebei Government. He indignantly replied. “ I will rot here tiM old age before I will doit.” No less than five Union men were led out of the jail to tbe gallows while he was incarcerated. These bafigßSfi would drive up and down in front of the jail with their victims' coffins, and taunt the prison ers with them. A court-martial passed upon, the Parson’s easo shortly after his arrest. Fortunately, the proposed death sentence upon him came one short of a majority of the court, and imprisonment during the war was substituted. The iii treatment and want of nil comforts told severely on the Paregn's feeble health, and after the THE WAR PRESS. Til Wak Piiflß will be arat to subscribers by mull (per annum In advairaj TbPooOopSe* « «* ••«•••*•••••*« Five “ Ten « “ Larger Globa will be charged at the same rate* thus : SM will m\ 821 i W wptoi will cost 800; md 1M oopies 8120. For a Clob of Twenty-oss or over, we will send Extra Copy to the getter-np of the Olnb. Postmasters an reqotxrtsd to act as Agents Ksv Ta« WiA P&SSS. •ST Advertisements Inserted at the usual rates. BH lines constitute a sejuare. lapse of a month ha was taken with typh&ld fever. Upon the application Of his friends hla re* inoval to his private residence was permitted. But even then the rebel persecutions did not cease. Thtr house was constantly gunrded on all sides. Ne visitors were allowed to enter it at any tine, bap were the members of hie family allowed to leave it. His wife was compelled to buy provisions at the door in presencei of a guard. Every possible oppor tunity waß also improved by the rebel soldiery to he»p insult upon the defenceless occupants. The at temps, however, were always m«i and repelled with spirit by Mrs. Jirownlow and her courageous daughter. At the end of eight weeks the Parson had suffi ciently recovered his health to use the pen, and ad dressed o letter to Benjamin, recounting hla griev ‘ances. and applying again for the promised safe Gonduot to the North. After n lapse of Mine the military commander at Knoxville received a despatch from Richmond to release the Parana from arrest, and have him conducted to the Federal lines with whatever escort he might choose. According ly, on lafrt Tuesday n week ago, the Parson bade farewell to his family and took the oars for Chatta nooga, accompanied by his son, and under escort of Lieut. O'Brien, a cousin of his wife. The party reached Shelbyville, in tbo southern part of the State, without detention. Here they were stopped and detained for ten days by order of Gen Har dee They were cot allowed to proceed until all of this hud been safely moved, lest they should set the Unionists on the rebel tracks. On yesterday morning they left Shelbyville, and travelling over land, reached our outposts to-day about noon. Tha Parson says he felt the happiest man in the world Wk&B hb saw the Stars and Snipes once more. Gov. Johnson, Etheridge, Maynard, and Union ists generally are anxious to see the Parson at the head of the Union paper in this city. But he in forms mo ihnt bis health is inadequate to the task of daily editorial labors at present. He is not sick with consumption, as reported* but suffers still much from general debility arising from bla pro tracted sickness. It is his intention to proceed North to recruit and publish the history of the trials of the Union men of East Tennessee in book lorm. He talks of stopping first at Cincinnati. I presume I need not bespeak for him a hearty re ception. Tbo Parson states that the Union sentiment hi still overwhelming in East Tennessee. Over twe thirds of the population of Knoxville are loyal. Ho says that there will be a fearful reckoning betweon the Unionists and their Secession persecutors. “ The last dog of them will be killed and driven out, n to use bis own language. All the Unionists want is that the Union troops clean out the rebel soldiery. The balance of the work they will do themselves. There were not over 4,000 Confede rate troops in East Tennessee when ho loft, the greater part of them were at Cumberland Gap. Transition Period in Alexandria. [From our Special Correspondent ] „ Citv Hotkl, Alk v a viin iA, March 19. If one fast in Alexandria is more apparent then any other, it is that the city is losing its Southern character. Alexandria will never again be a Vir ginia town. Ike Yankee has occupied its dwel lings, hotels, and warehouses ; driven out the negro and the negro-trader, and put Ilia foot Upon the old customs, institutions, and laws. I talked with a stationer yesterday, whose accent betokened hie nativity, and he said, sadly: “We don’t see ths old faces, sir, any more; ’pears as if a hundred years had relied over our toiVB j everything it new; I don’t know tty neighbors, and— “ You don’t want to,” I said, taking him up. “Well,” said he, “ they aint just our kind of folks. Yer, next door, is a boardin’-house keeper—so she calls herself—right from New York, and next to that a synagogue of J ews from Chatham street, that deal in all manner of rubbish. Below me, a Dutch FhiladelpbiHD has opened a bakery, and across the way there is a Boston restaurant. The river ia fall of ciyift from your country, (said oourteousiy,) and all the skippers and sailors hail from New Eng land, New York, or Pennsylvania.” “I have,” he continued, a nice property four miles from town, that I am afraid to go out to see, and expect to hear jajly tf btißg burned , We don’t go out at all by night and very seldom by day. You don’t want to buy a property, do you, sir ?" We explained that no intention could be more re. mote with us. “ The fact is, sir, I would like to get away— away from the soldiers, I mean—if I had the means I would sail to Europo; for I never expect to see any more peace in this couatsy.” Such remarks are echoed by ail the old reeid enters, who feel very much in the way of Kip Van Winkle, 88d B£ls themselves daily at breakfast if soma mirage, grand, vulgar, and formidable, has not appeared to perplex and overawe them. A feeling of sadness steals over the romancer in view of those encroachments of the practical upea the old, the feudal, and the venerable; but tbo sober eye is hopeful of blessings to oome. The first deposit of this deluge is rank and unclean ; when the frothing waters subside we shall seo a plenteous vegetation, like that of the grand Ante diluvitm period. Already we ttmark changes that have gladdened many hearts. f ' The slave-pen, as such, is no rnoro. The files of manacled people that used , to march daily to the. railroad depots have disappeared. And, whatever Congress may enact relative to bondage, here or elsewhere, I am sure that slavery is at aa end wherever the Northern army goes. The soldiers, unused to such scenes, will not tolerate them; and the slave auctioneer—an old favorite in ’’Alexan dria—would provoke the cry of “shame” if he mounted the block to bid off either man or woman in the presence of these hard-fisted freemen of Vermont, Michigan, or Pennsylvania. Alexandria used to be a great feeder to the Rich mond slave-market. The first families of the plaoe kept their dozens, nay, scores of servants, but, with the war, w?nt master and man, and thank God! The lending families have gene, and in many respeots Alexandria will miss them. There was much of hospitality, ingenuousness, and real no bility about these Virginians. “ First families" was not an idle or conceited appellation, and the suocissor's of the Lees, the Henrys, apd the Tylers possess many of the social traits that distinguished their renowned ancestry. The hardy, angular Northerner, with his grasping hand and overreach ing stride, will sit ungainly in the places of the banished, but after all it will be the exchange &f pastoral and patriarchal manners for a sterner but more progressive development. The wild Hun has overran the dwellings of tho indolent and luxu riant Roman, but, after a mediaeval span of chaos and turbulence, a strong, athletio, and vigorous condition wili be engendered. To-day, indeed, it is the Goth in the Senate and tho Vandal in the fo rum ; but tbe victors and vanquished will assimi late in time, the one softening, the other forgiving and emulating. The leading hotel is this place, as yet, Is maintained by a Virginian, and more wretched accommodations are nowhere found. The servants are slovenly, the proprietor sleepy, the cook has designs upon the lives of strangers, and the establishment is an abbreviated oopy of the Commonwealth of Virginia —halt, improvident, impoverished- Oho of yotif Philadelphia publicans would soon make a fortune here, as indeed the Vir ginian may be doing, but by a system of manifest extortion. The importation of Northern ladies (save the mark) has not been calculated, thus far, te impress the Virginians with our social superiority. There are about five hundred women in Alexandria, all of the migratory description, many of whom may or should have been camp vivandiers. I have been able to b!«sb once or twice for the endangered credit of tbe ladies of my section, the more that many of the officers of onr army are responsible for their pre sence here. Of the Virginia women, I have already spoken. Many of the Alexandrtemies are hand some, bnt inanimate, slothful, and generally pftdly informed. The poorer fomales are, of all Woman kind, the most depraved, and stupid. A few negroes still linger in Alexandria, em ployed as deck hands on steamers, waiters at ho tels, etc., but there are few slaves, and almost every officer in tbe army is provided with a colored servant. A few slaves remain on the farms near the towh, and these alternate between the claims cf obligation to their own families and their mas ters, and of desire to go Northward and he free. They are mostly credulous beings, and their owners have impressed them with the idea that the Yan kees mean to sell tiu-m. A black fellow opened a gate for me yesterday, and followed me embar rassedly down the lane toward an old mill fOfid. When pretty well screened from view of the farm house, he looked up with ah odd mixture of stu pidity and shrewdness, and said : “ Boss, are you from de Norf ? ” We gave the necessary assent, and be said, scra ping his foot and very serious, “ What do do sol diers do wi’ de colored folks ?” “ Give them work,” said I, “ and help them along, if they are smart and well-bohaved.” “Why, don’t dey sell em? Ole Moss up yar says so. He say dey soil chillen and ail. Do you too* fof Sartin, tots I explained the condition of matters to him, but he looked very inorcdulous; and after fording a creek and reaching the top of a hill, saw that tbe negro was still scraping his foot and endeavoring to solve the mystery. Poor follow ( he was one of a class used to darkness so long, that the tight em barrassed him—a thing of sense, not of soul; for the soul in him had been crushed. With tbo ascendency of tho wild tribes of tha North—for so I love to call thorn—a new era wilt dawn upon this beantiful, but nogloctod country. I hope to see Pennsylvania barns and staok-honses upen these hills, and Yankee mills by all the strews. There is no music like that of the mill. wheolß, to make the stones and trees dance; it ia more to the purpose than the pipes of Orpheus; and I love a red-roofed bam better tbau a church, steeple. The one we have already ; but we need; the crops, the strong-armed reapers, and the. hay stacks. G. A. T. Furious Gales at Sea.—The marine record of the past few days tells a sad story of tbe sea. The gales of early March seem to have swept with great fury across the entiro Atlantic, apd many wrtckj are the result. Immense fields of lee, from tbe Arctic regions, are added tc ether perils. 8.0« , ia.M
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