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BPRING IMPORTATION DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE GOODS, LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, &o. To which the attention of the trade la particularly In vited. fe2l-2m IMPORTATIONS. HOSIERY, GLOVES, GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, THOS. MELLOR & Co.. tnbl9-3m 40 and 4ft North THIBD Street. JELLING OFF. WHOLESALE STOCK AT RETAIL. SILK VESTING 3, formerlr S 3 00, nowS2.oo. MABSEILLES, « $1.50, now $l.OO. CASSIMEBES for men’s wear, andjadies’ Cloaks, 25 per cent, tinder former prices, Ac., Ac. A. H. GIHBS, mh26-lm 631 MARKET STREET, Up stairs. gIBLEY MOLTEN, Sg WOODRUFF. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF SILKS AND FANCY GOODS, No. 531 MARKET STREET, Are now opening and daily receiving a new and CHOICE STOCK or SILKS. DRESS GOODS. WHITE GOOPS and EHBROIDEBIES, SHAWLS) RIBBONS) GLOVES) MITTS, &o. They respectfully call the attention of buyers gene rally. mb2s-lm PHILADELPHIA 1862. SPKINB ' 1862. ABBOTT. JOHNES. A 00.. 537 MARKET STREET, Have now open an entirely new and attractive stock in ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND * AMERICAN DRESS GOODS. Alio, a (nil uaertmeiit In WHITE GOODS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, SHAWLS, Ac., &c., To whioh they invito tbo attention of the trade. mh24-tap3o WHOLE- gFRING STOCK SILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS. A. W. LITTLE & Oa, mbU-tf No. 333 MARKET BT. on CWT. CHOICE WHITE RYE Wv FLOUR, just received and for sale at No. 812 SPRING GARDEN Street. mh2S-tf YOL. S.—NO. 207. JEWELRY, &c. u ii &olitsrj- Slojvo Button, all sizes. il Bosom Studs, “ “ i» «i Finger Bings, u <* «« it rencils, 4i 4t 4i ii Pon with Pencil Oaso. Including Goods suited for Now in Store, NO. 631 CHESTNUT STREET, And for Sale by Have now open their OF SILK AND FANCY Bought in Europe, bj one of the firm* LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS, WHITE GOODS, AND EMBROIDERIES. C-jj* Jr tat.- FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1862. THE DRAMA IN WASHINGTON. Mr. Forrest as Richelieu. (From our Special Correspondent.l Washington, April l, 18f>2. With the exception of the company now per forming at the Capitol, the drama in Wash ington, this season, has been vary insipid and commonplace. Wo hftvo had but ono little the atre —a nondescript, weather-beaten, uncomforta ble building—which seemed to have been erected with a view of preventing tho osenpo of the nudi cnce in ense of firo. The entrance was by an out side wooden stairway; tho boxes were only found after an intricate and bewildering journey. The stage was small and inconvenient; the scenery had a limited existence and a universal applioa* tion —tho tomb of Juliet, the court-yard at El sinore, and tho street in Venice, all possessing a strong resombiarico to an original attempt at pic turing a cottage and landscape. The com pany WAS small and carelessly combined; the appointments woro insufficient and inappro priate. Yet in this place crowds attended night after night, generally soldiers and followers of the army. Since tho army crossed the river this patronage has fallen away, and on Satur day night tho management terminated. The last week was the most brilliant of the soason. We bad that great star combination, E. L. Davenport, Wm. .Wheatley, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wallack, Jr. They dr Ar crowded houses, and gave us “ Othello,” “ Hamlet, 5 ’ and “Julius Crcsar” in exquisite style. In the meantime, Mr. Eord, the Baltimore manager, built a neat little theatre on Tenth street, near S', and Called it an ** Athenae um.” Without being as large as any of your city theatres, it is neatly fitted up, and in every, way is an improvement on the old establishment, At this place Mr. Edwin Forrest appeared last evening in his part of Richelieu. The desire to see the tragedian was so intense that long before the box-office was closed every seat was taken. His audience was large, brilliant. Senators and members of the House, offi cers high in place, were scattered over the balcony and boxes, and crowded each other on the orchestral benches. Years have elapsed since Mr. Forrest last played and in Washington he has always been a great favorite. It was an audienoe of new faces. The old men had passed away ; some in the natural cause of time and circumstances—many in the whirlpool and tempest of treason. The assem bly was a fair type of the new order of things: men in uniform—hard, rugged men from the West —the keen and quiet New Englander, the solid Pennsylvanian, the enterprising New Yorker, With here and there the narrow, sallow, sneering face of the neglected aod lonely Southerner. This was the audience before which our Philadelphia actor appeared, and it received him a 3 became his great fame and ability. Mr. Emerson, in one of his singular and quaint paragraphs, says that great men magnetize their contemporaries so that their companions can do for them what they can never do for themselves It was thus with Byron, and,Macaulay, and Washing ton Irving. These writers seem to have’entered largely into our modern literature, and even our modern customs. They live in their example. Young men wear rolling collanstill and curl thtlr hair, and fancy that all women are false, that they have been doomed to an early death, and drink gin at midnight, and cover album pages with rhyming fomentations about their heart being seared and old. You find M&Oaulay in every country newspa per. His brilliant rhetoric has done more to cor rupt our current style of thought and expression than any writer of the century. The village edi tor is grandiloquent, antithetical, full of fldjfla tiyes. Ho makes weekly allusions to the pate-foie de-gras, and charges the village lawyer with being a “ Turkey carpet” orator, and regrets that the career of the town constable has culminated in so much glory and so much sh&M6. The influence of Irving is deeper. It is not seen in the newspapers, nor tho monthly magazines, but in the spirit of those who loved him and his writings. The newspapers say that & few months bofore he died, while in New York, he one day started to cross Broadway. The street was filled with vehicles, and the old man being slow, an omnibus nearly ran over him. Tho driver reined up and swore lustily. lining gained the pavement, and looking upon the coach found it was one of the “Knickerbocker” line. He saw Knickerbocker everywhere—on the signs; on ship-bows; on in surance companies; on fire-engines; on schoolboy sleds,' on the steamboat that took him back to Sunnyside. Each had attained the summit of greatness in his own way, and each left his in dividuality behind him. It is so with Mr. Forrest. Actors copy his style —theatre-goers imi tate bis toilet and wear fancy cravats and walk heavily—critics in the Sunday newspapers de nounce him. He imitates nobody—he is himself alone. Ambitious boys at the dramatic associa tions hate young Harry for his blood of Lancaster in suoh a violent manner that fears are entertained for their recovery. Low comedians travesty his manners, his voice, his accent quite amusingly. I saw an Ethiopian minstrel once going through the motions. He had charcoal on his face, and a coarse, curly black wig. His voice was stroDg and full. He twitched his fingers and made faces, and stamped upon the floor, and cried for revenge, and said he was th§ “great American tra* gedian,” with a frightful repetition of the rolling syllables. We all laughed heartily, and ap plauded the mimic. But it seemed to me then, and I have often thought since, that in the foolish ness and riot of the stage we saw the best possible tribute to the genius of our great actor. There is nothing beyond criticism, and few men have felt this more than Edwin Forrest. You may analyze his style, but you cannot analyze the effects he produces ; you cannot explain the feelings that control you when witnessing his representations. More than any actor I have seen, he loses his per sonality in the performance of a part. In Lear you see the sag Qid Kings in Richelieu the grand eld Cardinal, in Jack Cade the fierce, brave, and in jured Democrat—you never see Edwin Forrest. “ I was very sorry,” said a very intelligent friend, who saw the tragedian for the first time last eve ning, u that Mr. Forrest came before the curtain, for then I began to feel that he had really been acting, that he was not the Cardinal after all.” Shis was an impression, hasty, honest, in the warmth of conversatfoß, If job analyze it yon find the philosophy of this great man’s suc cess. He has a fine frame, a magnificent voice, great personal parts; he is commanding and imperious. His wardrobe is princely; no imi tation silks wrap his limbs; no muck-diamonds glisten on his sceptre. Take them all away, and the mind remains and retains its power Success is the true test of merit, and who has succeeded more wonderfully than our tragedian ? He may answer every disparagement by pointing to his high place among the honored names of the drama; by recalling the ceaseless triumphs of the last twenty years—the rich fruits of a life of energy and toil. He may point to the thousands who greet him everywhere with load acclaim, and say here are my liegemen, and this is my sovereignty. “ Gene ral,” said an Austrian officer after the battle of Marengo, <( Xon are no soldier; you have no idea of military science; you do not fight according to rule.” “Sir,” was Napoleon’s reply, “I have gained the battle.” Mr. Forrest may not play ac cording to one style nor another; he may dis card all the old traditions, and forget that Kemble, or Kean, or Booth, ever paced the boards; be may put folio and quarto upon the shelf, and give us Shatapeare as he appears to a strong, clear, and cultivated intellect: your idea or mine may be rudely wounded and the con ceptions of our judgment or fancy be falsified; but there he stands alone in all his grandeur, the embodiment of the American drama. Cobwebs do not cling to his buskins. The mantle upon those shoulders came from no ascended Garrick or Kean; woof, web, and all, it is the creation of his creative mind. In " Richelieu, 5 * wehavo two elements whieh make it, as a drama, very successful—the double cha racter of the Cardlnal'Btatesman ; and the ingenuity ■with which every figure in the drama is made sub servient to the kero of the piny. In this respect, it very much resembles Richard 111. Xho minor cha racters, Baradas, De Mauprat, Joseph, lingual, Frau rots, oven the King , serve no purpose but to ilinstrate some trait in the character of the Cardinal. To use one of his own metaphors, they are but glass, and his will shines through them. Upon his pleasure, even upon his fate, their destiny depends. Take him away, and they have no longer a being. Baradas is a very shallow and bungling politician; De Mauprat an adventurer. We meet Joseph and Huguet every day. In the hands of Richelieu they serve a great purpose—the purpose of his own ambition. The mind of Richelieu overshadows all. You never doubt him; you give him your fullest confi dence ; you have no fears for his triumph. When De Mauprat's sword is raised, you feel that he dare not strike; you are certain Francois will ob> tain the despatch. In this respeet the play of “Richelieu” is the mere detail of a badly managed conspiracy. You see he does not want your sympathy, and you withhold it. At each new stage of the plot—fit every mani festation of defiance or revenge you applaud hear tily, not because he succeeds, but because he does sc in a very dramatic and proper manner. To play PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1862. liichthcn to an applauding audienoe is very easy —the drama almost plays itself. The author has managed his effects with the most ooa§vi*B?s§te skill—bo seems to invite and regulate the applause. What is. therefore, an advantage to an ordinary ac tor is a disadvantage to an at tor like Mr. Forrest. He does not care to reproduce the mere declama tions of the writer, to crowd the stage with a suc cession of tableaux, making himself the moving central figure. He places these inducements to one side as the mere machinery of the play, and presents to the spectator the finer and more beautiful traits in the Cardinal’s chMs4U? r He threw life into the dullest scenes of the play. His strongest and most effective points were made where other actors are listless and tedious. The apostrophe to the pen—the injunction to Francois —the threatened anathema—the defiance of Bara das—l have seen performed as effectively as they were last evening, but I huve never seen a piece of acting more exquisite than the first inter view with Be Man prat. All the various phases of Richelieu's peculiar and incomprehensible cha racter were exhibited. His badinage with Jo • sepk—b ls rebuke to the prodigal soldier—his beau tiful description of France, as he hod re-created it— and the extravagant apostrophe to the State* as hia « wedded wife, sweet France”—were acted as none but Mr. Forrest could act them. In this play of “ Richelieu,” the admirers of Mr. Forrest find cause for their warmest praise, and ihoge who do not admire cause for criticism &Ud censure. “It is too powerful; it is muscular; it is exaggerated; it is not fine enough; he does not give us the wily Cardinal.” These are the ob jections to Richelieu, and they ceffipriso the objections to Mr. Fonest in every part he performs. I confess I have thought so my self. I saw Barry Sullivan (the most original ac tor) play the part, two or three years ago. He looked Old ahd WAh— he staggered, and whis pered, and coughed, and tottered over the boards. He was an old, decrepid priest, with his keen eye looking mildly from his tattered locks. He crawled from scene to scene, distrusting, suspecting, full Of anxiety. He was the embodiment of an old Church man, the popular type of a crafty Jesuit, and he did it well. I admired the performance and ap plauded the actor. Yet he was only a churchman —and a very wicked type of a class of priests common to France, bat long Bince passed away. I looked upon Mr. Forrest last evening and saw another man powerful, fierce, commanding, l saw the statesman— that Richelieu was—not the priest he scorned to be, and I felt how insufficient had been the judg ment of other days. The very power and fury ex hibited by Mr. Forrest only served to give ljft to his idea. Vfhj should fiichelwu be a weak, (shat tering old man ? Why should we deny his repre sentative those powers of voice and manner which aro so necessary to illustrate his part ? If Riche- Hm waa gray and old, it was with care, uofc with advancing years. The fire of manhood was in his veins, though it did not always burn: “ Blanch'd and seared Before ray time —breathing an air of hate, And seeing daggers in the uyua of men, And wasting powers that shake the thrones of earth, In contest with the insects.” The throne of France was in danger ,* the king was becoming bis own enemy; Power) ompirOi were passing from bim; the sword of tho conspira tor was unsheathed; his whole life, its ambitions, pains, toils, advantages, glories, were about to fade. A crisis like that demanded tho exorcise of “ powers that shake the thrones of earth ; all the Statesman’s energy and strength; sadden, decisive action ; a man of nerves and sinews, and temper—a man ■with meaning in his voice, fire in his eye, marrow in his bones. Snoh a man was th tiJUiheliia of last evening, and to me he was the perfection and con summation not only of Btdwer’s genius, bat of the liichclieu who lived two hundred years ago. In his oloset—in the garden of the Louvre, where he turns feebly away from his monarch’s scorn, we see the man ef care, and gray hairs, and wrinkled cheeks, panting and coughing, and walking slowly; bat when the occasion calls, we see the “ indomitable heart of Aimand Richelieu”—we pass into his “withered frame the might of Franoe.” And in this, I think, we have the truth of history and the meaning of the dramatist. I have written you this letter on Mr. Forrest, not because I have any idolatry t« espassa, hut in those times of warlike Secretaries of War—of oensors and suppressions—if your special correspondent cannot tell you of the great drama now being performed in Yirginia, you may surely indulge him in some re flections upon the peaceful drama on the stage. If I* gratify no one. I at least gratify myself, and in thus speakiDg of the reappearance of Mr. Forrest, chronicle a very important event in tho dramatic ihd eooial history of Washington. J. R. Y. New Publications. Aids to Faith; a Series of Theological Essays. By several writers. Being a reply to « Essays and Reviews.” Edited by William Thompson, D. D., Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. 1 vol. small Svo, pp. 536. D. Appleton & Company, New York. W. P. Hazard, Philadelphia. It is the opinion of serious observers Of the theo logical literature of the time, that the notorious “Essays and Reviews” which certain Protestant Episcopal clergymen in England published some time ago, have done much mischief, by disturbing men’s faith, by converting belief into speculation, and carrying the right of private judgment to a dangerous excess. There were several ways of counteracting the evils thus engendered:—By taking no notice of the publication in question, on the principle that Truth must-eventuatly vindicate it self; by putting the writers into Ecclesiastical Court, which has been done; or by meeting them hand to hand, and fairly beating them in argu ment. This last has been dene in the volume whose title heads this notice, and the recently-elected Bishop of Gloucester does his Master’s work, by aoting as its editor, as well as by contributing to its contents. There are nine Essays, by eight clergy men, and the editing Bishop states that “ most of the writers gave their names without knowing those of their coadjutors, and not one of them, but tbe editor, has seen all the Essays up to the day of publication.” Tbe Essays are—l, On miracles as Evidences of Christianity, by the Kev. Professor Mansel; 2, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity, by Dr. Fitzgerald, Bishop of Cork (Since dead)3, Prophecy, by Professor MeCaui; 4, Ideology and Subscription, by Rev. F. C. Cook; 5, The Mosaic Record of Creation, by Professor MeCaui; 6, On the Genuineness and Authenticity of tbe Penta teuch, by Professor George Rawlinson; 7, Inspire tion, by Professor Browne; 8, The Death of Christ, by the Bishop of Gloucester, and 9, Scripture and its Interpretation, by Professor EUicott. Each Essay is divided into separate branches, Holed by figures, end there is an analytical table of contents, referring to these divisions, prefixed in every case to the Essays. The volume, printed on good paper, with bold type, contains an unusual quantity of letter-press. We must not be suspected of exaggeration when we say that, since the late William Wilberforce’s renowned and wondcrfully useful 11 Practical View,” no single volume has ap peared containing such sound and true theology as the “Aids to Faith," which we, therefore, strongly recommend to the Christian world. It ought to become a hand-book in families. “ The Worts of Francis Bacon,” edited by Sped ding, Ellis, and Heath (crack scholars of the Eng lish University of Cambridge).—The third volume has just been issued by Brown and Taggard, the Boston publishers, who have succeeded in producing an edition in all respects superior to the original. The Works will bo completed in fifteen volumes, and B. and T. commenced with eleventh volume, went through down to and with the fifteenth, and then tracked back to the beginning—the first, se cond, and third volumes being now issued. The new volume (tbe third) gives the continuation of Bacon’s “ Do Augmentis Seientiarum,” the deside rata to the same, the Historia Ventoram, and the Historic Vita: et Mortis. To the tvo last are critical and historical Prefaces by Robert Leslie Ellis, one of the editors, and a great variety of notes. The frontispiece ef the volume is a reduced copy, engraved on wood, of Holbein’s picture of “The Great Harry,” a first-rater in the time of Henry VIII. This is the best edition of Bacen ever published. Charles Scribner, of New York, publisher of many standard works, has brought out a curious thin Bvo volume of 138 pages, by the Rev. Dr. Pierson, President of Cumberland College, Kcatusky, enti tled "‘Jefferson at Monticello,” and truly profess ing to describe the private life of Thomas Jeffer son, from entirely new materiais. Some months ago, it appears, Dr. Pierson became acquainted with Edmund Dacca, ah aged and wealthy citizen of Kentucky, vrho, for nearly twenty years, was chief overseer and confidential business manager of Mr. Jefferson’s eßtate at Monticello. Thisoldgen tleman was full of recollections of that truly great man, the author ofthe Declaration of American In dependence, and Dr. Pierson’s tapped him. His recollections, with documents written by Mr. Jef ferson and others, (of which many fao-similes are given,) make an odd but most interesting book, which thoroughly carries out the favorable view of Jefferson’s private character taken by Mr. Randall, his biographer. Old Mr. Bacon, Jefferson’s ex-over seer, is not a great scholar, we Admit, but he relates, in good faith, what he has remembered of thegreat man whom he served for many years. The book fully carries out its avowed purpose, stated to be “ so to describe bis [Jefferson’s] home, his personal appearance, and all his personal and business habits, as to set the man fully before the reader— as a farmer, manufacturer, and master; as a lover of fine horses, hogs, and sheep; as the enthusiastic cultivator of fruits and flowers; as this kind neigh bor, the liberal benefactor of the poor j; the partici pator in the ohildish sports of his grandchildrofij; the hospitable entertainer of swarms of visitors, that well-nigh ate up his substance and consumed his life; and in all the minutest details of nis every-day home-life at Monticello.” Whoever possesses th? excellent Life of Thomas Jefferson, by Henry S. Randall, should place this volume by its side, as an Appendix. J. 13. Lippincott & Co. are meeting the crisis with a series of standard works on military subjects. The two latest volumes are Marshal Marmont’s “Spirit of Military Institutions,” translated from the author's revised and corrected edition, with il lustrative notes by Professor Henry Coppee, of this oity, himself a West Point graduate,land late an artillery officer in the service of the United States. The other is a small volume, containing transla tions of Dr. Louis Stromeyor’s treatise! on Gunshot Fractures, and Dr. P.-Esmaroh’s “ Resection in Gunshot Injuries.” The first-named was surgeon in-chief in the Sleswiok-Hoistein army, in the cam paign of 1849, against the Danes, ant the other served under him. The treatises are fu II of practi cal yalne, and have been translated by g. F. Sl*. tham. Coming back to the former work, we have to say that Marmont, whom Napoleon made Mar shal of France and Duke of Ragusa, wai not only a brave soldier and able general, but one )f tho best ed uca ted of ail the Imperial leaders. He accom panied Napoleon in almost every camj aign, until his fall in 1814. He devoted his later years to au thorship—and the small volume before us contains the experience of alife-tims of action and thought; to use his own words, of “ twenty campaigns of active war, and more than half a oentury of mili tary experience.” Marmont’s treatise is crowded with illustrations drawn from Napoleon’s practice, and is generally candid, thougb it says very little about Wellington, who beat himself at Salamanca, and defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. Mr Coppee’s notes are few but sufficient. Altogether the work is full of interest, and will give much information. The System for Training Cavalry Horses, ed by M. Bauehicr, and arranged by the gal tain Nolan, long out of print, has been ru by Captain Kenner Garrard, U. S. A addition of a chapter on Rarey’s system taming, and another on horse-shoeing. I trated with numerous engravings. Publ D. Van Nostrand, Net York) and receive B. Peterson & Brothers, Philadelphia. | Appleton & Co. hare published a new ed ition (the twelfth) of a very amusing book, full of racy and HfttiVO humOT— ll Phoenisiana j or, Sketches and Burlesques. By John Phoenix.” Every library, which has a book-shelf for American wit and hu mor, must hare aplaoe on it for “ Phte iixiana.” We laughed long and loud, with John Phoonis, years ago, and now, after haring him In hand for the tenth time, are as much amused as at first. It is to icgrotted tbattho publishers of such a well printed volume did not put it into boards! Paper coYors are ephemeral i hut put a book into regular binding, and there is a chance of its being pre served. “ A Popular Troatise on Deafness,” published by Carleton, New York, and written by two ear-doc tors in New York and Boston, is so evidently an advertisement in book-form that we shall not give publicity to the authors’ names by mention! lg them here. Mr. Carleton, we perceive, has reissued “A Book about Doctors,” by J. Cordy Jeaffreson, Which he published, for subscribers only, last year. It is so anecdotal, amusing, and instructive as to rank very high among the best medical Ana in our language. Its appropriate frontispiece |is Ho garth’s satirical engraving of the Undertaker’s Arms. I I. 0. H. P. Burnham, of Boston, has lately pub lished several works of merit. “Cadet Life at West Point,” gives the first half of a grajlqgta’g adventures in that Military Academy, where, as the author shows, the demerit system is enough to break a young man’s heart. The book is lively and apparently truthful, with a little colbr and Tarnish thrown on to heighten the affect. We re commend the author, who is anonymous, never again to make an attempt to show the Irish brogue, by had spelling. None bat an Irishman can do that properly. Here is a sentence (page 249), in wirioh an Irish nurse is made tc say: “Ou dahr may, wud I trow the puir bal by aff hayr, to die on the stonnes, or wait till I’m conva nient to the wather, and divil a cint inmepockud.” This is sad gibberish, in which sc&reely a word is given as an Irishman would pronouuoe it. Puir babby is Scotch; hayr fs a vile substitute for here ; and on dahr may is a miserable apology ior oh dear me ! “ The Old Lieutenant and his Sojs ”is rather a narrative than a novel, and will interest those who do not care for mere sensation. Lastly, Mrs. S. C. Hall’s story, “ Can Wrong be Right '!” may be described as written on the regular system of modern fiction, with mystery and crime running through it, and, as may be noticed in all her h >vels, a downright moral standing boldly prominen ~ like a virtuous lighthouse. Mrs. Hall always writes well, but we would rather read one of her Irish tales than the best moral novel of society she ever produced. Mr. Burnham announces a new and elegant e lition of Sale’s well-known translation of The Koran, (A 1 Koran, the Book,) with a life of MohammedJ and will follow this up by translations of the Parsee Zend-Avesta, the Hindoo Vedas, the Chinese Book of Kings, and the Scandinavian Edda. James’s RiverJGtuide, a Cincinnati pamphlet of 120 pages octavo, although printed with worn type on bad paper and embellished (?) with wretched wood-cuts, gives a great deal of geographical, sta tistical, and historical information about the cities, towns, and other leading objects of interest on the navigable waters of the Mississippi Valley, from the sonroes of all the rivers, including those of Ala bama and Texas. It has forty-four river maps, and may be properly described as a sweet nut in a r >ugh Shell. It is sold by Peterson A Brothers. The leading illustrations of the Art Journal for March, (W. B. Zieber, South Third street,) are Mulready’s “ Brother and Sister,” Turner’s sele brated “ Parting of Hero and Leander,” (belli line engravings,) four specimens from Rubens’ “ Dwicent from the Cross” and “ Crucifixion,” and reduced copies of three of Abraham Solomon’s fine pictures. This year, a new series of the Art Journal WM commenced, one attractive feature of which, com mencing with the April number, will be an frus trated Catalogue, without extra eharge, of the most worthy, noticeable, and memorahle articles in the Great London Exhibition, which will open on the first of May. This will be continued through eight months, and may then be detached, so as to form a separate and beautiful volume. A Sermon, preached in this oity on the 23d Feb ruary, by the Rev. Dr. T. W. J. Wylie, to show that Washington was a Christian (whioh nobjody doubted,) has been published by IV. S. AA. Mar tien, by request, ior the benefit of the Young Men’s Christian Association. It collects a great many characteristic traits illustrative of the subject. We are compelled to notice one awkwardly worded, if not ungrammatical,nuteßce; “One of tbe books which belonged to his mother, and which was foind in his own library, having evidences of frequent use, was the writings of Sir Matthew Hale.” If this be transposed into “ Tbe writings of 'Sir fid at thew Hale wee ene 6f the books,” the clumsy cm struction of the sentence becomes obvious. Willis P. Hazard, 721 Chestnut street, has pii lished, what was much required, a large color Railroad.and Military Map of the Southern Stat'i on the scale of tbreeand a half inohes to one hun dred statute miles. It has been prepared by the Committee on Inland Transportation of the Phila delphia Board of Trade, {tom the latest accessible authorities, with the coast accurately drawn from the United States Coast Surveys. Its value may be judged from the faet that it has been adopted by the War Department as the official map for Go vernment use. It is full-sized—fifty-one inches by thirty-one. The American Sunday School Union, 1122 Che it nut street, have issued a small volume which ap pears worthy of general adoption in families and schools. It is called “ The Bible Reader; 'or Scripture Reading made Rasy.” As a means for teaching adults to read the Bible it is superior. All the reading lessons He selected from Holy Writ. Washburn on Real Property. * Emory Washburn, LL.D., Professor of Law in Harvard University, has completed his " Treatise on the American Law of Real Property,” by the publication of the eeoond volume. The general topics of which it treats are Hereditaments, purely Incorporeal; 2. Uses; 3. Trusts; 4 Re mainders ; 5, Contingent, Springing, and Shifting Uses; 6. Powers; 7. Executory Devises; 8. Re versions; 9. Title-Descent; 10. Title other than by Grant; 11. Title by Grant; 12. Title by Private Grant; 13. Bonus of Conveyance by Private Grant, with an Appendix on the Nature and Form of a Marriage Settlement, (the form itself being that used In England,) and a copious Index to the volume. , To thoßO who know the ability of Professojr Washburn and the great value of the former moiety of bis work on “ Treatise on the Law of American Pro perty,” it would be sufficient to mention, as above, the titles of the subject* which he wplaiM. lot * A Treatise on the American Lew of Real Property By Kmorr Washburn, L.L.D. University l'rofe«»o ot law in Harvard University. In two volume!. Vol 11. gp, 809. Octavo. Boston; LilUe, Brown, *Q< those who do not, we have to state that it is a work of which any jurist might be prgud, and it requires no great stretch of imagination to conjure up old Sugdeu, (now liord St. Leonard's and ex-Chancel lor of England,) noticing, with surprise and delight, how Professor Washburn had condensed, into some forty pages* the consideration of Pewdrs, which sub ject made his own reputation at the English bar nearly half a century ago, and finding, amid re* markablo concentration of language and fact, no point omitted, no statement obscured by noedlGßS brevity. This concentration, indeed, constitutes the main difference between Professor Wash* bum and other writers, American and English, on the Law of Heal Property. The especial objects of the work are stated in the Preface, where attention is drawn to tho fact that the decisions of the Ameri can Courts, on all points where individual rights are involved, are in uniformity not only with those of England, but with each other. The rules of common law are the same in fact, and ought to be the game in practice, all over the werld—for law is the perfection of common sense. In this country, it is gratifying, as Professor Washburn states, “to feel that, go where he may, one is not only sure to find a common language and ft common history, hut a common standard of the rights of property, and of redress for personal wrongs." Wo com mend tho completed work to the attention of the profession. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. A Reconnoissance Beyond New- THREE THOUSAND REBELS DISPERSED. GREAT BETHEL KEOIXUPIED BV THE No Signs of the Merrimac, PEA RIDGE DEFEAT ACKNOWLEDGED. .1, discover* illlant Cap uproduoed with the | of horso* It is iilus lished by ' from T. Fortress Monroe, April 2.—Tho weathor to day is clear and pleasant, and everything is pro gressing in the most satisfactory manner. The rebels fired several shots fromSewell'sPoint last night on the transports in the harbor, some of the shells falling within fifty feot of a vessel loaded with horses. A reconnoissance was made from Newport News yesterday to Watts’ creek, a distance of nine miles. Tho enemy appeared, 3,000 strong, and opened with cannon on our forces, but the balls panged oil: tlrely over them. Our batteries were immediately got in position and opened on them, when the en t:re rebel force broke and fled, fording the creek in great confusion, and keeping out of range. The object of the reconnoissanoe being accomplished, the troops returned. The whole country through which ''they passed, formerly the garden spot of Virginia, has been devastated, and but one house is left standing. The houses, fences, and trees have been burned by the retreating rebels, A second reconnoissance was also made yester day to Big Bethel, where the enemy was found to have returned, and occupied the earthworks in force, Qa seeing our scouts, the rebels threw shells into the woods occupied by our troops an tbs previous advance; but as they were unoccupied, no damage was done. It not being the purpose of tho advance to engage the enemy, no response was made to the guns. There are no signs of the approach of the Merri mac yet, and, from the long delay, the opinion is gaining ground that she will not come again. She has A fine field te epep&te !h, if she should triumph over the Monitor , and if she waits to oome now, it is thought she is afraid to run tho risk. An officer of the Seminole says that he read a Savannah paper, of the 23d ult., which BSkflOW: ledged a terrible rebel defeat at Pea Ridge, and admitted there was no use to attempt to conoeal the fact. The English steamer Racer arrived here this 58?r8iSg, and saluted the flag, which war responded to by the fort; and the same compliment passed be tween the French vessels and the Racer, occasion ing quite a cannonade. A Sag of truce, to-day, brought down the officer of the French steamer from Norfolk. The steamboats conveying troops to Newport News were repeatedly fired into from Sewell's Point and a rebel gunboat this afternoon. No damage was done, as far as we could learn. FROM LOUDOUN COUNTY, VIRGINIA. NUMEROUS DESERTIONS PROM the REBEL REGIMENTS THE STATEMENTS OF REFUGEES FROM Washington, April 3.— The following are the rebel troops that occupied Loudoun county, Va., during the summer, fall, and winter, and until the time of the evacuation: The Fourth South Carolina, Regiment, Colonel Blanding; Thirteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Twenty-first Mississippi, Colonels Barksdale, Featherstone, Burke, Kelley, and Humphreys, and the Eighth Virginia, commanded by Colonel E. Hunter, of Prince "William; Lieutenant Colonel C. B. Tebbs, of Loudoun, and Major Norman, of Berk ley. The latter regiment was moved some days after the Ball’s Bluff fight to Centreville. After the fight, a Lcnisisn# regiment was sent to Lou doun, but remained only a few days. It is now conceded among the rebels that the Virginia troops are equal, if not superior, to any in the rebel army. Notwithstanding the brag Of the chivalry of South Carolina, it is ohaiged upon them that they were the first to break ranks and run at the battle of Bull B.un. A large number of desertions from the North Carolina and Virginia regiments aro reported to have taken place lately. The time of the Loudoun troops expires on the 22d of April. Refugees from Richmond. The steamer King Philip arrived from the Lower Potomac last night, bringing up four re fugees from Richmond and Westmoreland counties, Va., who came off fromKinsale on Saturday last. They state that the rebels ore pressing every mate between the ages of eighteen and forty-five into the service, and that they had been closely hunted by the press gangs for a week or two. The rebels have mostly left the neighborhood, but a few squads of cavalry roam through the country, impressing into the Bervioo all able to bear arms. These refugees are natives of that sec tion, one being an old farmer named Gandy, and the others young men engaged la business near him. One of the young meu has been acting as the rebel postmaster at Kinsaie. The refugees give the following as the ruling prices lately in that vicinity: Coffee $1.25 per pound; sugar 40 cents; salt, fine, $6O per sack; and table salt, put up in half-gallon sacks, $1.25; hoots to be had only in Fredericksburg at 513.50 per pair. They say that the late rebel papers state that the loss at the United States troops in the recent conflict with the Merrimac was 1,500 J men; also, that the Monitor’s shot had no more effect on the aides of the Merrimac than hailstones. capture of a Rebel Schooner. The steamer Union ran into the Wicomico creek a few days sinoe and brought out a rebel schooner called the Isabel. She is in good order, and can he very usefully employed by eur 6wn Govern ment. TERRIBLE TORNADO AT CAIRO. Great Destruction of Property—Fears for the Fleet at Island No. 10. CnicAco, April 2. —A special despatch to the Journal, from Cairo, states that the moat terrific tornado that has visited this looality for several years passed over Cairo, from the southwest, at 3 o’clook this morning. The tornado was accompanied with thunder, lightning, and rain. A large number of transports and steam tugs were tom from their moorings on the Ohio levee, and blown aoross the river. The slate-roof of the St. Charles Hotel was tom off, and completely demolished. Several rows of unoccupied barracks wore levelled with the ground. The Cairo and Colum bus wharf-boat was blown aoross the river, and now lies high and dry on the Kentucky shore. The steamer Illinois had both chimneys and the upper cabin tom away, in the falling of whioh four or five lives were lost. Several barges, which were used as store-houses, broke loose and floated down ttcrtTW, Large pile* of Government lumber, on the Ohio levee, were blown into the river. The wooden barracks, at Bird’s Point and Fort Holt, were demolished, but there was no loss of life. Much anxiety is felt for the fleet at Island No -10. Steamers were sent down this morning to as certain what damage has been done. The steamer Philadelphia, with a lot of loe barges in tow, drifted down the river and sank a mile below Bird’s Point. Three men were drowned. Captain Carroll, of the steamer Sallie Wood, had his leg broken. So far as ascertained, five men were blown from the transports at the levee and drowned, and several had their legs and arms broken. The boat John Ives, used as a hospital boat, at Mound Citj) wig badly injured. The prisoners captured at Union City, by Colonel Buford, numbered only seven. About forty horses and mules were taken. John A, iegon left to join bio port News. REBELS. RICHMOND, TWO CENTS. brigade up the Tennessee river- His wound is en tirely healedi [SECOND DESPATCH.) Chicago, April 3.—A special despatch to the Tribune from Cairo says: A small craft tied to the levee in front of tbo St. Charles Hotel, occu pied by a poor man and his family, consisting of five persons, parted its moorings during the gale yesterday and all on boafd were drowned. The wharf boat of the Ohio and Mobile Railroad was blown across the river ftud is BOff entangled in the bushes on the Kentucky shore. At Paducah the storm was very severe, unroofing thirty houses, including the Marine Hospital and a large warehouse adjoining. The damage done to the steamers and property Along the river was immense. The Evansville packet Courier barely escaped destruction. The storm was exceedingly violent in the vicinity of the Cumberland river, but we are without the particulars of the damage done. Thfi ste&mfef Universe has just returned from a successful search for the steamer Philadelphia , which was reported to have been sunk. She was found one mile this side of Columbus Her crew were taken off; with the exception of thfe& men who had previously left the Philadelphia in a Bkiff, and had not been since heard from. There is no news of interest from New Madrid, No Damage Done to ths Bombarding Cairo, April 2, 10.30 P.M.—The steamer Pike has just arrived from Island No. Ten, with intelli gence from that point up to 1 o’clock P. M. The damage done td the fleet by the storm was less than was anticipated. The gunboats and mor tars were uninjured. Two transports, the Pike and Swallow . were damaged considerably. The bombardment was still carried on but (h 6 results are unknown. The Bombardment of Island No. 10. NEW BATTERIES ERECTED SY THE REBELS, THE DAMAGE DONE TO THEIR WORKS. COMMODORE FOOTE CONFIDENT THAT HE CAN DISLODGE THE ENEMV. From the numerous letters in the Western papers from Island No. 10 we glean the following interest ing facts about the bombardment up to last Sunday \ The Situation The condition of affairs in this vicinity furnishes but little matter for letter«writing, and that little is of the utmost unimportance so far as actual re sults are concerned. In thisteipect nobbing has yet been accomplished. From time to time re ports are sent abroad that certain batteries have been silenced; that the enemy have been wholly dislodged by our heavy ordnance; that the high water was drowning tb§m out, and a hundred other' similar very pleasing accounts for Fede ral ears; but in this region these reports are all news. A single exceedingly badly-eonstructod and much exposed battery was deserted by its gunners several days since, the rain of iron from the gunboats proving too hoavy for their comfort. Another was found to be in danger of being flooded by the rising water, and means were taken to raise it But with these exceptions it does not appear, from the decks of the fleet, that the enemy have suffered any great amount pf damage to their works aa yet from our guns. It is true that one or two of their heaviest guns have been dis mounted and silenced, and it is also evident that they have suffered a considerable loss of life how great we have no means of estimating; but they have had hitherto uninterrupted rail road communication with important points in the southwest, after passing & gap of only fifteen miles of land travel, and have been able, by this means, to procure all the reinforcements they h&TG desired} or that were available. Bat this route iB now closed and barred against them. The great, rapid, and still continuous rise of the Missis sippi has overflowed the main land opposite the Island, and fer a long distance back, so as to render their landing a very hazardous operation. Thi§ overflow has cut off the £haih roads which furnish the only means of communication with the interior —a string of small lakes, bordered by low, marshy land, lying parallel with the river, at a short dis tance inland, rendering a direct movement either to or from the river at right ang]sg impossibloi Add to this the fact that we have effected a lauding of a large body of cavalry, who are scouting wherever there is dry land to scout upon, and it will be seen that the rebels are pretty well hemmed in. A New Rebel Battery Dissevered. Thonewly-disoovered defence is one the more to conquer, but beyond the bare acknowledgment of this fact it creates here no sign of interest, no an ticipation of consequences, or even the thought that it may prove the turning point of the coming battle. As when a strong laborer at work upon a heavy task, yet conscious of his ability to accom plish it, and even more, suddenly finds a new ob stacle to be removed, calmly looks upon it as but deferring for a short period the end of his work, but dssg net overbalance his strength to execute, s& those composing the flotilla regard these guns only as increasing the .number which must be inevitably silenced or captured. And silenced they will be, but when you are at liberty to speculate upon. From observations made to-day, this battery is believed to contain eleven gnus of the largest caU bre. It is located below the head of tho island, and a critical examination is impossible. It is supposed to have been erected since the flotilla made its appearance before the works of the rebels here, and I presume is designed without especial reference to strength, but merely as au auxiliary to the main defence. We need scarcely fear the erection of others; (here is hardly room for them. The Daily Operations of our Fleet The daily operations here eontinne to be about the same as have prevailed for a number of days past, consisting of the firing ef An occasional gun from the gun or mortar boats, as well perhaps for amusement as to keep the enemy awake and pre vent their operations in the construction of now batteries or the mounting of new guns. The rest of the time is congunjfd in perfecting somo nsoassary repairs to the boats, which the arrival of Captain Pennock’s ingenious floating boiler and smith shop enables to be done without the withdrawal of the vessels from their stations. This floating shop is really a most valuable addition to our rivor naval fleet, it consists of an old boot transformed into a series of shops for blacksmithing, boiler making, copper smithing, carpentering, and, in fact, every manner of work required to be done in repairing steam vessels. Jobs of large or small character are readily done hers, the vessel to be repaired having only to haul up besido the floating shop. The con trivance is manned by an abundance of mechanics of all trades. The Ammunition Supply for our Fleet. Several correspondents and editors are becoming excessively alarmed lest this protracted siege shall use up the ammunition brought down by the flo tilla, and at the very crisis of affairs we be left by this enormous expenditure of material and mu nitions of war without the means of following up a victory, or even of completing the work begUU. It may “ relieve the diaphragms” of these indi viduals to know that when the expedition started, over one thousand rounds of ammunition for each gun and mortar in the fleet were placed on board the ordnance boats. The gunbots, including the wooden one, (Conestoga,) bear eighty-eight guns. There are also sixteen mortars, which, added to those of the “ hard-heads,” make a total of one hundred and four guns. On the day of the bom bardment about one thousand rounds were fired, With the ammunition now accompanying the flotilla, a continuous bombardment of nearly one hundred days oan be sustained, with no lack of powder, shot and shell! Ere that time has elapsed you may confidently anticipate that the fleet Will be in New Orleans, or the bottom of the Mississippi. What Slay be Expected. Those self-wise individuals whose mental visions are so clear and penetrating as to enable them to judge of the requirements of tho expedition, the exigencies surrounding it, and the manner in whioh the attack should be conducted, though hun dreds of miles from the scene of contest, even better than the commander in immediate attend ance, who is presumed to be the most conversant wilh every position, would do well to suspend their judgment for a time until the present plans have been fully tested. ' There yet remains one hundred and sixty miles intervening between the present location of the fleet and the city of Memphis. The formidable batteries -which bar our progress here axe the most important we oan be called upon to subdue. Ran dolph may bo largely fortified, but the informa tion now in possession of tho authorities places it in point of defence far behind those of this plaoe, and comparatively insignificant. When a junotion shall have been formed with the army of Gen. Pope, both sides of the Mississippi may be swept by the combined river and land forces, to the utter exter mination of every rebel from the shores of this great (and superlatively muddy) rivor. Within the next seven days you may confidently expect the interest attending the movements of this expedition will increase. It is. palpably evident that tbe time for this inactivity to end is rapidly approaching, and may occur sooner than even many who aOcoinpany the fleet now anticipate. Gratifying as such an anticipation may be to tho public, whoso hopes have been deferred so long, there is yet one difficulty in the way of its accom filishment as completely as the nation desires. The oop-hole —and the only one—by which the §Bsl»y can escape has not been stopped. They can only take themselves away, their ordnance and stores must bo left, but the public have so long and often been told of the complete hemming in of the rebels, and the certainty of their capture, that they will scarcely be satisfied with anything less than the bagging of the entire lot, and the addition of them to the numbers now domesticated, by the kind sup ?ort of the Federal Government, at Chioago, Alton, ndianapolis, and Columbus. CAMtmadftM Fa&te Confident of Success. It is expected that so soon as the gunboats per fect their repairs, and the information from other sources, the laek of which has contributed to the tardiness of operations here, is received, active operations Will be commenced here on a most grand and terrible scale. Commodore Foote is confident that he oan dislodge the enemy in three hours when he shall bring all his guns to bear upon them. He has no doubt of tho result of the contest. He shares with the naval and military officers of the expedition the utmost anxiety to hear from the Southeast. How long we must wait depends upon the movements of other divisions of tho army of the West. It may be but a day or two; it may be a week or two. Distances South from Cairo.—' The distances down the river from Cairo to Memphis ase as fol lows ; To Columbus, Ky 1° ft Hiokmin, Ky. SI << Island No. 6* “ New Madrid, Mo 79 “ Point Pleasant, Me. 86 *' Randolph, Tenn 178 11 TOfitii imiMimmiimii *245 THE WAR PRESS. T ar. War Prkss will be sent to subscribers by mall (per annum in advance) at .$3,09 Three Copies “ “ *»»» Five « “ •* ... 8.00 Ten “ << “ 13,00 Larger Clubs will be charged at the same rate, thus: 20 copies will cost $24; 60 copies will cost $6O \ and 19$ copies fl2Qi For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will aend an Extra Copy to the getter-tip of the Club. •ST 1 Post masters are requested to act u Agents for Tub War ruBSc 1 . inserted at tho usual rates. Sir lines constitute a square. AFFAIRS AT AEW MADRID. THJS REBELS ERECTING BATTERIES OPFO* BITE THAT PLACE. THE DESOLATION AROUND THE TOWN The Cairo torrespondent of the Chicago Time* writes as follows from thst place under date of March 30; The Rebels Rreotinj; a Battery Opposite Mew Madrid. By an arrival from New Madrid this evening wo bavo news from that town up to this morning. .Affairs there remain much aa they were a week ago; both the national and rebel armies working within tight, and sometimes within range, of each other, our forces keeping up a steady fire upon the Confederates engaged in planting now batte ries and strengthening old ones, whieh, however, does not prevent them from continuing their la bors with a greater or less degree of doterjjjing tion and aaMdflity, in proportion to the danger to which ihe nature of the work exposes the sol diers, who arc Ininily laboring on the construction of extra fortifications, designed to prevent our troops from crossing from the Missouri to tbo Kentucky shore, should sueh aa attempt be made by them. The Desolations ol War, It is said that New Madrid exhibits more traces of the desolation of war than any town which has been taken by the Union foroes during the whole Western campaign, The houses and streets are nearly deserted ; the few citizens remaining at-home are spiritless, and are continually brooding over the inconveniences and losses to which they have been unavoidably subjected, and tho entire Village wears nn sir of despondency, as if it dared not in dulge the hope that it would ever again hold up its head, and claim its old position as a thriving river town. One old gentleman, a citizen who owns any number of thousands of acres of farming land, and who recently was master of three hundred negroes, told Gen. Tope, a few days since, that he was now seventy years old, and on that morning, for the first time in his life, he bad to make his own fire, there cot being a servant left in bis plaoe large enough to kindle one. The old man did not relish the idea of being compelled to loam how to take wire of himself, and cherished the hope that some of his “ boys’’ would get hungry and return to him, in which case he would willingly forgive them. The rebels had taken from him sixteen thousand bushels of corn in sacks, with which tfeoy had Bom> plated a fort hastily built, and had otherwise helped themselves freely to whatever of his property they fancied, so that he naturally feols that he has been slightly misused, and believes every man his enemy. The Movements of Gen. Bnell’s Army. The St. Louis Republican has tho following in Us editorial columns: The telegraph baa mentioned the arrival if Ge neral Nelson’s, Thomas’, and McOook’s diviston of General Buell’s column at Duck river, Tennessee, and the correspondent of a Cincinnati paper in forms us of the passage, on the 22d, of General Mitchell's division through Murfreesboro, But, of OOUfse, only those whose business and privilege it is to be posted, can tell the destination of these troops. Duck river is an affluent of the Tennessee, and the point referred to by the telegraph as the one to which the main body of General Buell’s army had reached, is doubtless in the neighbor hood of Columbia, forty.six miles south of Nash v’.lle. The plans of Gen. Buell’s operations are doubt less based upon hypotheses of the movements of the enemy. It is not now known what relation Gjj), Johnston 9 forces at Chattanooga aro to bear to the proceedings of Beauregard. If Johnston has been greatly weakened, as is probabio, by requisition upon him for the defence of Corinth, Gen. Mitchell may be thrown forward to observe and menace him, whilst the other divisions may marsh to out off the retreat of Beauregard, Folk, and Bragg, simulta neously with the advance of Gen. Grant from Sa vannah and Pittsburg. Or, if Johnston has been, or is likely to be, reinforced from Virginia—a oßance exceedingly dsubtful=aotive operations may be turned on him, The rebels must know very well that if Buell’s divisions had been ordered to tho direct support of Grant, as, for instance, to attack the left wing of the Con federates at Jackson, be would bavo transferred his ifMSSS hy the Cumberland and Tennessee fivtfi to Decatur, Tennessee, and not overland. But it is evidently not the purpose to operate on the left flank of the enemy, which would merely result in driving it back to Torts Pillow and Bandolph, bat to turn and overwhelm tbe right, at the same tiujg barricading tho whole list of retreat, thus inyestlnK a whole army and Compelling it to capitulate, This would of itself capture the rebel forts between Island No. 10 and Memphis, when Commodore Foote would at once advance with his flotilla, it is idle, howeyer, ts epeoulato upon BVOntS the reality of which must soon be presented. Every body seems, by mutual consent, to regard a great confliot as near at hand, and as we have heretofore said, some ot the finest strategic and tactical opera tions may be anticipated on both sides, Gen. Rosecrans' Farewell to His Soldiers. Gen. Bosecrans, on transferring his command to Gon. Fremont, has issued the following order : Headquarters or Mountain' Department, > Wszeijso, March 29, 1802. J GENERAL ORDER NO. 4. Brother Officers and Soldiers : Depart ment Order No. 17 published the President’s War Order No. o, announcing the change in tho limits and styles of this department, and tho assignment of an officer of superior rank to its command. Major General John C. Fremont, United States army, having arrived at Wheeling to assume tho command, I naw take leave of you in the only manner which {ircumstances will permit«=vii • in general order. Companions in arms : In this vast department of mountains and forests, in the rains of summers tho cold and storms of winter, for nine months, I have witnessed your uncomplaining zeal and ac tivity, your walkings, your marchings, and your combats. Under God ( to your bravery and good conduct it is due that not a single reverse has at tended our arms in all these vast regions. Wherever I go, I shall bear with me tho remem brance of men who, leaving home and its endsflfr ments against tho force of all former tastes and habits, have undertaken to inure themselves to the toils, privations, hardships, and dangers of a mili tary life, and have succeeded. But, comrades, proud as lam of the manly en ergy you have thus displayed, I am prouder atm to bear testimony to the pure and lofty patriotism which has called it forth. No mean and sectional spirit, no low truckling to reckless leadership, no biind and ignorant fanati cism has animated you. By your intelligence, year magnanimity, and forbearance towards those whom the rebellion has misled, you have shown that you entered intojthe conflict with a eonviotion that.the interests of free government, and even of human freedom itself, opposed by arbitrary and despotic will, by rebellion in favor of despotism, lay in th» issue, sod that you fought for the liberties of all, both North and South. Such men deserve to be, and will bo, froo them selves; or, dying, will bequeath liberty and ■ glorious name to their posterity, , That it m&y bfi your happy lot, in tho Union and the Constitution and the laws, to be free and happy yourselves, and to bequeath freodom, hap piness, and & glorious name to your ohildren, is my cherished wish and hope. W. S. Roseohans, Brigadier General Untied States Army. GENERAL NEWS. Tire following table exhibits the pay which the patriot soldiers of the Bevolution received, com pared with the present compensation of those of the same grade in the United States army, and also tha amount that is promised by Jeff Davis ; Pay in Her. Present pay. Betel par. Colonel $75 $95 $175 .Lient. Colonel.i»», 60 86 171 Major 50 Captain 40 First Lieutenant.. . 20 Second Lieutenant. 26 45 Sergeant 10 21 21 Corporal 7 10 13 Private 6 13 11 Singular Circumstance.— Simon Hasan, flow residing in New London county, Conn., ninety-two years of age, has lived under three National Go vernments and in three different towns, and yfit has never moved out of the house in whioh he was born, or changed his residence. Mr, JJfigfß lived under the" monarchy of George the Third, then under the Confederacy of the American Colo nies, and lastly under our Federal Constitu tion. And ho first resided in the town of Nor wich, which was subsequently divided, and tho town of Franklin was formed, whtoL included his residence; and in IS6I that part of Franklin where he lived was included in tbe present town of Sprague. Wisconsin Favors Emancipation. —The Wis consin Legislature has adopted tho following reso lution : “ That all persons claimed or. held by rebels as slaves ought, by congressional enactment, to be made free—that it will be good polioy for tho Fede ral Government to aid pecuniarily sue)) Jpyfil StAttt as may initiate a system of general emancipation — and that the property of ail persons, subject to con fiscation, should be appropriated to tbe payment of the expenses and burdens of the war.” The Democrats opposed the resolution, some of that party even esflOHlNißg themselves as oppoaad to tbe freedom of a single slave under any oiroum* stances whatever. Or the States now in rebellion, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were part of the original thirteen, Tennc?g?e WAS admitted into tho Union in 1796; Louisiana was purchased in 1802; Mississippi was admitted in 1817; Florida was purchased in 1821; Arkansas was admittod in 1836, and Texas in 1845. General Hunter’s Late Pepajith&NTi—Tho troops ordered to Kansas, some time since, for the Lane Expedition,” aro now being sent to other and more active fields of operation. For some weeks they bad been collected at Fort Scott, but at last accounts they had been divided into nearly oqual portions—about 37080 oaoh —to reinforce General Cauby in Now Mesicoj and Goner&l Curtis at Kelts* "iDE Wrong Pike.—The St. Louis Republican states that Albert Pike of Arkansas is not tho ox sahoolßiaster who was indicted for cruelty to scholars at Fairhaven, Mass., though he kept a school in Massachusetts when a youth. 9 Max. Seauad proposes to write a critical teview of the army of the Potomac. How can an army be reviewed by an <?§ser whose very name confeaiu blindness ? The Baltimore Board of School Commissioners era holding a sort of oourt-martial for the trial of dis loyal teachers. They have voted to remove all who are not sound on the war question. TOI RESISTANCE at Island No, 16 only sWwf how hard it is in these times for a man to get a “ten spot.” Tbe rebel General Johnston is oalled Miss Nano/. If he gets out of his present tight place he can on esdled Muss Lcwey, 70 15* 60 10S 56 *9O
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