THE PRESS. PUBLISHED DAILY (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY, OFFICE Wo. 11l SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE DAILY PRESS, Twklve Cksts Per Week, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to subscribers out of the City at Six Dollar* Tkr annum, Four dollars for Eight Months, Three Dollars for Six Muxtiis— invariably in ad vance for the time ordered* THE TRI -WEEKLY TRESS, Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at Thbkk Bol fciAns Per Annum, in advance. CLOTHING. rjIO THE GENTLEMEN OF PHI- LADELPBIA AND VICINITY. A CARD. It bavin;; been next to an impossibility, hereto fore, to obtain CUSTOMER-MADE CLOTHING, at MODERATE PRICES, and finding that many gentlemen would prefer thoir Clothing MADE TO ORDER, if they could soeuro at the same time REALLY FIRST-CLASS STYLES, and at REALLY REASONABLE PRICES, we have, at the earnest solicitation uf. our patrons, organized, in connection with enr extensive Ready-Made Hales-Rooms, a complete CUSTOMER DEPART MENT, in which the prominent features are, Ist, Erne and Medium Materials, made up in Brst-class styles; 2d. Unexceptionable Pitting Garments; 3d. Prices EAR LOWER THAN HAS BEEN -CUSTOMARY; 4th. A corps or the most celebrated cutters iu this country. An extensive assortment of the choicest im ported and domestic fabrics from the New York and Philadelphia markets, suitable for Coats, Pants, and Vests, always on hand. In our Ready made Salesrooms can always be ifonnd every variety and style of well-made fashion able clothing. Spring stock now ready. PRICES ■MODERATE. A visit is solicited. WANAMAKER & DROWN, MERCHANT TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS, “OAK HALL” S. E cor. SIXTH and MARKET Streets. mli27-tf i WHOLESALE ROUSES. j’«WIWW\>Y»V)W|tiIVNI>'i\>V)»WrtYYVYYYV>YV AND 54-ISCI ’ SKY-BLUE KERSEYS, | BCPERFINE INDIGO-BLUE SATINETS, 1 black cadet AND OXFORD Do. ; PRINTED Do, in variety. BLACK AND FANCY MIXED DOESKINS. FANCY CASSIMERES AND MELTONS. IH STORK, Ann FOB SALS BT JOSEPH LEA, te29-lf 138 AND 130 CHESTNUT STREET' MILLINERY GOODS. SPRING. 1862. LOUIS DANNENBAUM. No. 67 North SECOND Street. (Between Market and Arch,) Sa now prepared to offer a large stock of RIBBONS, bSILKS, AND MILLINERY GOODS. Merchants ini! Milliners will And in idmlribU Ad#oirt jnent of the above Goods, of the newest styles, at lots ttyitreS) and are invited to call and examine. BOUGHT IS HALF SOLD.” mh2Mm* 1862; SIJBINCK 1862, yVOOD & CARY, f (Successors to Lincoln, Wood, A Kichols,) Ho. T 25 CHESTKUT STREET, Have now in Store a complete stock OP t STRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS, SILK BONNETS, STRAW AND PALM-LEAF HATS, *O. To which they respectfully invita tho attention of tha . fouler patrons of the house and the trade generally. marl2-2m S P fi 1 N G. M. BERN HEIM, No. 7SB CHESTNUT STREET, Has now in store, and is daily receiving, the latest r styles in RIBBONS, FRENCH FLO WEES, wreaths, silks, crapes, LACES, AND OTHER MIIJL.INEKY GOODS, M Io which he respectfully invites the attention of the 1 PRICES LOW. J mh24»2m W 1862. /RIBBONS, MILLINERY. i A 2ID SPRING. I STRAW GOODS. BBOOKS. & Co, / NO. 431 MARKET STREET, [ Have now own— and to which daily additions aw made— pkheir USUAL HANDSOME VARIETY RIBBONS. BONNET MATERIALS, FLOWERS, r RUCHES. STRAW AND FANCY BONNETS, MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S HATS, FLATS, SHAKER HOODS, and all other articles in the millinery LINE, Which will be offered at the LOWEST MAKKET PRICES. The attention of the trade is respectfully invited. By Particular attention given to filling orders. mhl3-2m IJIHOMAS KENNEDY & BRO., 729 CHESTNUT Street, below Eighth. A Choice Stock of SPRING MILLINERY GOODS, mhl3-3m] AT LOW PBICBB, UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS. H RICHARDSON HAS REMOVED TO 500 MARKET STREET, Southwest corner of Fifth, And offers a beautiful assortment st UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, TENTS, AND CANES, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. mh2B-lm HATS A AID CAPS. ■JOfiO SPRING STOCK IQfiO AOU/O. COMPLETE. AOU/V. <3. H. GARDEN & Co.. Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in HATS, CAPS, AND FURS; STRAW GOODS. FANCY SILK AND STRAW BONNETS, Artificial Flowers, Ruches* Feathers* Ac., 80. 600 and 603 MARKET Street, S. W. corner o SIXTH Streep OfiJ" A large ana complete stock. The best terms and the lowest prices. Cash and prompt “ time buyers*’ are particular!? invited to exHmine onr stock. mbl-bu WATCHES, JEWELRY, &c. Afresh assortment,at less THAN FORMER PRICEB. FARB ft BROTHER, Importers, 324 CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth. mfa2o-tt ' T ABOR-SAVING MACHINE. X J clothes- saving machine. TIME-SAVING MACHINE. Haley, Horse A Boyden’s Ulothoe Wringer saves labor, time Mid clothes, and is an improvement which will most wUinly be generally adopted. It is selLadjnutins, eim. Hie, and durable, and is far snperior to every other de vice for the jrarpese intended. Over five hundred have keen sold within the last thirty days in this city. No family should be without one. They ere warranted to give perfect satisfaction. For sals by L. B. SNOW, at the Office of JOY, COR, ft Co, Northeast corner of FIFTH* end CHESTNUT Streets. Orders from the Country promptly attended to. •pl-lm VOL, 5,-NO. 210. Q L ARK ’S ~ ONE DOLLAR STORE. 60S CHESTNUT STREET. NEW GOODS, NEW STYLES, AND NEW PRICES. For ONE DOLLAR yon can buy auy one of the fol lowing articlGft: Sots ot Silver Plftfod Tflft SpCOnB. »i if u Deaort “ “ » « Table • « “ “ «< “ Forks. ** <* *i Desert ** Pair u ‘i Knifn ami Fork. ‘t h *i Napkin Rings* || i‘ ii Butter Kuivos. Silver Plated Sugar Bowl. “ “ Butter Dish. • i *• Molasses Pitcher, v 11 Crciim “ “ “ Caslor. ii « Waiter. ‘I . GohWt. || ‘i Drinking Cap. » “ Sugar Sifter, Gold Plated YesA Chain, nil etylea. “ “ Guard “ “ ** “ ‘I Neck ‘I i« «* “ “ Chatelaine, 4 < ** 44 44 Bracolet. “ “ 4 ‘ '** Medallion, ♦*.**. 44 ii Armlets, “ “ . ** *i Breast Pin, “ “ “ *• Ear Rings, “ ■** • * “ Pin and Props, all styles, if ll Simla and Brittons, 44 11 “ “ Solitary Sleavo Button, all styles. 44 *‘ Bosom Stnds, ‘* “ |< ii Finger Rings, w u || “ Pencils, «« « l * *i Pen with Pencil Case, Ladies’ or Gfr.Uemen’s Port Monnaie, Cub&s, Bag 3, Purses, Ac., Ac., Ac. All Goods warranted as repre sented. We have on hand a large assortment of Photo graph Albums, Mantel Clocks, Travelling Bags, and Gold Jewelry, which we are closing off at cost. The at tention of tho trace rosnectfnlly solicited. D. W. GLARE’S ONE DOLLAR STORE, apl-2m 603 CHESTNUT Street. DRY .GOODS JOBBERS. 1862. SPRINU. 1862| WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT. J- R. CAMPBELL'* CO.. No. 727 CHESTNUT STREET, HAVE NOW IN STORE, LINES OF OHOIOB GOODS, TO WHICH THEY INVITE THE ATTENTION OF GASH BUYERS. WHITE GOODS—Iu all thoir Varieties. 1862. LINENS—AIt Qualities aud host makes. TABLE DAMASKS—Napkins and Doylies, L. C. llDKFs— Towels aud Toweling. GINGHAMS—Super, Fancy and Solid Oheoks. LAWNS—Now and Choice Styles. ORGANDIES, and Paris Printed lace nets. DRESS GOODS—In very desirable style*. BLACK SlLKS—Choice Brands. FLANNELS—Of the best makes. BLEACHED GOODS—A full line. PRlNTS—American and English. CHINTZES, BRILLIANTES - - ■ .ie,n PERCALES. TOGETHER WITH MANY OTHEB GOODS, ADAPTED TO FIRST-CLASS TRADE, ALL OF WHICH WILL BE OFFERED AT LOW PRICES. mhlO-tf 1862. s FBI NO. 1862. RIEGEL, BAIRD. & CO.. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS 1862. DRY GOODS. NO. 47 NORTH THIRD STREET. Merchants visiting this oity to purchase Dry Hoods will find our Stook large and admirably assorted, and at Low Fisukes. In certain olaises of Goods we offer inducements to purchasers unequalled by any other house in Philadelphia. mhlB-2m James, kent, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS DRY GOODS. Nos. 230 and 241 N. THIRD STREET, ABOVE RACK, PHILADELPHIA, Have now open their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, Among which will be found « more than usually attrac tive variety of RADIES’ DBESS GOODS; Also, a full assortment of MERRIMACK AND 00CHEC0 PRINTS, and PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. To which they invite the special attention of buyers. mh2l-2m YARNS, BATTS, & CARPET CHAINS. H. FKANCISCUS, WHOLESALE DEALER IN YARNS, 433 MARKET and 5 North FIFTH Street. PHILADELPHIA. Buyers will find a full Stock of COTTON, LINEN, AND WOOLLEN CARPET CHAIN, COTTON YARN, TWIST, FILLING, WADDING, BATTING, TIE YARNS, TWINES, CANDLE WICK, COVERLET TARE, BROOM TWINES, SHOE TRRSi,Dfi, eiiiLina and skins twines, BED CORDS, WASH AND PLOUGH LINES, COTTON, HEMP, AND MANILLA CORDAGE. FLY NETS. Which he offers at MannTsclnrers LOWEST NET CASH PRICES. WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. H. FRANCISOUS. 433 MARKET and S North FIFTH Street, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DEALER IE WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. Always on band, a full Stock TUBS, BUCKETS, OHUBBS, MEASDBEB, BBOOMB, FANCY BASKETS. WALL, SCRUB, and SWEEPING BBUSHK3, LOGKIHG-GL ASSES and WINDOW PAPSB, Mata, Keelers, Flour Buckets, Neßt Boxes, WASH BOARDS, BOLLING and CLOTHES PIUS. FLOOR and TABLE OIL CLOTHS. SCHOOL, MABKET, and DINNEB BASKETS. Sleds, Barrows, Carriages, Hobby Horses, Ac., Ac. All Goods sold at LOWEST NET CASH PRICES. mbll-2in jUTONUMENTS AND GRAVE A-t-L STONES at very reduced prices at Marble Work* or A. STKINMKTZ, RIDGE Avenue, below Eleventh Street. mhia-amif JEWELRY, Arc. FUIL ADKLFHIA, SANTEE. & CO.. COTTON LAPS, Also, a full assortment of WHISKS, RETAIL DRY GOODS. Gray silk poplins. Beet ijuality Orays nnd Checks, Very glossy and desirable. BUAItI*LR3S BROS CHECKED TOIL DU NORD. V_/ Solid Checks, bright colors, J-'ur Cinidcon'b droHarfl. SIIMtPLKSS BROS. WIDE CHIN'! ZEB. Bright Styles for Children. Neat and Bold Stylos fur dresses. Magenta figw-eo mid I»lUc*». 61IAU1M.B8S BKUP , OIIKSTNUT and BIGHTH Street* fUOAKS! CLOAKS! CLOAKS! THE GREATEST BARGAINS 111 TUB 01XT IVENS & CO.’S, No. 23 SOUTH HIST II STREET. THE LARGEST STOCK, THE BEST ASSORTMENT, TJIE CHOICEST COLORS, THE FINEST QUAbITIBRi THE HOST SUPERB TRIMMINGS, THE NEWEST STYLES, THE BEST WORK , AND decidedly the lowest prices, IK TUB CITTj IVENS & CO.'S, Ko. 23 SOUTH NINTII STREET. mh2G«3m 10 2 4 C! 11 KS T fiUT B'tJt EL M. NEEDLES lifts jDst received a small invoice ofPointe Ap plique Laces, which have bwn bought a yory great bargain, aud will bo sold at corresponding low prices. Milliners and Press Makers would do well to £&!1 itiid Inspect the above, Also, Choice NOVELTIES of the Intost Im portations in POINT L ACE and VALENOIENNE COLLARS and SETS, THREAD VEILS and BAKBRS, and BLACK THREAD LACES. 1024 CHESTNUT STR 1 ftO NORTH EIGHTH STREET, Iw SECOND DOOR ABOYJB ARCH, UPSTAIRS LADIES* DRESS TRIMMINGS, &c. The Copartnership heretofore existing between KAUFMAN & LONNERSTADTBR Having boon dissolved by mutual consent, the under signed respectfully informs the patrons and friends of the old firm, and the trade in general, that he has taken all the up-stairs rooms of NO. 103 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, ABOVE ARCH. To continue the manufacturing pf all feinta DRESS. CLOAK, AND MANTILLA TRIMMINGS, FRINGES, BUXTONS, TASSELS, CORD, Of all descriptions, Ac,, Ac,, And will Oder Inducements in price and quality, as well as prompt attendance to orders, in every article apper taining to bis lino. WM ap4-2m] No. 103 North EIGHTH Street, ab. Arch. Eyre & landell, fourth and ABOH Streets, have now in store a fine stock of GOODS FOB FAMILY CUSTOM, Neat Plaid Good Silks. Solid Colored Plain Silks. Solid Colored Figured Silks. Best Quality Black Silks. Double-faced Figured Silks. Grenadines, Worked Figures. SpriDg Stock of Dress Goods. French Chintzes, New Styles. British Chintzes, 12# cents. Neat and Gay Ginghams. Cagsimereg for Youths’ OlotbM. Damask Table Linen and Napkins. Pillow Casings and Bheotings. Full assortment of White Goods. Valenciennes Lace Collars and Setß. Sprir.g Gloves, Embroidered Backs. Shawls of this Spring’s styles. Zon-Zous Walking Jackets. Full L : no of Spring Cloaks. Cloths for the Zou-Zous. Aqua Scutum Waterpreofs. Waterproof Cloaks, mode up. All-wod Shepherds’ Plaids. Shepherds' Plaids, all grades. "VTEW GOODS OPENING DAILY. —Plaid Poniards* black, brown, blue, and lilac. Plain brown Foulards, on? .7 aril wiae. 'Piiineft, white gronnd andbouaneta of Ohliitz; colon. Wool Be Laines, choice shades. Plaid and small figured Wool De Laines, for children. A large assortment of Ginghams, at 12#, 20,‘and 26 cents. A fresh assortment of Cloaking Cloths. Small figure dark brown Mohairs, choice. Shepherd’s Plaids, from 18# to 80 cents. Silk and Wool Poplins in great variety, at JOHN H STOKES’, No. 702 ARCH Street. N. B.—Good black Silks, 87#, $l, and $1.12#. Call and examine our $1.12# black Silks. mh2S Fine medium and low-priced DRESS GOODS From the late Auction sales. Lots of desirable and seasonable DBES3 GOODS, Which we are selling at low prices. Wholesale net Cash-buyers will find cheap Goods in ourstpek, CUIiWKN STQDDART & BROTHER} 460, 482, and 454 North SECOND Street, ap!2- emtu 3t above Willow Fine lace curtains—real BARGAINS. All csleusivi assortment of RICH LACE CURTAINS, of new and beautiful designs, at 20 per cent, below im porters* prices, ranging from $6 up to $22 per pair. ALSO, Nottingham Lace Curtains, Nottingham Lace Dra peries, and Tamboured Hnaliu Draperies, at re duced prices. m SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, A arrison, Curtain Warehouse, ap9 1008 CHESTNUT Street. "VTEW SPRING PKINTS, x.l OBOtOB STYLES. HERBIMACS, SPRAGUE, PACIFIC, ALL TWELVE AND A HALF CENTS. A large lot best styles and fast colors at 10c. COWPERTHWAIT A 0Q„ N. W. cor. EIGHTH and MARKET Sta* rtLOAKS, palatotes and man- TILL AS.—Ladies in want of the above articles will find it 1o their advantage to visit the old established house of Mrs. HENRY, No. 38 Noitb NINTH Street, below ARCH. The latest Paris Styles alwaysen Land at prices that a&touish everybody. ap4-3m 'VfE'W CLOAK STOKE! .X. I The moat elegant assortment in the city. No. 29 South NINTH Street, First door shore Chestnut. Rib3?-?m /’'ILOAKS.—If you want the best value for your mcner, go to the City Cloak Store, 142 North EIGHTH Street, above Cherry. mh26-3m H STEEL ft SON WILL OPEN « this morning from New York a choice lot of RICH STYLES OF SILK GRENADINES. RICH STYLES OF CHENE SILKS. BLACK AND WHITE CHECK SILKS. CHEAP PLAIN AND FIGURED BLACK SILKS, Persons wUhiug to purchase a GOOD SILK at a LOW PRICE, would find it to their advantage to examine our BLACK AND WHITE PLAIDS, 18# TO 44c. FRENCH CHALLIEB, MOZ AMIiIQUK3, POIL DE CHSYBES, and other NEW DRESS GOODS, of every mlMy. BLACK STELLA SHAWLS, with Broche Borders, $2.75 to $lB. Ladies’ Linen Cambric Hdkfs, slightly damaged, 100 doz., 02 and 65c., worth 76. 100 d qt. ,70 acd 75c., worth 87. 100 dos., 87 and $l, Worth $1.25. 100 doz., $ll2 and $1.25, worth $1.50. 100 doz., $1.31 and $1.37, worth $1.75. 100 doz., $1.50 and $1.62, worth $2. Just opened, a small lot of White Plaid French Organ dies, a very scarce and desirable article, suitable for eve ning dresses. ap7 No. ?i3 North TENTH Btreet, above Coates fiLOAKS! VV A MAGNIFICENT ABSOBTMENT OF ALIi THE NEWEST STYLES IMPORTED THIS SEASON, With every new material, made up and trimmed in the very best manner, at prices that defy all competition, at ths PARIS CLOAK STORE, N. E. CONNER EIGHTH AND WALNUT STS. mh2G>3m IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS. gAZLETO, LATHROPrftTiYONai No. 414 MARKET and 409 MERCHANT STREETS, IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN FANCY GOODS, WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, GLOVES, HO SIERY, LACKS, TRIMMINGS, RIBBONS, COMBS, BRUSHES, Ac., Are now opening and receiving a new and choice stock In the above line, to which attention of buyers ia in- mh29-ltn LOOKING GLASSES JAMES 8. EARLE ft BOM, MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS or LOOKING GLASSES. OIL PAINTINGS, FINE ENGRAVINGS, riOTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, OABTE-DE-VISITK PORTRAITS, EARLE’S GALLERIES. 816 CHESTNUT STREET, PaiLAPgLFHIA. _ SEWING MACHINES. & WILSON SEWING MACHINES, 628 CHESTNUT STREET, mhll-3m T7WESB ROLL BUTTER, EGGS, &0., X* received dally at 8. Z. GOTTWALS’, No. BIS SPRING GARDEN atreat. mhU-tf PHILADELPHIA. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1862. %\t JJrtas. Knickerbocker's Jliatory of New York, which fully established Irving's fame, appeared in tho last month of 1800. It was written in little more than a year, but unquestionably had been on bis mind before, for we can track passages in it back to ct Salmagundi,” where Mitchell’s ambitious “Pic ture of New York,** which It buriosqued, Is re peatedly quizzed. Nay, in “The Stranger at Home,” (pp 208-?iD, Duyckinck’s edition of “ Sal magundi. 55 ) are conjectures on tho peopling of America which were extended by Knickerbocker; in the Eame article is an account of tho famou3 Peach War, and (pp. 344-5) a chapter 11 Oi tho Chronicles of the Renowned and Ancient City of Gotham," in which, even as Knickerbocker does, Irving referred to the great unknown author Lin lium Fideiius. In ISIO, Irving wrote a biographical sketch of Thomas Campbell, at the request of his brother, resident in New York. This was prefixed te 8 Philadelphian edition of Campbell’s Poems. Ir ving thought nothing of it, and, indeed, it is slight ns respects fact, but the style is good. The opening is lino. Speaking of the tardy reputation which many an ill-starred son of genius obtains, Irving says: “ Monumonts arc erected to his memory', books are written in his praise, and thousands will devour with avidity the biography of a man, whose life was passed unheeded before their eyes. He ia like seme canonised saint, at whose shrine treasures are lavished, and clouds of incense offered tip, though, while living, the slow hand of charity withheld the pittance that would have soothed his misorios.” This biography, which occupies sixteen octavo pegea, is not reprinted in any edition of Irving’s writings. His nephew might have culled some of its best passages, and introduced them iuto his Life. In 1810 1 Irving became partner in a commercial house in New York and Liverpool, then established by his brothers, Peter and Ebenczor. His share of the profits was to be ono-fifth—to bo increased to an equal third, if ho learned. The arrangement, indeed, was mainly to allow him an income, and give him leisure to devote himself to literature. The War of 1812, interrupting the regular course of trade, operated so badly on the interests of the new firm that Irving had again to turn Ilia thoughts to authorship, and he accepted a proposal to con duct a periodical to which Paulding was to con tribute. His salary was $1,500 a year, and the publication, by Moses Thomas, of Philadelphia, was tho Analeclic Magazine, of which twelve volumes were published. Irving superintended the work, selecting materials from the leading foreign re views, and contributing largely. His own articles were criticisms on now books. lives of distinguished American naval officers, Traits of Indian Character, and Philip of Pokanoket, (afterwards incorporated in the Sketch Books,) and tho biography of Camp bell, revised and extended. His friends Paulding and Yerplanck also contributed. His editorship extended through the years 1813 and 1814, but he did not like the labor, slight os it was. The Ana lectic Magazine, complete sets of which are scarce, was a very good periodical. Its projector and pro prietor, Moses Thomas, of South Fourth street, has long survived its editor and itself. Irving’s sym pathies were wholly with his country during the war, and in ISI4, when he heard of the entry of the British into Washington, and of the acts of uncivi lized hostility which followed, his patriotism was so greatly excited that he went to Governor Tompkins, at New Yerk, with an offer of his services. This was accepted, and ho was appointed Military Seers tury with the rank of Colonel. His military career lasted four months, and the end of the war, imme diately after his occupation was gone, alone pre vented his applying for a commission in the regular -army. At tho end of May, 1815, Iryipg embarked on his second visit thinking that seventeen years would elapse ore-his return. At this time he was 32 years old. On reaching Liverpool, he found the memorable reign of the Hundred Days ended, and Napoleon finally overthrown. He condemned, as most men now condemn, the littleness of the British Cabinet in sending the dethroned Emperor to St. Helena. In London, which he visited, he became acquainted with Thomas Campbell, and thence made a tour through certain rural parts of England, including Kenilworth, Warwick, and Stratford-upon-Avon. Returning to Liverpool, he was compelled, by the illness ef his brother Peter, to attend to the business HEAD NETS, of the firm, studying book-keeping to master its details. His letters from Liverpool to friends at home are full of racy humor, close observation, and affeotionate regard. Occasional visits to Birming ham, where his sister was well married to a mer chant, were among the few relaxations he allowed himself. Now and then he as he said, 11 merely to see sights and visit public places.” Of Miss O’Neil he wrote in the warmest language, as “ the most soul-subbing actress" he ever saw. Mrs. Mardyn, about whom and Byron there had been some idle scandal, he criticised as c: vulgar without humor and hoydenish without real whim and vivacity. ” At first he thought Kean a “ very bad” actor. IVhat would have been his opinion of the son, who has all his father’s mannerisms and ; littleofhisfather’sgenius? He admired Young, and j oompared him with Cooper, of Now York. Every : Row and then, too, in these letters heme, he gives glimpses of other personages. His sketch of Tho- i mas Campbell, correcting, altering, cutting down, i and adding to a work until he had nearly taken I all the spirit out of it, is very true. Early in 1816, i he renewed his acquaint!'.nee, in a visit to London, I with the two painters, Allston and Leslie. That ! year passed heavily over—the heavier because ill health drove his brother Peter back to New York. ■Whatever time he could spare was spent with his Sister in Birmingham. He prepared for a new edi tion of Knickerbocker, for which Leslie and Allston made designs. His mother’s death, this year, re moved one motive for his return to .N ew York. He made an arrangement with Moses Thomas to select and provide him with early copies of good English books for republication in Philadelphia, and began i to think of again using bis own pen. In the sum mer of 1817, he made that rambling- tour of ob servation in London, whioh eventually produced some of the raciest papers in the Sketch-Book. His intimacy with Campbell, at this time, was great, and ho was anxious to have him engaged to deliver, ifi Philadelphia and New York, the popuiar Lec tures on Poetry which he had recently given in London. At this time, too, he got among “ the Lions of the Quarterly Review in Murray’s Den,” and dined at Murray’s table, where he met Disraeli j (the elder,) and heard allthe chit-chat about Byron, t and Scott’s reputed authorship of the Waverley I Novels. Every where, among the London pub- • lishers, Irving found a disinclination to send ad- i vance sheets of any work to America on any other ! terms except cash in hand, however small the sum. I “Rob Roy,” then in.the press, was one of the . works offered on these terms. In August, 1317, Irving paid his first visit to Scotland. Ho has himself related the details, in his best manner, m “Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey,” but his letters home have many little touches equal to the more elaborate points in the printed narrative. With Edinburgh, like every other stranger, he was charmed beyond expression. He met Jeffrey, (whom he had known during the great critic’s visit to New Y T ork,) and Lady Davy, wife of the philosopher, then lyputfd the befit female conversationist of her day. He encoun tered Blackwood, the publisher, and also Con stable, with whom he made an arrangement to send an early copy of “ Rob Roy” to Moses Thomas, for American r< publication, and also secured Other advantages. He made like terms, for Mr. Thomas, with Blackwood. Scott received him, on a letter of introduction from Campbell, aa if they had been friends for years, and Lockhart records that, after this visit, Seottsent his thanks to Campbell “for making me known to Mr. Washington Irving, who iB one of the best and pleasantest acquaintances I have made this runny a day. 55 About this GinO, an attempt] at Washington, to make Irving Secretary of Legation in London was almost successful. Early in 1818] the Irving com mercial house was compelled, by the revulsion after the war, to g# into bankruptcy, IrYing’s solo means of maintenance, during this year, seems to have been $l,OOO a year, from Moses Thomas, of Philadelphia, for supplying him with the best of the now English publications. In June, 1818, tho brothers Irving received their certificates in bank ruptcy, which emancipated them from their diffi culties, but left them without means. Washington Irving went on to London, resolved to support him self by his pen, and taking with him a few un finished sketches • whioh he hoped to work up. Here he suffered the pang of parting with All* ston. Put he received the sympathy of two other American painters, C. R, Leslie and Stuart Newton, whom he now first met. He declined the first clerk ship in the Naval Department at Washington, of fered him by his friend Commodore Decatur—his chief reason being a distaste to undertake any situ ation that, must involve him in suoh a routine Of duties as to prevent his attending to literary pur suits. In March, 1812, he Bent to New York, for publi* ealibt there, the first number of the Sketch Book. The business part of its production Be entrusted to bis friend, Henry Provoort. This, extending to 93 octavo pages —and containing the Prospectus, the author’s account of himself, the Voyage, Roscoe, PHILADELPHIA. ♦The Life and Letters of Washington Irving. Br his nephew, Pierre M. Irving. Volume I; New York: G. .Futnam. Philadelphia' G. W. Childs. TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1862. Lile of Washington Irving* (SECOND NOTICE.) | the Wife, pud Rip Van Winkle—was published, at j 75 cents, simultaneously in New York, Boston. Phi [ ladelphin, »nd Baltimore, and was haflutifully got j up—for the time. Tho work look, at once, and ! successive numbers were even more popular than the ! first. Yerplanck, Richard H. Dana, and even ; William Godwin (tho English author) warmly ou j logizea it. In April and May, Irving sent on tho j second and tho third numbor, but did nnt hear of j tho success of tho first until July, j The Literary Gazette, then a rising power in ! England} republished the early portion of the Sketch Book, and a London publisher was about j separately pirating the whole, when completed. Irving took the numbers already printed to Mur | ray, who declined publishing. lie then sent them ! to Eootf, who suggested that ho should treat with : Constable, and offered him the editorship, with a salary of £5OO per annum, of a new Edinburgh anti-Jacobin weekly,—which was declined, on account of Irving's distaste for politics. Finally, Itvlng published {ho first volume of tho Sketch, Bock by Miller, of London. Author and pub lisher had little idea of business, for Irving de clined sending copies of the book to the various periodicals tor review, “ beipg unwilling to do Wllttt might appear tike a desire to propitiate their favor.” By tho lime Ibis volume appeared, Scott was in London, having come up to receive his baronetcy from George IV. Just as the publication took place, the publisher failed. Scott went to Murray, at once, induced him to undertake the work, which was increased to two volumes, and pay £2OO for the copyright, which sum was liberally doubled on Hie decided success of the Sketch Book. Irving now mingled in the first literary circles of London, and all the leading reviews—Quarterly, Edinburgh, Blackwood, A r c.—most warmly praised the book, in the extra of this smjeep?, he prepared to revisit the Continent, and his lu3t letter in “ The Life Be fore Us,” dated August. 1820, announces him3clf as on the move. He wintered in Paris, where he wrote “Brnccbiiilgo Hall.” But this does not come within the narrative in the volume before us, which closes with his departure from England. THE DRAMA IN WASHINGTON EIIWIN POIUIEST AS LEAP. [From Our Special Correspondent ] Washington’, April 10,1862. I must confess that I never looked upon King Lear with that sympathy which so often attends his fato. IV e can trace in his life those passions and in firmities which naturally led to his fall. Ho comes to us in his old age—tottering, childish, and feehle ■ —an intellect weakened with infirmity, and a self ishness which is more intensely porsonnt than that exhibited by any of Shakspeare’s crootions. Tired with power, weary with the weight of years, and sated with the pomp and joys of royalty, he turns in his declining days to the children whom he had begotten, and seeks to engross in his own being their heart’s affections, their very soul’s existence. Lear is the viotim of a most exhausting passion. It consumes everything around him. His royalty is the embodiment of heaHlsssn? SS and selfish pride. I can think of nothing more heartless and painful than the first aot of the drama—and mere especial ly the scene attending the division of his kingdom. The great love of Cordelia is unrecognized—be cause it does not gratify the selfish pride of the father and minister to his appetite with the oourtly phrases of Regan and Goneril. Sud denly, and with no real provocation, she is disowned end disinherited. And this, too, with no feeling of regret or hesitancy, but in the most implacable and unnatural terms: “ The bar barous Scythian shall to my bosom be as well neighbored, pitied, and relieved, as thou my some time daughter." The banishment of Kent, for presuming to interfere, is equally shameful. It shows that the heart of Lear, untouched by filial love, was even insensible to the services, the life iong devotion .and allegiance of such a true and faithful friend. The air of courts had poisoned the old man’s heart. He lived a life of royalty and pomp and power, absolute in his rule, accustomed to obedience—one who regarded all things as they ministered to his pleasure, and all mankind as the servants of lilo Will —-nuv lovugurzeti no feeling but that ef mere allegiance—looking upon friendship and love as something to be received and not to be returned. ~ The spirit that controlled Lear exercised its na tural influence upon his court and his family. In an effort to make men the slaves of his imperious trill] he alienated the true and became the victim of the false. When honesty could only be prac tised at the danger of banishment or death, fete indeed were honest. Flattery won the old man's heart, and he was flattered. If Lear alone had such daughters as Goneril and Regan, surely few daughters had such a father as Lear. He learned them the lesson of deceit] they learned themselves the lesson of hate. With the sceptre in his hand, he was feared, worshipped, and lauded by thou sand tongues—Deceit dreaded Power. When the sceptre was put away, he was scorned and insulted, and driven out into the pitiless storm —Hate was revenged on Selfishness. It was not alone the in gratitude of his daughters—for he had taught them to be.ungrateful. Was there ever such a court as that surrounding the old British monarch-so much wickedness and license and cowardice and treache ry and. ingratitude—all the meaner vices of our na ture typified, no single virtue triumphant. The court of Claudius., King of Denmark—when [usury and incest sat upon the throne—the oourt of Macbeth, when murder and massacre were the instruments of royal ambition—the court of Richard , with its Buckinghams, its Catesbys, its Ratclijj'es, and its Tymls —have all been the objects of just detest ation. The court of Lear was oven more infamous and demoralized. Look at those surrounding his throne, and living in his royal fa vor. Glaster, who only became human when he inhumanly lost his sight; Cornwall, cruel and re lentless ; Albany, weak, purposeless, and deceitful: Edmund, the murderer, the spy, the traitor, the avowed and accomplished villain—the would-be fratricide, the almost parricide; Burgundy, cold hearted, aaventurous_fortune-hunter; Oswald,,"a. serviceable villain; as duteous to the vices of his mistress as badness would desire;” Goneril and Regan —whose names will live until the end of time as examples of all that is base and loathsome in womankind '■ These persons Lear honored, en nobled, and clothed with his confidence. Edgar, Kent, and Cordelia he drove into the world with threats and persecution, even as the.children and friends he had nourished very soon after drove his own foolish, weak, and frail old form. Lear is a sad lesson, terribly taught. In his fate and the fate of those around hpn, ffc SCO the justice of the avenging God. Sainted Cordelia ’. Yet even thy fate was necessary to complete the tragedy. In all this wretchedness and sin, pure, stainless, and alone, embodying every virtue, possessing that beauty of mind aud heart, which beyond all things bleo is beautiful, she out-dazzles every other name on Shakspeare’s pages as the true and perfect wo man, and is immortal in human love, as Goneril and Regan are Immortal in human hate. “ Why should she die?” many one has said. “Why should she live?” Beyond the love she bore her father, a love which suffered all his pride and scorn, and survived his royalty and power, she had no world. Why ahonld she live ? There waa nothing for which she could lire. Her young ex istence had eo completely twined itself around her father’s gnarled and haary form, that it became a part of its life and gubfltßjjee. When the lightning rent the oak, the twining tendrils which blossomed over its trunk were shrivelled up and blighted for ever. Why should she live ? In her death she becomes dear to us—for wo know that such a spirit could only pass tc a h&ppificaa which earth can never hold. A greater than you or I, in accom plishing her fate, put the finishing touch to his picture, and made it worthy of his genius. Out of such materials as these Shakspeare has constructed bis greatest drama; for I think it will be generally admitted that no work of our great master exhibits more grandeur, beauty, power, and versatility, than “ King Lear.” It is the poetry of passion, the sublimity of poetry. It is not a pleasing drama. With the exception of Cordelia, whom we worship as one in Heaven, and do not think of loving, there is no one of the characters who commands cur sympathy. W« have emotions of terror and disgust and detestation; there is no emotion of pleasure. We close the book and put it away as something to be forgotten. We have the fury of the heavens—the lightning and the rain— as fit companions for the old Icing's despair aud rage. The pride wbieh refused the love of Cor delia, and sent the faithful Kent into banishment, never appeared grander than when it defied the “ cataracts and hurricanoea,” and rented its wrath upon the ungrateful children in the midst of such a storm: “ Since I was man, Such sheets of fire, such bursts of horrid thunder • £nch sroaes of roaring wind and rain, I never Remember to have heard.” Such a pride and suoh a fall could only sink into madness. And who but Shakspeare could have written those mad scenes ? I pass from the play as it is written, and with the remembrance of last evening’s performance before me as I write, ask who but EdwinForresteould act those mad scenes? As Lear, our tragedian exhibits all his intellect, all the results of his rich experience. It is bis greatest performance, and in this character he lives upon the canvas. . l’ou probably have seen the picture. It is now banging upon the wails of Mr. Harrison’s parlor. I remember looking upon it a year or two ago, and it appeared to be a fine work of art. It seemed to realize Hear as I might have fancied him, with his crown of flowers and sword of straw, bab bling to Edgar, and assuming all the pomp and show of royalty. But it was not the Lear I saw last evening. The still and bloodless colors of the canvas could not give to passion such as Lear's the life and reality given to it by Mr. Forrest. 1 raw tho painting of a thunderstorm in your Aca demy of bine Arts once—it may be there now. There was the rain, asd the heavy, rolling clouds, and fragments of timber upon the hillside. Beuutiful—beautiful! I passed from tho building and was strolling up one of your quiet streets, thinking of the painty ftorm and othor pictures as suggestive and artistic. The clear, blue sky suddenly seemed to fiy away from tho dark and angry clouds that carnc up from tho horizon dismal and threatening, as if from the black Plutonian shore. Tho ruin came down in a heavy, whirling thower; there was lightning and thunder; the woyfarers hurrying to and fro in search of shelter. It was a summor thunder-storm as you have seen it on an August afternoon. I thought, no more of tho picture in tho awful progoneo of tho storm; all its beauty was lost in the sublimity and grandeur of the troubled firmament. I mention tin.-’, for the impreesion it gave mo of how utterly feeblo art becomes when it strives to paint the anger of tho heavens—an impression which I oould not but re call last evening as I found myself carried away by the acting of Mr. Forrest. I found my judg ment surrendering without a single condition. I have no sympathy for the old king as I road him jn the books—my poor opinion cm that point hav ing been just recorded,. But the h*w of 5Jr. For’ rest was a Lear to be pitied., lie gave the charac ter such an intense personality, and individualised himself so completely with the woes and misfortunes of the king and father, that I found myself sorrowing where I know thcro was no causo for sorrow, lamenting a fate thnt I felt was deserved, and saying with tho faithful Kent: “ Vex not liis gliost: O, lot him pasa! Ho hates him That would upon the rack of this rousk world Stretch him out longer." It is a feeling like this, which, I fear. I cannot explain, that attends tho spectator in his expe riences of Mr. Forrest. I heard a player, an evening or two since, in speaking of stage matters, express it thus: “ You may talk as you please about Mr. Forrest; but this is it, after all: He tnkes tho house by storm. You may like one actor in one part, and another in another part, and reason and talk about it; but when you see Forrest you suddenly find yourself cheering, and everybody in the bouse doing the same thing.” This is* por hops, the best way of accounting for our tragedian’s success in Lear. You cannot analyze it. You can see no study or labor in the easy and natural mo tions of the actor, if you are at all ambitious, and have a good voice, you think that you can play the part as well. You do not know that in the four hours the actor walks the stage, he concentrates the observation and study of a quarter of a century, that in every word and gesture he is reproducing some trait of life gathered in the bedlams of Eng land, or the hospitals of Egypt. The very simpli city and want of effort surrounding the part of Lear commend it to you. I don’t mean his shout ing scenes, his contentions with the stern*, and his imprecations upon his daughters ; but the conclu ding acts, where he prattles with Edgar as a learned Theban—his royalty of 3traw and flowers— his recovery—bis lamentation over Cordelia's fate, and bis own death. I can think of nothing in all I have seen upon the stage or read in dramatic histo ry more exquisite, artless, natural, and affecting. “ The Lear of Shakspearc. :, says Charles Lamb, “cannot bo acted. They might more easily pro pose to personate the Satan of Milton upon a stage, or one of Michael Angelo’s terrible figures.” I would as soon think of severing a joint from this fore-finger as quarrelling with the gentle Elia, but the Lear of Mr. Forrest ia the Lear of Shaks peare, the beßt] living realization and conception of the poet’s genius; and I think the essayist would have amended his arbitrary opinion had he studied the part as it is played by our tragedian. I see nothing supernatural in Lear. He was a man—a very ordinary man in everything but his passions, and only extraordinarily passionate because in the possession of imperial power. A man of apologies and errors, wayward and foolish—“ a poor old man, as full of grief as age”— (( infirm, weak, and de spised. 77 “To see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, (I am pursuing the quotation from Lamb,) turned out of doors by his daughters on a rainy night, has nothina-init hut •wuar is puionu and 'disgusting. We want to take him into shelter and relieve him. That is all the feeling the acting of Lear ever produced in one.” No such feeling attends the acting of Lear as it is performed by Mr. Forrest. In the scenes of rage we' only see the intensity of passion painted by Sh&ks peare—the whirlwind of anger, despair, hatred, pride, and selfishness passing through his mind, that eventually overwhelms the intellect and crushes reason into madness. There is nothing disgusting, nothing even painful. We are terrified at the exhibition of so much feeling, we are amazed when insanity succeeds. I might particularize some readings in which Mr. Forrest was felicitous and affecting, but I find, as I turn over the leaves of this volume, that they crowd upon me beyond all newspaper compass. So I close the book, and say that in every scons gfld act, especially in the last scenes of the play, his performance was crowded with beauties, culmi nating in a climax most beautiful and affecting, that when the curtain fell, and not until it had falleD, there was loud and long-continued ap plause, even after he had appeared and acknow ledged the compliment. It was not simply a suc cession of beautiful and striking passages, hut a complete and perfect performance, This j; why I am unable to analyze and particularize, and this is why it was such an extraordinary and undeniable success. J. R. Y. LETTER FROM COLUMBIA, TENN. Appearance of the Country Between Nash* ville and Columbia—The Condition of Co* lumbia—lts Neutrality—Gen. Negley—Geu. Buell and the Cincinnati Correspondents. [Correspondence of The Press.] Columbia, Tenn., April 6—9 P. M, I left Nashville at 9 o’clock this morning, ar rived at Rutherford creek a little before 2. and pro ceeded to Columbia by stage ce&dh—a distance of about seven miles. Between Nashville and Columbia the country is lovely indeed. The farm houses and county seats are neat end substantial, and the plantations are large, and in a healthy state of preservation. Proofs of toil were visible on either hand ; it was Sunday, however, and all was quiet. The newly coming grain, throughout the whole distance, form ed vast sheets of green, undisturbed except by oc casional woodlands, villages, and rivulets, which added beauty to the scene. A few words about Columbia. It is the county seat of Maury county, and ona of tlio Bust delight ful places in the Southern States. The surround ing country is luxuriant and beautiful. A muddy stream, called Duck river, encircles a portion of the town. The people are more amiable and cour teous than those of Nashville. I saw more ladies in one hour this afternoon than I saw in the capi tal of the State during four weeks. There are two hotels, several churches, and many fine residences. There are very few Union people, but the Seces sionists parade with closed mouths. There is an absolute absence of patriotic or disloyal demonstra tions, and the stars and stripes, or stars and bars, are nowhere to be seen. Upon my arrival X learned that Gen. Begley, of* Pennsylvania, was in command, and immediately paid my respects to him. His headquarters is a fine tent, in a romantic grove, upon the grounds of the female seminary. I found the General in, and entered into conversation with him. As far as my knowledge extends* he is.the most affable, and at the same time the most soldierly, general in this department. I informed him that I desired t? g 9 South, and, if possible, he will allow me to do so. At any rate, I shall have the pleasure of proceeding as far as his line of command extends. The people in this place are unanimous in the opinion that Gen. Hegley is the most able and gentlemanly officer with whom they have had dealings. In his ab sence bis subordinate officers and guard were only too happy to relate to me their devotion to their wminaiider. The General tendered me the use of a horse and guide, and to-morrow afternoon I shall take occasion to visit Col. Hambright's regiment, which is encamped a mile or two distant. The Cincinnati correspondents, many of whom are in the ranks, and a correspondent of a New York daily, have abused the confidence placed in them to such an extent, that a responsible man, connected with a responsible journal, has barely a chance to offer his claims. I can state, as a fact, that no per son connected with the press has been in possession of more information of the Federal army move ments than myself, and yet I have declined utter ing a word, knowing that, should it not be of a nature sufficient to cause barm, tho publication of it would, nevertheless, be a transgression. I under stand that General Buell is very severe with many army correspondents. If so, he must have had a cause i for the only complaint I have heard of him, outside of that class, is that he is too mild and ac commodating. B. C. T. The French Navy.—The following is the strength ef the iren-Armered navy of France: Class. 9tine. Crews. No. Vessels. Frigate....... 36 670 1 Frigate *36 570 1 Frigate 36 570 1 Fr'gftt?! 31? 570 1 Ship Magenta. 52 600 1 Ship Solferino 52 600 1 Ship Prince Imperial... 52 GOO 1 A corvette.. 14 250 1 T0ta1.... 314 4,330 In addition to this, there are seventy-seven ves sels on the stocks, mounting 724 guns, and requiring a total crew of of 11,220 men. M. ClSbiEit, the distinguished sculptor in France, hes just completed, for the Empress Eu genie, two full-length statues of Arab women. The statues are composed of onyx, oxydized silver enamels, and precious stones. TWO CENTS. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Return or the Merrimac to Norfolk ARREST GFA NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT. BEAU KEGABD'S ACCOUNT OF THE SECOND DAY’S FIGHT. He Claims to Have Taken 3ti tluns and HjOOO PflSbllfls. Fortress Monroe, April 18 Baltimore, April 14.—The Meriimac remained in the same position, near Crnr.cy Island, nil day yesterday un til evening, when, together with the rest of the re bel fleet, the relumed to Norfolk. SUo wnsgcnc rally fupposed to have been aground. None of the rebel fleet have showed themselves te-dny. Severn’ eaplriins of vessels in port testify, in rela tion to the throe vessels captured by the rebel steamer Jamestown., that they were ordored to move either outride of the fortress or inside of Hampton bat*. Ag tbe position of the vessels in question was inEidc of the bar, the blame, if there is any, on account of their capture, should rest upon the harbor master rather than upon the cap tains of the captured vea6els. The United States schooner I fuze goes to Hat terns, this afternoon, with mails and pnssengers. Mr. Quigg, a correspondent of Ihe New York IVorld.. wi.s arrested here, this morning, on the charge ef having prepared matter for publication of a contraband character. Washington, April 14.—A private despatch, dated Fortress Monroe, at ten o’clock lust night, and received here this morning, represents all quiet in that vicinity. Beauregard's Account of the Second Day’s Dauie. Fortress Monroe, April J.'J.—A Norfolk paper has been received here containing a despatch from Boaurogasd, in relation to the second day’s tight at Pittsburg, Tennessee. Ho claims a complete vic tory, and says that after capturing thirty-six of our guns and 8,00(1 prisoners, hbeforecs fell back upon their works at Corinth, which they are fully able to hold. Baltimore, April 14. —1 n reference to Beaure gard's despatch, alluded to in tho letter from Port ress Monroe, your correspondent has made inqui ries of the War Department, and is authorized to Soy that the reports from ritisburg Landing already given to the public, contradict the report in tho Norfolk papers, and all the reports received at tho Department confirm the Statement that the enemy were routed and pursued us fur as the previous orders of General Grant would permit. Tho rebels are now shut up in Corinth. From Gen. Banks’ Army. Woodstock, Va., April 14.—A party of Ashby’s Cavalry, said to number two companies, attacked a body of infantry at the railway bridge, cast of Strasburg. A squadron of Yerß3?Bt «BTftlry was called out. but no cnomy boing seen, they returned. ’■ One hundred rebel cavalry were also seen across the mountain near this place. Edenburc, Va., April 14.—At an old iron fur bkdc, SSVeti miles from the turnpike, where a body of cavalry, infantry, and artillery aro stationed to protect foraging parties, two rebel cavalry and in fantry privates were captured and brought in. The Provost Marshal of Edenburg cams vory near being shot this morning by them. Brigadier General Hatch and his escort of cavalry have just arrived from Washington. A salute has been ordered, js Celebration Of the recent victories, to-day The chaplains ob served the Sabbath appropriately in the different regiments. The Capture of Island No. 10. DETAILS OF THE SURRENDER The Prisoners and Frizes Taken. CONGRATULATORY ORDER OF GEN. HALLECK, FROM GEN. BANKS' DIVISION. Another Haid of Ashhy’s Cavalry. Prom the various accounts of the capture of Island Na. 10 which appear in our Western ex changes, we condense the following details of the great event: A Mysterious Craft, Great interest was felt on Monday afternoon, April 7th, to hear from Gem Pope, and the pro gress of affairs in and about New Madrid. Every one was waiting with anxiety for the next turn in events; and while tho officers and men were on deck, a little before nine, they discovered a strange T?fs?i turning tbe point ami coming up astem of the flagship. No ono could imagine what she was or her purpose, and ail the ship’s glasses could not solve the question. Probably it was a rebel gun boat' that had run the blockade, or, perhaps, the floating battery under tow of a Secession transport. That there was an opportunity for a fight every one believed. The gunners were called; the fifty pound rifled Dahlgrens at the stern were run out, and every preparation made for action. All on board the Benton were on the qtti vive, and orders were given to reserve the fire until the supposed enemy had come within a mile’s distance. In less than a quarter of an hour after the boat had been discovered, she was heard to give four sharp, shrill whistles; and then the prospect of an engagement was materially decreased. It Wits probably a friendly steamer—or it might be a rebel fraud to deceive the Benton. The gunners still held their positions, while the flagship answered the signal, and along the shore and among the woods the echoes responded to the scream of tho escaping steam. The Commodore’s tug was ordered to drop down and determine, if possible, the mission of the stranger, and Lieutenant Bishop stepped into tbe Dauntless, and steamed away into the shadows of the night. Proposition from the Rebels. In less than half an hour the tug returned, with her two young rebel lieutenants, under a flag of truce, with the information that they wished to confer with the Commodore. They were at once escorted to the cabin, and proved to be Lieutenants George S. Martin and E. S, McDowell, empowered to propose the surrender of the’ island on certain oonditlons. The Commodore replied, mildly but firmly, that it was unnecessary to name the conditions, as he could listen to no proposition based upou conditions t that an absolutely unconditional surrender was the sole thing possible. The Surrender of the Island. The young lieutenants seemed in excellent spi rits, and augmented them at the request sf Lieute nant Bishop, after leaving the commodore's pre sence, by imbibing an artificial quantity. They said they were unable to make reply to the oom modore’a demand without consulting with their principal, Captain W, Y. C. Humes, the eommander of the island. They departed, therefore, in compa ny with Captain Phelps, of the Benton , to the De Soto, which had brought them up, and still lay half a mile astern, and returned a little after midnight to give ns the almost unnecessary intelligence that the; had accepted the flag.offioer's terms, and made an unconditional surrender. In regard to the shore batteries, they stated they could say nothing, as they had no command over that part of the fortifi cations, and were ignorant of the officer in charge of the forces there. From the fact of the proposition of surrender coming through two lieutenants, it was believed that tbe greater part of the rebel foroes, with the chief officers, had already made their exodus, a surmise that subsequent circumstances proved en tirely correct, At daylight, a number of white flags wore seen flying from the island, and no one could be discovered along the Kentucky and Ten nessee shore. The gunboats St. Louis and Mound City and one or two of tho transports went down, about seven in the mornjpg, and 500 U after a tug from tne Benton steamed over to the shere batte ries, with Captain Phelps, of the flag ship, and one or two of the other officers. The Enemy’s Fortifications. We found the first fortification a regular hepta gon earthwork fort, mounting three twenty-four pounders and three eight-inch shell guns, all on pivots and strongly entrenobed. Breastworks ran for the distance of half a mile up the river, and for serf ral hundred yards above the timber had been felled, to prevent an attack by land. Four large siege guns were lying on the shore outside of the entrenchments, hut had not been placed in posi tions. Two of the guns had been dismounted in the fort by our shot and four of them spiked. This battery, it Will Id 6 remembered, was tne one our soldiers and sailors spiked on the night of the 2d inst., and which, after that, was rendered use less to the enemy. The second battery was a long and formidable earthwork, mounting four guns, three thirty-two rifled pieces, and one smooth-bore of the same calibre. Another earthwork without guns had been erected to protect the amunition, and some ten or twelve 18 and 24- pounders were lying on the ground. A number of tents aqd fe«tS were in the rear of this fortification, and entirely deserted by every living soul but one sick rebel, who said he bad been forced into the service while at his farm in Tennessee, engaged in pacific pursuits. The enemy, he said, had all left the evening previous, flfid Several companies bad become drunk and quarrelled and fought, and severely wounded one another. Several of them had been shot, but not dangerously, while endeavoring to burn their own hospital boat, the Admiral , lying near the shore, with eigbty*four sick rebels on board. Their dia» bolical purpose would have been put in execution, but for the vigorous hnd determined resistance of the Admiral's officers and crew. The enemy bad taken with them all their arms and horses, but had left behind agrfftt QUftßifty gf common clothing, bedding, blankets, books, letters, and papers, which were picked up by the Nationals and carried away as mementoes The third, fourth, and fifth batteries were strong earthworks like the other two r ntid bad four, three, and six twenty-four nr.d thirty-two pounders, with souio twelve or fif teen lying on the shore, but not mounted. Nearly every one of the guns was spiked, but, no doubt, they can be easily drilled out. The fourth battery guns were turned inland, to prevent an attack from the rear, and were very well mounted. At all the fortifications, large quantities of powder, shot, and shell of every kind, were found, and this loss of ammunition must be very severely felt by the rebels. THE WAR PRESS. Thr War PraisS will be sent to subscribers bp mail (por annum in advance) at $2.09 a,on iiimiiauu *ioo 12.00 Three Curie* ‘ 1 Fire f “ Tea “ “ 1-1 r'" r dull* \viJl fie cliftrgeil at tiie name rate, till!* ' 20 roj'i. ivi I cost 824: 50 oojiies will coßt 850; auj 103 coiitfs Slid. For a Club or Tweuty-fttio or over, we wilt Bead as Extra Copy to the getter-up or the Club. W Postmasters are requested to act as A gouts r« The Wah Ptt£33, t7~ Advertisements Inserted at the usual rates. Sli line ft con ditule a square. Cause of the Surrender. The surrender or t,he island must bo mainly as* erilitfl to the cuceeasful running of the biockndo by the Carondelr/ and Pittshurtf, and the passage of our bargee and transports through the canal to a point below No. it). The execution of the latter work was a great success, sod reflects the highest credit upon Cob J. W. Bintoll nnd his sorbs Of SKil ful engineers. The enemy had heard of tho attempt to effect a passage by moans of the eanut, but declared it ina poetible. end were no Icfs surprised than alarmed when they learned the arduous task had been ac complished. .. - ert when they beheld Pope crossing his troops over tho river, they knew that their cause was lost, as he could march upon their rear and attack and defeat them. Then they sought, to retreat from the main land, and left the handful of men on the island to surrender. They wore defeated |a their effort to escape, and wero couponed, almost in ah entire body, to yield to the gallant geneial. The Prisoners Lnptured by Gen. Pope. Not a moment was lost in pushing on down after the runcuiay rebels, wit# iiUhdbhhtl the batteries below New Madrid. General Paine's division, although they were infantry entirely, irmdo n rapid marsh down the shore, and by three o’clock bad reached the wide slough by which Rcclfoot lake empties into the Mississippi, AIWUt fiiUr llUDdimi prisoners woro taken in the pursuit, two field pieces, nnd numerous small arms, Passing along Up lie neck of the lake, our forces enmo to a rude bridge of timber, wkieli had been hastily thrown over the narrow greek. A few uf the men bad es caped by this rout*. Possession wag taken of jhU.. bridge, and our line extended along name (fifed miles from the river, covering the narrowest por tion of the outlet. The division of General llamil ton having come up in the night, the men were ordered to bivouac, and sleep q)) tjujr arms. Gene* vai Hamilton) commanding, had Ills hoaiifjuiiricra at Tiptonville. General Pope, with the reserve uDder General Stanley, remained at Watson's, where the landing was made. In the morning about daylight it was discovered that large numbers of the enemy had arrived within ibo immediate neighborhood. The column Of General Hamilton was therefore ordered to skirt the there of the lake so as to bring the extreme right of the column some seven miles east of the river, thus forming an unbroken line of troops across the peninsula upon which the rebel# Wfin encamped. General Stanley pad the left moving up ono shore of the river, while General Paine moved up the road from Tiptonville to Hickman. They discovered four or five little boats whioh had been in use crossing during the night an j Not more than from ten to thirty coutd be crossed at a time, nnd it is hardly probable that more than a few hundred could huvo escaped by this route; enough, however, to communicate a great panic to the people Whom they fiiay meet on their way towards Memphis. * The Confederates found themselves 11 collared.'' There was no longer a chanco to escape: to fight was out of the question. For a little while it was supposed that we should have to meet them In con testing ibo passage; bat, about 8 o'clock, a mes senger appeared at the lines near Tiptonville with a flag of truce, bearing a note from the rebel com mander, announcing that the fortifications at Island No. 10 had been surrendered to Commodoro Foote, and that his army wero ready to surrender their arms. This, it subsequently appeared, wag a sub terfuge. lie bad not surrendered the fortifications to Foote, but had abandoned them, hoping to save himself by flight. Finding himself so completely intercepted, he descended to misrepresentation, end General Tope, although ha considered it pro bable, did not discover the fraud until he had learned it from Commodore Foote. The Prisoners. There are in ail twelve regiments, and parte otf regiment?, jn the Capture, Theprinolpal ones ara tbe Third, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Arkansas; the Fortieth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Fifty-first Tennessee; First Alabama Artillery (battalion); one regiment 11 Mississippi Devils,” as they are called; two companies Pelican Guards. Among tfec officers are Colonels Henderson, Montgomery, Cook, Smith, Schaum; Major XI. 11. Davidson, for merly of tbe First Regular Dragoons; Colonel Mac kall, son of the general and aid to his father; Dr. Caldwell, and about sixty captains, and ona hundred and fifty lieutenants. Many of thorn came up and resigned their arms to eur hands quit* williDgly. Visit to the Island On the island there were six battories only, four of which were njottfiisdi and they had, respective ly, six. four, five, and two cannons, twenty-four and thirty-two pounders, three of them rifled. ‘P n the island there were about three hundred prisoners, mostly Tennesseeans, the command of Captain Humes, which had surrendered to Commo dore Foote, They were ail artillerists, nnd their officers generally quite young men. I had several hours' eonversation with the captives, and from them learned the sentimenta they hold m regard to the war. They were nil bitterly opposed to their principal commanders, and said they had had dif tereuv Ivadv-rn «v*r y dn-T UL tn u, nuu coat they had been most unexpectedly deserted by the forces on tbe mainland. They appeared extremely well satisfied with their new position, and were the most oheerful prisoners I remember to have seen. The pri vates were healthful »j)d good-looking men, for the most part, and possessed of more than tho average degree of intelligence to be found among the common people of the South. They were com fortably though poorly clad, and said they had abundanee of food, but had not received a dollar in payment fojr (heir services during the time—• period of some six months—that had expired since their enlistment. The Prizes. Me have thus the De Soto , Admiral , Mars, and Ohio Belle ready for use; the Kerf BtVtii (be Grauijnts, and ihe A*,,/' Orleans , which can bB raised. The balance will probably bo totally lost, with the exception of tbe machinery. The total value of the floating prizes will be not far short o< seven hundred thousand dollars. Everything which may ha called a navigable craft falls a lawful prize to Ihe officers and men of the fleet as prize money in the same manner as in the naval service. The amount to be distributed among the eighteen hundred men is therefore considerable. This may account in some measgr? fpp (jjy reluc tance of the men to fire upon the transports when they appeared within range. The two wharf boats, which are loaded with commissary stores, sugar, flour, coflee, rice, molasses, bacon in immense quantities, falls to the chare of the army, and will, of course, be turned over to the quartermaster's department, with the exception of some little which will inevitably find Us way into the hands of tbe crews of the boats. An immense amount of forage, tents, and ammu nition falls into our hands. The enemy had taken nothing from the island, and only such light artictea of value as they could carry away from the main camp. The value of the whole spoil cannot be far short of three millions and a half, including the guns and steamboats. Gen. Pope took possession of a large and valuable Stock of ordnance stores, included in which WeTO fifteen thousand round shot, and a pile of grape as large as an ordinary hay stack. There are also five small buildings on the island filled with powder, which has recently changed owners. No account baa yet been taken of tho commissary stores whish have fallen into the hands of this column. Some reports state that we have taken sufficient provi sions to serve five thousand men three months. These statements are undoubtedly exaggerated, but the amount is certainly large. Names of Rebel Prisoners. The names of the officers of the artillery corps oa the Island were: Capt. W. Y. C. Humes, commanding. Copt, James A. Fisher, Senior First Lient. Jas. J. McDaniel. Junior Second Lient. Thos. J. Bransford. Second Lieut. Rufus J. Polk (nephew of GeueraL Leonidas Polk). Second Lieut. Dspie} p Phillips. Second Lieut. Thos. B. Cook, Second Lieut Jaß. Labey. Capt. B. IV. Bibo. Senior First Lieut. Walter S. Lipscomb. Junior First Lieut. L. F. Book, Junior Second Lieut, W, 11, Kuperb. Senior First Lieut, Geo. S Martin. Senior Second Lieut. W. C. WinstoD, Junior Second Lieut. E. S. McDowell, c Junior Second Lieut. A. J, Hughes. A Fair of Rebel Editors. Among tbe rebel officers on the island were tw® ex-journalists, serving as lieutenants of artillery companies—James J. McDaniel, formerly editor of the Columbia (Terra ) Herald, and Walter Scott Lipscomb, late of the New Orleans Delta, and at one time proprietor of tho now tU4e&sed Vicksburg (Miss.) Sun. They said they bad gone to the war for the love of adventure, and their attachment to Southern rights; but they had found life in tha army more disagreeable and annoying than tha smio drudgery of journalistic cKistenes. Effect of Our Shells, The effect of our shells was plainly visible on tha shore and the Island. Tbe trees were ofton shat tered, as they are during a violent thundor storm, and everywhere the brahebes and limbs were tom away. The breastworks had been struck frequent ly, and the sand bags tom to pieces, and the guns, in one instance, thrown out of position. Huge boles had been mado in the ground by tbe falling and explosion of the missiles; find yet the SneUiy, m tbe face of all this evidence of destruotiveness, declared they had lost but three or four men* Is the rear of the third battery on tho shore, we found a burial place with some tbirtj new mode graves, end one on tho Island where we counted twentj'-five. From what I bare hoard from vari. ous sources, I believe the enemy must have lost at least one hundred in killed and some four hundred in wounded. Two of tbe thirty-two-pound siege guns on tha island exploded during tbe bombardment, and though they severely stunned several of the men. no one was hurt. The fragments flew all aroumi the rebels, but they escaped almost by miracle, perhaps (o be reserved for a worse fate and a more cruel death. OlcDFashioned Novtan, In one of the trenches of the second fortifica tions, two small English mortars, composed of bell metal, were found on the morning after the sur render. They were capable of throwing a fire* inch shell, And hove the letters G. R. (Geergs tk& Second), with the royal coat- of arms. They were presented to Commodore Foote, and now grace tho quarter-deck of the flag ship. Congratulatory Order of den. Ilalleck- The following general order was read At the head of every command in General Pope’s army, at New Madrid, on the evening of the 10th instant, and created the wildest enthusiasm: Headquarters District Mississippi, New Madridi April Id. [General Order, No, o,] The following despatch from Major General Hal leck, commanding this department, has been re ceived, and, with this order, will be published at the head of every regiment and detachment of this command; St. Louis, April 3. To Major General Pori : I congratulate you and your command on your splendid achievement. It exceeds in boldness and brilliant! ail ether Ope rations of this war. It will be memorable in mili tary history, and admired by future generations. You deserve well of your country. Q. W. Halleck, Major General Cfiamendiag.
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