The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, April 15, 1862, Image 1

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.
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i WHOLESALE ROUSES.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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,
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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.
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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.