THE PRESS. PUBLISHED DAILY (BUNPAYB EXCEPTED,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY, OFFICE ffo. 131 SOUTH FOURTH STREET* THE DAILY PRESS Twelve Ckxts Trr payable to tli® Currier, bailed to subscribers out ef the City at Six Dollars Err Annum. Fora Dollars for Eight Blontus, Three Dollars for Six Months—invariably ia ad vance for the time ordered. THE TUI-WEEKLY PRESS, Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at Three Dol lars Per Anncm, in advance. CLOTIIIHGi fjio THE GENTLEMEN OP PHI- LAPELPIHA AND VICINITY, A CARO. It having been next to an impossibility, hereto fore, to obtain CUSTOMER-MADE CLOTHING, at MODERATE PRICES, and finding that many gentlemen would prefer their Clothing MADE TO ORDER, If they could secure at the same time REALLY FIRST-CLASS STYLES, and at REALLY REASONABLJO PRICES, we have, at the earnest solieitfltian of our patrons, organized, in connection with our extensive Ready-Made Salee-Rooms. a complete CUSTOMER DEPART MENT. in which the prominent features are, Ist. Fine and Medium Materials) wade up in Srst-clase styles: 2d. Unexceptionable Filling Garments; 3d. Prices FAR LOWER TUAN HAS BEEN CUSTOMARY; 4th. A corps of the most celebrated cutters in this country. An extensive assortment of the ahoicest im ported and domestic fabrics from the New York gtglU Philadelphia market*, suitable for Coats, Pauts, and Vests, always on hand. Ik our Ready made Salesrooms can always be found every variety and stylo of well-made fashion able clothing. Spring stock now ready. PRICES MODERATE. ETA visit is solicited. WANAMAKER & BROWN* MERCHANT TAILORS AND CLOTHIERS, “OAK HALL,” s E cor. SIXTH and MARKET Streets. mh2?-tf wholesale houses. 27 AND (H-INQH SKY-BLUE KERSEYS. SUPERFINE INDIGO-BLUE SATINETS, BLACK CADET AND OXFORD Do. PRINTED Do, In variety. SLACK AND EANCY MIXED DOESKINS. ffANCY CASSIMERES AND MELTONS. nr BTOBB, AND FOR SALH BY .JOSEPH LEA. feZO-tr 129 AMP 130 CHESTNUT STBEET MILLINERY GOODS. SPRING. 1862. LOUIS DANNENBAUM. No. 57 North SECOND Street. (Between Market and Arch,) Sa now piep&r&d to offer a large stock of RIBBONS. SILKS, AND MILLINERY GOODS. Merchants and Milliners will find an admirable assort ment of the above Goode, of the newest Btylos, at lets purest and are invited to call and examine. wr “ WELL BOUGHT IS HALF SOLD.” mh2l-lm* 1862. WOOD & CARY. (Successors to Lincoln, Wood, 8t Nichols,) Ko. 725 CHESTNUT STREET, Have uow In Store a complete stock STRAW AND MILLINEKY GOODS, BILK BONNETS, STRAW AN© PALM-LEAP HATS, 40. To which they respectfully invite tho attention of the former patrons of tho bouse and tho trado generally. marl2-2m £ SPRING. M. BERN HEIM, No. 798 CHESTNUT STREET, Hub now la store, and is daily receiving, the lstost Styles in RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS, WREATHS, SILKS, CRAPES. LACES, and other MILLINERY GOODS, which he respectfully invites the attention of the TRADE. PRICES LOW. mh24-2m SPRING. RIBBONS, MILLINERY. STRAW COOPS, brooks. & Co., NO. 431 MARKET STREET, Have bow open—and to which daily additioni are made— their USUAL HANDSOME VARIETY RIBBONS. SONNET MATERIALS, FLOWERS, 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 MARKET PRICES. The attention of the trade la respectfully incited. ■7* Particular attention given to filling orders, mhlfi-fim fJIHOMAS KENNEDY & BRO., T 29 CHESTNUT Street, below Eighth. A Choice Stock of SPRING MILLINERY GOODS, mhl3-3m] AT LOW PRICES. UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS. H. RICHARDSON HAS REMOVED TO 500 MARKET STREET, Southwest corner of Fifth, And offers a beautiful assortment ef UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, TENTB, AND CANES, WHOLESALE AND BETAIL. mh2B-lm HATS AND CAPS. *f o£o SPRING STOCK IQ/?0 iLODiWe COMPLETE. i-OU/W. O. H. GARDEN & Co., Manufacturers of and W holesale Dealer Bin HATS, CAPS, AND FURS; ‘ STRAW GOODS, tAVfiy SILK AND STRAW BONNETS, Artificial Flowers Baches, Eeathera, &o.* »o. 600 and 603 M ARKET Street, 8. W. corner o SIXTH Street 00T A large and complete stock. The best terms and She lowest prices. Cash anjl prompt 11 time buyer i" are particularly invited to examine our stock. mhl-2m WATCHES, JEWELRY, &C. J Afresh assortment,at less THAN FORMER FBICES. FARE A BROTHER, Importer., 324 CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth. ■nh9o.it T ABOBrSAYIN Q MACHINE. ,1 J CLOTHE 8-SAVING MACHINE. TIMB-BAYING MACHINE. Haley, Morse A Boyden’s Clothes Wringer saves labor, t|pi* and clothes, and is »n improvement which will moat be geaenilr atjopieJ. It is (relf-adjanUng, sim- Die, and durable, and is far superior to every other de vice for the purpose intended. Over five hundred have been sold within the hist thirty days in this city. No Family should be without one. They are warranted to wive perfect satisfaction. _ For sale br L. E, SNOW, at the Office of JQY, COE, ft Co, Northeast corner of FIFTH and CHESTNUT streets. Orders from the Country promptly attended to. epl-lm VOL. 5-NO. 217. Q L A R K’S ONE DOLLAR STORE. 602 CHESTNUT STREET. NEW GOODS, NEW STYLES, AND NEW FRIGES. For ONE DOLLAR you can buy any one of the fol lowing articles: Hats of Silver Plated Tea Spoons. a ii ii Desort u «« «* « Table *< “ ii «i a Forks. “ «• a Desert «* pAir •* 11 Knife anil Fort, ii ii ii NAftkin Kings. «i <i <i Butter Knives. Silver Plated Sugar Bowl. “ ‘I Butter Piali. *« «« Molasses Pitcher, a a. ll *« ** Castor. «* “ Waiter, a a Goblet, a “ Drinking Cop. “ i« Sugar Sifter. Gold Plated Vest tihaio, all styles, a *« Guard ** “ a a “ Nock “ “ « “ « Chatelaine* f ‘ » »« Bracelet, « « a ii Medallion, k ‘ “ a a Annlct3, “ “ “ Breast Pin, “ “ a ii Ear Rings, ** a a Pin atul Drops, all styles. || *• Studs and Buttons, “ “ a n Solitary Sloave Button, all styles, a « Bosom Studs, “ “ “ «« Finger Kings, ** “ “ a Pencils, “ a ii Pen with Pencil Case. Ladies’ or Gentlemen’s Port Monnaie, Cabas, Bags, PuracH, Ac., Ac., Ac. All Goods warranted asrepre nfEloil. We have ah hiwil a. Assortment of Photo graph Albums, Mantel Clocks, Travelling Bage, and Gold Jewelry, which we are closing off at coat. The at tention of the trade respectfully solicited. D. W. CLARK’S ONE DOLLAR STORE, 000 CHKSTNUT Street. DRV -GOODS JOBBERS. 1862. sp E 1 s 0 ■ 1862. ABBOTT. JOHNES. & CO., 637 MARKET STREET, Have now open an entirely new and attractive stock in ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND DRESS GOODS. Also, a full assortment in 1862. WHITE GOODS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, SHAWLS, &c., &0., To which they invite the attention of tho trade. mh24-tap3o JgFRING STOCK gILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS. A. W. LITTLE & Co_ Ho. 329 MARKET BT. 1862. speiho. 1862. RIEGEL, BAIRD, & CO., 1862. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS DRY GOODS. NO. 47 SOIIB IUIIB SISIIT. Merchant a visiting this city to purchase Drt Goods will find our Stock larga and admirably assorted, and at Low Fiodbbs. In certain classes of Goods we offer inducements to purchasers unequalled by any other house in Philadelphia. mhlB-2m jq'EW IMPORTATIONS. 1862. HOSIERY. GLOVES. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, THOS; MELLOR & Co.. mhl9-3m 40 and 40 North THIRD Btreet. JAMES, KENT. 1862. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS DRY GOODS. Noe. 339 and 241 N. THIRD STREET, ABOVE BACE, PHILADELPHIA, Have now open their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK FOREIGN'AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, Among which will be found a more than usually attrac tive variety of LADIES’ DRESS GOODS; Also, a full assortment of MERRIMACK AND COCHECO PRINTS, and PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. To whl&L thdy Invite the iptutel attontldh of buyers. mh2l-2m • ' YARNS, BATTS, & CARPET CHAINS. H. FRANOISOUS, WHOLESALE DEALER IN TARNS, 433 MARKET and 5 North FIFTH Street. PHILADELPHIA. Buyers will find a foil Stock of COTTON, LINEN, AND WOOLLEN CAKPET CHAIN, COTTON YARN. TWIST, FILLING, WADDING,'BATTING, COTTON LAPS, lIS YARNS, TWINES, CANDLE WICK, COVERLET TABS, BROOM TWINES, SHOE THREADS, BILLIHS AND SEISE TWINES, BED CORPS, WASH AND PLOUGH LINES, COTTON, HEMP, AND MANILLA CORDAGE. Also, a full aaeortment of FLY NETS, Which he offers at Manufacturers LOWEST NET CASH PRICES. WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. Ah. franciscus. . 433 MARKET and S North FIFTH Street, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DEALER 1M WOODEN AND WILLQW WARE- Always on hand, a fail stock of TUBS, BUCKETS, CHURNS, MEASURES, BROOMS, WHISKS, FANCY BASKETS, WALL, SCRUB, and SWEEPING BRUSHES, LOOKING-GLASSES and WINDOW PAPER, Mats, Keelers, Flour Buckets, Nest Boxes, WASH BOARDS, ROLLING and CLOTHES PINS. FLOOR and TABLE OIL CLOTHS. SCHOOL, MARKET, and DINNER BASKETS. Sleds, Barrows', Carriages, Hobby Horses, #O,, fj<j, All Goods sold at LOWEST NET CASH PRICES. I\yTOJNUMENTS AND GRAVE lu. STONES at very reduced prices at Marble Work* of A. STEINMKTZ, BIDGJC Avenue, below Eleventh Street. mbl3-3mif JEWELRY, &c. AMERICAN PHILADELPHIA. LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS, WHITE GOODS, AND EMBROIDERIES. SANTEE. & CO., RETAIL DRY GOODS. PRAY SILK POPLINS. VjT Beat quality Cray, and Checks, Very glossy and deßiralde. anil BBARPIiKBS BRO 3 PHECKED TOIL DU NORD. . Solid Cliccks, bright colors, For Child* on's dreuses. SHARPLESS BROS, WIDE CHIN” ZES. Bright Styles lor Children. Neat and Bold Styles for dresses. Magenta ligures and Lilacs. SHARPNESS BROS., apl t CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Btreeta. PLOAKS! CLOAKB! CLOAKS! L/ THE GREATEST BARGAINS IN HUE CITE IVENS & CO.’S, No. 23 SOUTH NINTH STREET. THE LARGEST STOCK, THE BEST ASSORTMENT, THE CHOICEST COLORS, THE FINEST QUALITIES, THE MOST SUPERB TRIMMINGS, THE NEWEST STYLES, THE BEST WORK, asi> VECWKDIY THE h 7 WEST MICE#, IN TUB CITY, IVENS No. 23 SOUTH NINTH STREET. ni!i2£-Sm IAO NORTH EIGHTH STREET, J_VCJ SECOND DOOB ABOVE ADCII, UP STAIRS LADIES’ DRESS TRIMMINGS, Ac. Tho Copartnership heretofore existing hetweoa KAUFMAN & I.ONNKBSTADTKB Having i>oeu dissolved by mutual consent, the under signed respectfully informs tho patrons and friends of the old lirm, and tho trade in gonerul, that ho has taken all the up-stairs rcoms of NO. 10S NORTH EIGHTH STREET, ABOVE ABO 11. To continue the manufacturing of all kinds of DRESS, CLOAK, MANTILLA TRIMMINGS, FRINGES. BUTTONS. TASSELS, COED, HEAD NETS, Of all descriptions, &c., &c.» And will oiler inducements in price and Quality, aa well as prompt attendance to orders, In every Article apper- to Ilia lino. WM LONNERSTADTKK, Ap4-2m] No. 103 North EIGHTH Street, ab. Arch. "VTEW GOODS OPENING DAILY. l Plaiil Foulards, black, brown, blue, and lilac. Plain lirowu Foulards, one yard wide. PiqHM, wli'ift ground and bougiuls of Ohlnta colors. Wool Do bftines, choice shades. Plaid and small figured Wool Do Laiues, for children. A largo assortment of Ginghams, at 12#, 20, and 25 cents. A frosb assortment of Cloaking Cloths. Small figure dark brown mohairs, choice. Shepheid’s Plaids, from 18# to 50 cents. Silk and Wool Poplins in great variety, at JOHN H STOKES’, No. 702 ARCH Street. N. B.— Good Muck Silks, 87#, 81* and 81.12#. Call and examine our 51.12# black Silks. mh2B FINiS LAVE UUBTAINS REAL BARGAINS. An extensive assortment of-RICH LACE CERTAINS, of new and beautiful designs, at 20 per cent, below ini* porters' prices, ranging from 86 up to $22 per pair. ALSO. Nottingham Lace Curtains, Nottingham Lace Dra peries, and Tamboured Muslin Draperies, at greatly re duced prices. SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, & ABRI3ON, Curtain Warehouse, &p 9 1008 CHESTNUT Stmt. "VTEW SPRING PRINTS, 1\ CHOICE STYLES. MKRRIMAC3, SPRAGUE, PACIFIC, ALL TWELVE AND A HALF CENTS. A large lot best sryles And fast colors at 10c. COWPEBTHWAIT & CO., mhls.tf N. W. cor. EIGHTH and MARKET Sts. pLOAKS, PALATOTES AND MAN TTLLAS.—LadioB in want of the above articles will find it to their advantage to visit the old established house of Mrs. HENRY, N0.'38 North NINTH Street, below ARCH. The latest Paris Styles always on hand at prices that everybody. ap4-3m "VTEW CLOAK STORE! JLI The most elegant assortment in the city. . No. 29 South NINTH Street, mli26-3m First door above Chestnut. pLOAKS. —If you want the best value for your money, go to the City Cloak Store, 142 North EIGHTH Street, above Cherry. mh26-3m H STEEL & SON WILL OPEN • this morning from Now York a choice !<?s of RICH Styles of silk grenadines. RICH STYLES OF CUE NR SILKS. BLACK AND WHITE CHECK SILKS. CHEAP PLAIN AND FIGURED BLACK SILKS. Persons wishing to purchase a GOOD SILK at a LOW PRICE, would find it to their advantage to examine oup BLACK AND WHITE PLAIDS, 18# TO 44c. FRENCH CHALHES, MOZAMBIQUE, POIL DE CHEVRES, aud other NEW DRESS GOODS, of every variety. place STELLA SHAWLS, with Brocks Borders. $2.70 to $lB. Ladles’ Linen Cambric Hdkfs, slightly damaged, ICO doz., 62 and 65c., worth 75. 100 doz., 70 ard 75c., worth 87. 100 doz., 87 and $l, worth $1.25. 100 doz., $1 12 and $1.25, worth $1.50. 1(H) do/.. 25L.31 and $1.37, worth $1.75. 100 doz,, SLSO and $1.62, worth $2. . Just openod, a small lot of White Plaid French Organ dies, a very scarce aud desirable article, suitable for eve ning dresses. op 7 Ho. 713 North TENTH Street, above Coates. pLOAKS! \J A magnificent assortment , OP ALL THE NEWEST STYLES IMPORTED THIS SEASON, With every new material* made up and trimmed in the very heat maunor, at prices that defy all coinpttitiou, AT THE PARIS CLOAK STORE, N. E. CORNER EIGHTH AND WALNUT STS. mh26-3m . IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS. JJAZLETT, LATHROP, & LYONS, No. 411 MARKET and 409 MERCHANT STREETS, ISIPOBTEBS AND JOBBEBS CW ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN FANCY GOODS. WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, GLOVES, HO SIERY, LACES, TRIMMINGS, RIBBONS, COMBS, BRUSHES, Ac., Are now opening and receiving a now and choice stock in the above line, to which attention of buyers ii in vited. mii29-lm MILITARY GOODS. gKY-BLUE KERSEYS. (27 and 34-INCH.) dark-blue kerseys, DARK-BLUE INFANTRY CLOTHS, INDIGO-BLUE CAP CLOTHS, SKY-BLUE CASSIMERES, (New Regulation, for Officers’ Pants.) WHITE DOMET FLANNELS, CANTON FLANNELS, 10oz., 120 z., A 15ot. TENT PUCK. All warranted United States Army standard. FOB SALE BY ALFRED SLADE & 00., 40 Booth FRONT Street, and 39 LBTITIA Btreet, Philadelphia. feia-tmyl BLINDS AND SHADES. gLINDS AND SHAPES. B. J. WILLIAMS. No. 16 NOETH SIXTH STREET, MANUFACTURER OF VENETIAN BLINDS WINDOW SHADES. The largest and finest assortment in the City at the LOWEST PRICES. . STORE SHADES LETTERED. Repairing promptly attended to. ap3-3m LOOKING-GLASSES. JAMES 5. EARLE & SON, MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS or / LOOKING GLASSES. OIL PAINTINGB, / FINS ENGRAVINGS, PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FJAMES, PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, OABTE-DE-VISITS POBTBAITS, EARLE’S GALLfiRIES. 816 CHESTNUT STREET, Jalt PHILADELPHIA SEWING SEWING 628 CHESTN mhll-3m gmJSHEte blacksmiths/ bellows, KEMBLE & TAN HORN. mh2o.3m No. 321 JIABKST Street, Phllada Fresh roll better, eqgs.&o., received daily at S./Z. GOTTWALB’, No. 813 SPRING QABDIN street/ mhas-tf PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1862. & OO.’S, 'PHILADELPHIA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1862. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. LETTER FROM LONDON End of the Wooden Walls— Muii-clatl War- Ships—The Age of Iron—The Peabody En dowment —Parliamentary Defeat of the Min istry—The Princess Royal—Queen Victoria and the Albert Obelisk—Commissions in Mourning—Victoria and the Russell De spatches—The Orleans Princess—King Leo* pold in Danger The Pope’s Ailments— Palmerston’s Gout—Longevity of the No ltilily—Lord Lyndhurst— Gr?;it 'Exhibition— Thackeray's Editorial Farewell—Tlse April Magazines: Cornhill, Fraser. Blackwood. Bentley- New Monthly, and Temple ihackevny's Jfnr fftpir-Sl* fc e oi-e Lewis- BuhverS 4‘nxtonianu—W. H. Ainsworth— Mrs* \t ood's Newest New Novel—Sala’s New Tale a Failure—Jerrold and llerniiil—West minster Review' Changes Hands—Penny ll hwtrarrd Fumli” Dri-Uno. and “Fun” Prospers* [Correspondence of The Press.] London, March 29, 1802. Wilhin living memory, no event has so com pletely excited wonder and interest in the miml of England as the encounter between the two American mailed vessels, the Merrimac and the Monitor. I have been told, by people who remember both, that not oven the battle of Trafalgar, which cost the life of Nelson, or the news of Bonaparte’s re turn from Elba, or the victory at 'Waterloo, which was scarcely expected, caused more excitement than tho nows that in American waters had been solved the question of the utter superiority of iron-clad to wooden war ships, howover strong the latter. As reported in The 'Times, the exploits of the Merrimac were magnified, and those of the Mo nitor proportionally minified, (I claim copyright of this word, as its inventor). Still, it was admitted that the steam ram is a, decided success, that hence forth OUT old “wooden walls” are worth nothing in warfare, and that we must greatly increase the weight of our naval artillery to have a chance of holding our own at sea. The Morning Herald admits that a revolution in naval warfare is accom plished, and significantly adds: “ Let us hope that this naval battle will infuse a little fresh spirit into the Admiralty, if the completion of the Warrior has exhausted all their strength. If things pro gress as they do n?w, it is tolerably evident we Shall not be the first, but the third naval Powor.” For the Daily Telegraph, the penny rival of 2he Times, I cannot say that I entertain much love—it has been too constant, too bitter, and too unfair in its anti-Am&ridan articles for that. Rut it is a journal extremely well written, and remarka ble for the variety and general accuracy of its news. On Wednesday, it gave a New York letter containing an aswmnt of the combat of the McrrU mac and Monitor— brief, but correct. Next day it came out with another account, over two columns long, from its special correspondent in New York, which ie the most graphic description of a sea-fight I ever read. It is a picture painted in words in stead of colors. On the Information thus supplied was given an editorial—forcible and truthful, showing how, for the first time in the world’s his tory, iron met iron, in what more resembled a con test between pro-Adamite monsters—“ dragons of the prime.” as Mr. Tennyson calls them, gigantic steel-coated Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus than a sea-fight. The dttnihehccment of this article, though a little efflorescent, is worth giving : Good-bye to the wooden walls of Old England! Good-bye to the “ fighting Temeraires” aud “ Saucy Arethusas” of the sea, with their wings Of White CfInVAS, &nd their ribs of island oak! Never again will their dainty prows plough the blue water to fight the battles of Albion. They may carry stores, like humble traders, or rot at their moorings, like hulks, but their fighting days aro over! They, and their fellows, are as MUdh out of date as a Greek trireme or a Roman galley. It is the age of iron! We musk hang a coat-of mail upon our wooden men-of-war, and build our new ones of the solid metal. Down the stately tapering masts, and away iZLXfc'igo' ill graceful curves and lines of beauty! Bluff and ugly bows, topsides tumbling home like the roof of Gaffer Giles' big barn, aid the spars of a bark on the hull of a line-of-battle ship; this is the new order of ths day. Forests aro nothing now, and mines are everything; we mu9t dig our new navies out of the bowels of the earth in place of felling them from the green woodlands. There is an end for good and all to the poetry of a sea fight! In those to come the air must be foul with a hundred funnels, and the water be loaded with a hundred thousand tons of metal. Enormous bolts of iron will hurtle upon enormous iron plates from iron guns of awful dimensions. The ships themselves will not be ships, but metal monsters, horrible beaked sea-unicorns, or turtles floating up with death and destruction under their impenetra ble shells. And all because of the fight which was fought in America, at Norfolk waters, on the 9th of March of the present year of grace! Our readers will find the story in the graphic letter of our spe cial correspondent which we print to-day; and they may-make their minds up that since King Edward’s cannon opened the eyes of the Frenchmen at dressy, there has been nothing more revolutionary in the annals of warfare. The peroration ia brief and pointed; “We must learn all about thi3 great encounter, and give up, though with a sigh, the thought of ships loss costly or complete than the i! Terrimac and her antagonist. It is fortunate we have already, the beginning of our iron navy; we must forge and rivet the rest, at all convenient speed, for we cannot surrender the empire of the sea, and the little Monitor admo nishes us that it must belong, for the future, to the best ironmasters.” Scarcely less striking, though in a very different way, is the impression made by the princely gene rosity of Mr. George Peabody, the American banker here. The correspondence, detailing how ho had presented Jtl&O,000 te the Peer of London, appeared in The Times on Wednesday, and was eagerly read by thousands and tens of thousands ore noon. Lord Shaftesbury and the Exeter-Hall clique of exclu sive Christians alone object to it, on account of the only condition attached to the gift—-that, “ now and for all time there shall be a rigid exclusion from the management of this fund of aDy influences calculated to impart to it a oharacter either secta- % rian as regards religion, or exclusion in relation to loeal or party polities. 1 ’ The Exeter-Hall folks are ■’ unco’ pious,” and nothing, except when they can be sectarian. It is unknown, of coarse, how the Pea body gift is to be appropriated; but there is a strong feeling that it will be most advantageously employed in providing good, healthy, and cheap homes for the poor of London. The Government, nearly beaten on what is called the Educational “Revised Code,” anticipated a defeat in the House of Commons, on account of an opposition to it led l y Mr. Vfalpole, Home Secre tary under Lord Derby, and announced, last night, just when the debate was about being renewed, that they were willing to make such modifications in their plan as would meet the views of its oppo nents. The Opposition have begged for some days to consider the concessions, and Monday is fixed for their decision. That the Government would have been largely outvoted, if it persisted in the Revised Code, is admitted by compromise it has made. The Princess Royal has returned to Prussia, where, rumor says, Bhe is not quite as happy as she ought to be. Queen Victoria is apparently getting out of the depths of her grief, tor she rides and drives out every day, transacts business with hor Ministers, and so on. She continues peremptory in her opinion, which is a command under the circum stances, that an immense granite obelisk in Hyde Park, on the site of the Crystal Palace of 1851, is to be the Memorial to Prince Albert. In the Island of Mull, belonging to the Duke of Argyle, is an entire block of stone which may be cut twelve feet at the base and eight at the top, and the weight would be 1,000 tens. The expense of polishing, of removing, and of erecting this mono lith would be immense. The Times says “per haps, from first to last, nearly half as much as the cost of an iren-plated frigate.” The general im pression, as far as can be judged, is decidedly against an Egyptian monument to an English prince. The statute introduced into the House ef Com mons, a few weeks ago, authorizing the issue of military and some other commissions without the Queen’s signature, seems to have been quietly withdrawn. Her Majesty has commenced signing some, out of the thousands of public documents that want her holograph to complete them. There la a current anecdote that the firet batch of army commissions sent by Sir George Lewis for her signature was indignantly returned to the War Office, with a sharp message from her Majesty that She would not sign any document unless it were blackened on tbe edges and margin, in token of public mourning It is said that Palmerston has some difficulty in persuading the Queen that it would occupy a hundred clerks during several months to fill up anew a freak lot of commissions so decorated with “ The trappings and the signs of woe.” It is generally stated and believed that Vic toria, with her own pen, altered the despatch which Lord Bussell sent to Lord Lyons, last De cember, demanding tbe restoration of Messrs. Ma son and Slidell by the United States. r She thought that the language was too imperative, and mate rially softened it. It is also believed that the ac cession of the Orleans Princes to the Federal army was made with Victoria’s full concurrence. The Orleans family, with whom she is connected by the marriage of her uncle Leopold to Louis Philippe’s eldest daughter, are understood to take no important step without consulting Queen Vic toria. Leopold, of Belgium, besides the aliment of be ing seventy-two years old, is laid up now with a painful, and perhaps fatal complaint. He has been cut for the stone, and cannot be said to have yet recovered from the operation. There are renewed accounts of the increasing in firmity of the Pope. He is feeble, but it is de clared that his bodily health is not worse than that of most men of seve&ty who h&ve led A§Mtid lives. Ills death, no doubt, will materially alter Napo leon’s relations with Italy. The new Pope, who ever he may be, would probably have to get on as best he eould, without tho protection of & French army in Rome. Lord Palmerston has latterly become a martyr to the gout, if it be true that, so soon after his re cent attack, he has it again—this time in the hand. Demosthenes had a quinsy, when he did not want to speak, and Pam. may be conveniently ill, during Mr. Gladstone’s speech introducing tho Budget, next week. It Is certain that, two days after the Globe sorrowfulJy recorded bis illness, there was, at his house, one of the pretty little Cabinet dinners which he is famous for, and tbq sv4j despite the gout, was in tho oiiuir* as usual. Palmerston’s gout, however, is a casual, whereas Derby’s is a constant visitor. There is nearly six teen years between the rivals, 1754 against 1799, but to all appearance, Palmerston, aged 78, is ps strong os Derby, aged Oil, It has often been noticed that tho members of the British peerage have wonderful longevity. The fact is, they have rural life during six months in tho year, abundant wealth, and little to trouble them. Wo have just had an account of the death of Lord Torphichcn, a Scotch peer, in his 93d year. He was ,born in 1770, just when Lord George Germaine and Sir Philip Francis were astonishing Iho world with the Letters of Junius, aud he did not succeed .to the title until 1815. What events did this old man witness!—the American Revolution, the Par tition of Poland, the downfall ef the French Monarchy, the Republic, the Empire, the Resto ration and Second Empire, the expulsion of the Bourbons, the rise and fall of Lonis Philippe, the accession of Napoleon 111, the Crimean and Italian Wars, and, filially, the American Civil War. The death of Lord Torphichen leaves Lord Lyndhurst the oldest man in the British peerage. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1772. he will complete his ninetieth year on tho 21st of next May. He was only two years old when his father, the painter, brought him to England from America. At this moment, when he pleases to make the effort, there is no more effective orator in the House of Lords, though he is so feeble, bodily, as to be unable to deliver a speech on his legs. The great Exhibition, the roof of which lcak3so much that manufacturers refuse to send in their finer wares until it is made water-proof, will be opened on tho first o£ May by a Royal Commission, but will then be far from complete. Napoleon and his wife will probably attend the opening. In my last letter, I stated that Mi. Thackeray was about resigning the editorship of the Comhill Magazine, with its cares and salary. In the April number, which was published to-day. Thackeray makes his how. Ills plea is that he wants relief from the , troubles of editorship, whereby his days were made miserable and his nights sleepless. Something more than this can account for a man’s abandoning Four Thousand Pounds a yoar—almost ss much as cur Palmerston or your Lincoln is paid for governing an empire. Thackeray says “ though editor no more, I hope long to remain a contributor to my friend’s magazine. I believe my own special readers will agree that my books will not suffer when their author is released from the daily task, of reading, accepting, refusing, losiDg, and finding the works of other people. To say ‘ No’ has often cost me a morning’s peace and a day’s work. I tremble rzcmli metiii Oh* those hours of madness, gpent in searching for Louisa’s lost lines to her dead piping bullfinch, or Nhoj Senoj’s mislaid essay! I tell them for the last time, that the (late) editor will not be responsible for rejected communications, and herewith send off the chair and the great Comhill Magazine, tin-box with its load of care. While the present tale of 1 Philip’ is passing through the press, I am preparing another, on which I have worked at interval? for many years past, and which I hope to introduce in the ensuing year; and I have stipulated for the liberty of continuing the little essays which have amused the public and the wri ter, and which I propose to contribute, from time to time, to the pages of the Comhill Magazine .” All this is very well, but if any magazine- editor gave himself a minimum of trouble, it was Thackeray, pßer the fir§t three seathe. There Is do announce ment of his successor, and, indeed, there are strong doubts o f his oivn resignation. We must wait, and may Eee. The April magazines, which I have just glanced orei*] are of various merit; There are two new chapters of the “Adventures of Philip,’’and, in a Roundabout Paper, the commencement of “The Notch on the Axe,” another story by Thackeray. In the other articles, the useful predominates—The Brain and its use. Firedamp and its Victims, and Inner Life of an Hospital, surely are articles better suited for & medical periodical than a literary ma gnzine. Fraser is heavy. and Sir George Lewis* a Cabi* net Minister, contributes to it a ponderous chapter upon the Roman Book Trade under the Empire. Sir George, who is a poor Secretary of War, would hare made an excellent country schoolmaster. He edited the Edinburgh Review for a time, and nearly swamped it, by his surpassing dullness. The author of “ Guy Livingstone/' that muscular ro mance, has a novel called "Barren Honor," run ning through Fraiey, and very good It is. Blackwood's J\lagasi.ne has a few striking papers, including afurther portion of “Caxtoniana, ” in whioh Bulwer treats of Shyness (of which he really can have no persona! knowledge,} and runs Into trans cendental metaphysics in a dissertation “On Intel lectual Conduct as distinct from Moral—The ‘ Su perior Man.’" There is a long article on Charles Lever, a continuation of the Chronicles ef Carling ford, and a tremendous puff of Spence’s « Ameri can Union.” Spence, by the way, is said to have been commissioned to Hew York, as ordinary Ame rican correspondent of The Times. Dr. Russell is recalled. His “ special" correspondence from the United States has neither added to his own oredit or that of The Times. Ainsworth, the novelist, whose own magazine perished one day, years ago, edits Bentley's Mis cellany and Colburn's If etc Monthly Magazine, both of which he owns. In the former he leads off with a new story of his own, “ The Lord Mayor of London; or, City Life in the Last Century,” of winch seventeen chapters have appeared. In the latter, which abounds in fiction, the attraction is a tale, now nearly complete, by Mrs, Ifenry Wood, called “The Shadow of Ashlydyat.” A clever story it is. Just now, Mrs. Wood Is extremely po pular, and the libraries are literally besieged for the dozen or so of novels that she wrote before “East Lynne” suddenly made her famous. In the April number of Temple Bar, Mr. Sala’ new story, “ The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous,” hangs fire dreadfully, and reads very like— a failure. There was life, there was cha racter, there was action, mixed up with many ab surdities, in “The Seven Sons of Mammon,” but Captain Dangerous, intended to be strikingly out ef the way, is merely a dull extravaganza. To com poEsate, there are continuations of two racy stories, “Aurora Floyd” and “Lady Letitia’s LiUiput Hand,” and, among the miscellanies, a genial pa per upon Winthrop Mackworth Praed, who wrote' verses of society (as the French coll them), better than any other man of his time, Heraud has << A New View of Shakspc are’s Sonnets.” This Mr. Heraud is he who, once upon a time, wrote an epio, which none of his friends could read. Meeting Douglas Jerrold, he made the usual inquiry, “ Have you seen my Descent into Hell ?” Jerrold shriek ed out, “No. I wish that I had!” which was surely more cutting than civil. But Jerrold abounded in such amenities. New numbers of the Edinburgh, Quarterly. and Westminster He minis will be published next week. The Westminster has passed into the hands of Mr. Trubner, the foreign bookseller, who pro mises to improve it. That cob easily be done, for it has been “bitter bad” of late, and its abnegation of religious faith has caused Us ejection from nume rous book-societies and libraries in town and country. There sprung up here, last year, on the repeal of the tax on paper—the last ef eur infamous taxes upon knowledge—a variety of cheap illustrated newspapers. Of some eight or ten, two survive and flourish. These are the Penny Illustrated paper and tho Illustrated Weekly Hews, They respectively give from ten to twelve good engra vings in each number —landscapes, buildings, events, portraits, story-pictures, and so on—with the news, polities, and general literature of a regu lar newspaper. All this for a penny—equivalent to two cents with you—is a great deal. What is more, these papers pay. Blanchard Jerrold edits the first-named, and David Lester Richardson, who was awfully out up in Blackwood as “a Diamond Poet,” a quarter of a century ago, aud has since been Principal of a college in Calcutta, conducts the other. Millais, the pre-Raphaelite, is now regularly en gaged to illustrate “Onae.a-Week,” together with John Tenniel, Charles ICeene, and the new Punch man, George du Maurier. This reminds me that the sale of Punch has sensibly declined of late. The re-issue of its semi-annual volumes, with a prefatory index or bey to the sagraviags and inci dents, has been a complete failure. Fun, its new rival, now seven months old, is making great headway. [Jjp The Richmond Enquirer SayS that the military authorities of the South have plighted their faith for the establishing of the independence of their Confederacy. That’s a very bad plight ef theirs. THE GREAT BATTLE OF PITTSBURG. TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED REBEL PRISONERS TAKEN. ALL THE UNION BATTERIES RECOVERED, A FLAG OF TRUCK l ROiU BEAUREGARD Bridges on the Motile and Ohio Railroad Destroyed. REBEL COMMUNICATION WITH ALABAMA CUT OFF. GENERAL GRANT’S OFFICIAL REPORT. GEN. HALLECK IN COMMAND. OUR LOSS FIFTEEN HUNDRED KILLED AND THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED WOUNDED. THE LOSS IN ARTILLERY PROXIMITY of the t\Vo forces PROSPECTS Of another fight. Cincinnati, April 15. —The Commercial ban In formation from a rcliabU man who left the bafctla ground on Thursday evening. He estimates our loss in killed at 1,200 to 1.500. wounded 3.500 to 4,000, and missing 2.500. Tbe rebels lost more killed than wo did, but not so many wounded. About 1,000 unwoundod rebel prisoners were taken, and about 1,200 wounded. Up to the time he left, 2.200 rebels had been bu ried. Our troops retook, on Monday, all the batteries lost on Sunday, aud captured twelve pieces from tbe enemy. So confident were tbe rebels in their ability to hold our camps, which they took on Suuduy, that, with a single exception, they did not destroy them. On Tuesday, Beauregard sent a flag of truce, re questing permission to bury his dead, and saying “ owing to the heavy reinforcements yop received on Sunday night and Monday, and ihe fatigue of my men, I deemed it prudent to retire, and not re new the battle. 5 ’ The permission was not granted. Tho bearer of the flag of truce admitted that Beauregard received a slight wound in the left arm. Au Important Expedition, Pittsburg Landing, April 14.—A force of 4,000 troops, in five transports, left the Landing on Sa turday night, accompanied by the gunboats Tyler and Lexington , and proceeded up the Tennessee river to a point near Eastport, Mississippi, where they landed, and proceeded inland to Bear Creek Bridge. Here they destroyed the two bridges on the Mo bile and Ohio Railroad, one measuring one hundred and twenty-one, and the other two hundred and ten feet in length. A rebel cavalry force of one hundred and fifty men was found there, who, after having four killed, skedaddled in the} most approved Southern style. The expedition returned on Sunday night, without h&ving lost a man. This was one of the most successful of its kind during the war, completely cutting off the commu nication of the main rebel army, at Corinth, with Alabama and the rest of the Confederacy, except New Orleans. A flag of truce arrived at the outposts yesterday, with the son of Governor Johnson, of Kentucky, asking for his father. The Pittsburg Battle. St. Louis, April 15. —Several. gentlemen, con nected with the army at Pittsburg, arrived here yesterday. Among them is Captain Lagow, of Ge neral Grant's staff, who is the bearer of General Grant’s official report of the battle.at Pittsburg. They left the army on Friday night. General Halleck arrived at Pittsburg on Friday, and assumed command of the army. Gen. Grant, in his official report, estimates our loss at 1,500 billed and 3,500 wounded. The loss of the enemy in killed and left on the field is greater than ours. An estimate of their wounded cannot be made! as many must have been sent to Corinth and other places. The loss of artillery was great—many pieces being disabled by tho enemy’s shot, some losing all their horses and many of their men. N&t less than two hundred horses were killed, Tho rebel army has its headquarters at the foot of Pea Ridge, extending two miles from Corinth. The advance of the United States troops is eight miles from Pittsburg, leaving only a space of two miles between tbe opposing armies. A battle may be brought on any moment. We have the strongest assuranoo that our armyis ready for the encounter. LETTER FROM CAIRO. General Halleck’s Departure for the Tennes see River— A BustlingSphup—Finn Propitia tion to tlic General's Body Guard—A Brief and Soldierly Speech—General Halleck's Staff* [Correspondence of Tho Press,] CAiro, April 1.0, ISO 2. Yesterday afternoon General Halleck and suite embarked on board the steamer Continental for the Tennessee river. All day long the jeres had been the scene of the greatest bustle and confu sion. Soldiers, mules, wagons, negroes, baggage, horses, and equipments, seemed to have dropped down promiscuously on to every available portion of the boat. It seemed impossible that trier should ever be brought out of such chaos. The entrance of the General on board the boat did not appear to cause any suspension of the general bustle. A heir ef Bheut 190 infantry filed in open ranks aoross the levee, and a carriage drove up to the end of the passage way thus opened. -General Halleck and two of his aids, with their arms full of luggage and various traps, walked quietly down behind the Stevedores, who had not ceased their occupation, and entered the boat without twenty men being aware of the distinguished presence. The ladies of Mrs. Übsdell Pierson & Co. ’s establishment had made a beautiful silken flag, to present to General Halleck’s body guard; but the goneral, having had too much other business on hand to give any atten tion to the body-guard question, some other arrange ment had to be substituted. The company of Capt. John Foster, an inde pendent cavalry company from Ohio, which has been in service and in the field ever since the first of June last, and was signalized for gallantry at the Silver Creek fight, was therefore detailed as an escort, and to them, as Gen. Halleck’s escort, the flag was presented. A short and appropriate speech was made by Mr. Leighton, of Keokuk, in which he alluded to the fact that there were thirty-four stars on the flag, and said that the donors deemed it a fit emblem of our Union to present to the keeping pf its jugrt esgaejeus and able defenders. General Halleck responded briefly, as follows: “ I thank the donors for the flag, and I thank, more especially, the ladies by whoso fair hands it was made. I hand it over to the care of Captain Foster, feeling perfect confidence that be will con tribute as much as any ono to maintaining that Union of which it is the sacred emblem; and when that shall have been done, he will bring it back to you in St. Louis, and announce to your citizens that every star on its silken folds represents a sister Stoto of A reclaimed Union.” Captain Foster responded briefly and with feeling, that he was a man of few words, but everything that the General had said he would do—he should consider as an order, and do it. Great cheering and enthusiasm followed these brief aud pithy speeches, and the little crowd quietly dispersed. Thus unos tentatiously passed off this very pleasant oeremony, which was as agreeable as unexpected to those con cerned. ' The following is the portion of General Hallaek’s stall now on board the boat. Some remain behind, and will follow next week : Major General H. W. Halleck. Brigadier General G. W. Cullom, chief of staff and engineers. Captain N. H. McLean, assistant adjutant gene ral. Brigadier General A. J. Smith, Chief of Cavalry. Colonel Pi. D, Cutts, Chief of Topographical En gineers. Colonel F. D. Callender, Chief of Ordnance. Colonel J. V. D. Du Bois, Chief of Artillery. Colonel J. C. MoKibben, Ald-de campanfl 7il(lge Advocate. Major J. J. Key, Aid-de-camp. Captain IV. IV. Smith, Aid de-camp. Assistant Surgeon P. V. Schenok. Lieutenant C. D. Throckmorton, aid-de-camp. Lieutenant J. T. Price, aid-de-camp. Captain John Foster, commanding escort. Mr. L. C. "Weir, Military Telegraph. To those who have never seen General Halleck, it may be interesting to know that the steel en graving of him is a very correct likeness. I sup pose there is but one, as I never have seen or heard of more. It gives, however, the idea of a large man, while ho is below the medium height, straight, active, and well-formed, and has a brisk, energetic gait, significant of his firm and decisive obaraoter. His nose is delicate, and well formed, his forehead ample, his mouth by no moans devoid of humor, and his eye the most remarkable I ever saw in any man, except Profes sor Agassiz. It is oi a hazel color, clear as the morning star, and of a most intense brilliancy. IV hen he looks at a man it seems as though he were going literally to read him through ana through. No amount of oily duplicity, no brazen effrontery, no studied concealment, could avail anything be fore that keen, penetrating glance. It is an eye to make all rogue 3 tremble, and even honest men look about them to be sure they have not been up to some mischief. The profound and implicit con fidence of all who have had dealings with him, is no mystery after seeing what manner of man he is. Cisco, TWO CENTS. LATE SOUTHERN NEWS. REBEL ACCOUNTS OF UNION VICTORIES, THE BATTLES OF WINCHESTER AND PEA RIDGE. The Richmond TfVtf&of the 9th inat. comes to ub with accounts of the Winchester and Pea Bidge battles, in neither of which are the rebels, by their own testimony, defeated. In reference to the former engagement, styled by the rebels the battle of Kernstown, the editor of the Whig Buys: “ The subjoined account of Gen. brilliant en counter with the enemy In the lower valley of Virginia should have reached us 3§v6fal days ago. It is from a distinguished and thoroughly reliable source, and we gitro it insertion, notwithstanding much of the information it impart? has been anti oipaled." To the Kditor of the Whig : I send you such particulars as X have been able to gather of the bloody L battle near Winchester. It is to get accurate of the de tails of the conflict, fiSthofe engaged can only speak of what occurred in the range of their observation, and they were kept too busy to look much around them. J?rom all accountsit was the most desperate oontest of the war. Many who participated in both engagements think that Manassas was child's play compared with Winchester; and from the fact that the loss on our gido was twenty per cent, of the whole number engaged, and that of the enemy atill greater, I am inofined to think their opinion is well founded. DISPARITY OS'Til K FORCES—THE REBELS RETIRE IN GOOD ORDER General Jackson's official report will give the Oftly reliable agcbuntdf the battle as a whole; hut we have gathered some facts from those engaged, and civilians who left Winchester since the fight, which will shed some light on the subject. X learn from a reliable source that the 1 number of infantry engnged onoursidewas&SflO: Id addition to these wero the Rockingham and Augusta Batteries, and probably some others, making an aggregate force of about 2,500. The force of tne enemy was about 12.000. For many hoars our little band of heroes main, tained their stand nguinst the overwhelming hosts ot the enemy, and finally withdrew in good order, when increasing numbers of the foe threatened to surround them. “ OLD STONEWALL JACKSON.” The first rumor was that Jackson had' been caught in a trap, and dreadfully worsted. But this is altogether a mistake. Jackscn was duly apprised of the movements of the enemy, and acted with his eyeß wide open in the whole affair. E i3 object was to give the enemy a foi‘fetaste of vrKat they bad to expect in the valley, and if they were’ satisfied with the result. I am sure “Old Stone-- wall” is. THE RE DEL LOSS. I learn through a gentleman who left Winches* ter on Tuesday that Mr. Philip Williams and other gentlemen applied to the Federal commander fur permission to bury our dead. This was granted, and the pious duty was performed in a suitable manner. The number of our dead was 8:5, which has been increased by subsequent deaths to about 90. Our whole loss in killed, wounded, and pri soners, was about 465. Of these about 200 were wounded. Most of the wounded have been brought to Staunton, where they are comfortably quartered and are cared for in the hospital, which has been established in the spacious and commodious build ings of the Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. lam happy to say that much the larger proportion of the wounded are slight, involving no permanent disability. The wounded are cheerful and anxious to be sufficiently restored to tlieir re spective commands. OUR LOSS, WITH EMBELLISHMENTS Reliable advices from Winchester represent the loss of the enemy in killed at near 1,500, and the Wounded at a much larger figure. It Is §ald that about S6O dead bodies were brought to Winchester for transportation northward. These, as we sup pose, were the elite , whose friends were able to incur the cost of removal. The mass, of course, were buried in the neighborhood of the battle-field. Upon inquiring as td the cause of the disparity of the casualties in the two armies, I learn from some of our men that the enemy were so thick that it was impossible for our men to miss. Every shot took effect; if missing the column at which it was aimed, it was sure hit in the rear. AN ANNIHILATING VOLLEY The most deadly strife occurred near the boun dary of two fields which were separated by a stone wall. One of our regiments were in one field an! six Yankee regiments in the other. At first they fired Across the wall, but after a while each party advanced in a run, to get the benefit of the shelter of the wall; our men reached it first, and the Yan kees were then about forty yards distant. Our men immediately dropped *n their knees, and, taking deliberate aim, fired deadly volleys into the advancing lines of the enemy. The effect was ter rific, and it is said that an Ohio and a Pennsylvania regiment, which were in advance, were almost an fiihilflted, It 13 said that after this firo not more than- twenty men of one of these regiments were lejt standing. SIGNAL COURAGE —“ COVERED HIMSELF WITH GLORY.” I learn that the regiments engaged in this terri ble Contest, were Burke’s and Fulkerson's, which greatly distinguished themselves. Colonel Echols it said to have acted with signal courage, coolness, and ability, and lam happy to add that Colonel Allen had an opportunity of putting the stamp of falsehood on the slander that were circulated against him at Manassas. My informant remarked, “he had covered himself all over with glory.” In referring to these gentlemen, I do not wish to be regarded as, by imputation, disparaging others. Every man did his duty nobly, and I leapg that General Jackson expressed the opiDion that they were a band of heroes. The Fifth Virginia Regi ment was held inreserve, and did not participate ac-' tively in the earlier part of tho fight, but was called to perform the perilous task of covering the retreat. This duty it poriorineil nitbly, losing many of its gallant members, but dealing death and destruction upon tho enemy, who were kept at bay. ONLY TWO GUNS LOST We lost two guns in the batyg—pae from the Rockbridge aud one from the Augusta Battery. The Rockbridge gun was struck by a cannon ball and disabled. The loss of the other was caused by the killing of one of the horses, which frightened the others, and caused them to turn suddenly and capsize the carriage, The enemy were closo upon us, and left no time to replace it. Our men, how ever, cut out and secured all the horses but one, and he was out out by the enemy, and escaped from them and came galloping to our camp. It would seem as if even the horses were infected with the spirit of rebellion and hatred to the Yankees. ALL VIRGINIANS ENGAGED—-NINE UNION COLONELS All the troops engaged in the batrio near Win chester were, J believe, from Virginia, except a company or two from Maryland. I do not know all the regiments engaged. They wore nine in number, but reduced to skeletons by furloughs. Among them were Allen’s, Harman’s, Fulkerson's, Patton’s, Echols’, Cummin’s. Burke’s, and Pres ton’s (now Moore’s). Allen’s, Fulkerson’s, Burke'S, and Echols’, I believe suffered most. Col. Echols’ left arm was broken by a rifle or musket-ball, about four inches below tho shoulder. He was quite comfortable when I visited him, and I hope will save his arm. The report here is that the enemy lost eight or nine colonels, and a large number of officers of inferior grade - Tiie Battle of Pea Ridge. 1 The same issue of the Richmond Whig favors the public with an account of the battle of Pea Ridge, alias the battle of Elkham. It is an ex tract from a letter written by an officer of Price's army to the Hon. G. G. Vost, of Richmond. Not being official, it may be relied upon to a certain ex tent : “ The battle’s fought,” but whether or not “won," neither Confederates nor Federals can tell. Yet all can understand. We have abandoned the field, and have had to ask permission of them to bury our dead. Captain Schonburg, who went up with our flag, reporta that ho superintended the interment &f eighty-eight bodies, and the enemy claim that they buried others of our dead. They may have done so, hut it was unintentionally omit ted on our part, and in isolated instances. Our loss rn killed does not exceed one hundred and thirty. It cannot go up to one hundred and fifty. Among them, however, aro McCulloch, Mclntosh, Rives, and that gallant, youDg, embo diment of chivalry, Captain Churchill Clark. A crimson ocean drawn from Hessian and Yankee veins would be no recompense for the loss of these heroic sons of the South. Generals Price and Slagk, and Cgl, Caracal, were with many others wounded, the two latter seriously, Slack almost in the same spot he was shot at Springfield. Carneal has his shoulder badly bruised, and Gen. Price an ugly hole through the arm, below the elbow. But I must tell you what came under my own observa tion during the conflict. THE DEFEAT ATTRIBUTED TO UNDER-ESTIMATION OF OUR STRENGTH, When the enemy left Cove Creek, which is south of Boston Mountain, Generals Price, McCulloch, Pike, and Mclntosh seemed to think—at least camp talk amongst those in command so represented— that our imited forces would carry into action near ly 30,000 men, more frequently estimated at 39,000 than a lower figure- I believe that General Van Born was confident that not a man Ifsi than 35,000 were panting to follow his victorious plume to a field where prouder honors awaited than any he had yet gathered. Besides this, he under-estimated the number of our foes. In no case did our esti mate reach seventy-fire per cent of their actual number. It was believed that Curtis left Rolla with not more than fifteen or sixteen thousand men. A part, of course, would be left a 3 they came along to hold Springfield and other points. lam certain the enemy have more accurate information in regard to us than we .of them; and, besides this, caution accompanies superior discipline. THE OBSTINACY AND SKILL OF SIGEL Well, out we marched with music and banners, thinking we had 35,000 men “ eager for the fray,” besides teamsters and camp-followers, The army went without tents, carrying a blanket oach, with three days’ rations. Long and energetically did the poor fellows trudge on through mud and snow, until twenty-live miles were measured the first day. The second day discovered no abatement in their aval, and the third morning confronted them with Sigei’s forces, in tho environs of Bentonville. Gates’ regiment, the battalion forming General Price’s body-guard, and the Louisiana regiment, charged and routed the enemy, the gßliant Lou isianians and Missourians rivalling eaoh other in dfcdsof desperate valor under the Immediate eye of our heroic general. Sigel retreated .’several times, but, with characteristic stubbornness, placing his batteries and receiving uur charges, once or twice damaging the assailing columns very muoh, and in no instance losing a gun, Is tbi? WSy ho moved backward towards where Curtis held the main wing. Quite a number of men were lost, in this day’s skirmishing, on both sides, the Louisiana regiment being the greatest puffotet 0U out side. , The War Press wfll bo eont fo Bnbttrihen) flf mail (per anuum in advance) at Three Copies li “ 5.0 Q Five « “ “ 8„0C Ten « “ « is!.OO r Ciuhu wifi he cli.wgotJ at the sains rnto, ttiua: 20 eapi?* will coat $24; 50 copio:i will cost $6O; an.i 100 copies $l2O. For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send an Extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club. are NyjH&BHd to act as Agents foe Tite War Pbess. «ST Advertisements Inserted at the iL-jual rates. Btc lim-B constitute a square. A NARROW Bf>r APE —IN THE MIDST OF A BATTERT, And now I have clumsily brought you up to Friday, the day of the fall of McCulloch and Mc- Intosh. At night, a friend and myself, within five mileg of Benla&vllJe, rose and started for the acenp ot the impending battle. About nino or ten miles up Sugar Creek, north of Bentonvillc, X stopped to get a drink of water, my friend going on ahead. In a few. minutes, the Federal scouts, and then one ofthMjreglinenis, galloped to tbo road and ocou pied it just behind my friend and before me. I rode out into the brush, and then commenced the roar of cannon four miles in advance, whore Van Dorn and Price pushed forward some s{x or 89TOH Ih&USaßd Mlspouriens against twice that number Of well-posted -Federate After listening some mo ments to the terrible tumult in the distance, sud denly, and within three hundred yards of mo, two or three cannon opened their brazen throats, hurling their missiles of death through the und&rgftwth m almcst every direction. As the sound of the can non come the third or fourth time, like the noise in Springtime on the marshy margin of a lake, only more shrill, loud, and apparently more numerous than even tbo came the war-whoop and hideous yell or the ludiaos. Hero I w« un coßFciousiy in the muicn almost of MuOiitlpijh charging squadron, and in range of a battery of three guns that wore hurling death and defiance at thbbi. &rA.vTON, March Si CHARGING TUB BATTERY —FALL OF M'CULLOOH AND M’INTOSH. The battery was speedily charged and captured, those euj.porting it bring backward thres* <1 u art era of n mile by tbo impetuous forward press of tho Confederates. Their retreat, most of the way, was through a cornfield, down a road upon its borders, but continuing into woods adjacent, full of undergrowth, where the main force of the, enemy's strongest wing was posted. Here began the rat tling musketry, which soon increased to a Niagara in sound. For hours there was hardly an inter mission savo that created by the stunning roar of the cannon, so closo that the ears of both parties Wfeffi dfciiiened. Within this vortex of firo fell McCulloch and Mclntosh. At one time, haring concluded to make my wuy to the immediate com mand of General Price, after passing from the cornfield down io the edge of too woods, just as four of us entered tho woods, n shell was throws at us. bursting in our midst, but without injury to any of our party. Wo were brought to a stand still, and in an instant another was shrieking in the samo path. Whether any more came in the same direc tion I Mil unablfi to say, Wo yielded the place, not drawing off in as good order as people gene rally preserve at funerals. l then went ioisuroiy over the cornfield and rode back to tho deserted guns. About forty five men lay in the space of two or three hundred yards to tho rear of the battery, fill save one entirely dead. Xt is now sunset, and we have everywhere ad vanced the 11 Stars and Bars. ’ ’ I have said nothing of Generals Van Born and Price, for the reason that I have been sep&fpied from them during tha entire fight; but all accounts from all quarters state that the Missourians surpassed all ancient Bnd modern bistory of valor under these general:. General Van Dorn exclaims—“ The Old Guard of Napctecn was not composed of braver men,' - ' “ I have never in battle seen that? equals.'-' Ac, Ao Traly can ho say so. We have seen'their trials and their gallantry. Amidst the bravest of the brave, we know that the army of Missouri and its leader. Sterling Price, should have tlio highest piass, The next morning (Saturday) we all expect ed te eaptnro the entire Federal army. Iw« on the way in my second attempt to roach General Price, yFhsn the most terrific shooks from nrtiliopy that ever saluted the Western ear burst forth. Tho guns of friend and foe, at least one hundrod and thirty-five in number, were in concert. Amidst this terrific cannonade, nnd whilst tho Missourians again struggled fiercely with the foe, ottr army fell back. "It was in this moment that the head Of Churchill Clark (gallant young hero) was taken off by a shot from a rifled cannon ; and here, too, Rives, the dashing hero of other fields, was killed by a wound, which, as he told me a few days be fore, he most dreaded, a. Minnie ball cn- cl,e bowel*. The reasons for retreating were doubtless good. At any rate wo are not disheartened ; and of one thing rest assured —the army unfa-,- Qtn, Price will never sn.TTcntler . The enemy's loss in this battle was fully four times as great as ours. They were so utterly paralyzed as to be-unable to.pursua us, and are said to bo now falling back. Thoresuit is that in fighting we have shown ourselves thoir superiors, ns we always do: but the aeside&ta! deaths of McCulloch and Mclntosh deprived us of the fruits of the victory. [For The Press,] I have for some time past been much interested in reading tho remarks in the papers, for and against the passage of & geasral bankrupt bill, Uni it seems to me all the argument which has any weight is in favor of the passage of a judicious bIU. The committee appointed by the Board of Trade, some time since, bad an interview -with genblemoa from New Yofk, and went over a bill item by item, and expressed themselves satisfied, except in a few minor points, which it was agreed should be altered. I do not see how they now can consistently coma out and Tecommend that the whole matter be re ferred to a committee during the recess Of 00H* gress. What good can result from such a coursa certainly cannot be seen, as the matter for the last year has been before the community, and it was a reference of the whole subject to committees of both Houses of Congress that produced the bill above referred to. The truth is, the only thing that can be accomplished by further delay, is still keeping a large number of enterprising busing men down for another year, and deprive their families of the benefit of their labor and business talent. To young persons this may not be of muoh importance, bub to men in middle life every day GOUDtB. The opposition to this law springs from yorjr short-Eighted policy, and is for the most part made by note-shavers and money-lendera, who aro nob satisfied with all a man hag, but want all he e&a ever expect to make. The bill presented is both a creditor and debtor bill, and recommended by soma of the most wealthy and largest business houses in New Yorkand Boston., as well a, in this city. It ia not denied by the parties whs k&va MPayoJ them selves as opponents to it, that many men who are honest and worthy are waiting to avail themselves of its benefits, but they can see nothing beyond their own pockets. It is not neosanry tp go out Of our own city to lenrn the legitimate workings of the bill. Let one who is acquainted with tho business men of Market, Third, Front, and Chestnut streets prior to 1557, go up and down those thoroughfares ant) soon the number of the largest and finest of tha stores closed, and ask what has become of the parties who formerly occupied those stores, and he will find that the most of them were forced to stop, not be cause they had been improvident or speculative, but from circumstances beyond tlieircontrol. They were, for the most part, solicited to buy goods, and, indeed, they were almost forced to do so; and I would ask what for ? surely not to keep in their stores, but to sell to the country, which they have done in good faith, working all day, and many of them more than half the night, Btrlving to make an honest living for their families. And now,from tha general breakdown in the country, all is gone. Tha merchant has acted in good faith, doing what ha agreed to do when he bought the goods ; and now, when willing to glvS Everything up he has in the World, to be released, ho is not permitted to do so, because be cannot entirely satisfy some selfish, penurious beings who live like sharks, preying on the community. It is high time that such beings (for they are not men) should be put down, and the worthy hard-working man permitted once more to be released from the oppression Which they would heap upon him. Let this persecution cease horo, and all unite in karifig a judicious bankrupt law passed at once, and the community will soon see tha revival of business, tho active step and smiling faea of many now suffering deep oppression. Some con tend that all that is owing will be swept away, with tbe passage ef a bankrupt law, I beg leave to dif fer with this class. I do not believe It will cause oaa man from paying every dollar ho will now pay, foe if a man is a rogue and does not intend or want to pay his debts, he need not seek a bankrupt law to releaso him ’ indeed, he would be tbelast man to ap ply to that source. And, in regard to the argument urged, that tho Southern States will all take advan tage and not pay, it is equally weak and foolish. Any State can, through its Legislature, pass laws (q prevent tho collection of debts within its borders, thus effectually closing the door to every one who wants to collect his money, and giving parties net wishing to pay a muoh bettor way to get clear of their indebtejpfK, Such ft state of affairs would speedily cause those who now oppose the proposed law, on this ground, to flee to it for droteotion. Affairs at New Orleans —A refuggj fjgjn New Orleans has arrived at Cincinnati. New Orleans he represented to bo in a very distreased and only partially-defended condition. Foreign residents of wealth were despairing of the resto ration of trade, and. so far as possible, had already left, or were preparing to go, most of them leaving either for the West Indies or Europe. The banks were abundantly supplied with speoie—about SlS, lino, oo0—but there was scarcely any in circu lation, and Confederate money was only worth forty cents on the dollar. Citizens engaged as home militia were more engaged in police service than m the defenoe of the city lr„m apprehend *1 attack, aDd only a feeble resistance could bo made againßt a well-organized force Evory hope of their prolcotion against the Union army, as well there as throughout the Southwest, was hung upog the success of the army concentrating at Corinth, and consequently all available war material, par ticularly in tho way of men, was sent thither. A Union Parer at Nashville— g, Q, Mercer has established au outspoken, unconditional Union paper at Nashville, Tennessee. It is called the Nashville Union. Its motto is “Freedom and Na tionality.” In his introductory the editor says: “ The present State Government has no compromise if off?? 1 , fil'd will tflko no step backward in ite great woik of restoration and reconstruction. It is firmly resolved to succeed triumphantly or to perish ut terly, and neither persuasion nor threats can deter it from its duty; and so long as it discharges this duty in pursuance of the Constitution and tbe laws, it can take no step whore I dare not follow. Let the people consider, that if it was worth a seven years war to win our liberty from British tyranny, it is worth a seven times seven-years war to pre serve it from Confederate tyranny." THE WAR PRESS nniEF Tiuujirii of tub stars Ann n.vns (MEAT EXJ'ECTATHWtS—HEATH OF HIVES, RETREATING-. The Bankrupt law.
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