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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ,
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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.