THE PRESS.
FBBLIBSXD DAILY (BCNDATB IXOIPTID,)
BY JOHN W. FORNEY.
OFFICE IT*. 11l SOUTH FOURTH STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
Twblt* Cxsrfl Pbb Webb, payable to the Carrier.
Hailed to eubecribera out *f the City at Six DOLI-Ana
Fir Ajnran, Tour Dollies tob Kioht Mosthi,
Tbbxx Dollibs fob Six Mouths—invariably in ad
vance for the time ordered.
THE TRI.WEEKLT PRESS,
Hailed to Bubscrihws out of the Oily at Tuan BOLi
£.ahs Per Are mi, in advance.
IMPORTERS AMD JOBBERS.
LATHROP, & LYONS,
STo. 414 MARKET and 409 MBBCHANT STREETS,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
ENGLISH, FRENCH, AND GERMAN
FANCY GOODS,
-WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, GLOVES, HO
SIERY, LACES, TRIMMINGS, RIBBONS,
COMBS, BRUSHES, Ac.,
Are now opening and receiving a new and choice stock
sin ihe above line, io which attention of buyen Is in
•-ylted,
MILLINERY GOODS.
1862. BPBINa ' 1862
WOOD & CARY,
(Successors to Lincoln, Wood, A Nichols,)
No. T9O CHESTNUT STREET,
Sat« now In Store « complete stock
or
fgTSAW AND MILLINERY GOODS,
BILK BONNETS,
STRAW AND PALM-LEAF HATS, *O.
To which they respectfully Invite tho attention of the
•foiattr ptrtron# of the house ««4 the trade generally,
marl2-2m
# spring. 1862 t
M. BERN HEIM.
No. 720 CHESTNUT STREET,
Em now in store, and is daily receiving-, iho laioet
in
RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS,
WREATHS, SILKS, CRAPES,
LACES,
and other
miHlCUnkhy goods,
■ *Zq wfaich he reepectfollp invites the attention of the
TBADK.
PRICES BOW.
mh24-2m
# SPRING. im
RIBBONS, MILLINERY,
ADD
STRAW GOODS.
BOSENHEIMi BROOKS,
& Go.,
NO. 431 MARKET STREET,
now open end to whioh daily additions are made—
Sfaeir
USUAL HANDfIOMB TA&l23¥f
OF
RIBBONS.
SONNET MATERIALS, FLOWERS,
RUCHES.
STRAW AND FANCY BONNETS,
MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S HATS,
FLATS, SHAKER HOODS, and
ALL OTHER ARTICLES IN XHfi MILLINERY
LINE,
Which will be offered at the
LOWEST MABKET PRICES.
The attention of tha trade ia reeseotfoUi invited.
KT-Parilcolar attention given to ailing orders.
mhl3-2m
fjTHOMAS KENNEDY ft BRO-,
729 CHESTNUT Street, below Eighth.
A Choice Stock of
SPRING MILLINERY GOODS,
mhl3-3mj AT LOW PBIOKB.
CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS.
CARPETING,
JAMES H. ORNE,
826 CHESTNUT STREET,
BELOW SEVENTH.
“Wa have just received, by late arrivals from Europe,
bow and oiivioo varieties ot eota
•prising
FRENCH AUBUSON Square Carpets.
ENGLISH AXMIN3TERS, by the Yard and in
entire Carpets.
CROSSLEY’S 6-4 and 3-4 wide Velvets.
“ Tapestry Brussels.
“ Brussels Carpeting.
a lso, a large variety or OBOSSLE Y’3 and other makes.
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS,
Prpm 871 c. to $1 Per Yd.
Onr assortment comprises all the beet makes of Threa
dy and Ingrain Carpeting, which, together with a gene
rid variety cf goods in onr line, will be offered at the low
ost possible prices.
OIL CLOTH FOR FLOORS,
From one to eight yards wide, cot to any Size.
FRESH MATTINGS.
By late arrivals from China we have a full assortment
WHITE AND COLORED
MATTINGS
OB' ALL WIDTHS.
JAMES H. ORNE,
apis 626 CHESTNUT.
jVLEN ECHO MILLS.
GERMANTOWN, PA.
McOALLUM&Cow
kahupaotubebs, importers, and dealers
400 CHESTNUT STREET.
(Opposite Independence Hall,)
CARPETINGS,
OIL CLOTHS, &c.
qro hew s<>w vs teed aa estoßslve stock of Oanetian
«f pnr vn and other makes, to which we call the atten
tion ofcaah and short-time buyer*. mhT-Sm
■jtvurth.street
A CARPET oroitE,
jjj f 4T ABOVE CHESTNUT, No. 4T.
J. T. DELACROIX
Writes attention to bis Spring Importation of
CARPETINGS.
Comprising .Terr stria, of the Newest Pattern. and
Dulsm, in VELVET, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRYBRUS
SELS, IMPERIAL THREE-PLY, and INGRAIN
CARPETINGS.
VENETIAN and DAMASK STAIR CARPETINGS.
SCOTCH RAO and LIST CARPETINGS.
FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, in every width.
COCOA and CANTON MATTINGS.
DOOB-MATB, BUGS, SHEEP SKINS,
DRUGGETS, and CRUMB CLOTHS.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
LOW FOR CASH.
J. T. DELACROIX,
4T Sonth FOURTH Street
CARPETINGS. %
J. F. & E. B. ORNtI.
*TO. 619 CHESTNUT STREET,
(OPPOSITE STATIC HOUSE,)
H«to received, per steamer Edinburgh, and other
(ate arrival*, their
SPUING IMPORTATION ON
NEW CARPETINGS:
CROSSLEI’S
TABD-AND.A.BALT.WIDE VELVETS,
»-4 MEDALLION DO*
ENGLISH BRUSSELS,
EXTRA-QUALITY TAPEBTRT,
EXVSSBLS CARPETS, WITH BORDERS,
(of now design*, fee HalL and Stairs).
INGRAIN AND THEKE-PLI CABPNTINOB, of
aztra cualitr.
ALSO,
€OO PS. J. CROSSLEI 4 SON’S
TAPEBTRT BRUSSELS CARPETS,
PROU 871 TO ®1 PR. YD.,
Together with a complete aeeortment of
OIL CLOTHS,
6TAIB AIM) FLOOD DRUGGETS,
BUGS, MATS, do.,
BU of new, choice selections, and
AT MODERATE PRICES.
J- F. & E. B. ORNE,
mh3-tf OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE.
HARMONY SHERRY—For sale in
bond, hr OHAB. g, CABSTAIB3.
avis Ho. 120 WALNUT Bt. and 21GRANITE gt.
YOL. 5-NO. 227.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
COFFIN, ! CO.
SBO CHESTNUT BTBEET,
Afenti for the following makea of geode
PRINTS.
DVHNSLIi MJTO. 00 GUBINS MFfl, 00,
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Lonsdale, Torestdale, Auburn, Slatersville, Oentredale,
Jwneatown, Blockstoae, Hope, Bod Bank, Dorchester*
Newburyporti Naumeag, Zouave, Burton, Greene
Hffi. Co.’s A. A. * B. A., C. A., and other styles.
mli29-lin
BROWN COTTONS.
Bum Side, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Chestnut, CUenTiUe,
Mechanics' and Farmers’.
OeitSßT JEANS.—Glasgow, Manchester.
DENIMS AND STRIPES.—Grafton, Jewett City,
Madison, SlatersYiite, * B - v A«atnnA. Ohoctaw
CANTON FLANNELS.—Slateravillfi, Agawam.
BlLEBlAS.—Smith’s, Social Go., Lonsdale 00.
ARMY BLUB CLOTHS* KERSEYS* and FLAN
NELS.
BROAD CLOTHS.—Planketts’, Glenham 00., do.
CASBIMEBES.—Gay A Son, Saxton’s River, Ac.
SATINETS.—Bass River, Conversville, Lower Val
ley, Hope, etaflordviUe, Oonyerae and Hyde, Converse
Bros. & Co., Shaw Mfg. Co.
KENTUCKY JEANS.—Rodman, Mystic, Gold MedaL
DOMET FLANNELS.—WILLIAMS'S Angola, Sax
ony, Merino, and other styles:
LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored Gambrios.
PLAID LINSEYS. COTTONADES, Ac. [fe36-3m
JJTDGWAY, HEUSSNER,
& CO.,
IMPORTERS OF
CLOTHS, DOESKINS, CASSIMERES,
Ac., Ao.,
OFFER THEIR VERY LARGE STOCK OF
CLOTHS, DOESKINS, &c.,
Of these celebrated Mannfactnrors:
ERCKENB, (Little Ticket;)
JOHANNY, GEVERS, A SCHMIDT, (S. * M.,)
And many others, at
CQNSIP-ERASLY REDUCED prices.
No 206 CHESTNUT STREET.
apS-Im
QARPETINGg;
OIL CLOTHS, AND MATTINGS.
WOLFE & 00.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 138 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
W" A full assortment of Philadelphia-made Carpets
always in Store. apl-flqn
gHIPLEY, HAZARD. &
HUTCHINSON,
No. 113 CHESTNUT STREET,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
roil TUB SAMI or
PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS.
mh2B-6m
YARNS, BATTS, & CAKFET CHAINS.
H. FRANOISCUS,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN YARNS,
433 MARKET and 9 North FIFTH Street
PHILADELPHIA.
Bnyere will find a fall Stock of
COTTON, LINEN, AND WOOLLEN
CARPET CHAIN,
COTTON YARN,
TWIST, FILLING, WADDING, BATTING,
COTTON LAPS,
TIE TAItHB, TWIHHS, CAUDLE VICK,
COVERLET TARN, BROOK TWINES, SHOE THREADS,
QILLINE AND BHINH TWINES,
BED CORDS,
WASH AND PLOUGH LINES,
COTTON, HEMP, AND MANILLA COKDAGH.
Also, a full assortment of
FLY NETS,
Which he offers at Manufacturers
LOWEST NET CASH PRICES.
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE.
H. FRANCISGUS.
«33 MARKET and 9 North FIFTH Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DEALER IE
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE.
Always on hand, a fall Stock of
TUBS, BUCKETS, CHURNS, MEASURES, BBOOM9,
WHISKS,
FANCY BASKETS,
WALL, SCRUB, and SWEEPING BRUBHEg,
LOOKING-GLASSES and WINDOW PAPEB,
Mata, Keelers, Flonr Buckets, Nest Boxes,
WASH BOARDS, BOLLING and CLOTHES PINS.
FLOOR and TABLE OIL CLOTHS.
SCHOOL, MARKET, and DINNER BASKETS.
Blede, Barrows*, Carriages* Hobby Horses* do.* do.
All Goods Bold at
LOWEST NET CASH PRICES.
Bkhll*2m
BLINDS AND SHADES
j^lindFand^shadesT
B. J. WILLIAMS,
No. 16 NOBTH SIXTH STREET,
VENETIAN BLINDS
WINDOW SHADES.
Th« largest and finest assortment in the City at the
LOWEST PRICES.
STORE SHADES LETTERED.
Repairing promptly attended to. ap3-3m
UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS.
KTr-M-xtiDSON
g A » AMOVED TO SOO MARKET STRUT,
Bonthwent corner of Firth,
And offer, n beautiful assortment et
UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS,
TENTS, AND CANES,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, mh2B.lm
MILITARY GOODS.
gBY-BLUE KERSEYS,
DARK-BLUE KERSEYS,
DARK-SLUE INFANTRY CLOTHB,
INDIGO-BLUE CAP CLOTHS,
SKY-BLUE CASSQdEKEB, (New Regulation,
for Officer!’ Panto.)
WHITE DOMKT FLANNELS,
CANTON FLANNELS,
100z.,120z.,*150a. TENT DUCK.
All warranted United States Army standard.
ALFRED SLADE & CO.,
40 South FBONT Street, and 30 LETITIA Street,
Philadelphia. felS-tmyl
CABINET FURNITURE.
fIABINET FURNITURE AND BHr
KJ LIABD TABLES.
MOORE & CAMPION,
Ho. 261 South SECOND Street,
In connection with their extenrtre Cabinet Bueineaa fire
now manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
dud have now on hand a foil supply* finished with the
MOORE d CAMPION’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who have need them, to be
■nperior to all others.
For the quaUtr and finish of thaw tables the manu*
lactnrera refer to their nnmerooa patrons throughout
the Union, who are familiar with the character of their
work. fe2B-6m
pQTTON SAIL DUCK AND CAN
TAB, of all numbers and brands.
RaTen’s Duck Awning TwiHi, of all descriptions, lor
Tents, Awnings, Tranks, and Wagon Covers.
Also, Paper Manufacturers’ Drier Felts, from Ito 9
feet wide. Tarpaulins, Belting, Sail Twine, do.
JOHN W. EVEBMAN d 00.*
nyd-tf 102 JOKES AU«r.
LAWNS.
DUNNELL MFQ. 00.
WOOLENS.
MAinrrACTirBER or
(3T and 54-INCH.)
FOB SALB BT
Cl] t J)ms.
MONDAY, APlilL 28, 1862
OUR FOREIUN UORKESPONDRfIUJJ.
LETTER FROM LONDON.
Successive Defeats of the Palmerston Go-
WVitttHtltf—Parliament Adjourned— Tbe Na
val Panic—England Reduced to Four War-
Ship*— I Queen Victoria’s Erratic Movements:
Visit* to Scotland and Germany—Approach-
Ins Roynl Marring—Albert ObeliMc Rejected
by the Public—The Prince of Wales—Meet
ing of Americans in London—The Kingdom
of Italy—Sicilian Torture—Curious Compli
cation of Royal Houses in France—The
Countess de ciiumiiord—Lord Dundreary—
Miss Kel log Mademoiselle Lumourcux
Charles Dickens Mrs. Marroady Mrs.
Ilenrv Wood Tbe Quarterlies William
Curleton—Gustave Aimard.
(Uorreflpuimtmuo ui —•—
London, April 12, ISG2.
Within a fortnight, Lord Palmerston’s Govern
ment has sustained four downright defeats. Yet,
with tho ton&6ity of limpots sticking on rocks just
washed by high water, they remain in office. Air.
Sheridan carried against them a motion iu favor of
reducing the tax upon policies of fire insurance.
Mr. Low, who Las boon unsettling national edu
cation, was compelled to cave in and announce
that his proposed “ revised code” would be so
much modified as to be virtually abandoned. Lord
Palmerston bad to concede, to Air. Osborne’s mo
tion, that the fort*building at Spithead should be
abandoned until something more was known about
floatipg iron-clad and steam-moved batteries. Last
night, also, in the Commons, the Government plan
for expending about a million pounds sterling, (It
would bo double tbat ere finished,) on a Central
Palace of Justice', to contain Courts Of Law, *0; f
near Temple'Bar, was voted down by a majority of
two. A small majority, but, tbe subject con
sidered, a great blow to the Ministry. However,
Parliament lias adjourned itself until (be end of
the month, when Palmerston will moot tbe Com
mons with a smile and a smirk, just as if his Go
vernment was popular and strong.
No one, unless bo bo in London at this moment,
osd form anything like an accurate idea of the
panic which has seized all classes here, on account
of the revolution in naval warfare, caused by the
on counter, in American waters, of the
and the Monitor. The Daily Telegraphy a penny
paper of great circulation and considerable talent,
commenced its principal leader, yesterday morning,
with the following very frank confession; « Not
long ago, in a complacent article about the mari
time power of England, we congratulated our coun
trymen upon possessing a navy of one thousand
fihipS-of- Wkr. To-day we are to warn them that
the Queen of the Seas has only four ships afloat to
maintain her proud and necessary supremacy. The
balance has neither disappeared under the waves
cor succumbed io an enemy —thoy have been Sim*
ply < snuffed out.’ by the battle between the Moni
tor and the Merrimac. Wo repo&t, and we urge
it upon the country, that, for the purposes of war,
the 'Warrior, Dlac/i Driir.c.c, Resistance, and De
fence are all tho vessels of England.” This will
show what the feeling is here.
The newspapers will give you the pros and cons
on the ship-building controversy. AH seems un
settled, except the certainty that it is easior to
make cannon to fire off almost irresistible halls
than to make iron-plato ships capable gf defying
such powerful ordnance. One is reminded of the
old school-puzzle: “If an irresistiblo body meet
an immovable body, what will the result be?”
The Queen, who is now in the Isle of Wight, re
mains there until the end of thli month, wheu she
proposes to visit Scotland, there to remain through
out May and the first fortnight in June, then re
turning to the Isle ot vngnt, to assist at the mar
riage of her second daughter* Alice. Reek to
Scotland in August, and, in September, to Saxe-
Coburg, the father*land of her late husband, the
reigning Duke, bis brother, (now absent on an East
ern tour*) having placed his little palace at Coburg
at her disposal. She will visit no other place on
the Continent—not even Berlin, where her eldest
daughter lives, but may be visited at Coburg by
her and the Crown-Prince of Prussia. Victoria's
old habits of restlessness appear to hare revived.
The Obelisk to Prince Albert, on which Victoria
had set her mind, will have to be abandoned. The
reason given is that no monolith of sufficient dimen
sions can be found in the British islands —but the
fact is, Public Opinion was dead against it, and the
thing had to be abandoned. What the memorial
itrill be, no one can guees. It would bo a symboli
cal compliment to the departed to ereot something
like one of the round towers of Ireland, which so
much puzzle antiquarians.
The “Art Journal,” which used to be very
courtly, is dead against tho Queen's had tosU In
desiring to perpetuate her lato husband’s memory
by an Egyptian Obelisk. It ridicules the notion of
idealizing and poetizing the late Prince by au heroio
statue, declaring that he « tended to corpulency,
that he was only of a certain height, that his face
wss round, and he showed his teeth when he spoke. ”
The Prince, whom it has become the fashion to call
li Albuft the Good," was Ob excellent gentleman,
moral, attached to his wife and children, mode
rately gifted with intellect, fairly educated, cold
and reserved in manner, usually very silent, so
grave ae to appear morose (which he was not), and
possessing a general taste for the Fine Arts, which
his well-known fondness for accumulating money
prevented his indulging to any extent. In fact, he
had the name of being rather mean in his transact
lions with artists, paying them sach small prices
that tbe more eminent made a point, for years put,
of declining commissions from him. The various
speeches which he delivered on public occasions
were written for him, principally by Dr. Lyon Play
fair. It is easy for a Prince to obtain a reputation
for ability.
The Prince of Wales, of whose joumeyinga we
have frequent intimations in the newspapers, will
not return from the East for some time, —probably
not until August, in time for grouse shooting,
which, by law, commences on the twelfth of that
month. By all accounts, this young man, although
not very bright, is amiable and gentlemanly.
Against his moral conduct, the first whisper has not
yet been heard, and this is a great deal, considering
his age and the temptations, not to say encourage
ments, to vice in his peculiar position. Last year,
he did his shooting in Scotland. Now, he can shoot
o» his own property, having purchased Sandring
ham Hall, in Norfolk, (eight mileß from the borough
of King’s Lynn,) from Mr. Spencer Cowper. It Is
a pretty estate, well stooked with most kinds of
game— deer excepted. It abounds, in the winter
months, in wild fowl. The bouse is a mansion of
small pretensions, with a lake in front, and an ex
cellent garden behind,—just fit for a country gen
tleman’s residence. The late Prinoe Albert recom
znendvd ILL, purchase to be made, out of the large
sum in hand, said to be a million pounds sterling,
from the accumulated income of the Duchy of
Cornwall during twenty years. The moment the
Prince of Wales is borß- hi kiiimos yuSSSSSad Of
tins Duchy, the annual inoome of which is close on
£50,000. When George the Fourth became of age,
he asked his father to pay up the monies received
for him, from his hirth, but the old gentleman told
him that it barely paid for his board and educa
tion, and never refunded a sixpence. Next No
vember, when the Prince of Wales becomes of age,
all the accumulated rental will be paid over to
him, and Marlborough Palaco, originally built by
the great soldier whose name it bears, will ho given
him as a town-residence. Some years ago, the sum
of seventy thousand pounds was expended on the
stables belonging tC this paIACO.
There was a meeting of Americans here on
Wednesday evening to raise funds—a thousand
pounds will be required —for decorating the space
appropriated to American exhibitors in the new In
ternational Exhibition. That spaoe haa latterly
been extended, because more American products
than were at first expected have arrived and are
on the way, Mr, Holmes, the American Commis
sioner, said that very little money had been for
warded from America—oDly sufficient to place the
goods on view, but nothing for deooration; and as
the walls were only rough briek, whitewashed,
America would appear to great disadvantage.
Abundance of ingenious, novel, and useful inven
tions had been sent from America which would ren
der the department one of the most interesting in
the Exhibition, but, unless something was done to
carry off the barn-like appearance of the court, not
only the interest of the exhibitors but the character
of the American nation would materially suffer. It
was agreed to get up a subscription, Mr. Freeman
Morse, United States consul in London, to bo the
treasurer.
Prussia is to acknowledge Victor Emmanuel as
Italian sovereign, but Baden (that is, the Grand-
Duke,) \has done so. He has been Grand-Duke
only since 185 G, when that title waa granted to him
by patent. He has diplomatically communicated
with Victor Emmanuel, calling him “King m
Italy," but not “ King of Italy." That does not
much matter, for the same title, “ Kingire,” was as
sumed by the Brandenburg family, at the begin
ning of the eighteenth century, when substituting
the kingly for the ducal diadem. Theyowod alle
giance to tho Emperor of Germany, their suzerain,
and would have been called over the coals by him,
had they called themselves Kings oy’Prussia.
Among the Italian contributions to tha great
London Exhibition, will be a set of the dreadful
instruments used by the officers of Franois 11, ex-
King, to tortuTe prisoners in Naples and Sicily.
This set was lately discovered, at Palermo, by a
lawyer, named Rani, while digging in seme greuid
PHILADELPHIA MONDAY. APRIL 28, 1862.
near the prisoD. They consist of "the cap of si*
lence,” a sort of hoi met, which at onco gagged and
blindfolded the victim ; “the burning chair,” the
hack of which was made hollow, to allow the intro
duction of hut iron plates; and the “ footburnor- ’
being a metal boot attached to a stove, whioh ***
lighted under the feet of the wretched prisoners..
There are now three heirs to the throne of France.
1, The little Prince Imperial, who was six yeaw
old on the 16th March, and is only son of Napo
leon III,; and his wife the fair Eugenie de Guz
man, Countess of Teba. 2. Henry d’Artois, Due
de Bordeaux, who will ho forty-two on next
Mich&elmajs'day, and is son of the Due de Berri,
assassinated in February, 1320, and grandson of
Charles X, ex-Iving of France. 3. Louis Philippe
of Orleans. Countde Paris, who will be twenty'fonr
years old next. August, is grandson of Louis-
Philippe, ex-King of the French, and is now aid
ing tbe cause of liberty, by serving on the staff of
General McClellan. The Prince Imperial is Heif
apparent to tho French throne : the other? are
heirs-presutnptive only. Time alone onn declare
which of them,’ if any, shaLl wear the crowu of
France.
... TjL* j vMiLM » *c«uu.tir«3 or iiie exiled h0U368
of Bourbon and Orleans are unmarried. The Due
do Bourdeaux, generally known as the Count do
Chambord. has been a married man since Novem
ber, 1840. Lis wife, who is three years older than
himself, being within a few months of the femininely
mature age of forty-five. This lady is sister of the
ex-Grand Duke of Modena —the gentleman who, in
3809, ih Lis flight from Lis capital, found time to
wrench from the doors in his palace the solid silver
handles, and take them away with other property
belonging to his public.
The Count de Chambord has no child, and so
little expectation of ever having one that, some
years, when a reconciliation took place between
himself and tho Orleans branch of his family, it was
based upon the fact that, in the event of the Count
de Chambord ever becoming King of France, and
tho Legitimists of Paris always call him Henri V,
bis natural successor, on th? hereditary principle,
failing hia own heir male, would be the young
Count de Paris, now performing military duty in
Virginia.
But the Countess de Chambord, a true woman, it
would seem, for she is wilfully bent on having her
own way, thereby upsetting tho political arrange
ments and combinations in question, is announced,
even in the Paris papers, as being in that condition
in which, as Lady Randolph says in Home's heavy
tragedy of Douglas, “ladies love to bo who love
their lords.” Suppose she should ha?e adaugh-
Up? The gfiliqua law of Franca, ufißapcalcd an It
is, would exclude Mademoiselle. Not even the
iron-willed Duchess d ? Angouleme, whom tho groat
Napoleon characterized as the only man of the
Bourbon family, could have succeeded under this
law. If the child be masculine, there will be a
perpetuation of the pretendership of tho Bourbons,
and a throwing off, pretty far into the back ground,
of tho aspirations of Ibe Orleans’ princes.
Last night was the hundredth of Mr. So them’s
Lord Dundreary in “Our Amorican Cousin,” at
the Haymarket Theatre. He has quite surprised
England by exhibiting a now type of a swell.
There seems something absurd in encoring his
reading of a letter— Sam’s letter in tho play—but
it is done. Most people here think tbat Sotkern is
a Yankee, because he came to us from America.
On the contrary, he was horn in Warwick, the
heait ot England, which also can claim Burry Sul
livan as one of its natives ; the Irish 7tame ) migd
you. which any one can assume, does not make the
Irish man.
Her Majesty’s Theatre, so long known as the
Opera-house, will he reopened this day week, by
Mr. J. H- Mapleston, a gentleman whom itis scarcely
libellous to coll something between a substance and
a shadow —substance, in that Mapleston is his name;
hut shadow, seeing that he is only a nominal put for
ward io conceal an actual lessee. Among his ad
vertised novelties are Mademoiselle Kellogg, of New
York —reported here to have a finer voice than
Adelina Patti’s, and wholly unworn—and Made
moiselle Lamoureus, 09 principal amiSßUSc r. This
last was a dancer at a small Paris theatre five years
ago. Some speculator picked her up and took her
with him to America as his leading dancer, and she
was universally admired there. Now she comes
back, still youDg, (not 25 at most,) to take the posi
tion once occupied by Taglioni, Caroline Grisi, Lu
celle GraLn, and Fanny Cerito. If she succeeds
here, they will have her at Paris—the greatest tri
umph she can have.
Fancying that his readings of the JBardell vs.
Pickwick trial and other Christmas stories were
getting tiresome to the public, Charles Dickens has
arranged the most striking parts of "David Cop
perfield” into a continuous narrative of six chap
ters. The best and most dramatic parts are the
housekeeping of poor little Dora, and Mr. Micaw
ber's amusingly sorrowful affirmations of his con
victions that something “must turn up.”
Mrs. Macready, an American lady of uncertain
age, with good figure, singularly light eyes, (as if
the blue had been washed out of theft.) and an un
deniable nasal twang in her voice, has been reading
Shakspeare, a whole play at a time, at Willis’s
Boom?, with tolerable success.
Mis. Henry Wood's new novel, “Tho OLan
nings,” which Bentley cannot* produce fast enough
to meet the demand, originally was published in a
penny weekly called The Quiver, published by
John Cassell. In that same Hule weekly she has
just commenced a new story entitled “ Mrs. Halle
burton’s Troubles.” She also has a novel running
throuffl? tho New Monthly Magazi?ie.
The first number of the new series of the IWest
minster Review, published nowbyTriibner, Pater
noster row, has just appeared. Its contents are:
I. The Mythology of Polynesia ; 11. Endowed
Schools; 111 Gorman Life during tho Last Two
Centuries; IV. Mrs. Dolany; V. Caesar’s Cam
paigns in Gaul; VI. The Life of J. M. W. Turner;
VII. The Fathers of Greek Philosophy; VIII.
Portraits of.My Acquaintances; IX. Franca and
Napoleon III.; X. Lord Stanley-. Contemporary
Literature: 1. Theology; 2. Politics, Sociology,
and Travels; 3. Science; 4. History and Bio
graphy; 5. Belles Lettres.
A new number of the Quarterly Review will ap
pear next Vi ednesday. Its contents are adver
tised as : 1. Dorset; 2. Hymnology ; 3. Turkey—
Its State and Prospects; 4, Training of the Qiergy ;
5. Thornbury’s Life of Turner. R. A.; 6. The
Eastern Archipelago; 7. The Later Years of Pitt;
8. The Merrimac and the Monitor. This last ar
ticle is said to be from the pen of Lord Clarence Pa
get, Secretary of the Navy.
William Carleton, the Irish novelist—a man per
sonally very like Walter Scott—has just published
a new novel called “ The Silver AtC9, ” Gustavus
Aimard also haa a new Mexican tale, “ The Red
Track.”
News of Literature.
Parses Biownlow continues atHiltes, se&r Cross
wicks, N. J., the residence of Robert E. Peterson,
Esq., indofatigably employed in writing up, from
notes and diaries which he made, and fortunately
was able to preserve, his book of prison and patri
otic es,— it will ho published, ia about a
fortnight, by Mr. G. W. Childs.
_ We notice that a new and handsome edition of
Pmtioss! Peviaa, by the late Robert I, Conrad,
with a portrait of the author and an introduction
by George H. Boker, the poet, will be issued as
soon as a sufficient number of $3 subscriptions are
received. Tbe book will be elegantly printed upon
tinted paper, and riobly bound.
Already wo have mentioned that, in the style of
his Field Book of the Revolution, Mr. Benson J.
Lossing would write the History of the Rebellion
of 18BU2. This will he published by Mr. Childs,
and will be liberally and richly illustrated with
maps, plans, views, portraits, autographs, &0., ex
pressly taken and engraved for this work. We
oan state, as within our personal knowledge, that
Dr. Motley, historian of the Duteh Republic, and
now United States Minister at Vienna, haa not any
intention of becoming the annalist of the Rebellion.
It was suggested, and even expected, that he would.
Dr. Motley’b idea, we know, is, that this history Is
not to he written dose on the events which are now
occurring—that, in fact, a long period should pass
before the historian sitß in judgment upon ujep and
actionrof this eventful period. Othsrs do not share
this opinion, and thus, while Frank Moore’s “ Re
bellion Record,” partaking of the Memoires pour
server character, collects an immense number of
facts for future annalists, Mr. Lessing and others are
already engaged in giving them into the historic
aspect. Evert A. Duyckinck, one of the most
amiable and accomplished men of the age, is writing
ft National History of the Present War, to be
illustrated by Alonzo Chappel, and published by
Johnson, Fry, A Co., New York, whoso liberality
and taste have been abundantly evidenced, among
other standard • works, iu which' Art illustrates
Literature, by their “ Battles of tho United States
by Bea and Land,” and the “ National Portrait
Gallery of Eminent Americans,” now being issued.
There ii yet another History of the present Rebel
lion in hand. Dr. Samuel M. Smuoker, of Phila
delphia, author of numerous historical biographies,
is writing such a work, which he will endeavor to
make ftt once comprehensive and condensed —A
view, in fact, of the causes and occurrences of the
Rebellion.
Thanks to Grant and Bohll.—Under date of
Pittsburg, April 12, General Halleok has issued
orders thanking Generals Grant and BueU, with
their offioers and commands, for the bravery dis
played in withstanding the rebel attacks on April
6 and 7, and impresses upon officers and men the
necessity of thorough discipline. Both Generals
Grant and Buell are continued in their respective
commands.
Distressing Occurrence.— An interesting son
of Mr. George Kefauver, of Boonßbaro’, Md., be
tween foul and five joars of age, was killed last
week by a horse trampling oa him-
TJfls SIEGE OF YORKTOWN.
Shelling the Town.
WHEU THE BATTLE WILL COHMEffCE.
A correspondent, who is “ within a hundred yards
of the headquarters of General McClellan, and
about two miles and a half from tho rebel fortiflea
tions at Yorktown,” indites a letter to the Balti
more American, of Saturday, describing the pro
gress of the siege.
ViSif ¥6 ewMenAL m’ci.ei.i.An’s headquarters
We reached tho headquarters of General Mc-
Clellan about five o’clock, and found an excellent
supper awaiting our arrival in tbe hospitable quar
ters of Professor Lowe, which was enjoyed with the
appetite of campaigners. Around us were the gas
generators, and all tho appliances for looking dowa
upon the enemy, which, under the Bkiiful engi
neering of the Professor, is daily and hourly of so
great advantage in prosecuting the siege of York
town. It is an appliance of war which uuvoils all
concealments, and unmasks the most skilful mask
ed batteries. General McClellan and the topo
graphical engineers of his staff fully appreciate its
Importance, and I doubt not the art of the Profes
sor will be the means of saving many valuablo lives
in the approaching Biege.
Whilst partaking ot supper the booming of can
non and the bursting of shells was* progressing at
intervals, mostly thrown from the rebel lines, about
two miles from Yorktown, and ocoasionaUy re
sponded to from our field battorios. We had been
hearing these almost constantly from the moment
of our landing on the peninsula, And now, whoa
within range of their deadly projectiles, it >yas dif"
ficuit to conceive there was any harm in them.
Certain it is that we partook of our meal without
allowing the Teports to check or change the current
of conversation, curtail our meal, or destroy our
appetites. Thus we became used in a few hours to
even the chances of death, and if you were to ask
tbe soldiers around thoy would insist that there bad
been but a few reports during tho evening, whilst
the new comers have heard not less than fifty, with
their accompanying explosions.
A NIGIIT IN CAMP.
There being no hotels in this region, I was glad
to accept tbe kind invitation of Captains C&m
bro|ipg and Duniett tv Accept of soldiers’ quarters
for the night, and to spend the evening around the
campfire. Suffice it to say the time glided pleas
antly, and we were not interrupted by any explo
sions of rebel shells up to “bed-time ” AU was
filer.t in the pet??! cawpg up to o’clock, the hour
for “ tap,” and we oould distinctly hear the roll of
the drum throughout their lines with a full band
accompaniment, probably at headquarters, at
the close. The great rebel band which thoy arc
vain of sounding within hearing distance is that
of Professor Vollandt, so well kuown in Balti
more, which was travelling South with a
circus company when the rebellion commenced.
In tbe Federal camp after sunset an intense quiot
everywhere preyaiied. There is no drum, fito, of
bugle used, night or day, in our camps, so that the
eouny has no sound to guide the direction of their
shells, and most of them are thrown &c random, and
aro only so much ammunition wasted.
During the past nightjthere were but two shots
fired ; these were at about 1 o'clock this morning,
and they fell harmlessly in the woods. .From that
time until 10 o’clock this morning there had been
not a ringle report on either side of the line. At
daylight I heard the rebel reveille, but it met with
no response from our lines, and the working parties,
to the number of many thousands, are moving out
to the performance of the duties for which they are
detailsd, such as building forts, earthworks, making
roads, cutting fire wood, ha.
FORTIFICATIONS—A WELL-DRILLED REGIMENT.
Among the fortifications erected » one built en
tirely by the New York Fifth. It was done and
ready for service in three days, and they have been
highly complimented for the excellent workman
ship displayed on it. They learned ihe business
woll in tho construction of the Federal Hill Fort,
and are practising it here to perfection. They were
frequently fired upon by the rebels from Gloucester
whilst performing their work, and although tho
shells exploded around them, no one was Injured.
The New York Fifth, by the way, seems to be an
exceedingly “ crack” regiment. Whilst in Balti
more, they were regarded as the very perfection
of drill Afid evldiwly discipline, but many persons
thought that personal prejudice guided the opinion,
and that when mixed up with the famous army ef
the Potomac they would he lost sight of in tho gene
ral excellence of the UftttfiAl, And dUcipltQQi
The comspenaenx gays; “They are now here)
surrounded by regulars and volunteers of every
branch of the service, and I am sure it will be
gratifying to their many friends and adajjrcrs in
Baltimore to learn that they stand here, amidst the
greatest army of modern days, admitted, by general
consent, to be the crack regiment of the sorvice.
They are classed with the regulars, and admitted
by the regular army of&cers, by whom they are
surrounded, to excel their own commands, not only
in the perfection of drill, but in soldierly bearing
and discipline.”
REBEL PRACTICE AT A BALLOON.
On Tuesday evening the most violent cannonadin'*
of the siege took place, being an attempt to destroy
the balloon of Professor Lowe. It was being
moTed within three-quarters of a mite of the rebel
lines, when several parks of artillory were opened
upon it, but no damage was done; not a shot
striking it or any of the men who bad it in charge.
It was, of course, taken out of range as rapidly as
possible. There are but few responses made from
our lines to tho frequent rebel salutations with
which we are greetod. Sometimes the gunboats, on
tbe York river, run up within range and deliver
their shells into Yorktown and retire, their rapid
movements preventing the enemy from getting
their range.
YOBXTOmr THROUGH A CLASS.
Under date of the 25th instant, the correspondent
writes as follows:
Alter closing my letter yesterday I proceeded to
the Fairnholt house, about two miles beyond York
town, immediately on the banks of the river, from
which you can look right down into the streets of
Yorktown and its surrounding works, as well as
.into the rebel works on Gloucester Point, imme
diately opposite. With a good glass I was able to
see tho men on the ramparts, and even the people
in the streets, and to count their guns, of which
there are twenty-four on the Yorktown side and
twelve on the Gloucester side of the river. The
river here foims an angle, and both places command
tho approach by water to the extent of the full
range of their guns.
SHELLING YORKTOWN.
Whilst viewing the surrounding scene from lot
tery No. 1, at the Fairnbolt house, the five Fede
ral gunboats were stationed about a mile and a half
below, near the mouth of the river. At 11 o’clock
the gunboat Sabago got up steam and taking posi
tion on the north tide of the river commenced to
throw shells toward] Yorktown. The first shell
exploded immediately over the town, but it evi
dently being the desire to throw them beyond the
town longer fuses were used, and a shell was sent
OOfely tin rnihutes for about three hours into the
ecampments beyond the town. , The houses in
Yorktown mostly bear the the hospital flag, heuee
the shells wero thrown beyond, and no response
was made from the batteries in front Of the toffU.
The distance was also supposed to be too great for
their guns. The only response to the firing was
the throwing of two shells frem the rebel works
at Gloucester Point, directed at Battery No. 1. in
which your correspondent with a number ef officers
and men were standing viewing tbo exciting scene.
The first shot fell short and buried itself in the
sand on the beach in front of us without exploding,
whilst the second passed over us and exploded
about a mile beyond.
AS EXCHANGE Of SHOTS.
On Thursday morning Captain William F. Bart
lett, acting lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth
Massachusetts Regiment, was out with a working
party, when they were attaoked by some of the
enemy’s sharpshooters. A number of shots were
exchanged, when a Minie ball entered the knee of
Captaur rxnvi-tt dreadfully shattering the bone.
He succeeded in crawling aao-. hundred yards
out of tee ro sob of tho enemy, and was mmiuai m?
conveyed to camp, where amputation was per
formed abeve the knee. The operation was most
successful, and he declared himself fully able to
stand the travel to Baltimore. He left by the boat
on Friday, and will reach the home of hji relatives
is Baltimore on Saturday morning, where he will
remain until he has sufficiently recovered to proceed
to his home in Boston. He is a most gallant officer,
and was one of the survivors of the memorable
slaughter at Ball’s Bluff, iu which his regiment was
almost decimated. His greatest grief seemed to ho
th.t he was deprived of further active participation
in the war.
BEBDAN SHABrSHOOTEBS,
These gallant fellows continue to perform most
Valuable service along the Hues, aud uro the terror
of tho rebel gunners. After firing a shell yester
day, one of the rebels jumped on the ramparts and
commenced to dance, when one of their balls, at
nearly a mile distant, struck him in the vitals and
cut short his merriment.
The rebels frequently feign being shot, and limp
off, but these experienced men can always tell the
feint from the reality. A man shot, they say, al
ways throws his hands above his head, and if the
limpers do not do this they e&ll it no shot. Bach
man keeps a tally of his prowess in the shape of a
piece of shingle, in which they make a notch with a
file for each of their viotims, marking the day of
the month on the aide of 'the wood with a penoil,
thus preserving » record of tho number for each
day.
THB GRAND BATTLE.
It would not be proper for me to say when the
grand battle will commence, or describe the extent
of the arrangements making to insure success.
Suffice It to say that Yorktown will either be in our
possession, or the siege in progress, before the olose
of next week. That tho enemy will be routed no
one here has the slightest doubt. It is looked upon
as a matter of course, and if the doubters could see
what I have seen during the past few days, and wit
ness the high slate of discipline and military enthu
siasm prevailing in the army, from the highest to
the lowest, they would be satisfied that there is “ no
such word as fail ” in their vocabulary.
TnH Abht of rnu Potomac. —General Wool is
reported to have remarked, on the oooasion of bis
first inspection of the Army of the Potomac, that
they were the dirtiest lot of man he ever law.
Gen. MaClellan made the following reply: “ Gen.
Wool, if you and your men had been where I and
my men have been you would be dirty too.”
Bad fou Mb. gwiNKY,— Mr, SlHney,of Fayette,
Missouri, a large slaveholder and a Unionist, at the
commencement of the rebellion, becoming alarmed
for the safety of his “ chattels,” sent about sixty to
Texas for greater protection. A few months ago
he sent a neighbor to bring them back. The gen
tleman an his return reported that they had all been
confiscated.
General Habtsuff.—Brigadier General Geo.
L. Hartsuff, Assistant Adjutant General United
States army, baa been essigned to apeoial duty in
be War Department from the 14th inst.
FROM PITTSBURG LANDING.
THE PROSPECTS OF A BATTLE.
Strength of the Rebel Army end its
Position.
As Gen. Halleok’a army bas moved upon tho
r&bel army at OorlniL, and as it is probable a great
battle ha? by this time taken place, the following
letter from Pittsburg Landing, written on tbe lUth
inst., will give an account of the preparations made
for a battle at tbat time ;
Our Preparations.
At this place the roads aro so impassable, and
tbe mud so deep, tbat tbe pending conflict between
tbe tWO oppdSibg itfibidS itilgbt be Said to be an oc
currence of almost indefinite futurity. Yet, for all
of this, Gen. Halleck is infusing vigor and spirit,
by bis own masterly activity, into every division,
brigade, regiment, and company of our army. Re
gilhehti tbat were ao frightfully cutup at tbe pre
vious conflict have been reorganized as well as cir
cumstances would permit, and, in like manner,
brigades and divisions have been reformed by the
addition of new regiments, and the appointment of
new commanders where they were needed. The slek
and wounded have been removed to Paducah,
Mound City, Evansville, and other hospital posts.
Gen. Halleck has thus concentrated for thedooisive
battle an army which is thoroughly prepared for
bard fighlieg, and with tbe addition of General
Pope’s army, transferred from tbe investment of
Fort Pillow, has an actually effective force of
100,000 men. By this time, too, tbe army of Gen.
Mitcbell, 30,000 strong, is in a position to act in
conjunotion with General Halleck, and perform a
flank movement on tbe rebels when the time shall
c.*me.
The Strength of the Rebel Army.
From all accounts tbat have boon rcceivod; both
from spies and deserters, the enemy are known to
have been very strongly reinforced. Tbe army of
General Price has effected a junction with Beaure
gard, as bas also a portion of General Van Dorn's
army, the remaining portion being at Fort Pillow.
In addition to these reinforcements, fresh levies of
troops are continually swelling the rebel ranks, so
that tbe entire number of the enemy cannot be very
much less than our own. Beauregard, who, it
should be mentioned, is chief in command, is fortify
ing bis position very strongly, and has 3,000 negroes
employed intbrowing up entrenchments, construct
ing abatis around bis entire works, and digging rifle
pits. If tbe rebel chieftain is realty pursuing this
course, our army may expect to find the plaie next
to impregnable, for Beauregard is acknowledged to
be a very accomplished engineer. During the
Mexican war his name was mentioned over and over
again in official reports as a topographical engineer
of excellent ability. However this may be, no one
bas any fear for the result of tbe next conflict. It
will be a great battle, hotly contested on one side by
our volunteer army of undaunted discipline and
bravery) and en the other by a large force of men
poorly armed, poorly clad, but fighting desperately
in a reckless undertaking. It will be a terrible con
flict, cannot be otherwise, and on its result depends
tbe success or defeat of the most godless cause ever
kfibwb to history.
The Body of General Albert Sidney
Johnston,
In regard to the death of the traitorous Albert
Sidney Jobceton, the rebel commander, I have
learned, from sources entirely reliable an im
portant, and as yet unpublished, item of intelli
gence. On Monday the body of General Johnston
was found laid out and ready for burial. The
rebels undoubtedly expected to retain possession of
the field, and their chieftain was laid in a quiet
spot under the trees. After the field had been
gained by our army, General McClernand ordered
a grave to be dug for the purpose of burying
Johnston, but General Nelson, of Buell's column,
sent for tbe body and bad it interred. Subse
quently a flag of truoe came frem Beauregard, re
questing permission to take away the body. The
request was granted, and General Johnston taken
away.
Gen. MltcheU’9 Movements*
The bridges at Florence and Huntsville, on the
! Memphis and Charleston Railroad, over tbe Ten
i ocesse river, bare been destrov&d, as von have been
j already apprised by telegraph, whioh effectually
; prevents the possibility of any reinforcements
• reaching Beauregard from the East.
! Mitchell is now ft few miles this side of luka, &
j small town between Decatur and Corinth, where a
! force can be made extremely serviceable in a Lnk
• movement. It is rumored that a portion of Beau
regard’s army, a few days since, started in the di
, rection of where Mitehell was supposed to be, to
| cut him off. Mitchell, however, is too active to be
■ e&xigbfc napping, trod tbe same report says that he
J gave tbe rebels a hot reception, driving them back
and capturing a few hundred prisoners.
On Thursday a party of 3,800 cavalry, belonging
to our advance columns, made a brilliant dash ]gs9
tbe enemy’s iines, driving In their pickets, and
( completing a most thorough reconnoissance. The
rebel pickets fired their guns and took to tbeir
heels, retiring in the most approved Southern
fashion. The sally resulted in the kiljjpg pue
or two on our aide, but how many of the enemy
suffered it is not known. Tbe enemy’s pickets are
between four and five miles from here, and extend
two miles farther in, the enemy beiDg posted in
force about eight miles distant.
The following extract is from & letter written by
the su7geon of the Nineteenth Regiment (regulars):
“We arrived at Savannah at 10 P. M., (Sunday,)
and were placed on board a steamer and towed up
tbe Hvey eight miles, to Pittsburg Landing. We
xnarohed from the boat, during a shower of rain and
a heavy cannonading from the gunboats, at % A. M.
on Monday morning. We reposed on our arms, in
line of battle* until 7 A. M., and then entered the
woods. Our division was in the centre of the line,
and bore the brunt of the battle. After tbe first
fire I lost sight of my regiment in the smoke. . .
, i I did not flee my regiment again until noon,
when Captain T. C. Williams, of Company C, and
Lewis Snyder, first lieutenant, led their men into
the heart of the three blazing batteries, and cap
tured them. I saw this, and toll p?6ud to be with
such a commander.”
Captain Williams is a native of Pennsylvania, and
was orderly sergeant of Captain Biddle’s company
of Home Guards, of this city, before receiving tbe
appointment of captain in the United States army.
Lieutenant Snyder is a son of G, W. Snyder, of
Potteville, and tbeir company is composed of per
sons from Canaria ap£ COUUtica. The
sons of Pennsylvania are always found in the front
ranks, to battle in defence of the Union.
BOMBARDMENT OF FORT PILLOW.
Cessation of Active Operations against
the Fort.
The correspondent of the Chicago Times, writing
from the vicinity of Fort Pillow, under date of April
19th, gives the following account of affairs there.
The bombardment is almost ceased, and It Is pro
bable that Commodore Foote is only amusing him
self by keeping the rebels in their present posi
tion till Gen. Halleck defeats Beauregard.
Operations Temporarily Suspended.
The correspondent says:
Operations at this place are temporarily sus
pended, by reason of the recent movement of Gen.
Pope’s army up the Mississippi and Tennessee to
Pittsburg. Two infantry regiments, the Forty
third and Forty-fonrth Indiana Volunteers, con
stitute the only land force now remaining here,
and these are stationed on transports in a po
sition to guard the mortar boats, whioh are
moored close to shore under cover of Craighead’s
Point. The original programme, looking to the
immediate investment of the rebel stronghold,
seems to have been abandoned when Pope’s forces
moved up the river. And, now that bis army is
gone, tbe flotilla is merely intended to h&rrass the
enemy by occasional shots, and keep them in
their present position until Beauregard’s army is
routed* Halleck will then proceed by a forced
march upon Memphis; while a portion of his army
*»nve farther to the north, over good roads, and
gobble up i?vito Randolph and Pillow entire. It
would be a masterly bit of str&t«gp.w6ro this plan
adopted, and would be recorded in history M one
of the greatest military,aohieyements of the rebel
lion. Fort Pillow Is a strong fortification, com
manding the entire bend of the river, in a diagonal
line, for a distance of three miles. Located on the
first Chickasaw bluff, and surrounded on three
sides by overflowed land and tangled morasses, It
offers no easy capture. The batteries meuatguni
of the heaviest calibre, and are manned by a force
amounting to, as some report, 5,000 men, under
command of General Villipigue, au old Creole
planter of Louisiana.
Oar Mortar-boats.
Tbe mortar-boats of our flotilla have been shifted
from the Arkansas to the Tennessee shore, where
thty will be less liable to capture. The woods en
Craighead'S Point, on the Arkansas §h9fsi MO in
fested by parties of rebels, prowling around to gain
information. It was thought that the mortars might
be captured while located along the Arkansasshore.
This apprehension undoubtedly led to the change
of their position, although it is believed that better
range can be obtained from their present location
near the Tennessee shore.
The Rebel Gunboats.
The rebel gunboats, of which there are seven,
are anchored in the stream just below Fort Pillow,
and near the Fulton Landing. Although a full
view of these boats is shut off by the intervention
of the woods on the Point, smoke from their chirn
neys can he seen arising over tho tops of the trees.
"Whenever our mortars open fire, a ,-lively dodgiug
amoDg these boats cun be traced from the course of
the smoke, and the transports are speedily known
to be steaming down the river. These transports
are of invaluable service to the rebels at Forts Pil
low and Randolph, affording them easy transporta
tion of nil supplies from Memphis; only seventy*
five miles distant. The fleet if now commanded by
Captain Engee, Commodore Hollins, who was here,
having gone to New Orleans.
A Deserter from the Rebel Fleet.
Among the deserters who have reached the
flotilla is Samuel Sampson, formerly gunner’s‘mate
on board the Confederate gunboat General Polk.
Ho baa a hard story to relate, and I never listened
to so painful a narrative aa he told me on board the
gunboat Renton, a day or two since. For three
months the poor fellow was kept in irons, and ex
posed to all the changes of weather by being bound
to the deck of the Gen . Polk. Arebel naval officer
had preferred charges a»amsthim, specifying certain
acts of mutiny, disobedience to orders, etc. Com.
Hollins convened a court-martial, but the courtnever
B&t,and Sampson has lain in chains. A few nights
ago, assisted by one of hisfellow-marineH. he oast the
chains away, and then jumped overboard and swam
ashore. He reached the Arkansas side in safety,
and the next morning hailed one of the transports,
by which he waa taken aboard the Benton, where
he is now. If anything wore needed to corroborate
his narrative, it Is a copy of the oharges and, specif -
cations, «nd of the order calling a court-martial,
signed by Hollins’ own autograph. Sampson was
TWO CENTS.
formerly a sailor on hoard a merchant vassal flailing
out of New York. The commencement of the re
bellion found him at New Orleans, and having no
other recourse, be was compelled to outer the Con*
federate naval service.
Commodore Foote is suffering muoh from the
woond he received at Donelson. He ia still very
weak,-and it is with difficulty that he goes about
much in his own boat, the flag*ship.
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
Alarm at Memphis,
Two Sew Iron-plated Gunboats on the
stocks.
Thd C6tt6n, Tobacco, Sugar. &c., piled up, ready
for Firing.
18,000 Rebels at Chickasaw Bluffs.
ENTRENCHMENTS BEING BUILT.
The Cairo correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mrtidi b«8 CBcowntcred a communicative “gen
tleman from Memphis/ ’ who has furnished him
with a copy of the Aappeal j of the 17th instant, con
taining news from the South Mississippi. While
achnowledging the danger of the success of the
Federal flotilla, the Appeal udrises the employment
of every one, black and while, to the extent of his
ability, for the defence of that endangered strong
hold, and advocates the construction of the most
approved description of gunboata. Whatever oan
be done with wood and iron, and brain and muscle,
it says, must be done, and done expeditiously.
The Confederate Losses,
The fearful mortality of the Confederate officers,
in the recent battles of the West, is explained by
the fact that the enemy have organized bodies of
sharpshooters. whssa assigned duty it is to pick off
all men appearing in the field with plumes and
epaulettes. The Appeal advises the organization
of similar bodies inrebeldom.
Affairs at ittemDhis.
The citizens of Memphis are manifesting consi
derable alarm for the safety of their city. The
greatest exertions are being made to put the de
fiDces of the city in the possible condition.
Two new gunboats aro already on the stocky and
will be ready for their armament in a week.
These are to be named Beauregard and Arkan.
jtZtT, and to bo rendered almost impiognabla to shot
or shell. The former is defended by compressed
cotton placed between her timbers; her sides will
exceed five feet in thickness. The Arkansas is
ife&'PlaUd. Roth gunheals will he provided with
powerful engines, and will be constructed accord*
ing to tbo moat approved naval architecture, besides
being fitted with enormous prows of iron projecting
from their bows. With the flatter they expect to
ran down our fleet and destroy it at their leisure?
The burning of the city is still discussed. The
general impression seems to be that it will not be
attempted. Cotton, tobacco, and sugar)
is gathered in enormous piles upon the levee, and
will be consigned to the fiames upon tho appear
ance of the Federal fleet above Memphis.
Since the passage of the conscription bill by the
Confederate Congress, all males between eighteen
and thirty have joined the army* There is no im
pressment. The people enter upon this service
with zeal and ardor. Business is almost entirely
suspended, except in that class of goods needed for
the army. Confederate money is current, and
taken at par in exchange for goods. Th?r? is no
other money afloat.
Gen. Johnston's Remains.
The remains of A. 9. Johnston were received at
New Orleans with imposing and,
after lying in elate for two days in the City Hall,
were placed in the receiving vault of the St. Louis
Cemetery, in that place. Great preparations wero
being made for a grand funeral pageant on the bu
rial of the deceased chieftain.
General Prentfes.
General Prentiss surrendered himself personally
to Private Simons, of Captain Bethel’s company of
the Twenty-second Tennessee regiment, who oon
dueted him to Colonel Freeman. The colonel, fs
- his sword, returned and introduced him tO
his regiment. When the regiment discovered the
quality of their captive, they vociferously cheered
him. General Prentiss graciously acknowledged
the compliment by doffing hi§ fast, and in the po*
iitest manner said : “ Boys, you have a right to
shout, for you have fought like tigers. 77
We de not believe that story—at least the last
part of it.
Trouble in Hew Orleans.
A deck hand on one of the rebel boats made his
escape at Fort Pillow on the 20th, and waded
through tHe swamps until he reached the Federal
lines. He had recently left the city, and states that
the French Legion, a body of men composed of the
oldest Creole families, are in a state of semi*rebel
lion’ againßt the Confederate Government. They
were among the most enthusiastic, expecting the
intervention of France, but when Yancey returned
borne and told his doleful story, they shrugged
their shoulders. They couldn't move Without the
nod of Napoleon. Their arms were demanded, but
they refused to give them up. They are now walk
ing the streets, and the authorities did not dare to
attempt disarming them by force. The rebels are
reporltd by this man as building an immense float**
log battery at New Orleans; one hundred slaves
were taken from a plantation hard by for this pur
pose. Bo also says they are working at Randolph
throwing up heavy earthworks, yet no guns appear
there. Where they expect to get them IS a mystery.
An Eclipse,
The Confederate Almanac for 1862, published by
Rev. Doctor Summers, at the Southpfjj Methodist
Publishing House, announces “an eclipse of the
sun visible over the Confederate States /” And
now, oh! gifted prognosticator of celestial myste
ries, vouchsafe to announce that there will be a total
eclipse of the Confederate States shortly, visible
over all creation!
Miscellaneous.
It is reported that there are 18,000 infantry in the
rear of Chickasaw Bluffs, and the daily building up
of entrenchments to provide against an anticipated
attack in the rear. The country back of the bluf&
is now inundated.
Gen. Bragg is at Corinth. Gen. Price is to take
command of Fort Pillow.
Capt. Bankhead, commanding Bankhead’s Con
federate battery, went into the Shiloh battle with 6
pieces and brought out 22.
Pennsylvania at Shiloh.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
Pittsburg Landing, April IC.
I have carefully read your correspondents* letters from
Sliilob, or Pittsburg Landing, with the hope of seeing
seme mentiftn of tho port tlio Savoiitp-eSvehili Pennsyl
vania took in the battle of Monday.
The Seventy- seventh is composed exclusively of the
eons of the Keystone State, there being companies from
Cbamberotourg, Lancaster* Scranton* and Pittsburg; and
does cot now number more than six hundred men.
When the regiment was organized at Pittsburg, in Octo
ber last, it had Capt. Mue:ier*s battery attached, two
hundred strong* but when Gen. Buell reorganized the
birlgiuteß IbKiKiUil/, lie formed tbe batteriee Into bat
talion* and regiments, under the command of a chief of
artillery, and the Seventy-seventh* with much regret,
had to part with two hundred of their comrades, and
one of the beßtlight batteries in that division of the
army.
On Sunday morning, when the battle began* the
Seventy-seventh waa thirty miles from the scene of ac
tion, but hearing of the fight they threw aside knap*
sacks and baggage, aud made a forced march of twenty*
six miles, reaching Savannah at nine o’clock in the
evening, from which point they were carried in boats to
Pittsburg L&ndiDg. Here they lay in mud and rain
until seven o’clock in the morning} when they
the field and fought with great bravery until four o’clock
in the afternoon, when the enemy began their disastrous
retreat.
During the day the Seventy-seventh made a most
Vriiiimjt bayonet charge on a battery, which drew forth
the praises trom the entire division (McCook’s, to which
they are attached). In this charge they took the bat
tery, which had already been taken and retaken several
times' during the day, and which the Serouty-soventh
still hold ftH a trophy. Later in the day a battalion o
the famous Texan cavalry made a dashing charge on
the Seventy-seventh, but they received so warm a recep
tion from the deadly bullets of our Belgian rifles that
they did not repeat tho experiment.
The above is & brief outline ef tk& p&rfonnaucos of the
Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania, Colonel Stambaugb, at
the battle of Shiloh. Had this regiment been from New
York, tho journals of that city would nevec have got
through with accounts of Its behavior, but as it is only a
Pennsylvania regiment it is tabooed just as completely
as if it were in Tiiubuctoo.
It may be possible that the Bmall number killed and
wounded in the regiment (there being bntsixof tho
former and twelve ef the latter) has produced the im«
preeeion that they were not in the “ thickest of the
fight.” But if this is to be made service
on the field, how about the Seventy-seventh Ohio, which
lost nearly fifty killed and doable that number wounded.
and ytt never fired a shot ?
It is not always those regiments which suffer the most
that do the hardest fighting. It very often happens in
battle that a regiment in a brigade is cut to pieces, while
the next one to it escapes without a casualty. And the
Bfune is ato true of companies.
I merely cite these facts for tho information of those
people who cannot understand why it is that the Seventy
seventh, being in the battle all of Monday, eacapod with
so few casualties.
I m sure that Geyotnor Ourtm will not forgot to haTo
ißscrtoefl upon ear Bonner the Dimple word ‘*Bbiluh.”
B. 11. O.
Majoe W. E. Poster, the provost marshal of
tho city of Washington, is a native of Bethlehem,
Fa. When the Secessionists made their wicked as
sault on Fort Sumpter he was attending a law sohool
at Heidelberg, Germany. As soon as he heard of
this rebellion he hastened to return to his nntlve
land, and immediately offered his services to his
country. Within one week he raised a full oom
pany of cavalry, and within three weeks had
token them to Washington, where he joined tbe
Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment, of whioh .he was
soon appointed major. He was aotively engaged
in drilling his squadron until it was brought to a
high state of perfection. HU selection for the re
sponsible poet Of prOvott marshal has given great
satisfaction to the citizens and his numerous friends,
all'of whem bear willing testimony tolhis quiet,
dignified demeanor, his impartial dispensation of
juBtio* ( hig Btriot integrity of character, ar»d his
efficient maintenance of order.
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LETTER FROM NEW YORK.
Arrival of Transport Boston—Health of Sol
diers at Port Royal—More Pulaski Prisoner*
en rouif—Arrival of Troops from Vermont—
Gunboat Port Royal and her Officers—De
parture for Port Royal—Hotels in Netv York
—Departure of Steamers for Europe—Hubbub
among the Concert Saloon People—A Supreme
Court Judge Rurap»n>—tijp Brothrl keeper*
anti the Hum Sellershelplug the Police—Free
Transit for the Bodies of Dead Soldiers to
their Homes—Big Strawberries—Business at
the Slib*Trentiury—Dry Hoods Import*—Ex
ports of Specie—Stocks—Markets, Ac.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
Kkw York, April 25, 1353.
A eoncert-Bflleon propriMcr hiftd & ward constable to
arrest a saloon girl ou Thursday night. Tho girl wm
taken before Judge Barnard yesterday. Tbo judge gave
the thing the shape of a case, although there was n» caao
is ili pwiponefl j* mi t9*dft7j ami Oiitt morning post
poned it agftin till the first Monday in May, whon it will
come up for argument before the general term. In thus
disposing of the case, Judge Barnard took occasion to
make a very caustic speech in regard to au editorial in
the New York Times of this day, referring to this mat
ter. He threatened to imprison tho writer of the offen
sive article.
The United States transport Boston, (7apt. J. P. John
son, from Pott Rural, arrival at teis port this morning,
having kit Put Royal on the 22d, fhg§ jnsgigg tjje pjjgr
e»ge ii» ;«bree dm n il r /urflr TftO DteAfDlllip
Atlantic would leave ou the 24th for this port, with
eighty of the Fort Pulaski prisoners. Nothing of im
portance had tak<'U place since tbu last reports. Thf
beelth of continued Hathfactery.
Tho following versels mnaiu in port; (steamer* Allan*
tiCt Fulton, c ’ahawOa, Delaware, Ben De Ford, F«-
pire City, Mattano, May Flower , &ud Flora , and ship
|V*m Cummings.
The steanur Cosmopolitan aailod on the 23d for Fer- *
cat diua. The steamer Be{i was at fit, ABBIttMi
3 be Honduras was at Fort I’u’asKi.
Paßskngeus.—Sergeant Major J. W. Browning, En
gineer Corps; Sergeant Majur W. U. Lounsberry, do;
Joseph Aihiiih, Oritnance Sergeant; Hergoaat John A.
Kelly, Ninth Maine j Sergeant E. L. Buell. Seventh Ooa
heciicu*; L. Saupcss, 111 &. Bjyd, (j. SVmdham, J. O.
Oliver, G. W. Taylor, Medical Cadet, and 105 in tho
steerage.
The new steam gunboat Pori Iloyal was put into com
mission this afternoon, but ebe will not be ready for a l *
much before the close of FCpKi Tftc fvlJofftog i 9 A
list of her officers: George W. Morris, liemcuaut Com
manding ; Ilenry A. Toda, lieutenant and executive offi
cer; M.S. Stuyveeunt, master; Edgar Van Slyk, L. D.
I). Yorhees, acting masters; William S. Fort, actlugu
eistent surgeon; John A. Bates, Jr., acting assistant pay
master : W. Oi Leiden, acting chief engineer; Gdorga
W. tenser. acting second asaisiant engineer; E At.
Brufce, C. W. Lewis, end F. B. Allyn, acting third aa
sbtrtiil engineers; John 11. Marvel, Benjamin Wood, W.
K. and E. V. Tyson, noting run,iter’s mates ;
H. 11. EtujiS) captain’s clerk. The Port id armed
with (juu icO-jK.und shell gun, o|*e IV-)UQh Ualgrdlt and
six 24 pound howitzeis. She canies a crow of sixty
men and a guard of ten marines and two corporals, un
der Sergeant Brown. All the ma/ines have served be
fore, uiidfcr Captain Morris, on hoard the ill-fatod frigate
°
The steam supply vessel Massachusetts, Lieutenant
Commanding Cooper, left the navy yard, this afternoon,
with a cargo of fresh provisions for Port Jtoyal. eh*
wili call at Hampton Bonds and ieavo a mail for the fleet.
Tho steamboat Francis Sl. Skidily, itliish arrived ihle
morniLg From Albany, brought on 500 men o! tbe Sixdi
Vtimotit Regiment, under command of Captaia Jones.
The buckets at the hotels in this city lias been ex
tremely britk throughout the whole week, and nearly all
the hotels aro so filled with guests that they bftYe tO BeDi ?
away applicants fur rooms. In one of the firSF'Cioaf
houses, three cots had to be placed in one of the parlors*
on Friday night, in crier to obtain sleeping accommoda
tions fur three old customers.
Tbe steamers from this port, to-day, are the Kangaroo
and John BelU for Liverpool.
A meeting of concert-saloon proprietors and their at
taches was held in a “diving-bril” in Broadway, to-day,
the object of which was to combine to defy the new law
relative to conceit saloons. Tho meeting was composed
principally of who are not directly egg&ggd in
tho concert-baioon budiness, hut who anticipate (hat flit
law may he brought to bear upon them, as they very
generally have waiter-girls in their lager saloons. A
German committee was appointed to prepare resolution*
in relation to the projected organization. Last night •
mt-ttiog of hrothol keeper* wu held at a hdUse lb lk«
upper port cf the city, and a memorial adopted, wbioh
was sent to the Superintendent of Police, urging him
to suppress tbe concert saloons. The memorial cha
racterizes them as low, vulgar, places, calculated
t? eep lb? Bi°r»ls vf the rmm men who visit
them, and costs them more mouey than the 11 ordinary
routine vices.” The Liquor-dealers’ Association Execu
tive Committee are to meet to-night to consider what
steps are best to be taken to aid tbe police in suppressing
all unlicensed rumseUers, and the concert*saloon keep
ers in particular. It is expected that Judge B&nttfil
will fail In for some hard knocks. John MM|
ex-Becorder Jag. M. Smith are the counsel for the un
licensed rumsellerß. Yerily, we are in the midst of a
revolution!
Col. llowe to-day received permission from tbe Board
of Health to pass the dead bodidi < f soldier* from to
battle-field through this city without detention for «x
-animation by tho city inspector.
A basket of straw berries was exhibited in Wall street
to-day* the individual berries measuring from two ta
four inches in circumference. They were grown by Shep
herd Enapp, Eeq., at Melbourne, New York.
The following was this day’s business at the office of
the United Jrtales Assistant Treasurer:
Total Receipts $2,260,074 19
a Payments...- 2,515,469 00
“ 12iM2.732 S 3
The receipts include $142,000 for custom*.
The deposits with Mr. Cisco to-day were $1,230,099.
Comparative statement of the imports of foreign dry
goods and general merchandise at the port of New York
for the week ending April 25, and since Jan. 1:
im, mi, isos.
.81,763,488 393,061 527,592
. .2,446,705 1,710,926 2,815,0« L
Fpr the week.
Dry g00d5........
Geu. MetcUandiae.
4,150,253 2,103.937 3,206,411
Total for the week.
Prev’ly reported...
.74,893567 56,176,349 52,239.121
Since Jan. f 579,0+3,529 &3,259,330 59,580,686
BXi ORTS or bPICJB FROM SEW YORK TO FOREIGN POST*
FOR TUB WEEK ENDING AIT.U. 26
April 23—Steamship Columbia, Havana
American specie...
Spanish g01d......
23 Steamship Asia, Liverpool!
American gold coin 151,226
24 Brig Harriet Halleck, Arroya, P. R.;
Doubloons ... 14,40*
American silver coin —ftit 3,60 f
25 Bark Teresa, Si. I'liomM aud Mara
caibo;
American gold coin 53,00*
26 Steamship Kangaroo, Liverpool
American gold
Sovereigns.
51,1^1,50#
las of stocks at the second
The following were the si
board to-day '
’Bl Reg.. 100 LI Cot scrip., uriO 58*
2000 do 94ft 1000 C & T01ed0...... 41V
10000 U 8 6s *Ol Cp... 94ft 75 Pacific Mail SS.. .100 V
200C017 S6s 1 y Cer.,. 98 ft 100 do 830.105
5000 Trees 7 3*lo pc.loo ft 50 do., 100
20U0 Glev & Tol Sf. 86ft 60 do ....840.105
IWWCBdVi&po.. 9» 60 dOntiitmiGOilOfi
10000 Mich 8 S Fd,.,, 9Jft 50 d0........830.105^
1000 Mich C SslstmtXOO -IOONYOn... S 3
100 Erie R pref»...b3o 61ft 55 Chi &R I 1t...... 54
5 Hudfon lUver 8.. 35 ft 5 Erie K 3tfW
60 Mich Con It 63ft 300 do 36JV
ICOP&BMtt&IL 123 ft 100 do 000..
The Flour market is quiet and steady. Wheat is firm,
but the operations were checked by ihe light supply.
Corn is heavy and lower, with only a moderate business.
The Provision market, with the exception of Beef and
lard, ia heavy, and there Is a genoral downward tendonc*
in prices.
Ashes are quiet and steady, at 35.62 ft for pots, and
86.60 for pearU.
Brkadstcvfs.— The market for State and Western
Flour is quiet and steady.
The antes are B*OOQ bbls, at &i.70®4 95 for suparllßa
State: $5 1005.20 for extra State; 54.7004.95 for super
fiue Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, lowa, Jrc., and 851005.36
for extra do, including ehippinggbrands of round-hoop
Ohio at 85 3506.46, with sales of inferior lota as low as
£5,20*10.30, and trade brands of d$ fit ss t sdoGisO,
Southern Flour is steady, but the demand 19 quftf
moderate ; sates 700 bbls. at 80.05cr5.70 for superfine
Baltimore; $5.7507 for extra de.
Canadian Flour is quiet, with sales of 650 bbls at
55.105r5.30 for bpriug extra, and $5.4005, 50 for winter
do.
Bye Flour ifl quiet and firm at 83.2504.25 for Km
range of fine and superfine.
Corn Meal is unchanged ; wo quote Jersey at 82.75 a
2 80: Brandywine 83.1003. U, puncheons 815.
Wheat is quiet and steady. The stock is very light*
which restricts business: Sales MOO bushels white Cali
fornia on private terms.
Bye is quiet at 79®82c.
Barley ia dull and nominal at 80a95c.
Oats are firmer, and in moderate request at 35041 a for
Jersey, Western, Canadian, and State.
Corn is lie&yy and lftw&p, while tbo demand is mode
rate} sales ot 45,000jbusU at 57®58c for mixed Western*
in stare and delivered.
Hors*—The receipts continue small, and the market
!■ firm j moderate sales are making to brewers at 12019 s
for new.
Whisky is more active, with sales of 1,500 bbls at 22)4
©23ft c, chiefiy at 23c.
Nayal Stores’* —The demand for Spirits Turpentine to
quite moderate, and the market is quietßales 100 bbla
at $l-4001.42)*, closing with no sellers under sl.42ft.
Zbeeteckof Btiiugisredncedtoa very low point. »n 4
prices ore very arm; tbe tales ero 100 bbls common at
57.75; 50 bbls strained at 88.12), lbs, and 15*
bbls strained at 57.62 ft lbs. Tar is quiet and
steady.
Cilb.—Linseed is dull and drooping; crashers are aak
lof Bicß4c for jobbing |,j sl bp, 9»1e9 an making as low
as 32c. Crude whale is in fair request fur bOIQO Q 96, and
the market is steady; sales 1,400 bbls at 48c. Orada
sperm is inactive at 81.38, Crude petroleum of desirable
qualities, say 43©45c, 1b in moderate demand, but there
is no advance in prices} sales have been made at 100120,
the latter rate in prime ahippios order. Befinod pstra&
leutn is in fair demand, and there have boon sales at 18a
80 for dark to light Btraw color and handsome white, tba
outside figure for choice. Tallow is quoted at 7ftc, and
Palm has been sold at Bftc, for arrival.
Provisions. —Pork is dull, heavy, and declining; the
■ales are GOO bbls. at §l2 25 for mess, and SlOalO 25 fop
prime. Bcof is more active, aud improving, with sales of
660 bbls. at 812013 for repacked Western; 814016f0r
extra mess, and $l6 for doable extra mess. Prime mess
and India mess beef dull. Beef hams are quiet at $16.7$
©l7. Bacon is dull and heavy. Cut meats are lower,
with sales of HO casks plekUdha&sat ftfti.; 75 cAaka drr
salted do. at sjic.; 100 boxes dry salted shoulders at
4ftc.; and 64 boxes do. at 4ftc Lard U firm, and in fair
request; sales 1,450 bbls. and tea. at 7ft oSftc., and
small lots at Bft c.
Sugar. —Baw continues in fair request, with sale©
of 1,500 hhds, at 6fta7fto for Cuba, and Taßfto fop
Porto Hi co.
Spices —We notice sales of 2,000 mats Cassia at 35c ;
50 bags Pimento, 12# c, and 10 bales Cloves, at 210.
Cotton.—Tbe market is quiet and steady, at 29# ©29#©
for middling uplands, with sales of 509 bales.
& Molasses infirm and in good demand; sal eg 75 bhds
Porto itico at 39c; 400 do. Cuba Muscovado at 29c, ami
139 bbls old do. at 28c.
Coffee is very dull; Bales 100 bags Bio and 200 bag©
haguajra, on private terms.
Bice is very quiet, with small sales at previous ratoeu
» n . c ' io ;-. 2 ,716 boxea Sipjly Or«ng999»kl at
$1.59.2.40, *nd 3,7x0 do. L..-mowß „ 91.75.92.19 i
Opr poa TBB South-west.— Brigadier General
Frank Patterson, of Philadelphia, baa started for
the Sou Arnett, to a amine the command of a brigade
under major General Hillock. Captain Charley
M. Provost, of the Reserve Graja, PhiSadelphi'*,
has received an appointment upon the staff or
general.
A Rebel Troi>iit. —lt’ta atate i feat tba rebel
flag which waved over Fort Pulaski prior to to sur
render, is in tbe possession of Governor Rucking
'ham, of Connecticut. It was. awarded to> ths
Seventh Connecticut for theiv gallantry ia few
siege, and they immediately sent it to the
to be placed in the State Capitol.
Governor. Smite’s Son Exchanged— lt to
staled that an exchange has been agreed upon
between Br. Ayers, the returned Richmond pri-
hud tho son of ex-Goverfiw Sfolfe, of Vir
ginia, who has been in Fort Warren several
Months.
Masonic Celebration-—St. John’s Day will be
celebrated on a grand scale at Portland, Mf., this
year, in honor of tbe one hupdreth anniversary Of
ihe introduction q£ masonry into that State.
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