T.l-Ikl PUBLUNID DAILY (SUNDAYS SEONPTED,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY. OFFICE No. in SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE DAILY PRESS, TWELVE OMER PER WERE, aa9ahla to the Carrier_ Mailedto inibecribere out the City at Atx 1 ) O LT.AAa esti ARNIM, FOUR DOLLARS ROE EIGHT DoSTisi, lazig DoLLARS you Six lima HS—invariablyad 'Tim for Me time ordered. THE TR I.W rpm, V PIS ENS, Mailed to Subecribere out of the Oily at TERMS DOL LARS Pall ANNUAL in advance. MILLINERY GOODS. SPRING 1862 1862. WOOD & CARY. (Bnocconors to Lincoln, Wood, & No. 796 CHESTNUT STREET, awn wow in Store a complete eke* STRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS, BILK BONNETS, STRAW AND PALM-LEAP RATE, Ao To which they respectfully lovas tho attention of the gainer patrons of the house and the trade generally. marl2-2m glp SPRING. 1 4uto UtMl. M. BE - ENKE - IM. No. 728 CHESTNUT STREET, Ram now in store, and is daily receiving, the latest onvlea in 31111BONS, FRENCH FLOWERS, WREATHS, SILKS, CRAPES, LACES, AND OTHER ERY GOODS, which be reapectfully Invites the attention of the TBADB. PRICES LOW. mb24.3in SPRING-. 1862. RIBBONS. MILLINERY. AND STRAW GOODS. MOSENHEI M. BROOKS. & 0 0., NO. 431 MARKET STREET, nave now open—and to which daily &in:MMus are made— their USUAL HANDIONE 'VARIETY or RIBBONS', BONNET MATERIALS, FLOWERS, BITCH ES, fiTRAW AND FANCY BONNETS, AUSSE.' AND if RATS, FLATS, SHAKER HOODS, and f.LL OTERR ARTICLES IN TILE IRILLLNERY LII O IE, Which will be offered at the LOWEST MARKET PRICES. The attention of the trade is reapectfully invited. Mr Pardo:dux attention given to Minn order& rolilaam THOMAS KENNEDY & BRO., w %IMAM PtreA ks 4 w Elea & abotoe Stock d SPRING MILLINERY GOODS, rehLS-3m] AT LOW PRIEM& CARPETS AM) OIL CLOTHS. NEW CARPETING. JAMES H. ORNE, 4326 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW BETBNTH We have just receive& by safe snivels from Europe, Dome new mid choice Yaneties of CAIIPSTING, Om , TRENCH ATJBUSON Square Carpets. VINGLISH AXMINSTERS, by the Yard and in entire Carpets. WROSSLEYI3 6.4 and 3-4 wide Velvets (I Tapestry Brussels. gg Brussels Carpeting. Ale*, a large variety of CIiaiSLEY'S and other make!, TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, From Bile. to $1 Per Yd.. Our assortment comprisea all the beat waken of Three- DIY and Ingrain Carpeting, which, together with a gene+ rya setietk of goods in our Nue, will be offered at the low gist possible prices. OIL CLOTH FOR FLOORS, 7 rc p owe to eight yards wide, cut to any Size. FRES-H MATTINGS. By late arrivals from China we have a full assortment WHITE AND COLORED MATTINGS OF ALL WIDTHS JAMES H. ORNE, GLEN ECHO MILES. 111e0A1.1.UM & Co., ISAROTAOTIIIIERS, IMPORTERS, ANDDICALERS 5 , 09 C•HEBTNIIT STREET (Opposite Independence Hail,) CARPE OIL CLOTHS, &c. We have now an head an extensive stook ot Oarpelkiao, of onr own sad other makes, to which we call the often- Eton at cub and short-tlme buyer& FOITILTH-STREET CARPET STORE, 9 . 47 ABOVE EIRBSTNIJT, No. 47. J. T. DELACROIX. Invites attention to hie Spring Importation of C3A.RPETINGS. Comptiehig every WI., of the Newest Patterns mod Deeigne, in VELVET, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY BRCS -15W, IMPERIAL THREE-PLY, and INGRAIN! itaILEPITINIAL VENETIAN and DAMASK STAIR CARPETING& SCOTCH BAG and LIST CARPETING& FLOOR OIL CLOTHS, in every wider COCOA and °ANION INA.TTINGS. DOOH-MATS, RUGS, SHEEP SHINS, DEUGGETS, and CRIME. CLOTHS. AT WHOLESALE AND RITAIN LOW FOR CASH. J. T. DELACROIX, 47 South FOURTH Street. rWT7TUWW7W 7 II - 1 PABLNET FURNITURE AND "kJBIL LIARD TABLNB. MOORE ik CAMPION. No. 261 Booth 13100WD Skeet, tis oottuectlou with their exteaidye Oabiaet Balittaal Sr. pow taaaufacturing a euperlor article of BlitiAril TABLE% And hare now on hand a MI aunty, finished with the SIOORN & CAMPION'S IMPROVID CUSHIONS, Midch are pronounced, by all who bare need them, to be pnperkor to all others. Nor the tonality and Itolth or *Lowe tablet the mama, Sechmers Refer to their numerous patrons thronghenS the Union, who are familiar with the character of their Mork. fe26-8m DRIIIIS AND VIIZIIIIIGALS. ROBERT SHOEMAKER do CO_ Brodhead Corner FOURTH and RAOZ Weds, PHILADELPHLI, WHOLESALE IMPORTERS AND DEALERS or /10/V3ltili AND DOMEOTIO 'WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS. DIANTIFIOTIIIIIIIII OP worn Limp AliD ZINO PAINTS, PUTTY, AO DONOR ZINO PAINTS. Damian and consumers manned It VERY LOW PRICES FOR CARL sp29-2ok NVHITE LEAD, DRY AND IN OlL.—Bed Lead, White Lead, Litharge, Sugar 44 Lead, Copperas, Oil of Vitriol, Calomel, Patent Tel- MI% %route Bed, Chrome Yellow, Aqua Fordo, Mn. siatio Acid smut bane, Rochelle oaks, Tartaric Acid, Crowe Mineral. Soluble Tart. Sub. Oarb. Soda. White Vitriol, Bed Precipitate, White Precipitate, Lunar Caustic, Marootine, Suiph. Morphine, Morphine, Acetate imic• §illipbt, Ram lildpliurig, Miler Nitric' giliipilnui quilling' corm &MU., Deuarcotized Opium, Chloride of Soda, WetherilPg Mut. 'lnas, Tartar Emetic, Chloride of Lime, Crude Borax, Refined Borax, Canaan Merin Copavia. WITHERILL it BROTHER, Druggist. and Menatacturing Obemiets, Nos. 4? and 49 North SECOND Street, PEULADBLPILIA. COMMISSION HOUSES. COFFIN, di CO., 320 CHESTNUT STREET, *tante for the following makes of geode: PRINTS. . mama. MFG. C 0..... OBRA= mre. 00. LAWNS. DUNNRI.II MFG. 00. BLEACHED COTTONS. Lousdale, Forestdale, Auburn, Blateniville, Oentredale, Jamestown, Blackstone, Hope, Red Bank, Dorchester, Newburyport, llaumeag, Zonave, Burton, Greene Mfg. Co.'s A. A., B. A., 0. A., and other Billet. BROWN COTTONS. Burnside, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Chestnut, Glenville, Mechanics' and Tamers'. SOBStil. Jicairs.—dhogow, DENIMS AND STRIPES.—Grafton, Jewett City, Madison, fitaterseille, Agawam, Keystone, Choctaw. CANTON FLANNELS.—Slatersville, Agawam. BILESIAS.--Smithle, Social Co., Lonsdale WOOLENS. ARMY BLUE CLOTHS, KERSEYB, and FLAN NELS. BROAD OLOTHB.—Plreakette, Otenhaw Co., Act. OASSIMERES.---Ony ar Son, Saxton'a giver, &O. SATINETS.—Bees River, Conversville. Lower Val ley, Hope, Statfordville, Converse and Hyde, Converse Bros. & Co., Shaw Mg. Co. KENTUCKY JEANS.—Rodman, Mystic, Gold Medal. DOMET FLANNELS.—WILLIAMS'S Angola, Sax ony, Merino, and other styles: LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored Cambtios. PLAID LINVIGY3, OOTTOWADIIS, ac. Ve2o-31211 RIDGWAY, HEUSSNER. • fii CO., IMPORTERS OF CLOTHS, DOESKINS, CASSIMERES, Co., OFFER THEIR VERY LARGE STOCK AT CON SIDERABLY REDUCED PRICES. Also, just received, A LARGE INVOICE OF SAXONY DAMASKS, Which will be sold VERY LOW, And to which we call attention of buyeta. No. 206 CHESTNUT STREET. spi-lm 14A SHIPLEY, PI AZ A. KIX & Hi7TCHIN SON, No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET, COMMISSION MERCHANTS TOR TRX SALS OT PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. mid& 6m PARASOLS, S UN UMBRELLAS, AT WM. H. RICHARDSON'S, FANCY AND PLAIN PARASOLS, lined And nu. 16A, 500 to $1..50. CHECK AND FLOUNCED do, do, $1.50 to $2.50. BEST QUALITY DOUBLE,RUEFLE, very 'Meat, do, do, $1.75 to $2 50. SILK BUN 1311113RBLIAS, $1 to SIM. EXTRA. QUALITY do, Sl5O to $2.75. GINGHAM SUN UMBRELLAS, 45c aad upwards. BAIN UMBRELLAS, 40 to 750. EXTRA SCOTCH_ GINGHAM do, $1 to $2.50. SILK RAIN UMBRELLAS, ga to $4. MAGNIFICENT QUALITY do $4 to $550. myL at YARNS, BATTS, air CARPET CHAINS. A H. FRA.NCISCUS. WHOLESALE DE&LEH IN ICA.NNS, 4U ELLEKET and S North FIFTH Scree! PHILADELPHIA. Boyers will find a fall Stock of COTTON, LINEN, AND WOOLLEN CARPET CHAIN, COTTON YARN, 'MUM, F ILLING, WADDING, BATTING, COTTON LAPS, Imo YARNS, TWINES, CANDLE WICE, UOVARLXT YARN, BROOM TWINES,-SHOE 'MUM GELLING AND SEINE TWINES, BED CORDS, WASH AND PLOUGH LINES, COTTON, HEMP, AND MANILLA CORDAOII. Also, a full assortment of FLY NETS„ Which he offers at Manufacturer! LOWEST NET CASH PRICES. 626 CHESTNUT ONMANT9W,III PA. ti r.l r fl Etrt •' , • / 1 •/ • , //," 'O tir •4 v tr ±r tr ic ,3o * a `t 11"1" 19 . ".; • • _ - - _ .. • 1 POI 01111 k. Lgi VOL. 5.-NO. 232. UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS RAW UMBRELLAS, W, VOA, FirTll AND DIAREET STUNTS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. A H. FRANCISCUS. U 3 MARKET and 6 North FIFTH Street, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLEBALB DEALER IB WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. Always on band, a full Stock of TUBB, BUCKETS, CHURNS, MEASURES, BROOMS, WHISKS, FANCY BASKETS, 'WALL, SCRUB, and SWEEPING BRUSHES, LOOKING-GLASSES and WINDOW PAPER, Maio, iteeleav, riOlar b Slaetllf ao.oo, WARR BOARDS, BOLLING and CLOTHES PINS. FLOOR and TABLE OIL OLQT49, SCHOOL, MARKET, and DINNED BASSETS. Was, Barrows, Carriages, Hobby Horses, &c., ko. All Goods sold at LOWEST NET' CASH PRICES. BLINDS AND SHADES BLINDS AND SHADES. B. a. WILLIAMS, No. 16 NORTH SIXTH STUNET, mAxurACTuRER OF VENETIAN BLINDS AND WiNDOW SLLIDES. . The lamest sad. Eneet eawartnient in the City at the EOWNBT PRICES. NTOEN BHADBI3 LETTERED. Borthrkeitecenytly attended to. nya-Bitt SEWING MACHINES. WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES, 628 CHESTNUT STREET, tehllais PHILADELPHIA. LOOKING GLASSES 13. EARLS & BON, AND IMPORTZBB LOOKING GLASSES. OIL PAINTINGS, ZINN 31111GRAVING15, 1147 TUBS AND PO TRAIT SHAW% PHOTOGRAPH TRA.MRS, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, OARTR-DH-VD3ITS PORTRAITS, EARLE'S OAT , T;FIRIES, 616 CHEEITNIIT BTILBST, PHILADILPRIU. WATCH - ES, JEWELRY, &o. A FRESH ASSORTMENT, at LESS Li. THAN TONI= WAR MOIL 1 BEOTHIR. Importer., MU OHISTNIIT Street, below Youth.. 211320-11 TP YOU WANT GOOD POUND BUTTER, go to 0. Z. GOTTWALW, No. $U AP GING UMW= liked. 50h2641 Rebellious Runaways! Awfully scared, And unprepared, Were the folks at Vow Orleans] Obliged to run, Without firing a gun. Avoiding such stirring scenes. rho Voorderatv flog (Piratical rag) Was hauled right speedily down, Notwithstanding the boast Of tho rubel host, That we never could take thole town They scamper away, In sore dimay, Seeking some other place; Benuregard Jeff Davis growl& With dismally lengthened face Well, let them growl And fearfully howl, Those traitorous people all; aheut and ling Of that noble thing. The Emporium—Great OAK HALL! A PLAIN FACT.—OAK HALL has become popular because it has a large and wen•assurted stock of &A ral° Clothing always oh h. id, uod aaonla aun ha milted when they call there, and because all the goods are wan gotten up and sold at really low prices for lAe cash. By this system of business extra profits do not have to ue charged on one to pay the losses on others but all buy Witt at low fillet WANAMAKER & BROWN, OAK HALL, it Southeast corner SIXTH and MARKET. JEWELRY, &c. C LA R K'S ONE DOLLAR STORE. 802 CHESTNUT STREET NEW GOODS, NEW STYLES, AND NEW PRICES. for ONZ DOLLAB you can buy any ono of the fol lowing article*: Beta of Silver Plated Tea Spoons. 4C IC Desert 7.1 11 INbic, 4. 64 4 , 44 Forks. 14 411 ta Desert 4, Pair a. a' Knife and Fork. It 41 II "Napkin Rings. " " Butter Knives. BSver Plated Sugar Bowl. . 4 Butter Dish. 4, « Idolegme Pitcher. . 4 Cream 4. it " Castor. " Walter. az " Goblet. It tt 1114 liking Cr* " " Sugar Sifter. Gold Plated Vest Chain, all styles tt 55 Guard 46 66 if t 44 0. N ec k lig a it Chidelaine, " " Bracelet, " " " " Medallion, " " (4 " Armiota, " 44 " Dryad Pius " " " Ear Binge, " " " Pin and Drone, all " " Etude and Buttons, . " Solitary Sleeve Pqaton, all styles. a u Posom is a. Finger - Rings, Pencils, " " Pen with Pencil arse. Ladled or Gooklomen'e Pori Monnaio, Babaq Legs, Purses, &0., &c., &o. AU Goode warranted as repre sented. We have on hand a large assortment of Photo graph Album, Mantel Clocks, Travelling Bags, 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, 602 CHESTNUT Street. PAPER HANGINGS pHILADELPHIA PAPER HANCIING: HOWELL & BOURKE, CORNER OF FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS, MANUFACTURERS OF PAPER HANGINGS AND WINDOW CIIRTALN PAPERS, Offer to the Trade a LARGE AND ELEGANT AS SORTMENT OF QOODS, ft oM the cheapest BrOFU Steele to the Fined Deeeratiene. N. E. COR. FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS B.—Solid Green, Blue, and Buff WINDOW PAVERS of AvAry Grade. AM -2th DRY-GOODS JAMMERS. 1862. " " • 1862. ABBOTT. JOHNES. & $27 MARKET (STREET, Have now open an entirely new and attraotlye stock In ENGLISH. FRENCH, GERMAN, AND AMERICAN DRESS GO 41)5, Also, a full assortment in WHITE GOODS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, SHAWLS, &0 ., To which they Write the attention of the trade. SPRING STOCK BILK AND FANCY DRESS GOQDS. A. W. LITTLE 8a C 0.., 2016-ti /to. 326 KAMM 13T. 1862. BERING} . 1862. RIEGEL. BAIRD. & 00., 131POILTERS AND JOBBERS ot • DRY GOODS. 4 7 4941'4 TAXSP OTSSST• ISILLIMILPHLL. Kerohants visiting this city to pnrohasa Dar GoODII will And oar Otook largo el and admirably assorted, and at Low Ileum. In certain classes of Goode we offer inducements is purchased uneguaThal by any other hone, in Philadelphia. mhlB-2m J AMES, KENT, SANTEE. dis CO., IerIPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF DRY .G 0 0 D S. Nos. 239 and 241 N. THIRD STRIERT, nii(JIG) PHILADELPHIA, Have now oyes their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK ow koitiiiax AND DOMEOTTC PRI titot)Dl3 ) Among which will be found a more than usually attrac tive variety of LADIES' DRESS GOODS: Also, a full assortment of MERRIMACK AND COCRECO PRINTS, and PHILADELPHIA-MADE 1300Dti. To which they Invite the special attention of buyers. inb2l-2m 1862. SPRING - 1862. W. EL STEWART & 00, //4/VATER9 AND /91)031111 or BILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, RO. 301 MARKET STRUT. Now In gore, • POUT DE 501 E, All Shades. BLACK AND WRITE CHECKS, In SILKS and OTHER FABRICS. ALIO, OT AII FULL cLoAKINci 0 P L AIDS, STRIPES, And desirable PLAIN COLORS. BEOT QUALITYIiQQVILICt Sidal always on hand Ina Too Nile a% 'Union Whan,l4ll] BBACH Street, Ironnington. T. TROIKAS, 70041 w WALNUT DMA PbUsdelpids, PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1862. - Vjt Vrtss. SATURDAY, MAY R, 1162. OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. LETTER FROM LONDON. Imperial Visitorsfrom France—Napoleon's Religions Liberality—Club. Law in Lon• don—Blackballing Extraordittary—Al bert Memorial Almost Played Out— Prince of Wales in Devonshire and Cornwall—" Stun. Sltvh " an Parliament —his Failure, Ambitions, and Anti- Americanism—Dukedom of Northum berland—The Smithson-Percres: A Roy al Retort—Literary Ciosip—G, A, gala— Pictorial rapers—London Daily Jour 11181:4—George Stiff's Bankruptcy—Tait's Magazine The Uhannings Marian rim Stories—Late Duke of Men. mond—Anthony Trollope. [Correspondence of The Prose j LONDON, April 10, 1862. Parliament having adjourned to tha and of tha month, and most of the politicians, in and out of office, baring soatterod themselves at their various country seats all over the country, there is no news To-day, I shall only give you rogue gossip. Prince Napoleon is expected hero in a day or two, as heed of the French Commission at the Great Exhibition. The Emperor may come,—but it is doubtful, for there aro rumors that he is afraid of an attempt +0 assassinate him, by 9901 e or the exiled French Red Republicans, who have literally made Leicester Square a French gnarlier. If he does come, it will probably be with state, display, or formality, Ahd imae6ompe.lod by his wife. Just now, Napoleon is popular here, beeanse of his having . put a positive veto on the Archbishop of Toulouse's proposition of having a semi-religious jubilee to dolobrate the three hundredth anniver sary of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. English Protestants are grateful for this wretched intolerance and bigotry being sternly condemned. Club-law is a terrible thing, when, in London Society, it gins the cut direct to 'persons in high station. The other day, at Brooke's Club, the Liberal club of London, above all others, out of the fay which flourish there, Mr. Robert Lowe, a lead ing member of the Palmerston Ministry, as Presi- dent of the Board of 'stealth and Vice President of the Education Board, was solemnly blackballed, not by one ball, which excludes, but, it is said, by twenty, This is a heavy souls, blow at the jurveittc Privy Councillor, and may be taken as expressive of his own friends' dislike to his recent attempts to Cid down the incomes, increase the work, and lower the status of the school-teachers in the National Schools. Perhaps, too, it was feared or felt that Lowe was not " a clubable man," (which Dr. John son said Jemmy Boswell was ; ) or, more probably his connection with The Tinees, as one of its editors, may have caused his rejection. Club folks dislike chicle (• amang them takin' notes," milts I ViVIT tO " prent them." Still, though these causes may have kept Mr. Robert Lowe out of Brooke's, why on earth should its aristocratic - Whip also hays blackballed Mr. Owen .stanley, M. P. for Beaumaris, and twin- brother of Lord Stanley, of Alderloy, Postmaster- General, and a Cabinet Minister? Fat, good humored, gentlemanly Owen Stanley is the hiet roan one would pronounce ineligible for Brookes's. It is said that his position as a director of the Ches ter and liolshead Railway has a touch of trade in it, which comes between the wind and the nobility of the club! If so, hew has it happened that 'Frank. Crossley, M. P. for West Yorkshire, who is only a carpet manufacturer at Halifax, is within the charmed circle of Brookes' ? These incidents may PPADI trifling to you, hut have caused much 'discus sion, surprise, anger, and speculation here. Sure sign that we have not much of real importance to think or talk about. The amount collected, lu London, from all parts of the country, for the Albert Memorial, stands still at 143,000—a large sum, but not a fifth of what was expected. Strong means have been used every where, to gain subscriptions, even from the middle and working .classes, but with little effeot. The idea of setting up an Egyptian obelisk, in honor of a modern Christian gentleman, has been abandoned, notwithstanding Queen Victoria's desire b r suc h a memorial. As she has not contributed one six. pence to the Fund, people have presumed to ques tion her right to force her idea on the committee. The city of Oxford bee ordered a marble statue of Prince Albert, to be presented to the University, and placed on this library ., of the new Museum there. In addition to his. recently•purchased estate in Norfolk, the Prince of Wales has beeeme proprietor of a shooting-box in Devonshire—that is, one-half the land is in that charming county, famous for pretty girls and clouted cream, sparkling cider and Welt eyes, and the remainder is in Cornwall, The dwelling-house is in Devonshire, but within a mile or two of the borough of Launceston. Werrington Park, the name of this place, has been purchased from the Duke of Northumberland by the Duke of Newcastle, as niceessor, until next Lord Mayor's Day, to the late Prince Albert, in the Warderiship of the Duchy of Cornwall. In all probability, the Prince of Wales is yet ignorant (last advie ea leaving him near Jerusalem) of Ibis purchase la his mo netary guardian. The park is of considerable eV.- tent, and full of game, and the district around is a fine hunting tract. There are several fine angling rivers near and through the district—partiou larly the Tamar—and the sea is at hand. Moreover, even as a matter of policy, it is only proper for the Prince, as hereditary Duke of Coinwall, to have a residence in the re gion which yields him a private income of some £40,000 a year, and will place half a million ster ling, bard cash, of saved rents in his hands, on tue 9111 of November next, when he will be twenty-one years old. Six hundred years ago Werrington Pa* was formed. Two centuries later it was owned by the great Ordulpb, Duke of Devonshire, (whoever Ice may be,) and, in Elizabeth's time, was owned by hold Sir Francis Drake, the great sea-captain. Eventually, it was bought by the Northumberland family, and its closeness to the borough of 441 1 .11994 - ton, (whereof the Duke of Northumberland is Con• stable, by royal patent.) has given its late owner great influence there. You are aware that " Sam Slick," Thomas Chandler Haliburton) has been M. P. for Launceston since May, 1559. Ile was elected by the interest of the Duke of Northumberland, who owns nearly every house in the town, and has its ei7t thousand inhabitants completely under hie thumb. The Duke, a strong Tory, is adequately represented by Mr. Haliburton, who made a very anti-American speech in the House of corn mona, a few months ego. Mr. Haliburton has not succeeded in Parliament. He was some years past sixty when he entered the /louse of Commons, and has evidently been working, by his votes and speeches, for the Governorship of Nova Sofia,— having already been a Judge in that Colony. lie has several respectable relatives in Philadelphia, I understand, to whom his strong sympathy with the rebel South will scarcely recommend him, though It may do him service with the Derby party, should they resume office before he becomes superan nuated. In Parliament, which he entered with the high prestige of successful authorship, he is now a mese hobocly, without Irdinerme or connection. His patron, the Duke of Northumberland, suc ceeded his elder brother, the late Duke, who died In 1847. Before that, he was Lord Prudhoe "on hie own hook," and not only a great traveller, but a man of literary and artistical tastes. Here he is, seventy years old, the richest and noblest bachelor of England, with an income so immense—from landed estates in Northumberland, Durham, Mid dlesex, and Cornwall—that its amount is probably understated at £500,000 a year. Every one who stops at Morley's Hotel, Trafalgar Square, that great (and expensive) American if house of call," sees the immense façade of Northumberland House fronting him on the Strand and Charing Cross. Every American knows Halleok's poem of Alnwick Castle, the subject of which is the principal country residence of the Northumberland family—whose family name, be it known, is only Percy by adop tion, Sir Hugh Smithson, a Yorkshire baronet, hav ing married the granddaughter of the 11th and last Earl of Northumberland, and assumed the surname and arms of Percy. Having the use of her vast wealth and influence, he played his cards so well ID to be oreated Knight of the Garter by George IL, and Earl Percy, and Duke of Northumberland, early in the reign of George 111. The second Duke, who died in 1817', once pressed George 111. to give Lim a vacant -darter, saying " I eau the Bret Percy who ever asked for this honor, without obtaining it." The King, who shared his nobles' dislike to the pride and ostentation of this upstart Duke, sharply respended, it Vou are the first Smith son who ever was in a condition to ask for it." A portrait of George Augustus Sala, editor of Tem ple Bar, and author, among a crowd of less ambitious bootie, of The Seven Fong of Maeasa6n,i , 1. promised as a supplement to the next number of the Illustrated News of the World. These en gravings are really splendid, and would. have sold at half a guinea a few years ago. Now they are given away with a sixpenny illustrated weekly, which has scarcely anything else to recommend it, as it is poorly edited, and all its wood engravings are old and long since used up. The Illustrated Times, also a pictorial weekly, and the beet of its class in literary merit and really good wood en raving, is to he permanently enlarged and Pa proved on and from the Saturday following the pening of the Great Exhibition. Its price will be raised to three of our penoe—equivalent to six cents, and will still be a wonder of cheapness at th.st. The penny illustrated weeklies are doing very well. The Morning Chronicle, of whose suspension I sent you an account, some weskit ago, has not 1 , 45 Ati3e/Sed. put, for the purpose of preserving the copyright in the name, a little Morning Chronicle appears, semi-ocoasionally, printed . on a sheet of note-paper 1 . Thisis a fact, I assure you. The daily pawl! of London, morning and eve ning, now published, are MorniAg Post, estab lished in 1772; Morning Herald, 1781; MIMS, 1785; Srtn, 1702 ; Horning Advertiser, 1803 Globe. 1803 ; Standard, 1827 ; Daily Armee, 1848 ; Daily Telegraph, 1855; Morning star, 1850. Of these, the Standard, Telegraph, and News, are penny (two-cent) papers, George Stiff, under whose proprietorship the Morning Chronaele safely landed him in the Bankruptcy Court, has been duly examined there touching his affairs. He valee4 the Leetitel Ator not as worth liamoci. Ile started it in 1845, with out any expire], end sold it, in 1857, with its plant and machinery, for £30,500. Its circulation is now 830 7 000 a week, and one penny each number, and its net profits are £14,000 a year. The remission of the paper duty increased its profits, by diminishing its unremunerative outlay, to the extent of 47,000 a year. Tait's Magazine, started in Edinburgh during the Reform excitement of 1831, but latterly pub lished in London, has expired as a monthly, but will probably be revived as a weekly publication. In its palmy days, it bad great circulation and in fluence. ',Audio, the librarian of Oxford, has subscribed for 1,040 copies of The Channings," which Bentley will publish next week. Before this I have expressed my opinion that the new story, or rather stories, called " Chrunicles of Carlingford," now publishing in Blaetwood's _Ma ga ztn e l wore probably by Miss Marian Evans, author of "Adam Bede." I now state it, as a po sitive fact The Life of the late Duke of Richmond, a Protec tiolimi stetd farmer, hospitable gentle man, and owner of Goodwood Park, which he an nually gave up to the public for a week's horse racing therein, did not promise much when I acci dattlally took it up, two days ego, but it is tail of racy anecdotes of most of the leading British cele brities of the last forty years. Anthony Trollope, the novelist, will speedily publish two volumes, nailed " &SAIL Aiocrica," the fruit of his recent travels in the United States and Canada. Lie DEFENCE OF OUR OFFICERS AT THE SHILOH BATTLE. Camp Rumors—Their Baneful Effects— The Jealousy between Officers of the Army—Our Troops were not Surprised on Sunday—A Defence of general Sher- Man—Dow the New York Herald Cor respondent Sent his Account of - the Battle—General Grant's Conduct on the Field. tGorreepoudence of The Prees.l PITTSBURG LANDING, TENNESSEE, April 19, 1862. For rumors, in all their glory, go to a camp. NMI', in my life, did I encounter a state of society so rile with rumors of all kinds as a military camp. There are reasons enough for this, to be sure. Sol diers, whose lives are constantly imperilled, who may at any moment be called into a deadly Maid, living, as they are, in the constant presence of a watchful, relentless foo, are keenly susceptible to rumors of an attack or an advance; and the fact that they are all necessarily kept in profound igno rance, as far as possible, of the actual elate of affairs, makes them all the more eager for reports, and all the more liable to believe in them. Prisoners and deserters who are taken are always furnished with an abundance of the wildest stories, and though their accounts are notoriously unreliable, they are caught up and magnified, and believed, until some thing else comes along to efface the old impression, and furnish a new basis for description and disap pointment. Thus, in the face of a foe, our brave men are in a continual state of anxiety and alarm, which is much more harassing than an actual bat tle; and when, after all. a greet battle d oes come, and two or three days of the wear and tear of fighting is enperadded, what wonder that one-third of those who have escaped wounds and death are sick in the topitel, or unfit for duty? Those who hear of groat battles, and admire from afar the heroism of our troops in the field, do not know one-half the story. The miserable, debilitating diarrhon, the terrible °ideal of the chills and fever, which most of our soldiers experience, more or less, are enough to prostrate the energies of any man, and it is in the face of difficulties of this nature, more perplex ing and persistent than our wily foe, that the bat tles of Donelson and Pittsburg Wete fought. But the proneness of military men to accept and rely on rumors and camp gossip is even more con spicuous in matters which relate to their personal reputation, or that of their friends. The military are noted for sensitiveness, which, indeed, is a na tural result of their legitimate ambition, and of the thousand chances by which so delicate a thing as 'a military reputation may be made or loot. This trait runs from the highest commissioned officers down to the lowest nos-commissioned officers. There is not a promotion from corporal to brigadier general that does not dissatisfy somebody. The fOltlinato; or ; as you plow, unfortunate recipient of the honors is immediately angled with all man ner of abuse and slander. His less successful rivals seem to take a personal spite against him, and though the good.fellowship and the scprit rle tarp.* of military men is notorious, it is by no means so harmonious and unalloyed as we are apt to believe. The splendid efficiency of the armies of both the Napoleons to which ours tears agreatresemblauco, was often seriously endangered by the quarrels of the marshals of the empire; and their jealousy of each other is well known to be one of the most per plexing of the many incongruous elements which the present astute Emperor has to deal with. In a despotic country like France, such things do but little harm, and have but little practical effect; but in our country, where we have a press, the freest of the free, one of its most unfortunate results is the publicity it gives to these wild and baseless rumors. Inexperienced newspaper re portm tar penny-a-liners, anxious to fill up their sheets, seise with avidity upon everything likely to prove sensational, whether it be true or false, and send it off post haste to be printed. They swarm around the quarters of colonels god bri gadier generals, hear all the camp gossip of their friends and retainers ; even pick up the epinione and notions of- subordinates, who necessarily know nothing of the state of affairs previous to the tie, and could have seen but little of the actual conflict, and swallow them entire, as though they were law and gospel. The result is that the news men are filled with the most ridiculous accounts of this battle of Pittsburg, and as they come back to us affect the soldiers with every variety of emo tions, from laughter to profanity. I never quite understood, before I came with the army, how it could be that the more I used to read of a battle the lees I understood it ; but now I see very clear ly. Added to this, in regard to the battle of Pitts burg, sundry newspapers seem to have had private griefs to avenge. As this is the greatest battle yet fought in the war, and as a great deal of misapprehension seems to exist in regard to it, per haps it will not be out of the way for me to state the facts about some of the loading points. In the first place, then, many minds are greatly " exercised" about the "surprise." There was no surprise. Both parties bad been long occupied in miming beeps, near this point, the rebels by rail road, at Corinth, and we by water, at Pittsburg. They got the largest force here first, and that is all about it. Our flanks are and were protected by im passable creche. The orders were explicit not to bring on a battle until our reinforcements had come up. Therefore, though we knew on Friday that the enemy was near us in force, our pickets were not thrown far out, as that would tend to provoke a battle, for which we were not ready. Now our front line was attacked. It was defended obsti nately for several hours, until the whole force of the enemy wag directed against oar left wing, with the object of forcing their way to the landing. A half or quarter of a mile in front of the land ing a stand was nude, which was success ful, and the position combined two ad vantages, for it gave a clear sweep for the artillery for a long distance, and oontiacted our lines. Our line at first was four miles long. Of course, 40,000 men were not going to defend such a line against 80,000. We must have fallen back anyhow. Our last stand was successful, and our position would have been secure for several days without reinforcements. This whole state of things was anticipated long before the battle, and some of the more timid of the division commanders pro posed to fortify ; but this was resolutely opposed by Generals Grant and 860/114/031, 'because of the bad moral affect it would have on the men and on the country; and then the experience of the world shows that when raw volunteer troops throw up en trenehments aral Us. entrenchment° are taken LIM spirit of the army is gene, and the whole are taken prisoners. Again, the result shows that the rebels were wrong in attack Aug WS as they did. Our flanks being secure, they Could only drive us to bay; and it is the opinion of many that, even if re inforcements had not come, we should, by attack ing them the next morning, have bean sere of vie= tory. So much for the surprise. It is all bosh. Then a few other papers devote themselves to abusing General Sherman, because of his unfortu nate remark, some months ago, that it would take 200,000 men to conquer Kentucky. They accuse him of everything they can think of. It is entl- oiont to say that Gen. Sherman is highly esteemed in the highest yrs/stem here, as a thorough soTtriler and a gallant man, and that his INlTitiell have helm fully and warmly aektiovriedged, both by General Ilaßock and General Grant. But some newspaper men got snubbed by him, and must vent their petty spleen in print, or heedlessly alloy themselves to bo used as the medium of the private malice of others. I don't suppose General Sherman cares a straw, but some of his frielAS are raving and tearing about it in the most insane manner. General Grant, too, has his share of this annoy ing and unenviable notoriety. The tong telegraphic despateb sent to the Herald immediately after the battle is probably supposed, by the newspapers, to have been connived at by General Grant, though any man of sense could have seen that it was full Of wicked and absurd lies, which no military man would have allowed to go out. The enormous ex aggeration of our lees, and the ridiculous canard about sending the body.guard to the front of five regiments, and charging along the whole line, were too much even for the Herald, and I understand the sprightly youth who invented that despatch has been recalled. But General G rant had nothing to do with it. The reporter slipped off to Fort Henry, the terminus, at that time, of the telegraph, and sent off the despatch in some surreptitious manner, known only to the tribe of James Gordon Bennett. When it appeared in the newspapers, General Grant and his whole staff were as much surprised as any one. Then another paper says General Grant was not on the field until 11 o'clock, " after all these disasters bad happened." This is utterly false, as hundreds of gentlemen can testify. lie was here soon after eight, having started from Sa vannah, whither he had gone to meet General Buell, as soon as be heard the firin g . The report is exten sively circulated, alto, that Grant eray in toxicated on the day of the battle, and if it is not in print it soon will be. So baseless and malignant a slander ought to be met before it gains too much credence, It is utterly without foundation. I net enabled to state, on the authority of his friends and neighbors, and particularly of one gentleman, whose character is siguarantee to a large circle of acquaintances, both in civil and military Ufa, of truth and honor—who has enjoyed the most inti mate intercourse with General Grant fur the past three months, having accompanied him in all his battles,jouzilioye, and reconnoissances, and being per competent to make the statement of his own knowledge—that General Grant is, and always has been, a strictly temperate man, and never has been known to drink half a dozen glasses of intoxicating liquor since the war commenced. I know that his appearance is that of a temperate and healthy man, and I also know that he is highly appreciated by General Nalleck, both for his private character and his abilities as a soldier. Can it be believed that General Ilalleck would, in a department where be is almost supreme, allow groat battles to be fought by a man who got drunk en any battle-field? This same slander was started at Fort Donelson, but it soon died out. Then it was invented by a quartermaster, whom Grant had disgraced for pecu lation. This time it arose, from a newspaper nor. respondent, who knew he was lying. row, all these things are ephemeral, and of no practical importance, to be sure, but it is certainly very painful and atesy , lng both to the men abused . and their families, to have such services as they render in bloody battles, and a long harassing campaign, requited by misrepresentation and abuse. General Sherman is an able and brilliant military man, ambitious, I suppose, of course, but entirely worthy of whatever honors he may have obtained, or may hereafter obtain. Gen. Grant is a modest, un assumingman, who simply desires to do his duty, and who does what he is told to do with an energy and a promptness, which has not yet been paralleled in the army, and whose only desire is to see the war tbroUgh, and then go back to Galena and sell hard• ware and leather. He has been successful, and " that's what's the matter." It is astonishing how difficult it is to please everybody. When McClellan did not move, and was going to conquer the enemy without a great battle, all the papers shouted for blood. Now, when we strained every nerve, and performed prodigies of transportation and foroed marches, to concentrate an army where we could give our enemy battle, were attacked by an over powering force before we were quite ready, fell back and contracted our lines, and then got up in the morning and whipped the enemy, two to our one, thoroughly, soundly, so that he confesses that he cannot hold his position without additional re inforcements, they cry out about yeast° of life and all that. The long and shot-! bf it IS, that sonata newspa pers have an idea that we were defeated on Mon day, and that a great disaster hapnetted to our arms, and they are conscientiously endeavoring to find out who is to blame, This is not the correct idea, and it is a great pity it has gone out. The Southern people, both on this and the other side of the water, will take great comfort from the exagge rated accounts of our disasters which N . K.0 3 911 papers are sending abroad. We ought to let them tell that part; and not rival them in misrepresent ing it. It is doubtful if we ever again get such an elegant crack at them. Perhaps results may prove that {bib is the Waterloo of the war. At any rate, our generals are perfectly satisfied for the present. LETTER FROM CAMP SHILOH. litia:44sl:lo4_go4:oo);o;iinizMipmew:lsm FU I. I. DMT . A_ I _T, 5_ In a letter from Camp Shiloh, a correspondent of the Chicago Tribute, under date of April 24th, writes: General HaHeck id evidently determined not to lot the grebe grow under him feet This morning bottle the Prot day since the rains that it was possible to move artillery upon these execrable roads, he ordered a reconnoisgauce in force of the enemy's position on the road to Corinth. Early in the morning *I portion of the dotittion of Gan. McCook, consisting of the brigades of Gen_ Johnson and Col. ettitobtiogh, the batteries or Copts. Terrell, nimbler, Goodspeed, and of Company H, Fifth regiment regular army, took up their line et march on the Corinth rogid, with three days' rations in their haversacks The cavalry consisted of the Fourth Illinois, Col Dickey ,Second Ken tucky. Third Kok nekg, M/ gecond Indiana, and a few companies of regulars, under the command of &tapir Kirg The Thirty-fifth Ohio d Lhe Sixteenth Regular Infantry also accompanied the pieces. I recognized, as part of General McCook's division, the 'Thirty.,econd and Thirty-sixth Indiana, the Fif. teenth and Forty-ninth Ohio, gAvehly-seventh Pennsyl vania, Thirtieth and Thirty-ninth Indiana, Thirty-fourth Illinois, and Seventy. sixth Ohio, with a battery. Among the guns were five or six twenty-pound Parrotta and several Napoleons. The whole was under the command of Andrew Jackson Smith, General of Division s fi Ten' ox.cellent officer, 1.5 I learn from old Visited Staten army men_ About nine miles from the landing, the force came upon and surprised a regiment or two of rebel infantry encamPed in front of Pea Ridge, near the town or ham let of Monterey The fehOlt formed in lion of aenNerril a volley, imt tied immediately, many of them throwing away their arms. A num - mt. - of them occupied a log-bonee, from which they also fired upon our men. The nature of the htiug prttty thickly wooded—prevented one troops from forming in line, and they moved by the flank, in columns of four deep. The column was led by a regiment of regulars, which had been in the late action, but is mostly composed of recruits. It was found, I beard from an officer friend, impossible at first to bring these men andee fire, and the Eighth die souri, Colonel Peckham, being ordered to the front, pas sed by them at the charge, and soon took possession of the log-house and camp of the enemy. In the meantime a force bad been detailed to make a recennoissance on the Purdy road. It was under the command Of Col. Wood, the acting brigadier in Wal lace's division. Of this force I have as yet nothing defi nite, but last night heard heavy tiring to the front, evi dently artillery, and this morning at daylight, Company A, Chicago Light Artillery, Lieut. Wood commanding, wore ordered out with two days' tenons, so that some sharp work is in Deem . . . . _ . Among the spoils of the Pea Ridge reconnoissance yes terday, were 83 oarrela of very excellant salt or pickled beef, as good as I ever saw. Union Prisoners Captured at Shiloh RLe ibiloveipg list of Federal officer', captured at the battle of Shiloh, has been furnished to the Memphis 41p peat by the officer having them in charge, and handed to him by General Prentiss : 9enefal B Difellooti Miller, Co: lonel Eighteenth Missouri Woomera; J. L. Geddes, Colonel Eighth Iowa; W. F. Lynch, Colonel Fifty-eighth Illinoie ; Quin Morton, Lieutenant Colonel Twenty-third Missouri; John C. Ferguson, Lieutenant Colonel Eighth Iowa; L.aac Hutishoweer. Lieutenant Colonel Fifty eighth Illinoie; J. Pratt, Lieutenant Colonel Eighteenth miaeouri; John al. Vullocb. Major Twenty-third His. souri '- W. N. Stone, Major Third Iowa ; Thomas Newlan, Majoillrifty-eighthlllinois Volunteers; J. G. Bort, Aditt• tent Ftfty- eighth 111 in ols Volun leers ; McMichael, Captain, Acting Adjutant General; J. T. Dunlap, R. T. Dolt, Teumbo, E. West, W. N. Crendal, It. 0. Brown, Captains Twenty•third Missouri ; S. D. Hoots, Cap tain, Acting Surgeon ; P. It. Dolman, Jones Darman, G. W. 'Wyckoff, J. P: Atikeswell, 11. P. Stuns, Cap tains Eighteenth Missouri; James P. Millerd, N. IL damp, G, t, Flak, William Bremer, D. H. Briton, captains Dighttenth Wisconsin ; W.)3.110, Calvin Eel.. soy, John McCormick, F. A. Cleveland, W. Stubbs, cap. taint Eighth lowa ; P. lleelan, P. Gregg, F. Kurth, captains Fifty-eighth Illinois; R. E. Haggard. Martin J. Mann, captains Sixty-first Illinois ; W. °Allard, captain fllktb Ihalana; J, M. Ilididelc, eaptale Plfteenth Iowa; K. P. Bremen D. It. Hudson, W. H. Minter, F. Parten hemmer, H W. Godfrey, John ItlcEfee, lieutenants in the Eighteenth Missouri; W. 0. Seaman, T. E. Dreamer, N. J. Camp, T. IL Hollingsworth, George W. Seymore, William Simms, O. W. Brown, George tl. Ulm JAM A. Fisher, James Brewer, J S. Todd, W. McCulloch, T. IL Mikels, Nichol,, lieutenants in Twenty-third Missouri; T. A Jackson,George Stokes, S. D. Woodworth, D. W. C. Wilton,n Ira H. Ford, O. A. South maid, lieUtenants In the Nineteenth Wiamaein; H. Fair, elderly sergeant in the Nineteenth WilloollBlll ; H. EWE, lieutenant in the Fifteenth Iowa; D. Welch, B. Cooper, lieutenants, Eighth Iowa; J. B. Moss, lieu tenant. Fifty-eighth Illinois; A. P. Collins, lieutenant, Twelfth Michigan; Job lifaxoni, G. Rothe, J. W. Gregg, John Oliane, Julius Kurth, Charles 'Well, J. O. Lo. nerganoJohn Tellin, T. W. Smith, Jas. Cary, A. McAr thur. lieutenants, Fifty-Eighth Illinois! D. J. O'Neil, John Wayne, J. P. Knight, lieutenants, Third Iowa; J. M. Thrift, lieutenant. Sixteenth lowa ; S. R. Edlngton, W. C. Earle, W. W. Warner, J. H. Saba, W. 11. Ebill dogi, L. IL T..;;..mde,.., E. IL Va., o..etalne, Twelfth Iowa; N. E. Duncan, adjutant, Twelfth Iowa; J. 11. Door, quartermaster, Twelfth Iowa; G. 11. Morissy, sergeant major, Twelfth Iowa; Merrill, J. H. Borger, H. Hall, T. Elwell, IL Williams, .7 W. CID, W. A. Moves. T. Niehet:.e, L. W. Seek- Noe, J. J. Marks. J. M. Brown, lieutenants, Twelfth Iowa; C. C. Tobias, adjutant, Twenty-flret Missouri; T. Richardson, lieutenant, Twenty-first Missouri; R.'K. Randolph, lieutenant, Twelfth Illinois; M. J. McGrath. lieutenant, Fifty.aseend THE FRENCH MINISTER.-It IS Said that M. Mercier, the French minister, on his recent visit to iSticid9l4ll did not sea Jeff Dania, and had no am venation in his official capacity with any rebel officer. He did not recognize them as persons in authority. TWO CENTS. LETTER FROM YORKTOWN. The Trip to 'Yorktown Colonel Lowe,. the Aeronaut—Abandoned Rebel Earth wor.hg—Battery Practice Near York Ri ver Nobody Hart A Teat stene Rainy Weather—The Rebels Again Fie mg' Prom their Heavy Batteries A hharpshooler Killed..ahocking Condi. lion of the Roads. [Special Corrempondenee of Tho Prem.] CANO WTSFIF:LD SCOTT, 1111 4 3EPP OP I . O.3tICTDIV:f, A PIVIL •iO, ifere, at last,-has your correspondent turned sp. Leav ing Fortress Monroe at 12 o'clock thiemorning, In the T. P. Net or, I arrived at Cheesection'a landitis about ONTO o'clock thiN afternoon, and, aftee a Walk foe: , naive over seas of and, I arrived safely at Camp Scott, but little more than a mile front Ors rebel lines. I am at present enjoying the hospitalities of Col. T. 9: C. Lowe, well known over the country as a theoretical we 4 wracikai aerozreart. On the road I pasted three earthworks, which had been built by the rebels, and which had been hastily abandon ed by tht m on the advance of She Union forces. They are well ennetructed with ditsliwi, 'neatly faced with eons, and were evidently built by men who underetood their tad- We bad a little battery practice today, near York ri ver. A battery that bad been lageirilt by our troops was fired on by the rebele, and our men at once replied. Several Arita were exchanged, the rebels firing from a 68• pounder and a Parrott gun. As usual, nobody was hurt. It in now night, and I nit in a tent with three settee brethren of the Quill. Two are discussing the relative merits of hay and straw for bedding, and the others are scribbling as if their very lives depended upon the amount of ink and paper consumed by thorn in writing their Mellen to the. r [alone shoats they Around us are the varieue tnembere of the balloon coma, all enraged in diecusEing the affairs or the country, and epeculating upon the probable resistance that would be met with at Yorktown. It It WOO haibiog, and ILo drops putter upon the can vas, am] I realize the life of a eoldier. Yen well it is fur the featherbed soldier of the city to go and hire a camp for a few days, but when the actual reality cornea, and with it the consoling thought that one It In asr shelling range from the rebel , batteries, the thought is not over pleasant. Still, men grow reckless from being accustomed to danger, and would encamp right under the enern} Bnne• They ON !Wt. ALAI' I.—All last night the rthels have been firing heavy gins from their battery at 'Yorktown. The scream of the ebot and the explosion of the shell could be die. tinetly heard before the report of the gun. No damage woe done by than, hamar. One of the Berden sharpshooters was killed yesterday while in the rifle pits. lie was shot through the head just as be wee in the art of loading Lis rifle. the name I could not ascertain. Thera is no other 1.1.4W9. The reeds are very muddy owing to the rains, and are verY much Cut up by the teethe. - Rem seeking, under such circumstances, is a difficult operation. Ti:l next time adieu. J. E. N. THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN, ,WEDNESDAY'S OPERATIONS A BOLD MANCEU'VRE 133iiairLI;13;W:(0$143a:iti.ts&i:M1.402jszfrj Will the Rebels Abandon their Position? In a letter front Camp Witifiold Stott, Mai. Warwick Court-house, dated the 29th ult., we find the following bit of pleasantry: Lieutenant Colonel Childs, of a Michigan regiment, with a detachment of six hundred men, executed a bold piece of work in the night Taking tulnenta§e of the ab sence of the rebel sharpshooters from their rifle-pits— rille•pit shooting is exclusively a daylight avocation—he bad pits dug [or our sharpshooters In advance of those heretofore occupied by the enemy. At daylight, our Sharpsinoters were in their now pits ready for their day's work. A good deal of astonishwoh tlo facial expression, and of executing semicircles in the air with their heal, was exhibited by the rebel riflemen as they came to take possession of their old hiding places. Several laid them selves out at astonishing lengths on the ground, never to rise again until something louthT 414.4 more Motive tb4u the creche wet wbizzir gof rifle bullets rouses and reani mates them. Our sharpshooters say they envied. some• demo of the enemy before they became .latlY aware of their frescoes and cc old get out of the way. Wednesday's Ofvrations. The cannonading on the right of cur lines, which I alluded to in the closing of my Htter at noon yesterday as having then just commenced, was kept up with a good deal of vigor all the afternoon. Nearly all the tiring came from the rebel side, only a few shots being vent in return from Otir gunboats. Why there was no more • shooting on our' side was probably front a desire not to interrupt the rebels in a practice that is evidently so pleasing to them, and, fortunately, so harmless to us. Ae in most of the shooting for days past, the enemy di rected their guns and obelle at our working pardes, doubt lead intf ttlilg to marina our white soldiers with the becondugness of manual employment, and the danger of dirt digging under the scorching rays of a meridian sun. Major Cole, of a Michigan regiment, and a large de tachment of men tinder him, found themselves the princi pal target for a while of the enemy's projectiles. But the men lied their work to do, and they did it; despite the Eying fragments of scattering shells and the torn. updirt about them, that at times seemed suffering the agitation of the sands of Sahara under a simoom visitation. One man was completely buried up to the neck in the dirt. Isis head, visible above the g,ound, and the rotary motion he gave to it, looked like a scene in a pantomime. Why didn't you bide your head, too t." called out Major Cola, jocosely. ...Because 1 wanted to see the sport as well as you and the reef," responded the man in like appreciative vein. A Massachusetts and a Now York regiment received like visitations of rebel shells. Dales nom pat*, It , Forty- fourth New York Regiment, was hit on the back of the bead by a piece of shell Ito is now in the hospital, and hie recovery is deemed very doubtful. Lieut. Norton, of the Signal Corps, was knocked sense less; but he soon recovered and resumed his direction of the signal operators working un4er him. Those are the only casualties occurring during the day, although I might record a good many hairbreadth escapes. The Place to be Taken in Twelve Hours. The editorial correspondent of the New York Times writes: I have Spent now two days in exploring the nure fkobt of our pooltion. I have no disposition ;0 report NO - 11.4 I have seen, for it could not be done without giving information of the greatest importance to the enemy, th •ugh I do not believe it would tend to increase their confidence in their ability to withstand an advance. Two Minna I think I can predict with sefsb et , that Gwa. McClellan will not commence the attack until he is COM. PIEIVAY ready ; and second, that within twelve hours from the time he does commence it. ho will have taken York town with alt its guns, and make all its garrison prison t,rg. And I ventuto fnethet to day that this will have been done with a mailer boas of life than has. ever at tended a similar bottle of equal import trice in this country. Actual Strength of the Enemy. The Meek careful surveys allow that Verkown is very attnnely defended, that the rebels have very formidable entrenchments stretching across the approachable part of the peninsula, that they have an immense number of very heavy guns, with mortars, rifled cannon and colum blade and that they have a force of not far from 10{000 nistan IMVIPPRI6b- Clotli.tester Potni, dirocß Y oppootte, and within easy range, is strongly held, and water batteries line the shore to prevent the approach of oar gunboats. 1 have no doubt that the possession of Yorktown will be very eblirply contested, and if it is not the bloodiest fight of the campaign it will be hecanse gen. Mc Aullan'a prey parationa have been so complete as to renter resietance hopeless. Will the Enemy Withdraw 1 Many infer from the quiet of the rebels that they do not mean really to contest the place, but that as soon as the ihseituli eornmeneos they , will withdraw, I csprve t i cannot help thinking so myself. But they certainty will not, unless the attack is formidable enough to nvtke re sistance hopeless. Jf Gen. McClellan Lad McDowell's corps to co-operate with him, he could cut off their re beat, and compel ago earrender of the whole farce, Whether this can be done now or not remains to be seen. Even if the rebels get away themselves, it is not believed they can remove their artillery. IMPORTANT SOUTHERN NEWS. THE CAPTURE OF FORT DRAGON. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS THE REBEL PRISONERS RELEASED ON PAROLE REPORTED CAPTURE OF WIVIINOTON SY OEN, BURNSIDE FORTRESS llitosittos, Nay I.—A flag of truce from Ca ney Island this afternoon brought down an English no bleman and aes - ertit nOwepaperm, giving the partlct36ra of the capture of Fort 'Macon and some additional details of the fall of New Orleans, together with other interesting Items. Thy Vlnkturc Qf Fort Moon, The Wilmington (N. C.) Joutme, of Tuesday, has the following in confirmation of the report of the fall of Fort Macon, telegraphed from here yesterday: .• We have just learned that the fire upon the fort was o pe n ed at a liiiaidker before t o'clock on Vriday morning and the engagement between the fort and the Federal bat teries was kept up till 7 o'clock that evening, when the fort became wholly untenable and was aurrendered as aboveA ti All the one on the aide of the fort opposite to that attacked were dismounted, and all but three of the gone bearing neon the enemy's hatterieswere also dismounted. The enemy's central battery of breaching guns was within /pee Tante. The right and left Awaking barternat were more distant. . 6 It torus out that the report of fifteen of our men haying been killed in • scout, some clays since, against the morel's bithels, le wnteue. One man only waa eeea wounded, and none were killed until Friday lad e the day of the attack." 'From other seep:tete, it is gathered that during Mae bombardment of Fort Moon wen rebels were killed and a considerable number wounded. tiolouel White and one hundred and fay men were m imed on parole by General Burnside. The Alerninae. A Suffolk correspondent of the Petersburg Express, under date of April 304 says: All were expecting to hear something from the rirryinia this morning, but the Norfolk Day Book is as silent as the rare upon the subject, I forbear to report rumors." What the rumors referred to in this paragraph are may possibly be inferred from the fact that a rumor was taken from Norfolk to Petersburg yesterday, that a very Prominent naval alines bad !Reigned his commission. Rumors of More Rebel Loeser. The Petersburg Express of to-day semi that many ru. more were in circulation yesterday. Among them a re port of the evacuation or aromphis and, Corinth, and a re port of the capture of Wilmington, N. C., by General Burnside. . . Itreetinridge and Hindman have been appointed major sen.r&t.7 0. 1 0.. 1 W. 4, liiccti t er 4riminot vt 4rign dier genera/. Ailhirs at Norlolk The Nor,olk Pgy Ncvk cr Oil (Thort4si) 9yt ning sti' that no telegraphic despatches wore received last night. An order from Provopt Mamba PooMIW Prottibitil $ THE WAR PRESS. Tax Wax Passe *IU be sent to inibwelibori by men oiee to ekrisace) ec, . - - Three Copies 6.0 Five " 8.041 Ten " . igeo9 xowser Globs 14111 be charged al the same rate, flail 20 comes will cost ; 60 copies *if/ cost IMO Ana MO copies BIRO. Tor o Olnb of Twenty-pug Q. offer, we mu send is ilxiye dopy to toe getter-up of the Club. Mir Postmasters are requested to sot ad Agents foe Txx WAI rinCl3l3. sir Advertlaments Inserted at pig gnat ilk% INN tine/ airstriltute A Miusre• hucker3ring within the military district of No r f o lk, kk ,k the pltfllrigil oreeliing poultry, gnmo, fight and fruil and vegelablewilrrentrieted to those Who raise or catch the same. AuotHer order extends the privilege of bringing oysters to market' Prom May let to June let, and allows butchers to buy pork. The neareity of Food. Le Richmond Divalch, of today, says TbAV panic on Ina nobject of a scarcity of food ill OHO of titer mod causeletei iniaginaLle. Tho road from Danville to ifiroo.ois..-0. 5 n to rowely conotnictinin and will open North COMMIX, Tonna/awe, marl even I inorgla and South Carolina, for eopplles to teed tho whole State of Vir ginia." Ildti elliiheieion in the panic stove referred to may be inferred frpm the fact that an adjoining column or tits tame paper chronicka the vale of hotter at 61A0 per wind in the city imarkFte. Friliolnieni Brought to Richmond. Six 'Yankee and levee domestic traitors, and one race• sant Centederate soldier, arrived in Richmond yesterday. The former belonged to an Ohio regiment, and were cap. tured is Bath county, Va. Execation of a Spy. The Richmond Diqatch, of yesterday, records the on. ocution, as a I•py, on the fthh of April, of Timothy Web. der. Mra. Wet , t4l . l If lig With on - voted with her hale Land, 15 BO) at Castle 7.odotm Webster Is said t..) be the that spy ex/muted by the rebels. 'What it the (hilted States Government should com mence hanging epics Thee iSIIO telegraphic news In kiSY of the morning latkete: The Cumberland lIY PVIAMM§ ISM MAE§ 'IA Minim A shout of defiance From Freedom's brave sons ! It blends with the thunder t.f volleying guys It comes from the ocean, Whose shuddering flood, Through sulphurous vapor, Rolla isii4A4,, N itll Llood! Defiance to Treason, In battle's stern breath— The Cumberland war-cry, Defience till death ! The strife was unequal— Material gave The stronger a triumph, The weaker a grave ! Against a mailed monster The Cumberland stood— /ha gum bellied canvas ; And iron crushed wood! She sank, while yet echoed ller valorous breath— The Cumberland war•cry i betiance till death The conflict is ended— Above the blue surge, fihe wild winds are walling The CntAerland's dirge ! Her flag, never lowered, Still proudly shall show, The not where her heroes Are resting, below— And Freedom will cherish To Time's latest breath s 2110 GUMOCrIA7/1/ war , ory, Defiance till death ! WASHINGTON, D. C Weekly Review of the Markets. PiTlLADF , :r.pure, May 2, 186! Trade has been rather Inactive this weak owing to the wet weather, and the Walt of supplies of Soma of the leading articles, and the markets generally have been Quiet. Quercitron Bark mor.s off at previous quotation. Tanners' Bark is wa.fed. In Breadstuffs there is • firmer feeling the stocks on sale light. God is firmer and store active: The Iron market, eß•eept foe moa t de,,,,options of Iron, is dull. Lead is not so firm. 0ett...0 continues scarce, but the demand has fallen of. croceries are firm, with moderate sales of Sugar and Piolama at steady rates. Provisions are betters With more doing to LlAO:dents and Lard at full rates. Fish and Fruit are unchanged. Naval Stores, Oils, Rice, and Salt are quiet. Seeds continue very inactive. Tallow rattier better. Tobacco dull, Whisky is witkoubmech alteration. Wool is rather mare Inquired for. The bry Goods market presents no new feature. There is a good business doing to supply the West and near trade, and Math cotton fabrics maintain previous prices. Woollens are dull. There la 9 (Win& feeling in truldriturfe generally, but no quotable change iu Fleur, and not much demand ether for export or home use, and the only sales made puling are 8,000 bbls, including Western extra at $5.25e55 50 Ltd. and family at $5 56g5.87)6, the latter ler choice lota. The trade are buying in a small way at $545 , 45 fur pp n ; ht,7l geed 814,680 e t 5 sr 5 56x 'for extra iO5 50 05.75 for extra family, and $5 81A 04.60 for fancy brands, according to quality. The receipts continue light. Ito e Flour is Beata', and selling In a small way at lik3.37as 3.so—the latter for better brands. Cunt Sisal is quirt. We quote Pennsylvania nt „ I:lotiet.7,TO 11 ,0 bbl, i.lth 'mall macs, and Brandywine at a price kept private. 11EAT.—There is very little offering, and .it ie is In good demand both for shipment mid tnilliug, at au ad vance of 203 c Vir bushel ; about 30.000 bushels were dis posed of, mostly at 1270132 c for good Noos7lmiti rod, idlest end In elore, and white at 130eel00c, Motu:ling prime Kentucky at 145 c, and choice Southern do at 1500. Rye is scarce and wanted ; PUMA, - lvanin commando 72• i;3c,. Corn COMA ilk slowly, and prime Southern yellow readily commands 55056 c ; 3,000 bushels Southern white sold on private ternY4 l said Oti?o, USW are in rils quest ani scarce, reinisylvania Benin; freely at 38339 c most holders ask mote. PROVISIONS —The market ISM been rather more active since our last notice. and prices generally aro better. Sales of Mess Pork at 1 812 Mari, the former rate for rou , try packed City•packed Ness Beef sells in as wanted, at glldsls.So ; eblintir mesa Is worth ell,soeal a Dried Beef is dull. Bacon—Thero IS rather more doing and no change In prices; sales of plain and tarty Hams at Scree; Sides at 514 Image, and Shoulders at sesfigc, as in quality. Green Yeats—Prices are tend. lug or, with Lsnmo of hams at 6 tiensllc. in salt, and 00 - OKu In t fancy do at 031 etic t Sides at 51,94 sj4c; and Shoulders tel 404,1i0. Lard Is In better de maim, nut without change in prices, bbls and tee selling at Senn mc, cash, chiefly at the latter rate, and kegs at fig ego ; 800 plus country sold at 7g eallic, ca,4l, But ter-Terre is a good demand for roll at 19m1541 as in .oild- w iotoot no h veer. it. - mi Cheese Is selling at I'M rBc, and Eggs at )0611c IP dozen. METALS.—There tea inlet feeling in Pig Iron, and nut much activity sales of No. 1 Anthracite at $622, 6 months, No. `2, at $2l, 6 monthe, ppd yQuip at 4 3:0 1 0 r um Vothinic cleins in tiloorns. Prices of ilvr Iron remain as last unoted, and firm. Lead—There is mere stock here, and 9,500 pigs Galena, sold at, $0,6206.72 4P' 100 lbs. Coppi-r is dull; Yellow lid is selltng at 24.4 and bolts and crities, at 27e, 6 months. 8AR8,. - -The tereipta and stooks are lint, and it is In steady demand at lest week's figures Sales of first No. 1 Quercitron at 533.50 41 , ' ton. Tanner's Bark is scarce and without change. BEESWAX is in good demand, with sales of good Yellow at 32633 c, and an extra lot at 34c 4 1 .' CANDLES fire »PARTlfledl smell wee of Adamantine at 166,13 e, and Sperm at 28€4230, 4 mos. Tallow Candle. are COAL.—There is a fair demand for the supply of the furnaces in the interior, and for the Southern tlottlia, but orders from the East come forward slowly and prices Us firIII4 EOlll6 of the minors rotten to contract far ham de livery st present quotations. COFFEE—The market Is dull and pries° are unchan ged; the stock bits been increased by an arrival of 4,000 bags Rio; sales of 900 hags Rio at 181s2tc, 2,000 bags lammyra eold for export at 15c, cash, in bond, and Java at 9.5e_ short time_ COTTON.—Tho tritiekst Is nearly liars of stock, and there is very little selling; prices, however, are flrm •, oaks of 150 bales oplaods 20e24c for Inferior and good middlings, and middling fair quality at 29a31c. cash. DRUGS AND DYES.—Thaels 14 but !It& dolor ; import of crude Brimstone sold before arrival at a price kept secret. Sal Poda at Ihlc, and Soda Ash at 2,4 ce2j,ic, six menthe. Indigo and Logwood are dull. FISH.---The demand for Mackerel in quite limited, end priceS hays fallen off Wes of LTD Ms Nos, 1 and 2 from the landing, on private terms, and from store at $9 50 for No 1, ST.SO for No. 2, and $6a5.25 for large, e 5 5005 75 for medium, and S 3 5004 for small 3s. Cod fish sell slowly at $3.50 the 100 itis, and Pickled Her ring at s2e3 4p'. bbl. ITOrr--TlltTe 10 a steady (1 0 1111114 for Oranges and Lemons ; sales of 2,000 boxes at $2,7505.50 V' bOX, itt quality. Raisins and Citron are scarce, Ilomestia DIM is quiet; sales of Green. Apples at $404.50, and Pried Apples at sa7c for old. and new. There are no Pared Peaches here; sales of unwed quarters and halves at Rage, es In Imlay, FREIGEITS tc Liverpool continua very 111111; we quote Flour at 2, V' bbl ;,Grain at 70490, and heavy goods at 25s 47 ton. London, the rates are about the same. A ship is loading with Coal Oil at Os fid, and a bark for Cork with Grain at 10X d To San Francleeo very little doing. West Hulk frail:Mg Unsteady StailePal. west Is have beeninhartared at 40c for Sugar, and s34a 3.50 for Molasses, home front Cuba, To Boston we Mika at 25c for Flour, 6c for Grain, saBc for Measurement Goods' and $2 25 for Pia Iron. Coal freights are un settled and lower. FEITIIISIIg ale bola firmly i sales of good Woolens at 7,8°40e lb. GlNSltNG.—There is but little Cruds or Clarified here, and no further sales have been reported. GUANO meets a steady demand. with sales of Som brero at $25a30; Peruvian at 5513.1 , 0000, and Super pllcephoto of Lime ai 9.050,1 b iW ton—the sumal .11,momatt - off to the trade. HIDES are very inlet;, the last sale of Caraccas wee at $24.6 months. HOPS are dull and rather lower; valet' of Eastern and Wrolrrn et 150189 IP' lb, LOAIDEIt is in hatter demand) and supplies are coming forward more freely. White Pine are selling at $1,10,16. Sales of Yellow Sap Boards at Sl4 51 feet; Laths at $1.25e1 30, and Pickets at goo 8.25 41: 0 ' 51. MOLASSES.—There is a fair inquiry for prime quell to. Bales at NO 1.1,d. cut,. 5t....„v.a,. Claud at 22,a240 ; and Porto Rico at 38es40e, on time, NAVAL STORMS.—The stocks of all kinds are very light. Rosin is scarce, and selling at.Silall for medium. grades, and erterl2 for fine, Tar and Fitch are tin. changed. spirits of Turpentine is. held with more firms nem, with small sales itt 81,50 2Mlehi Ms.—There is a fair itiuniry for Linsey], with Wee at 8.1016 c, mostly at the latter rate ; prices of Fish fens are steady, but the sales mostly in store lets. Crude Whale setting ttt. 41. , 111011 .1 1 11 /lON is very gum, tina setting at 0007 . for • Winter. The receipts Or Petroleum continue largely in excess OVUM, demand. Imports of Spet to and Whale Oil and Whalebone into the . United States for the week ending,April 28,1862 : Sperm, Whale, Whim,. bl.4a. bid., Se. .1,560 4,959 42.9.60 .3,359 9,033 177,030 Total for the Week Previously reported... From Jan. Ito date ...... J.S7B 14. Ina 230.100 S.llllll. lAA yuar 14,340 So Id 7 558,500 P LASIT:II 1. eteady: s»a n r doh. at. 0.4.6.6.0 ii, 46 1 ' ton Itlelt is In limited supply ; salc,a.cf Carolina. at 7e7 „tic and East India at fiX asOMO cash. SALT.—Prices are unchanged 2,200 sacks Anhton'e fine Fold on private ttrine. • bit - a - Dn.—The demand roe uoiteraeed is limited at th 6 late decline sales are making at $4,37,45150.4ex bu. Timothy ranges from $5.76 to $2. and Foaxsaeti from 62 02.10. Ited.top is steady at $2,50 4ir seek. SPIBITS,--Ftroilli if quiet but firm; N, N Bum Bells at 30027 c, Whisky is Arm j NOON of Ohio Ole at 233(m 24c ; Penn's 22X 423 c, and drudge at 213{,212e 4fr gallon. SUGAR.—There is a firm feeling lathe market, but the demand is less active ;sales of 800 hltdsOuba at 6% .7 %o Td11133 efig g 994 Amen , ' and Porto Rico at Si( al ODIUM, TALLOW is unchanged; mioa of City rendered at f%c. and Country at No, caah. ToßßA.ooo.—The market is vary poorly supplied with Mannfecturedp.and ts a fair demand for it at full rates. Per Leer iLere h ire ry iittie tequiry. WOOL.—There it rather more, inquiry but no chew to notice in prices, and hardly enough doing to fix quo. catintUt Patel of 80 1 000 Ths flue mi 48o00cs mgt.