THE PRESS (avlirDAts zsciEtittib,y BY JOHN W. FORNEY. OFFICE Mr. ill SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE DAILY CRESS, TWELVE GISTS rlcn WKCK, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to subscribers out of the City at Six DOLLARS Rill Morn, FOUR DOLLARS FOR EIGHT MONTH% VIRRS DOLLARS TOR SIS NORTHS—invariably in ad vance for the time ordered. TILE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at TRW'S DOL LARS rim ANNtrat, In arrrance. MILLINERY GOODS SPRINek 1862 1862. W(200.1) & CAB,Y, Oncoasion to Lincoln, Wood, & Mohole,) 1310. 711 S CHESTNUT STREET) Haire now In 'afire a complete stook STRAW AND MILLINERY (GODS, say K PONNETS3 STRAW AND PALM-LEAF HATS, ho To width thoy resfactinity invite tho attention of the tomer - patrota et She Wilde Alla :ho trade g0,..” - ally marl.2-2ra Es PRIX G. 1862. M. 13 ERN HEIM. Igo. lZti ORESTNTJT STREET, Has now in siore, and Is daily receiving, the latest .rtylee in FILBNCH FLOWERS, WREATHS, SILKS, CRAPES, LACES, AND OTHER MILLIN.ERY GOODS. V.? which he respectfully invites the attention of the TRADE. PRICES LOW. HAM.= 11? SPRING. 1862. RIBBONS. MILLINERY. AND STRAW GOODS. 110SENI-IEIM, BROOKS. Br. 045., NO. 431 MARKET STREET, alive now oxen—and to which daily additionn are made— USUAL HANDSOME VARIETY or RIBBONS. ZONE= M.S.TERIALS ; FLOWERS 111101 - IES. sITRAW AND FANCY BONNETS, MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S HATS, FLATS, SHAKER HOODS, and -ALL OTHER ARTICLES IN THE MILLINERY LINE, Which win be offered at the LOWEST MARKET PRICES. The attention or en trade je reepaetrulty invited, _ wir Particular attention given to filling orders. inhin-gm 'T ll °'" KENNEDY & BRO., 729 CHESTNUT Street, below Eighth. A Choice Stook cri." SPRING MILLINERY GOODS, mitaB-301 AT LOW PRICES. SPRI.N G MILLINERY. .0 DIRS. D. F 6'1111,18, 1037 CHEST-. RUT Street, has now open's, large and varied as sortment of English, French, and American STRLW BONITZTOI tcgvtlor with a furl line of STRAW GOODS Suitable fur Friends' wear, and the latest styles or bitiseme sod Children's Hats and Cape. apS4-12t IipREMOVAL. MISSES O'ERVAN, 924 CHESTNUT Street, havo vomov.l t021.01' Wed...i4Ur3c. mil, kh a do. wt.,. lel.- youth, north side, and will open PATHS M ILLINERY, for the Spring, on THIJR6DAY, April 17. apl2-2m* CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS. , CANTON MATTINGVS. J.. F_ & E_ 8.. ORNE. NO. 519 CHESTNUT STREET, (OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE) Have now open FRESH IMPORTATIONS RED CHECKED, And FANCY COLORED CANTON MA.TTINQS. ALSO, 500 PS. J CROSSLEY dG SON'S ENGLISH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS FROM 874 _TO $1 PR. YD., J. F. & E. B. ORNE. toy2-Oe3 N EW CARPETING_ JAMES H. ORNE, 426 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW SEVHNTH WO WINO 7an - MOO/14, Dr tAto orrtlmlO from Extropol acne new and choice varieties of CARPETING, cow- DRENCH AUBUSON Square Carpets .1123111.75.TER5, by the Yard end in ware Carpets. ARoSSLEY , s 6-4 and 3-4 wide Velvets. at Tapestry Brussels, ct Brussels Carpeting. Aim, a largo variety of CROSSLEY'S and other makes TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, From €3740. to $1 Per Yd. Oar assortment comprieee all the beet makes of Three iply and Ingrain Carpeting, which, together with a gene ral variety of goods 4n mar Dz., will be offerea at the loor- Vet possible prices. OM CLOTH FOR FLOORS, nom me to tight yards wi c, 4AL tv ORT FRESH MATTINGS. By late arrivals from China we have a full assortment WHITE AND COLORED MATTINGS OF ALL WITS. JAMES H. ORNE, GLEN ECHO MILLS, McCALLITM & Co-, 416.1NIILLOTOMIng, LMPONTRILIk AADDRALMIZEI 409 CHESTNUT STREET. (Onuslto indepentionco Iloilo OARPETINGS. OIL CLOTHS, &c. WO WO WOW Oil theati RA eitetdTolllo9ll9f Cangttliimh - QC Mir own sad other makes ; to which we call the •tten Mon et cash and short-time bnyerL F QVATH-OTAEV4T CARPET STORE, so. 47 ABOVE CHESTNUT, No. 47. T_ LiELACROIX. Invites attention to his Spring Importation of CARPETINGS. comprisin g every style, of the Newest Patterns and Elsa Law la VELVET, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY roma- MU, IMPERIAL TRUE-I-PLY, and mass= EMLEPITINGS. VENETIAN and DAMASK STAIR OARPETINGS. SCOTCH RAG and LIST GARPETINGIF PLOW/. OIL CLOTHS, COCOA end CANTON MATTINGS. WOE-MATS, RUGS, SHEEP SKINS, BRUGGE a, and CRUMB CLOTHS. AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, - LOW FOR CASH. J. T. DELACEOLE, mhll.4in 47 South FOURTH Street. WATCHES, JEWELRY, &o. A FRESH ASSORTMENT, at LESS dri. WAN 701IMEN PRIORS. FARR & BROTHER, Importer% 324 CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth. mh.llo4l' TtEST QUALITY ROOFING SLATE 1.1 always on hand and for sale at Union Whart,ll6l Street, Remington. T. THOMAS, WA" 117 WALNUT Streak PldlidelDhls BLINDS AND SHADES. VENETIAN BLINDS The largest and finest aesortment in the City at the LOWEST PRICES. - 13TORIE RHAItEn LETTRRED. 626 CHESTNUT GERMANTOWN, PA. SHUTTLE SEW_TIVG MACHINES-- The- beet and cheapest for Family or Manufac turing purposes. If not as good as represented, the mopey will be refunded. For sale at 911 CHESTNUT Street, second story. J. T. JONES St CO. my.9-0* ROBERT SHOEMAKER it CO.. grartheaat Corner FOURTH and Bmig wOO% PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE nAss. MANUFACTURERS OP WHITE LEAD AND ZINO PAINTS, PUTTY, aa. I.BIIIIPI NOD. 1 1 1 A1 FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Dealers and consumers implied at VERY LOW PRICES POR CASE. ap2o.2m lIITE LHAD, DRY AND IN W OlL.—Red Lead, White Lead, Litharge, Sugar of Lead, Copperas, Oil of Vitriol, Calomel, Patent Yel low, Chrome Red, Chrome Yellow, Aqua Fortis, MU rietic Acid, Epsom Salts, Rochelle Salta, Tartaric Acid, Orange Mineral. Soluble Tart, Sab. Oath. soda_ Whit. Vitriol, lied Precipitate, White Precipitate, Lunar Caustic, Narcotine, Suiph. Morphine, Morphine, Acetate Morphine, Lac. Suiph., Ether Sulphuric, Ether Nitric, Sulphate Quinine, Corre. Sublim., Deuarcotieed Opium, Chloride of Soda, Wetherill's Ext. Clucha, Tartar Chlerlde of Lime, Crude Relax, iionnod Borax, Camphor, Resin Copavia. BRUSHES AIM BLACKSMITHS' BELLOWS, KEMBLE & VAN HORN, t01i2.0.3in No. 321 MARKET Strad, Pbilat . t r riff • ..- -kyr 'Mk . tit,ir„,>)•-3 ,4*.st .\\\ t /1,/,„ trtivro ' r;" ! ..11111 r • -a • --/ *- • V l\ j n: .[ it - - . 7:Nr.. 741 Z *N. • • - -7 - A , • r 4,l _* , VOL. 5.-NO. 935. COMMISSION HOUSES. --- WELLING, COFFIN, & 220 CHESTNUT STREET, *genus for the following makes of goods: PRINTS. DVDNELL Dire. Co..— °BERNE MFG. 00. LAWNS. DUNNELL MFQ. CO. BLEAtIitED COTTONS. Lonalale, Forestdale, Auburn, Slatersville, Centredale, Jamestown, Blackstone, Hope, Bed Bank, Dorchester, Newburyport, Namneag, Emmy°, Burton, Greene NU. Co.'s A. A., B. A., O. A., and other styles. • BROWN COTTONS. Burnside, Trent, Groton, Ashland, Choetnat, Mechanics' and Farmers'. CORSET .lEANS.—Glasgow, Manchester. DENIMS AND STICIPES.—Grafton, Jewett City, Anawain, Keystone, Choctaw. OANTON FLANNELS.—Slatersville, Agawam. SILESIAS.—Smith's, Social Co., Lonedale CO. WOOLENS. AWAY BLUE CLOTHS, KERSEY'S, and FLAN. NELS. BROAD CLOTHS.—Phinkette, Glenham ilo., &o. CASSINERES.—Gay & Son, Saxton's River, &o. SATIRE, S.—Base River, Corrver,,iiio, tower Val ley, Hope, Staffordville, Convoi se and Hyde, Converse Bros. & Co; Shaw Mfg. Co. RENTOCEY JEANS.—Bodronn, Mystic, Gold MedaL DONET FLANNELS.—WILLIAUNS Angola, Sax. ony, Merino, and other styles: LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored Cambrios. PLAID LINSEYS. COTTONADES, &o. [fe2B-3m SHIPLEY. nAZA.iti). & HUTCHIN SON, No. 11 UEIBOTNUT STREET, COMPJISSION MERCHANTS FOR THE SALE( OP PHILADELPHIA—MAD.E GOODS. mh2B- Om YARNS, BATTS, & CARPET CRAIN& A H. FRANCIS CITS, WHOLESALE DEALER IN YARNS, 15.3 MAISET s Nora, FIFTH gtre.ii. PHILADELPHIA. Buyers will find a lull Stock of COTTON, LINEN, AND WOOLLEN CARPET CHAIN, COTTON YARN, TWIST, FILLING, WADDING, BATTING, COTTON LAPS, TM TARN 3, TWINEH, CANDLE WICK, COVERLET YARN, BROOM TWINES, SHOE THREAD!, GILLING AND SEINE TWINES, BED CORDS, WASH AND PLOUGH LINES, COTTON, DEEP, AND MANILLA CORDAGE Aim %NI (4.49049 . 0 of FLY NETS, Which he effete et Manufacturers LOWEST NET oAsti mans. WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. A H. FR.ANCISOUS. 431 MARKET and I North FIFTH Street, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DEALER IN WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. AIWaYS on hand, a full Stock of TUBS, lICCRITS, O.llllBNg, MEASURER, 1111.001118, WHISKS, I'ANOY BASKETS, WALL, SORUB, and SWEEPING BRUSHES, LOOKING-GLASSES and WINDOW PAPER, Mate s Heelers, Flour Buckets, Neat Boxes, WASH BOARDS, ROLLING and CLOTHES PINS. FLOOR and TABLE OIL CLOTHS. SCHOOL; MARKET, and DINNER BASKETS. Sleds, Barrows, Carriages, Hobby Horne, &c., ho All Goads sold at LOWEST NET CASH PRICES. PAPER HANGINGS pHILADELPHIA PAPER HANGINGS HOWELL & BOURSE, CORNER OP FOURTH AND IIf.aRKET STREETS, MANUFACTURERS OF PAPER HANGINGS AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS, Utter. to the Trade a LA.IteR AND LLBOANT As• SORTMENT OF GOODS, from the cheapest Brown Stock to the Fines: Decorations. E. COR_ FOURTH AND MARYDT ST.R.R.ETS V. B.—Solid Green, Blue, and Buff WINDSW PAPERS of every grade. ap2.3-2ta BLINDS AND SHADES B. a. WILLIAMS. N 0.16 NORTH SIXTH STREET, MANUFACTURER OF WINDOW SI;M)ES. Repairing promptly attended to SEWING MACHIN ES, WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES, 628 CHESTNUT STREET, mb.ll-am DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. w&Truntna, & BROTHER, Druggiata and Manufacturing Chemists, Nos. 47 and 49 North SECOND Street, jllll-0 CLARK'S ONE DOLLAR STORE. 80.2 CHESTNUT STREET. NEW GOODS, NEW STYLES, AND NEW PRICES, Poe ONE DOLLAR yon can buy any one of the fol lowing articles: Sets of Silver Plated Tea Spoons. Desert • a LI fp„,1,1 0 64 66 44 p er k, a if Desert 64 Pair " " Knife and leo:zir. ti u 61 Napkin Rings. a " . 4 Butter Kuivee. Silver Plated Sugar Bowl. " Buffer Dish. • Molseset Pitcher. " Cream " " Castor. " Waiter. • " Goblet. 41 " Drinking Cop. " Sugar-Sifter. Gold Plated Vest Chain, all styles. a . 44 Macku " " " Chatelaine, " • " Bracelet, " is " " Pleda lii en, " " Armlets. Areti.fit ti • " Ear Rings, " " Pin and Drops, all styles. - " Studs and Buttons, ‘, " Solitary ZIOSTO Button, ail AIM, • Li Bowen Stiehl, 66 a • " Finger Rings, it a At u Peueile, a " Pen with Pencil Case. Ladles' or Gentlemen's Port Mounaie, Calma t Bags, Purses, go., Ac., etc. All Goods warranted as repre sented. We have on hand a large assortment of Photo graph Albums, Mantel Clocks, Travelling Bags, and Gold Jewelry, which we are closing off at coat. The at toutiss of the Buie respectfully solicited. D. W. CLARK'S ONE DOLLAR STORE, apl-2m 602 CHESTNUT Street. STATIONERY AND FANCY GOODS. MARTIN & QUAYLE'S STATIONERY, TOY, AND FANCY GOODS EDIPORIUNI, No. 1035 WALNUT STREET, BELOW im - xv F.yr it, m3B-1m Ip PHIL &DELPIIIA. NEW IMPORTATIONS. HOSIERY. GLOVES. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS, WHITE GOODS, AND EMBROIDERIES. THOS. MELLOR & Co.. mll9-3m 40 Find 40 North THIIID Street. 1862. SPRING. 1862. ABBOTT. JOHNES. & CO.. SZT MAR HET (STREET, Have now open An entirely new and attractive stook in ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND AMERICAN DRESS GOODS. maa, a NI noeforiment WHITE GOODS, RIBBONS, GLOVES, SHAWLS, 41,4., dco., To which they Invite the attention of the trade. nth24-tiel SPRING STOCK SILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS. A. W. LITTLE & intil6-tf No. 325 NARK= ST. 1862. erRING I 1862 • RIEGEL. BAIRD. as CO.. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS op DRY GOODS. NO. 47 NORTH THIRD ISTREZT. ratr.Aoar.rars. Merchants visiting this city to purchase Day Goons will Intl ear Weak large and admirably aagorted, and at Low FIGURES. In certain elaesee of Goods we offer induoomenti to purelmeere unequalled by any other house in Philadelphia. tahlB-2m JAMES, HEN T, SANTEE. CO.. lIIPMITERS MID JORRIMIS OF DRY GOODS, MOM PPP and 241 - a, THIRD STREET, ABOYII BALE, PHILADELPHIA, Have now open their moat LARGE AND COMPLETE STOOK OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, Among which will be found a more than venally attrac tive variety - of LADIES' DRESS GOODS; Also, a MU assortment of MERRIMACK AND COOHECO PRINTS, and PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. Ty which they Invite the epecia attention of buyer& inhai-ace 1862. SPRING. 1862. W. S. STEWART & CO.. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OP SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, MO, 800 BIAISKMIMST. Now in store, POULT DE 60113, All Shades. BLACK AND WHITE CHECKS, In SILKS said OTHER FABRICS. ALSO, A FM LIII Of CLOAKING CLOTHS, PLAIDNPSTREPES, And desirable PLAIN COLORS. apl7 PHILADELPHIA. JAMES S. EARLE & SON, MANUFACTURERS AND ThiPORTERB OF LOOKING GLASSES. OIL PAINTINO9, • 'USA ENGRAV/NGS, PICTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH FRANZ% PHOTO43IIAPTt ALIMMO, QARTE-DE-VISITE PORTRAITS, EARLE'S GALLERIES. 818 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. (IA_BINET FURNITURE AND Bile LIARD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION. No. 161 South SECOND Street, In connection with their extensive Cabinet SUMMON an low mmagisturing a Reporter article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on hand a MI supply, finished with the MOORE h CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, ihleh art i5v000,,,,..1, h r auwho hAse sued them, to he suserfor to ail others. For the quality and finish of these tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the character of their perk. 16Q8 edl JEWELRY, &c. DRY-GOODS JUMPERS. LOOKING GLASSES CABINET FURNITURE. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1862. It ttss, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1862. Go.s.b/p about Foreign Literature Carlyle's History- of Frederick the Great ; originally announced in four volumes, two of which were published in 1858, cannot be com pleted within that limit, and nobody but the author expected that it would. The portion now before the public gives, in two volumes, the biography of Frederick from his birth, on January 12, 1112, to his accession to the throne of Prussia, by his father's death, on May 1;1, 1740. Frederick lived and reigned over forty-six years after this utter date, for he did not die until August 17, 1786. Now, any boy who knows the rule of three could calculate to what the Life was likely to extend, Thus: if it took two volumes to narrate the few events of Frederick's ante-regal life, twenty-eight years, how many to chronicle the lietnaining forty-xis as King? Answer, two and two-thirds. This, at the very least, seeing that Fritz, as King, did, said, and wrote a great deal more, proportionably, than as Prince,—this, too, considering the long-winded and desultory manlier in which Mr. Carlyle writes. Mark the difference between Macaulay and Carlyle, able men both. Carlyle has taken two volumes, or some 1 ; 200 octavo pages, to narrate the life of Frederick before he became King, while, in a masterly article in the Ediwburgh Revlew, published in 1842, Macaulay sketched the man's whole career, as King and soldier, to the close of the Seven Years' War, in 1163, at which date he had reigned nearly a quarter -of a century. Ma caulay's article, in 100 pages, gives a better revonj of Frederick's life, and a clearer esti- Male or- hi§ obtfidata, than diffuse Carlyle has conveyed in 3,200 pages. Carlyle's Frederick is to he extended to . five volumes instead of Jour, and the third, which has been printed for some time, will immediately be published by Chapman and Hall in London, and by Har per and Brothers in New York. For the be nefit of the curious, we add that Carlyle is now in his 67th year. Another public man, who has successively declined a position in ths Palmerston Minis try, a scat in the. Privy Council, a public grant of money, and the hereditary title of baronet, is about publishing a book which, it is fair to previse i will have at least a million readers. The author is Richard Cobden, of Cheap Bread and French Commercial Treaty fame, and the book will review the Military and Naval Ex penditure of Great 'Britain during the past twenty years. Mr. Cobden is a leader of the reform party, which complains that, in Iwo found peace, the expenditure of the British nation, for military and naval purposes, nearly equals the annual interest payable on the na tional debt. Mr. Cobden, who lost his seat for Yorkshire on account of his Peace pro clivities, in 1857, was an author before:he entered Parliament, over twenty years ago. He commenced; as far back as 1884, with two pamphlets—one on , c Russia," the other on c; England, Ireland, and America." Few British statesmen know this country so well as Mr. Cobden. When he was last here, three years ago, the borough of Rochdale elected him into the House of Commons without his knowledge. Anthony Trollope, the English novelist, has returned to his duties in the London post office, after his visit of several months to this country. A Roply to Spencer' n Worn on tho American - Union is announced in London from the pen of C. E. Rawlins, Jr., a Liverpool geu tikniAti. Mrs. &ma's cc Agnes 8P „goerBntB. 33 is to be published in London in one volume, this month, after it has been concluded in the May minter of the Camhill Magazin, The Hon. Mrs. Norton is announced as far advanced in a biography of her illustrious grandfather, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The order drainatlat, Inkstreh who ran Tidocgia each mode of the lyre and was ma-der or all. She will have the use of a large collection of family papers and royal and other letters now in the possession of liar brother, noW .74% for Dorchester. Tom Moore had all these docu ments when writing Sheridan's .life, but made little useof them, his purpose, as self-confessed in his Diary and self•evident in the book itself, being rather to whitewash his patrons, the Whigs, than truly give the history of his friend Sheridan. Again, the curious may be as Mild/ surprised to learn that Mrs. Norton, imagined as young and beautiful, is a matron over fifty years old t as that Mrs. Humans, whose bast_ portrait shows a Helm, had red hair, a freckled skin, and—more piquant than poetic—the fea ture known as a we.: retrousse. So differs fact from fiction. A singular exaggeration of fact, relating to the rewards of authorship, has been running through the English journals--via that the proprietors of Macmillan's Magazine paid £2,000 to Mr. Coventry Patmore for his cc - Victories of Love," a continuation, we be lieve, of his singularly prosaic and feeble poem Gc The Angel in the House." This would be at the rate of a guinea a line. In our time, only Tennyson was paid thus, by Once a Week and the Cornkill Magazine, and for short poems in both instances. Scott, who wee as well paid as any triodes writer, was not paid anything like this for his poetry : much less, if we believe Lord Byron who, in "English /3artls and Scotch Reviewers," addressing Scott, says : Though Murray with his Miller may combine To yield thy muse just half-a-crown per line. By The way, how much annotated editions of Byron, Scott, and Moore, are required. Few readers can now understand this allusion to Murray and his Miller_ When Jahn Mur ray, the London publisher, purchased a share in Scott's cc Marmion," he had a partner named William Murray, who did not remain with hint long, and, in 1826, (being then wholly out of business,) had two 4to volumes of his own published by Colburn, of London. This work was entitled «SiographicalStcetchcs ofßritish Characters Recently Deceased : commencing with the Accession of George the Fourth," and noticed two hundred and thirty subjects, chronologically arranged from the periods of their death, with a list of their engraved por traits—private as well as public. This was meant to c ontinue Granger and Chahnor, and the biographies, though generally brief, are accurate as to dates, which is much in such things. There has been a change, the London Critic says, in the editorship of one of the best among foreign periodicals—the Dublin University Ma gatita. Instead of Messrs. LeFann (Lefamt ?) and Anderson Scott, the editorial sceptre is'now wielded by Mr. Cheyne Brady. Sir nOinidell Palmer, Solicitor General of England, will immediately publish a Hymn book, original and selected, entitled "The /took of Fraisc," The Rev. James White, a Scottish Episco pal clergyman, author of" The King of the Com mons," and other dramas, with cg The Eigh teen Christian Centuries)) and other historical works, lately died on the Isle of Wight, aged fifty-eight. Among the English announcements, we find the follo» - ing TheNorth-Atlantic Sea-bed, being an analysis of soundings obtained on board Her Majesty's ship Bulldog, in the sum mer of 1860, during the survey of the proposed telegraph route to America via Iceland, Green land, and Labrador. By G. C. Wallich, M. Vr, Se lh, 1.4, 5,, Naturalist to the Ex pedition. The work will comprise a Diary of the Voyage, a general Review of the Sound ings, an Account of Deep-Sea Soundings and b - otmcling Apparatus, Observations on Animal Life at extreme Depths in the Sea, and a de tailed History of the various Organisms dis covered, with numerous Illustrative Plates; Mr. Spedding's Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, and Viscount St. Al ban's (frequently and erroneously called Lord Bacon,) in two volumes, forming the eighth and ninth volumes of Bacon's Works, edited by Ellis. Simdding, and Heath ; Memoir of Sir Philip S dney, by H. It. Pou bounic q St. Clement's Eve, a drama, by Henry Taylor, author of c. Philip Van Artevelde ;" The ooh of Job, by the late Rev. George Croly Captain Clutterbnek's Champagne ; the second and concluding volume of May's Constitu tional History of England from 1700 to 1860; The Life of Edward Irving, the Scottish preacher ? with his journal and correspond ence, by Mrs. Oliphant; Italy under Victor Emmanuel, a Personal Narrative, by Count Charles Arrivabene ; The Church and the Churches; er, the Papacy and the Temporal Power, by Dr. Dellinger, translated by W. B. Mac Cabe ; Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne, illustrated from the papers at Kim bolton, edited by the Duke of Manchester Adventures among the Andamans, by Dr. ouat ; Female Life in Prison, by a Prison Matron ; a new edition of Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, by T. Crofton Croker, a'new and complete edition, Wiled by T. Wright, ,11, A. F. S. A., &c., with Original Letters from Sir Walter Scott, Lockhart, Miss Edgeworth, &c., now first added ; and a Memoir of the Author, by his son, T. P. Dillon Croker. Archdeacon Denison is announced as Editor of The Church and Slate Review, a forthcoming monthly. The London Alhenceant says: " A collection of books, chiefly relating to American History and Literature, has been sold by Messrs. Put tick & Simpson. The prices obtained for some• of the articles were remarkable, as indi cating ithat, despite the concentration of at tention and funds of the American nation on more exciting matters than book-collecting, they are not neglectful of objects which have occupied them in more peaceful times. The prices obtained for nearly all the important articles bought for American account were higher than ever. The following were amongst the remarkable items : A volume of Ameri can Almanacs, 1727 to 17`•id, £7 75; Latina, 1462, the first Bible with a date, £130; Coverdale's Bible, 1535, the first English Bi ble, made up with fac-simile leaves, £140; Cicero's Cato Major, printed by Benjamin Franklin, £6 his Gd ; Ilakluyt's Divers Voy ages, lint edition, 1582, £l7 ; llnhbara's State of Nen* England, 1677, £5 12s 645 The first Collection of Indian Laws, 151:.3, imperfect, £8 10s; series of Las Cases' Relations of Transactions with the Lidians, 1;3;2, £5 2s ad t Massachusetts Clehtitiel, a newspaper printed at Boston, a series from 1786 to 1829, .£ll Os 6d ; Morton's New England Men - 0- ,4a] ; No, £lO lOs The Secret Works of a Cruel People Made Manifest, 1059, a tract re lating to New England, £8 ; Smith's Virginia, 1G27, £l6 ss; The Massachusetts Spy, a newspaper, 17-1g.‘20, .£lO Voyages de Thevenot, 2 vols., 1668-72, £l2 ss; The vet's New-found World, 1568, £5 5s ; Tor quemada, Monarchia Indiana ? :Ft vols. ? large paper, 1.16 ; Vaughan's Travels in America, 1784, a small MS. volume of brief but inte resting notes, £11. ,, In European, as distinguished frein English, literature there is little activity. Victor Hugo, the Critic says, cc is to have £l,OOO per vo lume for MS new work published at Brussels, c Les Miserables ;' and as the work will extend to six volumes, here are £6,000 for the illus trious exile and the author of 'Notre Dame de Paris.' The Work, *MA IA inakint some sensation, is not likely to escape some severe criticism, however, chiefly from the strong political tendencies of the author. For all that, every one is sure to read it, and some portions with a heavy heart. The artist over powers the philosopher; and the bulk of those who may peruse I Les Misarables 7 will be sym pathizers rather than critics." Of the first portion, called cc Fantine," a long and appa rently faiV review, with translated extracts, is given in the Jilhenaum, which praises the power of the author, but charges him with coarseness and sensuality approaching the worst features of Eugene Sue's writings. Dumoulin is publishing a new edition of a useful work, the ccDictionnaire de la No blesse," by La Chew() Desboir and Ba. flier. Pagnerre will be the Paris publish er of a new work promising to be equally acceptable to the antiquary and the ar tist. The first number has appeared in Paris. It is called cilconographie methodique du Costume du quatrieme au dix-neuvieme sit:tele (315-1815)"—a collection engraved zi /eaz6- lyric, from authentic and unpublished docu ments; by Raphael Jacquemin. There will be about 100 monthly parts, each containing four plates, printed in bistre by M. Delatre. In Germany, almost the only novelty, a forthcoming work by Julius Rodenberg, en titled cc Tag and Nacht in London," with il lustrations by an English artist, Wm. McCon nell. The opening chapter is devoted to the streets of London, and begins where mostly foreigners begin their perambulations—in Re gent street, of which and its throngs walking and riding there is a spirited engraving, and another giving a day scene in the neighbor hood of the Mansion house. The author and artist work harmoniously and amusingly to gether. (iurtuve Alinard That Gustave Aimard, a Frenchman, should de pict the various phases of ludo-Mexican life better than any other author would indeed be astonishing, but for the fain that he passed years of his adven turous life in the country and among the people whom be so vividly describes. He has groat con structive DOWer 3 ..that is, he Can build up a story, with wonderful varieties of action, but lie has no need to draw on imagination to invent characters. Experience and observation supply him with them, and Le has 13.11 arlisi , s am arta tact in describing scenery. T. B. Peterson cir, Brothers, 306 Chestnut street, have commenced publishing spirited transla tions of all his stories ; (which are already as popu lar in Europe as Cooper's Indian tales,) and the series will bo a valuable addition to our standard literature. Not long since we noticed " The Floirer of the Prairie," an exciting and singa. larly interesting romance of real life, and its publishers will have the sequel, enticed "The In dian Scout, or, Life on the Praries," ready for purehanars en gaturday. We have read it Omagh, having been favored with an advance copy, and do not hesitate to pronounce it a production of singu lar interest, spirit, and merit. Whether on the prairies of the Far West, or in the cities of blexico or Quiepaa Tani, (the City of the 4%11. 2 ) this interest never abates. The description of Quiepaa Tani is wonderfully brilliant. Eagle-head ; the Camanche chief and his beautiful squaw, Fleur d'Eglantine, are equal to the best of Cooper's creations, and Bon-affut, the scout, will stand comparison with Leatber-Stooking. Although M. Aimard is a French man, he writes with singular purity 'of morale. There is no line in all his works to which the most fastidious can raise any objection. We mention this, because general readers are apt to fancy that all Frenoh novelists have the freedom of Paul de Kook and Balzac, Dumas and Sue. JUDGE CONRAD'S DEVOTIONAL POE3LS.—SOM days ago, we announced that a new and beautiful edition of Devotional Poems, by the late Robert T. Conrad, would speedily be published by subscrip tion, with a fine portrait of the gifted and lamented author, and an introduction by George H. Boker, also a Philadelphia poet of mark and merit. It will be got up and printed on tinted paper and in handsome and subSiArLtid binding, in IliesAitA. J. B. Lippincott & Co.'s best style, and the edition will be strictly limited to the number of subscribers. Already, (as we learn from Judge Conrad's son• in lew, Mr. J. Alhed Ilisenbray, Sll Pine street, who will receive subscribers' names,) a large number of copies are subscribed for. We have seen the por trait of Judge Conrad which will illustrate this volume. It is a characteristic and spirited like ness, engraved on steel, by John Sartain. COLORED LITDOG itAi.ns.—T. B. Peterson A: Bros., Who have entered extensively into the sale of en, gravings, have just added to their stock some splendid ehromo•lithographs, from, and in exact imitation of, original paintings and drawings by eminent artists, executed and published by Cur• tier & Ives, New York. A remarkably spirited one among these is " Life on the Prairie," in which a horse-party of trappers, the prairie being in names behind them, are, lighting fire by fire, by burning the arid grass before them. The expres sion of the frightened hoTses is wonderfully finely rendered. This is from a picture by A. F. Tait, an artist well known in the New York Exhibition. THE VOLUNTEER NURSE CORPS.— The departure of volunteer nurses from this city under . the charge of Charles J. Stine, Esq., of the United Statue .Sanitary Committee, has already been noticed. These nurses are now employed on the steamship Daniel Webster, used as a floating hospital, now lying off Ship Point. She has been fitted up for the comfortable ac• .omened.tlm, .kk sad snicit‘aded having on board a large supply of medical stores and all necessary conveniences. The corps is divided into two divisions or watches, each watch being relieved from duty every four home. ns this means, the sick and not ne-glecteti for one rootnent, bight or ,l.y. Connected with the corps are several gentlemen from New York. Much honor is tine to Mrs. Griffin, Mrs. oulaud, Mrs. Lane. and Miss 'Woolsey. who have voluit tem ed their ssrvices to accompany the expedition in its halo teeth. THE EVACUATION OF YORKTOWN. Occupation of the Town by our Troops. PURSUIT OF THE RETREATING REBELS. THE TROPHIES TAKEN FULL PARTICULARS YORKTOWN , , Mal 4 —At 12 . o'clock last night, a batteries k direction the enemy's water n. of Suspicions that an was not right were again revived. At 1 o'clock A. iBht light attracted in the attention. M. a last and farewell gun was fired. From thence until daybreak all was silent. Our pickets ad, veined further than usual, and met no resistance. At 5 o'clock A. M. the pickets were relievel. Skirmishers tat e of 1 7 ffu er i e rs , and at at i once i th o r ,ck o o s i v o no out toascertain aencr the s Jameson, Colonel (love, of the Twenty•second Massachusetts, and Colonel flack, of the Sixty second Pennsylvanin, entered Yorktown. The Twenty-second Maisaehusetts and part of the 7:l4llteVnlh New Yerli t were at once thrown into the works, and possession taken. The stars and stripes were raised on the deserted fortifications amid the unbounded enthusiasm of our soldiers. The most reliable information I have been enabled to receive shows that the evacuation was 041- nlenceci on Thursday last. The last Of the rebel force, consisting of tioneral Lmgstreet's brigade, left the works about one o'clock this morning. The First News of the Evacuation. Just at the fleet faint light or early dawn, MOO men were observed approaching our outer pickets with a flag of truce. They were received by Col. Black At first it was supposed that they were rent from Yorktown ofaoially—perhaps with a pro• position for almanacs—hut tea each aseerla6ed that they had come over on their own account. They belonged to the Thirty-second Virginia regi ment, which was one of the last to lease. They said that when our army arrived in front of YOrk town the rebel force under General Magruder was not more than eight thousand men. A Cautious Reconnoissance. A few hours previous to this time our telegraph bed been carried so far to the front 119 the old grist mill, which has been used as the headquarters of the generals of the trenches. General JanlOSollim mediately telegraphed to General Fitz John Porter, director of the siege, the intelligence which these dcsertera brought regarding the evacuation, lie soon received a reply instructing him to push for ward a small force to procure authoritative infor mation as to the truth of their assertion. Ile took i detachments from the l xty aek - i s e t cc (I T Pennsylvania tycond Massachusetts, under Col. Gove, with a support of two companies of the First Massachusetts, under Lieutenant Colonel Wells, and advanced along the border of the woods, on the commanding bluff which overlooks the river, In the morning oar outposts and sentinels on the works we were constructing were astonished when they missed the accustomed rebel watchmen from the walls. Our men in the trenches evinced, if possible ' as much curiosity as those who were advancing towards the fortifications. Thousands of heads appeared above the top of our parallel, and every one -manifested the deepest interest in the scenes which were trans piring. It was only by a stern command that the general kept the men from rushin g headlong ' heed less of all lurking danger, into the entrench ments. Entering the Works—The Stars and Stripes Itaise4 Very soon AIR dOtRGRITICRI73 reached ttte ditch in front, and began to mount the parapets. General Jameson and Colonel Black mounted first. They were closely followed by Colonel Gyve, Lieutenant Crawford and Captain Hassler, of the Vi1eP.4.1 1 .4 staff. The general jumped inside the work, which was seen to be deserted, and presently it was swarm ing with our soldiers. The glorious emblem of our nationality was raised above the deserted battle ments, and, 149 its LAMA weea kissed by tbe gentle breeze, the general uncovered his head and called for " three cheers for the good old Stars and Stripes." A feeling of profound veneration arose in the hearts of all as we beheld the grand pici flag vavlng over the deserted battlement, awl planted once more on that historic ground. You may know that we all reverently uncovered, and the air resounded with our cheers. Two companies were placed on the parapets, ant] they we commenced an examinati'•n of the works. We soon found a North ern gentleman, who bad reluctantly occupied an important position in the rebel army there, who managed to secrete himself when they were going, and from 'OM w received valuable information relative to the mines the rebels had laid to blo iv up the works. The Fortifications at Yorktown. The fortifications around Yoe/4M WI . Were of the meet feemidebie eetireeter, i tiara positive and reliable information that ever since the battle of Big Bethel, almost a year ago. and before it, the re bels have been hard at work fortifying the whole peninsula, The works at Big Bethel, and these at Howard's bridge—which were abandoned when we marched up here a month ago—required considera ble labor. From the time of the occupation of York town, about a year ago, by the rebel General Ma geedce, tiro thousand slaves have been constantly employed, principally on the fortifications in the immediate vicinity of Yorktown and egress the ri ver at Gloucester. These have been assisted by the effective rebel force, some seven thousand men, which Gen. Magrndee has had under lila command. They were composed chiefly of Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana troops. The fortifications of Yorktown are in the general shape of an elonga ted triangle, with the river for the base. In length ther are fiveeeightles of a Mile- They are strong, but net neat. They might have been taken by storm with terrible loss ; could have been taken by turning their right on the Warwick, after a severe battle; but have bean taken without loss of any kind. One man W9A killed and three wounded hy the explosion of a shell, attached to a torpedo in front of the works. They belonged to the Twenty second Massachusetts. That immense a9nllaQled fortification, with its numerous salient angles, on which their heaviest guns were mounted, is at once a beautiful and a wonderful work. The ditch is deep. but dry ; the parapet is lofty, and would be difficult-to scale. This work, with a water-heel/4T helve?, commands the river on the Yorktown side.- Running toward the right of the rebel lines there is a long breast work, not pierced for guns, but having in front a ditch of the same depth as Wet before the fort, This breastwork connects an elegant redoubt of considerable magnitude, and another breastwork of the Fame description connects another redoubt be yond, still further to the left. Oa this redoubt there had been mounted a number of eolumbiads and Dablgren naval guns, with nee siege howitzer. It is now occupied by the Fortieth New York re giment, whose banners are streaming from the walls. In front of these works there is an immense area of open peoued which is eompletel i com manded by their guns Trees which were standing a year ago have been cut down by the rebels, to give free range to their artillery. Deep gorges and ravines are inside and about these fortifications, This natural advantage furnished good cover for their troops against artillery fire, and rendered the position difficult to assault. To the left of the York town road—the enemy's right—as you approach the town, ether fontilintlanis been conch -noted. On the line of the Warwick road, a few hundred yards from the Yorktown turnpike, there is a small ravine. An inconsiderable stream has been made to increase the extent of a natural swamp in front of the works at this point. This is near the spot where, Lord Cornwallis surrendered to Washing ton. and the British laid down their arms. Fur ther to the right of the enemy's line, along the course of the Warwick are other earth works which I have not yet had an opportunity to examine. Appearance of Affairs within the Works. When We arrived inside the fort we found that tents were left standing, with bedding and articles of luxury in them. On the canvas and sides of the huts were caricatures of Union soldiers. Many of the tents were cut in different places. Four largo trucks for carrying heavy gnus stood near the dock, with an immense quantity of lum ber. The magazines were constructed in the most careful manner. This fort had been occupied by the first battalion New Orleans Artillery, the Eighth and Thirtieth Alabama Regiments, the Tenth and Fourteenth Louisiana Regiments, and the Thir teenth and Forty-fifth Georgia Regiments. These troops were ordered to report at Howard's Grove, four miles from Richmond, and left the fort at mid night. A rear guard was left, which at last retired in the greatest haste. The first gun on this large work, mounted on the left, looking towards the river, was an eight-inch col - Lamb - 6a, and next in their order were mounted a nine-inch Dahlgren, a ten-inch columbiad, throe nine-inch Dahlgren guns. Directly underneath, in the water battery, there were four eight-inch co lunibindo and nn 9111 forty -two-pound oarronado. On the large work above, besides those I have already mentioned, there were, just about the brow of the bill, two thirty-two-pounder siege guns, three thirty-two-pounder ship glinS, taken !Troia the Nor folk flat I yard, torso eight-inch columbiads in one position and four in another. All these guns com mand the river. To the right of the river battery, and bearing en the open space of land which I have desoritictl; there is a thirty-two-pounder ship gun. and then, lammed on a barbette carriage, a long twenty-four-pounder seacoast gun. The next was a thirty-two-pounder, and close by another eight inch columbiad. Sill farther to the right, bearing on the land, were thirty•tato- pounders. twenty four-pounders, and an eight inch columbiad. After a good forty-two-pounder there were four old ship earronades, which were little else than useless. There wore other pieces of ordnance, some of smaller calibre, in the works farther to the right. Several of the guns were spiked, several had burst, the fragments being scattered around in the forts, and a few had been dismounted, probably by our shots. 11/Pet4likd Alrop6AViiiice Or the Town When we occupied 'Yorktown the whole piece presented the most pitiable appearance. A few contrabands were the solo inhabitants of the town. Some of the most illteCOStleg bonny herd boon torn aown, The marble monument outside, where the British forces under Lord Cornwallis surrendered, bad been knocked to pieces and carried away by individual rebel soldiers. Several of the houses had been need as hospitals, but the sick and wounded had all been removed before we entered. The ancient Nelson house, taken once from Cornwallis, and now from the rebels by our forces is still stand ing_ It is an extensive brick structure, and wag used as a hospital. From our camps, before the. evacuation, we could distinctly see the yellow flag floating from this house. Tho old church had been set apnrt as a quartermaster's depot. The alarm hall was stationed on a house which wag known as General Rain's headquarters. Close by the church was the prison, and the prison doors were opon. There are a number of interesting spots which I have not time to describe. The Trophies, In Yorktown proper are about forty guns, ranging from 32. pound carronades and howitzers to 32.- pounders of the old navy pattern, which throw a 100-pound solid shot. Tiaoso guns aro all lcfc— spiked, of course. The remains of two that burst are visible. The heavy gun that burst on Friday last. a deserter tells me, killed three and wounded twelve men Ammunition is left in moderate quem• TWO CENTS. tities—hospital stores in profusion—no commissary stores of any moment, Icnts worn loft standing guns merely spiked, and the trail ropes not even cut ; the magazines not even blown up. Only the powder•house, down on the river side, at the ex treme end of their works, was burned, and exploded at 3 A. M. with a terrific report. About fifteen houses are all that stand. Some have been burned. Nearly every house was used for a hospital, and medical stores are found in abundance. The camp inside the works was dirty and filthy, and the en closure is filled with dibris of every description, Trophies abound: The early risers secured some worthy relies. A strict guard is over the works, and stragglers are arrested. The Alines Prenitred--iinsiiallies, Several mines had been prepared for OUP troep4 by placing percussion shells under ground, in the railways, and entrance to the fort. Torpedoes and shells, with a fuse fastened to small wires. had been clan placed in rednuirs. ; Thu Fifth Nnw York Regiment (Duryee's Zo.uttves) bad five men killed and several wounded by the explosion of it torpedo. The Thirty-eighth New York Volunteers, Colonel Ilabart Ward, hud two man killed and four wttut,dod by the bursting of a prepared shell. The Partied/ New York Volunteers lost one man billed and two wounded. The Seventieth Regiment, Now York Volunteers lost two men killed other easusitte.t have neeurrtd, but I etibnot send you particulars at present. Reason of the Eyacuation Up to within a few days since the rebels intandel to give battle here. Finding. however, that the heavy prt.jeetlles which we had 'atm:yr) over ware terribly desnuctive : and having reason to believe that the butteries we were building would, when they should open, soon compel them to surrender, .jOineii with other equally suggestive eiretlnotancv 'ealletied the reluel'sereersee,ese..,,k.-.4.- rsmr..,Ark spe‘ ally autena.ble, and that . the beat poiioy tor them to pursue was to evacuate. It seems that they dreaded our gunboats quite as much as our batteries and our regiments. I have reliable infor mation the they calculated greatly upon asitstauca from the iWerrimac. An order was issued, seven days ago, requiring the Merrimac to report to General iel.neten twined ately, at Yorktown. But the Illeirimar had well , founded fears of the Aleut tor, and the did not attempt to comply with the re quirements of the order. The Rebel Army Demoralized From several sources of _ information him become convinced that the larger part of the rebel army was completely demoralized. The three deserters of which I have already spoken, who came inside our lines early this morning, said that nil hut three companies of the First Virginia regi ment, whose term of enlistment bed expired, bad thrown down their arms and positively refused to reenlist. The Portsmouth Grays also refused to continue any longer in the rebel service, and for their refusal they were put in the guard house. It is said that five thowand of men threatened to lay down their arms. Three rebel lieutenants, two sergeants and twenty men were captured the other side of Yorktown and brought in. pine° the 3d, a large number of de serters have come in, and. they report their army as thoroughly disheartened and demoralized. Those who find thetnselves in the rebel ranks are utterly disgusted with the rebellion. The mareh for Willitumbure—A Me- M ell tO. The rebel soldiers and negroes were at work on their entrenchments until one o'clock in the morn ing, when their rear guard urciercii the work to cease. and the march fur Williamsburg to he taken up. In the house of Mrs. Nelson. where General Magruder had slept the night before the evacua tion. I found several open letters lying unfolded on a table. Two were Flcicifc§Pc4 tp gcnerul DrioNl7 bp, one to the Drat Taukee who come, one to Abe Lincoln. One of those to General McClellan reads as follows : GENERAL ; Yon will be surprised to hoar of our departure at tuffs stags of the gams, haring. You in possession of Ibis worthless town; but the faet it, McCltlion, we have other engagements to attend to, and we can't wait any longer. Our boys are getting sick of this damned place, and the hospital likewise ; so, woo-1-by for a little while. kdiltftl# TXRHY, C, P, A al, The Council of War and the Retreat. The retreat of the rebels appears to have boon precipitate. They commenced carrying all but their guns back to Williamsburg four days sr, Wagons here been engaged in traiapertiag their ammunition, provisions, and camp equipage for nearly a week past. Their sick and wounded, numbering over two thousand five hundred, were sent to Richmond ten day§ ego, The rebel council of war was Yield in Mrs, Nelson's house, at York town, on Tuesday and Wednesday last. Jeff Davis and two members of his Cabinet, Generals Lee, Magruder. and nine other generals were present. The debate§ were warm and exciting but finally it was resolved to minute. The generals en trusted with the orders of evacuation kept it a pro found secret from the officers and men. F9ll9wing Vp thy Victim. As goon as the evacuation of Yorktown baking known in the camps the bands of the different regi ments commenced playing, amidst the cheering of the soldiers. The following order was sent to the divrelons afici bilsicles at .oven A. M., prom don. McClellan : Commandants of regiments will prepare to march, with two days' rations, with the utmost despatch. MOOT AtA to return, At about nine A. M. the troops began to march, the First regular cavalry and four batteries of artille ry leading. Tents were struck, knapsacks strapped, and within an hour after the order was given the troops were marching tkreugh Yorktown, All our gunboats came up at 9 o'clock. some marines were landed at Gloucester. They raised the United States flag amid cheering that could be heard across the river. The boats all then left. and are now run ning up the York river to shell the banks on bg•th sides and cut oit tim - retreat of the enemy, How the Recent National Successes are Received in Europe. ENGLISH VIEWS ON THE SURRENDER OP ISLAND MO. TEN AND Tau nATTLE OF SHILOH. [From the London Times of April 221.] The tidings of a great Mille fought in America, and the report of tens of thousands slain, wounded, and captured, comes to spur our flagging interest in the transatlantic civil war. The indecisive and un certain skirmishes of the last six months had in closed the Reaglisla pukka ts wait with t atleoce for ultimate results rather than to follow with excite ment the vicissitudes of the contest. The gradual approaches, by river and by sea, the landing of isolated expeditious apon diArcnt portions of coast, the advance Of gunboats pushing their way up great rivers, and the sudden embarkation of the great army of the Potomac. if they were parts of some grand scheme, Welr part,- of asschenee so oast in its whole; net so delicate in its details. that tt could not he comprehended at Hats zrent di_c ,nee. and with the imperfect geographical knowledge of the villages and townships of America which is pos sessed in this country. The English people have been 6'6i:tient IC).9a lt and :zee what this opening of the game was to lead to. Hitherto only the pawns had been pushed forward, the important Confede rate pieces bad been driven back upon the board, and the important Federal pieces hail been worked into a position for attack. A few pawns had been taken on either side, but we had for the most part begun to wait until some great swoop of the queen or some dangerous cheek from a knight should re- Mil ill to the, table and d ive an anxious interest tO the game. At last this has happened. The China brings us news of three great events. The first seems to he clear enough. On the Bth instant...lsland No. 10 surrendered to the Federal gunboats. The Mts. sissippi. therefore, is to this extent clear of Con federate obstruction, and the gunboats of the Fede rats can descend the great river until they meet with gems EiMit imi ecllineal , oi,lr they thlokit wise to trust themselves so far, until thoygain the neigh borhood of New Orleans. The Federal advicee boast that a hundred siege guns and six thousand Prif9ficrl 11111 - 9 been captured upon this Wand, Putting aside these numbers, which experience teaches us to distrust, the probability is that the loss of the Confederates was very great upon the capture of so important a position. So long as they shut themselves up in forts on the ease! es u nit we vigable rivers this must be the result. It was a principle even of old-fashioned warfare that all for tifications maybe taken with a given force and in a given time. With the great ouperiority possessed by the Federuls in ships, stores, and artillery, this be comes a much more rapid certainty ; and in the pro sent relative condition of the two navies, we may take it for granted that when the Confederates give battle at a point which can be reached by ships ' they must be beaten. We do not pretend to cen sure their tactics, in defending these river forts. We cannot tell whati the exigencies of their general plan of defence may demand, or what the value to them may be of a few days' cheek of the invaders. It may be that the siege artillery and the garrison of this island, in the Mississippi, were profitably sacrificed to the delay the defence obtained. The South is, no doubt, fighting off for the moment -hen the b reatesi of all reinforcements Alan come, In two months, General Sumner will take the field with fever and ague as his aexiliaries. It may be that the Confederates act advisedly, in holding posts where they must be surrounded, and hat3l - and captured but the result can never oc casion any surprise. Island No. 10 was at last taken, 'without the loss of a man on the Federal side, and the success was, therefore, of coarse, attained by superior artillery anti a distant bum bardment. [From the limes of the 23d ] The great battle of the Tennessee seems to de serve the fame which has been claimed for it, Divesting it of its spangles and blue fire. the simple fact comes cut in sufficient grandeur. There was a two days' conflict between two very considerable armies. It was a drawn battle, and din ,first rreditalfr encounter on either stile which has taken place during tilts war. We have too much blood re lationship with these mon on both sides, although, the Sonde are more g ! are/y Engllols (/'O?( the others, not to with that, if they will fight, they may fight well. Apart from the facilities which the great navigable rivers give to a powerful invader, this would be a great Confederate victory; for to an invader, under the ordinary conditions of in vasion, a check is defeat, and defeat is ruin. But all former rules of warfare are set at bought In this strarge New-World struggle. When naval au premaoy can be made available many hundred miles from the sea, and an army can he, mtitiped in the midst of a great continent by supplies brought by steamboats from depots hundreds of miles dis tant; and when gunboats can run up and down throughout that continent; and take part in every battle that hitrrens within cannon ahot of' a Aver, the laws of European tactics do not apply. With such facilities in the bands of the Pectorals, General Grant may ho able to afford even such victories as those he claims on the Tennessee. But we should he very mush mistaken if we thought that this affair is calculated to bring the war to an end or to discourage the Southern people. Already it had ~iven far snore apprehen.ton than hope in the North, REVOLUTIONARY REITAINS.—In digeng the graves of the bravo men of the Vermont Third Regiment who fell before Yorktown. the remains 4 Fcane Soldiers a the nevektion were turned up. The brass buttons that had been on their clothing were in good preservation. THE Mayor of New Orleans is universally be. Hotrod to bo tee 01 _lonprAto man. THE WAR PRESS- ;biz iFiAa kezea wai be mei le sabecriirek mall (per annum In advance) at. $2.06 Three Copiaa 0.00 Five u u oa 8.04 Ten 12.00 Larger Clubs will be charged at the same rate, thus: 20 copies will Got 024; CIO coulee will coat 260; and /00 copies ttl2o. For a Club or Twenty-one or over, we oonil like Copy to the geUer•up of the Club. eETPoelmaeterr are rowelled to act u Auer For Tun Wmi Passe. INTAdyertivemento lupecto4 at the oast rates. iliff lines constitutes satiate. FROM PITTSBURG LANDING. Complete List of Killed and Wounded at the Shiloh Battle. [Correspondence of The Press.] PITTSBURG LANDING, April 26, 1862. I transmit a complete report of the killed, wounded, and missing at the battle a ritklindri; Landing on Sunday and Monday, 6th and 7th inst. The second division, which was commanded by tl'. 11. Wallace, killed, is now under the command vt gcn, Noirthur. The sixth division, which was commanded by B. M. Prentiss, prisoner, is now under the command of Gen. McLean. The following is, the list FIRST DIVISION-00R. MeClernand—Twelve re giments : 251 killed, 7,357 wounded, and 2:16 miss ing. Total, 1,841. DIYIMON — iicn. W. It, Wallace—Fif teen regiments 2:31 killed, 1,052 wounded, and 1,164 missing. Total, 2,150. 'futon DIVISION—Gen Lew Wallace—Eleven, regiments : •13 killed, 288 wounded, and 15 miss ing. Total, 3.51. FOURTH DI VfSION—Uen. Hurlbut—Twelve regi ments .396 killed, 1,:I7 wounded, and 175 mha iff,,st. FIFTH DIVISION—ii on. Sherman—Twolve regi ments : :118 killed, 1 : 275 wounded, and 441 miss ing. Toth!, 2.03.1, CILIA* -11 I .e.tuß , -- G one,. I t i - 11 ==- 1, - . .. 1 -"°0 - ments : llig killed. MI wounded, and P.OO missing. Total, 1 5 560. Total killed 1.1-17 Total wounded ft HI Total missing 28:11 Tota' lintterba nut named in the nbuve divi slow= );flied : 212 ivotifided, ithd inisking. Total' Gratd total GPN", 41iVT101 OEN. illyCoati's Di visioN-03 killed, 803 wound• ed, and smissing. Total, 001. (BEN.. CRITTIiNDIIN'S DIVISION-132 killed, 108 wounded ; and 47 Inissin%. Total, 537. no only division to hear from is Oen, Nelson's, of Gim. .Buell's section. It is estimated that his loss in killed, rounded, std missing will amount to 1.200. =MO Rilled . Wounded, Missing MoClernand's division... 251 1.x57 2U W 11. Wnlince's rr .... 234 1,053 1, I Cyl lift Wn)l{lcc . § " 1111 4 , 1 23i 15 fluribut's " .... 31.13 L 417 17. i Sherman's “ .... 11M 1275 41.1 Prentiss' " .... P.lB 562 ROO McCook's " .... t 43 SO 8 Utitunden'a fi 1111 SI 40ri 47 Total Total killed Total wounded Total 1,622 7,192 Uen. Nelson, probably Since Sunday evening the weather has been cool end pleasant, but, in consequence of the late rains, gic arc- yqry 104, Ti. C. T, LATE SOUTHERN NEWS, REBEL REPORTS OF THE FILL OP FORTS JACKSON AND ST. PHILIP• The Norfolk Day Book of BUT 3.4 has the following d ow w e i l . A rfitTh, Gti., Map 19132. The Savtnuah News hag a goileigd dogwatch from Mo bile, of filo let of hfay. II says Forts Jackson and .St. Philip had fallen. and Mn.( Duncan was in New Or /cons fq:s parole. Alrol thfit Fthral nag was imnisted on Sim Custom Henna. The Importance of the Mississippi to the IMMM The V ickeburg Whig of A pri' '2`3 sage; If we lose the Misgiseimi we Intil LanieiP,aa_ -4Pkau_ sac, and Taos. We lose all the Poor, and tenth of the sleek awl grain-growing lands of the Confederacy. They will be cut off and of no benefit to US. The Euit will be severed from the West. A complete possession or an the ten itorY Won nt iho NiiaidDrd ie a pllikical and moral ertrntial io onr flill3o, Tile branthee9ta mutual eOMt were°, of idea, sentiment, trade, and blood aro warped together more closely than the knaried bonslu of these kindied foreetewhichetichu twining brotherhood along our bolder line. .110 Y, apathy PAO 9Ter COUglienCe LO cut them off from ue. They must remain with US. Our present life anti future career are staked upon 148 issue. If we lose them now it will take years of Maim, to regaintbem. Ever} thing then would be at the merry , f 1l all our it pleves U would be filled with vandale, while inisery and ruin would mark their every step. We hope our authorities will look to this matter at once, and place the Mississippi river in a Proper state of defence Let every available point be e:•:•e otrong n r d lifl w d, e ite can hone our own, tbongb the f a o p e oi n t d ui witha arena, m b s r world should be arrayed against us. Rebel Reports of the Movements of Gen. Mitchell's Army. The liorrolll Day Boole of May itd, has the following despatches in its ttlegraphio columns Aun vista, Ga., May 1, 1862. The Chattanooga correspondent of the Chronicle and ,s'entine/ writes on the 30th, that tho Federate attacked the Confederates at Bridgeport on the 29th, the Fatter ,felling Lack on ChallanenDe. CelleYal Iteyholds reio.rts that the ekithly fills ett !Mild the laland, and while he was leasing the place the cars ran over sonic of our Boone, wounding several; two, probably, were killed. It Is re ported at Atlanta that part of Mitchell's forces were ad wincing frets Gusher's landing on ROM. 1110115tOND, May P.., I!d2. Au official despatch from Corinth of theist says that ue hare retaken Turcumbia and Decatur. Mitchell tee not more than 5,000 troope, all told, at mad APEtilia Tho olPaiy LOY ,doroto coi our and we are pre. paring to meet them. The Enemy Whipped at Cumberland Gap. rlalalShilfifi, Nay special deapatch to the Fe. tersburg Express, dated lintaville, May 2d, sars the enemy attacked Cumberland (lap in large force on Tuesday r con. They were gallantly repulsed three times. The fait attack they charged up to the breastworks. The enemy's lose was one hundred and fifty killed and four lifts et VeefiatliA ; one .le.s se:ieidee,, killed -a ILleir walled ttl. The last retathe was effectual., when the rAll keee sheedadlud. pictr xn , May 1. 1501 A telegram from Knoxville states that an eogagaateut teettrftd at Cumbellebtl CM :As A.,11 The etitiny Watt rennlsed with eonelderable lose. Conte del ate loss trilling. The Yederollit. , have been rein forced by right regiments, and hero completed a iloating 'midge acme Cumberland river. General ?Lhasa la eanrunnding. It ill believed that they will ntt4ing,L La make a ilea movetatt, fat , Whlrh our fetes ate pre pared. There is no other news hare, Eng;!irk anti American linilwqrsr=A Con. trast—Tne Pennsylvania Railway (From the London Economist, March 28 j Considering the low estimate of Pennsylvanian 9rvilit this comntry, (Erighincit) it la onalubut singular to Uo able to point to a Pennsylvanian un• dertaking which. for luridlty of aerotinis, and the mode of distributing the profits, may serve as a model that our own railway directors may study with advantage. It is not en much the Ph , l V 0.41 - Ineot delail.9 to which we wish to direct atten tion as the manner in which the surplus profit is distributed. The liabilities of the Pennsylvania liallety, to the iMet beceiuber, 1501 1 aro stated en fullowa The total amount of share capital was First mortgage six per cent. b0nd5...... .... Second do. do. Dm* MI by i 1 Plats , 9f Femintylinla--- Fire per cents . 1,100 009 Mortgages on real estate 2Pa.303 Pills payable 3e:;,600 Tror.l , i r lbe surplus of ihe year 1601, ofn. - f - Irving all working expenses, amounted to .$3,1175,174, 'hick is distributed es follows: 21:c tier cent. dividond on $13,264, $lOO capitml clod 5 , X Der cent. ciyittena on *9 1 637.400 mortgage bonds ...... Seven per cent. guarantee on 8600,000 bonds of :3tenben and Indiana Railroad Interest on Londe and mortgages - Paid Ilittriskure and LlitlCll4lllt. Roll dad etiii rny, under lease ...... . Sundries Taxes on capital stock and canyons.., Leaving a surplus undivided of. Or this surplus there is appropriated to a sink ing_fund for debentures,,i, 3243,277 Do lietittoptlun of debt lino to tbo Slate of Pennsylvania, and interest (Which ratio will extinguish the debt In 1801). X7O 07T The Indium el ' 7140: 8 7 which Ail remain over, is applied to tito eatentions of roads ) do ) and llu purchase of locomotives and cars to meet the In creased business of the line. The point to which we desire to draw attention is, that out of the net profits there is wros/9 or omich devoted to the redemption. of debt as to tIOt ro 2/mint of dividends, and a sum nearly as large as both nuking fund and dividend fond united is applied to the purchase of locomotives and cars, to meet the (massed businass of the line. Our English system is to ignore posterity on the princi ple that posterity never did anything for us, The Pennsylvanian Railway Company appears to carry its consideration for posterity to the utmost limits. Perhaps there is a happy medium wherein both systems might was with advantage. But there such a contrast between the practice of this. American line and that of our English railways. that we cannot resist the opportunity of pointing to it. We clip the above from the London Economist of tho 23d of March last, ono of the most influential s journals of that great financial centre. This tin prejudicial view of the management of the Penn. sylvania Railroad Company is in striking contrast with that which our townsman, Mr. Page, presented at the last annual meeting of the shareholders of the company, in a minority report of a committee consisting of Messrs. Jos. R. Ingersoll, Henry Cope, C. 11. Fisher. Alexander Fullerton. Wm. Divine, James Crissy, and Jas. Page. . The report of a majority of the committee, which embrbeed every member upon it except Mr. Page, concurs with the ECO7lo7lli4t as to the good manage• ss.cnt of tko fina ioe tiny., no ctouht M r . Page would have arrived at the same conclusion if he bad not suffered himself to seek his data from the enemies of the 991:9P11,7 instond of it§ who doubtless would have ebeerfully end freely afforded him all the information necessary to sail' , 'y any reasonable doubts that he may hare entertained in relation to the company's 1,622 7,119 3,80* •• • 170 V 51.3.201.10 090,00 4,547,40 r 4`U0.0947:394 .. 1°,004 .. 51,271 RI 021.1129 ~,,,,L~3,050,5d6
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