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THE PR ESS
PUBLISHED 'DAILY (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED,)
BY JOHN W. FORNLY
OFFICE, Ro.lll SOUTH FOURTH STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
TWELVE CENTS PER WEEK, payable to the Carrier.
Mailed to Sublieribers out of the City at Stx DOLLARS
Pen ARMEE, FOUR DOLLARS FOR EMIT MOTFII3,
THREE DOLLARS FOR SIX MONTHS—illTHrifibly in ad
vance for the time ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLT PRESS,
Mailed to Subacribers out of the City at THREE POL•
LAI2 PER ANNUM, in advance
COMMISSION Ili ICS ES.
ING, COFFIN, a 00.,
$2O CHESTNUT STREET.,
Alirests for the following makes of goods
PRINTS.
AITZEIRCLI. MFG. C 0..... 011.11111‘14 MTG. 00.
LAWNS.
DIINNNLL mra. 00
BLEACHED COTTONS.
ratttaditlei Farandole, Antrarth tlentredole,
aitorateWn, illoaketoae, Hope, ken Bank. Doroheater,
Newbaryport, Neun,eeg, Z01211.,70, Berton. p reen .
Vol 4, An 0, Al J. A, and other etilee.
BROWN COTTONS
:6urndde, Trent, Grotou, Ashland, Chestnut, Glenville,
1110.1.alaa , aaJ
OttfießT JEAND.—titaagow, elancnester.
DE.NIIOIB AND BTRI PEh—Gratton, Jewett Olty,
)Siadleon, INatentrille, Agawam, Keystone, Choctaw.
CANTON IPLANNlELlg_glatersvifia, Agawam.
DILDS/AD.---Dmith's, Social 00.. Gonsdale On.
WOOLENS
ARMY SIAM CLOTH% liElltiElll3, Ina FLAN.
pgz.m.
BROAD CLOTHS.—Plnnkette', dlenham Co., ko
4)6I3I3n4EBEH.—Gay & Son, Sexton's River, to
EATINEYB.—Inso Rive", ilonverevine, bower TM-
Joy, Hope, Staffordville, Converse end .Hyde. Converse
roe. ls Co., Shaw Mfg. Co.
KENTUCKY JEANS.—Bodmex. Mystic. GOA MedaL
DelnICT TlAlizilaba.—WlLL - Lfocre 6..1591., Sax
ony, Merino, and other "Mee:
LONSDALE Nankeens and Colored Cambric',
PLAID LINNETS. COTTONA DES, ie. ife26-11m
SHIPLEY, HA Z &
HUTCH IN SON,
No. 110 0111STNIIT STREET,
OOMMISBION MICRO EIKNTS
NOS TUN 13411,7 or
PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS.
mh2B. 6m
CARPETS AND Ott. 43LioTils.
_CANTON MATTINeS.
J. F. & E. B. ORNE,
NO. 519 CHESTNUT STREET;
(OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE ' )
HIM DQR optu
FRESH IMPORTATIONS
RED CHECKED,
And FANCY COLORED
CANTON MATTINGB.
ALBO,
500 PS. J 2, CROSSLEY dc SON'S
'ENGLISH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS]
FROM 87i TO ao, PR. YD..
J. F. do E. B. ORNE.
my2-ties
NEW CARPETING..
eT A ME ORNE.
$26 CHESTNUT' STREET,
BELOW 133EVENTIL
We have inet received, by late arrivals from "Elmore,
some new and choice varieties of CARPETING, cow
prising
FRENCH ATTEUSON Square Carpets.
3 ..NGLIBIE AXMINSTERS, by the Yard and in
entire Carpets.
-CROSSLEY'S B-4 and 3-4 wide Velvets.
44 Tapestry Brussets.
Brussels Carpeting.
P large variety of CROSSLEY'S and other makes.
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS,
From 871 e. to $1 Per Yd.
One aaaortrnent comprises all the best wakes of Three.
Tay and Ingrain Oarpeting, which, together with a gene.
cal variety of goods in our line, will be offered at the low
est passible price&
OIL CLOTH FOR FLOORS,
grout one to eight yards wide, cut to any Size.
.7FREBH MATTIN S.
By late arrivals from China we have a full assortment
WHITE AND COLORED
MATTING'S
OF ALL WIDTHS
JAMES H. ORNE,
IP'
a
GEIMADTTOWN,
McOALLUM &
ANDFACTUBBBS,IMPONTREN, AND DEALERS
609 CHESTNUT STREET.
(Dmiostte Independence Hall,)
CIARPETINGS.
OIL CLOTHS, &c.
We have now on hand an extensive stock of Carpetinse,
our own and other maker, to which we mill the Mien
on of wish and short-time buyers. • mb7-Bto
If
OURTH-STREET
OARPET STORE,
ABOVE CHESTNUT,
J. T. DELACROIX
Invitee attention to hie Spring importation of
CARPETINOS,
uomimilag every style, of the N nweit Panama and
,lesigne, in VELVET, BRIMS - BLS, TAPESTRY SRUSL
ELS, IMPERIAL THRZE-PLY, and ENGRAIN
ARPETINGS.
VENETIAN and DAM UK BTA Ut thiRPETINGB.
SCOTCH RAG and LIST HARPETIN OS.
ELOOR OIL CLOTHS, In every width.
COCOA and CAN iON MATTINGB.
DOOR-MATS, RUGS, SHRED SKINS,
DRUGGE TS, and CRUMB CLOTH&
AT RTIJOUSSALS AND ti&T AM;
LOW FOR CASH.
J. I'. DELaOBOTS,
47 South Sireet.
TIONERY AND FANCY GOODS.
IN & QUAYLE'S
STATIONERY, TOY, AND FANOY GOODS
EMPORIUM,
No. 1O WALNUT STREET,
BLOFr BLIVIENTIT,
P OIL D ELPMA
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
FWNNTh7 n - n i
eN CO..
Northeast Corner FOURTH and EACH Street•,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGIST%
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DOW AND PLATE GLASS.
NANITIFACTIIRICAMI 07
LEAD AND MO PAINTS, PUTTY, ao.
MIMI FOR 111.1 CILIBRATID
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealers sad warmers mingled at
VERY LOW PRICES FOR MEL
In
TE LEAD, DRY AND IN
OlL.—Bed Lead, White Lead, Litharge, Sugar
Id, Copperas, Oil of Vitriol, Calomel, Patent Eel
%rem° Bed, Chrome Yellow, Aqua Fortis, bin-
Acid, Epsom Salta, Rochelle Salta, Tartaric Acid,
lie Mineral, Soluble Tart, Stib. CAA. Soda . ttim k ,
31, Bed Precipitate, White Precipitate, Lunar
ic, Narcotine, Suiph. Morphine, Morphine, Acetate
bine, Lac. Sulph., Ether Salphnric, Ether Nitric,
ite Quinine, Corr*. Sublim., Denarcotized Opium,
ids of Soda, Wetherilra Ext. Cincha, Tartar
it, Chloride of Lime, Crude Borax, Refined Borax,
Mr, Begin Comtvia._ _ _
WIi^ . .MERIEL 4 DEOTDICIt,
Druggists and Manufacturing Chemists,
Nos. 47 and 49 North BEOOND Street,
PHYLA DELPHI/A
iALS AND COINS.—A large
iantity of Medals and Coins for sale • also, one
Napoleon's Medals, one set of Nosier's Medals of
lish Kings, and one set of Medals of the Roman
• Apply to WM. 11. BRIDGENS, 1.89 WILLIAM
New York, Dealer in Medals, Mina, and Paint
ap2l-/na
VOL. 5.-NO. '241
CLARK'S
ONE DOLLAR STORE.
002 OHESTNIIT STREET.
/taw GOODS, -
NEW STYLES,
AND NEW PRICES.
Po.. CNN BOLLAM i aa san buy any snit of the red
wing articles:
n'ta of 8111Yer Plated Tea Spoons.
ta di id Desert
tt a " Table tf
6% 44 u 66 F ork ,
CG D eser t ~
Fair a " Knife and Yost.
II t" Napkin Binge.
* u U . B.ltor
Silver Plated Sugar Bowl.
' I Minter Dish.
• .. f. brolassee Pitcher.
it 1i Cream
tit " Castor.
a Waiter.
If " Goblet.
ti Drinking Cup.
di " Sugar Sifter.
Gold Plated Vest Chain, all styles,
46 it cpagrd 44 46 di
(6 6, Neck it ti tt
it u Chatelaine, II 16,
eg II Bracelet, a It
u Medallion, u
g ' Armlet!, 1 ‘
Breast Pin, 66 65
" Ear Binge,
if Gi Pin and Drops, all styles.
" G. Studs and Buttons.
Ladies' or Gentlemen's Port Monocle, Onbas, Bags,
Puree% &c., &c., /to. All Goods warranted as repre
sented. We have on hand a large assortment of Pam
pa& Albums, Mantel °locks, Travelling Bags, and
Uold Jewolry,widoU wv nro timing oft at cost. The , at
tention of the trade respectfully solicited.
D. W. CLARK'S
O.IIP. DOLLa_k WPORM,
atd-am 602 CH gs,re ettyr -greet.
p ILILADELPHIA
PAPER HANGINGS•
HOWELL & BOURSE,
CORNER OF
FOURTH dIND MaIRKET STREETS,
MANITFAVIGIGNBS OF
PAPER HANGINGS
AND WINDOW CtiIITAIN PAPER%
Offer to the Trade a LARGE AND ELEGANT AS
SORTMENT OF GOODS, from the cheapeet Brown
Stock to the Firma Derunetions.
N. E. COR. FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS.
N. P._mta Goa , Bld6, sad Daiff WIIIDOW PAPERS
of every etude. .4.03-2 m
ARMY GOODS
ON HAND.
DARK AND LIGHT BLUE KERSEY&
STANDARD 6-4 AND 3-4 INDIGO WOOL-DYED
BLUE FLAN/ilLi,
INDIGO BLUR MIXTURES.
COTTON DUCE, 10, 12, AND 15-OIINCIE.
FARNHAM ? KIRKHAM ? 61. CO. ?
sp26-2m 225 CHESTNUT STREET.
BLINDS AND SHADE'S.
B. J. WILLIAMS.
No. 16 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
NANUFACTURRR OP
VENETIAN BLINDS
AID
WINDOW SHADES.
The largest and finest assortment in the (My at the
LOWEST PRIDES.
STORE SHADES LETTERED.
Repairing promptly attended to. sp3-31r.
J AMES 8. E kitTA & SON ,
SLANUEAOTURERS AND IIdPORTERS
GP
LOOKING GLASSES,,
OIL PAINTINGS,
FINE BEGRAVINGR,
PIOTWIR AND PORTRAIT FRAM=E,
PHOTOGRAPH FRADIEB,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
CARTE-DE-VISITE PORTRAITS,
EARLE'S GALLERIES.
ETC CHESTNUT STREET,
DUS PITIGADETYPHIA.
1324 4 tifIRTNTIT.
WHEELER & WILSON
SEWING MACHINES,
628 CHESTNUT STREET,
mhl.l-3in PHILADELPR46..
WATCHES, JEWELRY, &c. I
AFRESH ASSORTMENT, at LEM
THAN 1011HEE PRIM
PARR & BROTHRII,
Importers, 824 CHESTNUT Street, below 'fourth.
mh2o-tt
CABINET FURNITURE AND BILR-
L/ABD TABLE!,
MOORE & CAMPION.
No. 281 South MCCORD Street,
in connection with their extensive Cabinet Business an
BOW mautifactruina a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
End have now on band a full supply, Subbed with the
MOORE it CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
!AAA sre )worlooneetl, by all who have lased them ; to b♦
superior to ell others.
For the quality and finish of these tables the menu-
Isetarers refer to their numerous patrons throughout
the Mites, who ate familiar with the character of their
work. fe26.Bg
OIL I OIL I I OIL I I
HULBURT & BRODHEAD,
Having opened a General Depot for the Sale of Extra
Refined and Lubricating COAL OILS, It mild call the
speciaZ attention of dealers and consumers to their
refined ILLUMINATING OIL, as it possesses merit
beyond anything heretofore offered in this market, being
entirely free from that gluey substance and bad odor
which characterize that commonly sold in this market,
produces no smoke, and is free from all explosive
properties.
Air Orders from City or Country promptly at
tended to. myls-1m
150 BARREL S CARBON OIL FOR
SALE, in good barrels, suitable for shipping; and
to the trade, in small lots, at4ls COMMERCE Street.
mYI3. St*
" L UCIFER" OIL WORKS.
100 Rhin... Lucifer" Burning Oil on hand.
We guarantee this oil to be non-explosive, to burn all
the oil in the lamp with a steady, brilliant flame, without
crusting the wick, and but slowly. Bids. lined with
glass enamel. WRIGHT, SMITH, & PEARSALL.
fell-tf OMee 616 MARKET Street.
fIARBON OIL.-100 bbls. Natrona
%I on in store and for Kole by
BRUSHES
AND
BLACKSMITHS' BELLOWS,
KEMBLE & VAN HORN.
mtL2O-3m No. 321 BLANKET Street. Phfinds
OLIVE OIL.—A fresh lot of Olive
Oil, in large and small bottles, for sale, to arrive
per ship Ocean Mauna, by Mita S. CAIISTAIRH,
Toni lie. 120 WATiNIIT St. and 21 °RANH it St.
CHAMPAGNE --An invoice for sale ;
gia to arrive per ship Wm. Frothingbam, by
CHAS. S. OLBSTAIES,
tarl4 1419, 328 WALNUT at owl 21 WIA/lITS dR
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JEWELRY. &c.
bolltary blena Blatant all maxi
64 " Boma Studs, 66 46
44 H Finger Ringo, 46 64
" Peacila, H 44
You ITlcti rauaii craw,
PAPER HAM/I,IOS
MILITARY GOODS
BLINDS AND SHADES
LOOKING GLASSES
SEWING MACH IIN ES
CABINET FURNITURE.
ILLUMINATING OILS
No. 240 ARCH STREET,
WILLIAM M. inLsoN,
706 MABENT trot
DRY-MOODS JOIIIIIERS.
NEW IMPORTATIONS.
HOSIERY, GLOVES.
GENTS', FURNISHING GOODS,
LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS,
WHITE GOODS, AND
EMBROIDERIES.
THOS. MELLOR & Co..
mhlo-&n 40 and 41d North THIRD &reel.
1862 SPRING. 1862 .
ABBOTT. JOHNES. &
5.137 MARKET STREET,
Have now open an entirely new and attractive stock to
ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND
AMERICAN
DRESS GOODS.
Aloe, a full amportmeot to
WHITE GOODS, RIBBONS, GLOVES,
SHAWLS, i&o.,At
To which they invite the attention of the tra&e.
xnh.44-I,jel.
1862. BPRING.. 1862.
MEG-EL. EtAIRI). 8a C 0.,.
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
9/1
DRY GOODS.
NO. 47 NORTH THIRD STREIT.
salL/DILP.II2I.
Merohanti visiting this city to purohase Darr
GOODS wtU find our Stook large
sad admirably assorted ) and at
Low FIGURES. In certain °lasses
of Semis we offer Inducements to
gurcharere vaaccpiallosi by say other bower in
PhiladelpMa. mhlB-2m
JAIN/LES, KENT,
SANTEE, & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
OP
DRY GOODS.
Sea. .2.29 and 2SI TRIED NTREICT, ABOVE
BACH, PHILADELPHIA,
Have now open their mud
LARGE AND COMPLETE STOOK
OP
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
among which wilt be found a more than usually attrao-
Nye vstriM7 of
LADIES' DRESS GOODS;
Also, a full assortment of
MERRIMACK AND COCHECO PRINTS,
and
PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS.
To which they invite the special attention of buYell.
,;„&,21_%=„
1862. SPRING. 1862
w. S. STEWART & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OP
gliVi AND FANCY DRESS GOODS ;
NO. 306 MARKET STREET.
Row in BtOCO,
POUT DE SOLE,
All Shades.
BLACK AND WHITE CHECKS,
In SILKS and OTHER FABRICS.
ALSO, A FULL LINE OP
CLOAKING CLOTHS, PLAIDS, STRIPES,
And desirable
PLAIN COLORS.
61517
SPRING. STOCK
SILK AND FANCY DRESS CIOODS.
A. W. LITTLE & Oo.„
nibllS.ll No. 326 MARKET P.
MILLINERY GOODS
le SPRING. 1862.
AL: BERNHEIM,
No. 72N CHESTNUT STREET,
Has now in store, and is daily receiving, the latest
itylos in
RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS,
WREATHS, SILKS, CRAPES,
LACES,
AND OTHER
MILLINERY GOODS.
F. which b. reeneetrully invites the attention of the
IBADZ.
PRICES LOW.
mbi'4' -2m
THOMAS KENNEDY it_ BRO.,
729 CHESTNUT Street, below Eighth.
& Choice Stock a
SPRING MILLINERY GOODS,
mbl3-Bm] AT LOW PRICES,
T HE
"EXCELSIOR "' HAMS
ARE THE BEST IN
THE WORLD.
J. H. MICHENER & Co.,
GENERAL PROVISION DEALERS,
And curers of the celebrated
"EXCELSIOR
SUGAR-CURED HAMS,
Noe. 142 and 144 North FRONT Street,
Pc4wcon Are. and Race alma, fdirsakqp/bieb
The justly-celebrated g 4 EXCILSIOR" HAMS are
cored by J. H. H. Co., (in a style peculiar to them-
Nelsen ' ) expressly for FAMILY USE are of dellcioris
flavor ; free froze the unpleecant taste of salt, and are
pronounced by epicure" merles to any now offered
for sale. apt- n
GAR DEN VASES . —Ornamental
Terra Gotta Garden Vases, warranted to fiend the
weatherin any climate. Them, vase/ are made in bean.
tiful designs, and all sizes, from 1 foot to 8 feet high,
with a variety of pedestals, round and square, from 1
foot to 4 feet high. No decoration, add so much to the
natural beauties of a Garden, and at so little cost, as a
few Vases filled with flowering plant,. Illustrated Cleft
loguee seat by mail on application.
B. A. HAMMON,
aplß-tr 1010 011110TNtrr Street.
131.0 TINA ROOFING,
lIIANDYACTURID BY TIM
UNITED STATES BIOTINA ROOFING COMPANY,
No. 9 GORE BLOCK.,
Corner GREEN and PITTS Streets, Boston, Maas
This Portable Roofing is the only article ever offered
to the public which is ready prepared to go on the roof
without any finishing operation. It is light, handsome,
and easily applied, and can be safely and cheaply trans
ported to any part of she world. It will not taint or
discolor water running over or lying on it, and is, in all
respecter, a very desirable a rticle. Its non-conducting
properties adapt it especially to covering manufactories
of various kinder ; and it is confidently offered to the
public after a teat of four years in all varieties of climate
and temperature, for covering all kinds of roofs, flat or
Ditched, together with ears, steamboat's, he.
It is both cheap and durable. Agents wanted, to
whom liberal inducements are offered. Said for sample.
circular, Arc., with particulars, to I. 17. IL ROOFING
CO., No. 9 GORE BLOCK, Boston." ag24-Sig
LABOR-SAVING MACHINE.
CLOTHES-SAYING MACHINE.
biAsuititTlE.
Haley, Morse, & Boyden'a Clothes Wringer eaves labor,
time, and clothes, and is an improvement which will
most certainly be generally adopted. It Is self-adjusting,
simple, and durable, and is far superior to every other
device for the purpose intended. Over five hundred have
been sold within the lad thirty days in this city. No
family should be without one. They are warranted to
give perfect satisfaction.
Fm sale by L. E. SNOW, at the Office of JOY, COE,
& CO , northeast corner of FIFTH and CHESTNUT
streets. Orderp from the Country promptly attended jo,
my/0./n4
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1862.
tittss.
FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1861
Nrw Publications.
ainbiirEiw itovu. OF Deors.
Between thirty and forty years ago, William
Bone served the reading public and ruined himself
by writing and publishing " The Every Bey Book "
and "The Table Book." These were popular im
provements upon John Bra•ty's Clovis Calen
darin," an ingenious work, rather heavy in its
execution, Improving upon Ilona and Brady, and
covering a wider ground, en all to blend amusement
and instruction, Messrs. Chambers of Edinburgh
and London, have commenced a publication, in
monthly porta, en so to make two or three handsome
volumes, the size of their excellent Encyclopedia
now in progress. It will be reproduced, on this
side of the water, on good-sized paper, printed from
duplicate stereotype plates, and at the English
price, by J. B. Lippincott & Co., of this city—a
firm completely identified, in this country, as 00-
publitherc of their make, with William and Robert
Chambers. The new work is entitled II The Book
of Days ; a Miscellany of Popular Antiquities, in
Connection with the Calendar. Including Anec
dote, Biography, and Mowry eliao.Oitie.4 of
Literature, and Oddities of Human Life and
Character."
The publications of Messrs. Chambers are all
eminenfiy pr..eile.l, and conelstenily atm at in
structing and elevating the People. Disseminating
information indispensable to ordinary and intelli
gent life, in a simple and comprehensible style,
they are to nearly every household the source of
much instruction and pleasure. Chambers' Ency
clopedia, now in course of publication, is of itself a
library in a few volumes, and, containing the most.
generally wanted information on nearly all subjects,
is worthy of its title, " A Dictionary of Universal
EilOTtleOge for the People." Bat the " DOA of
Days" is the latest and, in some respects, promises
to be the most popular of the Lippincott-Chambers'
publications. Part lis before us. Commencing with
6, Time and its natural measures, 77 it continuos
with "The year, the day, the month, the
calendar, primitive almanacs," dco., on all of
which topics much valuable information is
given in a piceCing manner. Following this
is a descriptive article on January, which
fitly commences the work : the preceding part be
ing introductory, The history and characteristics
of the month follow, with representations of snow
crystals, and proverbs suited to the month. Next
comes the Kalendar, with notices of the most im
portant incidents connected with each day—disco
veries ancient customs—festivities—appropriate
poetry—saints' days—popular notions and super
stitions—and noticesof eminent persons of all coun•
tries and lima! born on the different days. In this
opening part the record comes down to Twelfth
Day, (January 6,) and there are notices, with por
traits and other illustrations, of Edmund Rorke,
Burger the poet, Lord Ellesmere, Wycherley the
dramatist, Robson the Cambridge carrier, General
Wolfe, Ovid, Lord Chancellor Rosslyn, General
Montt, Wedgwood the putter, Bough - to aurruld (a
capital sketch), the brothers Grimm, Rachel, and
Benjamin Franklin. The work is liberally and
elegantly illustrated, and will be wonderfully po.
pular in families There were no such books is the
days of our youth.
NES. BENET WOOD'S NEWEST NEW NOVEL
It ha .uid that IN apolcou could dictate, on three
or four different subjects, to as many secretaries all
at once. Mrs. Henry Wood must have similar
means of putting her clever fictions upon paper_
Within the last fortnight or so, we have noticed
two of her new novels, and here is a third, to be
published by T. B. Peterson in a few days,
printed from the manuseript and a& aaEg proof
sheets purchased from the author, so as to anti
cipate its appearance in London. "A Life's
Secret : A Story of Woman's Revonge," does not
resemble any of Mrs. Woed'a preceding tales, ea.
cept in the wonderful power of putting the render
into full possession of the motives of the leading
characters, in giving the LAM natural Waver ,
satins, and in concealing the denouement to the
very close of the story." This last, so essential to,
the novelist, Mrs. Wood possesses in a larger de
gree Thai) any other living writer_ Mixed up
with the incident of the talc, whim' runs through
it, is a striking and painfully truthful account of
the rise, progress, and decline of the social evil
called a builders' " strike." It is as powerful 99
painful, and ebows Mrs. Wood's possession of the
elements of domestic tragedy.
WESTRIN3TEII REVIEW
Some time ago we informed our readers that the
Trestinimste, Remew had changed hands, and
would be issued in future by Mr. Triibner, the
well•known foreign publisher in London, who him
self writes books as well as sells them. His Bio
graphical Guide to American Literature (pp. 554,
°deco), published in 1859, is extremely well ex
ecuted, giving a classified list of books originally
published in the United States during the last forty
years, with a bibliographical introduction, notes,
sa d talplaabetioal index. Tile West TR.P7F6I4T E8V6610,
establhbed in 1824 by Jeremy Bentham, started
with two leading ideas. First, that, in mundane
matters, it would advocate the Utilitarian principle
of " the greatest happiness of the greatest number
of people," next that its writers should treat spi
ritual matters as if their creed was universal dis
belief and doubt of whatever Christians have
been accustomed to hold sacred. Macaulay, (Edin
burgh. Review. March, 1829,) in his celebrated
criticism on Mill's article on Government, gave a
death-blow to the impracticable principle of
Utilitarianism, but the skeptical spirit of the
original writers has always prevailed in the
Review. Of late years, where it has net been
Soeiman, it has been Free•thinking. The April
number, the first under Mr. Triibner's atimi
nistration, has reached us through Mr. Zieber,
fiemst for the Net, York: rspublloalloa of tla o British
Reviews, and is a decided improvement, in its
general articles, upon its predecessors. It opens
with a curious paper on the Mythelogy of p o ly.
nesia, followed with articles on English Endowed
Schools, German Life during the last Two Centu
ries, and the recent Autobiography of Mrs. Delany,
the particular friend of George 111, and his wife.
The initials G. L lead us to think that a scholarly
notice of Cmsar's Campaign in Gaul was written by
Mr. Long. The only heavy article, which is
charitably brief, is a review of Bishop llerepdvids
Fathers of Greek Philosophy. An amusing re •
sums of a chatty book by M. Bouche de Perthes—
a fair disquisition on the character, conduct; and
policy of Napoleon 111, and a justly severe
anatomy of Thornbury's Life of Turner, the
painter. The closing article is an elaborate bio
graphic eulogy upon Lord Stanley, eldest sonof the
Bari of Derby, an able man, now only tairty•six,
yet with eleven years experience in the Mouse of
Commons, who ought to rise, for he prefers principle
to patty. We can honestly say that the new number
of the Wesimtnster, in the articles just men
tioned, has not an exceptionable sentence, and
we rejoiced over its improved and chastened tone.
Appended to the main body of the Reotem, how
ever, are nearly forty pages in small type, in which
contemporary literature is more or less fully no
ticed, under different heads. In the number be
fore us, the opening subject is headed " Theology,"
and is an elaborate defence of the Realism of the
poisonous "Essays and Reviews" which have
caused so much discussion and dissension in the
Anglican Church. The Westminster Reviewer
treats the subject precisely as Dr. Strauss, or any
other Socinian would. The "Essays and Re
views" he praises to the seventh heaven, but no
scorn and contempt are sufficient in his mind, for
the various Replies to these pestilent productions,
and the prophecies and miracles recorded in Holy
Writ are chiefly worthy, in his view, of being Hill
culed and logically argued down. Me calmly as
as a postulate, that "the doctrine of the
Atonement, as taught by the Evangelicals, is of
fensive to the moral sense." In conclusion, we
recommend Mr. Triibner, if he desire to have the
Westminster Remelt , perused by Christians, to
purge his small type of Socinianism and disbelief,
as he has already purged the main portion of the
publication.
NEW POETRY
There is one thing worse than common-place
prose—namely, bad poetry, which is prose run mad.
Mr. Carleton, a New York publisher of taste and
judgment, has sent us two volumes of verses, twin
like in personal appearance, but very different in
degree. These are severally entitled, " Sybelle,
and other Poems : by L," and " Ballads of the
War : by George Whitefield Hewes." The anony
mous author clearly exhibits the faculty divine, not
so much in the - principal poem; for .t Sybelle " has
too little incident for most readers, but in the less
ambitious compositions which occupy more than half
the volume. Some of these minor poems are so
essentially lyrical that, as one reads them, they
almost make music for themselves. A little gong
called " Jenny " (p. 104, 5.) reminds us of Burns,
yet, is by no means an imitation ; "A Song for New
Year's Eve," and " Signs of Spring," would bo
creditable to any poet; "Hoeing Corn "tells a
love story in a few stanzas; "Kitty's Choice"
shows that feeling for humor, which oven the state.
Hest bards sometimes exhibit; (just as we may fancy
Jove playing with his thunderbolts) and " King
and Queen," quaint and brief, mightbe taken for )6
delicate translation from Beranger, minus the sen
suous feeling of that true lyrist. The anonymous
author of " Sybelle" is a poet.
" Ballads for the War," Mr. Hewes appears
as ono who has mistaken aspiration for ability.
fie Wally confesses ' and Wm mitigates eirititigam
that his Poems "are the work of much labor and
much love," and not careless, casual productions.
Although in his PTerlieV ) be Realm of diving for 41;0
bright diamond of renown in a diamond sea—for
getting that pearls, not diamonds, aro dived for—
we admire its candor and manliness. The ine
quality of Mr. Hewes , verses is surprising_ A
ballad, entitled The Soldier of the Third," sug
gested by a war-incident related in The Press, is
better than nineteen-twentieths of the ordinary
newspaper poetizing of the time. It has the true
ring, and is exciting. " The Lady of the Lieu
tenant Colonel," and a few other pieces, are also
good—but, with singular bad taste, Mr. Hewes
overweighs them with compositions in which vul
gar subjects are treated in a free and vulgar man
ner. " The Big Whisky Punish" would be con
temptible, even as a street ballad, The verses
tt To a Foundling," commencing
Little babe! little babe !
Little babe, lOW ;
Why do you alumina , hese
Tell me, I pray,
are as puerile as nursery nonsense rhymes. The
puns in "The Rifle and Bayonet" and " Philip's
'Victory over Milts — are miserable. Iu " Tao
Lover of the Wounded &nave," a seriont poem,
we have the folloyviug, in italics, too, to show the
author's high opinion of it
And she saw in his true and sweet repose
A mind full easy to sway,
While his sighs strayed up and down Ms nose
Like eleehante at alai.
In the " Ode to the Waiting Dogs " and " The
Soldier's Funeral " there is villainous iteration of
jingling rhyme. Tho worst, however, and mai
clent, io itself, to damn the book, is au " Address
to a Rebel Toe Nail, which came from the Foot of
a Secessionist who fought at Springfield and Lex
ington." This miserable doggeffli id worthy of the
filthy subject. Mr. Hewes is 2/of a Poet.
Writing verses, when one is young, is as easy as
writing prose. But, with a few rare exceptions,
most of the verse• Making of youth is merely imi
tative. A sensible person, when he has fully pastel
into Manhood, will put by such efforts of im
nutlwrity. should ho bc , totopted to
Manse the Mulled bosom of that perilous stair,
Which weight upon the heart,
and make a volume of his verses—a book which
will ever stood in his way, as an Aesming Spirit
through succeeding years—let him follow our ad
vice, founded on Sydney Smith's well-known re
ceipt for dressing cucumbers : i. e., collect, collate,
G u ll -tot, and fairly copy out the compositions
which, his amour propre, rather than his judg
ment, assures him to be good ; and then, if of er
all this labor, dm publication•fit continue strong
upon him, let him, defying the faint praise that
damns and the truer criticism that discriminates,
drop his manuscripts into the largest and hottest
dre ha can find. No doubt, it will be a geld' than
to part with all his little ones—but, in his riper and
wiser years, he will be thankful that ho did so.
EYEBMEABT'S MISCELLANIES
This is a neatly gaup volume, published by
Edward F. James, West Chester. It is a mixture
of good and bad—or, more properly speaking, of
readable and unreadable compositions. The bat
ter, which happily is the larger portion, contains
Mr. Everheart's recollections of travel in Great
Britain and -Ireland, France, Switzerland, Austria ?
Trurwin, llohand, Italy, Simi% Qreuuo, Turkey,
Egypt, and the Holy Land. Of these reminiscences
and observations he might have made a larger
book, It is very good as it is, for what he bag to
say is said in an easy, pleasant way. If Remi-
niscences of Rufus Choate and Judge Story are out
of place in this book of foreign travel, so are the
Em.ays on Women, Misapplied Tadao*, Tee, the
Dog Boz, and Oliver Goldsmith. More especially
is Mr. Everheart's juvenile Washington's birth-
Oay Oration of 1848, and his seven years' later
Agricultural Address, in which he quoted Latin to
the farmers. We notice some errors of haste, each
as "There are but few countries,"—the but being
superfluous, and the positive mistake of saying
that the old city of Chester, in England, is "some
times called West Chester." There is only one
Chester in England, and the word " West " is
eo ea refined to that.
COITE BATTALION DRILL.*
When this valuable anti truly labor-saving little
hook was issued it met with very great favor. The
author, since Its publication, has had ample time
end opportunity t ‘ o receive the opinions, criticisms,
and friendly corrections of officers of all grades in
our army, who hare been using it ; and he has, by
a careful scrutiny of his work, and a constant corn
paris.on with the authorized tactics, made every
proper correction and revision. It is now pro-
Kilted and LOOOLIMIUDILOU to the army 00 the boat
book of battalion tactics ever issued.
- *FIELD MANUAL FOR BATTALLION DRILL, containing
tho orctots and manolurrott in tho acheol of the bat
talion ; arratged in tabular form,' for toe use of the
ellicers of the United States Infantry. By Captain Henry
Coppee, late instructor in the United States Military
Acadttny at West Point. New and revised edition. J.
B Lippincott ..tz Co.
EROM GEN, HALLECK'S ARMY.
LETTER FROM MONTEREY, TENN.
Troops on the March—A Reconnoissance—
Mow a Fight is Brought On—if we take Co
rinth our Work only Half Done—The Ails
pearauce of Farm Houses iu the vicinity of
the Army—A Seeesh Woman—Scarcity of
Ladies? Hoops.
[Correspondence of The Press.]
2‘.1 - 0. - TB:INT, any 0, 15-OZ.
To-day the army is really moving • all of the dozen
roads leading to Corinth are filling up with troops,
waggons, artillery, and ambulances, Knowing that
there was to be &race:a...1.a.... ad s areerad eu , I west out
early to the front. I followed the wrong road to the
wrong place, and consequently found nothing, bat I had
a delightful and interesting ride. I sae accompanied a
of the way by the o,lessi of lb. RAT-seventh
Illinois Regiment, who had entered this very locality
with the advance of Pope's army last Sunday morning.
The remains of the Secession army were every where
risible; their old ramping grounds were eadly dlstle
guished, and wagons and ambulances were strewn along.
They tenet have had a hard time getting away, the roads
were very bad. I finally arrived at the place where the
heed of the salami& was peatis g 'e s ay L.,4
made a slight attack, driven the enemy's pickets a short
distance, fired a round or two of musketry, and then,
owing to some failure in a part of their arrangements,
wore o bli g ed ko fall baek. IL we. aald that some of tho
troops had not yet got into line. It looks to me as
though tho whole army was going to march with ex
tended and gradually converging lines to Corinth. To
morrow will unanestionably AAA Our AdWiette, either In_
aideor close under their entrenchments.
Meantime, it is curious to see how matter-of-fact
everything Is; how devoid of excitement and interest
everything is; how utterly ignorant evorybudy is of
what is going to happen, or - of the significance of any
move. A colonel of a regiment receives from his bri
gade commander an order to furnish so many men at
ROI an hour, to be at a certain point, They are sent
they march along the route ; they are ordered to deploy
as skirmishers; they deploy, and finally espy a hostile
picket-guard; they are ordered to fire, and they fire, or
thee are ordered to advance, and they lakrange j or to
frill back, and they ran back. Meantime, they are fol
lowed by other men ; they have not the least idea how
many. They cannot even tell whether they are simply
moving camp or making a reconnaissance, or advancing
With the purpose of a general engagement. They do as
they are ordered, and then atop. They have no respon
sibility, and very little care, as to what happens. But
toy•and-by, the noise of firing along the whole line shows
them Mat the battle le really in Preeress, and then every
men understands exactly what is the object of the gene
ral, and bow he can best promote it. Then the hot fever
of excitement fires his blood, every nerve is strained;
every muscle taxed to its utmost capacity. Evory earn.
mon soldier becomes a part of the brain, and the energy,
and the courage, that wins the grand battle—the result
of leeks of marching, bridge-building, patient waiting,
and anxious expectation.
This morning I visited, as I have said, the head of the
column which made the attack. The men had stacked
their arms, and were lying on the ground waiting for
their provisions to come up. They were chatting and
laughing in the most unconcerned manner. They did
not know whether they were going to fight the next
minute or retreat, and, as a natural consequence, they
wisely resolved not to care. All along the road, the
soldiers on the march had the same appearance of care
lessness. They mightkave boon going after water, for
all the interest they appeared to express in their counte
nances.
To-morrow, when, if it does not rain, we shall
march on Corinth, a gefficral idea of what is to be done
will get about, and every face will be lighted up with in•
telligence and interest. But it must be remembered that
our task is only half done, if we simply take Corinth;
we must capture the force, and that may require Wale
longer manoeuvring. " Patience, and shuttle the cards."
I visited some of the houses along the route. Every
house is strictly guarded, and no one is allowed to pass
in or out. We have had enough of spies, and all the
people in this part of the country are thoroughly Seces
-61011. One of the two women left at a large farm house
was quite voluble in relating her troubles and distresses.
Der five cows were gone, her chickens bad bees stolen or
bought [away, and her larder was entirely empty; ever) -
thing wee either "done" or " done gone." What ludi
crously uncouth expressions these Southern people have!
Even the best educated of them talk with's negro twang.
Thielively individual was possessed of an acerbity of tem
per, which contributed any thing but a pleasant exprea
don to her countenance. The daughter, who was quite
pretty, got au upward curl on bar nose, and an interest
ing curvature on her upper lip,and in that bewitching
facial condition ebe petrified her lovely features for our
especial benefit, for which we were very thankful, though
we would not have put her to that trouble for anything.
We found a good-looking officer of the Seventeenth
Ohio bad evidently bOan endeavoring to get into our
Helen's good graces, and bad, as evidently, been sadly
discomfited. After withering us with the superb and
queenly expression of contempt which I have faintly en
deavored to describe, she flounced amiably into the house
and glared at us through the keyhole. Ono of
our party, of course I don't say who it was, was
extremely good-looking, and probably fascinated eves
the obdurate heart of a /inception, I have travelled,
during the last year, in the wildest and most uninhabited
parts of Wieconsin, away up in the Pineriee and the
cranberry marshes. and in the most forlorn parts of
Egypt, but rover, until I saw this Tennessee Pythoness,
have I beheld a woman without hoops. This sad indi
cation of berbariem I was not prepared to meet, and
when she strode Into the house on the heavy majestic,
and feebly endeavored to put on etyle with her conened
and flabby skirts, I looked at her a moment as though
she were Banquo's ghost, and then put spurs to my
Woo and galloped off as Uta ding was after me.
LETTER FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
Forlinros Moroi. Fin. Yours Ago and To.dny—
Tilo Mcvne in Hampton Ronda—What Fort
irrog Monroe and the Rip Raps Have Grown
to be—The Hygrin Hotel—Hs Patrons in '57,
and Its Frrquenters Now.
[Special Mirireispontience of 'rho Prem.]
FORTRESS MONROE, May 14,1862.
Five years ago, I bad the pleasure of seeing this grand
014 fortress and 'vending a few days in exploring its
Thor I Monied there for a trimijug p]ac,7, on
a like journey with sty present onr. I was hound to
Richmond, and to Richmond I ant - going now—thanks to
the bold soldiers and bravo sons of the North—who love
their whole comitry hett:er *heir hmnes ;ma hi,i‘rth
stones.
A few reflections, which force themselves upon me, I
cannot help sending to you. Everything to me i 3
ehaneed—the fortress, the harbor, the hotel, the society,
and the very face of the country itself. In Ng, the
black sides of the Minnesota, with her tapering masts
and spare, the little Water-Witch playing around her,
and a few fishing boats, wore the only shinning of any
kind dolling the roadstead. Now, ono can look nowhere
without seeing hundreds of craft of every description;
huge leviathans, ready to belch forth fire, shot and shell
at any many who may he es inalacitnis as to attack thomi
queer-looking, irun-plaled steamers, whose mission is to
destroy ; white-sailedtransporta, boats, steamers, tugs—in
short, everything of every description which ever ventured
111)0111in groat waters may be found clustering ilrouad that
grand old Fortress—atom very name inspires us with a
feeling of our invincibility. Boats and tugs rush hither
and thither, through the hundreds of their floating
"Sytrythirlg la alive, closteriug alp; arnmi
men. Here a salute is being fired—there sofa old hulk,
stranded perhaps whilst keeping the blockade, is being
repaired. At one place we see a foreign visitor, her crew
gaging with admiration upon the exhibition of the
prowess of a greet nation. At another, some ably which
bag covered itself all over with glory, comes meekly
blushing to its anchorage, amid the huzzas of the multi
tude. All over the roadstead is shown the greatest
grfaSeo Only - WAS Qi - preparation to subdue
the rebellion.
Ent the change is not alone in the shipping.: The
growth, from two ships and a half dozen fishing boats
to itsettst,de of eeetiels, is net the ably 1136t.eidia Porte
and batteries, earthworks and rifle-pits, have sprang up
almost by magic. The plain old fortress of 1857, with
its cps well water battery, has been sgrrPildied by
!DHSS on mile of earthworks. The haif•suuken Itio.rap
Maud, is the middle of the bay, has grown up to a huge
fer , reee, almost rivalling its older sister in impregna
bility ; and, from the heavy guns, a hundred times has
the enemy been made to feel the prowess of Uncle lam.
A river-side sand-bank has become the tented Newport
News; and everywhere the brown earthworks, each cur
mounted by the Stars and Stripes, indicate the presence,
of sturdy, whole•eonled soldiers,
The Bygeia House and its inmates are nct as they
need to be. In 1857, slaves walked lazily about it, pro
fessing to be the servants—now contrabands and free
negross, CBch one conscious 01 his importance, rush
briskly around. Pretty Southern girls and rich South
ern mothers then adorned its parlors ; Georgia planters,
and scions of Virginia first families lounged in its al.
Pro-slavery bemoorawy was its great Cr7l/10 Of
conversation, and the value of negroes, or of the, or of
sugar, or of cotton, the only dessert to the continued
repast. Then the New York Herald and Tribune were
NINON j they had supporttd Fremont. A rnititabintan
or New Yorker could not speak freely, for fear he might
offend the great Southern heart, or raise the ira of the
Southern arm.
liltury A. Wise and his son Obadiah no longer com
mand the hcepitalities of Virginia's greet watering place
—the one is au exile, the other has poured out hie life's
blood, an offering to hie offended country. Captain In
graham:li or avuth Garonne, no longer relict' on his nus•
trian celebrity as an introduction to the public. Some
where in the Palmetto State he lives in retirement, de
ploring, i hope, the sad rebellion which threw him out of
national favor, James Buchanan is nd lf nger a Catual
visitor hero. Every one knows where he is. Captain
Dupont, then preparing for a long Chinese cruise, has
changed his title, and is now sealing up the harbors of
. .
truth Garchpa, Georgia, and Florida. Nor ono o f -o w
old faces is to be seen. Everything and everybody are
new. military goods and military dress are all the
fashion. Sun-burned officers and sturdy men walk over
the grounds, and enjoy the comforts of Virginia's great
watering place.
I must be pardoned for these reflections. The great
ebengo one year of horrid war has wrought mint be my
xcuse. The I.llla and valleys of Old Nict In MT are
all gone. Frowning battlements and bleak sand-banks
have taken their places. Its people have changed--its
thoughts, its business, its amusements. Everything is
note swalletesd up in one absorbing Linda—lß& &timid
out of an infamous rebellion. J. O.
LETTER FROM PRANK PATTER
SON'S BRIGADE-
The Pursuit of the Enemy front Yorktown—
I The Battle of . Williamsburg—A Clear De
seription of the Ground—A Desperate Fight—
out of Ammunition—rutting Buck—lteit
fereeMent—Flight of the Rebels—Our Loss.
CA3II. SEVENTH NEW, JEMEY VOLE:UraI:RS.
WILLIAMEAVAG, Va , Ray Bth, 1561
Ferro.. ne ins., Pet.e4 t I writs yeu this from. n. well
fougbt battle field, after a bloody struggle between our
forces and the rebels. In order that you may fully com
prehend bow bravely the Now Jersey Brigade (com
posed of the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Red.
meats), fought, I will endeavor le give you a faithful
synopsis of everything they did. The rebels commenced
leaving their fortified position before Yorktown on Friday
last on Saturday, or rather early on Sunday morning,
our pickets brought in word of the leaving of their rear
guard, and immediately General Smith's Division,
stationed on our extreme left, followed them in pursuit.
At ten o'clock on Sunday morning, our divirdon, undue
command of Brigadier General Hooker, broke camp and
followed in the retreating steps of the rebels. The First
Brigade of
the Division, under General Grover, pushed
ahead and got about two hours start of the other two
brigade& Our brigade (the third) marched until mid
night without resting, without eating a mouthful, save
a few hard crackers the men had in their haversack&
WA then bivouacked is the weed& with.me
but the trees, in the midst of a terrific rain storm. The
next morning at daybreak, we again started ahead, the
mud knee deep, and the rain still falling in torrents. The
men carried in their knapsacks, betdoes their usual bsoQago
and shelter tents, sixty mimes of cartridges. With this
heavy load they staggered, without eating any breakfast,
or drinking anything but rain water caught in their
india,rubber blankets. After marching two hours, we
heard the distant booming of artillery, and an aid riding
rapidly up to us, ordered us to close up and move on
lively, as the enemy had made a stand about two miles
glee ( ' of lie. At about 8 o'clock We arrived at the battle
field, and without unalinging knapsacks or stopping for a
moment's rest, our Brigadier, Frank Patterson, formed
us in line of. battle. Iu order to fully understand our
Maim let me digress, and give lon a description of the
ground on which we fought- The main road to NU
liemsburg, along which we Caine ; is cut through a dense
forest of pine of enormous growth, and just where the
spires Of the town rifle to view spreads out an Open plain
of some miles in extent. On this plain, directly in front
of the road, is situated the strongest of the rebel en
trenchment& In order to strengthen their defence at
this point, the rebels lit d felled the trees on both sides of
the road for about two hundred yards in the forest, and
the same distance along the road the brsnehes inter
lacing and pointed towards us, made almost an im
passable barrier. However, into the fulled' . timber
we taffies], the Fifth Regiment in advance, the
Sixth following, then the Seventh, and last the
Eighth. To the left of this impenetrable, I was
about to say, cheveaux de frize, is a little wood that is
abided on its left by a deep ravine, into this wood We
worked our way to relieve the First Brigade that had
been fighting the enemy since four in the morning, (it
was then 8 o'clock.) I was ordered to deploy two coiri
And 06kAtel$: G, es okirruisher a
did, and soon drew a volley from the enemy, who were
stationed in the ravine above alluded to. Their first fire
cost me four men wounded and two killed ; but I assure
you my boys took ample revenge. Shelterluffthemstirod
behind the trees, they poured volley after volley into the
rebels, and, from their proximity to them, their buck
and ball did terrible execution. As I had no bugler, and
no bugle with me, to give the command to my Men, I or
dered them to fall back, and immediately our whole bri
gade opened fire. There we fought, alternately advancing
and retreating, until four o'clock Tic the afternoon,
Then we wero out of ammunition, our !mullets were
caked with powder, and meted by the rain that was still
falling in torrents; and not even then do I believe the
brave Jersey boys would have fallen back, had it not
been for their loss of officers. Col. Starr, of the Fifth,
was wounded; Lieut. Col. Yanleer, commander of the
Sixth) and the adjutant of that re g iment, beside., a num
ber of the line officers, were killed. Lieut. Col. Carman,
commanding the Seventh, was wounded; and Col. John
son anti Major Ryerson, of the Eighth, were, the first
evemehd, the tweed killed. We then loft the wood.,
and met Sickels', or the Second brigade of our
division, just coming up to our relief. The offi
cers endeavored to rally the men behind the
relief, but without avail; they were thoroughly ex
hauled, without ammunition, and their moistures clogged
from constant firing.
A battery of regular artillery, just as we were coming
out of the woods, came very near causing a panic, by
shamefully abandoning their guns and dashing away on
their horses. The enemy immediately took the battery
and used it with terrible effect, ou us. It was at this
moment that our fates trembled in the balance. Should
Sickel's men waver (and death and destruction raged
rampant In their ranks), our defeat and annihilation
seemed inevitable. General Heintzelman, our corps com
mander, rode everywhere, cheering on the men, and beg
ging those tt at fell back to close up to the front. Gen.
Hooker eat, cool and collected, watching the progress of
the fight ; when, at half past four, all seemed lost, he or
dered up Smith's battery to the centre of the road, to fire
ou friend or foe should any retreat be made. At iP. M.
the distant sound of bugles apprised as of reinforcements
coming to our aid, and soon after General Kearney,
(formerly of the First New Jersey Brigade,) now in com
mand of Hamilton's division, with that division, rode up,
and we saw we were saved. Tears of joy sprang to the
eyes of every one, and, with one wild shout, those brave
boys rushed into the field. The enemy fell back, gradu
ally, tbo firing ceased slowly, and, with their arms be
side them, our tired soldiers sank down on the damp
ground to rest. Other reinforcements game up during
the night, and early in the morning the enemy retreated
beyond Williamsburg, pursued very closely by our forces.
The loss in our regiment was very great, considering
the number of men that we took into battle. On account
of the straggling, we went into the fight with about 380
wen, end our loss was es follows: ?t , killed, 94 wounded,
and two or three prisoners. The loss in my company
was ten wounded, four killed, and one taken prisoner,
besides my first lieutenant, Thomas C. Thompson, who was
wounded and taken prisoner, but we recovered him to
day, and sent him to Philadelphia. The names of those
who differed in my company are as follows
Privates Job Albert Tyson, John lecray, Jamee Ma.
eonigle, Townsend Irelan. Wounded—Lieutenant
Thompson,Sergeant Andrew Shutt, Corporals Smith
and Shuff , privates Trenby, Brooks, Charles. Silver,
Stephen Bennett, .Tobu notatta l salaries clew Hess
(Gorge). Ls ALT,
TWO CENTS.
LETTER FROM TI I E TWELFTH
PENNSYLVANIA RESERVES.
Three Dell on the March—Guarding the Rail.
road—A Rebel Ambush—Philadelphians Cap
tured.
(Correspondence of The Press.]
(TAMP AT FALMOUTH, VA., May . 10, PM
We arrived hero MA evening. We were three clays on
the march Yrotn Catlett's station to this point, 0.10
wheee tee beve Leeh ntn,Y.11,,,i the eellYatul fat , It /Edam!.
of ten miles. The weather was awfully hot in day time,
and at night it was almost freezing—a peculiarity of this
country. On the second day of our march, Daniel Mc-
Carthy and Jomobit Ellingeworth, both of Philadelphia.
of Compi.y A, Captain Daniels, and Corporal Richard
son, and privates Burk and Mussellinan, of. Company C,
from Bradford county, were captured by the rebels. A
rebel gang of ten or twelve men, headed by a desperate
frlloW, timed Cambecki were secreted in the woods, runt
waited until the regiment had prised. A few straggleiu
loitered behind, and they were lirA en by Camback and
his gang. One of our men named William Fox, of Com
pany ls, was ;het in 1:11V lcuo, imt not serioludy wounded,
Henry Dtahley, of Company A, was fired on, but escaped,
losing all his arias and accoutrements. We had passed
on. and were three miles from this ambush, - and in fact
kncw renhlog the ;Asir u itl Pox ranninq np,
bleeding, saying he had been shot. Two companies of
our regiment went back and scoured the country all over,
the same evening and next day, but found nod. enemy.
arre.a mut/ , evitidn turni One
large house, opposite where - Fox was shot, and after
wards released our prisoners, when we discovered by.
Idiom the deed was done. The prisoners taken by Cam
eelt avd and put In a NVOd.WII, (160.111,11
gang stole from a farmer,) and were driven off into
Orange or Bpottsylvania county. The county here is
rank iisecesli, but they are cowed. MARION'.
FROM GEN. M'CLELLAN'S ARMY.
The Situation on the Peninsula
The folloalng description of the eituatien of the
Union and rebel armies upon the Virginia peninsula,
up to the 12th inst., will be found interesting. In con
lilllCkce of the 'm4oo 99nOltica 9f tin roads nod the
dinieulty of transporting rations and stores to our sol
diers, General McOlellart's army has not moved on as
quickly as their commander would wish, or the country
ei4eet. The i.sis
eleven miles a day, wbertae, if the weather and roads
permitted, they would march double that dietance.
WRY OUR ARMY DOES NOT ADVANCE VASTER
..lohnstot. anti Mi,gt Mier, with about :15,060 neon, oom.-
lammed leaving Poi t. Magruder on Monday evening, the
bib, in less than cue hour alter the supporta had reached
General Hancock, and wit[ out widen he made his genera
clunge—supports which Generals Sumner mid Keyes
dishind bins en day_ mid which Guinea , Maelolit,,,, tho
Instance el General Smith, ordered up Immediately on
arriving and perceiving the advantage of General Han
cock's position. The swarming on the left of Umtata),
Smith's whole division, where ne hart vainly attempted
to place it and other supports, taught tilt Fehr' dasnor,th,
that they must tither leave or be bagged, Lir there
is nothing truer than, hau the policy of General Smith
early in the day, and all day, prevailed, Jehusteri,
Magruder, and the rest of them, would have been
taken, or they would have weer themselves by
more precipitate and [Unstraps retreat than that which
they made that night. That the army rested two days,
instead of pursuing the demoralized fugitives, ( with the
exception of a lance of cavalry and some artillery, under
ebbe rid Sltatientam) airy, perhaps, seem a little steno s ..
flat Ibe men could not go ahead without rations, nor the
ouintals without f orage. These lieu to be waited tor, If
General Met h-ilan is not completely sticeessfut, he cal
charge very much to the fluorite teaVer and co.urnisrary
doesitmehts. Having ratted at and ae.iilied Williams
burg two days, the army marched two days, eleven miles
a nay, anti then rested two days more. The gum -tor
master and commissary departments were again at fault.
Yesterday (Monday) the older was out to move this
nothing., and it is probable that there will hot be another ,
belt before cutting up with the enemy.
GENERAL STONEMAN'S POSITION—WHAT GENERAL
JOHNSTON'S SERVANT SAYS
General Stoneman is about fifteen mike alma 1 of Ga.
TIMM moith's Wiwi], which le the bead to the mow
preter, harassing the rear guard of the enemy under
Floyd, the thief, whose force consists of ten regiments of
infantry, and cousideranle artillery and cavalry. general
Stoneman rode bad to General idoClellan's headquarters
yesterday... Tie is of opinion that had the ramie beau
vigorously pursued, their army would have been broken
up, the leaders taken prisoners, and that Itiohinorel wmld
have been ours with scarcely a struggle. Ttie servant of
General Johnston has been captured by General Mono_
man's scouts. He lied erne down from Itiehinond for
tne general's baggage, and 101 l into the hands of one
scouts, whb have pushed very near Richnioad.
states that the city is lull of people it the greatest
glom Tye Vulou HWY to hourly looked fur, though
the sternest Geterminatioa to oppose its progress Is pro ,
tel.ded. Railroad communication with the South had
been suspended by the seizure of all the cars as they ar
rived, co as to retain as many as possible in Richmond.
The fear was, that should care be allowed to go so4m,
41,,y ',old pot Miliria TPc UFO; body of Jonostian
army had kept on to Richmond, the roads in the neigh.
bert,cod of the city being choked by the exhausted, de
moralizcd, discouraged mass. It was the intention of
Johnston to make a stiff fight at Chickalaindoy, and At
the itrecterivorbe, ten ware thit bide or nionmorid, Our
delay was being improved to fortify both places. The
appearance of our gunboats on the head .watel a of the
Janice river had increased the panic, and shells thro.vn
five mike and bursting within a few miles of Richmond
bad in seed the previeue conetereation.
GENERAL SHIM'S DIVISION
General smith's division the head of toe army, when
bo Maid to. day. woe within about thirty .tivo mites of
Richmond. To.dity's march will diminian the &loom
ten or twelve miles. To.morrow, it Wa3 expected, the
rear of the enemy will be coma up with, when, it is ex
pected, 'lighting will take place.
Several of our gunnesto have gone pp the I.4 m u il i ce y
riTer, and @Unite a poeltien to afford yelualde ce•cipera•
tiou with the army. They are mill the dread of the
rebels, who are thus thwarted in their endeavors to get
out of their way It is right to State here that the coun
try ie indebted to Pt eeident Lirmidu ter ;hie, who, On hi,
nutria At ivrtress maws, gtbro the order Chit secured
us the James ricer.
THE PRISONERS. AT WILLIAMSBURG.
At Witlitombiltl3 tyro haYo giQtKil PrideWM taken
at tao battle ou iho tin, and niece. Tile number la
being increased hourly. Our loss in killed and wounded
st to e battle of Williamsburg is believed to have been
hitherto stated too low. It in probably not less than
) 1 49 ) 1 1 99}gro Mutt Mining Gen,
Sumner - a division moved up from Tcrit over t Kid all
almg the peoinsula today there is a general crowding
up toward Richmond. The spirits and health of the
alloy aro good. 'I lies e is unmistakable confidence in
Gem McClellan. It 11 RA to may that it hat increased
niece ibis campaign opened, while that in tome others
has decreased The true statue of our genetale has yet
to be fixed :Ltd recognized,.
The rase - age up the James Myer.
LETTER. FROM
.ON BOARD THE GALENA.
We ni indebted, says the - Baltimore American, to a
friend., for the followina ox.teaete Dom a lettoe from it
relative on hoard the iron-clad gunboat Galena, engaged
in the movement up James river :
UNIIOAT GALENA, Sunday, br:lr
/MAR DEOTITE/i ; 1 supPOSe by this thno you intro
beard of the Galena leaving Hampton Roods. I was
glad of it, fur such a fills chip as this ought not to be
kept idle in stieh times as these, alit Ulu boys wore all
aIINiOUS for a light. We got mobw way and left the
Moil& fifteen titinidua Mgt Seri% o'clock on thin Innen_
ing of the Stit, and it W 11.41101 long till we passed slewell , s
Point. without line shot tilling fired at us. As we passed
Newport News we were hailed by loud :old long cheers
from the men of the fort, who wereglad to see us make a
more to helm their Molitor snifflers . . llut wo had mils'
passed them about lwentY-tiSs iniiiiites when, to sill-great
joy, a battery hove in sight. It was first 6e,Al by tine
experienced e, eof one gallant captain. Ife gave orders
to Lieutenant Newman to call all hands to quarters,
which he did la his usual cool way, for he is al ware cool
sal brace. Tide order Will promptly ebeled by the
crew, who thought every minute an hour to try their
skill on the rebels. They roan had a chance, far fifteen
minutes to ten o'clock the ball was opened by our pivot
gun forward. The shot fell short. The imeepit itpct third
wore nrect, but *acre was no reply. Wu ran in under
their gun range, and then they opened on us from six or
eight guns, but all of the shot fell harmless against our
iron sizes. I hardly think they knew what v.at coming
at them. We let fly from our whole battery, and made
it pretty warm far them. We called bask and forrrard
by the fort three or four times, and soon levelled their
flag and made it drag in the dust. After as action of
forty minutes, they ran like "red sharks," as they
always do, from the welbdirected fire of our brave
MEWL .21. - of one shot struell . us up to the sod V the
engagement.
Fort No. 2.—The action commenced about one o'clock,
three quarters of an hour after we had Cowed the first
battery. In this fort we found a more formidable oppo
nent than the fire*. It SnolittEli twelve gees, nod after
an hour and fifteen minutes' bombardment, eleven of
them were silenced. The remaining one fought us for an
hour afterward, making this bombardment of two hours
and fifteen minutes' duration. The gunboats Aroostook
and Port hoist were with us, but dill not take an active
part in the engagement, though they did some execution
with their long guns.
FLIGHT OF REBEL GUNBOATS
The rebel gunboats Jamestown and Patrick Henry were
OUT under the aims of the eeoond fort, but, instead of
assisting its di•fence, they got up steam and ran away
with all speed towards Richmond. Our damage in the
engagement wee small. One shot struck the Aroostook
and went through her bulwarks under the hammock net
tines. No one wits injured. Ono or two shots struck
us, but they oily left their mark on our Iron mail and
glided oil'
After passing The second fort, wo started up the river,
but the buoys have been removed, and there we stuck
bard and feat, waiting for high tide. The batteries
silenced were called the Upper and Lower Shoal hat
tering. Gnat praiaa is Mean to Oaptata.P.Mgesa,
Lieutenant Newman, and Engineer-In Ohiet Thompson.
We are just getting off shore. and a boa luta come on
board from General McClellan by which I send this. We
will off for City Point in the morninz.
Yours, &c., J. A. 8.
A NTI-A3lEttle.t24 IN'rEItVENTIONt.—Thig report must, or
course. Lc• received very suspielously. All we need .:32: of
it is that it is manifestly impo3siblc fur the two tiovecii.
mentg to inteyfore in the present position of atfalro. 'rho
Northern :mil southern armies urn in pr'om's, aunt uni,l
come into enlltniuu. when the important tout' at York
too it is decided there may be some ground for interil'-
Fell re. I r the Federiiis he beaten, tlte•u it may fairly otionuh
he its, mined the Southerners cannot he conquered, and
'when that cowl union is ones established humanity will call
fora suppression or the tc : a•. If, on the other hand, the
Ftderals should be ion, i,srui, it is not clear on what pre
text the intervention could Ito offered, ao no impartiality
conla be affected in an interference it,. evidently one
sided.—Liverpeol Post.
I, LENT y op IvorNps.—The Springfield (Ohio) News
says that Majot• . Ben: Piatt ltunkle, of the Thirteenth
Ohio, reported killed at Shiloh, is :dive awl getting along
well. lie was hit seven times, and is minus seven teeth,
portion of his jaw and tongue, his great toe, a shaving
from his heel, a hole through each cheek, and a brush ou
the shoulder.
TROOPS FOR NEW 11111-EANS.—It Stiltea in cartons
quarters. mat in one on authority of 0 regimental chap
lain at Fort Vietieue, that three Toginwatii, inchalinz
Billy Wilson's, have left that ' , Mee to reinforco (toneral
Butler at New Orleans.
R.I.AVPII.I? Doteli aseePastent has
decreed the abolition of slavery in its American colonies,
to take effect from and after July 1. 1883, on the follow
ing conditions: An indemnity of 300 guilders (8165) to
be paid to owners for each slave—man, yoman, or child.
The slaves will be subject to three years' apprenticeship
on the plantations, receiving for their labor a eortain
. em ent. ount of wages, one.half of which will go the Govern-
GENEI:AL BURN3IDB bell very quietly tint an extin-
Rubber on C. B. Forsyth, the gentleman who has so long
been trying to get recognized all a member of Congrees
from North Carolina. Ile advertised himself to address
the citizene et Nrwbrrn a tew evenings since, a thing
which, as Gen. Burnside put it, bethought would be very
foolish to do, or the General to permit. The military
Governor appointed by the President was to ehape the
policy of the Government in the State, and he could not
permit anything to be done which might 4cTugte; prove
iv be n ovum of awDarrospatent.
THE WAR PRESS_
Tan Wan PRESS will be Rent to oubecribers by
mail (per annum in advance) at
Three Copies iL
Fire LL LL
Ten " "
Liwgri• Clubs will hi , chargorl at tip, Ratnr rate, thug:
20 ropit.4 will cost $24; 50 coping will coat S 00; and 100
a 615144.
For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will mid as
Extra Copy to the getter-tip of filo Club.
17 - Postmasters are replotted to 114 46: Affen4 or
7riir; Alt
glirArlyertisementx insvrtNl at the mai rec. , $iX
know zlentslltnte a winare.
11111111111111 Now
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
Extractx limn Illenraphis Papers.
2dtmpbta papers to the ti.th inst. bare been received br
our correspondents in the Went
Addrect. from Gen. Bragg to his Troops.
irette4 iho rvllowlug addroai tp WS
pother& It le written In the wand et.do of rebel gene.
rah!, and is pot forth for ihaaatoo ba.e purpose of goad
ing on the eoldiere, by telling them the Ifedorpl goiltry
would GeI:TOR their Lvaice Imo nrubiarn and flake eiared
of tbem:
HEADQUARTERS t.Reo3ll Cones
ARMY OF THE .511:::;1:::,11.1.1., Onntsrn, May 5,
lasainlW; TO/ Prilflolll i4hunf W munnicr Um mar.
ctnary inTitUrt Who poliutAni the cooed null of our b e .,
loved country. severely.punished by you, unit driven
fr..m his chosen pusitione, with a loss nr hie arttllery and
ble lo nor at Shiloh, wh, n double your numbers, be now
approaches cantlottoly and timidly—unwilling to ad-
VULVA, Willa& to retreat_ Could hit ruuh and flit Ri.JASt
freiman'. tight, Layne Weida NMAllitl Within otirlionta
but they are n011(1011 Oti under a tyrant a lash by despe
rate lenders, whose only safely li.Fl in SIVICHSEI.
Such a foe ought never to conquer freemen, battling
win their own roil.
Toil will eninottiter your &loon
by nature and improved by ort—MVity . frOM his Main
support and reliance—gunboats and heavy batteries., 'Lod,
for the fir,er limn in this Will', with nearly eu nal numbers.
Thu idielit revenue( we hare tint on thu seaboard have
W. rked to good RS Sfell AN eVil the blol'o troOflll, NO loth!
retained there, have hastened to swell your numbers,
while Ito. gallant Van Dorn and invincible Price, with
the ever-suet:H4M Army of the West, ,, are now in
your inlaid, with numbers Anted mooning tin It Amor
or Nlllloll. We Mite, them but to strike find deStrOY,
and as the enemy's whole resources are concentrated
here, we shall not only redeem. Tennessee, Kentucky,
and Missouri at one Mow, Lot open the portals of the
whole Not Unrest,
[l:llliciiii.] BRAGG,
Cf.lll.lLl Commanding :1;1'lMilli Corps
C. C. CAISNEIt, Ass't. Adjutant Cameral.
The Rebel Gunboats.
Mtnrri AT#US, of the eto mgt., tae the follOw•
log remarks on the rebel gunboats. The statement of
the Argus, that the rebel gunboats have not been, and
are nut now of much um, le, we wager, the prevailing
opiutou of th mesa o f the 4.v4hern peepler
What eel e gurboale wade fort Before this war OM.
lIIEUCE4i, when the old idea 'hat war menus fighting pre
vailed, it wee generally understood that a navy Wad lie.
hitn.d for 801:ne use, and that when a Government dry
r
riag a Ivor, vairoded t,mo nod. Mu nor in the ceustruov
ton and armament of guuboote, floating batteries, and
blue agiltltie concerns. something was to be done in the
may of fighting. It was not generally understood, then,
that ore of the main tddoete ot a Heel of gunboats was to
let b A ill st, Lumber of shouldee.ettehesd gently out
reischirf, and provide employment for creep, without
ever being brought within eight of au enemy But the
old fogies, who fortuity behoved that guuboot3 more de
sigued4 like hverythitig else. to be of same use, have had
their eyes opened not a little by the events of the past
few ntonthe.
We made a great splurge with gunboats on the Nis-
Siebiggi Immense sums of motley were expended upon
tbetih end some as fine ordnance as the Oonisdaraey Dual
Bested was placed at the disposal of the effinmendsrA, who,
having "seen ursine," were of course expected to do
stni,thjpg—else why did they accept their positions?
Win some one inform us of a 'single in unfit ro4u!ting to
the Gentideraey from the !het which passed Ateneneis
with pomp and parade before the disgraceful hullabdlOD
at blew ]Madrid? Was a mingle Federal thereby discon
cert. d 'Were any , of the Yankee batteries, cobatructed
on the Gargle almost within view of the die
twin d?
More Talk About the Itivasion of the
We observe that 80111 e• of the rebel newspaper:lA.(li
elituy to tho Ulna Brnnutignind before the fall of !emmi,bm,
tliot the rebel ar.lll:l.s :31.001)1 luvado t he Rortii, and here
dictate terms to our. Government. Ilium to the Intuit edi
torial on that suldect. It is fr..in the Dig:1111,111s Avalanche
of the fitli instant
The ehemy already hold Marylntel, Rehtiteky, and
Missouri, with large portion.: of Virginia, North Care
lit. a, Tenne: , :iee, and Florida. This would give them a
decided advantage In the negotiation for a boundary. It
it true that 11111. 07111M.M.Y.111141111.1410Y ILA the
Wit $:110.11 last Until every foot of Soilthern soil is redeem
ed from the occupancy of the Northern armies, but it is
also true that, since that declaration, we have regained
none of our lost territory, but. on the contrary, lost
more Tlie prospect of our recoveritat the lest
then, iii not ILO bright Its tra could Wish. It Is said that
if the enemy give 11,1 battle at Corinth, that we shall first
whip and then capture his army ; and, these advantages
attained, we shall adopt an aggressive policy, and carry
the war into the enemy's own eowdry_ It would harts:
loath well for no if we had adopted this Conroe long since.
Our troops. instead of leading inactivelives in camp, would
lusts
have greatly delighted at the opportunity of glory
On Such a field. Still, it may not be too late to adopt this
1 , C.114}' 14 It. oblidon, theoidy
on eoil to the war. As long as the Petierals Cali sit quietly
at home end escape the evils of the war they inflict upon
others, there is but little probability of their agreeing to
any propoition ibr peace which does not Involve our own
ltut war at their own iloors=au Itittaatait
of 100 tt own hulls 111111 houna—could not fan to lava a
beneficial influence upon dude minds towards a speedy
Peace. Now that the idea that "cotton is king" has ea
pltsksl, after inflicting upon us all the ills under which wit
earn it stems 10 115 to be the highest dictate of wisdom
m eliaogo our Dirties 1111 d adopt an aggressive warlaptt.
We hove tried the defensive policy, and it has restilted la
materially damaging us. Let us now try the acgressive.
Lit us try it, too, at once. Whatever is done s h ou ld 1s
done ripeedily,,fer there is now lam than two months iii
i\hicii to lure the tide in oar favor, and strike a Mahe.
sheet with the North, before Europe intervenes.
Rebel Neue per Memphis
The Cherkbten Courier contains the ty !gwins. linter
from Its Memphis correspondent :
F.:sllllts, A prtl 27,1.136•2.
The occupation of New Orleans, of course opens the
mouth of the Mississippi, and Federal gunboats have al
iewiy in Aimee of ?Bp yt cur cos
catalog steamers 'they are looted for in the vicinity of
Memphis within four days—a contingency which your
cortespordtnt will sagaciously anticipate by "pegging
out." A. majority of the residents of The city will remain
and lake their Armeesuatter PPdePtil adalilii6/1.- There
niost closely identified un'th the Southern cause have
already gone, and by the end of this week that sterling
paper. the Memphis Appeal, with its hive of markers,
will hare followed in the wake. The Avalanche wilt
emtinna its ouldication in Atetaphla. Cdif,,fssisPata mon,
it fefittid ASH ill datshe of places, and for small art
tees it is impossible to use this class of funds. Ton
ne:lwo money is at a premium of from fifteen to
twenty per cent. At Nashville it is selling at the
el ate Nzill4 61 the hietkilitihli have dosed ;14 9 1,'
atoms rather than sell their goods for Confederate money,
which they cannot use and whenever it is accepted tho
eat plus of each is being invested in real estate, jewelry,
plate, at.d diamonds. huger ha; risen two ceute and a
bill. These she will Pt-111111h la Brehiohle are u 9 e eT esh
the financial graybeards whose property and pecuniary
interests ate at stake, and they have been the first on
the black list at the approach of danger to Bound the
alarm, produce panic, and discrtdit the 8 4C991; qj 11)9
At large portion of the so. called "home Guard" are
among those who will tender their respects to the Fede
ral soldiery. The ladies, as over t are true as steel.
together with hundreds of brave men who cannot leave i
hut_ besides theso_ the fighting des Put»tl a ty.ln if largely
represented in the fide, f e w - can he singled mit with
whom the almighty dollar is ant of vastly more cense
vnel.co than the interests of the Confederacy.
All the specie of the Memphis banks is in one of the
Frtneli hunks of New Ovluthig. _
The Departure ot Commodore Foote from
his Flotilla
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE ON THE OCOISION
The correspondent of the Cincinnati Coetinercial Rives
the f.ohjoin. d account of the porting of Con=Wore Foote
from big flotilla!
FLAG OFFICKII POOTE I S ' FLOTILLA, MISS.I.j.StPrt MYIII3,
Li PLUM POINT thcso, ( hove Fort Pillow, I
FRIDAY, lilny 9th. 630 I'. H., 1562.
About 7 A. 1/1, to-clay, the naval dogpatch o t svuer D o
5910 7 ';M4,m 14 Vorro, erring Tram (intro a ttli the
mail. Among her yemagere wo found Captain Marina
11. Davis. United States Navy, who, at the request of
Flag Officer Foote, was Hoot horo by dooretary. Welles to
assist, not relieve, the nag officer.
AWs A iptleato betw.o,, the 11, 6 - v iti wr
atAli taptein basis. we heard the shrill whistle call and
the cry of all bacds to muster." Almost tostanta
neomly the officer. in the foregronnd, - backed by the
seamen and marines, all in breathless silencer formed
an interesting - tableau on the lientanis lower as Ems
desk.
A Quiet, unassuming invalid, with the aid of a pair of
crutches, and the support of the faithful “orderly, ,,
Conanauder Davie, Captain Phelps, and Lieutenant
PiO9P, Pirfgf , from "ul4 IMO" room on the starboard.
TIM invalid, aftrr hobbling to the fronts lapel
OFFICERS AND RCN: It has now become my pain
ful duty to it form you I am to leave you, though I trust
only !or a short time. Commodore Davis, whom the de
partment has seen fit to appoint my 411c49419T Or thy lima
being, is Is gentleman or talent, and suleatiaol as well as
navel, ability—known as such not only in this, but in
foreign lands. Be very deservedly enjoys a character
which, as yet, and I know and feel will ever remain, un-
Eillited, 1 40ld thy m i wlium I Menti9nvil to Ow dont:
ment, above all others, as ra for my temporary relief;
ere.from exhaustion and a choked utterance, he was
overcome. Ile soon rallied, and, tuning to Oommoiore
continued.] Commodore Davis, 1 can only say
these gallant otlicers— men of the East, West, North,
South, and of 'assign tiow stoo,l t,ororo yog,
are men on whom you can depend i u any emergency, I
have tried one and all, and know it, and although they may
never receive the reward due their gallant and manly
bearing, we have the proud satisfaction of knowing, in
am Meri9r life, Mot our conscience Is right--that wo
have done our duty,
"Providence has seen fit to afflict me in our triumphal
hour—just as the great work allotted us is being crowned ;
but. I trust that I may regain my failing strength, In
body and mind, and be enabled to rejoin you.
" The difficulties consequent in improvising a squadron
like this, without means at all adequate to the week Ca
quired, have been even greater titan the signal victories
in vindication of our glorious Union. But the work
may les said to be finished, as we must, in a few days,
occupy Fort Pillow, while a majority of Union people
are awaiting to hail our arrival at Memphis with roe
j Acing, and from thence oliebltig the Mialagitibl south to
New Orleans end the Belize.
" The painful duty is now over. I wish that I was
able to introduce you singly to each officer; but I am so
weak. (Touched to tears ) I introduce ybu to Mr.
Duffy, lttr.llixbYi antl.qMere Captain Phelps relieves
him liy introducing Com. Dallis to oach officer singly.
Pointing to the seamen, the flag officer says :) These
men, too, you can always depend uponin any eater
nency. They are over-anxious to get Into a fight; they
will never surrender to the enemy. If you don't hold
firm back amp will be lb Abotbd of yon before the
(111 my. They can run faster than I can, you see—(casts
log his e 3 s to his wounded foot). Officers and men,
urd all, farewell."
Through with the visitors, and having answered the
correspondence referred to, Flag-officer Foote boarded
the steamer 1)e Soto at live P. M. As the steamer leave.
the Smarm ' he rises to his feet and says, addressing the
officers Bud men of the flagships
"Farewell! You've get good officers, and you're all
geed men. You know I cannot be with you. May God
bless )on. God is with you in your just cause. You
will be victorious The Mississippi will be open to all
nations--before ten days. God bless you all.
Wed bye !"
Crinpletely exhausted, he sank in his chair. It would
have done your heart and soul.gocid to have heard the
dc:t feniug cheers—thren times three—in response to his
remarks:. PasFing the gunboat Pittsburg, lie was like-
WiSe !elected with rousing cheers i and thin all along
past the transports, mortars. and tugs, until out of sight.
Thi:. pert svelte wile indeed impressive nut very of
fertiiitt. Several times lie was laarssitrily rowpelleul to
stem iu order to regain possession of reelions ;
r 11. 1 ,1 the most gallant and worthy officer to Gm most
hitlehle MlllllOll, till'El. %VHS 5t . 11114.1Y II dry eye visible.
Commodore Davis ern et.imy I I .
..roe
tlerlinli
by medially F.hakiler Pee
"1 ant indeed very 'Hippy to see yeti nil, milt.
Ilentcu.' C. I). 31.
FATAL A roi DENT.—BrOff 116er fd. J. Fletcher recently
lost his lire in a railrr ad collision at kullivati. Ind. Ho
ereenat.d et Brown University, Providence, R. I. ; in
1351 was aprointrti eblPftiNSPnd@llt 9f Vine instruction
in Indiana by Governor Blortoni and upon the bresking
out of the uar was sent East to purchase arms. Ile af
terwards served as aid to General Reynolds In Western
Virsinia, and at the time of his death was laboring
earnestly to secure the comfort et sick and wounded 5.,1-
Merl] front Indiana in the Ni r t el orn Depathnent,
1 - )113 PRISONERS IN CIIARLESTON.-A letter from
Federal prisoner in Charleston, S. says that the
writer and the other men imprisoned for 4, Colon senti
ments," are well fed and well treated, ag 11104 they hare,
the Dear of the jail jtlf4,
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