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J. F. 411 E. B. ORNE,
NO. 619 CHESTNUT STREET,
(OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE.)
Have now open
FRESH IMPORTATIONS
RED CHECKED,
And. FANCY COLORED
CANTON MATTIN(S.
ALSO,
600 ES. CROSSLEY qk SON'S
aINGLISH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS ]
FROM S7l TO Si PR. YD..
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myrAjell
NEW CARPETING.
JAMES H. ORNE. .
-626 CHESTNUT STREET,
BELOW SEVENTH.
We have just received, by late arrivals from Europe,
- Some new and choice varieties of CARPETING, coin
%
- •FRENCH AUBUSON Square Carpets.
'3NGLISH AXMINSTERS, by the Yard and in
entire Carpets.
CROSSLEY'S 6-4 and 3-4 wide Velvets.
tt Tapestry Brussels.
cc Brussels Carpeting.
• Also, a large variety of CROSSLEY'S and other makee.
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS,
From 67-te. to $1 Per Yd.
Our assortment comprises all the beet makes of Three
/ tilv and Ingrain Oaraetiug, whielh together with a gene
- cal swishy of goods in our line, will be offered at the low
- eat possible prices.
OIL CLOTH FOR FLOORS,
From QM to eight yer 1., wide, Gilt to a,.y Slue.
MATTINGS.
By late arrivals from China we have a full assortment
Wti m AND COLORED
MATTINGS
OF ALL WIDTHS.
JAMES H. ORNE,
apl6 626 CHESTNUT.
,e } LEN ECHO MILLS,
McOALLUM &
I'EAADDTADTUBEICD. IMPOBTERS, AND DNALEBS
609 CHESTNUT STREET
(Opposite lotlependenos Hal),)
OARPETINGS.
OIL CLOTHS, &c.
We have now on hand an extenedve dock of Carnet:lnm,
our own and other znakee, to which we cell the etten-
aion of Gash and short•tlme buyers.
TOUETH-STREET
CARPET STORE
aro. 41 ABOVE CHESTNUT, Mo. 47.
5. T_ DELA.enoix
Invitee attention to Ma Spring Importation of
CAR.PETINC-IS,
o om prishi g every style, of the Newest Patterns and
' Designs, in VELVET, DitUSSELS, TAPESTRY mum
zazia, IMPERIAL. TD.BEE-PLY, and INGRAIN
- CARPETING&
YENETLAN and DAMASK STAIR OARPETINGS.
GOOTOR RAG end LIST S'AEPETINGS.
/MOOR OIL CLOTHS, in every width.
0000 A lord CAN tON MATTINGS.
DOOR-MATS, BUGS, SHEEP SKINS,
DEDG,GB TS, and CRUMB CLOTH&
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
LOW FOR CASH.
J. T. DELAOROIX,
mho-4m 47 Beath rriIiTETH Street.
MILLINERY GOODS
SPRING. 1862.
1862.
WOOD & CARY,
(Successors to Lincoln, Wood, & Nichols,)
7es CHESTNUT STREET,
Have now in Store a complete stock
- 3TRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS,
SILK BONNETS,
STRAW AND PALM-LEAP HATS, ,to
To which they respectfully invite the attention of the
former patrons of the house end the trade generally.
raarl9.3m
41) SPRING. 1 86 2 .
M. BERNHEIM,
No. US CHESTNUT STREET,
Nam now In store, and Is daily receiving, the latest
Sem In
'RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS,
WREATHS, SILKS, CRAPES, •
LACES,
AND OTHER,
MILLIN ERY GOODS.
which be respectfully Invites UM littelliioll of the
TRAWL
PRICES LOW.
nihni-nm
THOMAS KENNEDY & BRO.,
TS) CHESTNUT Street, below Eighth.
• Moles Stook or
SPRING MILLINERY GOODS,
gain.a.] AT LOW MOIL
JEWELRY, &c.
CLARK'S
ONE DOLLAR STORE,
OW CHESTNUT STREET.
LIEW GOODS)
NEW STYLES,
AND NEW PRICES.
Toe 081 DOLLAR yen eau buy any one of the fol.
wing articles:
o "ts of Silver Plated Tea Spoons.
ca sc 56 Desert at
cc as 4, Table 6 4
w p ar k a.
66 46 44 Desert 66
Pair ac .. Knife and Fork.
Napkin Rings.
.4 4. -4 Butter Violins.
Silver Plated Sugar Bowi.
Butter Dish.
" Molasses Pitcher.
• " Cream "
• II " Castor.
tt " Waiter.
ct " Goblet.
" Drinking Clip.
•• Sugar Sifter.
Gold Plated Vast Chain, all Arley.
•a G uar d 46 46 46
Week u SI II
as as Ohatelidnsss cc a
Bracelet,
•a " Medallion, it
• Armlets. it it
• " Breast Pin, "
• 64 Ea r wi uga , as cc
ac " Pin and Drops, all styles. -
••
!hints and !lotions,
64 " Solitary Sleeve Button, all stylus.
4. 4 Bosom Studs, ,• 44
66 as Singer Binge, •66 ••
Pencils, de
a• •. Pen with Pencil Case.
Ladies' or Gentlemen's Port Normals, Cabals, Bags,
Parsee, &c., &c., &c. All Goods warranted as ropes-
Rented: We have on hand a large alsortment of Photo.
graph Album, Mantel Clocks, Travelling Bags, and
Cold Jewelry, which wo are closing off at cost. The at
tention of the trade respectfully solicited.
D. W. CLARK'S
ONE DOLLAR STORE,
602 CHESTNUT Street.
DARK AND LIGHT BLUE RERSEYS.
STANDARD 6.4 AND 3-4 INDIGO WOOL-DYED
BUZ 'FLANNELS.
INDIGO BLUR MIXTURES.
COTTON DUCE', 10, 12, AND 15-OUNCE.
FARNHAM, KIRKHAM, & CO.,
ap2o-2m 225 CHESTNUT STREET.
BLINDS AND SHADES.
BLINDS AND SII.ADES.
VENETIAN BLINDS
The largest and finest assortment in the City at the
LOWEST FERIES.—
E3TOBE SHADES LETtERED.
Bepair — ing promptly . ..mimed to. ,
JAMES S. EARLE a; SON,
GERMANTOWN, PA.
AFRESH ASSORTMENT, at LESS
THAN Tammuz, PRIORS.
C ABINET FURNITURE AND BIL
LIARD TABLES.
IYIOORE Ez CAMPION.
No. 261 South SECOND Street,
In connection with their extensive Oablnet Business are
now manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
And have now on hand a full supply, finished with the
11001 1 / 1 & CAHIPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
which are pronounced, by all who have used them, to be
superior to all others.
For the Quality and finish of these tables the menu
!sewers refer to their numerous patrone throughout
the Union, who are familiar with the character of their
work. fefifi-Sm
OIL I OIL I I OIL II I
HULBURT & BRODHEAD,
Having opened a General Depot for the Salo of Extra
Relined and Lubricating 00AL OILS, would call the
special attention of dealers and consumera to their
reSnrd ILLUMINATING OIL, as it possesses merit
beyond anything heretofore offered in this market, being
entirely free from that gluey substance awl bad odor
which characterize that commonly sold in this market.
produces r o sznolzo, and is freo from all explosive
properties.
27' Orders from City or Country promptly at
tended to. myis•lm
rc
.I j UCIFER" OIL WORKS.
100 Is. a Lucifer" Burning Oil on Minn
We guarantee this oil to be non-explosive, to born all
the oil in the lamp with a steady, brilliant flame, withoni
trusting the wink, and but slowly. Obis. linod witt
glass enamel. WEIGHT, SMITH, St P SMISALL.
Mee 616 MARKET Street.
CARBON bble. Natrona
Oil in store end for isle by
STATIONERY AND FANCY GOODS.
MARTIN & QUAYLE'S
STATIONERY, TOY, AND FANOY GOODS
EMPORIUM,
No. 1035 WALNUT STREET,
BELOW BLEESNTIi,
myo-1m fp PHILADELPHIA.
BRUSHES
AND
BLACKSMITHS' BELLOWS,
HEMBILE & VAN HORN.
mll2O-am No. 9731 MARKNT Street, Philode
JAMES HOMER & BON'S CHOICE
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HOWELL & BOURKE,
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AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS,
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RORTMENT Off GOODS, from the ahonalksk Bkaakr.
Meek to the rineet Decorations.
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MILITARY GOODS.
ARMY GOODS
ON AND
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MANUFACTURER OP
WINDOW SHADES.
LOOKING GLASSES_
WANCIFACTUREBO AND /11/TETRIA
o
LOOKING GLASSES.
OIL PAINTINGS,
PINK Ryan Avrima,
PICTURE AND PORTRAIT PRAMRS,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
OABTN•DL-QISITNi PORTRAITS,
EAPJLE'S GALLERIES,
918 011ESTNUT STREAM,
PFI.II,ADELIHIA
SEWING MACHIN ES
WHEET:ER tic WILSON
SEWING MACHINES,
628 CHESTNUT STREET,
Mhll-Bnn
I WATCHES, JEWELRY, &c.
FARR _& BROTHER,
Importers, 324 CHESTNUT Street, below Fourth.
mb2o-tf
CABINET FURNITURE.
OILS
No. 240 ARCH STREET,
WILLIAM N. WILSON,
208 MARKET Street
Vrtss.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1862
OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
]Von-Recognition of the Rebels—End of the
Canard—France Loyally Neutral—England
Openly Aids the Traitors—A food Union
Victory Needed—Opening of the Interim.
tional Exhibition—Prince of Wales and the
(non-exlatant) Irish Lady—The Great Show
—Expenve of Tickets—illiberal Treutiannt
of Exhibitors—One American Juror !—De
fects of the Building—Works of Art—Ameri
can Painters and Sculptors—Literary News—
"ranch," and 115 Writers and Artists—lts
Anti-Catholic Spirit—Richard Bort e—Mr.
Buckle will Visit Arncrien—Rerschells Ifo
menillexameters—Lord Thlacaulay—Strauss's
New Book—William rills Lass WordS—
Another Lord Bacon Book—air. Cobden's
Punic Pamphlet—Anecdote of Sir Robert
Peel—Carlyle's Prederich the Great—Re
covered Poem., hy P. B. Shelley—Cordhl
Magazines
Srecial Correepoislence tf The Press.]
tot:Doti, May 5, 1861,
Since my lust, some flays ago, not one syllable worth
notice has appeared iu eny Paris or London journal rela..
live to the 'entered agreement between Franco and
England to interfere, in some way, between the Unionists'
and Ocitfederatee, nese 'waging war in your Southern
States. This appear.; to hear out my opinion that the
thing wee a mere canard, started by that parent of lies,
the indenclulance Belo, and eagerly taken up as a
probability by the Paris and londorejoureals which are
in the Confederate interest. That Napoleon and Pal
merston would like to have the Civil War ended, in the
hope that thereby cotton and tobacco, rice rtml
tine would again be exported to European ports, is e vedY
likely. But it is scarcely on thecards that either, or both,
will venture on such an active measure as recognition.
In ollier AYOltitl, they are not likely to run into an Aineei
coo War en their own account.
Let France have what she is fairly entitled to—the full
praise for having taken care that her avowed neutrality
should be real, Against this, place various filets whirl
prove that EnelamPs neutrality is nominal. Take tho
reception of the pirate Nashville at Southampton q the
protection of the privateer Sumpter at Gibraltar i and the
open nett well-known mode of arms and till ,the. muta
tions of wer front Birmingham, Sheffield, and other
great manufacturing places, sent out to the rebel States,
teem Liverpool and other British ports, with their desti
nation almost openly proclaimed. Not a week leas pewee%
during the last three months, without the departure from
Liverpool of ships, for the Confederates, laden with sup
plier, and avowedly designed "to run the blockade."
Mr. Gleolotoue's recent anti-Ualonspeech at Monellps_
ter is accepted here as a Ministerial avowal, and Camel
strangely from him who, a few weeks before, had made
a speech at Ediribumilt ,such in favor of Union iutegri
ty anti principles. No ono, however, expects consistency
!rem a member of any Government headed by that pan.
teal weathercock, Lord Palmerston.
Let England and nettle° once hear.of one decided
Tilden success—such as the rapture of Memphis, of Now
Orleans, Savannah, thatieaton, itiolltuumil, Yorktown,
or even of Norfolk—and not a word in favor of recogni
tion will be said. There is a rumor that the Emperor of
the French, will visit Loudon during the Cleat Exhibition.
As that will .0t until October, he Lae f o il shut, en do
so if it so please him. He distinctly refused to attend the
opening. The only royal personages present were the
Duke of Cambridge, the Prince Royal of Pruseia, and
Pranae Oeeee of Swede,,, wt. 1 4de-44,1u al the opening,
and the Duchess of Cambridge, with her two daughters,
the Grand Duchess or Mecklenburg.Strelitz, and the
Princess Mary—plumpest of comely , maidens, though
nearing the old-maidish verge of thirty—and the Queen
Dowager of Spain. The absence of Victoria and hoe
children was felt, especially as it was caused bythe death
of Prince Albert, who, though he did not originate the
Great Exhibition in 1851, leek a mat h4lereat ill it, and
was beau of the commission for getting up that of 1862.
The Prince of Wales, it was thought, should hare at
tended, but he is journeying in the Holy Land—whither
he butane, not to drive any handsome young Irish NO
out 01 ids ikOnghts, fur lie is least susceptible of young
men, but to carry out a line of travel which his father
planeed for him five years ago.
Though the exterior of the Exhibition Building is
hishtfel—it looks hilts A hnco barn—the interior, on
Thursday, was very grand. Official and military cos
tumes, ladies in full drew, the eplendel orchestra, with
2,500 choral siegers, the throne with its emblazonry and
snrrettedlea, the Japtheee Einhassy in their strange at
tire, the Lords and tlemmons in elate-robes and court
di esses, the Bishops in their lawn sleeves, all this male a
magnificent who'c. The cpening consisted of a precast
sion—ar d address—the national anthem—a reply—a
prayer—the special musical performtincee—and the Duke
of Centhrldge announcing, in the Queen's name, that
the Palace of Manufactures, Natuald Produce, and Art
was open, followed by a peal of cannon from without.
One ; three, or -five guineas are the prices for ilicnitilion
The exhibitors aro not allowed in, at any time, to see
and fix, and look atter their own property without pay
ing tart i".O for a season ticket This illiberality is much
condemned.
Attune the jurors co, the important Class, 08, (Paper
Stationery, Printing, and lleciabiniling,) is only one
American. henry Stevene, or Vermont, long a resident
in London, is a juror upon Stationery, .of which he knows
little, and not upon Books ((flatei 115), Of whitdi lie known
mote than most men of his years.
Le. yet the Exhibition is vt ry incomplete. Many per
trees cf the filleted space are not yet filled with goods.
The huildirg itself is unfinished, and Cali searede be emu
rioted by the first of- Jute. Witlt all the builder's care,
the roof is not water-proof. Still, all will be eery grand,
though not equal to the - show of 1851.
Tim real anycriority now over 1851 ill in the exhibition
of Paintings, a new feature in this show. The es
teems are well lighted, and nature and foreign - art is well
roman tub The epecimens of British art are very fine.
Only four American painters Contri7ute i but the snip.
lure by S.tcry, Megier, Miss Homier, and others, gives
American talent a decided superiority-. American gene
ral m ethictions, few in number, and nit well set out, oc
cupy a corner on the southeast angle. Mintan's Majoli
ca Fountain end the Canadian trophy, (of native woods,)
are among the noticeable things.
That Punch has been far less successful in its second
than in its first decade, no one wht constantly reads it
will venture to deny. It is now in its twenty-first year,
a long time for a comic publication to have continued,
but its culminating period was in 1850, when among its
contributors were Jerrold, Gilbert a Becket, Thackeray,
Angus Reach, Shirley Brooks, Tom Taylor, and the wits
of the Stock Exchange i—at one time, while the Railway
mania of 1845 was rife, nearly every hit at Directors and
Stags was sent from the Stock Exchange itself. In those
Jaye, when Richard Doyle and John Leech constituted
nearly the whole pictorial strength of Punch, there was
as much wit in the engravings as in the letter. prese.
Doyle's good-humored hits at Prince Albert gave great
offence to Queen Victoria,—so much so tlfat she
who, in 1840, had passionately trampled upon
the Morning Post containing the correspon
dence between the Marchioness of Hastings and Lord
Melbourne, on the Lady Flora Hastings' scandal, di
rected Punch not to be admitted in the Palace. Of
course, it was read there more than ever after
this pro
hibition, and the royal household had their own quiet
lamp, no doubt, at Albeit the Hatter, finishing off
flower- pot-shaped hats for the army, and Albert the
Fanner exhibiting plethoric oxen and fat pip nt tho
Stnulancid Snow, where (Of course) he won the leading
yrizes—first, because he was a Prince, and next because
the competition did not cost hits any thing, as he never
paid one sixpence for the large farm which was sliced off
Windsor Palk for him to play amateur farmer in.
Doyle is son of Lieutenant John Doyle, an Irishman,
who, from 181.0 until 1845, when Punch was fully
established, used to produce the series of, political en
gravings commonly known as the H. B. caricatures.
They were misnamed, for the H. B. portraits of
public characters were remarkably good likenesses. At
the close of Me, when Cardinal Wiseman settled in
London, as representative of the restored Papal hierar
elty in Englaud, it pleaseil Punch to set up as champion
of tiltra-Protestatilism. • Why, no one could melerstawl.
Bradbury and Evans, who own Punch, ire Dissenters.
Mark Lemon, the editor, was a Jew, who had kept a
public house in Wych street, Drury lane, a very vulgar
locality, and Douglas Jerrold made no religious proles
teen whatever. Richard Doyle, like lde father, was a
Catholic, and tit once resigned his gitUntioll to 10.11,161
artist to Punch. Every effort, except promising to se
,
inonirli it; anti-Catledie partienneltio, was made on the
Pert of Punch to retail, Doyle, but he wits positive. His
place has been filled, rather than supplied, by John
1 -Una• reetla 11111.141.,; or Punch n eve e ,, peere d
elsetelles widele at a glance, the cognoscenti recognized
as Deyb , s. At timer. the natural conclusion that he had
retnntol, and great setisfeetien thereat. But, it turns
tact that timse arc nil eketelifee left on hand when Doyle
left, elcyeu 51•111-::11g(1, fon:telt - Ph, and USN.I.I HOW all ii,ing
accident illy found in one of Mark Lemon's portfolios.
More. ver, hi Time Tablet, which is the lawn' or English
Callielieity, Mr. Doyle hinteelf contradicts the statement
that he had yet tinted to Punch. 11, nays: "It is not the
fact that Iha re done so. The reasens withal led fie. h.
leave Punch, n111:1112 on reit roiTe. The Style of writing
adopted in , el, ;eel neifortely followed slave, whenever
the Cell...lie n•lienal 1. mentioned, or the conduct of
Catholics innlvr .IkrnsAtm, it MlN.:sib)°, in my
opinion, for it ; ii, however
humble a way."
Mr. Buckle, the ff Civilization" man, has left Egypt on
a foreie it tour, his route being to the United Stahel, by
way of Syria-tether a round-about journey. His next
volume will exchisively treat of the United States.
Sir John Herschel, the detronomer, has contributed to
the May number of the Cornhill Magazine a translation
of the first book of 'the Hind, done into hexameter verse.
Not content with following Homer's words, (if Homer's
they be, which isenestioned,) he expands his own version
by introducing what he calls 1 4 expletory" words and
phrases, intended more fully to carry out the meaning,
and inserted in Italics—after the manner of the English
translation of the Bible, in 1612, where a few words are
thee set in, to complete the sense. Sir John Herschel is
a better philosopher than poet. In a large octavo, pub
lished in 18.57, containieg hie f , Eqsays from the Edin
burgh and Quarterly Reviews, with Addresses and other.
Pieces," will be foundtourteen poetical effusions by au
ntie]. The longest of these, a metrical version of ti The
Walk," by Schiller, (Der Spaziergang,) is also in Eng
lish hexameters—not very good.
It Is scarcely an itemof literary intelligence, but some
of emu readers may like to know that the British Bible
Society has voted £2,000 to the American, in aid of the
diminished receipts of the latter during the present strife
between North and South.
A volume of Recollections of Lord Macaulay in his
University day is announced by Mr. Richard Perry, his
cotemporary, forty years ago, at Trinity College, Cam
bridge.
I*HTLAIMLPFUIA
LETTER *mom LONboiii.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1862.
Those who know Dr Strauss merely as author of
a Socinian tt Life of Jeseig." in which the miracles are all
attributed to natural cantles, and the tiaviottr himself
considered as only equal to Moses, idahOMet, and Con•
fuclus, will rot be astcnisbeel at learning that in his now
book, called " Christian fitarklin," he elevates the hero,
his school-fellow end brother unbeliever, tar above al
modern men. IlliArklin had been a clergyman, but
threw off hie gown, and cast himself into the "fiery
furnace" of the German Revolution of 1848, dying of a
broken heart (and rheumatism) because its high hopes
We.P6 1.11_4 . '31(111M. The beak, as a biography, le almost
p'efect.
The belief long has been that William Pitt's dying
words were "Oh ! my country! how I love my coun
try," and Lord Stanhope repoete this melodramatic
phrase in his recently-completed Life of Pitt—the moat
valuable addition to modern history publisheilduring tide
century. After the weak was printed and on sale, the
noble biographer did, at last, what he should have done
before. Ho examined the manuscript notes of what oc
curred when Pitt died, taken by his (Lord S.'s) uncle,
who was present, and it appeared, on looking carefully
at the blurred and blotted writing, that the tart arcking,.
ion of the dying statesman was " Ilow I leave ut
country," which is also more irobable then the other.
At that time, Nelson's death was recent, and felt to have
dearly bought the victory of Trafalgar, and Napoleon's
triumph at Austerlitz had made Pitt say 4 ' Vold up that
map of Rurope: it wiil not be wanted for twenty years"—
the exact period, by the way, of Napoleon's rule.
The Literary Gazette has expired, at the age of forty
four, but from its ashes sprang, on 'Friday, it sinilltir
Joer
eat called The Parthenon. In arrangement and =titer,
it resembles the Critic nod the Atherurum.
Mr. Hepworth Dixon, editor of tho Athenann, has
followed up his L• Personal History of Lord Bacon," by
another volume, entitled "The Story of Lord Bacon's
Life." In effect, this is little more than recasting.
111 x, Dia.c.lo4 eallectimea wad 0p11.1,21.
respetting
" The wisest, greatest, meanest of mankind."
In the preface to this new (I) work he calmly repudi
ates its predecessor for tieing chapter, not a 'Lista:7j
a contribution of new materials, not a summary from
other books." He calls it " a review article, somewhat
enlarged," and, disinheriting the elder volume, intro-
IVOCCO its successor as the only legitimate otTepring.
This is a novelty to literatnre, at all' events. Let me add
that, with countless defects in style, and numerous in
stances of bad taste, this new book about Francis Bacon,
anther of the If 0.711121 Organon, contains much that in
teresting. Were Mr. Hepworth as able as he is indus
trious, the book would be still better.
Cobden, the great b'ree.trade P., has published a
i. Heel natittliek Chilled td The Throe Patties! An HI.-
torieal Episode," containing the history of the British
panics of 1547-8, of 1851-3, and of 1859-61. One incident
relate d by hint is politically and personally interesting.
are records that • on the evening. of ttio L'Atis. or February,
1848, whilst the House of Commons was in eeeoion,
mu; oe conversation suddenly arose at the door, and
spread throughout the honer, when was witnessed—what
ntver occurred before or oilier, ill the writer's experience
—a suspension for a few minutes of all attention to the,
business of the house, whilst every member was engaged
in dose and cat nest conversation with hie neighbor. The
intelligence bad atrivtd of the abdication and flight of
Louis Philippe, and of the proclamation of the Republic.
The monarch and his ministers, whose ambitious projects
' loud furnished the pretexts for our warlike armaments,
awl the gallant. prince, Wlteee Paninblei had minded like
a tocsin in our ears, were now on their way to claim the
hospitality of England." This was when Louis Phi
lippe, abandoning his wig, and disguising himself by
affearing pisinly with his gray ceverod with it
seal-skin travelling cap, reached Now Haven as fl Mr.
John Smith." Mr. Cobden proceeds to say that ho
"was eitting by the side of the late Mr. Hume when the
I • tidings reached their bench. Sir Robert Peel was on the
I Motile front seat alone, Ids powerful party having been
brcken and scattered by his great measure of Corn LAW
Repeal. 'l'll go and tell Sir Robert the news,' ex
claimed Mr. Hume, and stepping across the floor, lie
seated nimseir y Ida side and communicated the startling
intelligence. On returning to his place, he repeated, in
the following words, the commentary of the ox-minister:
=This comes of trying to carry on a Government by
unease of a mere majority of a chamber, without regard
to the opinion out of doors. It is what these people,
pointing with his thumb over hie shoulder to the pro
tectionists behind him, wished me to do, but I refused.'"
Statesman never uttered truer words.
The third volume of Carlyle's History of Frederick the
Great has appeared, and, from its diffuseness, makes
readers dread that, like Macaulay, the author can
scarcely live to complete his task. This volume, let tin
say, Is awfully dear. To charge a pound sterling, equal
to your five dollars, for a single octavo, with no illustra
tions save a pot trait and a few maps, is a regular impo
sition. Tho time covered by this instalment of 019 bio
graphy extends four years—from May 1740, whim Fritz
became King, to the autumn of 1741—in which time he
had invaded Silesia, commenced his warlike career by
winning the Battle of Molwitz, (or rather, by having it
won while he was running away,) and made ready for a
second attack upon Maria Theresa, Empress-Queen of
Germany. At the rate of four years to a volume, Car
lyle's biography of Frederick will be completed in ton or
more volumes, as he lived until 1785. It it to he added
• that the language of this new volume is more Carlylean
and lees English than ever.
In a recent search among manuscripts belonging to the
Shevcy family—Sir Duey Shrlley, lAroict, ie tho Poet's
eldest son—there have been discovered a large number of
pcems and letters written by the poet, which, especially
the latter, shed much light on the events of his life and
motives of his conduct. They will immediately be pub-
Ihdtett by Mosel,
The publiefiers or-ow connaze Magazine affirm that
ira Aveira , m circulation ie 84,427 a month; that the
smallest number sold of any one number was 67,018
end that of some numbers over 100,000 were sold.
Macktoood's Magazine sellA only 10,000 a month. 07"
OUR ARMY CORRESPONDENCE.
LETTERS FROM GEN. McCLELL AN'S
ARMY.
eavi=th2,6.deik,e.oF Th.
WiiITE 18 miles from
RICHMOND, Ur's 16, 1862
General McClellan at 11 o'clock this morning struck
his camp at CUMberihrid, and stetted off for White
Douse, live miles northwest, although it is twelve by the
circuitous navigation of the PamuakY. Day before yes
terday nearly hie entire army were encamped on the
level plain at Cumberland. The Ninety-fifth and
Ninetr,bah Prnritylvalalt Itegimituis -and the rcst
of Franklin's division, forming the right of the
ard army, moved up to White Douse yesterday. This
morning a great many more went, together with the
headquarters; a continual string passing out through the
reads across the creek, forming the upper boundary of
the camp at Cumberland. At my present writing they
ere coming in vast numbers to White House, and pitch
ing their tents on a level plain, some three miles long
and two wide.
White House, the present camp of General McClellan,
is the seat of A. S. Lee, an officer in the Confederate
army, and said to be the son of the rebel General Lee.
His plantation, comprising thousands of acres, extends
several miles along the southwestern bank of the Pa
'flunky. It is poor, worn-out land, and now rapidly being
cut up into ruts by tnele :ivagons.: The house is
built in the old Virginia style, and is pleasantly situated
on s bend of the river. It is two stories high, with wings
and back buildings. The negro quarters are ashort dis
tance below, near the river bank. All the people have
stampeded, white, black, and mulatto, and not a soul was
in the house when possession was taken last Monday.
Near the negro quarters is a spring house, apparently
well kept formerly, now used. however, by the staff. The
'vila° mamas aro strictly minuted, and no injury will
be done tbew.
THE RIVER ABOVE CUMBERLAND
This tamping I took a trip, from Cuuberland up to
White House and back, on the old Delaware river tug
boat J. L. Pusey, to whose gentlemanly officers I am in
debted for many kindnesses. After dinner, I came up
on the commissary's boat, in the pilot-house of which,
as she lies at the White-House wharf, I em now writing.
The camp is strung along the river for two or three miles
below White House, and thousands of soldiers are fishing
or swimming all around me. The water is very muddy,
owing to the recent rains. As below Cumberland, Se on
the way up here, I saw flags of trace, in many cases no
hing more than handkerchiefs, planted in front of every
house. Midway up, on the northeast bank, is a small
place called! lndlantown. Here there was a ship-yard,
and the half-burnt remains of a gunboat, curved over in
genuine Merrimac style, stand on the shore. Just above
ibis, at a place where the river makes a big bend, is a
battery, ahneet hidden by tom which wits hastily aban
doned by the Confederates. Rebel cunning is shown to
psi feclion here. The right of this battery is within
twenty yards of a house, with a flag of truce stuck out
before it, the rascals well knowing Federal clemency
avert ahet and Shell from that 'vicinity litre,
almost opposite the battery, is a trap for catching fish,
which, no doubt, in days gone by did a large business.
MeClellan'e Inept' will not all be out of Cumberlaud
before Sunday, although the commissary and quarter
'd boots both moved up today. I am not yet
done my Cumberland sketching and incidents. The
romp there wits pitched on a large farm belonging to a
Mr. Toler He is a roan of peculiar opinions, doubtless
a Secessionist at heart, lie thinks foreign intervention
will end this war. Not a bit of the property immediately
around his house w as touched, but he complains bitterly,
and justly, too, that his
farm is desolated. It is indeed
so. His fences have heel burned, his fields cut up, and
his crow ruined. His negroes, of which he had some
sixty or lieventy, have run off and left only an old over
seer behind tie in. Commissary, quartermaster, and sutler
business has been very brisk at Cumberland. Some throe
bemired steam and sailing vessels are in the vicinity, all
engaged in transportation. Hitedreds of contrabande
e there, too, cutting up antics and pre ending to work.
The ci mmiesariat complain bitterly of the way they are
treated. The quartermaster's department, on whom they
dt prod for transportation, has not enough force to do
the work with sufficient expedition, and, beeidewthie, in
many cases they are put to unneeessary trouble and
hardships. One flagrant instance I cannot forbear men
hir Meg. On Monday, several thousand troops advanced
to White House. There was nothing there for them to
cot, The captain of a Lola bripaini. pp a pleasure tarty
from Fortress Monroe tied feet to the commissary's
wharf at Cumberland, and refused to move, ordering a
guard to fire on any one unfastening his lines. There he
staid till after dark—no Supplies could be loaded, and our
brave soldiers, when in the face of an enemy, wore kept
without food for nearly twenty•four hours. Such con
duct as this deserves reprehension.
CONTRABANDS. •
ill di e House and Cumberland, and, indeed, every point
along the river, swarms with negroes of all hues and
shapes. On Monday morning fifty came into Yorktown
front across the river, exhibiting the wildest demonstra
tions of joy. An old negro was the only man found at
Yorktown when our troops entered. When spoken to,
he said with reference to the siege, " dat ho seed dat ting
afore and when qUestioned as to his reason for re
maining when all his friends wore gone, replied 6 4 he we/.
0
ton ole to eon." This man was in his twenty-semmil year
when Cornwallis surrendered, and always bas a band of
eager listeners around him when, in his amusing way, ha
tells the incidents of the two sieges.
I=l
General McClellan is rapidly concentrating his men at
and above White Rouse. Franklin's division, the right
of the army, expect every moment to break up and move
on towards Richmond. The rebels will undoubtedly die.
puto the passage with us at or near thin point, and every
thing is kept in readiness for an attack. A strong Union
three is advancing up the Vhicksitominy, the gnoboat
Monitor, with some others, WAS visaed by a flag of trues
boat soma days ago, above City Point, on the .Tuareg
river. Our army advances up the Panninky, in order to
be ounnorted on the right flank he attnlmate, numbers of
which are in the stmani, al and above White Houma, with
ports open and guns run out.
t,,,,nea the railroad brkige act-otJa the rit
nimiky, Mat above here, tad its charred fragments lino
ibe store on both fhleß rel• miles below. This railroad,
nmning from West Point to Richmond, will, whoa our
leaven the river, be Of great nee in transporting
stoics. It is very much injured now, but a few ilsys'
work will. Mace it in excellent repair.
ISEECIMIZEM
Ti is my 1111-prr-,iio 111“1 1 it:MR.l4h wo are effectively
awl rapidly advancing, we will not accomplish anything
derisive for some time. Main, mad, and obstacles pot in
Our way by the rebels, together with the strong force
-11, 7 ha front of us ? will oil rid.linwiid
will be defended with desperation. Byery prhtwwr, no
matter what hie gentimentsou the great quegilon of the
wee, agrees in this. Many of them are sent down the
and they att t. 41 the ~ , nne story, J. 0,
The horrors of War—The Scene on the
Williamsburg Battle-field—The Graves
of the Heroes of that Battle
[Correspondence of The Prim.]
HEADQUARTERS FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA CAVALRY,
(Cismham HhAhnoWA,)
WiLriAMSDUEn, VA., May 14, 1861SL
If you would realize what you may have read of the
horrors of war, travel, as I have done, the devastated
fields of Virginia, and espasially the battle- liable of Mil
Run, Manassas, and Williamsburg The stench that
arises from decaying animal matter, on the former field,
is sickening in the extreme, and intensified by the
thought that no mall portion of it proceeds from liuman
bodies left to moulder away on top of ilia ground. You
may see, lying above the banks of that fatal stream,
bodies of many who, doubtless, left loved ones at home,
that, through 00 promo of decomposition, have lost
their identity ; some without a head, some Avithout arms,
and others minus lege. The sight is sickening beyond
expression.
Cn the 3111 of thie mouth a torrifin battle tic f,,it,±tht on
the field where I now write. Our regiment is bivouacked
on the battle-ground. Look where you Will and the evi
dences of the terrible struggle present themselves to the
eye. here, in front of one of the enemy's earth-worlin,
it a mound where Snreij hundred-poor follows haio
found a connuon'grave, while groups of graves, num
bering from five to fifty ; may be seen in every direc
tion. In the corner of a wood, and within thee_ Mut
tired yards of onc of the enemy's strongest worliS, whore
Central Hancock was engaged, the trees are literally
mowed off by cannon balls and grape. Here is where
Hancock (by the way, one of the very best officers in the
ervlce,) made lals brilliant baronet chow, ohnraoterimal
by McClellan as a real bayonet charge.
The enemy fled in terror before the glittering steel, and
the fate of the day was decided.
}laving written thus far, we learned that we would he
detained a few hours to await orders, and • few of us
availed ourselves of the opportunity thus afforded to ex
plore the field, which we did for a distance of four miles.
Throughout the ethele extent grams and mounds are
met with at every turn. The graves, sadly melancholy
to look upon, hold the remains of tte brave men who
laid down their lives in defence of the. Constitution and
the UMen_ some of those graves are numbered as kto,
as three and four hundred. In ono place we found the
grave of Col. Vanleer, and by its side that of his adju..
tant. A little removed from these lay ten of his captains,
many lieutenants, sergeants, and corporals, and about
four bundled privates. The mounds were made by piles
of rebel soldiers covered over, not very deeply, with
em th. Our cavalry charged on some rebel infantry post,
ed behind earthworks. The bold character of the charge,
and the stubbornness of the resistance made by the rebels,
is oviderced by the foot-marks of the horses where they
cleared the ditch and mounted the embankment, and up.
wards of threelbundred muskets, with the butte broken
off In the offoft to drive back the cavalry by clubbing
them.
hark ! 'The bugle sounds an officers , call, and I must
drop my pen to attend to it, for I learn that we are to
march itemcdistely. .1 IL 11.
Some Incidents of the Williamsburg Fight
—The Torpedoes buried by the Rebels—
! A Dead Rebel Officer found Unburied—
! A New and Destructive Cannon—The
I Appearance of Williamsburg—How it
tuns Defended—The Rebel Cavalry's
Opinion of the Cameron Dragoons.
ti(Correspondence of The Press.]
ON TOE MIRED - , BEYOND WiLT.TAMen ETRE, t
May 15, 1862. 5
I was interrupted, in my letter of yesterday, by an or.
der to march. A brief halt furnished the opportunity to
conclude my notes on the battle of Williamsburg. In
many of its features, this battle, when the history of the
war shall have been written, will be marked as one with
out a parallel, It will exhibit the rebels as far excelling
in barbarity the very worst of the savage tribes of Indi
ans en the Continent.
In one instance, during the progress of the fight, a re
glieent of hafeetry etaeleed Slide arms, and heisted a
white flag. On seeing this, a New Jersey regiment ap
proached them, and, when within one hundred yards of
the rebels, the latter suddenly lowered theilag, seized
their arms,:and poured into the dereiVedJ mem= a de
structive fire. Still, the , brave boys, maddened by the
deceit, fought like tigers, and finally drove the dastarde
back. In another instance a rebel regiment, with the
stars and stripes fl yipth l'PPrOtiViriti the /few ;ferny
Sixth, and, calling to them, said t 5 1 Don't you know us?
We are the Maine Second," whose uniform is gray, like
that of the rebels. The poor fellows, thinking that it
might be their friends, allowed them to approach to with-
In pewee, when they were undeceived by a deltaic.
tive volley being poured into them. As in the other case,
however, they gained no permanent advantage by their
deception. They were driven back with great slaug,hter.
In Lone portion of the field the ground is underlaid with
torpedoes, so arranged that the Demure of the foot upon
a small peg that rises about an inch above the ground ex
plodes them. Many of our poor boys have been killed
by these infernal machines. They have been pretty
generally hunted up, and a little red flannel flag, on a
stick, plaCed over them, to guard the unwary as they
pass over the ground.
On the march from Yorktown, we found them all along
the road, and we had constautly to be giving orders to
"file right" orfile left" in order to avoid there. There
had been tangled wire attached to the friction matele.
They are buried directly in the road-way.
Two or three days since, a rebel officer, of large stature,
was found lying unburied in the woods. The attention
ot one of our superior officers was called to him, us he
was passing by, who recognized the corpse, and gave the
necessary orders for its interment.
In one of the brigades of the Union army they had six
gnus of a new construction, and terribly ef f ective. We
have not yet learned their names. The men designate
them ' , Coffee Mills." It is a heavy rifle barrel 'imitated
on wheels. At the breach is a kind of clock-work ma
chinery, surmounted by a hopper, similar to the hopper
of a coffee milli at the side is a crank. One man turns
the crank, while another supplies the hopper with car
tridges, and a third sights the gull. By means of a levee
In move. a iatorEdir, or raises or aaproesr, itat pleasure,
Its effective range in 131' miles. It throws 240 balls per
minute, of the size of an ordinary Minh. ball. When
operated with, the rebels were utterly amazed, not know
ing what to make of them. One of these guns, properly
worked, and well supplied with cartridges, is estimated to
be equal to 300 men.
We noticed on a stick at the head of a grave, written
in pencil, " A rebel officer and two privates." Truly
death is a leveler. In life they would not have associated
so cloeely. There was a distinction then—there is none
now.
The town of Williamsburg is by far the most populous
of any village or town that I have Been in Virginia, ex
cept Alexandria. Most of the buildings, however, bear
the marks of great age, and very many of them are di
lapidated frames. There are, however, some of a really
palatial character. There appears to be many public
buildings, and among then is an extensive Lunatic
Asylum. A portion of this is now used as a hospital for
the Eectai wounded, while another portion is occupied
by the rebel prieeners. The hospital flag of the rebs
is a plain yellow, and that still floats over the principal
building.
The town was defended by a lino of the most finely con
eructed earth-works I have seen anywhere, and extended
several miles, both tt the right and left. Theee have
been constructed for many menthe, and were need, as
originally intended, to make a stand when driven from
Yorktown. There still remain many rebels concealed in
the woods, who creep up to the roadside and fire upon
teamsters and small parties of Union soldiers as they
pass. Several of the learner have been killed within the
week, and one of my sergeants was fired at to-day.
We found -onto of Stewart's, cavalry in prison at York
town. Cmiosity led some of our men to go see them.
They were at once recognised, when the rebels said,
"you belong to the Cameron Dragoons ; if you are taken
priseuere, God help you. Death will be your certain
fate." The boys only laughed at them. They hate this
regiment for keeping them so bard at work all winter.
We caged many of them, but they got none of us.
The major gives the order to move, which closes the
. chapter. 11ous eerrons. Yours, J. D. B.
[Special Correspondence of The Press.]
CAMP AT 'WHITE HOUSE.
May 17, 1862.
This morning I visited our encampments and gleaned
sonic slight information as to army movements. All news
from official sources being totally denied to newspaper
correspondents, there necessarily is but little that -I caa
learn which would not previously be telegraphed to you.
A correspondent's duty, hoWever, is not so much to Lind
out new things, as fully to describe what is going on
around him, be that people at tome eau uaderaeaml it,
and do the next best thing to going to war themselves—
that is, learn of its joys and its sorrows—its victories and
defeats—the halo which surrounds it when viewed at a
distance, and the horrors and desolations attending it
when one is with it and of it.
This morning at twelve, General Franklin's Division
took up the line of march along the Pamunky. Last
night the gunboats moved some seven ml 'es up the river
to a place where a slight skirmish bad taken place during
the day. They are expected back to-night. Rebel en
trenchments were found there, and Franklin's Division
are ordered forward to take possession. Porter's Divi
sion followed immediately after the othor, so that quite a
stir has taken place among the troops. As these men va
cate the ground, other divisions coins in from below to
take their places, end by this time the whole Cumberland
Caren is on the road to White House. As I sit here I
bear the trarmiof marching regiments, and the Sound of
martial music comes to me across the level plain. Home
fifty thoUlMid mon are encamped here, the line of the
Richmond and York River Railroad running through the
middle of the camp.
Yesterday afternoon Colonel Lowe made a reconnois
sance in a westerly direction come six milee. Notting of
importance was discovered so far as I can learn. The
troops were within fifteen miles of Richmond.
MORE OF LEE'S 11005 E.
This morning I took a long walk the.sugh the grounds
around the White Home, being permitted to do so
through the courtesy of Capt. Foley, of the Ninety-fifth
Pennsylvania Regiment. Not a bit of injury has been
thaw to the horn or grounds, although the troops have
bean around it fcr a week. The most curious of all
the curiosities of this place, is a notice written upon a
piece of white paper, about two by five inches, in a fe
male hand, and which was found posted upon the wall
of the main corridor of the building. The request of a
lady, couched in respectful terms, never has been refused
by the Union army, and never will be. The notice is at
fellows!
...Horthern soldiers, who - profess to reverence Wanh
ingtont forbear to desecrate the home of his first nmr
ried life—the property of his wife, now owued by her
descendants.
GRANDDAUGHTER OR MRS. WASHINGTON."
Just below this, on the wall, was written by one of
General Stoneman's brigade the following words:
"A Northern officer ban nrotected your prouarty in
the sight of the enemy, and at tho request of your over
seer."
This overseer as the only person found op. 111;
see, with the exception of a few i ectroep. Ifs to a Slnistor
looking fellow, and is kept closely guarded. The sacred
ness with which thin property is protected is well :thriven
when it is known that this overseer keeps all the keys of
the huildl.s) that he attends el - cry one who macron ) and
that nothing has been removed from it. It was rumored
about the camp that some valuable papers of General
Lee, tending to criminate some Federal officers high in
prettion, were found in the house, I giro you Ibis for
what it is worth, although it is contradicted at head
quarters by those -who ought to know.
FECEZEM
Owing to the rapid movements of the army it hag been
almost impossible for the poet office to keep up with them.
Last evening the mailboat lengthened its voyage from
Fortress Monroe, and instead of remaining at Cumber
land, went on to 'White House, dropping a mail there.
This morning it took one up, getting underway about 6
A. M., and proceeded down the river. The mail is always
extended as fast as General McClellan's headquarters are
moved, hie omelet beg, and of courao ail others for the
soldiers with him, being delivered at the poet office at
headquarters.
The army post office is a most unique Rail original
structure. A Sibley tent is motel a short distance front
the tent of the commander, and a small sign bears iu let
ters, not the most artistic, the plain announcement,
Yost Office." The opening of the tent is closed up by
woe rough boards; to the right, thi'aiigh a Flit in the
canvas. letters are poked, this being the letter-box.
Further still around the tent, on the right, when I vie Ned
it, a sign -board was leaning up, stating that the mail had
closed. This notice, however, want fat• nothli, g
,-
whet I poked my bead between the boards to ask whether
or not the sign told the truth, a gruff voice answered :
L , No ; what would the mail be closed for?" The inside
was a perfect china Dien were anorthic letters, taking
them from a bag which received the contributions passel
through the slit. A few camp-stools and a groat many
begs were the principal furniture of the twenty odd
collars feet forming the camp met office_ By means of
this simple machinery the mails of a large army are re
ceived, made, and delivered.
The men in Gen. Franklin's division complain bitterly
that they receive no letters ) when other divisions of the
army do. The tittles of thin, no fault of theirs or of the
Goverment, however, can be easily explained. They
are the right of the army. They are always in advance.
Alccilt lien is always behind them It is very seldom that
they are near headquartere; and as no regular snails are
carried beyond tho General's baiting place, it is with great
irregularity that their bags era delivered. This morning
they were near headquarters, and ought to have had a
j at noon they moved off, intending to go soma OMR
miles. Now, until the General conies up to them no
regular mail will reach the division. To be without let
ter sis a sad hardship, but must be borne with. When
man tineid through mud knee deep, sleep on the cold
ground, arA suffer all kinds of privations, they bear it all
contentedly, knowing it to be inseparable from a state of
war. So must they bear with the deprivation of their
loiters. no faster they nufre, and the farther off they
are from the General, the nearer they are to the great
object they are striving for—the capture of Richmond.
TILE RAILROAD BRIDGE.
In my wanderings around I came unexpectedly upon
the railroad track, al.ut a mile above White house, and
concluded to fellow it to the river It is very cheaply
made, with light iron, some forty pounds to the yard. On
the track I picked up a Beceriherape.shot, which had linen
made ili Memphis. Near the bridge there is a aiding, ant
there has been a turn-table, but all the machinery and
railroad iron has been carried off. The bridge was made
Dr a drawbridge, and has no tune% being mounted on
piles driven into the Sandy no forming the bottom of the
Patuunky. Work has nut yet been C eumenced to rebuild
it, although the commissariat talk of getliug to work.
Tt ey are in doubt, however, as to what is the blot way
of landing storea—to stop at West Point and two the
raUroad all the way up, rendering the rebuilding of the
bridge necessary i or to land on the shore at Whito
Home. Until we capture Richmond the road will be
Useless.
IRON ANOTII ER CORRESPONDENT.
mosmey, IVIAy 19, 1862
I must be very brief to-day. I ltiar from a reliable
source that we made a raermuci‘WlLlite S' , teiatry mor-at. e ,
and coming across a body of rebels, made a dash at them,
but were repulsed with some loss.
The division has just received orders to prepare for a
forced march. Everybody, from gen Oral to private, ii
busy attending to hie busine;s, while the correspondent
is scribbling that his letter may go by the mail.
Did this statement come from any less reliable au
thoTiti. than iefmeeet, T Owe not ginit to the
public, but the character of my Anther iirclrefee all
possibility of attempt st deception. It may turn out to
be somewhat exaggerated, and it is earnestly hoped that
it may.
Be it as li may, it will not chock the onward move.
ment of the atiny to Itichmond. But a desperate battle
will be fought before that city is yielded up. About six
miles from the city, only ten miles from our advanced
lines, the rebel army le concentrated in force, and ora
the battle must he fought, which is to destroy this rebel
sway in Virginia. Success is almost certain. although
the rebel army outnumbers ours by 30,000 men.
The weatter yesterday was intensely hot, but to-day
it is cloudy, and there ate signs of rain. Bat what have
soldiers to do with rain or sunshine l Where necessity
calls they must go, and necessity and war own no law.
All the tents have teen struck. and everything is packed ;
the head of the column it in motion, and the malt
carrier Is waiting for me to close up. A few more sen
tences and I depart. Forty-eight hours more, and I
may be on the battle-field, but - we shall see. What is to
lie will be. J E. N.
Letter from Williamsburg.
[Rorrespondence of The Prose.]
WILLIAMSDrIiC (Ira ), May 18, 1862
Colonel David Campbell, of the Fifth Pennsylvania
Cavalry, is new military governor of this city. Captain
T. Hennessy, of the same regiment, has been appainted
provost marshal, and is now occupied in the duties of
that responsible office—granting paroles, filling up
passes, administering oaths of allegiance, and generally
preserving order. The provost marshal occupies the
house (the finest in the city) of the late Mayor. The
city is full of wounded men ; chiefly couleileilitelfi EMU
wtma will file. Mc. late battle was far more severe
than is generally believed. The rebel soldiers appear
perfectly convinced of the justice of their cause, and
expect its ultima'e success. The Confederates were
splendidly handled in the late battle, and military
teen tell me that the retreat from Yorktown was ably
executed. The works at. Williamsburg are immensely
strong. Johnson must have feared for his rear or
flank or ho would never have evacuated them. The
belief is that Johnson will - avoid it battle with McClel
lan, unless be can choose the position. The people here
are Secessionists of the bluest kind, and bear the pre
sence of the Federal troops with the worst possible grace.
I omitted to mention that Captain T. Hennessy, the
provost marshal, Is a member of the Philadelphia bar, a
capital horseman, and now a thoroughly disciplined sol
dier.
LATE NEWS FROM NORFOLK, VA.
Business— Currency Markets— General
Appearance of the City and its In
habitants.
[From our Special Correspondent.]
NORFOLK, Iri c May 17, 1862.
I embrace the first opportunity, after a brief sojourn
here, and a general view of this beautiful city - and Its
environs, to inform The Press of the true state of feel
ing, and to correct impressions which have gone forth in
regard to it, calculated to deceive not only the people
but those in authority.
We arrived here last evening in the Government trans
port King Philip, whit h bore as its guests quite a dele
gation from the House of Representatives, Including the
Committtee on Coast and Harbor Defences, the Com
mittee on Foreign Relations, and others. On arriving at
the abed, which was about five o'clock in the evening,
we heard the beautiful strains of the " Star Spangled
Banner," seemingly giving us a welcome to the place so
recently in possession of the rebels. Directing our steps
towards the cheering sounds, we found the baud of the
Fourteenth Massachusetts discoursing sweet music to a
large assemblage of the populace, including all classes
arid grades, blocks and whites, in front of the Atlantic
Hotel. Here, the picture of the sentiments of the citizens
was before us, and was singularly interesting and truth.
hal. Here were prominent residents, male and female—
merchants, their clerks, loafers, young men and old—all
exhibiting a quiet, conquered demeanor, but returning
our gaze with an expression of defiance and contempt
Th., national airs—so mond-stirring, inepiriting, and full
of beauty to the lover of his country—seemed only to
awaken anger and bitter scorn In them.
Not so with the darkies. Their delight, which found a
big vent in their words and the characteristic expros.
Men in their huge vies and active limbs, knew no
bounds, presenting a striking as well as an amusing con
trast to the sullen conduct of the "white folks." I can
imagine no surer way of finding the true feelings of a
people, and easier of comprehension, than this plan of
General Viele, acting provost marshal, and we must ad
mire him for it. The music of the band, (and it is splen
did,) is discoursed to the populace at the moet prominent
places in the city, more frequently at the General's head
quarters, at the custom house, and at irregular intervals.
The ill-humor which the performance of a national air
occasions, amcng a portion of the assemblage, is some
what carried away by an enlivening waltz, or the quick,
pretty strains of a spirited quickstep, the varying feel.
Inge easily noted in the changes of harmony.
We have had ample observation to assure no that the
feeling here is almost utterly disloyal, and our converse
With residente, which was amictexab/Of confirms us l 4
TWO CENTS.
the opinion that Norfolk is almost wholly devoted to Jeff
Devitt and his minions. The people are more miserably
doped, ignorant of everything in the North, and deep
and bitter in their reeiinge than we slimmed poisiblo.
They believe in the rebel General linger's last words be
fore leaving--" I'll be back again in two weeks." Con
versing with ono of the most respected eitireice, and ap•
perently well informed on matters h. 6c...0ra1, lie ssid p
with a serious earneetnese, Why, sir, you can't hold
this place; you• soldiers will all be captured, and our ge
iterate command the harbor here in [Pea than two weeks."
Until onr dog is ilyirg 11. the rebel
and the Confederate army pealing beyond the borders of
Virginia, we cannot expect much improvement in the
feeliomm of the rebels of Norfolk.
A Won through the city Impressed no with its beauty
and desolation. The streets are not broad, bat are
cleanly in appearance; not very regular in their loca
tion, but, to a great extent, finely ornamented lvith
alsado 11 ,, 1ms of different VE11 , 14144- There Kee ls+ge,
fine residences, with extensive grounds, cultivated with
taste for comfort and beauty. In truth, the dwelling
houses are mostly built in true Southern style, econmo
illotis aed beak, cehltl Midb at but fulinlr6. 6ta,1LV1.,11
portion of the city is of striking maguiticouce. Large
blacker of businet bows, erected in many different ar
chitectural stylee, evidence the wealth of the business
men_ But, amid all this beauty, while *hire to o, iMilelt
to admire and -please, a feeling of desolation pervades the,
place. 'Every store room is closed, eauli window and
dcor barred and bolted, and, with the exception of an
octagonal ham or drug store, there is het a 111.14i1101111
house open in all Norfolk. The tame seclushm exists us
the resident portion of the city. The blinds closed and
lore leeked, Norfolk presents the appearance of a do.
ritd town.
The currency is shinplasters. A gentleman rentarked
to us that " every. man who could raise a three-cent
piece in his drawer betted hills." The place Is flooded
with it, in denominations from five cants to twenty doh.
tars. Some of this may be good, bat as a mass it Is
worthlees. There will be much trouble and loss front its
prevalence. At present there is no confidence in Northern
money, further than to get It into the hands of the antler
in exchange for groceries and necessaries.
loon ing. we attended the market, which was
said to have been the best for many mouths. There was
ninety, but not rininglance, except in fish. The huck
sters were principally negroes, with little mirk poorly
stocked with few radishes, onione, and Weet potatoes,
There were a half dozen chickens at market, ,roul straw
berries, and WO remember to have seen three or four
pounds of butter. Prices rano,ed thus : Fish, of gond
size and quality, 75 cents to ••1 for a half dozen Batter,
.25 per potnd ; radishes, onions, atc., 5 rents:
antic-locating and poor sale - I otrawboiTii, , , -th to SO CCIIIO
per qunet fit cents a piece ; eugs, 25 cools lin
,lozen. The reark•t memo,. But when we saw
this—ice root -looking 11PglOCS, MO poorer horses oi
tflehed to their - cans, mid the squali.l apprftritiir;( , (If the
11Onitt4—we rentember,A that Nerbdk had had ,ixte.ai
1111.11S:1114 inhabitants, bit 11114 seceded.
We do net want to discourage the hopes of any for
Netfnlit_tiree may slime Its people hew they have h.tmt
untied—bid let he knew the troth. The aetements of the
N. T. //crab/ of the exhibition of Union feeling hero in
any way is false.
Ileforo leaving here several insothers of the Hous e
called upett General Id Merin, formerly member of Cot/-
green from this district. lii received them courteously,
[Ltd expressed himself happy to see thorn. He avoided
all convcrentlon upon matters, lint his reserve
seemed to be unpleasant to him. I hope the time will
soon come when he will feel free to speak Ids true feel
ings. I believe them to be loyal He informed the
members, Mile of whom had firrvoil with him in Con.
gross, that he had hardly been away front bin promises
for the two yearlopest, and had lived entirely domestic.
This morning we took a ltnsty - stroll through the ruins
of thr YaPlj over at Portmltelitill Which is 011 Y acrOSS
the river trim hero. This Wee the largest navy yard in
the possession of the United States, and its destruction
involves a loss of millions of dollars. Only one building
is left standing--a machine shop—winch is used IT tiw
boys of the Twentieth Initial:lN as it blacksmith shop. The
dock, in which the Merrimac was run for reptirs after
her fight with the Monitor, show the effects of anllosl.lC
ces4ul attempt to destroy it, but the gates of the dock
hIlVe been snick to bin the entrance. It Cell I,: teased,
however, and repaired.
Tho feeling in favor of the Union and love for the old
flag is not entirely crushed out in Portsmouth. The dig
Dies front a number of reeklencee in the tame. Ac the
party passed through the street on the way to the Nor
folk Ferry, a citizen commenced raising the stars and
stripes over his residence, when Hon. Mr. Potter, of
'Wisconsin, stopped in the midst of a large crowd teldsh
had congregated, amiss the flag was firing to the breeze,
exclaimed, Three avers, boys, for the good old flag."
Off went a number of hats, and three hearty were given.
Near Mr. Potter we observed en old gray-halrel
irlioSe bat Was swung with the rest ; and lie joined in the
cheet, ,, , while the tears trickled down his cheeks, as he
rejoiced to find himself surrounded once more by men
who love the old flag. When the cheers pvillgd,
iniserable.looking old woman, who le living on the chari
ty of the Government, shrieked out, Three cheers for
Jeff Davis." The re was no response. Such is Secession;
such is tbe gratitude of a traitor for the bounty and sus.:
tenance of a noble Government, O. li. D.
FROM GEN. McDOWELL'S DIVISION.
[apechtl Correspondence of The Press.]
FA I.llor Tri, Vs., May 18, 1882.
As an evidence of the intelligence of the men ill onr
brigade I may mention that from twelve to fifteen hun
dred lettere go out,
_and are received in, this brigade,
daily, which is entirely composed of Pennsylvanians.
The out-going mail leaves here daily at half past three
o'clock. and the in-coming mail arrives here at six A. Af.
dati-- We lia-we a splendid ambulance and ;l7'lln of four
handsome gray horses, with rehire flying, which is flied
as our mail season. Correspondence is regularly kept up
between men and wife, sweetheart and loner, whose
htarta uturaliF beat iu uiliavn, -
The futile of the nation ore comthatly discussed
among our men. Nothing gives more offence than the
prediction of the arch traitor—whom God, in his inscru
futile wisdom, reunite to lire...that we will, before file
ktodoottoli of this rebellion, be swept off like rotten
sheep." Woe to the men in Pennsylvania, or elsewhere,
who are willing to participate in and tallow the infamous
count els of James B nehauan.
Genera] iffollowtql s ordtq'S in reference tarng
attp
plies of all descriptions—.4tich as forage,
tools, ktc.—from 4outhern citizens, are a vast
provonent upon uld practice 4, when we hid to pay canc.
111011 a Vices to the themlra of our came. The ale is to
issue a cm/Menlo and receipt from the quartermaster, in
effect as follows:
I have received from the farm of - the
tellewieg, supplies, to be properly accounted for. The
owror of said property will be entitled to pay after the
suppression of the rebellion, upon proof that he has, from
date, conducted himsel as a loyal citizen of the United
St4tes, and has not given aid and comfort to the rebels."
Are thore any of the farmers of Pennsylvania that
would not be glad to have such a certificate and receipt,
or that would be denied payment
The partial possesrion of Fredericksburg by our
troops grt ally annoys the F. F. V.'s, and, particularly,
the gentler sex, who, in meeting our soldiers, carry
dark-rolo, ed veil on their arm, at the same time wearing
a light-colored one over their faces, keeping at a respect
ful distance, and gathering up their silk embroidery, lest
they stay be inoculated by the contagion.
Contrabands me coming in by scares anti hundreds.
The Breckinridge leaders of the :loath have done more
in a single ) car to abolish slavery than the Abolitionida
of the North could have sift cted in half a century. It is
certain that the most reliable and valuable portion of the
leaves, male and female, are flying for their liberty. This
section of Virginia has been regarded as the groat slave—
breeding ground, upon the proceeds of which, the dm,
owner ecpunOtti mainly for livelibooil.
As the escaped colored sera S mincie at the different
landings, and meet each other, they fall hi love at first
sight. Probably on the principle of keeping op the trade
taught by their master, and following the Scriptural in
junction to replenish and- till Ow earth, they seines it
strong immensity for marriage, and, in the absence of
clergymen, who are rather scarce on this sacred soil, they
inquire who ran perform the ceremony. This duty is
generally perrynnea by the chaplain, awl as marriage
guru On, if the plough should stand still, the negoes are
sent on their way rejoicing. B.
FROM GEN. BURNSIDE'S DIVISION.
[Special Correppondenco of Tito PresP.]
NEWBERN, May 15,1962
HEALTH OF THE TROOPS, WEATHER, ETC.
The weather at present is all a soldier could wish
though in the next twenty:four hours it mat' be to Als
agreeable as could be well gotten up, for the special oc
casion. It is something similar hero to the weather of
Roanoke Island—clear for an hour, and rainy the next
four. The health of the troops in this section is very
hood. Very fow sick, abd a rare occurrence to hear of
a deceased soldier by pinkness. To those who have weak
lungs and a thousand other evils which " the flesh is heir
to," up North, we would say {{come, all ye weary," and
join Burneidee Coast Division, and if you do not get
rest, you will at least be benefited.as regards health.
DAVE ARRIVED AT THIS PORT,
The Third New York Cavalry, Col. Mix commanding,
consisting of a full regiment. They are a fine-looking
body of men, and have an excellent outfit in the shape of
horse-flesh and equipmeLts. They have seen considera
ble service, and have contributed their share towards
" Southern institutions" in the manner in which they
forced "Ashby's Cavalry" to "skedaddle" not longaince.
'Mien they first arrived, some of the troops labored
under tato idea that they were green hands, and an Hast
ert' man endeavored to enlighten one of them on the duty
they would have to perform. " You will hays sharp
work down here, and will have to keep your eyes open,
as the rebel cavalry are pretty saucy."
fit Hen," Faye New York. 14 We hive lone nothing else
the last nine months. Our eyes are always open."
itlessachusitte suddenly discovered that he was en
deavoring to ace a mockingbird on the apex of a lofty
Louie, and he forgot to return after the bird had taken
its departure.
THE DEMONSTRATION UPON NORFOLK
It seems the "Tour of observation" ut' part of the
Second Brigade to " Camden, — of South dill , . created
considerable of an excitement in that region. Froin
tioritheni Hources ten MICR that tan
which could he collected, were svut to that iniarter to re
re] any of our force which might be sent thither. That
mall feint may have hastened the evacuation in Mho,
Quarters. One thing certain is, the abject of the expedi ,
Lion was athilled.
BEAUFORT AND FORT MACON
We had the pleasure of conversing with Drum 3fak,c
Johns , ai, of the Ninth New Jersey, yesterday, Ile re
ports all quiet in that vicinage since the captur,j of Fort
Macon. There are the usual amount of 3111111.1'S relative
to picket skirmishes, but which are generally unfounded,
as the enemy's cavalry would as lief meet th "Dori] "
at our infantry, and, therefore, give our pickets a wide
berth, unless they can steal up and capture themsingly e
which is a very rare occurrence. All the troop- in that
section have good health, and are anxious to cow aeeus
&wawa: fort, to make daylight aivotu: through
THE WAR PRESS_
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mail (per annum in advance) at 12.011
Three Copley 5.60
ph,, it 11 a 8.611
Ten " 12.00
Larger Fluhe will he charged at the flame W 0,011101!
20 copies will cost 824; 00 oopice will coat $00; and 10
coplre 020.
For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will send 04
Extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club.
1113 - Poatmaetere are reonested to act as Agents far
TRR WAR Pitnaa.
11R - Adverliiements inserted at the usual rates. fiis
lines conktituto a St] uar e
The Fifty•firat Penney!Tanta Volunteers are to be
torpid od with new tents of the Slider Dalton, This it
a desirable change, as when It rehab, and It doe do that,
the water come through the old once like from a uleyl.
This lam net a pleasant effect upon the temper of the
men, and a change will be gladly welcomed. A majorilr
of tents now in use wore captured from the rebel •
They aro well blackened with smoke, and do not promote
a very inviting appearance; but as we aro too far Beath
fee lady vi•itore, the apyearanco is not taken into con.
vldsraelen,
SCENES ABOUT NEWEEEN
For a Not there roan, 11}Nld to the Improvements and
inventions, the convenient and handsome residences or
the elliam north or Wilmot utoi Inamoo's nom, Nesi,ermi
does nct pretent &very inviting appearance, Absolutely.
to tell the plain truth, the majority of the d welling; would.
he rejected in the North as being unfit to elicitor cattle.
There ix ~few tx z., -coplio jzt pia 81p n . org
very few, re
nod would require a highlyquegnified pair of
glasses to discover them. Perhaps our eye-sight Ia not
os good as might be ! We deny it molt emphatically.
the etrt -, to are PP , MtIY \YOI 1+514 PO, 454 bars Hoy the
least apology fur pave or curb. They rue at right
anglcs; are closely Wanted wilb noble elm% and for a
remarbalble rarity are well lighted by gas. No arrange
to, ot in - In wee for proeurlmEt wetvr , - , 4ce14 049111{04CA
and long pcle, commot ly termed well sweep,"
FORE APPARATUS, CISTERNS, &C.
We drooled into two of the engine -houses. A Phila.
delPhie Arsmert symid rotes bis howls in silent horror
at the spectacle presented to his astonished
Medea of 't - rat tron" and "Agnew," wo soliloquized i
where art thou? The apparatus brought to mind roltell
of the dark acre, They appeared to taro been
situated a few years after the flood, for any other pur
pore than potting a ttrmination to a combu.stion of
Indhlinci. They were on the atria of New York wattles,
of the date when Fifth aVehtie Wits a Nowhere," and
nip. Van Winkle was awakening from his long nap.
They glory in the flowery appellation of the ,‘ Americus,
No. 1," and n Trent, No, 2," Were they up North.
they would be etieleied lo glass crises, to display ilia fire
appareling of the "Olden Time," and would be held
sacred as relics of departed customs. Time works woo
duw=eo do the Yankes.
The State Convention at Raleigh adjourned on the 13th
of May, 18112. 'This convention.was elected a year age
last rebritary ‘ when the people of the Stale voted to re
main in tho 'Union by a majority of sixty thousand, and
was composed of the strongest and smartest men hi the
State.
The convention will Mumble whenever it le prudent_
Two-thirds of the members are Tinton men go slept
the Newbern Progress of May the 10th. We cannot
perceive the point The bare idea of the people of the
gitth Vda lb Note of the 11Thion,
sixty thousand majority t herder, suggests the question.
v. by does not that Union majority" 1188 and crush
out their inferior opponents? They surely have back
lug euengh. It reads verr NVO! 141017 PePor , bi; PAPOr
won't terminate this war, ' , Tic true a minima of [Nati
troupe et, organizing at Nl'aohingion, N. C., but it is,
if completely filled. (according to the statement of the
Propresso not one-tenth that should come not to 1101011
the Government,
In another place, if the convention cannot asrerubla
until they consider themselves safe in person for so do
ing, 'ally is it they have so lately adjourned 7 If they
continued in seesion - ibis length of tinuri why not longer
We would certainly have supposed they would brave it
out. It they have weathered tho storm during this long
period, they surely might have rode through with flying
..d r,e1,0,0,1 th. it Old North awe" i n ft sae
and quiet harbor ere they bid her legislative halls fare.
well.
RUMORS, SURMISES, ETC.,
Ate prevalent at present. The division, It is vets Pre
hallo, will, ere We reaches you, have another trittaiphto
record. We might enlighten you somewhat, but, ae we
intend to do the writing, and leave the guessing part to
those who_ have little else to engage their attention, we
elatli not at anything nutil the blow hoe fallen, We
lanai that endeavor to give you the earMett and most com
plete details. That wilt be sufficient. "do mote it be."
A delegation of II female norm' , arrived per steameo
a few days ago. They are principally from Baltimore,
and have appeared not a whit to WM. They hare bees.
greatly needed.
Ai (4eikr,
Nothing particularly exciting at prettent. May balloon.
That's all for the present. Hope to have something more
interesting next mail, and trnst we shall not be Weep-
Ell=
Gilmore's Burton Band gave a street serenade to Major
General Fester on Sunday afternoon, They performed
iu frontal his residence, and as a matter of course drew
'a large Contotitse to libbrothite the !rhe newspa
per.,. Bohemians were well represented, and no doubt
fully discussed the merits of the performers. As a band
they rank etcoLd to none, and when they play alatnt.
hay sre be there to hear.
FROM GEN. HALLECK'S ARMY,
From the letters of eorre.pondent:4 of the Silf9torn .pa
perl, dated the ltlth Instant, oc learn that Gm. Ital.
leek', army is ailyaliciniz slowly every liar. it ha e;cretisi
that he intends to int , Corinth by besieging the plitml
ith heavy :ma. s. tiny artily advance, they throw ult
.rmidable lire sof eartliworlts, co as to fall hack ou if they
are temporarily repul,9l. Heavy siege guns have gone
to tt fgzAit 0,11,..th”.., dh l umLiike 4 63,l 1.1117 1,31,0 ecA
some inorniiitt nud liwi hint-elf in the face of innelrAio
of Geo. ll:diodes CAIIII9II.
How our Amy is Situated.
Thrc, coo,: of gA.t4os t/ITVOSII OM WOO . lO Mall
acroEs fields 'nought us out to the higb reek kuuwn
the natives as Pea Budge, and on the post office director/
as Monterey Get era . ] llmileek'slatlquarttes' camp was
still in the tdge of the woods to the left, but the neigh
holing irate were all gull. To the two data wo had linen
oil the left; the whole right and contra had moved fer
vent, sad we had boars more of following up new rands
through the woods and among the swamps before we
could find the new positions of the several divisions in
the arailre of Buell nil Ttu itta
The vonlro, it sePtil.i. has AMU,' 6VBP to hlOcto
on Pop, On the loft, op he has boon urgently requeittng,
awl both centre nne rinht have boon stretched nut rrith
white front. seine two or throe nilloi noarer than nrreit of
their cni 1,10 been before to the epoPirrt Nvgthi ,
Cutting Nom itonAtB.
'nue advances are entail enough daily, ;choir TWI
come to emit up the actual miles »f progress.: but they
involve rot a little work. Hodeck says in his locturei
on military topics, that "u prest tinny should always
have at It sat two or three main roads to advance 111)5."
Eyre me have three, hot the necessity of extending our
lines so ae to oppaee en unbroken front from right to
left to thewatchthl enemy compele ev n more. Thirdly
a divielen makes :t MOP. merit that we do not cut a new
road for it through the woods, with bridges for the
TOSITIPP, and long lines of corduroy for theswames. Even
brigneep minim t•hco t roads off to the left or right of
their division road, so as to let them into their place is
tho line ; and thus tho wl ole country is reticulated with
ant-twork of roads that would puzzle the most wilful
engineer that ever caleniated a triangulation or adjusted
a thecaalite.
General Halieeles Foresight.
Ifelleck'a COUrPe in forbidding Pope to selnforce the
two brigades engaged on the left, on the Oth, was doubt
lees la lae and Sturdy. The purpose of the enemy now ap
pears plainly enough to have been to draw Pope further
over to the left. and then to push the bulk of their thirty
or thirty•five thousand In to the right, where they would
thus have completely Isolated them from Buell, and have
been able to overpower them at their leisure. The dash.
big charge of the Second lowa Cavalry, the sturdy fight
ing of our ("rand iiieartl, and their finally falling back ou
our main force, completely foiled the enemy's purpose.
Beztureeerd's r• web," of which he is borts'ing, didn't get
us into the meshes.
THE SIEGE OF FORT PILLOW.
Tim bombardment of Fort Pillow IR almost entirely
lusriariloti, a 11b5riiir hat ealy onisionaily throwing
shed into the rebel stronghold, From the letters of cor
respondents with Captain Davis' fleet we learn the TA
lowing particulars of affairs:
The Rebels Emboldened by the Recent
Naval Engagement.
NEAR FORT Pii.Low, May 15.
The engagement of gaturday morning seems to have
greatly emboldened the rebels, Prior to that, they were
so !inlet, ter days at a time, as to suggest the belief that
Fort Pillow had been evacuated i but now their vesqele
steam wound the yoirit, approach Ns I thin range of our
puns, and flaunt their treasonable banners in our faces in
the meet insolent and defiant manner. They wilt
discover. one of thesli fine mornings. that their
valor has got the better of their diserelion.
A Vigorous Fire from the Enemy
Now that the river hes Wien several feet, leaving .m ca
more some dry land in eight, the rebels hare become ex
ceedingly apprehensive that we are about to erect a bat-
tery on Craighead's Point, and for the last forty-eight
Lours they have been raining shot and shell on its tuarsur
mange deieet the rupp..estl 0 - ejeck. There ran be 110
impropriety in stating, now that their firing bas COMM,
that th y hove been wasting powder to no purpose. Titls
they have probably discovered, Our plans are rapidly
maturing, and while I make no pretensions to any gift of
plopheey, I telieve they are such 08 to '1118111'0th.: speoiy
carters or omen:A:oh of Fort witheist tsa aid
lend batteries on Craishead , s Point or any other.
Our Disabled Gunboats
The Cincinrati, vhielt had been towed to the Tennee
see bore ath-r the fight, u to she settled In ahout 12
fr of of water, 4.1 An., boo. ralsoll, by nippup Lma',
stoam and is now on her way to Cairo to undergo
rerara. She will he hi fighting trim again in about
fortnight.
TLC Mound City was raided last Monday, and towed
to the place whose name she boar, • The ship carpenters
trondeed that she should be ready to return to her post
three days after being placed on the ways. We may
therefore look tot her by the (dose of the prevent week.
Meantime the LOttila ille, which had been I. tationnd at
Hickman ; has route down to supply her plue , .. We are
row in a much better condition to revolve the enemy
should they determine to renew their visit, than we were
a week ago. Some important precautionary measures
have been taken, which it would be imprudent to dis
close.
Important from the Lower Mississippi.
}ty the arrival of deserters from below, we learn that
Commodore Farrag nes gunboats are stilt nq.entling the
rivt-r, spreading consternation among the inhabitants
wherever they appear. Vicksburg and Natchez—the
SOCit , OI and 4.l.merralt of the South—are both hollered to
be m cow pObBPBNiOO, and several gimbosts are reported
to he advancing noon Zdemples front below, In the lot
ter city a vast tttr.unt of vdton, sugar, and molasses,
has been binned and rolled Into the river, not the Work
of destruction is still goirp; on. Well, well, II the rebels
van email all this, surely it need not giro the Natioll 3 l l .l
city 11111`11:411CM. To use a. homely adage, it is simply
cut• lug or the nose to Han the face." The Memphis'
rebel: , are repotted h. be stantrading from the city, while
TI mein are bienerelli rcltanYrd as at ittpatit.iwre
with the <• invading horde," The city it, denounced by
the 1,1.0 leaders It. nu Abolition hole,'' and no ape
same t , l bent I that the "Lincoln hirelings." on their
arrival in the city, will meet with a very different wel.
cellae from floil »Lich Toni Corwin once said lie would,
give the eel:nide:too, wore he a Mexican.
11:11:1-KARI OF A JAPANESE OFFIOEIL—The
last steamer brings news from Paris that one of the oth
cers of the Japanese delegation had committed kari-kari,
or disembowelled himself, in the bath-room belonging to
the Japanese, in compliance with the order of the Ty
coon, which immediately followed the embniketbus of the
embassy Irani Japan. The officer woo missed, and Ida
body found partially embalmed, to be carefully preserved
by the members of the embassy for return to the Tycoon.
The French Government took possession of the remains,
and interdicted such transactions for the future. It
seetnethe unfortunate officer hod committed some offence
in Japan previous to his leaving home, hence the order
for his nell4accutiou.
JOHN PHCENIX, Ja