THE PRESS. PITDLLSKED DAILY (SUNDAYS ZXOEPTSD,) BY JOHN W. FORNEY . orricz, No 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET: THE DAILY PRESS, Twavyn Cam's Psa Wass, payable to the Carrier. Hailed to Subecriber3 out of the City at Stx DOLLARS PSI &MN, Vous DOLLARS TOR ElGiff MONTHS, Tans' DOLLARS FOR Stx Nosraa--invariably in ad vance for the time minted. THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, Mailed to Subacribera out of the City at TSARS DOL• Lass PER ANNUM, in tutrance. PAPER HANGINGS PHILADELPHIA PAPER HANGINGS HOWELL & BOURSE, CORNER of FOURTH AND MARKET STREETS, MANUFAOTUBERS OF PAPER HANGINGS AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS, ,offor to the Trade a L ARAD AND ELEGANT AS IGOBTMENT OF GOODS, Dom tha atioapeat Brown stock to the Fined Decorations. 'll. B. OOR.BODRTR AND MARKET STREET% N. 8.-Sold Green, Blue, and Deftwilipow PAPERS o every grade. at,23.2m A.DI MA'rTINGS. NEW CARPETING. ETAMES H. ORNE... -11126 CHESTNUT STREET BELOW SEVENTH. We have Jost received, by late arrivals from Europe, .sotne new and choice varieties of CARPETING, cora. rgehdng -FRENCH AUBUSON Square CarpetS. IiNGLISH AXIEINSTERS, by the Yard and in entire Carpets. =OWLETS 6.4 and 3-4 wide Velvets. " Tapestry Brussels. it Brussels Carpeting. Ade% a large variety of ottosaLßY's and ether makeN. TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, From 87te... to $1 Per 'Yd. Our assortment comprises all the best makes of Three. qply and Ingrain Carpeting, which, together with a gene. its variety of goods in our line, will he offered at the low. 'oast poseible prices. OIL CLOTH FOR FLOORS ) gram one to eight yards wide, ontto any Rine. FRESH MATTINGS. By late arrivals from China we have a full assortment 'WRITE AND COLORED. MATTINC+S OF ALL WIDTHS. JAMES H ORNE ata.e-zui - .626 CHESTNUT. GLEN ECHO MILLS. PeIeCA.LLUM & MAZITINADTIIIIMBB, IMPOBTIM, IMO DICALEZUJ SOB 01113113TNIFT BTIII,EBT. (Opposite Independence Hall,) OARPETINGS. OIL CLOTHS, &a. we hose now on hond an extendre stook of Oexpetinnes oi out own sad other mahou t to which we cell the Mien- "'rffort [dish sad short-time buyer*. F OURTH -STREET CARPET STORE, ABOVE CHESTNUT, J. T. DELACROIX Invites attention to Ida Spring Importation of CAftPETINGS, -*Comprising every style of the Newest Patterns and !Designs, in VELVET, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY BEIM IIkIPERIAL TERES-PLY, and INGRAIN ' ,4 O.kEPETINGS. `VENETIAN and DAMASK STAIR OARPETINGS. SOOTOR•RAG and LIS r OASPETINGS. FLOUR. On. CLOTHS, in wren , width. ---,,- COCOA' Anti CANTON AIATTINGS. qoouuMu-” . -7 - 40Tron - roi - un - v.tcuurtrtNirfitlf: ii` - ~, . .1101.ES ALE AND RETAIL, LOW FOR CASH. J. T. -DEL &CROIX, 47 South FOREIRTH Street. ml 8-4 m MILITARY GOODS. ARMY GOODS DN HAND DARK AND LIGHT BLUE KERSEY& STANDARD B• 4 AND 3-4 INDIGO WOOL-DYED ;BLUE rwanms. INDIGO BLUE MIXTURES. COTTON DUCK, 10, 12, AND 15-OUNCE. FARNHAM, KIRKHAM, & CO., Ar2B-2m 205 CHESTNUT STREET. LOOKING GLASSES JAMES S. EARLE & SON, MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS 6F LOOKING GE ASSES;, OIL PAINTINGS, FINE ENGRAVINGS., , PIOTURE AND PORTRAIT FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, OARTES-DR-VISITE PORTRAITS. IEARLE'S GALLERIES, - 816 CHESTNUT 'STREET, • las PO ILA OMPITIA. REFRIGERATORS AND COOLERS. iTHE " DR. BAYEte REFRIGERA TOR." `Moo are, beyond doubt, the most scientific and efficient REFRI faE RATO RS irn use, being WASE.A.NTED to KEEP PROVISIONS lONGER, WITH LESS ICE, THAN ANY OTHERS. JEETAILING AT WHOLESALE PRICES. Also, a large assortmeut of the moat approved WATER COOLERS. J. S. CLARK, zap2B-t[ NO. 1008 MARKET Street. SEWIN tg MACHINES WHEELE.k pia WILSON. SEWING MACHINES, 828 CHESTNUT STREET, mhil 8m A 1.7 T I 0 N • • The welt'-earned reputation of FAIRBANKS' `SOAT•FS EINI induced the makers of imperfeot below:se to offer -Sheen se 4tEA.l:lo3Abilf.S' SCALES," and parobtews lave thereby, in many instances, been Rubio:bed to fraud .ould imposition. FAIRBANKS* SCALES are manufao. Itured only by the original inventors, E. &T. FATE HUNKS & CO., and are adapted to every branch of the lbuidneen, where a correct and durablelkalee Ia required. FAIRBANKS & EWING General Agent* aple-tf MASONIC HALL, 715 CHESTNUT BT. THE " EXCELSIOR " HAMS ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. J. R. MICHENER & 00., GENERAL EROVISION-DNATJECA kind carers of the celebrated "EXCELSIOR" ;SUGAR- CURED HAMS, N 05.142 an 144 North FRONT Street, Mewed') Arch and Race street', Phi/ads/phis. Tbeittstly-celebrated c.RX.ORLSIOII" HAMS an geared by J. R. H. & (Jo., (in a style peculiar to them onceso expressly for FAMILY USE; are of dellidous SaTor i free from the unpleasant taste of salt, and are 2mM:win:tool by aplourne enperlor to soy now offered for sale, apl-eat BRUSHES BLACKSMITHS' BET/TOWS, REMEILP, &I VAN. HORN. golt2o.lka No. 3111 DIANNET 64m% Phliods iILOAKS ! CLOAKS ! CLOAKS! THN GENATZST BARGAINS IN THN CITY IVENS AT & No. 28 SOUTH NINTH STIINNT. THE LARGEST STOCK, THE REST ASSORTMENT, THE CHOICEST COLORS, THE FINEST QUALITIES, THE MOST SUPERB TRIMMINGS, THE NEWEST STYLES, THE BEST WORK, AND DECIDEDLY THE LOWEST PRICES, IN THE CITY) IVENS ha CO.'S, 110.23 SOUTH NINTH STRUMS. mh26-8m , PLOAKEL—If you want .the best value 'V for your money, go to the City Cloak Store, 141 North EIGHTH Street, above Chem. 11112643113 CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS. Vv A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT Of all the Newest Materiels, AND OHOIONST• PATTERNS, AT THE LOWEST PBIOES, AT myls-2m No. 25 South TENTH Street. iILOAKE! NJ A MAGNIFICENT ASSORTMENT an__ ALL THE .NEWEST STYLES IMPORTED THIS SEASON, With Mr" new material, made up and trimmed in the very beet manner, at that defy all competition, AT Tao PARIS CLOAK. STORE, N. E. CORNER EIGHTH AND WALNUT STEC mh.26-3m MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR. CASSIMERES. LIGHT MIXTURES. SILK MIXTURES. FINE BLACK CLOTHS. LADIES' CLOAKINGS. BLACK BROADCLOTHS. SILK MIXED. COATINGS. NEW MELTON'S. COOPER & CONARD, S. E. CORNER NINTH AND MARKET. my27-Im EW EMBROIDERIES WHITE .L. GOODS, it o.—Just opened, a general assortment of desirable French and Scotch Needle worked Banda, lurertiogs, Handkerchietir, Collars, Slcevea, eta., at very tow prices. ALSO, A. full line of all descriptions of White Goode for Ladies' wear, of the most approved makes. SHEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, & ARRISON, je4 1008 CHESTNUT Street. 13 0 Y S'' MISSES', AND CHIL MUM'S CLOTHING, IN ENDLESS VARIETY, AT No. 137 South EIGHTH Street, my3s 2m Three Doors above WALNUT. GIBMANTOWN, NEW IMPORTATIONS. HOSIERY, GLOVES. 'GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, BINENS, SHIRT FRONTS, WHITE GOODS, AND EMBROIDERIES. THOS. MELLOR ga rahl9.3rn 40 find 45t North TIMID Street. 1862. BPit I N 43.. 1862. W. S: STEWART & 00, IMPORTERS AHD JOBBERS OP SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, 110. SOS ?Loss.= STREET. Sow in store, POIIL'II DE. SOD; Ali Rae!. BLACK AND WHITE CHECKS, In SILKS and OTHER FABRICS. ALSO, A BOLL LYNN Or CLOAKING CLOTHS, PLAIDS, STRIPES._ - 2:'L= — COLORS. }r'll COMMISSION ROUSES. SHE HAZAILD„ & BLINDS AND SHADES. BLINDS AND SHADES. B. J. WILLIAMS. No. 16 NORTH SIXTH STREET, MAITIMACTITRIII bP VENETIAN BLINDS WINDOW SHADES. The !argent and finest amortmont in the Oity at the LOWEST PRIOES. STORE SHADES LETTERED. Repairing promptly attended to. ap3.3in PHILADELPHIA. MOUNT MORIAR CEMETERY. This gronnd 15 located ei few yards off the Darby road, about the same distance from the city as Laurel Hill, and le beautifully situated on the highest point of ground for miles around. Its soil is admirably adapted for the purpose designed, being high and dry. The public are invited to examine lte claims before purchasing eleewhere. General andaectiOnal plane may be examined at the Where:any further Information will be cheerfully af forded by the agent. DESIRAI/ 4E, LOTS; Are now In the market, mime of them In Bedlam jnet opened, haying hitherto been held In reserve. 0171011 .HOURB from 8 A. X. to 4 Pat, and either be. fore or after these ham, at the retidence of the under signed, IL B.—Conveyance to and from the Cemetery for sect es desire to rmohaee. my3.5.2.m. COTTON SAIL DUOS AND QAN VAS, of all numberti and brands. Baven's Duck Awning Twill. 0, of all dosoripilonm, for Dente, Awnings, Trunk'', and Wagon Covers. Also, Daper Manufacturer/1' Drier Fella, from IJO 11 feet wide. Target:ling, Belting, Bail Twine ..to. 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LEAF HATS, ,Sco To which they respectfully incite the attention of the ormer patrons of the house and the trade genet:Ay. marl9-8m rpsomAs KENNEDY & BRO., 129 CHESTNUT Skeet, below 'eighth. Choke Stock of SPRING MILLINERS GOODB, AAOO-Buil AT LOW PRIORS. HUTOIIINSCiN, No. 112 OHESTNUT STREET, COMNIEISION MERCHANTS PEOIADELPAT A -MADE GOODS. mhZB.l3in COMPANY'S OFFICE, No. 128 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, AT LOW PRIORS, AND ON LIBERAL TERNS, No. 314 NORTFI TENTH STREET FREDERICK A. VAN CUNT, GENERAL AGENT cf) 0, , , .; Eil I,e tilli a TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1862. AUDACITY is essential to an English Prime Minister. It carried. PITT through various difficulties during twenty years;'it stood with CASTLISILIAGH, as a substitute for talent, du ring a like period ; it enabled WELLINGTON to carry Catholic Emancipation against the wishes, of his Sovereign and the Aristocracy ; it was Pner.'s mainetay when, throwing his party overboard, he surrendered England to -the Manchester theory of Free Trade. At pre sent, this same audacity has made Pemnutsros affirm, in a Parliamentary debate, that the mutual relations of France and England were never more friendly and stable—and this whilo the Paris journals, which cannot utter an opi .nien or enunciate a fact without Imperial per mission, not only insinuate but complain that England has used France very badly in reti ring from the Illexican imbroglio. Mr. Disnenti expressed. the opinion of a large number of his countrymen when he suggested that if France were so very much England's friend there was no necessity in arming against her. Lord PAL3rnasrox ad milted that England has gone and is going to tremendous expense to maintain as, large an armament as France, but: declared that cc as it was not the policy of England to be at the mercy of any ally, she must, in the matter of armament, more than • keep pace with her neighbors." On which we only observe that the alliance must be'of a very peculiar cha racter when each party is bristling with re volvers, swords, and bowie-knives, and keep ing a watchful eye upon his dearly-beloved friend's movements. On the Mexican complication, PALMERSTON maintained a prudent silence. He could not explain without justifying his policy, and, if he told the truth, his explanation would give mortal offence to Narormox. The plain facts may be briefly stated„ Mexico owes certain monies to some European Powers in the fol lowing relative proportions : 15 to England, 2 to Spain, and Ito France. NAPOLEON adroitly engages these three Powers to make an alli ance for the purpose of invading Mexico, and thereby driving it into some settlement of the debt. France has the smallest interest in this. Spain, which has lately been in a state of military recuperation, went in—partly to show her strength and partly in the hope of re•establishin‘ Royalty in Mexico, with a Spanish prince to representit. Englandjoined, because NAPOLEON asked her. Very soon, NAponsox disclosed his project of placing the crown of Mexico on the head of an Austrian prince, nominally as a descendant of the Em peror Cuantas the Fifth, but really to strengthen the relations of France with Aus tria. On this, England backed out and with drew her armament, and Spain has followed * this example. The end is, the French army in Mexico is cc in a tight place," and may probably have to •return without any result except defeat and disappointment. No 'doubt, England did Wisely in retiring, at the earliest opportunity, from this anti- MeXican conspiracy. The wonder is that, after having spent five hundred millions of dollars in the Russian war, into which she was coaxed by NiP or,rox, who had his own pur poses to gain, England should have been jockeyed by France, in the seine: way, a se cond time. Meanwhile the perfidy and treach ery of England have become standing subjects of reproach in the leading journals of Paris. PALMERSTON, however, insists that the good feeling between France and England continues undiminished. After this, he may be expected to assert anything. Meanwhile, both countries continue their preparations, and indeed the lemon einiente cordiale seems likely to en d -- , war. affront John-Bull to be told that, : in money matters, he was the easiest and most gullible creature on the face of the earth. He pitts with large sums in the most careless manner imaginable. Besides an accumulation of tilles n , honors, and highly-salaried appointments, he. made a grant of over sopo,ooo to the Duke of Wellington, after the downfall of. Napoleon. To the really great benefactors of mankind, however, be is less liberal. Anything con nected with the art of War, is sure of being well paid for, butthe peaceful arts of civiliza tion, which augment individual enjoyment or increase national prosperity, are poorly re rounerated. Thomas Spencer, - a poor pic ture-frame maker in Liverpool, discovered electro-metallurgy as far back as 1837, (two years before the experiments in the same path by Professor Jacobi, of St. Pe- .tersburg, had been made public,) and from that time to this he never received one shil li - ling of public acknowledgment or compensa tion for his ingenuity, which has done so much for the atts, and made the fortunes of many persons all over the World. If, however, the discoverer of the electrotype has been neglect ed, the appropriator of the cupola in mail-clad ships of war has been taken care of. Nothing for a public benefactor, but a large grant for him who boldly takes another man's invention 'and patents it as his own. Captain Coles is to receive $25,000 in cash, and $5OO for every cupola brought into the British naval service for the next fourteen years. - In plain words, the Ericsson invention, taken up and passed off by Coles as,his own, is thus liberally paid for by John Bull. In by-gone years, Captain Ericsson vainly endeavored to obtain—we shall not say employment or pa tronage, but even a fair hearing from the Bri tish Admiralty. Tie showed them a steam vessel in which, for. the first time, the pro pelling machinery was under the water line and out of the reach of shot, but their lord- i ships would not believe the evidence of their own eyes, and quietly, pooh-poohed . the inge nious inventor. He shook the English dust off his shoes and came to this country, where he put into the Princeton the very same ma chinery, and in the very same way, which the British Admiralty had rejected, and which they were glad enough to adopt in all their future steamships . --still paying nothing to Captain Ericsson: He has continued in this country, Making a high reputation for himself, and doing much public service, by a variety of ingenious, scientific, and useful inventions 'and improvements. Among. these will ever be especially recorded the planning and build ing of the little pfonitor, with its effective and novel-armament. As far back as tbe early part of 1851, when the Russian war bad directed attention to the best modes of destruction of human life and property by sea and land, Captain Ericsson sent to the Emperor Napoleon his plan, in vented some time before, of building war ships on the plan which he subsequently de veloped, with such glorious success, in the Moritor. The plan was duly received, ac knowledged, and considered by Napoleon, but not adopted. Eighteen or twenty months after this, Captain Coles, of the British Navy 5 brought forward his plan of an iron-clad war steamer with a cupola battery, and the British. Admiralty have adopted it, paying for it the liberal price above stated, and quietly ignoring the fact, now well•known in England, that Coles had simply and impudently stolen the idea, wliolesat from Ericsson. Exactly in such manner did a Glasgow machinist purchase a sewing in New York, and.patent it, in. England, as his own invention—on the strength of which he received a complimen tary letter from Queen Victoria, was , praised, in the Times, for exemplifying what. British ingennity could do, and made a fortune by the fraud which he committed. Nay, we have heard that when Mr. Elias Ilowe, of Massa chusetts, who produced the first complete sewing-machine for general purposes, applied for a patent in Tngland, he was told that his specification was so much waste paper, as the machine had been invented, in Glasgow, some months before, and did great credit to British ingenuity. It is pretty clear that in giving Coles $5,00{) and a royalty for cupolas in war ships, the British Government has paid him for Ericsson's invention. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, ,1862. New Publications The fifth and sixth volumes of Ticknor & Fields' Household Edition of Lockhart's "Life of &sett," (received through J. B. Lippincott h C 0.,) wary the reader from 1817, when the Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, and Harold the Dauntless were published, and Rob Roy was projected, to the close of 182.3, when St. Ronan's Well appeared, and surely these were the most brilliant years of Scott's life. With in that time he wrote, besides the above-mentioned, the Heart of Mid•Lothian, the Bride of Lammer moor, The Legend of Montrose, Ivanhoe, the Mo nastery, the Abbot, Lives of the Novelists, Kenil worth, tho Pirate, the Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward, and three dramatic poems: nearly completed Abbotsford ; was created Baronet by George IV, at whose visit to Scotland be pleyed'a leading part; had his bust taken by Chantrey, and his portrait by Lawrence and Rae burn; saw his daughter happily married, and had apparently made the wheel of Fortune cease its rotation. A charming biography this is---next in interest to Boswell'a Johnson. It is beautifully printed and neatly bound, to match its spirited pub• ushers' Household Edition of the Waverley Novels, and is enriched with engravings, on steel, of Scott's wife and eldest daughter- Two other volumes, at most, will conclude and cempleto the work. With the advantage, like the last, of being print ed at the Riverside Press, Sheldon A: Co., of New York, have issued "Barnaby Budge," in three volumes, as a further portion of their beautiful Household Edition of Dickens' (template works. It contains three original illustrations by Darley, finely engraved by T. Phillibrown and B. Hinshel- , wood. The points thus presented are Budge hear ing Barnaby outside the window ; Joe Willett part ing from Dolly Varden, with Sims spying round the corner; and Barnaby in prison, visited by his mother and the raven. On re-reading this book, thus attractively presented, the old conviction of its author's great power, as a thoroughly plain and unaffected writer, returned in full force. In Bul wer, the reader often has to pause and think over some half page of transcendentalism—some senti mentally absurd or metaphysically obscure burst of "fine writing"—but in Dickens all is plain and clear. The story ever goes on, and the author, as au thor, is generally kept out of sight. This new and beautiful edition, equally adapted for the boudoir, the parlor, and the library, will still further make Dickens read and admired. A really good work of prose fiction, published with Out any preliMinary puffing, is such a novelty that, having found The Master" to be such, we eagerly volunteer to officiate as master of the cere monies and introduce it to the public. It is written by Mrs. Mary A. Denison, a Massachusetts lady, author of Several other novels, of which "Grace Ani bar" is the best. " The Master,' however, is much superior to any of Mrs. D.'s previous works. The hero is an accomplished music -master, and the characters are his family, same of his friends, and a few of his pupils. As a mere story, the incidents are well developed, and the conclusion se adroitly contrived as to remain unguessable until the very last. In this respect, the anther resembles Mrs. Henry Wood, the new English novelist. In other points of execution—such as pure and lofty par ' pose, appropriate language, delicacy of womanly thought, and apprecielien of womanly charac ter—she is more akin to Mrs. Stowe (in her hap piest and gentlest mood), to Harriet B Prescott, and to the anonymous author of -" Margret Howtli." At all events, here is a new . and good novel, breathing poetry and purity, which deserves to be well known and highly regarded. It is on sale at 3. B. Lippincott s. By special arrangement with the author, Messrs. J. B. Lippincott & Co., of this city, will publisher. Anthony Trollope's forthcoming work on North America (Canada and the United States), at the same time of its appearance in London. In reply to inquiries about Victor Hugo's " Les Idishrables," we have to,' state that Casette, the second pert, was published in Paris a feitnight ago; Marius, the third part, will follow, this month; and in July will appear " L'ldyll4- Rue Plumet et l'Epopie Rue Saint-Denis, and Teein Traljean, which will complete the work. A well executed translation of Fetntine, the first part, has been published by Carleton, New York. The new volume, (the fifth,) of the Aldine Edi tion of Thomas Hood's works, edited by Epos Sar gent, published by G. P. Putnam, and sold here by Hazard and J. 141cFarlan, contains cc Lainia," a dramatic sketch, a variety of miscellaneous poems, now first collected, and More Odes and Addresses to Great People." Another.volume will complete the publication. Last January, when G. P. Putnam commenced' the beautiful Caxton Edition of the Prose Writings of Bayard Taylor, (including a new volume of "Home and Abroad," and a new Romance of American Life,) we anticipated that it.would be a superior publication. The issue, in monthly vo lumes, has been very regular, and the whole get ting-up of the series shows good taste and liberal expenditure. The last•issued volume is the fifth, with illustrations by the author, containing his "Journey to Central Africa," performed ten years ago, in which he passed from Egypt up the White File, into the centre of Africa—a five months' journey of adventure and discovery, described with freshness and spirit. This is the eleventh edition. On sale by. Hazard, and also by IlleFier lan. Another book of travels, which has got into a second edition without our having ever heard of the first, is an octavo of six hundred pages, published by Carleton, New York, sent through by T. B. Peterson .k Brothers, and entitled " Twenty Years Round the World," by John Guy Vassar. It ap pears from the Preface, that Mr. :Vassar, after having visited every State and Capital in-his own country, determined to visit every Capital in Europe. 11l health at first compelled him to seek more genial climes in winter than his native New York can boast. His letters to his brother and uncle, sketching his travels, were read by friends, and finally published in a newspaper in his native city. At last, yielding to the wishes of those ho loves and esteems, he has collected and revised his:;; letters. The result is Ms handsome volume. It commences in February, 1839, at Havana, and ends at the Azores in June, 1990• After travel had improved the author's health, it grew upon him like a passion, so much so that, last spring, he attempted to get to Australia from the south coast of Africa, but failed. Australia and Japan are almost the only civilized parts of the world Mr. Vassar has' not visited. He has been all over. Europe, through Egypt and Asia Minor, to China, the East and West Indies, the islands of the Pacifio, Mediterranean, Levant, and Atlantic ; through Canada and the rest of North America, and largely in Afrioa. Probably no living mane has travelled more extensively. The book, let us add, which is written with elegant simplicity - of diction, with out the slightest attempt at wordiness and exaggeration of style and sentiment, bears internal evidence, all through, of having been composed as the traveller went along, and a thoroughly agreeable book it is. Obser•ration and. good sense are evident ina every page. We can bear personal testimony to the accuracy of his - European descriptions. Some places he repeat edly visited—such as London and Paris--and ever finds something new to write of each visit. The book has sine fault, which ought to be remedied in a new edition—it wants a good and full Index, to facilitate- reference. Our limited space, in these stirring war times, does not alloi us to make more than mere mention of the following, which have rea °bed us:, "Row to Mix Drinks." By Jerry Thomas, the well known banter:der of New York and St. Louis, (published by Dzek 4. Fitzgerald) which will probably suggest a •chatty article by and, bye.— °t Zhe Rejected Stone ; or, Insurrection us. Re gsuinriraec; ti ( o i n va i a n .er .A.m , j e r r i i s e g a ; B c y c., a v N os a t ti o v: )._ of c, Y Th ir e - Testimony of Christ to Christianity." By Pe ter Bayne, A. M. (Gould 4. Lincoln, Bos. ton). —"First Lessons in Mechanics ; with practical applications, designed for the use of schools," by W. E. Worthen. (D. Appleton. (5- Co., New York.) This is science made easy-, by being trade elear.—" Open Air Grape Culture," byJohn Fhb. (C. M. Saxton, New York.) Showing how to cultivate the vine and convert it lutcrwine.— " The Zane-street Girls' Grammar School, Year- Book of Tracts, 1861-1862." (Smith 4- English, Philadelphia.)—' , Primary Arithmetic," by Charles Davies, LL. D. (A. S. Barnee4.l3arr, New York.)— " The Pulpit; its Relations to our National Crisis," a sermon by N. L. Rice, D. D. (C. !Scribner, New York.)—" Lyrics of. Freedom, and other Poems, Under the Auspices of the Continental Club," (Carleton, New York.) A collection of poems, above mediocrity, butgenerally below excellenee.— " The Closer Walk; or, The Believer's Sanctifica tion," by Henry Darling, 1). D. (Presbyterian. Publication Committee, Philadelphia.) A small volume of religious thought and experience, by an sible and exemplary divine, who, now deprived by ill-health from teaching in the pulpit, still ad dresses his' Christian friends through the printed page. The book deserves, and will have, many readers.—" The Medical and Surgical Reporter," edited by Drs. S. W. Butler, R. J. Levis, and L. C, Butler. (Lippincott 4 , Co., Philadelphia.) A weekly journal, containining much valuable medi cal and surgical information, original and selected, from home and'foreign sources. This periodical is in its sixth year. Henry Kingsley, brother of Charles, the moon .. clergyman, is the better novelist. Tho best story of Australian life is his c , Geoffry He has just completed a new novel, entitled Ravenshoe," which wilt be published, this week, simultaneously in London and *the United States. Ticknor Sc Fields will issue it here. We read a few chapters of it in MeMillans' Magazine, an English periodical unknown here, and were impressed, more than ever, with the conviction that Henry Kingsley is a man of genius. Academy of the Fine Arts. FOURTH NOTICE. The Thirty-ninth Annual Bxhibition approaches to its close. It is the best we have ever had in this city. Rich in landscape, marine viewi, land scapes, genre, sculpture, and portraits, its variety constitutes its great charm and value. Want of space haLeonapelled us to keep our notioes within limit, but we have indicated tho character of the Exhibition. Here, ere we proceed, let us make the anzende to Mr. Beagle. if ho were of the softer sex, an error Ave lately fell into, when noticing his por traits here, would be wholly unpardonable—for we overstated his age. This eminent artist is by no means venerable in years, though undoubtedly to be venerated for his talent. It is a natural ten dency of the mind to associate age with long-estab lished ability and fame, and Byron was a Melba- Selah in reputation, when little more than a boy in appearance. Mr. Neagle, unfortunately, exhibits few new pictures; but two portraits (Nos. 307 and 318) in the Northwest gallery, indicate his power and genius.. Hamilton, theinarine-painter, in whom appear to be united the best charaotellaties of Turner and Stanefield, is.iligreater force, in the present exhi bition, than he ever has beeta before. His great pictures (47, " New York Harbor," and 107, " What are the wild waves saying ?") would command at tention and win admiration any where, even in competition with the best Masters of Art of whom England; Germany, and Franee arose justly prowl. But his merit is eminently perceptible, also, in his etches—pictures in miniature, so to say, full of grace, beauty, and truth—of which several are to be seen in the Rotundo. Among these is a drawing in sepia, belonging to Col. Fitzgerald, (No. 401,) showing " A Wreck," which is a perfect study of itself. Mr. Hamilton's facility, ability, industry, and truthfulness, are in happy combination. B. Moran is an artist in the same line as Remit ton,—not equal to him, (in the poetical feeling, for instance, which actually throws expression into that wondrous " What are the wild waves saying?") but still showing marked ability and a good eye for color. llis best pictures here aro (37) " Coast Scene near New Brunswick," which won our admiration in a former notice, and (123) "A Talley in the Sea off the Coast of Groat Britain." The idea, which is well carried out, is to give a submarine view,—that is, to paint marine life and what may be called marine scenery. The picture is undoubtedly a brilliant and singular production, but we believe that the artist has not exceeded, what is known to be true, and what is felt to bo probable of the treasures and wonders of the deep. In former notices we touched upon the successful efforts,of other artists—of Sully and Beagle, Roth armed and Waugh, Lewis and Boutelle, Conarroe and Richards, T. Moran and the 'Lambdine, Schussele and the Smiths, and many more of our own artists, as well as those from New York and other places, who have also contributed. We have to glance at a few others, who are worthy of notice. In the Northeast Gallery are two companion cabi net- pictures by Lilly M. Spencer,' (Nos. 142 and 150,) respectively entitled "Speculation" and " Tribulation." In the first, a bonny country lass is shown on her way to market, laden with chick ens and a basket of eggs, evidently pleased with herself and all the world, and smiling, in all the pleasures of hope, at the prospect of the profits her little traffic will make, and her disposition of them. Evidently, slm walks along in a sort of happy phantasy, building castles in the air, as eagerly as did Alnasher, the glass-vendor in the Arabian 'Nights. In the second picture the scene is changed, 'for the country lass has comp . to grief ; making a false stop, .rho loses her balance in trying to save herself from falling, and the basket of eggs tum- Jaletron the ground, a sad rain, while her chickens alGe in a dreadful state of alarm. The pictures, 'each of which tells its own story, are well painted, and will probably find a purchaser ere the exhibi ' flan closes. There aro three pictures by Charles F. Blau .valt,—each of which is sufficiently demonstrative -as not to requital description from us. " Burnt Out," (No. 90,) "Reading the News," (492,) and "The Snow Shoveller," (493,) are cabinet pictures of much mere than average merit. They carry out the artist's intention, and are at once expres ? sive .andaeuggestive, with more breadth than is ,usual in the treatment of familiar subjects, but 'very true and correct, and telling. W S. Hazeltine, a Philadelphian painter located in New York, presents a'striking and peculiar pic ture of the landscape class - No. 3 on the catalogue —called " The Willow Swamp," which, in its color • and tone as well as in its scenery, shows close ob servation of nature. The peculiar light given of the stunted trees, visible only where they grow in very damp places, is here rendered very truly. "Rye Beech, New Hampshire," (1040 by the same artist, is also well painted, but not sostriking • as the other. The exhibition of sculpture is not considerable this year, but a few new pieces aro noticeable. For instance, a bust of Mr. Cornelius, by S. Boardman Downing ; some busts by leaao Broome, and, (to us the most remarkable thing of the year,) a por trait-bust of the late gallant and lamented Colonel Baker, by Miss Inez R. F. Lewis, a young.girl who has only just entered into her teens, and. has re.. <salved all her artistical tuition in this Academy. The likeness is very good, and Miss Lewis has .given the exact expresaion of the original. Here, too, are busts of the Hon. Simon and Mrs. Came ron. That of the lady is better than the other. In the Catalogue, "Alfred Stanch" is sot down as the artist, whereas he did no more than perform the mechanical business of cut ting them in marble from the models made, at Washington, by W. hi. Swayne, of West Ches ter. This ought to have been done by Mr. Swayne himself, according to all artistical etiquette—that be who takei the likeness in clay shall also execute it in marble, if required. Even the law, as re peatedly ruled by judicial authorities, acknow ledges this artist right—otherwise Canova might -a model, and any stonecutter destroy its poetry, by hewing the marble into something like Bet image, but lacking all the finer and final couches ~ o f the original creative mind. No. 387, Mr. • Siveyne'a own bust of General Anthony Wayne, is a fine work of art, and In complete accordance, as to likeness, with Mx. Rothermel's noble portrait of . :et Mad Anthony," in the Southeast Gallery. . The works of art in the Rotundo aro worthy of . 11 long visitand careful examination. In the cen tre, that splendid group by John Graham Lough, of London, of the Battle of the Centaurs and Lapithaa, will always challenge attention : this is the original model. On the walls hang fine spool ' hens by "the elder and better " masters—Gilbert' Stuart, West, Opie, Gerard Dow, Leslie, Sally, Neagio,--"with numerous small pieces by Hamilton, E. • Moran, T. W. Richards, Harrison Lambdin, B. M. Towne, George L. Brown, De Haas, C. T. 'Blauvelt, W. T. Richards, Xenthus Smith, Miss `Mary,Smith, and others. Mr. niter Fitzgerald shows a Water Color Sketch (434), which reminds one of S. Pewit, and is wonderfully good, the artist's age considered. llere;otno, is S. B: Waugh's full-length portrait of the Hon. Simon Camaron. The pose is admirable— nothing could be better, because of its truth—and the likeness is good, but the color appears raw, especially the face, as if the artist had only half glazed it. The present exhibition of the Academy proves one important fact, which cannot receive too earnest thought from those interested in the future of American art : It is the value of the educational system upon which the institution is now based, and which, in the last five years, has been so ably developed. 'lbis value is shown clearly by the great impiovement in the works of the younger artists, students of the Academy, who have wisely used its splendid opportunities of instruction. The general improvement, especially in drawing, will be noticed by every critical eye, and must unquestionably be traced to the influences of the art school. The free classes for the study of the antique, the living model, and the lectures on Artistic Anatomy, aro invaluable, for it isimposaible to found a national art, without basing it upon knowledge of principles and laws. It is not talent that America lacks—as many ho norable names have proved—but - the culture which is essential to the perfection of talent. Through the means the Academy offers, free of cost, any young artist of ability may now thoroughly de velop his talent. Its facilities for study are greater than any over before known in America, and it is no longer necessary for artists to visit Europe to study their profession. All they need is liberally sup plied at home. Philadelphia has excellent reason to be proud of this noble institution, and it is fortu nate in possessing a president. and board of di rectors, whose energy has so greatly increased its usefulness. 'We cannot doubt that great artists will yet become an honor to America, who will look back with pride to the Academy as their Alma Mater—men who may be to the next generation what Sully, Neaglo, Rothermel, and Hamilton are to the present. A LOYAL OITIZEN.—An old and esteemed citizen of Rutherford county, Tennessee, Mr. Isaac Burleson, living about six or seven miles this side of Murfrees boro', believing that he was on his death bed, mat for the provost marshal to administer the oath of allegiance to him, in order that ho might die true to the flag of America, and all It represents. OUR WAR_CORIRSPONDENCE, FROM GEN. McCLELLAN'S ARMY. [Special Coffeepots:lame of The Press.] HEADQUARS2/113 ARMY Of 71E6 POTOMAC, June 6,1862. THE POSITION. Within the past two weeks the relative situations of the two opposing armies have been materially changed. In the last week of May the Obickehominy river was the boundary over which neither party stepped, but since then things have materially changed. The battle at Ha nover Court Rouse, and Its results in ruining. the Vir ginia Central railroad to Ashlaud, and putting that plate in our pOSSOSSIin, greatly strengthened the natural de fences on onr right wing, which, although still behind the Chickahominy, is there in each force that it virtually pro. vents the rebels from occupying the fields immediately bordering the stream on their side, or sending marauding parties across the numerous fords and bridges. Our right rests in force on Meadow's Bridge, five miles north-north west of Richmond, near the crossing of the Central road; thence for four miles down it holds the northeastern bank' of the river, with three bridges. At a point west of Richmond, six miles distant from it, our forces are across the river, and the front bears away to the eolith ward until it strikes the James river. The entire front of the army is a gem:Lent of a circle, with the concavity toward the enemy, the left being south of Richmond, and sup ported by gunboats on James river, eight miles front the city, the rigid being northwest of the capital, at Idecba niceville and its vicinity, distant four and a half miles. The Richmond and York-river railroad is In running order to Savage's Station, a short distance across tho Chickahominy, and supplies our left wing with provisions and forage. The right wing is supplied from Dispatch . ar:d Perez, Stallone, points nearer White House, from which stations there is a wagon transportati JD varying from ono to ton miles, according to the distance of the troops. Under cover of a heavy fire of artillery, which ef fectually silenced the rebel batteries, General Smith yes terday croeeed the Chickahominy ate point whore our troops had previously erected a bridge, on the left centre of our line. Ile had a large force, and mot with no great opposition. The policy of the campaign seems to be to gradually cross, at favorable opportuuitiee, from the left wing around to the right. Every division crossing is nearer end nearer the right wing. About one-half of else army have already crossed, and Saturday and Sun day's conflict no the left wing, whilst it gained us but a slightly advanced position, so crippled the rebels as to effectually insure the safety of all the Federal troops across the stream. Continuous artillery fights aro taking place between the batteries of the two armies along the five miles for which the river is the bomulary. The gunsaregenerally a mile and a half distant from each other, and as the stream and swamp are in a rather depressed valley, each parry can see across so the Other, observing the effects of the shots and the movements of troops The rebels show .ruost mieerible gunnery, and In these conflicts they are generally the losers. A dozen or two Federal ehelle generally eilencetheir batteries, and we can distinctly see them running back under cover of the woods, some times drawing their cannon after them. Save one rebel shell which fell into General Ellocomb's camp two days since, not one of any thrown causes us the slightest , da wage. They do not fall short, but the rebels have poor Marksmen or inaccurate guns, not ono I have ever neon fire ken appeared to me to be inaccurately aimed. Our gunners show their superiority at once, by making the enemy desert their guns, but in no case have the rebels, in any of these duels across the liver, ever forced us to tun away from our Pieces.,We always have the last • shot, and usually send it curveting after a squad of Meg rebels, whose powers of locomotion are inimitable. . 'We are slowly but enmity progressing, and every day drawing closer around Richmond. A GONNA:MEE-Ix- CHIEF'S ENCAMPMENT. Few civillens ever think of General McClellan's home In this great tented field without having a confused mix ture of tents, horses, soldiers, and other military matters, constantly before their eyes They have no idea of the modesty and regularity, the neatness and order, of the home cf the General and hie staff. Perhaps, to satisfy ' this need, it would not be superfluous wore Ito eend you a description of the headquarters' encampment near Now bridge, at which place, for the pest ten days, the business of an army of one hundred and fif.y thousand mon has been transacted. In the corner of a field of five hundred acres, sur rounded on two sides by woodland, the tents are pitched. The camp is on a hill, a quarter of a mile from any road, -and the whole covers a space of four acres. The ground plan of the camp is a parallelogram, with the staff tents on the long sides, the General's tent on the short side, nearest the road, asid the guard-tents ou the other. At the upper end of this parallelogram, a space a hun dred fat aquare is malted out, constantly guarded by sentinels, and ripen which no one, no matter how high in position, is allowed to encroach. In the centre of this sacred spot are two wall-tents, cash about twenty feet square, - set alongside of one another, though with a slight intervening space. The left-hand one la occupied by General McClellan, the other by his father-in-law, Gene ral Marcy, the chief of staff. Both are furnished alike; each has a stove, camp stools, and table, cortege, camp bed, (leek, and toilet materials, and variOns wine bottles • about, denote the means used, oven by major generale, to beguile wears Lours and entertain visitors. In front of the general's Jent, a hundrel fat-wide street runs, to the opposite side of the camp, where two or three peaked Sibley tents are pitched to accommodate the eel diers• acting., as the camp-guard. On each side of this street unto are pitched, whcee occupants decrease in . honor according as they are farther away from the general. These are the tents of the staff ofticere—the provost marshal general, the adjutant general, the in spector general, the quartermasters and commissaries, the aids to the commander-in-chief, Ac. A row behind these, on each aide, is devoted to under-ofticers and clerks, and, a thirld row to eervante. Outside of all this tlte home are picketed, and further still are the headquarters baggage train, ea useful in moving all this paraphernalia. Rana tent Is like a small parlor, well finished, and having every comfort and luxury one could expect. The officers who occupy them are always about, chatting and talking, the business of many of them not requiring attention more than °lnstant - 0 of the time. The clerks and aids, however, have the most difficult duties. They prepare everything for those they assist, a simple reading or signing being generally all that is required of the superior officer. The above is a brief description of the encampment of the leader of the army of the Potomac. As little space as possible is always occupied, and amid its quiet and seclnsion shoes plans are formed which will soon make a proud foe succumb. IL QUAKER Yankees nro proverbial for shrewdness, cunning, and jekea, and, when Yankee and robel play together, to see who is the 'mutest, the rebel neuelly comes off second beat. The hth Maine Infantry, containing some of the cutest Yankees in the land, was on picket duty, yester day afternoon, near Mechanicsville. About three o'clock some of them discovered a pair of wheels, and put their heads together to find out what to do with them. Whilst deliberating, a squad of rebel officers elegantly dressed and mounted on splendidly caparisoned. horses, made their appearance on a hill a miledistant, end commenced amine an about with their Mild glasses. This made up the minds of the Yankees. The wheels were hidden, and a party sent off, which clime back with a round black-looking log, and a slow match. The log Wa3 lashed to the axle, and tbcn all waited to see what the rebel squad was at. Directly every field glass in the whole party woo bent on the Yankee picketers, when out cams the extemporised cannon, which, with great formality, was pointed in range for the bill on which the curiosity bunters stood. It wee leaded and primed, when in away go the brace rebels, each one trying to get ahead of the other, tI a horses galloping, the riders urging them faster, and over the intervening spice went a shout of derision from the Yankee regiment which no doubt was like a thorn in the side of each of the easily-frightened foe. A YIIIGINIA: GUIST MILL A short time since, I entered a deserted grist mill to secure protection from a thunder storm, and whilst the bled was passing over bad ample time to observe the mill and its contents. In the North, we are used to large mills with all the modern conveniences for cleaning the grain, boiling the flour, and facilitating the storage and transportation of the manufactured article. I never knew, until the rain drove me into this mill, that grain could be grnond wish so small au amount of machinery. The building was of frame, two-thirds of its height being a peaked roof. It was sot on piles, and the wheel was alongside uncovered, as likewise were the minor wheels and axles which conducted the power to the building. The wheel woe ton feet in diemeter and driven by water conducted over it by one of the old:fashioned troughs. Two or three cogged wheels served to alter the directiim of the power from vertical to horizontal, to re gulate it and conduct it to the mill-atones inside. The floor of the mill was of broad boards, with all sorts of chinks and knot-holes. On a raised platform, at the back, stood a single pair of mill-atones, a crane for re moving the upper one when necessary being fastened into the wall. The machinery hero was of the rudest and simplest description. The grain, without any previous preparation, was led between the atones, and afterwards fell through a constantly-shaken sieve of bolting cloth into a bin, out of which it wee taken and given to customers. There was no means of separating wheat from bran, or granulating the flour, or• separating the products of different grains Everything—wheat, oats, bran, corn, barley, and whatever else brought for grluding—went between the some pair of stones and fell into the same bin, and half the flour sold from tide Virginia mill no doubt was a mixture of all the cereals grown on Virginia's soil. This is the second ruin I have seen in the Old Dominion, and I was astonithed at the rndemachinery and the miserable Preduct the chivalry were forced to put up with. This mill is within tire miles of the centre of the oldest Com monwealth to the Union, yet its tiouriug mills are of a description that would scarcely be tolerated in Oregon or Minnesota, and which are never even in the wildest por tions of the North. The poorest machinery and poorest arrangements, necessarily insuring the peered product, seem to be the rule in all Southern industrial manufac tures. Thank fortune, an infusion or Northern energy will be mingled into Southern character by this war and ; after it is over, a new era in manufactures, com merce, azd patriotism, may be relied on. The paymasters of the army have been in nearly all the tempi during the 'last few dam and as a consequence there Is plenty of money about. Provident mon, when paid, send the principal part of their money home ti their Swaim, and nearly every regiment can foot up a lame amount sent by the officers and men to enrich their hoMe neighborhoods. The 16th, 27th, and 32d Nei , York, let, 2d, 3d, and 4th New Jersey, sth Maine, 49th, 90th, and 96th, and I believe 96th Pennsylvania, with the Lincoln cavalry, and Arnold's battery, from New York, have all been paid off. The 96th Pennsylvania sent home 89, 0 0 7 by allotment, and over $12,000 by letter, Mr. A. L; Gee, of Cordon, Schuylkill county, the sutler of the regiment, kindly going home to distribute the money. Mr. Gee and his assistant, Mr. John Heebner, are two honest sutlers, a date very rarely, found in this or any other scow. TWO CENTS. FROM GEN. BANKS' .01VISION. [Special Oorreapondecice of The Prens. j News from Winchester 11.1nren's FIiBRY, Vs., June 7,1652 This place at present Is full of rumors in relation to the movements of cur armies in the Valley of Virginia, Many of which aro so ridiculous that they provko a laugh, while others bear upon their face many marks of probability. Persons who arrived here from Winches ter last evening, report that our commanders in that place expected a battle to take place to-day, ant had given orders that all wagons and proviaion trains should be moved several miles north, and that no more wagons should be sent from Harper's Ferry until further orders. Per contra to this, upward. of 75 wagons arrived front Winchester last night, and they are busy loading them to-day, and starting them back to the place they came from. Meet of the officers at this place laugh , at the re ports about the advance of Jackson. in consequence of the river being so swollen by the late heavy- rains, our forces lave not advanced much further south than Win chester, and during the time they have been waiting there, numerous heavy addition., both in men and arms, hero been made to our forces, until they at present pre sent a very formidable front to the rebels, and one which, if they run egalest, will surely annihilate them. It is the opinion of many prominent officers that Jack son will not stop retreating until be reaches Richmond . TEE FRESITETS ON TEE POTOMAC AND SIIENANDOiII The heavy freshets which have for the but few days Prevailed in the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers and their tributaries, bane In a measure subsided. Such heavy !lend' have not been witnessed in this region for several years, although freshets cf smaller dimensions have been quite frequent of late. The destruction of rail road and other property haa been immense, and it wilt take a long time end a largo sum of money to repair damages. It commenced to rain .on Tuesday morning, .and continued unabated until late on . Thursday night. The water in the Potomac commenced to rise on Wednes day morning, and continued unabated until it reached Ite climax, on Wednesday night. The water rose over twenty feet, and carried away everything movable in its path. For several hours the river and canal were merged into One, and LIM ikation was stopped.. Bridges on the latter were washed away, and locks were damaged to a con siderable extent. The large trestle work of.tho Baltimore and Olio railroad, over the Potomac at - tiflt; place, was rimost wholly wept away, and, therefore, corthettaleation with the Maryland side has been stopped. It was only a temporary etruetare , the railrinul comp any being un willing to ppt up a splendid new iron• bridge, which they had made for them in Baltimore, so long as the rebel army continued in the valley of Virginia The water Is falling rapidly, and by this evening it ie expected that it will be at its proper level. The intentions of the railroad com pany are not known, but it is expected that they brirg on their new bridge and put it in its proper posi tionaerhere to at present no communication, telegraphic or otherwise, with the Mier aide of the Potomac, and will not be until the rope ferry is again in operation. Beepaiches have been Pent to Washington, asking the Government to send a tugboat up hero, but it has not yet made de appeal ance. The rise In the Shenandoah was no less rapid and dis aatrous than that in the Potomac. The trestle work on the Winchester Railroad, about half a mile above this piece, has been swept au ay, and probably other pro perty on the same road, further south, has shared the spine fete.. The houses on the banks of the Shenandoah, at this place, are built on lower ground than thou, on the Potomac, and c mseithently many of them wore half overflowed, and the occupants were compelled to leave 'them, and seek refuge with their friends. Boats were in requisition. I observed many persons rowing into the houses through the second.story windows. The water on the Shenandoah commenced to enbeide early on Thurs day moniing, and at this time it is down to its old level. The people on its banks ear that each a freshet has not visited them for several years, and that the destruction of property must have been immense. J. 21. C. LATER FROM THE SOUTH. Forts and Batteries vs, Iron-Clads; GENERAL BUTLER'S CAPERS IN THE CRESCENT CITY, PRIVATES IN TIIE REBEL ARMY. OUR FLEET AT WARSAW SOUND. The Stampede from Richmond From our correspondent at Farmington we have re• ceived copies of several Southern papers, from which wo male the following extracts : The City Under Martial Law. [Fran the Charleston Mercury of the 14th ult.] 'llia day, at noon, martial law takes the place of civil authority in Charleston. At a juncture like the present, doubtless, there ore good reasons, for thus placing the government of our noble old city in military hands. If the officers, who have been invested with 'the control of affairs in our midst, exercise their functions with wis dom, alumina, and impartiality, the establishment of martial law will prove to be a welcome, as well as a bene ficial measure. The people of this community will cheer fully conform to the regulattors of the military com manders, and, as far as our resident population are con cetned, we do not doubt that Charleston will be found, even in these troublous days of excitement and blood, to maintain its ancient name for quiet and good order. But there is another point, on which we deem it right to speak .ont, plainly and at once. There are quite a . number of Confederate troops now encamped in our city, and we hear that others are soon to arrive. We tel as sured that the vast majority of these soldiers are man worthy their State, and worthy the great cause in sup port of which they have shouldered their muskets. Bat there are acme among them whose conduct, during the short time the) have been here, has been such as to bring disgrace upon the commands to which they are at • tacked. It has repeatedly happened, within tho 'eat few days, that ladies have been rudely accosted and insulted by soldiers in the public thoroughfares. In some instances, outrages of the most flagrant character have been com mitted, with rwrfect Impunity, be men wearing the nut. form of Southern volunteers. We do not know who the offender' ure ; but wo do know that, in the city of Charleston, such acts cannot and will not be allowed to Continue. We call upon the officers of the troops now etationed here to protect cur halloo, by the enforcement of sobriety and goad behavior among the men of their commends, and by visiting upon the first soldier who may be ebown to have conducted himself in the rummer we have mentioned, milt. severe, and public punishment Blockade Goods at Auction. [From tbe Memplits Appeal. May 23. J At an auction sale in Charleston, Monday. of recently tmcorted geode, tbe folios its prices were obtained : Turpentine soap. t 0 cents per pound ; tallow candles, (inferior), 28 cents per pound ; black tea, 84 per pound ; starch, 15 cents per pound : buckets, $5.00 per dozen; =Melillo, $9 per gross; coffee, Laguayra, 50 cents per pound ; file hate, 81.05 each ; palm-leaf hats, 85.50 per dozen ; letter paper, assorted, $10.75 per ream; ruled white letter paper, 814.75 per ream; note paper, $0.25 per ream; envelopes, 89.60 per thousand ; Coat's spool cotton, 8160 per dozen ; bleached shirting, 34 cents per yard; black sewing Bilk, 1514 50 per pound ; pins, $8.50 per pack ; gilt buttons, $8.87 per gross ; ladies' shoes, $4.25; men's and children's, 8275 to 82.37 ; hoop skirts, misses' and ladles', $5.28 to $8 each. • J. D. B. Deßow, editor of Deßow's Review, and a Snencial agent of the Confederate Government, is visit ing Charleston, and may be addressed through the Courier °plea. • SUGAR AND MOLASSES.—Tbe provost marshal has lamed an order that no merchant in the city, or within the miles or it, Isbell be allowed to retail' more than fif teen hogsheads of sugar, or more than fiftyibarrela of mo. lanes. Each merchant ib required to furnish a 114 of what ho has, and it Is neither to be sold nor removed. STADDEDERS.—A large number of persons are arriving here daily, from Riehmond and other points in that TiCiDitY, Hoeing before the advancing enemy. The pack ets and care came up loaded down each trip with these atamoeders, and the hotels and private boarding bonus are literally ,ammed with them. An Earnest Appeal. [Firm the Mobile Evening Nowa, May lec) The yolks for the defence of the city are nearly com pleted. Let them be fe lobed at once. A united and determined effort will do it, and save our city. If it once fall into the hands of the enemy, they wilt never surrender it without first having destroyed it. This work is an imperious necessity that brooks no delay. The maintenance of our home* and property, and the preserration of our families, or the abandonment of all, is the issue. To carry on our business in future let us suspend it now. For a few days let us make our defences our business. Let us know no other till they are corn pkted. We invoke all men who love their homes and their families, and who value their property, to torn out. Let them, when not notified to report elsewhere, rally at the Armory, and repair to the works, and labor daily tilt the defences are all the General wishes them to be. Let them bring shovels and barrows where they cau. Our General is gallant, nothing, and confident. Let every man support and stand by lilm to the list. PRICE WILLIAMS, M. WILSON, D. W. GOODM AN , J. LITTLE SMITH, Committee on Public Defence The Privates in the Southern Army. [From the Richmond DiaPatch.] We do not believe that the world has ever seen sneh material as compote the rank and file of the Southern army. Napoleon never led a braver and better set of men. Is Melly retpects they are superior to the vete rans of France, for they are actuated by higher motives and have made greeter sacrifices. They have left com formble homes, whin.° none of thenrever knew the want of one single thing necessary to human comfort. Unlike the troops of the North, they have not been forced Into the army to obtain a subsistence. On the contrary, they tare entered the army voluntarily, and given up the comfortable subeistr nee which they were sure of at home for the purpose of servin`g their country. They have lived upon ouch fad and di eased in each clothes as they would not have.given to their own negroes; they have slept upon the bare ear th , and been exposed to themummer sane and winter snows for the pure and imeelfish love of indepen •dence. They have rot ixen animated by any vulgar love of glory, by any ideas of conquest, end far less of spoils and rapine. hinny of them are meu of property, not a few of v saint, and all accustomed to ease and comfort. They are willing to do anything, to endure anything, to dare anything in tefence of their country. All honor to their officers, but their °facers honor theinselvet most in honor ing their men. We feel no such reverence ter suy elms of mn IN in camp or council, as for those noble men in the 'ranks, those noblemen of nature, who are fighting not for is me or gold, but for country, and indifferent whether their TIOTEICS are ever inscribed upon the records of glory, eco tbst they do their duty. But they will have their re wind. Their conies tire written neon the imperishable ,trolls of that tribunal which awards such prizes hero isfor to virtue in its humblest estate as earth bas no power to beetow. The Last Ditch of the Rebels [Prom tLo Richmond Dispatch, May 24.] 'llse situation of the Confederate forces, of the move ments of which acme slight indiratidns only are afforded, together with the advance of McOlellisn's troops. justify •he expectation of a grand battle shortly, if not in a few bolas. The clutter the better. To know as soon as pos sible what Is to be the result of the latest attempt to get possession of this city. is tbe desire of evecy one. In deed, It Is the only way to save the city, to meet the ene my and frustrate his schemes, which all understand to be to invest Richmond and take It by gradual. ap preaches There could beno more agreeable news to every person in this city, and, we are sure, to the citizens of the South everywhere, than that of a great battle rasing near Rich mond. ' All have confidence in the Southern troops—all believe that when they meet the invaders of our soli they wad repel. them as the firm rock does the wave that beats In vain against it. Let them but meet the foe who has marched into our country to desolate our homes and rob us of our property—nay, to commit the most horrid of outrages—and they will rash upon hint with a bravery and determination that he win be utterly unable to withstand. They fight for their couqtry's rights and THE WAR PRESS. THE WAR PRESS will be lent to eubecrihcra by mall (per annum In advance) at 82.00 Three Copies " It 0.40 Five 64 44 tt 8.00 Ten u .‘ LI 12.00 Larger Clubs will be chargiet at the same rate, thus 20 copies will coat 824; 69 copies will cost 560; and 100 copies 8120. For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will Bond an Extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club. Poetmaeters are requested to act as Agents tot Tax WAR PRESS. ErAdVertiBoo3oot3 inserted at the usual rates. Biz lints constitute a Square. honor, and In defence of tha women and children of the Bomb. They will defend them or die. There is nothing no ditheartening to those gallant eons of the South an to Vance vnth — tividitirltrurymy-cmry - re,rem , hearts and deep mortification. We trust they are not to be compelled to burette the retrograde any more, but that bravo patriots its they are, they will be ordered to do what Is to them moat agreeable of all things—to meet and drive badk the ene my. IF tho soldier is gratieed, the fist& near Richmond will be our Marathon. If the public feeling Is consulted, those fields will tear that wine nuds ills name; and if the pledges of the Government, Coofeder ate and States, and the concurrent opinions of high military authority, be maintained, the soldier and the people will ail ho grati fied, and the fee wi 1 ho defeated, Richmond saved, and I the common cause of the whom South be placed op a new • land solid basis. To surrender Richmond would entail consequences that we fear to look at. They on ay be too disastrous to contemplate. We have an abiding Milli in our people, and believe they would continue faithful to the end ; but, nevertheless, it is too plain that the handing over the me tropolis to the enemy would bring upon us embarrass.. ments so great, that rather Phan plaee the Stale in sue& an exigency at shot, tee should fight Wore Richmond as thoughes/2 were 'lost if we Iflerc defeated. We have the moat confident belief that there will ha such fighting, that we shall triumph, and that Richmond will be finally saved from the enemy; for if he cannot take her now, with all his means, he never can. Yankee Plans—Ballooning [From the Richmond Dispatch, May 24.] Otir Northern brethren are now engaged in an and doom; cudoavor to restore the Union and set the Stars and Stripes afloat in Richmond. by laying plans to mur der and rob all of our people who may with to prevent the consommation of their dearly-chorishod project. For several days past they ha . ve cavorted around the suburbs in efficient numbers to pillage with impunity, but not to moot any respectable force, on whose appser once they would fly like frightened sheep. Yesterday, with characteristic caution, they sent up Professor Lowe in hie famous balloon to observe the motions of the re bels. The machine, which was distinctly observed by a large plumber of spectators inAble city, was embellished with two United' States flags, and seconded about four miles from the city; in a northeast direction. No doubt the observations of the Yankee aeronaut were satiafac tory, no by three o'clock a tight was reported in progress between the Abolition and Southern forces, at the head of the Mechanicsville turnpike. General Butler's Capers [From the Miteiesippion.] From our telegraphic column it will be seen that Ones. Butler is cutting up sundry fantastic capon In the Cres cent City. Be is grinding the people of that devoted city to the lowermost depths of humiliation and oppression. We are glad of It. It will teach those Southern cities not yet occupied by the Vandal hortioe of the North what they have to expect when, to save their property, they surrender their manlineer, dignity, and liberties to such bands. WO are all the mendacity. treachery, roguery, false hocd. and ttickery of the Yankee character In the con duct of Picayune Puller. His attempt to iacite the poor against the rich, add to force the unfortunate population of that city, by the stern gnawinge of hanger, to tako up arms against their country, is truly a magniticent Yeti -kee hick." Be will protect property ! Private rights are to be respected ! Oh. yes: that's what he came for. The poor have now the stern alternative of tatting up elms against their country and their brothers, or starve to death. The rich are to be despoiled of their pow:m elons, end ell their wealth turned over to the vulture clutches of Lincoln's minions, to be used in their own ir retrievable poverty and enslavement lime are the le gitimate fruits of surrendering to save properly ! It the telegraph is true, and we have no reason to doubt it, Butler is doing good service to our cause. For the sake of our liberty, we hope he will not tire! Go on, brave Butler, and destroy every vestige of liberty ! Grind New Orleans to very hoarder ! Buie the city with a rod of iron!' Starve the people, or make them yoke your plundering, thieving army ! Give it no Quarter; you will teach them to surrender! It is a terrible war you have of teaching. but, it seems, acme or our people will learn in no other. You are teaching oar people WO important truths, which we have in these columns etriven in vain to impress upon them. hereafter let Um motto of the South be " Perish cities ! Perish armies! Perish property! Perish everything ! But surrender, saran!" Troops for Vicksburg. (From the Lynchburg Republican.] The call of Governor Pettus for one thousand men to go to Vicksburg is being rapidly responded to. The MU girvippian of the 20th says a large number left Jackson that morning. Distinguished Arrival [From Mobile Evening Nacre, May 13th. Brig. Gem James Trudeau, of New 'Orleans, has ar rived in this city, and taken lodgings at tho Battlo souse. We regret to learn that the General is an invalid, his heath being impaired by his devotion to arduous mili tary duties for several months past. Gen. Trudeau is one of the moat accomplished artillery officers of the South. His skilful services In fortifying Columbus and Inland No. 10, both of which were abandoned after he bad been ordered to oilier spheres of duly, have been Warmly . acknowledged by the mesa and in ratlftery Olt% Glee. Ile wee due of the gallant participators in the bat tle of Shiloh, where lie nobly unstained the reputation of the well-tried chivalry of Lonidana. When New Or leans fell into the hands of the enemy, he was at home for the - purpose of recruiting his health and strength, and escaped from the. city. 'We trust that the virtues of Bladen water, which he is about to try, wilt soon restore him to health and to the service of his country. More Treachery. [Fit m the Lynchburg Beenidicam] It is reliably stated that the Confederate boat A. U. St bite was smrer-dercd to the enemy at Old Point by the treachery of its commander. Capt. Byers. The boat, a email steamer had been ordered to Sowell's Point to take off some guns, preparatory to the evacuation of our lines at Norfolk, when, by thalreachery of its comman der, it was brought under the guns of Old Point, ami surrendered to the enemy. By the information obtained by the Yankees front this ecoundrel, they sent their vessels up James river while -the Merrimac was taking on coal, and eilenced two of out batteries above Norfolk. This num Byers is a Now Jereeyruan, but has livid for come time in the South, and ever since the war commenced has been employed as she Hag-of-truce man betweou Norfolk and 010 Point. This is another instance of the impolicy and filly of employing Yankees in the Confmderate servico. Not one ought to be excalOyed, and we deserve to suffer when we do am ple}, them. The Yankee Fleet at %Vanua. Sound. [From the Savannah News, of the 13th.] We learn from the prisoners captured by the picket of the 13th Georgia, on Sunday, that the Federal Heat now in Warsaw sound comprises the following vessels; The sloop of-war Vat della, gunboat 'Mohican, U. S, steamer Sumter, which latter vessel, we learn, has a condensing apparatus capable of preducing six hundred salons of fresh water per day, and is need for supplying fresh water for the Federal Batt. Forts and Batteries versus Iron Clads. [nom the Mobile Evening News, May 18.] If New Orleans was never to be defended after the enemy's ships had made their way to it, its fate may be considered only to have been anticipated, inasmnch as in a few weeks the enemy will have:ldeate lumberer ucean gotng batteries, invulnerably plated with Iran armor, mar -1,, fog enormous armaments, and of great tonnage, which would have -eventually passed the river defencee. It is wise for no to remember that though we defy the efforts which the enemy's shining now on our coast may make against Mobile, other and more terrible agencies for the capture or dettruction of our city may ere loughs brought against it. Since the demonstrated availability entail-clad craft. even Great Britain no longer centi les in the powerful fortifimti lons of her barbers, the perfectingand strengthen ing of which has been the work of cent !tries, but trembles with well-ruunded apprehension for her coa.t cities in the event of a war with any naval Power. Our enemy will e on hive an iron-clad senadron afloat for assamt upon the coast cities we yet hold, and if human ingenuity can device any poteible 'nettled by which they can be de fended against attack in such guise, let ti go to work fur our protection. Peppily, in the case of Mobile, the alt. Preaches to the city are 50 shallow that an Invulnerably irrn. clad vessel, of eufficienily light draught to come within range, would hardly be seaworthy for the voyage .ont front the North. Could abe make the voyage, ob structions in the channel would not avail, as she could deliberately remove them under fire, and dig her war through to the city. The day of forts and batteries as coast defences is past. lienceforth belligerents must meet iron with iron. Heroic Cavalry Charge [From the Chicago Evening Journal, of the 28th ult.] 11. correspondent, alluding to the late skirmish noir Fmmington, says: .In this extremity General Paine, etcited at the time, gave the order for the batteries to fall back to the road, and the infantry to follow. To cover this retreat, and step this bail of hurtling balk. and ART), the cavalry was called neon. The.regiment of 2,1 lowa Cavalry. under command of Col. Hatch, and Majors Love and Kukeo, and three email companies of regulars, under Lieutenant Gordon, were ordered to charge upon the batteries ! The order was a rail one, but it was an order. Five hundred, iu all, to charge a battery In the face of ten thousand ! put they did it, and thanks to the bad gunnery of the rebels, they nearly all returned to tell the talc, many of thins, alas. speaking by gaping wounds, and riddled, tattered garments. Lieut. Gorden, who is himself a conspicuous character in more than one charge of cavalry. ears the sight trans cended all belief. The bravo lowans, who had but re cently left their ploughs afield, now called upon to face death, and ride to the cannon's mouth, with the tree spirit of heroes filled up the ravine, and on reaching the top of the hilt, spread out, galloped up to the batteries, demolishing like iightrdng a line of skirmishers is their way. ~ Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left et them, Toile) ed and thundered." Truly enough, for the whole of the guns weresweeping the plain with shrapnel and canister. Luckily the de pression wee too great. The ballewhistled and flow into the ground all round and beneath them. The mortality among the horses was fearful, ninety-three of the num ber being wounded:andkilled. Col.Hatch's anxiety for hie men to follow him bad now changed into an anxiety to recall them. Onward they charged, right up to the bat. terlee, slashing and hewing down the gunners with their Embrey, read to the call of their gallant lender, who saw that the object was accomplished, the guns limbered and silenced, end the enemy on the right in disorder, while on the left he was closing in. Orderlies rent to the different companiee flnallr rallied the men. Slowly and deliberately they rode back over the field. The .enemy was silent on the left. One artiPery and infantry had hafted into the woods, and were fairs. back to the main body. The route wee strewed with dead bones. The wounded were helped on to the horses of'their comrades, while the unborsexttook to the woods on their lett. Gordon, who more pradentir but with equal coolness remained in the rear, saw the desperate charge end cared for ;the sufferers, burying two on the field with sabres while stiff under fire. Taken altogether, this is one of the most magnificent feats of the war. No cavalry charge since that of the memorable Light Brigade is, comparable with it. In these days, when cavalry is beginning to be looked on with some dis trust, It is creditable to tee one regiment which will not flinch in its duty even at the risk of certain death. . From General Buell. LOUISVILLE, June S.—The Journal has just received the following : " To the Editors of the Louierille Journal: *, Boons VILLB, June B.—ln General Buell's report, as published in the Journal, of the 29th ult., Gan. Boyle's name does not appear. This is &mistake. It should be mentioned with the names of the other generate for gal lantry on the field. •s J. B. FRY, • , Colonel and Chief of SIVE" Gen. Buell also telegraphs to Gen. Boyle to the same effect. [Boonville, where Gen. Buell dates his doStettell. Is in 7ishluningo county. Mitslasippl, twenty miles south of Corinth. This indicates that his army corps is supporting rope's in the pursuit of the rebels.l Sigel in Virginia. Gen. Sigel to again in tt e field. This will be the fourth campaign during the war. It was fret Lyon and Sigel ; then Form nt BEd Sigel; then Curtis and Sigel; now, from bis location, we should Judge it was likely to be Banka and Sigel. The first two of his campaigns were in South ern Missouri last year ; the third wile in Western Ar kansas this year, and the fourth—Siegel will soon let no know where it is, In all of his campaigns. Piegel has proved himself to be not only a gallant soldier, but a most accomplished and scientific officer, a master of military strategy, and of all the manoeuvres or the field ; an indomitable, self-possessed, modest man, a loyal intelligent &Iran. The whole country has fol lowed him with admiration throughout his entire military career in the far West • and, now that he takes the field in a new quarter, he will be watched with, if possible, a keener interest. Gen. Sigel has already performed come of the mcst splendid feats of the war. May his preeenk cesnreign be Mill pyre killient,—Ar. Yt rilll‘l.
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