cars in similar pOsition in the navies of other coun tries, and ri , lative tank with the army officers of our own, when cooperating or brought together on ac tive service. In pursuance of the requirements of the fourth sec tion of the " net to establish and equalize the grade of line (drivers of the 'lilted States navy,” direct ing that the " Seeretary of the Nary shall appoint MI advisory board of not less than three officers senior to those to be reported upon, who shall care fully scrutinize the active list of line otHcers above and including the grade of masters in the line of pro motion, and report to him in writing those who, in the opinion of the board, are worthy of promotion," 1, Oh the 22ti of .Itily, appointed Captain Will 13. 1 4 hulirlek, president, awl Captains Francls Gregory, E. A. I?. Lavalletus, W. 11. Gardner, and William W. McNeal' as members of the hoard. 'flits board AFPcnibled in Washington on the 2 tth ;hay, and concluded their labors on the sth of An gust. Notice Wild forthwith given the officers whom they had designatt d of their tank and position. • Thy fifth section of the law enacts that "the offi- Ve I S Simil be immediately commis sioned." but es the Senate was not then in session, and ns' the right of seleetion and appointment can -310 be conks red on :in advisory board, or bv if or Congressional action to any other trihunarthan is specified he the 'onstitutlon, the mimes rectum mended will be presented for nomination and con firmation t•ithicet to •the decision of the President and Senate respectively. The inw liming made no express provision for officers not recommended by the advisory board, either by promotion or retiring them, it question arises as to the disposition that is to be made of the officers thus superseded, for it is presumed Him - arc not to be dismissed, although a strict and literal compliance with the act would seem to require it. In another respect the law inadvertently (hies in justice to certain °Ulcers of the grade of captain, who, though meritorious, arc superseded by the act. These and sonic oilier defects and incongruities re quire remedial legislation, and I respectfully invite attention to them. NA VAL ACADEMY. • The largely increased number of vessels, and the greatly augmented force of the navy in every re spect, call for an additional number of educated and properly disciplined otheers. lint it is well known that, while the demand for officers has increased, there has been a large diminution of their number by the desertion of those who, at the commencement of the insurreetion, left the service. Efforts to sup ply the deficiency, and meet our necessities front the Naval Academy as early as possible, have been at tended with entbarrassment from legislative action in regard to appointments. The school itself has been restricted not only by its removal, but by the failure to complete the authorized number, in conse quence of no selections of candidates having been made by representatives in ninny of the districts. Whatever may be thought of the propriety of. sit rendering to the popular branch-of the legislative department of the Government appointments, or the control of appointments, expressly confided, in all eases by the Constitution to other departments of the Liovernment, nitd never to either branch of Con gress, or of•the policy of mingling, the legislative authority with executive duties, the practice of the Department has been to make the rule of appoint ment accord with.the laws which Are enacted. It is riot necessary to dismiss in this place the right of Congress to prescribe the locality from whiclrap pointments• shall be macre. As an indication of a disposition that the naval officers should be distrl -limited throughout the country, the Executive has made it a point to conform, as far ps practicable, to the mule or regulation indicated in the several laws upon the milueet. In consequence of tile insurrec tion, howeyer, and the neglect or refusal of sc veral of the States to elect representatives to Con gress, the number of midshipmen had- become re mineral at the period when the country required an ta m ease, and the efficiency of the navy was thus im paired or diminished by the rebellion, for the sup pression of which its fullest power was invoked. Notwithstanding the desire to conform to the wishes of Congress, SO far as they could practically be carried. into effect, it was deemed unwise to per mit those who were waging war against the Go vernment to weaken its energy and impair its strength; or to destroy or lessen our naval power by permitting the insurgents, through neglect, to re duce the numbers of so valuable an institution as the Naval Academy, through a literal adherence to regulations of doubtful constitutionality. Foresee ing this state of things, I have, in former reports, sumested to Congress that the Executive should. have authority, inform of law as well as in fact, to select candidates for unrepresented districts as well as for districts whose represehtatives should have made no selection. When, therefore, the period Approached for the formation of the elass of the present year, and there remained a large number of vacancies unsupplied, it was concluded to till up the. Academy by appoint-. melds for some of the vacancies created by the re hellion. Stich a course of action, plainly.demanded by the exigencies of the public - service, appeared to be in accordance with the policy and spirit.of the net of July 1.6, 1562, though some of the provisions of that act, as it was passed, appear to be expressed in ,inapt terms, and to he, indeed, to some extent,': confused, if not contradielory. The number of midshipmen authorized by law Ls 615; the number now in the Academy is 376, leaving 10 vacant:les, and it is proposed, unless Uongress shall Otherwise direct, to form a second class at - the half-yearly examination, in February, by appoint ments to all the existing vacancies, the re.presenta, tives having nn opportunity to select candidates from their respective districts, the places belonging to which have been made vacant. During the dis turbed and unsettled condition of the school and the country, I have been under the necessity of detailing and ordering to active duty some of the officers con nected with the institution, and, for the time being, have selected civilians as instructors or assistant professors. ...Under the extreme pressure for trained and edu- tided naval officers, tile midshipmen of the two highest classes were last year detached front the school, rand ordered into active service. Two ad vanced classes have been formed, which are striving with commendable Zeal to complete their studies a yettr within the prescribed period. Instruction in practical seamanship Is continued during the whole academic veer. The /midshipmen are all organized in Iwo ship's companies, each one having his station assigned him in all movements. In addition, they are embarked every week on board the practice-ships John Adams and Marion. I earnestly commend 'the 'Naval Academy to the fostciing cam of Congress, and reiterate my sense of its importance to the elliciencv of the naval service. PS cost, even upon a liberal scale of expenditure, would be insignlticant as compared with its useful ness - when properly managed. PIiIZES Persistent nod systenintic efforts to evade the blockade, and to convey articles, contraband of war, to the inSurgentsi have led to many captures. At the (late of in last annual communication, one hun dred and fifty-three vessels were reported to have been Seized by the blockading squadrons. There haVe been since captured, and reported to the Be 'flatulent, three hundred and ninety vessels of all de scriptions, makings total of five hundred and forty three vessels that have been seized since the block. WIC lira been instituted.. Sate' - of the vessels cap tured, which were frail, and not calculated for a sea 'voyage, were destroyed, but most of them, including a number of valuable steamers, have been sent In for a (Undies Hon. Some modifications of the laws relative to pro ceedings in prize eases were made during the last kei4SlOti of Congress, but further legislation would seem to be necessary to facilitate the adjustment of these cases, and insure the prompt distribution of prize money. Of the large number of vessels sent in for adjudica tion, in only forty-live have the proceedings been brought to a close, and while several millions of dollars in amount have been captured, and arc in process of condemnation, the mum/At yet ordered to be distributed is but 6351,176.51. Of this stint $370,- 595.65 is under decrees of the court at Key West. .NABINE CORPS In submitting his annual report the colonel com mandant of the marine states that the corps is now Fix hundred men short of the complement, as e.l , c. hibited by the general return, while, in his opinion, an increase of five hundred men, with a propor tionate number of officers, is required. There has always been a divided opinion- among naval officers in regard to maintaining a distinct organization of marines for service on ships-of-war, even before the great change which the service has undergone by the introduction of steamers, with their corps of engineers, firemen, and attendants. An incongruity attaches to the system, for the ma rines are partly tinder the army laws and regu lations, and partly under the naval code. On shore they are paid by a marine paymaster, on shipboard by a navy paymaster. They are subsisted on the army ration on shore, while on shipboard they havo the navy ration. Consequently, the condition of the marines varies from shore to ship, or ship to shore, as they may be employed. It would be better were the corps to be perma nently attached to either the naval or army service, instead of occupying an equivocal attitude as re gards both. The discipline and proficiency of the corps are re ported to be satisfactory. it is respectfully submitted that it is due to the corps, from its numbers rind position, that the com mander !Should be Made a brigadier gxneral, and thereby have rank corresponding with like com mands. SEAMEN AND EMPLOYEES IN NAVY YARDS. Te number of persons employed on board of our naval vessels, including receiving ships and recruits, is about 28.000 ; and there are not less titan 12,000 mechanics and laborers employed at the different navy yards and naval stations. It would be difficult to state the number employed at priVate yards and establishments on Government work, and wider contracts with the Department, THE BUREAUS The reports of the several bureaus connected with the Department exhibit in detail the operations of The year in all matters pertaining to them respec tively. The chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks details specitically the various changes that have been made during the past year in the dillbrent navy yards, and gives his reasons at length for not pur chasing land on Senvey's Island, for which a con tingent appropriation was made at the last session of Congress. lie also otters some suggestions rela tive to the location of a navy yard to meet the wants of the country in the construction of iron and armored vessels. The chief of the Bureau of Construction Stibmits, the usual stntistie.4 connected with his department. The large expentlit tire and vast details that devolve on this officer make his duties at all times arduous and responsible : and they have been immensely increased by the times, yet they have been met and discharged - with unwearied assiduity. By the establishment of the Bureau of Equmment, the labor of the construction bureau will be greatly re lieved ; yet it must ; under any circumstances, be onerous and responsible. The improvements hi ordnance equal, perhaps, if they do not exeel, those which are made in armature. On this subject great progress has been made within a few years, tied the theory and practice, under the direction of the °Meer who has giveni n it his special attention, and whose abilities n that ca pacity originally caused him to he detached front active duty afloat, and whose great services led hint to be placed fit the head of the Bureau of Ordnance, have elevated the standard of ordnance 11/ the navy. Like every other ?wand! of the public service, that of ordnance was wholly unprepared for the great crisis that befel the country in 1861, anti one of the most embarrassingfilifieulties at the commencement of our national troubles was that of procuring ordnance ss rapidly as was requited for our int:mall- Jag navy. To remedy the deficiencies and wants when our vessels multiplying, we were com pelled forn time to revert to old artillery which had been discarded, itint to avail ourselves of extra ordinary means to Meet the the nex is ling necessities. These difficulties have been, in a measure, overcome, and our prffinutee is greatly improved and im proving. to -le 1 • It gives pleasunt invite attention to the elaborate mid Interesting report of the chief of the Bureau of 1 trdnance, and to ask the fa vorable consideration of Congress to his sugges tions, partivularly those recommending as 10111)10 supply of munitions in advance for the service. The chief of the Bureau of froVlsions and Cloth ing transmits the Listed abstracts and statements of the °potations of his department and calls atten tion to the working:, virtki datly in time of war, of he present runt met system as required by law. In some respects it may be modiffisl for the better, and if the article of bread, and nerhaps other naval sup plies, were taken from the list of contract articles the Out eminent might be better served. The chief . of the burena wrl/111111e1111S the establishment of a Go vernment bakery. anti is of opinion that a more satisfactory article than is now furnished, and one less liable to deterioration, would be made, and with teeononty to the Government. The change would tunknffitedly bare its advantages, and is commend ed to favorable consideration. it la also suggested that owing to it change in the character of naval ves sets the pay of clerks to paymanters is wholly inade quate and disproportiontal to the salary of other officers. With the enlargement of the naval force, a corre sponding hwrease leis been required in the medical “department. The. report of tile chief of the Medi val Bureau furnishes the usual items of expense and the stalisties for the year of the sick, killed, and wounded. One hundred anti ninety-two have been killed, four hundred and seventy7four wounded, and tweet - -three thousand one hundred and sixty-one have been under treatment. The total number of deaths has been one hundred anti seventy-eight, a per ecntage of seventy-seven to the whole number of cases treated. ,1t the last Wiolloll of Congress an appropriation of $10,900 was made for the erection of a hospital on Seavey's Island. Then= is deemed inadequate, and the appropriation was so connected with the purchase of land that it has been unavail able. Twenty thousand dollars is desired for a hos pital at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, disconnected With the propositions for the purchase of land, leaving the site to.the judgment of the Department. As additional hospitalliccommodations are urgently needed, 1 recommend the iipplications to early and favorable considerntion. The Bureaus of Equipment and Recruiting, Steam Enginecrinn and Navigation, having been organized subsequent to the close of the fiscal year, have only oumilitted estimates for the coming year. EXP KNSES AND ESTIMATES The appropriations made nt the regular and spe cial sessions. of. Congress for the fiscal year endinA June 30,1862, were $43,615,651 17. The expenses of the Department during the same time were $1,3,200,- 529 96—leaving an unexpended balance of $1,415,- 021 Si. The amount expended includes the payment for the imnstruction of fifty-two stesniers3 the put , chase, alterations; and armamentof one hundred and seventy-five steamers and sailing vessels. all the charter-Money paid by the Department, together with all the increased expenses incident to the enlarged navy. The amount appropriated for the current fis cal year (ending :rune 30, 1863), is $52,814,38907. The estimates submitted for the fiscal rear ending June 30,1864, nokount to $68;257,/15 Old viz Narr proper.. Marine eorps. Navy yards.— liospit:ll 4 Miscellaneous $68.257,255.01 The objects for which the appropriations are re quired are given in detail in the reports of the chiefs of bureaus and the commandant of the marine corps. CONCLUSION. I have thus endeavored to place' before you and the country an expoSition of the.action of the Navy Department, and of the achievements of the navy during the past year. My account Is, I am aware, necessarily imperfect, and I, therefore, aain refer for interesting and important details .the "subSt diary reports herewith presented, which I commend to the attention of the (.4overnment and the country. lf what I have written shall be considered,ns atteat- - ing in any degree the foresight and energy of this Department, then I request that a generous measure of approbation may be awarded to those by whom I have been officially aided. esteem myself and the country fortunate in the selection of those who have been associated with me in administering the duties of this Department. In the Assistant Secretary I have ever found an able, earnest, and efficient co adjutor. And it gives me pleasure to acknowledge the aid which I have at all times received from the energy, experience t and wise counsel of the several Chiefs of Bureaus in my administration of our naval sillhirs, and which have been of the highest value to the service and the country. But most of all do I commend to the gratitude and praise of their Government and country the officers and men of the naval service. In my last. annual report I said that in their hands the historic renown of the American navy had been elevated and aug mented. Another year of their heroic and trium phant service authorizes and impels me now to state .that no country ever owed a higher_ apprebiation 'to its navy than is justly due to .ours. , No choice of naval officers for high commands .or important ad ministrative positions was ever more fortunate or successful. For myself, I claim only the merit—which, being manifest official obligation, can scarcely be con- , sidered a merit—of having, in a conscientious SOH t, devoted, in this memorable crisis of our history, *llll unwearied and unceasing effort, my.best pow ers to the performance of the arduous and responsi ble duties of the head of this Department. GIDEON WELLES,. • To the PitEsintmr. - Secretary of the Nall'. E e 1t55, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1862 THE WAR. T 11.1.: news which we publish to.tlny from the States now in rebellion seems to indicate a positive dread, on the part of the rebels, of an advance of our armies. We have an intimation that Lee's . fumy is falling back, having thiown up works about Fredericksburg for temporary- defence, to gain time . by holding our army in check in its movement toward Mame:out, the superiority of which is well known and now acknowledged by the rebels. This has been all understood by General Burnside, who long ago had the mosit positive assurances that the enemy designed falling upon our divisions now occupying points on the coast, and destroying them. To frus trate these schemes, it was necessary tq make an im mediate and important movement in front of the enemy, until we were able to attack in front and rear; with a hope of annihilating him. This end was gained in the movement to Falmouth, and the demand for the surrender of Fredericksburg, which, it must be confessed, was admirably managed, and has been eminently successful. While this little game of strategy was progressing, advantage was taken of the time gained to prepare for an important movement against the enemy by a different route from any hitherto selected. The enemy, feeling the insecurity of his lines and retreat, and his ina bility to meet the Army of the Potomac successfully in battle, is undoubtedly contemplating a retro grade movement. An advance of the army, under General Burnside, will either ' fOrce the rebels 'to fight on the RaPpahannock or -rhasten their retreat towards the James river. This matter has beezi fully weighed by ! Gen. Halleck from suggestions of the President, his Ciabi net, and Gen. Burnside, and we have reason .to be lieve that an advance will be made soon, the success , of which will show results which will prove even 1 to the "Breekinridge Democracy" in the. North that the Limited States I must .dictate its own tiwnrurfor if'n honorable peace, and not accept propo ! - sitions for a most Ignominious compromise offered by JOhn Letcher to Fernando Wood through the Maryland "underground mail," as enunciated by that gentleman in a speech made in NeW York city on Saturday evening last. The Southern '')eaders particularty desire to have an armistice agreed upon through the efforts of their friends in the loyal States, in order that they may defeat us by redoubled strength in operating against us in the spring, when they could carry on the war for months, perhaps, and secure foreign recognition. They are now in our power, and we musterush them by press ing, forward all of our columns and concentrating against them wherever they are strong. A series of defeats to them this winter will end the war and re-: store the Union. THE NEWS. ON the 25th'•of November fifteen fugitive slaves werelodged In jail at Hermann, Missouri, having been taken by the exertions of a German justice and A German constable. The citizens turned out in force and surrounded the jail. The claimants de manded the surrender of the "property,? and pro duced an order from (}en. Curtis for the delivery. This proved to be spurious. The inhabitants in that part of Missouri are immediate emancipationists. Tim% United States mail steamer Union, from Havana 'November 25th, and Hilton Head, S. C., November arrived at New York yesterday. The Union was boarded on the 26th by the United States gunboat Santiago de Cuba ; all well on board that vessel. On the same day, when fifteen miles north of Corysfort Reef, tile Union passed a fleet of vessels at anchor. A. DEsrArcit in one of the daily papers states tha General Yicic has been relieved from duty as Mill tart' Governor of Norfolk. There isnot the slight est foundation for the report. Tux New York Evening post of yesterday says, in a despatch .froni Washington : Stirring news from General Burnside's headquarters came in last night, indicating that he is on the point of making an at tack upon Fredericksburg. Heavy siege guns went down on Saturday night, and it is evident that, whatever the obstructions may have been in the way of an advance, Gen. Burnside will make the attempt speedily to go forward. lie has had difficulty with the War Department without a doubt,and especially with Gen. 31eigs, and it was reported last night that Ilfeig,s had been removed, with what truth it is impossible to ascertain to-day. All things are now arranged, and the understanding is perfect between General Burnside and General Halleck. There is but one drawback, and it is a considerable one—the bad roads.. They are in a terrible condition, and there is a prospect to-day that we are to have continued wet weather. If so, an advance is next to impossi ble. Our reports from scouts, spies, and deserters are so conflicting that it is difficult to say whether the rebels are withdrawing to Richmond, or only to their second range of batteries. A 3ingr INC: of the New Jersey Editorial Conven tion will be held at Trenton to-morrow, to take: steps to protect their journals from sustaining the destructive effects of the recent advance in the price of paper. CONGRESS. Sy:NAT - R. 7 —A resolution, asking for the correspond ence in relation to proposed iron-clad navy yard, was agreed to. Resolutions of Mr. Powell, of Ken. Ricky, condemning arbitrary arrests, were laid over. A resolution, proposing a National Convention, was alsb laid over. Hour —A bill, providing that all judgments on suits for collection of import duties shall be paid in specie, was passed. A resolution to inquire into the expediency of increasing soldiers' pay to fifteen dol lars a month, was passed. It was resolved that the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to in quire into the propriety of admitting, cotton free of du WE PI!C:SCDt to our renders this morning •the complete official report of the Secretary . of the Navy. It forms one of the most im portant documents ever issued from the Navy Deportment, being an admirable offi cial history of our greatly augmented and improved navy during the most eventful twelvemonth of its existence. WE,lind, on comparison of our synopsis with the official report of the Postmaster General, that some errors inadvertently crept' into the midnight publication. The principal discrepancy we correct with plea sure. The regular postal revenue for 1802 is Only 'own-NINE THOUSAND FOUR lILA .DItED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAItS less than it was for the fiscal year 1861. The types in their grandiloquent flight Made us :iv $4,047,550 less. es*rnATkm Loxnox ALaLtx.w.—A copy of this reliable annual for 1863 has reached us from Mr. Callender, corner of Third and NVa!nut streets. It is complete, in all respects, giving the latest and most accurate particulars as to all GOVCElllaaat ()Metals in England—Cabinet, judicial, admiralty, war (Mice, munielpal—with astronomical illustra tion, printed in tints, numerous line arts en gravings, and pictures of wild flowers, printed in colors, with descriptive letter press by Thomas the poet. This is the very best English ithim mw, and we recommend our readers tol4sll on .11Ir. 'allentler and purchase it. CONVALESCENTS.-011C hundred and fift}• convalescent soldieri were went to their regiments yesterday. The Admission of the New State of West Virginia. We trust' there will be no delay in grant ingthe prayer, so earnestly pressed as it has been, of the loyal people of West Virginia for admission into the Union as a separate and . independent State from old Virginia. Last summer, while the. bill was pending in the Senate for their admission, we took oc casion to review, somewhat at length, the grounds of their application. We advoeated their admission under the Constitution funned nt Wheeling, as amended in a single section of its provisions by Senator .WILLEY'. That amendment provides for a system of gradual emancipation, ..conimencing as early as the 4th day Of March liekt, and' continuing on for a term of years, as regards slaves born prior to that date. It is virtually.the same system as that adopted in all the States that have become free, our own State among the number. We see no reason Why the admisslon of the .State shOtild be . delayed.' We have watched with interest the efforts - which the people, of that loyal section have been making to secure • a 'new State, and every constitutional requirement has been ob served, so far as we can judge. Certainly they deserve eminent consideration at Mir hands, fOr they have been a powerful ally to the Union since this war commenced. They have furnished their full quota of troops, and even more, as we have seen by repeated showings in this paper. Tfieir new State will contain sonic 24,000 square miles and nearly three hundred thousand-in habitants. There seems to be more than ordi nary unanimity for the project ; at all events, as much as new States ever express When ehanging their Territorial condition: Indeed, $65,096;217.70 .1,248,417.31 1,601,123.00 82,400.00 33,622.01) 191518.00 Senator WILLEY, in his speech last session, averred that there =was scarcely a ." of ditference" on 'the question among the loyal people of 'West Virginia, and we presume he stated About . the truth. The ef fckt is. old one, running back alMost to the-foundation of the State, and has had for its advocates, at various periods, some dis tinguished men. As the question of admission comes up specially in the. Houk , on 'Tuesday next, to which time it was Mid' over froM last ses sion, we trust members will at once address themselves to its earnest consideration, and, unless there be good reasons to the contrary, none of which are apparent to us, speedily relieve the good people of West Virginia by granting their prayer. • LETTER FROM 6 6 OCCASIONAL:, Whenever you meet an honest man who feels disposed to allow the sophistries and falsehoodS of the 'opponents of the Adminis tration to disaffect his mind, ask him -Whe ther any one of these partisans. has, at any period since the commencement of the re bellion, indicated a desire to give the Presi dent of the United States a fair hearing, and to encourage him in .the discharge of hiS high and responsible obligatiOns. He can not .answer the question without admitting that long before the confiscation and eman cipation measures, and even while nearly the : whole country rung with applause at-the arrest of the traitors in Baltimore who rejoiced in the murder of the sons of Massachusetts, they showed . nearly AS much bitterness against the' war, and as much sympathy in favor of the . rebels, as they do this day. If I had the time, could collate from the Congressional Globe hundreds of evidences - to establish this unanswerable fact. How absurd, .then, the clamor proceeding from _ the se called Democratic • leaders, that the Ad 7. ministration :has :strayed away from its, day, to the Constitution ; and that the war, hii•• . ' stead of being conducted to sustain • that instrument, is really waged to nullify and destroy it. They were against Mr. Lincoln .and againSt the war, as I have said, whenhe was trying to prosecute it - Without legislation, and in the darkest hours they not' only Aid not approve the • re iponsibilifies he assumed, but-in the meeting of the called session. - of Congress, in julY. of 1861, they attacked. and..reviled him as well in their speeches as in their newspa pers.; All the arrests that have been made of suspected and disloyal persons, thedecla ration'of martial law, the passage of the con &611t1011 bill, the emancipationproclamation, have not made' Fernando Wood a whit less bitter than he was eighteen .months ago— haVe not stirred up stronger feelings against the Government in the ardent bosom of William B. Reed, and have not made certain politicians in the Border States, who affect to be loyal, more zealous and insincere. As the • mind . goeS back to the'dreadful interregnum between the. inauguration of Mr. Lincoln and the first day of the called session, is the retro spect not calculated to surmise even him who has been accustomed to the desperation - ' and injustice of the opponents of the Presk dent ? They make the Federal Judicial.y the palladium of the liberties of the people, and Jet, vita( Federal Judge, knorn, to be in sym pathy with these men, Tolitntarily stepped for wird, during this period, to interpose his high authority on, the side of an imperilled and bleeding Union ? Did Chief Justice Taney stretch forth his hand ,to punish the assas sins who slaughtered American citizens in the streets of Baltimore? Did Judge Cad walader, at. any period ; indicate that his heart was with the Government and against its enemies ? The leaders Of the opposition to the Administration arc just now in open or secret sympathy with the rebellion. The true Union Democrats have been deposed from command, and in every State the politicians, with rare exceptions, who marshal the De mocratic forces, are the same that marshaled the Breckinridge • party in 1860. These points may not be new, but they deserve re vival and repetition, now that it is evident that a violent and vindictive attack upon the President and his policy, on the pretext that he has departed from the true objects of the ...war, is to be made in the ninety clays' of the present short session of Congress. Special Despatches to 4 6 The Press." It seems to be settled that CAr.mn B. SMITH will shortly resign his position as Secretary of the In terior, to accept the vacant District .Tud,geship in hitherto, and in some circles it is asserted that Senator B itow's MO will succeed to the vacanciy thus created. The Reported Removal of Gen. Burnside. Nothing is known here confirmatory of the re ports that BußNSiali has been relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac. The President has sent to the Senate for confirma tion the nominations; (+Brig.-Generals SYkns and 1317Trxicrrxr.n, to be made major generals, and sixteen colonels to be brigadier generals. The Treasury. The estimates of the Treasury- Department are un avoidably delayed. The Committee of Ways and Means, therefore, have no data on which to frame the general appropriation bills. The Set retary's Report will be ready sonic time this week. An official document shows the number of seamen registered in the.-several ports of entry during the year ending with September last to be 4,800, of whom 123 were naturalized. Of the whole number, New Hampshire is credited with 23, Massachusetts 1,600, Mode Island 65, Connecticut 21, Maine 1,435, New York 155, New Jersey 457, Pennsylvania 762,.1f10rida 25, Oregon 1, and South Carolina 6. • Internal Revenue Decisions. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has made the following decision : 'Railroad companies making cars or locomotives to replace the old stock, or to increase the equipment, must pay a tax upon the whole value of such manufactures, if their annual products execed $6OO, even though the articles are manufactured for their own consumption. Carpets, when prepared hi- dealers in carpeting, and upon special orders, are not regarded manu factures, nor liable to taxation as such. Sails, when made upon order, and to suit a parti cular vesseli are not regarded as manufactures within the meaning of the excise law, and they arc consequently exempt from duty. The tax on diamonds and emeralds, when previ ously cut and prepared for setting, will be assessed only on the value of the setting. rArrest of Army Officers for Dilatoriness. The Star, of this evening, says the War Depart ment has caused the arrest of Major SPAULDI SC, of the 60th New York Engineer Volunteers, and the other officers who were with him in the recent transportation of the pontoon train from 'this point to Eahnouth, - Ya. It is alleged that Major ScAur,n rso started with the train two and a half days later than he should have, affirled, and watt, five days longer on the road than was necessary. Acting Assistant Surgeon ttAm rnEr.f. has been or demi to Port Royal for duty, on board thestontner ITIE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1862. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2, 1802 WASHINGTON. WASIIINGTON, December 2, 1.862. The Interior Secretaryship. 'promotions' in the Army. Our Seamen. Naval Orders. CommoOore McDonough. Acting Molder WAFER tiIiNE has been ordered to the 'Cairo fon duty. Acting Master SnANKr.Awn to command the Rreble. Acting Volunteer Wm. H. - Wx.s.r has been ordered to New York to command the Massachusetts. Act ing Master E. Kim nix has been ordered to Hampton Roads for duty on the Galena. The Demand Notes. It is estimated that the amount of Custom nottite Treasury Notes now outstanding is less than four. teen millions, and not sixteen millions as hag been stated. It is thought that by the middle of January this amount will: be absorbed, when the Govern ment will be in receipt of gold for customs. • The MeDowetl Court Martial. The testimony in General Mcllowtmr.'h ease, be fore the Court of Inquiry, this morning, was to the effect of his having granted protection to stunt ground which was sown with grin, belcingirig to a Mr. liovnt.sw, of Bell Plain, a man who was neu tral in politics. Also, with having secured, for the sustenance of his frunilYand servants, a small quan tity of.corn, still in his possession, and which had not as yet been taken for the.use of our army. The testimony showed that receipts w9te given to- the Union men for the property taken, but not to those who were known to be rebels. A telegram from the headquarters of the Armr of the Potomac, dated to-night, by the correspondeq, of the Asiociated Press, represents the weather as clear and cold, but contains nothing of interest in relation to military matters worth coinniunicating.l. TIEKDQI - ATITERS. OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Dec. 2.—General Arcrill, commanding a caValry;bri gade, started on a reconnoissance up the Rappahan- nock on Sunday. lie went as far as Burnett's Ford, front whence he despatched news here that he had met with no enemy. • Jackson is believed to have reached Culpeper with the intention of joining the enemy's forces now in our front. Their batteries have been Silent for the past tw•o days. The enemy continues to sireng,then and increase his works of defence. Nothing has yet transpired to show.that the rebels . have made preparations or commenced to fall back from their present poSitioii . ‘. DEPARTMENT OF .VIRGINIA. Return of Prisoners—Forty Political State Prisoners Released—General D1:011,u speeting the Troops nt Yorktown. Fowrr.Ess lito;citoE, Dee. I.—The ring-of-trude steamboat New Toil: ft . Mred from Citi!Point this forenoon, bringing down three hundreil and seventy flve prisbners of war, who were all the relies 'had'at Richmond, and forty political prisoners ; alio; about sixty laborers, who were captured on the 41exandria Railroad. Major General John A. Dix and staff left thl9 morning for Yorktown, for the inspeethin of troops at that place. TILE FRIGATE UNITED STATES. RAISED=TI.IE WORK ON VIE CUMBERLAND. FORTRESS Mowno; . Nov.. Passaic left here to-day at noon, for BaltiMore,'to. have her boilers repaired. Mr. Wells has raised the frigate ,United States, and removed her to the Gosport navy Yard. H.mis , now at work raising the CuMberland, which Was sunk near Newport News. , ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. Resistance to Rebel Conscription in :diddle Tennessee---A 'Union Regiment Orga nizing in Lincoln County—Rebels Seizing Private Provisions--Repulse ,of Rebel Guerillas, with RetvVy Loss--ardlioad Accident. ' NASIIVILLm, Dec. 2.—Much excitement' prevails in Middle Tennessee in conseipience of the: enforce meat of the. conscription act by the. rebel ; authori ties. A regiment wits being organized in Lincoln county to resist the conscription. The people fired upon a body of rebel cavalry while engaged in making the conscription. "Rebel fotaging parties were seizing the winter meat of private families. A body of guerillas attacked General Sill's forage train yesterday, but were repulsed with considerablit . loss. . , Pour passenger cars ran off the track south - of Gallatin yesterday. ARMY OF THE NORTHWES' The Sioux 'Preimring to Renew Hostilities —"Little Crow , ' to Lead them--One Thoi annd Indians Encamped at DeviPs Lake, Minn.—They Draw •theix,;SupplieS" from the Hudson Bay Compaeiy, Mr. James MeFetridge, who;nrrived in -the:city ft few days since from Pembina, reports that a-few days before he left a party of Pembina trapPers had returned from the region of country near Devil's Lake, some two hundred miles from St. Joseph, and, state that one thousand Sioux Indians are encamped, there, and that Little Crow- is. supposed to be with them. These trappers found that the grass had been-, burned "clear to the 'Rocky Mountains, with the exception of a small tract south of • De. Tins Lake, Where the Indians Were endamped.. They expressed no desire to harm them—who were half-breeds—but inquired very particularly , whether there were any Indians yet remaining on Red river. They said that they did not intend harming the half-breeds, or any one across the line ; They report their having plenty of (cattle, horses, • and mules. It is supposed by the trappers that they would ,get their winter supplies from the Hudson Bay Company, and do all their-trading with them.. The settlers at: St.- Joseph had nearly . all left 'and. grinelii Fort-Garry. A determination is expriis''Sed to open the war_agahist _the_frontier -settlers again in the spring.. This shows very conclusively that a latgemilitary force should lid stationed. Somewhere in that section of country.—St. Paul (biipn.) Pioneer. Peneeful Ocenpution of Jalapa by French Troops—No Further Ail vauc ti until Spring —Front Vrnezneln—Denth of General Sal -1 &e. NEW Yonx, Dcc. 2.—The steamer Union arrived at this port to-night, from Havana on the 25th, vla Port Royal on the 25th. The .fidvicea from Mexico note the peaceful occupation of Jalapa 'by the French, the inhabitants fleeing. There Were no Mexican troops there. The 'itiads were said to be impassable, and an attack on Puebla was not to be attempted till February. Soribra will be occupied by 8,000 troops. Advices from Venezuela mention the 'death of General Saltilla. Ex-President Monagiis was' flee -log towards Trinidad. There was no news at Havana, XXXVIIth CONGRESS--Second Sessieu. WAsuliccerox, December 2, 1862. . SENATE: Navy Yard on League Mr. GRIMES (Rep.), of lowa, offered n resolu .tion calling on the. Secretary of the Nai - Y - for copies of the majority and minority reports of the board of officers appointed in accordance 'with the net autho rizing the secretary ofthe - Nary to accept the title to League Island. Agnied to. - Kentucky State-Prisoners. POWELL (])em.), of Kentucky, offered a re solution calling on the President to inforni,the Se nate in regard to .tho number of citizens..cif Ken tucky who have been confined in military -prisons and camps of the - 'United States,- outside• of the liniits of that State, and inform them what' are the charges against them, and ,by whose order' the ar rests were made. Laid over. • Mr. McDOUCrA_LL.(Dem.), of California, offered a resolution ealling on the Secretary of the Trea sury to furnish the Senate With a statement of mone s paid for prosecuting land titles, suits; &c., in the S te of California, during 1857, 1858, 1859, 1860, and Mexico. Mr. POWELL (Dem.), of Kentucky, offered 'a joint resolution setting forth that Whereas, Many.eitizens of the United States have been arrested and imprisoned without charges against them, &c. ; therefore, Resolved, That all such arrests are unauthorized by the Constitution and laws of the United. States, and arc a usurpation of the power delegated by the peb ple to the.Pretsident or any official, and all such ar rests are hereby condemned and declared aspalpable violations of the Constitution of the United States. And it is herebydem ended that all such arrests shall . hereafter cease, and all persons so arrested have , a prompt and speedy trial, according to the provisions of the Constitution, or be immediately released, Laid over: OCCASIONAL Convention to Restore the thoimi. Mr. 'DAVISIU.), of Kentucky, offered ajoint re solution that we hereby recommend that all .the States choose delegates to meet'in Convention, at Louisville, on the first Monday in April next, to take into consideration the present condition ofthe country, and the proper means for the restoration of the Union. And that the Legislature of the States take such action on this subject as they may deem at the earliest possible date. • .The Senate then adjourneq, . . HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The conittinii of Import Duties. Mr. HOOPER (Rep.), of Massachusetts, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported a bill pro viding that nll judgments obtained by the United States in suits now pending, or which may hereafter be brought, for collection or recovery of duties on im ports or money due the United States front collect ors or other'ottleers, shall be paid in gold and silver coin of the United States. The bill was passed. Increase of Soldiers , Pay. on motion of Mr. HOLMAN (U.), of Kentucky, a resolution was adopted instructing the Committee on Military .affairs to inquire and report on the pro priely of increasing the pay of. soldiers to Siliper month, and making such a reduction in the salaries of offeerii of the army .not actively engaged as may not impair the efficiency of the public servica.. Mr. RICHARDSON (D.), of Illinois, 'offered a re solution .which, objection being made ;could not be acted upon, requiring the spay of eacit private and non-commissioned officer tole paid in gold and sil ver. .The Appliintment of Acting Mr. cALvywr (u:), of Maryland, otfeied it reso lution, Which 'was adopted, calling on the Secret:try of the Navy to inform the ]louse whether appoint ments of neting mitishiin»enChnve been tondo during the recess of Congress other than those made regu larly under law, and if so, to furnish the facts ill the case. Mr. SHEFFIELD' (N.), of Rhode Island, of ed a resolution which was adopted instructing M the Conunittce of Ways and ,Means to inquire into the expediency of repealing' so much of therlaw of Illay 20th, 1862, relative to the collection of duties on imports, ke., as provide:4 for the tliStribufion of . pe nalties among the officers of customs and others. The Importation of Cotton Free of Dairy. On motion of :lir. SHEFFIELD (U.), it was re solved that the ( 'onnittm of Ways and'illcans - be instructed to consider and report as tevtlie propriety of admitting cotton brought from foreign countries free of duty, and to report by hill or otherwise.• • Expenses of the Geniirol Loin' Office. On motion - of Mr. EDWIR DS (12epi), of New Hampshire, the Committee on Public Expenditures was instructed to inquire into -the exp(nise of the - General Land °Mee, and report what reduction may be made consistently with the public interests.. The Tax on Whisky. Mr. COX (Dem.), of Ohio, •asked leave to in troduce a resolution instructing' the Committee of Ways and Means to inquire into the expediency of a reduction of the tax on whisky to five cents per gallon, with the view of increasing the revenue. Mr. LOYE.101" (Rep.), of Illinois, oljeeted, Saying that the revenue was already large under the present law. Abrogation of Treaties With the Sioux •• Proposed.. Mr. ALDRICH (lice.), of immsota; Introthnvil •ft. hill annulling and abrogating all tmettles between ':fhe 'United States itnci certain Nimbi of Stout Lai:lllF. and for the relief of the Stliferel . by the Lulbm outbreaks in Minnesota. At half past twelve, o'clock, no further Inciinesi being uttered, the House adjourned: Army of the Potomac. MEXICO. Public l[ l nntla of California: A rlittroky, Arrests. Pennines of ell:410111g Officers. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HHADQUAIITEUS Or THE AnlllV, • WAsuirarrox, November 25, 1862. Hon. E. M. Nlon, S'emlarj of War: Stn: In compliance with your orders, I have the honor to submit the following report of military ope rations since the 23d of July ; last, when, in com pliance. with the President's order of July 11, I as sumed command of the Army as General-in-Uhief. The first thing to which my attention was imlled on my arrival here, Was the condition of the army nt Hambum's Landing on the Jamea river. I im mediately visited General headquar- Acre for consultation. I 'left Wasldngton on the 24thi and returned on the 27th. The main. object of this consultation was to ruicertaiii if there was a possibility of an advance upon Hichmond from Harrison's Landing; and, if not, to form some plan of uniting- the armies .of .General meutenan and General Pope on some other line. .Not being fa miliar with the position and numbers of the troops in Virginia, and on the .coast, I took the Prest dent's estimate of the largest number of reinforce ments.that could then be sent to the Army of the Potomac. . • 'Du the day of my arrival at Harrison's Landing, . GenOVlCClellan was of opinion that he would re- • quire Oldest fifty thousand additional troops. I la -4orineflshiffi that this 'number could not possibly be -Sent,:that I was not authorized to promise him over tWOnty thousand, and that I could not well see how even-that number could safely be withdrawn Crean other places. • He took the night for considering the - matter, and informed me the next morning that he Would make the attempt upon. Richmond with the additional twenty thousand, But immediately on my return to Washington, he telegraphed that he would require thirty- thousand, a force which it. .;was impossible to sennvithout leaving Washington - And Batimore almost defenceless. The only alter itiative now left was to withdraw the Army of the , Potomac hisomo position where it could unite with that of ' Gen.'POpe and cover Washington at the same time that-it- operated against the enemy. After full consultation with my officers, I attempt ed to fornrthis• junction on the Rappahannock, by bringing MeClellan's forces to Acquia Creek. Accord ingly, on the 30th July I telegraphed to send away his sick as quickly as -possible, preparatory to movement of his hoops. This was preliminary to the withdrawal of his entire army, which was or dered by telegraph on the 3d of. August: In order that the transfer to Acquia Creek might be made as rapidly as possible, I authorized Gen. McClellan to assume control of all the vessels on the James River . and Chesapeake Bay, of which .there- was then - a. vast fleet . _ The Quartermaster General was also re quested to Send to that point alt' the transports that ,could be procured. • ~., ; t.,;" ' ; • On the Bth I received kpriitest from General Mc- Clellan, dated the 4th against the removal of the army from Harrison's Landing, a conk of which is an nexed, marked Exhibit No. 1, with my reply on the 6th, marked Exhibit. No. 2. On the Ist of August I. ordered General Burnside to immediately embark his troops at NewportNews,- transfer them to Acquia creek, and take position opposite. Yredericksburg. This officer moved with ,great promptness and reached Acquit creek on the ; night of the 3d. His troops were immediately landed, and the transports sent back to General Mc- Clellan. • • At this time I received information that the ene mywas preparing a large force to drive hack Gen. Pope, and attack either Washington or Baltimore: The information was so direct and reliable, that I could not doubt its correctness. This gave me seri ous uneasiness for the safety of the capital and Maryland, and I repeatedly urged upon General McClellan the necessity of promptly moving his army so as to form a junction with that of-General Pope. The evacuation of Harrison's Landing,. however, was not commenced till the 14th, eleven days after it was ordered. ' Greatly discouraged at the prospect of timely aid from that' quarter, I authorized General Pope to order the main forces of. General Cox; in Westera Virginia, with all possible despatch by railroad, to ;join hint via Washington.' TO facilitate the withdrawal of the Army of the Potomac from the Peninsula, and to gain time by a - demonstration against: the enemy, General Pope pushed his forces across the Rappahannock, occu pied CulPeper, and threatened Gordonsville. Jack son's and Ewell's forces were hurried to the Rapi dan, and on the 9th of August encountered Banks' corps at Cedar Mountain. A hard fought battle en sued, and on the arrival of reinforcements from the . corps of. McDowell and' Sigel, the enemy fell back upon the Rapidan.and,Gordonsville. On the 15th, our cavalry surprised a party of the enemy near Louisa Court House, and captured im portant despatches, showing that Lee was moving, by forced marches, the main body of the rebel army to attack Pope before a junction could be formed between him and the Army of the Potomac. On the 16th, 1 telegraphed General Pope not to cross the Rapidan, and advised him to take position :in rear of the Rappahannock, where he could be more easily reinforced. He commenced this :Movement on the. 17th, and by the morning Of the 18th had most of his forces behind that river . prepared to hold its passes as long as possible. Be had been reinforced by King's division, and a part of Burnside's corps under General Reno, from .Fredericksburg. I.also directed Gen. Burnside to occupy Richard's and Barrett's fords, which were between him - and. Gen. Pope's main army. The enemy made several attempts to cross at different points _on the Rappahannock, but was always re pulsed, and our troops succeeded in holding the line of the river for eight days. It was hoped that during that time sufficient forces from - the Army of . the Potomac-would reach Acquit creek- to enable us to prevent any further advance of Lee, and even tually with the combined armies to drive him back upon Richmond.... On the morning of the 24th he made flank movment, and crossed a portion of his forces at. Waterloo 'bridge ' about twelve ,miles above the Rappahannock 'railroad station. Pope directed an attack upon the forces which had crossed the river, hoping to• cut them off, but the enemy escaped with no great loss. The annexed telegram from General Pope; marked Exhibit No. 3, dated the 25th, gives his views of the condition of affitirs at that date. , The enemy, however, had not- fallen back, as he suppokd, but, on being repulsed at wate r ier, Bridge, had moved further up the river, and entered the val! ley}chick lies between the Blue Bidge and Bull Run ountains. " • Me object of this movement was evidently to get . 'in Ape's rear, and cut off his supplies from Wash ingtOn. Anticipating this danger, IL had telegraphed to General Pope On the .23t1, "By no means expose yIktUALOALk comsitudcation: is„ of the.utmoSt importance in sending you supplies aviiP"reinforeements."' On-the 26th 1 telegraphed, "If possible to attack the enemy in flank, do so; but the main object now is to ascertain his position." From this time to the 30th 1 had no conununica lion with' General Pope, the telegraph lines being cut at Kettle Run by a part of Jackson's corps. un der Ewell, which had marched around Pope's right and attacked his rear. Finding it doubtful whether we could hold the Rappahannock long enough to effect , the junction of the two armies, I had directed a part of the Penin sula forces to land at Alexandria, and move out by railroad as rapidly as possible. As soon as I hewed that the enemy had turned Gen. Pope's right flank, and forced him to change his front, 1 ordered the re , inainder of the Army of the Potonuteto Alexandria, and directed Gen. Burnside to prepare to evacuate 'Fredericksburg and Acquia Creek. I determined, however, to hold this position as long as possible for a base of future operations. General Pope's dispositions at this juncture were well planned. The . corps of McDowell and Sigel, and the Pennsylvania Reserves under, Reynolds, were, pushed .forward to Gainesville. Reno and Kearney were directed upOnGreenwich, while. Hooker's division was sent against Ewell along the railroad. Unfortunately, however, the movement *was too late, as a large detachment of Lees army was already east of Thoroughfare Gap. Hooker encountered the enemy near Kettle Run, and a sharp engagement ensued. This gallant di vision drove Ewell a distance of five miles, the enemy leaving their dead and many of their-wound :cd on the field. As McDowell, Sigel, and Reynolds had reached their positions, there was every pros pect that Jackson would be destroyed before rein foieentents could come 'to his relief. On the even ing of the 27th : General Pope • ordered Gene ral Porter to be at 13ristoe's . Station by day light on the morning of the 28th, with Morrell; and also directed him to conununicate to Banks the order to move forward to Warrenton Junction. All trains were ordered this side of Cedar run, and to be pro tected by a regiment of infantry and a section of ar : tillery. For some unexplained reasons, Porter did .not comply with this order, and his corps was not in the battles of the 28th and 29th._ Heintiehmtn's corps pressed forward to Mantis- sas on the morning of the 28th, and forced .Tack . son to retreat. across Bull Run, by the Centreville turnpike.. McDowell had succeeded in checking - Lee at Thoroughfare , Gap, but the latter took the i road from Hopeville , to. Newmarket, and hastened ' to the relief of Jackson, who was already in rapid `retreat. A portion of McDowell's corps encoun t tered the retreating column on the afternoon of the 'll3th, near the Warrenton turnpike, and a severe lint successful engagement ensued. :Dickson was again attacked on the 29th, near the old battle ground of •July, 1861. Knowing that Longstreet was not distant, he made a most desperate stand. The fight continued nearly all dav, and was termi nated only by darkness. We had gained considera ble ground, but nothing was decided when the battle - was closed. it was renewed the next morning, and, after another. day's hard lighting, our forces fell back behind Bull Bun, the enemy not attempting - any pursuit; -. 'Two days Inter, however, he threw a considerable force between Chantilly and Germantown, to turn Pope's right. Hooker dislodged them after a short but severe engagement, in which Brigadier Generals Kearney and Stevens, two of our very best officers, were killed. Popes army had been reinforced by the-corps of 'Franklin and Stunner, and no further apprehensions were felt for its safety. During the operations of the previous week, of which we received very favorable but not reliable accounts, every effort was made to push forward I 'supplies and reinforcements to General . Pope's army. The troops front the _Peninsula were or dered not to wait for--transportation, but to march immediately to the field of battle. Some of- the - ,llprpS Moved with becoming activity, but-the tie lays cif others Wereneither creditable nor excusable; ; - Our losies in these inattleg.lvere v9rY heavy, both ,s in life and materials, but as no ',ACM' . is; - cort have been received; except a brief sketch from Gel eras Pope; marked exhibit No. 4, I have no means of as eertaming their extent. General Pope was trans 'f'erred to another department - .before the reports of his subordinates could be received; probably they will soon he handed in. Most of the troops actually . engaged in these battles fought. with great bravery, but sonic of them could ,not be brought into action at all:, Many thou Sands stm. .rled Irmo their com mands, and it is said that riot a ` few voluntarily sur rendered to the enemy, sq as to be paroled prison ers of win.. •` In order to reorganize the different corps, get the stragglers back into their ranks, and to supply de ficiencies of ammunition, clothing, &e., caused by recent losses,4eneral Pope requested and received directions to bring his army within the defences of Washington, which were then under the command of General McClellan. This movement was exe-, euted on the night of the 3d without loss. General Pope, being now second in command of the united forces, applied to be relieved, and was transferred to another department. - Although this short and active campaign was, from causes already referred to, less successful than We had reason to expect, it has accomplished the great and important ()Inject of covering the capital fill troops could he collected for its defence. Had the Army of the Potomac arrived a few days earlier the rebel army could littie been easily defeated, and, perhaps, destroyed. Eeeing an attack upon 'Washington would now be:futile, Lee pushed Iris Whirr army across lire Potonnie for a raid into Maryland and Pelinql- Vallin. General McClellan was directed to pur sue him with all the troops that were not re quired for the defenee of Washington. Seventl corps were immediately out in observation at Thinnestoivn, itorkville, and Lecsbortf, and most of his army was in motion by the sth of Sep tember. A portion of it entered Frederick on .the 12th. As this campaign was to be carried on. within the Department commanded by Major General Wool, I directed General McClellan to assume control of all the troops within his reach without regard to department lines. The garrisons °Winchester and 'Martinsburg - had been wit Inlntwa ,• to Harper's :Ferry, - mid the commanding officer of - that post lual been advised by my chief of staff to nudniv confine his defence in ease he was nt tackeil by superior forties to the position of Mary land 'Heights, which could have been held a long time against overwhelming Munbers. To with draw him entirely feina that position with the great body of Lee's foreeS between hint and our army, would not only expose the giirrison to rapture, but all the artillery and stores collected at that place must eitherbe destroyed or left to the 'etuany. The 'only feasible phin was for him to hold his posi-, lion until General McClellan mild relieve hint, or. open aseommunicatlon so ihrit hit could CI - ittant to It hi safety: These views were eommunicated.both to (3enerai fileClellan and to Colonel Mlle& The left of (10eral llellan's army pursued a' part of the enemy's Tomes to South Mountains . ; where, on the 14th, he made a stand. A severe bat tle ensued, the enemy' being defeated and driven front his position with heavy loss. Lee's army then fell Imck behind Antietam erect:, a few miles above -its nuitith i. and took ii position admiralnly suited fir defence. Our artily attdeked him on the t6th, awl it, hotly-contested battle was fought oft that am the ensuing' day, which resulted. in do defeat of the re bellorees. On the night of, the 17th our troupe slept Am the field Inielt they had so bravely Won. On the ' 18th 'neither party renewed the attack, and in the night of the 18118 and 19th General Lec withdrew his runty to the south side of thel'otonme. Cur loss in the several battles on South Mountain . mid at Antietam was 1,711 ki11ed,8,066 wounded, and COMMAS- I 913 mining, making a total of 10,121. General Mc- Clellan estimates the enemy's loss at nearly 30,000; but their own accounts give their lass at about 1.1,000 in killed' and wounded. On the approach of the enemy to Harper's Ferry, the officer in command on Maryland Heights de stroyed his artillery and abandoned his post, and on the tath Colonel Miles surrendered Harper's Ferry with only a slight resistance, and within hearing of the. guns of General McClellan's army. As this whole matter has been investigated and reported upon by a military commission, it is unnecessary for me to discuss the disgraceful surrender of the post and army under Colonel Mlles' command. General Motilellan's preliminary report of his operations in Maryland,: including the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, is submitted - here with, marked Exhibit No. 4. No reports of his sub ordinate officers have been submitted. From the 17th of September till the 28th of Octo ber General McClellan's main army remained on the north hank of the Potoinac'in the vicinity of Sharpshurg and Harper's Ferry. The long inac tivity of so large an army in the face of a defeated foe, and during the MoSt favorable season for rapid movements and a vigorous campaign, was a matter of great disappointment and regret. YOur letter of the 27th, and my reply of the 2tith Of October' i in re gard tot he alleged causes of this unfortunate delay, I submit herewith, marked Exhibit No. 5. In reply to the telegraphic order of the 6th of Oc tober, quoted in my letter of the 28th, above referred 10, Gen. McClellan approved of the plan of crossing the Potomac south of the Blue Ridge and said that he could cross at Harper's Ferry, andadvance upon Winchester. He,. however, did dot' begin to cross till the 25th of October, and then Berlin. His passage occupied several days, arid ivtis completed about the sd of November. What caused him to change his views, or what was his plan of cam paig,ning, I am ignorant, for about this time he ceased to communicate with me in regard to his operations, sending his report directly to the Presi dent. On the sth instant I received the written order of the President relleiiing Gen. .111eClellan, and • piecing Gen. Burnside in the command of the' Army of the Potomac. This order ivas transmitted , by a special messenger, who delivered it to Gen. McCicii iii at ltectortowni on the 711 t. The above concludes that portion of General Hal leek's report Which relates to the operations of the Army of the Potomac,. The following are the despatches which passed between McClellan and Haßeck on the subject of leaving the Peninsula.: McClellan's despatCh was by telegraph and in cipher, that of Halleck, in reply, was in manuscript: _ • • fExmitir No. 1. Copy in eipher.) BERKLEY, August 4, DM 7 General: Hall eel: Cimino a-Chief—Vour kelestrapi Of lost- evening• is received. I must confiss that it his (mused me the greatest pain, I ever experi enced, for I tint convinced that . the order to draw this Army to Acquia ereek will prove - disastrous in the ex treme to our cause. I fear it will he a fatal blow. Seve ral•clays are necessary to complete the preparations for so important a movement ns this, mid whitc they arc in progress I beg that careful consideration be given to my statement. This army is now in excellent discipline and condition, we hold it debouche on both banks of the James riVer,so that we are free to act iu any direction, and, with the assistance of, the gunboats, I consider our communications :15 110 w 8h1111.!. WC are twenty-five miles from Richmond, and are not likely to meet the enemy in force sufficient to 11,.1ht a battle until we have reached fifteen tcreightcch which brings US prac tically within tea Miles of Eichniond. Our largest line or laud transportation would be from this point twenty-live miles, but with the aid of the gun boats we can supply the army by water during •its mt- NiIIICC, certainly to within twelve miles of Richmond. At Aquia creek we would be seventy-live miles. trout Rich mond, with -laud transportation all the Way. From here to Fort Monroe is a march of about seventy miles; for I regard it as impracticable to withdraw this army and its material except • by land. The result of this movement would then be to march. one hundred and forty miles to reach 11 point new only twenty-five miles distant, and to deprive ourselves en tirely of the powerful aids of the gunboats and water transportation. Add to this the certain denioralization or this army which would ensue, the terrible' depressing 'effect upon the people of the:North, and the strong prolza -tinny that it would influence foreign powers to recognize our adversaries ; and these appear to me sufficient reasolls to make it • my imperative duty to urge, in the strongest terms of. our tangnnge, that this order may Le re scinded, and that far -from recalling this army, it he promptly reinforced to enable it to reassume the ollen-, sive. lt may be said that there are no•reinforce nteuts availalile. I point to General Burnside's forces —to that of General rope; not necessary fo' main tain a strict defence in front of Washington and Harpers Ferry—to those portions of the Army of the West not re qui.ted for a strict defence thre. here directly in front of tbis•army is the heart of the rebellion. It is here that all our resources should lie collected to strike the blow Which will determine the fate of the nation. All points of secondary h»portance elsewhere shotild be aban doned, and every available man brought here, A de cided victory here, and tine military strength of the 're bell iumis crushed. It matters not wind partial reverses we may meet with elsewhere—here. is the true defimce of Washington. It is here on the banks of the James river, that the U fate of the nion should be decided. Clear in my eon- ViVIIOIII , of right, strong in the,consciOnsuess that I have ever been, and still am. actuated solely by love of my Country; knowing that no ambitionsselfish motives have hilluenced'ine front the commencement of this wa•r, I do now, what 1 never did is my life before, entreat that this order may be rescinded. If my COUIWCI dues not prevail, I will, with a sad heart, obey your orders to the utmost of my powers, devoting to the movement, one of the utmost difficulty, whatever skill 1 Mal" laissess, whatever the result may be; mid may God grout that I am mistaken in any forebodings. I shall at least have the internal satis faction that I have written and spoken frankly, and have sought to do the hest is lilt- Power to arrest disaster from my country oEolloE B. MeCLELLAN,. • Major Uonera 1. Official copy. Headquarters Army, Washington, D. tiovember23, 3562. Minna WA:OTINCITON. August 6, MI MAJOR CHNERAL Ivlce:Amax, Commanding, &c., Berkley, Ya.--Veneral: Your telegram of yesrerday Was received this morning, and I immediately telegraphed a brief reply, promising to write you more fully by ' 1-Youp General, certainly could not have been more rained at TeliCh'ing my order than 1 was at the necessity of issning it. I was advised by high officers, ill whose Judgment I had great confidence, to make the order im mediately on my arrival here, but I determined not to do so until 1 could learn your wishes trout a personal in terview, and even titter that interview, I tried every 31iCtUn' Power to • avoid. withdrawing your •army; , turd delayed my decision as long mil dared to delay it. I assure you, General, it was not a hasty and incon siderate aet, but one that caused me more anxious thought than any other of lily life. But after fall a sal mature consideration of all the pros and cons, I was reluctantly forced to - thc conclusion that the. order must be is!ined. • There was to my mind no alternative. • Allow toe to allude to a few of the tints of the MSC. You ad your officers, at the interview, estimated the enemy'- force in and around Richmond at two hundred. • thousand Well. Since then, you and others report that they have received, and are receiving, large reinforce ments froM the Suuth.L,Generitl.Patie s army. now cover.- ,ing-W.ashiton. fort y !Musa ntMeu. Your effective force is only Minot ninety thousand; you are thirty miles from It iCillaUltd, anti Gen. rope . eighty or ninetv, with the enemy directly between yen, ready to th I with his superior n timbers .upon one or the other, as lie may elect. :Neither can reinforce the other in case of such au attack 1f General-Pope's army be diwinistoaa t u .., ‘ ,4,eu rce you,- Wat , hington, Maryland, and :Pennsylvania would be left uncovered and exposed. If your force be. reduced to steungten Pope you would be tun weak to even hold the position you now occupy, shuuld the enemy turn round and attack you in full force. lu other words, the old twiny of the 'Potomac is split into two parts, with the entire force of the enemy directly between them. They cannot be malted by land without exposing both to destruction; and yet they must bh united. To send Popes forces by 'Water to the peninsula is, under present circumstances, a military impossibility. The only alter nu five is to send the force On the teminsula to sonie point by water, say Fredericksburg, where the two armies call be united. Let me now allude to some of the objections which you intro urged. You say that to withdraw from the pre sent pos ition will cause the certain de :die:tripe of the army, "which is now in excellent discipline and condi tion.'' I cannot Understand why a simple change of po- Shipp ton . new and lay no means distant basis will de moralize an army In excellent discipline, unless the M arrs themselves assist 1u that doeuralizatioar, which I am satisfied they will not. Your champs. el front front your extreme right tat !hoover Court lims; to your pre sent position was over thirty,miles, but 1 - 11 ave not heard that it demoralized your troops. notwithstanding* the :se vere losses they sustained in effecting it. A new base on the Rappahannock, at Fredericksburg, brings you within about sixty miles of Richmond, anal secures a rein fiweement Of forty or nifty thousand fresh an a l a lis.elpli ucal. troops. The change with such advanta ges will, l think., if properly represented to our artily, encourage, rotifer than demoralize your troops. More- Oyer,_ yourself suggested that a junetion might be effected at Yorktown, but thole ißa t ik march acme: the Peninsula would be more hazardous than to retire to Fortress Monroe. You will remember that Yorktown is two or three mites farther train Richmond than Fredericksimrs Is; besides., the latter Is between Richmond and Washington, and cover'' , Wash i»izton front any attack by the enemy. ' . The political effect of the withdrawal may at first be unfavorable; but 1 Bak the public aro beginning to understand its necessity. and that they will have much More confidence in a united :wary thou In its seperate fragments'. But you will reply. why not reinforce me here, so that I can strike Richmond from my present position ? To du this, von said, at our interview• that you required fifty thousand additional troops._ I told you it -was im possible to give you se many :. You fi nally glat you would haVe “solte Chance Of success with • twenty thO nsan d, But you afterwards telegraphed to me that you would require thirty-live Boma:1'1141, - as the enemy Was being in rgoly reinforced. If your estimato of the enemy's strength wits .correct, your rennbatjon WOO perfectly reasomible, but it was latterly impossible to till it, until new troops could be eu listed and organized, which would require several weeks. To keep your ene my in its present position until it could be su re-inforced, Would allnost destroy it bt that climate. The. months of August aud,September are almost fatal to Whites who live on that part of. James river, and even after yon gut the reinforcements asked Aar, you admitted that you must reanee Fort Darling:and the river batteries', before you could advance on Richmond. It is by 110 Ineali4 certain that the reduction Of these fortifications would net require considerable time, perhaps as much as these at. Yorktown. This delay might not only be Wail to t h e hteudth of your army, but in the nwentime General Pope's hornet's would be, exposed to the heavy Wows of the enemy without the slightest hope of assistance from you. In regard to the demoralizing' effect ore withdrawal from the Peninsula to the Rappahan nock, I must remark that n large number of your highest officers, Indeed a majority of these opinions have been reported to me, are decidedly in I . :Worn!' the movement. Even several of those who originally advocaat:A the Hue of the Peninsula, now advise Its abandonment. I have not inquired, nna .not desire to know, by whose advice or for what rettsons, the Army of the Poto mac was separated into ports, will the emany.betweeu them. 1 nmst take things as I find theni. I find the forces' divided, and I wish to reunite them. Only one feasible plan has been presented. for doing this. If you or any ono else, had presorted a better one, I Certainly should have adopted It ; but all your plans require rein forcements, which it is impassible taa gave you. It is very easy to 'az* for reinforcements, lint is not so easy to dlsc them, when you have no disposable tramps at your cum- 'nand. • I have written very plainly, as I understand the ease , and !hope you will Ow ion Malt 6011:4011T COUSideTCII the matter, although 1 may have arrived nt t,liffereut con ir9Pl klw very yopr obedient servant, • W. IiALLF.Cii, • • • General-in-Chid Official tan/j': J. C. KNl.TON,lltalit 0011A1111 The remainder or the report of General % Halleek eon". sists in a review of operation'', Su ilie \\r(4 and South' we't. The other exhibits any the Hal lett: letter, which has been published, and the letter of Secretary Stanton, to which it was a reply. Also, a dispatch from General. pope, relative pt Silo oyorations in the battles hetwoen the Potomac mut the Hupp:din imork. Political Ciiticistn in the Journal.la orParht. Natioleon 111 has effectually curbed the press in France; no man dares print except by permission of the Emperor's agents. But even these active helpers of despotiSm cannot prevent witty Frenchmen from uttering—though under their breath—those line sar casms with which the wittiest people in the world avenge themselves on their oppressors. ' The French correspondent of the London Spectator —understood to he ill. Lowis-lihmc—in a recent. let ter remnrks, on the eondition of France. that— a A stranger, looking at the imperial Mansion from ti. distance, will, no doubt, be struck with its grand proportions and stately appearance; but let him draw near and step in, he will find that the rooms are uncomfortable, cold, badly lighted, and badly ventilated; that the windows rattle, that the locks do not act well, and that. the doors are not se cure. The - stranger who contents himself whit look ing at the mansion from outside is the one who judges of France by what he reads in the newspa pers. The stranger who visits the house is the one who derives his knowledge of what Forme really is from this far more abundont source of infermation— conversing with the household." What the usual "conversation of the household"' is he proceeds to shore by several exanurles, which • 'prove that the French salons have not degenerated, ' at least in respect of wit, under the empire. He says: . 4 ' The voice of the press (as M. Eugene Pelletan very acutely remarks in one of. his. last Pamphlets). har = ing grown silent in disguise,publie. curiosity , has railed into existence a kind of m 10011101,5, un i written Journalism, which is whispered Masse to the ear, and circulates from mouth to mouth, invisible I as the air, rapid as the wind. i "..% sort of oral press, which floats, Ades, penc- I hates everywhere, necessarily uncontrolled and decked in mystery, will always be name telling than I any printed newspaper, however hold its language a MI powerful its logic: No endless articles of un sparing criticism, freely circulated,.could have pro-' deiced the same effect on the public; with relation to the contiseation of the Orleans property; as did the following pun, which ennui in whispers to-everyone, and rests on th-double nienning of the French word I rot (theft and flight): ' Celle confi sea 101 L est le premier i col de l'aiyle.' I " No volumes of bitter censure could have done I more harm to the Second Empire by:contrasting it with the lirst than the followiug piece: of rhymed 1 satire, although, to my knowledge, itnever appetwed 1 in priot : "' Des Jenx Napoleons les gloiressont egules. I - I . I ll' .,,,. . l :. 'l4 p ti, r .t i eL s o ::: i t:l7lll .l. 3 r, i 3 r . :l:Tc l u i : A l i t:i i r r l 3 s:l ' i l i e l !s s , t e c i ::i i i p p T i t::: ll l:o x s : . 7 7 , . .---witich, roughly put into English, may be rondeced • as follows: ' - Ilu; glory of the t wll nk]hll(.llll,4 is MIMI: • - . ' I But they tsi i ii NI Clot)' by difrerplit wails : • . The first ca phi red the capitals of Enrols\ 1 The second seized the canna! (t ressun9 of rratiN. • But the best example follows; it has been credited to a French academician, one of the leaders of the Orleanist party, a quondam Minister of Louis Philippe. Being asked by a lady what was the ex act difference between the word accident hod the word mollieur he replied immediately: "Supposons Que P EnTemur Comic don; via piths, ent lin accident; ,supposons que ram . Perteliriez, ear am. malheur,P— -" Suppose the Emperor falls into a pit, that's an ac cident ; suppose you help him out, that's a mis fortune." STATES IN REBELLION. Neer* from Richmond to the 29th instant R.mming . the Blockade—The War in Vir ginia—Nevi- Brigadiers—Richmond. Items— prom Florida and Mississippi—Message of Governor rickeus, Miscellaneous Items, CONSCRIPT tAW CONSTITUTIONAL.. The Richmond Enquirer of Noveniber 26 says: The judges, as me learn frOm the Ge - orgia papers, :Were unanimous in the opinion rendered by the :Su preme Conrithat the conscript law is constitutional. TILE' NEW SECRETARY OF WAR. James E. Seddon, EsO:, of Virginia, has been spy pointed Secretary of War, to fill the vacancy occa sioned by the resignation of R andolph, RAN THE BLOCKADE. WaxiXoToN, N. C., November 24.—A despatch from Fort Fisher Says the schooner Flushaway, it days from Nassau, with 510 sacks of salt, has arrived Safely. SMALL-PDX IN THE SOUTHERN: TIOSPITATA IThe Richmond Enquivi.r of November - 29th says : • The Small-pox has made its appearance in the Van rine hospitals. FOUR NEW BRIGADIERS. . The :President has appointed Colonels Cobb, Dbles Iverson,- and Uolquitt, of CreOrgim brigadier generals. COTTON COMING NW:TIE The Enquirer says- it is useless to disguise the fact that the Abolitionists of Memphis and Helena have succeeded in getting a .good deal of cotton. Wagon loads nre daily going in, and boats go up the river heavily laden. GE N. JOHNSTON Fon THE WEST.—Gen. :Winston and' stall' will leave Richmond to-day for the West. ANOTIIEII 'REBEL CANARD WIMIWGION, C. i .lcoy. 28.—" A United States gunboat was Captured in New river, OnSlow county; OD the 20th, by Neivkirk's cavalry. The crew escaped after setting the- stetutier on fire. She had becn :at Jacksonville and broken open the court house and, post office, carrying off all records and papers." .ItAILROAD ACCIDENT A railroad accident occurred on the Wilmington and Alanchester Railroad, on the 28th ult., killing two Misses Newbold, of Charleston, and wounding several. _ ' • DO - WN ON BURN SIDE The conduct of the Yankee Abolition -trim', under • Burnside, has exceeded that of Popes, The out ragas in Pang : l:tier require retaliation, prompt,:swift, and effective. FEAES ABOUT. SUFFOLK' The RiehmOnd tV/dy of Nov. 27 says : The Peters 7 reports large reinforcethents of the enemy concentrating at eufiblk, and that they num ber 33,000. Also that an attack is to be made on Weldon to cut A' the railway communication. Abner -Tackson, — a prominent citizen of Knox county, Tennessee,has heed arrested upon the charge of disloyalty to the Confederacy, find committedto To-day, at auction, N. O. molasses brought $3.90@ 4.10 lEvgall.;' brown sugar, in bbls., 672 fib 70c.; old rice, 8; 3 4:c.; white and brown sugars, 50 to 55c. lfr lb.; super curb. soda, $2,50 1,117 lb.; fine salt, $1.05®1.25 143' VIE 'NEXT BATTLE The Enquirer says the next battle between Lee and Burnside may be a very decisive one. That an overwhelming Victory on' the part of Lee and the defence of Washington Would be gone; and that city may be captured- Such a result should he before the eyes of our soldiers and be the object of the con-- test. Upon , 11143 next battle, therefore, depends whetlievthe ivar shall end, or drag along, in unde— cided battles, or mere material victories. PRISONER CAPTURED Lieutenant E. johnson, 11th Maine Regi 'neat, was brought to Libby prison yesterday. He was captured. with four others, in Matthews county, while attempting to destroy the salt works in that County. CILATMESTON ITEMS The Charleston Mercury, Nov. id, says, the State Legislature met at Columbia the 24th. The Gover nor's message will be read to-morrow. A large assortment of photographic materials, se lected with great . care' in London, has just been received by the last steamer. The 46th Georgia Regitneut was reviewed on the Battery yesterday, by Gen. Howell Cobb. The General goes to Florida to assume conimand of a military district. The Wilniington telegraph office is again opened. Walter If. Brooke, a Maryland refugee, acci dentally shot. himself at Danville last week. FLORIDA AND MISSISSTPD I An immense bed of rock salt, atibrding, apps. rently, an inexhaustible supply, has been discovered at Opelika, Ala. The Florida Legislature convened at Tallahassee on Monday hist. There was no quorum, in either house, so they adjourned. 'Jackson, Bliss., was fired in several places on the night - of November 12. MESSAGE OF GOY. PICKENS Gov. Pickens' message to the Legislature was re ceived the 25th. He urges the.support of the Con federate authorities in measures for common de fence. lie forbears, in view of the crisis, to object to the conscript law, though viewing all such acts as against the spirit ofthe Constitution. He alludes to Lincoln's emaneipdtion proclamation, and re commends the formation of a State Guard of citi zens vender 18 and over 45, for police duty. He says, The State has furnished 42,000 Confederate troops, besides eight regiments for coast defence. He urges prompt organization of negro labor, so the fortifloa. lions around Charleston may be made permanent. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS The Atlanta (Ga.) Daily intelligence,' of the 9th. '-says .a' despatch from Abbeville states that our Ca , v4lry again occupy. Bully .S . prir...,s, and the enemy have retreated to Grand 3 unetlolvand Bolivar. The Richmond- Dispatelt of November 29th says everything at Fredericksburg is in a state of inac tion. It is reported that the enemy in force have moven eighteen_ukiles_up the Rappahannock toward Warrenton unction. - - Mobile is to be defended to the last extremity, and though the enemy may burn its edifices, they shall never hold a parrot' its soil in peace. Great preparation is being made for the defence of the coast of North Uarolina. . Forty-five Abolition prisoners arrived at. Libby prison yesterday morning from Tennessee, and four Yankee deserters from the White House. The Richmond Wltig, of November 28, says: "One of a partisan corps in Tennessee was captured by the 'Yankees and hung. The colonel of the regiment subsequently caught some Yankees, and hung five of theni, and sent word to the Yankee General what he had done, and stated it was his system of warfare to hang five for one. "We hear nothing more of the rumored move ments of the Yankees below Petersburg." The Municipal Election in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—A small vote was polled at the city election to-day. Brennan (Dem.) was elect ed over Haws (Rep.), for City Comptroller, by about 10,000 majority; and Develin (Dem.) elected Cot:po tion Counsel, over Bradford, by nearly 15,000 ma jority. Elections in Massachusetts. BosTox, Dec. 2.—At Chelsea, yesterday, Frank B. Fay was unanimously elected mayor. Cambridge elected George C. Richardson for mayor, by nearly unanimous vote. There were no party issues in either election. The First South Carolina Colored lte- giment. . BOSTON Dec. 2.—Rev. T. W. Higginson, of Worcester, ' lllass., has. accepted the coloncley 01 the Ist South Carolina Colored Regiment. _ Fire at Chicago. CHICAGO, Dee. 2.—Barthamss planing mill was burned last night—the loss estimated at ::140,000. The lire was the work of all incendiary. THE IRON-CLAD PASSAIC. She is a Perfect Success—Steering a Ship at Sea with a Looking-u lass—lnlinence of 'YOU. oi► the Magnet Overcome Entire Seaworthiness of the Passaic. O, BOARD THE PASSA Foi:•rurss MoNnor:, Sunday, Nov. 30, 1862. 'We have arrived here safely, and I hasten to transmit an account of the tirst voyage of the " Se cond Monitor." 1 have already telegraphed about the two bolts starting in our boiler. It made it ne cessary to shut oil' steam, and we were towed up. But the trial was over—the experiment fairly tested. I suppose you know that; beside the apparatus for Bring our great aim, and the small hole in the tur ret, there were other principles inrolved in this ship which needed application to show their value. They were :' First. The water-tight nature of the tnrret. Second. The arrangvment for using the compass. Third. The sea-going qualities of the ship. In regard to the first-named principle, it will be remembered that the leakage of the original Moni tor's turret was found to be a serious Inconvenience. Water forced itself under the huge "castle of iron," and in a heavy sea, when these low craft are almost n buried in the deep," it was thought that this fea ture would be fatal to their Success. A new inven tion was devised. to remedy the difficulty. It has aim the rurrei- is .- wirierliViOfi Thera is even no use for the little channel made fo earry otr the "inevitable leakage," as thercis no leakage at The second principle is a grand one: It enabieS sailor to steer the heaviest iron-clad through a looking glom You know that no compass can perform itA functions within such an iron prison as a turret. The magnetic needle acts sluggishly and lifelOss, pointing never correctly. There . was another diffi culty to be overcome. It has been removed in a beautiful manner. The reflection of the compass' movements is conveyed to the helnisinan through a mirror, the compass itself being raised far above the deadening Influence of the iron house. In battle the compass is removed, it being onlya4sential at sea. A wag observed that thelooking-gacs win also make the :lack Tars look to their cleanliness, or to -their dirtiness. The third Principle tried is the general sea-going qualities of the new Monitors. Being water tight, where alone water could always come.,they are wanes safe. if reseh the top of the turret they may wash over, but cannot drown anybody. The steadi ness of the craft is wonderful. Moving through the roughest tide, she is as free from rolling and pitching as one could well imagine. With fine engines she might steam round the world. IVe are ordered to Washing - ton. What is the bu siness on hand for us it is not for me to say, if I know. 13nt Monitor No. 2ls successful, and that is good news enough for one letter. BOARD OF RAILROAD PRESIDENTS.—The stated meeting of the Board of Presidents of the City* Passenger Railway Companies was held yes terday at their room, No. 25 Exchange. The prin cipal business was the consideration of the viola tion [of the rule in regard to the exchange-ticket system by the Ifestonyilie Company, and the Fair mount and Arch-street Company. The subject at a previous meeting having been referred to a special committee, Mr. Flanigen, the chairman, yesterday made a report to the &feet that the rules of the Board were being violated by both of these com panies. The report recommended that a resolution which had been passed in October, providing for a discontinuance of the exchange with the Heston ville road be rescinded, and, on motion of the chair man of the committee,the resolution was rescinded. The committee also recommended the passage of another resolution, to the effect that, unless it should be shown to the satisfaction of the president and secretary of the ]kiardi that the system of ex change now in Practice between the Fairmount and Arch-street road and the Hestonvillo road is discon tinued on or before theSth inst., the president shall give notice to all the railways in this city, that the exchange with the Hestonvilte Company and the Fairmount and Arclr : street Company shall be dis continued. Dlr. Dungan, on the part of the Arch-street road, resisted the passage of the resxdution. It was advo cated by Dlr. nudge'', on behalf of the committee to whom the subject had been referred, and on a call of the yeas and nays was weed to. nuler the operation of this resolution, the ex changes with , these two roads will he discontinued nn 'Monday next; unless the system now being prac tised shall be discontinued. The question of advainceil Etres was not brought up, and, there being ro adjourned. TRADE meetings were held last el-ening, 41)11 note the following : TILE Lortn-s norm steN. This body met again last evening at 4-„, mond streeta, for the purpose of fur n , in ,, society. No business of puldi,t transacted. The long-shore men or effected an increase of Wages, as d„ to at former meeting, and /lOW, for u v :: better protecting their interests, ri e -• . ieg t beneficial association. THE SHEET-IHON ThiS meeting was held at the t.lirhr,•ll - James McNally was president, and 'iv, Mire secretary. The following committ'i.," Pointed to prepare a list of prices: ' CilMon, Cornelius Keefe, Joseph p, p n t j yid Trout, Itohert Harroll. ph e lint vl sented by them for the making of gaA.4,,,,,, ; : 'N was As follows : For sixteen -inch stove; .„.*'!' teen-inch, V 2.25; twelve-inch, : ; ',2 ; t c. , n c r - :•4 The object of the meeting w,s ostert.t,:,'' purpose of obtaining prices width were the working-men as their due; Fomeu''' obtained fora sixteen-inch, and gF IS inch hospital stove. It was stated tinc.,;'', the bosses having made a contract for twenty-five cents had been taken on each stove.. To remedy this WhithUhi, night's meeting.. Operatives had i , k nock w ,4 t and agreed not to resume it moil -144: should be complied with. It was the that the men should share to Sstile et r vantages of their bosses, and that s o lain article should lie made fors, A list of prices was unanimously ad;,l:,': present, until a further and mom etinmiet:: ment: could be entered into. The 'Wm M. D Mirkmire, moved that ato a,„4: m be appointed fro among the ti n , i 4::'; act in conjunction with the sheet-iroh;r,;';,4':- Iriously appointed, for the purpo,c„ Preamble and resolutions for a ' have a voice in the formation of the hi; . 0 ; This Was .ttnanimomsly adopted, aril tha appointed Messrs. Elias Craig, j.4„ in , j 4' 1. ." , John Bradherry, Edward kn hrakth, tbd Dirkmire. It. was then nuir e „ a cononittee be appointed to t q „4 %,,,0 who had refused to give the inks; nanari.; • report to them the action of the meeting The president appointed Thomas man, David A. Johnson and David Tina - tion to appoint a committee to wait ep o . „lJ working at reduced prices at Mr. S;tir,;, Market street, above Eleventh, wai carried, and Messrs. Johnson, Albert Pole; John Felthouse formed the committee, of those who had signed the resolutions the list 'of prices adopted were then re.: meeting then adjourned to meet neat Satu ning, at eight o'clock, at a place discretiam:: the secretar3-, MEET/NO OF GAIZ3TENT CrilEß•, meeting of the Asset:Wilmot' Praetical,h Cutters was held last evening at the ;oat,,: tier of Sixth and Minor street;, Aher th; of the minivta ; of the previous: ineetinz, th e tion was signet by these present, eaTh per, or , same time paying a fee of fifty ce 2 t, L An for permanent officers was then lowing result President, dent, S. Frederick; Recording ;;;c,xt,,, t . ,110, con; Corresponding Secretary, Ray ; T r ., 11. J. Sandy; Board Of Trusteei.—MNir!.n.: FOrtner, Hurst; returned thanks for the honor ronfern-q and disavowed the idea that the altie;a was to coMbine against the capitalisti. CITY ITEMS, TILE LATEST AND CeJtEATEST sIENT IS SKIVING MACHINES.-01 aII l i t,_ inventions that have yet issued frost tith century, the greatest, beyond doubt, is se Machine—and so from the fact th;lt. au (fir vitally calculated to promote and prev to.w; properly to save the health of mottles. sr.,l to quently the physical health and well-belsrit race. It is, therefore, with more dis uee t, terest that we watch the progress is thh Leu invention, and from time to thae ehrosEt sults. The latest and greatest inintmew,e z •! .: important department, as all who t•VilLiv strument will admit, is that entitled. Won *: of its inventor, "LATanor's Parts; E SHKTTI:E STITCH SKIVING .MACIHNE... tion of Mr. Lathrop, and sold in this • Chestnut street, by Mr. r-Sainuel the sole agent for its sale. There as , 5• desirable points attained in tidi constructed new machine, which Lee been wished for, but never heretofore Prominent among these is the fact that ;:iho: quire onv rewinding of the thread, a pre.e..4 necessary in all other instruments setkin;th:4 tie stitch, and which consumes melt of fne4 tor's time and labor. The effort to °brie? necessity has repeatedly been attemptedA first) practical success in its iterompitel belongs to Mr. Lathinp, and is the re: years of experimenting and great et: This Machine makes the (Indic siitrii and fnore easily than any other last: In other words, it makes • the sluittis without the shuttle! It is, in fact, a north line, and will he examined with intereqkr is operated with such case that a chile c i with facility, and it Is so decided ace: eallat labor_that nopultuity must very sw: universal. For all who Wish the best s e si 2l chine, for either family use or ruannhatit; poses, and the one that is worked with t! , labor, and that will produce the maw tloti. work in a given time, the new Latitrop.e!Eti questionably the one to buy. In lieu . of in it vantages which this instrument pro4set. not surprised to find that Mr. idatiertsmdos is receiving numerous appliea I ions to esetia..A have been the popular old maeldnri licretke this. They are made and offered ittflaw•!:', . styles and sizes,.and are no less an imptsev the reaSanable prices at which they areadi essential superiority of their meehardi• tion. We omitted to state, from ottrow:par. serration, t hat the :Machine here refioreOn•tc well adapted for the lightest or the very heWS ing that is required. In sewing leadter•g•' and all the heavier fibrous fabrics. it is tetle equal. , It sheiuld be well sad ea:and:led b*: ton by everybody, at No. - efi liestaut stref. OPEN liS THE BM:in.—We .s formed by Mr. F. Gutekunst, Nos.lol and • street, that during the holidays his eleganti/t will be open to the public in the eveningut: o'clock, beginning with this -week. Tothto are unable to .examine this temple of Ptak. excellence in the day time this will be it i opportunity. .A fine assortment of Albums, Frain.'. TiSiie of noted personages, etc-, etc._ ft: act days, will be displayed for sale at his emmt•li. STATISTICS 01" THE PRINTING —Tee late census returns of numufactur;^ blishments in New York reveal the astoul that more capital is employed in earrria; printing trade than in any other Noise' amount being over eight and a half Haloes! six thousand persons are employed in this ins industry in that city, and the raw material= :c by the several establishmeats in carrying' 0 enormous business is overss,ooo, o iXta year. braces the article of Coal. which is obtained. i: men 'sure from this city, thekties of Mr. \:'.R'. Ninth street. above 'Poplar, alone being abst: 1 this amount to New York and other eiti•• • Union . II is coal is better and eheciwe thin in Philadelphia. A. GREAT CLOTTIESO E5T.01.141311: Messrs. C. Somers L Son, No. tai t.7b.tr:V have unquestionably made the "hit' sifY: in turning their immense cloth goods into a mammoth merchant tailoricvsin are literally ovenchelined with engem . "' admitted on all hands that they (twat.% pant, mnore„ fashionable, better-made. fitting suits at the prices charged t9sa e: clothing house In the co litr2,•. THE GREAT Pin L.VDET.1•141.% ferrNr.—Messrs. Charles Oakronl tie and 5.16 Chestnut street, under the l'onaie: tel l Kaye !Ws pease!) t . laa s imstratell. preparing in princely style to meet ofl'hiladelphia in 'Rich raney s t s .:‘ stock in these articles is nuraltiemtt, amt ettidy Amount , up .enornously. ;1%. all who are in want Otrunt to visit thi-c' 111Prit. THE SEASON volt PHOTindlAllf The present is a bu=s - season :moat :tn.:, class rhotogrnphers. The splendid :rronn:-. e lery of Blr. }Tipple, No. SN Ara strmrt with applicants for bls superb pictur o during the week, in all kinds of weather. MEss MACKEREL, SAIMINES. ETC.—Mr. C. IL :Mattson, dealer in tine foal' ries, Arch And -Tenth sto: , els, has now :o fresh supply of Mess - Al ackerel, Sardine:O W and spiced Salmon, all put up In the la-it ire family use, and of the choicest quality, to r invite the attention of our reader FOR BEATTTIFULLY-FiTTINO SW' B nueEs, our ady male* iho'l Oakford fc Son's, under thel Nintinentalliel portent State P jlE i S ia ll e7l l :l S l be. l i l t . : 4 1 ; terest. It closes with the following I ° l words : " The dreams of the quiet past 1 . (late to the stormy present. The occasion high with difficulty, and we must risehi the occasion. As our ease is now, so weaa•. anew and act anew. We must tiik•O't selves, and then we shall save the constr. the. President had added, "and every eine wear the elegant and comfortable garments • made at the Brown Stone ClothintriVi'' hill & Wilson, Nos. tier! and 0)5 Chestail l above Sixth, Philadelphia," he would el': uttered a truism which none would have t rity to gainsay. A. MGR-n{ICM) KrBs.- I Ve tt Tea lowing from a neighborlngjournsl : chant recently threw his arms annual a rri lady at Philadelphia and kissed her. Il e . rested And held to $5OO hail, whieh he 11' suddenly leaving the city, having arrng' surety." The Texan merchant was gr.' taking one-tenth of the $5OO, suit of clothing at Charles Stokes, [a. Clothing store, under the Continental. tte': to the ldy, he could have had the kiss ler One hundred coat hands wanted at Charlei • highest prices paid. MARKS OF. DISTINCTION. ---When : ' is always sitting by the tin., he may be Pas . as a grate man : and he ought likewise to ed. as. a clever musician, from the fact ' stantly poring over the bars. Should I , te 1 .0 feet to an angle of 45 degrees, yon may.itolt.'„ a man of elevated uliderstanding. But • F ; clin . e . to use the poker, he is untloubt.ekti,teo,"„ , rrOpOiAitieS. If he purchase elothilVtt/“. Clothing Emporium of Granville Zto Chestnut street, Philadelphis. you lt7; ' he is a wise man, And is worthy' of
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