THE PRESS, pOHLY DAILY JOHN ( W SU FORNEY, NDAYS EXCEPTED,' . 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE DAILY PRESS r ,;(I'l , o (ItNTB PRR WRRki payable to the CarOK to Subscribers out of the City at EIGHT DOLVERS oht illf, Foote DOLLARS FOR Six rtioNTHs, Two'D'Oir rex TFIRRR MONTlM—invariably in advance for the on ,,waered. Jr Advertisements Inserted at the usual rates. Sis constitute a fignaFe,. TILE TRI-WEEKIN-PRESS, nriiied to Subscribers out, of the City at Form DOL , Vsa ANNIIM. In advance. RETAIL DRY GOODS. USFFUI AND ACCEPTABLE CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS. E. M. NEEDLES, 1f0.1021 ERESTEIITT STREET, o r , the special attention of Purchasers of PRESENTS Iva Iriv COMING HOLIDAYS, 0 his extensive stock of articles suitable for that'pnr• t otia . FOR PRESENTS - la dies' aud Gouts' Colored Bordered Handkerchiefs. Do do Heinati Whoa do Do do In 2, 2,4 and 9 inch wide hems. Do do Printed Borders, Do do French anti clear Lawn, Do do In all kinds of Lace. HandkerollieN, of all kinds. gents Handkerchiefs, of all kinds. ,Chlidren's Handkerchiefs, of all kinds. Ike Ball assortment of Handkerchiefs in tba city. FOR PRESENTS`: VIM(' Lace Veils, 442 and upwards. Cambric Lace Veils; Me. and upwards. volute Lace Collar Sots, $1.,50, and upwards, French Work do, all prices. PRESENTS glacewa FI L ER kinds of LAOS GOODS : Colffatres and Barbee. Ls es by ' Robes and Waists. Att Lac the yard, kinds Lace Sleeves. no Bands and Flonnelnals. Do Embroideries. ALBO, 211 dozen Cambric Handkerchiefs, Embroidered with nitials, jut received. . vdezen Cambrio.Rullied Bandkerchlets3, Embroidered Colors, 10 dozen Valencienne Lace Handkerchiefs •- le ,sa rc i t h i lr Gents: and Children's Printed-bordered Hu t a •i . 10 dozen Ladies' Ivory Initial Calf Buttons. )pieces 13-4 French Muslin, 2 yards wide, for Party e s effea, at old prices, 71Ai10ES. Complete Stook of WRITE GOODS at LOW Linen Napkins at Old Prices. • Any of the above will make a useful and beautiful ,NRIBTMAO Pansarcr, and Buyers will find it to their •eivantage to inspect my stock before making their mrchases, es, with few exceptions, it is offered at Ow Were, and cheaper than present wholesale rates. de2-1111 !fTOLIDAY PRESENTS. JOHN W. THOMAS, v i i. 405 AND 407 NORTH. SECOND STREET, Weald call attention to his LARGE AND WELL-ASSORTED STOCK. COMPRISING EVERY VARIETY OF DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS AND CLOAKS. ALSO, LACE RDEES., COLLARS, AND EDIBROIDERIES, *;t every description, suited for CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR deIeatP_,RESENTS. cE YRE & LA.A.NDELL, E. a, L. FOURTH- AND . 4.lgar, HAVE MARKED SOME ETRE GOODS AT LOW PRICES. .FOR , 110fLIDAY GIFTS. 3XPENSIVE Si? A TLS. RICH BROCADE SILKS. ThSHIONABDE POPLINS. tFROBTEDpEAVER CLOAKS. RICHEST PRINTED REPS. TINE BLUE MERINOES. SCARLET 'BROGUE SCARFS. POINT LACE COLLARS AND SETS. 'W FANCY POCKET MMUS, aLOVES OF FIRST QUALITY ONLY. dc9•tf USEFUL , PRESENTS., To persons who would make a useful and acceptable - zift the sulgertbere respectfally invite attention to the ,' , .lowing named articles, of which they have a large a.:6 , ,rtment .AT QIJONV PRICES: EMBROIDERED IiDKES., SETS; AND COLLARS. EMBROIDERED 'LACE AND iIIUSLIN CURTAINS. EMBROIDERED PIANO AND TABLE COVERS. FINE WHITE Ali'D PINK MARSEILLES QUILTS. PREMIUM SEED BLANKETS. • AFGHAN SOFA AND CARRIAGE BLANKETS. RICH DBL.;DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS. NAPKINS, POMMIES, A_ND TOWELS, to match, etc. 3IIEPPARD, VAN HARLINGEN, AND ARRISON, Staple and House Furnishing Dry Goode, 10ItS CHESTNUT Street. JAMES R. CAMPBELL & CO., IMPORTERS AND CASH DEALERS IN DRY GOODS; AT WHOLESALE AND . RETAIL, 7%7 CHESTNUT STREET, Have just received, and are now offering, magnificent SIDES, SYLIMLS. AND DRESS GOODS. ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO THIS SEASON. n01.2m FINE. CLOTH CLOAKS. FINE FROSTED BEAVER CLOAKS PINE BLACK TRICOT CLOAKS. MEDIUM-PRICED CLOAKS. FINE BLANKET SHAWL& EXTRA CHEAP BALMORAL& • FINE LARGE BLANKETS. SUPERFINE FROSTED BEAVERS. CASTOR BEAVERS-TRICOTS: BOYS' FINE CLOTHING. SUITS MADE TO ORDER. COOPER CONARD, noStdeSCI S. E. COR. NINTH & MARKET Ka MAN CHESTER AND PACIFIC atoustuNE DE LAMS, ONLY Tx, NEW STYLES ' do. do. do. 25e. DESIRABLE FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS. OURWEN STODDART & BROTHER, 450, 432; & 454 N. SECOND St., t1e25.3t Above Willow. BLANKET DEPARTMENT. THE LARGEST STOCK OF BLANKETS IN PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. COWPERTHWAIT & CO., k. E. CORNER. EIGHTH AND MARKET STREETS. del•n-tf YRE & LANDYLL, FOURTH AND ARCH, have now arranged, for CHRISTMAS PRESE/YTS, Splendid Moire Antiques. Costly Silks, reduced. 44 Lyons Cloak Velvets, Expensive Long Shawls.. 17 pieces Plaid Silks,74 cents. P. Fine quality Reps and Poplins. Lem yards all new styles Ile Latins, 55 cents. WO do Merrimac and other tast.colored algae& IXOO do 44 French Chintzes. 3134 cents. del9 1-1 STEEL & SON HAVE A LARGE ' sasortment of DRESS GOODS, suitable for HO LIDAY PRESENTS. Peb Fancy Silks Plain Silks, choice colors. Plain and Figured Bleck Silks. Plain and Figured HM 1.0 0 1148 . Plain and Figured Merutees. Plain s..olterlno Cushinerer..., nt 37.4 c, worth 62. IEST AMERICAN DELAINES, at 25 0. ,c II OICE SAXONY PI, AI DS at 20c. e.I , AIN OPERA FLANNELS, all colors, at C. EW EMBROIDERIEI, is great varietT , A Job Lot Real Pointe Luce Collars, at is - 1.60. SALAIORAL SKIRTS' et , it.. 1.24, $3.70. c. 3 EST gkl BALMORAL' MA C E CITY. -.:STOLISH. and AIERR CHINTZES, 20c. Szird.wlde French Chintzes, 21c—the old price. 7 t ' I Ir•LIAAISVILLB MUSLIN, 25c. ,SINTER SHAWLS, in great variety 4IEP,INO SCARFS, 13ROCHE BORDERS. I :LoAßs—of Newand Fashionable Styles, made of _Blatt Beaver , Frosted Beaver, and Black Cloth. .Call and examine our .tonk We aranty to give sa• 1 1 , 1 ;, ; .. 4 'ti0n. es we sell inuidn'gr brit good articles, and at d :, , ,,Orices than they eon be lontaht elsewhere. Noe. 718 and 715 North TENTH street. . - • eL O 4IIING CLOTHS. SUBLIME QUALITY. . • Johann SUBLIME Frosted Beavers. Hodinm-priced Frosted Beavers. Thick and fine French Beavers. Tricot, Castor, and Union Beavers. Mohair and Sealskin Cloakinge• Superfine Cassimeres, viz. : Silk mixes—Black, neat fauctes— BoTs'—Extra hoavy—Union—Meltoni, ate., as. SA Coalinga fancy vercoatings. Novelties In y Vesting's. BALMORAI.S. Ono hundred plecoa 2rrceut Det ainee. • Auction lots floe Black Alpacas. Floe blerlnoes , and Poplius. Black Poplins, S7c., i, 41.211. Floe Blankets and Flannels. BOYS' CTHING. E xperienced Cutter., gu o d Cloths, and 0001 work - -Garments made to order. COOPER & CONA.R.D. S. E. cora3r NINTH and MARKET Street& VOL. 6.-NO. 126. RETAIL DRY . GOODS. WINTER OLOAK.S SUPERB LYONS VELVET CLOAKS, INDIA SILK CLOAKS, VELVET BEAVER CLOAKS, MOHAIR 'PLUSH CLOAKS, WOOLEN PLUSH CLOAKS, CASTOR DEAFER CLOAKS, DIAGONAL PLUSH CLOAKS. '- FRENCH DOESKIN CLOAKS, FRENCH BEAVER CLOAKS, MAGNIFICENT GROS DE PARIS CLOAKS, AU at a considerable REDUCTION IN PRICES to close the season. J. W. PROCTOR Sc CO., NO. 920 CHESTNUT STREET, de2o4mwtja7 TO HOTEL-KEEPERS ' AND 'PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS IN WANT OF BLANKETS, The immexthe' quantity or Colored Blankets ixtanufcte hired has caused the price of WHITE' BLANKETS to advance correspondingly, and as there is au excess of the former to be sold, we can sell them at VERY LOW - PRICES BY THE SINGLE'PAIR,AND IN QUANTITIES. Just oPened; one let 'slightly damaged, at $2.50 a pair. 'GunWEN STODDART & BROTHER, 450,452, and 455 North 'SECOND Street, de27 , sintu-St above Willow. EDWIN HALL & BRO., - • ' . • - ,26iith SECOND Street, Have reduced the prices of Fancy `Silks, Inch Printed Dress Goods, Choice Shanks of 21Cerinoas,, - Beautiful Colors of Reps or. Poplins. Alt-Wool Do Laine, All Muds of dark dross goods reduced. : Also, Pine Long Brodie Shawls, Open Centre Long Cashmere Shawls, ' Itteh new atvlos of Illfinlcet Shawls: - , 4-4 Lyons; Silk velvets; pure . de23-tf DRY GOODS FOR WINTER. Rep. Poplins, French llennos, Colored Mousseline% Ponlt De Soles, Foulard Silks, Blanket Shawls, Balmoral Skirts, Black Silks, Fancy Silks, ' Black Bombazines, Worsted Plaids, Cheap Del aines, French Chintzes, Shirting Flannels, Brooke Shawls, Fine Blankets, Crib Blankets. SHARPLESS BROTHERS, noll-tf CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets. CONMISSION, JIOLTSES. WELLING,, COFFIN, & CO., 220 CHESTNUT STREET, Offer for aale, by the Package— PRINTS, BROWN AND BLEACHED SHEETINGS AND SHIRTINGS. . DRILLS, CANTON FLANNELS. ioni COTTONADES, CORSET JEANS. SILESIAS, NANKEENS. . • COLORED CAMBRICS, SEAMLESS BAGS. BLACK DOESKINS AND CASSIMERES. UNION CLOTHS, SATINETS. PLAID LINSEYS, NEGRO KERSEYS. KENTUCKY JEANS. ALeo, SKY-BLUE HERSEY'S, INFANTRY. CLOTHS, ARMY FLANNELS, 110 and 12-ounce DUCK, Sm., &c AleSmtvf 3m COTTON YARN. STPERIOR COTTON YARN, No. 10, POR SALE BY PROTHINGH & WELLS. oc2-tt SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, No. 112 CHESTNUT STREET, . COMMISSION MERCHANTS FOR THE SALE OF PRILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. se%•6m MILITARY GOODS. MILITARY. GOODS. EVANS lIASSALL, MI LITARY FURNISHERS, 418 ARCH STREET. PHILADELPHLA. A complete assortment of General, Field. and Line OM- cers'iSwords, Sashes, Belts, Tassants, Epanlettes, Can. eens, Haversacks, Field Classes, Spirs, Candlesticks, Ckapeaus, Hats, Caps, Drums, Silk and Bunting Plags, Camp KIIIVEIS and Forks, Baldrics, Onm-cloth (Dior- coats dm Also, a full Flue of PRESENTATION SWORDS, Sashes, Belts, etc., and everything requisite for the Complete Outfit of Army and Navy Officers. WHOLESALE tt. RETAIL. del3-tal. GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS; 'HOLIDAY PRESENTS. Nos. 1 AND 3 NORTH SIXTH STREW JOHN C. ARRISON, (FORMERLY J. BURR MOORS,) Has now in store an elegant assortment of- GENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS, SCARFS, NECK TIES, GLOVES, .tc,, In:Great Varlets. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. OPENING a splendid assortment of GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, suitable Presents for Gentlemen. J. W. SCOTT, No. 814. CHESTNUT Street, FOlar door, below the Co'ntinerttal. CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS. platTH-STREET CARPET STORE, No. 47 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. 3. T. DELACROIX Invites an examination of his stock of Carpetings in which will be found 200 PIECES BRUSSELS CATIPETIXOS. - At less than Present cost of importation. Also, 200 pieces extra Imperial, three-PJT, SuPernua, medium, and low-grade Ingrain, Tenitian, Hall, and Stair Carpetings at retail, very low for cash. noS-2m CABINET FURNITURE. CABINET . FURNITURE AND LIARD TABLES. MOORE ES: CAMPION, No. 261 South SECOND Street, In connection with their extensive Cabinet Business, are now nutnatacturing a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on hand a fall supply, finished with the MOORE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, which are Pronounced by all who have need them to be Ruin,- lior to all others, For the quality and finish of these Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the character of their work. anti-em DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., Northeast Corner Fourth and RACE Streets, PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, IMPORTERS AND DPAT,ERs FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS, MANUFACTURERS OF WHITE LEAD'AND ZINC PAINTS, P AORET.3 FOR TEE CELEBRATED FRENCELiZING PAINTS. Dealers and eausniners supplied at VERT LOWPRICES FOE CASH. n027-2m , N Ns . , - 1 1-T 7, 1••• ,..• - •• '_' ' ..... •.. Itt : Tr-k' .t•C- . .. .., . _ . • - . t.:.... 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CLARK'S ONE-DOLLAR STORE, 602 'CHESTNUT STREET- Mixer-plated Ware, Jewelry, Photograph Travelling Bags, Pocket Books, Port Mormaies„ Cabas dtc., for 60 to 100 per cent less than the regular prices. ' The following ia a partial list of articles which we sell at ONE DOLLAR EACH. The same goods are sold at other places from lig to SS each YOUR CHOICE FOR ONE DOLLAR! Ladies' Sets, new and beautiful styles, Do. Pins, Do., Ear Rings, Do. Sleeve Buttons, Do. Guard Chain, Do. Neck do., Do. Gold Thimbles, Do. Finger Rings, Do. Pencils, • Do. Pens with case. Do, Bracelets, Do. Medallions, Do. Charms, Do. Pearl. Port Marinates. Do. Morocco do. Do. Wire do. Do. Purses, Do, Card Cases. Infants' Armlets, Do. Neck Chains, Gents' Vest Chains, different stgles, ' Do, Sleeve Butt6ns, do. Do, Studs, do. do. Do. Pins. do. do. Do. Scarf Pins, do. do. Do. Scarf Rings. do. do. Do. Finger Rings, do.. do Do, Pen and Case, Do. Pencil, reyolving, Do, Tooth Pick, revolving. Do. Watch Keys. Do. Chain Hooks. Do, Chain Charms. •-- Do. Pocket Books. Do. Bill Books, Do. Poreldonnaies, SILVER-PLATED WARE. YOUR CHOICE FOR ONE DOLLAR! Sets of,Table Spoons. Do. Dessert Spoons. Doi Tea do. Do, Forks, Pair Butter Knives. Do. Napkin Rings. ' Knife and Fork. . Goblets. Cups, Sugar Bowls, Cream Cups, Syrup Cups, - Butter Dishes, Castors with Bottles, - • Salt Stands, Sta.- YOUR CHOICE OF ANY OF THE ABOVE ARTICLES FOR ONE DOLLAR. . : NOTICE.-In order to meet the 'wants of our numerous Customers, we shall keep a stock of the finest Plated and All-Gold Jewelry, together with an assortment of heavy plated Silver Ware, and .a variety of Photograph Al bums and Fancy Gads, which we will sell at prices Whicia.will defy competition. Ladies and Gentlemen are twill.' to call and examine our stock. Every attention paid to visitors whether they wish to purchase or not. . Remember CLARK'S noll-?iniP GIFT BOOKS. IMMENSE ATTRACTIONS ! IMMENSE ATTRACTIONS FOR THE HOLIDAYS! AT THE GREAT ORIGINAL GIFT-BOOK EMPORIUM, 439 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia. THE ONLY "GIFT-BOOK . B11TTERFBISB" IN EX- ISTENCE! IT HAS OUTLIVED ALL COMPETITORS! NEW BOOKS! NEW GIFTS! NEW .FEATURES! ELEGANT ANNUALS! BEAUTIFUL GIFT BOOKS! SUPERB ALBUMS! FINE BIBLES, PRAYER AND HYMN BOOKS! All the Popular NOVELS and MAGA ZINES! ST... O iNDARD and MISCELLANEOUS WORKS, fn. endless variety. The whole forming a fund of CHOICE READING FOR THE MILLION! A full line of PHOTOGRAPH ALIIUMS, of .efiry variety of size, style, quality, and price! CARTES DE VISITE in great profusion, A MAGNIFICENT ARRAY OF NEW AND COSTLY PRIZES! 146/".The business of the establishment is conducted upon the same principleovith some improvements, in troduced and pursued by Mr. GEORGE G EVANS, which has given such universal satisfaction. Notwith standing the great advance in the price of piper and other material, we continue to sell at the OLD PRICES, and also to bestow upon each patron "TWO GIFTS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE I" Please remember that our Visitors are treated politely whether they wish to purchase' or not—a very commend able and satisfactory role of action. Call and be con vinced. detjal PAINTINGS, -- ENGRAVINGS; dm. STUART'S PORTRAITS GEORGE AND MARTHA WASHINGTON, COPIED IN OIL COLORS BY E. C. MIDDLETON, Of Oblelrmati,Vormerly of this city.) These Portraits are produced by an entirely New Pro cess, and are more beautiful and life-like than the finest brush paintings, and are 'furnished to Subscribers Only, at a remarkably low price. What can be more appropriate for a CHRISTMAS PRESENT Than a pair of these Paintings?. They must be -seen to be appreciated, and the subscriber will call and exhibit them to any in this city who will address him, through the Post Office. . CHRIS T 3rlA_S. %.‘ JAMES S. EARLE 4Sa SON, HAVE NOW OPEN THEIR NEWEST IMPORTATIONS OF• • FINE ENGRAVINGS, PARIS PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS FOR CHRISTMAS SALES. OIL PAINTINGS; PICTURE, AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. LOOKING. GLASSES IN GREAT VARIETY. • EARLE'S GALLEAIES, ae4-tf 816 CHESTNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA CIRCULATING LIBRARIES—. BROTHERHEAD'S OIRCULA- V • • TING LIBRARY,—AII the NEW English and American Books, including ALL CLASSES of Literature. This is the ONLY Library in the country that includes all the NEW ENGLISH BOOKS • that are not REPRINT ED here. . eres S . ss per year ; months $3; thiee Months $1.50; one month 75 cents, or 3 cents per day. 21.8 Sontb. EIGHTH Street. selMim T' NGLISH AND FRENCH FAMILY CIRCULATING LIBRARY AND CABINET DB LECTURE,I323 CHESTNUT STREET. Subscriptions pay year, month, nd day. Catalogues furnished gratis on'application. Just ready„Catalogne of the Young Ladies' French Li brary. 4 "Catalogue de la Baliothegue shots* des Dames et deB Demoiselles." M. Af. MONACIIBSI, Agent, se64m 1323. CHESTNUT Street. C.LOTRES-WRIIIiG.ER. THE GREAT CLOTHES WRINGER. " PUTNAM "SELF-ADJUSTING CLOTRES WRINGER" Is warranted to be superior to any other in use. EVERY FANCILY SHOULD POSSESS CLOTHES'I4 - RINGER. BECAUSE, Ist. It is a relief to the hardest part of washing-day. 2d. It enables the washing to be done in one-third less 3d. It saves clothes from the injury always given by twisting!' 4th. It helps , to wash the clothes as well as dni them. WE BELIEvz IT ADVISABLE TO FILCHJIIRE ONE OF THIS KIND, BECAUSE Fluor, The rolls :being of vulcanized -rubber, will bear hot and cold Water, and will neither break nor tear elf buttons. SECOND. The -frame, being of iron, thorcolghly gal vanized, all danger from rust is rernoved,"and the lia bility to shrink, swell, split, Stc., so unavoidable in wooden machines, is prevented. . THIRD. The spiral springs over the rolls render this ma chine self-adjusting, so that small and large articles, as well as articles uneven in thickness, are certain to re ceive uniform Pressure, FOURTN. The patent fastening by Which the machine is tightened to the tub, we believe to be superior in sim plicity and efficiency to any yet offered. Firm It will fit any tub, round or square, from one ball te one-and-KA/natter inches in thickness; without the least alteration. RETAIL PRICE No. 1, WM; No. 2, 8.5.00. AIIQ- Agents wanted in every county - . Xi-Reliable and energetic men will be liberally dealt with: For Sale at the WOODEWARE ESTABLISHMENT” A. H. FRA.NOISCUS, No. 4.33 MARKET St. and No. 5 North FIFTH St, deS Wholesale agent , for. Pennsylvania. - SEWING MACHINES - . WHEELER &WILSON SEWING- :MACHINES, 628 . CHEST UT, 'STREET, de--."gym TEE WILCOX &- GIBBS. FAMILY SEWING MACHINES hare been greatly improved, making it ENTIRELY NOISELESS, and with Self - adjusting Hemmers, are now ready for sale' bp, FAIRBANKS & EWING, - 8e27-if 715 CHESTNUT Street. CAUTION. The well-earned reputation of • FAIRBANKS'- SCALES Has • induced the makers of imperfect balances to offer them as "FAIRBANKS' SCALES," and purchasers have thereby, in many instances, been subjected to fraud and imposition. Fairbanks' Scales are manufactured onir by the original inventors, K. & T. FAIRBANKS & CO., and are adapted' to everr branch of the business, where ` a correct and durable Scales is desired, FAIRBANKS 41., EWING, General Agents, aplo.l MASONIC BALL. 715 CHESTNUT ST., F. I. G.- ZINC, ARMY, AND. TOILET MIRRORS, The best in the world for finish and durability, B. M. S. The best brand Silk-finished VELVET RIBBONS. Sole Agent, BENJAMIN BC MTN. 155 DUANE Street. near West Brondwei. 3630-3 m NOW York. ONE-DOLLAR STORE, 602 CHESTNUT Street A. BA.RLOW. PIIILAD LPIIIA PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1862. Vrtss. MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1862. From Washington to Philadelphia—A Long Train of Cars—Some Railroad. Polities.. Have you ever walked through, a long sf red of cars rushing to their destination at the rate of twenty five miles an hour? I did so a few evenings-ago; when on my way- to take a Christmas dinner at home. I attempted to pass from the very last car of au-enormous train, variously estimated as composed of from eighteen to twenty-eight cars, for the pur pose of ohtaining a. cilip of tea and a roll from the excellent restaurant .in the front of this rapidly. moving, avenue. Not having had time to dine in Washington, I listened to the dulcet notes of ivpir lite friend, who assured me we could get ft snack ha the refreshment car; and .so made the. passage. The train was going at a terrific rate. Oar after car was passed—platform after pla.tform was crossed—:' -and nobody hurt—legs. thrust out from comfortless seats were surmounted with many curpcs, Every car wasliterally R living; and a flying streei. Of-course we could only see the backs of the inhabil;' tants of this railroad city, as - we 'made our forward' way. On our return to the rear, disaPpointed and lualfamishedi for -the restaurant was filled with flush soldiers, and cleared of everything liquid and ediple,-I'had, however, opportunity of seeing the citizens of the railroad city face.to face:: A. curi ous-sight. The - soldiers Were in some cars most populous. I studied them as I went. HoW gene rally patient,:decorous; and silent 'they were The exception was a jubilant Hibernian, -who, having served outhis term, insisted on talking.pauties and patriotlim to unlistening and sleepy hearers. - These cars were as distinct as the streets in a great town. One was yielded to troops, another to civi lians, who seemed to be sutlers and quartermasters, another to members of 'Congress and politicians, another to ladies and , gentlemen, whose knowledge of each other seemed to be brief, but nevertheless most cordial ; and still others to the vast through travel between Washington and New. York, in which all and singular of these elements were manifested. It was a God's mercy when I got safely back to my seat in the last car, not less hungry, but much better in structed than when I started out upon my walk. The Philadelphia and Baltimore railroad, loyally presided over by Mr. S. M. Felton, occupies a lead ing, if not cOntrolling position in the great railroad movements Of the times. lam induced to speak of him because of Chia and. other experiences, in:iny" 'frequent traverses over his iron path Though Ido not.know, I can allow for his thousand troubles. I have noticed him from the commencement of our national difficulties, and have often tried to fancy how much he has had to bear and forbear. A road which has its terminus in one free State,and extends through two slave States, each doubtful in their politics, because their slave politicians could not carry them out of the Union, requires industry, sa gacity; and mind to manage. In any hands,. the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railroad, and in any times, even the most peaceful, would be a difficult charge. Now, however, with its single track, its low bridges over the Gunpowder, he., the dam lug cross ing of the Susquehanna by making of the great boat a great bridge, which always reminds me, of an overloaded camel, and suggests that "the last feather may break its back" (it is only my ; faith in Felton that, I think, has pre vented me from resigning myself to a death by drowning), and the ultra Unionism at one, end, and the doubtful fealty at the other, Presi-, dent Felton has a hard service of it. But there are certain other things which Mr. Felton. does not ig nore. With all his annoyances, he is not blind to the fact that there has been a large .amount of dis satisfaction because his road is only a single rail; be cause. the Susquehanna has not long ago been bridged, and because the shaky trestle-work over the several estuaries west of that river have not been made more secure. And the evidence is in the late meeting, telegraphically announced, of railroad mag nates in Philadelphia, at which these complaints were formally and specifically referred to, and pro mises of remedy, made. There Is no thoroughfare in the Union which, properly managed, - will return so much profit to its owners as that between Philadelphia and Washington. The war has made it the most important short - line of railroad in the United States. The Government and the people are equally concerned in it; and If Mr. Felton will only - look to his; the longest end of it, no doubt Mr. Garret, who manages the less•than forly miles between Baltimore and Washington, will see his interest in promptly following suit. What is needed is safe, regular, and rapid communication between New;; York and Washington. If alr:Felton and his associates dp not respond to this public need, the Government will. Had they/done, one year ago, •what. they did on the 22d of BeceMber instant, they would have been . rewarkd by increased rel:enues, arid by..the - thankst. of ,the travelling conununity. (I must not be Under; stood in this hurried letter as in the slightest degree approving the plan of making Broad street, Phila delphia, a thoroughfare for passenger and burden transportation. Much as I favorfree intercourse be tween States and cities, Ido not think an arcane, which in the course of-years will become the largest' and most magnificent in the world,- shouabe dis figured in order to save a few minutes of time to the stranger. I would resist that as a New Yorker would resist the suggestion of making Broadway a railroad for the accommodation of travel and trade.) But f will hail the day, with pleasure when we shall be able to enjoy a ride toWashington and back as we now enjoy a ride from Philadelphia to Pittsburg and from Pittsburg to Philadelphia. J. W. F. NEW YORK CITY. (Special Correspondence of The Press.] TOWN TOPICS The revelation that Uncle Samuel has been de frauded in this city to the extent of $700,000, and that over one thousand- persons are implicated in the villainy, does not materially ruffle the current of public feeling here to-day. The metropolis is blase to such transactions, and its people take them quite as a matter of course. Nothing less than a prodigious and genuine "sensation" can arouse the ,town from the hum-drum lethargy into which it has settled, after becoming satisfied that all the National armies are going into winter quarters, that the navy will depend upon fortuitous circumstances for the captUre of Mobile and Charleston, and that the inevitable Cabinet "rehabilitation" (how that word is abused !) will not take place until the armies commence moving again. If the President stands by his guns, (which God grant,) and makes good his word on the frrat of January, there will be some political excitement ; foe the factious and treasonable Dernbcratic prowl .is - preparing any quantity of paper thunder to larinch on the occa sion ; but such a large proportion of the general public has come to regard emancipatiod not only as a fixed fact, but as an-inexorable necessity,.that the expected Edict of Freedom will be watched with silent anxiety, rather thin received with temporary excitement. (3 eneral McClellan is back from Washington again,, Generals Pope and Meagher are also here to-day, and the streets are gay with the uniforms of cap tains, majors, and lieutenants of Burnside's army, who have obtained leaves of absence to make their usual New-Year calls. Lieutenant Hunt's "What Is It," or nondescript iron -clad; is launched at last, and is likelitoprove anything but a graceful ornament to our navy. `lt is a huge iron box, and carries one immense rifled gun, Nohose projectile will have the effect of ,about fifty ordinary shot or shells: To judge frchn the, unwieldy aspect of this new monster, It can only be intended for harbor defence. With a few more such inventions an American fleet will look like a herd of hideous old stoves and coal-bins, tending to invest their portion of Old Ocean with the appearance of a dreary lumber-loft. The romance of " A life on the ocean wave is fast disappearing. NEW YEAR'S DAY will be very generally celebrated here by the queens of society and the beaux thereof. The callers are expected to have photographs . of themselves upon their cards, which will be collected in albums by the families they visit. As for the ladies,-they will be fragile and touch-me-not as.usual, in all the artful witcheries of the seasonable reception toilette. A popular up-town modiste has invented a specialite for the occasion in the shape of a marvellous head dress. It is described by Jenkins as "a bandeau, with a pouf placed high upon the, side, 'or on the top of the head over the forehead, composed of a hum ming-bird sitting on a spray, or a cluster of roses, crysanthemums, heliotropes, and mignonnette, or geranium, with shining little insects perched on the leaves—a second cluster, or pouf, being placed low down behind the ear." If the day be cold, it will be allowable for the lady to wear an 'ermine trimmed opera cloak over her immaculate shoulders, and sitbefore the grate (grates are coming into fashion again), with her right elbow resting on an exqui sitely inlaid tripod stand—her head resting gracefully upon the forefinger and thumb of her right hand, a lace-trimmed fire-screen in her left, and one foot sufficiently advanced to expose the tip of a white satin slipper beyond the fall of her skirt! "lost thou like the picturel" BAD POETRY, and foully-murdered quotations, seem to be insePa rable from public mention of the beloved and honored dead with us. The notices of " deaths" in the daily papers constitute a dePartment of journalism which really excitesh ore mirth, cruelly-irreverent as it may seem, than the most humorous column in any one of our so-called comic prints. The death of a mother, a sister, or a child, is briefly told;-and then follow four or eight lines of such execrable rhyrnerahat the - effect is irresistibly ludicrous. I know of many per sons who have collected scores of these ridiculous obituaries in scrap -books, producing the latter when ever mirth seems to be in demand by the company. At public dinners, too, when it, behooves a speaker .to pay a tribute to the fallen soldiers of the Union, he almost invariably misquotes stanzas froai some . serious Ixiet with such outrageous perversion of all sense and rythm;that the well-informed auditor naturally feels like laughing. Even in memoriam toasts are sometimes made laughable is this way. You may remember Halleck , s verse : "They - fought, like brave men, long and well, • They piled the ground with Moslem slain, They connuered'rbut Bozarris fell, Bleeding at every vain." 'At the annual dinner of the Son! of Prange. and.: Sullivan" yesterday, an attempt was made to use this fine verse as the addenda of the seventh toast, NEW YORE, Deo. 27, 1861 (the "Tenth Legion,) and this was what the master Of ceremonies read with all gravity " They fought at Fair Oaks long and well, They piled thatground with rebels slain, - They didmoteonquer, but - Fell bleeding"ateyery Vein." Could anything be, more stupid, ignorant and ab surd? _There should be a law against such elownish profanation of the sacred mystery of death. . THAT GREAT "AMERICAN TRAVELLER," Mr. William Cornell Jewett, who kindly went to Europe orihis own, responsibility, to treat for Ame riaan mediation with the Crowned heads, and has re-. - turned to protect his distracted country from the emancipation proclamation of President Lincoln, fa ore the Tribune to-day, with a letter explanatory .of his platfoim. He proves by a document from the 'lmperial Secretary, that his letters to the French Emperor were. duly handed to that magnificent per image, find maintains that any French mediation would.b6 all in favor, of .the Union. Jewett is evi dently a superior sort of Chevalier Jobson, or Alli gMor Branch, load hasjust enough sense to make it plainly iiffiear how very much more he stands in need of. Just before quitting Europe a few weeks ago, he published in the. Liverpool Post, a rambling "national adieu" addresied to "Europe, the Queen of England, and the President of the United States." SCOUNDRELS, VAGABONDS AND THIEVES, ' ~the elegant titles applied to the members of thearnard, the confidential adviser _ press by Judge B , of Fernando Wood, and A dignitary of, Our Supreme. Court. - The case of the Metropolitan policemen who have sued ;Fernando Wood for damages sus tained at the-hands °ibis minions, in hislneinbeable City Hall riot, came up for a hearing ;in that court, Yeeteril4y. One „of _the counsel for the plaintiffs ventured to. intimate that Barnard was hardly the judge to preside honestly, as the press had - Accused him of beilieWood's special adviser, whereupon his worship : savagely retorted that he did not pay the Slightest attention to what was said of him by the press, as it was well known that it was governed by a set of scoundrels, vagabonds, and thieves. JEFF DAVIS' PROCLAMATION causes some littletalk around the newspaper offices and "hotels; but a. majority,. of those whom I have thus far converfsedmith on the subject seem to re gard-:.the document as a very striking example of . what thaEnglish denominate " bounce." Certainly if <the arch-rebel seriously contemplates any such ,measures of `"retaliation," - retaliation," - as he here puts upon paper, the remaining strength of rebeldom must be far greater, and the advantage's gained by our forces far less, than the Northern people have any idea'of. Were the rebels reduced to their last brigade and ton of. gunpoWder some such "proclamation " as this one might be very naturally expected, for the blow that slays 'the most cowardly of brutes is sure to oc casion a last kick as fierce as that of a dying lion. The Very thing to put an end to all braggadocia, of the sort found in this rebel howl, is that death-blow to the rebellion which the President of the United States has promised to strike on the ist of January.. LITERARY DIATTBR * S have their sole excitement just now in the line of holiday. gift boohs, though the rival editions of "Les bliserabled" still command a steady sale, - Gustave Dore's striking illustrations of this work, issued by _Carleton, are selling extensively as presents for the fair sex, and Putnam's very expensive illustrated edition of Irving's Washington findvaale for the same benevOlent- purpose among those who can afford One of.the new books announced for the winter by Carletorylill` Splashes and Dashes ; or, Droll Recol lections of Town and Country," a volume of genial sketches, humorous imaginings, and quaint conceits. Its author is Mr. 'Henry Morford, well knoWn as an admirableiind manly poet, and distinguished for his ability in the dramatic and social criticisms of the New Yorkt Alla..• The book will probably have a large sale, as it will be just the thing for the winter fireside. The same writer is preparing a new mili tary novel for the press. Davidge, :the popular comedian, has nearly ready for the preis a volume of varied theatrical reminis cences, styled "Flashes from the Footlights." Those who have seen parts of the manuscript tell me that it is an odkrnixture of melo-dramatic sketches and whimsical - tie* of character. Its style, like its au thor, is tlitaughly English. Mrs. ittlE Stoddard, the brilliant wife of a bril liant popt,' Whose romance of " The Morgesons" sold seven'thousand copies very rapidly, is at work, on a new novel of more ambitious scope, which will probablY 4 iirifgar In the spring. The second series of . the " Orpheus C. - Kerr pers" will be issued by Carleton in about two weeks. That all the literary news I can think of at present. . • PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS itemalzi : niigirotia and generally profitable. The number of pertions who visited the opera houses, theatres; panoramas; Music 'halls, &c., of this city and Brooklyn, on Christmas afternoon and evening, was 75,575. The Museum, alone, had 22,678. The whole amount of money received was $20,135.32. Can Phii.idelphia.beat-skich. figures as these? "PatiO flt•Niblo'e; has already come - dovar tOZ•perkpecii,:hquies, despite its really -Ifiagnificentifteneiikeffects. Miss Bate man will apPeartit• a thlirliotiseon the 15th of January. The spectacle of '." . Blondefte" is also fast losing its' attraction for the public, and will be presently succeeded by Mri. John Wood. At . the Winter Garden, Mr. and Mrs. Barney 'Williams play.,witil after the holidays, when Mr. Coul dock and the Cubes ballet troupe will take the boards. • Cubas is expected to, make an essay in Ma. dame :Celeste's pieces. At Wallack's, an elegant trniilation from Scribe, called the • " Invisible ,Hus band,” has been revived with success. So much 'for •the theatres. ' With the item that 800 skulkers - ifom Gen. Banks , corps; and other portions of the army, have been arrested here during the week, and are now being ignoininlously shipped for Fortress Monroe, I close my letter, and sign myself • FRAUDS ON THE GOVERNMENT, Upwards of 5700,000 Swindled Out of GO7. vt•rnment in New York City—How Regi 111CMS were Raised and Subsisted—Opera tions of Contract Brokers—False Affidavits rtud Forgeries Withont Number—Great Swindling in thy Payment of Bounties to Soldiers. Commissioners,appointed by the General -Govern ment, have been at worlefor several weeks - past, in New York city and elsewhere, investigating alleged frauds upon the Government in.connection with the. raising and subsisting of volunteers, organizing of re giments, and other operations, from the commence ment of the rehellion to the present time; Mr. Olcott„tne commissioner appointed for New York city, entered' upon his investigations on the tat of November last, and has already discovered frauds to the extent of $'700,000 perpetrated in that city, and the prospect is they will reach double that amount before the investigation is finished. In order to, - give a clear idea - of the mode, or rather the various.ntodes, in which the Government. has been swindled, it is necessary to go back to the beginning of the war. When the rebellion broke out Congress was not in session, and there was no appropriation by the General Government to defray the expenses of recruiting regiments of volunteers; consequently the expense connected with raising regiments had to be paid either by the colonel and regimental officers, by . subscriptions of private individuals, or by donations ' from the Union Defence Committee. In the follow ing August, however, during the extra session of ,Congress, $20,000,000 were appropriated to recruit : and organize volunteers, and the Adjutant-General of the United States Army was made the custodian of the fund: Mustering offices were established in the different cities, and at each office an army officer was appointed to disburse the moneys that were ilra.wo from the general fund: The disbursing officer ap-' pointed for New York city was Col. Sackett, of the regular army. The first sum received from the Adju tant-General was $50,000, which was all disbursed in three or four days. The second draft was for $lOO,OOO, which was soon disbursed, and was the last received until the follow ing November, when another instalment of.about the same amount was sent on from Washington. The - disbursements made at this time were princi pally for the subsistence and lodging of recruits after their enlistment, and pending the time of their going into camp; and it may be stated here that the regu lations of the United States army had always been that bills for subsistence and . lodging should be certified to by the recruiting officer, signed by the contractor, and endorsed as approved by the colonel commanding the regiment. The contractors were of two kinds ; first, general contractors, who took bids for the subsistence and lodging of recruits, and who gave sureties; anti, se tond, special contractors, who were generaly keep ers of lager beer saloons and cheap boarding-houses, and who boarded and lodged recruits to the number of half-a-dozen, more or less, previous to their going into camp. These small. contractors were anxious for the payment of their bills, and, being unable to get-the money from the Government, they were driven into the hands of brokers to get them dis counted. This class of men—whom we may call army brokers, and who figure more extensively than any other class as swindlers of the Government—com menced business in that city in December,lB6l. They first did a legitimate business ; but they soon found a way of increasing the size of their bills by alters . bons in the figures, and followed up this fraud by making fictitious bills which were vouched for by downright forgery. On the Bth olDeeember,lB6l, Col. Sackett vacated his post as disbursing officer for that city and was succeeded by Lieut. Col. Nichols, also of the regular army. Before Col. Sackett left he was in the habit of requiring affidavits from the special contractors of th e correctness of their bills, and also employed as an additional guard against fraud, detectives to ascer tain whether the affidavits were true. Lieutenant Colonel Nichols held the post of disbursing officer until June, 1862, when he was relieved by Captain Lamed, who in turn gave way on the 26th of August last to Lieutenant Colonel Reed, who now holds the position. During the latter part of Colo nel Nichols' term, and all through the term of Cap - tarn Earned, the brokers were in full blast, and conducted their business with a recklessness of vil lainy that is perfectly astounding. They 'employed runners to visit lager-beer shops anti boarding-. houses, and any and every place where it could be ascertained that a recruit had ever eaten a meal or slept over ..night, and induce the keepers of these places, under various arts and pretences (often by actual bribery,) to certify and swear to bills against the Government. Not' satisfied with this, they em ployed cleiks to manufacture bills out of whole cloth. and forge signatures to them. Mr. Olcott has in possession over forty forged signatures to bills which have.been verified as forgeries by the colonels and contractors whose names were used. Instances have been discovered where brokers have purchased claims of poor Germans for $25, and on the follow- I log day hare called at his place and got him to sign .what purported to be n receipt, but which was in reality a fictitious bill f0r,52,000. Their frauds have been perpetrated mainly through the agency of ig norant German people, who could not read our lan guage, and who were made to swear to a bill of a thousand dollars when they supposed it was only $2O, or to certify to the correctness of a large claim when they supposed they were signing a receipt for Mail one. Some ofthis class of people, however, Nato had no claim againstthe Government, large or small, have been induced to certify and swear-to bills ''through the agency of a bribe. Recruiting officers are also discovered to have. played the same game. - Instances 'have come to light where recruiting officers have induced lager-• beer: . men to sign - a - bill for $1,500 where the claim was - only $25, and the bills have been sworn to be ' fore A notary, who either through negligence, or be cause he was privy to the fraud, asked no questions, and in some cases did noteven administer the oath. Cases hai'e also turned up where the Union Defence Committee hay] paid the , regular 40 cents per ration for recruits, and the contractor has been compelled to pay five cents for each ration to the colonel of the regiment, and 10 per cent. of his gross receipts to the quartermaster. • Mr. Mott commenced his labors by investigating the frauds of the army brokers, and after disposing of these he was presented by the Secretary of ,War with a bill which had been, paid at Washington, and was - sworn to by a colonel of - a New York, regiment. The bill was accompanied by the names of a large number of sub-vouchers for the different items, all of which, except two, the Commissioner has discovered to be forgeriea. A further investigation has brought to light the'fact that this, same colonel-haaswindled the 'Union Defence Committee, swindled private citizens, swindled the. General . Government, and swindled every one of his subordinate officers and .privates, and that the sum total of his swindling cannot fall short of $lOO,OOO. The wholesale frauds develokd in this case haveinduced the Government to direct Mr. Olcott' to investigate the transactions of each ,and every regiment raised in New York, Where the circumstances connected with its organi zation are open to suspicion. It is thought that nearly a thousand persons will. be shown to have been implicated, directly or indi rectly, in the frauds. Many of the men who.have been trumpeted as martyrs:to the system of "illegal and, arbitrary arrests?' w are men who ere sent to Fort Lafayette . for these very frauds; and when their names come to ,be known,-they will doubtless turn out, to have been the most noisy defamers of the Government, and the swiftest to [Mouse everybody but themselves of robbing the public treasury. There is another feature of the general system of swindling to which, it is said, the State and country hay ken, Sub . jected, almost ever- since the offer of bounties for soldiers AVM made: At first=that is fora very few weeks--there was, at least, a show of honesty in drawing the exceeding liberal bounties offered to .men to en list ; and, at that time, when a man enlisted he was :taken to the quarters of . the. company or regiment into which he had enlisted r and there. kept. That course, however, Was not long generally pursiied. The men, when enlisted and having _received their - bounties ) Would ask for a "pass " for a few . days - rto - regulate their family affairs and to spend the, bounty money for what themselves or their 'families needed. This seemed proper enough at the time, but experience proved that many of the men thus let. go _did not return, and were, in consequence, marked as - deserters. Tile system was then commenced by many officers of retaining a large portion of the. bounty money, on granting a pass, in order to insure the return of the enlisted man. Those who had enlisted with the intention of going to the War returned, of course, and claimed the remainder of their bounty money. But there were manyy, who did not; and it is at least remarkable that of those who did not return very' few have been arrested. Of the (about) six thousand men whore-ceived the bounties in the city of Brooklyn, and the immensely larger number who received the bounties in: - New York, it is not believed that . much more then one-half are now connected with the army by reason of `their first enlistment. It is also stated that there are men now in New, York, in citizen's clothes, who have been enlisted from two to six times; under the several bounty .acts, under different names, and who have never been arrested. It has been stated in the papers, and if we mistake not reiterated by partisans in Congress, that the reason why our soldiers are not paid is to be found in the. lax and slovenly manner in which the work • of supplying the paper money has been performed by the two principal bank-note companies in this city. The assertion has been several times repeated that the "great delay) in printing thii currency is the sole cause of the cruel and disgraceful treatment which our soldiers have received. The majority of these statements can be traced to certain interested parties, who first sought to control this work them selves, without any proper means of executing it, and me now urging the Government to establish an enormous •engraving and printing establishment at 'Washington, in the hope, doubtless, of figuring to advantage in its management. • The work ordered by the Treasury Department of the:New York companies has been immense, but it has been executed with 'a rapidity unexampled in the history of bank-note printing. The American Bank Note Company, which in its establishment swallowed up several large firms, and the National Company, a comparatively new, and rival establish . meat, have not only' increased their productive power enormously, to meet the pressing exigency, but have actually produced the most astonishing quantity of these treasury obligations. We speak not at random. They have made vast additions to their means of production, and are working from each press 60 per cent. more impres sions per day than was formerly considered a full day's work. Let us see a little what there was to do, and how far they are capable. The Secretary of the Treasury has ordered the following amounts of currency: Old-demand notes $60,000,000 Seven-and-three-tenth notes 150,000,000 Legal-tender notes $300;000,000 Less reserve to meet deposits. 50,000,000 Total available ordered $460,000,000 Actually printed to date and delivered... 435,000,000 Still to be delivered, available 25,000,CKH) Here, out of four hundred and sixty millions of treasury obligations ordered, there have been printed and. delivered to the Government four hun dred and thirty-five million dollars, leaving only twenty-five millions to be done. These would have been completed but for the fact that they were wanted in small denominations 'for convenience of ch ange,'and these small notes count up slowly. In addition to all this, these companies have furnished the blanks for the regular stocks, and are now also engaged upon the postal currency, upon which they are employing about two hundred presses. Of this the production already reaches five million dollars ; and this must be considered'rapid work, when it is remembered that the bills are. in fractions of a dol lar.' The delay in the payment of the soldiers is in- _excusable, and the fault does not rest with the bank note companies.- If it did, the substitution of irre sponsible politicians for companies of high charac ter and well-known integrity would not remove the evil. But the elanidf about, the printtfiglilisoth objects than simply to shield the payinasters from blame, and the movements in this direction will bear watching.—Few. Yom* Journal of Commerce. • From J. 13. Lippincott & Co., and also from T. Peterson & Brothers, we have Ha per's Maga. zinc for January. In it we find Miss Mulock's "Mistress and Maid," concluded, and Miss Evan& "Romola," and Mr. Trollope's "Small House at Al lington,'.' continued.. The illustrated papers are Mr. Rosi Browne's "Californian in Iceland," an anecdotal and historical account of "Clirdi and Dice," sketch of an Indian chief called Hole-in-the-Day, the tales by . Misa Evaris and Mr: Trollope, "The Re volving ToWer and its Inventor," (here claimed to be Mr. Timby, of New York,) the Editor's Drawer, and the Fashion& piiges=flfty engravings in all, and the whole of them good. Among the general articles we would notice asvarticularly good, Mr. Lossing's "League of States," " Carlyle's Table Talk," (which seems affected and stilted,) and, in the Monthly Re cord of Current Events, excellent abstracts of the President's Message at the opening of Congress, and of the Reports of the Bea& of Departments and Bu reaus of, the Government This department of Mayer is well . attended to,' and mbst impartially executed. . STUYVESANT From W. B. Ziebef we have the _North British Re view: for November—the low-priced and neat Ameri can reprint. As usual, it concludes with an article. on " The American Conflict," which shows pro found ignorance of the condition and resources of this country and the feelings of our people. As a set-off, there are thoroughly well-informed and in structive papers upon the Austrian Empire in 1862, Syria and the Eastem Question, and M. Michel's I , recent and curious history of the alliance between France and Scotland. The critical notices are of Cough's Poems, (lately republished in "blue and gold" by Ticknor & Fields,) and of SL.Clement's Eve, a drama by Henry Taylor, author of "Philip . Van Artevelde," but inferior. In a paper against, the sensible proposal to assimilate the mercantile I law of England and Scotland, there is considerable local &goring, and much, but feeble, special pleading. In this Review, which, we suppose, may still be considered as an organ of the Scottish a brace of religious subjects are not out of place. The first is "Christian Individuality," in which we notice memoirs of several" religious per sons, clerical and lay, who have lately died—viz.: Rev. John Angell James, Rev. Joseph Sortain, Samuel Budgett, Dr. George Wilson, Sir Edward Parry, and Captain Hedley Vicars. The second "serious" paper, on Popular Prophetical Litera ture, examines various books, by Dr. Cumming, Mr. Prere, and others; in which the writers have striven and especially' exposes the blunders, ignorance, and dishonesty of Dr. Cumming, showing that, in "The Great Tribulation," . he misquotes Bible texts and passages from Josephus, changing their language to suit his own views, and that he is as unreliable in his critical as in his historical . references. The Rev. Dr. Cumming is a fashionable London'preacher, who has predicted in various wordy volumes that the world will come to an end in 1864, yet, in the teeth of his own prophecy, rented a house six years ago for a term which would not legally expire until seven years after (on his own showing) the world had been destroyed. Surely, clergymen more pro perly perform their duty by teaching Gospel truths than by rushing into wild speculations which end in soothsaying guesses. The Eclectic Magazine (received from Mr. Zieber) appears with additional letter-press and two en gravings. One of these is Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament, by John Sartain, after the paint ing by Mr. Benjamin West, P. R. A.; and the other, by George E. Perine, after John Gilbert's picture in the gallery of the British Institution, is "Cardinal Wolsey and the Duke of Buckingham"—one of the finest works of the modern English historical school. The letter-press contains the best papers from the British periodicals, selected with care and judgment. In the present number the following have been drawn upon : National Review, British Quarterly, Dublin University Magazine, Book of Days, North British Review, Prase; 'a Magazine, St. James' Ma gazine, New Monthly, Quarterly Review, Cham bers' Journal, and Intellectual Observer. This num ber commences a new volume—the fifty-eighth. The tenth part of The Book of Days, published by J. B. Lippincott Si: Co., brings the notice of the year down to the middle of May. Two more numbers will make the first moiety of the work, which wilt be completed in two volumes. Antiquarian, tradi , tionary, anecdotal, historical, and literary lore, illus trated with curious engravings, are here combined with great skill, and the result is a work of the highest permanent value. AN . ELECTRIC PIANO.—The Paris correspond ent of the Journal du Havre says : "An experiment of an electric piano has been tried at the Palace'of Compiegne. The inventor, who is a native of Treves,..gives' to the instrument great power; and the air played was repeated on another piano placed at the other extremity of the palace. He pretends that while playing a tune in Paris he can have it re lented instantaneously at St. Petersburg, provided the electric wires are intact." -CURRENTS OF THE: PACIFIC OCEAN.—A large California pine, estimated to contain 5,000 feet of solid timber, lately drifted by the Island of Maui, with several other trees. Some of the trees came on shore, but the biggest drifted on towards the coast of Asia. These facts are interesting, as giving solid data to show the force and setting of the currents of the Pact tic. These drifting logs were probably carried into the ocean by the California floods of November and January. GARIBALDI.--Garibaldi has just been elected an honorary member of the Swiss patriotic associa tion called the Helvetia. Dr. Nelaton, the French surgeon who went to Italy to treat Garibaldi's wounds; is to be presented a valuahle—gold box by the Italian sympathizers iri Paris. The Government Currency. 'Mpie of the . Magazines. To attain To Something of prophetic strain, LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. comm on pleas Judges Thompson and _ . The Broad-street Railroad. An injunction refused because complainants are private individuals and have not set out in their bill any special injury. The proposed road is in violation of the charter of the company. Peterson et al vs. The Navy Yard,Broad-street, and Fairmount Railway Company. Application for an injunction. Before reported. On Saturday morning Judge Thompson delivered the following opinion on the motion for an injunc tion to restrain the construction of the railroad of this company as it is proposed to be built, and the connections with the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad Company, and the Philadelphia, Wilmlng ton, and Baltimore Railroad Company as they are now proposed to he made. • IL is as follows : The object of the charter granted to the " Navy Yard, Broad Street and Fairmount Railway Com pany," was probably to authorize the construction of a passenger railway between the Navy Yard and Fairmount. The said company, under this charter, state that they . "design to begin to construct their road at, and to connect the same with, the track of the 'Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Rail road Company,' at Broad street and Washington avenue, or Prime street, and to continue the same thence, northwardly, along Broad street to Girard avenue, and there to connect the same with the rail road of Richmond and Schuylkill Railway Com pany." _They do not design to construct a road from Broad . and Federal street, by the Navy Yard to Fairmount, but under a charter, stating the place at which the road shall be commenced, and the streets through which it shall be constructed, it.is proposed to begin at a difttrent place, to omit the third of the preselibeil route lying east of Broad street towards the Navy Yard, - and to assume an equally extensive route at the northern end of the line, divergent alto ' gether from the terminus at Fairmount. If this may be done under their charter there is no lithit to the space within this county Over which this- company may travel; by judicious connections they may travel the entire city with whatever they may choose to carry in their cars. Nor is there any restriction as to the kind of motive power to be em ployed. They have thus the most extensive charter that • has ever been granted to any railroad within the limits of the city, restricted only by their ability to connect by agreement to any railroad now con structed or hereafter to be constructed. The powers claimed by the said company are not given in terms. If they exist, they are to be derived by the construction of the word employed. After defining the route, and giving authority to make such turnouts; connections, and sidings, as may be necessary for the prosecution of the business of the company, the act goes on to say, "And they shall have the right to cross at grade any other railroad, and by agreement connect with, and run over, any other railroad now constructed, or whioh may hereafter be constructed in the city of Phila delphia." if these words give a general power, without any reference to the previous prescribed limits and route of the proposed road, then, indeed, the company has obtained-a most liberal franchise, bounded only by the limits of the county of Philadelphia, and not re stricted to the use of what are known as city passen ger railroads, but to any railroads existing or to be constructed within the county. If the Legislature intended to confer such privi leges upon the corporation, it is to. be regretted that such Intention was not clearly expressed. The entire provisions of the act of Assembly seem applicable to a road to be constructed, as other city railroads have been, from Broad and Federal streets and the Navy. Yard to Fairmount, with other additional privileges, intended, it must be presumed, to render more effective the franchise conferred—not to es tablish a road entirely different in location and pur poses from that thus definitely located. When such power is claimed under a legislative grant, we must have plain words for it. No uncertain meaning can prevail. 'Whatever is doubtful in a charter is certain against the right claimed. 3 Casey, 351. If anything in this charter is plain r it is that a railroad WAS authorized from Broad and Federal and Navy Yard to Fairmount: but that road is ex actly what the company desipt not to construct—. the words in which they state their intentions clearly show this—theY mean under this charter to connect, by means of a road in Broad street, upon a small portion only of the route, indicated in the charter, two lines of railroad, several miles distant from each other," and differing entirely in their char - Etc - ter and use from the city passenger roads, and, except as to Broad street, far away from the line of which the Navy Yard and Fairmount are the termini. • - To carry out this design either rails of a pattern different from those in general use by the city rail roads are required, or more than two rails are ne cessary- to accommodate the different gauge of the roads to be connected by them. It may well be doubted whether such was the in tention of the Legislature. Nor is it by any means clear that a foreign com pany, authorized to enter the city and to proceed by a defined route to a certain terminus, can, by a con tract with any other company, obtain a different route through the city and traverse it with the same cars ordinarily used upon their road. We need add nothing further to show that, in our opinion, the entire scheme of the Navy Yard Com pany needs additional legislation to enable them to carry it out to a fair and honorable completion. But the complainants in this bill are met with the objection that they are private individuals, and have not set out any special injury caused or threatened to them by the construction of this road. The interference of the court is asked for upon the ground that the railroad proposed to be constructed le 'a nuisance to the complainants. It has beeh set tled that a ; private citizen cannot obtain the inter femme of the court to prevent an act which may be an injury to the public eenerally. lie must show something particularly affecting his own interests. 14 connect, &585, Biglow vs. Hartford Bridge Company. 17 con., 372, Faust Ts. The Pass. R. Co., Philadelphia .16.5. 260,000,000 ' he constructing of a railroad authorized by law over a street of a city is not a nuisance. 'The Login lature . may change the mode of use of a highway. 6 )11har., 25. Although the change may be detri mental to the property of individuals, it is a loss for which the law affords no remedy. The lot-holders fronting on the street_so used,_ under legiala authority, cannot interfere by legal means to pre vent lit occupancy. Lrfinn - eaclr or theegtreeta,silopg which the COM plainants claim to be owners of propeity;"the - Legis- •• Wore has authorized the construction of a railroad, along Broad street, along Howard street, andEfirard avenue. 'The construction of the tracks along those streets; by the several companies having power to I make them, would be legal, and could. not be pre vented by . the present complainants or any of them, 1 and no injunction could issue upon their application. If, then, the construction of the - road upon any of these streets, would not, per se, be a nuisance, the 1 fact that it was constructed by a company other than the one having the charter for such road, would not cause it to be either a public or private injury. A company, exceeding its powers, may be restrained by, the representative of the Commonwealth, or by proceedings instituted by parties interested in the company ;•but persons having no interest in it can not interfere with .its action. If the directors of a corporation misuse or misapply its funds in the con struction of railroads, they are not responsible to strangers, and cannot be restrained -at their in stance. • • We have said that the design of the defendants, as disclosed by their affidavits, is not iu accordance with whit appears to be the true meaning of their charter. That looks to . the construction of the road from the Navy Yard to Fairmount, and the company may.hereafter be compelled to complete such a road. But upon the present application of the complain ants as individuals, we are unable for the reasons given to grant the injunction. The improper use of a railroad within the city maYbe restrained by the municipal authority, or, if that use amounts to a nuigance, it' is the subject of indictment. Injunction refused. TUE ItWE\TT•FOURTII-WAfD COI7NOILMAN CASE,- .APPLICATION FOR AN INJUNCTION. E. Spencer Miller vs. Philip Lowry at •al. This • was an•application for an injunction to restrain the said Philip Lowry from presenting to Select Council a certificate of election as member of said 'Select Council from the Twenty-fourth ward, and from taking his seat in that body, and also to restrain Horace Martin and Emanuel Rey, clerks of said Council, from calling the name of the said Lowry at its meeting. The bill that has been filed avers that Mr. Miller was duly elected by a majority of the qualified voters of the Twenty-fourth ward, a member of Select Council. That on Wednesday, the day succeeding the second Tuesday of October, the nine judges of the nine several divisions of the Twenty-fourth ward met and counted the return, and found a ma jority for Mr. Miller. But after said nine judges had so met and counted said votes, five of them, being a majority of their number, fraudulently com bining and conspiring with the said Philip Lowry to injure and defraud the complainant and deprive hint of the certificate of his said election, which said judges were then and there bound to give him, and they and the said Lowry also combining and con spiring to defraud the citizens of said ward, and the law in that behalf not only fraudulently refused to sign'a certificate of his election for the complainant, but fraudulently signed a certificate for the said Philip Lowry, at his request, certifying that he was, at said election, elected a member of Select. Council for said Twenty-fourth ward, which certificate the said Philip Lowry, having so fraudulently com bined and colluded with said fivejudges to obtain the same, took and received from said five judges, or their messenger, and now has and holds. The said five judges have been bound over to an swer, in the Quarter Sessions, for the misdemeanor of committing said -fraud, and will in a short time he tried therefor After the warrants were issued for this purpose; the said five judges joined with the other four of said nine judges in signing and causing to be delivered to the complainant a certificate of his election as member of Select Council for said ward. The said complainant has lately heard and believes that it is the intention of said Lowry, at the organi zation of the Select -Council, to carry out his said fraud by using his said certificate and demoniding a seat. in said Councils, and the said certificate maybe by the clerlewhwho shall organize said body, and who may be ignorant of the fraud. That said .Rey and Martin, now clerks of Select Council, combining and conspiring with said Lowry fraudulently to call the said Lowry's name, and omit to call the name of complainant, and thus deprive him of bis seat and give it to said Lowry, to prevent the possibility of such a result, it is necessary that the said certificate should be cancelled, and the said Lowry enjoined from taking his seat thereunder, and the said Rey and Martin from calling his name as a member of said Council. The bill concludes with a iirayer to this effect. The affidavit of J. Alexander Simpson, Esq., one of the Return Judges of that ward, was read in sup port of the facts Alleged. Lewis C. Cassidy, Esq., who, with George M. 'Wharton and William L. Hirst, Esqs., appeared for the respondents, stated that owing' to the short no tice they had received of this application, they had been unable to prepare but the affidavit of Mr. Lowry, which he would read. The affidavit is as follows Philip Lowry, Jr., being sworn according to law, Both depose and say: That he is advised and believes, and in consequence thereof respectfully suggests that this court has no jurisdiction of .the :natter com plained of in the bill filed in this case, as the matter therein stated is solely within the control of the Select Council of the city, inasmuch as the bill seeks to inquire into the "election and return" of a mem ber'of that body, but for greater caution, and without waiving the said objection, deponent says that at the election referred to in complainant's bill, he (this de nOnent)is informed and believes, and upon said in formation and belief avers he was duly elected a member of Select Council from the Twenty-fourth ward of this city. That on Wednesday, the day siie ceeding the second Tuesday of October, the election day referred to, the nine return judges of election of - the nine election divisions of the Twenty-fourth ward met, according to law. That said judges were' organized by the elect - let of a president and the appointment of clerks. That at said meet ing of return judges. without the interference or control in any way of this deponent, and in his absence, the said Board of Return Judges directed byjvote a certificate to be issued to this deponent, declaring this deponent to have been legally elected' a member of Select Council for said ward. That the certificate signed at said meeting by a majority of the said return judges and issued by the Board as aforesaid was issued to this deponent, and by a per son whom the deponent supposed was the messenger of said body, delivered to this deponent on the public highways, at least a mile from the meeting-place of said judges, and by him accepted. That he is in formed and believes that after having issued said certificate and such other certificates and business as they were bylaw required to do, the said Beard of Return Judges on the day last a fores aid adiown ed without day That deponent, in addition, tn said certificate, is able to chow, beyond doubt, his elec tion whenever by the proper tribunal rtwired so to do. That this deponent denies that heft any way con spired or combined with the return judges; or any of ll:etn, or wittiany one, to injure a:11 defraud the THREE CENTS Allis On. THE WAR PRESS. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) TRH WAT: PERM Will be sent to subscribers by mall (Per annum In advance) at $2.00 Five 44 9.00 Ten " " 17.00 Twenty Copies" 32.00 Larger Clubs than Twenty will be charged at the same rate, 51.60 per copy. The money must always accompany the order, arid in no instance can these terms be deviated from, ae their afford wry little more than the cost of the paper. 101.- Postmasters are requested to act as Agents for THE WAR, PRESS. bye To the getter-up of a Club of ten or twenty, an extra copy of the Paper will be given. complainant, or the citizens of the Twenty-fourth ward, or any one else, or to interfere with the rights of the complainant or any other person. That deponent is Informed and believes that after the legally- organized board of return judges of said ward had met, completed their business, and ad journed sine die, five of the persons formerly consti tuting the board, against whom a criminal prosecu tion had been commenced, and two others after. wards, to wit : on the 16th day of October, two days after the election, signed a paper for the said com plainant which deponent is informed the said com plainant calls a certificate of election as member of Select Council from the Twenty-fourth ward. That said paper was not signed at a legal meeting of the return judges of said ward, or at a time recognized by law, and he Is informed was signed by some of the signers thereof, in the absence of the others and out side of the ward. And deponent further says that it is not true that he, in any way, proposes to interfere with any of the rights of the complainant, hut simply to exercise and guard his own in such a way as to procure the de cision of a competent tribunal in reference thereto. That complainant has no legal certificate of election to the office of member of Select Council from the Twenty-fourth ward, and that if complainant claims to have been elected to the said office, his rights are amply protected `by law, inasmuch as he can avail himself of the form and process usual and proper in the case of a contested election. And deponent further says that he believes the present application is but an effort to induce this court to interfere with the right of the Select Coun cil to judge of the qualifications of ita members. The argument, which was principally directed to the power of the court to interfere in the matter, was then commenced. On the part of the com plainant, it was contended by Chas., Gilpin, Eaq., that- this was a case of a party holding a fraudulent certificate and attempting to use it, and the com plainant would be without remedy unless a Court of Equity should interfere. On the part of the respondents it was argued by Messrs. Wharton and Hirst that the consolidation act gave power to Select Council alone to judge of the qualifications of its members, and the court could not interfere in the matter. :Judge Thompson held that the question here was whether the court had the right to prevent the use of a fraydulent paper, and that the power of Courts of Equity to restrain parties from the use of false papers in derogation of the rights of others, had never been doubted. It was alleged in the bill that the certificate of Mr. Lowry was a false and fradu lent one, and that he was about to use It. If this was so, the. court had the right to restrain him. That by the returns it appears that, by a majority of the qualified voters of the ward, the complainant had been elected a member of Select Council from that ward. In order to prevent the injunction, the answer of Mr. Lowry ought to deny the facts on which this charge is made. He does not meet these allegations. He merely alleges that he believes himself to be elected. If Mr. Lowry is willing to answer this bill; and put himself on his oath as to the validity of his certificate, and the facts on which it is based, he will then put the complainant out of court. If he does not deny the facts alleged in the bill, and aver the legality of his own certificate, the injuno tion must issue. For this purpose Mr. Lowry was allowed until the hour of adjournment to tile ea amended affidavit: Judge Allison fully concurred with Judge Thomp son in these views, and on the point raised as to the power of the court to restrain municipal cor porations from doing unlawful acts, he said that, until it can be shown by clear and unquestionable authority that by act of Assembly a municipal cor poration is invested with power to do just as they pleased, he would not yield assent to the doctrine that the courts were powerless to interfere to pro tect the rights of citizens. While Councils were the exclusive judges of the qualifications of members, they must judge in strict. conformity to law. When they refuse to keep within the strict line of the law, a court of equity will interfere to keep theta there. At 3 o'clock Mr. Lowry was again in court with the amended answer. After consultation between Mr. Hirst, for Mr. Lowry, and Mr. Gilpin, for Mr. Miller, the amended affidavit was not presented, but the case was allowed to go over until this morning, and Mr. Gilpin intimated that. the matter could then be settled in a few minutes. THE CASE OP;,TII.E EVENING BULLETIN. . The case of Peacock et at. vs. Chambers et 41. in volving the management of the Evening Bulletin newspaper, before reported, has been carried to the Supreme Courti in bane. This is an appeal from the decision of Mr. Justice Read, at 2'i,'i Prius, who dis missed the bill of the plaintiffs. The hearing before a full bench will take place in January. • THE POLICE. [Before Kr. Alderman Belt Jeri Final Hearing of Alleged Shoplifters. Margaret Montgomery, Bridget Ward, AVillians Fannin, and Andrew Callen, arrested on Tuesday evening of last week, on the charge of being impit 'eated in shop•lifting had a final hearing before Al derman Beitler on Saturday afternoon, at the Central Station. . T. B. Pugh, the proprietor of a store at Sixth and Chestnutstreets, identified a portable writing desk, which he alleges was stolen from his store ; he could not say that he had ever seen any of the prisoners at his store. D. 11. Lee identified a piece of goods such as he has for sale • also, a comb that looks like those at his store; the piece of goods is very peculiar in color, and very scarce; a piece like this was stolen; have frequently seen one of the women (Mrs. Montgome ry). come to the store; from her peculiar actions al wayd regarded her as a suspicious person. Michael M. Biter identified several pieces of goods, one piece in particular, by the private mark thereon; one of the pieces is scarce there is only one other store having the same kind for sale. This witness also identified a piece that a lady had exchanged on the day of the robbery. Reuben Bechtel. identified a piece of goods by the store mark upon it. Edward I,Carlin, detective, testified that, in com pany with Detectives Lamon, Bartholomew, and Henderson, he had seen Mrs. Montgomery at times, during the past four or five years ; the last store she and her companion visited on last Tuesday after eh. th_atreB.4 r we followed the party until they entered a iager Shoemaker street; we took them into custody and brought them to the station ; the portable writing. desk was found in the room occupied by Mr. Fanning and Bridget Ward; a portion of the goods was found in a room occupied by Mrs. Montgomery ; when we entered the bar-room the two male prisoners were there ; they suddenly left the place. John Lamon (detective) testified as to the traoing of the women from the Eighth street storesto the lager beer house ; the piece of goods found on Mrs. Montgomery is that identified by Mr. Biter ; on another visit paid to the house we found this lifting pocket; (pocket shown); we got some of the goods at Front and Dock streets; when we entered the bar. room the two men, Fannin and Cullen, suddenly de parted ; I caught one of them at Second and Spruce streets; Officer Carlin caught the other atsome other place. A number of bills for goods purchased were se cured by the officers, but none of them appear to hare any bearing upon the alleged robbery as pre ferred. We may state that quite a number of artiolea of dry goods recovered by the officers • have not yet been identified. The defendants were committed' in default of $1,500 bail each to await their trial at the Criminal Court. Highway Robbery—A. Confession. Before the same magistrate, a young man named John Mooney was arraigned on the charge of high way robbery. He made a clean breast of the whole affair, by acknowledging the truth of the charge as preferred against him. Ths facts in brief are these : On Christmas Eve the defetdant met a "young man named George Sites, "hear Sixth and Chestnut streets. He thought he recogniied him as an old acquaintance, 'whom he had not seen for some time. The defendat was glad to see his friend;and finally asked him for a loan of some money. Mr. Sites immediately Milled out his pocket-book, contiining, as. he said, nearly seventy dollars, whereupon de fendant suddenly seized it, and the next moment mingling in the 'crowd - was lost to view: He was subsequently arrested, when he acknowledged that he had stolen the book, and realized about sixty dollars. He was committed to prison to await his trial. Au Adventure of the Night. Dr. Francis .Condie, one of the oldest, and most extensively known and esteemed physicians of Phila delphia, was the victim as well as the hero of an ad venture that occurred about two o'clock on Satur day morning; the interesting particulars of which are as follows : It seems that the wife of a gentle man residing on Arch street near Eleventh, we be• lieve, was taken sick about one o'clock on Saturday morning. It was necessary to procure the attend ance of a physician and a nurse. The gentleman, on leaving his domicile, locked the front door and plac ingi the key on the front window sill, so that the physician might readily find it, closed the shutters, and started on his important mission. Having reached the residence of the physician, the appliCant made known his business, and• then started in search of the nurse. He told the Doctor that when he reached his house to open the parlor shutters, and he would find the front-door key, by which he could gain admittance. The Doctor understood it all, and the sentleman re newed his errand, which, up to this time, was only about half accomplished. On reaching the house in Arch street, the Doctor attempted to open the wron g window shutters. A solitary policeman, of Lieut. Patton's division, was not far distant: He, naturally - enough, thought the Doctor was a burglar; and, like a good officer, watched him in all his movements. Presently, the Doctor opened the right shutters, and while feeling about, in the dark for the key, the policeman silently advanced and said : "Rollos, old feller, what 'yere doing herel" "Trying to get into the house," was the reply. "That's a puny way to get into the house: that aint according to Gunter." "Well, I am looking for the key," rejoined the Doctor, at the same time fumbling about the sill. "Come, come, old feller, you've gone far enough: to the station-house you must go." "But, I'm a doctor, sir." . "Oh, yes, a purty doctor to be sure, trying to get into people's front windows at this early hour in the morning; ; we'll give you a soft plank in the station. "But, my friend, see here, I'm Doctor Condie; there's a sick lady in this house, and I have been sent. for:" "Well, knever seen doctor trying to get into a front window afore ; it aint according to gunter, so come along) , "But, but, see here ; I—don't you know me, sir T I am' Dr. Condie." Finally, the police, officer became satisfied that the Doctor was not a burglar, a mutual explanation fol lowed, the policeman laughed, soditl the Doctor. and while the latter was attending the bedside of the sick lady, the officer continued to patrol the streets, to guard the property of the sleeping citizens, and. to think on the novelty of the adventure with a doe-- tor in search of a key. ECLIPSE§ DINIING 1863.—During the next year (1863) there will be two eclipses of the sun and two of the moon : First. A partial eclipse of the sun May 17, at 11h. 28,14 m. in the morning, invisible on account of the moon's great north latitude. The southern line, or limit of risibility in the United States, first touches at Snnta Baz;bara, California; thence, pur 'suing a northeastern course, touches at Manti, otru t h ; Fort • Laramie. Nebraska; Bigstone Minnesota : thence across the north part of Lake Superior into Canada. • Second. A total eclipse of the moon Au* 1, at 6h. 6m. In the evening. The moon rises (fa. the sun sets) 22 minutes before the end of the eclipse. Third. An annular eclipse of the sun November 11th, at h. 39m. in the morning, in.:risible. This elimie will only be visible in the -o:teat Southern Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope kt.,Australia. kourlii.. A partial eclipse of the ckoon 'November 25th, visible in mean time as foliowa: Beninning of eclipse lh. 5.3 m. 438., morning. .............. 3 „„13. “. End of eafuse. • 6 16 ' 11 _ • • —•- •At the middle of the eclipse s the moon will he in the zenith in longitude 137 neg. 11 nun. west of Greenwich 'and latitude 20 thrg. 93. min. north, near midway between the Sandwich Islands and Leaver California. There will be seen very large eclipses of the sun on the following days, to wit : Thursday, October IA 1866 ;,Saturday, August 8, 1669; Wednesday, Sep. tember 29, 1676; Thursday, October 20, tafte - mon_ day, Dlay 28, 1900. During the BRIIIIO period there will be seven other eclipses of tho sun, but of Muck less magnitude. A Qo?' - ER? MEINZT CONTRACT.--. 001. Stllll - U.S.- Commissary of Subsistance, has aivardo4l Thain, McKeon& Co., of this city, a contract for 50,000 fps. hard yellow soap, at $6.96, 811(15Q : 00o 10. at $63.2;4 r 100 !Gs.
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