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THE WAR.
MAJo.it BA KS landed with a large
portion of his army at New Orleans about ten days
ago. He at once assumed command of the Depart
ment of the Gulf. He immediately prepared an ex
pedition, under General Grover, for the occupation
of Baton Rouge. This movement was very success
ful, and our troops In the vicinity of the capital of
Louisiana are moving out in every direction to
gather in the cotton crop, which the planters arc
anxious to dispose of at good prices. Already a
second expedition, has been heard from, success
fully operating upon the east bank of the Missis
sippi. It is that under command of Major General,
Christopher Columbus Augur, who is now in corn
viand at Port Hudson, over one hundred miles
above New Orleans. General Michael Coreoriin,
with his Irish Legion, haa gone off in another direc
tion, and General AVeitzell will not be left idle long
at Bayou Lafourche. Admiral Farragut is reported
to be ascending the Mississippi, and is now opposite
Vicksburg, probably intending to co-operate with
Commodore Porter in the reduction of that im
portant rebel stronghold. General Banks has com
menced his work with a display,of wonderful energy
and great executive ability, and we opine that his
rapid stud 'a soon secure to us the States di
Texas: and MiesissipPl, With all their
cattle, crops, and slaves, knocking away three great
Supporting . columns of the rebellion. „. .
A noilr of Stuatt , scavalry, under Brigadier Gene
ral Fitz Hugh Lee, bivouacked at Builes - Station,
about twenty miles south of Washington, on Sun
day night, after having seized the United States
telegrapher at that point, and received and answered
several despatches from Washington and the head- -
quarters •of General Burnside's Army. They cap
tured a small train of Federal wagons and some
prisonerS. .During.: yesterday - they were at Vienna
and Dranesville, almost in sight of Washington, and
last night,s no doubt, reached : Leesburg. Whether
they will now move fiver into Maryl Find, or return
to Fredericksburg, remains to be seen. -It is proba
ble that the body of horse is small, and will et ado
capture, getting back safely to General Lee's head
quarters with miportant information, if nothing
else.
"NtxpOleoli iu AnivricA.
Nnyou:ox's designs: Upon or against
Mexico are gradually becoming more and
more apparent. Contracts have been made
with responsible persons in Europe to supply,
the French army in Mexico with provisions
and other necessaries during the: next two
years—which shows that the expedition is
intended to Occupy the country for, that time
:it. least. It has transpired, also, that :Ar;
mor;TE; the Mexican general and statesman
(Minister Of War under President BUSTA
MENTE, and subSequently ambassador at
Washington and London), succeeded in
hoodwinking NAroLtow, Which is about
the ablest thing he has ever done. .:!.+:6toxrrE
was exiled from Mexico, for his anibition
and intrigues, and turned up at Paris, where
he succeeded in persuading . NA.ror,Eox that
Mexico ,was ripe for : reVoiution, tired of ye
publiCanisM, aux iouS for a monarchical
and willing to receiVe, as Eruperer or King;
any prince presented by France. , He sag
,
gested the Grand-Duke, MAXIMILIAN, :bro
ther of the Emperor of Austria. This
idea, taken hold of by NAPpLEON,'
presented to MAXIMILIAN, who, with
his Imperial brother's consent, expressed
his willingness to accept the crown of
Mekico if tendered to :him by the nation.
There can be little doubt that the premature
discovery of this scheme was 'the proximate,
though not the ostensible cause of the break,
big-up of the: tripartite treaty (between
France, Spain, and England) against
Mexieo. The British fleet. and the Span
ish troops retired, Very: suddenly, lea
ving NAyobEox "alone in hiS glory," and
saddled with a heaVier war than lie had ex
pected; as the Mexicans, long distracted by
party fends, patriotically laid . them aside
when they saw the independence of their
native land,. thaeatened by the French inva
sion. ."NAPOLEON is not the:man to be baf
fled in this manner, ' :Hence, the despatch of
large navaland military reinforcements, : by
whose aid he = expects soon to oceupy:the
capital of Mexico. His generals, so far,
have been bravely opposed by the Mexican
forces, and his -achievement iS :not quite so
facile as lie anticipated. His soldiers, Suf
fering much from the want of fresh-meat
'and - ve.getableS; RTe reduced to subsist on
such previsions as are generally used on
board ship. To expect that he will, retire,
without accomplishing some great success,
is an idea entertained by few, NAPOLEON
cannot afford to foil in anything, just now,
after having been foiled, mainly by the
straightforward policy of the Czar, in his
recent attempt to draw. Russia and England
into an ivlbrogle'o with the United States::
Why should NAPOLEON have entered into
this raid upon Mexico ? • The indebtedness
of that country to France was comparatively
small ; it was much larger to Spain ; very
large to England. NAPOLEON'S policy is to
win for France that "bubble Reputation,"
which constituted her inspiration under his
renowned uncle, and which seems as the
breath of life to Frenchmen. In this, with
out caring for the integrity of the Turkish
Empire, be successfully manomvred to ob
tain the co-operation of England, Prussia;
and Austria, against the late Emperor of
Russia. England was deceived into this
alliance, which culminated in the Crimean
war. Prussia remained neutral, for family
reasons, seeing that the Czarina of that day
was a Princess of the I louse of Braudenberg.
Austria limited herself to the military occu
pation of Wallachia and Moldavia, Turkish
provinces • which the Czar had suddenly
seized and as suddenly abandoned. The
Czar was -opposed, in the war, by the
united military and
.naval forces of Eng
land and France, with a small contingent
from VICTOR EM3IANiTEL. In the contest,
which was of unexampled severity, France
claimed to have won the greater amount of
glory, and retired, at NAPOLEON'S will,
when Oda consummation had been achieved,
giving such favorable terms of peace to
Russia as to place the present Czar under
.personal as well as political obligation to
one whom he had every reason to consider,
by that forbearance, a chivalric and gene-
TOUS foe. Turkey remained pretty much as
before the war. England won small honor .
at vast COSI. VICTOR 'EMMANUEL may be
said to have then obtained brevet rank
among European Sovereigns, and, in a
few years, obtained substantial elevation
as King of Italy. The amour propre of
France was gratified by the honors won
by her brave soldiers, and the world
saw, beyond all question, that NAroLEox
—who had been variously sneered at as
a parrenv, a charlatan, a dreamer of dreaMs,
a book-worm, a roue, and an amateur sol
dier-statesman—really had the mind to On
eeive and the will to execute great designs.
The Crimean war gave him remarkable
prestige, and the superior organization of his
army suggested to England the necessity of
reformation -in her own military system.
Still, NAPOLEON had hitherto fought only
by his generals. lie had to establish a mili
tary reputation, personally. lie did so,
with a show of infinite generosity, in the
Italian war which he was the means of
creating. In the great battles which took
place, he commanded in person, with the
gallantry of a Paladin and the scientific
skill of a great master of the art- of war.
Isis coolness and courage were apparent in
every instance, when'oppoSing the enemy.
After winning the battle of Solferino, he
again resisted the temptation of crushing the
foe, and gave the Emperor of Austria better
toms of peace than he had any right to
expect. Again, NAPOLEON gave France
the glory which she loves so well—for which
she has paid 'so dearly in the present cen
tury: More recently, NAPOLEON divided
the laurels with England, in the war with
China, and secured a footing, by conquest,
in Cochin-China. The raid upon Mexico is
his latest essay in arms.: In this the attain.;
Anent of glory is scarcely, an object. A more
Solid result is unquestionably aimed . at. NA
rOLF.O.Ic, ever since he obtained direction of
public affairs in France, as President as Well
as Emperor, has steadily aimed at obtaining
a territorial occupation and ownership on
the Pacific. It has been declared, over and
over again, that, despite of the Monroe doc
trine, he desires to possess the province of
Sonora, rich in mineral wealth, and in den
gerous contiguity to (Sur OWE New Mexico
and golden California. 'This is what we
etamot permit ; but. he probably has calcu
lated that, clogged as we must be with
a civil war, it is - what we cannot pre'L
vent. It is probable c that,-. should he sub
due Mexico, lie will insist on being fully
repaid the expenses of the war, and insist.
on receiving Senora as an equivalent, in
stead of valueless drafts upon theekhausted
treasury of the Mexican Republic.: These
.
contingencies make us deeply intereatcd in
the condition of MeXiCO, as invaded by NA
aizox. He who insisted on Savoy being
annexed to France, in return for militarT
service rendered' to Vicmon EMMANUEL in
the way of 1.859, , can scarcely be expectedsto.
have the shadow of a scruple in taking pos
session of Sonora upon any, or even apon no
just, pretenee. Talented and bold, astute
and unscrupulous, NAPOLEON has reduced
his ambition to a system, which he works
by fixed ruleS, unswayed by inipulse and
unchecked by conscience. :, • •
English Politics.
Lord P,WIERSTON, Who has been nearly
half a century in high office, has a great deal.
Of common sense, and evidently feels that,
as prime Minister, he stands npondangerons
ground just new. He is setting his hOuse iu
order, and has been Miffing cabinet councils - .
With : his colleagnes, to determine :and itr•
range what shall be done to : remain in
liONVer.. When lie resumed Office, in 1859,
itwas on , a solemn - and public pledge that
the Reforin Bill of 1832 'should be amended
and Wended, so as to give the fight of
voting atiParliathentitryelietioifs.to millions
of taxpayers who arc now unrepresented,
Creature and champion of. the Aristocracy,
his-whole- public course has been to give as
little power as possible to the People. Over
three-years - have passed without his making
even a pretenceOf doing anything for them,
and he has hitherto affbeted to daspise bhe
complaints of RICHARD COBDEN and JoHN
BRIGHT about his breach of faith. A new
idea ; however, has gradually perVaded, the
BritiSh ,p - üblicthe idea that the National
expenditure
,is too great, and the,National
taxation too heavy; and, in the coining Par 7
liamentary campaign, the rednetion of :both
will be demanded and
,striven for with a
forde: and, an unity too powerful to be long
resisted. -
. It is intended, • the London: press : says,
that, making a virtue of necessity, the Mi 7
nist y shall reduce the annual expenditure
by two millions sterling, equivalent to $lO,-
000,000. ' This; though a large 'reduction,
will not satisfy the public: A new auxiliaL
ry, Whose powerful aid will gladly. be ac
cepted by CoainE7s and BnionT,: the popular
leaders, is .I.lr. DISIRAELT, W 11. 02 to do him
justice, complained, even WhOn:FimtliCial
Minister, that the national establishments
were gill too costly. Last session he de . -
clared that sterling might be
saNed. The : 31 - ornlity th.
Cobden -Bright mouthpiece, says - "Mr.
DISrAELI has diStinetly shOwn that five
millionS may be:saVed tothe country by re
trenchnients which : will in no degree affect
the safety, thehimor, : Or the power of Great
Britain: He has put his finger upon the ex:-
cesses in the army; ordnance; and navy de,
partmentS, by which our peace estimates
have been swollen to a
. .magnitUde .hitherte
reached only in time of European war. :He
has TirttiOly pledged , his reputation. as a
statesman, and his, influence as a Party
chieftain, to the instant ahatement of those
excesses without in the least impairing the
efficiency of the iservices. He is thus Com
mitted to a proposal.- which the country is:
not -:to forget;'' and which political ri
vals cannot afford to, disregard." If Drs
n ELI Will heartily 1 co-operate With the
popular Retrencluitent party, he may„ ere
long, sit as a Cabinet Minister with ConoN,
-BructuT, and other reformers. It is evident
that, ,in the last session, . the confidence of
the Tory party in' him was so far I - Weakened
as at times to reach the point - of
natien- 77 lte still being: no, inal leader of the
Tories in-the : House of Commons:
Davis Defended.
The New York World is'engaged , in the
congenial duty of defending the blood
thirsty proclamation of Mr. JEFFERSON
DAIIB, and thinks that, all things consi
dered, General BUTLER 1111 S done many
things to injure the feelings of that high
blinded traitor. " Mr. DAVIS," says the
World, " has good ground for complaining
of Gen. BUTLER'S high-handed proceedings
in New Orleans, and of the confiscation and
emancipation measures of the Administra
tion. He would be wanting in ordinary po
litical sagacity if he did not make the most
of these advantages to deepen the hostility to
the Union which exists in Europe." From
the animosity mahifested by the World to
-Gen. BUTLER, we suppose the next step will
be to recommend his surrender, by Gen.
IiALLECR, as an expiation for the lamented
Mr. MumFonD.
GeueTal Butler.
The New York Herald justly compli
ments General BUTLER'S administration
of aithirs in • Ncw •Orleans, - when it says
that " all things considered, we doubt
Dot that the future historian of this gigantic
rebellion will set down General But
ma's civil and military government over
New Orleans as wonderfully efficient, com
prehensive, and successful, though some
what marked by occasional harsh extremi
ties of an absolute military power."
William Cornell Jewett.
This eccentric ambassador and independ
ent minister Plenipotentiary to all the courts
of Europe, who has written letters to Jo - 1m
BEIGET and Louts NAPOLEON, and who
has prevailed upon Mr. GREELEY. to elabo
rate his scheine to the extent of a column in
the Tribune, passed through this city, last
evening to Washington, to confer with,Con
gress and the Cabinet. Mr. JEWETT is san
guine of his ability to settle the affairs of the
country in a brief and satisfactory manner.
Before leaving the city Mr. JEWETT sent
Mr. Lixcomc the following thrilling de
spatch :
CONTINN.NTAL HOTEL, Dec. 29, 1862.
To President Lincoln and Mc Cabinet of the United States
Washingion:
The Clod of justice—all humanity of nations—the
flowing blood and army of the Republic—national
prosperity— Southern constitutional . right— con
servative sentiment of the people in late Demo
cratic victories—call of France for a cessation of hoz
tilities--wlth calm deliberation—demand a war
power—suspended "slave proclamation"—action—
with favor to an international just tribunal—edito
rially advocatedby. "Greeley." Commissioners from
Government and States, North and South—dispatch
ed to Europe—ln a U. Vessel—to arrange the
''Garibaldi" ; Congress 'of Nations—slavery—with
other—differences—settled—subject—to the ratifica
tion of a convention—as also the 'Papacy"question—
the one as indispensable to the peace of America—as
the other—is to the peace of France—thus French:me
dial ion—policy—perpetuate American institutions—
securing firm the throne of Napoleon—God give you
wisdom to heed this the voice of the American peo
ple and Europe. WM. CORNELL JEWETT.
STILUIT'S PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON.—Mr. T.
B. Pugh, S. W. corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets,
has now on view.a specimen proof of the new en
graving of Gilbert Stuart's well-known portrait of
Washington, painted in 1796, retained, by the artist
while he lived, and now in the Boston Atheneum.
The new engraving, in the line manner, is by Mr.
-William E. Marshall, a young American of whom
the world is bound to hear a great deal ere long.
It is said to be the largest head ever cut in line, in
this country, and is admitted by all who have seen
The engraving and the original portrait to be a per
fect transfusion on paper, by the burin, of what the
painter successfully represented by the pencil. Mr.
Marshall has been over two years engaged
on this engraving. It will be published by
Ticknor & Fields, of Boston, and Mr. T. B.
Pugh is their appointed agent to receive
subscriptions. No prints will be taken from the
plate, and the . price, which is half of the European
price for engravings of inferior merit and interest,
will be sio for proofs, and $2O for artist's proofs: Mr.
Pugh will receive subscribers' names, show the spe
cimen, and supply the engravings:—on this head, his
advertisement in to-day's Press gives full informa.
tion. Our own opinion of the engraving is that a
more perfect work of art has not been produced,
we will not say Bete; but any where, within lip ing
memory.. it is a gent, in its way.
Ginann Hot;m 7 This establishment was re.,
opened yesterday, and already hits numerous imt
mates. The whole house has been renovated, rei
furnished; and, in some instances, the floor's have
been relaid. In the gentlemen's parlor we. noticed .
tWo fine paintings by Mr. Fowler, the artist, now
One Of the proprietors and managers of the hotel;
Mr. Charles Duffy presides over "the office." The,
price of board is as forreerly—s2 a day, we believe. •
LETTER Ifeßol6l • " OCCASJONAL,"► I
• 'WASHINGTON, Dec. 29, 18G2.
`lf: the loyal Democrats the United
States could have anticipated the treachery
of the Southern Democratic leaders, and
the dire horrors of the Rebellioriltself, they
would never have tamely consented to the
efforts of the slaveholders for the disruption
Of the "Union. Never doubting that it was
the object of the Southern DeMocratic
leaders_to rush the country into civil war,
I took nn early occasion to say 50 ; and,
from the Year 1858 to 'lB6l, continued 'to"
write tipOn: , this correspoudence„
It :is, some satisfaction that many, were
iinpressed', : by reasoning, and con
sicced by: its subsequent confirmation,
Others,'howeyer, Would - not listen to what
they :regarded as merely partisan pro
phecy:: They; :adhered to ; : the shameful
poliey. of Buchanan, and supported the pro
scription of hOneSt DemociatS by the:slaye
holders with -uninviting : zeal and obsti
naeY. Even as new ; events proyed the
justice of the calculation that the efforts of
the 'Southern Deinocratic leaders were
tended to divide and deStroy the Republic by
means of an unparalleled civil war-even after
the Baltimore Railroad leading to the capital
Was cut, the life of the President threatened,
and the patriotic bloOd of the heroeS of
Nassachusetts had been shed in the streets of
Baltimore---certain of the Democratic chiefs
not only refused to regard : the RebelliOn as
worthy of condethnation and =Ceasing op
position, but busied themselves in intrigues
to SiIONV that they Were really in sympathy
with it. I repeat, that if the Masses of
the Democratic :: party; could E have
seen these :calamities, very few would
have folloWed:,:the men Who have inflicted
them upon our . country.. But :dark and
bloody as : this : record is, a darker ,and
blbodier one be, written in the pages of
our futUre- history, unless patriotic - Amen
cans mol - e in: concert, to anticipate' : and
check,them. , Is it t clear to every
gent' mind' that th influences that en
couraged Secession :by - aiming to destroy
the Democratic party; and by persistentEacts .
of sympathy with the Rebellion,are:noW at
work to pinup the great cities of the free
States into anarchy: and revolution 1' Their
, in Philadelphia and New York are
sad. and: conclusive proofs: ' of: pis : purc
pose:E Defiance of law, contempt for the
decision 'of the ballot-boX,E Open repudiation,
of allegiance to the Government, opposition
to the draft and to taxation', threats against
the lives and property of the constitutional
advisors of the President; and an open de
claration that the Chief Magistrate must be
deposed, arc but fOotsteps that mark the
onward march of : a movement that may,
before are Many months older, over
whelm the liberties and -the interests of our
countrymen. Let them not believe that
these things are impossible. In the dread
ful past we may .read the thick and ,
fast.coming future, A brave and united
people can, howeVer, . 'defeat this baleful
plot. No time is to '-be lost—not an
hoar or a clay. Jhousands of Democrats
will sever, their connection with the authors
of this plot the Moment they see that it :is
probable ; and men of other. opinions
seek safety and reftiae:frOnithe f untold hOr-
rors of a state of anarchy by exposing a 0
trampling - wider ,foot' this last and .most
menacing beheme of, the enemies of the Re
'‘; , OCCASIONAL.
NEW YORK CITY.
Special Correspondence of The Press.] -
NEW YMCA, Dec. 29 1860
THE CAPTURE OF THE "ARIEL," •
by the British-Confederate pirate "Alabama," was
the great sensation of yesterday, and creates no
small stir in mercantile and other circles to-day. The
perfect ease with which the pirate made 'her capture
showajust how much reliance is to be placed in the
idea of "fully arming" merchant and mail vessels.
The armament of the "Ariel" only served the pur
pose of so much more booty for the rebel thieves,
whilst the failure of the steamer's captain and crew
to make the least use of it, (miserably inadequate as
it was), for their own defence, gives the whole affair
an aspect of mingled burlesque and pusillanimity.
Truth to tell, this last exploit of the audacious
Semmes • is not •far from being entirely farcical, for
everybody except the unfortunate express com
pany; who lost their eight thousand dollars
The pirate's English, lieutenant was dined and
wined by the cabin passengers whom he was blandly
robbing; said passengers "beg leave" to acknowledge
the "courtesy" with which they were treated by
the freebooters, and the bond of ransom given for
the captured steamer is to be cashed so many days
"after the acknowledgment of the Southern Con
federacy." Notwithstanding Jell Davis' blood and
thunder, this is certainly, as old Punch says, a "very
civil war." Commodore Vanderbilt, who owns
the Ariel, does not appear to be greatly surprised at
what has happened, and believes that the-Alabama
will make other captures of the same kind, if Go
vernment does not furnish a swift-sailing war vessel
to convoy the California steamers part of the way
on their trips. This afternoon the Ariel lies in the
stream opposite her wharf, and is an object of cu
rious scrutiny to passengers on the ferry boats and
innumerable aquatic amateurs in sail and row boats.
• She shows no traces of the shot said to have been
fired at her by . Semmes.
THE "RETALIATORY" PROCLAMATION
of Jeff Davis is duly considered by our•newspaper
editors to-day. The Democratic prints handle it
witli'an affectation of virtuous horror, whilst insi
diously- insinuating that it proves the war to have
reached a depth of barbarism rendering it highly
improper that it should be prosecutlxl any further,
and making it incumbent upon the President . to
withhold his emancipation proclamation. The loyal
journals see in it nothing more than a crazy outburst
against a Union commander, at the very time when
the latter was removed beyond the reach of any pos
sible effects from it. It is equally- terrific with
" Little 'Mac's" memorable concentration of artil
lery and infantry to capture the rebel force, which
had quietly marched away from Munson's Hill just
before.
BEECHER'S SERMON,
at Plymouth Church yesterday morning, was whht
Might have been expected from the famous apostle
of Emancipation on the Sunday before the appoint
ed FIRST. G alatians v. 13, furnished the text, from
which the Reverend gentleman assumed liberty to
be a God-given right which no man could take from
another without committing an unpardonable crinie,
sure to bring terrible punishment. After a stirring
preamble of this tenor, Mr. Beecher plunged at once
into his sermon by a somewhat lively allusion to the
newspapers charging him with preaching more poll
tieS than gospel. "He of the Herald, and they of the
Journal of Cothmerce, must lie awake nights groan
ing In agony of spirit and praying that I may be led
to preach the Gospel. So, now and here, lam going
to - begin, if I never did before;.and I begin by pro
claiming to you Chinese, to you Frenchmen, to you
Japanese, to you Austrians, to you Spaniards, to
you Russian serfs, to you inhabitants of the isles and
frozen regions of the North, to you Englishmen,
to you across the great sea, to you across the
length and breadth of the American conti
nent, Indians, Creoles, whites and blacks, free
men or slaves—you are called unto Liberty !"
An.irrepressible outburst of applause, in which
• the whole • congregation joined, followed this
characteristic climax. In extenuation of a
practice which may be deemed flagrantly out of
keeping with the solemn sanctity of a house of God,
-it may be said that this' celebrated preacher's style
of oratory has such a peculiarly exciting effect upon
an assemblage, that it is not in human nature to
refrain from some sort of response to it. It is
Beecher's way, to work up a climax with a rapidity
and tire of expression fairly outrunning all delibe
rate thought, and then to cap it suddenly and unex.
pettedly with some electrical sentiment that makes
yoUlorget all conventionalisms of time and place in
the immediate impulse to respond by some demon
stration of wrought-up feeling. The preacher him
self loses all thought of where he is, in his impetu
ous fez vor, and the most stolid auditor must be more
or less excited from mere physical contagion.
• WALL STREET, TO-DAY,
is considerably excited about the. Ariel capture,
and the marine insurance companies have advanced
the war risk on California vessels to five per cent.,
en increase of two per cent. Those having an inte
rest in the treasure .which the captain of the Ariel
very sensibly refused to bring from Aspinwall on
his return trip, are comforted by the assurance just
received from Washington, that the gunboat Con
necticut will be despatched from Hampton Roads,
on Thursday, to bring it. STUYVESANT.
.LADOE POSITIVE SALE OF BOOTS . AND
SHOES, GUM SHOES, CARPET BADS, HATS AND
WHirs.—The early attention of purchasers is re
quested to the large assortment of boots, shoes,
gum shoes, travelling bags, &c., &c., embracing about
700 packages of first-class seasonable goods, of city
and Eastern manufacture, to be peremptorily sold,
by catalogue, on four months' credit, commencing
this morning at 10 o'clock, by John B. Myers & 00.,
auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street.
ENGLIS.YI PICTORIALS.—From S. 0. Upham, 403
Chestnut street, we have the Illustrated London News
of December 13, and the Illustrated News of lie World
of the same date. Both contain numerous engrav
ings, illustrating the history of the time.
TIIONAS Is; SONS' S.ti.LE3, THIS DAY.—Box. lum•
ber, laths, &c., at Haslam's wharf, Kensington.
STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE, at the Exchange.
See advertisements, both Bales.
Brigadier General Manson has relieved Gene
rid Granger of his command at Bowling Green.
General Granger is ordered.to report to Roam:two,
at Nashville.
—The Albany Statesman says that not only hha
Mr. Weed sold out the Journal to Mr. Van Dyck,
Wit that Messrs. pawsonM and SewarclM Shares, also,'
Veinga majOritk of the whole, have been bargained
to Charles 41...Ditna, Esq., formerly of the New York'
—loieheletrs book on "Sorcery" has incurred the
diiPleiMure of the French Government, a second
edition baying been forbidden. Whereupon tho
author proposes to bring out an enlarged edition'
beyond the limits of French authority,
E PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 80, 1862.
WAEHINOTON,OeHIber 20, 1862.
Presentation to.Seeretary and Mrs. Smith.
Hon. C. B. SMITH, Secretary of the Interior, was,
on Saturday night, presented with a handsome ser
vice of silver, consisting of one urn, two goblets,
teapot, bowl, and a large salver. The articles were
most exquisitely chased and highly ornamented.
On the salver we notived the following inscription :
Testimonial of respect
Presented to
HON. CALEB B. SMITE,.
Secretary of the Interior,
•
December 27, 1662.
WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to " The Press."
Dlr. H. E. MrsEn, of the Pension Office, made the
presentation speech on behalf of the donors, who
were the employees of the Interfor Department.
Mr. SMITH received the gift in a few touching and
appropriate remarks.
Subsequent- to the presentation to Mr. Ssrrvit,
Mr. Commissioner Fie presented, on the part
of the employees of the Capitol extension, a costly
gold watch (inlaid with diamonds,) with gold chain
attached, and a handsome diamond ring, to Mrs.
SMITH, as a token of their esteem for that excellent
lady, on account of her charitable and zealous la
bors in behalf of sick and wounded soldiers in hos
pital. The compliment . to Mrs. SMITH was appro
priately ackliOwledged by her husband in the course
of his remarks.
The California Treasure to be Shipped ill
V. S. Vessels of War.
On the application of Senator LATHAM, of .10ali
fornia, the Navy Department has ordered the armed
steamer Connecticut to leave Hairipton Roads on the
Ist of January for Aspinwall, to bring to New York
all the treasure at that place from the Pacific coast.
Senator LATHAM hopes to get a regular armed con
voy for the California steamers for Aspinwall. The
subject is now under consideration.
The consignees of the treasure should immediately
send authority to the Navy Department, so that the
commander of the Connecticut may obtain the trea
sure at Aspinwall.
Suspension of the Mails to Nashville.
Postmaster General I3Latn has 'issued the fol
lowing :
"POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Washington, Deo.
27.—The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Com
pnny having refused to convey the mails between
these cities, from and after the Ist proximo, for the
compensation authorized by law, the service will be,
suspended on that and its branch routes from.that,
date. M. BLAIR, PoitmasterGeneral." -
To Persons Going South.
WAR DEPARTMENT, JUDGE ADVC;CATIOS OFFICE,
Dec. 29.—The following notice was issued from the
War Department this day :
Notice is hereby given, that the applications made
by ladies and children to go to their families and
friends in the South have, with very few exceptions,
been granted ; provided the reqUirements stated in
the notice of the 24th ult., as to wearing apparel,
&c., are complied with. As all applicants, except
ing those advised to the contrary, are permitted to
leave, the publication of a list of the names is unne ,
cessary. Steamboat transportation and subsistence
will be
_provided from the city- of Washington to
City Point, Va., on the James river. The day of
departure is Wednesday, January 7th next, and it is
desirable that all applicants reach this city at least
one day previous to the dny of leaving.' The steamer
will stop at Fortress Monroe, and applicants from
Norfolk and vicinity will be received on board at
that place, by complying with the requirements.
The number of applicants are 331 women, 226 chil
dren, 10 servants, and 6 school-boys.
L. U. TURNER, Judge Advocate.
Admitted to Practice in the Supreme
Court of the United States.
The following gentlemen were admitted as attor
neys and counsellors in the Supreme Court, by that
court, to-day : HORATIO E. NEWCOMB, of Indiana;
EDWIN P. GREENE, of Ohio; Hon. W. H. WAL
LACE and JOHN P. CooK, of Washington Territory.
Arrest of Army Surgeons.
A Dr. PRUNK : assistant surgeon, 3(1 iarmy corps,
and Dr. H. S. HALT., alias HUNT, were committed to
the Old Capitol Prison to-day, charged with prosti
tuting their official position to obtain the discharge
of soldiers.
Prisoners of War in the Old Capitol.
The following-named rebel soldiers were commit
ted to the Old Capitol Prison to-day : Godfrey Gray,
Co. E, 17th Virginia; Samuel Walker, Co. D, 15th
South Carolina ; Henry Wilson, 16th Virginia;
John Weaver, 60th Georgia ; and. Philip Loneless.
Loneless formerly belonged to the 2d Maryland
(Federal) regiment, but deserted while on provost
duty in Staunton, Virginia, and joined the rebels.
The Expected Executive Proclamation.
It is now clear to us, says the Star, that it is the
President's purpose to issue the emancipation pro
clamation on Thursday next, the Ist proximo, Of
which so much has been said in advance by the
newspapers.
Departure of Secretary Smith.
It is said that Hon. CALEB B. Slum, late Secre
tar3- of the Interior, will leave the city inn day or
two for his home in Indiana.
•
Cabinet Rumors.
The numerous news-mongers hereabouts who have
nothing better to do are industriously•circulating
report that General BUTLER, on his return from
New Orleans, will be tendered the portfolio of the
War Department. The report cannot be traced to
any reliable source. The impression prevails that
General BUTLER will have an important command
in the field.
Secretary SMITH'S successor has not yet bed,ri in
dicated by the President. The politicians tippettito
be more than usually - indifferent as to who be
the lucky man. . .
The Agent or the Associated Presi Called
to Account.
It is understood that the Secretary of War has de
manded from the agent of the Associated Press in
this 'city the name of the party who gave him an
army order which was recently published. •
The Porter Court Martial.
The examination of Col. Ruggles was continued.
Be was questioned in regard to his own personal
feelings towards Gen. Porter, and also about the
opinions expressed by Gen. Pope and his staff, be
fore the 27th of August, upon the military and moral
sußport they expected. to have from Porter's aer
vi&s. As for himself, he said he was neither friend
ly nor unfriendly to Porter. Gen. Pope had told
. him that the army coming to their aid from the
James river would be of little avail.
Brigadier General Griffin, of Morrell's division,
attached to the Fifth corps of the Army of Virginia,
under General Porter, was sworn. He gave the
particulars of his arrival at Warrenton Junction,
with his brigade, on the 27th of August, after a
march of from eighteen to nineteen miles. He also
spoke of the unfavorable condition of the night, the
exhaustion of the troops,: &c., which retarded his
movements by the route he had pursued.
He was also examined minutely as to the part he
had taken in the battles of the 29th and 30th of
Atigust. While testifying on this point, he referred
to a conversation on the battle-field between Gene
rals Porter and McDowell, which he had not over
heard, but supposed it bore somewhat upon an order
he received almost immediately afterward, to change
his position in the line. In reply to the charge that
'Porter had criticised the management of Pope, and
had otherwise displayed insubordination and lack of
energy, he said he. knew of no instance wherein
General Porter had failed in his duty to his com
mander or his country. •
The McDowell Court of Inquiry.
Nothing new was elicited from the cross-examina
tion of General Sian:[, to-day. His replies were
mere repetitions of his previous testimony, or dry
details, the significance of which may not fully ap
pear until all the evidence shall have been obtained.
Our Relations with Europe.
The ottleiel information received by the steamer
of this week from Europe refutes the idea of the
probability of any disturbance of our relations with
any of the European Powers.
Naval Orders.
Lieutenant Commander A. HorlaNs and Acting
Paymaster F. E. INLAY have been ordered to the
iron-clad Lehigh.
Medical Examiners Appointed;
The Commissioner of Pensions today made the
following appointments of surgical and medical in
spectors for thp service of his bureau, viz :
Dr. Edward Dorsch, at Monroe, Mich.; Dr. J. P.
Finley, at Lion, Iowa; Dr. Edward H. Grant, at
Troy, Kansas; Dr. J. F. Newland, at Emporia, Kan
sas; Dr. John F. Daggett, at Lockport, 111.
Horse Contracts Awarded.
On Saturday last Colonel RucKER, chief quarter
master here, made the following contracts for horses
under his last advertisement to that end :
Samuel H. Carpenter, Tyrone, N. Y.-200 cavalry
horses at $113.30 each, and 200 artillery horses at
$113.90 each.
J. L. Harsh & Co., Washington, D. C.-500 cavalry
horses at $113.90 each.
Mule Holcomb, Hartford, Conn.-200 cavally
horses at $113.90 each, and 200 artillery horses ,at
$114.48 each. —• • "
E. DI. Bement, Washington, D. C.-200 cavalry
horses at $113.95 each.
Samuel Ovenshine, Philadelphia, Pa .200 cavalry
horses at $114.45, and 100 artillery horses at $115.46
each. -
Amos S. Chamberlin, New York city.-200 cavalry
horses at $114.45 each, and 200 artillery horses at
$115.66 each. •
J oel Holcomb, New York city.-200 artillery horses
at $115.48 each.
John Carpenter, New 'York city.-100 artillery
horses at $115.78 each.
Total-1,509 cavalry horses; 1,000 artillery horses.
Deaths of Soldiers.
The following have been reported since our last :
John Ebling, Co. 0, 27th Pennsylvania. , •
John D. Stamp,Co. C, 22d New Jersey.
;Ins. Hughes, Gtzartermaster's Department.
Chas. Farr, Co. B, 24th NeW Jersey. ' •
Martin Keisel, Co. 1), 142t1 Pennsylvania. •
• • Jeremiah liohler,Co. 11, 37th Pennsylvania.
John F. Goodes, Co. G, 62d Pennsylvania.
John Suhre, Co. D, 133 d Pennsylvania. .
'Geo. Ogle, Co. H, 153 d Pennsylvania.
``-'Wm. W. Horrell, Co. G, 11th Pennsylvania R. C.
Elias Leitzell, Co. D, 127th Pennsylvania.
. Thos. Band, Co. A, 71st Pennsylvania. •
:: 1 -Uriah J. Black, Co. C, llth Pennsylvania R. O.
Napoleon Adams, Co. E,lat4belaware.
Hon. Thomas M. Hicks Appointed U. S..
Senator from Maryland.
BALl:mons., December 29. The Governor of
Maryland to-day commissioned Hon. Thomas H.
Hicks as Senator to represent the State of Mary
land in the United States Senate, until the next
meeting of the Legislature, in place of Hon. James
A. Pearce, deceased.
A Suspicious Steamer.
Si'. 'Sonic's. N. F., Dee. 29. The send , steamer
Princess lioyiti arrived here on the 26th inst., thir
teen days from London. She is of about 400 tons,.
and has a cargo of 800 tons. She took in at this
port twoinualred tons or coal and a few-tons of cod
fish. - She sails to-moirow, it is alleged, for Halifax:
She is a splendid vessel, and well adapted for run ,
lung the blockade.
A Ship en Fire at Sea.
If ity,ipas,Dec. 29.—The bark Trent, from London;
reports on the 6th instant, in about lat. 41, long
42, saw a ship on fire, and another ship bound east;
which probably had crew onboard.
The BritiO Brig Marina Ahandoned.
PonTx.r.Nn DeC..W.•,•The steamer Bohemian has
Arrive( at this port;,having on hoard the crew;orthe
Brittish brig'Ziarina, which was abandoned at sea.•l
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
'Another. Raid of Stuart's Cavalry—They
Come Within Twelve Mlles of Alexan
dria—Our Pickets Driven In—Alarming
Demonstration on the OCCOfillltll and Ae
cotiuk.
WASITITIGTOti, Dec. 29.—There was a great excite
ment in Alexandria late yesterday evening, growing
out of the hurried arrival there of several cavalry
men and teamsters, the latter being mounted on
horses cut from their own wagons. They represent
ed that Stuart's cavalry, with light artillery, ap
peared at Pohick Church, several miles froni Mount
Vernon, on Saturday night, and on Sunday proceed
ed to Accotink, twelve miles! from Alexandria, and
there attacked two or three companies of our
troops, and that they captured a wagon train at Oe- • -
coquan on Saturday..
There is difficulty in arriving at the precise truth,
owing to the many conflicting rumors. But that a
reconnoissance appeared in that neighborhood is be
yond question, and that they created much alarm is
equally certain.
Military men who- have seen brief official de
an:itches from Dumfries say it was the same rebel
force which, several miles from that place, made a
..reconnoissanw, driving in our cavalry pickets and
killing four or five of them, and fearing a capture by
our troops, which at one time was probable, they left
for Occoquan and Accotink, where they made their
alarming demonstration. • Due allowance, it is
claimed, must be made for the statements of fright
ened teamsters and others, as all of such accounts
are unavoidably exaggerated.
Further Particulars of the Rebel Raid.
WA 61111COTON, Dec. 29.—The following is the Star's
version of the last rebel raid:
A rebel force of cavalry, with a battery of ar
tillery, suddenly appeared at 8 A. M. on Saturday
in front of:Dumfries, then held by the 6th, 7th, and
66th Ohio Volunteers, with a section of two pieces
of McGilvey's battery. The rebels were at first
estimated as 4,000 strong. They cut the wires lead
ing to Falmouth, and then attacked our troops.
We lost three men killed. The enemy were driven
off.
In the meanwhile information reached head
quarters per telegraph, before they succeeded in
cutting the wires leading in this direction, and
troops were instantly put in motion to cut off their
retreat, if possible. To that end General Geary
marched from Wolf Run immediately to the relief
of the troops engaged at Dumfries.
. After being worsted; before General GCary , t3
arri
vat; .pushed (Hied 'for Occoquan, where they
had a slight engagement with- 1,600 United States
troops stationed there, under Colonel Candy, result
ing in considerable loss on both sides. Our forces
maintained their position.
They next decamped up Bull Run, crossing it at
Wolf run. Thence they went to Annandale, via
Burke's Station, where they encamped on Saturday
night; thus avoiding the points where we had troops
stationed.
At daybreak yesterday morning they were again
in the saddle, making for the vicinity of Vienna. In
the meanwhile, our troops at Fairfax Court House
did their beat to head them off in that direction, but
being infantry they could not get up in time to do so.
The enemy were last seen in the vicinity of Dewing
burg, where their number was estimated at but 1,000
cavalry and four pieces of artillery.
At nightfall yesterday they were under whip and
spur; evidently bent on escaping in the direction of
Leesburg.
They certainly got nothing for their pains but fif
teen empty wagons belonging to Colonel Kellogg's
cavalry command.
• Throughout the line of their raid they had occa
sional skirmishes with Col. Kellogg's cavalry, who,
though forced to fall back, exchanged many shots
with them, with no damage to our side as far as we
have heard. The heaviest skirmish was near the
Accotink.
At one time they got possession of one of our guns
at Dumfries, but were forced to abandon it in their
retreat.
LATEST.
We have just received reliable information that
The rebels were badly repulsed on Saturday at Dum
fries. On their retreat they fell in with our troops
under Gen. Geary, between Dumfries and Wolf Runt
and were driven by them south of the road. They
aimed to take the direct road to the Shoals. They
took the telegraph , operator at Burke's Station and
his instrument, and burned the Accotink (oCange
and Alexandria Railroad) bridge—an inconsiderable
structure.
Besides the fifteen empty wagons of Col. Kel
logg's command, which fell .into their hands, they
Wok eight or ten sutlers' wagons, which they came
across, the drivers, in nearly all cases, having suc
ceededin escaping by cutting their traces, mounting
theirtemns, and flying before the enemy. The re
bels seized all the citizens along their path, whom
they thought might give prompt information of
their proceedings. They passed through Vienna at
about 12 o'clock last night. Their rear guard passed
there at about 3 o'clock this morning. They had
about flve guns, and about twenty-five wagons and
ambulances, nearly all -of which they had doubtless
picked up. They went from there to Hunt's Mills,
and then struck over towards the Ox R oad, at Fry
ing Pan. Including the citizens they caught, they
were:carrying off about forty prisoners in all.
DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA.
Alarm at Yorktown—Rebels Concentrating
at Gloucester Court House.
[Special Despatch to The Press.]
FOraltEss MONROE, December 29
The mailboat from Yorktown and Gloucester
Point brings down .a report that our garrisons, at
both points, were under arms yesterday, anticipa
ting an' attack from the rebels at Gloucester Court
House: •
It is said thrit a rebel force of about seven thou
sand men has been detached from LEE'S army to
operate in conjunction with General WISE, on the
York river, under General - TrtimßLE. --- General
NA01.1.7, is fully • prepared' for an attack, and.will
move out to meet the enemy if he is to be found in
the neighborhood to-morrow. The gunboats Te
cumseh and Valley City are lying in the York
river, opposite Gloucester Point; and it is believed
that this point can be held against ten thousand
men.HOLLYBUSH.
•
(To Associated Press.)
FORTRESS MorcnoE, Dec. 28.—This morning a fire
occurred in Portsmouth, destroying five dwellings
situated on Crawford street. The particulars have
not'been ascertained. •
Last evening four contrabands were brought to
Fortress Monroe, being implicated with the killing
of a white man at Newport News. The name of
the victim is not known.
: Two rebel prisoners were also brought here,
having been arrested for carrying firearms after
they bad been paroled. •
ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
Federal Advance up the Mississippi—Gene
ral Augur Occupies Port Hudson—Ad
miral Farragut , s Squadron near Vicks
burg—Evacuation of New Madrid—Gene,-
ral Grant Falling Back, 05:',c
CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—A special despatch from Cairo
says the report that General Grant has fallen back
to north of the Tallahatchie is confirmed. The main
body of the army arrived at Holly Springs several
days ago.
It is supposed Ahat General Grant will open the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad to Grand Junc
tion, and make Memphis the base of supplies.
A report had reached Memphis that a heavy Fede
ral force had ascended the Mississippi from New
Orleans, the naval portion being under the com
mand of Admiral Farragut ; that Port Hudson has
fallen into Federal hands, and that the fleet had
reached within twelve miles below Vicksburg.
This reported advance is confirmed by the Vicks
burg Whig of the IBth.
On the 20th the rebels attacked a portion of the
United States forces, 250 in number, at Davies'
Mills, six miles south of Grand Junction, leaving
twenty dead and thirty wounded on the field, be
sides a number carried off. Our loss was trifling.
Gen. Van Dorn is now believed to be between Boli
var an the Mississippi.
The rebels still hold the road between Columbia
and Jackson, Tennessee.
New Madrid was evacuated yesterday.. A part of
the magazine was blown up, and the barracks
burned.
Additional. News by the Etna.
The Etna has twenty-seven cabin and one hundred
and one steerage passengers. She passed the steamer
China on I he 23d1 in Mt. 50 long. 25.
RIO JANEIRO
Advicee froth Rio Janeiro to November :25 had
been received. CofreeGood Brats were quoted at
0011600 x 70011700,
CHINA.
At Canton, Tens were firth and active.
SIIA*MAN, Nov. 6.—Tea lower. Silk firth.
Arri:lied. from Philadelphia, Nov. 15—Ships Lan.
caster tool Philadelphia, at Liverpool. .
Front San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 29.—The agent of the Mail
Steamship Company refuses to deliver the freight
received per the steamer Constitution, having been
traniferictl from the steamer Ariel, until the con
signees give bonds to indemnify them against loss in
case Captain Semmes, of the Alabama, shall re
cover the bonds exacted by him from the captain of
the Ariel.
The steamer Oregon sailed on Saturday for Guay
mas, with 100 passengera and a quantity of machinery
for the Mexican silver mines.
Sailed, ship John Tucker, for Callao.
Tradeis dullOiales of 300 bbls. of Alcohol ittilni)
71c.; 200 bbls of Whisky at 40§42e. Pure Spirits 38c.
Candies 18e. Hard Coal $lB. Crushed Sugar 14c.
Markets.
BALIAAtonr, Dec. 29.—Flour dull, but unchanged.
Wheat steady, with a scarce supply. Corn active;
yellow 32.673 c ; white 726/75c. Whisky firm at 43c.
Onts—Pennsylvania 1313@69c.
CINCINNATI, December 29.—Flour active 'at $5.
Red W heat sells at 97@98c ; white Wheat $2.0.5,(11 1.12.
Whisky unchanged. Hogs quiet and unchanged;
receipts to-day 4,000. Mess Pork is in moderate
demand, at $10.75 for' old, and $12.75@t3 for new.
Box Tex, Dec. 29.—A.rrived ship Mary Bangs, from
Liverpool ; balk Ba State, from Sierre Leone;
steamer Saxon, from Philadelphia.
NEW 'Vont:, Dec: 29.—Arrived brig Alice Maud,
from Grand Turk ; schooner Mary Porter, from
Oporto.
T7llt CITIZENS' VOLUNTEER HOSPITAL
take pleasure in acicnowledging the following receipts
from benefits, &c., for the week ending Dec. 26th :
Proceeds of a fair, held at the house of Mr. Ruth
erford, No. 1212 Locust street, by Misses Ella, Mary,
Julia, Louisa, Fanny, and Emily Rutherford, Em il y
R. Bailey, Janie and Lizzie Smith, Melissa and Vir
ginia_YOung;Rate Scheidt and Maggie Baum, $lll.-
46 proceeds of a ball by the employees of the ma
chine shop of the Navy Yard, Nov. 28th, $6l ; •part
proceeds of a fair held at No. 1021 Che3tnut street,
by Misses Sallie and Jennie Roberts and Hattie
'OlOuldy, $8 ; part proceeds of a fair held at-No. 1800
Chestnut street by Lucy and Julia Bailey, Madgie
E. Stroud and Anne Marks , _ $76; proceeds of a fair
held at No. 813 Spring Garden street, by Salle
Moyer and Mary Frishmuth, $lB.OB.
DEDiCATIOiC OF A CUURCII. — The "dedica
tion of the Iteeeeville Preebyterian church, with the
services in connection 'therewith, will take place
this afternopn at half past two: 'Rev. Thomas
1)..D. - ; Ifni preach the sermon, and other
,cleigymen will participate. The public and the
friends of the church and congregation are invited
to assistuPon the - interesting occasion.
•
Marble.
Public Amusements.
OPERA DIATINk:Y. To-Dlonnow.—The ticket;
offices were thronged throughout . yesterday,.
when the sale of tickets commenced, thus giving
promise that the Matinee tomorrow will be one of, if
not the most successful ever given at the Academy.
There is much curiosity manifested to hear Mad'lle
Cordimos version of Traviala—and whether she
succeeds in it or not, she will undoubtedly have a
full and most fashionable audience. Mr. Grail is
confident of her success. Concerning ➢laccaferri's
Alfredo, we have no fear, as we know the brilliant
success he achieved in this part in New York.
HOOD & SHELDON'S HOLIDAY ENTERTAINHENTS
—These novel and attractive performances are
nightly drawing crowded houses at the Academy,
and the success of the lessees, and their troupe of
beautiful children, is well merited. This evening
one thousand convalescent soldiers will attend thi,
performance by special invitation.
WALNUT-STREET THEATRE.—Last evening Miss
Lauri Keene and company were greeted with a
crowded audience, in the comedy of " Old Heads and
Young Hearts." Miss Keene met with a warm re
ception, and justified her reputation as an actress
possessed of vivacity and judgment. Mr. Blake,
decidedly the best "old man" on the American stage,
acquitted himself with much credit. Mr. Wolcott,
possessed of a fine personal appearance and graceful
manners, sustained with ability the character of an
ardent and successful lover. The comedy would
have been more successful if the interludes between
the acts had been shorter.
—The death of Miss Julia Pardoe, the well-known
novelist and "boudoir historian," is announced in
the English journals per Europa. She had been
suffering some time Dom congestion of the brain,
and died at her residence in Montague street, Port
man Square, London,'on the 11th inst. Miss Pardoe
was the daughter of a field officer in the army, (whose
family was of Spanish extraction,) and was born at
Beverly about the beginning of the present century.
At the age of thirteen Julia Pardoe was clever
enough to write several poems, and foolish enough
to publish them. Two years later she produced
an historical novel of the time of William the
Conqueror, called "Lord Morcar of Ilereward."
Miss Pardoe , s first historical work was on "Louis
XIV and the Court of Frande in the 16th Centu
ry." This was followed by "Marie de Medici," a
work which elicited severe, criticisms in some quar
ters, an which undoubtedly is disfigured by a mania
for "line writing," and by inordinate prolixity,
although. the style.is at times forcible, and even
agreeable. Besides these historical works—most of
which can hardly be expected to live, inasmuch as
they are, generally speaking, compilations—Miss
Pardbe lately wrote sonic good novels—" The Con
fessions of Pretty Women," "The Rival Beauties,"
"Reginald Lyle," and "The Life Struggle." In
her "Thousand-and-one Days," Miss Pardoe treated
the public to an admirable selection of Oriental
tales, (the matter of which was derived from the
notes of Oriental scholars,) a work hardly surpassed
by the "Arabian Nights" in interest.
DrsrmorisnEri AmtivALs.--Hon. Joseph
A. Wright, United States Senator from State of
Indiana, and Ilon.Wm. Odell, M. C. from New York,
were in this city since Saturday, and left for Wash
ington yesterday on their return from 'New York,
where they had gone on some special business.
Gov. Wright is a Union Democrat, of the Douglas
wing, and has been , most zealous in his support of
Pt cadent Lincoln, (the 0 overnor honestly believing
iqto be treason .for any one to withhold his sup
port from the Administration in times like the pre
sent). Soon after his return from Prussia, where he
had resided near the Court of Berlin for some years,
as Envoy Minister Plenipotentiary of the United
States Government, he was appointed by Governor
Morton, of Indiana, United States Senator in the
place of Jesse D. Bright, who was expelled by the
United States Senate for his adherence to the rebel
lious traitors in the South, detected by his corres
pondence with them.
The Legislature of Indiana will convene next
month, and will, no doubt, elect a Senator; and as
the complexion of that body will be opposed to the
course of Gov. Wright, in support of the President
and the country, he may leave the Senate before the
expiration of the present session of Congress. The
loss of a man like Governor Wright, at the present
time, in; the U. S. Senate, will be seriously felt by
the country. He advocates a more stringent
policy upon the part of our Government, believing
that we have been too lenient towards the rebel
lious States, and the time has arrived when it be
comes necessary to adopt severer measures in the
prosecution of the war, if we expect to quell the re
bellion.
Governor Wright will address the Senate in a
week or two, upon this subject, and we will take
pleasure in publishing the speech, for the benefit of
our readers, as soon as delivered.
UNITED STATES SLOOP-OF-WAR SAITATO
GA ARRIVED FROM THE COAST OF AFRICA.-011 Sa
turday last the United States sloop-of-war Saratoga
arrived at Philadelphia. Upon the 18th of Novem
ber, 1861, the Saratoga, then under the command of
Alfred Taylor, sailed from the Delaware Breakwater
for the western coast of Africa. After an excellent
voyage, she arrived at Cape Mount on the 9th of
December, andfanchored off Monrovia (Liberia) on
the 30th. She reached St. Paul de Loando, west
coast of Africa, on the 26th January, 1862. On the
25th of February, the Saratoga captured the Ameri
can slaver Express. On the 21st of April, she cap
tured the slaver Nightingale, under American colors,
with nine hundred and sixty-one native Africans
stowed between decks. On the 25th of August, 1862,
at Fernando Po, Captain Taylor was relieved by
Commodore William M. Glendy, and the ship, under
his command, continued her cruise until the 4th day
of September, when orders were received at St. Paul
de Loando to cruise in the North Atlantic Ocean
and amongst the islands for privateers. In obeying
these orders, the Saratoga touched at Lisbon on the
way home. While there she received orders to pro
ceed at once to the United States. She left Lisbon
on the 17th of November, 1862, and reached the Dela
ware Breakwater in thirty-seven days.
SUNDAY-SCHOOL GATHERINGS.—The for
ty7ninth anniversary of the Church Sabbath-school,
and nineteenth anniversary of the Howard Sunday
school, bclonging.to the Sixth Presbyterian Church,
took place in the church, Spruce street, below Sixth,
yesterday afternoon. The large building was well
filled on the lower floor wifli the schools; and the
galleries also contained a large number of the con
gregation.
The report, in referring to the statistics, is as fol
lows:. 3787 have been enrolled- since its organiza
tion, 99 of whom were added during the past year,
exclusive of the infant school: the scholars that
now belong to the school number 447—boys 251, girls
196—divided into 19 classes, 11 male and 8 female.
There is also an infant division, and a female Bible
class, taught by 26 teachers and officers, 9 male and
17 female.
The school has also a missionarywho is employed
in looking after the sick and destitute belonging to
the school. lie has distributed during the year
$126.08 in coal, given in half tons, also $188.06 in
clothing, and material for clothing, which have been
made up by women who were paid for theirservices ;
$106.60 was also expended for groceries, and $249.15
in shoes for the children ; $53.70 has been paid for
rents for the destitute under the care of the school,
who, owing to sickness, were unable to earn their
living. Included in the above were 272 pairs of
shoes and 607 garments; of the latter, 151 - pieces
were given from the Dorcas Society of the church.
The expenses of the school during the pasty ear, in
cluding salary for missionary and evening meetings
have been only $432.70. • .
TOE GEIIMAN SOCIETY. The ninety
eighth annual meeting of this society took place on
the 26th instant. The receipts during the last year
amounted to $3,016.37 (including a balance of $223.41
of the previous year), and the expenditures to
$3,016.32, leaving a cash balance of $1.05 at the end
of the year. The society has invested part of itn
capital in the building No. 18 South Seventh street,
.part of which is rented to the Philadelphia Gas
Company at an annual rent of $1,250; the rest of the
$7,107 being invested in mortgages,
city loans, and
Lehigh loans. The agent of the society, Mr.
Tcepfer, visited '7BO persons applying for assistance;
he recommended 438 for support, provided employ
ment for =5, and procured the admission of 9 to the
hospital. About 300 persons obtained medicines at
the expense of the society; the medical assistance
having been rendered gratuitously by Drs. Winck
ler Lichati, Demme, and others.
'the library of the society contains 11,386 volumes,
of which 5,812 are in English, and 5,614 in German ;
17,250 ‘ 7 olumes (7,758 in English, and 9,497 in Ger
man,) were loaned to the members during the year.
Bev. Dr. Wm. J. Mann and Messrs. L. Angelo, C.
Kaiser, Win. L. Kiderlin, and L. Lucassen consti
tute the library committee, and 0. .Seidensticker,
Esq., is the librarian. The society contained three
hundred and eighty-five 'members at the end of the
year. The following gentlemen were elected as
board of managers : President, J. T. Plate; vice
president, G. L. Ziegler; secretaries, Julius Hein
and A. Kusenberg; solicitor, Frederick 'leper; trea
surer, Lewis Bremer; managars, S. H. Bitighaus,
L. Herbert, J. Schandein, J. C. Steiner, Henry
Tilgc, and J. Zaun.
. .
COMPANY E r 121ST REGIMENT, PENNSYL
TA:vra. VOLuirrEEns.—The following list embraces
those casualties, obtainable at present, which oc
curred in the recent battle of Fridericksburg, in this
company and regiment: Capt. Samuel T. Lloyd,
wounded; Corps. Ryall and McConnell, do.; Pri
vates Peter Denver, do. ; • George W. Miley, do.; Ed
ward J. Sweeny, do.; John IV. Tirrell, do.; Samuel
L. Brutsche,
do.; John Shaffer, killed; Sergt. W.
Strong and Corp. W. W. Strong, missing, father
and son ; Privates Malcolni Graham, missing; John
Baker, do.
FLTIES.—At about eleven o:elock last
night a slight lire occurred in a stablefli Vaughan
[beet, between Locust and Walnut. The damage
wns not very serious. A fire also occurred, at half
past tea, at Edwin Pincus' " Pickle, Mustard, and
Sauce establisimient," No. 227 South Fifth street,
and was discovered by the police of the Third
district..
ST. Jour's OXMAN AsYMTll.—The pre
sent number of boys in this institution is 297. Nume
rous applications for admission are daily made, and
refused for want of accommodations. The asylum
WAS founded in 1829 by Bishop Hughes. now Arch
bishop of New York. The institution is managed
by six Sisters of the Order of St. Joseph.
ESCAPED PRISONERS PROM FORT DELA
wAitE.—A, couple of prisoners from Port Delaware
succeeded last Tuesday in making their escape.
They used planks in this successful effort. One of
them was delivered over to the Philadelphia mili
tary authorities, being caught up by a steamboat
and conveyed here.
APPOINTED. —W. B. Mendenhall, of
Coatesville ! Pa., has been appointed additional
paymaster in the service of the United States. Mr.
.Mendenhall has been actively engaged in the relief
of our sick and wounded soldiers, under the auspices
of the Christian Commission. •
CITY ITEMS.
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS FOE MEDici-
NA FunVosEs.—Mr. 0. 11. Mattson, dealer in fine
fairdly groceries, Arch and Tenth streets, has now in
'store a capital importation of wines and liquors of
the highest purity and excellence, especially adapted
for medicinal purposes, to which we invite the atten
tion of our readers. His rare old Port, Sherry, and
Madeira Wines,'and .pure. quality Brandy, are frc
gently recommended by the medical : faculty as the
purest stimulants that invalids can use'.
. P.IIRPARING FOR THE NEW YE:in:—
Messrs. Chas. Oak ford &Sian, Nos. 834 and S3a Chest-.
nut street, under the Continental. Hotel, are now
selling their elegant. sets of Ladies' Fancy Furs at
greatly reduced prices, together with all other arts-'
ties in:their. various -departments, with the twofold .
object of inducing their patrons to indulge in the
genial luxury of making handsome New Year pre
sents, and of reducing their stock as much as possi
ble in anticipation of the'elose of the season.
WECALL ATTENTION to 1110 advertisement
. .
of FamilY Dye Colors in this day's paper. Their
economy anti convenience will make them a tier
cessity in altnost every. family. The colors arc re,;
niarkably- ne, 'and are having a great sale, The
ladies speak leen of them. We advise all who have
not used -them to purOltaßet
SUPERB STOCK OF • LADIES' FANCY FURS
Vow SELLING AT GREAT BARU AlNS.—Those of our
readers who have not yet made their purchases of
fine Furs have saved money by waiting, as the most
elegant sets, of all kinds, of the finest and most
fashionable Furs can now be obtained at the popular
Fur -House of Mr..Tolui A. Stamhach, No. 820 Arch
street, at a very large percentage less than the
same goods could have been bought at two weeks
ago, or than they can now be purchased at elsewhere.
FINE PARIS SHOES FOR LADIES call nOw
be had at less than the eost of importation, at Oak
foid tc. Sou's, under the Continental Hotel.
NOTIII NG as useful Or apprOpriate for a
New-Year's Present as the unrivalled "Grover sz
Baker" Sewing Machine, 730 Chestnut street. 2t
LIST OF WOMEN'S EMITS vi AMU HAVE
BEEN OVERLOOK2D.—It is woman's right to have
her home in order whenever her husband returns
from business. It is woman's right to be kind and
forbearing whenever her husband is annoyed. It is
woman's right to examine her husband's linen, and
see that it needs neither mending nor buttons. It is
woman's right to be satisfied with her old dresses
until her husband can afford new ones. It is also a
woman's right to command her husband—to pur
chase his garments at the great one-price clothing
depot of Granville Stokes, No. 609 Chestnut street,
and by so doing effect a saving of at least 25 per cent.
THE No. 9.—A new "leek-stitch" ma
chine of great speed, capacity, simplicity, and dura
bility, made especially for Army Clothing and
Tailors' use. It is greatly superior to any other
"lock-stitch":machine in use. Price, $4O: Grover
& Baker S. M. Co., 730 Chestnut street. 2t
SLOWLY JUDGE YOUR FELLOW-MAN.—
Be not hasty in opinion:
Slowlyjudge your fellow-man;
Haste may hide the good dominion
Acts of folly have outran ;
What if he has erred often !
Should we not remember still
Gentle admonitions soften
And attract the stubborn will
Win his love, not his loathing,
In doing good be instrumental,'
By telling him to buy his clothing
At SroxEs', 'neath the " Continental,"
kNOISELESS Grol'er & Baker" Sewing
Machine is the best and most useful New Year Pre
sent for Wife, mother, sister or friend. Office, 730
Chestnut street. 2t
GENERAL BUTLER COMING TO PHILADEL
prrIA.—Major General Butler is expected soon in
New York. He will proceed at once to Washing
ton ; but upon his road he will stop in Philadelphia
a sufficient length of time to procure a new outfit at
the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of Rockhill S. Wil
son, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut street, above Sixth.
The General has postponed, indefinitely, being
hanged to oblige Jeff Davis, and he will continue to
wear elegant and comfortable suits from the estab
lishment named.
Go TO THE Great Sewing Machine Depot
730 Chestnut street, and buy a. Noiseless Sewing
Machine for your wife, and she will have a happy
New Year.
A ITAPI'Y NEW Tignt your wife, mother,
sister or friend will haN , e, if you present them With a
Noiseless Grover a. Baker Sewing Machine. Office,
730 Ohestnufstreet. 2t
GEO. STECE PIANOS
For New Year Gifts
Geo. Steck Pianos
For New Year Gifts
Geo. Sleek PiftßOß
For New Year Gifts
Geo. Steck Pianos
For New Year-0
-11th
Geo. Steck Pianos
For New Year Gifte
Geo. Steck Pianos
For New Year Gifts
del?-4t . Seventh and Chestnut streets.
LALPORTANT Am TO THE NATIONAL CAUSE
—Grover &Baker's new " lock-stitch" machine, No.
9, will greatly reduce the labor and expense of cloth
ing the Union Army. It is a great improvement
over all machines of the same class before made.
Every tailor and manufacturer of Army Clothing
should have it at once. Price, $lO. - 2t
EDWARD P. KELLY, Tailor, 142 S. Third
street, formerly principal of Kelly & Brother, and of
Lukens, Kelly, & Bro., has on hand a large assort
ment of choice Winter Goods; _also, Pattern Over
coats and Business Coats, of all the fashionable
styles. Terme cash, at low prices. de24-12t
HAVE YOU SEEN the "No. 9," Grover &
Baker's New Shuttle Machine for tailors and other
manufacturers) Price, $4O. Office, No. 730 Chestnut
J. E. GOULD, corner of Seventh and
Chestnut streets, .ts the only one in Philadelphia who
keeps the popular and truly beautiful Geo. Steck
Pianofortes.
GROVER & BARER, 730 Chestnut street,
hare the best and largest assortment of Sewing Ma
chines for New Year presents. 2t
CURT sTmAs PREsENTs. , --Singer's Family
Sewing Machines with Hemmer and Braider at
tached, is the best and most useful of all machines
- now in use. Those wishing to make a truly calm!.
ble Chri j etmas present, and one that will keep the
giver e'er fresh in the kind remembrance of the re
ceiver, will do well to buy one of these machines to
present as a seasonable token of real friendship.
The price is $6l. Call and make your selections at
M: Singer & 810 Chestnut street. d24-5t
Xo. 9 ! No. 9 !'! No. 9! ! ! N0..9 !
The moat popular Sewing Machine ever sold in this
*arket for tailors and other manufacturers is Grov'er
..Sr. Baker's No. 9. Brice, $4O. 2t
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS !—Get a beautiful
Steck Piano of J. E. Gould, corner of Seventh and
Chestnut streets. de4-tf
BUY YOUR SISTER a "Grover & Baker "
Sewing Machine, and she will have a happy New
Year. 2t
AN ELEGANT $4OO Raven, Bacon, & Co.
Piano, very little used, has been left with me for sale
at a bargain.
de29-3t J. E. COULD, Seventh and Chestnut.
FOR A NEW-YEAR PRESENT buy your wife
a Grover & Baker Noiseless Sewing Machine. 2t •
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
THE MONEY DIAILIZET.
LADELPHIA. December `AI
Gold opened at 1325:(, and continued firm all (lay, the
same figure being bid at the close. Business was only
moderately active, and no change of consequence in
prices is to he noted. Old demands were steady at 127.
GovernMent securities, under the effect Of conflicting
financial rumor from Washington, show some
weakness.
The stock market was active under a demand for specu
lative stocks. Government sixes and seven-thirties fell
elf 3; per cent. Ono year certificates sold at 06,(; State
fives advanced selling up to 963,1 ; New City sixes
rose 34, the old were steady at par ; Caniden and Amboy
sixes,lBB3, sold at 102, an advance ; Pennsylvania Rail
road first mortgages were steady, the second do rose 1 ;
Philadelphia and Erie sixes sold at DM an advance of
; North Pennsylvania sixes advanced 1, the tens also
rose 1 ; Long Island sixes sold . at Par ; Morr:s Canal
sixes at ICS ; Reading sixe, , , ISW, rose 1 ;IHO's improved
1 ; Lehigh Valley Railroad sixes sold at,109, an advance
of 34 ; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railroad,
first mortgages, at 110; Susquehanna Canal sixes ad
vanced 1 ; Lehigh Navigation shares rose 3, the scrip
3 , 4 ; Morris Canal rose the preferrod was steady at
; Schuylkill Navigation preferred 8011 at 1234.
Reading, Railroad shares were more lively, and row
31. Long Island was active at an advance of 34, Penna..
rose 3i,'; Mine Hill rose 3.i; CataTOSSO preferred was
'active at g advance ; the common rot e 34. Camden and
Smbuy sold at 15234 ; Norristown :it : North Pennsyl
va»ia improVed 3. ; Elmira preferred L Passenger Rail
ways were more active, and prices improved. Arch-street
sold at 26—an advance of 3,4; Girard College at 2.63.1ati
advance of 3a ; Second and Third at 77—an advance erg ;
Thirteenth andTifteenth at 2:33:l—an advance of „K; Green
and Coates sold at 37 ; Spruce and Pine improved 3i ;
Frankford and Southwark )4. Girard Dank sold at 41.34 ;
Mechanics' at 25; Consolidation at 26.. The market closed
11FM-668,000 bonds and 2,600 shares changing hands,
•
Drexel & Co. quote:
United 'States Bonds, 11381
United States Certificates of Indebtedness
United States 73-10 Notes
Quartermasters' Voucher:.
Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness.—
Gold
Demand Notes
g -1 9 9 grAVXT 2. ..% 5 1 W-d
a ,- ;' 5"4- 1EP4 5 0 1531 a 85 g q
J2lsl.;c f g's, - Tg sBl;
WS' Es igtss.2›..S.'
g -el PS: 8,7
L 5:
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cs ,,, e-Valt.t.';o.BB=3ll J - 45e1•54 •
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s
•
gal_t=seF.'StzleB§§
Deceznber
.4 27
$14,99 , 3.2a),46 $1,310,55s So .
The following statement shoNvs the - condition'of
the banks of Philadelphia at various times during
the present year
IS6'2.
Loans. .Ppenio. Circul. ! Deposits
`21,:5A.014
:n1)138%513:
19,514,190 .
1.a.636,536,
2L.316414‘
2404.644'
24,367,782
21.6A 0 49 .
9.4 397,606
23.419,:i40
26,938,714
27,896,678
.27.866,14
'MA*
. 28,638.. 4 .411
. :27,446,312
.127.•577,96(
51.763.674
ilitA3Xl
January 6 .:..
February
March '3
April 7
May 0—
June 2
July 7
August 4
September 1
October 6
Nov ember 3
10
31,04;3; -
30.35:019
V,143 't.56
I tfsiir:M
24,:i34,432
131.747,M
51,2110,01
53.517.9( 0
nace,3sl
: , 4,52.6,16S
33,514,335
15,975.12: 4
:, - 37,071
37.-171) :16a
36.774 .722 ,
33.4611.040
. k3:125.140
36,772.012
,157,267,0)
Devpber 1.
J. E. GOULD,
..- 102 0102.3‘
g 6 965.1
... 6(37 inc.
. 34'03;0 is.
3 - 2.4@:1231P.
..27 '3739P•
...11.:3P...A I
Clearings . :
..s3,cei,ais 78
.. 2,611.640 IS
•
3..ViG,985
3,502,9:34 27
2,405,741 93
242,512
57,535 Gs
iS
230,862 7G
514,411 40
1,655.7. M
5.584,011
3,551.11
:..41
5,,414
5,049.G15
5.553.4a1
50545,00.
1 i,e00.18 - 1
3,543.1 av!
5,45.3.748.
1,4.57
i.a24,621
5,511.9.51.
5,15 - 21,468
5.465.84
3,831.7.38'
5.266.545
4,706,180
1 4,A5L',307
2,145,219
2,144M5
2.343.49 I
, 3 , 3V. 971,
.0.P.102
1 4,335111
4.74 A.
r 4026,070
5.071,5 - 4
5415.704
4,SSOAD
4.M.497
4.855,Ti5 ,
4,5(31,&15
4,541.:44 .
1 4.524.818.
14.5:15 142 1
1, 4,5:16,766
Li.aa.54.1
The fol3oNa3Dg, ere the Okla] table,. , ,
for the year to :We;
EAPORTA.
For the week. 1860. MI.
Dry goods 1.60:%&67 45-1,1A 1 Fe
Gen. merchandise.. • —2224334 1,505,n3 9," Al
Tot al for the week. . . . . . 2.100.013
Previous's - reported...til,W4,672. 113,5:53Am
lfi-
Since January 1 $225,4117,023 12.5.78,3,432 1717alau
EXPORT: OF PRODECE AND "SII..RoIIANDI3E.
86. 1861
18'1 1
For the week $2,658.355 4,1)94,613 %47f,
previously reported ....a5,?..17,5,41 1aima,52.1
....$100,905,966 1:33,944,17,
EXPORTSOF BPMIE.
1860.
For the week IS.M.
•• - - 314%5 ,4:? 1 „
Pt ev ionsly reported— -.4:;,159.6e0 04 05;frXi -A ,r;"ll
._
ice_' --t,11)
Since Jauntily 1 13;45,1&9,06 6,718,1%
•,,
7;7 - , ---:
•,,- ail ?-t
The New York Ev:ning Post of to-da y :u1y,. 3 , • '
The stock market before the Board was firm, t-,,,
dull, at about the closing prices of Saturday cij." s
Pacific Mail, however, - was adversely affected by th,. 11 ' , 4.
Lire of the Ariel, and timid holders rushed ill tr ',,,.
which caused the stock to decline to Lfl, hot teitu'r.W.-
street was deserted the stock rallied, and the p 4, , -, r- 1 '
up to 134 bid. - ", wtai
buttA the Board the market opened dull on Goveror,,
strong on gold, which sold up to Pti. Border-r.
scenrities were better, as were all. of the coal sto c k -A 4
When the speculative share list WELK reach ed.theri,
a manifest disposition shown to purchas.s, 4,0 ;I • l ''',ks
script ittllS , of stocks were wanted at an
a average ad,.„'e --
of .3 - 31 - Yr per cent. on the closing prices ot Staardayo-44.
in
— Alain Mail went up to 1343 1 bid. The cau. of th;' rim
~:
is the certainty existing in the minds of op,. rat4 ;;
Mr. Chase will be compelled to issue from $.. - umoalya
$.180,000,0G0 more "greenbacke," Whether he det;lrs' i'll
so or not, afi the wants of the soldiers roast he or t ,, n ' l e,r ,
to. Thi shelli cause Congress to grant him the tuttlia:P'
to mahe
.issue. 44.
iAt the 1 o clock call the market was very str4 l D .
aim Mail is 12547 bid: New York Central, low" , 1. ,
G4 - )4.: Pittsburg, 3:04 ; Michlgan Ce mral, 9 2`;:e t ,il ; l 4 ?i ,
comm a
comn,7f 4qiilin ; Michigan guarantied, 8 477.r..i51; •• I , l' * l t
Central, . I .11,4,
Governments are about the sa tar as on Saturday. c,
P -
pon sixes of 1851 are off about l 4 Per pent., ri,,,i n , :,
often selling . at 1(01. Registered, :,1144.0
ltreultaq,
ex-interett t Seven-thirnes 103.W.101..?i, which t;a - '
better. Certificates of Indebtedness fViffi . .9 . ,K 5,.-rah
'-e':trer
tations are:
Bid.
United States sixes, 1862 + "TV,-
" sixes, 1862 (c0up0n)......' '
sixes,lS67
sixes, 1665 tl
" " sixes,lS6S (coupon) ......
sixes, 1831 (registered).... 9tiv k 16 3
1881 (coupon) ...... .104
fives, 1865
" fiyes,lB74 (regis.tore.il) 13
rex, 1674 (eSupon)— ..... 9, „„
66 giros,lB7l (registered Si
v r
;a s ,I y B7 N ) tste:,"ll4l lO). ;
Oregon War Loan,'lS3l..loo
Oregon War Loan,..i-Yly trip l I 8
One-year Certificates.—
Ness i-`2o(r.gistred) .....
" New 6420 (coupon)
” " Dutiable Demand Notes.- it
t Ex-interest. Americart Gold t 4 s):,
- Itt
Money is freely offered at 6',^s. cent the supply f.,r
needing the demand. The quotation s are. Mesa
ra
cent. -
Dry goods paper, sixty days to ran, is passed at !yw
? cent., though there is hilt very little Oifllllllz,
Exchange on Loudon, sixty days, is Sun at 146Li'..
Phtlada. Stock Exch
[Reported by S. E. SU:MAKE
FIRST l
20 Consolidation Bk.. 2.$
500 North Penna. 10s. • .1.03
20 Reading R....cash. S.S
50 do ..bswn&int.SS 1-16
400
11* do lots. &
50 do ' bskint. WI;
CCOOL Island B 6s ... 100
1 OD I'ein a R 2d m0rt...10 :
n Morris Canal 52.4
200 do 53
72 do 53
2 Mechanics' Bank.. 25
22 do. .. . . ..2days. 25
Arch-street P 26 I
BETWEEN
25 Long Island R. . 2'2
17 Penna It fiS
100 Long Island It WM,
100 Sal Env pref...bs. 12,.%
7 Green & Coates lt.. 37
_ _
SECOND
7COO City 6s New.. ...1433,
75 Pen na R 5S9i
5000 Reading, 68 1866—.103
10(0 do 1E66.-103
. .
6 Lehigh Na.V Si
1000 IT S 1 - year's etf blk. 0034
2200 Poona ... 98,`4
7000 do 'A 3 f:
1000 Lehigh Valley 65_...105:
AFT - 01
Long
do 223;
Island 100 R 22,31
100 do 22.34
CLOSING Pl
Bid. .daked.
S6B opus 11.-10254 103
II 7-30 D blk —.10114 102
American Gold —13234 1323(
Phi o
n l& 6s .
ew old ....100
1113)4 1(01% D
Alleg co 68 R 50 52
Penna 6s 3153 9334
Reading 11 353i35316i
Do bds 130...1119 10034'
Do bds '70...104 105
Do bds '66—.103 14l;
Penns R 5e.,1 .5.5%
Do Ist m 65..111 112
Do 2d m 65...106X lu7
Morris Canal .. • • 53% 54
Do prfd 106..130 • •
Do 6s '76—.101 10.5
Do 2d nag... 100
Soso Canal
Do Os
S:hrtyl Nay O' Ili
Do prfd 12% 13
Do 6s '82.... 65 66
Elmira R 20 22
Do prfd „lc!".
Do 7s Ist m.. 160 101
Do 105.......,464'
N Penna R.- .. . .. 10
Do 6s ... . Fali
Do 105.......1.03 10334
Phila Ger St 1i0r... •
Lehigh Val R... 65 ..
Lehigh Val
New York Stock
Closinz Quotati
Bid. Asked.l
M 3311
U4I
U S 'SI c0..1014 10174.' 1
U S regat .u. p.
... 06,3 g
U S 6s 5 yr coup..
U S Gs 5 yr reg...
Demand Notes...
Treat Notes, 6 7 . c
Trsa Notes, 7.50..11111.0
Gold IS?3i 1 3 i
Tennessee .. . s:li
Virginia Si
North Carolina• • ( 1 031
Missouri St 53! , 1
confonlia ........ llttY
Canton Company 1134.,
Del & Hod 119
Pcnu Coal 119 k
Comb 31 »11 C Co.- 1• . 13;
Pacife !dell 13611 DS
t Ex dividend.
Philadelphia Markets.
There is no ;alteration in the Flour market, and the de
mand, both for shipment and home use, is limited; 7a
bbla Ohio family have been disposed of at 67;19/billa
fancy do at *8; SOO blals do, also Western, on rem.,
terms. The sales to the retailers and bakers ningel:
@6.25 for superfine ;.$6.50@0.75 for ext7a , : x:,:755:
exti at family, and S3@„ , SAO for fancy bra ad , , ateerkir4l4
quality. Rye Flour is steady at Y., , L5.25 'ft bid_ fer:Pti
is scarce ; Pennsylvania is held at and lltabv:at
stz rli bbl. •
WHEAT.—The demand is limited and pries
changed ; sales of about 10,000 bushels at IININat
Western and. Pennsylvania reds, in store. indtili
1,(0) bushels damaged, and 0,000 bushels Kear:l4
white on terms kept private.
RYE is in steady demand, and 700 buAtels Naar:*
ilia. sold at 04@f Sc for common to prime Penna.
CORN continues dull; about 5,000 b a d i pb.yelko
at 'Rearm for new, Sic for mixed, and Sif.-eAr broad.
OATS a re unchanged; about 2,iitk bush YeaaArgii
sold at 41@42c 'P. bush.
BA RIO is but littte inquired after ;14 No.l f!aerciuu
Is held at VS'e. ton.
COTTON.—lioldeis are firm and the demand liaaitel
at Mc .lb, cash, for middlings.
GROCERIES.—There is little or no movement is the
market, and prices are steadily maintained: Slav qi•
iintrat lb for Cuba aud Sosr thlogiv:
Coffee is selling in a small way atsoriti . Ve
PROVISIONS.—I here is 1101/tiugdomg: the star/":b
steady, but very inactive at previons /'/011
sales of Mess Pork at $14451450 for old and nee. 1.5.
is selling at flgelOc for blils and tcs.
SEEDS.—There is a fair demand for Clow, sal 4 l
bush sold at *se.o.iso l bu—the latter rate for prtme.
Sy
einange in TIIIIOIIW or Flaxseed, the Miter selliaz
It
gk:3 ha.
WHISKY is firm; blds sell slowly at tigiit• ,41
drudge 41c 11gallon.
The following are the receipts of Flour and (lava
this port to-day
Philadelphia Cattle Market, Dec. 29, IS6*.
• The receipts of Beef Cattle at Phillips' arena- Mtn , :
Yard are moderate this week, reaching shout lAOIIOO I .
The demand is fair, and prices roman about the sautea.
last quoted, ranging at from ttjf.ig•lc roe ^"•
to extra; 83,1'@4c, gross, for ordinary to law, and 3' , l.3'ic
II lb, gross, fur commou, areordiru; to coaditiOu and qua
lity. Extra Chester county Steers sold as a.sual, early
in the day, at our highest outdutlen'• Intoner 1013 °l'
tissue dull,' there being very little intptiry for tits scription. The market closed rather dull..Thebutcher .
are not buying as freely as usual, Poultry, daring rip;
holidays, taking the place of Beef.
Cows and Cat ves are alleluias:ea in price and dam!
and we continue our former tototatiout-$l5 to .."'r
bead, according to quality.
In Sheep there is less doing, and prices are hauls
maintained. The receipts are larger tn:tu flat dira.at,
Prices range at front r , 6t6c tb gross for fair to
quality, as to condition.
The receipts of Hogs have littlen off, and
changed, ranging at front ii l .s 75@..6.75 It lo itt' 4° ' "
quality. .11. ,
The Cattle on Sale to-day are from the a...out - • • -
Slit) head fru)ll Penus-ylvauia.
400 bead front Ohio. . •
Dii bead front Maryland.
SOO head from Illinois.
The following are the particulars of the sab-s:
Barelay C. Baldwin, 25 Chester mint!: '
at front efeLll.l for fai r to extra.
Fel Ihimer S ICirwln, 62 Western Steers, seine...
4 - 4- 1 .40 for fair to extra. • . tAtt
1 8r0.,107 Western Steers, selling at •
fur Stir to good quality.
Ullman A: .Shomberg. 00 Chester coutdy and WW I
Steers, selling at front *Kalil fur Stir to extra. fr . 2
.1. Se E. S McFillett, PiO Western Steers, selling:l:
e••:ien9 for rto good quality. • „ ine2
Alex. Kennedy, 35 Chester Co. Steers *ether
'&€l9 for fair to good quality. ?:^.,
I'. II:Wm:lay, 60 Chester Co. Steers, ,:lbne g
•I‘S.@ : 9.rs) for fair to extrarloalitY•
Cochran &McCall. in Chester and Del:11We( e.• •
selling at trout 1i , 5.2r,C,0.i30 for fair to good guar* * * 4.2
.1. hra It a ins, INtitusylvanitt tltecri,,elliug "'
ii , 6,9 fur fair to good quality. . 1 0
Smitll,2- 4 0 Western Sieers,selling lt ` -
art for lair to gooduality.
Witt. S. Black, 86 extra Ohio Steers, selltalt* t'
ay
@AO at to quality. • „ a ; arc:
I'.Mennen, S 2 Chester County and W est.'
tlt front tfietti.:3o for good to extra. anti -
gross, for common.
THE SHEEP MARKET.
• tree
The arrival.
Drove Yard reach about -1,001.1 head this' wce .4 . - ii;a:
Lout :',€.534C Ira gross fur fair to good, and a feu?
Ge 7 e lb. The market is dull and prices are ban?!
rained ; stock sheep are selling at tit_raeAM O'''''
cording to quality. Jr I:
ti
. lambs tire in fair supply and prices are hua •
sales at e:c. , g4 - e. head, as to quality.
COWS AND CALVES. • war
The arrivals and sales of Cows at Phillip' .g.s:
Drove. Yard reached about 100 head this week. se: •, ; ,0?
from t”Et to 530 bead for springers, and 11 1
brad for Cnw and Cale Lean Corns are selling... •
tense to IG-There bcud. The market is deli. redir .
vus..is very little doing, and ac ;
(air Seiner quotations ; sales of about eta head '' ,‘
? lb for first quality, and SMOTic fur second it.
weight and quality. •
. THE.HOG:MARKET.'
The Tereiiitn of Hogs hove fallen off this uve 4 :,
about B,oUohe f id. There 4: a &ft klemnaslio' .- •
are nucb4aoa:
5,1300 head wad ni H. G. Imhoff's Union Drove Ma ri
Prices ranging at from $:4 "g1et6.6234 i 131 1 .'•
I,lX4Yhead.,nl24o F.!01.1 Itt The ,%venue i/Ore ..
v oa•
Juitat Clause& Go., a t :14.3.:5(46.7:3? lb.,
dition :aid Quality.
Tilt• following are the receipts of Catdo at
diqpidn' marker for LW, to couparbQn
years
Beevex. CovvA,
7,.1;10 4,00 1 1, ..u.N.
. .1 0 3.4 M 17: 1 : 20 t ,
102.(ZO 9.6113 1.17,03 a
• F. 01 1r.41
. si,ooo 17.10) vo),,u , io.or
56.700 13,600
54.600 0,460 K.OOl
1862...
185 ...
IKG
New York Diarkets—Yestarsktp
...30,
ASI I ES are quiet. at >NSW for Pots, and•l‘s ,2 •; l. ,ro!...eir i ,
11.1tEADSTUFFS.--Tho market for Stale tad 1 .0 ,
Flour is firmer. and 5c better, with a moderA9 ,
at the improvement. A n ,. 41 75
The sales are 9,r4101..b1a at s 5 75r,p5.9a roc Atref.; : ivec.
*8 I.s@ti *l5 for extra State; :N1:V.75909.r suPer' 3 '..,,.., ‘!„‘•
Fan, latilau., lowa. Ohio, Lte: e 0.901.7.-101.,;''. % . i4r.l.
iladtllififi shipping brands of round:to/OP vo l " - '
...
told trade brands do at "146 9:RS 2 5 li rite r`
Southern Flour is a she'd.. firmer and in tae,...leyota
Wiest! salnA Rat bbls at iALW6 - 1 , 7 for supirtitre D' . ' . ..
and fi4.1411.9 for extra do.
Cal uaditrn Flour is fire cents higher. with siqtUlj;
bids at N.Tclis.:-3, - , for cut:anon to good. and t.••••• '
the ranae of rands. ale
Bye Floor la selling:it E;-1,Nt'95.51) for the rs2:o ; ' .
aLdsuperttae.u.W p.r I"'
(!ern 13,1 is firm and in demand. We d
.10.R.1(4 - 4, puncheous ir-lL 1... it
.. 4, t. 9. • ,
Wheat Is a little firmer, but the mara, .f.t.i..
quid: ales :IWO. Intsbein at Arisii ..l 31 fol d 1 ;Oa
spring,* ...0.15(41.35 for igtiwatikee. c lith:_s . l t ;._L , :t 0. 1
amber Iowa; $1.41.C0l 34 for winter r,..4..W.,..,,,,i1,rW
~
X •47 for amber Miebou. and lli.tall for IcL e „L' 7 4sl•o4 Sot'
Bye in iunrtivo at Sir for
t here. :Intl 1....:•• Sr'„u.
Barley - is euit4 sod firm at $1.31:11b1.W wr ”" ' .
Canada. - -a‘an co . OW''' . t
Oats arc fi rM and selling at ..x..e- , ' •
prime. m i r i,el, 4.
Corn in without decided change, irillt s r.',, cor ,, I n ,
sal PS rAwo bushels a t 71KaRk . for gouitA 0, ; dal
it AK Fixtit oak du.; anti Wit,o7 f o r oo souso ~..
ange Sales ) Dee, 29
Philadelphia Ezehaais,.
1
OARD.
100Catawiasa R pref.., Lyv
d,....pref cah. 114
r
4700 City fis Nepwer iv;
..
1100 do .3 et ........
400 do .............. tr;l
10 Girard R., V.'
12t'd Baßk•-idi, II 4
Cala & Anil) R .....
40 Norri,town .. ...
45 Ca.tawis-a R..cash.
10 I:ith Str R... 2:tti
BOARDS.
3000 City 6 - , ... , .300'
l'euna 1120
, 3020
10X03 Phi litda 3 Eris~ 6- IA
400 US7-30TreasN
2 Catawi- , a R
100 do Pref-• 1 7, Li
, 100 Readioz R ........
5000 North I'enna R 65- 4 7
15 Minehil ......... 5 , 1 1
1000 Pitti- - Ft W & Ch
2 Poona R.. ..........
BO.A.RPS. _
Ainbei Molt!
32 Arch-4 ret 1t...... 3;
3000 Sthqk Ca n ......
'RICES—I
leixt
Catatviem R..... 4%
Do prfd ......
Beaver Mead R.. S$ C
Alinehill R....... 5 , 3 i 51
Harrisburg R.—.
Wilmington R...
[Lehigh Nay 63..
Do shares... &A" ftt
CamDo scrip • : 1 1)
St And) R... 112% Lily
Phila Erie Be..
Sun & Erie .
L Island H...,..,
Do bonds... - _
Delaware Div.... 3:!‘
Do b0nd5....140
S_pruce.street R.. let; r
Chestnut-st R.... 4 1.4
Arch-street R....
Race-street R....
Tenth-street R... 34 3ti
Thirteenth-st R.. 5 20;
NV Philo R......,
Do bonds..., -
Green-street 11... $13%
Do bonds.- .
Second-street 8... WI
Do bonds.....
Fifth-street P
I Do b0nd5... ...
Girard College R 5 Si
Seventeenth-at
s, December 29.
°us at 3 o'clock.
Gid.A:trf.
N Cen P, E.— —ION 114
Erie common.-- 61;
Eric Pref 4.4 N
Hudson Ric 7514
Harlem R 0 4 1 4
Harlem II R Pref
}tending R R 76 4 .8
Michigan Cen...+02. 4 4
Michigan South. 38'S ii
Do. Guar.. St% Si
Panama t 166 Tf
HI Gentili! "fel : 4 )
Cleve & 5F4
Galena & Chi....
Clev & Tel
Chl & 'Earn SiL 4 Si',
;Terre Mule Co.•
Bur & Q ii 6' o ,
Md S.: Pr Mt Cl') • • ••
1111 Cen Conq 1, , I• • •
DECEMBER 29—ES'eRIU