THE .PRES,, PUBLISHED DAILY (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED.) HY JOHN W. FORNEY, • 'FICE, No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THEI 'DAILY PRESS, Inauss Cern Pits. Watk, varable to the Carrier. Yaltal. to Subscribers out of the City at BiowrLeas ASS As-mix, FOUR DOLLARS FOR SIX hIONTHS, Two Dot. oss Sou Tunas Dlourus—invarlably in advance for the ime ordered. sr Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. Sir hoes constitute u square. THE. TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, Mailed to Subscribers °tit of the City at Ports Doir tooth's AZUML, ill advance. COMMISSION HOLSES• JOHN T. BAILEY iS 3 00- BAGS AND BAGGING OF F.TBRY DgSCRIPTION, , N 0.113 NORTH FRONT STREET 1a27.4m rHILADE•.LPU!A, WELLING, COFFIN, ttCO., 21,%0 CHESTNUT STREET. Offer for sale, by the Paoktlre-- PRINTS, BROWN AND BLEACHED SHEETING AND HEHRTINGS. DRILLS, CANTON FLANNELS, COTTONADES, CORSET JEANS. SILESIAS; NANKEENS. COLORED CABIBRICS, SEAMLESS BAGS. BLACK DOESKINS.AND , CASSIMERES. ' ONION CLOTHS, SATINETS. PLAID LINSEYS, NEGRO KERSEYS. KENTUCKY MKS. ALB°, SHY-BLUE NERSEYS, INFANTRY CLOTHS. ARMY FLANNELS, 10 and 12-ounce RUC H, &a., deo de6.mwf9m pRI , LADELP.HIA "BAG" MANUFACTQIIY. f3URIAA P BAG S, OF ALL SIZES, FOR CORN, OATS, COFFEE, BONE DUST, Sto. ALSO, SEAMLESS BAGS. Of andard rallEkss, ALL SIZES, far sale cheap, for net Mash on dolivorst. GEO. GRIGG. lOW No. 219 and 221 CHURCH ALLEY. /COTTON YARN_ SUPERIOR COTTON PARR", NO. 10, FOR SALE BY 7BOTRINGHAM et WELLS. 002,11 SHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTOHIN'SON, No. 112 CRESTRUT STREET, COMMISSION MBROITANTS FOR THE SALE OF PHILAD'ELPHIA•hXADE GOODS. 610343 m ATLANTIC COTTON MILLS. SHEETINOS AND SRIIITINGS. CHARLES AMORY, JR., ck CO., AGENTS. 205 CHURCH ALLEY. PRITADTILPRIA. SEWING MACHINES. STILL THERE! AT THE OLD STAND, 62S CIFESTNIIT STREET, Second floor, opposite Jayne's Hall, WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES. The undersigned has not removed; but is ready at his fOld Office to supply custoniers, at the lowest prices, with revery style and. Quality of • WHEELER & WILSON SEWING' MACHINES. Maohines to hire; also, with first-class operators, to private families and hotels, by the day, Machine stitching done at short notice, inanyquantity. Machines repaired and operators taught, de25.3m „ HENRY COY. SINGER'S 'SEWING MACHINES, For Family Sewing and. Manufacturing Purposes 810 CHESTNUT STREET. lard 3m THE WILCOX & GIBBS FAMILY • ERWIN° MACHINES 'bays been greatly improved, making it ENTIRELY NOISELESS, Ituri7lth Self - adi mains . Hemmers, are now read for Bale 13Y FAIRBANKS !iv EWING, $027-tt r 47.4:+: F4l. 04 " 715 CIMTNUT Street. CLIYMES-WRINGERS„ WILLIAM YARNALL, DEALER IN HOUSE•FURNISHING GOODS, No. 1020 CHESTNUT STREET, iiront for the We of HAIRY, MORSE, & BOYDEN'S PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING CLOTHES-WRINGER, Nr 11737 M It will wring the largest Bed quilt or smalleEt Hand• Torchief drier than can possibly be done by hand. in 'very mach less time. N. B.—A liberal discount will be made to dealers. nuaam ' CABINET FURNITURE. VA_BINET FURNITURE AND BIL- N. , LUBA) TABLES. MOORE CAMPION,, No, 281 South SECOND Street. connection with their extensive Cabinet Business, are Cow manufacturing a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, And have now on hand a fall supply, finished with the &IMRE k CAMPION% IMPROVED CUSHIONS, which are pronounced by all who have used them to be supe• to all others, For the quality and finish of these Tables the mann rpsturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the character of theix 'work, Ys.tinflm DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. ROBEIRT•SE7.-OEMAXER - '&:‘JO., Xortheast Corner Fourth and RACE Streets. PHILADELPHIA. • VIHGLAESA.LIE DRUGGISTS, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS FOREIG'N AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS, lIIAZIIIFACTIIREBI3 Or 'WHITE ZEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, ruwx, Ow .ACIENTCPOR TEE CELEBRATED ' TRENCH LINO PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at WRY LOW PRIORS FOR CASH HOTELS. ITNITED STATES HOTEL, HARRIS TENBUG, PA—REF I VTED AND RENOVATED-40N, EYCK, Proprietor,—'n is poptilarnmd commodious 'Rotel has been newly refitted and furnished throughout its parlors and chambers, and is now ready for the re ception of Mesta for the winter season. The travelling public will and the UNITED STATES 11QTEL the most convenient, in all partieulars, of any Hotel In the State Capital, on account of its access to the railroad being immediately between the two great de. Pete t itle oily. HARRISBURG. Tam 1' 1869. DRANDRETH HOUSE, Corner of BRTREETS, NOADWAY, EW Y CANAL and LISPENABD • SORK, , CONDUCTED ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN. The above Hotel is located in the most central part of %roadway, and can be reached by omnibus or city cars. 'born all the steamboat landings and railroad depots, The rotas are elegantly furnished. Many of them are sonstructed in snits of communicating parlors and chant. Viers, suitable for families and parties travelling together, Meals served at all hours, Single ROOM from 60 cents to $1 per day. Doable Rooms from $llO $2.60 per - day. de2-em JOS. CURTIS /6 00. OPPENHEIMER, No. 231 CHURCH Allen-Philadelphia, CONTRACTOR AND MANUFACTURER OP ARMY CLOTHING - Of Every Description. ALSO, 'sr NTS, HAVERSACKS, PONCHOS, • CAMP BLANKETS, KNAPSACKS, and, BED TIOKIROS FOR HOSPITALS. MATERIAL BOT.TORT FOR CONTRACTORS. All goods made will be guarantied regulation in size gad make, N. B. Orders of any the filled with despatch. `ja7•tf 6 CASES 30-INCH BLACKSTONE UMBRELLA CLOTHS. For sale by • MATTHEW BINNEY'S SONS, BOSTON, Maw. CAUTION. The welLearned reputation, of FAIRBANKS' SCALES Ns induced the makers of imperfect balances to offer them as " FAIRBANKS' SCALES," and purchasers have hereby, in many instances, been subjected to (rand and imposition, Fairbanks' Soulful are manufactured only bl the original inventors, E. &-'l. FAIRBANKS & CO., and Ire adapted to every branch of the business, where a correct and durable Scales Is desired, FAIRBANKS Jo EWING, General Agents, tolo-tf MASONIC HALL, 715 CHESTNUT ST. It 'EVANS & W = SON'S SALAMANDER SAYS , • 16 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. • • 1 1 4/ 41 10 'misty of FIRE PROOF SAFES always os • • . , , • - • -- T - ( Av.,C( r• if „ . • • : lk, i , .6.. . -4 - - -tt - \ • , . . . ...•: , 'N 's— s K \ " \ \.\, i i i I' 1 4 /1 / : : j'a ( - ',& '''' ' ;:: ' ,7 ; 7 '':' 7 .... , ;•.;...: . ::'.7:r. tett t t , ...„.>" (-:... , (~._:::_—,...l _ , „:..:;..._..., ._ ~, .. ... .....-;_. . . ._ _. -:. - -., - • _. . ._7- , __. .. .c_ , _ „ _... . _., ... r/' ._ ~ .„._. . v .... „. .-., : N.,.• :-sil'i .4i:v5„,0•.4-V t? k . -,.- ..,„.-.•.,-, .5 . .. 1. ! ,-•-:.,, ~,.,,:,,, , . - , •_;.., -.,.,, • ,„-.. -"• .- 1.,1.,11, ~, •. N ; . s . ~‘,\ \ .‘,_.‘!:; t‘ l I I t ..?10,A:-i1-1or_ilmi O7. 4 : _ - .: . _ - .-.. .-..-„:,.,,.,, ... .., , ,. -•,:. . 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All the best makes of Linens. All the best makes of Sheetings. • , • All the best make a of Napkins. Together with Towels, Crash, Diaper Huckaback, Bird Burlap, &c. White Cambric and Jaconet, full line. - Nalnsooks and Plaid .Muslins, full line. Winter Goods closing out. Shawls, Merinoes, closing out. Balmoral Skirts, all prices. Silk and Linen lidkfs, nice assortment.- At JOHN 11. STOKES', 702 ARCH. Street. E D "'IN RAIL SL -BRO., 26 South SECOND Street; Rave reduced the priceslof Fancy Silks, Rich Printed Dress Goods, Choice Shades of liferinoes, - - Beautiful Colors of Reps or Poplins. All-Wool De Lathes, All kinds of dark dress goods reduced.. Also, Fine Long Broche Shawls, Open Centre Long Cashmere Shawls. Rich now styles of Blanket Shawls. 4-4 Lyons Silk velvets, pure Silk. Frwtmts=wlwm E. M. NEEDLES. LINENS, WHITE GOODS LACES, AND EMBROIDERIES. • .. A full assortment always on hand at LOW PRICES. Just received, lace-trimmed Embroidered and Mourning Muslin Bows and Neck-Ties, for the house and street.. Also, all-linen Hemstitched Handkerchiefs, at Id cents, • Also, all descriptions of Linen Handkerchiefs, for Ladies, Gents, and Children, at WHOLESALE PRICES. jaB-tf 1024 CHESTNUT STREET fIRY GOODS FOR WINTER. Rep. Poplins, French Merinos, Colored Mousselines, Pauli De Soles, Foulard Silks, Blanket Shawls, Balmoral Skirts, Black Silks, Fancy Silk.s, Black Bombazines, Worsted Plaids, Cheap Delaines, French Chintzes, Shirting Flannel-a, Broche Shawls, Fine Blankets, Crib Blankets: SII,S.B.PLBSS BROTHERS, CIESTNIIT and ElGHTHStreets. H STEEL & SON TIA.V.H.I A LARGE • assortment of .DRESS GOODS, suitable for HO. LIDAT PRESENTS. Rich Fancy Silks; Plain Silks, choice colors. Plain and Figured. Black Silks. Plain and Figured Rep Poplins. Plain and Figured Merinoes. Plain Solferino Cashmeres, at 37%c, worth 62. WINTER SHAWLS, in great variety, MERINO SCARFS, BROCBE BORDERS. CLOAKS—Of New and Fashionable Styles, made of Black Beaver, Frosted Beaver and Black Cloth. - Call and examine our stock. We guaranty to give sa tisfaction, as we sell nothing but good articles, and at lower prices than they can be bought elsewhere. de/3 Nos. 713 and 71.5 North TENTH street. CRIB AND CRADLE BLANKETS.. Large Crib Blankets. - - Fine Cradle Blankets. - • - jai BYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and ARCH WILLIAMSVILLE% WAMSUTTAS, York Premiums, Forestdales, Edward Harris, Bay Mill, ani Other good makes Shirtings. 10-4 Utica, Waltham and Pepperell Sheetings. FINE LINENS ' At nearly old prices. Cheap Damask Moths, Power-Loom Linens, Good Napkins, Fine Towels and Doylies, BLACK ALPACAS, Fine Colored Alpacas, Prints, Delaines, Cheap Reps. Alt-wool Reps at Cost. Balmorals—Good Skirts, full size, $3. Closing out Winter Cloaks and Shawls. Closing out Boys' Winter Clothing. COOPER & CONARD, ja24-tf S. E. corner NINTH and MARKET Streets. VITRE & LAN DELL, FOUUTH AND ARCH, have 'a' fine stockof GOODS FORTAIIII _T CUSTPIAL,,..,. d . • 2 Good Large BlanketsZL__ - Good-Linea sheetmgs. Good Muslin by the Piece. Good Unshrinking Flannels. Good Fast Colored Prints. Good Table Linen and Towels. Good Quality Black Silks. \ Good Assortment Colored Silks. jal EDUCATION. E DUCATION. EXTRAORDINARY PROVISION FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF BOYS. —No School In the United States is equally well provided for the education of boys as the SCIENTIFIC AND CLASSICAL INSTITUTE, CHESTNUT Street, -N. W. coiner of Twelfth street, third story, entrance on Twelfth street. Parents are invited to call: and examine the huge collections of Apparatus and the Museum of Na tural History. [ja24-7t) J. ENNlS,Principal. CLASSICAL AND ENGLISH SCHOOL jo g . F .in H ino . D. GREGORY, A. M., 1108 MARKET Street. kCHOOL OF - DESIGN FOR WOMEN, 1334 CHESTNUT STREET.—The next Session of this Institution eommenefs February Ist. Charge $l4 for the Session of Five Months. - ' DIRECTOR& — Jciaeph Esq.,President ;, Wil liam Bo Audi, Esq., Vice President P. P. :Morris, Bag, Secretary and Treasurer ; Joseph Jeans, Redwood F. Warner, James L. Chighorn, David S. Brown, William Sellers, William J. Horstman, Eli H. Price, and Charles Gibbons: jaa)-12f VILLAGE GREEN SEMINARY.-A SELECT BOARDING SCHOOL, NEAR MEDIA, PA. Thorough course in Mathematics, Classics, English studies, Sic. Military Tactics taught. Classes in Book-keeniag, Ear- VsYing, and Civil Engineering. Pupils taken of all ages. and are received at any time. Boarding per week, *2.25. .- - Tuition her quarter, $ 6.00. For catalogues or information address Re - v. J. HERVEY BARTON. A. M., Village Green. Pa. oclO-tf U. S, INTERNAL REVENUE. AGENCY FOR THE SALE OF UNITED STATES TAX STAMPS, No. 57 South THIRD Street, first door above Chestnut. A full supply of all kinds of REVENUE STAMPS that have been issued by the Government for sale in quantities to suit. A liberal discount allowed on amounts of $5O and np. wards. Office Hours from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Orders by Mail promptly attended to. JACOB E. RIDGWAY, de9-6m No. 57 South THIRD Street UNITED STATES INTERNAL REE IT EUE—THIBII COLLECTION -DISTRICT, Pennsyl vania, comprising Twelfth , Thirteenth , Sixteenth, Seven teenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth wards of the city of Philadelphia: NOTICE.—The ANNUAL ASSESSMENT for the above narned"Disrrict, of all persons liable to a Tax on Car riages, Pleasure Yachts, Billiard Tables, and Gold and Silver Plate, and also of all persons required to take out Licenses, having been completed, notice is hereby given that the taxes aforesaid will be received daily by the undersigned, between the hours of 9 A. M. and 31'. M. (Sundays excepted,) at his office, Southwest corner of THIRD and WILLOW Streets, on and affir MONDAY, February 2d,1863; and until and ineltidlng SATURDAY, the 21st day of the same month. - - PENALTIES. All persons who fail to pay their Annual Taxes upon Carriages, Pleasure Yachts, Billiard Talzflce, and Gold and Silver Plate, on or before the aforesaid. 21st of Febru ary, 1863, will incur a vent - city of ten per cents= addi tional of the amount thereof, and costs, as provided for in the 19th section of I he Excise Law of July 1,1862. All persons who, in like manner, shall fail to take out their .Licenses, as required by law, on or before the 21st of 'February, '1863, will Incur a penalty of THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF SAID LICENSES, In accordance with the provisions of the 59th section of the Excise Law aforesaid." KO- Money of the United States only received. itgi' No furthernotice will begiven. WILLIAM J. WAINWRIGHT. Collector, jal7-dtf S. W. cor. THIRD and WILLOW Ste DOZEN HICKORY:SHIRTS. 1,000 GRAY, RED, AND BLUE 1 1 00 0 do. 1 FLANNEL SHIRTS. 500 do. ASSORTED FANCY - TRAVELING SHIRTS. o„ LOW-PRICED 00 , 'WRITE MUSLIN SHIRTS. 1,000 do. DENIM OVERALLS. 10,000 PAIRS COTTONADE PANTALOONS. For sale by BENNETT, RUCH; & CO., jalS-Im Monufaetarers. 217 CHURCH ALLEY 517 - ARCH STREET. C. A. VANKIRK •Sa CO. Have on hand a fine assortment of CHANDELIERS AND OTIIBR GAS FIXTURES. Also, French Bronze Figures and Ornaments, Porcelain end Mica Shades, and a variety of FANCY GOODS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Please call and examine goods, del.?-ly -"-E N ESSEY BRAN DY.-AN IN YOJCE iu bonded stores, for sale by CHAS Ss St JAS. CARSTAIRS, ja27 No, 126 WALNUT and 21 GRANITE St. GNE WINE.-AN INVOICE 0 of "Via Royal" and "Green Seal" Champagne Wine, to arrive, and for sale by • • • ' JAIIRETCHE & LAVERGNE, 202 and 204 South FRONT Street. MACKEREL, HERRING, SHAD, Ste., - • 21,00 131fis BIM. Nos. 1,8, and 8 Mackerel, late-caught ibt Mb, in assorted packages. 2,000 Bbls. New Eastport. Fortune Bay. and Halifax }terrine. 2,500 Boxes Lubec, Scaled, and No. i. Herring. 160 BUM. new Ness Shad. WO Boxes Herkimer County Cheep, -in store and for sale by MTFRPHY KOONfi j No. 148 North WILLIW.SIII. NEW PUBLICATIONS,. NEW . NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF AIIPARA FLOYD! LADY A.UDLEY'S SECRET. A NOVEL. BY MISS ,111. E. BR.4DDON, AUTHOR OE "AURORA FLOYD." "JOHN MARCH MONT'S LEGACY," "THE LADY LISLE," &c. CLOTH 75 CENTS, PAPER 50 CENTS This Novel has caused an immense excitement in Lon- . don, audwill have an enormous sale here.. The English' Press pronounce it to be far superior to "Tat WOMAN TN 'WHITE." "EAST LYNNE," or any of the celebrated novels that have made their appearance in the literary world for the past two or three years, and the furore it has created threatens to make for it a sale even greater than Victor Hugo's Les Miserablm. . Published by DICK & FITZGERALD, No. 18 ANN STREET, N. Y Also for sale by all Booksellers in this plate. Copies of the above book sent by mail to any address, free of Postage, on receipt of the price. jai-mwfr3t T)HOTOGRAPH ALBUMS Of every variety of SIZE. STYLE, QUALITt, AND PRICE • A, • " : E CARTES DE VISITE in eudless variety, together with an immense stock of STANDARD AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, OLD PRICES!, A lIANDSOBIE PRESENT Accompanies every Book sold! • • Lovers of Choice Goods, at Low Rates, Fair Deaiing; and. Polite Attention, patronize the GREAT ORIGINAL GIFT-BOOK DAVID COPPERFIELD.---HOUSE HOLD Edition is `now ready. This is much the handsomest edition publisl ed of Dickens' works, printed on laid paper, with - Darley's fine steel-plate illustra tions. English and American style of binding.' Com plete sets, as far as published, 'for sale at Agency . Office of APPLETON j0.9-3t • INTeiv American Cyclopedia, 33 South SIXTH, above Chestnut 1863. -TDB BRITISH AND FO REIGN ME DICO-CHIRIIRGICAL REVIEW, and Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine and. Sur gery, No. 61, for January 1863. LONDON EDITION NOW READY. Terms $6 per annum, payable strictly in advance. ALSO, THE PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST. Published an - nuttily, various sizes and prices. MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS Always on hand at low prices. . LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, - • Publishers and Booksellers, ja23 No. 25 South SIXTH St., above Chestnut. rip H E RISEN REDEEM ER.--TIE T GOSPEL HISTORY FROM THE RESURRECTION TO THE DAY OF PENTECOST. By F. W; Krumraaclier, D. D. *l. THE THOUGHTS OF GOD. By . Rev. J. R 18mo. 50 cents. • A 'YEAR W .- ITU ST. PAUL; OR, FIFTY-TWO LES SONS FOR THE SUNDAYS OF THE YEAR. By Chas. E. Knox. $l. HELPS OVER HARD PLACES. Stories for Girls. 40 cents. HELPS OVER. HARD PLACES. Stories for Boys 40 cents. For BOA by WILLIAM S. Sr ALFRED MARTIEN, jal9 No. 606 CHESTNUT Street. • AIIIST THE WAR GO ON ?-AN IN QUIRT whether th 13 e Ullio can be restored by any other means, and whether Peace upon any other basis \foul dbe safe or dnra,ble. By Henry Flanders. Pamph let Bvo. Price 15 cents. - . Published by WILLIAM S. &T'ALPRED MARTIEN.. Ran 606 CHESTNUT Street. PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, dm. JAMES S. EARLE & SON, IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF LOOKING j GLASSES. . DEALERS Mt OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAIT, PICTURE, and PHOTOGRAPH PRAMS, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. EXTENSIVE ,LOOKING- GLASS WAREROONS AND GALLERY OF PAINTINGS, de3l4l' 1316 .CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia. EM=MI FIVE-TWENTIES, TWENTY-YEAR SIX FEE CENT. BONDS. PAYABLE Al' THE OPTION OF THE GOVERNMENT AFTER FIVE FMB*. lam instructed by the SECRETARY OF THE TREA- SURY to receive subscriptions for the above LOAN AT PAR. Interest Will commence from the DATE . OP SUBSOEIF TION, and is PAYABLE IN GOLD at the Mint, or any. Enb-Treasury,or Depository,of , the:llnlted states, on the first days of May and Novemioer , of each year. At the Present PREMIUM oxr Qom these Bonds yield about EIGHT per cent. per annum. A fall supply always on hind. JAY 4DOOKE, SUBSCRIPTION AGENT, notkmhl 114 SOUTH THIRD STILEHT. JOHN C. CAPP & SON, STOCK & NOTE BROKERS, No. 23 SOUTH THIRD STREET, R}ar:#:~( y~►~~~3• • ~I,Y~4Yc~v:l.isi:t~t:I:I~MiH~i~:7.~~i:~ STOOKS AND BONDS SWEET ,AND:` SOLD ON COMMISSION AT TSB BOAM:f or BROKERS. MONEYT INVESTED AND. NOTES AND LOANS !NEGOTIATED ON TB BEST TEEMS (11:110 AND PENNSYLVANIA R R. "--." COMPANY BRIDGE. BONDS. —Sealed Proposals will be received - until THURSDAY next, FEB. Bth ; . at noon, for selling to the Trustees, for the use of the Sinking Fund, Ten Thousand Dollars ($1.1000) of the bonds known as the Bridge Bonds. Proposals will be di rected to the ttndersigned, and will be opened at the time named, in presence of those parties who may be;inte rested to the bias. The Trustees reserve the right to tie- Cline any bids which they may consider incompatible With the interest of the tru*t. 0.. MACALBSTER, R. BULLER, ja.29-6t Trustees, No. 205 South SIXTH Street. $B.OO 0 .AMOUNT WANTED 5 On a Farm, in Chester county._ Apply to inE E. PETTIT, 309 'WALNUT Street. • YORK, PA.„Sanuary 26;1863 MESSES. EITANS Sr WATSON-. GENTLEMEN In reply to your inquiry in relation to the SAFE pur- chased of you, and how it stood the test by the drewhich occurred November last, we answer, our entire factory, together 'with a largo quantity of lumber in aid around the factory was entirely consumed. The Safe was in that portion of the building-where the heat Tests Most in- tene. R contained a large amount, of valuable papers, which, when the Safe was opened, were found in a per- feet condition. Although the Safe has tlie marks of firo on the outside, we ulna' be able to time it With a little re- rah! of the locks Yours traW, A large assortment of the above Safes on hand at our Store, Pio. 16 SOUTH FOURTH STREET . i.2s.at 'EVANS LS:: 'WATSON. CORNELIUS & BAKER, • MANUFACTURERS OF LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, GAS FIXTURES, Sze. STORE, '7lO CHESTNUT ST. MANUFACTORIES, 821 CHERRY Street. and FIFTH and COLUMBIA MABET BRANDY —IN BONDED -Lica- Stores, for sale by CHAS. S. Sr JAS . CARSTAIRS. .1a29 126 WALNUT St. and - 21. Sts. I)ELLEVOISIN IN VOICE, in Bond, for sale by CHAS. S. Sr JAS CARSTAIRS, latl No. 126 WALNUT and 21 GRANITE Sts. CARD PRINTING, NEAT AND Cheap, RINGWALT & BROWN'S. Sontb VOURTH Street, below Cheat:mt. pa EitIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1863. EMPORIUM, 433 CHESTNUT Street ILGENFRITZ & WHITE (C)it rasa. FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1863 DEPARTMENT OF NORTH CAROLINA. Another Great Expedition Satled—Destina ' • tion Supposed to be Wilmington—Gen. Foster in Command—General Naglee's Ad dress to his Troops—Our Generals—The Morale of the Army—Rebuke to Northern Traitors—The Iron-Clads, &c. (Special Correspondence of The Press.) OFF FOR WILMINGTON. CAROLINA CITY, January 22. We are now all dot transports and ready to move as soon as General Foster gives the. order. Our brigade is on board the steamer eahawba, and are rather more comfortably situated than when we made the voyage to this city. When.you next hear from us we shall probably date our letters from the city of Wilmington, and depend upon.it we will not dishonor the colors we bear. The "First Brigade" has been highly complimented by its old command er—Gen. Harry M. Naglee, of Philagelphia, who, is now in command of the 18th Army, having been re cently deservedly promoted•to the position. Remember that the following address has been pinned to the regimental standard of the 104th Penn sylvania Volunteers, and we hope to add " WiLming • ton" to its list of victories. . • • GENERAL NAGLEE'S ADDRESS. HEADQUARTERS. WADLEY% DIVISION, • •NeWbc;rll, N. 0., Jaa. 8, 1863. • 'GENE RAL ORDERS; Nb. 3.. The several regiments of the late Ist Brigade, commanded by General Naglee, will inscribe upon their banners the followingnames, indicating hn portant events in the history of the war, in which they acted a conspicuous part, namely: Lior's MILLS, Arnii ..' 1862.-104th and 52d Penn sylvania Volunteers, 11th Maine, 66th and 100th New York Volunteers. ' • WILLIAMSBuRO, MAT 5,1862.-104th and 626 Penn sylvania Volunteers, 11th Maine, 66th and 100th New York Volunteers. , , CifICKAHODINT, MAY 19, 1862.—104th • and 52d Pennsylvania 'Volunteers, 11th Maine, ffilth•• New York• Volunteers. . RECONNOISSANCE TO SEVEN PINES, NAT 24; 25, Ann 26,1862.-104th and 62d Pennsylvania .Voluti• teem, 11th Maine, 66th, 100th, and 98th New York Volunteers. • • "SEVEN Pines," on Pain Owns, MAY alst, 1862. . -104th and 52d Pennsylvania Voltuiteers, 11th Maine, 66th and 100th New York 'State Volunteers. RAILROAD AND BOTTOMS BRIDGES, SURE 27' AND • 28, 1862.-104th and '626 Pennsylvania' Volunteers, 11th Maine; 66th and 100th New York State Volun teers. ' WHITE OAR SWAMP BRIDGE, june:30,18132.-104th and 62d . Pennsylvania Volunteers, 11th Maine, 56th and 100th New York State Volunteers. °MITER'S. HILL, JULY' .2, 1862.-104th and 526 Pennsylvania Volunteers, llth Maine, 56th and 100th New fork State Volunteers. - MATHEWS COUNTY, Nov. 22, 1862.-11th Maine, 62d Pennsylvania :Volunteers, Ind. Bat. New York Volunteers. • - Gl:ovens-mit, VIRGINIA, DEG. 14, 1862.—E4d Penn sylvania, 66th and 100th New York State Volunteers. . - YORKTOWN, Atm. 17 'So Dzo. 31, '18V..•:-104th and 62d Pennsylvania Volunteers, IlthiNtairiNtißth, 81st, :Y 98th, 100th New York, and Ind. Bat. New.ork Vo lunteer& The general lately commanding the tnigade most happily takes this occasion to congrattilate the officers and soldiers with,whoriihe has been so inti mately associated. . • • • Whilst memory lasts, it will-continually recur to • the scenes of deprivation and dangerould blood and battle, through which you have passe:l;l4ld you will remember your inexperience and discontent, e and thenfyour,discipline and friendly, happy affilliation.l All will remember with•regret the — deadly effects of the swamps before Yorkterivni• -•-. • You were the first in the advance upon Williams burg, and when ordered by G'enensl: McClellan to 'support General Hancock the entiiny•gave up. the contest. • , • On the 19th - of May, at Bottoms Bridge, you waded waist deep in the swamps of the •Chickahominy, you drove away the enemy and were the first to cross that stream. On the 23d, one hundredand seventy of your num ber made a reconnoiseanee from' Bottoms Bridge to• • • the James river, near. Drury's Bliiff, and' returned bringing valuable information. . • . . • On the 24th, 25th, and 26th, after other troopet'had failed, you made the gallant; dashing reconnoissance of the Seven Pines, driving the snperior force of General. Stuart from Bottoms Bridge to•within four . and a half miles •of Richmond,•the position nearest that city ever occupied by our troops; On the Mat of May r at Fair Oaksior Seven Pines, occupying the above advanced position, your bri gade made the most desperate, .blosadyi obstinate fight of the war, and while we mourn the loss of one-half of our comrades in arms, you have the con solation of knowing that by their heroic sacrifice, and your stubborn resistance, you saved the Army • of the Potomac from great disaster. On the 27th, 28th, and 29th of June, the rebel Gen. Jackson hurled his immense forceeuddenly upon our right and passed that flank of-the army, and all turned with extreme solicitude towards the rear at Bottom's Bridge, which, if cron*, would result in irretrievable ruin ; and it should be a source of great pride and satisfaction in-the future to remem ber that all this intense anxiety• Was dispelled and all breathed with relief and felt ' sedum, when it re _ pidly ran through the army that ".Naglee's Brigade had destroyed the bridges, and stood night•funi (114; zror.three-daya r uf.the - -mktille- or - the thffiiify, ". successfully and continually resisting its passage. Again, on the following day, you held a post' of the greatest importance and danger ; at the White Oak. Swamp the most determined efforts of the enemy to cross the bridge in pursuit of our army were thwarted by our artillery, and you stood for•ten hours supporting it, quiet spectators of the most ter rible cannonade, while other regiments were only kept in place by being ordered back when they ap proached your line.-Retreating all night, you stool ready in position on the following day, expecting to be ordered to tnke part in the battle at Malvern,Hlll: Retreating again all night, at Carter's Hill on the• 2d of July, you stood by the artillery and wagon train, and when all expected it would be destroyed you brought it safely to Harrison's Landing. . During December you destroyed a dozen large salt works In Mathews county, Virginia, and drove the Rangers from that, and Gloucester, Middlesex and King and Queen counties, , captured large her ds in tended for the rebel army, awl destroyed all their barracks, stables, and stores. At Yorktown, from August to the end of Decem ber, you have restored the works at that place and Gloucester Point, and they are by your labor ren dered strong and defensible. Thus is yours the honor of having been the first to pass, and the last to leave, the Chickahominy, and while you led the advance from this memorable place to near . Richmond, you were last in the re treating column, when, after seven days' constant fighting, it leached a p lace of-security and rest, at Harrison's Landing. Your descendants for generations will boast of the gallant conduct of the regiments to which you be lone,and when all are laid in the dust, history will stiff proclaim the glorious deeds performed by you. ' Goon- ! "The truth is mighty and will prevail." Pretenders, for a time, may rob you. of your just deserts, but. as you have experienced, their evil re port will certainly be exposed, for your many friends at home, ever watchtui of and identified with your reputation, will see that justice shall be done. A new page in. your history is about to be written; let it be still more brilliant than.,that already known. Your past gobd conduct has won the warmest esteem and confidence of your late brigade commander; he has no apprehensions for the future. By command of Brig. Gen. Henry M. Naglee, commanding Division. GEO: H. JOHNSTON: Capt. and A. A. G. General Nagiee is a martinet, but he is one of the very best generals in the service. The men respect, admire, and love him, and it is their universal _ver dict that when he is in command they feel sure of success always. THE PRESENT EXPEDITION. We have now afloat two division of the finest troops in the American army, most of them vete rans. General Foster is in command of the expedi tion, or at least of the land forces, and the men have every confidence in him. We go, I think, to Wil mington, and we shall strike a heavy blow if we meet the enemy in force. OUR GENERALS. This department will merit attention soon. We have such generals with us now as J: otter, Emory, Wessels, Prince, Amory, and others, able, educated, experienced men, who are fighting only to sustain the honor and glory of our country, and her tag, and not for political advancement. Depend upon it, they will not fail the country in her day of • need. WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FUR We hear, with sorrow, of the attempt now being made at home to overthrow the Government, on the part of the malcontents of communities who were'too scant of patriotism to enlist, and we under stand that they are assisted by certain braggarts and poltroons, wearing shoulder-straps, who are boating in our large cities, and prating about the demoraliza tion of our armies. Out upon these tories and men of threadbare patriotism ! • They belie and slander the army, for it is as true as steel, as brave and as patriotic as ever. - I have served in this army, which was formerly operating for the most part on the Potomac and on the Peninsula, for two years, and I have never left my command for a single day. During this time the feeling of the men has undergone but one change, and that is in favor of using more power in crushing the rebellion here and its abettors at home.. ' These men, humble and simple-minded though they be, have sound common-sense. They know that the enemy has all of his fighting men in the field, and the balance of his population raising food for his armies. We know that the President has done, and is doing, all that he can to crush the latter, (which is a work that must be done gradually,) and we ask to be led on to annihilate the former by ablegenerals, that we may end the war. This will give our country a spring forward into an age of progress never be fore known. Let us be honest men, then, and lay partisan feeling aside until our troubles are ended. THE IRON-CLADS Our expedition is accompanied by a number o: gunboats and several iron-clads like the ilionitor the loss of which we witnessed, partially, in coming to this place. These iron-clads operate beautifully, I think, and they will certainly take Fort 'Caswell and the batteries on (jape Fear river. I think the strategy and tactics of our naval officers is superior to tbat exhibited by our generals, but this is the na tural result of a want of a proper military establish inent in this country since the Government was elected. The mail boat is alongside, and I must -close. Some of our steamers are drawing up their anchors from the mud at the bottom of the Sound. We have steam up, and I shall soon be oft • If fortune should smile upon the "First Brigade," and Wilmington should fall, you will hear soon again from KEY WEST AM) .THE GULF. The -Pirate Orcto at HavauailLlT. 15: War Vessels Watching ,hicr Movements, &c. KEY WEST, Pie., Thureday, Jan. 22, 1863,10 A.M. —By the arrival of the steamtug Reaney, this morn- , ing, from Havana, we learn that the rebel steamer O,eto, or Florida, Capt. Maffit, arrived at that place from Mobile,. on Tuesday night, at 8 o'clock, and was allowed to • enter and ~proceed up the harbor at once to an anchorage. I\'''one of our cruisers were there. The Oreto overhauled a schooner the day' previous to her arrival, and after plundering her of all that was desirable, fired and burned her. It is understood that upon her escape from Mo bile, she was chased by the steamer R, R. Ouyier, and would have been chased by the Oneida but 'for some misunderstanding of the signal. The Oreto passed out when not only these two ships, but the Susquehanna also, Were there present blockading. It would seem that so far as there is any luck or chance in these matters, itia all on the side of the rebels: and now, without greater vigilance, there will be another of the piratical fraternity preying on our commerce indefinitely. ! The steamer Oneida arrived here on the , evening of the .20th, and having coaled and made ready, she, with the San Jacinto,rmvill leavn this morning to Wok after the Oreto.- , . Letter from • Captain Ericsson—The Sea., going Qualities 6f the New Monitori fully Sustained, &e. • - To the Editor of The Areas: Slit: The several paragraPhs which have recently appeared on the alleged •• , unfitness of the Monitors for sea service have produced great discouragement in -the minds of loyal people. So‘sumeroue are the in- quiries called forth. by those paragraphs that it would be impossible for me to answersthe same. YOU'• will therefore much oblige me by adniitting the fol.' lowing explanation into your columns : ‘. • Theinference drawn from the fact that the Navy Department employri teamtuga to accompany and assist the Monitors ' , quite erroneous . The Secre tary of the Navy w lel incur a heavy responsibility if, at this crisis,:he omitted to adopt every precaution within his power to place the few iron- clads at his , disposal safely at the points where they are needed. In refutation of . the unfavorable opinions express ' ed in regard to the Rea-going qualities of the Moni tors, I peed onlY present the following'statements of the. commander,of.the Weehawken, the only. officer who has thoroughlptested the new system in heavy:. weather.t Extract trona a letter of Capt. Rodgers,. addrel3B9d to the Aselitant Secretary of the Navy : - • " On Tueiday,night, when off Chingoteague shoals, 'We had a Very severe gale from E. N. E., with a very heavy sea, made confused and dangerous by the proximity of the land. The waves ,I measured after the sea Oiled:- I . found, them twenty-three ' feet high • they were certainly seven • feet higher in the mids t the storm: "'During the headiest of the gale I stood'upen the turret, and-admired-the behavior of the vessel. She rose and fellto themayee, and Iconcluded then that the Monitor form had great sea-going qualities. If leeks were . pleVeLted no hurrieane could injure her. . I presume in two days we shall be ready for any service,-as we neetkno repairs and only some little • fittings." Extract from .a letter of Captain Rodgers, ad `dressed to L. Hodge, Esq. : "The gale was very severe, but my vessel behaved admirably. During the highest of the storm I stood 'en the turret *P watched her movements with great interest. They gave the impression of great safety, While water can be kept out of it as safe as a raft or a cake ofice. ' • ' I watched the motion of the vessel in the hardest of the storm I saw notbing.to improve. I believerlicould hal , e corrected any wrong tendency by shifting or i hrouting overboard weight, but I gave up. bet idea ' as 'unnecessary. The sea had great force and hold upon the hull, so as to _impede our way very- much ; but she had no drift, and goes where she looks.';. - The opinion thus expressed by Captain Rodgers, based on close obeervation at sea, effectually con tradicts all adveree statements on the subject found ed on mere speculation. . With reference to the speed of the -Monitors, I einphatically, deny the correctness of the statement' that the intended nine knots an hour cannot be at tained. Not one of the contractors—all experienced steamboat builders—objected, when signing the con tract with the. Navy Department, to warrant the rate alluded to. Nor could any well-informed en gineer hesitate, since the power of the engines is quite large, compared with the' size of the hull and immersed midahip eection, the lines being, moreover, as favorable as those of fast•sailing vessels. The overhang fore and aft present but little. resistance, owing to their sheer. • , I need onlytemind the public that Harrison Lox , log, of Boston, ier:one of the contractors who war- . ranted the nine knots, to shqw that sufficient power had beenProvidedk- The fact is that both engines and boilers ard'homewhat above the usual measure to do the work 'intended. Steam engineers need only be told that,;' while the hull of the vessel is under thirty-eight,-feet beam, with ten and a half feet 'draught - the cYlinelers are forty inches in diame ter, and that boilers contain six large furnaces, and, present nearly four thousand square feet of heating surface. The full rate will unquestionably be attained when the boilers are in proper working order, and the engineers have acquired necessary experience. Captain Rodgers having demonstrated what Monitors are as sea craft, the public will soon 'see the impregnable fleet traversing the sea coast in all weathers, unattended by steamtugs. . • Yours,'very repectfully, NEW Yeek, Jan. 28, 1863. J. ERICSSON. Has Gold Risen; or hasirredeenlable Paper Money t • To the Editor of l'he lyesB :" • Sirt.i . A writer in your paper of this morning has favored your readers with. 'a long' essay upon these questions. Ile maintaiiie that paper money has not fallen, but that gold hatfilien. I have not the lei sure to answer in full_the process of reasoning by which he hat evidently convinced himself that such - is the oak:, but I 'trust, that a few.remarks, which I desireto offer, will riot occupy too much of your space or fatigue those who read them. Your correspondentrendeavors to prove that paper has not- fallen, Ity.stating that real estate sells no !higher now tha when the standard and usual me dium of exchange.,W.as specie or its equivalent. In thisghere,,are several. things to be cone Iddered 'loirst. A ll persons who have paid any at: tention to the fluctuation of prices know that real estate _rises and falls much more slowly than per-. sonal property. Secondly.' We • are all aware that two years ago there was • a .great fall - in the price of real estate from causes entirely inde pendent of the currency.quettiori. The cutting off of the Southern trade came first; sooh afterwards, the debts.due to the commercial citieeof the North by their Southern customers were repudiated, partly by individual rascality, and partly in obedience-to laws passed to that effect in the rebekStates. Mer chants in the Southern trade were unable . to con tinue in the stores which they occupied and in the houses which they rented.- The evil extended through nearly all the commercial circles. Empty stores and houses naturally produced a fall of all rents, except those of the smallest class of houses. As the selling price of real estate depends upon the rent which ,crin ,be obtained for it, the price of real estate fell. It continued down until about six months ago, whenbusiness althiris had settled upon a new basis, which left the disloyal portions of the South entirely, out of the account, and rents now begin :,to feel the influence of the increased volume of the paper currency. If property now sells as high as it did two years ago, it shows that it has risen in six months as much as it tell in eighteen months. Your correspondent says that " Iron is wholly the product of labor, the raw materials, in their natural condition, having Pine comparative value." This is• kif-eojeradictory.;;rind if iron ote• had not some in- ••.(1-ininealue. it will strike most persons that men• -would notlikstow-any labor upon its manufacture.. Your correspondent can hardly mean that the same amount of labor bestowed upon sand or gravel as is' spent upon iron ore will prodece something as va luable as iron is. Your correspondent says that if paper money de preciates at the rate of tiny per cent. in six months, it may come to nothing in a year. Undoubtedly it may ; and it will, if poured in an avalanche upon the community. It is the destiny of all, irredeemable paper Money to come to nothing. The paper money issued by the American Colonies before the Revolu tion came to nothing. The Continental money issued during our revolution came to nothing, and the assignats and mandate issued by France during her revolution came to nothing. I need not refer to . the small notes with which Dr. Dyott and a host of savings institutions relieved our community twenty four years ago.. In answer to your correspondent's theories I will give somefack. In October 1860, having occasion to remit $lOO to England, paid that amount in specie for_ a: draft for £2O Os. 18. In July, 1862, I again had to remit $lOO to the same party, and hav ing nothing to offer but notes, not convertible into specie, I could purchase with my $lOO in paper only a draft for .£.1.7 6s 2d. Had-I to buy a draft now could not buy so large a one with paper money. If I had had gold in July last y l. think I could have pur chased a draft for as large an amount as in October, 1860. Why did not my last draft amount to as much as my firsts I think that the common sense of every reader will futnish the reply. It was because the medium in which I paid for the second draft was in ferior in value to that-in which -I paid for the first; in other words, the paper medium had depreciated. Theory gets along very comfortably when it does not .break its shins against facts. During theeus pension of specie payments by •the Bank. of Eng land, the House of Commons passed a solemn reso lution that a one-pound note and a shilling'were equal to a guinea. They might have voted that the moon was made of cheese, but that would not have altered the substance/of our satellite; and so the vote which they did pass did not alter the fact that irredeemable paper.could only purchase gold by sub mating to a discount, pfectsely as the case is now, and as it will be to the end of time. 1 am, sir, very respectfully, yours, W. D. • The League Island Navy Yard. lisataisitinto, Jan. 27, 1863. '• To the Editor of The Press i' • Sat : I en :tlose you a copy of the preamble and re solution which hayejust passed both Houses of the Legislature, withouett dissenting voice, in favor of the establishment of a navy yard at League Island. They were introduced into the Senate by Mr. Nichols, who, as the immediate representative of the district, has always manifested a deep interest in a subject so closely identified with its future prosperity and welfare. Mr.. Nichols has been made the chairman of the committee ou the part of the . Senate, and as he has associated with him in the committee two of the ablest members of the Senate, Messrs, , and Lamberton, there is every ream:lßtit hopatltat their visit to Washing ton will secure to Philadelphia that which she is so justly entitled to by her position, resources, and loyalty. It is understood that the committee will proceed to Washington, as soon as the GoVernor can spare a day or two from thelmmense weight of business that is constantlyltressing upon him. He, too, feels a deep interest in the subject, and will„do all in his power to have full juslice done to Phila delphia.. With great respect, &e., G. JOINT RESOLUTION RELATIVE TO THE ESTABLISH -?LENT OP A NAVY YARD AT LEAGUE HILAND, Whereas, The Secretark of the Navy having de cided to accept, on behalf of the Federal Govern ment, the donation by the city of Philadelphia of League Island, for the establishment of a navy yard; and, whereas, ettOrts are now being made by Con gress interfere with the action of the said Secre tary of the Navy In the premises, therefore be it Resolied, That a committee of - three members of the :Senate and live members of the House of Repre sentatives be appointed, in - connection with the Go vernor of the Commonwealth, to proceed to Wash ington'to take such action as will advance the ac ceptance by the 'United States Government of the said League Island for.a..navy yard. To the Editor of The Press: • .stl; : At a meeting of the Board of ItailwaY Brest dents held last week, a resolution was passed to raise the rate of exchange tickets, after the first of Fehru• ary, to eight cents. This is but a precursor of the next, movement, which will be to raise single fares to six cents. The attempt a few months ago to raise the fair was abandoned, in consequence of the free ex- Tression of public opinion against the extortion. hese is but one remedy for this outrage, which is to ride as little as possible. Many persons would do more service to their health and to their pockets'if they would walk more than they do. The recent elections of .a portion of the railway companies show that in the comparatively, small number of directors and officers, the same persons serve in two or three companies ; thus the same men control allthe competing lines, and work against the public. To remedy this evil, I would suggest that the citizens apply to the Legislature for the enact ment of a law similar to the one passed some years since regulating , banks, Which prohibited any one serving as a director in more than One bank at the same time. Such a law, applied- to railways,- might give the public some relief from the repeated at tempts on the part of the directors to extort from the public, ReSpectfully, A CITIZEN, HOLLYBUSH OUR IRON=CLAD NAVY, City Passenger Railways. STATES IN REBELLION. —Expectations of the Attack onVicksharg— Rebel Account of the Arkansas Post Vic tory:—Rebel Opinion of Napoleon. and the Texan Intrigue—Union Operations in North Carolina —Rebel Reports from Roseerens and Grant—Late from Charles ton. The following letter has been intercepted, and we take this method to send it to its destination. It is the first rebel account of the late victory at. Arkan. sas Post ' . . YANKEE STEAMER NEBRASKA, OFF THE POST OF ARKANSAS, : : : WednOaday, January 14 Editors Richmond Enquirer: Sena. EDITORS : The most remarkable battle Of the war has just been fought at this place. • It babe first time in the history of the war that three thousand men have resolved to make a stand against fifty. thousand infantry, with an immense .quantity of artillery and cavalry, together with a co- , !Dpertiting fleet of gunboats, carrying one hundred . guns ihad it is the first time, too, in the history of the war,lhat a land. forte has unflinchingly with stood a terrible gunboat fire for two days, lying mo tionless in the trenches, and receiving, at a distance .of: only. twoAor three hundred yards, every shell, witlikut being able to return a shot. - "Thisidand was made not because we expected to be enabled, unassisted, to hold our position, but be cause we were hourly expecting reinforcements, and Brigadier' Lieutenant General Holmes had telegraphed • Brigadier' General Churchill, commanding, to hold the position until all should be dead. ehave fought the whole 'Vicksburg 'expedition and we are now all prisoners of War ' • but not wil lingly, nor of our consent ; we have been betrayed into the hands of our enemy. . • Ciir gallant General Churchill had determined to fight, and to fight to the last, and each man had made a solemn pledge to the general and 'to each 'oilier, never to surrender, but to hold the fort until all, all ! ! should die. Every man knew that to con quer'iras impossible, but to die fighting for his coun try's honor was a glorious privilege. Oh it was a sublime spectacle to behold our eommander as he rode along that little line. of devoted heroes, the Spartan glory that was reflected from face to face; each and every man seemed to feel that it was in deed sweet to die for his country: There they stood, cheerfully awaiting 'the hour they should be called upon to yield their lives.a willing sacrifice upon the altar of their country. 'Oh.! shall I ever forget the day when I rode down the lines and looked upon those faces ! The enemy stood In their front , in line of battle, fifty thousand stiong ; one hundred guns weie approaching them by water on the right ; a large body of cavalry already encircle.dthem in the rear. But there they stood like martyre,glorying in the prospect of proving their devotion to their principles 14* yielding up their lives in maintaining them. Before that hour I never knew what, patriotism was. How dearly, how devotedly I loved my country ! I felt that each manlbefore me was dearer than a brother, , and to embrace him would be a blessing. . • -• The thunders on the right announced that the struggle had commenced. I stood and watched it with eager interest. Boat after boat approached our little fort of three guns, and hurled upon it their angry bolts of metallic fury. But thunders answered thunders, and slowly and solemnly the little fort, with its three guns, poured out its vials of wrath upon the cowardly foe clad in steel. But it was of no avail. I saw gun after gun melt away until none were left. Their boats passed us, but the fort was not surrendered, for the 50,000 had now advanced uporiour whole line in front, and the small artillery from the fort and all along our line were giving them the strength of Southern principles. Eight times they advanced upon us; as often they were repulsed, running and yelling like cowardly curs. The hattle.rages furiously. All our guns are shat tered, and every horse -is killed. But that devoted band heeds it not, for they were there to die. Their heroic general had told them in the morning: "Boys, . let us whip them, or let us all die in the trenches." and they had answered. it -with three long, loud cheers, and "General, in the trenches we will die." The struggle is renewed; the thunders of a dozen batteries- open on us in front, on the right, on the left, and in the rear. • Still that little band stands un moved, alike by the thunders of artillery as well as by the crashing of musketry. A shout is heard. Churchill, who holds a charmed life amid shower of bullets and shattering shell, raises his hat and shouts : "Boys, we are driving them ; " and dashing forward, exclaims. " Come on ! " ' and on we dashed. But alas ! my God, shall I ever forget itl A hundred flags of the hated despot were seen unfurled and floating upon the ramparts of our sacred foct, - amid the exultant shouts of a cowardly foe. Oh I can the terrible vision ever be banished from my mind] My heart sank within me. To .surrender to that flag ! No, never 1 Never I • 'We could not do it; and we did not do it. Some base traitor had denied our gallant leader the reali zation of his fondly-cherished hope ,• and when he had but begun to prove how faithful he was 'to his promise to yield his and our lives' rather than give up the fort, this craven wretch raised that symbol of cowardice, the White flag, exclaiming at the same time, "Gen. Churchill says raise the white flag." The enemy saw it, and; being near the lines, (before it could be arrested), rushed into our fort. Treachery had done its work; and the gallant Churchill, who was so lately robbed of his most coveted privileges, beheld it like a broken-hearted hero, yet sublime in his mein, and appearing like some superior being amid the multitude around him. We are now on our way to Yankeedom, but we are not conquered. •R. H. F. THE FORMER ATTACKS UPON VICKSBURG -PREPARATIONS FOR THE NEXT. [Correspondence of the Jackson Appeal.) Irlcicsauno, Jan.lo, lEk.3.—"All is quiet along the lines, ,, is now'the only item of news in and around Vicksburg. The heroic conduct of the gallant little city of Vicksburg, in beating back flee Vandal foe, has engen 'dererl a spirt) of noble daring throughout, the entire Con federacy. • Every hill- resounds with the brave and determined spirit of her brave defenders. Upon the swamps of Chickasaw Bayou the patriot gore of the gallant Southron was shed, and the enemy made to feel the prowess of Southern chivalry, and the strong arm of a people fighting for their liberties and freedom' from a thraldom which had become intolera ble. In the attempt, of reducing Vicksburg in the first siege of June and July, 1862, the enemy found him self unable to accomplish his object with the force which he brought for that purpose, and a withdrawal of his fleet, 'in order to procure reinforcements, was necessary. But upon the second attempt the eftbrt proved as abortive as at first, and although the place was beleaguered for nearly three months with ailed car rying three hundred guns, the enemy found that he had to abandon a place which so successfully withstood all leis drools. The seeond part of the play is now being enacted, and the gunboat fleet, in connection with a land arm of forty-five thousand men, has opened the performance by playing a magnificent farce, which . resulted in the loss of fifteen hundred Yankees, in cluding killed, wounded, and prisoners. Among the slain on the field of battle was one of their most be loved and chivalric generals—General Wyman, of Illinois. Again has the play come to a dead lock be fore the main part was finished, and again has the Beet drawn off, no doubt for the purpose of bringing General Grant's army down to reinforce their army here, in order to reduce the stronghold of rebeldom. If is now generally conceded here that we may look short 4/ for an attack by the combined forces of Sherman and Grant, and every preparation will be made here to re ceive them with bloody hands and hospitable graves. There is nothing so well calculated to bring forth the hidden energies. and to develop the truly great quali ties of the commanding officers, as a constant, unde viating activity at a time when work may be done undisturbed and unannoyed. Activity, energy, in dustryl and perseverance mark the character of the operations about Vicksburg. Tennessee plays a great figure in connection with the defences of Vicksburg. Her noble sons have been foremost in the fray, and gallantly did they act their Part. These noble men, who are now in a dis tant field, away from their homes, to defend the cause of right andjustice, and who possess a feeling of indelible revenge rankling in their bosoms, from a knowledge that their own homes are overrun and devastated by a Vandal foe, will never allow the enemy to set foot upon the classic hills of Vicksburg. They were among the foremost in battle, and the last to leave the ensanguined field. None are more energetic, more gallant and brave, and it is to be hoped that they may have yet another opportunity to display their valor and prowess upon the cowardly Yankees. " • • To-day being the Sabbath, the good people of Vicksburg were permitted to worship God in their own temples without molestation. The Rev. Dr. Fountain E. Pitts, colonel of the 81st Ten nessee regiment, preached arc excellent and impres sive sermon in the Methodist church, to a very large audience, composed for the major part of the sol diery. Everybody was delighted with the reverend Colonel's sermon, and he demonstrated to the satis faction of all that he is as learned'and'eloquent as .a divine, as he is brave, generous; and, noble as a sol dier. Would that our 'army' had a larger share of such material. . To-day the dark, ominous smoke of the monster gunboat fleet is again plainly visible . in .themetnity of the mouth of the Yazoo river. On Saturday heavy tiring was heard in the direction of the Yazoo, and it was ascertained to be the gunboats shelling the woods for the pur pose of driving out our iiielcets. Nothing was ac complished, save the waste of ammunition. These itinerant raids of the gunboats are the most valua ble things the enemy could do for us. They serve to keep our lines on P. constant and vigilant watch, which might not otherwise be the ease. We are thus kept always ready and prepared for their comine. . . • THE REBELS' OPINION OF, EIVIPEROR NA POLEON 111. —HOW HIS. REPRESENTA TIVES SHOULD BE TREATED, Esc. Mom the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. M. I The documents Which we publish this morning re lative to French intrigues in Texas will be read with the most profound interest by every man in this Con federacy who can read at all. It appears that two French consuls in Texas have been intriguing to se parate that State from the Confederacy, and to in duce it to place itself under the protection of France, and that, in consequence of this intrigue, both of them were expelled from the country some months ago. With whom they intrigued, or with what de gree of success, it does not appear. We do not be lieve, however, that the success could have been very great, or that the poison could have struck very deep. There hate been nP troops in this war superior to those of Texas. They have manifested their devotion to the cause in a hundred battles. Their bones whiten the plains, and their blood fattens the soil of nearly every State in the Confederacy. Among such men we cannot believe. that that there are many traitors, and it would require a majority of traitors to hand the Stale over to France. • . We shall not venture any opinion as to the conpli city of the Emperor in- this nefarious transaction. We are rather disposed to hope and believe that he had no Nut in it whatever, and that it was the un authorized act of over-zealous and unscrupulous agents. lire are unwilling to charge any human being— far less the Emperor of the French,- whom- we have been just taught by high authority to regard as our friend— with a crime so odious, atreachery so damnable; for that it is an odious crime and a damnable treachery it is Impossible to deny or• dispute. 'Look at it. A people struggling for their liberty, with a heroism .unri vaned lir the history of all time—looking upon hini with peculiar favor as their friend already, and their fu ture benefactor—ready, in the fulness of their grati tude, to shower upon him all the benefits of a com merce such as does not exist elsewhere in the world —trusting most implicitly in his honor- , -is undermined, deceit:id, and betrayed while in the very act of pour ing out its fervent gratitude for the kind feelings he is supposed tb entertain. In the whole. catalogue of crimes is Mere any blacker • than this? In the whole history of human treachery is there any one Occur rence of that character to match It'? We regret it; we will not, and we cannot, attri bute this intrigue.to the French Emperor. .ITII - as his enemies say he is, wily as-the chuckle headed statesmen of England represent him to be, we cannot bring ourminds to believe that he is wil fully and deliberately treacherous to such a degree as this. We have often taken occasion to express our con viction of the impropriety of keeping our com missioners, or ambassadors, or whatever else ;they may be termed, at the French and English courts. These revelations strengthen this conviction be yond measure. Russell, it seems, scarcely treats Mr. Masan with Me courtesy due to a private gentleman; and while Mr. Slidell is making his bows al The Tuileries, in tribucsare set on foot by subjects to detach one portion of the Confederacy from the other. They ought to beresalled at once,.and no plenipotentiaries should be sent in their place. Let them send ambassadors to us before we send any more to them. In the next place, we ought to annul every consular exequatur - in the Confede rate States. These consuls are - Mot wanted here; and to recognize their authority is to acknowledge ourselves sub jects of old Abe Lincoln. Let them be sent off at once, and not left here to plot at leisure for our destruction. THREE CENTS. EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. [From the Richmond Dispatch. Jan. 23 3 There are various rumors in circulation in regard to affairs on the coast of North Carolina, but no thing reliable as to the operations of the enemy at Newbern. It is not thought, however, that any forward movement has yet been made. The weather for several days along the coast has been excerdingly unfavorable to an advance. MILITARY OPERATIONS OP THE UNION TROOPS .(From the Eiclimond Whig,] WILMINGTON, N. C., Jan. 22, 1863. It is semi-officially reported that the enemy has bullied the bridge at Jacksonville, Onslow Court House, and retired towards Newbern. All quiet here. The vessel ashore at the mouth of New river turns out to be the schooner Dixey, from Nassau, with a cargo of salt. She was chased ashore by Yankee steamers. Her crew will be saved, though the vessel and cargo'will probably be lost. It has been ascertained that the Yankee force near Jacksonville, N. C., consists of two and a half regiments of infantry, slx hundred cavalry, and six pieces of artillery, the whole under the command of Colonel Emory. They have attempted no forward movement as yet. . MESSAGE OF GOV. VANCE, OF NORTH • CAROLINA. • (From the Richmond Enquirer, .Jan. 213 Rem:ion, Jan. 21, MS.—Governor Vance's mes sage was read to the Legislature to-day. He refers to the large force on our coast, and says every pre-. paration possible has been made to receive them. He alludes to the inefficient execution of the con script law in this State, and to the desertions from the army. By consent of, the commanding generals he proposes to issue a proclamation giving deserters thirty days to return to duty without punishment; if they fail then, the law will be vigorously applied. On the subject of arresting citizens by Confederate authority, he says : "Many have been taken up by Confederate officers, and with a spirit of courtesy and respect for State authority, turned over tome for investigation." He says he' has no power to ex amine them, and adds: "Of course I regard .it in consistent with my duty to set them at liberty with out examination. lam yet more unwilling to see them placed in the - Confederate prison at Salisbury, where the tracks of the accused alt tend in one direction, and the light of old English liberty is 'never seen." He recommends the establishment of a commis sion to investigate the charges against such persons and commit them for. trial, if sufficient cause is found. He asks for authority to call out the militia. He draws attention to the propoeition to guarantee the State proportion of the war debt, but does not recommend it. RALEIGH Jan. 22, 1863. The House has the Revenue bill ' under conside ration. The Senate is discussing the bill to raise 10,000 troops for State defence, on its second reading. A preamble disclaiming any intention to conflict with the interests of the Confederate Government was re jected-18 to 24.: - An amendment excluding from its operation those subject to conscription, and not in• terfering with existing regulations of State and Confederate Governments, and expressing no opi nion as to the constitutionality of the Conscript law, was rejected-3 tcr37. REBEL ACCOUNTS, FROM .ROSECRANS' ARMY. , . • [From the Chattanooga Rebel, Jau. 16.] Information received leads to the belief that Rose crane has not sent away any of his troops; but on the contrary has been reinforced, and is busily en gaged reconstructing the railroad, and building bridges between Nashville and Murfreesboro. A despatch of an official character has been received in this city, stating that Gen. Wheeler has just ac complished a gallant feat. Raving made a complete circuit of Rosecrane' army and gotten in his rear, he attacked with success the bridge-building corps on Mill Creek nine miles this side of Nashville. Their had just completed their work. After a brisk fire Gen. Wheeler captured the whole party, destroying the bridges, one engine, two cars, all the tools, and returned safely and soundly. Van Dorn, with a large body of cavalry, %as cross ed into East Tennessee, and is, doubtless, before this "drinking success" in that direction to a sense of their "situation." OPERATIONS OF COL. LEES UNION-TX VALRY BRIGADE. [Epecial from the Memphis (Jackson) appeal.) GRENADA, Jan. 13.—1 have received the Memphis Daily Argus of the 9th instant: It states that the Federals had made a raid into Somerville, Fayette county, Tennessee, and succeeded in capturing eight Confederate soldiers. During their stay in the town several of the Yankee soldiery behaved so outrage ously that a Captain Swoger was compelled to shoot one of them dead. During the melee some eight or ten shots were fired, one of which severely wounded a captain of the command. Col. Lee, who accompa nied the expedition, left Somerville, leaving the wounded captain in charge of a surgeon and attend ants. Richardson's Confederate cavalry subse quently occupied the town, and captured the cap- Ulm 'Rumors were prevalent in Memphis that Van Dorn was about to make another raid north. The Confederate partisans recently occupied Corner vine, burning three bridges over Wolf river t one of which is very important. The same cavalry cap tured six men of the 4th Illinois, about two hundred yards from the depot, whom they released immedi ately on parole. The capture and release was con sidered so disgraceful that the commanding officer censured the proceedings severely, and has issued an order that his men must not accept such ti release hereafter, as it is a violation of the cartel. The steamer Mueselman, bound from Memphis to St. Louis, while ashore a short distance above Mound City, engaged in repairing, Icas recently captured by the partisans. They compelled the engineers to complete the repairs, and then ran the boat up the stream, capturing a flatboat,_ twenty-eight cattle, fifty hogs, and other stores. subsequently the boat was run ashore, the stores removed, and the vessel burned. The crew were paroled. TRANSPORTS ON TRE CUMBERLAND. [From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan, 23.] ' The following despatch was received at the War Department yesterday TULLAHOMA, Jan. 21, 1863. After the capture of the transports and gunboats our cavalry made a dash for a large fleet of trans.. ports just below Harpeth. Shoals. They threw overboard their cargoes of subsistence, ordnance, and quartermaster's stores in immense quantity, and escaped by a hasty retreat. Our troops, in the midst of snow and ice, crossed to the north side of the Cumberland by swimming their horses through the angry torrent—much swollen by recent rains— routed the guard, and captured and destroyed tin'im mense collection of subsistence, just loaded for transportation to Nashville by wagons. BRAXTON BRA.G4, General: Gen. S. Cooran, Richmond. REBEL REPORTS FROM GRANT'S ARMY. [From the Richmond Enquirer, Jan. 23.] 11Ioninr, January 21, 1863. The Advertiser and Register has the following : GRENADA, January 19, 1863. Five more prisoners, captured off the transports opposite White river, arrived to-night. They re port dissatisfaction among the Western troops, and a State separation of Illinois and Indiana from the Yankee Union is freely canvassed .and favored by them. • SAILING 'OF B. • FRENCH. CORVETTE FOR NEW YORK—RUNNING TILE BLOCKADE. " " • - CHARLESTON, Jan. W, 1863. The'French corvette Milan sailed from this port for New York this morning. , Another steamer, with a very valuable cargo, has sueeessfully run the blockade, and arrived in a Con federate port. 11F.AITY SNOW STORM IN VIRGINIA. [From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 23.] Passengers by the Central train last evening report that a severe snow storm has prevailed at Staunton, Charlottesville, and other points, for the past two days. The snow yesterday morning, according to these statements, was eighteen inches deep. FUNERAL POSTPONED BY THE WEATHER. EVrom the Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 2:3. MAJOR C. R. WHEAT.—In consequence of the bad weather, the funeral of Major C. R. Wheat, which was announced to take place on the 22d. instant, is postponed , to Saturday, the 24th instant, at ten o'clock, from the Monumental Church,Hroad street. J. R. ANNAN. THE REBEL RULE IN CAPTURED STATES. [Prom the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 23.] Mr. Da an, of Alabama, offered a resolution in, the Confederate Congress yesterday that the Judi ciary Committee be instructed to inquireinto and re port what measures are necessary to secure repre sentation in this body by the States and parts of States now or at any time in the occupation of the enemy ; and that they further report what measures are necessary and proper to. preserve the constitu tional government of such' States in the bands of those who are loyal to the Confederate States. Agreed to. • WHICH LEE WAS AT VICKSBURG. [From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. 23.3 The General Lee who figured so conspicuously and effectively at the battle of Vicksburg, is Stephen D. Lee, a native of South Carolina, who was first lieute nant in the Fourth regiment of United States artille ry before our present troubles, but who promptly left that service, and cast his fortunes with his na tive South. Gen. Lee has been recently appointed to the office he now holds. He was appointed a second lieutenant in the Fourth United States ar tillery on the 12th of July, 1854. BRITISH DEMAND FOR ADMIRAL WILKES. [From Charleston papers, Jan. 12.] • • 'We learn by a private letter from Nassau that it is stated •there, upon the best authority, that the British Government has formally demanded of the United States the recall of Admiral Wilkes from his present station. Our readers will already have noticed that the English fleet in that quarter has lately been much increased. There can be no doubt that the Yankee Government will back out in this as meanly as it did in the case of the Trent. THE REWARD FOR GEN. BUTLER'S HEAD. TEN TI4OIISAND DOLLA_RS REWAILD !—$10,000! President Davis having proclaimed Benjaujin F. Butler, of Massachusetts, to be a felon, deserving of capital punishment, for the deliberate murder of Wm. B. Mumford, a citizen of the Confederate States, at New Orleans, and having ordered that the said. Benjamin F. Butler be considered or treated as an • outlaw, and common enemy of mankind, and that, in the event of his capture, the oilicer in com mand of the capturing force do cause him to be im mediately executed by hanging, the undersigned hereby offers a reward of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the capture and delivery of the said Benjamin F. Butler, dead or alive, to any proper Confederate authority. RICHARD YFADON. CirAnzEsTpv, S. C., Jan. 1. -SOUTHERN ESTIMATrON OF THE STARS AND STRIPES • Friday, 9lli' instant, was the second anniversary of that memorable event, the arrival of the Star of the West, Captain McGowan, off' Charleston har bor, and the firing of the' opening ball of the war by the gallant cadets of the Citadel Academy. This was the first overt act of cowardly duplicity and artifice on the. part of the Yankees, cunningly de vised and designed under cover of peace to provoke and force the bout!) to'an act which would give the North a pretext for a howl about " the flag." The old rag for which Yankeedom is so indignantly exercised that the offlicourings of the cesspools of European turbulence are engaged for Its defence, was never. dishonored while it was in the keeping of the South,—Couricr, Jan .12. UNKNOWN ENEMIES ABOUT. We learn that as the train from Savannah to this city was on its way, yesterday, a large log was dis covered thrown across the track, near Coosawatchie, with the evident intention of throwing the cars off' and perilling the lives of those on board. No clue of, the villainous perpetrator of this outrage has been arrived at, but a sharp look-out will be kept, and, if the guilty wretch is discovered, it may lead to summary punishment. —Courier, Jan. 6. . THE IRON-CLAD. GALENA AND THE RE BELS.--The following letter appears in the Provi dence Journal U. S. S. GALENA, NEWPORT NEWS, Jan. 1663 Last night, at about eight o'clock, the picket boat oil' Day's Point signalized " the enemy in sight" and our crew were called to quarters, the captain himself coming forward to see the thing done. The hammocks were all stowed, the decks cleared, and the battery manned In three minutes. After going up the river about three miles we saw the enemy, and fired on them, when they skedaddtcsd, though they had six vessels. We regret much that they did not come to close quarters, as the , tote is such here, that an action would, if general, result in the inevitable capture of their entire beet. The movement on their - part was, without doubt, a daring attempt at a repetition of the Harriet Lane affair, but they discovered that We WM net napping, and went back to rebeldom, THE WAR PRESS,, (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) TEE WAR Paws will be cent to esbraribere by mall (per anunzejn advance) at $l.OO Five " " 9.06 Ten " ' • 17.00 Twenty Cloples " 32.00 Larger Mute than Twenty will be charged at the same rate, $1.60 per copy. The money must always accompany the order, and in no instance can these term* be deviated from, att they afford very little more than the cog of the paper. Postmasters are requested to act as Agents for Taa WAX Paws. le" To the getter-np of a Club of ten or tweatx, fah eitra copy of the Paper will be given. IYIISCELLANEOUS. DANGERS OF EXPOSING THE LIDIBS.—A distinguished physician, who died some years since in Paris, declared, "I elieve that during the twen ty-six years I have practised my profession in this city, twenty thousand children have been carried to the cemeteries, a sacrifice to the absurd custom of exposing their arms naked." I have often thought if a mother were anxious to show the soft white skin of her baby, and would cut a round hole in the little thing's dress, just over the heart, and they carry it about for observation by the company, it would do very little harm. But to expose the baby's arms, members so far removed from the heart, and with such feeble circulation at best, is a most perni cious practice. Put the bulb of a Thermometer in a baby's mouth, and the mercury rises t 0.90 degrees. Now carry the same to its little hand; if the arms be bare, and the evening cool, the mercury will sink to 40 degrees. Of course all the blood which flows through those arms, must - fall to within .30 or 40 de grees below the temperature of the heart. Need I say, when these currents of blood flow back into the chest, the child's general vitality must be more or less compromised? And need I add that we ought not to be surprised at its frequent recurring affec tions of the tongue, throat, or stomach 1 I have seen more than one child with habitual cough and hoarseness, or choking with mucus, entirely or permanently relieved by simply keeping , its arms and hands warm. Every observing and progressive physician bas daily opportunity to witness the same cure. • FEARFUL STRUGLGLE FOR FREEDOM.— The Frankfort, Kentucky, correspondent of the Cin cinnati Ga=elfe, January 19, gives the following thrilling account of a slave-mother's struggle for freedom : " Some slave traders, from Henderson, . Kentucky arrived at the Capital Hotel on Saturday, from Lexington, where they had purchased several negroes, among whom were a woman, named Har riet, and her infant child. The slaves were placed in a basement room, for safety, as it was known that Harriet had a strong repugnance to going away, having been separated from her husband and other children. She is a large, powerful woman, appa rently about thirty years old, and possesses strong domestic instincts. About eleven o'clock, when most of the guests had retired, Harriet, with her child clasped to her bosom, dashed frantically from the basement to the ball, and finding the door locked, raised her clenched hand, and with powerful blows smashed the lights surrounding it, shivered two sections of two-inch sash, forced herself through the aperture, and, with lacerated arm and hand, streaming with blood, fled as if for life. "Subsequently she was found, exhausted from lois of blood and almost frozen, crouched in the cor ner of a stable, whither she had been traced"by her blood upon the snow. The door-sill and wall, at the Capital Hotel, are saturated with this slave-mother's blood, mute-but eloquent appeal, and there it will remain, ' for not all Neptune's ocean can wash this blood clean,' and senators and law-makers shall see it as they go and come from the legislative halls, another evidence of the instinctiVe and ineradicable love and aspiration for freedom." DIGESTION OF DIENTA.L FOOD.—In an amusing article upon the "Physicians and ,Sur geons of a By-gone Generation,' a foreign journal describes Abernethy conversing thus with a certain patient : "I opine, said he, 'that more than half your illness arises from too much, reading.' 0n my answering that my reading was chiefly history, which amused while it instructed, he replied : That is no answer to my objection. At your time of life, a young fellow should endeavor to strengthen his constitution, and lay in a stock of health. Besides, too much reading never yet made an able man. It is not so much the extent or amount of what we read that serves us, as what we assimilate and make our own. It is that, to use an illustration borrowed from my profession, that constitutes the chyle of the mind. I have always found that really indolent men, men of what I would call flabby intellects, arc great read ers. It is far easier to read than to think, to reflect, or to observe ; and these fellows, not having learned to think, cram themselves with the ideas or the words of others. This they call study, but it is not so. In my own profession, I have observed that the greatest men were not the mere readers—but the men who observed, who reflected, whofairly thought out an idea. To learn to reflect and observe is a grand desideratum for a young man. John Hunter owed to his power of observation that tine discrimi nation, that keen judgment, that intuitiveness which he possessed in a gre ater degree than any of the sur geons of his time.' TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT NEWARK, N. J. —A frightful boiler explosion took place on Wednes day morning, about eleven o'clock, at the hatchet and edge-tool manufactory of Mr. Charles A. De- Hart, No. 60 Adams street, Newark, N. J. The boiler was about twenty-two feet long, and the ex plosion shot the main portion of it, with the force of a thunderbolt, through the end of the boilerroom across a vacant lot adjoining, entirely through a building used as a soap manufactory, through a stable on the same premises, and nearly across another vacant lot, in which it was finally deposited. The engineer, who was named William Blake, was sitting near the end of the boiler, and was carried with it through the wall of the engine -room and into the soap manufactory on the next, lot. He was terribly bruised and burnt, and cannot possibly sur vive. The boiler also struck = in its passage through the latter - building, the proprietor, Mr. Miles Mur phy, who happened to be the only person in the building. Mr. Murphy was dashed to fragments by the terrible force of the blow. The boiler carried the remains of Mr. Murphy before it through the stable, when it also killed a horse, and carried the body of the animal with it in its dreadful flight. GENERAL WOOL AND THE NEW YORK MlLlTlA.—General Wool returned from Albany at a late hour on Tuesday night, having transacted all his business with Governor Seymour in relation to military matters, with perfect satisfaction to him self. The report, that it was the intention of General Wool to bring the entire militia of the State under his control, was entirely without foundation. It is now a settled fact that the General can have no con trol over the military of the State other than those who have been regularly mustered into the United States service. FORTIFYING PORTSMOUTH HARBOR. The Portsmouth (N. H.) Chronicle says that five large iron buoys have recently been placed in that har bor, between the two forts; for the purpose of moor ing an iron -clad, which will be sent to that station, to remain there until the forte are completed. Fifty laborers, with wheelbarrowe, picks, and shovels. on Monday morning last, commenced work on fortifi cations at Fort McOlary. The extension will be pushed on with all possible despatch. Work has been going on at Fort Constitution for some days past. HISTORICAL CURIOSITIES.—The New Ha ven Historical Society is getting some valuable articles in its possession. Among them is the plan of the siege of Yorktown, `a., by Washing ton and Rochambeau, in 1761, taken on the spot, together with Colonel Trumbull's diary of the siege; also, the original appeal of Governor Trumbull to hasten, up levies and recruits during the Revolu tionary war, (a document never in print.) THE HEAVY MEN OF. MAINE.—The Augusta legislators have been taking the gross weight of the twelve heaviest members, and find that it is 2.452 pounds. The whole, number of members of the house is 151, of whom fifty-seven arc farmers, ten lawyers, one editor, three physicians, three clergy men, fourteen merchants, and twelve traders. VANDERBILT DEFEA.TED.—Com. Vanderbilt has been beaten in the famous Nicaragua Transit Company suit. The sale of the ships on the Pacific bas been decided to have beenivrongfully made, and $400,000 must be refunded. The subsidy paid by the retitle Mail Company t for five months, mast also be restored. The plaintiffs really got about $1,000,000. EXECUTION OF A SOLDIER.—John 0. Brown of Shelby county, Indiana, member of a cavalry regiment, convicted by court martial of being a r -, mber of a secret political society in opposition to uie Government, will, it is said, be executed. He was tried in Indianapolis by the military autho rities.- SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.—It is said that the largest Sunday-school in the country is that of the First Congregational Church in Chicago, which has 1,153 members. Next to this comes the Lawrence school, Lawrence, Massachusetts, numbering 1,109 pupils. LAW.—Two attorneys got into a game of fist-l et/ft in the Superior Court of Chicago, some days since, and, after pummeling each other to their mu tual satisfaction, were each fined $lOO fur contempt of court, SERVANTS.When the late Dr. Beecher was first in Boston, somebody sneeringly said to him that his congregation was mostly composed of servants, "'Very well," replied the Doctor, "that's all right. They have the education of the children." PENNSYLVANIA. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.—Lieut. Ford, of Co. C, Capt. James, Provost Battalion, of Har risburg, was shot and mortally wounded, on Wed nesday last, at McConnelsburg, Fulton county, by a deserter named John Fortney. As far as we are able to learn, Lieut. Ford, with a squad of men, attempt ed to arrest Fortney, when the latter turned upon him with a rifle, and gave him - a mortal wound. Lieut. Ford is from Warren, Pa. At last accounta no hopes were entertained his recovery from the wound. A DISCOVERY.—Some time ago, as some work• men were clearing away the rubbish on the Free• mansburg island, they discovered part of a small broken bedstead, together with a quantity of bed ding, Sic., and upon removing it they found the skeleton of a small child, about live or six years old, between the covering. The body had no doubt been deposited there at the time of the freshet in June last, and was washed out of some of the houses along the line of the river. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.—An act has been read in the Legislature which repeals the act now in force relating to county superintendents of common schools. It provides for the election of a superintendent by the directors in each and every county ; but his pay is to come from the teachers or applicants for schools. Each applicant for a situa tion is to pay one dollar loran examination,whether he receives a certificate or not. DICKINSON COLLEGE. The winter and spring session of Dickinson College commenced on Thursday last, with an increased number of studeiats. We are pleased to learn that, notwithstanding the withdrawal of all the Southern students, at the commencement of the rebellion, this venerable in stitution is in a flourishing condition, and bids fair to continuelts usefulhess for many years to come. LUTHERAN CHURCH.—We receive.d a copy of the minuteg of the 21st annual . convention of the Allegheny Lutheran Synod, held at Stoystown, Pa., last September. At this Synod there were present 39 ministers and an equal number, less a few absen tees, of delegates. The .Church seems to be in a very flourishing condition. NEW DISEASE.—A new .disease, somewha,t, similar toT.cliptheria, is now prevailing among chil dren throughout the State. The medical fraternity are puzzled as to *the manner of dealing with, ,it. Ver3ofew who are taken down with it recover. The disease commences with violent purging and vomit- . ing, accompanied by fever. FRUIT-GIIOWERS , SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the Fruit-Growers' Society of Easter* Pennsylvania will be held at Brant's hotel, in Har risburg, on Wednesday, the 9th of February next, and moat probably continue in session two or three days. SILINPLASTERS.—The grand jury of,flunting don county, at the /ate term of court, presented the several persons in that county for is aing small checks as a currency, with a recommen.dation that if the checks be redeemed by the first of Aprll, no fur ther proceedings be had. A FIZZLE.—An attempted convascation of the "Democracy" at Wellsburg, on thie..Bt/Linst., the Girard Union says, proved " a laraentabid, mortify ing fizzle." The honest people have a poor opinion of mere partisan gatherings in this time of national peril. PROMOTED.—We learn thc3J+pl. Lacks, editor of the Mauch Chunk Gazette, hos been promoted to the captaincy of Company E, .132 d•• Regitoentip. by the unanimous vote of th.ocompany. Mr..T.aciats. is highly spoken of by his superior oill9Ctira, and is acs knowledged to be a brave.and officer: THE NEW RAILROAD.-The new, railroad. from Hopewell to Bedford, in Bedford. cottrtty; has been graded the distatige of twelvtamiles, awl , it is expected direct communication will be. established between Philadelphia and Bedford by the Ist oC July next. AN IMPOSTOIk.The .TehnstoWn, Sala a fellow has been traveling through portions or that: county, repreaenting himself as a general agent for the New York and Philadelphia press, and so,liciti ins subscribers for the same. sa.j without dojubt an impostor. ' RElllOy4lll.-,-,Thaeph Gardner; for several years past postmaster at Rlacielick, we learn hag been re, moved, and Robert Duncan appointed in his place, We ?. Pet aware Of the OaUle aM4 41.11,41141
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