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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. • •
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RETAIL DRY GOODS.
CA: ERE
CLOTHS, LININGS; &c.,
Comprising a large and complete stock of goods for
MEWS AND BOYS' WEAR.
THE TRADE SUPPLIED AT iREASONABLE PRICES
COOPER ik CONARD,
.ia24 S. E. CORNER pmstr# AND MARKET STS
p ‘ P LE ND ID STOOK' ON HAND.-
AU the beat makes of Cation&
All the best makes of Meeting.
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
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A NOVEL. BY MISS ,111. E. BR.4DDON,
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CLOTH 75 CENTS, PAPER 50 CENTS
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that have made their appearance in the literary world
for the past two or three years, and the furore it has
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Victor Hugo's Les Miserablm. .
Published by
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tions. English and American style of binding.' Com
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LONDON EDITION NOW READY.
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-
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MEDICAL AND SCIENTIFIC BOOKS
Always on hand at low prices. .
LINDSAY & BLAKISTON,
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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
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Five " "
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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,
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