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THE Pitir:;Nb.
PUBLISHED DAILY (SUNDAYS EXCIJEIND3
BY JOHN W. FORNEY,
07FICE, No. 11l 60711( FOURTH STUNT
THE DAILY PRESS,
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ran ANNOY. Pone DOLLARS FOR Srx Slovrne, TWO DOER
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Ime ordered.
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tines constitute a square.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Mailed to Subeeribere ant of the City at FOUR. Dor,
TARS PER AIMUM, lu adVallee.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
GRIGG & HARMSTEAD,
No. 21 STRAWBERRY STREET,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
For the stile of
FOREIGN.AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS
OUR SPRING STOCK IS NOW AR.
RAlsc no
80,000 DOZEN
la OSIER Y,
AT LOWER PRICES THAN PRESENT COST OF DI
PORTATION
TLTOS. MELLOR & CO.,
ID AND 4% NORTH THIRD STREET,
jOHN T. BAILEY 54 CO.
ZAGS AND, BAGGING
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
N 0.113 NORTH FRONT STREET,
14274 m PHILATIFILPItIA.
FHIL ADELPHIA
"BAG"
MANUFACTORY
BURLAP BAG S, OF ALL SIZES,
FOR CORN. OATS, COME. BONE.DUST, &e.
SEAMLESS BAGS,
lZ i standard makes, ALL SIZES, for sale cheap, for net
Rash on delivery
GEO. GRIGG.,
N0..219 and 221 CERJR.OII ALLEY.
COTTON YARN.
SUFBEIOIt COTTON YARN, No. 10,
YOB SALE BY
GB AM
oct2r-tt
SHIPLEYS HAZARD, &
lIU TAO HIN SON,
, No. I.IM CABSTNIIT STREET..
OOMMISBION MERCHALNTB
FOR THE SLLE OP
PRILIDELPHIA-MADE. GOODS
seDlem
CLOTHES-WRINGERS.
THE
GREAT OLOTHES WRINGER.
"PT_TTNAIYI
44 SELF-ADJUSTING CLOTHES WRINGER"
Is warranted to-be superior to any other to use.
EVERY FAMILY SHOULD POSSESS A
CLOTHES WRINGER.
BIWATIBB,
let, It to a relief to the hardest part of waahlnirday.
St It enables thewashinst to be done in one-third leas
Itinf. 611,V0S clothes from the Injury always given by
trrt
4th. A II helps to wash the clothes as well as dry them.
WE BELIEVE IT ADVISABLE TO FBOOLIRE
ONE OF THIS KIND,
HICOAVEIN,
Final. The rolls being of vulcanized rubber, will
tear hot and cold water, and will neither break nor teat
mg buttons.
Snow..no .frame being of iron, thoroughly Rai.
ortiteed, all danger trainrust is removed, andthe lin.
%Silty to shrink, swell, split, &c,, so unavoidable in
wooden machines , is prevented.
Tutsm. The spiral springs over the rolls render this ma
gabble eelf•adjusting, so that small and large articles, as
, well as articles uneven in thickness, are certain to re
mace uniform pressure,
FOURTH. The patent fastening by which the machine
ft tightened to the tub, we believe to be superior in aim-
Vichy and efilciency to any yet offered.
Firrs. It will •fit any tub, round or agnare, from 'me
i:calf to one-and-a-quarter inches in thickness, without
she least alteration. •
RETAIL PRICE:
No. 1. $6.00' No. 2110.00
xr- Agents wanted In every county.
* Reliable and energetic men will be liberally dealt
'Ott:
For Sale at the
"WOODENViABE ESTAI3LIMOCENT"
A. H. F.RAINTOASp:(7 . I3; • ,
A0..538 NABBBT St TriNagurs - rixtres» —
.ial&tuthe tmhB Who%Rale asirothr ihiss4shs
WILL/AM YARNALL,
DUMP. IN HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 1020 CHESTNUT STREET,
Afeireet for the sale of HALEY, NORSE, & BOYDEN'S
PATENT SELF-ADJUSTIN.O
, CLOTHES-WRINGER,
Believed to be the best CLOTHES-WRINGER in use.
It will wring the largest Bed Quilt or smallest Hand
kerchief drier than can possibly be done by hand, in
very mush less time.
N. B.—A liberal discount will be made to dealers.
n03,8m
SEWING MACHINES.
S TILL THERE!
Al! THE .OLD 'STAND,
628 CHESTNUT STREET.
'Second floor, opposite Jayne's Hall,
WHEELER (fic• WILSON
SEWING MACHINES.
The undersigned has not removed, but is ready at hie
Old Office to supply customers, at the lowest prices, with
%very style and quality of
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES.
Machines to hire; also, with first-olass operators, to
private families and hotels, by the day,
Machine (ditching done at short notice, in any quantity.
Diachines repaired and operators taught
de2s3m MERRY COY.
SINGER'S
SEWING MACHINES,
.for Family Sewing and Manufacturing '
Slo CHESTNUT STREET.
iala Sra .
THE WILOOX dc. GIBBS
TAMM A Y
SEWING MACHINES
iutyabeen greatly improved, making it
ENTIRELY. NOISELESS,
end with Beltadinsting Hemmers, are now ready ibreale
by FAIRBANKS & SWING,
se27-tf 715 affirsTrtirr Street.
DRIIGS.AND CHEMICALS.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO.,
- Northeast Corner Yoarth and LACE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
/011711021 AND .DOMSTIO
WINDOW ANDPLATE GLASS.
itiNOPAOTORENI OP
IiVHITZ LEAD AND ZING P.AUNTS, PITITY, &a.
AGINNTB 70i1 Tan MILIBILMD
FRENCH ZINO .P4INTEL
Dolor and consumers eudddled at
tonitok •• TM LOW MOBS YOB CASH.
VA :3 0,1 41:ALir,i:I
CABIN CUED E n ..NITIJRE L•
AND .:BI
MOORE & CAMPION,
No. 201 South SECOND street
an connection with their extensive Cabinet Sitebiena an
now manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES.
',end have now on hand a full supply, finished with the
1110 OR & CAMPION'S IMPROVEM CUSHIONS, which
am pronounced by all who have used them to be nor+
trior to all others,
For the Quality and finish of these Tables the manu
facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout
Uhe Union. who are familiar with the 0 lutraoter of their
'Work. au2343m
eCiRNELIUS & BAKER,
THAMA&IDBERS OP
LAMPS, CHANDELIERS,
OAS FIXTURES, dm. , •
STORE, 119 CHESTNUT ST.
31,011.1 FACTORIES. • •
en CHERRY Street. and FIFTH and .60LONIHA.
Ja23.lm • 'Attune.
A .. OIPENHEIMER,
No. J. Cana( Alley. Philadelphia,
CONTRACTOR AND MANUFACTURER OF
ARMY CLOTHING
Of Eyery Description.
ALSO,
HAVERSACKS,
PONCHOS,
CAMP BLANKETS,
KNAPSACKS, and
BED TICKINGS YON HOSPITALS.
MATERIAL BOUGHT FOR CONTRACTORS.
All goods made will be a narantleti regulation la size
N. B. Orders of any size tilled with deepatob. ja7-3in
6 OASES, 30-INCH ELACKBTONE
UMBRELLA CLOTHS.
For sale bi MATTHEW BINNEY'S SONS.
Jar BOSTON. Mau.
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VOL. 6.-NO. 158.
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
cASSI - MERES,
CLOTHS, LININGS, &0.,
Comprising a large and complete stocls of goods for
MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR.
L DPPLI .T : t
COOPER & CIONARD,
ja24 S. E. CORNER NINTH. AND MARKET STS
some tuAvelaterations we are making our
Store the Store will be CLOSED on Wednesday, 'Mars
dt r,Friday, and Saturday.
AIM MONDAY next, the sth, we shall OPEN with a
large Stock of DRY GOODS, and, as they worn purchased
previous, to the very great rise, we are enabled to offer
inducements to those m want. •
EDWIN NALL si CO.,
2,6 South SECOND Street.
MUSLIN& BELOW THE MARKET
-"-L. PRICES. --We have a largo Stook of Bleached and
Brown MUSLIMS, of all widths and qualities, at prices
from 2 to 5 cents per yard under the case price of the
Among the stock will be found New York Mills, Wil
liamsville, Wanisutta, Torresdale, Allewagen, and
every approved make..
Country Storekeepers will save by an examination:
Linen goods at old prices.
• R. D. & W. U. PENNELL, -
re 2 • 1021 MARKET Street. •
CLOSING OUT WINTER STOCK AT
AND ENDER COST PRICES.-
-
Saxony Plaids and Pail De Chevres, at 20 Me
Best American Delaiues, at 29 eta.
All imported Dross Goods at cost prices.
These goods are all really cheaper than Calicoes.
Plain Silks, rich colors. •
-
Small-figured Corded Silks, solid colors.
Ph in and danced Black Silks.
- Very heavy Gro Grain Black Silks.
Rich stylos Fancy Silks..
All of these goods are at last fall's prices.'
Pretty styles Fancy Silks, 56, 65, 70
Plain Black alpacas.
.Single and double-width Block All-woolDelaines.
Plain Black Morinoes, Cashmeres, and: Reps. -
All at last Gill's prices.
English, Merrimac, Cocheco. Sprague, and all the
best makes of Prints in the market.
Pillow Case, Sheeting, and Shirting . Muslins, Nil-'
liamsville and other approved makes.
9 , 8 Waltham and Peeasset, Loyman, unbleached,
all at less than the agent's case prices.
North TENTH ON,
fe2 'Nos : 713 and 715 street.
SPLENDID STOOK ON HAND.-
All the beet makes of Calicoes.
All the best makes of Muslin&
All the bestmakes of Linens.
All the best makes of Sheetings.
All the best make a of Napkins.
Together with Towels, Crash, Diaper Fluoltabamit, Bird
ETC, "Burlap, Sm. Sze.
"H l litte Cambric and Jaconet, full line. .
Nainsoeks and Plaid Muslims, full line.
...Winter Goods closing out.
Shawls, iliertnoes, closing out,
Balmoral Skirts, all prices.
Silk and Linen Hdkfs, nice assortment. At
JOHN 11. STORES',
71212 AMR Street.
EDWIN HALL & BRO.,
26 South SECOND Street.
Rave reduced the pricestot
Fancy Silks.
Rich 'Printed Dress Goods.
. Choice Shades of Merinoes,
Beautiful Colors of Rape or Poplins,
All-Woo] De L 101143 51
All kinds of dark dress goods reduced.
Also,
Pine Long Broche Shawls,
On Centre Long Cashmere Shawls.
Rich new styles of Blanket Shawls.
4 , 1 Lyons Silk velvets. pare Silk. •
0 tw-Palov6wctlioazior43w4
E. M. NEEDLES.
LINENS, •WHITE GOODS, LACES,
EMBROIDERIES.
A fell fumertment always on hand at LOW
P.RICES.
Just received, lace-trimmed Embroidered and
Mourning Muslin Bows and Nock-Ties, for the
house and street. Also, all-linen Hemstitched
Handkerchiefs, at 15 cents.
Also, all descriptions of Linen Handkerchiefs,
for Ladies, Gents, and Children, at
WHOLESALE PRICES. i aE4I
1024 CR'ESTNST STREET
D RY GOODS FOB WINTER.
Rep. Poplins.
Wrench Merinos,
Colored !donatelines,
Foist De Soles.
Foulard Silks,
Blanket Shawls,
Balmoral Skirts,
Black Silks,
Fancy Silks,
Black Bombazines,
Worsted
Cheap Detainee.
French Chintzes,
Shirting Flannels,
Broohe Shawls,
Fine Blankets.
Crib Blankets.
_ SHARFIMEI BRO.THiItI9,
zIOIXSTNUT and EIGHTH Streets,
WELLI.,&.ELEIV-11.321;39 ; -: , --W,LII.S.TTAB;
York Premiums, Forestdales. •
Edward Harris, Bay Mill, and
Other good makes Shirting%
• 10-1 Utica, Waltham and Pepperell Shootings.
FINE LINENS
- At nearly old prices.
Cheep Damask Cloths. Power-Loom Linens,
Good Napkins, Fine Towels and Doylies.
BLACK ALPACAS,
Fine Colored Alpacas,
Prints, Delatnes, Cheap Reps. .
All-wool Repe at Cost.
Balmorals—Good Skirts, full size, $3.
. Closing out Winter Cloaks and Shawls.
Closing out Boys' Winter Clothing.
COOPER & COWARD,
ja24-11 B. illtorner NINTH and MARKIIT Streets.
F : YRE & LANDELL, FOURTH AND
•A-a ARCH, hare a line Mock of
GOODS FOR FAMILY CUSTOM.
Good Large Blankets.
Good Linen Sheeting&
Good Muslin by tbe pieoe.
Good Unshrinking Flannels.
Good Fast Colored Prints.
Good Table Linen and Towels.
Good Quality Black Silks.
Good Assortment Colored Silks. jal
B LACK SILKS.—BESSON & SON,
Mourning Store, No. 918 CHESTNUT Street, have
pened a new stock of
BLACK SILKS,
• Including all the 'Mailable makes and dries, from $1
o M O a yard.
•
Black Alpacas, to 623 S sante.
Black glossy Mohair's, 50 cents to $l.
Black•all wool Housselines, 55 to 50 cents.
Do do do double widths, 75 cents to $1.76.
Do Englieh and French Bombazines.
Do Empress Clothe, Baratheae and Tnrlus.
Do Thtbet Long and Square Shawls, Ste. ,dl
'EYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH AND
ARCH. always keep a fine stock of
Staple Household. Goods.
Jab Beat Ulmthis, Linens, and Flennels.
EYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH . AND
ARCH, always keep a full lino of
• Mourning Shawls.
Jab Fashionable Shawls. •
LQa :
606. ARCH STREET
. • 606.
FINE SHIRT" .AND WRAPPER EMPORIUM
Full Assortment of
GENTS' FURNISRING GOODS,
IN GREAT NWUBTY
SUPERIOR QUALITY. AID . AT MODERATE MC
G. A. HOFFMANN+
Successor to W. W. KNIGHT.
Goo atcal gram. 606.
id-stath So
THE•FINE_SHIRT EMPORIUM,
doe:111i 3 NORTH SIXTH STRUT.
JOHN C. ARRISON,
(FORIERILLY J. BITER 310010.)
IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
IN GREAT VARIETY AND AT MODERATE PRICER.
N. B.—Partietdar attention given to the malting oft Skirts,
Collars. Drawers, &
FINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber would Invite attention to his
IMPROVED CUT OP SHIRTS,
Which he nukes a upeetalti in Ida business. Also, con
!tautly receiving,
NOVELTIES' FOR ORNTLEMPIt'S WEAR.
J. W. SCOTT, •
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE,
No. 81 . 4 ORESTNUT STREET,
ial74 • Four doors below the Continental.
VAR S ON'S
•-• SCOTCH-PATENT
SILVER-CLEANING POWDER,
Warranted free from acid, and the iname as need in the
houses of the nobility and gentry of Scotland. It Is un
e_qualled -for cleaning Gold and Silver Plate, Looking
Glasses, etc. Prepared by A. H. CARSON, waiter, from
a recipe given me by the head butler to the Duke of
Athol.
For sale by
.11AZ.4.RD & CO. Twelfth Twelfth and Chestnut streets,
I. TOWNSEND, Thirteenth and Chestnut streets,
T. BLACK 1401 Chestnut streets,
W, H, NAIiLTY 1800 Chestnut street,
J. CLARK. Fifth' and Prnue streets
And wholesale by WILLIAM' 1204 CHBST
NUT Street and
CASWELL, HACK, & CO., Chemists. ,
Fifth-Avenue Hotel, New York
And Thames street, Newport, R. L
All orders addressed A. H. CARSON, Western Sub Poet
Ottice.Philade/Phia. ' 4 " la24tuths2rn
on ARCH STREET.
0. A. VANKIRK & 00.
Have on hand a fine assortment of
CHANDELIERS
AND OTHER
GAB FIXTURES
Also, French Bronze Figures and Ornament; Porcelain
and Idiot Shade; and a variety of
FANCY GOODS .•
WHOLESALE AND. RETAIL.
Please call and examine goods. dein,
VELLEVOIBDI BRANDY.-AN IN
VOICE. In Bond. for sale by
CHAS. S. & JAS. bARSTAIRS, " 4 1
jade N 0.126 WALNUT and 211. GRANITE Sta.
rEAMPAGNE.-AN INVOICE OF
•-• Yin liaperlal,jost received per ship Robert Oneti
me'', and for gale by JAIIRRTOHB & LAYRRORR.
Roo. tdo2l and 2104 South FRONT Street-
gift
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1863
:Loyalty and Disloyalty.
To the Editor of The Press:
SIR c IWuch indignation is, we are told, feigned or
felt in certain quarters, and Menially by the distin
guished biographer, diplomatist, and politician, who
writes for the editorial columns of the Evening Jour
nal, that an association should have been formed in
this city to disseminate and maintain loyal feeling,
and discouragp and rebuke disloyalty by all proper
efforts in public and private. Is this because dis
loyalty is not, in the opinion of the Journal and its
editors, a vice and danger? Or, because Philadel
phia is so peculiarly fortunate at this period of in
surrection and revolt, of Southern rebels and North
ern sympathizers, as to have no disloyal men within
her borders? . H. •
The formeeproposition will hardly be maintained,
as yet, even by the Journal the latter would begood
newa, indeed, to all loyal ears, if it were not, un-'
happily, too - good to be true. The articles to which
we have referred strive to convey the idea that De
mocracy has been confounded with disloyalty ; that
a party line has been drawn, and one portion of so
ciety arrayed against the other. In support or this
assertion, the Journai speaks of "the discreditable
conduct of one of our banks, in turning out soli
citor, because he is aDiniocrat—a bank, too, which
has prospered on - Dern*: atic favor, and will, ere
Yong, be begging for Democratic patrenage." Does
not the Journal know that if one Democrat was'
turned out, he was replaced by another, and that the
removal cannot, therefore, have been
.caused by
party polities, or the wish to assail men on party
grounds?
The
The fidelity of the great mass Of the Democracy to
their country ought to be kliown to the Evening
Journal, by the best of - all proofs, the difficulty which
has been experienced in turning them aside from the
path ofduty, and overcoming their. attachment to
the national cause. But, while the MUMS are, or
wish to be, sound—while the hearts of some of their
leaders bent as - strongly for the Union AB of old, there
are ethers who are false to every principle that can
save the nation inthe present crisis—who are eager to
complete the work of 'disorganization which the
South has begun, and destroy what remains of the
fabric of one national greatness. These men seek to
sow dissensien and distrust in every quarter—to
persuade each part of the country that it will
be abandoned by the rest—to separate and distract
all, until:the whole shall fall an easy prey into the
hands of the Southern oligarchy. The West is told
that unless it takes the initiative in desertion, she
will herself beabandoned . by the Middle States, and
her way barred to the Atlantic; while" the Middle
States are elsewhere in their turn assured that the
West will leave them and make her own bargain for
the Mississippi. The Press of Monday contains a
letter from the pen of Mr. E. W. Hughes, professedly
Intended to warn his fellow-citizens here that they
cannot keep the West without prostrating them
selves at the feet of, the South, and excluding New
England from the Union if she will not join in the
humiliation; but really meant to inspire jealousy
between East, West, and North, in order that seces
sion may at lasttriumph over the Union and. Con
stitution.
Peace with the rebellion—peace at any price first—
the disorganization of the North next—and, finally,
their own triumph—is the programme of these con
spirators; and they are ready to do and submit to
anything to attain their object. The worse that
peackis, the harder-its conditions, the greater the
shame, the better it will suit the end in,vlew, by ren
dering the condition of the people here so intolerable,
that they will be ready to adopt the views and sub
mit to the designs of Mr. Hughes and his associates.
For,
unhappily, -Mr. Hughes is not the only la
borer in this scheme of treason, which, though not
yet able and ready to strike, is sufficiently bold and
audacious to proclaim its expectation that the hour
will soon arrive when the stars and stripes shall be
replaced by the flag of the Confederates, the Ameri
can nation become a thing of the past, and its place
be filled by a multitude of States struggling with
each other for empire or existence, making sordid
compacts to-day which will be broken to-morrow,
and all hastening on the downward path which leads
through anarchy and intestine war to military
despotism.
The proofs of this do not consist only in the letter
of Mr. Hughes, or the attempt which he made, two
years ago, to induce the Democratic party to assist
in breaking up the Union. They He, all around, and
he must be blind, or resolutely determined to close
his eyes, who does not see them. No one among
them, perhaps, is more striking, or fraught with
more past and prospective evil, than the resolution
prepared by Dlr. William B. Reed, and adopted at
his instance and that of other politicians of the same
school, at the Democratic meeting held on January
17th, 1861, to neutralize the effect of one which-had
been convened, without distinction of party, a short
time before, to sustain lirajorAnderson la the course
which he hnd adopted of placinghis command within
the walls of Fort Sumpter.
Witify_to .11Bei Mr. Reed's. own lan
guage, " adoptctrwntr
fe aa follows:
•
Resolved, That in the deliberate judgment of the
Democracy of Philadelphia, and so far as we kdow
it, of Pennsylvania, the dissolution of the Union by
the separation of the whole South—a result we shall
most sincerely deplore—may release this Common
wealth from the bond@ which now connect it with
the Confederacy, and would authorize and require
its citizens, through a Convention to be assembled
for that purpose, to determine with whom their lot
shall be cast: whether with the North and East,
whose fanaticism has precipitated this misery upon
us, or with our brethren of the South, whose wrongs
we feel as our own, or whether Pennsylvania shall
stand by herself, ready, when occasion o ff ers, to bind
together the broken Union, and resume her place of
loyalty and devotion.
This extraordinary doctrine, that the secession of
the South would put an end to the Union here, free
Pennsylvania from her allegiance to the United
States and authorize her citizens to side with the
alien Government established by Jefferson Davis,
against the glorious Constitution framed and be
queathed by Washington, Hamilton, and Madison,
was indignantly repudiated not long afterwards by
the great body of the Democracy, at the memorable
uprising of all parties which followed the capture of
Volt Sumpter, and showedhowlittle politicians,who
have outlived their hearts, can judge of the effect
which great events will produce on the hearts of
others. But though rejected by the people, it was
never disavowed or retracted by its authors. It still
lay as an anchor to windward, a proof, if the South
should in the end be triumphant, that they had al
ways been true to its cause, and were entitled to re
ceive from its hands those rewards which are most
coveted by such political martyrs.
Accordingly, no sooner did the National Star
begin to lose its ascendency in the disasters of last
summer than this illomened resolution was dragged
from the oblivion to which it had willingly been
consigned by all good citizens. Its disorganizing
doctrines were avowed and defended in a so-called
"Vindication" and the people of this Common
wealth again impliedly told that all 'national obli
gation was at an end, and the people of each State
free to choose between the United States and the
" Confederacy:: What that choice should be was
not left to conjecture. The Confederates were de
scribed as our injured brethren, whose wrongs were
our own; those arrayed in support of the National
Government as fanatics engaged in' an unjust war,
who had brought all this evil to our door. Is it
possible to conceive of anything more insidious,
more seditious more disloyal, than such a "Vindi
cation"of dis loyalty, in the midst of the struggle
which the American people are now making for
their existence as a nation)
To understand this fully, we must remember that
the Confederate Government is not only revolu
tionary, but alien; :that its avowed purpose-is to
establish a new and distinct nation,
which, when
recognized as Mr. Reed would have it, will be as
foreign to ourselves and our children as France or
England. It will deal with us as selfishly and harsh
ly as if it was not of the same race and language ;
will, as it does now, confound all Northern men in
one common epithet of contempt and execration, as
" Yankees," and know no distinction between the
farmers of Pennsylvania and the merchants and
manufacturers of New England. Yet at the outset,
while the South was, according to the author of the
"Vindication," still hesitating, before blood had
.been shed or. any irrevocable tep taken, she was
encouraged to go on by the assurance that
this Commonwealth was ready to join her in
the path of revolution; and this encouragement is
now more or less covertly reproduced and repeated
at the height of the struggle, and when the fate of
the nation, perhaps for centuries, is trembling in the
balance. The example of Mr. Fox is cite' .in the
• "Vindication" to show that a war may be censured
as unjust or inexpedient without a violation of the
duty which we owe to our country. No one can
dispute this proposition; but did that great orator
ever seek to inflame one section of his country
against another while engaged in a struggle with a
common foe? Did he ever try to induce Scotland or
Yorkshire to cast Its lot with revolutionary or im
perial France, or intimate that if the legions of Na
poleon crossed the channel they would find friends
and adherents in Liverpool and London?
Would the English people have suffered such in
vidious comparisons, as those which have recently
appeared in the Evening Journal, to be drawn be
tween their own. Government and that of France,
for the purpose of aiding the latter in the work of
cdnquestt Some of the persons who are now
loudest in vindicating the Journal were vehement
three years since against the Mayor of this city, for
not preventing Curtis from lecturing on a lite
rary subject, because he was suspected of being an
Abolitionist, and interposing the shield of the law
between him and the mob. Does the freedom of the
press lie nearest to the heart of these people, or the
desire to subvert the freest Government that exists
upon the earth? Can anything be more painful
than the spectacle of a great pation, compelled by
the excesses( of its own citizens, to choose between
the dangers inseparable from restraining the free
dom of speech, and the still greater dangers to
liberty and independence resulting from its licmsel
Arguments deduced from considerations of nation
al honor and addressed to patriotism, can have but
little weight with men who think.serio asly of turn
ing their backs on New England, on Bunker Hill,
and Lexington, to clasp the hands yet staine&with
the blood of the New England men and Pennsylva
nians, who fell at Antietam and Fredericksburg.
But the scheme of Mr. Hughes isnot less contrary to
practical good sense, than to morals and right feeling.
The lakes, the great canals, and railroads, leading
from the Northwest to the •seaboard, are in the
hands of New York and Pennsylvania, and with
them the keys of the Union. Not one-fifth part
of the exports of the Western States finds its
way to the Gulf of Mexico ; the rest takes the
direct route to Europe, over the eastern lines of
communication. Much as the West desires and
values the Mississippi, she would, if compelled
to choose between the friendship of the Middle
States and that of the Southwest, prefer the former
as in every sense the more beneficial. While the
men of New York and Pennsylvania remain true to
the Union, we may feel sure that the Western men
will cot leave it. Besides, no calculation can be
safe, even in a commercial point of view which
fails to take account of moral andintellec
tual influences. Trade requires security ; to be
placed upon a basis free from sudden and violent
iMg-tapi
changes. An indispensable prerequisite to our
forming a stable union with the. South, is that the
South should confess itself insincere in • all that it
has said and done 'during the last three years and
consent to unite with us. We shall . In. vain sue
for their favor, if they see in. our suppliant
and humble attitude fresh occasion for the display
of the ingratitude and Arrogance with which they
broke all connection with their beat friends at the
North. But even if this difficulty were overcome by
allowing the Confederacy to dictate its own terms,
and inducing a majority of the people here to accept
P FHLAD ELP a LA. THURSDAY, _FEBRUARY 5, 1863.
them, the breach would only be salved over, not
healed; there would still remain a powerful minority,
ready on the first reflux of popular opinion to swell
again into a majority, and disown the bargain into
which the country had temporarily been betrayed.
The voters of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio
would el ill be the same men who elected Mr. Lincoln
by an overwhelming majority in answer to the
course of intimidation and fraud pursued in Kan
sas. To leave the comparatively firm ground on
which we now stand, and destroy the Government
of the United States, under which we have so long
prospered, in the hope of constructing a better one
under such auspices, and out of such incongruous
materials, would be the wildest and most impractica
ble of all speculations, and do as much discredit to
the heads of those who engaged in it as to their
hearts. Such safety as there is for us—and It will
be our own fault if it is anything less then entire—
must be sought in drawing the ties that bind us to
gether, which had been relaxed in the sunshine of
prosperity, closer as the increases, and re
membering that every star that still shines in our
flag is more valuable tor the absence of those which
we have lost.
That disloyalty exists, and surrounds us like a
miasma, vitiating the purer air, is only too true, and
it is not lees sure that if the war which we are now
waging for the restoration of the Union as it was,
shall prove unsuccessful, we shall be plunged into
another for the defence of the Union which now is.
Let no man imagine that if commissioners from
Washington and Richmond were to meet on the
• banks of the Rappahannock, and arrange terms of
separation, giving . us all that we still hold, Mary-.
land, Western Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and
New Orleans the pains of war—taxation, conscrip
tion; uncertainty for the future, would be over, and
the blessings of peace at hand.
They might perhaps, indeed, be ours, if we were
like other and more fortunate countries, of which
we read—like England, France, or Russia, where the
idea of partition or dismemberment could not be
suggested by the worst and most desperate revolu
tionist, during the wildest period of faction, without
accumulating a cloud of odium around his head, and
exposing him to destruction at the hands of his own
followers. Weshould, it may be said, be great in terri
torykpowerful in arms, abounding in resources, after
the smith' was gone ; while the right to descend the
Mississippi might be secured by material guarantees,
or its loss Compensated by the railroads, lakes,
and canals, leading directly from the West, through
the Atlantic States, to the great marts of Europe.
But, Mr. Hughes and his coadjutors will not suffer
this to be, will not allow us to look forward to re-,
pose and unity, even if we take their advice and re
cognize the Confederacy. They look at the Consti
tution and read in it Secession, the right to exclude
States, and of States to depart at pleasure, and are
unable to perceive that there is a moral obligation,
where our country is' in question, prior and para
mount to, positive law. '
• The terrible lesson of the last Mr years is, that
whatever constitutions or their interpreters may
say about the right to break up a nation at pleasure,
there is a natural law which cannot be disregarded
with impunity, that will, like all natural-laws ,
avenge its violated authority on all who will not
understand and obey its mandate. Better might a
parent turn his child out. of doors, or a child refuse
shelter or maintenance to a parent, because no
statute had enjoined the duty or forbidden the
crime, and hope to avoid the results that -flow from
wrong, than a people expect to find happiness and
safety in the course which these men advise ; for
men may escape the temporal consequences of guilt
by death, while nations always survive long
.enough to feel the retribution due to their own mis
conduct. Thus far the North has avoided the sin of
the South, has refused to admit the mischievous
doctrine that a people, one in race and in language,
substantially one in religious faith, separated by no
natural line of demarcation, can dtsmember their
country without a violation of natural and moral
right, even if they violated no legal obligation. So
far, too, the North has escaped the., greater part of
the Buttering, which the South hashed to endure, has
been 'tranquil, prosperous, united, and, save in the
loss of its children who have fallen while fighting
for its cause, free from all the worst evils of war. •
If it perseveres to the end in the path of honor
and duty; if the fire in which it is now glowing, and
the blood shed in common on so many battle-fields,
shall weld and harden the Northern States indis
solubly into one people, then the war will be, in the
truest sense, successful, even if we fail in regaining
the whole South. It is not the extent of territory
that makes the true greatness of a nation, it is
united and harmonious councils, a common send- -
meat of duty, that submission of each and every
part to the will of the whole, by which law displaces
violence, and order grows out of confusion. But
if we become, when the war is at an end, what
the doctrines of Mr. Calhoun and his disciples
would make us, a mosaic of fragments, a country to
which no man can wisely give his affections, because
no man can tell how soon it may be resolved into its
I constituent elements by the magic wand of an ordi
wince of secession ; if our first and highest thought,
our sole bond of union is to be the consideration by
what route each section can best reach a market, or
where it can most advantageously sell its wares ; if
this is to be from time to time determined by con
ventions, called and voting under those influences of
• force andfrand, which are even now arising like exh
fallow from the ground, at the voice olfaction ; if the
choice of to-day can be recalled to-morrow, at the
prompting of popular caprice or political ambition ;
lf, in short, the tie which should bind the members
of a nation as indissolubly together as those of a
family is to be exchanged for a series of alliances,
such as Mr. Hughes proposes, discord and confusion
will take the place of the tranquility that has pre
vailed hitherto, and help must be sought from above,
for there would be little here below. Civil war
would probably follow, and a state of suffering en
sue, far greater than that which we have seen at the
South, because the struggle would be, not between
different sections, but from county to county, from
township' to township, perhaps from street to street.
If Schuylkill, Lehigh, Berke, or Montgomery, could
indeed be brought to sanction an ordinance declaring
' that the Union that now binds us together is de
stroyed, the outrage would, we may feel sure, be
iodated by Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, and
Allegheny. The city of New York might be ar
rayed at the same time against the State, by a
renewal of the conspiracy which is known to have
existed in the spring of 1861. Confederate troops
might be called in on one side, those of New England
on the other, and the whole result in a contest fought
out with the characteristic obstinacy of the Anglo
axon, of which no man now living would
se•the
4E lT kt2 l 3VYtNiJitrlr i tl ii
may endure when the contest is not confined to indiL
viduals,and lies between organized and warring.
States. Now, as then, the South is arrayed against
the North, and if the fires of religious bigotry are
wanting, their place is supplied by ideas equally po
tent for good and ill—the hatred of race, the sense
of the violated rights of man, the attachment for
prescriptive right, and the belief that the country
cannot be preserved .unless prescription is broken
down, each appealing to, and finding a response in,
the strongest instincts of human nature.
Our only escape from these and the other dangers
by which we are menaced consists in refusing to
listen to the counsels of those who would persuade
us that secession and disorganiiation are remedies
for the evils which Secession has caused, in remem
bering that the Union which we have is as priceless
as the - Union which we have lost, and more ne
cessary to our safety, because the surrounding perils
are greater, and in feeling Sure that no section can
be false to the common cause without ruin to itsel;
and perhaps to all the others. Jefferson Davis has
received the plaudits of Mr. Gladstone for making
the scattered States of the South into a great na
tion. Let us not suffer the nation which was con-
tided to our care by our fathers, and which It is our
duty to hand down teem children, to be broken up
at the bidding of local jealousy and selfish ambition.
Here, at the North, among those who have been
true to the country and its flag, - can the American
people alone be found. The Confederates have
forfeited their claim to the name of Americans by
taking up arms, not as rebels merely, for rebellion may
mean reform and amelioration, but for the dismem
berment and ilmttruction of the land that gave them
birth: The sod - on which they stand is ours—the
heritage of the nation—but they themselves have
become, as far as in them lies, a foreign people.
Our destiny is in our own hands, in the use which
we make of the opportunities within our grasp—not
with Georgia, South Carolina, or Alabama. We
have not yet sunk so low that we must necessarily
perish, unless we can force or persuade the South to
retrace their steps and live with us as part of the
same nation. That twenty millions of people, in
a territory five times as large as that of
France, Should depend for prosperity and greatness
on the course pursued by an extraneous and hostile
population, would, if it were true, be an instance
unparalleled in history, of imbecility and weakness.
The real injury inflicted onus by the rebellion does
not arise from parting with the mixed, disloyal, and
' population of whites and negroes, that
inhabit the greater part of the South, nor even in the
loss of territory, which, in our abundance, we could
well spare; but from the establishment of a foreign
power on our borders, and . the opportunity
given to men like Mr. Hughes to imitate , South
ern example, and tench disunion her. Our
duty is, therefore, not only plain, but, if we
are true to ourselves, within our power to ac
complish. The war must be prosecuted with vigor
until we are victors in the contest, and able to dictate
the terms on which it shall terminate. But we must
at the same time use every means to strengthen the
. ties which bind the Northern States together, and
establish our nationality on too firm a basis to be
uprooted by faction, or shaken by disaster. Weshall
then be secure against the worst evils, those from
within, and have little to fear from the utmost ef
forts of the foe without. For this purpose the con
currence of men of all parties is requisite; the coun
try cannot be saved unless Democrats and Republi
cans unite for its preservation. The existence of
parties is inherent in, perhaps essential to, free go
vei nment, and we cannot reasonably expect the De
mocratic party to give up its political 'organization,
and come forward as adherents of a Been - lateen Ad
ministration. But we may ask, and the country has
a right to require, that their opposition shall notex
ceed those'limits which are consistent with the safe
ty and existence of thenation, and shall not be guided
and controlled by men whose chief aim is to,sow the
seeds of discord and disorganization, and destroy that
Union of the loyal States, in one Government,
which is our only safeguard against anarchy and ci
vil war. ' • °I V'S.
An Anonymous iirarninp
To the Editor of The Press:
Sue : Inasmuch as you are laboring under a mis
apprehension as to the reason for excluding out
eiders from the meeting of the Democratic Club last
evening, I beg leave to inform you that it was done
because the object of the meeting was for the con
sideration of the rules and regulations pertaining
exclusively to the organization of the club. I am very
glad, however,,that you have given publicity to the
speeches made after the business was concluded. You
are entirely wrong in supposing that we were afraid
to let the people know - what was going on; on the
contrary, we court public attention to, the matter,
knowing that the majority of right•minded men will
sustain all that WAS said. There is no fear of arrest
on our part; provost marshals give us very little
uneasiness. We shall have something more to say,
if they attempt any more of their outrages ; and as
you are so zealous and persistent in your effbrta to
provoke your masters to a repetition of them, I will
say this much—that you, and, perhaps, some of your
coadjutor., will play a part not altogether to your
liking, in such an event. You will realize the full
benefit of the suspension of habeas corpus; and The
Press will have to go begging for its occlusions' con
tributions, unless you prefer to submit them to the
inspection of a Democratic Committee of Safety. If
we have no rights under the law, we shall assert
them outside of it. So, play away. Upon your
head be the responsibility for any outrages you may
provoke. You will find that some things can be
done as well as others, and that, too, without the
aid of a Provost Guard. You will not have to deal
with any more Bohemia.
Now, then, send on ybur soldiers, and take the
"traitors," if you have any desire to realize the
pleasures of "solitary confinement," tempered by
the mercies of an outraged and insulte MO d people.
DECRACY.
Ice for the Stek.
To the Editor of The Press: •
SIR /le there is now a probability of ice being
obtained, is it not a timely suggestion that a stock
of this indispensable article be provided for the use
of the hospitals and the sick poor of the city during
the next eummerl
An appropriation might be made by Councils, or
contributions be readily obtained for this purpose,
and a - building be hired on the Schuylkill, from
which ice could be dispensed under suitable regula
tions, (perhaps by the Sanitary Commission,) instead
of depending on the chance of a short supply and
consequent high price that may prevail, , .
.1. am, respectfully, your sobedient permit, !
PinLADittrna, Feb. 4,4863. . • S.
NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON,
HEAVY NAVAL ENGAGEMENT OFF CHARLESTON
A Bold Foray by the Rebel Iron clads.
4Vs*of -3J).olL4%eial IMtDI IJtTii $tW A
Official Reports or Com. Ingraham and
Gen. Beauregard.
TUE UNION FLEET RETURNS REINFORCED,
Blockade of Charleston Harbor Resumed.
The " Mereedita” and Another ~ Gunboat
Reported:have been Sunk—Four
VuiouGunboats said to have
- been Set on Fire-7Tbm
her City is Disabled,
Surrenders, and
t he, • . &de.
From the Richmond Dispatch of Monday, Fehru
.
atV sti we take the following startling and important
news; which, however, is soniewhat unsatisfactory
and contradictoryAn itself. Let it he taken cum
grano satisi until weJtear from Admiral Lee, whose
official report we May look for to-day.
THE REBEL. REPORTS
CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 31, 1863.
The two iron-clad gunboats Ohicora and Palmetto
State, with three steamers as tenders, went out be
'yond the bar at one o'clock this morning to attack
the blockading fleet. Firing began , soon after one,
and for a time was very, rapid and continuous. Af
terwards it slackened, but continued at intervals un-.
til nine o'elock . this morning. Owing to the fog the
reiult has not yeibeen ascertained.
Commander Ingraham is aboard the Palmetto
State as commander of the expedition. ,
[SECOND DESPATCH.]
AL'ESTOSti Jan. al, 186.3.—This morning the
gunboats Palmetto State, Captain Rutledge, and
Chicora, Captain Tucker, accompanied by three
small steamers—the General . Clinch, Ethenn, and.
Chesterfield-all under the command of Commodore
Ingraham, made an attack on the blockaders, and
succeeded in. sinking Ilea and crippling a third.
The engagement commenced at four o'clock.
The Palmetto State, with Commodore Ingraham
on board, opened tire upon the Federal gunboat Pifer
cedita, carrying eleven guns and one hundred and
fifty-eight men, which was soon sunk in five fathoms
of water. Her commander, Captain Stellwagen, with
a boat's crew, came on board and surrendered. One
shot pierced her boiler, going clear through. Captain
'Stellwagen and crew were paroled by Commodore
Ingraham.
Captain Tucker, of the Chicora, reports sinking
another Federal gunboat and 11w disabling of the steam
ship Quaker City. The latter was set on fire by the
Chicora, and hauled down her flag to surrender, but
afterwards managed to escape, using only one wheel.
She was very seriously damaged.
The number of the blockading fleet outside at the
time of the attack was thirteen, with two first-class
frlgateathe Susquehanna and Canandaigua.
The Federal loss was vcry'scoerc.' It was a complete
success on our Part, with not a man hurt
•
Our• gunboats u-er•e not even struck.
All the blockaders have disappeared. There is
not one to be seen within five miles with the strongest
_kind of glasses. Our boats are now returning to
Charleston.
The following is the official despatch :
TILE REBEL OFFICIAL REPORT
OE BOARD GUNBOAT PALMETTO STATE.—I went
out last night. This vessel struck the hiercedita,
when she sent a boat on board and surrendered. The
officers and crew were paroled. Capt. Tucker thinks
he sunk one vessel and set another on fire, when
she struck her flag. The blockading fleet had gone
to southward and eastward out of sight.
D. N. INGRATIA.M,
Flag Officer Commanding.
[THIRD DESPATCH.]
CnAnr.ss.ron, Jan. 31, 1863,—0ur gunboats Pal
metto State and Ohicora have reached the wharves.
They were enthusiastically cheered by an immense
concourse of citizens, who h.d assembled to greet
them: Salutes were tired from the forte and bat
teries.
Not a man was hurt on our side, and our gunboats
were not struck by the enemy. Our attack on the
feet was a complete surprise to the blockaders, each
one running away without caring for the others.
It is supposed that nearly all of the crew of the Mer-
Cetilia perished.
The Palmetto State, which engaged the Mercedita,
having no boats, and fighting at the time, could ren
der her no assistance.
The Quaker City was struck twice, and one of her
side•wheela almost torn or.
[FOUILTH DESPATCH.]
CHARLESTON, Feb. 4, 1863.—General Beanreganl
and Commodore Ingraham, RS commanders of the
land and naval forces, have issued a joint proclama
tion, dated. January 31, declaring the blockade of
hostile muaaron having been
sunk, burned, or disperse wyme - saprfor ItaVaryormy,.
the Confederacy.
Yesterday afternoon Gen. Bcouregard placed a
steamer at the disposal of the foreign consuls to see
for themselves that no blockade existed.
The French and Spanish consuls, accompanied by
Gen. .Ripley, accepted the invitation. The British
consul, with the commander of the British war
steamer Petrel, had previously gone five miles be
yond the usual anchorage of the blockaders, and
could see nothing of them with glasses.
Late in the evening four blockaders reappeared, keep
ing far out. This evening a large number of block
aders arc in sight, but keep steam up, evidently ready to
s7/73.
[THE LATEST DESPATCIL]
CHARLESTON, Feb. 1, 1863.-01f/dal Proclamal ion.-
1 - I.EADQVARTEM, LARD AND NAVAL FORCE 9.
Charleston, S. C., Jan. 81, 1883.—About five o'clock
this morning the Confederate States' naval force on
this atationittacked the United States blockading
fleet off the harbor of the city of Charleston, and
Bunk, dispersed, or drove off and out of sight, for the
time, the entire hostile fleet.
Therefore, we, the undersigned, commanders re.
spectively of the Confederate States naval and land
forces in this quarter, do hereby formally declare the
blockade by the United Stales of the said city of Charles
ton, S. C., to be raised by a superior force of the Confede
rate Slates, from and after this 3131 day of January, d. . 0.
G. T. BEA.UREGARD,
• • General Commanding.
• D. N. INGRAHA.M,
Flag Meer commanding Naval Forces in South.
Carolina.
Official: Tliomaa ronbAN, Chief of Staff
The results of the naval engagements yesterday
are, Iwo ersreir sunk, fora• set onfi re, and the. remaiader
driven away.
The foreign consuls here held a meeting last night,
and were unanimously of the opinion- that the
blockade had been legally-raised.
Twenty blockaders are off the bar to-day.
Other very important movements are in progress
here. .
THE NEWS IN PETERSBURG
PET Eli sn uno,lra., Feb. I.—The news from Charles
ton creates great joy here.
THE NEWS IN FREDERICESBURd;
TIF.ADQIIARTERB ARXT OF THE FOTO:NW:7 i Feb. 3.
—Parties who crossed the .river yesterday, under
flag of truce, state that the rebels in Fredericksburg
were very Jubilant over the news from Charleston,
among which was the official proclamation of Gen.
Beauregard and Commodore Ingraham, declaring
the biockake at. Charleston raised.
Great cheering was heard among the rebel soldiers
in the town, and a brass band was playing in the
court house. Our pickets on this aide of the river
were hailed by those on the opposite bank and as
sured that the war would be closed within a month.
11 The game is up with you now,". said they. •
SKETCHES OF THE DISABLED VESSELS.
Tat treaTirD STAMPS GUNBOAT MERCEDITA.
The propefier gunboat Mercedita was designed
and built us 1661, by Mr. Edward Lupton, at Wil
liamsburg, Long Island, and was intended for the
New York and Havana Steam Navigation Com
pany to run between New York, Havana, and
Texas. The hull was put together in the strongest
manner. The first advent at sea, of the lilercedita
was made on the 11th of June, 186!, when she went
on a trial trip for the purpose oftesting her engines,
and made upwards of ten knots per hour, with from
sixty to sixty-five revolutions per minute, and con
suming at the rate of only eight to nine tons of coal
per day.. She was 1,070 tons' register, and Is rated
Al* in the American Lloyds. When the Mercedita
was finished and ready for sea the Government
bought her, and made extensive alterations, so as to
fit her for a first-class gunboat On the sth ecember,
'1561, she Was put in commission at the Brooklyn navy
yard, and soon after sailed on a cruise to the Gulf.
For some time she was stationed off Pass a P.Outre,
In company with the gunboat Winona., where, by
their unceasing activity, they prevented any of the
numerous.ileet of steamers at New Orleans from
leaving, with their valuable cargoes, 'by that pass.
Observations were made almost daily, in tugboats
from New Orleans, of the chances of escape through
this pass. One attempt was made to run three ves
sels out ;.but they-were forced to be run ashore, and
destroyed by burning. At this pass she was joined
by the steamer Brooklyn, and they succeeded in cap
turing the valuable steamer Magnolia. At the time
of the formation of the two Gulf squadrons, the
Prercedita was attached to the Eastern division, and
ordered to Apalachicola. The particulars of. the
capture of that place, together with seven vessels
(three of which were burned), by this vessel and the
gunboat Sitgamore, have been made public. This
event placed in our possession one of the most im
portant points in Florida. Proceeding to Key West,
she was assigned a cruisingground off Abaco, where,
iu four months, she captured three vessels of an ag
gregate value of - $1,500,000, among them the . noto
rious Bermuda, and earned for herself the title of
"The Terror of the Gulf." She mounted nine guns,
and had about two hundred men. The following is
n list of the officers of the Mereedita •
Commander—Henry S. Stellwagen.
Lieutenant and Executive Offioer—Trevett Ab
bott. - - - - -
- -
Acting Masters—Chas. B. Wilder, Chas. H. Bat
win, E. J. Gower, John Dwyer.
Acting Assistant Surgeon—C. R. Mason.
Acting Assistant Paymaater—T. C. Stellwagen.
Senior Enzineer--Alex. Daig.
Acting Third Assistant Eneneers—S. Hockieller
J. A. Munger, E. Martin.
Captain's Clerk—G. P. Randall.
Acting Master's Mates--G...1: Sterns, E,Roge .
Paymaster's ClerlcAugustus Perrot.. :
Hospital Steward—G. Beanke.... • • . •
THE 'UNITED STATES4II:7O24 9,W
29:",i1a4.1'
The side-wheel gunboat Qtiaker'oltir ivitb
this city, and is 1,428 tons registet:' She heel, side
lever engine, with a cylinder of eighty-eight indheli•
in diameter and six feet stroke of piston., She ran
between Philadelphia and Havana for some
and was then purchased by parties in• - -New .Ydrk; .
and kept on• the route between that city and . Ha
vana until she was bought by the United States 00;
vernment, since which time she has been in active
service, end owing to her great speed has been of
great gervice to the country. She was one of the
first vessels bought by the Government at the break
ing out of the war, owing to her reputation as a feat
The Quaker City was ethployed during the greater
part of the year 1861 in blockading service on the
Chesapeake. 'ln the summer of 1862 she was en
gaged in blockading and cruising in the Gulf, and
made some valuable captures, one of which was the
rebel steamer Adela,
which she captured off Abaco.
She arrived at Ke West on the 26th of 'July last,
having in tow the British schooner Orion, which she
took while cruising on the Campeaelty bank.'
From the Gulf the Quaker City repaired to Phila
delphia, where she was overhauled. On the 4th of
October she sailed from that port for the Gulf, and
on or about the lath or 11th of the same month she
fof ashore off North Edisto; but was extricated
rom her perilous position without receiving much
The Quaker City has a'crew of about two hundred.
men, and mounts nine guns. ,
The following list of officers were attached to her
in October last: -
Commander—James Madison Frailey.
Lieutenant and Executive Officer—Samuel L
Acting Masters—Bartlett J. Cronnville, U. S. H.;
Horatio Blanchard, T. Durham.
Acting Paymaster—Henry J. Bullay.
'Acting Assistant Engineers—George W. 'Farrar,
John L. Teaks., Peter Robinson, J. Tennant, Thos.
. Anal' !g. Master's Mates—Chas. A. Crawford, Lind
ey H. Livingston, D. H. Danville.
Commander's Clerk—Corm F. Smith.
Gunner—Wm. H. Hamilton.
Paymaster's Clerk—Alonzo Nadine.
Hospital Steward—Wm. McComb.
SKETCH OF COM. DUNCAN N. INGRAHAM,
OF THE CONFEDERATE NAVY
Commodore Duncan N.. Ingraham, who is over
sixty years of age, is the son of the late Nathaniel
Ingraham, Esq., of Chafieston'„ S. C., and belongs i
to a family eminently naval in re character., 9.11 of
them, With one exception, were officers in the navy.
llis father, being the intimate friend of Captain
Paul Jones, volunteered under his command, when
be left France in the Bon Elomme Richard, in 1779,
and fought with him in the battle with the British
frigate tierapis, one of the most desperate actions
in the annals of naval warfare.
Captain D. N. Ingraham reeeived his midshtp-
ITIRIPs warrant at the age of nine years, on the IBth
of June, 1812, during the /ant war with Great-Bri
tain.-Since then he has, most of the time, been em
ployed in active duty. He commanded the
Somers in the blockade duty - at Vera Cruz and
oilier parts of the Gulf during the whole of the
Mexican war, and being prostrated by sickness,
was sent home but - a short time before she was lost.
For two years previous to his sailing for the - 'Medi
terranean in the St. LouiS he was attached to the
navy yard at thiseity.
He was in command of the St. Louis in 1858 in the
harbor of Smyrna, when he made his name so fa
mous in connection with the Costa exploit while at
that port. lie bearded the lion in his den, demand
ing and obtaining from the Austrian Government
the release of. Costa as an American citizen. On
the 15th of September, 1855, he was promoted to a
captaincy, and atter an interval of inactivity was,
on the 10th of March, 1856, attached to the Bureau
of Ordnance as its Wel. He held this position at a
salaryof $3,500 a year, when the rebellion broke out,
when he, like many other traitors, forsook the flag
under which he had so long fought, and through
which he had received many honors, to join the
.cause of the rebels. -
Captain Ingraham married Harriet Rutledge Lau
rens, of South Carolina, granddaughter, on the.
paternal side, of Henry Laurens, the President of
the first Continental Congress, and who afterward
was captured by a British frigate while on his way
to France as American commissioner, and confined
for a long time in. the Tower of London. On the
maternal aide she is the granddauchter of Edsiard
Rutledge, one of the signers or the Deelaraticin of
independence. His eldest son, Henry Laurens In-
graham, was a lieutenant of the Marine Corps when
the rebellion broke out.
It is a curious circumstance that, by intermarriage
with the American family, the Ingraham blood flows
in the veins of some of the most distinguished officers
of the British navy. Among these was the late
Captain Marry:at, L. 8., (the author,) and Sir Ed
ward Belcher, K. C. B, who commanded the explo
ring expedition round the world; and who, in 1853,
commanded the arctic expedition, sent out by the
British Admiralty, in search of Sir John Franklin.
.The grandmother of botb these officers was an Ingra
ham, the near relative oT Commodore Ingraham.
SICETCH OF CAPTAIN EUTLEDGE
The rebel Captain John Rutledge was formerly an
officer of the. United States navy. He is a native
and citizen of South Carolina, from which State he
was appointed to the navy on the 9th of Apttl, 1835.
On the 21st of June, lan, he was warranted as a
past midshipman ; and on the 7th of January, 1319,
was promoted to a lieutenancy, which rank he held
when the rebellion broke out. Up to that time he
had been nearly twenty-six years in the United
States service, eighteen years of which had been
spent at sea, three on shore and other duty, and the
remainder unemployed. He had seen a fair amount
of service under the stars and stripes, and had now
fired upon that flag which had protected him, and
whichhe has so disgraced.
ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
Arrival of General Grant at Vicksburg—Our
Forces actively at Work—Gunboat and
Guerilla Fightnear 'lsland No.lo—A Battle
at Fort llonelson—Latest from Northern
Mississippi. -
CATIZO, Feb. 8, 1863.
Vicksburg dates to the 30th ult. have been received.
General Grant had arrived. The work of widen
ing and deepening the canal is progressing. The
rebels have planted • a battery on the Mississippi
shore which commands the lower end of the canal.
The gunboat New Era was attacked on Sunday
night at 11 o'clock, near Island No. 10, by guerillas
with three pieces of cannon. The boat returned fire
with shell. The conflict lasted till near daylight,
when the rebels retired. Their force was believed
to ee between two and three thousand. -
The operator at Paducah reports that the com
mand at Fort Donelson was attacked at an early
hour this mornin g . At four this afternoon the en-
E igemcnt was going on. Reinforcements have gone
nrieuiticnrnono-ivni g - of-the §2d s`sye tliatZbng_
street, with thirteen brigades, has gone to Tennessee.
WHAT OUR TROOPS ARE DOING.
A. Vicksburg special of the 23d says the enemy
landed from transports below Young's Point.
Twenty boats are now lying above the mouth of
the canal. The troops can be seen from the city.
Their tents and camp-fires are visible. This after
noon occasional shells have been thrown from our
batteries. The whole of the fleet is reported at
Young's Point.
A considerable force has been landed and marched
across.the peninsula to a point opposite Warrenton,
where they are encamped. They are in a position
to communicate with the troops horn below on the
Louisiana side, should the latter be able to pass
Port 'Hudson. •
A stream of water is now moving through the
canal, dug across the peninsula last •sumnter, from
two to four Feet in depth, the current being about
two miles per hour' ' but there is not much chance,
it is thought, for its soon widening the channel,
from the hardness of the soil and the peculiarly
sloping sides.
After our troops had taken up their position on the
Louisiana shore, the little ferry - boat Desoto, from
the other shore, landed in the log, and her crew and
four other persons were captured.
MOVEMENTS OF THE REBELS.
Nothing has been heard of the battery near Island
No. at since its firing on the steamer Warsaw. A.
gunboat is lying near Greenville. There is no dan
ger of land attacks in that vicinity. A considerable
rebel force visited Forrest Hill, near Memphis, on
Thursday last, dressed in Federal uniforms, and
were making ready to hang citizens sapected of
Unionism, when their character was discovered,
and they were dispersed by residents.
A gin house and several bales of cotton were
burned the same day at Moscow. The 7th Kansas
went in pursuit, and had not returned at latest ac
. counts. The object of the rebels seems to be to force
on our lines and strike for the Tennessee and Coin
berland rivers, for the improvement and defence of
which the Confederate Government has appropri
ated nine million of dollars. Once in the possession
of these streams a large army will be precipitated
on Rosecrans' front, to cut of Grant's supplies in
the rear. •
AFFAIRS IN NORTHERN MISSISSIPPI
Advicee have been received irom Jackson, Miss.,
to the 22d, and Grenada to the 26th.
. . . .
There has- been a very large concentration of the
rebel forces all along the line between Jackson and
Grenada, and toward Oxford. At Grenada alone
the rebel is estimated at upward of 50,000. The
place has been strongly fortified, and they now boast
that it cannot be taken by any force which can be
brought against it. A large force has been engaged
in repairing the railroad from Oxford to Holly
Springs. Three brigades of this force were last
heard from between the Tallahatchie and Holly
Springs. repairing the track. Last Saturday morn
ing Van Dorn, with eight brigades, embracing ca
valry, infantry, and artillery, left Grenada for the
North, via CotTeecille, to which point he would pro
ceed by railroad. His destination is said to be Arem
phis, but we suspect he is striking for the Cherie&
ton railroad, and points beyond. It is supposed the
rebels have been strongly reinforced from Richmond
and other points, and have transferred the real thea
tre of war from the capital to the southwest border,
Hence their immense force and unexampled ac,
tivity..
A despatch from Rodney, Miss., on the 22d, reports
the repulse of two hundred Federal cavalry, who
were surprised by the Confederates near Carthage,
La. The Federal colonel was mortally wounded.
The Dlississippi militia are being called out by the
Governor.
Vicksburg correspondence asserts that rebel batte
ries control the river for fifteen miles.
Intelligence has just been received that, on Tues
day, a skirmish occurred near Centre Hill, DeSoto
county, Miss., between Texas Rangers and Federal
cavalry. Several were killed on each side. The
Federals retired, and were not pursued. Two regi
ments were sent to Centre Hill that day to lay the
country in waste.
REBEL Accourrrs FROM VICKSBURG
The Richmond Dispatch of the 2d inst. gives, as the
latest news from Vicksburg, the following. It is to
Friday last, the 30th ult. :
CTelliactuu to Iticlimond Dispatch.
Mohr.),, Jan. at 18.63.—The Advertiser and &lis
ter has a despatch dated Vicksburg, 90th inst.,
which says the scouting parties appeared this morn
ing on the river bank opposite Vicksburg and burned
four houses under the range of our batteries. They
are supposed. to be erecting batteries opposite the
town. There are no new movements among the fleet.
THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF PARlS.—Mon
seigneur 'Matey, Bishop of Nancy, has been named
Archbishop 'of Paris. AI. Darboy, on the 10th of
January, codipleted his 50th year. He was ordained
priest in 1636. He filled for three years the chair of
philosophy, and subsequently that of dogmatic
theology in the College of Langres. These functions
being transferred by the Bishop of the diocese to
members of a religious order, Darboy quit
ted the diocese, and came to Paris in 1846,
when he was appointed by Archbishop Atlre
chaplain to the College of Henri IV. and ho
norary Canon of Noire Dame. Subsequently he
was named by Archbishop Sibour honorary Vicar
General and inspector of religious instruction of
the diocese. He accompanied the Archbishop to
Rome in 1864, and was presented to the Pope, who
named him Prothonotary Apostolic. On the ap
pointment of Bishop hlerdin to the archiepiscopal
see of Bourges, 111. Darboy succeeded him in the see
of Nancy. The new Archbishop is a man of culti
vated mind and of extensive erudition. He has
edited and published various works, mostly relating
to religion,
and his translation of the " Imitation of
Christ" is highly spoken of. He carried on a long
controversy, in pamphlets, with the Abbt Combelet,
who, an eloquent preacher and writer, was supposed
to have a tendency to the doctrines of Lamennaia.
Monseigneur Darboy is a Galilean on principle; and
all admit his learning, zeal, and piety. The choice,
therefore, is considered excellent. •
MAESIIAL SOULT'S career ie a glorious evi
dence of the opportunity given in the French army
for true merit to win rank and renown. Entering
the army at the age of sixteen,Soult was a private
soldier in 1785, corporal in 1797, sergeant in 1791, ad
jutant major in 1792, captain in 1783, chef-de-batta
lion, chef and general of brigade in 1794, general of
division in 1799, lieutenant general, of the army of
'ltaly in 1800, of..the army 011ie South n 1801, and
a marshal of Frame in .1803: lie was the favorite
general of Napoleon, who said to him just before
the 'commencement of the battle of Austerlitz:
"Marshal Soult, my only instrtlotion to you is, act
as you always have done."
THREE CENTS;
THE PIRATE ORETO.
Details of her Entrance Into Mobile Hailyor
and Subsequent Escape—lneffectual Chase
by our Vessels.
(Special Correspondence of The Press) -
DlolstLe; ENTRANCE, January 17, 1863
After two months of watchful expectation, and, I
may say, ceaseless anxiety, the blockading fleet here
stationed. has been both gratified and disappointed.
Yesterday morning the noted rebel steamer " Oreto,"
that obtained entrance to Mobile by her daring
boldness in broad daylight, effected her escape by
parallel hardihood. The details of the advent of
Pirate No. 2 will, no doubt, prove interesting, and are
as follows:
On Thursday, about 1 P, M., a fog that had hung
over the bay all day was suddenly dispelled by a
change in the wind, and a long, row, rakish little
bark-rigged steamer discovered at anchor behind
Fort Morgan, and about four miles distant. It need
ed but a glance to recognize her, and but a single
thought to fathom her purpose. Commodore Hitch
cock, of the Susquehanna, the senior ollicer.present,
immediately stationed his weasels nearer together,
and in what he conceived to be the best manner to
receive her and prevent her egress. 13y the assistance
of the steamer Pembina, this was accomplished be
fore nightfall, and every ship notified of the rebel in
tention, and instructed to keep a special lookout, a
full head of steam,aod cables ready for slipping, The
steam sloop Oneida—that permitted her to get in—
and the R. R. Cuyler, being the swiftest vessels in
the fleet, were especially detailed to chase her. The
steamer Pembina, from the peculiar nature of her
duties,was also assigned to the pursuit. It had been
blowing heavy ales from the S. E. and S. W. for
nearly 30 hours previously, and such a tremendous
sea was running that the water broke on the bar in
places four fathoms deep, and few thought that she
would risik the passage on such a stormy night; but
vigilance never slacked, and it was well that it did
not, for a little after three o'clock yesterday (Friday)
morning, a lookout on the Pembina saw a low, dark
object,' moving rapidly seaward. The fleet was at
once alarmed by means of Goaton's night signals, and
in ten minutes the R. R. euyler and Pembina were
in full chase.
The " Oreto," for such it was, had nearly fifteen
minutes start, which, as the night was dark, car
ried her ont of sight; but our vessels pressed on in
the direction she was last seen, and at daylight.
sighted her nearly eight miles distant, making a
"bee line" for thsWeat ladies, under a tremendous
pressure of .steam and canvas. The Ouyler crowded
all sail and bounded along after her; but the Pem
bina, after speaking a transport ship, the Pocahon
tas, bound to Ship Island with troops, to the dismay
of her officers and crew, turned hack. Why this
strange move was enacted is not known here; but
it is presumed that her captain, who is considered
one of the finest officers in the service, will-.be able
to exonerate himself in his official report from re•
ceiving culpability.
As the Cuyler has not yet returned, it is not known
whether success or defeat crowned her efforts. The
powerful armament of the Oreto has caused many to
fear that she may not be able to cope with her, and
a repetition of the Hatteras affair be the sad result.
I trust we may be spared such a disaster, but freely
confess our anxiety. Should these disagreeable fore
bodings be realized, it may subject the commodore to
much censure for not adopting more effective MCA
cures to prevent her coming out, instead of so many to
chase her oiler passing through the flee 1 ; also, the cap
tain of the Oneida for failing to obey his orders and
make chase, and the commander of the Pembina for
turning back when in full sight of the enemy. Cap
tain Hazard is an old officer of the regular navy, and
has had command of the unfortunate Oneida but a
few days.
.T.am LIARS 23.—Up to this 'date . nothing has been
heard of the Cuyler nor of the Oneida, which left
last Saturday afternoon, in search of the former,
and under orders to Rey West, to inform Rear Ad
miral Bailey of the recent "violation of the block
ade." Yesterday morning a deserter from the rebel
gunboat Morgan, now in Mobile Bay, was picked up
at sea, in an open boat, by the gunboat Pembina.
From him we have learned that the Oreto, or, as she
is now called, the Florida, made three different at
tempts to get out before accomplishing her object.
The first was on Monday night, the 12th inst., when
she approached the bar, but, for some unknown
reason, returned. The next time she left the fort
early on Wednesday evening, and was nearly clear,
when she suddenly grounded, hard and fast, on Sand
Island. She remained there until 3A. DI., within a
mile or two of the fleet, and was not floated off until
the gunboat Morgan came down and removed her
guns.
That same night it blew so strongly from the
southeast that the blockading gunboat Pembina, in
side the bar, was obliged to get under way, and
steam out into deeper water, at twelve o'clock,
'and at that time the Oreto was within half a mile of
her. The last and successful . efibrt was made on
Thursday night. She left Fort Morgan at ten
P. M., and passed between the Susquehanna and
/t R. Ouyler at 3.15 Friday morning. She has a
crew of one hundred and seventy men and twenty
five marines. The former are mostly seamen, and
were shipped in New Orleans. Jack Maine (ex :
lieutenant U. S. N.) is her commander, and is said
to bee determined man. She . resembles the Ala
bama very _much—and will, no doubt, lose very
ztcaao- a r t ...-I.aose rw:_ Pit rit -finin. If the - two
vessels work together they may cause our isolated
blockading vessels to tremble worse thanthe New
Yoik Chamber of Commerce. Yours, C.
NEW YORK CITY.
(Special correspondence of The Press.]
NEW Yoax, February 3, 1863
OUR NEXT SENATOR,
in place of the Hon. Preston King, whose term has
expired, is to be ex-Governor Morgan, as your cor
resrondent had predicted before the nominating
caucus was fairly at work. The selection is hardly
such a one as would have been made were the Re
publican party of this State as thoroughly harmoni
ous in its internal relations as the undiegnimied tactics
of its opponents should teach it to be ; but Mr. Mor
gan is at least a dignified gentleman and a man of
'education, and he will scarcely humiliate the State
he helps to represent in the Senate by any offensive
or perverse obtrusion of his rather slow " conserve
tive" sentiments. Like the . gentleman he succeeds,
he will probably fill the Senatorial position with
distinguished silence ; thereby winning great respect
for himself as a most profound thinker, and gaining
the affections of every loud talker on the floor as the
very best of listeners. Dickinson would have quoted
poetry to advantage—Raymond Would have beaten
every rival in debate—Everts would have distin
guished himself in • moral essays—David D. Field
would have made many friends, but Morgan will ao
complisn more than all by figuring as a model of in
expressible deportment. In all the land I know of
nothing quite as respectable as ex-Governor Mor
gan. In hie presence you feel that it would be no
thing less than an unnatural sin to even imagine
any earthly objection against anything so entirely
respectable—such an incarnation of unexceptionable
deportment. The Democratic caucus have done well
in refusing to nominate an opponent to the over
whelming ex-Governor; for none but Thurlow
Weed could hare the matchless endurance to make
the least stand against so much respectability, and
it is reported that Thurlow respectfully said, when
sounded as to' hie willingness to take a desk in the
Senate, that "nothing could induce him to take a
seat in that body."
CERTAIN MILITARY MOVEMENTS
in the military department of which this city is the
operative base, indicate either that some new expe
dition is being secretly prepared here, or thatthe Go
v,ernment ie making ready for such a coup in its own
behalf against domestictraitors as should have been
accomplished long ago. Now that the latter have
grown so bold by mistaken indulgence as to have a
disciplined and powerful organization in full work
ing order, with passwords, messengers, and resources
for fire-arms, it would be necessary for the Govern
ment to have from five to ten thousand troops at
call should it.design arresting any, or all, of those
traitorous editors and other parties who are certain
ly marked for justice. Brooks, of the Express, utter
ed no vain threat when he talked about thousands
of armed men being ready to release, by force, from
Fort Lafayette any Democrat who should be car
ried thither by an order from Washington, and I
sincerely trust that, while Gen. Wool is preparing
the harbor of New York against a possible incident
of possible foreign troubles, he.will also be sure to
secure under him a sufficiently. strong provost guard
'to quell the "popular tumult" likely to break out
in our streets on any day.
THE ELEMENTS OF RIOT
are being fostered and fast developed here by
nothing more surely than the malignant daily at
tacks of the traitor editors upon the national finan
cial system, and the consequent depreciation of all
paper money. If the nation can be made bankrupt
quickly enough, the war must stop, and to thin end
the audacious revolutionists are now directing all
their energies. Workmen in all the different trades.
are striking.. for higher wages, and generally get
them, but such increase of means is far front pro
portionate to the continual rise hi the prices of all
the necessaries of life. A paper dollar is now esti
mated at only a little over linty cents, by merchants,
grocers, and two will scarcely buy the sugar for
breakfast, or the linen for shirts, that one would
procure two months ago. Of course, those who
strike for higher wages cannot expect to get double
what they did before, though the paper dollars in
which they are paid are not, practically, worth half
the amount they nominally represent, so that as the
disproportion between the increase of wages. and the
increasing cost of living grows greater, it will be
harder and harder for the poor man to live, and the
feeling of popular discontent will grow more and
more ductile, at the, hands of those who. arc plotting
the downfall of the Administration. How much
longer it will be prudent to let the letter go on un
disturbed in their fiendish work, let the Government
decide.
A NOBLEMAN'S SON
has been discovered in the person of a poor wreck
of humanity calling himself Arthur Showoross,who
died in a tit of delirium tremens yesterday morning,
at it shabby house in Elizabeth street. His father,
from whom he had received two thousand pounds
just before hie death, is an English nobleman, re.
siding in London. Since his arrival in this country,
a short time age, Showoross had led a life of reck
less dissipation, squandering his ample means in
various excesses, and finally came to living in the
poor retreat where his life has ended so miserably.
The remains are to be so interred that the family in
England may be able to recover them.
POISONING FROM RYE OOPPEp :
. .
has occurred' in a German family of eighepiiraona,
residing in Amity street, and than& none of the
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victims hare died, the effect of the event is to create
great consternation in thousands of households
where the cereal substitute has been steadily used
since the genuine article became over-expensive.
The health-officer, who took cognizance of the cane,
has found, upon examination, so much that in
poisonous in the •rye coffee commonly Bold, that itir
further sale is for the present probibttexL It is given
out that the poison comes from an admixture of the•
seeder of certain poisonous weeds which are often
found germinating in rye fields; but I am disposed
to attribute it to a careless retention of the I , tope ,
of the rye itself, which are well known to be poi
-8080118. Probably the family here mentioned
chanced to get hold of some one package of the arti
cle containing these deleterious accompaniments.
MRS. TOM THUMB TO-BE
will remove to an elegant suite of apartments at the
Metropolitan Hotel on Saturday, there to remain
until the eventful Tuesday, when the distinguished
microscopic General will lead her to the altar. At
preeent she is boarding very unostentatiously at
Powers' Hotel, near the museum, attended only by
a towering female servant. It was at this latter
place that the General first met her, and the bowing,
courtesying, and complimenting of the little crea
tures on that occasion are said to have been like a
glimpse of fashionable society through a reversed
lorgnette.
WENDELL PHILLIPS
is to lecture on" Our Future," this evening, at the
rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Church, in Brooklyn.
His discourse on the "Lost Arts," at Cooper Insti
tute, last night, was attended by the largest and
finest lecture-audience of the season. It is a signi
ficant fact, that the Tribune, which was formerly In
the habit of barely tolerating Mr Phillips, now an
nounces his lecture visits in its editorial columns,
and praises them in the same place after they are
delivered.
THE NEW " SPINCLER" HOTEL,
formerly the learned Abbott's famous female Semi
nary, or Spingler Institute," was duly opened to
the boarding public yesterday. It has accommoda
tions for about 175 guests, and is luxuriously, though
not extravagantly, furnished. Yesterday, also, the
St. Nicholas Hotel passed into new hands, the prin
cipal in-coming host being Mr. Spotts, formerly the
captain of a steamboat running from Louisville to
New Orleans on the Mississippi.
THE POSTAL CURRENCY,
in its "legal-tender" phase, is the subject of several
cases at present before the courts, and will be die
cussed by the moot court of Columbia College Law
School next week.
An election for chief engineer of the fire depart.
ment of this city wilt be held to-night, when zdri
John Decker, the present efficient incumbent, wW
probably be re-elected. STUYVESANT.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A CURIOUS OASE.--A ease somewhat novel in
its character is now on trial in Harrisburg. The
Adams Express Company brings an action against
the Hagerstown Bank for the recovery of upwards
of $3,000, erroneously lurid to them. It appears that
the E.xpress Company had received a package of
money at Baltimore to be shipped to the Hagerstown
Bank, containing upwards of 89,000, and whilst the
parcel was in the office in Harrisburg upwards of
$3,000 were abstracted, and paper placed in the par
cel in place of the money so abstracted; the package
was then resealed and forwarded to Hagerstown
where It was duly delivered, and, upon opening it;
discovered that a large amount had been abstracted.
The company was notified of the occurrence, and
paid the missing sum over to the bank. After this
search was instituted for the person who had ab
stracted the money, and in the course of a week it
was discovered that a person employed in the office,
who was subject toaberration of the mind, had taken
the money and destroyed it, burning the same in
Wetzel's swamp, about one mile above the city. It
was clearly established that the notes destroyed
were of the Hagerstown Bank, and the Expresa
Company, therefore, alleged that the bank had sus
tained very little loss by the destruction of theirovvn
notes, and hence they ought to refund the amount
paid to them.
A BRAVE OFFICER.—The Government of In
dia has resolved to construct an international tele
graph of thrown, and Col. Patrick Stewart has been
selected as general superintendent. According to a
London journal, this officer is famous in India for
personal daring, for unvarying success, and for a
habit of getting killed. In 1858 he acconnanied Lord
Clyde as Director General of Telegrapti into Oude,
and however fast the Commander - in-Chief might
march, by evening the electric telegraph was ready
in his tent to communicate with Calcutta. One day
Lord Clyde received a message from the Viceroy,
running thus: "Do not let Pat Stewart be killed.
He cannot be replaced." Raising his eyes, he saw
the subject of the message sneaking out of camp,
rife in hand, as a volunteer on a particularly dan
gerous expedition. He was brought back. ." Con
found you, sir," said the Chief, " what have you to
do there] if you're killed, sir, by George, I'll ar
rest you !" Once carried off by a tiger, once ripped
up by a bear, once pronounced dead of cholera, 001.
Stewart has seen more, done more, dared more than
most men of twice his age, and has in India the re
putation of making a habit of success.
SECRETS OF FREE AIASONRY.—Free
sonry, said Benjamin Franklin, I admit has its se
crete. It has secrets peculiar to itself, but of what
do these principally consist ? They consist of signs
and tokens, which serve as testimonials of character
and qualfficeions which are conferred after due
course of instruction and examination ; they are of
no small value; they speak a universal language,
and are a passport to the support of the whole
world. They cannot be lost so long as memory re
tains its power.. Let the possessor of them be expa
triated, shipwrecked, or imprisoned—let him be
stripped of everything he has in the world—still
thesecredentials remain, and are available for hirn ae
circumstances may require. The good effects which
limy produced are netabli.had by the incontestable
facts of history. They have stayed the uplifted hand
of the destroyer; they have softened the aspirations
of the tyrant ; they have silbdued the rancor of ma
levolence, and broken down the barrier of political
animosity and sectional alienation. On the field of
battle, in the solitudes of the uncultivated forest, or
in the busy haunts of the crowded city, they have
made men of most hostile feelings and the moat di
versified conditions, rush to the aid of each other
with special joy and satisfaction that they have
been able to afford relief to a brother Mason.
AN EXHUMED .CITY.—A most singular
dis
covery has been made on the French coast. near the
mouth of the Garonne. A town has been discovered
hurled in the sand, and a church has already been ex
tracted from the sand. Its original plan shows it to
have been built towards the close of theßornan Em
pire, but changes made in ifhad given it the appear
ance of an edifice of mixed style, in which Gothic
architecture has usurped the place of the Roman.
The original paintings, its admirable sculptured
choir and Roman capitals, are adorned with pro
fuse ornaments, which are attracting numbers of
visitors- This -temple is all that remains of those
cities described by Pliny and Strabo ;. the Gulf of
Gascony abounds in ruins of these ancient cities. It
has been 1,500 years since Novignmus, the old capi
tal of lifedoc, which was a very celebrated cittyy when
the Romans were masters of Gaul was burled under
the ocean ; of all that tract of territory the Roche du
Coplonon alone is visible. The remains of Roman
77. 7. de, the site of Jupiter's temple, the vestiges of
the Spanish Moors, and the roads. to. Eleanor de
Guyenne, have been rescued from the sands- in the
neighborhood of the long-buried city of Soulac. No
where have the erosions of the ocean been greater
than on the coast of Gascony.
ORIGIN OF PETROLEUM—Dr: I. B. Ed
wards, in the Pharmaceutical 'Journal, remarks that
the flow of oil from mineral springs is by no means
new, either .to science or commerce. Herodotua
has recorded that the Island of Zante furnished
large quantities, while Pliny' and Illoscorides de
scribe the oil obtained from Agrigentum, a small
town of Sicily. The Persian springs f at Bakoum,
have yielded to the value of $600,000 • annally ;
and the earth oil, from Rangoon, in Thirmah, has
been exported to the extent of 400,000 hogaheads
yearly. The streets of Genoa and Amiens were
formerly lighted with a petroleum obtained' from
Parma. In 151; a spring was discovered York
shire, which was successfully worked by Dlr. James
Young, of Glasgow, until exhausted, when he
turned his attention to the distillation of coal, and
discovered paraffin oil. The marvellous oil springs
of the new world, however, far surpass in extent
and interest, allprevious discoveries ; and. the quan
tities already yielded, without apparently diminish
ing the supply, show that this will be a most import
ant article of commerce for some yous •to -come.—
English paper.
A NEW POTATO.—A member of the Belgian.
Central Society of Agriculture has recommended to
the attention of the society a now variety of the po
tato, which is remarkable in a triple point of view,
of flavor, abundance, and facility of preservation.
It appears to be a variety of whet is called chard.=
In Belgium. Its stalk grows to the height of twelve
inches and throws out many branches. The blossom
is of a pale violet color, and produces no fruit. Astield
of one acre of third-class quality, lightly manured,.
produced 22,000 kilogrammes of sound. potatoes.
The neighboring farmers were astonished • not only
at the enormous produce, but at the absence of any
unsound potato. The crop was dug out on the 12th
of October.
ORIGIN OF ALMANACS.—Yestegan, alluding
to our ancient Saxon ancestors, says : "'hey used
to engrave upon certain squared sticks, about afoot
in length, the courses of the moons of the whole
year, whereby they could always certainly tell when
the new moons, the full moons, and the• change
should happen, as also their festival days;-and such
a carved stick they called an almond aght— that is to
say, almon-heed 3 —to wit, the regard or observa
tion of all the moons—and hence is derived the.
name of almanac." After the invention of print
ing, almanacs became generally in use. The first
record account in England of. an almanac-is In the
" Year Book " of Henry - VII.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSlA.—Aceounts. from.
Moscow state that the favorable progress of the.
emancipation of the peasants, the intended reform.
of the administration of justice, and the other libe,
ral measures announced, have made the Emperor of
Russia more popular than ever. He was received
at Moscow, where he now resides-with his family,
as though he had never been there before. On the
first day after his arrival the Kremlin was so sur
rounded by the inhabitants that the neighborhood
was completely impassable, and the people swarmed
on the housetops and church steeples to see the.
Emperor.
A HERO.—In the battle of Fredericksburg the,
color-bearer of the Mat Massachusetts. Regiment
fell mortally wounded, when a sergeant named
Plunkett seized the standard, bore it to the front,
and there held his ground, until both arms were shot
away by a shell. He was carried to the hospital,
and subsequently was taken to. Washington, the
whole regiment turning out to escort him to the.
station. So brave a man deserved so marked an
honor.
DIPHTHERIA.—A gentleman who has adminis
tered the following remedy for diphtheria says that
it has always proved efilietual in affording speedy
relief: Take a common tobacco pipe, place a live
coal within the bowl, drop a little tar upon the coal,
and let the patient draw smoke into The mouth, and
discharge it through the nostrils. The remedy is safe
and simple, and should be tried whenever occasion
may require. Many valuable lives may be saved,
the informant confidently believes, by prompt treat
ment as above.
•
LES AIiSE.RABLES.—The editor of the Nash
vine Us tan alludes mildly to his misfortunes as fol
lows : 'We have. never read Victor sensa;.
non novel "Les Bliserables." We suppose, how
ever, that the unfortunate personages who figure in
that book are editors of daily newspapers with mails
once a week, or oace a month, as it may happen.
They are the most miserable creatures that we can
think of. . •
NOT RESPECTING REBELS.—The Legislature
of Kansas is evidently impressed with the opinion
that traitors have no rights which loyal men are
bound to respect. Two bills have been introduced in
the Assembly, preventing proceedings in law by or for
the benefit of disloyal persons and rebels. It is be.
lieved that some measure of this kind is certain to
pass:
DISTINGUISHED VICTIM TO INTEXPER..
ANOE.—A few 'days since, Mr. Edward S. Teri]
was found dead at a low drinking house of New:York
city, his death resulting from the inordinate ups, 0
-
ardent spirits. A few years ago he waa a lawyer or
eminence and ability, moving in good society.' 44
at one time he was a law partner of °diaries 0 0 .44 y.
nor, a leading lawyer of the Ngty , X.olCik