THE PitESS, ITNDISHND DAILY (SUNDAYS Faccsrnum BY JOAN FORNIZY. all ON. No. 111 800TH FOURTH MEW. THE DAILY PRE S, . ZIOFTERX CENTS nut Weak. parable to the Carrier. ' , Melted to Subscribers out of the City at BrORT DOLLARS TER 4.urnmr, 'Foria. DOLLARS FOR 81x MONTRS, Two DOL. LARS FOR Tniiur MorrureTtuvarbibly to advance forth !me ordered. , 'Adveitthements Inserted at the dead rate*. 131 x tithed constitute a square. THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS, galled tollubearibere out of the city at Form Dot, Akin Fan ARituY. In advance. COMMISSION HOUS ES. - WELLING, COFFIN, & CO., NM CHESTNUT STREET, Offer for Bale, by the Package— PRINTS, BROWN AND BLEACHED SHESTINGS AND SHIRTINGs. DRILLS, CANTON FLANNELS. • COTTONADES, CORSET JEANS. SILESIAS, NANKEENS. COLORED CAMBRICS, SEAMLESS BAGS. BLACK DOESKINS AND CASSIMERES. 'UNION CLOTHS, SATINETS. 'PLAID LINSEYS, NEORO KERSEYS. ICENTIICKY JEANS, AU O, SKY•BLUE KERSEYS, INFANTRY CLOTHS. ARMY FLANNELS, 10 and 12-ounce DUCK, dec., &c dee-rnivf 3m GRIGG it EEARMSTEAD, No. 2i STRAWBERRY STREET, COMMISSION MERCHANTS' Fox the sate of FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS Jeg.3m , OUR SPRING STOCK IS NOW AR- RANGED 30,000 DOZEN :AT LOWER PRICES THAN PRESENT COST OF PORTATION THOS. MELLOR fa 00., 40 AND 42 NORTH. THIRD STREET, PEITLAI.ELPRIA JOHN T. BAILEY & CO. 613AGS AND BAGGING OF BYERY DESCRIPTIV, NO. 113 NORTH FRONT gThEET, f112743D1 PICTLADELPRIA. p H I L ADELPHIA MANUFACTORY. URLAP BAGS, OF ALL SIZES, FOR CORN, OATS, COFFEE, BONE DUST, ALSO, SEAMLESS BAGS. I)7g standard makes, ALL SIZES, for sale cheap, for net on delivery. GEO. GREGG. No. 219 and 221 CHURCH ALLEY. ,COTTON YARN- SUPERIOR COTTON YARN, NO. /0, TOR SLLB BY YitOTRINGHAM & WELLS. oca-tt SHIPLEY, HAZARD. & fIUTCHI.NSON, No. W 4 CHESTNUT STMT. COMMISSION MENCRANTS FOR TIM SALE OP PHILADELPRIA.MADS GOODS se2B-s3m CLOTHES-WRINGERS. WILLIAM YARNALL, DEALER, IN HORSE-PURNISIIING GOODS, No. 1020 CHESTNUT STREET, Agora for the ado of TULEY, MORSE, & BOYDEN'S PATENT MF-AD.TCrSTING CLOTHES-WRINGER, Believed to be tbebeet CLOTHES-WRINGER in use. It will wring the largest Bed Quilt or smallest Hand. *ambler drier than can possibly be done by hand, in very mush less time. . N. 13.—A disoonnt will be made to dealers. no3-Sm u A Ail.mil=mll..ll STILL THERE! AT THE OLD STAND, 'SRS CHESTNUT STREET, 'Second floor, opposite Jayne's Hall, 'WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES. The undersigned has not removed, but le rends , at his tOld Office to Supply customers, at the lowest prices!, with esfflery etyle and quality of WHEELER dc WILSON SEWING MACHINES Machines to hire; also, with first-class operators, to ,private families and hotels, by the day, Machine stitching done at short notice, in any quantity. Machines repaired and operators taught. •4025-34 u. HENRY COY. SINGER'S SEW Ina MACHINES, For Family Sewing and Manufacturing Purposes 810 CHESTNUT STREET. ial3 Sm TIE WILCOX & GIBBS FAltrur SEWING MACHINES 41416 r3BB'lg"at iii i ffit r EAr d, fgigtikss, and with Selfadineking Hemmers, are now ready for seas 'by LURBANKS & EWING, se27.tr 1 715 CHESTNUT Street. DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. " ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO.. Northeast Corner Fourth and BACK Streets. PHILADELPHIA, • WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, 11APORTEREI AND DEALERS FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WINDOW AND. PLATE GLASS, KANUPAOTOSIERS OP 'WRITE LEAD AND ZINO PAINTS, PUTTY, &a. AGENTS PON TEE CEIXERATED FRENCH ZINC PAINTS. Dealers and consumers supplied at VERY LOW PRIORS FOE GASH veltEm Mr CABINET FURNITURE. 11A13INET FURNITURE AND Bit- LIARD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, 361 South SECOND Street, time connection with their extensive Cabinet Business, are ottow manufacturing a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, ..A.ad have now on hand a full supply, nnished with the MOOSE & CAMPION% IMPBO'VED CUSHIONS, which are pronounced by all who have used them to be Rope +dor to all others, Por the quality and AMA of these Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout Vie Union, who are familiar with the character of their work. annern JORNELIUS dr, BAKER. MANITFACTURERS Or 'LAMPS, CHANDELIERS, OAS 'FIXTURES, &c !:STOrtE, 710 CHESIWITT ST. MANUFACTORIES, IEI2I CHERRY Street, and FIFTH and COLUMBIA A • ' OPPENgEIMER,. No. 231 CHURCH Ailey, Philadelphia: CONTRACTOR AND lISANUFACTIIRER. OP ARMY OLOTHING!-1 Of 'Every Deocription. ALSO, HAVERSACKS, PONCHOS, CAMP BLANKETS, KNAPSACKS,and 'ED TICKINGS FOR HOSPITALS. SIATERIAL BOUGHT FOR CORTRACTORS. goods made will be guarantied regulation in size. U. B. Orden of any alie filled with despatch. Ja7-3nt 5 OASES 30-INCH BLACKSTONE UMBRELLA CLOTHS. For sale by MATTHEW BENNET'S SONS, EELS* BOSTON, Mass. - pIIODES WILLIAMS, 107 SOUTH --a-' lO WATER Street Have in store, and offer for sale— Lavr Raisins—wl.l.ole, half, and. wrier bops. M. eitrcin, Orangße and Lemon Peel. Currants, Dried Apples. Dried Peaches. new halves and quarters, and pared. White`Beatta,Canaaa Whole and Split POS. Turkish end Malaga Figs, Olive Oil, quarts and pints. • Hemp and eatery Seed, Princess, Bordeaux, and Sicily Almonds. French Mustard, English Pickled, dm. Turkish and French Prunes, Fresh Peaches, Blackberries, Cherries. Fresh Tomatoes, Corn, Peas, dte, Bermically-sealed Meats, Soups,dto. • Sardines. halves and quarters. : . Jalo PELLEVOISIN BRANDY.—AN mot in Bond, for 'sale by CHAS. S. & JAS..CARSTArRS, ja% No. 156 WALNUT and Si GRANITE Sta. firiAMPAGNII-AN INVOICE OF Impala!just' received. per ship Robert Cosh- Mins alld for sale by JAVRETCHE Ft LLVERCINE, Jai Noe. 202 and 204 South FRONT Street, , I I' :••,\"\% l 1 / ,) • ": • •-•• •••.. •. x • •••• LT , tir • • 111 tris ' __••__. ...• , . • _ ' - • • -ak • - . • • -A• • • 1 - - _ . jia - a , - , • • • • • - VOL. 6.-NO. 169. RETAIL DRY .GOODS. CASSIMERES, CLOTHS, LININGS, Sm., Comprising a large and complete stock of goods for MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR. THE TRADE SUPPLIED AT REASONABLE PRICES. COOPER 8a CONARD, 9a24 S. E. CORNER NINTH AND HARKET STS MUSLIMS. BELOW. THE MARKET PRIGES. —We have aiarge Stock of Bleached and Brown MUSLIMS, of all widths and qualities, at prices from 2 to G cents per yard under the case price of the agents. • Among the stook will be found New York Mills, Wil liamsville, 'Wemsutta, Torresdale, Altewagen, and every approved make. • Lountry Storekeepers will save by an examination. inea goods at old prices. • R. D. & W. H. PENNELL, fe2 1021 MARKET Street. CLOSING OUT WINTER STOCK AT. AND UNDER COST PRICES.— Saxony Plaids and Toil De Chevres, at 20 eta. Best American Delaines, at 20 ots. All imported Dress Goods at cost prices. These goods are all really cheaper than Calicoes. Plain Silks, - rich colors. Small-figured Corded Silks, solid colors. Plain and figured Black Silks. Very heavy Oro Grain Black Silks. Rich styles Edney Silks. All of these goods are at last fall's prices. ' Pretty styles Panay Silks, 56, 65, 75 ate. Plain Black Alpacas. Single and double-width Black All-wool Detainee. Platn•Blacic Merinoes, Cashmeres, and Reps. All at last fall's prices. • English, Merrimac, Cectieco, Sprague, and all the best makes of Prints in the market. Case, Sheeting, and Shirting Mastitis, Wil lhimsvaie and other approved makes. 9-8 Waltham and Pocasset, 5-4 Leyman, unbleached, all at less than the agent's case Prices. IT. STEEL & SON, fe2 ^ Nos. TYR and 715 North TERM street. SPLENDID STOOK ON -HAND.-- All the best makei of Calicoes. All the best makes of Muslins. ',lithe best makes of Linens. All the bestmakes of Shootings. All the beat snake a of Napkins. Together with. Towels, Crash, Diaper Huckakack, Bird Rye, Harlan, &e. &c, White Cambric and Jaconet, full line. Nainsooks a ndl.laid Muslims, full line. Winter Goods closing out. Shawls, literinoes, closing out, Balmoral Skirts, all nricfm.. Silk and Linen Hdkfe, nice aisortinent. At JOHN H. STOKES'. 3a 21 702 i ARCH Street. EDWIN HALL ',& BRO., - 26 South SECOND Street, Rave reduced the priceslof Fancy Silks, Rich Printed Dress Deeds, Choice Shades of Merinoes, Beautiful Colors of Reps or Poplins. ' All-Wool De Lemnos - . All kinds of dark dressgoods‘redaced. Also, Fine Long Brodie Shawls, Open Centre Long Cashmere Shawls, Rich new styles of Blanket Shawls. 44 Lyons Silk velvets, pore Silk. 1024 CHESTNUT STREET. E. M. NEEDLES. 1.1 M LINENS, -WHITE GOODS, LACES, 2 LL 4 A EMBROIDERIES. ; a A full assortment always on hand at LOW bui PRIM,. 02 .3 g y Just received, lace-trimmed. Embroidered. and 71 R Mourning. Muslin Bows and Neck-Ties, for the V p house and street. Also, all-linen Hemstitched P 4 Handkerchiefs. at 15 cents. Also, all descriptions of Linen Handkerchiefs, for Ladies, Gents, and Children, at WHOLESALE PRICES. 1024 CHESTNUT STREET. D RY GOODS FOR WINTER Bap. Poplins, French Merinoe, Colored Mousselines, Ponit De Wee, Poniard Silks, Blanket Sbawls, Balm omi Skirts, Black Silks, Fancy Silks, Black Bombazines, Worsted Plaids, Cheap Delaine.s, French Chintzes, Shirting Flannels, Broche Shawls, Fine Blankets, Crib Blankets, crasaHrallskEiglin-sts. VITILLI A MSVILLES WAMSUTTAS, f York Premiums, Forostdales, Edward Harris, Bay Mill, and Other good makes Shirting& - -10-l 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. All-wool Reps at Cost. Balmoralsood Skirts, fall size, $3. Closing out Winter Cloaks and Shawls. Closing out Boys' Winter Clothing. COOPER. A: CONARD, - _USW S. ilaorner NINTH and MARKET Streets VYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH AND -a-A ARCH, have a flue stock of GOODS FOB FAMILY CUSTOM. Good Large Blankets. Good Linen Shootings. Good Muslin by the piece. Good Unshrinking Flannels. Good Test Colored ?lints. Good Table Linen and Tprels. Good Quality Black _ Good Assortment Colored Silks. ial CRIB -AND CRADLE BLANKETS. N. , Large Crib Blankets. Fine Cradle Blankets. EYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH and ARON GENTS , FURNISHING GOODS. ►l`tlE FINE SHIRT EMPORIUM, Nos. 1 AND 3 NORTH SIXTN. STRM. JOHN 0. ARRISON, (FORMERLY J BURR MOORS,) IMPORTER AND MANUFACTURER OF GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHLNG GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY AND AT MODERATE PRICES, N. B.—Particular attention given to the making of,Shirts, Collars, Drawers, &c FINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY. The subscriber would invite attention to his IMPROVED CUT OF SHIRTS, Which he makes a specialty in his business. Also, con. tinnily receiving, NOVELTIES TOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR. W. SCOTT,. GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE, /cm Sl4 CHESTNUT STREET, sal7•tf Four doors below the Continental. PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS,'.itc. JAMES •- S. EARLE & SQN, • IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OP • LOOKING _CitASSES. EIZEG:3O OIL PAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, PORTRAIT, PICTURE, and PHOTOGRAPH- FRAMES. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. EXTENSIVE LOOKING GLASS WAREROOMS AND GALLERY OF PAINTINGS, &Ma 816 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia. 617 ARCH STREET. O. A. VANICIRIL & CO. Have on hand a fine assortment of CHANDELIERS AND OTHER GAR FIXTITRES. Also, French Bronze Figures and Ornaments, Pomolida tad Mica Shades, and a variety of FANCY - GOODS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Please call and examine goods. deIMY Loon DOZEN HICKORY SHIRTS. AY, RED AND ELITE 1,000 do. 611 FLANNE'L SHIRTS. 500 do. { ABB O46VITERTE. 590 do. 11.02g,rw ED ITE C KUSLIN SHIRT? 1,000 do. DENIM OVERALLS. 10,0(/9 FAIRS COTTONADI PANTALOONS r ;: For sale 117 Brag.tlETT, RUCH, do CO:. 1a134m Manufacturers, 21.7 CEMIOM ALLEY" CAUTION. The weZearned reputation et FAIRBANKS' SCALES Has induced the makers of Imperfect balances to otter them as "FAIRBANKS' SCALES," and purchasers have thereby, in many instances, been subjected to fraud and imposition. "Fairbanks' Scales are manufactured only by the original Inventors, S. Sr T. .FAIRBANKS & CO., and sre edalpbd to, every branch of the business. where s unrest and durable Scalea is desired, • FAIRBANKS `& EWING,. General Agents• aplo-tf MASONIC HALL, 715 CHESTNUT ST. TE.R,RA COTTA :WARE. Fancy Flower Pots. • Hanging Vases. Fern Vases, with Plants. - Orange Pots. Ivy. Vases, with Plants. . Cassoletts Renaissance. LavaNases Antique. Consols and Cariatades. Marble Busts and Pedestals, • . Brackets; all sizes._ With .4 large assortment-of other FANNY GOODS, imitable fo ,•GELEISTMAt3 PRESENTS, most of which are manufacterod and imported for 'oar own sale% and will wet be fowl et any other 0441161m:tent. • • HARBISON. de. 1010 OHSSTNUT Street. Vrtss. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1.863 Counsel from Abroad. The ruling feeling among the British aristocracy and the British press is unmiti gated hostility to the United States. This feeling has existed ever since our-Declara tion of Independence, but became concen trated on that memorable first of June, 1785, when JOHN "ADAM- appeared at the levee Of GEouttE the Third, at St. James' Palace, London, as first - AinbaSsador from a newly-acknowledged nation,: the United States, which had conquered not only the armies of Great Britain (including the hired Hessians), but had humiliated the King hiMself - by that conqUest. There and then, presented to the King-a good Man in the main, but obstinate at all times, and mad at intervals-the - 'plainly-attired and frank- mannered American stood face to face with the - Monarch whose - tyranny lie had resisted and helped to defeat and humble, and before' the world tookhis stand as the accredited representathe of a still higher dominion than his own—of the Sovereignty of the People, At that time, perhaps, -there may have been other' diplematic repreSentatives of reptihheanisin at the Court of James', for:Si:nicer and Genoa, as well as- Switzer- ,]arid; Were!,Still:republics in name, though the two ; first' were ;essentially oligarelial in practice, but here:WaS: a plain man, with no hereditary or 'giventitle, with no riband at hiS hutten-hole,: no crosses or stars npon his_ breast, who stood in the presence ofhiS for , met lord - and master, as-man tO:lnan, greater in his: SiMple habit than WO s' the: King him self upon .the throne, asserting his newly liberated country's right to equalitV with all -nations under the blue and broad canopy of Itearen; Who; mitt the popinjays Of that . dint, represented the eternal spirit of free . Republicanism, which smiled, in silent . but e.Xpressive scorn; at the , glittering:gewgaws of Royalty., No 'wonder, as: Joint An.A.3m . says in his letter Written on the following day, 66 Thc.King Was indeed much affected, and I:confess I was not lesS so:" Different feelings then tugged at the heart-strings of the' two men. f One had been resisted and discomfited, before the whole hrotherhood of kings, the.other proudly felt, yet not without some personal pity for the monarch ; that Ile was there to mark the commencement of a new -era empire and in government. GEORGE the Third -"Was indeed much af fected," for his biographers record that, after this interview, he beeame reserved and moody, dejected and uncommimicative, and the mortification Which he sustained in the triumph of the Athericans culthinated, ere )Ong,il in,: actual insanity, which left :England; during the space of four months, wholly, &vaned' by the, second PITT, No Wonder that, ever:after, GOnot the ,Third Was nervous and troubled when . America was named'before him—nowonder that, as if by common consent, :all men:: tion,Of the ,United States wasavoided iu his Notwithstanding the, ugly feeling and scarcely-concealed dislike of .royalty for American independence _offended 'and af frighted every crowned head in Europeit came to pass that' the newly-established United States 4ourished and beoaine great; framed a. Constitution which, while it was ,; observed, knitted the North and South in patriotic action ; and grew into so great a nation that, in the war of 1812,15, the Americans .once more defeated the English; by sea as well as by land. We taught the insolent islanders to fear and-to respect, if they declined to' conciliate and love us. Ever. _since, notwithstanding the perpetnal prating, at Lord Mayor's feasts, of the two countries being 'one in blood, one in laws, and one in liberty," .Englanthhas disliked us :—the more so, perhaps, because those of her children whom poverty or op pression drove hither, as to an asylum. from the -Wrongs and sufferings of the old world, speedily came to love the land which re ceived and protected them, which gave them 'abundance instead of poverty, which accept ed them as citizens, rewarded their labor with competence and plenty, left them to worship God in their own fashion, shielded them under the togis of equal laws, onve free education to their Children, and ad%it ted themselves to the full exercise of the , elective franchise. The poet spoke truly when he said of such: And he, who came, of all bereft, To whom malignant fate had left Nor home, nor friends, nor country dear, Finds friends, and home, and country here. The British aristocracy never liked the_ "United State's; ;while the masses :of. the British people regarded ;this as a fair realm 'in the distant West, where honest label. and bold enterprise soon reaped a rich-reward.: Hence, the swelling : tide of emi,gration which has so largely filled out our popula tion during the last niV years. ' The British press, which generally toadies - royalty and; oligarchy, hae generally ;been unfriendly to our institutions, and has gladly; eagerly backed up such freespoken, unscnipulous critics upon onr :American institutions ,and manners, as Mrs. ITROLLOPE and Captain CHAR:LES Di 6KEN* and Captain ja24-tap4 The enmity of - British jonrrialisun hai been rather extensively developed since the com mencement of the present war. The Mies (partly owned by the stock-jobbing money- grubs, the lio'rSonii:ps,) took the lead, and, in order to influence publio opinion in England, sent hither a special- cor respondent,, who has : written, from arrival until: his departnre i as if his 'in structions tvereshhilar to those whick a bar riater once found upon his briefH We have no , defence, -but abuse -:the plaintiff's attor, neY as much as possible." ,: • Th,e Times never was mare heavily jo cose—its liveliness reminds one of a rhino ceros dancing on the tight rope—than in its recommendation, just received by the Saxe nia, that the United States Government shall dissolve itself ; that each State shall hive its separate sovereignty - declared; and that then, if so it 'pleased them, a new Fede ration of all .the States should .be made ; "under mutual compromises." The first of these, no doubt, would be to declare Slavery a:permanent, as it Is. a "peculiar in stitution," and to re-establish, by legalizing, the importation of negrees from Africa. In response to the kind recommendation. of Time Thims, : let tis give one, equally feasi ble, to England. itself. The United King dom consists of England, -.Wales, Scotland, and Ireland—England itself consisting, somewhere about a thousand years ago; of the seven Saxon KingdMits, (Kent, Sussex, Wes , sex, Essex, Northumbria, Mast Anglia, and Mercia,) historically Imown as the Hep tarchy. Let the British Government dissolve itself, as The IYMOB recommends; let England be . resolVed back to the separate Kingdoms which constituted the Heptarchy ; let, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland declare their " soie reign independence,"teaving each, as The says, "perfectly untrammelled to form its 01V11 connections for the future ;" and then, if possible, .‘‘ under. mutual. com promises," form a = new United Kingdom. One thing we know—namely, that if this were done, Ireland would not resume the yolm =which has oppressed her for centuries. If The Times' Tecommericlation. serionsly, it affords another . p - roof : or'Eutei poll, 'and especially of British, ignorance of : this.conntry, Otherwise,. im MIL of-sane mind could dream of breaking up the Uniou. as the best way OfprOerving its iutegity. L."X-QUEEN. OF NAPLES.—The Augsburg Oa alle states that the ex-Queen of Naples has at last decided to return to 'the world and rejoin her hus. band, Francis' the Second ; but, in accordance. with the wish of her relatives, she wilt not pass 'at once from the Cloister to the troubled life of n Court and will consequently stay' for - some weeks 'with her family at Munich. - • ' . PITILA,DELPifft. FRIDAY, FE THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE. The Recent Proclamations of Generals Ma gruder, Beituregard, and Commodore In graham, Reviewed Their Importance under the Existing Law of Nations Rela tive to Blockades—Are the Ports of Galves ton and Charleston Openl—Deeisions and V ieWS of Eminent Jurists and Diplomats upon the Subject, 54c. Immediately following the pronunciamienio of Ma gruder, declaring that the harbor of Galveston "is open for trade to all friendly nations," and inviting merchants to resume their usual commercial inter course with the port of Galveston, comes the intelli gence, through a Southern source, of the constrained departure of our blockading fleet from before Charles ton, and of..the issuance of another pronunciamicalo which formally declares the raising of the blockade of that port.- We are also informed (and it is in this connection the question assumes vital importance,) that the British, French, and Spanish consuls at Charleston had gone some distance out to sea to judge for themselves, and that then none of the blockading vessels were in sight, and that subse-, quently these - personages held a meeting, at which the opinion was unanimously expressed that the blockade had been legally raised. But the very day folloying Its disappearance Iliebloekadhl9 fleet reill7 . ll,S, and NO less than tzeenyl vessels arc seen off Charleston Whether thievery brief absence of the blocka ders from this port can be interpreted by interna tional law as a defeasance of the blockade and its operations is now the question which presents itself to the mind. The events arising from this rebellion will render necessary a new tome upon international law; for they are of a nature and character never dreamed of in the •philosophy of past writers on the subject upon the points now most interesting—'-how far the temporary absence of the blockading squad ton was an' abandonment of the blockade and Its operations, - requiring the usual notification to fo reimiPowers before it can be legally renewed. We have referred to the writings of Ortolan on ".Les Les Reglie:lnternationalis et Diplomatic de le Mer, ,, and of Hautefeuille on "The Rights and 'Duties of Neutral Powers in Times of Maritime War," and publish some extracts bearing thereon- We,_ also quote Lord John Russell's letter to Lord Lyons, of February 16, as essential to a full consideration.of the question. We also republish the ponanciamicntos of General Magruder and General Beauregard and Commodore Ingraham, with an account of the action taken by- the foreign consuls. The whole subject presented in this form will be read with much in- THE MAGRUDER PROM AIVIATION. - ,„ ttALVESTON, Jan. 4, 1863. Whereas, The undersigned has succeeded in oaptm= ring and .destroying a part of the enemy's fleet, and driving the .remainder out of the harbor of Galves ton and' beyond the neighboring waters, and. the blockade. having been thus effectually raised, he therefore proclaims to all concerned that the harbor of Galveston is open for trade to all friendly nations, and their merchants are invited to resume their usual commercial intercourse with this port. Done at Galveston, this the 4th day of January, 1863. J. B. MAGRUDER, Major GeneralOommanding. THE BHATTREGA.RD ANDINGRAHAII PRO- OLAKATION READQUAIriMES LAND AND NAVAL Foncos, CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 31, 1563. At about five o'clock this morning 'the Confe derate States naval force on this station attacked the United States blockading fleet, off the harborof the city of Charleston, and sunk, dispersed, or drove 'offend out of sight for the time being the entire hos file fleet. Therefore, we, the undersigned, commanders re spectively of the Confederate States' navy and land forces in this quarter, do hereby formally declare the blockade by the United Slates of the said city of Charleston, S. C., to be raised by a superior force of the Confederate Statesfroin and after this list day old - an:wry, A. D. 1863, G. T. BEA.U.REGARD, eneral Commanding. D. N. INGRAHAM, Flag Officer Commanding Navy Forces in South Carolina. Official—Tao:4as JORDAN, Chief of. Staff. THE FOREIGN CONSULS LOOK OUT TO SEA.. On the ant ult., according to the Richmond Dis patch of the 2d inst., General Beauregard 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. Rirey, accepted the invitation. The British con au , with the commander of the British war steamer Petrel, had previously gone five miles beyond the usual anchorage .of the blockaders, and could see nothing of them with glasses. The foreign consuls then held a meeting in Charleston, and were unani mously of the opinion that the blockade had been legally raised, THE ,BRITISH BRITISH AND FRENCH CONSDLS IN RICHMOND NOTIFIED [From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 2.] The blockade of Oharleston has been broken. The Secretor° of Stale has given notice of the fact to the Bri tish and Firench, consuls. By the strict rule of interna tional law the Yankees must give sixty days' notice before they can rc-establish it. The question is, whether •or not the Yankees will be bbund by that law, seeing that they affect to regard us as rebels, and therefore not entitled to the benefits of International law, and whether or not Lord Russell will allow their _claim of right to exclude us from such benefit. We have no doubt that the Yankees Will make the claim, and that Russell will submit to it. The whole conduct of the man during this war leads us to tills conclu sion. • In the beginning, it was maintained by thepn don Times, and no doubt by the English Ministii, that no nation hada right to blockade itreown ports, and that if the Yankees insisted on blockading the Confederate ports, they must acknowledge,them as no longer theirs. In other words, the blockade of our ports was insisted to be an acknowledgment of our separate existence. This was 'soon given up by Russell, if indeed he ever insisted upon it in Parlia ment which we believe he did, though we are not certain. Nor was it all. that he gave up. By the .treaty of Paris in 1856 it was decided that a blockade 'to tie respected, must Am:efficient: When called ran to explain what , would be crintidered an.efeelant: blockade, the Palmerston Ministry established the rule that the entrance and departure of live ships into and from a blockaded port was evidence that the blockade was not efficient, Now, instead of flve, five hundred vessels have' entered and left the port of Charleston since it was declared to be block aded. Yet the complaisant British Minister for Foreign AtThirs still regaids the blockade of Charles ton as effective. If, therefore, the Yankees restore the blockade without notice, we have no doubt that he will look with perfect nonchalance upon the capture of a number of British ships that may at tempt to enter. Be is quite too polite to give offence to the Yankee Adams. , Besides the glory of the deed, therefore, and the opportunity which the dispersion of the Yankee ships affords to merchant vessels to enter the port— and these considerations are of great moment—we do not see that any permanent advantage is to be derived. We have no idea that Lord Russell would take it in dudgeon were the Yankees to capture any number of English ships without notice. We must keep our ports open with the strong hand. Our sea men will do it if they are only permitted. ORTOLAN ON WHAT CONSTITUTES. THE RAISING OF A BLOJKADE. Whenever the naval forces employedlin maintain ing a blockade are dispersed or driven off by the supe rior forces of the enemy, the blockade is not only sus pended, but it entirely ceases. Neither diplomatic riotyl cation, the publicity of Me fact of the re-establishment of the state of blockade, nor even a personal notification, can hew the effect of precluding the communication of neu trals with the place previously blockaded. This is a ge neral law perfectly in accord with the principle that we have taken •as the fundamental basis of the rights of blockade. In effect, the delegated sove reignty which had up to this time held the place no longer exists from that moment—the enemy having reconquered by arms the exercise of their, rights over their territorial seas. JUDOMIITiT OF SIR WM. SCOTT, QUOTED nr ORTOL-IN. Ortolan quotes the following: In ajutgrct which he primounced in 1605, be fore the h.Court of Admiralty, Sir Wm. Scott expressed h self as follows on the subject of this right : When a fleet has been driven some distance to sea by some accidents of navigation, the belligerents holding the blockade must take that into account; 'for there is no reason to suppose that such a circum stance can make any change, in the system, because it cannot be expected that ahlockade will continue for several months without being subjected to similar temporary interruptions. But when ailed has been removed by some superior force, new events siTervene therefrom which may bring about other dispositions of the blockading force, and which will present, following in consequence thereof, *very different presumptions in favor or Me unto/ liberty of commercial enterprise. In a paral lel case a neutral inerchant is not obliged to foresee or to conjecture that the blockade will be re -Oita, blished ; and consequently, if the blockade shouldbe. renewed it must have recourse again to establi4ed usage, without regard to the preceding state °fal -1 fairs, which • has been e ff ectively interrupted. .)b is in v irtue of this principle that the court has er.. slated in the opinion that the first blockade celled to exist, and that it judged it necessary to renewlsnd, recommence the same measures, to bring it toithe knowledge of the neutral Powers, either by meat& of a public declaration or by the publicity of the fact. On the same occasion, Ortolan adds, the same wise magistrate continues as follows : What the court has already decided, on the best COraSiik , ration, is, that the raising of the forme?' blockade,* a suswrtor force was a total defeasance of Mat blockade' and its operetum.9. Whether that is a sound opinion or. not must be left to the determination of Vie Superior Court ; my ,persuasion, is that there could not be a Mote effectual raising of M blockade, and that ir - shoeild be renewed again by notification before foreign , selions could be afteded with an obligation of observing It as a blockade of that species still existing. Under thtlew I have already intimated my opinion that th mere appearance of another squadvin will not rest re it, but that the same measures would be. necessafy for. the recommencement that had been required ftrr the original imposition of the blockade,.arid that kirelgn merchants were not bound to act on any mitiump tion that it would be de facto resumed. CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WRICR'A BLOCK- ADING FORCE MAY TEMEORARMY:yirITH DRAW. a I •• _ O l The blockading forces may at anYmmetenibe.drfpersed or" destroyed by the superior forces of the' mein; bad weather or leant of provisions may place them hi the ne cessity to wilhdraw. From these considerations it may be seen that neutral Powers, although acquaint ed with the blockade by diplomatic notiticatlin, may venture, however, to sail ,for.the blockadedharbor, with the hope to flndite entrance opened—the possi bility being that the blockadehad been raised during the, Interval of their voyage. In principle suafi a fact is not a violation of the blockade, and hence is; not punishable. If a person who sails fora block aded port, and who limb, on' hie arrival the en trance of that port blockaded, and retires at the command of the blockading forces, the Intention which he might have had to enter the port in case the blockade was raised cannot be imputed to. as an ofience. (Ortolan, vol. 2, book 3, chap. 9.) KENT ON THE RAISING OP A BLOOKADE. Kent, agreeing with Sir. William Scott ,on what constitutes the raising of - 'a blockade, stye that, "when 'a blockade, is •raised vohntlarily, or by. • a superior force, it puss an end to it absolutely, and to all operations under, it, and diplomatic rwt(fira,- lion must be given de novo before it can be mecum:l.". D'HAUTEFEUILLE ON 'THE RIGHT OF . BLOOKADE. r On the right of blockade d'Hautefeuflie ears: According to primitive law, the right of Stockade is but the right of sovereignty belonging to eisch'peo pie upon its own territory, extending to a portion of the sea conquered either from 'his enemy of 'on the open sea itself. 'ln order, howqver, that tbs •bellige rent be master of.the place he intends to blOkade, he must hold dominion over its entrances ; hemust have them in his power, and bold them at the very mo ment of exercising that power. There is no con quest without real possession. In fact, no sooner does a conqueror abandon his prey and withdraw' than he ceases to retain possession of the portion of the territory belonging to his enemy which he had seized he ceases to be the master ;he abandons the sovereignty. The places fi rst acquired by force re turn to their former sovereign by the very fact of the retreat of the invader. This indisputable truth is applicable to all kinds of conquests, and, consequent ly, to that of the territorial sea of the exemy. In older that the belligerent Should haie the right to dictate laws upon a-foreign territorial sea, it is necessary, first, to have made the s conauest of that sea ;' second, to actually possess it,that'is to say, he must not only have acquirl sovereignty over it , but he must have preserved tha sovereignty. To acquire it, the employment of force and of ships of-war is necessary. No sooner than under an. circumstance, voluntary or compulsory, the vessels y ate withdrawn, the conquest ceases, and with tt the scveseignty, and, as a consequence,. the right to dictllte laws or to- establish a blockade. .lire must say, with C4xceitts : " Jus Mao! [mom dequirirtm RUARY 6. 1861 ormrponli, quatemis °cc - vas." In so long as the occupation. of fd place exists, so long can it be held. This rule of rsimitive law is absolute, and has no exception.ritime blockades must be sifective• they must be rosined by vessels actually on the spot: establishing,,by heir presence, the sovereignty or their Goverrim e t. In , section sec rl, page 21 a, d'Hautefeuille says: When veeselsappointed to maintain the blockade have withilrawiliind given up the port of the enemy's territory of which they were in charge, this port re turns to its forner owner. The open sea, if they are stationed beyoki the reach of cannon, which often occurs, must b considered no free.' The blockade has ceased to e st. Neutrals can again , communi nate with the rbor formerly blockaded; made free to all people an the territorial sea, whooe.original sovereign pern is . entrance thereunto. The, cause' which compelled e vessels ofwar appointed to tic blockade to withdraw is i different ; their retreat, • either voluntary or compulsory, 2 - manor or temporary, lies always for effecl-lo slop the lockade. 1 t often happens that winds, 2 the'state of th sea, the want of provisions, the ne. , cessity of refit ng the vessels, or to give some rest to the crews, xhaueted by fatigue or diseases, or, any fortuitouseaec, compel the ships to withdraw. Although thei should return to their position as soon:as the c se which compelled them - to leave it is removed, tl blockade will cease to exist during their absenceecanse their conquest has ceased as completely a if they had been , driven away by supe i., rior forces, o as if they had given it, up forever. The blockade a material result of a material fact, cannot exist 4- i the absence of this fact. • In support ef this opinion D'Hautefeuil le quotes a passage extracd from "Ortolan's Diplomacy of the Sea." Speaking o the righ I'S Of neutrals to enter a port, the blockade if which ,has, been temporarily raised, / D'Hautefeuilt adds: " 'There will no violation of the rights of the blocka ding belligerod the neutral vessel soils al the moment when the blocka fig squadron .has been driven out to sea or - separated by gate; in a word, at fhe vi when! in wldcli, by any Chtll7ll,4lflCC whatever, it has voluntarily or for cibly abandonedthe possession of the territoriat sea." EARL RUSMLL ON WHAT CONSTITUTES AN FFICIENT BLOCKADE. . EAR RIIIISELL TO LORD. LYONS. reamois OFFICE, Feb. 15, 1862, My Lonn : tr Majesty's Government hate liad under their co ideration the state of the blockade of the porta of Charleston and Wilmington. It' ap pears from thi reports received from her IVlajesty's naval otticers,nat, although a sufficient blockading foree'is statifned off those ports, various ships have successfullyeluded the blockade. A question might, therefore, tfi raised. as to whether such a blockade should^ be ponsidered as effective. Her Majesty's Govern Med, however,. are of opinion that, assmaintjrni the blockade is duly notified, and also that a number:of hips are stationed end remain at the en trance . of a tort, sufficient natty to prevent access to it, or to create n evident danger - Of entering or leaving it, and. that ese ships do not. voluntarily permit in gress or se; in fact, that various Ships may have successful. escaped through.it, as in the particular - instance& ere referred to, will not, of itself, prevent the blockatb rom being an effective one by international The tide sty of a force to maintain a blockade being alw s and necessarily a matter of fact and evidence, d one as to which different opinions may be entert. •d, a nentral State ought to exercise the greet • ...' 'on With reference to the disregard of a tie facto and otified blockade, and ought not to disregard it, eXCept IN lED. it entertains a conviction, which is .shared by n trals generally having an interest in the 'Matter, thtbe power of blockade is abused by, a State mih unable to iqstitute or maintain it, or l i. tmuditing, some motia or other, to do so: RUSSELL. rrom.fh oregoing extrads from the works of the learned,T tins on international law,. it is evident that contr letory opinions are entertained as to what constitute a defessance, or raising of a blockade. The quest 1, however, not intrinsically, perhaps, but as Shan to foreign Powers to extend our present imbroglio 0 that they.may become active and lie f Oared a tors against- us, as they have long fur tively bee, is an all-important one, and demands .the most meat attention of the Government.—iteur DEPAIFMENT OF - NORTH•C&ROLINI, A RepiOn in the Southern States — Thep. Opp . ° Conscription—North Carolina and Geoff: Asserting their Soverei guty— it The 4ielkimond Dynasty Condemned. (Spechil brrespondence of The Press.] 1 NEWBERZT, N. 0., Jan. 30,1803. NorthDarolina is accused of opposition to the - , Confedelcy. A-bill is now before the Legislature promisi!to raise ten regiments of North Caroli nianite ueively for State defence, and not under the cent of the rebel Government. This bill Is ably su rted.by a party who call themselves "Con emit " and violently opposed by another party vial . * North Carolina papers style the " De struct-K.": The Richmond papers are Had with diacuesibeem to the propriety and policy of • such a meaclui..kr characterize It as "a plot to break up the iinif f ht. the common government and prevent the exertion ctf, the fast conscription act." To the latter *baton the Raleigh Standard, by far. the most kueritial paper in the • State, replies as follows • . . , - 1 THE 'CONSCRIPTION. - „ The Wit of the Conservatives of North Caro lina, in ardto the conscription, is simply this: NO arolina acquiesced in the first conscription bill-a s ty—a Bernier resort to meet a pressing exigent which the foresight of the Government hod fail to provide against . But North Carolina has n ew acquiesced in the principle of conscription, l ent and net; wit/. She regards it as unconstitutional, des,poti and dangerous to liberty. Nor does she recog The right or duty of Congreseto pass such a law, cept under an overruling necessity, such as :was sa to exist when the first bill was passed. liar people ver have given their sanction to tho second comer ion bill, nor to the bill of exemptions pass ed at' ti late session of Congress. Those of her senate} and representativeie who voted for those bills be made to feel, at the proper time, at the . hi t e,theireonstituents, their stern and unquali fil ditlitoproval of those votes. Mark what we say. *Weave say thus-much, we are opposed to an y - cllous opposition` hi-- edtion to, or - an artruelesereLoroce- dur i gidnet the ir enforcement. We hold that it the ty of good citizens .to Atibey even a bad law, unt t can be legitimately 'iepealed. But we, ho nest believe that It would be unwise, unjust, and deer injurious to North Carolina to enforce those law) especially in our western counties, where theotre comparatively no atelier, and where their ovetowing patriotism has nearly emptied them of illig or working men. ming thisove hoped that the Legislature, at an rly day, without endorsing the principle of contiption, would respectfully urge upon the PreEnt the propriety of suspending the execution oftf law in this State, as he le authorized by the set do; at least, until an imperious necessity de mated it, and until all the other' States had an equ pro rata representation in the Contederate Art with North Carolina.. --. fr B the proposition to raiseten regiments of State relives was an independent one, and had nothing to do ith the conscription. 'V originated solely in a de sirdM the part of the Conservatives to protect our do• fatless Eastern brethren from alter ruin. The De sttives have never seemed to care a fig about the coitionw of our Eastern counties. They have op poevery State measure whteh has looked to their pro le The bill originated-first, in the conviction and as ance that the Abolition Government was determined to agate North Carolina, if it took 100,000 men to do it. i hey had almost poeitive evidence of this. Se cen4i, in the tacit admission of the highest Confede ra authority of its inability to affiord the amount of oteation which our authorities felt our Eastern 1 pe e -required. This is the gist of the whole miler. I view of the above fade, it will be apparent to e y one that the passage of the ten-regiment bill a 1 1 mended by the necessities of the case. The. f re of Poster in his recent raid must not be un detood to mean an abandonment of Lincoln's de, 14. A large. hostile force is certainlyboncentra te on our Eastern border, and we know not the• hir Ahen an advance of the enemy may be made. Ilewarned, let us be forearmed. litilt.. STEPHENS ON CONSCRIPTION. lot only has this opposition to conscription fully &loped itself in North Carolina, but it seems to. hts 'extended to other States. Hon. Linton s i hens,' a brother of, Vioe President Stephens, neatly delivered in the Legislature of Georgia an ale speech against the conscription. He denounces Our unconatitutionaliand unnecessary. The tfollow . gare a few of his remarks, from which it will be .4 that conscription is decidedly unpopular : 're menu of conscription is -the right to take lAW the' fighting men of the States against the NVi I both the citizens and the States. It is the rigt. make what you will of it, to coerce sovereign Sties. It is the • right which Mr. Lincoln is now elating over us, and which we are. resisting with , ourblood, and which, I trust,'we shall never cease to mist till the pretension is abandoned. Ido say it t tf, not with the intention to offend anybody, and I d 1 not believe, therefore, that I shall offend any. bed'; but I declare, conscription, as it presents it sel4o my mind, is, In its essence and its constitu tionthe very embodiment of Lindolnisni, which our gallot armies are to-day resisting. It'is a power in the petrel head to coerce sovereign States. "to justification has been placed - lon'the plea of ricessity. Sir, it is a feeble plea. . here never weepy necessity forit and there is none now. ThE i plea of necessity s generally a pretext, and' uncle vur happy Constitution, it is always untrue: Our emstitution was made. fur war as well as peace, and-ffe powers conferred by it on the different de partmys of the Confederate Government are ade quate all the necessities of war, without any en large tof them by doubtful construction, or by usurp on. .. " I you, sir, and I tell the people of Georgia; n i thaneoseription has been put upon them , and this great gong has been done to the rights of her citi zens, od to her soirereiguty, from no necessity,from no coeiction of necessity, but from premeditation -and delberation. It. has been a matter , of choice !With ter Government,' and they intend to adhere to,it to the end Unless you drive them from it, by rising %l the majesty of a free people, and calling them hick -to the landmarks of the Constitution. This, ar, is the great reason why 1 ask and beseech an expe, Baton from the Legislature of the sovereign State lf Georgia, u.pon this great violation which has bees perpetrated upon the ritpts of her oitizens and othe r sovereignty. The o„. 'ect to be accom plishe by such an - expression o .opinion on your pert, 1 to prevent its being drawn into. a precedent for yoir subsequent oppression; and induce your rulers' recede from the existing aggression upon your rights." • . . A REBELLION MATURING . . ~ . 13y . ese remarks, you can form wine idea of the rebell m which is being inaugurated against the rebel eneral government. The old' feeling of State soverignty, which the secession of the rebel . State, will, it, seems, , soon cause, their disruption. It ill ecentes the rebel leaders to deny this right of .. .. tlieir sovereign" States, as it hoe been asserted by them be .the cardinal principle of State govern men When we consider that the rebel papers w hile dge that the conscription act enforced, will barel meetthe waste of their armies in the field, it is ail rent that the South can never raise a larger arm an it now has. If, as it seems ;evident, the rebe tates_ehall refuse to comply with the late cons iption act, the rebellion' cannot Ring continue; but, n the contrary, we may behold the amusing spec cle of eacl4.of the rebel States cutting loose fro e Richniond dymistV, and setting up for then:O nly ~ Too much stress cannot be laid upon these sig f. the times. • A rebellion within a rebellion it is, a 1 nothing else. Thatmay mature I . it y !Idly ~ .. am 'ping : - . . . - S.. - • 'BBT BROAD MOUNTAIN TUNN'EL.—A seri— Gus culty between the contractor for driving the. tun I, Mr. Barry, and the partlea for whom he agr d to do the work at a low and it seems Imre = rativerate, has - taken place. It appears that oft vorking at.tbe tunnel for sometime, hlr.Barry fou that he would lose money by the contract. Ile en did not puah the work, and when rembn et d with for being slow; declared that he must f wo it to his advantage. Subsequently Mr. Barry watered SlIO,OOO in addition to the terms of his con ct,,if he would push , It to completion by the let January; 1863. It as not finished by that tim - andluither difficulty was inaugurated by ad dit al claims presented by Mr. Barry. The claims we not relognized, and the tunnel not being finish ed. the time specified, the parties resolved to hold DI .Barry to the terms of the original contract. Mr. '1 y, it appears, has now possession of the tunnel i hs leaded it, and plaenl a cannon.at the entrance the evident'determination to hold it until his cli . s are recognized 'and 'paid. We also learn that • M Berry demands as part 'of the terms for'deliver-' 'in p the tunnel the removal of a .illreetoc • .Of the ... I. le.Schuy Mill it atli o ad. ' DEPARTMENT OF THE SOUTHWEST, Carrying out the Proclamation in General Curtis , s Department—Organizing Negro Brigades. (Prom the Burlington (Iowa) hawk -Bye, Jan. 23,1883.7 ST. Lome, IKo., Jan. 24, 1863. The people have been looking in vain for the past aix months for the organization of the thousands of contrabands that have swarmed. around the camps of the Army of the Potomac in its marchings and counter marchings, for the, placing of the said con trabands in a position where they could render the country some service. But up to this Presentmo ment, after the proclamation of the President has beenissued, and a new policy is supposed to be in augurated in this particular, the same indifference is manifested as before. There are some, portions of the country where it is different Foremost in the great movement of striking the shackles from the hands of the slaves, and turning their labor to the. benefit of the Government which we are trying to maintain, the next day after the emancipation pro clamation was published, Gen. Curtis issued orders for the mustering into the service of the United States, of two negro regiments, which had been or ganiied in Kansas. . These regiments are composed of the slaves, in a great part, of rebel owners- who had gone South. They are officered, to a considerable extent, by men of their own color; have proved themselves good soldiers already by their endurance, their perse verance,' their cheerfulness, and the aptness with which they. acquired military proficiency. Several attempts bad been made to have them mustered into the United States service prior to the issuing of the proclamation, but they were unsuccessful. But the moment that was published, all doubts and all equi vocations were removed, and peremptory orders were at once sent forward by General Curtis to have them ranged under the banners of the 'Union. They are now at Fort Scott.. They are called the Ist and 2.11 Kamm colored regiments. The drum major of the Ist is an old, almost white headed darkey, who went through the Seminole war as a body servant of Gen. Jac.kson. One company in the tat is officered entirely from its own ranks, and one or two of its , officers are gradifates of Oberlin College. It is the best-drilled company in the regiment, executing not only the usual drills with precision, but also the more difficult movements in the drill of the Z0111771C d'Afrique. They were reviewed by Col, Chipman, chief of staff, on a recent visit to Kansas, and highly complimented 'for their soldierly bearing and conduct. They were undoubtedly the first negro regiments mustered intothe service of the Government under the proclamation of the President. Arrangements were also made, a few days after the first of January for raising a negro brigade, at Helena, Arkansas. For this purpose Colonel Shaw, of the 14th lowa, was empowered with the noses sary authority to proceed to thatpoint, and organize and " muster in troops to be raised from persons emancipated from servitude, for garrison .or other duty; as contemplated in the proclamation of his Excellency the President of the United. States, of the let of January, 1863." After the arrival of Gen. Curtis' army at Helena, slaves flocked in from all quarters. Greatly to the disgust of Gov. Phelps 11.131 i General Steele, General Curtis liberated them, and put them to work on the fortifications on that point. He even went so far as to have the cotton which had been seized upon by speculators taken away from them, and sold, and the proceeds turned over to the darkies who raised it. This, of course, was a most high-handed and outrageous proceeding, in the eyes of pro-slavery cotton speculators. Large numbers of contrabands have been em ployed there for the past year, in various capacities, as teamsters, laborers, nurses, and guides, rendering much valuable assistance. They are now to have an opportunity to strike a blow in behalf of the fieedom'which has been so tardily given to them, and every patriot will approve the policy which has inaugurated the"_movement, and . the promptness with which the general commanding this depart ment proceeds to their .Organization. There can easily be organized and equipped a dozen brigades of colored men in this department, who -would be of vast benefit to the Qovernment, in garrisoning bases of supplies, driving out guerillas, guarding_ train's, or even in the more responsible post of danger and duty on the field. If such a plan were adopted, we should see no more such raids in the . rear of our ar mies as have been permitted lately. And so far as it can be done in this department (part of which, it must be borne in mind, is not included in the President's proclamation), Gen. Curtis is determined it shall be. There has been a strong effort made lately, by the sympathizers''' in this State, to haveit delivered over to the rule of the civil tribunal% in order that the "institution" - might be shielded as much as possible, and rebel owners screened. It has not HIIC- - ceeded yet. ' . - Brigadier General' McKean, - of lowa, who- has served with much distinction in the Army of the Mississippi for a year past, has been transferred' to this department, and has reported for duty to• Gen. Curtis.-He will have a command in accordance with his ability and deserts. STATES IN IWRELLION. Affairs in Tennessee and Miesissippl-The Crops and the Weather-Personal Mat ters-Gen. Bragg still Unpopular, &c. We have received from our correspondent at Mem phis a file of the Jackson (Miss.) Appeal from Senn ary 17th to 22d, from which we make some extracts: REBEL LOSS AT STONE'S RIVER.- The Appeal of the 20th contains lists of killed, wounded, and missing rebels at the Murfreesboro fight from thirteen regoments, which foot up a total of 2,670.. As there were some 140 rebel regiments engaged in that fight, it would indicate a rebel loss of about 30,000 during the four days' fight. PERSONAL. The death at Canton, Mississippi, of Mr. P. N. Wood, is announced. Mr. Wood was born and nue. . tured in New London, Ct., but moved to New Or. leans thirty years Since. He was cattier of the Union Bank; then a partner in the banking business with Mr. James Robb, now of Chicago; cashier . and president of the New Orleans Gas Company; . and vice president .of the New Orleans, Jackson, ...I.Northern Railway.At the commencement of the rebellton-,-nrr:-wee.r-.....-.-.+.wula_TTnion man but afterwards became a Secessionist. - - The Appeal eayethat Hon. T. C. Reynolds, "Lieu tenant Governor of Missouri," has arrived at Rich mond, and that "by the recent deeth • of governor Claih. Jackson, Mr. Reynolds has become Governor of Missouri." If that is so, why don't "the Go vernor" come home and assume the duties of his officel The Bristol (Tenn.) . Southern Advocate m4B that Judge Everett, of Kentucky, died in that place, of delirium tremens, on the 3d instant. THE PIRATE FLORIDA. The Appeal feels sure that it was the pirate Flo: rids, Captain Newland Maf fi t, which, sunk the Fe- • deral gunboat Hatteras so mysteriously in Galves: ton bay: ADVANCE ON CUMBERLAND GAP.' Information was received' at Jonesboro, Tenn., on the 14th inst., to the effect that the Federal force was moving against Cumberland Gap. The Express says: "Warm work is expected there soon, from the indications of the times. Our forces are con fident of their ability to hold the place." WHEAT IN ALABAMA. . From every direction of the up country, we are Informed by private letters, as well as by individu als who reside in the wheatgrowing country of Ala bama, that the wheat crops generally never looked better than at the present time; and unless there is a great calamity befalling it between this time and the lst of March, the wheat crop of North Alabama will surpass anything in the shape of wheat that has ever been made in the State of Alabama.-Selaus Sentinel. . AFFAIRS IN MIDDLE TENNESSEE.` Our latest is from the Chattanooga Rebel' of the 16th. General Wharton who was in front of Bragg with his cavalry, sent ba cki word that the advance of the enemy from Murfreesboro was an assured fact. They had marched out In force, and were en camped ten miles in front of the town on. the night of the 14th. It was not believed that Boomerang had sent away any of his troops, as reported; but on the contrary, that he had been reinforcedpind wag busily engaged reconstructing the railroad and re building bridges between Nashville and Murfrees boro. The Rebel, referring to the enemy's advance, says " We are not altogether prepared to believe this movement as anything more than a feint on the part of Itosecrans, although it may prove a positive ad vance. If so, be will find no sort of difficulty in get ting a fight out of our boys." MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Sunanteur..-The Brandon (Miss.). Republican, of the 16th, says "In one beat in this county there are Thirty-seven small children and some twelve mothers who are now in about a state of destitu tion, and no provision under God's heaven made for them. This state of things is shameful. 'Ample powers have been given by legislative enactment to provide for the destitute families of our soldiers. Let those whom the duty is imposed upon see to it. It should be a labor of love, instead of compulsion." -Jackson Appeal. Giur. BitAoo.-The Chattanooga Rebel says of Bragg : That while according him credit for his abilities as an administrative officer, and for his energy and industry in organizing and subsisting an army, thinks he has two deficiencies as a general, namely, that he cannot command the affection of his troops, and has not the sagacity of a field mar shal. Says the Rebel: There seems to be from this distance two errors which Gen. Bragg will be called on to explain in connection with the battle in'Rutherford county. The first is, why he allowed Roseerand to en trench his lett and centre in an impregnable position within three miles of our llama. And the second, why he waited throughout Thurs day and half of Friday, before he repeated his attack. If a retreat were designed, why not have made R after the ,battle of 'Wednesday? If not, why wait, for the enemy to reorganize before again assailing him.) Pertinent:queries . these, and: they may be susceptible.cif easy answera. It looks to us as if General Bragg had clubbed .his forces and' made a rapid dash on. Thursday morning instead of Friday afternoon, he might have driven Rego:wane across Stewart's , Creck, and thence on Nashville before he had time to regain. Failing to do this, the fight on Friday afternoon' was inconsiderate, because as agrees that it was not necessary to protect or consummate a retrograde. AN INTERCEPTED.LETTER FROM ONE OF BRAGG'S OFFICERS. (From the Nashville e have been permitted to copy portions of a very amusing letter, written by Major B—, of Bragg's army, to his dear friend in this city,' which shows that the great akedaddier of Stone's river is no regarded as a Napoleon by all his officers. The letter is as follows! . Wartritac% Tenn. , .Tan. 10, 1863. DFIAIt : My young .friend, G. H. M., wrote you yesterday morning, sent the letter and a number of late papers by Mrs. • • • • Hope you received them. I have been here one week, Left liturfreesboro Sunday morning last, at daylight on the last train leaving there.' Did not know until 10 o'clock at night that we -intended to retreat the fol- . lowing morning, or rather, the same night. Do not believe the retreat was iiceessary. Do not believe General Bragg knew what he was doing; in other words, that he is not a man competent to command On the field. Every Tennessean is bitter beyond expression. Some Swear he is a fool.' 1 think myself he has been blessed WO very little sense, and no genius ; and you know I have no cause to think hardly of him. He has re! cently tied me promoted. Our official intercourse has been exeiedingly pleasant, mid This is mere. than many of his officers eon , say, for several of them have been wider arrest since the army left Mississippi. But it is useless to disguiee the fact that Bragg's 'career, an a commanding general, has eventuated inn disaster and disgraceful failure. Added to this, he is not .popular. II max go further, and say he is almost universally hated by all our troops, especi ally by the Tenneaseans. At the same time I think him a soldier. ,A man who hasp sense of duty, and will perform'his duty to the beet of his ability; that, he is a fine disoiplireirian and' an officer of splendid adminietrative,ability. But it is sheer folly to call him a general. * I I am of opinion that history will relate that all the battles around Murfreesboro were fought well, .contested with desperate valor, but that they were fought .without generalship. General Bragg at tacked and drove back their left wing on \ %refines ' day, because he had' massed his heaviest forces on -their right lying, believing from demonstrations made by the . Yankees. that their heaviest force was • there. Our attack on the left was successful ; as we drove the , enemyback the fight extemled gradually toward the right, hoping to' Move ftst one tilt - Wien afteranOther Until-the whole , envy would be forced t s o retreat. .But. having tireliktlltil ourselves on the. TIIR EE CENTS. right and centre, in order tcsenabletill to drive beck their right, we found on attacking their whole line that we were too weak to pierce his centre or drive back his right. So Wednewkrit'S baffle closed without a derisive result. We had car:Mired, it is true, thirty one pieces of artillery, upwards of three thousand prisoners, and held the battlehtleld, which. we con.. tinned to hold until we evacuated our entire de'. fences. But we had gained, you perceive, no deaf , - Dive advantage except on their right. They main tained their original position everywherrel haslng.re pithed the several attempts made to eamst'their position on the centre and right. On Thursday we were inactive except in taking: Care of the dead and wounded. We aecuredthe Oro. pities of the fight on the left, and shipped all'the prl gonerscaptured, cudnance,&c., safely to ChattisnoOs ga. On Friday evening Bragg foolishly (I can't - eon. scientioualy use a more expressive term), ordered* Breckinridge's divhsion to charge their centre-again. We took the first front battery of the enemy, bat after capturing it, discovered we were immediately under the fire of numerous other batteries that had' up to that time remained silent. The inevitable consequence was a hasty retreat, leaving the cap. tured battery on the field, to fall again into the' enemy's hands ; nor was this all—we lost many of our bravest and most gallant officers and men. Gera Ranson was wounded, and has since died. Colonel' Preston Cunningham was killed. Captains Womack, Savage, and Spurlock, of Warren county, were all dangerously wounded. Defeated in our design, repulsed with heavy ion, we retired to our former position. * • • • Early Saturday night the entire army commenced moving. I started 1111(71 long trains off crowded to over flowing with the sick and wounded. • • • • • • • Bragg discovered his mistake, and prepared for an evacuation, after /saving declared he would win that halite or die on the field. Our next line of defence will be immediately south of Duck river. Our headquar ters will be next to 'Tullahoma. THE FRENCH IN MEXICO. The Imperial Troops Advancing to Attack Pnebla—The Mexicans Prepared to make a Stont Resistance—The National Troops Capture Six Hundred Mules from the French Army, &e. Late Mexican papers, just received, contain the following interesting items: [Translated from El [Waldo. of the city of Mexico. January 4.) THE ENEMY ADVANCES. It is now beyond all doubt that the French are ad vancing, and that our army will soon find - itself face to face with the invader. The myrmidons of a tyrant, of an ambitious man, of an emperor who has neither honor nor conscience, are about to measure swords once more with the soldiers of the people, with citizens who defend their country and their liberty, who maintain their independence and their Political existence. We can give-no more or better idea of the injustice which attaches to those who trample upon our soil, or of the undoubted justice of the Mexican cause. The struggle is unequal, inas much as France lea powerful nation, the drat of the European continent, and Mexico , is weak; for du ring the years of her national existence as a sove reign Power she has passed through many struggles for the eatabliahment of liberal principles, for the conquest of reform. But if our enemies count on brute force, we depend on our decision, upon the bravery and determination of those who will not be trampled upon, who prefer death to the condition of slaves. The decisive and terrible moment, in which a single battle may settle the fate of Mexico, is now at hand. The hour for the great struggle approaches. It is indispensable, then, that we be prepared to resist and to conquer. There is no: sacrifice which at a time like this should teem great to our fellow-citi zens. Everything Must be regarded insignificant when we treat of the existence of the Republic. We have faith in the Triumph of Mexico over her invaders, and we hope that the blow which shall here be given to the French army shall be for the :benefit of humanity, in the overthrow of the op pressor of liberty. LANDING OF MULES AT' VERA. ORUZ. • Our correspondent at Tuxpan, under date of the 27th ult., writes us the following: I have spoken with a German who• has just arrived from Vera Cruz, and he informa.me that he saw eight hundred,mules landed at that city, which our sympathizing,neighbors, the Americans, have sent the French,' from New York. These mules must now be near Puebla. TRADUCING THE MEXICANS. The Heraldo says that the common practice of the paid French Journalists of Mexico is to run down the hlmelcanscand try to make it appear that they are barbarous, notwithstanding all the proofs of ci vilization and humanity which they have given to the invaders. The editor then proceeds to • recapttli late all the falsehoods against Mexico, indiscrimi nately copied into the French press. THE LATEST FROM PUEBLA' Proin'the correspondence of the ILA aldo ffejicano. Our worthy correspondent sends us the annexed : TOWN OF ZARAGOZA, Jan. 2, 1863.—The enemy is continuing to advance. It is said to-day that he has occupied Acultzingo with eight thousand men and thirty pieces of artillery. Those of his troops who were at Quecholac are now at Tecamachalco. They number six thousand men, with twenty-seven cannon. It is stated that the forces which covered Perote have begun to move, and there are some who think that they are now at Ojo de Jtgua • AU this clearly indicates an attack on this city; but we do not look for it until the UM or 20th of the present month. The intelligence has scarcely yet been circulated of the approaching visit of the enemy, and notwith standing, the enthusiasm of the garrison borders upon frenzy. There Is the truest joy among them and it would seem to you that these defenders of liberty are only preparing to take part in a great feast. There have been a good many merry meet ings, and the tone of the toasts, and the certain ex pectation of triumph are the best indications of the excellent morale which prevails in the garrison. This evening General Antillon arrived at the head of the brilliant division of Guanajuato. Last night the whole garrison were put in posi tion, as il" the enemy had arrived. The reserves were In position, the forte manned, and everything u2.vv,,,•.4 =aft _marked'preeislon, We are prepamel. raenty w i lt Wenn:yam willow, and foot to foot, and find us resolved to defend to the death the sacred soil of oar fathers. Adios! LATER - STILL. PUEBLA,' Jan. 2,1863.—1 n my last letter of yester day 1 Informed you that the French had occupied Acultzingo but afterwards I ascertained that this was not reliable, but that their advance had arrived at an estate near. to Acultsingo, called. I believe, San Simon. The telegraph office which was ordered to be esta blished at, San Bartolo, after being removed from Acultzingo, is now established atAmozoo. The city, since last night, has been, if possible, 'more completely fortified, to guard against a sur prise, however difficult it might be; but the general opinion is that the French will occupy Aenitzingo to-morrow, and, for the present, be content with that feat. General Carvajal is continually watching the movements of the enemy. FROM THE MINISTRY OF WAIL Lad night we received the following from the Minister of 'War: MINISTRY 08 WAR AND MARINE, PUEBLA, Jan. 3, 1883. [Received in Mexico at 8 o'clock F. 1.4 . .] The Minister of War : Last night the whole force of General Carvajal bivouacked at San Bartolo. The enemy had not moved. I have just received a de spatch stating that the commander of the Fourth squadron of Zacatecas---Pilar Pillareal, has passed through Tecamachalco and Quecholae—two points occupied by the invaders, and taken one• hundred and thirty mules from them. I have also this mo meat received another despatch,whlch says that the National Guard of Olacotepec have captured near Palmer five hundred mules, which were on their way for the invading army. 1 have to-day given directions that everything' captured from the enemy shall be prize to the cap tors ; and with reference to these beasts of burden, I have only stipulated this condition, that they shall be sold at these headquarters, inasmuch as they may be useful for the public service. I had forgotten to say that Acultzingo is neither occupied by our forces nor by those of the enemy. There is no other news. JESUS G. QRTEG.&. MARVEL MARIA DE SANDOVAL. 'MEXICO, January 3, 1863. THE PNEUMATIC DESPATCH.—The trans mission of parcels and small goods from station to station, through a confined iron tube, by means of atmospheric exhaustion and pressure, will soon be begun. The London and Northwestern Railway Company having granted a site for a station, and receiving house rent free at Euston Square, a few yards from the clearing house, the directors of the Pneumatic Despatch Company at once commenced operations by laying down beneath the road way of - Upper Seymour street a line of iron tubing about half a mile in length and extending from that terminus to the post office in Eversholt street, under the superintendence of their engineer, Er. T. W. Remmel. • Within the iron tube, which Is about two feet nine inches high, and two feet six inches wide (its section being similar to that of a railway tunnel in miniature); are two small led ges, or rails, on which the wheels of the small cars bearing the parcels will run. These wlll be propelled backwards and forwards, on the signal being given by the exhaustion and pressure of the air in the tube. ' The immense disc and chamber • in which it revolves have been removed from Batter sea, and are being erected within the walls of the station and receiving-house.. The disc or wheel is twenty-one feet in diameter. It Is composed of three sheets of, wrought-iron, the two which form the outside being each about an eighth of an inch in thickness, while the centre and smaller plate is about a quarter of an inch thick. These are screw ed on to sixteen spOltes, which radiate from the centre of the wheel, and thus form thirty-two omit ties, there -being a distance between •the plates of the rim, of nearly two inches. Air chambers pass beneath the disc, which• are exhausted by its revo lution in the race chamber. The wheel will be worked by a diagonal direct-acting high-pressure en gine of about tifteen-horse power. As regards the speed which will be attained, the railway company have only;stipulated for a minimum of fifteen miles, but from experiments it lute been shown that a speed of 35 nines can be attained. This, no. doubt, will nrove a most important acquisition. to. the post office in the quick delivery of the malls. A number of workmen are now engaged in the con struction of this line, which is expected to. be finished in about a month's time. Arrangements have been made with Messrs. Pickford & Co., who have offered .a site for the , proposed station in Ow sham street, at a small rent. It is also proposed to Conn stations at Smithfieldtuid Holborn 11111, which , will be suitable for the large parcels traffic. A FRENCH COUNT AND A GIANTESS.— The Nantes Tribunal of Commekee has'just given judgment in an action, brought by a Madame Fouilld against Count de Boni!, to recover .500f1 for breach of contract, under the following' curious emenm struicea ,D,otwithstanding his aristocratic tank, to which it appears 'he is by birth entitled, the de fendant hae, for some time past been travelling the country in a caravan exhibiting his Countess, popularly known as "La Belle Norinonde,” In the character of a giantess. While recently exhibiting at Nantes the Countess suddenly resolved to retire from :public life but the Count, unwilling to relin quish, so lucrative a business, determined to end another phenomenon of the same kind, and after some time discovered what he wanted in the person• of a widow, named Fouilliti a dearer in second-hand clothes at Saumur. A bargain was concluded, and duly signed, by which the widow, a woman of huge size, engaged to act in the threefold capacity of ser vant, dame de compagnie, and giantess, for a salary of 160 f. per month, and one.fourth part of the sums collected from the speotators 'after each ex hibition in the caravan. She was also bound never to go outside the caravan except very early in the morning or after dark at night. The agree ment likewiaoeontained a clause by which each of the contracting parties would incur a forfeit of 6001.0rr case of not fulfilling its conditions. The widow was duly installed in the caravan, but owing to some difliculties raised by the Countess, she was dis charged before appearing in her public character, and she in consequence sued the Count for the amount of the stipulated forfeit. The, defendant alleged as his reasons for discharging •The plaintiff that site was an indifferent cook ; but the Tribunal --considering that cooking was not the principal object of her engagement as was evident from the high salary promised, and that she had not failed as a giantess—decided that sb..e. was entitled to the for and condemned the defendant to pay the 600 f., with costs of suit. • THE WAR PRESS. (PUBLISEBD WICINLY.) Tint Was Parma will be sent to anbaiwibere by mall (Per annum in advanoe) at 31.00 Five " •• 9.00 Ten « 17.00 Twenty Copies•• « 32C.9W Larger Globe than Twenty will be charged at Ms lame rate, 81.00 per copy. The money mutt ahem,* accompany the order. need in no instance can there term,, be . devAateelfram, as th e . (Word very We more than the coat of the paper. App Postmaaters are re:me/aid to act as agents fee Tint Wig Paseo. To the gettermp of a Club of tan or tweas, extra copy of the Paper will be given. Western Gulf Blockading Squadron. FLAO SHIP HAI:F.I7OHD, mew ORLEANS, Jan. 8, UAL 7l Me Editor of The Press: Sta : The following casualties occurred on board' the vessels of this squadron in the harbor of Galress. ton, on the znoraing of Jan. 1, IMO: arrIPBOAT oWbaeok Thomas Jeff, coxswain, allot through heart. Woundcat'. L. (1. assails, acting master, shot in thigh. Frederick Saunders, ordinary ecaman shot througis shoulder and Icings, mortally. Isaac P. Hughes, seaman, fracturedskulf, severety. John Cormey, seaman, fractlired ekuil, severely. William Reed, captain of forecastle, shot in right arm. John Ronan, ordinary seaman;. allot irr left thigh. Frederick Ether, landsman, shot in left thigh. Charles Burnham, captain of afterguard, shot be face. Titus Freeman; colored, landsman; shot in leg. Michael Rick, coal heaver, shotin eye, severely. W. 3. Murphy, landsman, shot in.hand: Henry Brown, aalimaker's mate, arm' slightly. CleOrgeHozier, captain of afterguard, arm, slightly. James Pomeroy, landsman, arm, slightly. CLIFTON (STEAMER). John Diggins, captain of torecaatle; freetureitelml4. severely. SAOHEM (BTRAMER): Philip Duty, landsman, fractured • shell; mortally. wxsziPt arm (STEAMER). • Missing. Commander William 13. Renshaw. Lieutenant Charles W. Zimmerman. Acting Resistant Engineer W. R: (Rem: John Calahan, gunner's mate: Samuel P. King, quarter gunner. WimamiEmer coxswain. Rudolphus C. Hibbard, seaman: Henry Bethke, seaman. Peter Johnson, seaman. Matthew McDonald, ordinary seaman. Hugh McCabe, second-class - ttremam Wm. Reeves, second-class fireman, George E. Cox, second-elate fireman. The above are supposed to have been killed by the! explosion of the magazine. Killed Wounded ... Missing IS No returne have been received from the Lane. I am; very respectfully, your obedient servant, J. W. FOLTZ, Fleet Surgeon. Bear Admiral D. G. Fax.neouT, commanding W. G. Blockading Squadron. Hans Christian Anderssen. J. Boss Browne, on his way to Iceland; visited the well-known writer, liana Chrietian.Andeteene He gives the following highly interesting asconnt of the interview : • " Come in I Come in !" he said, in a gush of bro.- ken English. "Come in and sit down! You are • very welcome t Thank you! thank you-very much l I am very glad to see you! It is a-rare thing to meet a traveller all the way from California--quite a surprise ! Sit down! Thank you!" ' And then followed a variety of friendly• - ments and remarks about the Americans. He liked them ; he was sorry they were so unfortunate as to - be engaged in a civil war, but hoped. it Would soon be over. Did I speak French? he asked, after a pause. Not very well. "Or German?" "Still worse," was my answer. "What a pity !" he ex claimed, "It must trouble you to understand 'my English I I speak it so badly. It is only within a few years that I have learned to speak it at nit" Of course I complimented him upon his English,- which was really better than I had been led to , expect. "Can you understand it 1" he asked, looking earn estly in my face. " Certainly l" 1 answered,' "al most- eve word.,' "Oh, r thank you! thank you! You are- very good !" he cried, grasping me by the hand, "I as very much obliged to you for understanding me I" 'I naturally thanked him for being obliged to me' - and we shook hands cordially, and mutually thanked one another over and over again for being so ami able. The conversation, if such it could be called, flew from subject to subject with a rapidity that al most took my breath away. The great improvisator dashed recklesslyinto every'American traveller, but with the difficulty of his utterance in English, and the absence of any knowledge on his part or my name or history, it was evident he was a little em barrassed in what way to oblige me most; and the trouble on my side was, that I was too busy listen ing to Lind time for talking. "Dear ! dear! And you are going to Iceland Pt he continued. "A long way from California. I would like to visit America, but it is very dangerous to travel by sea. A vessel was burned up not long - since, and MAIM" of my friends were lost It was a dreadful affair." . In looking over his collection of booksj said that. I knew at least half-a-dozen youngsters who were as well acquainted with the "Little Match Girl,"' and the "Ugly Duck," and the " Poor Idiot Boy ! " as he was himself; and his name was as familiar in California as it was in Denmark. At this he grasped ' both my hands; and looking straight in my Taos with a kind of ecstatic expression, said : "Oh; is it pos sible ! Do they really read my books in California I so far away ! Oh ! I thank you very much ! ' Some of my stories, I am aware, have. been published in • New York , but I did not think they had found their way to the Pacific coast. Dear me! thank .you! Rave you seen my last—the—what do you call it in . English—a little animal , '— " Mouse," I suggested. .No ; not a mouse ; a little animal with wings." "Oh, a bat." "Nay, nay ! a little animal with wings and many legs. Dear me! I forget the name in English, but you certainly know it in America—a very small animal !" In rain I tried to make a selection from all the little animals of my acquaintance with wings and many legs. The ease wasgetting both embarrassing and vecatious. At length a light broke upon me. "A mosquito !" I exclaimed, triumphantly. "Nay, nay !" cried the bothered poet; " a little animal with a hard skin on its back. Dear me, I can't remember the name I" "Oh, I have it now," said I, really desirous of relieving his mind—" a - flea!" At this the great improvisator scratched his head, looking at the ceiling end then at the floor, after which he took several rapid strides up and arc;vvsl., and atruok hisnagar on the fore- • head. Suddenly grasping up a pen, he exclaimed, somewhat energetically - "Here!l'll draw it for you !" and ferthvrith he dre - W on a scrap of paper- a diagram. A tumble bug," I shouted, astonished at- my former stupidity. The poet looked puzzled and distressed. Evi dently I had not yet succeeded. }Phut could It bet "A beefier' I next ventured to suggest, rather disappointed at the result 'of my previous guess. "A beetle ! A beetle !—that's it ; now I remember —a beetle!" and the delighted author of "The Beetle" patted me approvingly on the back, and chuckled gleefully at his awn adroit method of ex planation. "I'll give you The Beetle,' " he said, `you shall have the only copy in my possession. 13ut you don't read Danish ! What. are we to do There is a partial translation in Prench—a mere notice." "No matter," I answered. "A specimen of the Danish language will be very acceptable and the book will be a pleasant souvenir of my visit... He then started into the next room, tumbled over a dozen piles of books ; then out again, ransacked the desks and drawers, and heaps of • old papers and rubbish—talking all the time in his joyous, cheery way about his books and his travels in Jutland and J his viait to Charles Dickens and his intended our ney through Spain, and his delight at meeting ft traveller all the way from California, and whatever else Game into hie head; all in such mixed-up broken English, that the meaning must have been utterly lost but for the wonderful expressiveness of his faze and the striking oddity of his motions. It came to me mesmerically. He seemed like one who glowed all over with bright and happy thoughts, which per meated all around him with a new intelligence. His presence shed a light upon others like the rays that beamed from the eyes of "Little Sunshine." The book was found at last, and when he had writ ten hie name in it, with a friendly inscription, and pressed both my hands on the gift, and patted me once more on the shoulder, and promised to call at Frankfort on his return from Switzerland to see his little friends who know all about the "Ugly Duck," . and the "Little Match Girl," I took my leave, more delighted, if possible, with the author than I had ever before been with hie books. Such a man, the brightest, happiest, simplest, most genial of human beings, is Hans Christian Anderssen. PENNSYLVANIA. THE STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM.—The an nual report of the trustees of the State Lunatic Asylum, located at Harrisburg has been published. It presents and discusses a variety of topics relating to the. management and operations of the Asylum, and represents the institution as in a most flourish-. ing and gratifying condition, meeting the expeetts-, tions of its projectors, and coming up to what could reasonatry . be hoped for from any institution of a like character. One hundred and nine patients were admitted into this hospital in the course of the year, which closed December 31st, 1862: nudes sixty-four, and females.. forty-five. One. hundred and twenty-two patients were discharged : males seventy-one, females _fifty one. Three, hundred and eighty-nine were . under treatment during the year, while the number ro• loathing in the hospital on December 31st, 1662, was two hundred and sixty-raven : males one hundred and forty-four, females* one hundred and s twenty-- three. A HUMILIA.TINOINCIDENT:--In a convivial. party of Secession eympathizers, last evening, a fel low in the uniform of the United States Govern. ment, nourished asommisaion as an caner in the. army, and drank a toast to this erect ic‘ Jeff. Davis, the next President of abc.U.nited : States, to be inaugurated ine ne.at. four months P , .This : sentimiat startled even the-butternuts: present,- and the poor coward who utteredit was left: to'driiik his own tenet in silence. . We have heard that a movement-is on foot to Cr. rest thin traitor. Ile is from Alleghenycounty.—Her-. ridrireg Teleijrapli; Feb. 5. QUICK RAILROAD BUILD/NO.—Alm . Orate.. ford Journal, of Meadville, gives an. account of ban , quet given on the completion of the railWay,extend- , log from the Erie road to Akre Ohio., The ,Prest dent stated that in the short od of, seven months the means had been furnish and the work, virtu ally completed on the road, ilfamiles . long. That is about a mile a day. English, gentlemen.. furnished thechief part of the capital. A,banker ofirdadrid, Don Jose de Salamanca, advnnced..about a, million dellars at the outset to carryon the. work, We think that the despatch in linnet meting the road is unpre cedented. ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, near Lemon Place, Mr. Barton McGuigan, fireman on a freight train, met with an accident which-resulted in-his irustant death. While in the act of getting a shovel of coal the tank became detached from the engine, and falling across tke, track the whole train passed over his body, severing it in two. Ills remains were conveyed to hisuesidence nt•Paoli. He was a faithful employee. raid &pleasant and agrotable man in all his business transactions. BETILLEREM MURDER: TRIAI..—In the. Northampton county mutt, January teem, John H. Clark and Joseph Pigeon, twocolored - men, indicted; for the murder at. Abraham. Benner of Bethlehem, last fall, were. tried. Clark was found guilty of. murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the. penitentiary. for one yenatand three months. Pigeon, was acquitted. D1IAFTI:17) DELINQUENTS.--since the ail. of December lest, 211 delinquent drafted militia, and SO deserters from various regiments, have been rested by the provsst marshal of Berke counti - , and the dere - hies acting under him, and sent to the mgt.. numbs to which they belong. DEATH OP AN OLI) PHYSICIAN.—Dr. Geo. Reslenaur, the oldest physician of Lebanon, died su4ldenly on Thursday evening of last week, in the eighty-third year of his age. Re haa been& success ful practising physician Through thatifc time of the present generation. 'UNUSUAL—During the early part of the week, some of the farmers of Dauphin county were busily engaged in ploughing their fleas for corn and oats, the ground having been thoroughly thawed by the influence of the mild weather of the previous week. The scene was an unusual one for mid-winter. EASTON COURT HOUSE.—The Grand Jury at the January session recommended that their new court house be sold if a reasonable price oan be obtained for it, and the prooeeds he applied to the erection of a new one in a more convenient locality. CONVICTED.—WiIIiam and August Kurtzman, • the Bethlehem Seminary burglars, nave been found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for the term of two jests allti eight months.
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