Vrtzz. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 18G8 46W We can take no notice of anonymous commu icatlons. We do not return rejected manuscripts. 1161-Voluntary correspondence solicited from all pacts of the world, and especially from our different military and naval departments. When used, it will he paid for. CONGRESS. xATE.—Petitions we: e presented in favor of national currency, anti in favor of a camp and ambu lance corps. Fesolutions wero adopted asking for the transmission of the maps and reports matte by Capt. Mullan, in his survey of the new military road from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Benton, and in structing the Committee on Finance to inquire into the exi Money of rept aling the duty on paper. A bill to punish frauds on the revenue was introduced and referred. After the disposal of a number of pri vate bills the Senate went into executive session, and subsequently adjourned. Honsu.—After the disposal of n number of hills from the private calendar, the House took up the New York and Illinois ship-canal bill, and nOndlng its consideration adjourned. TIIE LEGISLATURE. SENATL—After the reception of a number of pe titions, bills were intn.ilueed relating to the Susquo henna, West Branch, Atlantic, Philadelphia, and Wilkesbarre Telegraph Company ; a bill to autho rize the trustees of the railroad stocks of the city of Pittsburg to sell or assign the same, and a supple ment to the act relating to lunatics and habitual drunkards. The bill authorizing the Lehigh Navi gation Company to extend their railroad from White Haven to Mauch Chunlc, came up in order on third rending, and was considered at length, and finally passed,.when the Senate adjourned. HOUSE.—The supplement to the act to secure the lights of married women was taken up, considered, 'and passed. An act to authorize cemetery corn 'Melee to make investments in State or Go vernment stocks was considered and passed. An act to prohibit the use of deleterious drugs in the mannfacture and sale of intoxicating or alcoholic liquors was rrn:l in Committee of the Whole, and was discussed at length, when the bill was recom mitted to the Judiciary Committee, and the House adjourned. THE NEWS. A tarmac from Guatemala gives an interesting der-wiption of an earthquake which occurred there on the 19th of December last. The quaking and trembling of the earth commenced about seven o'clock in the morning, while nearly all the popula tion were in the streets, marching churchward, with music and other proud (Henley ; suddenly the music ceased, and nil was quiet except the buzz of the praying populace, in a half-audible tone, calling upon "Mary" and all the imaginable saints for deliverance. Probably half were upon their knees, many upon their faces, and the rest stag gering like tipsy people towards their homes. The earth's crust was agitated like a tea kettle cover when the water has a superabund ance of heat. The rumbling continued but two or three minutes, but in that time the wall and frame of every house was cracking and creaking, and it is said that the clappers of some church bells struck merely from the undulating, motion of the earth. “Antigua," a few leagues from Guatemala, and which was twice before shaken to dust, is again in utter confusion from similar shakings ; and so with several other adjacent towns in the more immediate vicinity of one of the principal but inactive vol canoes. In all, however, the aggregate of lives lost . will not reach fifty, and they are of the more pious nuns and priests, who occupy the older anti more ele vated walled buildings. THE will of General Philip Kearney was admitted to probate in New York yesterday. The will is ori ginally dated at Parts, January 6th, 1861, but a sp itball to the same is dated at Washington, March 17, 1e.e.2, and is witnessed by General Daniel Butterfield and Wm Forsyth, surgeon, of Washington Oity. Though the deceased was a resident of New Jersey, still, as he left property in New York, the will had also to be admitted by the surrogate of that county. The original will commences, "I, Philip Kearney, formerly in the U. S. army, a Chevalier of the Le gion of Honor of the Empire of France." To his wife he bequeathed the sum of $4,000 per annum, with use of the real estate at Bell Grove, New Jer sey, to his son, John Watts. To his daughter, Susan Kearney, he oequeatited the sum of $lO,OOO. The settlement of the income of $BO,OOO, and the principal sum of $lO,OOO to his first wife, Diana Builitt, the testator desires, on her decease, should revert to his children by her. To his daughter 'Virginia, lately born to him, he bequeathed $5OO per annum until she reaches her fifteenth year. The executor is his cousin, Edward Kearney, of New York. A NoTourous fellow, named Dr. J. V. C. Bradley, of Saratoga, N. Y., eloped last week with the wife of Mr. John Orr, of Providence, of that county, each leaving a companion, with one child. Bradley had been doing the county some ser vice in its jail, and after his liberation loafed about without any visible means of support. Be'. fore he ran away he went to hie wife, the daughter of a respectable citizen of Galway, who was living with her father, and told her that he had got a situa- Hon; that she must pack up all her effects, and he would send a team and get them, and would also _come for her and her child with .a horse and cutter. stripping his - wile anecT lini k rat r vay / :%.I..t ot !' - world, except clothing necessary for them to wear on the journey. Mrs. Bradley got all ready, and he finally came and told her he must go about two miles for some shirts he had, but would soon be back for her. The villain want directly to Orr's, and took Orr's wife and left, since which nothing has been heard of either. Mn, HENRY V. SILVE.rtICA I L has recovered, in the Columbia County Court, the aum of nine thousand dollars from the New York and Harlem Railroad Company, for damages sustained by him as a pas senger upon the defendants' road, on the 31st of De cember, 1861. It was conceded that the accident happened through the carelessness of the conductor of the train upon which the plaintiff was a passen ger. He was running his train out of time and in violation of the rules of the company, and was also charged with negligence in other respects. This negligence of the conductor was in law imputed to the defendants. He was their agent, and they were responsible for his conduct while performing the duties of agent. THE Secessionists in the Kentucky Legislature held, a caucus at Frankfort on Thursday night last, and resolved to run Lazarus W. Powell, who now dishonors it scat in the United States Senate, for Governor, at the August election. General Boyle's orders would not allow disloyal men to vote for the past two years, but they now avow their determina tion to do so at all hazards. They say they are , pledged assistance from Indiana and Illinois, to which States they propose to send secret committees at an early day to arrange preliminaries. An Illi note copperhead was present, and assured them of aid from that State. Or Wednesday last, the frozen body of a colored man was brought from Virginia and left at a station house in Washington. The deceased was a wood chopper. He had his little son (about twelve fears of age) with him at his work, but wanting to grind his axe, they wandered away together, and in the woods the father getting chilled,. sunk under the effects of the severe cold weather, and was frozen to death ; the son remained with him and was badly frosted. The boy then reached a neighboring house, where a wagon was procured and the body brought to Washington. The region in which he was working is beyond Fairfax Court House. • MAJOR GENERAL GRANGER, commanding the Army of the Kentucky, offers a reward of one thou sand dollars for the murderers of Major James Sud -" duth, a loyal citizen of the United States, residing ' in Owingsville, in the county of Bath, Ky, who, while alone at a private house within hie county, on the night of the 18th of October last, was surround ed by a large body of men, supposed tale part of the command of "Trigg," and after he had surrendered, without malting any resistance, was brutally mur dered. It; a late editorial of the London Times, which, for ft wonder, condemns the retaliatory proclamation of Jefferson Davis, it says " The South should remem ber that they were the first to draw the sword in this quarrel; that they rose against an established Go vernment in the exercise of its legal functions; that they obtained, by the agency of traitors in that Go vernmedt, a considerable supply of arms and money, and that that Union which they seek to dissolve is, es events have proved, the dearest wish of every American heart." FIVE refugees have arrived at Louisville, direct from East Georgia. They represent the country as in a most deplorable condition. They have each lost every dollar's worth of property they had, including slaves. They all cordially endorse the policy of the Government respecting negroee, and declare it a policy that, if vigorously carried out, will soon ren der rebellion harmless. They say there is still a very considerable amount of Union sentiment in East Georgia, but that it is'worth a man's life to let it be known. Tux prisoners captured in Galveston numbered six hundred and twenty-five non-commissioned of ficers, privates, and sailors, and a colonel, three captains, and six lieutenants. The regiment has been in service only four, and absent from Massa chusetts but three, months. A RESIDENT of Jane street, : New York, has ob tained a verdict of VW against a man who put up a boiler factory near his house, and made such an in tolerable noise in hammering rivets that plaintiff's house was almost uninhabitable. The theory of -the decision is that noise is a nuisance, when there is enough of it. A niLl. hee been introduced into the Legislature of South Carolina entitled.," A bill to amend an act entitled an act to organize and supply negro labor for coast defence, in compliance with requisitions of the Government of the Confederate States, and to authorize and direct the Governor to proceed to fut silsh negro labor under said act." THE American Bank Note and National Compa; mien are now each running two hundred and fifty presses. They arc still engaged on the old Govern anent contracts, and print over $1,000,000 per day, of which $200,000 is postal currency. No headway has RD yet been made with the one hundred millions legal tender notes, Tim eitizene arrested for attempting to resist the authority of the Government, in arresting desrters in Morgan county, Indiana, have been handed over to the civil authorities, and will be tried before the • United States Circuit Court, now in session. AN EFFORT is making in the New Jersey Legisla lure to have the work on the geological survey of 'that State resumed, under direction of the State Agricultural Society. • Aeconnixo to a statement of the New York Bank Superintendent, the entire amount of Govern ' :went securities held by the banks of that State is 4153,531,000. A RAILROAD accident occurred at Stubenville, In diana, on Thursday. All the passengers in two cars were more or lees injured. One ear was broken to pieces, and another destroyed by fire. Our troops took possession of Franklin, Tennes see, Sunday night. General Forrest and his staff narrowly escaped capture. • The Tide Turning. " G. W. LEE, General Commanding," is ill trouble. It seems that this officer is in command of a Department in the South, with his headquarters at Dahionoga, and that among other things his duty is to sup press insurrections, " and generally to re store tranquility to this part of the coun try." It seems that a number of deserters, tories, and conscripts are now in Georgia and North Carolina, resisting the laws of the Confederacy. These insurrectionary movements seem to have more than usual meaning, and to have been more than usually momentous, for LEE Offers a full amnesty to those who furrender, while those who persist will be tranquilized by the musket. "It will be a fruitless attempt," he says, "to war against the Government, and must result in the most disastrous defeat to all who may be so deluded as to attempt it." In this good work he is assisted by " Jostmn E. IhmowN, Governor of Georgia." In Alabama, we have another appeal from the Governor, who is afraid that the enforcement of the conscript act will lead to a popular commotion. "Alabama," he says, "must be trite to herself, and do her duty in the .emergency." He regrets to find many patriots lingering about their homes, and he calls upon them not to let their brothers bear the burden of an unequal contest, and he implores the people to give aid to the conscription of ficers " in arresting and coercing those who yield to no gentler means." In North Carolina there is a grievous complaint from Governor Valve; commanding the strag glers to return to their Colors. These de clarations appearing at the same time indi cate great changes in the South. The tide is turning, and the men who have ridden upon it seem likely to drift into infamy. Perhaps the proclamations of LEE, Sawa to, and Irimiccr. are the answers of the Cot ton States to the President's Proclamation. They show distrust and demoralization in the South, and seem to indicate a commute? revolution of a formidable character. Now, when the South is reeling and tottering, let us strike the blow it so sincerely dreads, and the rebellion will be at an end. Lcnguc The merits of League Island are very many and easily perceived. In the first place, it is a gift to the Government, and cost the city of Philadelphia a large sum of money before it could be obtained. Those who claim so earnestly that it is a worthless piece of ground, and that it was given to the Government as a job, cast an aspersion upon Philadelphia which is very unjust. • We do not claim any merit for having given League Island to the Government beyond a general deSire to aid the cause, and a particular de sire to have the navy yard at our side. Here the great navy yard belongs. Economy and prudence alike justify the choice. We have iron and coal, transportation and labor, se curity and defence. The Pennsylvania Rail road brings the mighty deposits of anthra cite within & morning's ride ; our iron dis tricts are among the largest in the world ; ire have a large laboring population, and an emigrant trade with Europe that brings con stant additiOns to it: The navigation is pleasant and convenient., and at the same time abundantly commanded by forts. The situation iS inland, and the water is fresh. Does the Government ask for anything else in a navy yard ? The Secretary of the Navy, we are glad to see, exhibits in this matter a patriotism that many other gentlemen from New England might well imitate, and we are convinced that when Congress gives the matter thorough consideration his views will be adopted. LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL." WASHINGTON, .14'eb. 6, 1863 An intelligent gentleman, who has just returned from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac, and who was there during the last two days of bitter cold weather, ex presses the unqualified opinion that all the statements as to the demoralization and in subordination of the troops are gross and in tentional falsehoods. He was surprised to see +- I y.mon- entirel3r_cernfortable, so tmcom plaiting, in the midst of the snow and the tempest,ant 1 oo orclontly - dorotod kV El/Erg:mu of their country. Nothing seemed to excite the soldiers more than the intrigues of the sympathizers with treason at home, and more than one Breckimidge Democrat assured him that these sympathizers would be called to a terrible account for the man ner in which they are embarrassing and as sailing the Government. There was a hearty concurrence in the opinion that there has never been an tinny so well cared for, subsisted, and clothed as the Army of the Potomac. The saute gentleman was intro duced to, and had a long interview with, the commanding general, General Hooker. He found him in his comfortable marquee, with his intelligent chief of staff, Gene ral Butterfield, by his side, and was greatly impressed by his frank, patriotic, and energetic manner and language. Ge neral Hooker is evidently a working man, and has that profound attachment to the cause in which he is fighting, without which any great leader .must hesitate, and ulti mately fail. He expressed the utmost con fidence in his army, and, I am happy to acid, not only on the testimony of the gen tleman to whom I refer, but on that of at least two generals of division, with whom I have conversed duriog three days past, that the army have every confidence in General Hooker. There may be some heart-burnings in a few of the higher military circles in this great department, resulting from those am bitions natural to all such peculiar organi zations, but these do not sensibly affect the mass. There ; is one fact in connection with this subject which should not be ignored ; and that is, that in calculating the sufferings and privations of our felloW-countrymen in the field, we should also make due allow ances for the care and attention bestowed upon them and their families by the Govern ment., and for the immense amount of leisure time at their disposal. The long pauses after every -battle and march enable them not simply to look after their own com forts, but to indulge in reading and reflection, and in many other healthy and instructive pastimes. What has vastly added to the confidence and enthusiasm of the troops composing this army is the pre sence of the various paymasters. The an gry complaints arising from their non-pay ment for a long period have entirely sub sided, and hundreds who were indignant because they had not received their green backs for six or eight Months, freely admit that, although the delay was grievous, it had been productive of compensating consequences. Having had no money, they could spend none, and now that they receive it "in a lump," they can send it home, and probably confer more benefit upon their families than if they had been able to forward it monthly. Col. Gwinn, the gallant and popular commander of the Corn Exchange Regiment., left the army for Philadelphia on Monday, with three-fourths of the money paid to his regi ment, which had been confided to him by the men to distribute among their fanillies.• If I could give you a full history of the manifold advantages of General Hooker's army over every other army in the service, You woul4l.be surprised at the systematic efforts to create the impression that such a force could be even-partially or tempdrarily demoralized. . Two lines of steamboats him daily com mmication with Washington, and whatever the Government can do to increase the effi ciency and comfort of this vast column is done. The plentiful markets of Washing ton supply officers and men With such luxu ries as they wish to purchase, and hundreds and thousands of letters are sent and re ceived in a continuous and unbroken stream. The sick and wounded are conveyed to the hospitals and tenderly watched over, and the presence of Congress within two or three hours' sail makes it comparatively easy for the men to secure friends who will defend them against wrong, and remedy all their just grievancee. Contrasted with the condition of the other armies in North Carolina, Ten nessee, Kentucky, South Carolina, Louisb: ana, and MlSsissippl, the• condition of: the Army of the Potomac is most healthy and fortunate; so that you will perceive there is a silver lining to this as there is to nearly every other cloud. QCCAKONAL. THE PRESS.-PHiLADELPITIA. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1863. WA.SIIN Gr'rON. Special Despatches to EC The Press.” WASHINGTON. February 6, 18 83 . The Question of Supplying- the Japanese with Arms and Ships-of-war. The Senate some time ago called upon the Presi dent by resolution to inform them whether any com missioner, representative, or agent of our Govern ment has been engaged by the Japanese to construct for them ships-of-war. • The response to this inquiry shows that our min inter, Mr. PrturN, was requested by the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs to have built in the United Stales, for that. Government, two steam sloops-of-war, of twenty-four heavy guns each, and one steam gunboat, also with heavy guns. Mr. Pituvr: says be was induced to take this or der, hoping and expecting that on its arrival home the rebellion would be crushed, and that it would supply work to our mechanics. The Japanese, in addition, requested him to pro cure for them a rifling machine and a field battery of six guns. He accordingly fixed upon THURLOW 'Wenn to designate an agent without reward, and selected Onarttas B. LANSING, of Albany, as his associate. Of the $868,000 required for these ob jecte, $200,000 was promptly paid. Mr. PRUVN says he has been highly flattered by the proof of con fidence given to him by that Government. Secretary SxwAno, writing, on January 17 last, to Mr. WEED, said that it was advisable before pro ceeding to carry out the views of the Japanese, to consult the Was and Navy Departments. In the course of the correspondence, Secretary Witta.os remarks that it would have been better if the Japanese had appointed their own agents, his im pression being adverse to having our Government or its representatives involved in these transactions; otherwise he had no objection to the proposed mea sure, so far as the Navy Department is concerned. Secretary STANTON replies to Mr. SEWARD'S in quiry that it does not rest with the War Department to grant or withhold any permission to have war vessels built in this country for the Japanese. But as to supplying them with cannon, it is found im possible to have them cast as rapidly as the wants of our own service demand, and hence a military ne cessity forbids the execution of that part of the order, Secretary Saw Ann, under date of January 29th, writes to Mr. PRUliti that no necessities of our service will forbid a compliance with the orders of the Japanese Government, so far as the constriction of the vessels is concerned, but that the armament cannot at present be furnished, end our minister is instructed to say to that Government that his ser vices in the premises ate entirely of an official character. Recovery of the Stolen United States Certificates. The steps taken by the Secretary of the Treasury for the recovery of the certificates of indebtedness, recently stolen from the office of the Treasurer of the United States, have been successful. All the cer tificates have been recovered, and are now in the possession of the Government. They were in sums of $5,0e0 each, and amounted in all to two and a half millions of dollars; but being unfinished, and the Department having notified the public of the lots, the thief probably found it useless to offer them in the market. California Reservations. The Secretary of the Interior expresses the belief that the proceeds of the Mendocino and Nomme Lscice reservations, in California, sold as proposed by him in a letter to Congress, will be sufficient to make all proposed improvements in Round Valley. He estimates the cost of extinguishing land titles in Smith's river valley to be sixty thousand dollars. Attempting to Cross the Lines. GEORGE RICKLEY, a scholmaster from Culpeper, was arrested on Thursday, near Fort Albany, at tempting to cross the lines, on his way to Baltimore; and BENJAXIN Woti' and .Toseeeir WiNy.itinio were taken in the lower part of Maryland, by some of "SCOTT'S 900 cavalry," supposed to be endeavoring to cross over, and they were sent to Lieut. Colonel Dowry.; provost marshal, who committed them to the Old Capitol. • Supposed Rebel Spies. Yesterday JAsres DAT:LING was sent up from the Army of the Polomae as a rebel spy, and JOHN STULL was arrested near the city, by order of As sistant Secretary of War WArsotr i on the same charge, and sent to Col. Dos Ten, who committed them to the Old Capitol. Prisoners of War. .T.As. P. lirramcosves, 9th Virginia Cavalry, Wft3 on Thursday sent from the Army of the Potomac, and with :roux BIICKIIALTER, Of the slot Georgia, who had recovered from his wounds, was sent to the Old Capitol Naval Order. Commander F. M. BitASTON has been ordered to report at the navy yard at Pensacola. McDowell Court of Inquiry. On Wednesday, Brig. Gen. littolialcart testified, - verifyifsg the following letter : Wasnizuvroxr, October 20, 1362. GE.W ER At : Your note, enclosing a printed copy of Gen. Milroy , s report, is before me, and I will an swer your questions seriatim: 1. "As to the state of mind Gen. Milroy seemed to be in his manner, and the impression it produced at the lime to which you refer ;" that is, when he rode up and asked for my reinforcements. Answer. General Milroy's manner was very ex cited ; so much so as to attract the especial atten tion of those present, and induced many to inquire who that was that was rushing about so wildly, and what he wanted. 2. "As to whether or not it was a question whether my (your) sending reinforcements to General Sigel, and if 1 (you) refused to do so." Answer: General Slgel , s name or corps was not referred to. In . any wayin my.hearing,.sp far as I re• comet,: a. " As to the part taken by General Milroy with your (my) brigade, which he claims to have led to where they were moat needed, but from which they were forced back," &e., &c. Answer. When reinforcements were called for to go to the assistance of General Meade, I was or dered by General Sykes to take three of my batta lions and move up to the front and left to the point moat threatened, which I did at once. I left General Milroy haranguing and gesticulating most emphati cally, in . the same place where his conversation with you commenced. He was calling for reinforce ments, and saying that if they were sent at once the day would be ours, and that the enemy were ready to run. After I placed my three battalions in position, I moved to the right of my line, when, to my surprise, I saw about one hundred yards to my right the re mainder of my brigade, which had been sent to the front after I left, and General Milroy was giving it some orders. lat once rode up to him and told him that those battalions belonged to my brigade of re gulars, and that I could not consent to any interfe rence with my command. - He said that he did not know they were my men; did not wish to interfere with me, and only wanted to place them to the best position. I told him that I was responsible for the position of niy command, and did not want any as sistance either In posting or fighting it; when he left me. Ills own brigade was not near there, and he seemed to be rushing about the field without any especial aim or object, unless it was to assist in the performance of other officers' duties, whenever he could find one to listen to him. I did not lose one inch ofground after 1 got my brigade together, which I did immediately by moving this latter por tion to the left, but held the enemy at bay for half an hour; and, instead of being 'forced. back," I maintained my position until ordered to fall back to the position from whence we started. Ilad the enemy " forced" me hack in the sense of Gen. Milroy's report, he would have obtained pos session not only of the turnpike, but of the Sfoue bridge, and what would then have beenAhe result you are well aware. Our defeat would have been disastrous. I am, sir, respectfully, your obedient servant, • RUPERT C. BUCHANAN, Lieut. Col. 4th Infantry, commanding let Brigade Regular Infantry. Major General Irwin McDowell, U. S. Volunteers, Washington, I). C. At the close of his testimony, neither General McDowell nor the court having other witnesses to call, the evidence in the case was announced to have been closed. General McDowell then stated that on Monday he would be prepared to submit a statement reviewing the testimony, when the court adjourned until that day. CHINA AND JAPAN. SAN FnartotsCo, Feb. 6.—The ship Ocean Berk, from Baltimore, arrived to-day. The ship Sardinian, from Hong Kong, brings ad vices from China to, December 14th, and the bark Tiemand, from Kanagawa, from Japan to January 3d. The Emily Browning has also arrived from Shangbae, on December 9th, with 790 bales of drill sheeting from China. She reports that our market will hereafter be liberally supplied with cotton goods from that quarter. Three large ships had taken car goes of cotton from Japan for England during De cember. The quality was rather inferior, but flee. At Hong Kong there was a fair business doing in black teas, for the United States, at easier prices. Sugar was higher. The bark Lucky Star was lost on November 30th. The bark Emily O. Sargent had not been heard from since leaving Japan, in the middle of October. California Legislahu•e. SAN Fnawereco, Feb. 6.—The Senatorial caucus at Sacramento have completed their investigation into the charges of bribery. The result shows that some of the candidates for the United States Senate were involved in a bargain for the distribution of the National and State patronage. One lobbyman had proposed the purchase of the vote of a lobbyman in favor of his Senatorial candidate. No other di rect charges of bribery are sustained. The caucus resumed balloting to-night. - A California company has recovered a large tract of land on the peninsula of Lower California, upon which a fair quality of upland cotton grows wild. They propose its immediate cultivation, believing that the cheap labor of the native popUlatimi will make it profitable. Rumor of a Contemplated Attack on Lex ington, Kentucky. LOUISVILLE, Feb. 6.—Kurnors, Which are not traceable to any authentic source, prevail that Mor gan's force in Kentucky contemplate a raid on Lex ington, and the bankers and business men there have gathered together their money and valuables, pre paratory to an escape. It is also rumored that Shelbyville, Tenn., has been captured by the Federal troops. From Bermuda. Nnw Yosx, Feb. 6.—A Bermuda paper of the 27th ult. Las been received. It contains no news other than the announcement of the fact that the steamer Princess Royal (since captured by our blockaders) had arrived at St. Georges, and was announced' to sail on the 27th for New York. The British steamer Pearl arrived at Barbadoeo on the 30th, in want of coal. It was believed that she intended to run the blockade. The Missouri Senatorial Contest. JEFFERSON Cm - , Feb. 6.— AR the parties have been in caucus again to-night. An attempt was made to unite the interests of Messrs. Charcoal and Claybanka on the Senatorial question, but nothing was accomplished, the friends of both parties stand ing firm. ' The Pirates Alabama and Florida. NEW Youx, Feb. 6.—The brig Wilhelmina at St Thomas onithe lath ult., spoke the pirate Alabama, on January 15th, in lat. 26° 45', long. GT , 25'. No news to confirm the reported capture of the pirate Florida is contained in the advices from Havana. The Steamer Arabia Outward Bound. HALIPAX, Feb. 6.—The Royal mail steamer A.mbia arrived at this port, from Roston, at tive o'clock this morning, and sailed again at eight. The weather is thick. There are no signs of the Europa. -• NEW ORLEANS, RANANA, AND MEXICO. THE STEAMER ROANOKE AT NEW .YORK. Mutinous Condition of the Jtcbel Troops in Louisiana. THE PIRATES ALABAMA AND FLORIDA The Alabama Injured by the Hatteras. NEW Your:, Pei. 6.—The steamer Roanoke ar rived at this port to-night, from New Orleans on the 28th and Havana on the Mat The news from New Orleans is very meagre. Colonel Deming sailed for New York on the steamer North Shir on the 98th ult. . The Della says that accounts from the rebel army at Port Hudson and elsewhere show a most wretched state of affairs existing among them, the men only being kept from mutiny by promises of peace being secured within ninety days. The carrying out of the conscription law among the rebels proves to be a very dangerous operation, as °Ter twenty officers had been shot while endea voring to carry It into effect. The letter from Havana of the 31st, to the Associ ated Press, contains Vera Oruz dates to the 24th ult., but nothing of great importance. The siege trains Breslin at Vera Oruz, and the French have uo hope of taking Puebla without them. The ravages of the small-pox are abating. There is no reliable news regarding the pirates Alabama or Florida. It was rumored that the Ala bama received four shots from the U. S. gunboat Hat teras, and that she arrived at Port Royal, Jamaica, where she would stop for three days to repair. She left her prisoners there. The weather at Havana has been quite cold. There have been no arrival of vessels from South ern ports since last advices. DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA. Vessels Ashore nt Old Point and Else where—Departure.of Gen: Foster's Expo— dition from Nowbern—lt went South. FORTRESS MoNnor, Feb. 6.—The steamboat New York left here last evening, for Annapolis, to carry thither the released Union prisoners, 763 in number, just arrived from Richmond. Some of the schooners which have been aground in this vicinity have been got off by steam-tugs. There are now two schooners ashore back of the Fortress, and three on the bar between Sewall'a Point and the Rip Rape. A propeller arrived at Norfolk this morning from Newbern, via the canal inland route. She reports that two Government schooners=-one loaded with cotton and the other with coal—are ashore on Hat . texas Shoals. ' She also report/ that a fleet of one hundred and twenty vessete have sailed from Newbern, boUnd South. Baker's wreaking fleet has been. blockaded for three weeks, at Norfolk. It consists of the schooner Relief, Captain Rockwell ; schooner Planet Mars; and tug steamer Pilot, Captain Baker. Gen. Dix gave them a permit, to-day, to pass down the Hamp ton Roads for the relief of Government vessels, and others in distress, near Old Point; and also to pass along the coast of North Carolina, for the same purpose. They are ordered to report to Major General Foster, to relieve vessels in distress on that coast, and to follow our fleet South from Newborn for the same purpose. The wind is easterly, and the storm increases The two schooners ashore on Old Point are the Minerva, of Fall River, Mass., and the J. P. Nick erson, of WellOcet, Mass. The former is bilged, but the latter is in good order, and can be got oft' by the wreckers. A bark is at anchor one mile from Old Point, with her fore-topmast and main topgallant mast carried away. WESTERN GULF SQUADRON. More Reported Rebel Vietorles—Captnre of Sabine Pass—Two U. S. Vessels Taken Rear Admiral Bell at Work—The Coast Or Texas Deelnured to be Under 11 etual Block. r ' ade. New Your:, Feb. G.—The British Gunboat Rinaldo had arrived at Havana from Galveetoa, before the departure of the steamer Roanoke, bring ing an extra of the Houston Telegraph of the 23d (f January, which contains an account of the capture at Sabine Pass of the United States brig Morning Light, and an unknown schooner on the 2181, by ac expedition from the Magruder fleet. The following are the rebel despatches containel therein : • SABINE PASS, Texas, I % ON BOARD TER O. S. GUNBOAT BELL, Jan. 21..( CAPTAIN: We met the enemy this morning in thi Gulf of Mexico,nnd whipped them. We brought everything to Sabine Pass. I fought him ten guns to our one. We have captured two vessels—one s! full-rigged ship and the other a schooner, and twelve, guns, medical stores, ammunition in abundance, 'and' a hundred and nine prisoners. • - I am here waiting further orders. 0. M. WA.TKINS,) Major Commanding Sabine Pais. To Captain E. P. Tuna an, A. A. G. °facial Despatch. SABINE Pass, Jan. 21,1961. To Capt. E. P. Turner, A. A. G.: • I engaged the enemy to-day, captured thirteen guns, about a million dollars' worth of property; ind a hundred and nine prisoners. 0. M. WATKINS, Major Commantlim, Gen. Magruder, on the 4th of January, proclaimed the port of 'Galveston open to commerce.; but Come Mates nary, %seed a proclamation -0.. the 20th, declaring Galveston, Sabine Pass, and the whole roast of 'Texas Under actual blockade, and warning all vessels from trading, therein under pe• nalty of capture. ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND. . Snow Storrs Tinuessee—The River Ruing—Promotton—Death of the Rebel Col. MeNavvy. . NASIIVILLF., Feb. heavy enpw-atorm pre vailed last night. To-day the river •is'iisizig rapidly, with a , prospect of a rise of nine feet of water on the shoals. J. D. Bingham, quartermaster of this department, has been promoted to a lieutenant colonelcy in, General McPherson's command of the Army of the It is reported that Colonel Frank MeNarry, -Of blood-hound notoriety, was killed in the attack o'n Fort Donelson. XXXVIIth CONGRESS—Third Session. Wasirtnorost, Februsry 6,1861 i SENATE. • Petitions. Mr. SHERMAN (Rep.), of Ohio, presented tie petition of citizens of Pennsylvania in favor of ' s, national currency. Mr. SUMNER (Rep.), of Massachusetts, and Mr. COWAN (Rep.), of Pennsylvania, presented peti tions in favor of the organization of a reliable Oatop 'Hospital and Ambulance Corps. ; • Duty on Paper. Mr. ARNOLD (U.), of Rhode Island, offeredra resolution, which was adopted, instructing the Con niittee on Finance to inquire into the expediency of repealing the duty on printing paper. • The New Military Road. Mr. NESMITH (Dem.), of Oregon offered a resit. motion requesting the Secretary of War to furnish the Senate with reports and maps of Captain John Mullen, who was engaged in the construction of the military road from Fort Walla Walla to Fort Den ton. Adopted. • Revenue Frauds. Mr. FESSENDEN (Rep.), of Maine, introduce) bill to prevent and punish frauds upon the revenue, and to provide for a more certain and speedy collec tion of claims in favor of the United States. Private Bills A long debate ensued upon private bills, in which Metiers. Feasenden, and others par ticipated. ' • Mr. FOSTER (Rep.) moved to postpone all prior orders, and take up the bankrupt bill. Lost—yeas 14, nays 24 ; • The discussion of the bill for.the relief of the heirs of Stephen Johnson was continued, and the bill finally passed—yeas 24, nays 16. The committee of conference on the deficiency bill made a report, which was adopted. On motion of Dlr. RENDLRSON (U.), the Senate took up the Mille aid the State of Missouri In em anciation. Mr.GRIMES (Rep.), of lowa, from the ICom -Nistric+ • • mitten on the Diaric't of Columbia, repotted back the bill to incorporate the Washington Theatre Company. WILSON"(Rep.), of Massachusett4 called up the resolution 'expelling George E. Badger from the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute, and appointing--Professor Azasatz in his 'place. Passed. After an executive session, the Senate adjourned HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE'S. Malls on the Pacific. The House concurred in the Senate's amendment to the Post Office appropriation bill, authorizing the Postmaster General to contract for carryitg the mails in the steamships from San Francisco to seve ral points in Oregon, and at a turn not exceeding $24,000 per annum. The House then proceeded to the consideration of private bills. 1 The Ship 'Canal Bill. The House resumed the consideration of the Illi nois and New York ship-canal bill. ; OLIN (R.), of New York, said thet this measure has long been a subjeot of discussion and reflection, and Its provisions in a great degee well understood by members. Nevertheless, he , would now notice the persistent efforts made byits'ene mies to prejudiee the bill. A report has bees autho rized by the Committee on Naval Affairsiand he claimed the responsibility of saying that in every material fact it is a tissue of misrepresentation and misstatement. . . Mr. F. A CONKLING (R.), of New nirk, rose to a question of order. The language used by the gentleman was Indecorous and insulting to a com mittee of this }louse. The SPEAKER overruled the point on the ground that there Wile nothing personal in the re mark. Mr. OLIN withdrew the temnrk. Nevertheless, he believed that misstatements had been made in the report ; that there was an utter misrepresents tion of facts was without question. The author of the report knew certain facts, and knowing them he must also have been aware that It was an utter mis representation to say that the canals could not be enlarged. Ire-controverted the positions taken in the report, insisting that there was a military neces sity for the proposed enlargement of the canals, apart from the facilities necessary to commerce. Mr. VOORHEES (Dem.), of Indiana, said that if he had ever any doubt of the propriety of the passage of this measure, it had been deepened and confirmed by Mr. Olin's speech. Such - stupendous internal improvements yvere opposed to the princi ples of his party. It seemed that every measure In tended to spend money and bestow patronage meets the approbation of the Republican sideolgthelimme. In the present condition of finances he was satisfied with the channels and canals which Almighty God had given the. West. Gentlemen could no more turn commerce from' its natural channels to the Miaaisaipplind Gulf than they could cause the waters of at river to ran upward. Digging ditches was not t e way to unite the Weat with New England, as had been urged by the gentleman from New York. Mr. ARNOLD (Rep.), of Illinois, briefly explained the importance of the proposed improvements. 'With one mouth for commerce at New Orleans and another at New York, the destinies of the Republic are one and forever, and this was a strong considera tion in favor of the bill. Mr. KELLOGG (Rep.), of Illinois, answered an objection of Mr. 'Voorhees, as to the unnavigable condition. of the river from the mouth of the Illinois to St. LOWS. He was assured by responsible and intelligent autherity,'that, with few slight excep tions, there has been a depth of six feet of water, end generally more. Mr. DAWES (Rep.), of Massachusetts, in saying that he would vote for the hill, remarked that New Englund would not ask the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Voorhees) on what terms she shalt remain in the Union. He defied the gentleman to prescribe terms for that purpose. We have a common heri tage in it. The bones of New England's eons are sleeping with those of Indiana, and cannot be se paratetruntil all are called to account. New Eng land could not lie frightened by the utterances of the gentleman, nor would she come to him for her faith. Mr. VOORHEES said he was associated with the gentleman from Massachusetts on the Committee on Elections, antrusually found him more amiable than he was this afternoon. He (Hr. Voorhees) be lieved that to-morrow the gentleman himself, as well as his friends, would be ashamed of his conduct. Mr. HAWES was not aware that he had said anything offensige. Mr. VOORHEES left it for the House to say whether the gentleman had afforded a good or bad specimen of New England manners. Mr. DAWES remarked that it was sufficient for him to Bay that the Scriptures indicated how one should be answered according to his folly. [Laugh ter.] Mr. 'VOORHEES'said no man was so competent to do that as the gentleman himself. [Laughter.] Mr. HOLMAN (Dem.), of Indiana, opposed the bill. There must be an even-handed justice if we expect.the integrity of the Union to continue. It was not, as had been contended, by works of improve ments of this character. He read the conclusions of the report of the Committee of Naval Affairs that this work was not intended for military purposes. ' Without concluding the question, the Howe ad journed. PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. HARltttiliMlo, February 6, tau. SENATE. The Senate met - at 1l o'clock and was opened with prayer. Pct.lUonis. Jr. STEIN presented remonstrances front North ampton county against the passage of a law levying a tax to reimburse those who advanced money to pay bounties to volunteers. Also, a petition in favor of legalizing said boun ties. Also, remonstrances from Lehigh Valley against the rehuildin• of dams above Mauch Chunk. Mr. REIL AY, two petitions for the recharter of the Miners' Rank of Pottsville.; also, a petition in favor of the incorporation of the Mountain Link Railroad Company. Bills Introduced CONNELL, a supplement to the Delaware county Passenger 'Railway Company. Mr. GLATZ, a bill repealing an act relating to the Susquehanna river, West Branch, Atlantic and Ohio, and Philadelphia and Wilkesbarre Telegraph Company. Dlr. PENNEY, a bill to authorize the trustees of the railroad stocks of the city of Pittsburg to sell or assign the same. _ Itfr. 'WALLACE, a supplement to the act relating to lunatics and habitual drunkards. Bills Considered. The bill authorizing the Lehigh Navigation Com pany to extend their railroad from White Haven to Mauch Chunk, came up in order on third reading, the question being upon its final passage. Mr. JOHNSON moved to postpone its further consideration until Tuesday next, which was not agreed to. • Mr. JOHNSON offered amendments designed to • protest the interests of owners of mills and water Tights on the Upper Lehigh, and moved that the Senate go into Committee of the Whole for the . purpose of general amendments. •, The proposition was discussed at considerable length by Messrs. Johnson, Stein, Mott, Connell, and Penney. Mr. LOWRY moved to postpone the further con sideration of the bill until Wednesday next. Not agreed to—yeas 9, nays 18. After further discussion, and within five minutes of the hour of adjournment, Mr. MOTT interrupting • Mr. White, who was speaking, called the previous question, which was seconded by four Senators, and !sustained. • The question was then taken on the final passage Of the bill, which passed finally—yeas 24 nays 4. The Senate adjourned until Monday afternoon at • 3 o'clock. HODS The House was called to order at half past 10 ;A. M., by Mr. Hopkins, of Washington, who was 'delegated by Mr. Cessna to act in his stead for a few days, the House having granted him leave of ab 4ence. a , rhis being public-bill day, the first one taken up was No. 32 on the calendar entitled A. supplement to the act to secure the rights of married women, passed the 11th day of April, A. D. 1843. , ' Conside rable discussion occurred with reference to the amendment, between .Messrs. McMurtrie, Leine, Smith, of Philadelphia and Rex, of Montgomery. Mr. Rex proposed its ?ndefinite postponement, and went into'considerable argument rather unfavorable to the rights of married women. Mr. Smith made a pathetic appeal for them, which ended the matter, the amendment being passed by a large majority. . Subjoined iB a copy of theamendment referred to I , Sac. 1. lie it enacted by the Senate and Home Of:. Re presentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly tort, and it is hereby enacted by the an, thority of the same, That the true intent and meaning of the act of Assembly to secure the rights of mar ried women, passed the 11th day of April, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, and the supplements thereto, are hereby declared to be, that the real estate owned by or belonging to any married woman in this Commonwealth shall be held and enjoyed by her as her own separate property, and her husband shall have no estate therein during her lifetime ; and such real estate may be sold and conveyed, mortgaged and incumbered by her and her husband, notwithstanding there may be judg ments against the husband; and no judgment ob tained against the husband before or during marriage shall, during the lifetime of the wife, bind or be a lien upon her real estate, or upon any interest the husband may be entitled to therein as tenant by courtesy or otherwise. Joint R esolutions. The Senate joint resolutions, approving of the Hon .-of the Executive relative to the sick and wounded soldiers of Pennsylvania, asking that they be returned to their homes until. convalescent, were then considered. [These resolutions were published some days since.] They are similar' to the House resolutions on the same subject. After some discus- Mon, the consideration of the resolutions was post poned indefinitely. "An act to fix and equalize the commission of county treasurers in certain counties of this Com monwealth,” was then considered and passed finally. This bill fixes the rates of commission on moneys collected for the National - Government , &c.,.at five per cent.; the provisions of this bill not to apply to the treasurer of Bucks county until the expiration of the present term. An netto Authorize cemetery companies to make investments in ert.rn stocks or Government stocks wascor.la.red and pencil nunny,,,,,, follows : -- SEC. 1. "Be it enacted V., It shall be lawful for all eerneterycorporntions, incorporated under any law of this Commonwealth, to invest their funds for an income to maintain and improve their cemetery grounds in the stock or loan certificates issued, or to be issued under any law of this Commonwealth or in the Government stocks of the United States, any provision in their charter of incorporation to the contrary not Withstanding." "An net relating to recording Inventories of ap aisements in decedents , estates of this Common wealth.," was considered in Committee of the whole House, and after some discussion passed, then mended, on motion of Mr. BA_RGER, by striking out tlf words "provided the same shall not apply to the city of Philadelphia." This bill was finally, after discussion, recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary General. (The prominent provisions of this bill are that it provides that all inventories and appraisements, which the widow or children of decedents may elect or choose to take shall be re corded by the Clerk of the Orphans , coswt of the proper counties.] An act to prohibit the use of deleterious drugs in the manufacture and sale of iutoxicating or alcoholic liquors was read in Committee of the Whole, and was discussed at length. Mr. KAI/NE having moved to commit the bill to the Committee on, the Judiciary General, it was agreed to. A motion was made that the House adjourn until Monday, at 73.6 P. M. An amendment was offered to make it 11 A. M. on the same day. Considerable discussion followed from both sides of the House. • . Mr. JACKSON proposed the following amend ment: "That this House have three sessions to morrow; one from 11 A. M. to I P. Tt., from 3 to 5 P. M., and from 7to 9P. M." The yeas and nays were called, and it was voted down. The previous Question was called (to meet at 11 A. DI. on Mon day). The yeas and nays were again called, amid considerable confusion, and it was not agreed to. Thereupon the first motion -came up, and the yeas and nays were again called, and it was decided that this House stand adjourned until 73 , ; P. ra: on Mon day next. Travel on the Pennsylvania Railroad Be- burned. ALTOONA, Feb. 6.—The 'violent snow storm changed to rain during the night, and the snow which fell yesterday, Causing the delay near °reason, is rapidly disappearing. Early this morning the track wes open, and the trains are passing here as usual: The train which left Philadelphia last night at 11 o'clock passed here at the regular time this morning. The Speculation in Specie. Nkw Yokk, Feb. 6.—A. bill-was introduced in the Legislature, to-day, to prevent the banks of. trds State from selling specie above par during the time of their suspension of specie payments, making void all contracts forthe sale or purchase of specie, and prohibiting loans on apeeie, under the penalty of a forfeiture of the bank charter. A despatch from Washington states that it is be- lieved that some measure will be adopted by Gon, grees to prevent a further speculation in specie, and the consequent depreciation of Government cur rency. The 'Weather. Citreitmarr,_ Feb. 6.—The weather is cloudy 'Wind west. Ther.lB. Noon—Clear. Ther. 24. ST. Loris. Feb. 6-43 A. M i .—The weather s clear. Wind west. Ther. 11. The snowstorm of the 4th inst. extended nearly all over the State into Kansas. • The river here is full of heavy icc, and a few days more of such cold weather will close it. . Loutsrtrazt, Feb. 6LI orning.—Earometer 29.52; thermometer, 16; wind S. W., weather clear. • Contraband Goods to the South. New Yortu, Feb. 6.—lt having been ascertained that contraband goods have reached the rebels from this city through the West, the Government has ordered that no goods shall be shipped hence to the \Vest without special permission from the custom house. The Opera at New York. NEiv * YOltli, Feb:. 6.—The Italian opera troupe are meeting with gr eat success, and to-night the Academy of Music s crowded, the attraction being the opera of "Bob Giovanni." Every seat was taken before ten o'clock this morning. Manager Grau will probably visit Philadelphia or Boston next week. The Snow Stow► at the North. BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 6.—Eighteen inches of snow have fallen, and the storm still continues. • TORONTO, 0. W. Feb. 6.—The railroad trains east of this point have been delayed four or five hours by the snow storm. Public EUtertainmeuts. Am:molar ACADENY off 3117.91C—MR. Mon noCres READING9.-0n Monday evening Mr. Mur doch will give an entertainment as rare and attrac tive in its selection as in its design. So many ex cellent coopositions are to be read, by such an able and critical .locutionist and histrionic scholar, and, withal, for such a patriotic and .philantliropic pur pose, that we rei:r our readers to the public an nouncement, in ankher column, for partioulars. Parties holding tickets for Mr. Murdoch's Read. ing which took place ort the sth but., can obtain checks for reserved seabt, by applying at Gould's music store, Seventh and Ches&nut streets, or at the Academy, on the payment of an additional sum of twenty-five cents. 4'IIE EVENING JOITAIZAL.—Mr. A. D. Boileau has severed his connection with the Phila delphia Evening Journal. It is not known who the publisher now is, as no name has been substituted in the place of Mr. Boileau's. It is understood that Mr: Boileau, in consequence of having signed the parole given to General Schenck, has been compelled to leave his paper. Mr. D.' A. Mahoney_ late of lowa, but more lately of the Old Capitol Prison, has been mentioned as its editor. ARCH-STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.— To-morrow evening, at half past seven o'clock, meeting will be held at the Arch-street Presbyterian Church, (Dr. Plumer,) under the auspices of the Army Committee of the Young hien , s Christian Association. The meeting will have reference to the benefit of sick and wounded soldiers. Several eminent clergymen will address the assembly. SLIGHT FlRE.—About 10 o'clock, last night, a fire broke out in the third story of a house in Cherry street, above Sixth. It 'wee, however, soon extinguished.' A child, asleep tn'the room at the time, was fortunately rescued. avrir irrlo3xs. A Ni w Panor.v..—l?ilany of the exchanged prisoners from Murfreesboro, in hospital at Anna polis, were in such a ragged and filthy condition that the surgeons in the hospital boats ordered their clothes to be thrown overboard. The poor fellows, who are now Convalescent, are detained in bed by want of clothes, as they cannot receive their new clothing for some weeks. They arc, in fact, in the condition which, in our juvenile days, was considered the worst infliction oC maternal anger, stripped and put to bed in daylight. It is doubtful if Jeff' Davis could devise any more effectual mode of i mprison men t in the Libby prison. Send in 300 dressing gowns and flannel drawers to-day, to George H. Stuart, Esq., 13 Bank street, or money to buy them to Joseph Pat terson, Esq., treasurer, Western Bank. • NEW PROTOGRAPITIC PICTURES JIY V UTE- Rumcm—We have already had occasion to refer to the unbounded success of the pictures, in various styles and sizes, recently made of General George B. McClellan and certain members of his family, by Mr. F. Gutekunst, at his popular galleries, Nos. 701 and 706 Arch street, and will merely add to-day that the demand, for the caries especially, is still undi minished. Orders arc flowing in for them from all loyal parts of the Union, We are also authorized to state that hlr. G. has just brought out, in admi rable style, Card and Imperial-size pictures of Colo nel Richard Rush, of Rush's Lancers, which we know the numerous friends and admirers of this officer will be glad to add to their collections. Du plicates can now be had at Mr. Gutekunat's counter. • CONFECTIONS AT MODERATE ntioxs.—Meyers. E. G. Whitman & Co., Chestnut street, below Fourth, next door to Adams & Co.'s Express, have constantly on hand the largest and most varied confections, of every description, to be found in any one house in this city, all made from the finest and purest materials; and the fact that they are more extensively engaged in supplying the Wants of the trade than any other house in it, en ables them to sell at more reasonable prices than lees extensive operators could , do Without losing money. There is, moreover, a - degree of freshness and style about their goods that make them espe cially popular with the public. MESSES. EDWIN HALL & C0.'13 STORE, No. 26 South Second street, which is now undergoing a thorough course of alterations and improvements, Is announced in another column to be opened on Thursday morning next, the 12th instant, when the proprietors will have ready for the public a magnifi cent stock of everything belonging to the department of fancy and staple dry goods, bought before the great advance in prices, and which will, therefore, be sold at moderate rates. A GOOD is now ascertained that the desperate efforts to perforate the blockade made by the rebels at Charleston, on Saturday last, were made with the hope that our enterprising townsman and coal merchant, W. W. Alter, Ninth street, above Poplar, might be induced to send them several car goes of coal, an article of which they are greatly in need. But out astute and patriotic Alter indignantly spurns the idea, and says that the only heating ma terials that he is in favor of bestowing upon that Sodom of modern times is a volcanic eruption of shot and shell from the Union fleet. Bravo! for Alter. FOE LADIES' Funs, of the richest qualities, at reasonable prices, go to Oakford & Son's, under the Continental Hotel. THE BEST BUCEWITEAT FLOUR ill the mar ket Is the celebrated "Silver Flint, ,, the sole agent for which in this market is Mr. C. H. Mattson, dealer in Sue family groceries, Arch and Tenth streets. This popular buckwheat is, by all who have used it, regarded as being far superior to the Bethlehem article, or any other brand, and the price of it is moderate. MILITARY FURNISHING Goons for Army and Navy . Officers can be found in great variety at Oakford & Son's, under the Continental Hotel. FOREIGN TRAVEL STOPPED.—Very few persons go abroad at present. Those who desire to visit Great Britain, or to " do" the Continent, pre fer staying at home to paying sixty per cent. pre mium for foreign exchange, and they put off their touring until paper goes up or gold goes down. Why should real patriots desire to go abroad Those who do not wish to go into the army might do worse than to stay comfortably at home, enjoy the good things that we are blessed with, and wear elegant garments made at the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of Rookhill & Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut street, above Sixth. " SolissnoDY's LIIGGAGE."—When I see a churlish man, one who on moting home his chil dren do not care to meet, one who has nothing plea sant to say to his wife as he sits down by the cheerful fire, or at the well-spread meal, I think, poor woman, she is carrying "somebody's luggage." When I see the ambitious citizen leaving his office, his store, or his workshop, and hanging around political offices, or fawning on politicians, with the hope of living without labor, 1 say to myself, " there is a man doomed to carry 'somebody's luggage.'" When I see a careful and economical- man buying his cloth ing in all eases where it has nothing to recommend it but the lowness of its price, I say to myself "he takes great pains to carry 'somebody's luggage."' Always buy your clothing at Charles Stokes Sc Co.'s, under the Continental, and you'll never carry "any body's luggage." ThE PONTIFF OF TIIE PETTICOAT.—The last sensation in Paris is a man who has a perfect genius for making anti fitting women's dresses. He is called the Pontiff of the Petticoat. He not only makes the ladies' dresses, but he puts the dresses on the ladies. Sometimes es many as fifty carriages are in front of his door at the same time, the femi nine owners being up stairs having their dresses put on as a dress should be put on. For cutting a dress Ire charges $10; for dressing a lady he charges $l5, (what a 'befitting her for a dinner $2O, and $25 for a party. These prices .x.travagantly ex travagant. Gentlemen can Always get flttea. s e , per fection, and at the most reasonable rates, at the superb One-Price Clothing Establishment of Gran ville Stokes, No. 609 Chestnut street, Philadelphia, where winter garments of the beat texture, and satisfactory make, may now be procured. . , EVERY SOLDIER SUOULD HAVE THEM.— From It. B. Heintzelman, steward of 72d Regiment Pennsylvania 'Volunteers: " Your medicinal pre paration (Brown's Bronchial Troches) is certainly valuable to soldiers in the field, and I feel satisfied, if generally adopted at the hospitals, many sleepless nights of the weary soldier would be averted. Our regiment are now testing their qualities, and I be lieve are all satisfied of their good effects in allevia ting those distressing affections of the throat arising from cold and exposure. They are now daily pre scribed in our hospital and at the surgeon's morning call." Sold everywhere at 25 cents per box. EASY 3IETrioD OF OBTALNI.NO A FORTY . FITE DOLLAR &Ml'S° MACHINIL—Any one getting thirty new subscribers to that well-known and long established weekly paper, The Saturday Evening Post, will receive one of Wheeler & Wilson's Forty five Dollar Sewing Machines gratis, as a premium. The Post has just commenced a new story by the popular writer, "Marion Harland," author of "Alone," "The Hidden Path," Sc. For particu lars, and a view of the Sewing Machine, call at the office of the Post, No. 319 Walnut street, Phila delphia. fes-31 GEORGE. Steek's Inimitable Piano Fortes, S. E. Gould, Seventh and Chestnut. ijatEr.thstlm FINANCIAL AM) COMMERCIAL, Pkotutt'rex. wavtio!,eato PumenELNDA. Feb. 6, 1563. Business, which was moderately active on the street to-day, was marked by steadiness in prices. Gold rose VS cent on the opening figure, and closed firm at 15 6 / 1 , ISt was paid for old demands, 94 for certificates of in debtedness. Rates for money looking up, 6e7 being the ruling figures. There seems tole a fresh confidence arising in Govern ment securities. The demand is more eager and more general,. which if left to itself, without interruption from base inventions in the shape of disasters to our armies and fleets, would soon develop into a powerful help to the Government. The near approach of the set tlement of our financial troubles is inducive of a desire to make the best of matters as they exist, and as Go vernment loans are cheaper, and pay a finer interest than anything on the market, it is not wonderful that it new attention is given to them. All that is wanted now to clinch the interest of the pople is victories. Let us -have them, and from the notorious love of country which still exists among the supporters of any and every poli tical creed, we are well assured that the question of finance would give its less trouble, and would very na turally adjust itself. As to the men and motives which lead and control the errors that annoy us, and create those feelings of distrust and fear which exist too often in our-bosoms, we have but little to say. History, if unbiased, will attest the political degradation of the one and the mercenary uttiliations of the other. The Stock market is without especial chs.nge. Prices arc steady VA triSMisSitiolle V 194 1 1,02, c9YerslulTlt nixes sold at 04g, closing on Hutt bid for melt: the seven-thirties also rose .4; State fives were weak, fall g cent. ; City sixes were active and firm at • yes terday's figure; Pennsylvania Railroad mortgages and Reading Railroad bonds were steady; Camden and Am boy sixes, 1540, brought 107; Chesapeake and Delaware Canal sixes sold at 10331—a decline of /5; Norristown 11 allroad sixes at 105; Philadelphia and Erie sixes at 110; Ridge-avenue sevens at . 105—an advance of 4; Schuylkill Navigation sixes, 15W-, fell lic; North Penn sylvania Railroad sixes fell oaf Reading Railroad shares wore steady at 45, closing at that bid. Catawissa was steady at 7; the preferred de clined Camden and Amboy sold at IG3. Pennsyl vania felt off $8 per share. Minehill advanced Long Island was steady at 27M; Little Schnylkill at 41%. El mira sold at 3014; thoproferred improved if. Hunting don and Broad Top fell g. North Pennsylvania wits steady at lig; Bearer Meadow at 67%; Philadelphia and Brie at MN. Camden and Atlantic sold at 10; the prefer red at 15. Fasstiiger railways were active. Girard College sold at 26 ; Thirteenth and Fifteenth at 2.1; Spruce and Fine at 163‘; Green and Coates at 43; Second and Third at 73; Seventeenth and Nineteenth at 11M. Delaware Division sold at D. Schuylkill Navigation improved X; the Preferred selling at 11. Morris Canal Preferred improved M. Lehigh Navigation fell oil M. Lehigh Zinc sold at III; New Creek Coal at 34. Dank shares were dull. Farmers' and his chanics' sold at 53, 4 4 Dechanics' at 'MX. 11SX was bid for Philadelphia. The market was steady at the close-2,400 shares and $77,000 in bonds changing hands. Drexel & Cu quote : United States Bondi, 1581 047i® , 95 United States Certificates of /idebteditess nay 91!4 United States 7.3-10 Notes 10114103.4* querterrastere:yopehen 7 4 5 8 3 1 1 Cs. ..... ........._ ..--. ---- Orders for Cert !Ciente& of IndebtodllOAl .14 - 70 - S dis. Ould 56% 0473 A pin. Demand Nute 51 (4.,P8U. Jay Cooke St Co. Quote Government securities, atc.. an follows: United Slates SiXEMOSSI 941 ply United States 7 3-10 Notes 10f. 14 Certificates of liAlsbtettness 9314 94's • • Quartermasters' Vouchers Demand Notes Mewls. Dd. Schulze & Co., No. 18 South Third 4itreet, quote foreign exchangelforthe steamer Edinburgh, from New York, a 8 follow ; London, 60 days' sight Do. • 3 days Faris, 60 days sight Do. 3 days Antwerp. 6 , 3 days' sight Bremen, 60 days' sight ilumburg, 60 days sight Cologne. 60 days' sight Leipsie, 60 days'. mght Berlin, 01 days' sight Amstertlani, CO clays' eight Frankfort. 60 days' sight The following is the amount °fecal transported on the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad during the week ending Thu rs day, February 6,1863 : Prom Port Carbon Pottsville Schuylkill haven.... Auburn " Port Clinton " Harrisburg Total Anthracite coal for the wank...... 39,631 ce From Harrisburg, total Bituminous coal for sr% 2,311 15 Total of all kinds far the week 0,001 01 Previously this year • 103,212 15 Total To same time last year The following is the statement of cool transported over tho Hazleton Railroad for the week ending Jana ars 31,186 t: Weeks. Provione. Total. Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt. Hazleton Minea 2.002 O.S R, 870 17 12,843 0.. Cranberry " 1.482 07 ri.coi 07 8.481 13 Diamond _ 2,881 cr! . 1.484 07 Lou. East 6naar .. .... zinc 18 Council Ridge 1,023 10 0,140 02 7,071 02 Mount Pleaictut 310 06 68 5 ( 1 1 1,031 14 Ebervale ....... 1,230 CLO 3,631 17 4,032 08 Ha Heigh 1,487 12 3,207 14 4,785 03 ... . .... 1 331,17 2.746 07 4,023 01 Jeddo ..... . 3,206 (XS 0,04402 8.212310 Total 18,613 16 45,028 00 63.72'2 16 Cerresixmding period last year 0,432 10 22,732 10 23,165 00 increa6e• • ........ • • .13,261 06 23,2/6 10 35,557 16 The inspections of flour and meal in Philadelphia da ring the Week ending February 5,156.3, Wore as follows: Barrels of Superfine 7.1,343 Do. Fine DO Do. Middlingsl2.s . . " • Do. Rye 106 Do. Corn Meal • • 2io The Now York EOen log Post of to-day siva: The stock market has a firmer appearance to-day, - hot lacks speculative activity. The principal speculation is In Erie Old Stock, which is about the strougost of the railway Oat. Chicago and Rock Nand. Cleveland and Pittsburg. end Michigan Southern were also better, ad vancing 34(51 per cent. At the close there is a tendency to higher prices, with a good inquiry for Eric at 74%1 73N, against 7334@i733; last evening. hew York Central is firm at 119®119g. Pacific Mail Is quiet at la There wall a rise of 2 per cent, in Filtsbarg, Fort Wstyne, and Chicagn, and Terre Haute and Alton shares. Cleveland and Pitt.hurg was firm and rose 1 it cent. selling at 70Xtektli. The strange conduct of the com pany tut reterence to tr e extinction of its first mortgages by the substitution of third mortgages therefor. has created a good deal of talk, especially among those who have long been aware of the speculative jugglery of in dividuals Immediately connected with the management The jugglery dates back to the period when the same stock was selling at 10 and 20. and the fourth mortgage bonds at 10 and 40. It to pretty well understord that the annual report, imbmitted to the stoeichohlera In the early part of 18112. did' not reflect the true condition of the concern. Its finances were purposely disterted and made to wear as discouraging :I. look as possible, with the view of making cheap bargains in thecompany's securities. With reference to the provisinu made for the payment of the first mortgage bonds en the 10th inst., we are in formed that the necessary funds are now on deposit in the Bank of North America, We have also reason to be lieve that the President of the concern la alive to any trickery that may he attempted with the view of getting a lot of the third mortgage bends under their market value. At the Board to-day 104,1‘wm bid for the bonds. We learn dint the earnings of the line for the first three months of the fiscal year are W00,01X) ahead of the same period last year. With such muninga there is no reason nor justice is any sacrifices that may be suggested by the speculators who hover around the company. The bond market is dull and rather lower to-day. The demand for investment appears to base fallen off some what within a few days. The Border State bends are firm at yesterday's prices. North Carolinas rose 17 rent. Governments are weaker, though no considerable quantity is pressing on the market. The coupons of 1031 fell :4', six-per -cent. certificates ;.f, seven-thirties remain turn at 101W#102. Gold commenced at 1573a1tiThi, Ina closes weaker. with sales at 157)4. Dutiable demand notes were in strong demand, with large pnrcbaces en buyers' option, at 1,141,153.5 f. Money is in fail demand at 13,57 7 cent.. chiefly at 7. Thesupply of outside capital is very liberal. Exchange on Loudon in dull at 1720173 "e cent. PhDs...Stock Hach (Reported b 7 S. B. SLATM : FIRST 2900 Chew & Bel Ss 10011 10111ineldll E 543 100 US 7.30 T N end cob 101 5000 City :et un sXIO do.— .... N81..11511 10 d o . • .NewNw..llsX S/0 do 10133 i 2 Cam & Amboy R.. 152 75 Far & 3lech 8k.... RIX 4000 Penna B Ist m 120 24 Reading R 45 do cash 45 11 7 Mock:mica' Bk 2203 1000 East Brandywine. 70 70 COO do 70 MOO do 70 NO Cam &Atlantic R 85 10 !SO _ do ..... Pre f 1759 abt Amer Gold 157 21193 abt do 157 MX) do L 57 250 New Creek 4 BETWEEN 100 Reading R cash 45 100 do 45 SECOND 6 Green & Conics R.. 43 2 Elmira R 3936 4 do 5936 WOO Soh I Nay es '52 Mg 2000 Ridge-avenue 75...105 loco loco Reßdlng 6.1 '43. • —lts I,3th do &loth •-2dys 27 15 10 Little Scl l R 4434 100 L Island R x 302736 04): 15 d & o .swn 54): 152 d &has R 73 I AFTER SCA U S 7.30 WE asury Notes • CLOSLWO PRh Bid. Asked. 17 El Se opus 'EL 943: 94% 17 S 7-30 D blk.•••1023: 102.3: American Gold-156N 15 7 % PhG 6a old-ex in.3.06N .109)( Do new.ex in. 116 116)4 Alleg co 6e .R.• •• • 55 62 Penns 5e 104% 105 Reading B 45 45% Do bde 130.-11731 113 Do bde 10.-111 112 Do bde 16...107 10714 Penns R gig 65% Do Ist m 6e..11031 231 Do 2d m 65...335 116 Morrie Canal. •• • 66% 57 Do prfd 131 Do Os 16.... • • 110 Do 2d mtg... BUSCI Canal .• Do 65.• ..... . • . . Schnyl Bar 53: i& Dc prfd ..... 14 14% Do de IN- 693:1 50 Elmira R 39 293: Do prfd . 503: 51 Do .. 73 let m.. Do ..... OS • • N Penns R 31% it& Do ths.• • ••. 90 91 Do I.oe .. . .. 135 Phtla Ger & Nor. 39% 5934 Lehigh Val R... 77 Lehigh Val bde..116% New York Sane Closing Qnotatio Bid. Asked.' S 63. '6l regist. 91X 92 ' 13 S. 8a '6l coup.. 03M fit Trea Nolen. 7.60..10131 102 USI yr 6pccer 94 91 Demand holes-165 1263 i Gold 1673a' 1673* Tennesime 61:1 61?.; Virginia 74 . 511,3aouri St 63.... 64 644' Canton Company '26 )o Del & Had 1 10 Penn Coal C 0.... 1204 Cumbland C Co.lo IP!., Pacific Mail 31:31X 1601 E , Cen RR.•.. 119 X 119X1 Eric common,— 75%; 7534 Weekly Review of the Philad'a. Market: The unsettledstate of the currency and the fluctuation in gold hits operated unfavorably on business during the week just past, and the markets for most of the lead ing articles have been excited, and on the advance. Bark is in good demand at the advance. Bremlstutts have been more active, and prices have advanced. Coal is dull. The Iron market continues very firm, and hold ers are asking higher prices. Cotton is scarce and high. There is a fair business doing in Provisions, and prices of Pork are looking np. Hops and Hides are in fair de mand. Naval Stores continue very scarce, and prices are rather better. OM are better. Cloverseed Lein steady demand, but prices are not so firm. Whisky is quiet at the advance. In Dry Goods there Is a fair business do ing, and prices of both cotton and woolen goods are Im proving- FLOUR.—There has been a fair demand both for eldp ment and home use, and holders have realized a further advance of 25c bbl since the close of beet week f_sales comprise about 12,0(k) bble at *3 fur middlings *ag7 for common and choice allow-flue, the latter for Laucaster count,' ; $6.75@7 AO for extras ; IIi7SOGS for family, and 2•52teie9.50 bbl for fancy brands. The trade have been buyieg more freely within the. same range of price., according to brand and quality ; the market closes firm but quiet. Rye Flour is lower, and selling slowly at S4.7NQI e bb). Corn Meal continues scarce ; Pennsyl vania is worth $4 and Brandywine 6473 bbl. GRAlN.—There is less activity in Wlaeat,bnt the offer ings are small, with sales of 25,000 bus ref, to note, at 17ega75c 21 bits, for fair to prime; Pennsylvania white at 185@le2e. and Kentucky do at $2. 0 bus. Rye is steady at 97'1 1011 c - 0 bus. Corn is better, and moms a fair in quiry ; sales of 15,000 hue new yellow are reported atB74 COL: for dry; some damp sold at Sic, and old yellow at 91 4,92. bn, Oats are unchanged, with sales of 20.01X1 bus :a 62(4.43c for 32 lbs, and light Oats at iiNgilOc -a Myr. 2.500 bus Canada Mill t Fold at neck 2.000 hue IYeiteru at the same rate. and 1,000 bus New York at 163 c 0 bus. I'itOVISIONS --There has been a fair inquiry, and prices of mosCdescriptions are tending rip. Sales of 'Western and city-packed Mess Pork ut $l5 05016 fur new, and $14.5e€014.75 for old; 2,500 bbls were taken by tile Government on private terms; city-packed Mess Beef sells in lots at *P9IS, cash, and country at *ll/4 15.50; 500 tcs Alburger India Beef sold at ***i, cash. Dressed ocm mg arriving freely, and selling at $5.50 5+ 6 qa 100 lbs. Bacon—The demand is Mir and micas steady, with sales of 401 casks, including Slams, at a@ll,qc for plain and fancy cured ; Sides at. Ge - atil;e tor old. and new bhonlders at GldsoNc, cash and 5J days. Lard—The de mend is good and prices are better; sales of 1,2/0 LLB; and tcs at lt04@lle; GOO kegs at Bile, and 200 country pkge at 2.440103,:c. Butter—There is a fair demand for prime Roll, with sales at 15@32c 0. lb, and solid packed at 1417 e. Eggs are worth 16®17c el tierce. lIIMALS.HTItere is a good demand for Pig Iron, but makers refuse to contract ahead fur any quantity; sales of 1,103 tons Anthracite at itthig)3s for No. 1. and angel. cash and four months, for forge: Scotch Pig is also held higher, but we hear of no sales to any extent. Bar and Boiler iron—There is a steady. inquiry, and prices are well maintained. Lead—Them is rather more inquiry; holders are firm at 9,',.‘c cash. Copper is firmly held at the late advance • s ales of YEllaW Metal at 30c lb. .B.A.,N, — (;',:erchro. coati/Ines scarce and prices are heifer I small safes or first No.l at $31.303313 ton; Tan ners' Park Is unchanged. DISWAN is held higher, with small sales of yellow at 4( 42e. cash, CA DLES.. —Prices of all kilt& re very firm, wi th sales of City-nmile Adamantine at IS2IO '0 lb cosh, COAL. —Trade continues dull and unsettled; tiles:Fen ian prices have not yet been fully established: T ere are very few order* comient in from the East; co the continue very scarce. sad the rates of freight rule high., COFFER.—'late only arrival since our last report Hist been to small invoice of Laguayra. The market continnet very lira. and Price% well maintained; sales of 400 halm including Rio, at igglric, Jamaica at 31c, and Ln truayra at 22055 c, mak and 4 mos. CIYITON. —The market is unsettled, and holders firmer in their views: sales comprise about E - A bales at SS:32Oe, for middling Uplands. closing at 905093 c, the letter for fine, cash. DRUGS AN D' DYES.—AII kinds of foreign chemicals are held higher ; sales. of Soda Ash at 3%s:Eic; Oil of nt Vac; Nitric Acid S;is9c ; Bleaching Powders 4c; and Indigo and Log - wood on terms kept private. FEATHERS are dull, with sales of 3, 000 lbs western at 4L 7c cash. Pis }L—We hear of no sales of Mackerel from the wharf.. There is a steady store demand, evil prices - are Sneer. Sales of No. 1, at 813(014 bb l ; 31ellum and large- No. 2. at -$. 4 li 04; 0.3, at *3. are 0.50; the latter scarce.Coatish sell at 411e3c. Plc ed herring range at $2.,5('W0 bbl. FRUIT.—A cargo of Sicily °mimes and Lemons, and • Part. been sold:Tram the wharf at $ - - , 111-52. 00 0 box. Mai. sine are scarce, and held higher. lit domestic fruit there is a moderate Menthes:, doing. Green Apples range at ?KIDS tai bbl. Dried Apples at see., and peaaima legi'e for unpared, and wrinse for pared. Cranberries range at from e 101514 21 lib). FREIGHTS—To Liveroool arc steady at as 9il for Flour, f @Mei for Grain, an@s for heavy goods. Rates to San Francisco are nominal at $1:2314 $ ton for cool, and 5'.1535e 0 foot. West India freights are firm at 45@00s for Sugar, and $3.50504 for Molasses. A. schooner was taken to Barbados, out and back, at $14.50. Coal is ;Aiken to New Orleans at $S 0 ton. Coal vessels are scarce mid in demand. GINSENG is scarce, with. small sales of crude at SlO4 aoe 33 lb, cash. GUANO is out of season, and there is nothing doing In any description. lIEMI' is quietthere being no stook here to operate In. HIRES are fi rmer but dull, and no further sales hay@ COMB under our notice. Sales or green salted domestic at Oh @laqc $5 lb. 1301'S continuo firm, at 20(girie for Eastern and West ern. HAY is better, and soils at 7EOOOOO 10(1 lbs.. s 1 11 L 13% s.. 91 92% .1663; LUMBER.-the transactions in all descriptions, as usual at this season, are small, and without chango in prices. MOLASSES. —Sumilks rams iu slowly, but thodemand is moderate, and prices without change; pales of Sil.)tilids chi yell Cuba at Mrs,: some Muscovado at 38i'&111c ;Porto Rico (new crop) at !Mc, and 300 bbls old-crop New Or leans at 43e, all 4 months, NAVAL STORES. —The market is nearly bare of most kindiii small r ales of common Rosin at 522, and No. I at etrei24. No change in Tar or Pitch, Spirits Turpentine is unsettled. and selling iu a small way at tEilfsgd.Z. cash which is an advance. OlLS.'—Linseed Oil continues to have au upward ten dency, with sales at $1.4001.42. cash, hat the crushers ref. se to contract for large lots at these figures. Lard Oil to hatter, and sells 5t113001110 , 1 for winter. FiSil Oils are hold higher. There le a fair store demand for Petro leum, and prices continuo Irregular: sales of 000 bbls refined at br3.4.3c, free, anit3437c. to bond. • ..173 @17.1 .173t017134 3f 2i 3f 27X 1 .9 .23( 3f ..114 115 ...114) 115 -114, 115 ... 65 66 E PLASTER te scarce, and Soft is worth $4 TA ton. RICE contitues to sell In a small way at 7/i@Mc fee Rangoon. There is no Carolina here. SALT.—Supplies are coming forward more freely. and Immo, are unchanged. An import of 2.900 sacks Liver pool ground bas arrived to a dealer. Two cargoes Turks Island and one of St. Kitts sold on private terms. SEEDb.—There is a fallingeff In the demand for Clover seed: sales 3.000 bus common sand prime quality at ontaA• 7.50 VA Timothy sells at $2.Ve12.25 "It bn. Flaxseed is scar ce. and wanted by the cisi.,iiers at gi2.1.5%2.25. SUGAR. - Tito market is lirrn, and the demanii is good. both from the trade and the refiners; sales SOO Islubt Cuba at 9.3011 c; L5O 'Olds New Orleans at 11,Tailllf c; and Havana at 103iV1044e, on the usual credit. SPIRITS continue lino, and in the advance. with but little doing in BranOT. Gln. or Rum. WHISKY le higher; sales of Pennsylvania and Ohio bbls at 60®82e; drudge at 6E030; and hhds at 569061 c 21 gallon. TALLOW is held dimly ; the last sales of city-rent deird at IlNeelike, and country at lOX@Hle. TEAS are unchanged, with limited sales Blacks and Greens. TOBACCO.—'Tbe market for Leaf and Manufactured is excited ; holders arc demanding higher prices for Seed Leaf. Of the finer descriptions of Manufactured the market Is nearly bare. WOOL.—The excitement noted in the Wool market still continues, and holders have succeeded in realizing a further advance. There Is an active inquiry, bath from manufacturers and speculators. Sales of 150,9% lbs, part to go East. at 75@90c for fine, 72.350g74c for me dium, and 70076 c for coarse. The folloivrng are the receipts of Flour and Grain at this pert during the pant week: Flour 21.900 bbla. Wheat 55,200 Ana. Corn 40,000 Oats 37,2701m5. Tone. Cwt. . 10,693 05 937 12 . 15,917 0) 83 07 .. 4,750 10 . $45 J 2 446.27 a 16 203.052 12 sage Sales. Feb. 6. ,R, PhiladelphiaExoliAnge. BOARD. 100 NPa Chat Scrip.. 74 1 Elmira R 39 6 d 36,W 45 Gira r d College R. 26 2200Norristwo 64'63.107 WOO Philo & Eria 63...111 1.0060 do odwn.lll 120 Catawissa R 7 2 13th S 75th-sth R. 27 5(0 Penna 5s 105 ]OX obt do 3.06 102 Sold Nay Pref•••. 14 5 Delaware Div • • 41 soil it 44% 1000 Readinr. 6 '7O -...111 10 Spruce & Pine R.. 1614' 111 Green & Coates R. 43 5 Philo & Erie 11.-- 353( 10 Beaver Meadow.. 671.1 52 N Penns R 1131* 75 Peoria R 67 :3 Huntingdon & B T 2014 SO Lehigh Zinc 45 BOARDS. 1.5 Deana R 2.ays erix BOARD. 27 Yenna 45 do • • • • 20 doBS MOO U S es 'SI 1003 do 2dys 94 1000 U S 9-year Os 94, 1000 do 145 95 MO Reading R. 45 11 Cm A Amboy.R• .133 1000 City 6.4 •K 8 0.109 Zi CaIaWiSER R 7 200 d Pro f `4.74 6000 Cant o St Am (is 'SO —lO7 I:OARDS. . . blank...ciwn..lo2% CBS—STEADY. Bid. Asked. CaDo tawisanria d 2G2X 7 g Beaver Mead R.. 67X 63 Minohill R 54.16 0434 Harrisburg 8.... Wilmington R... Lehigh Nay 8e...... Do shares.— 53 56 . . Do scrip •••• 63% Cam & Amb R-111 152 Phila & Erie 65..111 111.3 Sun & Erie 75.... , • I. island •• •.. 27% 27% Delaware Div— .. Do bonds—. .• .• Sprnceoetreet R.. 16,X 16% Chestnut-st R.•.• 54.4 56 Arch-street R.... 27 .2134 Race-street R.... 11 11 Tenth-street 1t... Xi 40 Thirteenth-et R.. 26% 27 W Fiala R 6,1 66 Do Green-street 12... 4243 Do bends.... .r Second-street It— 3 78% Do bonds... IFlfth-street R.... .. Do bonds. Girard College: Pt ,11 • 26 Seventeenth-at B DX Little fichnyl at% 4D5 February G. .ns at 33 o'elsock• 80. Asked. ( Erie Fret 1(0 1001( lindson Mr 94 944 Harlem R R 34% 3.1.15 Harlem R R Prof 674‘ 67% Reading R R 90% .91 Michigan Cen... 97 9734 Michigan Sonth. t'SX 5874 Do. Guar .104 104% Panama 153 11l Central 92 . lii Cleve & Pitts.... 71% ,2 Galena & Chi.... 91 914' Clev & Toledo... 5914 90 4 ,Chl & Rock Is••• 924: 92% ICht Bnr & Q 107 .. Sfil .le Pr Du C.. • SEN 39.15 FEnnr.tur 6, 3553. New York Markets of Yesterday Mune are steady at $8.025; for Pots. and 338.75 for Pear's. BREAMTUFFS. —The market for State and Western Flour is heavy, and 5 cents lower, with enly a limited business doing at the decline The sales are 60,000 bbls at $6.90@i7.15 for supertlaa State; $7.3U 7.00 for extra State; 5P.9007.15 for super fine Michigan, Indiana, lowa, Ohio, &c. 67.48@t3.90 for extra do. including shipping brands of round 'coop Ohio at 87.654:37.&5; and trade brands do at $7.95@&75. Southern flour isa shade easier and less active; sales 700 lilts at $7.7604 for superfine Baltimore, and Si 304 10.75 for extra do. . • . Canadian Hour is dull, and prices aro 10015 cents lower. Sale-. MO bbla at $7.4507. SO for common to good. and $7.85 (§p. 25 for extra brands. Rye flour is quiff at $405.50 for tho range of fine and an dine. ern meal is firm. We quote Jersey at 81.1504.2 f; Brandywine at $5, puncheons Ira M. Wheat Is dull and heavy, and one to two cents lower. Sales 50,000 hush at id. 4 1.56 for Chicago spring; 41L56 .1.12 for Milwaukee Club s l.affciii.6B for amber fowa, t51.6G@1.70 for winter red WenOrn, and $1.71@1.71 for amber Michigan. Rye in inactive at la1.05(41.11. Barley is quiet at $1.480L Oats are dull at 6r.007c for Jersey. and ftt(473c for Ca nada, Western, and state. . Corn ix heavy and ono cent lower, wits only a very moderate bnsiness at the concevsion. Salo, 40.0%) bush at MOM for sound Western mixed, and 8:092c for an sound. BEESWAX. is firm at dagiti. CA iilll.liS. —The market is quiet for all kinds; we quote Adamantine at Walk., Sperm at Me. and Patent at 45e. NAVAL STOK Rd.—Spirits Turpentine are Arm. with email sales at $3.21. Rosins are very high. and eon mou is now worth SW. Tar is dull and nominal. WHISK T is heavy and lower; sales 700 buds at MOW. TP:A. —The market is very strong fur green, with a fair demand. The demand for black is less active but prices are sustained; the miles for the past three days are 3,,000 half chests Green, and 4,500 do (Minna and Soucherig. BAT is steady but rattier quiet today ; sales are making at 01:1150d for shipping and retail lots. Rope—The market is quiet and firm at 20@27. wltk small sales. • Pumultrr.; are dull. To Liverpool. wheat 6X and corn at 6d:300 bhls beef 5. 9d ;160 hbls ork 250,1; "fl neutral ship. Wu boxes bacon at 2.5. To London. 100 boxes bacon, neutral, at 3•:.^,: 6d. mucnTow CATTLE MARKET, February 5. —is Mar ket 1,4(K) Beereb, 160 Stores. 2, MIO Sheep and Lambs, ant IX! SW i 12C. . Prices—Markel Beef—Extra, V. OO; first quality, V.'S; second quality, $6.20; third finality. tit.soW. - Working Oxen—WO, ICO, 111;€030. Yearlings, none; two Tears old, *16@20; three rears old, *21023. Elides 'Me lb. Calf Skins 'cox lb. Tallow—Sales at Sc lb. Pelts, sl.7sgt. . . _ Sheep and immix—gXl.so@l3.7s: extra, $4145.50. Sming Pigs—Wholesale, 431 e; retail, 5)t,(48.14c. Beeves are sold by the head at prices equal to the rater .' lb of the estimated weight of Beef in the quarter. the same price. at shrinkage from live weight agreed on by the reirties—varying from 2t to 31 ver cent. Remarks.—Market opened at an advance from last week, say front 25 to 500 1 , 100 Ms on good Beof. Mr. Monroe bold to Mr. Thomas, of Beare's, 34 Cattle. weight 1,475 lbs each, at $7.25 100 Ms, 30 per cont. I shrink; also, to Stone & Brooks, 53 Cattle, weight L'IMI - 7 Ms each, at 6.50' 100 Ms, dressed weight. We noticed 10 very extra Cattle, driven by Mr. Seth Bush, of West field, weight 4,680 Ms a rail', the very best we have seep at market this season , sold to N. &S. Jackson at S 8 100160. Sheep sold quick at last week's prices. Swine sold the memo as last week_ LOUISVILLE TOBACCO MARKET, Feb. 3d. —Salea of 188 b lids as follows: 14 at $114511.75:27 at $P4412. 75 ; 25 at $13@ 1 3.75; 23 at 1114@U:A ; 18 at $154g15.75; IS at 8160 18.75; 18 at $17@17.75; 9 at $13q15.75; 10 at $19111383. 75; 4 at ilarsal 75; 2 at fill t 1 at $22. oil; 2 at U15'0:13.75; 2 at $1 , 421.75; 2 at $33@2.5.75; 3 at to.ciam.so.. and one at $52.15, sold yesterday at the Pickett warehouse. It was rained by Mr. N. M. Ideldercer, of Breckinridge minty. and was purchased by Messrs. J. B. Lewis & Co.. 04 this city. TIALTIMORE COFFEE MARKET. Feb. s.—Transaa tious to-day were confined to' 500 bags prime Rio at 3236 c lb, an navanra of 35c. Prices closed firm as reIIOWS lout 3124033 c; Laguayra at :37c, and Java at 40c Ti lb. Markets by Tele; ph. BALTISIOIIF., Feb. 6.—Flour d ; Ohio extra $7.76 @7.1.47 jl. Wheat firm : white unchanged ; red, $1.67 @i 70. Corn dull and unchanged. Whisky quiet at 64@65c. Groceries inactive, but steady. Feb. 6.—Flour is dull. Wheat .dull. Whisky sells at 50c. Pork dull. Lard dull, at 97,/,@/9.7.(0. Gold, 55 per cent. premium. Demand notes 62 per cent , premium. Exchange on New York; par. SPECIAL NOTICES. - THE COLD SNA P. BL THE BARD OF TOWER HALL. " Oh, the terrible weather!" Cry the folks all together.. The season - iv cruel ; Come. pile on the fuel; Lot tle grates be all glowing. While Northwesters are blowing. Thickly carpet the Boors. Bind with list all the doors; Bring your medical fixtures. Your patent cough mixtures, Your salves and your doses For frost-bitten noses, For asthma, chilblains, And rheumatic pains. Ent allow me to mention, That au ounce of preveutiOn Better is, to be sure, Than a whole pound of cure, ' Thus Sydenham spoke, And his words are no joke: "Dress warmly." said he, "And if you safe would he From cough and catarrh, - Co to Bennett's Bazaar." You can there select seasonable and comfortable gar ments, from the largest stock of ready-made Clothing ix Philadelphia, at prices much below market rates, TOWER HALL, Nu. 518 MARKET Street. It BENNETT 3: CO, JUST ISSUED "THE PROPHETIC TIMES ;" A nen OCTAVO SERIAL, Devoted to the Exposition and Inculcation of the doctrine or the speedy Coming and Reign of the Lord Jesus Christ, end related snlnects. • EDITED HT REV. DRS. SEISS. NEWTON. DURFJELD AND OTEEBS. Ten. Cents per No., or $l.OO per vol. of 12 Roo, • ronisfim or W. R. HARBERT, 112 N. Tzcru SMUT, PaLLADELPELL KERR'S FURNISHING CHINA AND CLASS ESTABLISHMENT CHINA HALL, 599 CHESTNUT STREET, Directly opposite Independence Hall, Philadelphia &Meta, restaurants. and shipping supplied, China and glass packed In a proper manner, and warranted from breakage, to all parts of the United. States. N. B.—China decorated to order; also, initials and crests elegantly engraved on table glass, Sa24-lni DRAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS. They purify, strengthen, and invigorate. They create a healthy appetite. They are an antidote to change of water and diet. They overcome effects of dissipation and late loom They strengthen the system and enliven the mind. They prevent miasmatic and intermittent fevers. They purify the breath and acidity of the stomach. They cure Dyspepsia and Constipation. They cure Diarrhccha, Cholera, and Cholera Morbus. They cure Liver Complaint and Baryons Headache. They are the beat BITTERB in the world. They make the weak man strong, and are exhausted-nature% great restorer. They are made of pure St. Croix Rem, the eels. Prated Callsaya Bark, roots and herbs, and are taken with the pleasure of a beverage, without regard to age or time of day. Particularly recommended to delicate persons requiring a gentle stimulant Sold by all Grocers. Drug•; gists, Hotels, and Saloons. P. H. DRAKES k CO., 110% BROADWAY. New York. Nadia BATCHELOR'S HAIR DYE, THE BEST IN THE WORLD WILLIAM A. BATCHELOR'S celebrated Hair Dr* Produces a color not to be distinguished from nature: Warranted not to Injure the hair in the least; remedlet the ill effects of bad dyes, and invigorates the Hair for life. GRAY. RED, or RUSTY HAIR instantly turns $ splendid Black or Brown, leaving the Hair soft and beautiful. Bold by all Druggists, hec. lir The Genuine Is signed WILLIAM A. BATCH/. LOB. on the lour sides of each bar. FACTORY. No. 61 BARCLAY Street. (Late 233 Broadway and 16 Bond street.) mtISIP New York. ONE-PRICE CLOTHING ; OF THE LATEST ernes, made in the Beat Manner. expressly for RETAIL SALES. LOWEST Selling Prices marked in Plain Ft- . wares. All Goods made to Order warranted satisfactory. Our ONE-PRICE SYSTEM is strictly adhered to. All are thereby treated alike. • • deLZIY JONES & 601 BLABSET Street PFLTADELPECIA BOARD OP TRADE, TROS, S. PENNON, SABIL. E. STOKES. IGologrrraz OP TIM MOB GEORGE N. TATHAM, LETTER BAGS AT %la 3rEnCILLIITS 5 =MAIM, PHILADALPIETAA Ship Shatemur, Oxnard Liverpool. soon Ship Belle of the Ocean, Reed Liverpool, soon Bark Edwin, Peterson ' Liverpool, soon Bark &varnish. Stinson Liverpool, soon Bark Florence, (Br)Toye Port Spain, soon Bark Emerald Isle, Hunter Barbadoes, soon Brig Enna. Struchan Barbadoes, soon Schr Lion. Creighton Havana, soon v1,1:0; Da oslo v:4 PIN =440) PORT OF PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7, 1863. 7 8-13IIN 8& SUN RISES.... SIGH WATER ARRIVED • • • Ship Henry Cook, (Br) 3lorgan, 48 days from Ardros san, via Portland, with 4:4) tuns coal to E A Souder & Co. Towed up by City Ice Boat. Schr W R Goan, Ames, 4 days from New York, in bal last to caphtin. Scbr Chrysolite, Smith, 3 days from New York. in bal last to captain. Prr BACK. —Brig Gen Boyd, Cane hens for Beau fort, with coal, proceeded as far as Bombay Houk, and. Sliding the vessel leaky, returned to port. CLSARBD. Bark Aaron I Harvey. Miler, Sierra Leone. Win Cum mings & Co. Bark Thomas Dallett. (Br) Duncan, Lagitayrn. Dallett & Son. Burk Mary C Porter, Phinney, New Orleans, Work arm . . _ . Sehr Chrysolite, Smith, Nov York. Sinnickson & G lover. Sob rR L Tay, Cain New York, E R Sawyer & Co. Scbr J H Stroup, foster, Fort Royal, Hunter, Norton & Co. Scbr J H Allen, Adams,Beaufort. do Scbr EMI Ben, Foster Fortress Monroe, Tyler, Stone & Co. Schr .1 L ]less, Webb, Newborn, do Str S Seymour, Room, Alexandria, T Webster, Jr. MEMORANDA. Schr H W Morse, Benton, hence, arrived at Dighton let inst. Schr Wm S Baker, Pierce, cleared at Gloucester let inst. for New York. Schrs Antelope, Jones, Peerless, Ifiggius, and Oriole, Freeman, from Boston for Philadelphia, at Stonington Sti lust. Schr Jas Neilson, Hurt, balled from Dighton Ist inst. fur New York. Behr Target, Scott, from Buenos Aires, arrived at Bos ton sth inst. Schr G C Monis, Allis, cleared at Boston sth inst. for Philadelphia. Schr Star, Gage, from Providence, at Newport 3d inst. to finish loading for Philadelphia. Schr Ply, Gheeseman, hence, arrived at Now Haven 4th inst. NOTICE TO IitARINERS. Scbr Maria, at Hot °lulu from Howland's island. ra• ports having7on October 24 passed over a aurdren shoal. -not laid down on any charts in his possession. in tat 661 N, long 164 W. The water on it was about two fathoms deep, the rocks plainly visible, and tho water apparently discolored.
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