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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.
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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.
•
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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
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N. B.—China decorated to order; also, initials and
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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. •
•
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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.