The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, February 26, 1863, Image 1

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THE PRESS,
PUBLISHED DAILY (SUNDAYS BXCEPTED,)
BY JOHN W. FORNEY.
OFFICE, No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
EitiUTEEN CENTS PRA WEEK, payable to the Carrier.
Stailod to Subsortbern out of the city at Etonr DOLLARS
WEN ANNUM, FOUR DOLLARS FOR Six MONTHS, Two DOL
zAns roe THREE DlOnitS — lnvallably in advance for the
klme ordered.
IF~YAdrertisernents inserted at the usual rates. Six
Vines constitute a square.
THE TRI-WEEK.LY PEES%
Mailed to Subselatiers out of the City at Foul. DOLLARS
T2P.R ANNUN, In advance.
GENTS'
GOODS.
ARCH STREET. 606.
606.
FINE SHIRT AND WRAPPER EMPORIUM.
Bull Assortment of
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
IN GREAT VARIETY.
CUPERIOR QUALITY, AND AT MODERATE PRICER,
G. A. HOFFMANN,
Sncceosor to W, W. KNIGHT.
006 ARCH STREET, 600.
is34tutii 9151
THE FINE SHIRT EMPORIUM,
Noii. I ♦AD 3 NORTH SIXTH BMW
JOHN O. ARRISON,
(FORKKELY J. BURN MOORS,)
IMPORTSE AND MANITFACTUUR OP
11;41:4 1 / 4 000)0,) Dm/ma lit 011:08 ileffel.lolol
IN °BRAT VARIETY AND AT MODERATR PRICKS.
N. B.—Partienlar attention given to the making ofAhirts,
jaUtaryl
Collars, Drawers, dre,
VINE 'SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
The eubacriber would Invite attention to Ids
IMPROVED CUT OP sinus,
'Which be makes a specialty In his business. Also, eon.
' , Altair receiving,
NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
J. W. SCOTT,
GENTLEMEN'S F'CIRNISAINO STORE,
No. SJA CHESTNUT STREET,
Your doors blow ths' Continental.
ARMY OZOTHING; &c..
„ A. 015PENHEIMER,
No. A3l. CHURCH Alley, Piziladelphla,
CONTRACTOR AND MANUFACTURER 07
ARMY CLOTHING
Of Every Description.
ALSO,
HAVERSACKS,
PONCHOS,
CAMP BLANKETS,
KNAPSACKS, and
BED TICKINGS FOR HOSPITALS.
• KATNRIAL BOUGHT FOR CONTRACTORS.
All goods made will be gnereatied regulation in aim
N. B. Orders of any else Ailed with deepatoli. Ja7-3m
' PAPER' HANGINGS .
•
THILAD.EL.PHIA.
PAPER ,HANGINGS.
HOWELL & BOtrRKE,
CORNER OF
FOURTH • AND MARKET STREETS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
PAPER 411ANGENG13
AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS,
Offer to the Trade a LARGE AND ELEGANT ASSORT
MENT OF GOODS, from the cheapest Brown Stock to
the Finest Decorattone.
3 4 1. E. COB. FOURTH ' , AWE MARKET STREETS.
R. B.—Solid Green. - Bine, and Bet WINDOW PA
TERS of every grade. . fel3-2m
'IODA
STILL TERBEiI ' .
AT • THE , OLD .STAND,
528 ORISTNUT STREET.
Second door, opposite Jayne'e Hsu, •
WHEELER it WILSON
• SEWING MACHINES.
The undersigned has not removed, but is ready at hie
Old Once to supply customers, at the lowest price,, with
artery style and quality of
WHEELER & WILSON SEWING MACHINES.
Machines to hire t also, with lirst-clase ousters, to
orivate families and hotels, by the day.
Machine stttcbing done at short notice, in anyquailititY.
Machines repaired and operators taught
de26-3m ARMY COY.
SINGER'S
SEWING MACHINES,
For Family Bowing and Manufacturing Ftrpoafg.
- - HESTN VIiSTRE_E
TIE WILCOX & GIBBS
WITL A T
SEWING MACHINES •
Satre been greatly_lmproyed, making It
ENTIRELY NOISELESS.
And with Self - Wasting Hemmers, are now ready for gala
by 7AIRBANKS &
se7l-tf TILS CHESTNUT Streak.
I=4 . ii . XiM , C l ==a
Tat GREAT OLOTB:ES WRINGER.
"PUTNAM
e"SELF4tDJUSTING CLOTHES WRINGER"
Is warranted to be superior to any other in nee.
EVERY FAMILY SHOULD POSSESS A.
CLOTHES WRINGER.
111:0AUSH,
Ist. It is a relief to the battiest part of washing-day.
2d. It enables the washing to be done in one-third lees
I V. ; It eaves clothes from the Wray always given by
twisting.
4th. It helps to wash the clothes as well as dry them.
'WE BELIEVE 'IT ADVISABLE TO FROOTTRE
ONE OF THIS SIND,
looeupz,
7nrr. .The rolls being of vulcanized rubber, will
/bear hot and cold water, and will neither break nor tear
Off buttons.
Saco/fn. The frame being of iron. thoroughly
!.4" milled, all danger from rug is removed, and the liar
to• shrink, swell, split., ao., eo unavoidable in
• wooden machines, is prevented.
Intim. The spiral springs over the rolls render this ma.
'shine selpautneting, eo that email and large articlea, as
-well as articles uneven In auckneee, are certain to re,
vlSeiVe uniform pressure,
Yotramt. Thepatent fastening by which the machine
its tightened to the tub, we believe to be superior in sinr .
.apllcity and efficiency to any yet offered.
rim, It will it any tub, round or uare. from Mlle.
ntu lf to one•and-aAluarter inches In thic sq kness, without
the least alteration.
RETAIL PRICE:
No, 1, 88.00 - M. 2, 115.00
air agents wanted in every county. •
sir Sellable and energetic men will be liberally dead
For Sale at the
.41WOODENWARE ESTABLISHMENT"
A. H. FRANC/1130US;
No. 453 MARKET St. and No. 5 North FIFTH IN.,
jalstutbs tmhB Wholesale agent for "Pommylvaz
- • GAS FIXTURES, &c.
517 • : ; .•.
0. A. VANKIR.IK AI 00_
1114.1101PA1C1T112311115 OP
0 - HAN-DELI:ERB
AND °TRIM
GAB FIXTURES.
Also, Pzenoh Bronx& Figures and Ornaments, Forceban
• and Mioa Siloam, and a yariety of
FANCY GOODS * •
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Pima, eall and examine goods. dettly
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER t CO.,
Nodbad Conti* Pourth sad SACS Streeto.
• PHILADELPHIA.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
lIIPORTZIELI AND DIALERS
70BRIOM AND DOMESTIC • -
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS.
XI.II7IPACORBRS 01
WHITB LEAD AND ZINC PAINTS, ?OTT. ho.
•GENTS FOR TIER 03LRBRAFRD
FRENCH ZINO PAINTS.
Dealers and consumers supplied at
n0213m VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASR
F. I. G.
ZINO ARMY AND TOILET MIRRORS,
The beet in the world for flnielk and durability.
B. M. S.
The beat brand Silk Finiabed
VELVET RIBBONS.
" 4 " VA MAU etr s erii iAm ill B roadway
f ebko mew York.
CA.R. S 0 N'S •
• SCOTCH- SILVER-CLEANING POWDER,
Warranted free from acid, and the same as need In the
houses of the nobility and gentry of Scotland. It is am
eignalled for cleaning Gold and CARSONIate, Looking
elegises, etc. • Prepared by A. H. waiter. from
is recite given me by the head butler to the Duke of
Athol.
For sale by
NAZAND & CO., Twelfth and Chestnut st,
L TOWNSEND_ , Thirteenth and Chestnut etree.e,
'T• BLACK, 1401 Cheetnnt streets,
W. H. NAULTY, 111100 Chestnut street,
J. CLARK, Firth and Prune streets,
And wholesale by WILLIAM PANVIN, 1.P104 CHEST.
NUT Eitteet L and
CASWELL, MACK, & CO., Chemists,
Fiftb•yenne Hotel, New York,
And Thames street Newport, L
All orders addressed A. H. CARSON. Western Sub Poet
once. Phlladetribis. ja26•tuthe 2rn
COFFEE COFFEE 11 COFFEE I 1 I
The hest arid cheapest prepared Coffee in the city. A
trial will convince the most skePtical. No charge made
If satiafaction is not rendered. -
Prepared and for Bale at
th p e
a 44an m *4 i 6
es
N n r d th C RON W f ork ree
t.
fell-Sm HOWARD WORRELL.
VOL. 6.-NO. 176.
NEW . PITBLICATIONS.
HAZARD'S BOOKSTORE, •
794 carnmyr STMT.
Between Sairenth and Eighth Streets.
All Books tuatally to be had Ina
FIRST-CLASS BOOKSTORE,
Win always be found on our sfleives
AT . • THE LOWEST PRICES.
POLITICAL. FALLACIES ; .AN EX-
AmTNATIoN UF FALSE ASSUMPTIONS AND RE
FUTATION OF THE SOPHISTICAL RIISSONINOS
which have !ironed on this Civil War. By George
Junkie, D. D., LL.D. 12mo. SI.E.
Wild Scenes In heath America; or life in the Llanoe of
Venezuela. By Don Ramon Peen. illustrated, $1.75.
The National Almanac forlS63.
For sale by
wiLLIAit 8.•& ALFRED IEARTIEN.
felt 606 CHM MUT Street.
OLLY'S COUNTRY SEATS AND
1T
SUBURBAN RESIDENCES, with numerous illus
trations, designs, &e.' Ste., , rout nnblisbed. Also,
• LIOLITHILL O DEAFNESS:
Ite Causes. Prevention, so., die. A new and revised
edition. 1 vol. 12m0.•
• THE GREAT CONSUMMATION. By the Rev. John
Cumming, D. D., anther ot the Avoca) yptie Sketch es,
die. LINDSAY it BLAKISTON,
__ •• -• • • Publiehers and Booksellers ,
Mi • •AB South SIXTH Street. above ehana;
25 OENTS.-PHOTOGRAP,II AL
WWI from 25 . Cents to 'LS Dollars The largest as
sortment, handsomest styles, and lowest prices in the
c
ity I
STANDARD AND MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS, all
that can be found in a Erst-elaas Bookstore, at low.
rates.
MI of O. EVANS' PUBLICATIONS at the
OLD PRICES!
Call In at Vie ORIGINAL GIFT-BOOK
featf ! dap CHESTNUT Street.
A VINDICATION OF "OBJECTA
" byy "SCOTIA." Per sale at Mc-
ELROYS, CHESTNUT and TENTH Streets and at
HENRY LONHSTRETIPS,
1338 CHESTNUT Street.
Price 16 cents. fel4-stath9t*
GENERAL TOM THUMB AND
LADY I—Card Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. TOM
THUMB In Bridal Attire, A pretty little picture of a
Pretty Littlo Pair,
At the ORIGINAL HIPT:BOOK EMPORIUM,
fe)7-tf • 439 CHESTNUT Street
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
BLACK SILKS
Gros do Rhinos.
Lustri ngs, Marceline*.
Mourning Po de Solos.
Gros Grains.
Bonnet Taffetas.
Moire Antiques.
Doable-faced Brocades.
Rich neat Figures
SUARPLESS BROTHERS.' res.
SPRING DRESS GOODS.
Ponds Cbevres, Rigor's.
Adriennos, Worsted Crepes.
Ell de Cherres, Mohairs.
Chintzes. Lawns, Organdies.
- Plain Silks, New Foulards.
Plaid All-wool Cashmeres.
SHAILLESS BROTHERS. •
. CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets.
CLOSING OUT WINTER STOCK AT
AND UNDER COST PRICES.—
. Saxony Plaids and Poll Da Chevres, at 20 cis.
Beat American Dolalnes, at 26 etc.
All Imported Dress Deeds at cost prices.
These goods are all really cheaper than Calicoes.
Plain Silks, rich colors.
. Small-figured Corded Silks, solid colors.
Philo and figured Black Silks.
Very heavy Gro Grain Blank Bilks.
Rich styles Fancy Silks.
All of theme goods aro at last fall's prices.
Pretty styles Fancy Silks, 56, 65, 75 Ct B .
Singlel Black Alpacas.
g and donble-width Black All-wool Detainee.
Plain Black Marlines, Cashmeres, and Reps.
All at last fall's prices.
• English, Merrimac, Cooheco, Sprague. and all ,the
beet makes of Prints in the market.
Pillow Case, Sheeting, and Shirting Muslim. Wil:
liamaville and other approved makes.
9-8 Waltham and Pocasset, 0-4 Layman, unbleached.
all album than the agent's case prices.
H. STEEL & BON.
162 Nos, 713 and lAN North TENTH street.
klz/
E. M. NEEDLES.
No. JAMAPIk CHESTNUT STREET,
Asks the errant!, ArranTlON of the Ladles to his _
LARGE STOCK of
WHITE GOODS LACER. EMBROIDERIES.
lIAIDIEERCE(MI3, ara•
A greater part of his goods have been purchased •
previous to the recent GREAT ADVANCE, and
are now being RETAILED at LESS than whole
sale prteee. He bas JUST OPENED:
WO dozen broad Iferustltched Hdkfn., at MI. -
.and upwards.
SOO dozen corded-bordered all-Linen Edkfs. ••
at Ho., worth 26 cents.
SOpieces plain, buff, and white Pique. for
Children's wear.
20 Diem printed and flg'd Piqué, for Children's
wear.
NOVELTIES IN LADIES' BOWS.
Imb'd Muslin lace trimmed, are.., received
every morning, from 60c. to $6.. felo-tf
1024 , CRESTNUT STREET.
S • •- • •
PLENDID STOOK. ON HAND.^..
All the beet makes of (Mooed.
All the best makes of Musline.•
All the bestmakee of Linens.
—Ail- the-katmate P
Together with Towels, Crash, Diaper Bnckaback, Bird
Bye, Burlap, &c. &c.
White Cambric and Jaconet, tall line.
Naineooke and Plaid Unsling, tau line.
Winter Goods closing ont.
Shawls, Alertness, closing out,
Balmoral Skirts, allprices.
Silk and Linen Hdkle, nice assortment. Al
JOHN H. STORRS%
7021 ARCH Street.
EDWIN HALL & 13R0.,
26 South SECOND Street.
Have reduced the Pricesiof
FllllO5. Silks,
Rich Printed Dress Goode,
Choice Shades of Merinoes,
Beautiful Colors of Reps or Poplins.
All-Wool De Lateen,
an kinds of dark dress goods reduced.
Also,
Fine Long BroCho Shawls,
Open Centre Long Cashmere Shawls, •
Rich new styles of Blanket Shawls.
4.4 Lyons Silk 'velvets, Mire Silk. de2S-tf
WILLIAMSVILLE'S, WAMSIJTTLS,
Tprk. Premiums, Forestda
Edward Harris, Bay Mill, and
Othergood makes Shirting&
ID; Utica, Waltham
L , ac
N id Pepperell Sheath:ea
FINE INES
At nearly old prices.
Cheap Damask Clothe, Power-Loom Linens,
Good Napkins!. Fine Towels and Doylies.
BLACK ALPACAS,
Fins Colored Alpacas,
Prints, Delaines, Cheep Reps.
All-wool Reps at Coat.
Balmorals—Good Bictrte, full size, 33.
Closing out Winter Cloaks and Shawls.
Closing out Buya' Winter Clothing.
-COOPER & CONARD'
.144}11 8. WO3llllO NINTH and-18111K - HT Strada.
PALINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS, ac.
JAMES 'S. ROME & SON,
IMPORTERe AND gANtrriCTUEIRB OF
LOOKING GLASSES.
=EI
OIL PAINTINGS.
• muutivigos, ---
PterTitaitH,
• • PICTURB, and
•
PHOTOGRAPH PRAMS&
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
IXTENSIITK LOOKING GLASS WAILEROOMS AND
GALLERY OF PAINTINGS.
de3l•tt • 810 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia.
I_l i 1
AGENCY FOR TUE BALE OF
.. • •
UNITED. .STATES .TAX
STAMPS,
it0..57 South TRIAD Street, fret door above Chestnut.
A fall supply of all kinds of TAX STAMPS Constantly
on band. and for sale la onantlties to suit
A liberal dleoonnt allowed on amounts of $6O and TIP'
Wards.
. Orders by Mail promptly attended to.
Oahe Hours from 9 A. M. to 6 P. M. '
JACOB E. RIDGWAY,
$454.100 Ito. 57 South TRIED Street.
A.IITION.
The we . llliOnd reputation of
FAIRBANKS' SCALES
Has badnced the =then of imperfect balances to offer
them as "FAIRBANKS' SCALES." and purchasers bay.
thereby. In many Instances, been subjected to fraud and
Imposition. Fairbanks' Scales are manulactured only by
the °Animal Invontora, B. At T. FAIRBANKS & CO.. and
at. adapted to every, branch of the business, where a
torrent and durable Scales is desired,
FAIRBANKS dr EWING,
General Agenta,
Iplo4l MABONXC new. 715 dwegrinrr ST
CARPETS AND ODEs. CLOTHS.
GLEN ECHO MILLS,
CIERIIMprOWN, PA.
M'OALLUM &
MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS, ANDIDEALERS.
609 CHESTNUT STREET
(Opposite Independence
OARP.ETINGS,
OIL CLOTHS, &c.
We have now on band an extensive kook of CARPET-
ENOS, of our own and other makes, to which we call
the attention of cash and aboit-time buyers. tel4-3m
D B. 'PAUL'& BROTHER, SECOND
-IL' • AVENUE, WESTERN MARKET, SIXTEENTR
AND MARKET STREETS.--50 bead of very 'Superior
Sheep of the South Down and Cotswold breed, raised and
fed by Col.•Jeremtab Weaver, of Derkseonnty, PL will
be exposed for sale at our Stalls, as above, on Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week.. Our
friends and the public In general are respectfully Invited
to call and examine the very %porter quality of this
mutton, fifty cheep that have not been equalled in
quality and texture in this country before. Call, exa
mine, and judge for yourselves.
. ALM HER.
fe93-6t Nos. 53 and 55 W est ern Market.
alik ri DE FINE,
'PE:A.OIIOAL' DEN.
rfi for the last twenty year, 319._TINK St.,
•
below Third, inserts the most ba.ptital of the
age, mounted on fine Gold Platlox, silver. Vulcanite, Ca
mille. Amber. Ac.. at prices, for neat and substantial
work. more reasonable than any dentist in this city or
State. Teeth plugged to laat for life. Artificial Teeth Ye.
paired to suit. No DISIZI In extracting. No charges an.
Ell satlellod MI is right, Reference. beet laritilitie. ren-812,
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The regular force consists, as before stated, of
thirty.four operators. Four of these are detailed
for duty at the Central °film, and two for duty at
every police station in the .city, with the exception
of those in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth districts,
which have but one each. Excepting these two, the
corps is divided into two classes—one for day and
the other for night duty, which they perform alter
s .
nately, changing from
which was introduced but recently, the day.opera
tors of the one week, of course, become the night
operators of the next, and vice versa. The same set
of operators are thus always bn duty together both
at the Central and subordinate stations, and each
becoming thereby familiar with the other's mode of
working, their intercourse is rendered mutually
harmonious, and in every respect pleasant and
'agreeable. Previously there existed no regular
system either for a division of labor or alternation
of service. The operators arranged the matter to
Suit themselves, or had it arranged for them by the
lieutenants to whose stations they were attached.
Such an adjustment, as might be expected, could
onlylbe productive of evil, and confusion, bickerinp, ,
and complaints of the most flagrant favoritism (all'
of which are . now happily obviated), were the na
tural and legitimate results.'
CENTRAL OFFTCF..
EZEIii
The central, or main office, is situated at the south
west corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, in a room
formerly occupied by the highway department. No
better site for the purpose could have been selected,
and the apartment itself is all that could be desired.
Large, airy, comfortable, and well furniehed, its ap
pearance is in striking contrast with that of the old
location, where the appointments and accommoda
tions were of the meanest possible character. In and
through this office is traneacted all the business of
the department. Nothing, no matter how trivial or
unimportant it may be, can be done save through its
agency and intervention. The plan, as originally
designed, was. the reverse of this, and allowed free
and unrestricted communication between the opera
' tors of the various districts. But that, after a short
trial, was found to be impracticable on account of
the turmoil and confusion it engendered, and had
to be abandoned. The present system was then in
troduced, with good effect, and has been in success
ful operation ever since; so that now, if it be re
quired to transmit a message even to an adjoining
district, it must first be Bent to the Central office, and
from thence to its proper destination.
Connecting with the office are nearly thirty
stations, sixteen of which belong to the Police, and
the remainder to the Gas Department. Much the
larger portion of the business naturally accrues to
the former, as they are set apart for the use and con
venience of the whole community. The operations
of thelatter, on the contrary, being such only as are
necessary for the requirements of a single public de
partment, are correspondingly restricted. Of this
business it ~te unnecessary to say much here, as the
tables elsewhere presented exhibit fully its peculiar
characteristics. It is large, however, and constantly
increasing, and a great.deal of it, as may be readily
imagined, is of the meat important character. No
other public office in the city we are certain can
compare with the Central as a place of general re
sort. Representatives of all grades of our popu.
lotion, from the highest to the lowest, come and go
constantly upon errands of different import—some
impelled by necessity, some to give or seek . in
formation, and others, it may be, to enter com
plaints. It is the headquarters, too, of the corps of
newspaper reporters, and many are the items they
indite within its precincts to interest and amuse the
readers of their reepectivejournals. One or another
of the members of this fraternity, and sometimes all
of them, are on hand up to midnight and even later,
should a fire or other occurrence of public interest
render their presence necessary. Numerous visitors,
a large proportion or whom are ladles, also drop In
to witness the operations of the different instru
ments. All such are cordially received, and have
everything explained to them clearly and intelli
gently. And so, between this visiting, the clicking
of the instruments, the ringing of the bells, and the
hurrying to and fro of the operators, in the di&
charge of their duties, matters and things about the
station arc generally pretty brisk and animated.
CENTRAL OPERATORS.
The operators at the Central office are in a major!.
ty of cases gentlemen who have gained their promo
tion from the subordinate ranks by attention to
duty, Intelligence, and general good conduct. Their
duties are, from the very nature of the position, far
more onerous and responsible, and their labors Intl-
nitely greater, than those of their brethren in the
minor stations. This, we think, will be readily ad
mitted. To enable them to discharge these duties
properly, the qualifications obviously necessary are
such as can only be acquired by long practice and ex-
perience. They must be au fail in the use of the
instruments, and have a correct knowledgeof all the
signals in 001M11011 use. They must also be able to
comprehend quickly all kinds of abbreviations of
words and transpositions of letters, and be blessed,
besides, with sufacient coolness and seitconlidence
to insure successful action in cases of sudden emery
gency. Possessed of these requisites ' they are fully
competent for the position and the business entrusted
to their care, which is certain to be satisfactorily
and creditably managed:
.11,Z,GITTLAT101:13.
Besides the regulations (to be hereafter given)
adopted for the government of subordinate opera
tors, which applirte theta sitar as practicable, there
are others of a private and more detailed character
to which also they must conform. Among these are
some emanating from the Chief Engineer of the Fire
Department, some adapted to the exigencies of the
Detective service, and others, too numerous to men
tion. These have all originated from time to time,
as occasion demanded, to aystematise business, and
maintain proper discipline. They are, therefore, of
the highest importance, and obedience to them is
always rigidly exacted.
TERM OP DUTY AND OTIIER MATTERS.
The division of the force for day and night ser
vice, which we have already explained, secures the
constant attendance of two operators at the office.
Their term of duty is, for day-men, from 8 o'clook A..,
M. to 6 o'clock P. M. They are then relieved by
their fellows, who remain until relieved in turn at 8
o'clock the - next morning, and this routine•ts fol
lowed unvaryingly from'the commencement to the
ending of the year. The first thing done, upon COM-
Ineucing work,'ln to make an. examination ,of tha
Ct . :11rtss.
THURSDAY,. FEBRUARY 26, 1863
The Philadelphia• Police and Fire.Alarin
TelfgriP4-
(WittLiglied . t*ut yesterday.)
EMPLOYEES
The employees in The department number thirty
seven, consisting 'of a superintendent, an assistant
superintendent, thirty-four operators, and a line re
pairer. In addition to these, there are five substi
tutes, three of whom are at present on duty regu
larly, filling vacancies, and the others waiting, with
a resignation and philosophy worthy of Mr. Wil
kins Micawber in his palmiest days, for something
to turn up and assure them steady positions.
SIIPEIVENTENDINIT.
The Superintendent. as head of the department, is,
of course, Sole director and manager of its opera
tions, and on his tact, energy, skill, and intelligence
depends a harmonious and successful administration
of its affairs. If this assumption be correct, and if
it be fair and proper to regard these qualities as ab
solute criterions of fitness for the position, we are
sure none can gainsay that of the present Incum
bent. He has exhibited them all in an eminent de
gree In discharging his trust, and the result has been
most satisfactory and gratifying. In short, he is
universally conceded to be well versed in his profes
sion, and in every respect qualified for the proper
performance of the duties of the position. This
gentleman was the projector of the line, and was
also one of the contractors for its construction. He
was elected to the post of superintendent upon the
organization of the department, and hae.ever since
been identified with it in that capacity. His know
ledge of the business in all its details is, therefore,
practical and thorough.
881§TANT 817PNRINTENDENT.
The duties of the assistant superintendent being
of a subordinate character, do not bring him so pro
minently into notice. To him is entrusted the ma
nagement and supervision of the minor details of
the department. He oversees all necessary repairs,
the introduction of new instruments and signal
boxes, and the extension and reconstruction of the
various lines of wire. He is also required to enforce
the orders and regulations adopted for the govern
ment of the department, and to take cognizance of
all delinquences, and in the absence of the superin
tendent to assume his position and act in his behalf.
The present assistant has held the post for more
than 'five years, and during all that period, we
are assured, has performed these duties •in such a
manner as to elicit the warmest praise and appro
bation of his chief. He receives his appointment
from the superintendent, who in turn is elected an
nually by Councils. A recent resolution, passed by
them, has, however, extended the term for three
years. The next election will therefore be for that
period. -
OPERATORS-APPOINTMENT, EESTROOTION EEO.
But the operators preponderating largely in num
bers over all others connected with the department,
and their duties, in the main, being of more import
ance than the rest, are deserVing of a more extended
notice at our hands. They are all appointed by the
Mayor, and afterwards confirmed by Councils, exact
ly the same as policemen, with a like salary, of five
hundred dollars per year: Upon receiving their ap
pointment, they are sent into the Central Office, and
placed in charge of the operators for instruction.
There they remain, without pay, until their educa
tion is so far advanced as to warrant their instruct
ors in • reporting them qualified for duty. About
three weeks is usually sufficient for this purpose,
though some require a much longer time, and others
learn in less, according as the pupil proves himself
an apt scholar or otherwise. It must not be sup
posed, however, that because they have 'received
this endorsement of their capability from head
quarters their education is, therefore, finished. On
the contrary, months must yet elapse, and great pa
tience be exercised toward them by those with whom
they operate before they are thoroughly versed in
all theininuthe of their new profession. Upon the
completion of their education at the Central Office,
they are taken before the Mayor, or his clerk, and
sworn in, and from thence detailed for duty, should
there be a vacancy; if not, they must act as substi
tutes, making as much time as chance or good for
tune may throw In their way, until an opening is
made for their services.
MORE ABOUT OPERATORS.
PHILADELP lIMI liTililvearimi
slates for unclaimed children and estrays, and to see
if there is anything left over tc the previous opera
tors requiring attention. If tiers ts, it is carefully
noted, and properly disposed of By the time this is
through with one or more sta4ons (sometimes half
a dozek) have called for busint, and must be an
swered in the regular order of eir calls, either by
giving the signal for " wait a tiv minutes, ,, or by
receiving the messages they wire to transmit. These
attended to, and their despairs written out, the
operators arc ready for the nrxt corner, who gene
rally Is not long' in making hhiself heard. In the
. • •
intervals between these calls tip y are by no means
idle. _ Citizens are to be waltel on, and attention
given to orders from the Chtei of Police and the
Mayor's office, and to many Other matters of a
kindred character. And thus, wi an occasional fire
to vary their labors—if that web possible—is their
time occupied till the welcome h' r of relief arrives.
ABOUT .111EABA R.
For purposes of business all essages are sepa
rated into two distinct classes o divisions. Those
( f
forming one class are called gineral messages, be
cause they are of a kind requtg a general and
wide dissemination. The other ails, for a contrary
reason, is styled special measaget,l.nd consists en
tirely of such as are strictly and properly confined to
the two stations engaged in their trinarntaston.. Or
ders for the arrest of criminals and naways, inqui
ries for missing persona, deserip na of counter
fear', stolen property,* and the 11 evidently be
long to the former division. Hen , they are tele
graphed to every pollce-station c 4 ected with the
department, where they are either. ad to the men
when assembled to roll-call by th lieutenants, or
such other measures taken In rega t o them as are
proper under the circumstances. ; ith the class of
I
, .
specials the case is different, ar we have stated.
Possessed of no peculiarities retuidring i any other
course necessary, they arc mer 4 sent from one
station, received at another, writtin out in both;'
and there the matter ends so far nithe department
is concerned. ' Notwithstanding thia summary die
poaition, they are as a whole highly interesting and
important, much more so in fact, than those of . the. -
other division. Messages relative to sudden deaths,
tires, and accidents form a portionof them, as also
do those in the shape of orders from persons in au
thority, reports of Ist children and estrays, and
many besides not requisite to be enumerated here,
but equally as worthy of mention.
In this connection a few words in relation to lost
children and the best 'means of effecting their re
covery will not be out of place, inasmuch as .tbe •
sutject it, or should be, one of near concern to every
household, and is, we regret to say,lar from being
correctly understood. All such are taken to the
nearest and most convenient pollee station and con
fided to the care of the operator on ditty. lie imme
diately calls the central office and reports, " We have
a. lost boy or girl," as the case may be. , adding the
name, if he can ascertain it
. ; if not, a desciiption of
its dress and general appearance. The operator re
ceiving this report or message records it on a slate,
where it remains for referenceuntittheparents (who
probably visit another station for the purpose) dia.
cover the whereabouts of the child" and claim it.
..
Many persons, particularly females, Who are, ,unfor
tunate enough to meet with a lose of this kind, set
about prosecuting the necessary search in such a
manner as to show they have no conception what
ever,
of the proper course to lie pursued. instead of '
going to work coolly and methodically, they abandon
themselves to the extreme of excitement and im
patience, and hurry wildly from one station to ario-
ther for information as though mho great calamity
was impending which could only thus be averted.
This is all wrong, and does nothing toward accom
plishing their purpose. On the contrary, it is' a
greit inconvenience to the individuals themselves, as
well a source of much annoying trouble to the ope
rators, each one of whom .is expected to despatch
a message of inquiry for their accommodation. The
right way and the best one by all odds is very easily
understood, and is worth remembering. It is simply
to visit the same station at intervals of two or
three hours, until The desired Information is ob
tained.
These remarks apply likewise to persons in search
of estrays, many of whom act in a precisely similar
manner. But little more need be said about mes
sages. Such of them asselate to matters of public
interest must be recorde&ln a book provided for the
convenience of reporters of the Press, to which they,
at all times, have access. In the same manner, all
Others of every description, received or sent during
their term of duty, must be registered in suitable
blotters by the operators before they are relieved.
STA.TIONS AND CIROITITS
To insure prompt and expeditious intelligence o!
the localities of fires, alarm stations to the number
of more than one hundred and fifty in the aggregate
hive been erected in various parts of the city. Each
elation is appropriately numbered, commencing.
with number one at the State Bonsa and each is
cormectea with one or anotherof.elesen wires or
circuits, eepers
•-•
!'....-wrintlirict the Cential'oilice.
451d e igpri•ornme co.m nt m
n of this kind,is requisite, both as
a precautionary measure and to facilitate the . disco..
very of breaks, fouls, or other damages to the line.'
For, if but a single wire was used, a breakage would
not only suspend operations generally, but the re.
pairer would frequently have to traverse almost thti
entire extent of the city to find and remedy it. Now,
however, in the event of such an accident; he learns
the correct route by simply testing the circuit mag
nets. Consequently the difficulty is soon removed,
, nor can the stoppage to business, by any possi
.bility, ever extend beyond the- solitary Wire
involved. Considering the immense amount of
valuable property to be protected and the vast
of our city, the number of alarm stations is exceed
ingly limited. Hence great pains has been takerito
render their distribution as uniform as-possible.
The arrangement effected to secure this result is
generally such that while but few neighborhoods are
without any, they are more numerous in districts
where the population is dense than. in those where
it is sparse and scattering. This is 'clearly the pro
per and only plan that could be pursued under the
circumstances. The matter of their particular loos
tionis vested in Councils, and they fix and determine
all sites. Some are placed in fire engine houses and
police stations, but the large majority are in the
streets, attached to the telegraph poles. There
they are convenient of access to all having autho
ritY to use them, who are solely those connected
with the tiro Departments of Telegraph and Police.
[ln a third paper upon the subject we shall speak
of the mode of transmitting an alarm of fire ;
and duties of subordinates ; together with interest
thg statistical statements and tables, showing the
work annually performed by the Philadelphia Po
lice and Fire Alarm TelegraPh.]
'Jolted States Sanitary Commission.
The following circular : has been issued by the
.
United States Sanitary Commission to the, public,
Which we commend to the attention of our readers:
The Philadelphia Associldes of the United States
Sanitary Commission, while 'returning thanks to
their fellow-citizens of the States of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, for the' liberal responses hitherto
made to their appeals are again compelled to make
their wants known to'the public.
The immense value of the Commission's aid, par
ticularly at the late battle of Antietam, and the still
later battle of Fredericksburg, was fully recognized
by the Government. After the battle of Antietam,
our agents, with large euppileirof clothing, food,
stimulants, and medical' store were on the ground
two days in advance of the erovernment supplies.
Their labors were enormous; and thegood accom
plished' correspondingly 'great. The lamented Mr.
Platt, the late . efficient lsuperintendent of
this Agency, was untiring UP - benevolent exertions.
The exposure into which his unselfish energy led
him cost the Commission his valuable life. '
At the more recent 'battle of:Fredericksburg, the
agents of the Commission were promptly on the
ground, and, acting in conjunctiqn with the regular
medical authorities , materlank'nided in hating the
• wounded of that bloody struggle; better, oared for on
the spot, and more expeditiotudy and comfortably
removed to hospitals, Man after any preutous`;44le
These results were largely.due to the wise foresigh t . .
of the Commission, enabled by the contributions lie
a liberal public to accumulate large quantities of the:
necessary supplies at such Jaiinta as were most a& •
cessible for the purposes required..
We are fully convinced that the medium of the
Sanitary Commission is the best; if not the only safe
way of reaching the sick and-wounded of the - army;
with anything like syetemi.' Contributions to its
stores can always be made effective, as Its thorough
national organization and official recognition by the
military authorities, give it facilities for. com
cation with and transportation.to . distant points, '
possessed by no other organization ; while. one
almost necessary result of sending supplies through
the numerous welkneaning,.: independent relief
societies, is that some localities are -over-burdened •
with useful stores, while other - -places are compara
tively destitute. . •
Little or no reliance can be had that articles 'sent .
to individual sick•or wonndedwill ever reach their
destination. We have good•.authority. lot' Saying
that over twenty thousand
_undelivered packager for sot
diers arc now awaiting owners in the store house of one
express company In Washington ; We believe that no
express company ever undertakes to deliyer_pack
ages to a particular Individual or company.. Boxes
are perhaps taken t%within five or six miles of the .
desired spot, but the, are as useless there if they
had never been forwarded at;all. •No regiinental
transportation can be depended. on for their con--
veyance, as regimental wagons are fully occupied
in other service. - ~•
, •
.The Sanitary Commisaion, does not and cannot
undertake to deliver specific articles to individuals,
or to particular regimentlyebut -adopts the broad
principle of attending failkfully-to the maids of any
and every sick and wounded soldier who can be reached.
It is, we believe, the only Organization which is na
tional and permanent in iteehiracter, having store.
houses and branch °dices the principal cities of
the country, and should haVvirlaririmerable contribu
ting aid societies in encry,county throughout the
land, as ft already has in many. It has transporta
tion trains of Its own foll Awing the armies in the
field, in addition to unusdal. Governmental facili
ties, and, in the pursuit of its humane mission,
knows no North, South, East,- or West.
Large supplies of under-clOthing for the sick and
wounded soldiers—of prepared 'soups and jellies,
wines, fruits and other_dellcaelea and articles of
nourishment, so indispensable on such occasions,
have always been on hand with the agents of the
Commission, at the times and places most needed
and abundant testimony has 'been furnished that
thousands of lives have been - it/wed by the prompt
administration of such stimulants and restoratives
to the exhausted and alinost perishing victims of
souse bloody and perhiCps unexpected battle by the
faithful and devoted tphysicians and nurses con
noted with the Commission.
These supplies are almost exhausted. It is un
necessary to say that the need for more is urgent,
and the appeal is now made that while the Com
mission has faithful and intelligent and useful
agents in the field, who are periling their lives in
the sacred cause of humanity, their important work
shall not be allowed tolanguish, either for want or
pecuniary aid, or willing contributions of the needed
supplies. . • .
Contributions will he thankfully received by
either of the undersigned, or by Robert M. Lewis,
the general superintendent, at The Depository, No.
27 South Sixth street, Philadelphia ; or by Caleb
Cope, Esq., Treasurer of the Commission, northeast
corner of Sixth and Minor streets, second stOry,,or
by Mr. H. A. De France, who will continue to call
personally on citizens for that purpose.
' O. J. STILE,
• W. H. ASHRIIIIST
THOS. RIMEER, .lu.,
_ . HUGH DA.VIDS,
GEO. M. OONARROE,' •
Committee on the Depository.
I'amannruta, February, 18a3.
The Trial of the Constitution-.
, We make the following extracts from Mr. Pieher'a
volume on the Conetttuttoii. They will be read with
great interest, as illustrating the position that ahtnald
be taken in reference to the great questions now be
fore the people.
" THE LINE OF SEPARATION."
' , Another question still more important is, who Is
to draw the line of separation, for that willprobably
determine, whether the oountry Is to be divided into
two or into many nations. 'A united North would'
make a great empire, rich in all resources, full of life'
and vigor, strong enough to, defy the world. But an
East, a West, a middle region, and a South, would
be weakness for each and perpetual war. Who is to'
settle that question 1 Th e Stat es themselves, as Ruth,
or a convention of the States? Either plan would
recognize the right of secession, and the false and
fatal doctrine, that theUnlon once broken, as to one
State, is broken as to all. Either plan would unset
tle men's thoughts, inspire universal alarm (for
none coltld know what the others would dos, and
give free scope to the ambitious designs of demogogues and the insane rage of party spirit. In such
a crisis, a National Government, strong enough to'
make Well obeyed, is the only rock of safety; it
alone can inspire confidence and save the 'country
from anarchy. The Government established by the
Cohstitution has power adequate to the occasion.
It has power to preserve the Union the legal Union,
the Union seceded from and rebelled against, the
whole'ofit, or as much of it as can be held, or as the
majority of the people choose to have. It alone can
draw the line of separation, and defend it when
drawn. It alone can secures prosperous and united
North. Give this power to the several• States, each
to decide for Itself, as hopes and fears and partisan
intrigne and popular passion may dictate, and the
fate of continental Europe will speedily be ours.
"Already the dangers of such a plan have been
foreshadowed by the course of the Democratic party
in Pennsylvania, so early as January 1861, in antici
pation 'of the war not then begun. Even then the
leaders of that party passed a resolution, to the Prin
ciples of ,which 'they have sines adhered, declaring'
that in the event of separation, Pennsylvania ought,
and legally might join the Southern. Confederacy.
Grant such a right, strip the Government of power
to preserve the Union .after the separation of a
State', and what a chaos of ruin would follow, should
the rebellion accomplish its objects. We are wont
to talk of the weakness of the South ; but all the
nations of the world combined could not destroy us
so completely as the South may, should these mon
strous doctrines be carried out to their practical re
sults. This, indeed, may well be a war to preserve
the Union, if such are to be the consequences of dis
union.
"Perhaps the Northern people may choose, and
may have the power to preserve the Union against
the wishes of the South. They may determine to
conquer the South, andlo hold it In subjection by
military force. They have offered to the Southern
people from the commencement of the war, peace,
good will, and - their former equal and honorable po
sition under the Government on the sole condition
of laying down their arms. Wherever our armies
went they have proclaimed that they came to pre-
ECTVC, not to destroy ; that they did • not make war
on the people, but on the rebellion. Private pro
perty and non-combatants have been respected; even
elavea escaping to our camps, have been returned.
This offer has been spurned with acorn, these words
and acts of kindness have been repulsed with every
expression of malignant hate. Our good will has
been met with curses and execrations, even by the
women.
"The Northern people are not very excitable.
They are slow to anger, but they can bo moved to
anger, and then their rage la not easily appeased.
They prefer peace to war, but theylove war and its
excitements, which develop those qualities that
make their race everywhere conquerors; courage,
adventurous energy, stubborn tenacity of purpose,
love of , supremacy and power, an indomitable
rock-made race of men,' descendents of Ilengist and
Noma, of the Norsemen and Sea-Kings, who con
quered the Celt in France, England, Scotland, and
Ireland, and held him conquered, overturned the Ito
man Empire, and spread havoc through its ancient
cities, and here, for want of other opposers, have
conquered the primeval forests and founded an em
pire on the home of Indian tribes. Perhaps these
Norsemen of America may say, 'This Southern
country is ours by right, and we will have it, in its
length and breadth, with its coast's and cotton, its
rivers and Ports ; it is ours, and it shalt be ours, if
we must make it a desert. The Southern people
hate us, defy us, make war upon us. We accept
their challenge, and will treat them as enemies.
They reject the Union; will not live with us in the
Union. Be it so ;we will reject them from the
Union, but still hold their country. They call us
abolitionists. We accept the title, and will abolish
slavery, or anything else that stands between us and
our purpose. They have attempted to destroy our
Government. We will make them, not its citizens
but its subjects. ,
"This would ben Gothic way of setting the con
troversy,' and the Gothic nature is not extinct, how
ever softened and refined by culture and civilization.
The old Norse temper survives and shows itself on
occasion. What wofild the English people' do in
like circumstances' Would they give up territory
to a threat 1 Would they palter and argue, and no.
gotiate with a causeless and wicked -rebellion, or
oder concession and compromise in return for insults
and blows? Would they suffer their empire to be
dismembered for the sake of slavery, or permit an
enemy to exist within its rightful limits, where, if
they could not have a friend they might have a do.
pendent? Would they give up Ireland' They con
quered it, and have held it conquered through cen
furies of war and more than once well-nigh exter ,
minated. its ' inhabitants, rather than give it up.
Would they give up Scotland? Through long cen
turies they made incessant efforts to conquer the
Scotch, efforts which ceased only when their object
was accomplished by the Union. Did they give up
us' Batherthatl-42.%91.010KkaggIlLtill-SPr4VIA
• mat., a rtip India? It was only the other day that
they tied.seceding }Undoes before the mouths of
cannon, and blew them into fragments. The Norse
blood beats yet to its old tune under the silken ves
ture of the nineteenth century. This stern decd was
done by gay and graceful officers, of gentle birth and
cultivated manners, the ' curled darlings' of London
drawing-rooms . When the metro of it reachexl home,
civilized, humanc,lettered, and Christian England
muttered hoarse applause.
TIM HABEAS CORPUS
- •
"It obe remarked, moreover, that Mr..Lin
coin exhibited forbearance and moderation in the
exercise of his authority, going no farther than was
. demanded by the necessity of the muse. He autho
rized, as 'he says, only a qualified suspension of the
privilege of the writ. Thewrit itself was never sus
pended at all. The benefits of the writ are the privi
lege or every citizen. These were not denied to the
people or .to sections or classes of them. One of
these benefits and perhaps the most important, has
not been denied even to individuals arrested by or.-
der of the Government. They still have been enti
tled to the writ, to which a return has always been
made by the officers in whose custody they were,
stating the authority by which they were committed
and the charges against them. Publicity has thus
been secured, a most important protection to per
sonal liberty. There have been no secret arrests, no
lettres de cache!. The prisoner and his friends have
known, or have had the means of knowing, the
offence of which he was accused, and the place of his
confinement. They have thus had the means of ob
taining his release, either by disproving the charges •
made agaleet him or by giving satisfactory assu
rances of Mture good behavior; and the Govern
ment has ahown as much liberality in discharging
prisoners, as caution in committing them. Whilst
the courts can issue the writ and the Government
continues to obey it so far as to return the cause of
• the arrest and by whose authority it was made, the
privilege of the writ is not fully, but partially sus
pended, and the power of discretionary imprison
ment by being stripped of secrecy, Is disarmed of its
most dangerous attribute.
" It therefore appers Presidenthether as expounded
by Mr. Binney, the as the sole aud ex
clusive_power to suspend the privilege of the writ in
eases of rebellion or invasion ; or whether he may
•do so without the sanction of Congress, because of
his independent and co-ordinate authority, as de
clared by the Attorney General ; or whether the ex
istence of civil war puts the country under martial
law, and therefore, as some contend, clothes the Pre
trident with military power over the civil courts and
civil rights; or whether, as above argued, the Eng- , 1
lirds law of habeas corpus is also ours, and as Mr.
Lincoln seems to think, for his action end his lan
guage accord with that opinion, he at least has done
hie duty. He has been guilty of no usurpation or
stretch of power. He has shown neither fear, favor,
nor affection, personal feeling or partisan passion,
but on the contrary, has administered his great
office so impersonally as the representative of Ex
ecutive power, and with so much fairness, candor
and modesty, that even the reckless rancor of party
spirit has not ventured to impugn hie motives."
ARMY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
•
Destruction of 'lopefield, Ark.—Prepara
tions for the Attack on Vicksburg—Our
Mortar Boats in Position—Guerillas and
' their Movements—Probable Capture ofthe
Rain Queen of the West—Death of the Re
bel General Forrest.
DESTRUCTION OF THE VILLAGE OF HOPE
FIELD.
Mearritts, Feb. 19, via Cairo, Feb. 20.—During
`last night, the rebels on the Arkansas side managed
to'scuttle and sink two barges filled with coal. lying
at the landingopposite Memphis. The tow-boat
. 'Hercules had been previously burnt and sunk. This
determined the authorities to destroy the village of
Bopeiteld, opposite Memphis. The town is known
to have been constantly filled' with guerillas. The
work of destruction was commenced at nom The
steamer Mill Boy was sent over to bring away faint
lies and children. The gunboat shelled the woods
beyond the town. Shortly after, a house was aet on
fire; then house after house was tired, and name
after flame burst out, till the destruction was com
plete. iloperield is among the things that were.
A brother of the rebel General Forrest informs the
13ulletin that he is dead. His relatives place reliance
in the information.
THE ATTACK ON VICKSBURG.
TaIIPHIS, Feb. 20.—Advices from the fleet of
Vicksburg to the evening of the lath furnish the
agreeable information that the initial. step, inagu
' rating active hostilities, commenced to-day. It is
presumed that the grand attack will soon be made.
Our mortar-boats were towed down to . position
above the city, and opened the ball by fi ring briskly,
but with what effect upon the enemy is not known.
Three rounds were delivered by the mortar-boats,
Which were briskly responded to by three batteries
of. the Confederates which were in range. Our pi);
Wien was soon found too much exposed for effective
operation upon the rebel force,
and It was finall y .
changed, when the bombardment was again renewed
on both sides.
It is. thought the next advices from that quarter
must prove of absorbing interest. Events minuet
now be long in culminating in something important.
All the transports are to be retained below until
danger from overflow and crevasses shall have
wooed.
Since the burning of the town of Hopefield matters
in Memphis are rather quiet. A strict watch is kept
over the 'guerillas. Movements of parties in the
edge of the woods opposite, on the Arkansas shore,
are occasionally.the signal for throwing a few shells
in that direction by the gunboats, but thus far no
considerable force has been discovered' there.
• THE QUEEN OF THE WEST.
There seems to be no reason to doubt the rebel re..
part of the capture of the United States steam-ram
Queen of the West, eonimanded by Colonel Ellet.
After capturing" a 'rebel transport called the " Era,
No. 6," on Red river, Colonel Ellet forced her pilo t
a man 'named- John Burke, to take the wheel and
direct the Queen of the West to certain rebel batte
ries called Fort Taylor. Burke deceived him and
ran the boat close to the fort, while telling the offi
cers that it was fifteen Mlles off. A shot broke the
steam-pipe and disabled the boat at a time when
she and her crew were unprepared for a fight.
Burke swam ashore, and the Q.ueen of the Weld
drifted to the opposite side, when the crew, with
the exception of eighteen, escaped and got on board
"the. Yankee gunboat Be Soto," together with
twci hundred atolen negroes." The account is
somewhat confused, but it is probable in the main
correct. It to added that the iron-clad Monitor In
dianola has gone up the Red river to recapture the
Queen of the West. We trust that this
than cor
rect, and that she may be mole. fortunate her
consort.
An upstart eaptainundeitook to drive from his
seat an old gentleman muffled in a cloak, in . the oars
between Washington and Baltimore, not tong since.
The old gentleman bore the fellow's insolence as
long as be could, when he threw off his cloak, re
vealing a major general's rig, and ordered the
captain under arrest' for ungentlemanly and un
soldier/Ike conduct. The old gentleman was Oen,
Couch.
THE REBELLION.
Milroy on Daniestie Trenson—Patrlotie Let
ter froth Oen. Hoscerane—The Crew of
the I. P. Saatels—Gov. Johnson. Carrying
Out the Proclamation—Burning of a Mili
tary Hospital.
_____.
GEN: MILROY ON THE COPPERHEADS..
Edilor Indianapolis Journal:
I have just read the noble resolutions of my
brother officers of Indiana in the gallant army of
Roaecrans, who, having assisted by their heroism in
achieving the splendid victory over the traitor army
tinder Bragg, turn round to rebuke the more vile
and cowardly traitors at home, who, having taken
advantage of the absence of over one hundred thou
mind patriot soldiers to steal into power, are dis
gracing our State by their treasonable acts.
Let these traitors of the Indiana Legislature and
the Copperheads, Butternuts, and IC. G. C.'s
throughout the State who are giving aid, comfort,
and encouragement to armed treason in the South,
read in the odium that has followed the memory of
the Blue-Light Federals and Hartford Convention
. late of 1812 something of the execration and deter.
tattoo that' will - follow their memory. down the
stream of time.
I join with my fellow-soldiers of the Union every
where in warning these traitors at home that when
we have crushed armed treason at the South, and
restored the sovereignty of our Government over
these misguided States (which, under God, we surely
will do), we will, upon our return, while our hands .
are in, also exterminate treason at the North, by.
arms, if need be, and seal by the blood of traitor*,
wherever found, the.nerni ...et pe...0 of em-eace i •
and the perpetuity of free government to all futare •
... r ]
generations. R. .H. MILROY. '
Wiwouraren, Va., Feb. 19, 1863. •
ANOTHER LETTER FROM GEN. ROSE.
CR ANS..
Gen. Rosecrans has written the following letter to
the Cincinnati Common Council, and every line pal
pitates with patriotism :
HEADQUARTERS DEPT OP TUE CUMBERLAND,
Munentesnono, Tenn., Feb. 18, 18e3.'
GENTLEMEN : I have just received and read the
resolutions passed at your meeting on the 16th inst.,
complimenting this army, the Ohio troops, and the
commanding general, for their bravery displayed at
the battle of Stone river. •
On behalf of this noble army and its gallant leaders,-
I accept this expression of your sympathy and praise
with pride, all the more heartfelt because you sare
my fellow-citizens, and your words touch me by
their tones of friendly. sincerity while they till my
thoughts with the sweet memories of home, for the
safety of which, and each of you, ore,who are. far.
away, are willing tolay down our lives.-
May no syren song of peace, founded on the delu
sive hopes of honor, truth, or justice• of the •rebel•
leaders, induce us•to peril both honor and the safety.
of our homes. If never permitted to .enjoy, those
dear homes ourselves, we will at least endeavor to
leave them safe and free, under the Constitution and
laws, to our posterity..
I
I have the honor, gentlemen:, to remain, withgreat
respect, your obedient servant,
W. S. ROSECRANS;Major General.'
To the Hon. Mayor and Common- Council, Cincin
nati, Ohio.
ARRIVAL OF. THE CREW OF-THE GUNBOAT.
" ISAAC P. SMITH.
The crew of the gunboat Isaac P. Smith, captured
in Stono river, S. 0., on the.aoth :of. •January last ;
numbering ninety-five men, arrived here last night,
and are at the navy yard. After• being captured
they were taken to Charleston, where they. wereput
in a prison and kept for a week, sad from.. thence
they were sent to Libbey prison, Richmond, where •
they were kept until Friday-last, when they were •
paroled and sent off by flag-of-truce boat State of
Maine. They. arrived at Annapolis on Saturday,.
and arrived here last evening.
We learn that when the gunboat was- captured •
there were nine killed, as follows: •Assistant Engi
neer Turner, W. F. Greer, John. Lewis, Richard
Walton, Wm. Biel, Lewis Trucabler, W. S. Dickey,
John Peters, and Joseph. Magee (colored). There
were seventeen wounded, of whom . the following
were kit in a hospital at Charleston : John Nichols,
John Dalton, Samuel Hoffman, and Richard Stout.
Warkingtou Sian 24th.
PROCLAMATION OF GOV. ANDREW
JOHNSON.
Mora:, Many. persons, owning• and possessing
real and personalestate, situate in •that portion of
the State of Tennessee within the jurisdiction of the
Government of the United States, come within the
provisions of sections fifth and sixth of an act of
Congress, approved July 17, 1862, and have failed
and refused to avail themselves of the provision of
the 'fifth section within the 'sixty days, which ex-.
pired under the proclamation of the President of the
United States on the 23d day of September,lB62 ;
and whereas, Many such persons are now within the
socalled Confederate States, having left such pro
perty in charge of agents, who collect the rents issues,
and profits thereof, and forward the same to the par
ties, or retain and Invest it for their benefit; there
fore. in pursuance of said act of Congress, I, An
drew Johnson, Military Governor of the State of
Tennessee, do hereby warn all persons holding, rent 1
in g, occupying, or using any such real or personal
estates, ar the rents, issues, and protita thereof, be
longing to any such parties, as well as all agents,
not to pay the same over to the said parties or their
agents, but to retain the same until some person
. . .le has been a pointed in thealimitai tt sff.-1
i l subject to the order of the. said Government of the
United States. • ANDREW JOHNSON,
Military Governor of Tennessee.
Pentium/v . 20, 186 S.
DESTRUCTION OF A MILITARY HOSPITAL
AT NASHVILLE.
[From the Nashville Union, February 22.3
Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, the City
hospital took fire in the ceiling, near the cupola,
from some defeet in one of the chimney flues. The
building was used as a military hospital,' and at the
time of the accident contained two hundred and forty
sick and wounded soldiers. In a short time after the"
alarm hundreds of soldiers mid citizens had gathered
on the spot,to see that the sick and wounded braves
should not be doomed to a horrible death by fire.
Right speedily and gallantly did stout arms and wil
ling hearts remove the helpless patients from their
flame-girdled abode. Some of the inmates,who had not
been out of their beds for many days, were so fright
ened at the soul-startling alarm, "fire," that they
sprang from their beds, and frantically rushed to the
ground, as if they had never known sickness. Sick
men were seen lying about the yard on mattresses
prepared for them. One poor fellow died there be
fore he could be removed elsewhere, but we are glad
to know that no lives were lost by fire. All the hospi
tal stores were also saved, but some in a damaged
condition. The patients of this hospital are now
comfortably quartered in other places.
But the hospital—that magnificent stone edifice,
that in years gone by was the pride and boast di
Nashville—is now a mass of smouldering ruins. Its
bare walls now stand the mournful monument of its
recent usefulneei and "old time greatness." Its
cupola was among the first objects that greeted the
eye of our boyhood, and we are glad that we were
there to see it fail into the .ocean of flames that for
ever hid it from our view. It was a glorious sight !
originally hospital was built in 183 and was
the State Lunatic Asylum, and was used
for this purpose until the increase of patients made
it necessary to erect a larger and more commodious
building for their accommodation. The old building
was then taken for a hospital for the sick, and has
been so used ever since, limier the control of the
medical faculty of the Nashville University, until
its occupancy by the military.
The destruction of this time-worn building will be
felt in both civil and military' circles, for it weis large
and commodious, and beautifully situated.
STATES IN REBELLION.
The Reported Capture of a Union Ram—
Rebel Accounts of the Alfair—The Attack
upon "Vicksburg —The Union Feeling in
Texas—The Southern Cotton War—Bils
cellaneous Items, acc.
ROW TEE "QUEEN OF TEE WEST" WAS
CAPTURED.
(Telegram to the Richmond Whig, Feb. 21.
FORT gIIDSON, Feb. 17, 1863.
Captain Cannon, from Red river, brings informa
tion of the capture of the Federal steamer Queen of
the West, at Gordon's Landlng, Fort Taylor, on Red
river.
The Queen of
Be
West captured the Confederate
steamer Eva No. , forced her pilot, John Burke, to
take the wheel, and ordered, him to take the boat to
our batteries. Burke feigned fear but finally took
the wheel, under a Yankee guard. Upon nearing the
batteries, he told the Yankees they were fifteen
miles from them, immediately putting close in,when
she received a shot which broke the steam-pipe, dies
abling the boat, the Yankees being totally unpre
pare& for a fight, and expecting no danger. Burke
Jumped overboard, and swam ashore. The boat
drifted to the opposite shore, where the crew made
their escape, with the exception of eighteen, who
fell into our hands.
The crew subsequently got on the Yankee boat De
Soto, and with two hundred stolen negroes, effected
their escape.
The Queen of the West is now In the possession
of the Confederates, and will be towed to a place of
safety for repairs.
It is reported that the Yankee gunboat Indianola
has gone up Red river to capture her.
The conduct of Burke elicits the highest encomi
ums.
Later intelligence states that the Confederate
steamer Webb closely pursued and captured the
Eva.
The Queen of the West is but slightly injured, and
will soon be in fighting trim under Confederate
colors.
We have positive information that the transport
De Soto was burned by the Yankees to prevent her
failing into the hands of the Confederates.
• REBEL OFFICIAL REPORT.
POUT HUDSON, Feb. 18.—The Alexandria (La.)
Derntxraf, teeetved here, contains the official. report
of the capture of the Queen of the West, by Captain
J. Kelso,- commanding the fortifications on Red
river.
He says two. gunboats made their appearance in
front of this position at five o'clock last evening.
After a brisk cannonade, the leading gunboat, the
Queen of the West, struck her colors. I immedi
ately ordered Captain Hutton, of the Crescent Ar
tillery, and Lieutenant Delahunty, to go on board
and demand the surrender. These officers report but
thirteen of the officers and crew on board. The
others escaped under cover of the night.
The visible results of the capture consist of one
thirty.two.pounder rifle Parrott On, one twenty
four-pounder,- three twelve-pounders, one twelve
pounder slightly damaged, besides a large supply of
ordnance stores and a large supply of quinine, two
cases of amputating instruments, clothing, flour,
bacon, beef, pork, lard, bread, and other stores in
proportion.
The Democrat says that the victory was complete,
grand, and decisive, and we are ready to capture all
such craft as Vicksburg allows to pass.
By way of Monterey, Mexico, we have received •
files of the San Antonio Herald and the 'Houston
'relegraph and News. Coming by so roundabOut
route they bring no news ; but they furnish us some
significant extracts: -
UNIONISTS IN NORTHERN TEXAS,
(From the San Antonio Herald, Nov. 13.3
There are, no doubt, individuals scattered over
various portiono of Western arid Northern Texas,
who have long indulged the hope that the Yankees,
were just upon the point of invading the State, dis
persing the rebels, and taking the poor down-trodden
Unionists under their protection. This unhappy class
of our citizens may be distinguiehed by their lugu
brious countenances, never relieved by a smile, ex
cept when news arrives of some disaster to the Con- ,
federate cause. Upon such occasions their pleasure
is BO intense that It is impossible to conceal it.
The most extravagant reports of Federal victories
are received by them as indisputable facts, while
Confederate successes require to be a dozen times
confirmed before they are considered worthy of the
least attention.
The greatest delusion under which such persons
labor is the belief that they are deceiving the com
munity, and that their real sentiments are not
known. Never was there a greater mistake. They
are known, and will be remembered. Their num
bers were small at first, and they are becoming every
day leis. In the mountains, near Fort ()lark, and
along the Rio Grande, their bones are bleaching in
the sun, and in the counties of. Wise .and Denton
their bodies are suspended by scores from black
jacks, They were warned in time to leave the coen
THREE CENTS..
try; and, choosing to remain, and rely for protection
upon the enemy, with whom their Government Is at
war, they must expect to take the consequences of
their choice. No Government, in time of war, will
tolerate treason; and no man win) is a traitor at
heart should expect favors from the people of a Go-'
vernment with which ho has no
.sympathy, and in
the overthrow of which he would rejoice.
If there are any of the above claim—any of the'cie=
laded followers of Jack Hamilton still in Texas, it
behooves them to reflect upon those facts. The
Southern Confederacy is an established Government.
its final success in the present war Is an absolute
certainty. No man of ordinary intelligence even in
the North doubts it. It /s high time, therefore, for
those among us, whatever their sympathies may
have been, to prepare for the condition oft/dugs that
inevitably awaits them. It is not too late for them
to essouse, In good earnest, the cause of their own
people, and become good and loyal. citizens. They
must either do this, and do it quickly, or remain ene
mies and traitors—objects of loathing • and scorn
among heroes' and patriots in a free, glorious, and
powerfukyoung Confederacy.
AN ABOLITION ORGANIZATION.
(Prom the Bowdon Telegraph. Nov. 27.1
We have been permitted by the Governor to look
over the oftibial accounts of the discovery of the se-
Bret Abolition organization in Northern Texas, and
the quick justice meted out to the traitors.
The organization appears to be one of recent date:
It purports to have been started in the North, and
to embrace numbers of the Northern army in its
fold. It also purports to extend to at least several
companies of the organized militia of Northern
Texas. How tar it extends in that direction we are
not prepared to any. The bulk of:its membership in
Texas is in Cook, Wise, Denton Grayson, etc.,
counties. It also reaches down toAustin. Its first
pretended object is to resist conscription. Its chief
object is to keep up a spy system for the Northern
army. It has •a grip, a sign, and la pass-word. In
case a member divulges he is to be hunted to the
ana• 4- 6.•••••43,--Taw-orwesa
to meet a Northern invasion, the members are to go
along and desert , when the battle comes on. The
testimonyy also points to an invasion of Tex
as from Kansas. It refers, moreover, to a concur
rent invasion' by way •of Galveston, and that both
armies are to meet in Austin.
The organization has been' found to extend to all
classes of the community, clergymen, professional
men, farmers, &c. Among the , number, we are
pained to find the name of Dr. R. T. Lively, of
Sherman, a member of the 'Masonic Grand Lodge
of this State ,
and heretofore most highly esteemed,
having enjoyed some of the- highest oelees in that
body. The whole substance and machinery of the
organization has been discovered. A jury of twelve
good men are empanelled in each county, and the
guilty parties are brought before it and the evidence
taken. It le in every can. so conclusive that there
is no getting arounitit. Several of the guilty have,
after condemnation, made full confession, and while
under the gallows declared that they deserved
death. In Gainesville twenty-two have been hung.
Trials are now going on in all the counties. The
testimony goes to show that most of the initiated
have joined the society since the 15th of September.
It is-very certnin that nothing of this character
could have gained any formidable dimensions in
Texas. It simply out of the question. The so
ciety is now nipped ; and all its members are known
and will hereafter be watched.
THE EXPORT OF COTTON PROHIBITED.
HEADQUARTERS.
SUB-MILITARY DISTRICT OS THE. RIO GRANDE,
SAN ANTONIO, Nov. 26, 1862.
GENERAL ORDER, No. 25.—The following Gene
ral Order is published for the information or eon
oerned .
HEADQUARTERS FIRST DISTRICT OF TF.X kS,
SAN ANTONro, Nov. 21, 1862.
GENERAL onm:us, No. B.—By instructions from
Major Gen. T. H. Holmes, Headquarters Trans-De
partment, Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 19, 1862, addressed
to the General commanding the District of Texas,
IL is ordered: "That the exportation of cotton
from the District of Texas is prohibited, except only
by. authorized agents of the Government, and by
persons who are known to the commanding general
to be engaged, through the medium of traffic in cot
ton, in providing for the actual necessities of the
people and tbe army) , .
2. Brig. Gen: H. P. Bee is charged with the execu
tion of the above order, and will establish and en
force such regulations as may be necessary to carry
out hie intent and purposes.
By command of Brig. Gen. P. O. Herbert
SAMUEL BOYER. DAVIS, A. A. G.
11. In compliance with the second paragraph of
the foregoing order, the following rules and regula
tions for the export of cotton are hereby announced:
I. All persons importing goods, wares, or mer
chandise of any description, suitable to the wants of
the army or people, will present their original in.
voices to the collector of the port at which they may
enter, and receive from that officer a certificate,
under sea], as to the amount of said importation.
Upon presentation of said certificate at these head
quarters, or the original invoices, as the case may
be, a fair and liberal per centage to cover transpor
tation and profit Will be added, and a permit issued -
to the party applying for the exportation of cotton
to the said amount.
All planters wishing to export cotton for the
purpose of obtaining supplies will receive a permit
on an affidavit to the erect that the articles are not
for sale or speculation.
IV. All permits for the exportation of cotton pre
viously Issued from like officer, or that of the com
manding general, are hereby cancelled.
V. Parties malting contracts, with good and suffi
cient security for their faithful execution, with Go
vernment officers, to import quartermaster and other
Government stores, will be entitled to permits to
ex .. rt Witten.
I. There is no impediment to the transit of
cotton to eittemt thxpstts 51„,.13,sygve r mi
SnfWahaiilicit plum the Rio Grande without a per
mit as above specified, except that all cotton which
may be at any of the above ports, at the time of the
receipt of this order, or that may arrive within
twenty (20) dare thereafter, will remain on this side
of the Rio Grande until the owners shall have im
ported goods to the value thereof—valuing the cotton
at $75 per bale—and upon presentation to the com
manding officer of a certificate as provided for in
paragraph 11, he will issue a permit of exportation
of the same • but, after the expiration of the said
twenty (20) dam all permits must issue from these
headquarters. .
By order of Brigadier General H. P. Bee.
E. F. GRAY, Major and A. A. A.. General
MISCELLANEOUS REBEL NEWS.
The exemption bill was before the Confederate
Senate on the 20th, and an amendment adopted pro
viding that, on a farm on which resides a family of
white women and children, not less than ten in num
ber, who are dependent for support and protection'
on the labor and presence of a white man, and on
which there is no white male adult not liable to mi
litary duty,. or male minor or minors .capable of
working said farm, there shall be exempted one per
son as laborer.
The Senate received the same day a message from
the President, announcing the destruction of the
Hatteras, on the 13th ult, by the Confederate States
steam-sloop Alabama, with the loss on the latter
vessel of one killed and five wounded.
In the Virginia Rouse of Delegates, on the 20th,
was received a joint resolution from the Senate, au
thorizing the Governor to demand of the President
of the Confederate States to deliver C. A. J. Collins,
a citizen of Prince George county, Virginia, who is
confined In prison in North Carolina, to the pre
siding justice or any other justice of the peace in
Prince George county, to be tried. Read and re
ferred to the Committee on Confederate Relations.
In the Senate, the Chair presented a communica
tion from the Executive of North Carolina, in
closing a copy of resolutions adopted in the North
Carolina Legislature, indicating their unflinching
loyalty and devotion to the Confederate cause.
The bill transferr Government, Line (militia) over
to the Confederate on the Ist of April,
has passed the State Senate.
The Examiner is jubilant over "the reaction in the
West," referring to the resolutions recently intro
duced into the Illinois Legislature; reports Thomas
T. Hall, a deserter from the National army, as hav
ing been sent to the penitentiary fbr two years,. for
stealing; also, several robberies, stabbing affrays,
pugilistic encounters, and ends the catalogue of
daily events in the city of Richmond with an item
headed, "Another Soldier to be Shot To-day." This
soldier was to be shot for deserting.
Prof. George La Monte, proprietor of a female
academy in Danville, Va., advertises for pupils at
$125 per year, and, as an extra inducement to tempt
parents, states, with much never., that the location
is a safe and healthy one for young ladles.
To M. R. D. S.
Here is the sold gay world for me,
I am threading my way along;
Here in my heart are my thoughts of thee
Shaping them into this song :
In the forest wild, in the woodlands mild,
By the bank of some beautifvl stream,
In the light of some heavenly dream;
Where all is love—around, above—
With a brilliant celestial light,
Making stream and forest so bright—
There should I plot a home for thee,
With the crested robin and honey bee;
With the sweet sky lark and the pure wing'd dove—
Such should, indeed, be thy home of love.
Where all is strife in this sad life,
And hearts are wicked and sere,
And love is blended with fear--
Why should'et thou stay, when far away
The voices of Nature ring
With the songs that angels sing?
There—not here, is the home for thee,
For thou seemest a child of Nature to me ;
With the moss beneath and the stars above,
Should , st thou join with all Nature In songs of love
So shaped my heaft into words this song ;
So seems the world with its varied throng ;
And be our paths through sunshine or rain,
Let us pray that in heaven we meet again.
OIRAXID ROUSH, February. S. H. W.
The Valley Forge Railroad.
To the Editor of The Press:
Stn: A correspondent! of the Pottsville Miners'
Journal, writing from Harrisburg under date Feb. 19,
in some comments on House bill, No. 109, entitled
an act to Incorporate the 'Valley Forge Railroad
Company says: "The company is to have the
largest kind .of mining privileges—to have, hold,
lease, and work steam callicrie-s," etc. ; whereas, the.
fact is, the bill referred to contains no provision of
the kind. On the contrary, the bill proposes to
authorize the 'Valley Forge Railroad Company to
" purchase, hold, and use steam colliers or other craft
adapted to the coastwise coal trade, and to employ
the same in the transportation of minerals and
other articles between the terminus of their road and
any seaport market." Instead of seeking for mining ,
privileges in the coal region; the Valley Forge Rail
road Company. ask for transportation privileges on
tidewater. The Talley Forge Railroad, as proposed
in the bill pending in the Legislature, will commence D
at Allentown and terminate on the elaware river,
in the State of Delaware. The road will be a com
mon carrier, and the act of Incorporation does not
propose to confer on the company any right to mine
coal, nor to go nearer to the coal region than Allen
town.
.Had the correspondent of the Pottsville Miners ,
Journal known the difference between a steam collier,
used for carrying coal on tidewater, and a colliery
from which water is pumped by steam in the coal re
gion, he would not have exhibited himself as an
ignoramus.
I am, yours, respectfully, I.
A DECISION OF IMPORTANCE.—Whether
the publication of an official advertisement in the
German language is fully in agreement with the re
quirements of law has for some time been a matter
of doubt with legal authorities. Before•the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania the matter was last week
tested. The care was carried up on a certiorari from
the Quarter Sessions the issue being raised upon
the road case from Tipper Hanover and Franconia
townships, Montgomery county. In th.B case, the
court decided that notice of view, required to be
published, must be given in the ordinary language
of the country which is used in the judicial proceed
ings. In the present ease, the notice was given in
German papers, and in the German language, and
for this reason the proceedings are quashed. In
counties where the German language prevails, this
d.rision of the highest judicial' authorities, Is of
much importance.
Trii:E WAX?. PRESS,
(PUBLISHED WEEKLY.,
Tim WAR Pima will be scut to subscribers b%
Insir(ner annum in advance) at $2.01/
•
Five Cornea .‘ 9.0 t
Ten " • 1.7.00
'Twenty • 4.
32.00
Larger Clubs than Twenty will be charged at tit(
same rate, 81.00 per copy.
Vie money mud atwaye accomym y the order. and
in no instance can awl terms tie deviceaprifrom. as they
afford very Italc more than the cost Of CPx •••)aPec•
Allir - rostmaigeta are reotioaed to act as Agenta (Or
Tux WAR l'av'es.
Air" Tu the getter -tip of the Ctub of ten crt tsfenty.
an
extritoopy of the Paw will be Oven.
THE INDIAN . WAR IN IITAIE•
rawflcuilisurs of the /itc Great Battle &v.d
tweets the Federal Troops and the Sho
t:Lowe Indians on Bear River, Utah Terri
toey—Results of thu Fight, and a List' of
Cases ties,
ei near Sa.T.T LANE Orel', Wednesday, Febru
ary 4.—Our radian war is over, short, sharp, and :
decisive. Triough Colonel Connor cannot Say,
came, I saw, .3 conquered," he may report, "I went,
I fought, I conquered, I exterminated," for such,-
;indeed, was the fact.
It appears that the Indtans, said to be a mixture
of Bannecka and' Shoshones, variously estimated'
to number from two hundred to three hundred, had'
chosen a position on:the north' side of Bear river, in •
a ravine ffiledlwith4rush, and running down to the'
inner bantrwheiithe•etream forms a bend, the home
diate location of the savagee being four or live hun
tired yards from the river. They must have been very
confident, or they wouNikia.have remained in their'
stronghold.
Colonel Connor and ; hisKeotnmand arrived before
the Indian camp hat Thursday morning, a portion
of the troops crossing the-Aver where the Indians
were. The battle-ground was fifteen to twenty
miles north of the extreme northern settlements in
Caehe Valley. The mode of the- battle; which con
tinned three or four hours; fa represented as fol
lows : A cavalry charge to the browof the ravine ;
the Indiana in the brush quite ready, picking MT the
troops ; cavalry find it difficult to descend ravine,
so are repulsed; a foot charge teledge of ravine, re
pulsed ; enfilading fire, troops plunge into the brush.—
.....hardt-fiehthre—../ndialur_run_lm,..4 the river, met
by troops, melee, • Indians mostly killed, troops vic
torious—finale.
It is difficult to obtain the exact number of the
slain: One man, who claimed to have visited the
battle-field after the etrife, said he counted 225 dead
Indians, of whom ten were squaws. Of the Indian
warriors, about a dozen are supposed to have
escaped.
Of the officers of the volunteers,- Captain McLean
was wounded in- the right hand and left thigh;
Major Gallagher in the right arm, and Capt. Berry
in the right shoulder. Lieutenant Darwin Chase
Was seriously wounded, and it is reported that he
has since died.
I append a further list of killed and wounded:
SECOND CAVALRY COMDANY
A. Killed.—Prl
- James W. Baldwin and George German_
'Wounded—Privates John W. Wall, John Welsh,
Wm. H. Lake, and James S. Montgomery.
Coerarrr IL—Killed.—Privates Chas. Hollowell
and John K. Briggs. Wounded.--Sergt. Jae. Cantil
ion, Corp. Philip Schaub, Corp. Patrick Frauley,
Privates Michael O'Brien, H. L. Fisher, Bartele O.
, Hutchinson, John Franklin, Frank Farley, Harvey
Smith, Hugh Connor, George B.. Wing, and Thomas
Bradley.
Corrraer ged.—Bugler Christian Smith ;
Shelbouroe C. Reed, Adolphus Rowe,Lewis Andel.
son; and Henry W. Tramp. Woun ded—Wm. Slo
cum, Nathaniel Kingsley, Albert . N.• Parker, Benj.
Landis, John Lee, John Daley, Morris Illig,
Walker B. 'Welter', Silas C. Bush, Alonzo P. V.
McCoy.
COMPANY M.—Kiged.—Privates -Georxe C. CON.
Geo. W. Hotton, Asa F. Howarth - and Wm. Davie.
wennded.—Sergt: Anthony•Stevens.-Corp..Leander
W. Hughes, Joshua Leggett, Thaddeus Barcafar,
Wm. Hood, and Hughes.
Terun Irrearerrty, 003tedNY lE—Rtged.—Pri,
rates John R. Baker and Samuel J.. Thomas.
Wounded.—Serea. A. I. Austin, Ell' Hoyt, Pri
vates.W. T. R Walker and J. Hensley..
A number of the troops were also frostbitten in •
their feet and toes. The wounded arrived on Mon
day and Tuesday, while • Colonel Connor and the
chief portion of his command, with - some Indian po
nies and other trophies, passedthroughthe city this
afternoon.
Drs. Reed, Williamson, and Steel attended on the
wounded. The Indians evidently aimed at the belt,
as most of the killed and wounded were hit in the
/tangs or other parts of the trunk.
There. has been a clear sweep of an Indian nest,
and, doubtless, several grand rascals will no more
trouble the passing emigration on the Oregon trail.
Still those few fortunate fellows who escaped will
tell their tale of blood, and sooner or later revenge
will probably be attempted.—.Y. Y. Times.
fit Col. McClure n in Reply to Hon. Horace
Maynard.
To Me Editor of The Press:
Sin : A friend in Congress has sent me a pamphlet
copy of the speech delivered in the House of Repre—
sentatives by the Hon. Horace blamed, °fineries
see, on the 31st ult., in which the following passage
occurs, italicised as I give it :
"As to the raids, it in some instances they have
led to our humiliation when encountered by steal.
officers as Colonel McClure, who sends greeting to •
the Governor, 'we can make no resistance, as iC
would only e.raaperate them, and cause the wanton de.
etruotion of property and life;' they have, also, de
veloped some of the highest soldierly qualities when.
met by men like Colonels Harlin, Haskins, and Ham
tiny, who had no fear of exciting rebel ire, and did
not hesitate to sacrifice both property and life."
. -
been a colonel in the military service, and acting as
such with a command at Chambersburg, in October
last, when the rebels occupied that pities.. On the
contrary, I never was an officer in active service
and never had a command of any kind. As an As!.
'distant Adjutant General, I was performing special
duty at Harrisburg, and, without any knowledge of
the approach of the rebels, happened to reach my
own home about two hours before they sent in a Hag of
truce. As soon as I was advised of their movement,
I went to town to consult with the citizens as to the
best course to pursue, and to give all possible in
formation to Governor Curtin at Harrisburg, and.
General Morrell at Hagerstown.
There were no troops in or near Chambersburg,
and to attempt, in one hour, to organize the citizens
of the town to resist mere than thrice their number
of thoroughly-armed and disciplined troops, and two
batteries of artillery, was deemed by all the citizens
as a folly that could result only in "the wanton de
struction of property and life." Acting as an in.
dividual citizen, I fully approved their judgment
nod co-operated with them.
It is possible that had Mr. Maynaid been a citizen
of Chambersburg he would have declined the pro
position to surrender, and invited the two rebel bat
teries, then planted on an eminence west of the
town, to open upon the defenceless citizens ; and his
fear of "humiliation" would probably have been
lessened by the fact that the dark and fearfully
stormy night precluded the possibility of removing
the women and children; so that he could have
sacrificed "both property and life" until his ideas
of the "highest soldierly qualities" could have
been realized. The citizens of Chambersburg, how
ever, thought differently, and they submitted to an
overwhelming necessity of war.
They differed with Mr. Maynard in another, per
haps unimportant, respect: they did not run away
to proclaim their valor to strangers. My memory
may be defective, but I cannot recall any of Mr.
Maynard's exhibitions of the "highest soldierly
qualities" in East Tennessee. If I am censured for
not fighting, exclusively on private account, two re•
bel brigades, with a battery to each, without even a
corporal's guard of men as a reserve, what should
not a valiant man like Mr. Maynard have accom
plished by way of delivering himself and his eon..
stituents from rebel rule 1 It is trueehe delivered
himself, but title sacrificed "both property and life"
to defend hie home and the homes of his people, hie
deeds have never been given to history, and his
achievements are still unrecorded on the scroll of
fame. It is known that he left Ma brethren end
constituents under the iron heel of the destroyer;
that they have soared every possible privation,
and many even' death, while Mr. Maynard struts
at ease in Congress, and exemplifies the " soldierly
qualities" of the war ; but if he has achievedmore,
the nation has yetto learn it.
I submit that if Mr. Maynard desired to record
signal Instances of individual "humiliation" in
this war, he went much farther from home than was
necessary, and got quite as far from the truth as
from home. I. am respectfully
Your ,
obedient servant,
A. H. hIcCLTME.
OIIABITIERSDURG. Feb. 24, 1863.
FOREIGN PERSONAL ITEMS.
"Plus IX," says a letter from Rome, "has ex
pressed his intention to relinquish forthe future the
use of the sedia gestatoria, carried= men's shoulders.
It must not, however, be inferred that this ancient
usage is to be abolished as incompatible with the
spirit of. charity and humility becoming the servant
of the servants of God. The holy Father has come
to this decision from motives personal to himself,
BB the unpleasant oscillation produced by that mode
of conveyance produces on him an effect similar to
sea sickness."
Catalan, one of the afaori kings of New Zea
land, has published the first number of his new
Gazelle. Be saps: "The press which has arrived at
Ngaruawahla, from it proceeds the newspapers, ex
ceedingly powerful to settle matters! When it
comes to you, the price is threepence; pay it if Ton
approve. The good of this press is to carry our in
tentions to the tribes of the world, because stead. /
lastly fixed are the words of the beginning-..' Faith,
love, law:"
—Mr. Arthur Lee Guinness, brother to Mr. Ben
jamin Lee Guinness, the brewer, and muni fi cent re
storer of St. pritrick , e Cathedral, died suddenly at
his residence near Roundwood, in the county of
Wicklow. Mr. Guinness had been much of a cele
brity in Dublin for various harmless eccentricities,
among which was an ardent desire to accumulate
all kinds of curiosities—a passion which often ex
posed him to the designs of wily vendors of such
trifles.
—Madame Elise Fleury the "Lisette" of Berea
ger, has just died in an hospital, at the age of 71.
She lived latterly in a garret, earning her bread by
the labor of her bands, which rarely brought her
more than ten sous a day. The old lady
appeals to
have refused all aid from her former friends. An
other friend of the great poet has also just died at
Oldron, Xavier Isrevarrot He was followed to his
grave by all the inhabitants of the town.
—Adelina Patti has appeared in Paris as Zerlina in
"Don alovanni, " for her benefit, from which she
netted twenty thousand francs, at double rates of
Admission. The Emperor and Empress, who were
prevent, summoned Adelina to the Imperial box
after the performance, and offered her their con
gratulations.
General
Raynau, who not long since took part
in the afftiirs of Electoral Helme t and who was dis
missed from his functions is consequence of an
"affair of honor," hitsjust blown out his brains..
An important event in the political history of
the last century—the Belgian revolt against the
Emperor Joseph ll.—has found a historian in the
person of M. 0. Lorenz.
—Paul Morphy has positively' declined to play the
match proposed with M. Eolish in Paris, and an
nounces his intention to abstain from all chess•play
at present.
It .is Said that the French Emperor will send
his cousin, Prince Napoleon, to attend as his repre
sentative the marriage of the Prince of Wales.
A nephew of Abd-el-Rader married to a Chris
tian wife, is about to be baptized in Paris and in
tends to proceed to the Sahara as a missionary.
• King Eadama has just sent a present to the
Empress. It consists of cotton lace and sundry lit
tic boxes of native manufacture.
The Duke of Devonshire otihred .ei,coo for the
bullet which was extracted from Garibaldi's foo t.
but failed to obtain it.
-,Garibaldi does not yet leave his hed,as the wound
has not closed; but the cure Is making rapid pro
gress.
Prince AlfCe(lis new a lieutenant is the 1104rei
aftyy.

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