fr.3EE33I .IE`FILIESMSNI, TWILISEUID DAILY (SUNDAYS sxosPTED). BY JOHN W. FORNEY 017101. NO. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET THE DAILY PRESS, Virraux °INTO PBB Niryeir, payable to the Garen. elied. to Subssribers oat of the City at SEVRN DOLLAR* BR ANNZIG - THREH DOLLARS AND FIFTY CRETE FOR SIR ISOWERS, OBZ DOLLAR AND SEVBSTY-FIVE DENTS NOR sin Monne, invariably In advance for the time or. tiered.' Mr- Advertisements inserted ti l t, the mug raw. WE Elaan ionitikat4 & sonars, , , , „ • vows Thl-WEEKLY PRESS, Matted to Subscribers out at the 'Clt9 at FOUR Domtus VAR A,AQY. 111 advance. . SEWING MACHINES. LONG -LOOKED FOR COME AT LAST! VHE PERFEOTION OF SEWING MA.OSINES. SAMPLES OF .THE OELEBR &TED FLOIiENCE SEWING 'Ii4RINES Can be seen at No. 430 CHESTNUT STREET (se . pinid floor). kehere -ell persons interested in Flawing machines are in• ailed to call and examine this wondertril Machine. It has been the object of the FLORENCE SEWING mounts COMPANY to supply a machine free from the objections attached to other first-class machines. and after the - patient, untiring labor of ) ears and a- liberal expenditure of capital in securing the first mechanical talent, their efforts have been crowned with success .and the are now offering to the public -the MOST PERFECT SEWING MAC BINS IN THE WORLD. Amour its many advantages over all other machines, may be mem toned : Ist. -ft makes four different stitches on one and the same machine, each stitch being perfect and alike on both sides of the fabric. Ed. Changing from one kind of stitch to another, as swell as the length of the stitch, can readily be done while the machine is in motion. 3d. Every/Witch is perfect in itself, making the seam Secure and uniform, combining elasticity, str,•ngth and beauty - . 4th. it has the reversible feed motion, which enables the operator to run the work to either the right or left, or stay any part of the seam, or fasten the .410,3 of seams %without turning the fabric or stopping the machine. 6th. It is the most rapid sewer in the world, making five stitches to each revolution, and there is no other machine which will do so large a range of work as the FLORENCE. 6th. It does the heaviest or finest. work with . equal fa cility, without change of tension or breaking of thread. 7th. It hems, fells, binds, gathers, braids, quifte, and gathers and sews on a ruffle at the same time. Bth. Ifs efmp Iteity eatables the most inexperienced to operate it. Its motions are all positive. and there are no fine sprinuoto get out of order, and it is adapted to all kinds of cloth-work, from thick to thin. and is al most noiseless. 9th, The FLORENCE SEWING MAR.FIGNE, is unequal led in beauty and style. and must be seen to be appre ciated. Call and see the FLORENCE, at No. 439 CHESTNUT Street, np stairs. an29-tf NOS. 1 AND 3 N. SIXTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA; JOHN C . (FORMERLY T. BURR. MOORE,) IMPORTER AND DEALER IN GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, INANUFLOTURER 01' THE IMPROVED WRAPPiRB COLLARS, SATISFACTION GUARANTIED. my22•toc4 GEORGE GRANT, No. 610 CHESTNUT STREET. Rae now ready A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOOK "6 - Y GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Of his own importation and manufacture. Hie celebrated "PRIZE MEDAL SHIRTS," (Manufactured under the superintendence of JOHN F. TAOGERT, (Formerly of Oldenberg At Taggert.l Are the most perfect-fitting Shirts of the age. oar Orders promptly attended to. 10k -theta-En 606. ARCH STREET. 606. FINE SHIRT AND WRAPPER DEPOT. AN BLUOANT ASSORTMENT OP GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, AT MODERATE PRICES. FOUR PREMIUMS AWARDED FOR SHIRTS, WRAPPERS, AND STOCKS. G. A. HOFFM.A.NN. Baccessor to W. W. KNIGHT, 506 AHC6 STREET. 605. VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY: - 0 - The subscriber would invite attention to his IMPROVED CUT OF SFIIR CS, Which he makes a specially iu his business. A. 160, con etantly tecetv OVELITtifi FOR GENTLEMEN'S J. W. SCOTT, _ GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE, No. 811 CHESTNUT STREET, ja2o-tf Four doors below the Continental. CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, Sze. ARCH -STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE. =low C,s-iv.3p_wrixiv•Gris. All the leading styles of VELVET,. BRUSSELS, THREE-PLY, INGRAIN, AND VENETIAN 1D A.ItP ET I N" GS, flow In store, and selling at THE REDUCED PRICER, for Cash, - - - • • J. BLACKWOOD, 832 ARCH STREET, ,el5-2m - Two Doom below NINTH, South Side REMOVAL F. eic,E. B. ORNE HAVE. REMOVED PROM 419 CHESTNUT STREET, Opposite the State House, to their NEW WAREHOUSE, 904 CHESTNUT STREET, In the "Kart BITILDINO." and have now open their FALL STOCK OF CATt"E'T'IM.TO - S. 904 CHESTNUT STREET. 6432-2 an G BLA.BON Ara CO. MANUFACTURRREI O' CILaCir..T3M, WO. 1 NORTH-THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Offer to the Trade a fall stock of FLOOR: TABLE, AND CARRIAGE C>X7_. GMAC, 1 1 I X — X, •GREEN-GLAZED OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW sed-2m SHADES. GLEN ECHO" MILLS, GI-EnIitAZTTOWN, PA McCALLUM & CO., EdblillF/LCTURERS.;IMPORTER I4, AND DEALERS IN C ARPETIN GS, OIL CLOTITS. c%O WAREHOUSE, 509 CHESTNUT ST.; OPPOSITE INDEPENDENCE HALL ea-9m GEORGE W.. HILL, • Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in CARPETINGS, -MA.TTINGS, RUGS. ALSO. COTTON AND WOOLLEN YARNS, At very Low Prices. O. MI6 NORTH THIRD STREET, ABOVE ARGIL Philadelphia. DRUGS. ROBERT SHOEMAKER& 00... 'forehead Corner /01:03,TH and RAZE &mete. tHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DR.T_J4aGISTBi IMPORTERS SAD DESLIRS 1070I0E AID DOMESTIC SNINDOW AND PLATE GLASEN xurosAcninuats or WRITI LLD UD rasa PAINTI3, TIMM. mown 10= TILli CILLBRATED FRENCH ZINO PAINTB.I P I : *war and sonaintera supplied at iamb . VIII LOW PRIM 101 CA BH. GAS FIXTURES, dm 517 ARCH STREET. C. A: VANKIRK 813 CO. MINVFLOTORERS OF CHANDELIERS AND OTHER. GAS FIXTURES Also, French Bronze Mimes and Ornaments. Porcelain ii. 1 and Mica Shades, and a variety of , FANCY GOODS, - WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Please call and examine goods VOL. 7.-NO.. 41. SKIRTS SKIRTS! SKIRTS! Al. A. JONES' CELEBRATED NE PLUS ULTRA. SKIRT Can only be found at No. 17 NORTH EIGHTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, OVER THE WAX FIGURE. Oa- None genuine unless stamped M. A. JONES' NE PLUS ULTRA. SKIRT, sell 3m 1.7 N. EIGHTH STREET. WALL DELAINES. CHOICE' STYLES FALL HELAINE& CHINTZ FIGURES, Rich Colors. SHARPLESS BROTHERS, se7 . CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Etr,ets. MERINOS ! MERINOS I Shfrpleesßrothers offer a FULL ASSORTMENT of NEW ME)INOS. All of the regular SHADES, in• coiding the IiEW COLOR 4. se7 CHESTNUT and EIGHTH Streets. OPENING OF FALL DRESS GOODS H. STEEL SE SON. Nos. 713 and 715 North TENTH Street. Have now open a choice assortment of FALL AND WINTER DRESS GOODS. Plain Silks, choice colors, $1 25 to $2. Plain Moire Antiques, choice shades, - Plain Black Silks 90c to $l. 50. Figured Black Silks; Fancy Silks. Plain All-wool Reps and Poplins. alPeolors. Plain Silk and Wool Reps, all colors. '• Figured and Plaid- Reps and Poplins. Plain French It eriuoes, choice colors. 11ot Plain French Merinoes. choice colors, $I ise.s WINTER GOODS OPENING DAILY. Poplins, Plain Shades and New Colors. D Alpacas, oable and Single Width, choice shades. New Merinoes. Fashionable Colors. Plaid Mohairs and Valencias. Plaid Flannels and Cloths for Shirting. Dark Cotton and Wool Delaines. JOHN H. STOKES, 702 ARCH Street. N. 8.-60 dozen Ladies' L. C. Handkerchiefs at $2 per dozen. 89 pairs Crib Blankets, good quality. anal 1863. FALL AND WINTER 1863. DAY GOODS. RIEGEL, WIEST. da ERVIN.. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS; NO. 47 NORTH THIRD ,STREET, PHILADELPHIA. We are constantly receiving large lots of all kinds of freah and desirable Goods. Merchants will find it to their advantage to call and examine our stock before Purchasing elsewhere, as we can offer them inducements unequalled by any other establishment in Philadelphia. seil-2m C SH HOUSE. PATTERN SHIRT, IRIDERCLOTHING. &c. Bought exchuslvely for cash, and which will be sold at a email advance. sel-gm CASH BUYERS, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, MERINOES, • POPLINS, BLACK SILKS, FANCY SILKS, IRISH LINENS, WRITE GOODS, : DRESS GOODS. and other articles adapted to the season. JAMES B. - CAMPBELL. THOS• MELLOR da Oo•1 COIN.. sr . ..;. ob i ''' . 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" r-c l ~ , ',.. • . -• • •. • c: - r--,- .orZ'olc;• 4 .. ,- ~....,-..' . 5113efi xt -..:- . 2 ,11 .1\ \ -c•_.'• -•'. . • - 91 • ;.. •-• c •• • :' , ll am • -.. r'' 'T r i -,--• "- '' . " l- '•-='''' ''' . -- 7 -- _,...._ .....- ...--...=. ...,,„;:,.-- - -.1.N -•• i •----- -.14- TA .C.••_._!_•-.1-_,TE... _ .______•• ..., _.. . ~. ~,.. _—_-....: -........-..- ....,„._ - _ .4. ----- • : t te- ~ . . .:'' + .. . . ... . . .• . . . , , . . • - --......... I . ~ . . ' . , - . . . RETAIL DRY GOODS. SILK AND JOBBERO.I4. N. L. H%LLOWELL C 0.,& 615 CHESTNUT STREET, EAU NOW IN STORE, DRESS GOODS, BLACK AND FANCY SILKS, SHAWLS, BALMORALS, RIBBONS, KTT) GLO V ES, &c., &a. AT WHOLESALE, Are invited to examine our CHESTNUT EtTBEET IMPORTERS, Nos. 40 and 4A NORTH THIRD STRUM We Invite the attention of the trade to our large atock o HOSIERY, GLOVES, SHIRTS, DRAWER'S , GERMANTOWN FANCY WOOLENS, LINEN CAMBRIC MAU'S, 4-4 LINENS, AND SHIRT FRONTS. eel-3m J AMES. KENT, SANTEE. ea 'CIO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS. OF - "MY GOODS; Roe. R 39 and 9141. N. THIRD STREET, ABOVE RACE, PHILADELPHIA. Have now open their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS. Among which will be found a more than usually attrac tive variety of LADIES' DABS GOODA Also, a full assortment of MERRIMACK AND COCHECO PRINTS. and PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS, To which they invite the SPECIAL ATTENTION OF CASH BUYERS. • att27-2m TO WHOLESALE BUYERS. THOMAS W. EVANS & 00 INVITE THE ATTENTION OF isTZOLESALE BUYERS TO THEIR LARGE AND WELL-SELECTED ASSORT: MENT OF FANCY DRY • GOODS FALL AND WINTER' SALES This Stock is principally of T. W. S. & CO.'S own IS POBTATION, and will be offered at the MOST REASONABLE PRICES. BUYERS are solicited to call and examine. _KS akIESTNUT STREET S • UP STAIRS. 1863. FALL 1863. DRY GOODS. ROOD. BONBRIGHT, et 00. WHOLESALE DEALERS IL FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS. _ Mo. 435 MARKET STREET. PHILADELPHIA. The attention of the TRADE le invited to their larta Stock of STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS. Among wbich are choice brands of Sheet ing and Shirting Muslins, Madder Prints, De Dailies, Ginghams, and REASONABLE DRESS GOODS. Also, MEN'S WEAR IN GREAT VARIETY. GREAT INDUCEMENTS OFFERED TO CASH BUYERS. an2o-2m 1 8 63 FALL .IMPORTATION. 1863 EDMUND YARD do 00., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS, SILKS AND FANCY DRY CMS, 617 OGESINUT and 614 JAYNE Street, Hale now openeethelr Pall Importation of Drees Goods MERINOSt CoatiITRGSI REPS, _ ALPACAS, DELAINES, PLAID AND STRIPED POPLINS FANCY AND BLACK. SILKS Also, A large osesortment of BRAWLS, _ • BALMORAL SKIRTS, WHITVGOODS LINEN, EMBRIDERIES, age. which they offer to the trade at the LOWEEIT MARKET PRICES. CIATHING. MINIM/MBE & BROWN'S rormaß 41=1 X-X P. E. CORNER SIXTH AND MARKET. • FINE CLOTHING REAM-MADE. &i. WANAMAKER & BROWN, MERCHANT. TAILORS. CUSTOM DEPARTMENT, NO. 1 SOUTH BIRTH STREET. The neweet dries for Fall and Winter Aow Ready. • ee1641 . ANDRIOT, MAGEOCH, & CO., FRENCH TAILORS, . No. 608 CHESTNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA. PAUL ANDRIOT, (of . Paris.) late Principal Cutter and Superintendent of Granville Stokee. JAMES B. MAGEOCH, late Pants and Vest Cutter of Granville Stokes, and D. GORDON YATES. A choice stock of Seasonable Goods always on hand. French and German spoken. sel.s-3m EDWARD P. KELLY, JOHN KELLY!, FORMERLY CHESTNUT, ABOVE SEVENTH, LATE 10%91 CIIRAVNUT STEMZT; TAILORS' 142 SOUTH THIRD St.. NEAR THE EXCHANGE. Have just received a large Stock of Choice' FALL AND WINTER GOODS, AND FALL STYLES, TERMS CASH, at prices much lower than any other first-class establishment. an27-tf BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, - At 704 MARKET Street, BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, At 704 MARKET Street. BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50. At 704 MARKET Street. BLACK CASS. PANTS. $5.50. At:7o4 MARKET Street. BLACK CASS. PANTS. $5 50, At 704 MARKET Street. GRIGG & VAN GIINTEN'S, No. 704 MARKET Street GRIGG & VAN GIINTEN'S, No. 704 MARKET Street. GRIOG & VAN GITATEN'S, No. 704 MARKET Street. GRIGG & VAN GIINTEN'S, No. 701 MARKET Street. GRIGG & VAN GIINTEN'S, No. 704 MARKET Street WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE. FELA.NCISCUS, 'WHOLESALE DEALHE IN YARNS, BATTS, WADDINGS, WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE, OTh CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES. LOOKING GLASSES, °LOOKS, FANCY BASKETS. &a. 61.8 'MARKET and 610 COMMERCE Btu sta GREAT OPENING OF CEDAR AND WILLOW WARE. THE LARGEST STOCK IN THE CITY NOW SELLING AT BARGAINS 8,000 DOZ. CORN BROOMS 8,000 DOZ. FANCY PAINTED BUCKETS 1.000 NESTS CEDAR WASH TUBS 2.630 CEDAR STAFF AND BARREL cilmors 1,000 DOZ. WILLOW MARKET BASKETS. 8,000 BALES COTTON-WICK AND TIE TARN 2,00'0 BALES BATS AND WADDINCk HETICTIL.E BASKETS, OIL CLOTHS, LOOKING GLASSES, CORDAGE, &c., All Goods are sold at the Manufacturer's Lowest Cash prdere promptly filled ROWE & EUSTON 157 and 159 NORTH THIRD STREET, cal-tntbslm Three doors below Race F ALL ' WRITE--& PECHIN 18 63 • No. 423 MARKET STREET, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN • WOODEN. AND WILLOW WARE, BROOMS, CEDAR WARE, OIL-CLOTH, LOOKING GLASSES, FANCY BASKETS. • C 0 R 13 - A GE,. ea O. Agentß for' "HALEY, MORSE. & BOYDEN'S PATENT SELF-A_D SIISTING CLOTHES WRINGER," - THE MOST RELIABLE WRINGER NOW IN USE. so7-2ca • - J. U. COYLE &. CO., Wholesale Dealers in YARNS, BATTS, CARPET CHAIN, WOODEN WARE, BRUSHES, Acc., - 310 MARKET:STREET. PHTLADELPRIA. CABINET FURNITURE. CABINET- FURNITURE AND BIL LIARD TABLES. MOORE & UMPION No. 281 SOUTH. SECOND STREET, In connection with their extensive Cabinet business, are now manufacturing a superior article of - BILLIARD TABLES, and have now on hand a fall supply. finished with the MOORE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CIISHIONB, which are pronounced by all who have used them to be superior to all others. For the - quality and finish of these Tables, the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Union, who are familiar with the character of, their work. seB-8m HAVING PURtHASED TFrE STOCK 97 CURTAIN MATERIALS, ET GOODWILL OF THE BUSINESS LATELY CONDUCTED BY MR. W. H. CARRYL, AT. THE BTOEE Na; '719 CHESTNUT: STREET, I desire to Inform the public that I am now Opening my FALL. STOOK BROOATELLE, SATIN'DAMASIC,' SILK TERRY, SATIN DE LAIN, WORSTED. TERRY, UNION DAMASK, ALL•WOOL REPS, IMPERIAL TERRY, FRENCH LASTING, GOTHIC TAPESTRY; FRENCH PLUSH, MOQUETTE, LADE CURTAINS, WINDOW SLIA.DES, AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. E. I. W,AI.R.A.VEN, PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPT. 17, 1863 Vrtss. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863 (Correspondence of The Press.] Nxw Youx, September 15, 1863. THE EXEMPTION BILLS. Those who remember the famous "Japanese Swindle" of our Common Counoll, which resulted from the visit of the Tycoon's ambassadors to this city, will not be especially startled at the course which this august body is taking in regard to the bill for the redemption of old Democratic files, which they passed over Mayor Opdyke's veto. That is a demoniac maxim of the common law ; " Corpora tions can never die," for , our CoMmon Council is a Corporation! These old flies are relying, upon their friends, the • Aldermen, to prevent Mr. Lincoln from drafting from an outraged and decimated community; while the Aldermen, appreciating this appealing ,00nfL• dence, seem determined, at all hazards, -to prooure the exemptiorrof their muscular supporters. A. few dayieince an injunction was granted against any further notion upon this bill, at the instance of the AttOrney General ; yesterday, the Aldermen in structed the Corporation counsel to take such mea sures as might result in dissolving the injunction, and restoring their license to employ the public moneys for party purposes. It is stated that Mayor Opdyke will refuse to sign any bonds which may be issued under the ordinance ; while, on the other hand, it is asserted that his signature is not reciut site to their validity. However the fact may be, it seems scarcely possible that our moneyed men will purchase securities whose 'validity, at the best, is, open to doubt, and which may entail , upon the hold ers interminable lawsuits before the question can be finally settled. Speculators are not apt to close with equivocal bargains, and it seems very probable that this iniquitous scheme of plunder may hill still-born, even though the injunction be dissolved, as the Aldermen claim it should be. . The Mayor deserves the thanks of every honest citizen for the bold and determined manner in tvhioh he has carried his point in the face of the most fu rious opposition. The exemption act which, at his suggestion, was passed by the Supervisors, answers all just ends, and, while relieving particular classes of the community from the burden of the draft, will procure men for the army, and thus fulfil the re quirements of the GoVernment at the same time that it relieves the citizens. Applicants for the benefits of the fund are urged to produoe substitutes when such a course is possible, and when it is not, the committee finds the substitute itself. In orde to give these regulations due effect ii tep thpu; ; ' substitutes are advertised for, arel4r..whVi,:i.+l4s.* I been forthcoming. In fact, the committee takes ll.e place of the Government in the matter, and applies each three hundred dollars, just as the Government would do in case the drafted men were to pay their exemption fees to it. This, naturally enough; does not suit the Aldermen. It extends no bulwark of safety around their con stituents, and leaves the mob-men to 'take their chances in the conscription. Besides, no perquisites can be frayed oft' the fund ; no percentages are af forded ; and the aidermanic body mourns over lost opportunities and the sad spectacle of a public fund, which their fingers may not touch. Thus far, the committee has met with the most flattering success in its efforts to procure the whole number of substitutes ; and it is expected that the ten thousand will shortly be obtained, and added to Our armies. CIVILIZATION OF BROOKLYN. Brooklyn has_ taken a forward step toward civili sation, whichipeaks well for the enterprising spirit of its citizens. Yesterday evening the first number of a loyal and, respectable paper was issued in that city, under the title of The Union. Brooklyn papers have not been very superior journals heretofore, and have scarcely risen in grade above compilations from the New York press. The Union, however, promises to be an improvement on its cotemporary, and commences under the most flattering auspices. On the same evening the first regular theatre (the Park) was opened, and filled to the overflow. They have an Academy of Music, chiefly devoted - to 'ex. hibitions of gigantic potatoes and other vegetables, and Sundapschool festivals, but its dramatic record is nothing. Now and then some- superannuated star would astonish the Brooklynite.s upon thn Academy boards, but the reputation for mammoth vegetables swallowed up all else. The opening of the Park Theatre is, therefore, ad episode in the history of that provincial city, and the Brool±lyn - .%v orKera. W recognize them in the streets, and have apparently relinquished all ideas of sending missionaries among them. S TUYVES'ANT. To the Editor of The Preeß: Sin: Some days back the wish was expressed in your columns that some 'one would explain the meaning of the phraseology employed by a certain critic °n a"' pe works of Mr. Mulready, the English painter. • The phrases specified were "solidity of color," and "force of handling." • The effects, hardness, softness, transparency, &c , are, as is well known, continually produced on canvas; witness the successful representation of furs, velvet, marble, steel, water, the atmosphere, &e. -These effects, however, are not always fully at tained, bnt on the contrary, transparency and films]• nese are sometimes the result, where opacity and; substance were the objects in view, and vice versa?' The power of attaining eats and all of these, at will, distinguishes the successful painter, and to him "so lidity of color," and solidity.nf texture, as well, are', 1 expressive and proper terms. , " Handling" is the manner of the artist in laying on his tints and lines, so as to produce a particulai effect, and widely differs in the practice of differMit masters. It may be forcible or feeble, facile or la! bored, like the handwriting of those who wield till pen. Its full meaning will be beat exemplified ix comparing the works of different painters, side b 3: side. A portrait by Stuart, placed in juxtapositioi with another by our own townsman, Rembran Peale, would strikingly i lustrate the difference handling by two artiste, and exhibit at the same Um the exact meaning of the term. Boldness and del re . cacy of effect in pictures result mainly from mar difference of handling, each of which may be exec , lent in its own way, requiring simply to' be viewel at different and appropriate distances. The hand ling of some painters is-disthighished by such frl and strong strokes or touches, of the pencil, as - .ev to plough up the surfaces of their pictures, and till designedly ; while that of others blends every tick and ridge to the highest degree of smoothness ol texture, and the most insensible gradations o, color. These, and other like terms, are used of nece.ssi by artists and true critics, not in affectation, but a being convenient, expressive, and a help to direc nese and brevity. No doubt, display in their use i sometimes Bought by the vain, who desire to api proach art as connoisseurs, and who - seek to gair credit not only for acumen, but erudition ; henc the "slang" to which you allude, so often the re suit of attempts at fine writing on art by the inconi petent. Coxcombs in criticism are in continuti peril of floundering here ; not that the technology et art is more abstruse than that, of other profeadorn but it reqviresto be pretty well understood to avoi. a very frequent misapplication of terms, and to vent writing what will appear absolute ' the well informed. nonsense, The phraseology of, art to the uninitiated may pear quaint, bombastic, or even worse, as happnelii not long since, to some lady travellers in Englhd. Their experience was during a trip in a post cos°ot far from London,during which they were much et k with the colloquial peculiarities of two of their 1;low-passengers.liis low-paengers, "A fine group of clouds then n our right," remarked one of the strangers. " Y " responded his companion, "but soraewhakroc " Speaking of a certain gentleman, one was overhe to say, "Hie skies are quiet ;" of another, " grounds are deficient in repose," &a., &..c. This ea Retie jug n on was not only incomprehensible, but last'beWe so alarming to our lady travellers, t they demanded of the postillion to stop his cosi declaring at - the same tithe, with much earnestnel that they would proceed no further in the eame ve ole with madmen who raved about " rocky cloud "chalky flesh," and "houses and grounds that nee repose!" Yet-these strangers were but two arta . familiarly and innocently remarking in the pli, geology of art on the scenery around them, and the productions of some of their 'professional clf petitors. I am, sir, yours truly, riniA., Septeinber 12, 1862. tWe are perfectly aware that "solidity of eol t "force of handling," are phrases which have tee • cal meaning, and that in arteriticism it is often dispensable to use them. In the article to Wh . out intelligent correspondent refers, our condem - tion was intended to apply to their misuse. one could, possibly gain an idea of Mr. Mulread talent, fiom their vague application to his piotur for they are phrases which apply to all goodpictur" Special works cannot be'distinguished for univers I qualities, and certainly, even those painters who touch is light and tender, possess "force of hen - ling." Stuart'a handling was bold, strong, forcible in the extreme; yet, Mr. Sully's pictures, opposite in style, have their own "force of handling," which few painters can rival. All meaningless applieit;. tier 8 of art•terine are art slang, and it is certainly without meaning, that Mr. Mulready'e critic own plime nted him for possessing qualities of which 40 gocd artist can be destitute.—Xn. Pumas.] TURES, MASONIC, HALL, 119 CEIEST'IsTIII ( STREET NEW YORK CITY. The Phraseology of Art. -The Cincinnati Enquirer tells the following': " There is a quaint old negro to be seen every day in the City Building Park, who is known and called James Morgan." lie acts as a sort of Cerberus of the gates, or kind of major-domo of the grounds, sprinle ling water upon the grass when needed, and clearing• away - the dirt that daily accumulates in the petits.. Well, James was originally a slave to the fath . tir of: Morgan, the rebel chief, but some yearaage.he con, trived to make his escape, and found his Way:Ao-thir city, where he has lived ever since. Hearing that. his young master—the notorious ,Morgan—wati , in the City Prison, he made application to the Chief,pf Police to see him, and-was admitted. The General treated him warmly, shook hands with him, and con gratulated himupon his having iiiejrefxioni..!Yesi. mass& JOhnehroke in Jim, ',you mold .Isiab yeurn, .too, if you hadn't gwine in to broke up de. 'Won ; .but you us in a tight place now, Massa John; yeti is in a tight'place, now 1 Good bye, Masse Jonnitand Jim swung away at his usual limpinfigigt,” THE. SIEGE OF CHARLESTON, The Indications ot'Surrender at Fort Noul trie—Altalra on Morris Island—Activity of Gilmore. NEW Yonx, Sept- 16.—Thesteamer Mary Sanford has arrived from Charleston bar with advice' up to Saturday night, the 12th inst., which show that the despatch of yesterday from Fortress Monroe was entirely unfounded. The Sanford brings despatches for the Govern ment and a mail from the fleet. , Gen. Gilmore wan actively engaged in . erecting batteries on the upper enctof Morris Island, sustain ing a heavy fire from forte Johnston and Moultrie. The rebels havetwo fifteen-inch guns in Moultrie.- Sumpter is entirely silenced, but a garrison is stilt there and the rebel, flag is still-ffying, no attempt having been made -to capture it since the defeat of the boat expedition. The health of the fleet is good. • The Monitor Patapsco has gone to Pert Royal , to repair. Commander Amrnen has peen appointed chief of Admiral Dahlgren's staff. Fop:mess MONROE, Sept, 15.—[Special tothe Thd timore .dmericatz .] —I have had a conversation with captain Diggs, of the steamer'Nelly Frintz. Cap tain Diggs states that he had an interview with the captain of the steamer Cosmopolitan, who is a very intelligent and reliable man, being employed in bringing the wounded from Morris Island to Hilton Head. - The Cosmopolitan left Lightliouse Inlet at two o'cloCk. on Saturday morning. He reports that a White flag was displayed from Moultrie on Friday afternoon, and from that time until he left all firing had ceased. He also reports that Gen. Gilmore had possession of half of James Island, but did not say how this result was achieved. ,Capt. Diggs further says that when he left Hilton Head on Saturday morning he kept close into the coast, and passed' Charleston bar at not more than six miles froth Fort Moultrie ; that with a glass he distinctly saw a white flag floating froth the fort; that perfeot quiet prevailed inside the bar during all the time he was in eight and sound, there being no firing either by the enemy or by our land or naval forces. According to his statement the white flag wan flying from from Friday evening up to 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon. There might posaibly have been a suspension of hoetilities for some purpose, but even if correctly re ported it would not indicate a surrender. If the latter, there would undoubtedly have been a de spatch boat here with the news by this time. We will receive Richmond papers of Tuesday here to morrow (Wednesslay), which 'may throw some light on the subject:. The Baltimore American answers as followa some reporta with regard to Admiral Dahlgren's health, and; hie disposition to co-operate with General Gil- " With regard to the health of Admiral Dahlgren 'we 'apprehend, from - his appearance, that he is a oyepeptic, and never was a man of robust health. His bodily strength has probably never been very great, but, for activity of mind and indomitable per severance, he has no superior in the service, unless, perhaps, we except the unapproachable Farragut }lie activity and energy, as observed during a month's residence on the flagship, was a subject of common remark. "The facts are, that Gen. Gilmore and Admiral Dahlgren have co-operated earnestly and effectually throughout the siege. They have entered on the work with a determination of succeeding, and to allow no temporary reverses or .personal disagree ments to interrupt its energetic prosecution. They have cordially assisted each other, not only in punish ing the enemy, but in the hourly interchange of views and frequent personal interviews, as well as the free access to each-other's supply of munitions, and have indicated a determination to allow no per sonal ambition to interrupt the progress of the great work of national retribution with which they have been entrusted." THE STATES IN REBELLION. The Union Movement in North Carolina EFrom tke Atigneta Constitntionaliat.3 • Under this head, the Knoxville Chronicle contains the following article. We commend its perusal to our readers, now, for the time , may come when per sonally it may be applied to some in our State, who like the serpent, Holden, would involve Georgia in a strife that:cam:Lot but end in their total discomfiture and disgrace: "For some time past, we have noticed' particular ly our North Carolina exchanges, and more especi ally the 'discord and strife which seems' to be in or easing in some sections of the State, caused by the proceedings and meetings gotten up by the edi tor of The Standard, published .in- Raleigh, the capi tal of the. State. These nieetings, in our estimation, are useless, uncalled for, hypocritical, and diaboli cal in their tendency to the vital Interest of our country's cause. The editor of this paper, Wm. H. Rolden, has been (ever since the commencement of our national difficulties) doing all within his power _to .rtiate•a.dis' felon of party feeling_inthe oldfforth Jeauer or tam part, and daily -fifsues fuel to the flames of discord and strife. He is a Northern man—at heart a corrupt ,7kankee, and yet he is allowed'in our midst to lead a ;'growing party, and circulate a paper which ii eager .ly grasped and perused by an armed foe and secret enemy. . * * * * " Holdenehouid be dealt with to the full extent of the laws of our land. In our opinion, his paper has already givenNent to treasonable sentiments :mill . cient to muzzle , his press; Unless he alters .his litical course; justice to our cause will yet require _such. It will be well for the whole country to under stand this clearly; Theßepublican party will not re cede a foot ; will not yield a jot of its principles so long as we have such men as Holden to contend with in our midst. Holden and his party seem to be Batts ., Bed With the Constitution just as it was up to, the .tine of the first blow upop Fort Suoipter. They speak to us in substance, 'lf you love and want peice, strike hands with us under the Federal flag; , enjoy as well as you may all your tights, and freely grant us ours. ' Furthermore, this party becomes mere bold; its days of infancy have passed, and it agitin says, in substance,: If you are not satisfied with the righte,you coul enjoy under the old Con stitution, you do not deserve peace.' The cry of this party is peace, peace, and it is striving to bring .it about through the channel of Union meetings. No one would have peace with more pleasure than the writer, but it must be secured with honor to our arms. We must be a free, separate, and independent .People. In accordance with the laws of our Con stitution, we should frown indignantly upon all such conferences, compromises, and plans of adjust ment as are presented by Holden and ills unprinci pled party." . FROM LEE'S ARMY. A correspondent of the Constitutionalist writes: The text is, Gen. Lee is "un- grand homme." No thing escapes his keen eye ; and the comfort of his men and the good of his country engage hisattention to the neglect of everything like social enjoyments and everyday pleasures. Gen. Lee is a working man, and the troops of the. Army of Northern Vir ginia make up a fighting army, the superior to which the world has never-produced. God grant that no disaster may overtake these heroes, and no defeat stain their colors. . Major General Wilcox, recently promoted as such, has been assigned to the command of Plotter's old di vieion' composed of Lane's and Scales' North Caro lina brigades, McComan's South Carolina brigade, and Thomas' Georgia brigade.- Wilcox's division will doubtless achieve as great a fame as has been made by the gallant brigade of Alabamians which bears hia name. Brig. Gen. Humphries, recently promoted as such, will have command of Barksdale's old brigade. He is a West Point man, having been there with the. President. He is a moat capital officer, and a fit successor to the worthy and lamented Barksdale. Brig. Gen. Eppa Hutton will have command of Garnett's old brigade, Pickett's division. Gen. Hut ton ought to be - .to-day a Major General.. He de- Delved a brigadier's commission at Leesburg, two years ago. Foreign Intervention. [Correspondence of the New - York Times.] WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1E63. The foreign papere, I see, are full of rumors of 1 . French intervention. I have good reason for be lieving them to be entirely groundless. The victo -ties of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Port Hudson , bad quite as marked an_effect. in France as in Eng - land. Beyond all question, previous to those victo ries the French Emperor believed that his interven tion would terminate the war. The paragraph in the No nitetir.which attracted so much attention, proved that thin ` his impression. A. very emphatic and eremptoff , 'despatch from, our... Secretary of State - gave him to .understand that any such interference would most certainly prolort the War_andlizilarge the Sphere ofi:its.eralidne; —The victories of-. July gave very greatht'to this declaration; and un-• •• lesar have beeminisinformed as, to the tenor of-the = latesi.deepatchee from - ffir. Dayton, they. convey the most explicit and unmistakable `assurances assurances , as from the French Emperorwell as from . his .Itlinister of Foreign A s, that France has no in- It tention either to tee e the. Southern Confede racy while its ability t aintain its independence is seriously contested, nor to plant any French cola; nice on the Western`Continent, or to retain any per - manent conquest 'of Mexico. These declarations are very distinct, and I think' are regarded as emi nently satisfactory by our Government. They show ' deafly that Louis Napoleon, whatever maybe his personal 'inclinations, will never interfere in an affair until' he le at least nrorany certain that Eng land will follow his lead; and the recent change in the tone of the London Timm (which is a most ex cellent dial for. Government sunshine), and the ex preseed sentiments of official personages in England, have satisfied him that he will only endanger the 'entente cordiale with England, and isolate himself in = Europe, by any recognition of the Southern Con federacy in face of the recent victories of the Union I may add, I think-with confidence, that the Presi dent does riot think that the new rebel rams will be allowed to leave English porta. Tile Attempt to Bang Don. D. W. Voor , - , Imes. [ rreipondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.] he 2il battalion 63d' Indiana Volunteers returned it Terre Haute on Saturday, Most of the men w a railed hi D. W. Voorhees' district, and 'one co pany in his old town. Learning that he was on th train the. soldiers broke for the car where he w , dashed in the door,-and, in spite'of the pre is e of his Wife, threatened to hang him by the o rope if he 'did not get off the train, telling h that no man mho called American soldiers L oln dogs who, when the war was over, would w collars so labelled, should ride with them a The officers interfered, and forced the en lack almost at the 'point of the 'alVord. A d and third attempt was made, but failed, gh the entreaties and command of the officers. hees solemnly protected that he had been be. and that they're:id but one class of papers. answered that they had seen his speeches, and was enough.to show he was a traitor. At last as informed that if he would, quietly leave the at Greencastle , he might do so, but that the would never ride into Indianapolis on the came with him, or any man who would abuse the iera.who were fighting for the Union and the iernment that protected him, as well as them. It amighty narrow escape for Dan, and neither ,weeping wife, nor his entreaties, would have ed him if he had continued the journey. BLES SENT SOUTH.—Rev—Mr. Manly,. Frees. of the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board, y wrote to Rev. - Dr. Fuller, of Baltimore, re. ting him to' puroliinie; in behalf of the Board, 10 oopiee of the Newr•Testament for the Sunday .011 at the &Stith. The American Bible Society, eceiving the order for the.books, at once decided . ake a present of them to the schools through Manly, and have done so. ' A member - of a- coleired regiment, a -native of Joe, writes thus quaintly in a- private letter e-have experienced- no fight as yet ; but Ipin ely_ wish we would havo one, so as to ;pie us a ante to show ourselves, and forever solve the stlc:j4roblem of negro capabilities in the qualities a-Xoldier: .* intelfd, aseoon as-I get-paid cto.rend you $— for,safekeeping for me. --But if happorie. I :should be killed, .1 leave it to a min .oriary sobietii for the good of diy . natiVe i` N,XTROPE. France and liresia Alarmed 'at the negress of Austria: (Paris (August SO) eerrespon h.] denre of the London Tele grap BY a rapid turn of the political wheel' Poland is for a moment quite out of sight, and' the eyerrof every politician in Paris are turned towards Austria A grave anxiety weighs on men's minds as to the' effects which might be produced if the Emperor of . Austria should succeed in his attempts on the German supremacy. -I have already told you that this feeling existed in very high quarters, and to such a degree As to render possible an arrangement for the future of Poland, if she would accept it, in which neither Austria nor England would be 'sow suited; and this view is considered by many to be confirmed by the presence of Prince Orloff; who is now in :Parse, "sent, so says rumor, by the Emperor Alexander to settle everything with the Emperor Napoleon: The press has now taken up the question, and both' the Constitutionnel and the Debals have spoken words of warning against the ambitious and dangerous policy of Vienna. Taking for its text the fifth paragraph of the eighth article of the projected reform, the Debate preaches a sermon which reads marvellously" as if it were inspired. The'words of the clause are in truth sufficiently striking : "If a war threatens to break out between one of the Con federate States which has _possession's without the Federal territory and a foreign Power, the. Directory must call for a resolution of the Federal Council on the subject of Federal participation in this twar ; such resolution to depend on a simple majority of voices," And from this the Debate very naturally draws the.conclueion that Austria knows that she, if head of the feaeration, could depend on " a simple majority of voices'," and, therefore, would have all Germany to defend Venice and Hungary. "Aus tria,' continues the article, "twelve year. ago ma nceuvred to get admittance into the German Con federation for all the provinces of her empire, with out exception. France energetically opposed her; it was her right and her duty. Now Austria, Who has never renounced one of her ideas, tries to arrive at the same end by a different route. We may doubt if she will succeed with her confederates ; but, if she did succeed, certainly Europe would protest. Could France and Italy accept a state of things which would be a standing menace to their frontiers, and which would be a permanent protest against the stipula tions of Villefraneo, and Zurich? When in danger and difficulty we are apt to think of the friends on whom We can rely. We map have neglected them a little, but guevaulez vausl We did not want anything from themjust then ; now it is quite different. Thus France, alarmed about the possible power of Alla iris, is taketrwith a sudden tendency for Italy. ITALY PRISPA.RING FOR WAR. [Milan (Aognat 2k) correspondonee of the Official Bets- chatter, of Vienna.] The military preparations which the Government has been lately making appear to us to exceed by far what can be required for home service. Officers of every branch of the service are travelling abroad. with the object of making contracts for the supply of arms and materials of war to the Italian Govern. ment. A major in the regiment of lancets stationed here is at present in France, and has a carte blanche to purchase thirty thousand saddles and bridles for the cavalry, and the same number of hostler pistols. Lieutenant Colonel Castellon is -in Et:island. and goes from there to. Belgium, to purchase fifty thou sand first-rate rifles for the army, and forty thousand gun barrels for the National Guard. Captain de Benedictis, of the engineers, is going to. Stockholm • and Liverpool to study certain arrangements, the introduction of which would facilitate the provision ing an army in case war broke out. Two naval offl cers will also go to England to inspect .the con struction of a new sort of iron-clad ships, on which system the Italian Government intend to have their new iron-plated frigates constructed. The Second Engineering division here in Milan has received the order to draw out a plan of a great powder maga zine, which is to be constructed here for the mo bilised-National Guard. All the superintendents of military stores have received notice that they must see to it that their ammunition ddpete are provided with the maximum quantity of war materiel. It is only surprising that in its present financial straits the Government can find money for all these ex penses. • The month of October is appointed as the period for a strict inspection of all the troops and all the stores. The King himself is expected here in the middle of - September, and great military prepa rations are makinein view of this event. TER. ANGLO-REBEL IRON RAMS [Prom the Manchester Examiner. August 317 One of the WIC- iron steam•rams built by Messrs. Laird, at Eirkenhead,*was launched at their works, on Saturday, August 29, in the presence of a large crowd of spectators, who were freely admitted into the yard. The vessel launched on Saturday was christened the El Monassir, or Victory, her consort, launched a few weeks ago, being named the Toussoun. When launched; both vessels bore the Englishilag astern and the French flag amidships. . Each is two hundred and thirty feet long, forty two feet beam, and nineteen feet deep. Their mea surement is one thousand eight hundred and fifty tons, and their engines are of three hundred and fifty horse power. They are plated with four-80(1.a -half inch iron on a teak backing of great thickness, bolted on to the frame of the ship, which supports the inner shell. The desire are alto iron plated, and the iron bulwarks are hinged at the lower edge, so as to be thrown down in action. Each " ram " is pierbed for six guns on each aide, and they are fitted on the deck with large cupola towers on Captain Cole's plan, with two guns to each cupola. Their bows project under the water so as to form a " ram." The iron plates are so beautifully planed and fitted that it is almost impossible to tell whether the ves sels are plated or not. The_cunols......rs rore_and_aft 0u,..—,-...romayre an extreme range nearly fore and aft ofthe vessel. Each ," ram" is bark rigged, having the lower masts and yards of iron. The officers and men have accommodation above deck, in the poop and forecastle at each end and be low the deck. When launched, the El Monassir was taken into the four-hundred•and-lifty•feet-graving dock, alongside of her consort, the El Toussoun, which is expected to be ready for sea in about a month. Great tearecy has been exercised during the build. ing of the. "rams," but in spite of this they have long excited the suspicions of the Federal officials and sympathizers in this country, and the article in the Times of Friday last, apropos of the memorial of the Emancipation' Society to Lord John Russell, has more recently excited the public curiosity re specting them. It was stated at the launch, on Sa turday, that, in spite of all their precautions, the Federals Dave managed to get spies into Messrs. Laird's s' ards, and we shall doubtless soon hear their opinions of these formidable "rams." TUE ANOLO•REBEL- NAVVY. From the London Times, August 31.1 Though it is well known that several iron- clads are in course of • construction in various parts of the kingdom for foreign Governments, and although one has already sailed for Russia., and another for. Denmark, without occasioning surprise, the public suspect tiot any vessel of war built on the Mersey must be mended for the Confederate Government. For a considerable lime past mysterious assertions have been circulited respecting two iron Clads build ing in Messrs. Laird's yard, and the Federal spies have never • lost sight of them. A few days ago it was currently- reported ,and -believed that one of these vessels had slipped away to sea clandes tinely, to join company with, the Florida, off- the Irish coast. That such was not the case a visit to -Messrs. Laird's yard made evident. There at present lie - the two suspected vessels, side by side, with the French flag floating over the one nearest completion. Messrs. Laird makes no mystery about EL Tousson and El Mounassir, as the ships are named. They are undoubtedly built on French account, and it is understood that the French vice consul has given the collector of customs satisfactory explanations respecting them. El Toussan, which was launched some time ago, will be ready for% a trial trip in a month or six - weeks. El Mounassir was only launched on Saturday, but already a portion of her machinery is on board: Perhaps there are not two more formidable frigates afloat. They are 230 ft. over all, 42 ft. beam, width 19. ft. 6.- in. in depth of hold. Tonnage, 1,8,5043. m. ;-horsopower, 350. They will combine speed with good seagoing qualities. They _are very flat bottomed, with exceedingly fine ends, and will sit low in the water. Their draught, when loaded, will be about fifteen feet; estimated speed, eleven knots. The stem is so formed that the vessel maybe used as a- ram, and the stern, which, overhangs, affords protection to the iscrew - and iudder from shot or collisions. The rig is, that of a bark, the masts, which are tele scopic, and the lower yardi, being of iron. The, armor-plating on the sides of the vessel is foin and a half inches thick amidships, and rather less at the ends.. The plates, the joining of which together is imperceptible. are fitted into a teak backing of great strength. The deck is or live inch teak, protected with iron. The bulwarks let down in case of action, in order toallow the turret. guns to flit over them. -They have two cylindrical turrets on Captain Coles' principle—one before and the other abaft the engine-room, heavily plated. These turrets are, made for two guns each. The pilot•house is formed of teak and iron. At either end of the vessel are raised decks, which afford ex cellent accommodations for the officers and crew. In the- captain's cabin provision - is made for two heavy stern guns, and heavy guns can be trained from the forecastle deck. These-vessels have caps cityjor three hundred tons of anal.- All the machi nelris below the water-line. Several experienced -aaval-officta who haveTinspected - 'ate vessels have expressed opinions most gratifying to. their de- TRH DREW OP THE . AVG.II.O-EiAiDII.- TURNED ADRIFT EMI= IParis (..kngust 30) Correspondence of the London Tele- I give yeti the , following, from L' Ocean, of Brest: Twenty-four persona were landed here on August 24, from the Confederate corvette Florida, and turn ed adrift in the streets. - Twenty.thrie of these men are Northerners, and cable out of a Federal ship of one thousand nine-hundred tons, captured and burn ed by the Florida not'far off the English coast. !The twenty-fourth is an English pilot "•" • IRISH ADVICE TO IRISHMEN IN AMERICA. (From the United Iriah MELD (Dublin); Angtut `9.1 From the tune of the British Sournals we are in duced to believe that England is at the bottom of the resistance to the draft, for the Federal army. It is quite natural that men should be opposed to con scription of the kind,,and that such a measure would be more especially unpopular in a free country like America. Win therefore, the more easy to 'stir-up' opposition English gold •is at work in New York. Her emissaries are there taking advantage of the popular prejudices and doing more to damage the cause of the Union than if she lied actually recognized the independence of the Southern States. . ThaLondon Times has an article gloating over the anticipated resistance of Governor Seymour to the draft. It would certainly- be playing the game of the enemy to perfection. England would give the Governor a million pounds starling if he could be induced to take such a step. It might tend' to the prolongation of the war ors the destruction of the Union, but most unquestionably to the complete annihila tion of Dish, influence in America, and; an end of all hepe for the freedom of fatherland our, generation. Let them stand, till the last, ,by the flag that has been borne alongside their own in battle, and under whose folds alone thegcan find freedom and protection. - suralco Alin THE xrklyrim STATES—A DBPENOIC 01. (Translated fcr the Now York'Herald from the Revue - Hiplomatique. Journals which have never ceased combatting and criticising the Mexican expedition have been, for some days past, threatening the French Govern ment with the wrath of the United States. It is low announced that a note, - emanating from Mr. Seward, ieon its way to France. and that Mr. Day ton will soon send it to the Cabinet of the Tuileries. We are enabled to give the most formal denial-to these rumors.• 'Up to'the ppresent we are - not aware that Mr. Seward .has made any communication to M. Mercier; nor has Mr. Dayton made any to M. Drouyn de PHuys. In th 6 meantime, the numerous questions springing from the blockade of the South. ern•coast •lreep up an incessant correspondence be tween the Cabinets of Washington and Paris: The American Government, which, since the' breaking out of the civil war, has shown much circumspection in its relation' with the EuropearOPowers, knows well enough that its representatioi*if it had any to make,' rhould.be addressed in particular to the Mexi can nation, which sees lit to return to monarchical institutiOns. - France would not fail to. refer Mr. Seward to the Mexicans as the real auttuirs of the change, and as the' moat competent Ausigeeof what suits their country; and unless he would r deny,to the Mexicans the right ; of managing their oven affairs, the Maahington Seoretary of State would toii - obliged to accept as legitimate the return - of Mexico to Mo ' As to the right of France to redreas her grievances by arms, even though that should result in the over- - throw of Juarez, this is not the time for the:United 'Stales to attempt denying Lit after haying recognized , it, before the .expedition had left our> porta.. That = riglitis bared upon the duty lueumbeut ups a ol'etry THREFi CENTS. Government worthy of the name to defend the honor of its Mfg, and to protect the life and property of its subjects. It is justified besides by the importance of the French interests Involved in Mexico. Theter facts must not be lost eight of. Our commerce with' Mexico represents the fifth of the total commerce of that countq. It is second only to the English com merce, and is more than double that of the com merce of the United States. The importations from France to Mexico form more than a fourth of the whole. They amounted in 1861 to more than 24,000,001) of francs ,out of eightpert millions ($6,000,000 out of $lB 000,000). Those o the United States did not reach twelve millions ($2,500,000.) As to the exportations other than the precious metals, France holds - the Wet rank, absorbing 'the third of the Mexican products exported. • Caa the United States put forward, as an excuse for interfering in Mexican affairs, the care of their commercial in terests, When their commerce with that country is not quite the fifth part of the aggregate commerce of France and Eng/and?' Our rights would necessarily take precedence of Weirs. If, on the contrary r they should set up a political reason; if they , should pretend that republican in stitutions are better calculated than a monarchy to restore calm and peace to Mexico, and to assure there the safety of all interests, the answer would be too easy. It would suffice to invite Mr. Seward to read over again themesaages of President Bu chanan and the reports of the 'United States minis ters to Mexico. The United States know how to reckon. They will not putthe question on the com mercial ground ; their memoe,V is too good to put it on the political ground. AN ECNitOY incox .MAXIMITAAN-DAVIS TO B.EOOO 'MIZE THE EMPIRE. From tht, Manchester Guardian, August 31.3 According to La' , France, am sid-de-camn of the Archduke Maximilian will embark for Mexico on Wednesday, and the same authority Bays that ?re sident Davie has promised to recognize the Mexican monarchy'. - ANEW.IMPERIAL' OAIGIMIYATE CParis (August 30) correspondence orthe London 'Fele The news just arrived by telegram from 'Vera 'Cruz is held to be very favorable. The French prise agrees to consider the Mexican affair 'as settled. "Juarez is vainly seeking to rally some of his old soldiers," says the Constilutionnel. "Hewill not be able to make a stand at San Luis de Potosi, and in a few weeks no trace will be left of that iniquitous and detesta ble Government of 'which he was the worthy head." So, on paper at least, the great Mexican question is happily and finally settled. There .are still, how ever, skeptics who do not believe so much. Web ave another candidate for the Mexican throne if it is refused by Maximilian I. Who do you guess 1 " Tenons le donne en• dix," as Mme. de Sevigny says. Prince Murat, now a cavalry Winer. So it was said in salons last night; when the company was tired of praising Tietjens. The France tells us that the Arch duke has already sent off an aid de-camp-to Mexico on a special mission. I fear Murat's chance is a blank. MEXICO TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE REBELS The London Herald, of August 31, thinks that the Emperor Napoleon will cause Mexico to acknow ledge the Southern Confederacy, and maintain un altered his ostensible position of a neutral, but states that he will not avoid responsibility by this course. lie will increase the debt of resentment America owes him for his persistent efforts to insure the co operation of the European Powers in intervention. THE FRENCH BLOCKADE OF THE MEXICAN FORTS. (From L'Opinion National of 26th Aurast 3 -•••• Up to the present the blockade of the Mexican. ports had not been rigorously enforced. Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, ana afterwards Admiral Bosse, bad shown the greatest tolerance to com merce other than contraband of war ; and several ports---Matamoros among others—had even re. maimed oper. Matamoros, situated on the Rio Bravo del Norte, at some distance from its mouth, bad, for the last two years, assumed great im portance on account of the war between the North and South, and on account of the Mexican inter vention. It is through this port thrit Juarez re ceived arms, munitions, and supplies ; but the inha bit ants could not have found in that trade a sufficient source of wealth to account for the immenseexten sion which their' town has taken. The real source of their wealth was all in the illicit trade which they carried on with the Southern Stales. Matamoros had become the port of entry and departure of the Southern Confederacy. All the vessels sent from England to Matamoros had for the real object of their destination Texas and the Coniederate States. It is by that way that the elaveholders have re ceived arms coming front the best English manufac tories, munitions, medicines, cloth, &c. But Juarez, having taken refuge in the neighbor.. hood of the Rio Grande, Admiral Bosse has ordered the rigorous blockade of the northeast coast, so as cut off from him the means of supply. This mea sure, dictated by prudence, obtains a .two•fold re sult. It affects Juarez, but it affects particularly the Richmond Government, and comes unexpect edly to the aid of the efforts of the Washington Go vernment to intercept the contraband trade with the South. Already several vessels, among which was an English bark, with a cargo of arms valued at three hundred thousand dollars, intended for the South, have been captured by the French squadron. The rigorous blockade of Matamoros is a fatal blow for the slave Confederacy; and if it had been sooner applied the war would probablybe at an end. .. EARL RUSSELL'S FOREIGN DIPLOMACY [Froth the London Faturday Review, August 29 It is not to be supposed that Lord Russell will con fine his autumnal recreations to such a very mild kind of extravagance as the indulgence of the tradi tional Whig tendency to nepotism. He will feel it to be necesstay to his importance as former leader of _the liberal party. to make &sensation _of some kind i ny,ntsroreimponcy. - whistparticntartiart - of the World he will select as the theatre for suctrati bition,Must, of course, be a matter of pure' conjea ture. We can only predict with certainty that it will not be - any territory belonging to a strong Pow er; and that; after all, Will be a great consolation to people of a nervous disposition. It is very possible that he may indulge in the composition. of some of those sharp epistles by which he has made himself famous on more than one occasion ; ' and -that he may, in some peculiarly capricious moment, de spatch them to America, or France, or Prugsta. But when he receives a still sharper reply, as heundoubt. wily will, it will have no effect in aggravating the hostility of his language and demeanor. .On the contrary, the rebuff will immediately produce a charming access of courtesy and compliance. There has never been a foreign minister-with whom Great Pow. era must have found it so pleasant to deal as Lord Rus sell, just after he has been snubbed. * * * He has made a great many rep:ton ' strances to the Federal Government for gross Me galities, the smallest of which wouhrhave brought down condign punishment—reprisals at the very least—upon a weaker Power. So far as redress is con ' Cenied, these remonstrances have been treated with entire contempt. Lord Russell cannot bear such treatment without resenting it; but he does not like to recent it on Mr. Seward. It has been, therefore, a surprise to no one who is familiar with the workings of his mind that we should have made our demands upon Japan in unusually peremptory terms, and should be rapidly drifting into a war for the purpose of extorting a submission to them, which the Je;- paneee Government is in no condition to give. Japan is exactly a type of the class of Power upon which the Foreign Secretary likes to discharge the wrath which has accumulated in disputes withiarger Stales. It is too distant to excite very keen !nterest, too barbarous to make its case known in Ragland, and too weak to offer any resistance that might be damaging. If we may venture on a prediction with regard to his proceedings at some later period of the autumn, we should select some State of a similar class as his probable victim. Chili or Siam will probably re ceive his earliest consideration. He has already had a brush with the latter Power at a place ci,lled Tringanu, which wholly failed to excite any atten tion in England, because nobody knew whereto look for the theatre of war upon the map. The l'lnium of Muscat and the. Queen of Madagascar also pre sent favorable opportunities for a display of heroic valor on the part of this country, of wnich it is. Quite possible that Lord Russell may avail himself. But of course their treatment will depend on the sort of re buffs we mad receive from Russia or America. Probably these distant exploits will exhaust' his warlike ardor for the present year. He will meddle with plenty of other " complications. nearer home; but his meddling will not lead to war. No doubt he has a plan of his own for the reconstruction of the German Empire, and has tent it in a curt despatch to the King of Bavaria. His genius for constitu tional legislation has, of course, led him to consider the present circumstances of `Mexico ; and , as soon as the Archduke is fairly installed; he will doubtless send him a constitution by the first mail. At present, he abstains from touching upon this delicate point, seeirg that the French are still in possession ; for he has an aversion, which, he cannot overcome, to seending impertinent despatches to Paris. How far. in the present temper of the King of Prussia and his ministers, he will venture to proffer to them his invaluable advice in their present dif ficulties, is a matter of doubt. M. Von Bismark is so completely his superior in the art of insolence that he usually refrains from mentioning Magna Charta to the Prussian Cabinet. Another Reform bill for Poland; - alecture to Italy upon the advan tages of peace, and a homily to Spain upon duty of religious toleration, will probably complete his labors in the department of exhortation. .But these will be purely of a pacific kind. They may provoke the interchange of hard words, and - may possibly draw upon England a rebuke to which it is very un dignified in-her to submit. But they will keep Lord. Russell's n sloe before the public, and will enable him to - console himself with the reflection that after all Lord Palmerston has not got everything, and that a great part of the management of the affairs of the world is still in genuine - Whig hands. And after all; when we reflect upon all that he has to endure at the hands of Mr. Seward, it is hard to refuse him the consolation of at least the show of energy and valor , in other guar ters. A TUNNEL THROUGH MOUNT GOTHARD The Italie of Turin states that conferences were lately . held at Lueern for the purpose of discussing the expediency of,piercing a tunnel through Mount Gotbard. Delegates from thirteen cantons and three half cantons attended, the population represented by them amounting to about two millions of souls. The two companies of the - Swiss ()entre,' and North= eastern lines were also represented. M.' Zink,:of: Lucern, read a report drawn up by EL Welti, civil engineer, on the whole line frominuelen to Lugano. According to one of the .two projects presented,-the tunnel is to be pierced at an altitude of-twelve hun dred metres above the level of the sea, and atone hundred metres above that of Airolo (Tessin) and Goeschenen (Uri). Its length is one hUndred- and tlfty.three kilometres, and it may be pierced by the aid of two shafts, one one hundred and sixty-six meths, and the other two hundred and ninety-six metres, in depth. According to the second project the tunnel to be pierced at an altitude of fifteen hun dred metres above the level of the sea, which is that of the celebrated hospice, will only be ninety eight kilometres in length ; but, as a set off, the rest of the line passes through the" most unfavora ble ground possible. A more detailed report on this important question is in course of preparation. f i• 11.1 . I 1-M , ATIONAL RIME IN NEW 0 RLI , AIi6 —A cor respondent writes: " We ftrd.that the military city 'government has debts - repudiated and ore.. due, and necessary apenses additional to the expenses of any former government, the enormous sum of ii sat e 43.4. - and yet the sum total of the expenses is $7;0.1119 55 less than in'the year before, while the city was governed by Secessionists duly elected by the people—a saving of over iti;e00,000. No wonder the taxpayers are pleased at the new regime. Some three months ago Gen. Shepley called together some .twenty of the wealthiest and most influential of the loyal citizens and asked their opinion as to the, pro• priety of ordering an election of -a city goverment by the, people. But with one voice they adjurEd him to do no such thing. 'Never , before,' they said, ' have we bad so upright, safe, and economical a city government as since you Yankees came here. Our streets have been cleaned; great lakes of stagnant water, which bred pestilence and disease, have been drained ; our police - force is perfect, and,.we, who,f6rt 1 years, have not dared to walk through St. Oharl ". street after nightfall; are now perfectly safe_in - part of the eityapiny time of the day or night; yo have saved fortY , per cent. of the yearly expense administering the government, and you have , saved the credit of theicityby paying ssoo,ootiof overdue or repudiated debti: 'Por , Heaven's saki, put off an election as long as you can.' " ' 4r., 'KammOxy Tonacco.—.&ccOrding tO;the ituditoraa Report for DM there was t iroduced'that year in Kentucky. 11,422,945 pounda:; , ,pf this amount, the First, Second, and Thirkeongressional districts• produced 05,263,505 pounds, Qrrover five.sixths of the' whole amount. Now the practical question arising.; irom this state of case is this : From whaftpart of the State should the tobacco inspector be apiointedl Their would seem fib. be no miestion that the great tobacco district of the State is entitled, to :the ap-, pointment. PROGERSB.—The American Telegraph Compaif annotuse.the opening of an office at Chattanooga, and the teceptioa Of bucinesa for that place. IMEIVJERI 1:117.41-1E1. Wi'l=l.3l3looll. (717BLISIDED WISELY.) Tien Was Puss will be sent to subscribers by mail (per annum in idealize) at Three copies " " ...... SOS Five copies " Tea copies " •• ,«. IS ne Larger Clubs than Ten will be charged at the OWN rata, sLsO , per copy. The money moot attempt accompany the olden and in no inatarusa can then term. Oe devtakafroighof OAP gore ecru /tit Et -more than the coat of the paper. Pastmaeters are requested to act "c Agents kil Tan Wan Passe. - lir To the getter-up of the Club of ten or twenty. NI unit oOD7 of the Paper wlllbe even. The Treasonable Conspiracy in the North.. - . TEM -. 8.E13311L' INThIOUE—A OFIA:nr op , arnioßwAtt, • • [CerreaPondence of the Cincinnati Gazette l About the 25th day of September, left, the rebel general Bragg lamed an outdrew from'Camp Diets Robinson to the enticing of. Kentuthy and the Northwest, urging them to rally to hi standard and free themselves from the Lincoln tytanny. That Mere were a great many disloyal men ImKentucky who were waiting for an opportunity to join the re bele,-was well known, and General Bragr had good reason' to call on them to join his standard by giving neat an' assurance that he would be able' to per. msnehtly bold Kentucky and make it a peat of the Southern Confederacy. ni B army under General Smith had been victorious at Richmond in Angus% and he /fad marched withbut molestation into the interior of * the State with .ffilty thousand veterans from Tennessee, - The redbral flame, under McClellan, after seifere love and ficqiient defeats, had, been compeller to abandon the James river. .. . . GenerarPOpe'is army had been thoroughly tined _ up, and Washington was left so exposed that Beriong apprehension's were felt that the rebels would tie able, by a vigorous dash, to take and hold it. To the most courageous men the Federal cause looked gloomy enouelf. nitric to the timid and those who were vibrative between duty and disloyalty, it', looked desperate: TO the latter class the circular of General- Bragg' was opportune, and certainly had - its effect, for the - moment that the Kentucky Le gislature assembled at the capital in January, 1863; the chairman ofthe Committee on Federal Rela tions introduced a' series of resolutions denouns- - hie the action-and' policy of the, Federal Govern ment in many things that had been done prior to the spring session of 1862, as well as after• ward—the whole concluding with a resolution ask ing for the assembling of a Convention of dele gates to meet at Louisville; the delegates to be sent from Kentucky and the Northwestern Staten, - to prescribe terms of - peace between the 'United. States and the Southern Confederacy. Shortly after Gen. Bragg issued •his address, several men wife occupied eminent political positions in Kentucky and the Northwestern States, who had previously professed to be in favor of the vigorous prosecution of the war against the rebels, immediately changed front, charged that the war on the part of the United States was an abolition war, and declared them selves in favor of withhoidhig means for its further prosecution. Conspicuous amongst those were Har ney, chairman of the Committee on Federal Rela tions in the Kentucky House of Representatives; Nat. Wolf. a member of same committee; Voor hies and Hendricks, of Indiana; Richardson and Story, of Illinois ; - Vallandigham, Pendleton, and others, of Ohio. The facts relied upon, the arguments used and means of bringing about the result which they do. sired, were singularly cognate to those used by the Champions of the scheme in the Kentucky Legisla ture. Barney, Wolf, & Co. having failed in their project in the House of Representatives. and finding that their objects were fully understood, although artfully concealed under a string of metaphysical propositions, shortly afterwdrd pulled off their dis guise and declared themselves to be for no more men and no- more money to aid the United States in overthrowing the rebellion. Precisely the stand that 'Breckinridgc and Burnett, of Kentucky. and Vallandie ham, of Ohio, had taken in the Federal Congress at the extra session in 1811. Breckinridge, immediately after the adjournment of that session of Congress, went within the rebel. lineh, and acceepted the commission of brigadier general in their army., Burnett went into the rebel Senate at Richmond, Virginia, claiming to repro sent the State of Kentucky in that body. Yellen digham since watched "over the border the agents in the Northern States" that Maury speaks of, who " are to aid the Southern Confederacy. It will be remembered that Bragg retreated from Kentucky in October last; that shortly afterwards Jeff Davis visited his Southern dominions, whir& continued to beyond Christmas last; that he visited Bragg at his headquarters, where he remained seve ral days, and went from thence to Jackson, the eapi. tal of Mtrdesippi. where he addressed the legislature of that State on the 21st December, 1862; that, not withstanding Bragghed Viten driven out of Kentucky ,by Northwestern troops: and the State protected ' from the ravages of the rebel army by Northwestern men, Davis said in his speech to the Legislature of Mississippi that the first ray of hope• and the Prot gleam of light that would burst upon the Southern Con federacy would be from the Northwest. From the way that the Northwest had poured oat her life-blood to expel Bragg from Kentucky, no inference to justify Davis , prediction to the Missis sippians could be fairly drawn. On the contrary, everything ostensible was against such en inference. But he had information from General Bragg that did warrant hie prediction; and in a very few days after Davie made his prophecy a movement to tie the hands of the United States Government by withholding men and money for the further prose cution of the war against the rebels, was nom meeced simultaneously by Harney, Wolf, & CM., in Kentucky ; Voorhies, Hendricks, er, Co.. in Indiana ; Vallandigham, Pendleton, & Co., in Ohio ; Richard son. Story, &Co, in Illinois. - That these men, at distant points from each other. should all commence to cripple the Government and aid the rebellion by precisely the same meane -and line of action." without a concerted plan in fulfil ment of Davis' prophecy, and in the very place oireted out by him, and amongst the people ad ch eared by Bragg. is very singular. to say the least of it ; and to men who are capable_ of connecting facts and drawing legitimate ipferences, has the a.p pearance of a moral certainty that there was a con spiracy to aid the rebellion by detaching the State of Kentucky and the Northwestern States from the United State. obae-eehe - potentito political in . strument through which these, States and people -were - ,to be authoritatively hound was to .be the convention ,V) he called termeet at Louisville, under tee auspices' of the Kentucky Legislature. That the whole plan was arranged by Bragg and his maim series while he was in? Kentucky is a eonclusion. that is irresistible. The foregoing facts are the moirt prominent in the argument, but there—are others scarcely less conclusive, leaning to the eameegsult t- The Legislature of Illinois and Indiana were filled with men in the interest of these schemes, who tried by the most violent and illegal-methods to prevent the loyal executive officers of those States from ful filling their duties to the nation. Conventions of men calling themselves Democrates assembled at Springfield and Indianapolis, armed to the teeth, threatening vengeance against the officers of the United State 0, without provocation fired upon United States soldiers, and in convention published resolutions of the most incendiary character, pledg ingthemselves to withhold men and money for the prMliccution of the war against the rebels, ..nd with the vilest epithets of odium denounced the United States; and the war as unnecessary, unconstitu tional,-and cruel against their - Southern brethren. Succeeding the meetings ebullitions of violence ma nifested themselves almost simultaneously through• out the Northwest. The prognostics of Davis cer fair ly were being fulfilled. It is incomprehensible how any loyal lover of his country can be deceived by these thinly-illeguieed rascals. Subsequent to the foregoing are another class of facts leading to the same conclusion. Your corres pendent of the Army of the Cumberland says. that in conversation with members of the mostintelligent citizens of the Southern States, together with many captured rebel officers, that there - was an arrange-. went between Vallendigham and others in the Northwestern States that the rebels should invade the North, and that when - they appeared in sufficient force to protect their allies, the Copperheads were to rally to their assistance. The same fact is testified to by a gentlenzan from Richwand, Virginia; who heard the matter freely spoken of in the spring while it is a notori ous fact that prior to the invasion of Pennsylvania by the rebels that the Richmond Enquirer had frequent editorfalr addressed to the K. G. C's elks , ' Northern and North western States to keep their ' lamps burning. It is equally notorious that the mind of the. Demo cratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio bee undergone an unaccountable change since last fall. He was then in favor of a speedy enforcement of the draft, and wanted to take command of a regi ment to conquer the rebels. Now he assumes that the United States has been wrong from the first, and, of consequence, the rebels right. At the same time that the Democratic Convention that nominee ted him for Lieutenant Governor was in session, it was stated by members of the Convention that the banished Vallandigham would come out of the South in a blockade ruiner, and comet° the Clifton House, in Canada. The Richmond (Va.) Enquirer made the same statement. A singular coincidence of. know ledge between persons at such distant points, in hos tile countries, unless the plan had been prearranged. The Convention delegates and Richmond Newspaper had their statements soon a ftenveritied to the letter. Following hie arrival atthe Clifton House, Leete in vasion into Pennsylvania took place. The noirsance of John H. Morgan into Kentucky, In cilium, and Ohio, to be-followed by Bragg's army, took place also. The rabble of New York city were . roused into an incendiary and violent mob to over throw the laws of the Staten, and by diverting the attention of the Government, to further the rebel plane, and snake their invasions a victorious suc cess: All this while the banished Democratic candi date for Governor of Ohio resided at the Clifton House, and watched over the border, and nulled the . wires, and controlled the agents that were to give more potential aid to the Southern Confederacy. than foreign intervention coulddo.- - Lieut. Maury, although a rebel agent in Europe, seems to have fully understood the plan. Ilia re cently-published letter - reveals the,great "Prophet -or--33.borasaan," who was to look over the border and do the wear of the -rebel Government—to stir `rip - internal_ strife, that the rebels might set fire tee the four corners of Cincinnati. exact large remora. from Philadelphis,lay waste the fields, and in mines; the manufactories, set on fire the coal- beds, then levy black mail upon the inhabitants of the good old Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Otnt ARMIES AND THEIR TERM oy Snityfou.L-The Times makes_a grave mistake in its .announcsment that " next. May, we shall lose at one stroke, all the men in our army except those who are raising under the present draft, and the few_who voluntarily en tered dUring the past winter." In the first place, the threelhundred thousand men called for -in 1861 . were mustered into service, not in May, but in the fall of that year. - This original levy has, it is true, been greatly depleted by the casualties of war, but the ranks have constantly received accessions ,by recrditing, some of the States steadily send ing forward fresh- men. In the next place, a large, proportion of the men raised under the order for a draft in August of last year entered the service for three years ; this was the case in all the West ern States; and, besides, a considerable body of vo lunteers were, at the same time, obtained under the further order to. fill up the slight deficiency in the , quota 01 the call of 1861, some of the States which bad filled their quotas taking this opportunity to fill up their veteran regiments. Thum,- of -the men now in the field, none will be released until next fall, w hile more than one-half-of all, our . armies, it is safe to say, have two years yet to 'mire. It is to be remembered, also, that already,there are fifty thou sand colored soldiers organized into _regiments, and the work of enlistment among the blacks is still so active that this number will Soon be doubled—Post. SECESSION "FROIS SECESSIA.—A. letter from Brownsville, Arkansas, to a moining paper says: " Our lieutenant found inthis town to day a letter. from Kirby Smith to Marmaduke, formerly com manding here, exPlaining.a plan of the States west. of the Mississippi seceding yet further from the. Confederacy and cledmicg the protection of Franae."• The letter adds that a. number of the rebel leaders are' to meet at Austin, Texas, soon, and arrange their, plane. Late rebel papers intimate that the, Rebrl Government 'have determined. to. leave.the tranaMississippi States, for the present, to.take, care of themselves, feeling, no doubt, the utter ink bility, even nominally, to hold them ; and a seces sioni n accordance with the plan• disclosed in this, correspondence may yet actually- be attempted, though, of course, with a Federal army in Texas an d, along the Rio Grande, it will miscarry. But, as illustration of the tendencies of events in the South, and of the' disintegration .which would follow the. success ofthe rebellion, this disclosure of the Arkaik, las and Texas rebels is not without significance. 44172.31.LANP.,Ann the year of our L 711 1 2, the IritU.Ttojpkisfed thereto by a series of great publiCealsought the favor of the Fath: Of ell men,' , bremancipatiog theirs slaves, mostly the children of the English, whom they held in bond, age. There has never been a lawful slave in Ireland, . since In the year 1844, the 'lrish Repeal Assoola, non sent ta r ok a contribution from Alabama as An t " unboA offering,'" stained by the blood and sweat. Hof AVicati slaves" Ireland has been consistent; Upon... What principles, then shall we explatn.the :snomalous fact that of the Irish people in the lint: ted States, full three.fourths are the firm supportera ;of that policy which makes slavery and slaveholders the' controlling forces of the Republic the arbiters of the fate of mankindl What priest ;or layman can tellt--Chicago Tribune. n TAB Louisville Journal asp ; 11 We have moon to know that. according, to the preseat prograwnie. Mobilels to be speedily attacked,-or at least invested; ~Wei sttach DO importance to 'the te4graphio rumor 01 1 4, he eeterpriee has faiNacated." • i OtTOU • . ,
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