E4t WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1863 THE NEWS. ALL the news received from the Army of' the Po. tomes confirms the judgment that General Meade has again outgeneralled the enemy, and succeeded Arm once, at least, in inflicting upon his advereary .00mpiete surprise. Culpeper was reported occupied I -by our forces, nederteksburg garriaoned by a small rebel force, and our whole 'army across the Rappa-. hannock. Our latest despatches state that Bufori was chasing the enemy on the 9th two miles north of Culpeper, Kilpatrick having occupied Poifey Mountain. Our forces were in line•of-battle,/ but Lee dined engagement. Tnr, rebel papers generally arc impressed wiith the imminence of a battle near Chattanooga, /and not a few military critics complain that General Bragg has lost important advantages since Mt sat down before Chattanooga, which it will requ',,ie a dupe. rate battle to reconquer. Buckner, wich..thieatham's • and Stevenson's divisions, is reported to be moving on knoxville. On the other hand, r,large foree of General Shirman's army was repolted at TU/304• • loess-, on the way to Selina, Alanate,4; Rsaucluaff from Georgia reptert that General Bragg is withdrawing his forces frkin position near Chattanooga towards Rome an 4 Atlanta. Long atiect is said to be preparing a great raid on General -Thomas' communications near Biidgeport. Ix the Indian Territory, near Arkansas, General Xilunt is again pursucu by - lite rebels under Cooper, rfunibering 9,000. A Union meeting which took place at Little Rock, was most satleiaatory. Aw official report from Gan. Kelly confirms the report of the militant victory of Averill and Dui. fle's cavalry in the West Viigtoia usountaindAstriot, Marc European news contains no facts of very con spicuous importance except the offer of toe King of Denmark to renounce tits crown in favor of a re public of all the Danish Inlets, in case Germany should attempt to overpower the Danish nation ality. In the opinion of the IC.nag no people are more worthy of a republic. • birrautscora. is not behind her sister States in de votion to the Union. Stephen Wilber, the Union candidate for Goveinor, is 'elected by 10,000 majors- !y, a gain of nearly 6,000 from last year. Tax news from San Domingo continues to be un favorable to the Spaniards. .Reinforcementa are hurry icg tot ward from Havana to the scene of the instureCtion. The losses on both sides have been severe. The nephew of the Captain General has been killed, and Gen. Gandara ic reported wounded. OF 3,800 men employed in the Boston navy yard, only 500. continue at work, and a general strike is COnlempialed at the iron foundries. The ofew York emploitis have consented to the terms of the re- Vtl.td machinists. COL. CARROLL LEvis, of Maryland, has been put under ainet by Gen. Schenck, for interfering with the rani: We of the late deetione. Mnioni.o.to are circulating in Boston asking from COr.grc E. , . the passage ofa law providing fora sfinm laLbularAce and hospital system for the Arigim ;•nt' the United States. Tun GOVERNMUT 1,8 todeeming, on the average, - o mil:icus of dollars daily td the maturing our• es of lucebtedLess. The Breaking of the Ice. There is something more than usually suggestive in the letter of E. W. GANTT, of Arkansas. Mt. GANTT is known to us as a prominent citizen of that State, a member of the rebel Congress, and formerly a briga -dier general in the rebel army. He was a .Secessionist in the beginning, and showed . ..his devotion to secession by drawing his sword in its behalf. It was the fortune of war that he should become-a prisoner, and in time he was released. On his return to his native State he, issued a• manifesto call ing upon the peciple to throw off their alle giance to the Confederacy - and return to the Union. This manifesto is very- long, and *he most striking parts of it have appeared in Tam PRESS. It is evidently written by a sincere and courageous man ; for he does not extenuate nor apologize, nor avoid any of the great questions that come before him. He has seen the South face to face as, a sol dier in its armies and a statesman in its Legislatire. He is no friend of the North, and his advice is the advite of a man who has no love for us or our institutions, but who sees precisely where the danger is, and knows what should be done to avoid it. Of course, any argument or entreaty that Mr. GANTT can make is for his people, and not for us. We accept his address more parti cularly as an evidence of the,real feeling of the Southern people in reference to:the war for the Union and what we have gained in the prosecution of the war. Mr. GANTT shows us upon what the re bellion was based in the beginning. Mr. DAVIS, he tells us, had the whole cotton crop and the wealth of the South at his dis posal, and the friendship of many European Phers. In plainer words, this rebellion be gan.in the interest of slavery and aristocra cy—for the cotton crop and Southern wealth are simply the effects of slavery, while the friendship of the European Powers was only given to the cause most inimical to free dom. The few men who possessed the slaves of the South, controlling its lands and crops, and through these lands and crops the great commerce that was sustained by them, took upon themselves to conspire against the Republic and destroy freedom. They saw in the North intelligent millions, and these millions by the virtue of spelling books, and ploughs, and spinning-wheels, and newspapers, became powerful and wealthy, and multiplying throughout the land, controlled its legislation and its public sentiment. The lord of a thousand slaves - and ten thousand acres found his peer on the shoemaker's bench in Massachusetts, or, holding the plough-handles in Pennsylvania. And it became a hateful thing that in the government of the country the farmer and shoemaker should claim to exercise a power as great as his own. Therefore he sought war. His life had been the life of - a soldier. His days had been given to 'the horse and the rifle. His eye was keen, his nerves strong, and he had the audacity, and cour age that such a life would give. He would appeal to the sword, and by the sword he would smite and punish and utter ly destroy the nation of reading and writing laboring men, that were growing up around him as peers. Mr. GANTT tells us that this was the be ginning of the war, He shows us how it has resulted. "We have been Whipped," - he says, " and fairly beaten ; our armies are melting and ruin approaches us." The struggle appears to him in a far different light than the other gentlemen who, under the leadership of JEFFERSON awls, under took to overthrow liberty by the cotton crop and the wealth of the South. It is the fashion of the sanguine gentlemen in the south, particularly those who write, for Richmond newspapers, to speak of the reading and writing laboring men as " cow .ardly Yankees," " the scum of foreign corn , munities," beggars and boors. To these -valiant newspaper men we are but as so many sheep driven to the slaughter ; so many victims cut down with the fire and sword of Southern vengeance. Mr. GANTT finds no consolation in this easy rhe toric. He 'tells the people of Arkansas not to be deceived with the hope that the United States will abandon the struggle. He has been with us, and tells his fellow citizens that we scarcely feel the war• at home ; that our cities are more populous .and thrifty to-day than ever; that our vil lages and towns, and fields, and country, are still flourishing ; that we could sink our present armies, and raise new armies to crush - the South without feeling 'the effort. He sees the South a picture of desolation and decay-; he admits that it has not the power to continue the contest. Nor can they hope for foreign intervention. It is a fatal delu sion. With the pride of a true American, .who has not lost his Americanism by being ea Southerner, he spurns the idea of afftlia :ting with France. He does not wish another :MAXI3IILIAN for his country, nor can he .onsent i to allow DAVIS to barter Texas for -the mercenary aid of French bayonets. Nor ~does he see any hope in a divided Nqrth. He admonishes his people to remember that in the North the boldest friead of the South is merely in favor of reconstruction, and re construction rejected, they are in favor of still continuing the war. We can assure the people of Arkansas that Mr. GANTT states thi d part of his case with truth and moderation. , 7„he remedy this citizen proposes is the ktnly' remedy open to the people of the South submission. to the Federal autho rity and a cessation of the war by acknow ledging the power of the Government. "I thought," he says, "that the Government was divided, and negro slavery established forever,. -I erred. The Government was stronger than slavery." , These opinions may not be _popular in the military depart- Anent of General HOLMES, but they Must become popular in Arkansas. We have seen their effect in North Carolina; we have seen Tennessee become gradually loyal ; we have seen emancipation sustained by slave holding Maryland. We know that in Georgia there is a large party opposed to Mr. DAvre and to the rebel dominion. In every part of the South the evidences of this opposition are becoming, stronger, and the dreary pilgrimage of the rebel Lu cifer must have revealed to him a spectacle more terrible than that which appalled Macbeth when his crimes began to make his bloody crown a wretched and dreary dignity. Re saw a fair land desolate—a people suffering—thousands of friends weeping for friends that would never return, and a public sentiment rising around him with fearful omen. He saw his power passing away like a guilty and appall ing dream. The loyal citizen may rejoice in this, and the many similar indiCations that come from the South. The winter is past, the ice is breakine, and the spring time of peace is at hand. Mr. Davis on his Winding Way. Mr. JEFFERSONeDAVIS, armed with the metaphorical olive branch, and a trunk full of cheery speeches, has been making the circuit of the well-known Southern Con federacy. It is a remarkable fact that the eloquence of Mr. DAVIS is both a counter irritant and anodyne in nature ; that is to say, whenever the clouds of adversity com mence to lower upon the Southern cause, and the Southern people begin toindulge in gloomy forebodings or incendiary threats, Mr. Davis thereupon makes a tour of his dominions, and by dint of terribly tedious harangues, which are of course deferen tially printed in the rebel papers, so bores and annoys his chivalrous constituency that their indignation is diverted into a new channel, and their dire forebodings give place to feelings of sedate and lamb-like resignation. In this diplo matic way, popular discontent is qui eted, and popular rejoicings prevented. Whenever Mr. DAVIS takes to speech-ma king, it is safe to infer that the fortunes of the Confederacy are in a bad way. Some men grow talkative with success ; Mr. DAVIS, like Mr. Skimpole, is never so gar tulous as when he is in. trouble. When Vicksburg was menaced by General GRANT, Mr. DAVIS hastened from Richthond to Jackson, Mississippi, for the sole purpose of making a speech ; and when Vicksburg was lost, the rebel President, scenting afar off fresh perils for his cause, resolved to take time by the forelock, and make ciiae grand effort to avert them. And now that Mobile and Chattanooga and Charleston have come to be -so many geographical omens of the fate of the rebellion, Mr. DAvis' tongue is once more unloosed, and the voice of the prophet is heard in the land. We heard of him at Missionary Ridge, where he went, firstly, to make an address to the troops, and, secondly, to reconcile the noisy corn manders. Thence he proceeded to At lanta, Montgomery, and Mobile, always ma king speeches. Having still three speeches left, he next visited Charleston (where, he advised the rebel troops to have " an eye sin gle to the cause," or something to the same effect); then Wilmington, N. C., the only port remaining to the South; and finally, we hear of his triumphal return- to the rebel capital. The Richmond Examiner, speaking of the attendant ceremonies, says " the peo ple en masse, and the military forces under the command of General Bnown, should repair to the dCpet this afternoon and escort him to the Executive mansion. A - speech will doubtless be their reward, and that, at this time, is eminently needed here," which sounds somewhat like sarcasm, though doubtless well meant. In making the tour, thus to be grandly wound up, ltr. Davis has exhibited his usual astuteness and fore sight. He saw that the time was close at hand when the encroachments of GRANT on the West, and GILMORE on the East, would deprive him of the advantages of the "interior lines," by virtue of which he is alone enabled to traverse the Southern coun try in safety ; and that, therefore, in the ex pedition he proposed to himself, expedition was above all things necessary ! As it was, although he seems to have travelled with speed, he has reached Richmond none too soon for his individual safety. The East Tennessee road, upon which he set forth, has since fallen into possession of Bann - - SIDE, and the road from Charleston to Rich mond; upon which he returned, will probably be speedily in possession of General GIL MORE. But there was one point concerning which the rebel President felt a far greater anxiety; and that was, lest the progress of the war should still further curtail the terri torial dimensions of the rebellion ; for the smaller the Confedercy, the shorter must be Mr. DAVIS' tours, and therefore the fewer his speeches ! Maximilian and Mexico. - While MeximmrAN, of Austria, is employ ing himself in drafting a constitution for the new, empire of Mexico, to which he has been elected by the favor of NAPOLEON, of France, it continues more doubtful than ever whether he shall ascend the newly constructed throne. If he knew what was good for him, he would reject the crown. Ms situation, in Austria, is peculiar. young man, well endowed by Nature and, singularly favored by fortune, he is next in blood to the Emperor of Austria, his brother. In the event of death removing the Emperor, the succession would pass, by the law of primogeniture, to his only son, the Arch duke RuDoLra, a child now only five years old, and it has been appointed that, in such a contingency, MAXIMILIAN shall govern Austria, as Regent, until the young emperor attain the legal age of eighteen. Should this child die, in his father's lifetime, MAXI MILIAN then becomes heir-presumptive to the imperial crown of Austria. Should the reigning emperor and his son pass away, the Archduke would succeed, de jure, to imperial sway, and become MAizmix.r&rt 111., of Austria. - These chances he must . surrender ; he must wholly disconnect him self from all present or future connection with Austria, his fatherland, once that he becomes Emperor of Mexico. The thought ful observer of public events is involuntarily reminded by the Archduke's situation, .of the fable of the dog and the shadow, AlextmLlAN told the Mexican deputation that he would accept the imperial diadem of. Mexico, provided that he was called to rule by the general voice of the new empire, and. that civil war was wholly ended. It is not very probable that Mexico will ever be' wholly free from internal convulsions, and the French soldiers, acting by their leader's commands, are acting precisely as if their secret, but determined, aim was to irritate the public mind against all foreigners. The manner in which the French rough-ride over, the unfortunate inhabitants of the city of Mexico is represented as exhibiting won drous inhumanity and injustice, and "curses,, not loud, but deep," follow the reckless invaders. Meanwhile, this cannot but help JUAREZ, President by popular elec tion, who continues in arms against the in vaders, and must be strengthened by the antipathy to the French, which has become very general. Mdigover, the United States Government continues to recognize JUAREZ as actual President, and does not acknow ledge the French in any capacity whatever. The time would seem remote when Mexi co, civil war ended, can have a chance of deciding, by a plebiscite, whether it shall be come an empire, with an Austrian Arch duke on the throne. bleximimAN will pro bably never have to abandon Austria for Mexico. THE SPECIAL RELIEF COMMITTEE, a branch of the Sanitary Commission, is to have a benefit by means of the German Ope ra Troupe, at the Academy of Music. " Jo seph" will be performed on that occasion, the price of admission being fixed at one dollar to the parquet, parquet-circle, and balcony, reserved seats being half a dollar more. The object of the Special Relief Committee is to assist discharged _soldiers and the families of volunteers. We, there fore, feel certain that a most cordial response - will be made, and that a crowded house will testify, the interest felt in the cause, the appreciation of the efforts of the members of the committee, and of the zood will of the German Opera Troupe.. • y is Coal su Lear ? Everything has increased end is increas ing in price, and perhaps it is but natural that Coal should follow the example. The war, taxes, the inflation of currency, supply and demand, have occasioned many changes. We pay more for our milk than we used to do, end likewise for tea and coffee, and sugar and butter. There is a foreboding on - the part of many, that the city railways are going to try the same experiment, and that passengers in future must be provided with pennies. This piece of injustice, however, we trust will not be attempted: A pleasant breakfaat parlor is one of the most agreeable of all sights. It is there we meet and abuse all our friends, and scandalize all our ac quaintances ; it is there we gloat over the news in the damp newspaper ; it is there we growl when the toast is cold, and the tea weak ; it is there ive gird up our loins for the combat of the day ; it - is there we wax confidential and grandiloquent;" and it is there we grumble if the fire is low, or the heat not turned on. For, amiably-disposed people to the contrary, it is not congenial to the educated palate to taste meats cold, nor it Is comfortable to shiver. Coal, then, much more than wood, becomes an indis pensable commodity. Coal we must, and will have. Coal is wantedeverywhere. Consequently, coal becomes proud and way ward, and insists upon an increase of wages. In the New York auction sales of Sep tember the price of stove and egg coal was from seven dollars and ninety-five cents to seven dollars and eighty-five cents per ton. The price in October is nine dollars and, fifty.five cents and nine dollars and seventy cents, being an average, increase of one dollar and seventy-two cents. The coal used for household purposes is always in demand, and, yet it seems to be extremely 'Pearce. Many prefer bituminous to anthra cite because it is cheaper, and because they say something is saved in the burning of it. Bowever this may be, the prices are in creased, and there is much speculation in regard to the causes of the increase. Whether speculation itself is the main cause has bedtime a matter of question. The heavy coal operators say that the species of gambling known as "operating" has nothing at all to do with it, and they re fuse t lay the blame, if blame there be, upon their own shoulders. The more moderate and conservative, but less enterprising spirits of the coal trade, tell the same story, and do not charge, the cause so much to scarcity of workmen as to an increasing demand upon a decreising supply. A very great deal of coal is of course employed for Go vernment purposes, and the number of laborers in mines may have been somewhat decreased, by the demands Of the present war. Whether these reasons are sufficient to account for the present high prices of coal is a matter which requires serious con- - sideration, and upon which we can scarcely have an. opinion. A review of the anthra cite coal trade of the United States between the years 1820 and 1862, affords conclusive evidence of remarkable increase in the quan tity sent to market from the different regions in. Pennsylvania, ranging from thousands of tons to millions, and is t the year 1860 reach ing over nine nialliona five hundred thou sand tons. It does not require a political economist to perceive that where the supply is small, and the demand great, the price must be correspondingly increased. Consumers should remember this, and not growl before discovering a reason for their discontent. Some of the mines look as if alley were al most worked out, so much so that we are afraid that if Sir Charles Coldstream en gaged in the coal business, he would aoon, arrive at the coneltv4ign that there was "W -aling in it." Mr. Micawber turned his • attention• 1. to co — t.. Once, ail, A We all know what he thought about it. Perhaps his fa miliarity with dumping- shutes might lead him to explain, in short, why coal is so dear just at present. We are afraid no explana tion can be given that will satisfy every one. We have hinted at a few of the causes commonly pleaded, and touched upon the matter of speculative enterprises. For the enlightenment of the community, we might further add that there is not a prospect of coal's speedy reduction in price, and that while a few energetic men are making mo ney., a great many conservatives are "just managing to get along." A New pennsylvanian Product. It has long been our belief that, thanks 'to the bounty of God and the industry and skill of man, these United States can pro duce every necessary and almost every lux ury of life, without hying recourse to other countries. Two articles in ordinary use— coffee and tea—have hitherto not been culti vated here, but the former, largely grown in Brazil, can certainly be grown, in the open air, in some parts of our vast empire, and as for the latter, even Pennsylvania lies within the particular belt which is best adapted for its production. That belt is pretty wide, for it extends from the equator to the 45th degree of latitude. Ere many years, China will cease to have a monopoly of the tea trade. The cultivation of the plant has beei3 successfully introduced into Java and Brazil, and, still more largely, into:Assam, an East Indian province, lying between the Ganges and the Brahmapootra. The cultivation of the tea-tree, with the manufacture of its leaves into an article of domestic consumption, is now in progress in Pennsylvania, and the State Legislature has granted a charter of incorporation to the Areerican Tea Company, which under takes to develop this new productive re source in Pennsylvania. %be Hoh. J. W. QUIGGLE, late consul to Antwerp, is at the head of this body, and the gentleman who may be considered its working head is Dr. SPENCER BortsALL, who reported 'to the Patent Office, some years ago, in favor of cultivating and manufacturing tea in the - United States, and acquired his practical knowledge on the subject as superintendent and chief manager on the lands hi India of the Assam Tea . Company. The tea plant is indigenous in Pennsylva nia. By the use of machinery in preparing the leaves, a superior article can be pro duced here, and sold at the rate of from eleven to thirteen cents delivered in mar kets ; or about one-third of its cost, when anu al lab or is employed in the East Indies, At present, the produce of tea per acre is about 400 pounds, Which may be largely augmented. It grows wild in some (not all) of ' the mountainous districts of. Penn sylvania, and is found there in great abund. , ante: Set machinery against the Asiatic process of personal manipulation, and the cost of manufacture here becomes much lower than in China, Assam, or Java. It may come to pass, in the time even of living men, that Europe will import her tea from the United States, and not from Chin%. The green tea raised near Philadelphia bas the look, odor, Wand flavor of Asiatic tea, with a slight herbacious taste, the con sequence of its not having been kept long enough before brought to the test. This, alone, makes it differ from ordinary Hyson of good quality. THE OBSERVER.—This is the name of a new weekly journal, of which the first num ber was published on Sunday. Mr. Iticnenn MEADS BACHE, aescendant of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, is editor and publisher, and therefore is an hereditary newspaper man, and apparently up to the mark. The Ob , server, which is well printed with good type on fine paper, promises to be a journal of politics, news, literature, and criticism. It has late telegraphic news, and a good deal of it. The political intention is, while ex; ercising the right to comment on public to pics, "to recognize in any Administration the Government for the time ; and this Ad ministration one, which, considering the momentous issues that it has been called npon to meet, has vindicated its title to the respect of the whole world.". It recognizes in the person of its Chief,. " a true man of the people—the beau-ideal of Democracy." It looks upon the abolition of slavery as the indispensable requisite of a lasting peace. On the whole, this is a very good first num ber—but a;leading article over three co lumns in length, Do matter what its subject, is very unlikely to be read by more thah one in a thousand. We welcome The Ob selver as an 'aide and truly loyal Sunday paper. . THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA; WONFSDAY. NOVEMBER 11. 1863. bETTER Fl5Oll "MtLititONAL." WASHINCIVON, Nov. 14; '1863. The canvass for Congress in the little state of Delaware, which will conclude the elections prior to the first Monday in De cember, attracts extraordinaryrattention, and I am not surprised that the friends of the Go vernment and the war have determined, if possible, to crown, it with `a complete and signiffeant victory. While I au-v not die posed to make any personal as upon" the Copperhead candidate for Congress ier 'Delaware, Hon. Charles , Brown, very recent ly a citizen of Philadelphia, and for many years the representative of a portion e 4 that city in the Reform Convention, the Legisla ture, and the National' Congress, yet I can- not- refrain the expression of my surprise, that he should now be the standard bearer of an organization, and the candi date of men against which and whom. he so bitterly protested during at least three" years of - James- Buchanart's Ad= ministration. So vehement was Mr. Brown'S opposition to the Kansas policy of James- Buchanan, and so active in his co-operatiott• with those who opposed Lecompton and the Engliah bill, that he was generally regarded as an outsider by the new Democratic lead ers ; and I believe it is not doubted that no man expressed himself more strongly against the manner in which the Democratic party was divided and destroyed by Bayard, and Whitley, and the Saulsbury's, of Delaware, than this same Mr. Brown.: The first time he showed his sympathy with the rebellion was at the meeting in, the Board of Trade Rooms, Philadelphia, after the firing upon the Star of the West, in Charleston harbor, in January, 1861. Doubtless, at that time, whatever interests he may have had in Delaware, and whatever old prejudices in favor of slavery, acquired in Rich mond, yet remained in his heart, im pelled him to the extraordinary course of taking issue with those patriotic men who at that meeting rallied the people to the cause of the country. The next thing heard of Mr. Brown was his exodus to Dover, Del., where, after a short incubation, he turns up as the candidate for Congress of a party of men against whom he has fre quently uttered the strongest denunciations. I venture to assert that, objectionable as, the Vallandighams and Seymours and Woodward's and other Copperheads have made themselves to all loyal interests, the violent courses of the so-ealled Democratic leaders in Delaware have rendered them ob jects of universal detestation and scorn. The doctrines of these men are now embodied in the person of Charles Brown, late of Pennsylvania, are defended and excused by him, and all their dangerous designs heartily seconded and assisted. Powerful as the influence of slavery has been in Dela ware, in former campaigns, I cannot but be lieve that the new trial to which the people of that State are now subjected will impel them to rise against their betrayers, and, in imitation of the people of the free States, who have forever sealed the doom of similar politicians, and in cordial accord with the patriotic men of Maryland who have de clared in favor of the gradual abolition of slavery, will defeat Mr. Brown by an overwhelming majority at the coming elec tion, OCCASIONAL._ A Victory which is Defeat. A Richnion n d paper makes Ate significant acknowledgment that the advantages of Chickamauga have been lost, and the battle must be fought over again. Nothing is more positively true, and the confession is widely significant. Chickamauga is not all that has been won and lost by the enemy. In the great and final summary ever.sr— tory of the rebels will, nave been a failure. Not alone Ohickantatiga must be fought over again, but all that the rebels have ever achieved must be achieved again before they can accomplish their usurped independence. Tennessee, Ar kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, are all virtually lost to the rebellion—is it possible for our enemies, now weaker and poorer than ever, to recover the vast terri tory they have lost? Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, Louisiana, are lost to slavery beyond power of the reconversion. North Ca rolina is dissatisfied with the Confederacy, and the very heart of the 'Confederacy is unsound; but whatpower can make it whol again ? Yet the South must subjugate and convert all these States back to slavery and rebellion, and, indeed, conquer the (great North, ere it can wrest itself from the inex orable 'and inevitable sovereignty of the Union: "Me miserable! Which way shall I fly? Wher'ver Igo is hell ! Myself am hell !" In its present dilemma the South can gain no victory that will be decisive. A battle won may secure a brief glory, a day's re spite from despair, but very little bread and territory for a famished people and a hun gry ambition. At this tine, especially, de feat which brings relief, is more necessary to the 'South than victory which . only pro longs disaster. MISS CUSIIMAN AND THE SANITARY COM ABSSION.--TIENRY W. BELLOWS, President of the U. S. Sanitary Commission, publishes a mid in acknowledgment of the amounts received from Mrs. CHARLOTTE CusumAm, as the result of the "benefits" donated by her to that meritorious organization. The benefit at our Academy of Music, Sep tember 12, netted $f,314.27 ; the Boston Academy of. Music yielded $2,020.75 ; Gro ver's Theatre, Washington, $l,BOO ; Ford's Theatre, Baltimore, $360, and the New York Academy of Music $2,772.27, ma king a total of $8,267.29. Mr. BELLOWS adds: "In compliment to the noble woman whose gene rous bestowment of $8,267.29 I hereby publicly ac knowledge, the Commission has ordered the whole amount to be expended through our home branches in those cities where the several sums were contd. buted, that this money may continue as long as pos sible to be sanctified by the touch only of women's hands. It will thus reach our soldiers on battle fields and in hospitals charged with the blessings, prayenwand tears of American womanhood." - A RICHMOND paper says : " Senator Pen- LAN is now delivering speeches in the north ern part of Mississippi, and arousing the. pa triotism and energies of the people of that sec tion." . If the people of Mississippi require speeches from Senator PHELAN, or any other Senator, to "arouse their patriotism and en ergies," how does it happen that we have heard so much of their being unanimously and zealously in favor of the rebel cause, and willing to support it "to the last man and the last dollar ?" THE WAR DEPARTMENT has established recruiting stations for colored troops at Stevenson, Alabama, and at Nashville; Murfreesbord, Gallatin, Wartrace, Clarks ville, Shelbyville, and Columbia; in Ten nessee. When the war commenced t its enemies predicted that it would be intermi nable, as our armies could never penetrate the Southern country ; and now, -in the third year of the war, we are recruiting Union armies in the Gulf-State of Alabama! A LATE item in our Southern files, entitled " munificent donation," tells us that " Mayor MACBETH, of Charleston, has donated to the Atlanta Relief Association the sum of five thousand dollars," which, with gold at six hundred per cent. premium, means that Mayor MACBETU has actually donated about sewn dollars and a kaif to the Atlanta Relief Association! Southern munificence is a cheap commodity. Attention is Galled to the'matinees of Miss Bar. netohe,ndvertised in another column. One of the New York papers says of her: "A new star of the first magnitude, in the person of Mies Earnetche, has joined the Pleiades, already so numerous, of fine INTERESTING- LECTIME.—Last evening, Rev. A. L. Hitzelberger, S. J., delivered an inter. eating lecture in St. Joseph's Church, on the subject of the Influence of Catholicity on Civil Liberty. The lecture was highly interesting and comprehen. sive. It was an effort to show that the Catholic Church had always fostered and perpetuated the democratic, spirit in all forme of government: Ithad always been on the side of the people against delpetienc, and had rejected to toto the doctrine of the divine right of kings. In the contents of Pagan and, Christian empires the- Church favored liberal ism and democracy. The enthusiaata might have been carried away in some instances to become the advocate' of a despotic - civil power, in the hope to strengthen the apiritua2 power of religion, but the spirit of Rome was always opposed to it. Mr. Hitzelberger wao listeted to throughout with, great attention. . .. , ..'l.' • . ' Obituary. . r,.'".. - .li.Thankegiving Day in New York. READING, Novi 10.—NCr. J. IL Priestley, cashier -ALnavr, Nov: 10.--Governor Seymour has issued of the Bank'of,„Northumberland, 'died suddenly elt a proclamation. designating Thursday, the 28th of - the Fum ler OM here 11 o'oloolt Mix morning Novembe r, &AI a day of tlisokeglying 4nd prayer, AieJIIIINI Special Despatches to The Press. WASHINGTON, D. C7. s Loy. 10. Appointment of Chief Coiner of the Phi ladelphia Mint. TOWN S. BirTLTOC was - to•day appointed Chief Coiner deihe Philadelphia Mint, Tice Baoousr,, resigne4, Naval Changes. Lietitennet commander P. S. Vir.knnonan has been detaclied from ordnance duty at Philadelphia, and or d er ed co' the command of the steamer Kamm LieutentsnlF, E DAver4roaT has been:ordered to duty at the fgaval Academy, Lieutenant 'abilinuinnder PAUL SHIRLEY, has been promoted to the grnee of commander in the navy. Lieutenant &mom WILSON has been promoted to , the grade of lieutenant co mmander in the navy. The Expemses of the ,. Ilepartmentit. The reports from:nearly all oPthe Departme ste t aa to the amounts of money they will respeetivelt , re quire for the next fiscal year, hare been received at the Treasury Department, ' Those of the War and Interior Departments will probably be sent in during the present week, and thus willenable the Seeret ary of tie Treasury sooa. er than heretofore to make up his evtimirtee for the consideration of Congreae. Recruiting for the INexican Service Pro., hillfted. Secretary SEWARD hais recently reused .to give - permission to the Juarez Government in Mexico to recruit twenty thousand soldiers in the United States. Such a proceedingwould be in violation of thwlaw, and if it should he attempted, says Mr. SxwAnry, "any one engaged therein will be prose• mated with all practicable diftence." ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. GEN. BUFORD DRIVING T2E REBELS NORTE OF CULPEPER. A GENERAL ENGAGEMENT BECUNED BY THE ENEMY. OPERATIONS OF ItItaPATRICK!S CAVALRY - WAsnisfoxori, Nov. 10.—Prom information which renehed Washington tonight, the messenger leaving the - Army of the Potomac at ten o'clock this morn ing, it appears that. Gen. Buford yesterday reached a point two miles north of Culpeper, driving , the rebel cavalry and infantry before him. Lee's headquarters, on Saturday s night, were be tween Brandy Station and the Rappahannock. This refutes the belief current in some quarters that he had gone South to advise with Bragg. Our army lay in line of battle all day yesterday, but Lee declined to accept the issue .of an engage. ment. Snow fell yesterday afternoon, along the- line of; the mountains, covering the peaks of the Blue Ridge. MOVEMENTS OPGEN. KILPATRICK Gen. Kilpatrick Occupied Poney Mountain yesten. day afternoon. Last night he discovered a. large area of camp fires south of the Rapidan, between RSCOODEL Ferry and Rapidan Station, on the railroad. No 'fires of magnitude were discovered in and around Culpeper. .Thin leads to the inference that Lee declined to rick a general engagement in the open fielk and has withdrawn his forces, except a rear guard, to his former strong pocition. All the evidenee tends to, prove that Gen. Meade has again out-generaled Lee, by leading him to be lieve that it was the intention to, mq,ve down the neck to Fredericksburg, thus inducing the latter to weaken the front here to strengthen that. GEN. MEADE'S LINE OF BAT PLE A gentleman, who arrived here to-night, says that our line of battle erotsed the Orange and Alex andria Railroad, to a point where it is supposed Lee has a full force on our front. FORTRESS MONROE. FORTRESS MONROE; Nov. B.—The British cor• vette Greyhound arrived in Hampton Roads last evening from Halifax. Assistant Secretary Fox and Admiral Smith ar rived to-day. from Washingfon. The "United States clipper ship Onward sailed from here today on a cruise, in command of Capt, Clark. FORTRESS Mormon, Nov. 10.—Major. General Butler and staff arrived here this evening, on the steamer Carrie Martin, from Washington. The flag•of:truce boat left to-day — for Oity Point, With a large lot, of clothing and other neCeellariee for the - Onion poloriore tri Eiehotoott FORTRESS Sionnon, 'Nov. 9.—About twenty. fiv6 refugees, men, women, and children, mostly from Richmond, arrived here last evening. They came into our lines at Portsmouth, and have been several days upon their journey, having left Richmond last Tuesday. The propeller John Rice, Captain Beaston, arrived from Moorehead City. The captain reports that while passing. False Cape, twenty miles south of Cape Henry, November 6th, discovered a schooner, of. about two Hundred tone, at anchor, discharging freight, and landing it on shore by the use of small row boats. On disco vering the approach of the Rice, they hove up an chor and proceeded about four miles south and dropped anchor again; her small boats had been kept in tow, and at once recommenced the landing of freight. It was then near dark, and she was lost eight of. No doubt, she was a blockade.runner or smuggler. - Tlfe British Corvette Greyhound, which arrived here on Saturday evening last, hoisted the United States flag this morning at 7 o'clock, and fired a sa lute, which was immediately answered by the water battery of the Fortress. George Vandall and James Wales, of the Bth Con• necticut Regiment, were executed to-day at 11 o'clock A. M., for desertion, ne‘r Portamouth,Va. AIK iNS~s. Cooper and Shelby Idarehtng on General Blunt-Union .Demonstration at. Little Bock. LEAVITIVNVORTII, Nov. 9.—Advices from Fort Scott may that a courier arrived there on Friday night from Gen. Blunt, bringing information that the rebels, under Cooper and Shelby, had eluded our forces, and crossed the Arkansas river, with nearly 9,000 men, and were marching on Blunt, who has 1,800 cavalry as an escort to an immense supply train for Fort Smith. Blunt had curtailed his train, and made preparations for defence. CAIRO, Nov. 9.—At a Union meeting held at Little Rock, on the,3let ult., resolutions were passed ex. prreeive of their cordial support of the Government and loyalty to the United States, and pledging themselves to use their utmost endeavors to sup. press the rebellion, and restore the supremacy of the Government. A number of spirited and loyal addresses were delivered, and a committee appointed to draft a con• stitation and bylaws for the organization of a Cen tral Union Club. BOSTON. The Strike in the Navy Yard Hos Torr, Nov. 10.—About 1,500 of the navy yard workmen assembled on Bunker Hill, to hear the re port of their committee, sent to confer with the commodore of the yard. - They reported that the commodore said that his instructions from Washington were that .the men should go to work at sunrise whenever there was but ten working hours between sunrise and sunset, and he could not go behind that order. Also, that he had appointed a committee to inquire into the operations of outside yards, and would communi cate the result at Washington.. He also said that he would receive such men as would come to work at roll•oall in the morning. The workmen, however, decided that they would not work, except under the system of hours hereto• fore constituting a day's work. Of the 8,800 Alen employed in the yard, only 600 continue at work. It is rumored that a general strike is contemplated in the iron establishments in the south of Boston and Other parts of the city. Tire Rebel Guerillas on the Mississippi— Reported Retreat of Price and Holmes. Sm. Louis, Nov. 10.—News received to• day from below says that Jed* Davis has cent commissioners to the most notorious of the "Bushwhackers" in Arkansas, with the view of raising men to carry on the guerilla warfare. It is reported that the forces .under Price and Holmes have retreated:to Texan. Suppression of a Baltimore Paper. BALTIMORE, Nov. 10.—The Evening Transcript, of this; city, a paper which wee started two vreeka since by William H. Wellston, one of the former pro prietora of the Daily Gazelle, was to• day suppressed by order of General Schenck. Success of the §frike for Higher Wages in New York. Nnw Yoks, Nov. ft —The machine shops are generally, seceding to the demand of the strikers for higher wages, under the great pressure of Work for the Government. '- - - Chambersburg. CAAMBERBBITIIG, Nov. 9.—Wm. }leggier, Esq., died on last Friday. Mr. Heyser has been president of the Ohatabersburg Bank for the last five years. Hie age was 70 years. Yeaterday two rebels—one major and a Iteutenant —were brought into town: They were captured in the South Cdountain. - On last Thureday ten negro recruits left here for Idassaahneetta. Strike of-the Workmen in the Boston Wavy BOSTeN, Nov. 10.—The workmen in the Navy Yard are combining against the recent order mita. ring work to commence at sunrise, and there will probably be a general strike. The boiler and plate.iron workers, at East Boston, have struck for higher wages, and the work on the monitors has ceased thereby. Conflagration at Nevada City. SAN Fit/ammo°, Nev. 10.—A fire at Nevada City yesterday destroyed nearly all the buildings on Broad street, and five brick buildings on Main street. The property burned inoludes the Episcopal, Metho dist, Congregational, and Catholic churches, thea tre, court-house, express and telegraph offices, 'Milted States Rotel, and many in the neighborhood. The county records were saved. The total lOse is estimated at $200,000. The Missouri Legislature. Sm. Louis, Nov. 10.—The Legislature of this State root at Jefferson oity to-day, and adjourned till to morrow, for. want of a quorum. - DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI The Rebels said to be Retiring on Rome and Atlanta. Contemplated Raid of Me Enemy on Bridgeport, Guerilla Outrages on the Tennessee and Kentucky Snore, CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 10 .—Refugees from 400/1141 who have just arrived in this city, furnish the fol lowing statement of affairs in the enemy's country: There was a considerable movement bang made by General' lii•agg'a troops, and the stores were bang sent southward. The reticle are said to to evacuating their poeltion before Chattanooga and retiring on Rome or At. lents: General Longatreet, of the rebel army, le said to be organizing a Dirge force fbr the purpose of making a raid on our field' of communisation, at Bridgeport. Twenty-two paymaster'', with seven millions• of dollars in their money-hammy!, engaged in paying our troops' for their servieewup. to the first of ITO vein ben Quite a- long line of hot allot was fired &aro LOokouT Mountain:to•day., FROM TIIK MISSISB IPPI RIVER. Clean°, Nov. 8 --Lieutenanter Kirkland and Foster, - ;of the rebel army, ocetbeir way to Yohneon's Island, :but out on parole, attempted to esoapeaoross to, ;Kentucky in ir skiff last night, and were arrested.' They, wits four others-on parole, were confined in the guard.koume. Seven officers and seven privates in all, capttired by General Sherman, will be for. warded to Sehmion's Brigadier General Devidion, arrived to.lhy front Dittle Roe e. The guerillas that were at Yhtlyfield made their ap pearance at BlountKille ) . RT., dye miles from here, yesterday. They pillaged housed, and committed other OUST/IMM The steamer Diadem.. which. arrived this noon from helow,,reports having. seen seventy-live armed men at Pernhis•county Bayou, just below island Ict".w. id, - who were suppose,-tote guerillas, but when the boat landed , at the- wood-yard above, the officers were told.that they ware oitizene prepared to exter minate guerillas, and that they had captured,:rvo rebel eaptedns- and fivo privates, whom they' had turned over-to gunhoatqfw. 7. Last Wednesday evening, about six mileearom Memphis, two men named Blond and Budd, while returning borne• with. a considerable amount of money received, in payment for cotton, were met by a band of robbers; who demanded their money,, and threatened' to. take them as conscripts.- They then showed realstance, and the rob - tiers tired, killi.v.g Budd and seriously wounding Blued. A cavalsy picket, atatiened about fournailss out side of Paducah, omtbe evening of the 51/ zaw seve ral guerillas coming up the roads. A conferee im mediately started in pursuit, and, after a obese of five miles, captured four out of six. Oae struggled manfully, having &red both repeaters/and then drew hie sword, intending to fight his way out. The Union boys wese too quick for him, and• disarmed him and brought him back in triursith. Colonel Ricks, commander of tkapost of Paducah, has issued a very stringent order kk. relation to eiti, semi and strangers. Over forty wore arrested yea terday and today, being held ea.hostages for thus captured by Faulkner's guerillaa. From New Orleans papers, of, the 29th ult., we learn that owing to the small. number of Wastern arrivals, there is a scarcity of bresdstuffs and pro visions, Produce is arriving-in considerable quan tities. The receipts for the month of October up to the 28th, were 13,600 bales of cotton, and 5,976 sacks sugar. BEtreIPHIS CA14.0, Nov. 9.—The steamer Watlll arrived here today from Memphis, with 470 bales of cotton for Cincinnati, and 33 for Louisville, Her news has been anticipated. IiETJEtOF'IM. Latest by the Steamer Adriatic. The King of Denmark Proposes a Danish Republie. NEW YORK, Nov. I.o.—The steamship Adriatic arrived at this port this evening, with 700 passen gers. The following despatches comprise the very latest intelligence furnished by this arrival : TRIESTE, Oct. 25.—Advices received here from Corfu state that the lonian Parliament has been prorogued for six months. MALTA, Oct. 25.--The Maltese papers loudly pro test against the assertion of La France, that discon tent exists in Malta. According to advices received here, reinforcements have been sent to New Zealand by, the Indian Government. PARIS, Oct. 26.—The Empress is expected to ar m„„lca. La France of this evening notices with regret the want of decision shown on the part of England and Austria with regard to Poland. France, it says, has clearly defined her views ; and, for the efficacious form of united action, she wants England and Aug• tria to come to an understanding. Le Nation says we have reason to believe that M. POuldbi report will state that but for the Mexican expedition the budget would show a large surplus. Le Temps of this evening reproduces a rumor that the Emperor had invited the Queen of Spain to visit France in the ensuing spring. It is said that Marshal Nell will go to St. Peters bum on an extraordinary mission during the al:. sence of the Duke de Montebello. BERNE, Oct. 26.—The elections of ,the National Council took place yesterday. The state of parties has changed but slightly. The Liberals count about founsixthz of the members. elected, and the Con servatives and Ultra Moctanes one•sixth. Farnerod has been elected at Lausanne, M. Stockpfil at Berne, Mr. Merines at Zurich, and M. Yrodat at LONDON', Oct. 27 —The mission of Marshal Neil to St. Petersburg is presumed to be a last attempt on the part of the Emperor Napoleon to persuade the Czar Alexander to grant the Poles the canoes. .sions which the diplomacy of Europe has hitherto failed to obtain from him. It is, however, surmised that the Emperor of the French would not be die. pleased. or greatly disappointed, if the Poles main tained themselves in insurrection. MADRID, Oct. 26.—The Empress of the French will take part in the hunt at Albeura. The constitutional opposition will put forward Senor Mou as a candidate for the presidency of the Congress. Ronal, Oct. 26 —Prince De La ToUr Auvergne, French Ambassador to the Pontifical Court, has ar rived here. , A decree of the ministry has been pub. lished today, considerably reducing the import du ties on manufactured articles, and astieles of con sumption. LONDON, Oct. 26.—A. Stockholm journal reports a recent speech of the King of Denmark, in which he declared his readiness, in ease of his States being overpowered by Germany, to start a republic to con sist of the Danish Isles. The Ring said : I will descend from the throne to proclaim the republic. I am convinced that no People in Europe is more fitted for the republican sceptre than my dear Danish people. In Hungary the loss arising from the partial or total failure of the crop of hay, wheat, barley, rye, and rapeseed is estimated at -£10,000,000. AOSAM; Oct. - 26—The Agraner Zeitung of to-day states that appreheneions are entertained of an im pending conflict between Turkey, b'cuira, and ➢Montenegro. The signal is expected to be given by Bosnia, which is in a state of great disaffection. CONSTANTINOPLM, Oct. 26 —The question of the Budget le settled. The surplus is to remain undi minished. It has been decided that the Imperial Bank will pay the November dividend upon "the consolidation in London and Paris. Shipping Intelligence. GALWAY. Oct. 27.-Arrived at Kinpton. Octobar Prussian bark Asia. from New York for Dublin. Arrived at Queenstown, October 20th, Balmoral from Glasgow, for an Francisco. JAPAN. Increased Hostility to Christian Nations SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 10.—Dates have been re. ceived from Hakodadi to October sui. The Prince of Nagasaki had issued an order that Jaleph Hews, a Japanese, formerly of San Fiancisco, and the Japanese pilots, who conducted the Wyoming to Simoniski Sound, should be killed. One of theie pilots was murdered soon afterward. The chief minister and4hree other members of the Cabinet were dismissed, because they were in favor of peace with the Christian nations. The authorities have also ordered all foreigners to leave Nagasaki, which order the latter refused to obey, and the Japanese Government resigned. The - Mikado had lamed an order that no Damio should purchase any foreign vessel: The Stea m ship Adriatic. NEW YORE., Nov. 10.—The steamship Adriatic, frOrn Galway, with advices to the 27th ult., has ar rived. Her dates have been anticipated. MORE STORES FOR THE UNION PRI SONERS AT RICHICOND.—Upon the strength of a te legram from Gen. Meredith, agent for exchange at Fort Monroe, and a letter from Major Mul ford, assistant agent, both of which have been pub lished, stating they had reason to believe that goods sent to our men in the Richmond prisons would be faithfully delivered to them, the United States Christian Commission sent forward yesterday twen ty.three boxes of clothing, stores, medicines, and reading matter. This is the second instalment of goods sent to Richmond by the Commission, the first having al ready reached its destination. The contents of the boxes sent yesterday are valued at over one thou sand dollars. In view of the intelligence from Rich mond, published yesterday, that our men have had their meagre beet ration cut off, the Commission sent one hundred dollars' worth of condensed beef. This one thousand dollars! worth of stores will not be a mouthful to onc.half of our prisoners in Richmond. The Commission is anxious to relieve the necessities, at least, of every Union prisoner in Richmond. To do this would require at least ten thousand dollars to begin with, and even this would not be a dollar to every man, whereas it, would take at least twenty dollars to each one - to Supply their necessities. Now, the ease of these men in Richmond is one which addressee itself most powerfully to every man who has a heart to feel They have lived miserably heretofore, and now that their scanty rations are cut down, it will be with tbe utmost did), nutty that they will be able to maintain existence. Cannot he patriotic citizens of Philadelphia put such an amount of money into the treasury of the Commission as will enable them at once to send our brave, .suffering heroes something which will make them cheerful on the corning thankegiving day'? Who w ill move in this matter 1 MEETING-,OF SAFETY YIIND DEPOSITORS. —Last night a large meeting of the depositors of the gigantic swindle, known as the "National Safety Insurance and Trust Company," was held at the Hall of the United States Hose Company. The ob ject of the meeting was to ascertain what measures bad been taken to secure justice at the hands of the company, and to devise means to compal a payment of part, at least, of the money stolen from them. Captain John (?'Riley presided, and mint' pro jests were proposed, none of which, however, were of the most practical •or pointed ;Character. In truth, the depositors scarcely know what course to pursue,, all„their previous -efforts having almost failed. They , are, however, determined, and like men seffering under a heavy penalty evince an en thusiasm and spirit which nothing will be permitted to dampen. It was stated that large sum of money had already been paid over by the company to a certain lawyer of Philadelphia; that be might dis tribute it among the depositors pro rata. ',they are clamorous to knew why this has not been paid, and vengeacee was vowed against the person mentioned. The meeting presented to a disinterested beholder a scene fitted to Dill forth the warmest sympathy. It was composed of working men and women, fathers of needy families, and elderly persons, who, a few years ago, had 661.130 to feel content that they were beyond the reach of dreary want. They ask only for what is their own, that which it took them many days of hard toll, and perhaps manylKeepless nights to accumulate. Is there no justice for the poor and unfortunate duped spinet insidious and heartleso corporanongl • "Public Entertainments. ORICBTNVT•i3T. THXATEN—DSJIITY OF Mesa &vie. NIA Jorrae,—Thet publio does not seem to be general ly aware that there is now performing in this , city a young tragedienne, who visits us entirely free from the odium of puffery end almost unheialded. No illegitimate • attempts Wive been stole to press the sympathies of the Public into service before hand. Miss Avonla Jones enters into an en ' gagement with the manager of the Chestnut street Theatre. She appears in a moot arduous i&le, in which to fail is to pronananoe an anathema upon ong's self. We have to say that she brenecess ful, anti that it now belongs to one eltizensie give her the sopport she so richly merle'. Somehew or other, in her passionateness particalarly and her favorite attitudes, she reminds us of Gazzanta, though more captivating, because of youth and gomi looks, than that artist. Her chief expression lien around her mouth ; fent'her eyes are likewise capa ble of intensely glancing. with black and sinister as well as warm and loving emotions. The manner in whkah love, exultation,-and revenge gather them eelvre up and look forth from her eyes is remarkable. Philadelphia will endorse Zia opinion. It [seems a long time ranee we first saw the name of Miss - AVanireJorrea - in the columns' of Cali fornia papers. Sian then we learn that she has " visited Anatralis mad Englasd; and we gather from. London papers tidings of her traccesa. It has likewise been a long - time` since - the tragic play of Medea was well produced here; If our memory serves aright, Miss Havenporkprodoced it five years ago, at the old Walnuteslreet - Theatre, but was not nearly so ouccessful as in her delineation of more natural and modern, less- impasetoned and antique characters: Miss Daveriporthe Medea was an adaptation from the French. by a Mr. 0. C-' Wyman. The subject was a favorite with the ancient • authors, Euripides laving spent great pains upon it, and Seneca herdly lees. In later times Corneille touched the subject up, though. he • cannot have felt overpleased at being himself touched up by Voltaire,. Some tea or twelve years ago. M. Legouvd furniahed Ractieliwith the drama tis persorer of a- Medea which he probably thought Worthy of his talents. Raoliel,.Whol like many other aucceesful actresses, was excessirsly capricious and imperious, preferred forfeiting a considerable• aum of money'to performing in a character she did not like. She. probably thought gold a sufficient salve for wounded feelings, and probably the author thought co too. Whether had rival, Ristori, labored under this delueion, wedonot know. !'be character of Medea, if we look at it only through the spectacle, of the present century, is unnatural, and hidecua eunuch. We must flame our noses the eye glasses of a couple of thousands of yeara ago, and look at Medea through them. Without being ready to. ondorse Miss Avo. nia Jones as a great tragedienne, we are willing to accord her several nualities which may go towards ma kiag her one. S.hnhas se penetrative, a " perfo rating" eye, a striking, well-formed, stagnface, and a knowledge of stage effect. Although the audience on Monday eveningwas.net crowded, she was re ceived with enthueiasm, and tumialtuously applaud ed,..et the end of the first - and third acts. Her prin cipal eueiliarimemay be dispoaed of in a few words. Mr. J. B. Studley, as Jason, is nowhere. Ditto Miss Fanny Brown, as Emma, The only disadvan tage of the former is.that of belonging to the line of Incapable., and the only adeantages of the latter are pretty epee, an amiable eountenance, and nicely brushed•haie. With these the support of PCBs Avce nia Jones' egins and ends. The principal obisotion. to the "Soldiers, Corin thians, etm," is that they are ridiculous, especially when they about out something which sounds like heigbo t-,-ui if they wore tired with the little they have to do, and wished it over. Some of the scenery was very funny, the Statue which represented Sa turn bolding upsidedown an infant phenomenon who looks as though he had been shut out from dying of water on the brain by a timely rush of blood there, in consequence of his uncomfortable position. We feel assured that the audiences of Miss Avo- Elia Jones will continue to grow. In the first passages of the first act she awakened no sensation, because there was none to be awakened—at least none that was demonstrative. In her declaration of her passion for Jason, and in her appeal to her children, she was thrillingly in earnest. So far as we are able to judge, she excels in everything which appeals to the strongest, if the most common, passions of the soul. When her talent is not borne along upon the whirlwind of passion, she carries on a continuous quietness which seems almost to ap proach apathy. But in the fierceness of her in vective she is very good. She tells the story of her wrongs with all the mad impatience of which language is capable. We have said she has a good eye, a noble cast of countenance, a deep and telling voice. She makes no effort to create a sensation merely for the sake of creating one, and is so unobtrusively natural in many minor incidents, that the unobservant are not disposed - to give her credit for all the fire which she possesses. A yoting, ambpious woman, possessing good looks and much talint, she is destined to hold a foremost position upon the American stage. Medea is a r6le she has played over and over again. Medea has the wisdom of the serpent, but not the harmlessness of the dove. Her mythological character is that of a very intellectual sorceress, who is yet fool enough to fall in love with a certain Jason. Jason deserts her for Creusa (which the play-bills pertina ciously persisted in spelling Creusa), and Medea, in revenge, amiably kills Creusa, murders the two sons of herself and Jason, and finally commits suicide. This is the substance of the plot. The confidential chorus, whose chief duty on the ancient stage was to receive and deal out news, wholesale and retail, was dispensed with on this oc casion. This chorus must have been a kind of in voluntary Paul Pry. In the original, when Medea is about to kill her children, she goes and tells the chorus all about it. The chorus begs her not to do if, but the does. All through the play everybody pours his troubles into the sympathizing ears of the chorus, and the chorus forthwith proceeda to tell everybody all about it. By this means a general understanding is attained. Every well-regulated person must regard Medea with some alight disappro bation, and yet, somehow or other, she comes to be regarded in the light of an injured woman. - If Mica Avonia Jones has ever taken the trouble to read the opinions of the London press, she must feel in a state of much bewilderment in regard to herself, and wonder who abe really is. The Loudon press describes her as being so many people at once that a slight confusion ensues in the distinction of which is which. For instance, the Daily Telegraph says " she has a commanding presence"—an opinion which is strenuously supported by the comments of the Times upon "the, by no means commanding form of Miss Jones." This is making assurance doubly sure indeed. The Standard comes to the conclusion that she "has a line, if not absolutely a commanding figure." The Morning Post, after sitting in judg , went upon her, talks of her "face being hand some and thoughtful, her figule 'more than com mon tall.'" The Sunday Times sticks to its con viction, that "though not tall, her presence is com mas, ding." The Dispatch puts her above Miss Cush. man, and speaks of her " coramandingperson!' What Miss Avonia Jones thinks of herself when she wakes up in the morning, and finds herself thus famous, is beyond imagination. She is short and tall, com manding and just so-so, all in the same breath. What is .a hard.working, ambitious young lady to do 'I If the newspapers won't tell the truth, who will? All these differences of opinion can't be owing to differences in opera-glasses, or to differences be tween stockholders and editors. Their lordships could scarcely have quarrelled over their lorgnettes. We shall not give a detailed description -of Miss Jones. If we had not seen her, and had read the opinions of the Loneon press, we should not know what to know; for we are to d in one paper that her Medea is not "a fine statuesque performance ;" ,_another, that - she produces statuesque effects;" in Brother, that her attitudes have a sculpturesque beauty of design; in another, that "her points are made without close preparation;" that her voice is " not powerful," is a "little wanting in depth," and that at the same time this phenomenon of a voice is of "such superb capacity that it can range through all exprosions, from those of the profoundest grief to the wildest fury." It is enough to take away the breath of Miss Jones, or any one else, to read all this stuff . One is almost disposed to ask—were these notices really printed in London papers? and if so, What were they ever clipped out, stuck together, re printed, and distriblited fort We recommend the public to go and see Miss Jones and make - up its own mind about her. If it likes deep tragedy it will fin d_it performed in the person 9f Miss Avonia Jones, to its heart's content. Next to the character of Medea, that of Orpheus OIL Dubois) was well performed. He looked and acted the character. The children, (Lycaon and Melancthus we think their names are) in the play have light hair, probably because Jason and Medea have dark, and one Of the twins was half a head taller than the other. In conclusion, and to return again to Miss Avonia Jones, she has made a decidedly favorable impression ; and we do not remember ever to have heard so large a quantity of applause from so small a quantity of audience. Through the edit gagement the 'New Chestnut will be exceedingly well attended. WALNUT. STREET TEMATRE.—Miss Mary Provost will appear to-night in one of her best characters. The lady's success in Nell Gurynne will doubtless be repeated. But in addition to this -- attraction,. the Walnut has now that of a singularly interesting troupe of gymnasts and dancers. The Arabs have invaded Philadelphia,' and taken it gloriously by storm. • The Arabs are twelve in number, and have quail ties as diverse as their names. They, appear nightly in performances whioh are really good and interesting and strange. If the Bedouins are in the habit of doing such bewildering things in the desert, then it must be a very delightful place for the wonder-lover. It is said that these Sheikhs are all Mahomedans, and read the Koran every evening before they go on the stage. Perhaps they are practising in this life for that dangerous journey which all true believers in the Prophet must take in the next, and we do not think any of them are in danger of falling off the slender hair bridge by which they. must cross to Paradise. The Arabs ought to be seen by all who delight in the marvellous. We shall be sorry when they fold their tents, as Longfellow says the Arabs are in the habit of doing, and silently steal away. But these particular Sheikhs do not fold their tents, but bring down the house instead. Tax GIIIIXA.N OPREA.—Dlehul'a grand opera of •' Joseph in Egypt," will be sung to-night at the Academy. It is a work of surpassing beauty, and will be produced with unusual care. It should have an immense audience. THIS FATAL MAILWAGa. — The above is the title of a new book which will be issued, on- - Saturday . next, by T. B. Peterson & Bros. It is fronithe pen of Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth. Mn, BEECHEN PROM A SCOTCH POINT OF VIEW.— The English correspondent of the New York Vribune thus speaks of a criticism on Henry Ward Beecher by a Scotchman whom he met in the cars : " ye r y recently I journeyed some distance by rail way with a Scotch commercial traveller; who hail beard Mr. Beecher at Manchester, and was enthu siastic in praising him in the most unmistakable Bigh Fileshire. 'Eh, mon ! he was joost gran , I , he said, he gart me tingle fra , the, tap of my head to my tams ! Ye must ha' brew meenietere if he's a fair sample of 'um P Itold him, as I very honestly might, that though a botanist would probably classify the subject of, our conversation as 'single,' that the American pulpit compared to the British one was as a living tree to dead wood, and that very few Englishmen but would Admit it after a Visit tl the Trultetl States." bxucw WONDE.IIB OF THE TI3LBORAPIEC.—. A wonderful improvement has been made in Mid telegraph in Xrance. Through it. agen c y th e B ee , presehaa had her likeneu telegraphed to 'arm of her friends in trte Provinces. Cassell! •telegraphed a painting of a fnlif-blown rose ) , from the observato ry to the bureau of the Tb/ekraphie Administration. The petals were of s beautiful pink color, and the leaves of an equally good green ; in short, were ex actly like the tints of the original. The Emperor also telegraphed to Hay. , e an an exact picture of a new snit thathe desired to obtain for himself, 'Frith the direction that the ordOr should be sent to tier 13rown Stone Clothing Rail of Rocklin' & Nes 603 and 60 Mei/taut /tract, above Sixth, Phi• ladelphia. Wooden will never cease. IhTRESSED iii iiox TrE TITITioIOME TICR.--The sudden dropping of the mereary yentas. day confirmed our prognostisaUbtts or hot Week , that, unkve our citkene rupptiestS themselves wltk coal with•the least polisitde delay, They were liable' tb he caught' in a• snap; The containerise is, that all . day yerterday 1VIr:• Alter, the wati4cnowd coat dealer; Nintl - street; above 'Poplar, w.ta .inundsted with orders. 13ause setry.r Be sells War-the beet coal in the city, and charges rfteonsble prim. YBOTOGB.P.eIIIC PlCTralt3B.--Hnnikomeiy flnlabed Photogwsphs havelitootne a part and pared of every well•regttlated, or, - .perbaps, we shchld say, weEl=furniehed pastor ; and &o . prece to get he In greabeat perfection, in the highest style of the art, is at M'. E. P. Hippie's, proprietor of the celebrated Ground• Floor Gallesy, No. EitO. &lob street. ' TIM NEED OF HEAVY OVERcovrs.—The suddereehange in the-weather yesterday very natu rally eriated a demand for overooats. Hundreds of our citizens disinterred this - Ireavy outer garment from its, summer sepulchre of - camphor and snuif. and note few did what was eqr.aily wise, went to the richit.stocke&Clotiiing Emporium of Messrs. C. Somers & Sons, No. 62d - Chestnut street, wa r der Jayne's Hall, and bough* new. ones. The stock of• fered by these gentlemen is magmlitciat,. and their prices are 'lnexplicably low. 0 AITORDB' RATs, CorrrnsriNTAL HOTEL. THE A'STANTAGES or THE 44 .FLOREHOR" SEWING DfaCato - E.—Purchasers of Sewing Ms chines should bear in mind.th'at - for numerous res.- sons the 4 ' Plorencen (sold attheir splendid new of lice in thiocity, at No. 630 Chestnut street,) is just ly entitled' to the preference over all others. It makes, no• less than four different and distinet stitches, and the change frcret one to the other is the work. of ma-instent, It has &reversible feed motion, which enables the operator, by simply turning a screw, to hsve the work run either to the right or left. The machine is creating quite a furore in the public mind. Go see it in operation—everybody. SOFT EATS, OAKFORDEI 7 ; CONTINENTAL, LADIES. CAN DATE ANY, STYLE. OF BON NET mede, at the shortest notice, at Wood & Cary's, No. 725 Chestnut street. Funs AT OAXFORDS,' CONTINRNTATA. GENTI.EMEN buying Underclothing. or anything , else in the Gentlemen's Fltrnishin;• line, will find a large and splendid assortment at George Grant's, No. 610 Chestnut- street. The celebrate! Taggazt.made ghirt, which he sells, is the greatest shirt out. OAR - FORDS' CONYM- ENTAL HAT EXPO- BEST QUALITY NEW FLOUR. —Messrs. Davie Sc. Richarda have just received a supply ot" frreb•grourd Flour, made from the finest qualityi oir new wheat. C. OARFORD & SONS, CONTINENDAL FOR THE MOST BEAUTIFUL H.A.TB for misses and children ~*go to Wood & Cary's, 726 Chestnut street. BE &no You " GET THE BEST."—DOHI pnrchase until you have seen the Florence. All who have seen and examined its work pronounce it the most useful and perfect Sewing Machine yet offered to the public. Its simplicity is the wonder of all. The most inexperienced can operate it. It is the only machine that can make more than one kind of a stitch. The Florence makes four, viz : Lock, Double- Lock, Knot, and Double-Knot, and enables the operator to select the stitch required forth° different kinds of work. No other machine covers so large a range - of work is the Florence. Each machine has the re. versible-feed motion, enabling the operator to fasten off the ends of seams or stay any part of a seam, besides a perfect and uniform tension of thread; and many other advantages over all other Sewing Ma chines. - It must be seen to be appreciated. Call an& examine the merits of - the Florence, at our new store, 630 Chestnut street, next door to Gould's piano and music store. Florence Sewing Machine Co. N. B.—The American Buttonhole Machine is on exhibition at the same place. Call and see it. LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S FURS—the largest and best stock in the city, at Charles Oak ford & Sons', Continental Hotel. DAVIS & RICHARDS, Arch and Tenth streets, sell Drake's Plantation Bitters at 75 eents per bottle. - MILITARY GOODS, OARFORDS', CONTI- INFALLIBLE CUBE OF HABITUAL DRUNK ENNESS, which can be effected even without the knowledge of the patient. A. most perfect cure will be warranted by Dr. Herman Gunther, New York. In coMpliance with the request of many, I have concluded to stay a few days in this city, at room 33 Ullman's Hotel, I%To. 312 Race street, where I can be conaulted from S until 12 A. PC, fsnollro ' m 2 until 6 P. M. Respectfully, )201.2V DR. HERMAN GUNITLER. GEETL±itEN'S HATB.—AII the nerves beat styles for fall wear, in Pelt, Silk, and Cassdmere, will be found at Warburton's, No. 430 Chestnut slaeet, next door to the Post Office. 0c23-I.m " WISE SAYINGS OF WISE MEN."—The snow is that downy covering which God covers the earth with to protect it from the blasts of winter. The stars are holes in the sky to let their Maker's glory shine through. Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put souls into. The. Coats, Pants, and Vests, made by Chas. Stokes & Co., under the Continental, are the most beautiful things of man's handiwork. 'NEW STYLE HATS—Charles Oakford 85 Sons. Continental Hotel. BEST MATERIAL FOR DRESS.—iii all seasons of the year, and in all climates, the beat material for dress, for old and young, for strong and week, is woolen. It is the poorest conductor of heat, and therefore secures the most equable tem perature. This is the principal object of dress. The superiority of woolen clothing Is illustrated in the beautiful garments which are made up at the pala tial clothing emporium of Granville Stokes, No. 609 Chestnut street. ARRIVALS AT THE ROTES, 6P TO TWELVE O'CLOCK LAST ,NIGHP. nd Chestnut istreets. J W Stott. New York Rey J M Caldwell, Cal D K Albright. Wash. Pa W M Dunn, Ohio W H Bodeen. New York Mr Barnard & la, N Y S Guest & wf. Baltimore Mrs Si Batleryßaltimore Mrs L Moulton, Baltimore C B Ratters, Washington Major L Barrett, Penns, Mawr G G Basting, II S k I, ii Belcher & ls, Pros. R I B W Spink, Pror, B I JE Taylor, Boston H Edgerton. Ft Wayne Mrs A r Ed gertoti,Ft Wayne firs MB Gardner, N Ft Haskell. New York E S Chesebro, New York P S Justice John Price J ItleGeary. Boston. D Moore. Brooklyn N Ellmaker & wf. Lang W H Cassidy. Pittsburg TLeebrick, Wi Ilia m‘port C P Bcoirel. San Francisco J 13 Walsh. San Francisco Mrs A Darla's, Pros. RI Miss Palmer, Pros., R I Miss Fisher, Prot-, R Mrs L B Frieze, Pros, R I D Jillsin, Pros, R G 0 Thayer. Prey, R I C & rf. Mass Mrs Todd, DO4LOII Mel Barstow Mr French T Rinck & wf, Easton Pros., R T E Franklin, Lancaster C T Hal ferustein, Shamokin IN Ebling. New York i"rraD. New York A B Seymour, New York Geo Randolph E N Daer, New York John Byers, New York C HEiclaardson. B York C Kuap. N Jersey Dr Zacharie & la, N York E K Arnstein, New York (I II Van Brant & srf. Y Gen Coleman. New York H S Murray &wf, York J A McContrie & wf, W Y R B Lombard, New York B Shepard, New York rt R Daxburv. New York .1 If Beatty, New York B Sanford, New York A. Dell, Baltimore Lman Dik Bost on Se y mi Nunn e. wf. TerseY Miss E Munn. N Jersey L E Baker, Yarmouth Dr C G Page, Wasb, D.O 3 Col Howard J Tome & la, Maryland G B Osborne & Ls, N York S 11 Shoemaker, Baltimore Mr Nunn .7 NI Hodges, New York J H Smith G Dexter, Massachusetts S Cohn, Brooklyn L Cohn, Brooklyn W Reynolds. New York J R Lolland. Delaware Continental—Nbith H F Haan, Pit sburg C W Barris, Pittsburg J P Jones &wf, Reading W L Helfeastein, Pottsville BflMonis,OSA H Lord, II S A A C Armetrong. Hew York C C Keeler_ New To: k Mrs C C Reeler, New York J Wellix g, AlhanY F Orme, New Yt.rk A McDowell, St LOolc D Dibert. Jobn§town W JCnl2rn, hlinne , ota J Farrington, Minneeota J znimrgh, Cincinnati IV! Hcidelbach & la, Cinn J C Brooks. Ohioans, Jac Speer, Chicago A Gnthrie, Cincinnati :SlT;itt, rtitsbprg Dr Cer Lansing, Cape May II El North. Columbia Wilton. Wrightsville J V Traphagen, New York E Bixby, New York T lifcCaitbey. Now York bir Baldwin_ • • • .T F Bi!ter, ITS A ➢fiss Josephine Jarvis. N Y NgaTy Da fl N J W D nyder. New York J A Gardner, Prey, IL I • Mrs I` Sprague, Prov. R I Niss A Sprague. Prosr R I Mra N.1 , --bole, Prow, S. I Mies S Sprague, Prov R I Mrs A Sprazne & "cb,-It I ias 'nice, Pray. R I C McCurdy.& wf. Harriabg Mrs S M Campbell. Y. rk Miss R Campbell, York Mi, e F Campbell, York S WorAlaide & la, Balt Cbas G Shaw, CM. 0 R W Isbam. New York IVll:trray,N TerPeY D Holliday. Baltimore N Holloway, Baltimore Holloway. Baltimore WAY Crorminshield. S N Mimi HE Cronnipshtold Dr G H Smith, 'Taw York E Buckley. New York n Newbold. New York •• • . N Danforth. hew York Mrs W B Duncan. 10 York YTS Duncan. New York Mice Duncan. New York G R French, Roston . . L w Gillett- New York J W 801.1, New:York Mrs JL Cassidy,. New York Mrs C Cassidy, New York Mr & Mrs T Boyd, N York W Croke, Scranton A P Neer, II S'A F W Cheney & wf, Hartford T B New-York B Harley, Pittsburg T B Morrell, New York Mr Mover & la, New York P 'lves, Boston J S Richardson. Chicago T Danziger, New Orleans Z A Gilman. Washington J A Elder. St Louis Arrabaidi, New York R Bartlett & wf, Prav,R I MRS Arnold, Prov A I C Morgan, New Yoik fut.:pl.—Chestnut. s , 11 Hamilton (Ivo C Snyder John Laurence. N York F. Hughes Chas T Wickereham W 13 Reaney, Chester Flenry G Gowen Geo A Strong, Penna. S Roller, Washington Semi Jackson Baltimore L Moxley. Faltimore W R Bunter, Baltimore .T wenn & wf, Blizabthin F Rullzna New York Thos' Gardner, Boston Semi Pell ire., most, C B Barris. New York J S Tower, New York C Seidler Cincinnati F B Lloyd, lowa R A Alvard, N Orleans Boa Cable. Louisville, KY 41.3 A West. Louisville, KY L Scott. Louisville, NY N Jordon, Milwaukee C Compton, BnlYalo 'Bra Sturgis .& fa, Cleveland Mi. a Barnwell. Cleveland %Y B9.lnea Sr la, Wash N Tohns'on. Alex, Va . Iliferaphia W Pell crick, Maine R N Hawley Ai la, Balt Ne P Smnil. Harrisburg W Carr.es, Reading .1"C Bailey, Smyrna, Dal Ridge.l7 Dover,Del R fl Reminaton, Baltimore EFrance, New York J Livineaton.'Penna R B Clark, Fhila Jos Charles. California" Black Bear-Arlitrd Alex Peter. Slating - ton. Pa Levi Diem, Pennsylvania 'Henry Diehl,. Cburelltown W Berner. Pereneburg John S Cornell; Feasterv'e 000 S ROTC.% F.X Chase John K Tzeickler, "row. treat. belenar H Seigel, Reeding LSpencer, Jersey City G C Henderson. Lane co G H Bard Wet Lane to BdwJ lass. Easton Leaman, Lancaster D Bdnlden & wf, N Castle &Jamison. St George Hr W Tracy, Piney,rove JOB S Bieber POTIna Miss Suseell. St George D B Kaufman. Readieg G N diackenzie, Baltimore W Simonton dr cat, blise L 1at1.809. Del W 1 Sibley. Washington N Yocum. Afemphis L Dart, N Londna. Gene. J N Holcomb. New York IA Icrben & la. Lancaster G A J Beatty. Harrisburg Mrs Beatty. Harrisburg Hies Beatty, Harrisburg J J Shoemaker. Harrisburg A Parker. Pen= ES6lSers.Baltco. J C Shear. 17 S.N Jos Stotts. Plitlads °Twist, liawisboxst H Walker filsaylanti. J W Bltting, Re Mine Geo - .W Ferran, US N WButterfleld, Boston S 11 Roper, Roston I C F Roper, Boston 75 Reckart. Maryland. W S Cane, Erie R B Osborne, Delaware B Mercer. Nashville alsoxiey, Baltimore W B Hunter. Baltimore. t. above Callowblif IWm Thompson. Jenhiarn Chas 'Harper, Jenkintown John Bergh. Penonburg leaao Howland. Pfnna IJacob Howland. Penna. , John VRnardedaien. PA Nre Strpopz Pa aBEltla.goas4