The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, December 21, 1863, Image 2

MONDAY, DECEMBER '2l, 1863.
Wo can take no notice of. anonymous commu
nications. We do not return rejected manuioripti.
fl®- Voluntary correspondence solicited from all
parts of the world, and especially from our different
military and naval departments. When used, it will
.be paid for. ,
Rebel Conscription.
The Richmond peepers furnish-proof posi
tive that the physical resources of ..the Con
federacy, as well as all her other resources,
are rapidly dwindling into vnothing. : We
need no confirmation of what we have sudi i
good reason to believe, and yet we firu\ it 1
unsought at every, turn. The Confcdr jrac y j
needs more men, and cannot get mor al |
is driven to such dire extremity that/ a le p ol t
has been offered in the rebel. / c on g re as
making provisions, among things, for
the organization of a, reserve C p r p Sf consist
ing of boys between the ag'/ j 8 0 { s i x teen'and
eighteen, and Of men /p as t their prime.
Wheu/Hhe Hapoleonlc; wars had drained
France of her young manhood, a similar
provision was and an army of strip
lings was collected, which embraced the
flower of Prey ;‘ch nobility. In the Southern;
case, as in tb e French, the remedy, for past
reverses is a last and desperate one. AH
the tiooX's and corners of Secessia have been
•poked into and swept out, by the -des
potic hands of Davis and his satellites, and
now they are to be scraped and .scrub
bed anew. An army of adolescentia will,
necessarily, work wonders, and will,’ in
deed, be sensibly assisted by a reserve corps
of fathers and grandfathers, particularly
when ordered beyond the limits of their
State, as they may he, in .cases of great
emergency. Southern chivalry will thus
have an extra chance to blossom and come
to fruit in its teens. After having tom up a
forest of live oak, Dayis takes up the
saplings, and works them into a re
serve corps, remembering that just as the
twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.. The twigs,
in this case, may he bent to Mr! Davis’ will,
but we very much doubt whether they in
cline to it. A bill providing that all white
male residents of the Confederate States,
between sixteen and fifty-five, shall be in
the military service, makes a very large con
scription bole. The reserve corps, consist
ing of all between sixteen and eighteen, and
between forty-five and fifty-five, is to be
added to, from time to time, by all who ar
rive at the ripe age of sixteen. From this
reserve corps great,execution is to be looked
for in the way of local defence and garrison
duty, and all persons liable to duty in the
reserve corps, who fail to enroll, are informed
that they will be conscribed tb the army in
the field. The bill further provides that no
person shall be relieved from the operations
of this law by reason of having been here
tofore discharged from the anny, when no
disability now exists, nor shall those who
have furnished substitutes be any longer ex
empted by reason thereof: provided, that
those who have paid into the public trea
sury the amount specified by the act in re-
lation to exemptions, approved 11th of Oc
tober, 1863, and who may be heldto service
under this act, shall be repaid a fair propor
tion of the amount so paid by them, under
rules to be prescribed by the Secretary of
War.
When to this is added the provision that
all laws granting exemptions from military
service shall be repealed, it will be seen to
-what straits the Confederacy is reduced.
Secession is on its last legs, so much so that
the only exemptions granted will be to those
who shall be held unfit for military service
under rules to be prescribed by the Secre
tary of War : ministers of religion, superin
tendents of asylums of the deaf, dumb,
blind, and insane, one editor of each news
paper, the employees in newspaper esta
blishments, and physicians and apothecaries,
as now prescribed by law.
With knocking knees we congratulate
the Confederacy on the noble army of mar-,
tyrs thus collected for its defence. The
bubbles and the lees of life, well shaken
up together, will furnish a gentle stimulant,
a sort of aromatic bitter, which will no
doubt revive the South’s spent energies.
But after that draught is drained, what
next? ‘.When the youngest blood of the
South has oozed out and is dried up, what
fresh levies will fill up the vacant and ex
hausted ranks ? The time is at hand when
the utmost verge of* desperation can accom
plish nothing more, and when the arrogant
leaders of rebellion shall be made to eat the
dust.
Immigration.
The war has withdrawn laborers from
every department of; industry, and has ma
terially modified the business pursuits of
many who remain at home. In agriculture
and in mining, more especially, there is com
paratively a deficiency of labor, although
there is still enough-in these, as’in other
branches, to render us self -reliant. Immigra
tion fills up in a measure the places of those
who have left their firesides in the service of
the country, so that almost as fast as supply
is drawn from one quarter it is furnished
from another. The health and wealth of
the nation are recruited from foreign shores,
and if in distant lands the means of emigra
tion were at hand there would not be the
slightest deficiency here in a solitary de
partment. From all parts of the world eyes
are cast upon these United States as fur
nishing the most cheap and comfortable and
independent home for the poor man. When
the mineral resources of the country shall
haye become better understood,, more par
ticularly in those slightly,appreciated Ter
ritories of the West—ldaho, Arizona, and
Nevada—enterprise will direct industry in
.that .direction,|and a two-fold reason will
' exist for the augmentation-of the national
worth. Our internal resources are evidenced
not only in the prodigious variety in which
they force [themselves upon us, but in the
invitations they extend to emigrants from
all quarters of the world; It is enough to
render any country more than self-reliant to
view within her own bosom more resources
than ehe can at present make use of with
her unassisted hands, and which countless
individuals of other nations are anxious and
envious to handle. .
- The Irish exodus seems to have been
providential in the building up of America,
and especially in the development of the
West. It never qeases, though it is some
times lessened. Every week brings a ship
load of strong arms and brave hearts to our
shores. The London. Times , alluding to
this constant immigration, uses the follow
ing admirable illustration:
“ Some jean ago a tVestlndiaman had discharged
ita oargo in one cl our dock* at borne, The Bhlp
was plagued by rats as never ship had been plagued.
Theft devastations, their noiae, their odor, their de
structions had b«gn beyond mortal endurance, but
there waa no remedy. ‘ The captain, wko was still
on board, was waked at midnight by his'mate,
and asked to step on deck as quietly ns he could,
A holt ship had arrived in the oourse of the" day
’ {rom the Mediterranean, and, on coming alosg
aide had paued a hawser to the West .Ihdia--
man. ‘I.ooU there !’ whispered the mate, pointing to
the rope, which in the darkness seemed to be moving
alowly towards the fruit ship. It was aiive with rats,
•which in a continuous stream were migrating from
■the empty Bhip to the stranger, whose fragrance told
-the tale of 11b delicious freight. Before sunrise there
was not a rat leitonboardthe-Westlndiaman. How
it fared with the stranger it is needless to say. That
is.the very spectacle we are now witnessing on a
world-wide scale. The hawser is across the Atlan
tic, and in one incessant, endless train, hundreds of
thousands of our fellow-citizens are passing to a
richer continent. Its fragrance comes in letters full of
good tidings, and containing often the subitantisl
earnest ol golden promises In the shape oi notes
or Orders for pleasant round sums. Could we take
the same view of-human atrairs that the skipper"
and bia mate did of their little world, we should
tread aoftly, and think the less said the better. Bit
we oannot quite do that. It is part of our crew
that ia leaving us in this strange multitudinous
fashion. Th*y are passing generally to another
allegiance,- to other Jaws, to other institutions, to
rival interests, to a jealous policy, and, as they
-think, to assist* in founding an empire far above
even our heads, But, ns they are consulting their
• own material interests, and certainly sparing ub
some trouble, they are wejoome to go where they
- please, and to marry a better soil than that from
•which they have been divorced. We are disposed to
’take a philosophical view of the movement, and are
glad to find that, for once we may be both scientittc
and kind. The man who suddenly reappears in an
Irish cabin with his pocket full of notes and gold,
distributing handsome presents, sleek, comely, and
" well-dressed, asking the girl of his early; choice to
share his new home, 1b a vision that conquers all
-our sentimental scruples; as it appears he has done
the remaining patriotism of Ireland. Every Bach
-man is a Columbus in Connaught. There is no rc
isietinghiin.” ■ _ <
• Thb London Times ridicules the reception ol Mr.
Beeoher In Brooklyn, by quoting the sensation head
ings of the New York paper:“Plymouth Church
In a Blare of Olory“ Enthusiastic Welcome to
Mr. Beecher“ His Friends take a European Trip
-with him in Imagination“Flowers.and Fair T. V
idies, Cream and Crinoline, Birds and Beauty, Mubic
-and Mirth." Mr. Beecher, however, is not answer
able-for these brilliant alliterations, which are a
consequence of a vicious journalism. : The war Itself
is sometimes made to appear ridiculous by the re
ports of Mr, Jenkins,
Curious Fatality of Office.
A singular fatality appears to await the
possessors of all but sovereign power in
India- In the last sixteen years (1847 to
1863 J, three British noblemen have suc
cessively been Viceroys of India, and have
fallen beneath the terrible responsibility of
then' high station, and the enervating effect'''
of the climate. "When Lord Dalhousiu," wag
appointed in 1847, he was only t>j^ y five
years old, and up to that never
beb'n seriously ill for two Xfnder his
administration the I%,hja'4’o whs annexed,
the rulers of Bupsfah sfint an embassy to
his court at C a i cu tta.j the Ameer of Cabal
sued for friendship, and the Khan
of "Kliokp,!! entreated him to send soldiers
Ito drji his troops. When he was only
1 eiVntecn months in office, he was advanced
I on the peerage from an earldom to a mar
quisate, having previously been made
Knight of the Thistle. At the end of eight
years’ rule, he resigned his high office,
and returned to England. Even then
he was comparatively!, a young man,
and, at the age Of forty-four, with
great business experience,- unusual scho
larship, considerable ability as a parlia
mentary Bpeakcr, and high reputation as a
•successful administrator, it waß prophesied
that lie would soon obtain high station in
the Cabinet. Already, on the death of Wel
lington, he had been appointed Lord War
den of the Cinque Ports. But, as it appeared,
he returned home to die. He had lost his"
wife in India, and this greatly .depressed liis
spirits. He was unable to take any part in
public life. He lingered until 1860, when
Death relieved him from care and pain. He
was succeeded in the Cinque Ports by Lord
Palmerston, and Ms earldom and estates
by Lord Panmube— the Secretary of War
who, during the Crimean war, telegraphed
the Commander-in-chief there, to “ Re
member Dowb !” meaning a certain pro
tege of his own, named Dowbiggen, whose
advancement he desired.
Lord Canning, the immediate successor
of Lord DXlhousie, was the eldest sur
viving son of George Canning, the en
lightened British statesman who broke
up the Holy Alliance, and gave his country
the first impulse towards decidedly liberal
politics, in her foreign relations. It was
singular enough that, in. 1821, when Can
ning'was called to succeed Castlereagh
as. Foreign Minister of England, he-had
accepted the Vice-royalty -of India; its
splendid emoluments tempting him. In
July, 1855, Lord Canning, who had pre
viously been a Cabinet Minister under
Pejel and Lord Aberdeen, accepted the
Indian vice-royalty. The leading events
of his reign are historical; they include the
rise and the suppression of the great Indian
revolt. The bravery of the army, com
paratively weak in number, but headed
by such gallant men as Havelock and
Lawrence, Outbam, and Colin Camp
bell, hacked by the sagacity and firmness
of Lord Canning, effectually put down
the rebellion. The Yiceroy was male Cf.
C. 8., and obtained a step in the peerage.
After remaining less than six years in India,
he returned home broken in spirit, for his
wife had perished under the fatal influence
of the climate, and broken in health from
the same cause, combined with the arduous
labors of his office. He died soon after
his return, -leaving no child to inherit his
title and property, hut bequeathing the lat
ter- to one of his nephews, the second son
of the Marquis of Clanricarde.
The Earl of Elgin was appointed Go
vernor-General of India three years ago.
He had previously been Governor Of Ja
maica, Governor-General of British North
America, twice Ambassador to China, and
had l?een a Cabinet Minister in 1859-60. A
shrewd, clear-headed, well-informed, active
business man, he had been long in the pub
lic service, always doing his work well.
During the great Indian revolt of 1857, he
took the responsibility of sending a large
reinforcement of British troops from China
to Calcutta, and there is no doubt that this
timely aid helped to put'down the rebellion.
At the time ,of his becoming Viceroy of
India he was only in his fiftieth year, his
constitution was robust, his frame was
massive, his habits temperate, and his ca
pacity for work enormous. But. India has
been fatal to him, as to his immediate pre
decessors. A telegram , from Calcutta re
ports his dgath from heart disease.
These three men — Dat.kobsik, Canning,
and Elgin— were equal in years; had each
won honors for high scholarship at the same
University; had respectively filled high
offices before entrusted with almost royal
sway over Hindostan and her dependencies,
and had severally been invested with the
greatest prize in public life that the British
Sovereign has to bestow. The three
friends, it it known, were richer in honors
and in intellect than in lands or cash. The
salary of the Indian Yiceroy is $lOO,OOO per
' annum ; but, independent of this, his lawful
means of making money are so numerous
and great that he is expected, if he serve
out Ms full six years, to return home with
a princely fortune. Dalhodsie’s Indian
accumulation went, with his family estates
and titles, .to a cousin whom he disliked,
and Canning’s will be possessed by "his
nephew. Lord Elgin leaves four sons, the
eldest of whom (Lord Bruce, by courtesy)
succeeds to the family titles, and it is not
improbable that, in consideration of his
father's services, his earldom will be
changed for a marquisate. The estates in
Fife shire (which have been held by this
line since the timejof King Robert Bruce,
from whom tMs family are lineally de
scended.) have not only been cleared of
debt under the late peer’s careful manage
ment, but enlarged by recent purchase. The
late Lord Elgin was a saving man, all his
life, and preserved tothe last the habits'o.f
economy which necessity compelled him to
adopt on succeeding to an old Scottish.peer
age and greatly encumbered estates.
From the circumstances, which- we have
here done little more than glance at, springs
.the inevitable moral of the uncertainty of
human things. Truly doe 3 the French,
proverb declare that Man proposes but that
God disposes. In each of the three in-*
stances which we have cited, the man went
to the far Orient-,.clothed with dignity and
power, hoping to return with honors and
wealth. It is curious that in each case the
result should have been death, and that
the three college-friends- should have thus
fallen into line, as it were, one after the
other,' but to be smitten down. The pro
verbial shaking' of the Pagoda tree, which
had enriched former Viceroys, was fatal to
the three last, as if it had been the death
giving Upas.
Texas.
The news received from time to time about
Texas keeps speculation awake. Although
not quite as unexplored as Ethiopia or Tar
tary, Texas still appears to those who live
in the North as a very far-off and uncivilized
country, to which an emigration: would be
viewed with the same, feeling of risk with
which men' seek their fortunes in foreign
lands. Her millions of acres are patched
and sprinkled with a population gathered
in from all quarters of the world. Six times
the size of Pennsylvania, she wields a geo
%raphical influence which it is time should
be equalled or eclipsed by a preclomi
ance in moral and intellectual respects.
The force of character which resides in her
mixed and variously gifted population, dis
tracted as it is at present by the tumults of
rebellion, will ere long assert itself. , Girt
and intersected with noble rivers, which are
kept busy with the . conveyance of storage
and produce'to and from'the large towns
which string their borders, Texas presents
abundant opportunity for a glorious cam
paign to , those who know -how to seize
these advantages and use them aright.
The absence of ' the false refinement
of our Northern civilization materially aids
in developing the martial tesources of her
people. The large numbers-who devote
themselves solely to agricultural pursuits
are, thus naturally, fitted, for the soldier’s
hardships ; and the military preponderance
thus-engendered will become almost univer
sal,' affecting, as it does, not only those en
gaged in commerce, trade, manufactures,
and the mechanic- arts, but also 5 the com
paratively small proportion devoted to pro
fessional pursuits. However opposed may
be the 'respective countries whence much
c.f tile Texan population originally cams i
nationalities / become a sense amal
gamated ; Irish.-- English; German, French,
Russian, and have become Texan,
and jog ak JD g together, not uncomfortably,
on The question of the Union,
°f divides the people into two dia
metrically- opposed classes, of which the
loyal is rapidly increasing. The possession
of Matagorda Bay will be found to be of in
calculable advantage, and the co-operation
of . native regiments must become a valua
ble auxiliary to the Federal cause. In
spite of the order of General Magruder,
circulating throughout /the State a. pledge
devoting the life, liberty, and property of the
citizens to support the Confederacy, and
notwithstanding the slashing business that
Quantrell has been doing iin the way of
spying, arresting, hacking, and hewing men
suspected of the crime Of Unionism, we
have reason to believe that the voice of
Texas is for the Union, and that the time is
approaching when that voice will speak
boldly upon her soil’ without danger of
being drowned in the'-exultant shouts of re-'
bellion. ■
With the Union army in possession of the
entire Texan coadt, including Brownsville,
Galveston, and Sabine Gulf, high expecta
tions are excited with respect te future
movements.- The intelligence that the
Federal forces had ascended the Bed river,
and were marching on Alexandria, there to
attack the rebels under General Taylor, is
likewise looked upon with sanguine eyes,
and excited speculation. The fact that de
spatches from Texas, at once reliable and
important, are few and far'between, only
seemß to keep inquiry and interest; alive.
The state of things there presents us with a
view of sweeping conscriptive measures,
secret; organizations, thug-like spies, mili
tary .despotisms, all centralized, and work
ing together for evil. Cruelty, oppression,
outrage, perfidy, distrust, and want,, are,
blent in a focus of terrorism. But this
cannot last, for amid all 'this corruption
Unionism has given its complexion to men
in the army as well as out of it. The ranks,
instead of being overawed by their treach
erous chieftains, will overawe them. Gen.
Maoroder should fear the future. He
should regard his fortunes with anxious eyes.
Magruder has strung up so many men that
no one will be surprised when Magruder
is strung up. His murderous policy-recoils
upon itself, and whilst he is thus up to his
ankles in blood, the momentous movement
of Gen. Banks in the Rio Grande region
has struck a hard-fisted blow in the very
face of rebellion, and further despatches will
attest the complete triumph of the Federal
arms. '
The Meeting at Concert Hall.
The three little white slaves who will ap
pear at Concert Hall this evening, eloquent
ly appeal to the justice and the benevolence
of the North, upon which the hopes of then
class are founded. These children were
brought to Philadelphia by Mr.' Philip
Bacon, who is associated in the establish
ment of free colored schools in New Orleans,
and, assisted by many of our prominent
citizens, desires to interest the.public in this
reform. .Charles Taylor, the little boy
eight years of age, is intelligent and well
behaved, and as well educated as most
lads of his years at : the North. The
little girls are very pretty,’ and gentle,
and polite. Mr. Love joy will have an op
portunity for all his eloquence to-night, and,
we trust, that indignation which the sight of
these children must arouse against a system
which enthralls white children, as well as
black men, will not be fruitless of good.
There are thousands of emancipated slaves,
white and black, in Louisiana, who need
education, and we should remember that the
elevation of the colored population of the
South is the surest way to end slavery with
out convulsion, and make another rebellion
impossible. _
Ip A man were at his wit’s ends for means
of creditably passing an idle hour, he might
save himself from suicide by the very simple
process of comparing, morsel by morsel,
the message of Abraham Lincoln with
that of Jefferson Davis. He might not
laugh very much, for there is no food for
laughter in-the message of either. But over
some of the morceau of Mr. Jefferson
Davis he might grin a ghastly smile. The
fierce and labored invective which consti
tutes Mr. Davis’ peroration, the ingenuity
with which he tacks about to show that
we are worse than fiends, proves that the
Confederacy is, at the present writing at
least, just as old as its tongue, and a little
older than its teeth. It talks big, and it
snaps at everything and everybody.
President Lincoln’s message is calm,
dispassionate, simple, and comprehensive..
It is the reverse of spue out. The tvyq
messages are the antipodes of each other.
Mr. Lincoln, in his document, lays down
the law, as he alone has the right to. He
presents the whole history of-the year, with
its varied results, in a clear, graphic, honest
way—the way that is natural to the man—
and he argues calmly, patiently, charitably,
from beginning to end. Not to hurt the
feelings of any one, Jeff Davis reminds us
of Lucifer, in Byron’s poem of “Cain.”
a sneaking sort of a demon, always arguing
in the language of emotion and self-interest,
and never meeting the question plump. To
be brief, the one message hits the bull’s
eye, and the other falls very wide of the
mark.
Coal has long been a fertile subject
for speculation—we mean, of course, specu
lation on paper only—to dwell upon, and it
is now high time that something should be
said about ashes. PhiladelpMa is fast losing
her claims to being considered the cleanest '
city in the world. Let any'one take a walk
through our highways and byways, and he
will not require a pair of spectacles to get at
our meaning. He will see.courts and alleys
choked up not only with ashes, but with re
fuse of alb kinds, offensive to sight and
smell. If all the fences at the back of all
the gardens -in the city were tom down, a
litter of pigs might perhaps : survey the
prospect with feelings of unmingled sa
tisfaction; but we do not tMnk a board
of health could, or at least ought to, - The
courts and alleys which intersect the larger
streets are, some of them, almost im
passable. Will some one haye the good
ness to indicate, in the most unequivocal
manner who is to blame ? There are
enough ashes at present lying loose to ac
commodate any quantity of sackcloth, and
to spoil all the broadcloth in creation. Are
citizens expected to strew their cellars with
cinders, or to confiscate all their flour bar
rels to the service of used-up coal ? It is a
Bhame that so much inconvenience should
thus result, when measures for its removal
are not outside the bounds of possibility.
Won’t somebody please to wake up? If
dust has been thrown .in any one’s eyes, we :
are sure the ashes are‘the first cause, and the
only way to get it out again is to remove
them as soon as possible.
Curious Statement about Jefferson Davis.
—A correspondent oTthe Evening Post , writing from
Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, says:
“Prairie du Chien is a city whioh has very little
-interest to the present generation, except for ita
commercial advantagefl,but it has peculiar aignift
c&nce to old residents of the West, and there la
hardly an officer in the old army but at one time
or another has been quartered at Fort Crawford.
I was fortunate enough to meet with a highly re
spected gentleman, a native of the place, and a aon
of French parenta. He described Fremont, who
visited him while on a surveying trip in the
Northwest, aa a young officer of great energy, some
what taciturn, but always affable and interesting.
Hiaideacriptions and recollections of Jefferson Davie.
: who came from West Point, were most significant. It f
is a singular phenomenon in physiology that people
of mixed races sometimes retain for years the evidence.
of their lineage upon the mother’s side, but in the
course of time, under climatic and other influences the
features change and the trace is lost. One shrinks from,
relating anything likely to hurt the susceptibilities of
so lofty a person as slaveholding Jeff Davis, but his
tory is Impartial, and it must be told that he was
~ known to the townspeople and by his brother officers
he the 1 little nigger/ My worthy informant, who
has very friendly memories of Davis, having been
taught to speak English by him, avers that he not
only carried tbe negro in'his face, but that he had it.
in his blood, and that several years after, when visit
ing his former friend, then Secretary of War, he did
not recognize him, and could aoareely believe him. to
be the same person. • • ■ „■ ..
“ While I am conscious that this intelligence, the
tiuth of which I do not for an instant doubt', for.it
was confirmed by the evidence of many others,,
may not injure the o&ubc of the Seceaslonis is in the
mind* of many good people, yet the world at large
will not fail to draw the-conclusion that the ‘little
nigger* came legitimately, in one sense, into pos
; seision of for,rule from hia, ancestors of'
Ccngo or DiUiomej'.** -, > ( -
% •.
The Steamer Ghesajfieake.
Washington,. The following despatch
wea received hore U10la«l p’-Sht:
- HALi»AX, v Dec. 18,—TiOJSi'Q-iMQK .Weixm: The
- transferred to the
BrltiaU author.' i.wiU return home at once.
k • v a* C*. CO A. V, Commander.
"t'flß PRESS -PHILADELPHIA. MONDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1863.
The report of the commission appointed by the
Navy Department, consisting of three ohlef engi
neer*, who have made careful experiments, during a
period of five months, showing the practicability of
making use of petroleum or hydro carbon oils for
tbs purpose of generating steam, has been iMued,
and baa proven satisfactorily, it ii said by those who
have aeen it, that the results show a great saving,
not only for merohant steamera, but will enable a
naval steamer to keep the sea, under steam, three
times as long, with leas labor and greater economy,
as compared with coal, the equal weightß of eaoh
.being considered, thus indicating' a complete revolu
tion in the mode of generating steam.
The Enrolment Act—Union Enlistments
in Rebel States.
It is understood that the majority of the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, in the House, are opposed
to repealing the commutation olauae of the enrol
ment act, as reported from the Senate committee.
Senator Wilson speaks of his intention to offer
an amendment authorizing enlistments in the rebel
States, to be credited to the quotas of States, the
officers from which to prooure the new recruits
whether white or blaok.
The menlbers of Congress are receiving large
numbers of letters, containing suggestions and
opinions relative to the proposed changes in the en
rolment act. -
Thirty gentlemen were at the complimentary
dinner to Speaker Colfax last night, connected
with all the prominent journals of the country, and
of varied polltioal opinions, It was a pleasant and
harmonious gathering. Samuel Wilkinson pre
sided, and at thevonolusion of his remarks proposed
a sentiment whioh elicited from Speaker Colfax a
brief, but eloquent, patriotic, and truly appropriate
speech, In which he said the House of Representa
tives had chosen newspaper men for Speaker,
Clerk, and Postmaster—a good Bhare for the profes
sion—and that in the Senate it was nearly the same
wey—the Vice. President, Seoretary For.NET, and
Sergeant- at-Arms Be own coming within the highest
elective honors. He concluded by offering the
sentiment, 11 The Amerioan Press: if inspired by
patriotism! morality, and humanity, it cannot fall
to develop constantly increasing power, vigor, arid
consequent independence.”
■ Representatives Brooks and Baldwin, and Sena
tor Ahthoht, Superintendent of the ; Public Print
ing Devbeeb, and Clerk of the House McPherson,
afforded muoh pleasure to the company by their re
sponses to the calls made upon them for their share
of the contributions to the oratorical and intellectual
of the entertainment. -
The Virginia legislature—Bill for , tire
Abolition of Slavery.
The Joint Committee of the Senate and House or
the Virginia Legislature, now in session at Alexan
dria, agreed last night on a bill calling si convention
for the abolition of slavery in that State. The bill
will doubtless be passed to-morrow.
‘ - Funeral of Major General Buford,
The funeral of Major General Buford took
place this (Sunday) afternoon, and was largely at
tended. Eight major generals aoted as paU-bearers,
and President Lincoln attended the services. The'
escort consisted of Battery L, sth United States Ar
tillery, a company of cavalry, and the Oth Regiment
oi the Invalid Corps. During the ceremonies the
oburoh bellß were tolled and the flags piaoed at half
mast.
The Telegraphic Association.
A meeting of telegraph operators waß held in this
oity to-day, to ratify ana adopt the constitution
framed by the national convention of telegraph ope
rators, held in the city of New York last November-
Twenty-five names were placed on the roll, and the
constitution was unapimouriy adopted, A district
organization was perfected by electing William H.
Young as director, T. N. T.ouoke, treasurer, and
Ford W. Eoycb. as secretary. A district organ,”
zation will soon be commenced at Alexandria. The
meeting to-day shows the association to be in a
flourishing condition in this section.
Of the thousand and fifty-one applicants for com
missions in negro regiments, five hundred and sixty
have been reoommended by the board for appoint
ment, namely: for colonels, 6; lieutenant colonels,
10 ; majors, £5; oapt'ains, IM, first lieutenants, IS3;
second lieutenants, 263.
Captain Newhall, formerly of the 3d Pennsyl
vania Cavalry, but at the time of his death assistant
adjutant general onj General Gbegg's staff, was
drowned on Friday night while crossing a small
creek this side of the Kappahannook. He had just
been to headquarters to have leave of absence
signed, and was returning to his quarters when the
accident occurred.
The necessary papers have been issued from the
Treasury Department, for the establishment of a
national bank at .New Orleans, with a capital of
half a million, under the National Currency act;
alio for a third bank at St. Louis, with a oapital of
over one million dollars,
The First National Bank of this city will com
mence to-morrow the issue of notes recently pre
pared by the Treasury Department for circulation
by such institutions,.
Only eighty millions of the five hundred million
of the five-twenty loan remain unsold.
Reception at the White House.
The President and Mrs, Lincoln were “athome”
on Saturday afternoon, receiving the officers of the
Russian fleet, members of the Cabinet and of both
Houses of Congresß, justices of the Supreme Court,
and gentlemen connected with the diplomatic corps.
The Marine Band was in attendance, and much good
humor prevailed.
Two hundred and twelve rebel
sent from the Old Capitol Prison on Saturday
morning to Philadelphia to take the oath of alle
giance. This makes 418 that have been sent to the
same plaoe this week for the same purpose.
WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to The Press.
WASHINGTON, D. C,, DM. 20,
Generating Steam by Petroleum,
Dinner to Speaker Colfax.
Officers for the Negro Regiments.
Dentil of Captain Newliall.
New National Banks.
The Oath of Allegiance.
Diplomatic Correspondence.
Mr. Seward’s diplomatic correspondence will be
ready for the press in a day or two.
THE War in ViMisu,
The Shenandoah Valley—Capture of Rebel
Cavalry-Operations of General SnUlvnn.
Baltimore, Dec. 19. —A despatch to the. Bslti
morc American, from Harper’s Ferry, dated last eve
ning, ssys: ,
Just as the mail is about to close a detachment of
the 22d Pennsylvania Cavalry has brought in Colo
nel Carter, of the let Virginia rebel cavalry, and six
other prisoners, who were captured yesterday at
Upperville, Fauquier county.
Messengers from General Sullivan’s cavalry, be
yordWincheater, report that General Averill and
bis cavalry were in Staunton yesterday, and tore up
the railroad track for six miles, between that place
and Gordonsville. This is very important, if true,
but it needs confirmation.
Charlestown, Ya., Dec. 17. —Notwithstanding
the terrible" inclemency of the weather in these
mountainous regions, General Sullivan’s cavalry
are doing good service in the Shenandoah Valley,
■yesterday a iquad of thirty rebel prisoners were
brought from the front, and the cry is still they come.
FORTRESS MONROE,
in Order for the Enrolment of the Citizens
of Norlollc—Movements of Gen. Antler.
Fortress Monroe, Deo. 18.—A train of cars, un
der a flag of truce, left Norfolk for Suffolk yester
day, with fourteen women and eleven children
aboard, in oharge of Captain Tarnble and Lieutenant
Struble, of Gen. Barnes’ staff. These passengers
are going South, to remain during the war. V
Mejor General Butler has issued an order for: the
enrolment of all able-bodied male citizens, colored
and white, between the ages of eighteen and forty
five years, in this department, to be completed by
the Ist of January next. ' ;
Major Stevens, commander of the army gunboats,
has been relieved of his command by Major General
Graham. ■
The explosion of the magazlne:at Fort. Yorktown
hss destroyed almost all the buildings remaining in
the town. Five mon were injured.
Major General Butler and staff left for. Newport'
News this afternoon on the steamer Silas O. Pierce.
On Wednesday night last our pickets were driven
in by the Confederates at' Gloucester Point. Two
companies of United States > troops were immedi
ately sent out to their aid, and succeeded in dis
persing the enemy.
Strike tor Higlier Wages iu Boston.
Boston, Dee. 20.—One hundred and forty rail
makers, in an iron foundry at Neponset, struck for
higher wages'on Saturday morningj and there w«ro
indications of a serious riot. The town authorities,
on being informed of the affair, sent to Boston for
the police, who promptly arrived and arrested
eleven of the leading strikers, who were committed
to jail. The other workmen then quietly dispersed,
anil will probably resume work at the old prices, *’
Sinking oi":an Ohio Steamer.
Wheeling, Dec. 19.— The steamer Prim* Donna
struck a sunken coal barge, when eighteen miles
below herb, this; morning, and sunk to her cabin
fleor. - There were ho lives lost by the acoident.
Tile U. S. Gunboat Daylight. Blown Up.
"Washington, Deo. 19.—The following despatch
has been received: ;
Fortress Monroe, Dec. 18 —To Major Eckert,
Assistant Superintendent U, S. Military Tele
graph :I have jußt arrived from Beaufort in the
steamer Spaulding. It was reported .that the gun
boat Daylight was. blown up near Wilmington.
Another gunboat had chased a blockade runner
ashore, and the Daylight wont in to take possession
of her, when a rebel battery, concealed on the shore,
threw a shell into the Daylight’s magazine, .destroy
ing her, and killing most of her officers and oreiv.
There was no positive confirmation of the report,
but it was believed by the naval officers at Beaufort.
L. T. SHELDEN, Oapt. and Ass’t Sup’t.
THE REPORT CONFIRMED. J
Baltimore,. Dee. lit—A letter from Fortress
Monroe says that the steamer Spaulding, whioh
had arrived there Horn Morehead City, N. C., on
Fliday, reports that just before her departure news
had been received at that .city of the explosion of
the magazine of the United States gunboat Day
light. by a shell thrown from the rebel Fort Fisher.
He-enlistnient ol*. Veterans.
-Cbattanooga, Deo. 19—Tho order that three
fourths of the aggregate or the veteran regiments
must re-enllst la order to get furloughs, has almost
nut a stop to ra-enliatmcnts; in many cases more
than one-fouitli being either iu the.hoepitals or pri
soners. The men are anxious to got home before
the holidays.
The Michigan Legislature.
Detroit, Dec. 19. —The Governor of tilts Stato
has called an extra session of the Legislature, to
meet at Lansing, on the 19th proximo.
Departure oljttie l>auii)9t;us,
-Portland, Deo. 19 —The steamer Danvascus sailed
at 6.o’ek>ok thUevening tot Liverpool.' ....
DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
IrntfroMMllty of Hard Fighting with
longstreet.
Grant In Constant Communi
cation with Foster.
Wabhinston, Dec, 19.—The Evening Star pub
lishes the following: The authorities here have
received a despatch from General Grant at Chatta
nooga. The latest is up to last night, which is dated
at nine o’oldok, It does not indicate any recent
ohange in the situation of affairs them, General.
Grant is in eonstant and direot telegraphio commu
nication with Genera] Foster at Knoxville, and had
there been any severe fighting between Longstreot’s
forces and those of the United States in pursuit of
him, as the press despatches from Cincinnati state,
General Grant would doubtless have sent such in
formation here. The faot that he says nothing about
any such engagement or engagements induces the
belief that the statements via Cincinnati, referred
to above, arc muoh exaggerated.
THE WAR IN ARKANSAS.
DEFEAT OF THE REBELS
Capture of Three Guns.
Cairo, Dec. 19.—Advices from Little Hook, Ar
kansas, to the 6th Inst., say that the fear of an attack
on Little Rook is no longer entertained.
The rebel Geperal MoCrea, who has been moving
between the Arkansas and White rivers, was attack
ed some time since at Jacksonport, by Col. Black, of
the 23d Missouri Regiment, The enemy were re
pulsed, and Black captured three pieceß of artillery.
Gen. Carr has assumed the oommand of the 2d Di
vision of the Army of Arkansas,
TEXAS,
The Coast in Possession of our Forces,
GALVESTON TO BE ATTACKED.
Boston, Deo. 19.— The New Orleans correspond
ent of the Traveller, under date of the 10th instant,
says:
General Washburne holds the coast of Texas,
from the'Rio Grande to within one hundred miles of
Galveston.
Another division of the Thirteenth Corps will
start for the Texas coast to-day, and the expectation
is that Galveston will be the next place to be put
down in the history of the war as having been re
duced by the United States forces. _
General Franklin is stiff at New Iberia, with about
four divisions.
General Weltzel will leave for the North, to join
General Butler’s oommand, in a few days. It is not
known who will take his plaee in this department.
NEW ORLEANS.
Arrival of the Steamer Morning Star 4
ANOTHER ACT OF PIRACY/
Ail American Schooner Seized by Rebel
Passengers,
CONFIRMATION OF THE CAPTURE OF PUEBLA.
New Toek, Dec. 20.— The steamship Morning
Star arrived here to-night, from New Orleans on
Dec. 13th, via Havana on the 15th. She brings
$lOO,OOO in specie and 1,100 bales of cotton. Among
her passengers are General Weitzel, accompanied by
Captain Fred. E. Smith and Lieutenants Groves
and Fitch, who have been transferred to General
Butler’s department in compliance with the wish of
the latter General.
The Morning Star also brings as passengers Cap
tain James Nichols, and Walker Greenough, super
oargo of the schooner Joseph L. Gerety, which was
eaptured by the pirates, on the 2d day out from
Matamoros. -
Captain Nichols reports that he left Matamoros
November 16th, bound for New York, with a cargo
of ootton and Bix passengers. On the night of
the 17th the passengers, with drawn revolvers,
surprised and imprisoned the captain and crew, and
took possession of the vessel. The pirates, after
keeping the crew in confinement for eight days, put
all handß into a small boat, and told them to find
their way to land the best way they oould. They
landed on the coast of Sisal after two days and
nights at sea; there they got passage to Havana.
The passengers’ nameb were T. E. Hogg, of Balti
more ; J. Brown, of Canada.; James Clements,
Kelley Brown, and John Wilson. The latter was ■
a mate with Gordon, the slaver, and says he was in
the Tombs, in New. York, for nearly five years.
They say there are four other pirates in Matamoros
waiting for chances like this.
After they had put the eaptain and orew in the
small boats, they hoisted the rebel flag,-and fired off
pistols as a salute, saying that they had authority
from the Confederate Goveffiment. When asked
where they were bound, they said to Belize, Hon
duras, where they could sell the vessel and cargo.
The vessel belonged to Ffnnois Gerety, of New
York. ..... ... ■
New Orleans, Deo. 9;—The United States gun
boat Kanawha baa arrived with the prize schooner.
Winona, which was 1 oaptured while bound from Ha
vana to Mobile. Her cargo consists of 246 bales or
cotton, SOO barrels of rosin, U barrels of turpentine,
and $5,000 in money.
Until a short time since, the schooner had been
used as a rebel gunboat at Mobile. N
The late black frost will considerably shorten the
sugar erop in Louisiana.
The receipts of cotton In New Orleans since the
first of September have been over 43,000 bales.
One hundred guns were fixed here yesterday, in
honor of Grant’s victory. /
Rumors come from tjie Southern Confedeioy that
Bragg has committed suicide, and that Longstreet
is trapped. . .
The recapture of Puebla by the Mexicans is again
confirmed. ~
General Banks has recovered from his illness.
Last night Mrs. Banks gave a reception at her
residence, and it was said to have been a very bril
liant and agreeable affair. The guests comprised
the Site of the oity, and army and navy, the consuls",
and the officers' of the foreign war steamer*.
- New Orleans, Dec.Tl.—Three or four thousand
troops, under Wirt, Adams, Oroßby, and Logan, ap
peared in the vicinity of Natchez, early this week,
■and attacked our forces under General Gresham,
and were r epulsed aha pursued. It is said that we
took 800 prisoners.
The steamer Von Phul, which left here for St,
Louis on Monday, was badly damaged by a rebel
battery just above Bayou Sara. A shell exploded
in the pilot-home, killing. Captain Yeaman and
Mr. Curry, the bar-tender v Nine boat hands were
wounded, three fatally. The boat was saved from
total destruction.
Lieutenant Gove, of Boston, and seven others of
the 3d Massachusetts Cavalry, were oaptured, a few
days ago, near Port Hudson, by a party of Logan’s
men. Lieutenant Gove was badly wounded, and
four of his men more or leas seriously.
The reports which have been current of a conspi
racy between the colored troops and the rebel prison
ers at Fort Jackson are false.
' A destructive fire ocourred here this morning, the
loss being estimated at $250,000, .One fireman was
killed and several injured.
New Orleans, Dec. 12- BP. M.— The excitement
occasioned here by the report of a mutiny at Fort
Jackson on the 19th inst., has barely subsided yet.
The wildest and most improbable rumors prevailed,
that every white man in the fort had been massa
cred, and that the negroes were about to kill every
white man in the vicinity, &c.; but the truth was
known at headquarters early on the morning of the
10th. ,
The following are the facts:
The negroes had taken offence at one of the offl.
cers in oommand, and swore vengeance. Trying to get
possession of his person, they encountered more op
position than they anticipated, and fired some Bhots
at random and iiito the air, but they never intended
to create a mutiny nor to shed blood. No one was
injured.
The whole affair did not last half an hour. The
officers easily quieted the, men, and they have not
since made any demonstrations.
There is no additional news from Texas, except
ing the oapture of Fort Esperanza, Matagorda Bay.
The news from Havana, per the Morning Star, is
meagre.
: Advices from Vera Cruz state that the Frenoh were
slowly advancing towards the interior. Communi
cations with Vera Cruz are very precarious. Con-
voya both ways were being attacked anti sometimes
cut up by guerillas.
-General Diaz had made a great raid through Q,ue
retaro, Mexico, Oaxaca, and otiierStatei. He cap
tured 270 prisoners.
Reinforcements of troops were still being sent to
Saint Domingo.-
The audience at the theatre here, on the Bth, on
account of dissatisfaction with the performance,
destroyed furniture in the building to the amount
of $3,000. Several young gentlemen were arrested.
- The French steamer Allier arrived this morning
with 1,200 troops for Vera Cruz.
Mormon Murderer Ilung;
San Francisco, Dee. n.—The following despatch
was received from Los Angeles to-day:
Charles Watkins was indioted Tor murder by a spe
cial grand jury yesterday. This morning he was
brought into court for trial, and pleaded guilty. Ke
waß immediately seized by the Vigilance Commit
tee, who entered the court-room in large numbers,
taken from the custody of the sheriff, and hung.
Watkinß was an English Mormon, and His parents
reside at Salt Lake. He is known to have killed
three men in Utah, and he confessed that he had
committed six other murders.
The despatch further Btatcs that ho was;also en
gaged in the Meadow Mountain massacre.
San Francisco, Dec. 18.—Sylvester Lowery and
hia associates, of Arizona, have cntoiedisuits against
General Carleton and West, and their associates
and officers, for $ 1,620,000, for taking possession or
their silver mines, several months ago, without just
cause. "
"The Union Convention to nominate- candidates
for State officers meets in Nevada. Territary on the
31st ol December.
- " SHIP movements,
San - Francisco, Deo. 19. —Sailed —Ship Law
rence, for Liverpool, with 3,400 sacks of wheat;
ship Grant, tor Liverpool; with 39,000 sacks of wheat.
SAN Francisco, Deo. 2QkVArrived— SteameraSt.
Louis anil Moses Taylor, fronoPanama. They re
port the arrival of the chips G. N. Sutherland and
Piscataqua, fiom Philadelphia; at Acapuloft. ,
Steamboat Sunk.
Wli KgLiN'G, D< c. 19 —The steamer Prima Danua
struok on a sunken coal barge'eighteen mlifß below
lieie, tills morning, and iwak tqjaaruilHn floor. No
lives were lost, . :
LOUISVILLE.
"An Accident and Loss of Life—Tile River
Rising.
LouißviLLß, Dec. 20.— As seven laborers this af
ternoon were rowing a large soow, containing a
iocomotive for the Frankfort Bailroad Company,
from Jeffersonville to the railroad river-ddp6f in
Louisville, the ourrent carried them over the falls,
by which the boat was upset, and the loaomotive
sunk. Three or the men were, drowned, and the
remaining four were resoued by Captain Fink,
piloting the steamer Colesto, who, with great daring,
rounded his boat upon the falls.
It has been very cold here for the past two days.
AtB o’clock this morning the mercury stood at five
degrees above zero.
The weather is more moderate this evening; the
meroury is at 22 degrees, the barometer at 29 TO, and
falling.
The river is rising rapidly, and there is plenty of
water over the river for the largest boats.
Robbery of U. S. Five-Twenty Bonds.
Newark, N. J-, Deo. 19.—The Express office at
Bordentown, N. J., was robbed to-day of the follow
ing United States.bonds: Five-twenties, No. 2,899,
for $500; No. 6,237 for $ 160 ; No. 6,236 for $ 100. Pay
ment on the bonds is stopped.
Non-Arrival of Steamers.
St. Johns, N. 8., Dec. 19.—There is a gale from
the westward to-day, accompanied by a heavy rain.
No steamers have passed Cape Race recently.
Arrival of the Hccla.
New York, Dec. 20 —The steamer Hecla has ar
rived, but her advioes have been anticipated,
The Hibernia at Boston.
- Boston, Dec. 20.—The steamer Hibernia; from
Liverpool, arrived at this port at 7 F. M.
Markets by Telegraph.
Baltimokb, Deo. 19.—Flour steady; Wheat dull,
Kentucky white is quoted at $1.68@1.95. Corn ac
tive and firm; now yellow sold at $1.16. Whisky
dosed firm and buoyant; Ohio is quoted at9ojj@9ic.
Cincinnati, Deo, 19.—Wheat buoyant. Whisky
advanoed; sales are quoted at 83c. Hogs firm, and
holders demand an advance; sales are quoted at
$7.65: receipts to-day 2,500. Meßs Pork was held at
$2O. Lard was held at 13c.
Cairo, vice, 19 —466 bales of cotton were sold at
Memphis on the I6tb. The prices were unchanged.
The receipts were only 87 bales. ...
-Bt.t.oot, ,.De°Ai9 —Onttnn unchanged.. Sales of
66 bales, and reoeipts of 80. flour nnner. vtav...
firmer and unchanged. Corn firm. Cats easier. ' *s|
San Francisco, Dec. 7.— The maikets are gene
rally quiet, though many jobbers continue to have
a fair trade with' the interior. The scarcity of ton
ange continues, and ships are wanted to load with
cargoes for China, New York, Boston, and Liver
pool. - ,
‘ Marine.
New York, Dec, 20.— Arrived,‘Bark Kumdohl,
from Alioant.
Public Entertainments.
Academy of Music.— The Martinetti and Mar
zetti families, formerly leading members of the great
Bavel troupe,l succeed the Italian Opera, substitut
ing pbysteal for vocal gymnastics, and .the tight
rope for the cadenza, Mr. Hood has engaged very
fine performers in the ballet and the pantomime,
and Ksnfretta and Madame Marzetti are well sus
tained. These performances, which wffl be changed
nightly, will no doubt prove very attractive during
the holidays. J
New' Chestnut-street Theatre. — ll Lear,”
“JaokCade,” “Richelieu,” and 11 Spartacus,” were
performed last week by Mr. Forrest. This evening
the 11 Gladiator” will be repeated. A repetition of
11 King Lear” is eagerly desired by very many who
were unable to witness its first performance.
Miss Johanna Clauesen appeared for*the eighth
and last time on Saturday evening. She has made
a favorable impression. We look for a re-engage
ment, and meanwhile desire for her an unlimited
quantity of paying negotiations.
B,On Wednesday’ evening Miss Jean Hosmer will
appear in “ Borneo and Juliet.” Where does Ma
nager Wheatley pick up these novelties? The off
nights of Mr. Forrest certainly afford to aspiring
novices an opportunity which they would otherwise
have long to wait for.
Walnut street Theatre.— Mr. Clarke will
play Major De Boots this evening, a performance of
which we recently advised our readers,to beware.
We have no expectation that our advice will be
taken. Mr. Clarke, however, Is not responsible for
the multiplication of De Basis, which must follow
this new production of one of his best charaatSrs.
He wishes to entertain the public, and succeeds.
But he is probably unaware of the immense extent
to which De Boots is imitated, and how many young
gentlemen he is helping to be at once witty and
ridiculous. Yet all this we are ready to forgive for
the sake of the rare enjoyment given by this un
paralleled piece of absurdity and humor. De Bools it
a tiiumphant union of the natural with the impossi
ble. The character reminds one of real life, and yet
it is unlike anything the dramatist has drawn, or
society produeed. It is a fantastic exaggeration,
like one of in “Punch,” of the most
amusing elements of humanity, and inspired with
the richest and most extravagant fun. Those who
have not seen Be Bools should use this last opportu
nity. “ Everybody’s Friend” isreally a good comedy.
All the characters are. well worked out, and the dia
logue is capital.
' Mr. Clarke will also produce to night “ The Ame
rican Cousin,” for the last time, but of his well
known and admirable performance of Asa Trenchard
it is unnecessary to speak. Mr. Clarke’s presence
in the holidays is Christmas presents to the public.
A merry Christmas is so well established by his en
gagement, that we might suggest to themanagement
the hanging of the stage in evergreens.
-- 'New Abch-steert TanATmff—TTie dramatic al
liance has given place to Frank Drew, who appears
for the first time, this evening, since his return from
fits trans-Atlantic tour, in “The Irish Emigrant”
and “ Mazeppa,” His many old friends will rejoice
to welcome him, and to applaud the improvement
which, even in his drollery, they have reason to
hope he has effected.
’-National Circus,— The circus continues its
■prosperous career. The addition of novelties has
much to do with its success. The holiday programme
will be extensive and varied. The- matinees on
■Wednesday and Saturday afternoon’s are well
attended. _ ..
The Holidays.—Signor Blitz is giving, with all
his best inspiration- of humor and magic, some of
the most delightful exhibitions of the holidays.
Fathers, mothers, and children, should see him at
the Temple of Wondeis, Assembly Buildings.
Atlantic Monthly for January.— A splendid
number. Among the contents are poems by Bryant
and Lowell; a translation by Longfellow of three
cantos of Dante’s “ Paradiso ;” and prose articles
by Dr. Holmes, Louis Agassiz, Mrs. Stowe, Miss
Frereott, Gail Hamilton, .7. F, Quincy, George B.
Ellis, George S. Hillard, C. C. Hizewcll, and the
author of “ Margaret Howth.”
Peterson’s Ladles’ Magazine. —There are
here two fine engravings on steel, besides colored
fashions, wood-cuts, patterns, etc,, and a variety of
veiy readable Tetter-press. This Magazine is one
of the best of its class, and has*an immense circu
lation. -
The Bound Table.— The first number of a new
paper, The Round Table, published at New York, has
reached us. It somewhat reminds us of the Saturday
Bevieso, without the dogmatism of that famous jour- ■
nal. It is more literary than political, and we only
hope that it may not be too good for the crowd of
readers. It is well printed, and the size of Harper’s
Weekly. _
Positive Sale of French Goods, &c. The
attention of dealers is requested to the sale of
French, German, and British dry, goods, &0., em
bracing 400 lots of French staple articles in silks,
worsted, woolens, and cottons, to be peremptorily
sold by catalogue on four months’ credit, com
mencing this morning at ten o’clock precisely, by
John B. Myers Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234
Market street.
Death or a well-known Pudlisher.—Coro
ner Naumann on Friday held an inquest In the li
quor and grocery store corner of Ann street, and
Theatre alley, on the body of William H. Graham,
40 years of age, who died from the . effects of expo
sure and intemperance. The deceased was for many
years, publisher and proprietor of Grahaw>s Maga-
then one of the ablest and best* conducted
monthlies on this continent.
He met with reverses, soon fell into habits of in
temperance, and finely became a perfect sot, passing
his time In low groggeries. and sleeping in lodging
houses and elsewhere. He was related by ties of
blood or marriage to several of our most influential
families. On Friday morning, while passing down
Nassau street, he suddenly became unwell, and, at
his request, was taken to the above premises, where
he soon after'died.. Dr." Robinson made a post-mor
tem examination of the body, and found that death
waß the result of Intemperance, and a verdict to that
effect was rendered by the jury.— Tribune, .
An Ordeal. —Meditcval ordeals have not yet
quite exploded, as is generally Imagined—at least.
not yet among the Insurgents In Poland, as the fol
lowing inoident will show:—A Jew travelling In the
neighborhood of Sanwalk was stopped by some Rus
sian troops, to whom he had to give some Informa
tion, and was then allowed to depart without moles
tation. Soon afterwards he was stopped by a band
of insurgents, whose chief, without formality, In
formed him that he must die for having betrayed
them to the Russians. In vain the .Tew protested
his Innocence, stating that the Russians had in
quired about the road to some neighboring village,
not in any way connected with the movements of
the insurgents. Only a few minutes for prayer were
allowed him. Afterwards & rope was thrown round
his neck, and he. wasjhung on a strong branch ot a
tree. But, wonderful to say, the branch broke.
Struck by this incident, the chief said to the man,
“ Thy God is powerful; He has delivered thee.
Thou must have told the truth. Go in peace.”—
Jewish Chronicle.
The Strikes ox the Machinists.— The effect
of the strikes of" the machinists on the completion, of
war vessels at New Yorlt still continues to be of the
most disastrous character. The -work on the
« double-enders 11 is goiog on very slowly, very few
of the strikers having returned to work. The Iron
clads Tecwnseh, Manhattan, Mahopac, and Mlanto
nomah, and the navy*buiit vessels—Shamrock, Mau
mee, Peoria, and Nyack, besides several others—
must he detained for weeks, and probably months,
longer than was anticipated, in consequence of the
refusal of the men to go to work. The lack of
seamen and these strikes have for the present
paralyzed the efforts of the Navy Department to
maintain the cruising detachment* of the il-et.
Several contractors, however, have n’jdelafKe ccm.
cessions to the workmen, some of them na.vin =
given an advance of fifteen per cisat. m wa„es.
This aat-ion, however, has induced but rew moa to
go to woik. . . - - - ■ ' • ■
r After "Waterloo.— After the battle, Wellington
wtdflM Brussels and the flrat person who entered
his room'em the morning of the 19th, waa Dr. Hume.
”He had as »»>•? the deetor, “ takeoff all
his clothes, but his face was covered with theflust
Xml sweat of the previous day- He extended his
hand to me. which I held in mine while I told him ot
Alexander Gordon’s death. He was muon
afltooted.* S fait hia tears dropping fast- upon my
band, ftnd> looking towards him, saw tham chasing
one another in furrows over hia dusty lie
biuibed suddenly away with left hand,
and said to me, in' a voice tremulous with emotion:
‘Well, thank God l I don’fr know wbatifcistolo3e
a battle,'but certainly nothing can b» more, painful
than tO Eftin one with.tbc loss of bo many of one *
friends.* "—Fifty Years' Biographical Reniitnieenccs,
by l#rd William Lennox*
A. robbbti recently broke into, a house at Debrec
zin, Hungary, there toeing only the daughter, agel7,
of {lie ocoupier at home, except an old man, whom
be killed on entering. He demanded her father a
uronorty, and told her she must die, lost she should
cause his arrest. Seeing that he was in earnest, aid)
begged to be allowed to die by a swift poison, to
which he obnsented. She took a bottle from Mjljslf,
ucooiked-it, raised It to her lips, and then aflddeuly
- dashed the contents Into his fape and eytj. He fell
howling to‘the floor, and next day died. ThB bottle
contained oil ol vitjial.
Six Lunatics Burst to Death.—A melancholy
catastrophe ha* just token place in the Aisne, where
a great part of the 'Lunatic Aiylum of MoutreuU
eous-Laon has been destroyed by fire, and six of
its. inmates burnt to death. The establishment
was full of lunatics of both sexes. Among them
was a young man, about twenty-five years of
age. who was usually kept in a separate cell, and
with a straight waistcoat on. On the day be
fore the fire he was visited by some of his relatives,
who requested the director to release him from
that confinement, and, as he then appeared more
tranquil, it was done. The following morning he,
by some means or other, got possession .of a
chemical match, and at night set fire to his bed,
which was scon burnt, and the fire afterwards
caught the wood-work, with which all the cells
of the violent lunatics are lined, and next burned
through the ceiling to the floor above. Once getting
vent, The flames rapidly extended right and left, and
spread alarm throughout the place. The keepers
and others then rushed to the different cells to get
out the inmates, which was a work of great difficul
ty, as many of them were strapped down to their
beds, and after they were set tree they had to be
oarried out by main force. The task was at length
accomplished, and the guardians and others were
congratulating themselves that no lives had been
lost, wheD, on making another round among the
cells, they found that eix of the females had rushed
back unobserved into the flames, where they met a
horrible death. The madman who had oaused the
catastrophe was afterwards found running about in
the garden, singing, and appearing highly delighted
With what he had don e.—Galignani.
Austrian Rule in Vent je.— The Stide pub
lishes the following account of the termination of a
political trial in Austria which has lasted nearly
two years: “At the beginning of the year 1862
a number of the principal oitizens of Venice were
arrested and'charged before:a military.tribunal
with aiding in the escape of young men from Venetia
to avoid military service in the Austrian army.
The trial lasted throughout the year, and in Janua
ry, 1863, fresh arrests took place, and. other prison
ers were included in the same charge as those first
mentioned, whioh caused a further delay. At length,
in June last, the tribunal condemned 17 of the ac
cused to terms of from one to four years’ im
prisonment in a fortreß*; seven were acquitted for
want of sufficient proof, and two were pardoned, al
though at the residence of one of those last-named
•the papers on which the whole prosecution was
based had been found. Five of the principal accused
were, however, detained without any decision
being announced, their sentences being forwarded
to Vienna for approval. The Supreme Military
Court of Vienna has how, after five months’ reflec
tion, returned the sentences to Venice confirmed,
and the prisoners At last know their fate. The ad
vocate Clemente Fusinato is condemned to 16 years 1
imprisonment in a fortress ; and Count Marolin to
14 years, and MM. Brioisdal B 6 and Zanetti to
12 years of the same punishment.”
A Prophecy Fulfilled. —" Washington Irving
wrote the following to a friend, in January, 1862,
immediately after the coup d'etat: “I should not be
there were a,long swell of tranquility
in Paris under nis aosoiure sway.
d'etat been imperfectly effected, or his election, mo
derately successful, France might have been thrown
into a terrible turmoil; but now he will hold her
down with a strong hand until she-has kicked out
tbe last spasm and convulsion of French liberty and
1b quiet, You will then most probably have all the
splendors of the imperialfcourt, with the spectacles
and public improvements by which Napoleon used
to dazzle tbe capital and keep the Parisians in good
humor. All this I presume will be more to the taste
of temporary residents like yourself than the stern
simplicity of republicanism; and a long interval of
quiet would be a prosperous interval for the com
mercial world; so both you and Storrow may find
yourselves comfortable under the absolute sway of
Napoleon the Second.”
—The Levant Herald states that Sheikh Farls Ef
fendi Shediak, the editor of El Jaouib y is engaged in
translating into Arabic Gribbon’s 11 Decline and Fall
of tbe Roman Empire,” whioh is subsequently to be
rendered into Turkish, and published at the expense
of his‘•Excellency Subhi Bey. '
the city.
[VOB ADDITIONAL OITiT NEWS, BBH IfOUfiTH PAGE.]
Installation. —Rev. John Moore was in
stalled, last evening, over the South Presbyterian
Ghureh (O. S.), in this city. The attendance was
large, and the exercises were of a deeply interesting
character. Bev. J. H. Jones, D. D., presided on the
occasion, and delivered the oharge to the people;
Eev. J. M. Crowell gave the oharge to the pastor,
and the sermon was by Rev. W. M. Cornell, TIL. D.,
from 2 Cor., vi., 10: “As sorrowful, yet always re
joicing ;as poor, yet making many rich; as .having
nothing, and yet possessing all things.”
He showed that ministers have sorrow; that they
are poor : that they have joy ; that they are rich.
Of the richeß of the Christian minister it was re
marked, “ He has Implanted in his heart holy love.
From having been an heir of misery, he has become
an heir of immortal glory. God is his portion,
Christ his redeemer, the Holy Spirit his sanctifier,
angels his guard, the spirits of just men made per
fect his future companions, and Heaven his destined
home.”
11 In the best possible eense, the Christian possesses
all the riches of this world. The canes of India,
the spices of Arabia, the gold of Ophir, and the
Bhips of Tarshish, are all his. He has not, indeed,
a legal title to them according to the legality of this
world. But legal titles and formal deeds he needs
not. They would only perplex him if he had them.
The fertile field, the flowery garden, the verdant
mead, the superb mansiOD, the magnificent dome,
the gorgeous palace and the glittering spire, are all
the property of the Christian. As to all theiateatß
end purposes for which God made them, he enjoys
them to the full. He feasts his eye on all the beau
ties of nature. He regales his ear with the music of
every tenant of the grove. Carry him to the top of
yonder mount, show him all the*kingdoms..of the
world, and the glory of them, and they are all his.
So far from belonging to Satan, as he once said
they did, they all belong to Christ. They were
created by Him and for Him. They are owned
and governed by him. -They are, indeed, lent to dif
ferent tenants of the human family. Bat to whom
soever they may be lent, they belong to Christ, and
through Him to the Christian, for he is an heir of
God, and a joint heir with Christ.”
The grand point of the sermon was to show how
Christian ministers were ta make others fich. This
was said to be, not by preaohing fine sermons; not
by securing a crowded house by the novelty of a minis
ter’s preaching infidelity or skepticism, or some new
thing; nor by smooth gestures and eccentricities;
nor by imitating some supposed great man; nor by
sheathing the sword of the spirit with garlands of
flowers; nor by simply making your hearers weep—
but souls are made rich by the minister’s preaching.
1. By his being eminently pious; 2.3 y his preaoh
ing the truth; 3. By his rightly dividing it; 4. By
Drfngicg •• healing oil” to light the sanctuary, not
written sermons; 6. By his being rich inhumanleantr
ing; —(the objections to alearned ministry were well
reiuted); —6. By preaching the Bible; 7. By preach
ing witlr simplicity ; 8". By imitating a meek and
noiseless piety ; 9. By meeting all classes alike.
The minister was Bhown to have the lights of a
citizen. The excellency of the ministry was ex
hibited by its making many rich..
CITY IT EM S .
Thb Great Christmas Gift. —The past week
has witnessed the busiest scene at the splendid
.warerooms of the "Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Ma
chine, Ho. 704 Chestnut street, ever experienced by
any business eslablillhnWfit iU Philadelphia.
The rush for the Wheeier & Wilson Sewing Ma.
chine for Holiday Gifts, at 704 Chestnut street, IB
unprecedented.
Gentlemen of taste have decided unanimously
that the most appropriate gifts of the season are the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines, sold in some
twenty different styles, and at as many different
prices, at 704 Chestnut street.
As a gift from a husband to a wife, there could be
nothing so appropriate as the Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine.
Nothing could be more acceptable as a present
from s brother to a sister than one of these admi
rable ma chines, undoubtedly the best in the world
As a gift from a father to a daughter, the Wheeler
A Wilson .Sewing Machine, sold at 704 Chestnut
street, would come like a paternal benediction. Try
it, ye kind'hearted fathers, and your children’s chil
dren will bless you forever.
As a token of esteem from friend to friend, no
thing could be more elegant than this world-re
nowned Sewing Machine, Bold at 704 Chestnut
street.
Christmas presents that have not yet been, will
have to be purchased betweeu now and Thursday
evening. The earlier, therefore, that you order
a Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine the better.
The Agent of the Wheeler & Wilßon Sewing Ma
chine, cold at No. 704 Chestnut street, is making de
liveries promptly ; but, Jo insure, ttieir being sent
home before Christmas day, machines ought to be
selected cl the earlia-t moment possible.
Large numbers of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing
Machines have already been ordered to be delivered
within the next ninety days.
The most perfect,- most easily .operated, most
simply constructed, most durable, most efficient for
all kindß of sewing, and, In short, the best and cheap
est Sewing Machine in the il'orld is the .Wheeler & Wil
son. - ‘ :
'The "Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine la sold
by the Agent in Philadelphia, at the splendid brown-,
stone edifice, No. 704 Chestnut street.
Splendid Stoojv op Holiday Good3.—Ws in
vite special attention to the large stoek of uae»-
ful and fancy goods for holiday presents, adver
tised in another column of our paper this morning,
by Messrs. Rowe &Euston, Nos. 157 and 159 North
Thiid street. These gentlemen are not only among
the largest manufacturers of, and dealers in, this
clasß of goods, (and hence sell cheaper at retail than
many other houses do at wholesale,) but they have
• made great reductions in their prices with a view to
closing out their holiday , goods. Their large four
story establishment Is richly stocked, even to the
basement; among which we may state, forthe infor
mation of buyers, are embraced a splendid assort
ment of hobby arid spring horses, boys l carts and
wheelbarrows, boys’ Government wagons, goose
neck and boys 5 fancy sleds,' pails, rocking
chairs, cradles, velocipedes, rattles, doll-wagons,,
baby-walkers, lady’s workstandß, fanoy reticules,
flower-baskets, pie and cake-baskets, carpet-sweep
ors, clothes-wringerfi, fine whisks for Bilks and vel
vets,. knife and spoon trays, table mats, and a hun
dred other articles adapted for presents, both to
children and adults.
Christmas Decorations. —With characteristic
good taste, Mr. G.W. Eddy, the enterprising agent,
oij the Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Company
in this city, has already decorate! his splendid sales
room, 730 Chestnut street, with the Christmas in
signia. Wreaths of evergreen, intertwined with
flowexa, grace the panels on the-walls, and festoons
of the same adorn the full length of the store, pend
ant from the" ceiling, whilst the large windows in
flout present a similar holiday and patriotic appear
ance? Altogether, the Grover & Baker Sewing Ma
chine establishment iB dressed in a very inviting
Christmas suit, and MK Eddy deserves credit for
haviDg taken the lead in thismatter, and setting the
merchants on our business thoroughfares a good
example. The celebrated Machines of the Grover
& Baker Company have had an. enormous sale this
season for Christmas presents, and we oaa imagine
nothing more appropriate- or elegant for this pur?
’pose. They have been in use long enough to demon
■tuate their unrivalled: excellency, and gain victory
upon victory over all ilvals wherever they have been
exhibited .in competition. Of dors for: these elegant
Machines, to-be delivered: for Christmas, should be
sent in immediately.
“The Hnionis-t.”— This is the appropriate
title or an elegant new. style of Blaok Felt
Hat, just introduced by Mr. Warburton, No. 430
Chestnut strett, next door to . the Post Office, and
which, Srom itc grace, sonvexuonee, and comfort, no;
Igbb than its identity, in a modified form, to his pa
tent Army Folding Hat, which has obtained suoh a
universal popularity among military men, bids fair
to become as great a favorite in America as the
“Republican Hat,” “‘Liberty Cap,” and “Kossuth
Hat” have at various times been among the nation
alities of Europe. “ TAe Ufcioniri” has everything
to recommend it to gentlemen of taste, and has
an individuality about it at once significant
of the oapital name it bears, and is every way- wor-
Ihy of being Me" National Hat—the civic badge of
we. believe it is soon destined to become.
‘ We may state, in conclusion, that the sightly varied
ctj les, adopted by Mr. Warburton in trimming
“The Unionist,” wiu contribute to its
popularity With the olvtc public, . r
Buy thb “Florence.”— Webavo: A 'Ford of
advtoe. to purchasers of Christmas presents who
have determined upon sewing machines, (ai we
know that a great many sensible people have), and
that is, that if they buy any other machine that the
“ Flortnce ,” sold At 630 Chestnut Btreet, they will
repent of it at their leisure. Not that other m*--
ohlnes are without merits; they are all god in
their way, but the Florence 1b the lie.plus ultra , rom
the fact that it combines oil the excellencies (f the
other machines, with several important addltons, ;
that will strike the observer at once as mvalur.bie.
Buy the Florence by all means, and have It delivered
before the holidays, if you osn, but at all events
buy it, r - ’'
Goods of Tabtb and Value for Holzda;
Gifts.—This will be a busy week with everybody
buyers and sellers, and we would suggest to ladi
making-purchases that a very choice and beautif
stock of goods is offered by Mr. John M, Fir ‘
southeast corner of Aroh and Seventh streets. I
particularly suitable for gifts, we may specify!
fine line of morocco satchels, and pocket boo
steel-mounted. These goods are of the moit cj
brated make, and will give satisfaction. His aplexj
assortment of book-markers, fine colognes, and ot
.toilet artioles, gloves, in variety, handmirs
scissors, are all of such a quality as will %
credit to the giver and a pleasure to the recipe
Suprrr Assortment of Gentlemen’s Dtf*
ino Gowns. —Mr. John C. Aziison, No*. 1 i f
Noith Sixth street, first stores above Markets
still a magnificent assortment of Gentlemen’* Ap
pens, notwithstanding his large sale of them dug
the past week. It is beyond doubt the very
stook of these elegant garments in this city. Lbs*
in making their selections of presents for gentlen,
will flrd in this stock (of Gentlemen’s Funding
Goods) the largest variety and the beat styljat
reasonable prices.
Remember the Poor —Mr. W, W. Alterjfo.
835 North Ninth street, is selling coal, for domon
purposes,at much below the usual rates,
hope our citizens will avail themselves of hii sft*
rality—and remember the poor. If you have a triad
in etraitened circumstances, send him ,a ton of
Alter’* coal as & Christmas gift. 'Nothing couldb*
more welcome. --
An Appropriate Christmas Present jor
a Lady to make to a Gentleman, or for a Geitie
man to make to himself, is one. of "Warburtont In
imitable Coverings for the Head ; an extensive v&*
ri»*rr ftf the«A «!{«!#-, *»■ ■«>-: best
shapes, In Silk, Felt, and C&saimere, will n, found
.at his .tore on Chestnut Hired, next door to ttarosc
Office.' N. B.—a new style of Dieas Hst for winter
has just been Introduced, which deserves sp&jui Qo
tlce.
Foa the “Prize Medal” Sheet, or anything
else handsome, good and.oheap In the way of firat
elate Furnishing Goods for Gentlemen, go to George
Grant’s, 610 Chestnut street.
Gkkat Fall in Bonnets.— For the purpose of
reducing their: magnifioent stook of Bonnets, and
Radies’, misses’, and Children's Walking Hate,
Messrs. Wood & Cary, 736 Chestnut street, have re
duced tbeir'prices, in many eases below the cost of
manufacture and importation. Present purchasers
should bear this ih mind.
FINB CBHISTKAS &EOOBttIB3.
Materials for mlnoe meat,
Wines and liquors for medioinal purpose*,
Choice artiolea for the table,
Fine goods for Christmas,
Davis & Richards,
Arch and Tenth. .
New Reading of ait Old Verse,
“Leaves have their time to fall
And fiowers to wither”—frosts strip the woods,
But at any time of year at Granville Stokes’,
The ready cssh seoures the best of goods.
That is to say, clothing for “ all seasons,” O calk
buyer, as you can see by stepping Into the establish*
’nicnt, No. 609 Chestnut street.
Great Reduction in Prices.
Great Reduction in Prices.
Ladies’ and Misseß’ Fine Cloaks,
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine Cloaks.
Also
~ Rich Furs of all kinds,
Rich Furs of all kinds.
In anticipation of the close of the season, we ate
now prepared to make a large concession from
former prices on all our stock.
J. W. Prootoe & Co.,
The Paris Cloak and Far Emporium,
920 Chestnut street.
Christmas, Birth-Day, and Weddino Pre
sents. —The Holy Bible, Harding’s Editions, ae
knowledged to be the most reliable text, family
pulpit, and pocket Bibles, in beautiful style of
Turkey morocco and antique bindings. A new edi
tion, arranged for photographic portraits of families.
William "W. Harding, Publisher,
No. 326 Chestnut street, below Fourth.
Photograph Albums in Every Variety of
Style. Rich Turkey morocco, antique, ivory
mountings, ornamented edges, Ac., Ac., holding from
twelve to two hundred photographs, the cheapest,
the largestj and best assortment in the city.
William W. Harding,
No. 326 Chestnut st., below Fourth, south side.
New Present for Army Officers.-— The novel
and handsome Ridgewood smoking oases, combining
pipe, tobacco-pouch, and match-safe, in one pocket
case, will be sold to order st the fair to be held st
Handel and Haydn Hall, on Tuesday and Wednes
day, the zaaand 23d "of December. They are s
most convenient sitiole for army officers and for
travellers, as well as for all smokers. del Lit*
Fair and Concert. — Concert by the Germania
Band, at Handel and Haydn Hall, (N. E. corner of
Eighth and Spring Garden,) in connection with*
fair in aid of St. Matthew’s P. E. Church, on Tues
day and Wednesday, 22d and 23d of Deoember. Re
freshments of coffee, oysters, confectioneries, Ac.,
will be served, beginning at 16 A. M. -Tickets ad
mitting to both fair and concert, 20 cents. To be had
at the door. del9 4t*
Putting TgELR Foote in it.— The Reb. Mem
miEgerhas Upset the finances of theC. S. A., Jeff
has Upset the army, and Foote is trying to upet Jeff.
<• Whenrogues fall out, then just men get theirdue.”
Let us hope that this proverb may be verified,
though in an extended sense, in the present “ pret
ty quarrel ” that is now going on in the Confedera
cy. But the fact is, the currency has ruined itself
because, its foundation is bad; the army has ruined
itself, for its cause is bad; and Jeff has rained him
self, because he is bad, and the recrimination from
one to the other is the result altogether of every
thing connected with the parties being bad. But we
are satisfied that our cause is just; “ famine and
fighting” will not assail us, and Oharlos Stokes &
Co.’s one-price Clothing Store, under the Continen
tal, will continue to flourish, in spite of ali Eebel
dom.
Jeff Davis’ Ragged Army.— According to the
showing of Jeff Davis and his chief of the Confede
rate rag-bag, Memminger by name, the Confederacy
is in a very had way. No money, no credit, nothing
to. eat, and like Flora McFlimsey, nothing to wear.
The army is as ragged as that which Jack Falstatf
refused to march through Coventry, and as gaunt as
famine itself. In such an emergency there is but
one thing to do: knock under, accept the terms of
the President’s proclamation, give up Jeff Davis
and all his works, and eDjoy the plentiful meals and
the inestimable-privilege of procuring your gar
ments at the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of Rock
hill A Wilson, Nos. 603 and 603 Chestnut street,
•above Sixth.
Cabinet Organs for .
Holiday Gifts.
J. E. Gould, Seventh and Chestnut.
Oakford’s Hats, Continental Hotel.
Geo. Steck A Co.’s Pianos
For Holiday Presents.
Military Goods, Oakfobd’s, Continental*
Holiday Presents fob Gentlemen,-— An ele
gant stock of Wrappers, Scarfs, Cardigan Jackets,
Gloves, and otber choice goods for presents*
- del9 6t Winchester Sc Co, 706 Chestnut St.
Carriage Rugs.— style and price.
del9 6t ‘ Winchester & Co., 706 Chestnut St.
Furs at Oakford’b, Continental.
Willcox & Gibbs’
Sewing Machines,
For Holiday Presents". ~
Fairbanks A Ewiho,
715 Chestnut street.
Oahford’s Continental Hat Emtpo aiuM,
Holiday'Presents at Farson fit Co.’s, Dock
street, below Walnut. Cutlery, Tea Trays, Japan
ned and Plated Ware* Hobby-Horsee and Sleds, ate.
dei6*wsmtf
Willcox & Gibbs’
Sewing Machines,
For Holiday Presents.
Faikbamks & Ewiho,
715 Chestnut street.
Sopt Hats, Uakford’s, Contiaentel.
Wiixcox & Gibes’
SEiyraa Maohihks,.
For Holiday Preaenta.
Fairbanks EV?IHO|
715 Cneatnut ataeat.
New Style Hats —@harle» Oakford & Sons*
Continental Hotel.
WIIXCOX & GI3BB’
: SE'WIKfI ffItAOHIHBSj
For Holiday Prezentu.
Faibbanks & Ewiwo-,
■515 Chertnut aSraefc
Cabinet Oroahs for
Holiday Gifts.
J. E. Gould, Seventh and Chestnut.
A Beauteb3i*, Present for Christmas.— TUg
improved Sleat Elliptic Family Sewing Maohine.
Salesroom 121 Chestnut street. delMSt
C. Oakford & Sons, Coktikbstal.
Gito. Stkjx A Co.’s Piakos^
T . Eor Holiday Premia.
tjßsa AeBORTriKKT. of useful and orna.
inental Iron and other goods, Patent Bookec*.
Skates, As,, at No. 7SL Chestnut street
delist . . S.MiOFKttRAH.
Eadses* and GB.NrLRMKri’a Furs —the largest
and beat (took in the city, at Charles Oaiibnl k
Son*’, Continental Hotel.
Gko. Stuck, h Co.’s Piakos
For Holidsy Pridtanta.
Cauikkt Gkoaks von
Holiday Gifts,
J. E. Gould, Seventh and Chestnut
Corks. Bumioks, Ijsybktbd Nails, EHLAnann
JouiTS. andallidieeases of thefeet, cured without
pain or inconvenience to the
ZACSARtn. Surgeon Chiropodist 9-21 Chestnut
street SefSJS to physiol*®! aud.utgejjns of toe
City. flelTBt