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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29,1863.',
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be paid for. •
The Policy of the Administration.
When we ai’e informed that the' policy of
the Administration makes rebels of the
loyal men of the Southern States, and con
firms the original Secessionists in their
hatred of the Union, we have one or two
answers that have never been answered.
We point to Baltimore. Has the Adminis
tration alienated that city from the Union ?
To Maryland we look. What has it not
accomplished there ? Claimed' by-the re
bellion, and in the early days of the war
sending regiments to its service, Mary
land is now heart and soul for the
Union. It has a loyal Governor, un
conditionally loyal representatives in Con
gress, and thousands of its sons in the
Union army. Massachusetts .is,not mere
thoroughly a part of the Republic than
Maryland is. And from Missouri, a State
in far more danger than Maryland, and
actually the theatre of bloody, and per
sistent war, not only have the armies of. the
Union driven the rebels, but the policy of
the Administration. has driven the ele
ment of rebellion. Of Western Virginia
we need not speak, nor need we nar
rate how the measures of the Govern
ment' are redeeming Louisiana, Arkansas,
end Kentucky, and how even Tennessee,
in many respects the central and most
valuable. State of the Confederacy, is lost to
it forever. The elections, the mass meet-,,
ings, the enlistments in these States, answer
the accusations of the enemies of the Ad
ministration.
But from'Norfolk—a city considered irre
claimable by many, defiant of the national
authority, and held, when captured, only
by the army of occupation—has recently
come additional evidence of' the soundness
of the policy of the Administration. Gen.
Butler and the proclamation of pardon
went to Norfolk almost at ■ the: same
time—the man of justice and the
principle of mercy. One. of .the. fiist
measures of General Butler was an order
requiring all those citizens who refused to
take the oath of allegiance to leave Norfolk.
Up to that moment, hundreds of wealthy
and influential men had not formally sub
mitted to the laws of the United States—but
confronted by an alternative so disagreeable,
they .gracefully yielded the last ..tie. that
bound them to the rebellion. Very few left
the city ; the rest took the oath, emancipa
tion proclamation and all, and seem happier
for the deed. An Episcopal clergyman of
eminence, on the Sabbath after he had taken
the oath, restored to the service the proper
prayer for the President of the United States.
A few of his hearers left the church, when
the clergyman stated that he had sworn to
sustain the Government, and that he should
henceforth act as a loyal man was bound
in honor to do. We have heard many
other similar cases, which justify us in
claiming Norfolk as a loyal city, and in
congratulating General Butler on his firm
ness and energy, and the Administration
upon the policy it sent him thither to enforce.
The restoration of Norfolk is alone sufficient
answer to the idle cry that the Government
offends Union men by Union measures, or
exasperates' rebels by offering them an
honest pardon. #e have made moral as
well as military progress, and are win
ning a double victory through the energy
of the soldier and the wisdom of the states
man. The grand results of the policy of its
Administration are its sufficient vindication,
and it is a proud satisfaction to know that,
in answering its opponents, Pacts have made
argument almost superfluous.
How we Stajid with the South.
The history of the world his been writ
ten. There will come a time when that
history will be revised, and when all that is
there .set down will be subjected to the re-.
* fining process due to the speculation of dis
tant ages. Surrounded, as we a'e, by
scenes to which the past presents ho paral
lel, we have become in a measure accli
mated to the zone of warf are into which we
' have been thrust, and we do not realize, as
we shall hereafter, that one of the spots of
time pregnant with greatest results, is .that
very pointjin which we find ourselves at
present. Every day, every hour chisels
into stricter rectitude our features as
a nation. We may not be able
to view this very gradual wife o
time. Tetj comfl "irt'romainj for oas
month, blind to the progress of events, and
then open our eyes upon the countenance of
the United States, we should find the fea
tures gradually moulded by the hand of
God into the symmetrical proportions of
heauty, and harmony, and nobility. The
meaning of the “ despair and die” curse
which has been pronounced upon the cause
of the Confederacy, may not have been as"
yet completely comprehended by the arch
rebels. Having eyes they see not, having
ears they hear net. They will not see that
they are running on to perdition, and in the
midst of their misery they cry outf malig
nantly against the message and the procla
mation. When the grand item of this re
bellion comes indeed to hold its proper
place in the history of the world; when,
through the labyrinth of time, the secret
springs of action in this murderous war
have felt their way to ultimate results, how
Will SQHililSt of -gw South stand against
that 6fthe hforth?’
took at the present attitude of the South.
It is not enough that for three years she has
gone altogether wrong, that" she has utterly
forsaken the allegiance of her youth, and
behaved with an ignominious malignity, un
paralleled and approached in the history of
nations. It is not enough that Mr. Davis,
the executive representative of the South,
has first seduced and then coerced the peo
ple, at whom he laughs in his sleeve. Worse
than this has been done. One of the purest
minded men that ever breathed upon God’s
earth —a man single-hearted, and the every
muscle of whose brow and breast, and limb
is devoted to the Union and the Constitu
tion he is sworn to maintain and defend—
has been spumed, rejected, and spit upon,
by the poor, proud, rebellious rabble, to
whom he offers with a magnanimity, to
"Which the acts of no other man can he com
pared, peace and pardon.
In the mindsof the speculative it hasoften
• been a question, how did Satan ever come to
entertain wicked thought ? If his dwelling
ft Ixoxrio wJacro temptation neyer
sat at the fireside, how did he ever happen
to act in such a manner as to give saintly
people of the present day the opportunity
for hauling him over the coals so dreadfully?
The “Southern Confederacy ” once dwelt
in an Eden—a , paradise full of sweltering
slaves and bloodhound overseers,. How the
inception of treason and rebellion originated
in the South, belongs to a past too remote too
question now. But .the paradise of the
South has certainly been disrupfttred. The
thunderbolts of tho have ploughed it
up, and scattered alike slave and overseer.
A great war has been inaugurated, which, in
its throes and struggles on the side of the
North to perpetuate the Union, bas launched
an arrow at the head of slavery, and cloven
the head of the black beast in twain, 1
No news iB needed from Richmond prisons
or Richmond papers to augment our Know-
of the horrors which reign at the
Horn" It ever wo reel moiincatio forgive
the causes which have led to the cruel suf
ferings of captured Unionists, it wUI be
when we reflect how terribly those causes
have reacted upon the rebels themselves.
And yet, no stronger motives can exist to
blunt our charity than those which must
actuate us when we consider the settled,
unvarying, unreasoning malignity and per
versity of the South. The cold-blooded at
tempts; at sarcasm in which the rebel lead
ers—we mean editorial leaders—sometimes
indulge, but turn the point of the gist against
themselves. They arc a sort of edged
weapons with which self-injury is sure to
be inflicted, and suggest a demon charming
away an excoss of despair with a dreary sar
donic badinage of self.
But the way in which we now stan4 with
the South is not , the way in whieh we shall
stand with her in time to come. Through
all the theories which, men have spun, out
for themselves as to how and when this war
iB to cease, a principle: is being evolved
whose establishment only shall scatter peace
and prosperity over the Union forever. That
principle is the principle of human liberty.
Through darkness, and tempest,: and dan
ger, that angel light has been advancing.
Freedom has been the keystone of the
North, bondage that of. the Bouth; and the
keystone of bondage -must be plucked out,
and the circular arch of the Union thorough
ly cemented at its summit and base. 'The
Union will then take a lease of favor and
prosperity to last forever.
Japan and England.
There will be a great discussion in the
British Parliament, during the coming Ses
sion, about the war which, by special di
rections from Earl Russell, has been com
menced against Japan, by an English fleet.
Lord Clarence Paget, Secretary of the
Admiralty, lately made a speech at a public
dinner in one of the rural districts, in which
he apologized for the bombardment and
destruction of a populous seaboard city in
Japan, by declaring that the British Admiral
really could not help it —thathe only wanted
to fire into the Diamio’s fleet, Qust to
give them an idea of British broad
sides WereJ but that the sea rolled very
much at the time, and the cannon-balls, and
shells, instead of hitting the Japanese ships,
unfortunately flew higher and injured the
town beyond! Considering that this acci
dental bombardment lasted several hours,
and reduced the town to ashes, it may be
doubted whether Lord Clarence Paget’s
apology will have nmch weight with'the
world. The whole matter will be fully in
vestigated, and the inquiry is expected to
Ushow how coolly Earl Russell makes war
against a distant nation, without much trou
bling himself to consult his colleagues, or
obtain the usual pro forma asseuL.of the
Queen-. W.
Lord Palmerston, who will not be sorry
if his little friend, Earl Russell, gets a
sharp rap on the knuckles from Parliament,
and who will not allow him to resign office
until after that chastisement has been ad
ministered, has at last determined to inter
fere. He has resolved to send an Ambas
sador to Japan, doubtless with the view of
amicably adjusting existing differences be
tween the two nations, and herein showing
as much judgment as in his recent appoint
ment of Sir John Lawrence to the Vice
royalty of India, (albeit he had risen from
the ranks, and had not any aristocratical
connections, ) has selected Sir Rutherford
Alcock for that office. This gentleman
was British Resident in Japan for over
three yeajs; speaks the language; knows
the people and their customs; has im
perturbable good temper, coupled with
resolute firmness ; and has lately published
the very best book about Japan that has yet
appeared. Its title is “The City of the
Tycoon,” and it has been republished here
by the Harpers. This ambassador, thus
I qualified, is emphatically the best man Eng
land could send to Japan at this moment.
Considering that we commenced extensive
foreign trade with Japan, and continue the
most acceptable customers, it is important
that England should be represented in that
country by a man of sense," who knows the
country well, and, while there, has always
been friendly with our traders. Such a
man, we-believe, Sir Rutherford Alcock
is, and perhaps he maybe able to neutralize
the mischief done by Earl Russell’s pre
sumptuous folly.
Disraeli.
A Boston journal, which copies our
announcement of the legacy of forty thou
sand pounds, ($2OO, 000 ,) bequeathed to Mr.
Disraeli, the well-known British author
and statesman, very much doubts whether
he has been the recipient of such a golden
windfall. The rarity of an occurrence, we
would remind our contemporary, is no pre
sumption against its reality. Magnificent
bequests by strangers to eminent pub
licists are unfrequent, but it is a fact that
Disraeli has got the two hundred thou
sand dollars which we spoke of. That
respectable old English: newspaper, The
Western limes , which we remember almost
as long as any thing, declares that the
money has been left to Disraeli ; that it
will be paid over to him, according to the.
English custom, twelve months after the
will has been received to'probate; that the
testator was a Mrs. Brydges Willyams, of
Mount Braddon, Torquay ; that she was of
Jewish extraction, and very proud of the
celebrity of Mr. Disraeli, whose grandfa
ther was of the Jewish persuasion; and
Hat isr BsaTiß*ai»BW wife fete ???»?
from her inquiring whether he was de
scended from a Spanish family, as she
claimed to be. His reply led to a re
joinder, and, though the correspondents
never met, the intimacy by letter was con
tinued, until the old lady, who had outlived
her kindred, made up her mind that she
would bequeath her property to her eminent
and brilliant correspondent. The Western
Times adds that, as Disraeli was also left
residuary legatee, the residue of Mrs. Wil
lyams’ large property, after paying his own
and the other legacies, will become his.
This balance, it is stated, is probably
as much more as the actual legacy of
$200,000. However, Mr. Disraeli, under
the English law, cannot draw a six
pence of the money until after he has paid
the legacy-duty. Not being of “kith or
kin” to the testator, that payment will be
ten per cent, on the whole amount, an item
which will go to swell the national revenue.
Membeis or the Boy al family or England
pay no legacy-duty, (the system being spe
cially to favor them,) and, therefore, there
was not one sixpence paid upon the million
($5,000,000; which the late Prince Albert
left behind him, the accumulated sayings out
of about twenty-one years’ income, which,
from all sources, averaged about $300,000
per annum. Per the performance of his du
ties, surely the, late Prince-Consort was the
best paid official in Europe. , _
Coming back to Mr. Disraeli, we can
state that his' family certainly emigrated
from Spain to Venice more than a century
ago, and that the family name was Laba.
Its head, at that time, was a wealthy mer
chant, who, like Shylock, had vast dealings
“on the Rialto. In Venice, at that time,
there was greater tolerance of religious
opinion than in any . other part of
Southern Europe. No one ever heard of
'an duto-da-fe in Venice. Lara finally re
moved to London, where he formally ap
peared as a Christian; he had conformed to
that faith soon after quitting Spain, but,
jimtul of hinonruont linaaao, aaoumod the
name of DHsbaeli (literally, “a son of
Israel”; to perpetuate the fact of his He-
brew descent. The son of this gentleman
■was the late Isaac D’lsraeli, well know as
a man of letters, arid the present represen-
tative of the family is the Eight’ Hon.
Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor of the
Exchequer—the same to whom Mrs.
Bbydges Willyams has bequeathed the
bulk of her fortune.
A Hohbop..—There has been a horror discovered
in a Cornwall village—a poor lunatic oonftned by
hie brother for twenty years in a room under circum
stances of appalling barbarity, (’he villagers, ac
oustomed to his heartrending Bhrielis and. howls,
never interfered, “it was none of theit busla>M”
Odlv a stranger discovered and delivered the misera
ble being, “ more resembling a babboon than a man,
drawn and cramped from long exposure and suffer
inz out of all form of humanity, stark naked, and
onlvtwoold rotten bags for a ooveriet,” the de
scription of the room in whichhe-was oonuned
beiDg loathsome beyond measure.— Correspondence
Tribune.
This is a fact, but it might as well be an
allegory. Have Iro not flisooToroa a honoi
in America ? A slave, kept in bondage
often of appalling barbarity, always of
startling injustice — 11 more resembling a
baboon than a man,’’ so say the apologists
for slavery—with a soul cramped from long
suffering, the description of the system in
which he is imprisoned being loathsome be
yond measure. The parallel does ; not stop
here. Accustomed to his howls, the neigh
bors “never interfered,” and we actually
find men in the North, who—after Fanny
Kemble has published her book, after! Gen.
Butler haß told his story, after the .enor
mous crime and misery of slavery has been
published to the world—still say. ‘fit is
none of our business.” We have learned
that that which is a horror in England has
long been a common-place in America.
Our Theatrical BillS of Fare.
We have something better to do than to
consult the. amusement columns oftour ex
changes, and keep thoroughly- posted up
as to who’s where. Suggestions, however,
sometimes force themselves on ‘ one, and
the present suggestion is—where are all our
young actresses ? It has been said that it is
but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous;
bo, for the last five weeks, we have been
having tragedy‘at the Chestnut, and comedy
at the Walnut At the Arch we have had both.
Mr. Forrest’s engagement terminates next
Friday evening. For a season*r-we. hope
for a theatrical season only—we shall see,
him no more. It is just possible that Mr.
Clarke’s engagement; will not last forever,
though no new star has as, yet been under
lined on the bills. Every star is not as suc
cessful as Mr. Clarke. When he is gone
we shall want variety, and we must have it.
We cannot breakfast, and dine,, and sup, off
the same thing. Besides, we must have
some dessert. Where is Charlotte Thomp
son ? Bhc would make ,a very charming
Charlotte Kune. Miss Jane Coombs is
strawberry ice cream ("with jelly); and
Maggie Mitchell is candied orange.
Where are they all ? Theatrical advertise
ments answer where. Miss Bateman,
the queen of young tragediennes, has
taken London by storm, and is run
ning “ Leah" into the third month, be
fore audiences which enjoy the privilege of
seeming seats a fortnight in advance. There
is no prospect of her speedy return. None
of our theatres stand or fall by the merits of
their stock companies. If that were the case
one or-two of them might prepare for im
mediate demolition. The conduct of Mana
ger Wheatley is not regarded here as hav
ing been altogether fair. The best mem
bers of his large force are reserved for Ni
■ bio’s, and the support accorded to the stars
he has secured for performances in this city
has frequently been so shabby as to be a
slight to the public. One good thing in
him, however, is that he has furnished no
velties as well as novices; and variety, we
all know, is the cruet-stand of dramatic life.
Let all the theatres stand it over their bills
of fare.
Eighteen'months ago, Gen. McClel
lan was the idol of the North, honored
with the command of its largest army, and
so trusted that it was said that he could do
nothing which the people .would not ap
prove. Last week he was formally nomi
nated for the Presidency, and so insignifi
cant is the event that it is barely printed as
an ordinary news item, and has not been
editorially mentioned by the very journals
which once praised him to an exeess that
might have made a Napoleon blush. This
sudden celebrity, this speedy decline into
obscurity, has the strangeness of romance
With the moral of a sermon. '
Governor Letcher, of Virginia, is re
presented in pictures with the countenance
of a dissipated pedagogue, his spectacles
bridging a combative nose. In the first
year of the rebellion it was told that
he entered the Virginia Assembly in a
State of imbecility, proceeding from ine
briation, holding the stump of a cigar in
his mouth. We cannot get rid of the im
pression of this droll picture, which is espe
cially revived when we observe the moral
character of his official documents. He has
lately written another message, which is
another revelation of the weakness of the
South, and the highly upright and sangui
nary character of Mr. Letcher. It con
cludes as follows:
“ The despot who reigns at Washington, and who
seeks the blood of the men, women, .and ohUdren of
the South, hafl issued hi* proclamation for the eman
cipation of our alavea, and, If we wish to carry it
out effectually, no better plan could have bcim de
vised. Turn these men loose in the community
where they can mingle with our negro population,
and they can advlae them of the wlahea of Lincoln
and hti adherents, and will be able to persuade them
that the policy he wishes adopted is for their benefit. The
result must necessarily be discontent and dissatisfaction
among our slaves. Thia policy la misohievous in Its
effects upon the people of the State. It render*
them dissatisfied with the action of the Govern
ment, and whatever is calculated to produce thisre
ault render* them lesß active, leaa energetic, and leas
disposed to aid in carrying out Government pur
poses and objectß. Such results.ought at this time
by all means to be avoided. Other reasons might be
assigned, bat these are sufficient.”
OPERATIONS IN TEXAS.
Point Isabel—PoTt Banks-Tciss Rations.
tO«iresponaenCe of'Th'e Press.*! *
In Camp, Point Isabel, Texas, Deo. 10, 1863.
General Banks, with his tuual sagaoity, early
conceived the Importance of possessing the exit and
entrance of the great contraband trade of Southern
Texas. Already he has commenced the construction
of fortifications around the Point, which will com
mand the month of the Bio Grande, and before an
other month the first object to greet the eye of the
foreign seaman nearing the southern extremity or the
Federal territory will not be the old lighthouse on
Point Isabel, which met his gaze of yore, but the
garrison flag and Parrott guns of Fort Banks bid
ding defiance to the intrusion ol Louis Napoleon,
Maximilian, or the gueriUa rebels of Mexico. Point
Isabel Is the terminus of the road from Brownsville
is lisa Gull and. na it toslb Diovlmidlir the groat reo,
d< ~ v uus of Ike cotton Llocli Ale-run n A r«, 11 LAs Le
come the military ddpAl for the collection and ship
ment of the confiscated cotton. Teams after teams
are daily pouring in from the upper country with
loads, and departing again to receive some new oap
ture of the great “king.” The Immense seizures in
this region must already have defrayed a large frac
tion of the expenses of the expedition. This locality
itself is devoid of all attractions, and oontaiusno:
buildings but a few one or two-story shanties, nu
merous fishermen’s huts, and one Bmall frame church.
The “ boys” revel in the plenteousness of fish, game,
and fresh Texan beef.
CONTRABAND SOLDIERS.
The temperature has been very warm, especially
at noon, varied, however, occasionally by a cold,
raw nor’easter. The post Is efficiently garrisoned
by two regiments of the Corps d’Afrlque; the 16th,
previously stationed at Brazos, having reoently eva
cuated that island and joined the force here. The
latter Is one of the regiments of the original colored
brigade recruited by Major B. Bush Plumly, of Phi
ladelphia. It is composed of contrabands, volun
teers, and conscripts, from the plantations of Louisi
ana. Few of them seem to comprehend the idea ol
a war for the Union, but are impressed with a Bolemu
conviction that they and we are fighting for them
and liberty, and that they are to redeem their people.
TBs »BTa««FWy WNWs»<Bsv'rwrw%WivkpnWwsr
endurance and sacrificing heroism, and, without ex
ception, I have heard them deolare their eagerness
to lay down their lives for the " Yankees,” and to
fight for “Linkum,” whom they reverence as a
second Saviour.
Alter occupying Point Isabel, General Bank!
moved up, with the main body of his command, to
Brownsville, the capture of which has been detailed
in the published intelligence'from those partiolpa
tingin it.
BANKS AND DANA—FUTURE OPER ATIONS.
Alter establishing a thorough military rdgime over
the recreant citizens of Brownsville and vicinity, he
placed Major General Dana (commanding Herron’s
old division) in charge of the United States foroes
on the Rio Grande. Re-embarking, General Banks,
with his gunboats and transports, proceeded up the.
coast, along Padre Island, to Aranses Pass. Mus
tang Island was less submissive than Brazos, and a
slight expenditure of ammunition was necessary.
He easily oaptured the garrison of about 150 men,
with several pieces of artillery. Thus Corpus Christ!
fell into his hands. No more neatly Executed plan
has been presented during the war than the expedi
tion of General Banks to the southern ooast of
Texas.. We await his return from New Orleans for
a speedy renewal of our onward.movement for the
interior. _ ■ 0.
WASHINGTON. -
BpcoiKi iriifiimtcßtia to tug rrosai
WabhikqtOM, D. C., Deo. 28.
Army of the Potomac. - ' ■
Advices from the army this morning state'that all
is quiet there, nothing Of note transpiring.,
A Presidential Trip Down the Potomac.
The President started yesterday on a trip down
the Potomac, and is expected to return to-night.
Dismissals.
The War Department has dismissed from the ser
vice Lieut. John Kaufman', of the 46th New York
Volunteers; Lieut. Horace M. Butler, of the Ist
■Massachusetts Cavalry, and Lieut. Gaitbad, of the
6th Illinois Cavalry.
Confiscated.
The property of forty persona in this District has
been eonflsoated. Among the later oases are Gov.
Lbtoheb, of Virginia, and Judge CJAMt’BHLL] late
of the Supreme Court.-
Contraband Mali. Captured.
A large contraband mail has been captured in Bal
timore, jußt as it was about to be despatched to
Richmond. A number of arrests were made, and it
is said that the correspondence implicates prominent
people in Baltimore and Washington.
~Litliiuiu vi ruuuuvmuiii vjßtci maisi
It is reported that last week mine oyster boats,
mostly belonging to Philadelphia, while dredging
for oysters near Port Optank oreek, York river,
were oaptured by the rebels. They came out in
boats, on the pretenoe of helping to make the cargo;
and boarded the boats, seized the crew, robbed
them of all their valuables, and took the orews to
Richmond. The crew numbered about six to each
vessel.
Port Optank oreek is about 30 miles above the
mouth of the river.
Capture of a Rebel Schooner.
The rebel schooner Marshall J. Smith, laden with
oottonand turpentine, and bound from Mobile to
Havana, was captured off Mobile bay, after a br!k
ohase and several ineffectual subterfuges in hopes of
escape, by Lieutenant Commandiughtagjj|p|(*£Bl-|
mandldg the gunboat Kermep«ftf*T;bs"manlreilt was
thrown overboard, buWft was understood that the
cargo inoluded 2gftsosle* of ootton. A considerable
aumAfcmofity-waa oaptured, whloh waa left tnohaige
of itoasstataaipaynuwtoi of Kenaebes,ou«wt
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA.’ TUESDAY: DECEMBER 29.1863:
to the order of the proper authorities. Theaohooner
«nd corgowMieot to N«w Orleans for adjudication.
The officer! and crew were Harman Packer, mas
ter; H. F. Orioßson, mate J J. F. Smith, super
cargo (John Bdstifv, carpenter; Ohas, Hansel,
Oh as, Williams, Thos, L. Nelson, and A.. E.
Olson, seamen.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER OLYMPUS.
more: vessels burned bv the
PRIVATEER ALABAMA,
The Congress Proposition Abandoned by
Mr. CoMen's Controversy /wltti tine lionAon
Times—Theßobberyoftne DuKc,
of Bntnswlolc—American
Topics; Etc.
The extra Ounard steamer Olympus, whioh. left
Liverpool at l P. M. on the 15th, and Queenstown
on the 16th December, arrived at New York on Mon
day morniog..
. THE ALABAMA AGAIN AT WORK.
A telegram from Alexandria reports thatthe Ame
rican.sbip Winged Racer, which left on the'
,7th' Ootober for New York, and the Amanda, bound
to Falmouth, bad been burned off-Java Head by the
Alabama, on the 16th November.
A private investigation was taking place by the
police and customs offloials at Queenstown into the
circumstances attending the recent enlistment of the
fifteen men who were recently disembarked from the
U. S, war steamer Kearaage.
At a public meeting recently held at Leloester, a
resolution in favor of the separation of the North
and South was adopted by a very large majority.
The meeting viewed the subjeot exclusively from
the slavery point, and based the resolution in the
opinion that the extinction of slavery would be beat
promoted by secession.
A special correspondent of the London Timss,
writing from E iohmohd, points out that the Federala
are now. investing the ports of Secessla with a cor
don of vessels so numerous as, for the first time in
thirtj months, to make access to the Confederate
coast really dangbrous and difficult.
The Times* correspondent at the headquarters of
the Confederates in Tennessee save that a- crisis in
the war Is approaching, which will testmore than
ever the stubbornness and tenaoltv of the South.
He pays a high tribute to the magnificence of North
ernjfnithand self-reliance as contrasted with the luke
warmness of the Southern masses. , •
The controversy between Mr, Cobden and• the
Times had merged into a personal matter between
Mr. Cobden and Mr, Delane, the editor-in-chief of
th e Times. . ■■ *-•
It is asserted that a searching inquiry into the ex
penditure of the Admiralty will enable Mr. Glad
atone to submit to Parliament a material reduction
on this head. ; ■■
The Colonial Secretary, the Duke of Newcastle,
had recovered from his severe illness. . 1
Sir R. D. Collier, the Solicitor General, was ex
pected to be nominated to the vooant judgeship, vice
W ightman, deceased. Another authority says Ser
geant Shee will be the man.
The iron'dad frigate Minotaurwas Bucfleesfully
launched at Blackwell, on the Thames, on the 12th
of December* She is nearly 7,000 toas, about 400
feet long; is protected by armor plates throughout
6% inches thick, and is designed to carry. 60 guns of
the largest calibre.
The new 600-pounder Armstrong gun had been suc
cessfully tried against armor-plated targets.
rhe MoniUur publishes the replies of the Ger
manic Confederation, Denmark, and Greece, to the
invitation to the proposed Congress.' They are all
acceptances; couched in flattering terms to the Em
peror Napoleon.
The Ost Deutsch Post, of Vienna, says the Austrian
Government had forwarded anote to Paris definitely
declining the invitation to the Congress.
V Europe, of Frankfort, says; n M. Drouyn de
L’Huys has addressed a circular to the Frenoh diplo
matic agents abroad relative to the Congress. The
circular does not trace out the programme to be
adopted, as has been asked by some Governments,
for suoh'programme cannot be the work of one Go
vernment, or even of two or three. The refusal of
Englanu has frustrated the combination of a Euro
pean Congress, but France is ready to come to an
understanding with the Governments who shall
think it uteful to debate paoifioally among them
selves those questions which, if left to chance cir
cumstances, might conduce to the most fatal compli
cations. The Government of the Emperor would
consider it failed in its duty if it abstained from
profiting by the dispositions so cordially manifested.
The programme of the questions which a Congress
thus brought together should discuss is still con
siderable enough to encourage the Cabinet in the
path marked out.”
VEurope adds that several Governments have ao
corded a favorable reception to the proposition of
France. •
The supplementary election, took place in Paris
on the 14th, and the opposition candidate, 01. Pelli
tan, was elected by a majority of nearly 6,000 votes
over the Government candidate.
The bill for a loan of 300,000,000 francs had been
laid before the Corps Legislatif.
The general debate upon the address to the.Empe*
ror tome place in the Senate on the 14th. The Mar*
quis Brissy found fault with sundry .Government
proceedings, and denounces the intrigues of Eagland
in thwarting the proposed Congress. The discussion
of the address by paragraphs would; begin on the
16th December.
The Paris Bourse on the 14th was rather drooping.
Rentes closed at 67f.30. ,
In Paris, the Duke of BrunswioU was robbed by
an English valet of diamonds to the extraordinary
-value of nine millions of francs, and twenty thous
and francs in gold. The thief was arrested with all
the property on him, as he was in the act of em«
balking at Boulogne for England.
Rumors continued to circulate of a crisis in the
Austrian Ministry. It was reported negotiations
had been entered into with Prince Charleß Auer
speTg to replace Archduke Rainer as President of
the Cabinet. It was also asserted, but contradicted,
that Herr Yon Sehmerling had tendered his resigna
tion.-'"' ''*•
THE HOLSTEIN QUESTION. • •
EUROPE.
Napoleon.
THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION.
THE PBOPOBBT) CONBRBBS.
PRANCE.
AUSTRIA,
It 1b reported that, at a cabinet council held at
nnppnbagen on the 9th of December, it was resolved
that, in ordcy tn-atroid a conflict. the Danish troops
should evaouate the town in Holstein which the
German troops intend occupying.
The Saxon and Hanoverian contingents were ex
pected to enter Holstein in a few days as the army
of execution of the Frankfort Diet, __ —
The Frankfort Diet,* on the 14th, votol 17,000,000
thalers for the expenses of the Federai^execution.
Both the liberal factions of the Prussian Chamber
of Deputies had resolved to vote an address to the
King, stating.their motives for refusing the bill for
the loan of 12,000,000 thalers, and pointing out the
policy they think should be followed in the Holstein
question. ' .. . ' .
Lord Wodehouse, the British envoy extraordi
nary to congratulate the new King of Denmark, pro
ceeded to Copenhagen via Berlia, at which letter
place he had a conference with Herr Von Bismark
and an audience of the King of Prussia.
Gen. Fieury had left Paris for Copenhagen on a
Ilka million:
ITAIITi
The Jllrnaa, oi ffiil&n, hid DuWiiMfl & minifetto
from the Venetian Committee, inviting the people
to prepare for action. The same jouraal also pub
lishes a memorandum of Garibaldi to the Powers in
la'vor of nationalities. .
ABYSSINIA. ,
The Emperor of Abyssinia, who had; gained a vic
tory over the population of Gojani, is Hated to have
ordered the massacre of 16,000 prisoners—men, wo
men, and children. He is also said tohave ordered
the arrest of the British Consul at Msssoura. The
Bedouins had revolted and invested; the town of
'Mocha..!
INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA,
The overland mail had reached England with the
following dates: Calcutta, Nov. 9; Hong Kong, Oct.
3, and Melbourne, Cot. 24. The news 'generally has
been anticipated by later telegrams. The report of
the cotton orop in the northwest provinces of India
is gloomy. . t ,
The advioes in regard to the New Zealand war are
considered less satisfactory. ,
A Bombay telegram of Nov. 29th[ quotes cotton
dull at 616 lor Dhollerah. Cotton goods declining,
owing to the extreme tightness of money. Exchange
advanced to 2s. 3d. Freights unchanged.
Calcutta, Nov. 28—Shirtings dull; twist de
clining. Exohange 2a. lKd.
The Titties says the affair with the Hill tribes will
terminate without .any of the characteristics of an
imperial war, but it may be costly and troublesome.
- BRAZIL. -
The Fienoh null it.Mmer had mohei Llibon,
Bio aglet mb to Nov. 24. coffee «: Quoted siioaoffi
6||ooo for good fifste; itoeki 130,009 tags; exchange,
At Babia sugar was quotea 2|[3oo@'l||soo ;
exchange, 27K@28. At Pernambqco sugar was
quoted 3||7oo@3||Boo for white; exchange, 23>f@38^f.
LONDON MONEY MARKET.—The funds on
the 14th were'firmer, but the improvement was not
fully sustained. Consols closed at 90%@91>f. The
money market was without essential change. There
was rather more demand for discount on the 14th,
but no undue pressure.
Commercial Intelligence.
Liverpool* Dec. 16. A. M. —Cotton—The markflt yes
terday was quiet, and generally prices were a shade
lower.- Sales of the day fi.ooo bales, including 2.000-for
export and speculation. To day the market is -flat and.
lifeless. Probable business 3, OOOboles. . ■ .
TRADE AT MANGBESTER —No report since the Asia
sailed. To-day r s market not yet developed. . ?
Bbeadstufps.—Messrs. Richardson. Spence, & Co.,
and-Wakefield. Nash. & Co. , report Flour quiet but un
altered. Wheat ..dull and nominally, unchanged, but
prices favor.buyers. Corn in limited demand and sup
ply; mixed'29@29sScl SMBO lbs. • . .
Provisions. —Beef and Pork without material variation.
Bacon steady. Lard quiet. . Tallow dull and again 6 d
10 Producb. —Ashes unchanged; Pots 295, Pearls 325.
Sugar rather quieter at Jastweek’s advance. Coffee very
dull. Bice unchanged. Bark'dull/- Linseed Oil quiet
at 383 - Pish Oils quiet; Cod £52 Bosin and Spirits oi
Turpentine very quiet. .■ Petroleum unchanged; refined
-XON^Olf^MAßEETS.—Breadstuffs doll and rather
lower for both Wheat and Flour, sugar cpntiaaes firm
and m fair demand. Coffee, well maintained. Tea. in
good request at full prices. Rice quiet but steady. Tal
low inactive. T
LATEST VIA Q,UEENTSTOWN«
London, Dec, 16— The Times*'‘city article days:
There wasyesteraayagaln a slight increase in the
.demand for JUuoimt at the banliibutitUl no i nih
naveelapaed ilnoe there have beenauy application,
lor advance, on the term, of 3 sR cent,' ■ 111 the
open market the aupply ia good, but- theminimum
rate for the moat choioepapcr waa yeoterday about
7U as oent. In the Stock -Exchange, abort loam,
which on Monday, wereloft'ered at 4}l cent,, are
now aongbt for at 6 cent. The announcement
that the atock of bullion in the bankhad experienced
a reduction of £560,000 within the lait four daya,
caused a general increaae of dullneas in all the mar.
keta yeaterday. Oonaola fell, %.& oent, and foreign
aeeuritiea, whioh opened well,- became extremely
heavy. It ia anticipated that the principal portion
of anch gold arrivala aa may now take place will be
pnrehaaed for France, and advefae influence on the
varloiia markets now obnatata in the deaire actually
felt by operativea to wind up their account. at the
end of the year, a prooeaa which' ia atimulated by the
abaenoe of aymptoma of: the probability of an early
change in the courae of-money. !;
LANOASHIKE.
The market reporta of yeaterday are not favorable.
There waa a talk of again atopping milla, and the
report aaya that at auch rates aa were offered yeater
day many manufacturer! would prefer auapending
WOIIC.- ' - " ~ v
Tbe firm of Messrs. Brown, Shipley, Ac Go., Liver
pool, have, issued a circular announcing that they
nave opened a house in London, and that the busi
ness will be* conducted at Liverpool and London, in
connection, as hitherto, with the establishments in
New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.
ggg SotssEiw .m#s?§.
Tbe Post aays there la rcaton.-.to believe that- Lord
Wodehouse was officially Informed at Berlin that
in the event of ah execution,' the German Powers
would oonfine themselves to the exercise of their'
Federal rights. The King of Denmark may hesi
tate about surrendering peaceably Into the hands
of the administration the Duchy of Holstein, not:
knowing to what extent' the thin end of the wedge
may subsequently be , driven, and may regard ,the
entry of Herman troops into Holstein as a com
belli. The Post says, that Lord Wodehouse is in
structed to acquaint the King of Denmark tor'l
Denmark may rest assured that in the event of;**"
Integrity being threatened she will find W*
an ally on whose assistance she may reck "*« .
day of need. .18, 1 P>
t Lomdok Stock Exohamob, Jibount 01s. New I
Console money 90%@90Xi d' : ' > „ nt
Threes 90%@90&. . do »« OUII *
sP ;|\ S l^Kh n ;gli&ei.ll^ugarh^
;dolag,
Bice- quil
rates do]
oHlglit ad;
FORTRESS, MONROE,
An Exchange of PrisoTiers Effected.
FIVE HUNDRED UNION MEN RELEASED.
Fortbbss Monroe, Deo. 2S.— The flag-of-trooe
boat baa arrived from City Point, bringing five bun
pred Union prisoner, in exchange for tboie cent up
by General Butler. The rebel Government refine
any further exchange, unices all the .questions are
given up about which our Government has been con
tending, and their laws in regard to officers and
soldiers of the negro regiments be reoognized. They
also refuse to receive a flag of truce , from General
Butler, or to negotiate with him on tho subject of
exchanges, beoause of Jeff Davis’ proclamation o,
outlawry against General Butler made last year. It
will be remembered that they were quite willing to
receive medlolhes from and correspond with him,
notwithstanding the proclamation of which they
now make a pretext for discontinuing the negotia
tion. This is shown by the foot that they have al
ready exchanged over five hundred prisoners with
General Butler. ,
REBEL REPORTS FROM CHARLESTON.
Bombardment of Charleston on Christmas.
TEN OR TWELVE BUILDINGS BURNED
An Engagement on Johnson’s Island.
Fortress Monroe, Deo. 28.—The Richmond
Examina- of today, received by the flag of truce,
contains the following despatches:
Charleston, Dec. 26,—The enemy commenced
shelling the city last night, keeping up a Bteady Are,
wbioh is still going on at 9 o'clock this morning. A
Are broke out at 2 o’olock, destroying ten or twelve.
buildings, and causing a rew dasnaUiei.
A heavy firing Is beard in the direction of Stono,
which is believed to be between our batteries and
the enemy’s gunboats.
Later.— The shelling of the city was continued
during the day. One white man was mortally and
a white woman" sllghtly-wornmed.- "Three-nroniwa
were badly wounded by the foiling of the walls of
the burned buildings, and eight or ten were slightly
wounded.
All quiet at Sumpter.
Charleston, Dec. 26.— One hundred and thirty
shells were fired at the city, bom twelve o’clock on
Thursday night to four o’clock on Friday afternoon.’
The enemy fired from five guns; three from Gregg,
one at Odmmlngs 1 Point, and one at the mortar bat
tery.
The engagement on Johnson’s Island, between
our light batteries and the enemy's gunboats, re
sulted in a drawn fight. There were but few casu
alties.
- Charleston, Deo. 27.—The enemy fired four
shells at the city, last night. There is no firing from
Morris Island to-day. Our batteries kept up a vigo
rous fire on the enemy’s working parties engaged
in ereoting another battery on the extreme end of
Cummings' Point. Our loss at Stono was one
killed and five wounded.
From Tennessee*
Dalton, Deo. 27.— General Joseph E. Johnson
assumes the command or the army of Tennessee to
day. "
Our.sconts report that two thousand Yankees are
at Cumberland Shed, two miles north of Cleveland,
and a similar force south of that place.
From Virginia*
Orange Court House, Dec. 29,— The Yankees
have destroyed part of the town of Luray, Page
county, by fire. . .
December 26.—General Rosser burned the bridge
over Pope’s Head Run, but the high water prevented
him doing further damage. General Gregg’s Yankee
cavalry pursued him. General Rosser was compelled
to swim Bull Run. The enemy, while in pursuit,
destroyed two tanneries and a lot of leather at Sper
ryville, and also two tanneries, a flour mill, and the
Government workshops at Luray.
The Reported Mutiny at Fort Jackson,
Mobile, Deo. 23.—The two white regiments sent
down to Fort Jackson had not recovered the fort,
and they were fighting on Saturday.
The Richmond papers are gloomy over the effects
of Gen. Averill’B raid to Salem.
The Murder at Holmes’ Hole,
Boston, Dec. 28.— Three sailors who were arrested
at Holmes’'Hole, on suspicion of the murder of
Mr. Luce, have been honorably discharged. A pair
of bloody pantaloons have been discovered buried
on the beach, which, it is Lhoped, may afford some
clue to the murderer.
Tiie Chesapeake Pirates*
St. .Tohns, N. 8., Dee. 23.—Collins and McKenna,
two of the Chesapeake pirates, were arrested and
brought here before the poiioa magistrate to-day.
On the application of their oounsel, the examination
-was postponed for a week. *
Arrival of tile Steamer North Star from
Aspinvvall.
New York, Dec. 28.—The steamer North Star,
Irom'Aspinwall on the 19th inst., arrived here this
morning. She brings no news.
The Murder at Holmes’ Hole*
Boston, Dec. 28.—Three sailors belonging to a
Bangor vessel have been arrested at Holmes’ Hole
on the suspicion of being concerned in the recent
murder of Captain Eucm,
The Sanitary Fair at Cincinnati.
A BIEECH BY SBN. BOSKOBANS—LETTEB EBOH
GEN, pKEMdNT.a
On being -nre*ented_ with a testimonial of silver
from tho'ladies of the ’-’-•--•r^ciinoiiinati.
General Roseorans made the following interesting
speech: --
I accept, with the most profound gratitude, this
testimonial from the ladles of Cincinnati; and this
"address, which breathes the sentiments, I believe,
not only of the women of Cincinnati, but the wo
men of our Whole country, touches me deeply. Iu
every nation there is a heroic age—the age of poetry
and heroism; and the signs of this age can be seen
in the nation, as the signs of the advance in life of
the child toward manhood. One of these marks is
the heroic devotion of the women from whom oomes,
as mothers, the first lessons of piety, of honor, and
of duty ; from whom comes; as wives, as sisters, and
as daughters, encouragement and incentive to culti
vate and exercise these virtues.
ft js impossible for me to say what I feel on this sub
jmi iaTi Ww» riysraa
eonyiction tbat tliis war baa developed evidences of
that heroic Age in this nation which these senti
ments indicate. And it gives me hope in the future,
and trust that Almighty God will bless this nation,
and give us unity, peace, and freedom, beyond any
hope which I entertained in the days of our pros
perity. I sincerely taut that I maybe able, in say
way and sphere, to remember well what theladies
have said, as I have always heretofore remembered
'and felt how valuable was their 00-operation in thiß
cause. While military success and honor depend
very much bn the providenoe of God, a great
deal depends upon the troops which the com
mander happens to have under his control. They
fight his battles; and it iB wonderful, although the
imagination is greatly clouded with, the glory and
glitter of military renown, how profound is the con
viction 61 every military man, notwithstanding the
wisest eflbrts and best-laid plans for sucoess, very
much depends on the individual courage of the
men, and on the sagacity of officers who happen to
-beat'oritical turning points. This has been my ob
servation in reference to the very men who are vour
'brothers, husbands, and sons. It is true that the
private ix glad to have a captain, and the captain to
: have a coTonel ; blit il they lose the one or the
other theylflght right on notwithstanding. [Cheers.]
For this testimonial with whiohyou have honored
me, I cannot suitably express my feeiings; but I say
to you; and to all the ladies of the Union whose
friends have been under my command, that to the
bravery, patriotism, and perseverance of those
friends I owe what I am, and what I enjoy to-day.
LETTER PROM GENERAL FREMONT.
Habw. HAiamtAE il.lßS*,'
“Mv Deab Mrs. Williams : I hope that you
will accept my apologies for delay in replying to
your letter of the 24th. It the original of the order,
which the lady managers have done me the honor to
ask for, had been in my possession, it should have
been immediately sent you. But it was given, at
tbe time it was written, to Captain E. M. Davis, a
son-in-law of Mrs. Luoretia Mott, and then an offi
cer of my staff. He asked it for the Anti-Slavery
Society. I have written him, to say that he will
eonfer.quite a favor on me if he can enabla me to
comply with.your request, and so soon as I have his
reply ! will oommunioate it to you.
“The cordiality and friendly warmth of the reso
lutions in which the ladies embodied the request for
the order, gave very great pleasure to Mrs. Fre
mont and myself, and I beg you to accept our very
sincere tbanki for their kind invitation. A severe
diptheria illness, from whioh Mrs. Fremont is jusf
recovering, and a pressure of work on myself, will
not permit us to make our thanks in person. Pray
be kind enough to say this for us to the Lady Mana
gers, and assure them of our earnest sympathy in
their work; and our gratitude to them for their exer
tions in behalf of the soldiers.
“I am, very respectfully and IrtEMONT.
uMis. li. Williams, Secretary Great Western
Sanitary Fair, Qincipnaji-’*
The Rofcbery in the Treasury Department*
The amount of ComwaiPa robbery in the redemp
tion bureau- turns out to be at least $lOO,OOO. How
much more he abstracted no one knows, nor is there
any official method of ascertaining. Taken to his
house by two officers, and there kept constantly in
their presence, he at last broke down, and confessed
his crime, and indicated where the property oould be
found. A trunk, containing $37,600 in five-twenties,
$4,000 in Treasury notes, and a large'quantity of the'
cut halves of mutilated notes, whion he had not
time to assort, and whioh were awaiting the match
ing necessary to their passing as vouchers.
After the discovery of his robbery, he was kept in
a room in the Treasury for two days, under surveil
lance and moral suasion. He would confess nothing,
and was Bullen in his denial of guilt. a His repeatedly
expressed desire to see his wife Indicated the place
of concealment of the stolen money, and he was
taken to his house in Georgetown, as mentioned.
His embezzlement has been, going on lor months.
Th.trntHiitftfl rifttfli.tn be oMOtlefl and inbaeauentl;
tmrMdiWii* one leustiunmo miroucti mo miauiinuuu
half went to Secretary Chase, toe otter to toe Regis
ter, Tliey were counted and Hummed up *ccoi-\Uuk
totbeir denomination.) and it they compared, with
Cornwall’* account, were returnee to hi. own offloe
to be destroyed by fire.
At the last burning a little mesaenger boy, who
bad begged to watch the proceaa, waa astonished to
see Cornwall occasionally alip a package of toe half
notes into the aide pocket of hi*,coat, aa he waa
this wing them into the furnaoe. He innocently m
aulred of a clerk named Platt ir Mr. Cornwall hart
a right to do that thing. The game waa up, A,t'
was laid, and the felon walked right Into ttes,
avowed reason for plunging into this au hli
robbery waa bis conviction that otbaary of
clerks, in responsible and oongdld a large
were feathering their neata helped
determination to have a hsgj™ 11 } right* and .
only eighteen hundred doUf^®* 6 Pofketed
B ?«SgaKS¥
wlr?^’^' a^neH oUnt equSl Stowe
Markets by Telegraph. .
Baltimore, Dec. 28.— Flour doll; -uperSee Howard ‘“• 1 ®/fed_*ieaUvitieBk»d been madeln his home,
from it,
U? r En l ™ B «2toeHSto 1 d E ? a «?-- Mr - Oobden
26 -Business is light, lying C g if o *?*® 1 ? the com
receipts’cotton isflatandwithout
sales of JfJotir. and Wheat ia inactive at tL-
and#l.2Bforprlma. Coruoulot. 010 00-“ a i u I tixejirOZff*?' haabeoome personal.; Mr.
Ship Sewsjfo & atatjmneraonalityof
, »«*SBaasssK
* n F ' ' /ias, for Baltimore. / but as it has alw&vs been thnm..n?i Sn^r^ r ‘ Delane,
‘fii£? Hicola. Ohißm, ttf for Georgetown. / press to disouss them—annnwt£J!? o i* oe English
C^'ChrpsL\ fl NewTo£ke t .
Fcbr George -”f?rir. kndltolievl h„“ d Indapfmdenoeef the preeS,
j&K o dria ‘ - to the Rochdale Observed Y
Hr SU'fcr' ■ * * “b, air, your obedient servanfc_ > r i
fehr ‘ “ Johh T, Djslahb,
A 800 Mail Train.— The following extract from
a private letter from Pambina shows how the mall
is transported from that point to Crow Wing:
I should have written to you four dayß ago, but
the mail had to lav over one trip on aoooant of the
lameness of one of the carrier aogs. You will pro
bably think it strange that the great United States
mail should be delayed several davs for such a cause,
but nevertheless it was. The mail is carried from
heis ts Grow Wing, A distance of throe hundred and
Biw BflMlisj DogtiUDi, uiair onßietor dOM Hit
foot lore when their turn comes the mull Jim to - ley
over. To-morrow they say the flogs, will; bejight
and ths mailjjJiil go forward. I saw the first do*
mail train leave here on la«t mail day. It consisted
of three middling sized dogs. They looked more like
wolves than dogs. They had regular harness, very
fancifully ornamented, and buckskin saddles, gor
geously worked with beads. The dogs are driven in
tandem style. They go from forty to fifty miles per
dav. the half breed driver trotting behind most of
the way.— St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer, Dec. 20.
Patebson, New Jeriey, is the headquarters of
the silk manufactures in the United States. One
thousand and fifty hand* are now employed (meetly
females), whose annual pay-rolls amount to $150,000.
The silk cornea from. China and Japan, aqd is con
verted Into coat-linings, ribbons, neck-ties, nags,
sewing twist, &o. Two new first-olass factories are
about to be started, when the silk manufactures of
Paterson will exceed that of aU the rest of the Urn
ted States. .
More Rebel Piracy—Attempt to Seize a
Detroit Steamer*
The Detroit Tribune of Monday publishes the fol
lowing:
“ Captain Stringlemsn, of the new steamtug Sen
tinel, which left this port for New York last month,
returned to Detroit yesterday. Captain Stringlem&n
informs us of a circumstance which ocourred in
Montreal, oalling strongly to mind the desperate
affair which, resulted in the steamer Chesapeake
coming for a short time in possession of rebel pi
rates.
“The Sentinel reached Montreal on Saturday.
November Slut, and on Sunday she attracted
considerable attention, while lying in the harbor,
by her neat appearance, with her oolors gaily
flauntiDg in the breeze. On Monday twelve men
came on board and applied for passage to Piotou,
N. S. Captain Stringleman informed them, that
they were on the wrong boat, and stated that
the Prince Albert, which was then in port, was
bound for Piotou, and would no doubt accom
modate them. Upon consultation among them
selves the party withdrew, but returned soon after,
and urgently renewed their request for a passage.
They were informed that the Sentinel was built
principally for towing purposes, And had no accom
modations fOr passengers, but this seemed only to
render them still moro importunate. They assured
Captain S. that they were aoeuitomed to rough
usage, and could deep &b well in the fire hold as upon
the most downy eouob, and, as an extra inducement,
threw out significant hints about some ohoico
packages of fluids which they would bring aboard,
provided they could be accommodated. As the men
thua anxious to accept quarters In the fire hold were
all well dressed, and most of them wore Uid gloves,
a lusplolnn of their real design flashed upon the
mind of Captain S., and he Inquired if the eold
northern climate which they were in was not rather
severe on their southern blood? This question
seemed to disconcert them, and after a pause one of
them replied that the climate was rather severe—
that they were residents of Bermuda, but preferred
takii g the overland route home from Pictou. They
soon after retired sullenly from the boat, and were
not seen again.
“’) be orew of the Sentinel consisted of ten men,
but that number unarmed would have stood but a
sorry chance in a contest with twelve desperadoes,
armed to the teeth.
“Captain Stringlemau informs us that the in
habitants of Pictou are remarkably friendly to our
Government. They receive their supplies from this
country, and their relations with American mer
chants appear to be of the most oordial character.
They have had some dealings with rebels, but in
variably speak of them withoontetnpt and aversion,”
Extraordinary Bioaky.—At Sunderland, on
Wednesday, John lately assistant civil en
gineer to the 'River Wear Commissioners, was
hlnramii’ \*
somewhat peculiar. -In September, 1856, he was
m air led to Matilda Blench, at Bishopton Church,
describing himself as a professor of mathematics,
named John Dixon Grieves, and the son of a barris
ter. He was, in fact, at tbis time engaged at the
Tyne Docks. After living with his wife a month he
left her, and was not heard of till May, 1862, when
he wrote from the Glasgow goal, asking for a few
postage stamps and some letters to comfort him.
He soon afterwards obtained his appointment under
the Wear Commissioneis. While employed thus in
Sunderland, he called at the shop of a Miss Waldie,
and introduced himself by saying he knew the late
Mr. Waldie, banker, of Kelso, and asked if she was
any relation. A few days afterwards Miss Waldie
received a letter proposing marriage, in whioh the
defendant said he had never met with any one
be could love but her. After a few inquiries she
consented, and they were married on the 23d oi Octo
ber. Three days afterwards he left for Liverpool to
obtsin a situation, and wrote several times asking
for money, which was always sent to him, till the
unfortunate lady discovered that he had been previ
ously married. He was apprehended in Ireland,
and on the 3d of December his second wife received
the following letter from him, dated from the Sund-,
erland prison: “Through the great goodness of Mr.
Stainsby Lam'permitted to drop you a few lines.
How strange and mysterious are the ways of Provi-
deuce! Little did 1 know the last Sabbath that I
spent with you that you would be the means of send
ing me here. I look to the future with trembling
despair. Good heavens I what a situation lam in.
The sight of a silent green field and the great Bileot
sky above it—O! whyahouid it be denied mortal
man? But there is a day coming in the history of
mankind—that grand uoiversal inquest when the
secrets of &U hearts shall be laid open, it
will be known then how I, was so treacher
ously betrayed by the Blenches. They drugged
my drink and made me quite stupid. Tney
had the lioense and the ring prepared. I have no
more recollection of that fatal day than I have of
the deluge that destroyed the earth. The clergyman,
when be b&w that I was stupid with drink, said he
had committed a most illegal act In reading the ser
vice. The Blenches know this right well, and they
have no claim upon me. I am truly sorry for you,
but you must remember that you are and wiilbemy
wife in the sight of Heaven. .1 married you with mv
will, but never an; other. Jam heavy-hearted,
lonesome, and sad. I do not know what to do—a
long, dreary winter in prison. New Year’s day was
the day appointed to commenoe my situation in
Liverpool. Oh t what a change. lam very hungry.
For the dayß that are departed, will you not conde
scend to send me a small piece of something to eat ?”
A number of witnesses were called to prove that tho
statement of his being intoxicated at the wedding
was entirely untrue, and he was committed for trial.
Guardian,
General Garfield on the Negro Question.—
A Washington military official—General Me Lean
arrived here a few days since on the special duty of
py into alleged abuses of the State la«va in
regard to free negroes. It appears that the city po
licemen are in the habit of seizing upon and detain
ing every negro who arrives in the city from the
South, and confining him in jail until it can be de
termined by some official whether he is free or con
traband. it is alleged that many free - negroes who
have been returning from the armytotne North,
have been thus deprived of liberty,-their papers
stolen from them, and they sold into slavery. Ido
not tee how this can be or has been done. The pur
pose of the police appears to be to obtain the re
wards generally offered for runaways, whom they
may catch, nothing more, though the contrary is al
leged by some. At any rate, muoh trouble has been
and continues tobe given to army officers who pass
through the city with their servants. A short time
since, General Garfield, member of .Congress, and
lately chief of staff to General Boaecrans, passed
through this city with his free negro servant At
the d£p6t on his arrival, and mail* boat at his de
parture, the General was beset by these officials,
who insisted upon arresting the negro. General
Garfield denied the right of the policemen, and re*
fused to allow the man to be taken. General Boyle
was appealed to by the policemen. On being told
that„the servant was General Garfield’s, Boyle
< wrote a note to General G., requesting him to settle
the matter by giving the negro his (Garfield’s) pass.
General Garfield replied he would not do so; that
the thing was a flagrant abuse, and ho would see the
end of it upon principle. He declared that the negro
should -go free without apasß, and that he was as
willing to risk his life in a solution of that question
B»gpj-.4hn 1 ,. /Thpnniicemen persisted• .buffr num
ber of aimy officers gathering around GenerSrcr»*
field in his defence, the negro went free. It appears
that General Garfield, on reaching Washington,
made complaint of the abuse, and an official has now
been sent to correct it. There is some law upon
which the police base their action and justify their
conduct; but it appears that they su>pect every ne
gro of being a fleeing criminal until he proves him
eelf innocent, a reversal of the code of justice which
only a Frenchman, Chinaman, or rebel would attempt
to justify, even when practised against a “ nigger.”
Louisville cor* Herald.
The Monitors.—The inefficiency of the monitors
is to clearly shown in the documents which accom
pany the report of the Secretary of the Navy that
tt is a matter of emprise wfij ffie <j°Yerss?as has
iptfit i? fßwmYis tra asfriaT n ssa?r?fl wmizm
Sox vessels of this description. Tne Dfew Yorit Times,
in some remarks upon tne reports of the command
ers of each oi the monitors to Admiral Dupont, after
his attack upon Fort Sumpter, says:
It appears from the testimony of the seven com
manders of the seven monitors, that of the Beven all
were more or less injured; and, in the encounter of
half an hour half of them were put hors de combat.
We use this phrase in its literal sense—they were put
“out of the fight.” It is true that they were not
sent to the bottom of Charleston harbor; but whether
tbe damage was of the nature of that which befell
the Pfttßftic, which had tbe roof of her pilot-house .
lifted up, or of that whioh befell the Nantucket,:
whose poit shutter waß jammed, thus preventing
the guns being fired; or, again, of that which befell
the Nahant, the turret of which, being struok,
ceased to revolve, thus rendering the vessel useless;
in any one of these cases, we say, the-ships were,
for the time being, quite as effectually put hors de
embat as if they had been sent to the bottom of the
harbor.
Of the two monitors which in the trial against
Sumpter suffered least injury, the Weehawken, the
other day »unk_mysteribusly while at anchor, carry
ing thirty of her crew to a watery graves the
turret of the Catßkill proved worse than the IJgo
lico tower, in which her gallant commander, George
W. Kodgers, met his death from the crushing in of
the roof of the pilot-house by a shell from Fort
Wagner. ,
There is one point touching which the evidenoe of
all the commanders oi the monitors is concurrent,
namely: that the trial-oi tbe iion-clads against the
fort* wii ttmrouoti i tint It Droveil tMr inability to
reduce mem, ana man us would Have been maaneca
to liars renewed the attack,
Coming from oncers of the skill, energy ana
daring that in so marked a "degree characterized
these commanders, these opinions will go far toward
being conclusive with the majority of disinterested
persona. But the Inability of the monitors to re
duceieither forts or earthworks finds additional
proof in the failure of the attack against Fort Mc-
Allister— a sand battery in the Ogeeohee river,
against which the combined power of - the monitors
was on three different occacions directed, without
makiogthe slightest impression upon the work; and,
further, by the failure of the iron fleet to accom
plish anything against the defences of Charleston
harbor during tbe three months that Admiral Dahl
gren has had that business in hand.
•erjeanta’ Innj Deo, I’./
City; Bounties to Volunteers, •
To tie Editor of TJiePna*: x
Sir : I have recruited a company tor the 183 d Re
giment. Colonel George' P. MoLean. I commenced
to muster on or about the 19th of September. The
men of course, have received no pay ai yet. They
make great complaints, and even charge the officers
with neglect, because they are unable to reoeive the
bounty that Connells have seen proper to appropri
ate. The Commissioners appointed required a certi
ficate that (the men mustered in the above regiment
wculd be credited to the oity. The certificate was
given, but, It appears, is not satisfactory, an order
being required from the War Department that the
men will be counted in the coming draft. If these
things oontinue the 6th of January will bejupon us.
and There will be no reorults towards theMraft, and
the Mayor and Councils will be foiled in their ?good
intentions. The community at large inquire why
cruiting goes on so slowly 1
If you will be kind enough to give the above a no
tice in your paper, the public will know where the
trouble lies. I think they should know, as it will
perhaps, do some good.
Tours, very respeotfully,
H. W. Q-RA.FF,
Captain Company C, 183 d Regimeat.
The Bouquet in Wine*
[Paris Correspondence of the London Times. ]
An experiment, interesting to wine drinkers, has
been lately made by M. Berthelot, the celebrated
professor. It was he who first discovered that
there is a particular oxydable principle in Bor
deaux and Burgundy.wine* to which he attributes
their' flavor. In pursuing his studies he was in
duced to examine the influence which oxygen ex*
excises over wine. The result convinced him that this
action is most unfavorable, and that it entirely de
stroys the bouquet, which is replaced by a most
disagreeable flavor. Mr. Berthelot found it suffi
cient to pass a current of oxygen into the choice
wines of St. Jean and Thorln to produce this result,
and demonstrate experimentally that a very small
quantity is sufficient to destroy the bouquet of a
quart of Thorln, and that the absorption of oxygen
hy wine, accelerated by the the tempe
rature, is rendered almost immediate by the addi
tion of an alkali.
The observations of this distinguished chemist
prove how neoessary it is to preserve wine in a per
fect state from the action of the oxygen contained
in the air, sinoe the prolonged contacts of 10 cubic
centimetres of. oxygen—that is, GO cubic centimetres
of air—is sufficient to desstroy the bouquet of a quart
of wine. It is to the slow penetratration of oxy
gen in to bottles that M. Berthelot attributes the
destiuction of flavor which every wine experiences
at last. The reason that the rooking off of new
wine from the vat to the oask does not produce a
similar result is that new wine being saturated with
served, a very small volume of air disengaging a
considerably greater volume of carbonic acid. The
OecompoßltloD -or wine In bottleß half full, and the
diminution of the flavor, well-known to all con
noisseurs, are caused by the action of oxygen. The
complete destruction 01 the flavor of wine by the ad
dition of an aloaline mineral water, such as that of
Viohy, is explained by the preceding facts.
The Times’ Account of the Great Prize
Fight.—The Times 1 account, be it remarked, was
written by Mr. Thomas Hughes, author of 15 School
Days at Rugby,” “Torn Brown at Oxford,” etc.,
who reported the fight between Keen&n and Sayers
for the same paper, four years ago. It is, of course,
admirably done, and far ahead of all the other nar
ratives, being, indeed, a singular illustration of
how a gentleman and a Christian (in the best sense
of those much-abused appellations) canrelate what
is intrinsically detestable, demoralizing, and devll-
Isb, without allowing the natural horror and disgust
inspired by the fr ankly* recorded details to supersede
the interest. You have aU of it, the “ thud” and
plash of the blows, sounding as if falling on raw
meat instead of human faces, the horribly cut lip of
Heenan, the bloody tumors.covering his body, the
falls of the men, down to the final picture, when
one lies senseless upon the grass, all vitality beat
out of him, Ms companions peeling Mb ensanguined
garments from him as from a corpse, and the other
pushes his way through a mob of exultant wretches
to look at his victory. And I think there are few—
of the Tribune's readers, at least—but who will an
ticipate Mr. Hughes’ evident estimate of the whole
affair, entire reprobation of it. It was none of his
business to protrude this, I presume, in a mere re
port, but Ms animus is unmistakable.—Cor. Tribune,
Calvin Saxton Oonvioted.—ln the oaae of the
People va. Luther Calvin Saxton, on trial at Roches
ter for two or three weeks paat in the county court,
the jury have rendered a verdict of guilty. Saxton
is to be sentenced on Tuesday next. He was charged
with having defrauded Orictarchua Champion out of
some $lOO,OOO by false representations, inducing him
to go into a mammoth Union Book Company. Sax
ton, who is a lawyer, managed his own case with
considerable shrewdness.
A Melancholy End.—lt is reported that the un
lucky creditors ol the steamship Great Eastern have
decided to dispose of that vessel by lottery. The
drawing Is to take place at Frankfort-on-the Main,
and there are two hundred shares, ranging from £260
to .£20,000. The winner in thisfraffle will .probably
feel, with the huge ship on his hands, like the vic
tim in the East whom his sovereign punished by pre
senting him a white elephant.
Labse Peekmi'Tokt Sale of Boots, Shoes,
Hats, Cabpet Bags, &c.—The early attention of
dealers is requested to the seasonable assortment of
boots,'shoes, army goods, soft hats, traveling bags,
&c., comprising samples of 1,100 packages of prime
articles, to be peremptorily sold, by catalogue, on
four months’ credit, commencing this morning at 10
o’clock, precisely, by John B. Myers & Co., auc
tioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street, this being
their closing sale of the season.
Sales to-day Heal Estate, Ibbedeemable
(.hound Bent $192 a year, stocks, loans, &c., at the
Exchange. Thirty.three properties.
Paintings at the auction store.
Furniture, No. 2116 Weßt Delancey place.
See Thomas & Sons’ advertisements and cata
logues of the three sales.
Sale of Paintings This Moening.—A large
collection of paintings, comprising specimens of
most of the artists of our city, will be sold this
morning, at 10 o’clock, at No. 1305 Chestnut street,
by Thos. Birch Sc Son, auctioneers. .
Public Entertainments.
Chestnu'dstbeet Theatbe.—The renown which
Yeatvali won for herself here has rendered her tour,
•through the West a series of dramatic exploits.
She now returns to us, and expects us all to take
the oath of allegiance to her, instantly. Accordingly,
she will make her renfaS at the New Chestnut, bn
Monday evening. Several new characters are pro
iii-*i—J J n«tn jy Vi nr _
£Swiss Bull-Ringkus.—Concert Hall has become
a favorite place of entertainment. The programme
consists of sixteen songs, ballade, solos, waltzes,
duetts, choruses. The clarionett Boloand “echo
bugle 3 ’ performances of Mr. Hall have been exceed
ingly admired, , ,
" Chestnut-Hill Water Works. —Owing
to the explosion of the steam boiler at these works,
it is probable the residents at Oheßtnut Hill will
have to resort to the wells, &b in olden times. It is
supposed that three weeks will elapse .before the
works will be in good running order. This affair is
s private corporation. .
Died of bib Injukies.—Fatncfc Roan,
who was Admitted into the Pennsylvania Hospital
on Saturday, with his neck broken, died from the
effects of it yesterday afternoon.
CITY ITEMS.
A Splendid New Yeab’s Gtft.—We re
commend our , readers, who have not yet done
so, to call at the “ Florence ” Sewing Machine esta
blishment, No. 630 Ohestnut street, and make their
selections of maohines for New Year’s gifts. It is
the best machine in use by far, and the advantages
of buying it in preference to any other will be very
apparent to all who will spend fifteen minutes in
examining it. It is so simple in its mechanism, and
easy in its operations, that it is almost impossible
for it to get out of repair, and a child can work upon
it, whilst the character and range of work which it
executes is unequalled by any other machine in use-
‘• The BbeAth of Fbebh Aib.”— This magnifi
cent oil painting, painted by Mr. Wenderoth, of the
firm of Wenderoth & Taylor, (formerly Broadbent&
C 0.,) and now displayed at their art gallery, Nos.
912,914, and 916 Chestnut street, is still telling its
own poetic story to hundreds of visitors dally. In
.l, AEAwai if sUiisfii mho throng this grant
Photographic establishment lor portraits of them
selves and friends, find in the examination of this
oh aiming picture a double compensation. The
splendid new Photographs of Imperial size, now pro
duced by this firm, are also the finest ever made.
At their counters they are now selling a splendid
line of cartes de visile of distinguished men, and ele
gant Albums, at moderate prices.
Best Wheat Flour.
Freeh ground from tho finest wheat;
Tea* and Coffee*, of be*t quality;
Crown and Basket Fruit;
Elegant Apple*;
For sale by
Great Reduction in Prices.
Great Reduction in Prices.
Ladies’ and Misses’ Fine Cloak*.
Ladles’ and Misses’ Fine Cloak*.
Also,
Kioh Furs of all kinds,
Bich Fun of all kind*.
In anticipation of the olose of the season, we are
now prepared to make a large eonoesaion &om
former price* on all our stock. /
J. W. Prootok & Co..
The Pari* Cloak and Fur Emp^reet.
Ohcgfc
- StTfifltjJiAra
“ Wn Dnora ortueij w.
M«»r», Wood i=o«T, Bonnet*, to.
jOTimoOp- to Mae am, mu?h bo-'
g»nt ttock of Bomy&tare, . «»« v*
theli pretent pr*'^—
low the Gift .—lt is almost too late
/to recommend the sewing-machine
J\_ A r article in a family. No well-revnl.ted
iwnold is without one. This questton fetti™?
,Je next thing to do is to select the o™ best suited
to your requirements. Both of the editor, nftha
Heme Journal have long had the Grnvm.l Sr
machine in their householda. and oan Ltk
experience. We therefore have no hesitation m
saying, that we like this machine, sndtlTeioT
lowing reasons: First. It is more °
SeTOnd d lt“ews S i e t 0 der *“ SeniBnt th “ othort ;
* threkfl ordinary spools, and no re
winding of thread is necessary. Third. It sews
wrth equal faculty an fabrics, themo.t d^i/ateand
the heaviest, and with all kind's of thread, silk, oot
e?a.tf Foutto ' «» seam is so strong and
U never breaks. Fifth.' It fasten, both.
eudß of the seam by its wen operation. Sixth. Tig
seam, though cut at every sixth stitch* remains
firm, and neither runs nor ravels in wear. -But be--
aidea the above qualities to recommend the “ G-rnv#»r
it has a faculty which no gtHflr'iaiohinfi
ab»
change of arrangement. Haring came I o the con
clusion as to which maohine to purchase, we would
ask what more noble or handsomer holiday elf*
could be selected 3 Nothing could possibly be more
acceptable in a house where it has not yet been in!
treduced. It not only save, money and ime
iscertainto preservethe health and very ofT™ Jw
temper of the “ gude wife.”-* r. RoJjouL <*
A GEBHBAt Okga.hiza.tioh.—There will ‘he »
general organization on next Monday, b™ £
~ e "tr S the eHr Year. City Gounod wm or
ganire, the various department* of the eitvdittn.
1)6 no re organization needed at the
Brown Stone Clothing Hall of KoeihiH & Wilson
Joe 60S and 605 Chestnut .tre«rXvo™S
n-v one ™t Es a? ** OODl P let O*nd permanent,, a.
there” F dto ovsr foy procuring a arst-oiass amt
Old WlnfM U afftteib
HisetapUUght.hiseyabaUMttot
HU eheek la ruddy h the bo4 '
’ Bl NHllltb ttiUlk iMMi
HU taMd ia teUk upon th«
HU puUM gallop m ha goto,
He hath a smile upon bis Ups,
With «ong. of welcome, jests ana qulpg,
The friend of every living thing, /
Old Winter—.tie of youthful spring , ,
The glooms upon his brow thftt dwell, •
Are glorious when we knSw them weß.
■ Winter can be fully appreciated by dressingup let
a suit of the Winter Clothing made >y OhettM
Stokes & Co., under the Continental. v
Epigram bt a Ladt.—
It ain't now the fashion—it was long ago— /
Tomarry for love, but we voted it “ slow; 11
And we a>k when our suitors most ardently
Not “Oh, does he lovemel” but “How (bes-te
dressl’’
And all ladles of taste will oonsider but joket,
The men who’re not “rigged in the style’ of 9,
■ Fob Throat . Diseases and affections >f the
Chest, “ Brown’s Bronchial Trochee," or Coigh Ijw
zeDgee, are of great value. In Coughs, Inititton of
the Throat, oauied by Cold, or Unusual Exetion of
the vooal organa, in speaking in public, orfagiaA
they produce the most beneficial results.
Corns, Bunions, Inverted Name, Esurgeb
Joints, and all dU&ses of the feet, cured without
pain or inconvenience to the patient, by Dr. Zion*.
rib, Surgeon Chiropodist, 921 Chestnut street. B»>
fere to physicians and surgeons of the city. drft-Bt
Cabinet Organs »or
Holiday Presents at Farson a p,*
street, below Walnut. Cutlery, Tea Trai, Japan
ned and Plated Ware, Hobby-Horses and fed*,
. dei-wsmtl
ARRIVALS IT THE HOTER
UP TO TWELVE TCJLOCK LASTTIGH
Continental—Ninth;
A Pardee, Hazleton . ]
J'CRose, Elizabeth.N J' I
8 C Worden, Hew York
Key A G Cummins, Beading
H Heishfiid»New York
JP Clark, Newport, Pa
J 0 Friabee & la, Penna
Jas W Cromwell, N York
Wm Raneen, Harrisburg
W P Letchworth
W W Clark, Hew York -
F Prentice, Hew York
JJU Young, Hew York -
O w Tail, Jr. Boston _ '
T B Clatworthy, Hew York
H G Davis & la,. Virginia
Sami Mnsselman, Penna
H K Nichols, Pottsvilla
£ B Smith & la.Baffalo
Beni Gregory, USA
-£ B Grubb, Burlington :
J H Allen, Chatham
R W Addis, Washington
J G Taylor Aria, H Jersey
E C Stillwell & la. N Jersey
S BAbrahams & la. H J
Bobt Heller, New York
R G Patten, Hew York
Gtn Gregg & la, U S A
Miss A Phelps. Montrose,Pa
J B McNeaLEaston
Is R Davis, w Chester
Gen H Walbridge. H Y
Airs H W Sase, Brooklyn
W H Sage, Brooklyn-.
,D Sage, Brooklyn
P M-Boyd, Hew York
. J E Peyton,' New Jersey
N G Taylor, East Term
Jay Cooke & wf, Penna
H D Coobe & w*. Wa*h
Hiss L Cooke. Washington
Francis Cobh, Maine
H McMaater, Hew York
R D McClure. Peoria; HL
ThosL Ogden,Woodbury
T Arrowsmitb, USA
L J Albertson, Cincinnati
" J K Gilbert & wf. Lane co
J W Laughlin Pa
J W B Cox, Harrisburg
John Hock &la* W Chester
J Abeterdam &wf, NY
Mlbs Ensign, Burlington
Wm Harper, Jr, USA
John H Havron, USA ;
JehnUrout, Ohio
J M Eelicia, Mifflin
Sami Linn & 1&, Bellefonte
Tlie Union—Arch
A L Hokins, Ohio ’ '
C J Mann, Altoona. Pa
Mr* Pickle, £ew Jersey,
I) Wallace & wf, Lane cb
J C Morgan, Penna
S Walmer, Hummelstown
Mp Fowler. Tamaqna
F S Staart, Lancaster
Mis* Pickle; Kevr Jersey
W Felialv Atlantic City
P Rich.wine, Lancaster co
J S Grier, ChamhershuTg ..
3J2 Grier, Ckamberakiirg
States Unlonr fi r“ rke * above Slxtft
?||p r i-a oUiiayBbara
J Snifflfie.Curwenßville 1 FBea/Sft
HG Johnson, NY°’ Washingtoa
TbosL Browning? Pa rß«. S vß* or, *' 9tlt ™» A
Davis k Richards,
Aioh and Tenth streets,
A ' ShffisZ' LehaMn 6r C ° W Mwktay b B h '®“ w
Commercial—sixth n
w , e , 6t Chester
JJkhd Coffee, Easton
B R Foust, Mt Ysriiofl
E Roberts, Phil*
E B Hammond, Chester co
Jos S Evans, West Chester
Jas GJfillan, Chester co
Jos Hopinter, Newark, Del
™Bv*ZlP\Stlre'lf-Secoa'
rV?™»* )ert t’ , La hcaster
STomiison *i ft , N j enj ™
t 4 wS er ’ J&jlestowa
Jersey -
| C Bi b o°S£!'wgl“'
H Dusgan, Fijjlafla
Join H Christ. lZc„ J IS' C ‘ m
ISM*
|*“taner. loaklcr , V
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-y enron—Saw
Garwocd. Salem, ITJ
i n 4 Ea i coek Salem, If J
J B Honafon. New Yorfc
LtßßShoeipaker. MnceyvPa
BJLjOTfMe, Norristown
W N Denny. M D, Pittobarg
BaldEagle-TW n
B P Arrlsoo, Holmasbiirier
W U Rauch, USA
0 W JHaarer. Harrisburg
B P Siesfrled, Baatoa
P K Batbleli-sia
O Dotts PenT*bd*E* ~ •
Jos Stoppr Ailantown
Baxnuiu'n Hotel—Tliij
W Kfag, K j
"BWfjadersou. Heading
Wise K K Wilson, Balt
C M Eowa aad lady. Wash
Bli “
tacit BouHTlitid
A fit Blight* Baravilift
OLD WtUTUS,
WILLOOX & OIBBS’
Sewing
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Temple of Fashion, No. 609 Chestnut street
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For Holiday Promts,
WILLOOX & CtIBBS>
Sewing Maohinrs*
For Holiday Presents.
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TM Campbell. Uarind
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C F Knowlton, New t
Henry San fotd, Newjk
H L Manning, New 1
John Cawgili, Sastoi
Jas S McLen :
P G Forres, Mexico
T R Hawley & wf. H
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H H Starkweather, Cl
O N Raymond. Norwßfc
D A Deiaaow, Norwiffc
J L Greene, Norwich!
S A Wells, San Franc!
T L Price & Bon, Mari
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W T Haines, Washington
JT ftnrtagh, Washington
Wm W Reed, Harrisburg
Joseph Keepers ' ■
Danl L Herh.-Nesr-York
Geo WJWamet, Boston
BsmueLWatson. Pittsburg
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S Perkins. Hew York
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Chas Goodrich, Boeto
John Templeton. Hev:
Thos W Harkins, Bo
W K Breniger. Bead!
F D Dsvlan. Reading
John Stewart, Easton
Edw J Fox,-Eg*ton
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Jacob She.l. Harrisbu
S B Clark, St Louis
John Ferry, U S N
J Daly. Washington
Sami Burk,'Ohio
Jas Brisben, Penna
Sami Yanßoren.New V
R Jacobs, Poitna T
F D Long. Jersey Shore*
Chas Beardslee \
J M Phipps A wf,New Y<
Cha? H Wright, Deiawa!
JohnF Martin, Delawarl
Wright, Delawart
W G Whiteley \
MAJiong, Maryland
W Ward. Delaware co i
Sami Buck. Perrysville *
J M Kiester, Harrisburg •
P C Howe, Hew York
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D W Brookfield, H Jersey
W Curtis, Delaware i
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Chas Wiison Chester, Pa 1
John £ Tipion, Maryland i
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W G Hepburn, Boson
Mrs Robinson, Delaware
H C Swift. Hew Tore
HAF Stockton
G W Howard
Ctai 0 LeonanJ, i
Ii 0 Smithy Rftidins, Pa.
FB fechnmcker, Beading
WmHßewliugs&lady, NJ
B F Adams, N6W York
Sami V B Ake, WiDiamtb’g
Wm F Gceesany P’le
Miss C W Gneenang. Potts’ie
T B Walker, Sclmy’l Haven
JC Mitchell
i E Bast, PenusylvanV
i J W Denney, Deiawire
J Davies, New York
G S Payne, Snow Hil
W H Gist, Virginia
Isaac Leaning, Jr, H J
i M Flint
E W Davidson, Phla
F Micbelvero, Washington
Capt J N Snrrit.TJ S A
D C Alexander, Wilkesbarre
W W Reed, Baltimore"
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J C Stewart, Boston
F Cronise. Hew York
W K Thomas, New York
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•F F Patterson
F T St&inwood, Ohio
E F Rowe, U S N :
J H Stimpson, U S It,
WW Coates, NewJeHgy
Jas Coates, Hew Jersey’,
T B Mason, Hew Jersey \
H H Cunningham, N Yorh
GMHarrißon, New York
Geo C Tees. Baltimore
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W Alexander, Harper's Far
DrUbbott, USN
F F Hawal, Hew Yotk
T J Yorks, Jr, Sdlem.y J
H Gilley, Boston
Ohas Johnson. Boston
M Williams, New York
M Sopp, Bedford
S A Pugh, Washington
B G Bloss, Hew York
R B Lloyd & wf, H Jersey
u> H Daniell, ÜBK
Merdiautn’—Fourth
Isaac Tetter, Miners ville’
Jas P Farrell & wf
S Henderson, Shippensburg
Geo Higbee, Hew York
B E Haines, New York
tient Nicholson. Maryland
T S Rowley, Pittsburg
•tioet. below Arcla.
DF&ter, USA
T R Bicker, Brooklyn
Chas USA
Miss E S Jones
Jas Healey, Dougl&svilld
W I, Fowler. Chicago
Jaß Lowther. Altoona
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Mils L Reynolds, VVilkesb
Chas htorrs. New York
H B Hall. New York
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Jas Thomas, Parry villa
J W Reynolds, Boston
L L Huntzinger, Sch Haven
D B Bunt, New York
M J Barry, Mahanoy City I
Colß McAllister, U S A
airs McAllister. H Jersey
Dr Stapler, Alexandria, va
W C Rent gen. Vicksburg
M Gumpert, Harrisburg
C T Jones;, New York
F Weiss, Luzerne co, Pa
W Lilly, Pena Haven
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IP Q Fesaldi, Wiiliann^oct
A K Wright, Clearfield
Frank Turner. Shawnee
W Lindsey. Maryland
A P Cropper, Maryland
W Prentice. Newark
C Rietur, Mauch Chunk
J Phillips, Newcastle
Geo Johnson.
& Bowman, Harrisburg
itreetj above Third,
W G Reed. Chambersbnrgr
G E Minyers & la. Peaaa
A Banks, Mifflin, Pa
W Batrett, Mifflin. Pa
H W Shonse, Hawley, Pa
D W Howell. Baston
D L Kennedy a la, Peaaa
G G Beckwith, Maas
Ira Corfcriaht, Bethlehem
Jasß McKee. Hazleton
John Firfd, Penna
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