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FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1E44
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1864.
If 1864 should do no more than repeat
the victories of 1863, it will be enough; for
we need but one more Vicksburg and one
more Chattanooga to decides the issue.
Another Gettysburg is improbable, for the
invasion of the North has ceased to be even
a dream in the South, and the rebellion will
rest all winter at bay, beleagnred by our.
-armies - and blockaded by our fleets. • We
think that 1863 saw the climax of the war,
and that 1804 will see its end. How
gloomily ended 1862, how slowly the war'
had progressed in that year of misfortunes,
and how dangerous the,rdiscontentments of
the North! Not only had - we failed to win de
cisive victories, but it seemed that the people
might lose their energy and trust. The cry, for
peace grew louder and louder. It needed
all the firmness of the Government, all the
fidelity of its friends, to keep the high po
.
Bey of the country from: failing. 1863, by
the help of Providence and the proclama
tion of emancipation, reversed the situation.
GRANT and BANKS opened the Mississippi;
ROSRORANS and GnANT delivered Tennes
see, and the one prepared, the other achieved
the greatest. triumph of the whole struggle ;
MEADE repulsed invasion at Gettysburg ;
and these were assurances of magnificent
progress. But the victory did not all belong
to the army and navy. In the elections of
about twenty States, the Government re
.
ceived such a decisive support that the ene
inies -of the Government trembled before
the will of the people. Of: all dangers, dis
affection in the loyal States seemed the
greatest in 1862 ; but 1863 ends with the
North practically 'a unit for the Union.
Thus we enter the New Year, with the
light of victory on our banners. The war
is not ended, but doubt, and disagreement,
and danger are over. The Government has
not only half conquered its enemies in the
South, but has half convinced its opponents'
in the North ; it has 'extorted respect from
both. No one now takes the trouble to
argue with the people that the first step in
restoring the Union must be to give a loyal
% support to the Government. That is a truth
universally admitted. It will be the basis
of popular action in 1864. The attempt to
organize a party with the avowed purpose
of thwarting the present. Administration,
and substituting for its war-policy one of
compromise, has been such a tremendous
failure, that we need not dread its renewal.
The policy of the Government is enthroned
in the intelligence of the loyal people, and
vindicated by its own success. It cannot
be broken down, for it is breaking down
the rebellion.
And now, haVing said that we need not
dread the renewal of the attempt to destroy
the policy of %he Government, having as
serted that doubt and danger are over, we
retract our words. Yes, we are bold enough
to be inconsistent, for the facts are inconsis
tent. It is true that there is reason why
- loyal men should smile at the thought that
all which has been done might be undone.
But, so long as there is a party in the loyal-
States led by men secretly opposed to the
coercion of the South, denying the justice
of the abolition of slavery, and sympathiz
ing far more with the rebellion than with
the Government, the danger is not over.
Indifference or division in 1864 might
not ruin the 'Union, but it would
postpone, perhaps, for years the restoration
of peace. No man can overestimate the
-evil of the failure of the Union party in the
next Presidential election. We claim for
the -Union party, and the men who are at
the head of it, nothing lei t s, than the glory
.of the whole struggle. Their principles are
the only principles. If we have had victory
it is due to them only ; if we have had de
feat it is not their blame. All the mis
fortunes of the war, excepting those in
separable from all wars, we unhesitatingly
charge upon a factious-and unscrupulous
opposition to the Government. Even in
defeat that party has been effective ; 'it
has slandered our best statesmen, decried
our ablest generals, interfered with the draft,
discouraged enlistments, asserted that the
war was not waged for the' 'Union, pre
dicted ruin, and denied success. It has
never helped to make one man patriotic,
,save as the drunken Helot taught the Spar=
\ tan youth the nobility of temperanc,e. His
tory will denounce it more earnestly than
we do. It will be recorded as the worst of
all parties, and branded with the shame oLI
its sympathy with traitors. If it succeeds,
farewell to the fruits of viciory, a long fare
well to the glory of triumphant war, to the
hopes of prosperous peace. It is a party
that has ever had the encouragement of all
- our foes, and has thrice earned the distrust
and enmity of every man who cares a par
ticle more for the honor of his country than
the miserable triumph of a politician.
How can this party succeed ? Only by
effecting a division in the 'Union ranks, and
thus again carrying the Presidential elec
tion against the will of a majority. Already
has it begun laboring to create dissension.
Loyal men must meet it by maintaining
their organizations, by sacrificing they jea
lousies, by never giving up a principle for
the love or hatred of a man, and by trans
_ lating the true old maxim, • The price of
liberty is eternal vigilance," into the daily
-thoughts and actions of their lives.
The White and the Black Races.
An Old doctrine is being revived,. and be
coming fashionable among Northern jour-
nals which still advocate slavery against the
stupendous facts of a war, of, which slavery
has confessedly been the cause. This doc
trine is bluntly stated by the Herald : the
.war is bound to result in' the . extermination
.of "the negni ; or, in more laconic expres
ra.:.
sion, slavery - lin die with the'slave. For
obvious reasons, the opinions of the Herald
deserve no respect, but In the. World we find
.the same doctrine painfully elaborated in a
long article. of which only a quotation from
Ds, Tocqui,vimn. deserves special atten
tion. This extract is introduced as an argu
ment against the proclamation of emanci
pation. On this point the World holds: -
The whole tendency of this experiment is toicard the
utter =lamination of the black race. The statement
of such an opinion will, of course, shock the senti
mentalism of the negrophUtsts. They will profess
a reliance on the Divine justice whidh owes a com•
pensation to the negroes for the wrongs they have
already suffered. But where Was -Divine justice
when the Indian tribes of this continent were dnvtri
from their lands, maddened by fire-water, contami
nated by the vices of civilization, and put in the
course of speedy extinction 7 A great deal of senti
mentalism, or rather a great deal of maudlin fine
writing; has been expended on the fate of this natu•
rally proud and noble , race ; but Providence has not
intervened to arrest its destruction. 'On ill such
subjects we must reason from our knowledge rather
than from our idea of poetical justice. What com
pensation, in this world, has ever offset the suffer
.git of negroes who have - died amid the horrors of
the "middle passage,"'or whcrhave fallen victims to
- the lash and the climate on the sugar plantations of
the West 'wheel Let us away, then, with all at
tempts to sit in judgment on Providence, to pm
scribe its duties, or rejudge its justice, and estimate
the future by What we know of the pasty and of the
passions - of men." •
Let us away, in truth, with all attempts to
rejudge the justice of Providence, upon
which the' - World has sat in judgment. We
might finds a reason for the hard fact that
civilization has done away with a race no
longer useful,; and might deduce a utilita
rian and economic reason for the preser
vation of the negro. If he is valuable to
the soil as a slave,- why should he not, to
say the least, be just as Valuable as a ser-,
vant. Heaven alone knows what compen
sation was gained by the pitiable wretches
who died in the horrors of the middle pas
sage—but there is some combensation to.
the black man who can own his children—
to the laborer who can work for so much
a day, without the fear of the cat-o'-nine
tails -or the discomfort of an iron collar.
We agree with the World that it is not
necessary to waste sentiment or sensation
upon this subject, and we are therefore sui
prised at what the World calls "terrible pre
which are not "the fruits of a
'fervid and excited fancy." The future of
the negro is committed to Providence, whom
we are forbidden to judge. Who shall, be
the prophet? Let us perform our duty, at
least, without being hindered by mischief
makers. Common-sense people, hutnanita
thins, and patriots f are hard at work teach
ing the negro how to march and to shoot,
how to read, and how to earn wages, and
generally organizing his liberty. Through
out the whole North,. sympathy has beet ,
awakened in his behalf, and, in turn, colored-
Men, bond and free, are entering the ranks
of the army. What compensation the World
might ask, has the negro for learning to
spell or tile teacher for teaching him? Or
what good is it that he helps to fight our
battles ? Just as certain acts bring their
own revenge, certain others compensate
•
themselves, doubtless, and the negro has
not made a bad pupil, laborer-or soldier. In
all these respects the black race has gained
something, and is - still progressing. Oui
bono ? We are only educating them for
extermination, according to the_ World. But
we pause to make way for the "prediction"
•
of DE Tocounvium :
If I were called upon to predict what will pro
bably occur at some future time, I-should say that
the abolition of slavery in the South will, in the common
course of things, increase the repugnance of the while
population for the men of color. I found this opinion
upon the analogous observation which I already
had occasion to make in the North. I there re
marked that the white inhabitants of the - Ninth
avoid the negroes with increasing care, in propor
tion as the legal barriers of seperation are removed
by the legislature; and why 'should not the same
result take place in the South I In the North' the
whites are deterred from intermingling with the
blacks, by the fear of an imaginary danger ; in the
South, where the danger would be' real, I cannot
imagine that the fear would be less general.
If, on the one hand, it be admitted (and the fast
is unquestionable) that the colored population per
petually accumulates in the extreme South t and
that it increases more ' rapidly than that of the
whites ; and if, on the other hand, it be allowed that
it is impossible to foresee a time at welch the whites
and the blacks will be so intermingled as to derive
the same benefits from society. must it not be inferred
that the blacks and the whites will, sooner or later, come
to open strife in the Southern States of the. Union? But
if it be asked what the issue of the struggle is likely
to be, it will readily be understood that we are here
left to form a very vague surmise of the truth. The
human mind may suceeed in tracing a wide circle,
as it were, which includes the course of future
events; but within that circle a thousand various
chances and circumstances may direct it in as many
different ways; and in every picture of the suture
there is a dim spot which the eye of the under
standing cannot penetrate.
a a * * * a •
When I contemplate the condition of the South, I
can only discover two alternatives which may be
adopted by the white inhabitants of those States,
viz: either to emancipate the Degrees, and to inter
mingle with them ; or, remaining isolated from
Ahem, to keep them in a state of slavery as long as
possible. All intermediate measures seem to ins likely to
terminate, and that shortly, in the most horrible of civil
wars, and Perhaps in the extirpation of one or other of
the two races. Suchie the view which the Americans
of the South take of the unestion, and they act
consistently with it. As they are determined not
to mingle with the negroes, they refuse to emanci
pate them.
Not that the inhabitants of the South regard
slavery as necessary to the wealth of the planter,
for on this point many of- them agree with their
Northern countrymen in freely admitting that
slavery
. is prejudicial to their interests ; but they
are cony= red that, however prejudicial it may be, they
hold their lives 'upon no other tenure.
Here, at length, is the " terrible predic
tion." Acknowledging its ' terrors, for the
sake of argument, what security, can be
guaranteed in a continuance of slavery ?
DE Too:pm - mix suggests that - -the black
race must so increase as to overpower the
white, or that the white, must exterminate
the black. This is the whole issue ; but no
provision is made for the immense civil war
raging between the two white sections, and
which, in the blood of all races, is settling
this question between black - and white.
Supposing that slavery still increases, it
must overpower the white race of the South,
and out of its growing ignorance, barbarism,
and numbers, naturally lead to results more
terrible than the fanciful hcirrors of a state
of freedom. But what could have averted
such a catastrophe as the TiTorld predicts ?
We presume the answer will be—leaving
slavery alone, suppressing the Proclama
tion of Freedom, and not having made
war at all. To have done all this, there
should never have been such a thing as
slavery. We may add that if
_slavery
had not existed, there would never have
been such a war, and the President would
not have issued his proclamation of emanci
pation. •Again, we ask, supposing it had
not been issued, would it have been better
either for the slave:or the master ? Has it
not relieved them both of some more dread
ful danger in the future ? At least, the
master has been relieved of- the sla:ve, and
the slave of the master, and the President
has unlocked the whole problem of the war
and of politics. Something has been re
vealed ; something has been done well, and
the great majority of the country are now
thoroughly assured that slavery is wrong
and should be done away with, and the soon
er the country is rid of it the better.
DE Tocquavnaz died some time before
this war commenced, and we need a living
prpplact, with the genius of,. our' soldiers,
who deplare that the rebellion shall cease ;
of our generals and statesmen, who say that
slavery must die ; of our huinanitarians
and'reformers who will make - the negro a
more valuable working element in-the new
South than he was in - the old ; and of the
negro himself, who, out of the sufferings of
the war, is working his way to a place of
respect in civilization. Slavery and the
slave will die ; but it is not likely that mil
lions of the black people, growing under the
auspices of freedom, will be exterminated
by the whites, increasing in prosperity from
the very benefits derived from free labor.
One great fact stands a monument to our
righteous struggle, and a rock against such
argnments as those based upon the obsolete
prediction of Dn TocquEvn.r.m. We allude
to the feeling against slavery, and in favor
of the blacks; which has been growing
rapidly in late years, and is still increasing.
The greater race involved in the dilemma
of the. feebler, one has taken upon its
shoulders the responsibility of helping them.
We could not avoid the war; we cannot
avoid this duty. By helping these we help
ourselves.
ALL RINDS OF CRITICISM have been 'vrit
ten upon the war ; but U. e . opinions of the
standard foreign journals have, now and
then, been the most pompously ignorant.
It is amusing to observe the grand tone of
patronage in the Moniteur's comment on
the battle of Chickamauga :
"The results of this battle prove once more the
inferiority of American generals as tacticians. We
see, during the battle, that there was too much
heaviness in getting, into position, too little use
made of cavalry, and* too great recklessness in at
tempting to execute movements while the men'were
under fire. There was, also, too much hesitation.
Aside from these faults, which proceed from defects
of instruction in the generals, the Americans have
once more given proof , of the moat brilliant valor,
anti of a real progress in other particulars. But of
the sure and rapid movements of la gran& gu , rre
they are still ignorant, and that is the reason why
the American victories remain so sterile of results."
It would be difficult, perhaps, to convince
such a critic that Chickamauga was a dozen
times more difficult battle-field than Solfe
rino ; that our, armies fight in forests and on
hills, and sometimes above the clouds,.
where valor is more than tactics, and c&val
ry nowhere. Foreign critics have yet to
learn, it seems, first the size of our conti
nent and the extent of the war, and second,
the character of the country over which our,
troops have made marches more hazardous,
more extensive,_and sometimes more suc
ce:ssful -than those of NAPOLEON. At all•
events,•recent foreign 'WELLS are not compe
tent to teaCh the veterans who fought and
,endured•the terrible campaigns of Virginia.
The Crimean, Italian, and Mexican wars
combined do not furnish an equal to this,
which, begun at far greater disadvantages,
will be finished in a period proportionably
Ehorter. The campaign against - Vicksburg
May be called a Crimean war in itselk yet
General GRANT took the rebel Sebastopol
after a month's siege. This victory was
certainly not barren of results. •
DORS THE ADMINISTRATION fail to recon
cile the States it has redeemed from rebel
lion to itself and to the Union ? We shall
see, by the following. fair estimate of the
number of men enlisted in Tennessee for
the Union army
. . .
G'avalry 12,000
Cavalry mustered into the serylee in new regd.
merits not full - . - 1,300
Infantry. - - ' 11,000
Artillery 1,100
Infantry (negroes) - ' . 6,060
Artillery (negroes) 2,000
Could stronger proof be given to the false
hood of that party which says the Govern
ine,nt is widening the breach between the
South and the North ? Remember what
.
Tennessee was, consider what she is, and
give some credit to an Administration
which has effected such a mighty transfot‘
oration.
A I , l"nw Union PKnat.;--A. neiv "Union and anti- 1
slavery newspaper is about to be published. It is to
"The Nashville Times." It will supersede
the "I/Mion," founded some eighteen months agO,
and Will be edited by the same gentleman who until
within the last week edited that publication. Fresh
facilities have been obtained for rendering The Nash":
vine Times a widely circulated sheet, the, promise ,
which, from its 'characteristics as a newspaper,
holds forth; being ratified by the enterprise evident
in all its'minutia. To The Nashville Times we extend
a cordial hand, convinced that the helping hands of
the community among which, it is . to work its Way
will quickly.be stretched forth..
Business Changes for the New Year.
In our advertising columns, this morning, our
readers will find in detail the busincies changes that
hate been effected for the New Year, of which we
here give the following resume. The mutations an:
flounced indicate, in the math, a resusatation of
business enterprise and commercial vigor that is
certain to be conducive to the mercantile health and
prosperity Of our city :
The old and respectable house of Welling; Coffin,
& Co., has been dissolved by limitation, and the
withdrawal of Olr. Charles IL Welling, and a new
firm bas,been formed by the remaining partners,
Messrs. Lemuel, Coffin and Joseph B. Altemus,
under the firm of Coffin & Altemus, who
will continue the dry • goods commission busi
ness as heretofore, at No. 220 Chestnut street.,
The firm of V. and J. F. Gilpin & Co., has been
dissolved by the withdrawal of Me.sirs. Vincent Gil•
pin and John B. Gilpin. ejther.of the partners being
authorized to settle the affairs Of the firm. The
business of retook, loan, and bill brokerage will be
continued at 227 Dook street by Meows. John F. and
George Gilpin, under the firm of Gilpin & Co.
,Mesers." Hood,. Bonbright, 6c Co., dry goods job
bers, No. 529 Market street, have admitted Messrs.
Sam'l M. Kelly and Andrew C. Linn to an interest
in their buiiness.
A new firm has been formed by Messrs. William
H. H. Roberts, John W. &Warlord, and T. Oliver
Goldsmith, Jr., under the Um of Roberts, Warlord,
& Goldsmith, fo - r the purpose of conducting the busi•
nem of importers and jobbers of hosiery at No. 219
Market street.
Messrs. Joel J. Bally & -Co. have admitted Mr.
Sam'l W. Van Culin to an interest in their business.
Messrs. Henry T. Stanbridge, John D. Barr, and
Henry L. Elder, have formed a copartnership under
the firm of Stanbridge, Barr, & Co., for the purpose
of conducting a"business in housekeeping hardware
at 1321 Market street.
The film of Morrie, 'Wheeler, Az. Co., has been diem
solved by limitation, Mr. „Toseph K. Wheeler re
tiring, the remaining partners, Messrs. Theodore IL
Morrie, Andrew Wheeler, and Frederick W. Morrie,
having formed a new partnership under the former
style of firm, for the purpose of carrying on the busi
ness ae heretofore.
The firm' of George F. Peabody, & Co., has been
dissolved by the retirement of Mr. Peabody, and a
new firm has been formed under the style of Harris,
Shortridge, & Co., for the purpose of transacting the
dry goods commission business at No. 24, 'South
Front street, as successors to the above firm. _ The
new firm is composed of the following names:
Messrs. George W. Harris, N. Parker Shortridge,
James H. Peabody, and Edward P. Borden.
Messrs. Butcher & Co., bankers, No. 52 South
Third street, hive admitted to an interest in their
businers.Mr. Robert Glendenning, Jr.
The late firm of Davis & Co., give notice that the
same parties will, hereafter, continue business un•
der the firm of N. &A. Middleton.
Theold firm of Thomas Mellor- & Co. has been
dissolved, by its own limitation; Messrs. Thomas
11ellor and George 0. Evans retiring; the business
of the firm to be settled by the remaining partnere,
Messrs. John B. Mellor, Edward Baths, and Wm.
Mellor, who have formed a new firm under style of
Mellor, Baba, & Mellor, for the purpose of con
ducting the wholesale hosiery business, at the same
place, Nos. 40 and 42 North Third street.
Messrs. William M. ,Raiguel and Wilson Evans
have entered Into copartnership, under the style of
Ealguel & Evans, for the purpose of transacting the
dry goods commission business, at 327 Chestnut et.
The copartnership heretofore existing betiveen
Messrs; William and Joseph Evans, under the style
Of Evans tz Co., has been dissolved by mutual con
sent, and the dry goods commission business will
hereafter be conducted, at 214 Church alley, by Mr.
Joseph Evans alone.
Messrs. Thomas Carson and James Boyd have
formed a copartnership, under the firm of Carson &
Boyd, for the purpose of transacting a wholesale
hosiery, trimming, and variety business, at No. 18
North Fourth street.
The firm of Biddle, Reeves & Son, has been dis
solved by the death of the senior partner. Mr.
Charles W. Reeves will continue the business in his
own name, at-No. 441 St. John street.
The firm of Joseph C. Turnpenny & Co. has been
dissolved by limitation, the Eton:wenn Mr. Samuel
S. Bunting giving notice that he will conduct the
drug business in future at the northeast corner of
Spruce and Tenth streets.
Mr. James M. Murphy gives notice that he will
hereafter conduct the dry•goode commission busi
ness at No. 222 Chestnut street, and names as refer
ences the firms of S. Slevin, Hay & McDevitt,
and Willing, Coffin, & Co.
'The ftm of John Hooper, Son, & Co., has been
dissolved by the retiring of Mr. Rebert M. Hooper;
the business to be settled at No. 114 Chestnut street.
Messrs. Hodges Brothers, announce that Dlr.
William Penn Lewis has become a partner in their
house.
Mews. M. N. Chase and George R. Peddle have
formed a copartnership, under the firm of Chase &
Peddle, for the manufacture and sale of boot and
shoe uppers, at No. 19 South Third street.
Messrs. John Pollock and J. R. Casselberry have
associated themselves under the firm of Pollock &
Casselberry. for the purpose of transacting the dry
goods jobbing and commission business, at No. 28
South Second street.
The firm of Rowley, Ashburner, & Co., has been
dissolved by the death of Mr. Algernon E. Ashburn
er. The business will be settled by IVlr.Edward IL
Rowley, who will hereafter continue the business
on his own account.
The firm of De Coursey, Hamilton, & Evans, has
been dissolved by mutual consent, butreconstructed
on the basis of a limited partnership, under the same
style and name as heretofore, for the purpose of con.
tinuing the dry goods commission busineas. The
general partners of the house are Messrs. Samuel G.
De Coursey, Hugh Hamilton, and Char, T. Evans,
andthe special partners Messrs. Seth B. Stitt, of
this, city, and Robert L. Taylor, of New York, each
of whom have contrf6uted the sum of fifty thousand
dollars to the common stook of said copartnership.
Messrs. Vance & Landis have admitted to an ires
terest in their firm Mx. William C. Peters.
Mr. E. Dunbar Lockwood has been admitted to an
interest in the business of the Lockwood Manufac
turing Company, the purchases and sales of said
company to be made hereafter in the names of W.
E. & E. D. Lockwood.
Mr. Newton Carpenter has retired from the firm
of J: C. Howe & Co., leaving the style of firm lei.
changed. The latter will liquidate all moaned'
affairs, and continue the business as heretofore.
copartnerahip heretofore existing, under the
style of Galbraith & Milligan, has been dissolved
by mutual consent. The books of the late firer may
be found at No. 30 South Fourth street.
The partnership heretofore existing, under the
name of John H. Alien & Co., at Nos. 4 - and 6 Chest
nut street, has -been dissolved, Messrs. G. F. Gale
& F. Newell being alone authorized to settle the !me:"
Illness of the firm. The latter have associated them
selves under the firm of George F. Gale & Co., for
the purpose or continuing the wholesale wood and
willow-ware business, at the old gaud.
The copartnership heretofore existing between
Messrs. Samuel It. Shipley, Spencer H. Hazard, and
Pemberton S. Hutchinson, under the flint% of Ship
ley, Hazard, & Hutchinson, having expired by limi
tatiOn, has been renewed by them for a term of five
ears.
The co partnership under the Style of Fake, Lo
throp, & Co., having been dissolved by the death of
Mr. Lothrop, the remaining partners, Mom.
George Pales, Daniel C. Wharton, and Lewis B.
Pales have associated themselves under the firm of
Pales, Wharton, & Co. for the purpose of continuing
the domestic commission business at 214 Chestnut
Street.
The partnership heretofore existing between John
H. Troutman, Angus Cameron, and J. Alfred Kay,
under the style of Kay & Brother, has expired b_v
limitation; the business to be continued by the
latteltwo members of the firm; under the old name.
Messrs. Robert Shoemaker & wholesale
druggists, N. E. corner of Fourth and Race streets,
have admitted to an interest in their busbies.
Messrs. William M. Shoemaker and Richard M.
Shoemaker, Jr. ; the style and title of the firm to
remain unchanged.
Messrs. John H. Williams and John West have
formed a copartnership, under the firm of John H.
Williams & Co., for the purpose of transacting the
dry goods commission business, at No. 329 Chest.:
nut street. -
A limited partner ship has been formed under the
style of Watson & Janney, for the purchase end
sale of thy goods, the general partners ,being
Meeks. Charles Watson and Franklin Janney, and
the speCial partner Mr. William S. Stewart, who
contributes to the common stock of said firm the
sum of twenty thousand dollars. •
- The firm of Hamrick & Caldwell has been die
solved by mutual consent, and a new firm has been
formed by Messrs. Charles H. Hamrick and Hart
A. Leavitt, under the style of Hamrick & Leavitt,
for the importation and jobbing of hosiery, gloves,
and fancy goods, at No: 3o North Fourth street.
'Messrs. G. F. Work & Co., bankers and exchange
brokers, have admitted to an interest in their bud
near Mr. Robert K. Johnson.' .-
The University,uf Pennsylvania.
To the Editor. of Ti,, Press: ;
Sin : DhaVe read with , intereetthe letter addressed
to you by an "Under Graduate" on the languiehing
condition of the University of Pennsylvania. He
observes ' with good reason, that it would be ridltan
tageoux to increase' thefunds of the University by
making: available the property on Ninth street,' But
allow tee to suggest that a location on the other aide
of the Schuylkill river would not be so objectiona
ble as your correspondent thinks, certainly not
nearly ;.as`. much so as at Torresdale. To those
" down town" our passenger railways would afford
all necessary facilities, and if desirable that
some students shall board near the University, at at
Yale and Cambridge, the growing population _and
comfortable residences putting up in various: places
near Philadelphia, would afford every eonve °nee.
If higher up the river were thought desirable, there
is the Landsdown property, originally belonging to
the Perm family ; the Belmont estate, formerly
owned by the late Judge Petere, whose uncle, Rev.
Richard . Peters, was one of the earliest fosterers of
the University . These localities are very elevated;
on a level with the steeple of Christ Church, -"be
lieve, and therefore their healthiness undoubted.
The Episcopal Hospital is in the neighborhood. The.
Bud Orphan Asylum, the Widows , and.Orphana
Asylum on Cherry street, would profit by a re
moval to such a situation. These properties are
now in the hands of a company, who doubtless
would be glad to dispose of a sufficient amount of
ground for so admirable a purpose. . : I hope you will
give these suggeitione a place in your journal, and
oblige a PHILADELPHIAN.
INTEMISTING TIM'SOns:PHIO ExPERISISItTS.—On
Thursday evening, the atmosphere being unusually
dry and clear, Some interesting experiments were
made upon the line of the .amerioan Telegraph
Company, whose wires, by the steady progress of,
our arms, now reaoh from the borders of Maine to
Chattanooga, Tenn., but a short distance Mom the
upper limits of Georgia. The lines from Portland,
Boston, and New York were connected with Phila
delphia, Louisville, and Chattanooga, and the ope
rators at both ends were in instant communication
With each other, exchanging friendly greetings, con
gratulations upon recent Union triumphs, 64c., &a.
..11 was proposed to make a connection with Salt
Lake, in distant Utah, which would have been ea•
eomplished if the operators there' had been fully
posted se to the time assigned for the experiment.—
Boston, Traveller. ,
...33,360
A late letter from the let New jersey Brigade,
with the Army of.the Potomac, mentions the fol-:
lowing: "When our, brigide was encamped on the
Rapidan last . Ootober, we witnessed the execution of .
Jacob Watson, alias John Gallagher if private in
the 4th New Jersey Volunteers. Ye sterday an or•
der from the War Department was received, review
ing the proceedings of the court-martial is his case,
which stated that, upon recommendation, of some
of the members of the.court and of his corps- com-
Mender, the sentence of death would be :remitted,
and he would be released from arrest and returned
to duty in his regiment. , Poor fellfuv t he .Well re.
leased from arrest, but not retnfned to !qt.'
TIIE PRESS.-PITILADELPITTA. FRIDAY,: JANUARY 1., 1864.
Special Despatches ta . The Press.
WABRING,TOS, D. C., Dec 31.
A New Year's Eve Entertainment.
An entertainment WAS given this evening by Mr.
.. W. Forney, at his residence on Capitol Hill.
Among the gentlemen present -mere Secretaries
Chaae, Seward, and Usher ; Senators Foote, Doo
little, Comiess,land Henderson; .Generale Heintzel
man, Martindale, Augur, and Barry ; Assistant
Secretary Fox, of the Navy Department; ev.Go
vernor Randall, of Minnesota ; Assistant Secretary
Otto, of the Interior Department, and Mr. Kilburn,
chief cleric; Mr. Whiting, solicitor of the Weir Do
ptirtment ; Mr. Chittenden, registerer the Treasury ;
Mr. Wilson, chairman of the Judiciary Committee
of the House; Captain Wise, of the Ordnance De
partment; Messrs. Nicola and Hays, private secre
taries of the.Preaident ; Judge 'Olin, of the Supreme
Court, and others.
The Mexican
The statement said to be quoted from European
papers to the effect that a despatch had been re
ceived by the French Government from the United
States Government, declaring that the American
Republic would never tolerate, much less reoogoize,
a monarohy,at their very doors, is incorrect. The
true position of the question will be learned from
the diplomatic correspondence which was submitted
to Congress with the President's . message, and is
now in the Government press. In the meantime, it
is safe to say that the question has not reached the
stage desoribedin'the foregoing report.
The Minister from Sweden and Norway, Count
Pirun, in accordance with instructions from' his
Government, to-day had an interview with the
President for the purpose of presenting to him, on
behalf of the King, a volume containing engravings
of 'the royal collection of arms. .This is understood
to be in reciprocation of a similar compliment, the
Prcsidetikt having, a Short time ago, presented to his
Majesty a pair of. pistols of American workmanship.
Suitable acknowledgments were made, and mutual
good wishes exchanged for the continuance of the
cordial relations now existing between the two Go•
vernments.
A Pennsylvania , Deserter Sentenced.
Before a general court martial, which convened
at Philadelphia, Private BERNARD DSVLIN of the
Bist Pennsylvania Volunteers, was tried and found
guilty of desertion and conduct prejudicial to good
order and military discipline. It appeari- that this
private deserted while'on detached service from hie
regiment, and, never haiing been discharged Atone
from, presented himself as a . aubstitute for a drafted
man in the Fifth district of Pennsylvania, and as
such Was mustered into the service pf the United
States. He was sent to the barracks for substitutes
and drafted men, Where he was apprehended. The
court sentenced him to be shot to death by taus
ketry. The major general commanding (General
Couon) has approved the, finding and sentence,
which will be carried into effect on the sth of
February next. •
Compliment to a Telegrapher.
Mr. B. P. SNYDZII, the enterprising manager of
the American Telegraph office in this city, was
today presented by the employees of the company
here with a service of silver as a mark of their high
esteem. After the presentation a sumptuous enter
tainment was served up at the National Hotel. The
pross and telegraphic fraternity were well repre
sented. Numerous speeches were made, and the
utmost good humor prevailed.
Naval Changes.
C,ommodore liCorrrooarsay has relieved Commo
dore Iliatwooo of the command of the Washington
Navy Yard, and at the same time Commodore F. A.
PARK= assumed the command of the Potomao
flotilla.
State Agents.
A number of State agents go down to the army
to-day to induce 'veterans to re-enlist. Two New
York agent' left by the morning train for Oulpeper.
Emancipation.
The speeches of Mr. Awns - P.BON and Mr. &ma,
members of Congress from Kentucky, before the
Union League last night, create a herniation in: po•
litical circles to.day. They came out boldly in favor
of emancipation in Kentucky, and everywhere.
General MEADE has been In Washington for seve•
ral days past.
Speaker CoLve_x has been spending a few days at
South Bend, bint is already, in his way back to
Washington.
_ .
FORTRBSS MONROE, Dec. 30.—The officers of the
Russian fleet visited Newport News and other
points of interest in this vicinity to.day, on steamer
C. W. Thomas, Capain Wall.
Two members of - the New York Mounted Rifles,
named Joseph Rowers and Braehard, deserted
to the enemy and served for sometime kn the rebel
army.. They came into our lilies a few weeks ago
as refugees and were about to take the oath when
detected , ; were tried by court martial and sentenced
to be shot to death, and were in-jail at Yorktown
awaiting their execution.
Last evening they effected Their escape, having
sawed off the iron bars to their windoWs with a knife.
The proyost raard searched' for them all night,
and this morning learned that two men, answering
their description, had been sent across the river by
some negroes, two mifes above Yorktown, which:
would — place them aboVe Gloucester, and tho
rebel lines. :
Col. Wed ieio;ebramaod at Yorktown during the
aboenee of pen; Wistar. , -
NAanvir.,z,B, Tenm, Deo. el.—By an orderjust is;
sued from headquarters, the Ghief Quartermaster is
ordered to enroll all camp foliowera and citizens em
ployed by the Government. The enrollment wilie
completed about the let of January.
The river is eight feet deep on the shoals, and
Arrival of the Bodiei of Soldiers from
Chattanobim.
SYRiotrem, N. Y., Deo. 31.—Seven bodies of sol
diers of the 149th New York Volunteers, who were
slain in the recent battles at Lookout Mountain
and Ringgold, arrived today, accompanied by 001.
Barnum and Sergeant Major Birdoeye, who were
deputed to present the battle-flags which were cap-,
tured in those battles, to the War Department, at
Washington. The concourse of people was
mense. The bodies were conveyed to the City Hali
with a military escort, wiiere they will lie in state
through the day, and will then be delivered to their
families for burial.
Removal of the New_YoriE Police Commis..
Armaxv, Dec. 31.—The Governor has removed
the Metropolitan Police Commissioners, and ap
pointed in their places Joseph S.-Bosworth and
William McMurray, of New York, and William B.
Lewis, of Brooklyn. Governor Seymour takes the
ground that, since their answer to the charges made
against them, there were good grounds for their re
moval, but he was unwilling to make any changes
during the excitements of the past season ; but that
the Official report lately made to him bythe commis
sioners about the rieti injuly were both sectarian
and partisan, and shows that the commissioners
have departed from the impartial and dispassionate
position of public officers, and lost.their' useful
ness. The passage complained of is as follows:
"These violent proceedings had political design
end direction, and received encouragement from
ntwspapers and partisans of influence and intelli
gence. The Board of Police had been threatened
with summary removal, which was expeoted to
occur immediately. Numbers of the force desired
tbe removal, and there were not Thooking instances
of insubordination, the fruit of the expected change.
A large portion of the force were of the same na
tionality and political and religious faith of
,the
riotous mob." -
Beorganizationlof the Albany City Bank--
Awiarrir, Dee. al.—The Charter of the Albany
City Bank expired today, and the bank was re
organized wider the General Banking Law, with
the same stockholders and officers. _The bank was
chartered in ISA diiided regularly four percent.
semi-annually, and closes with eighty per cent.
surplus.
,
In the case oflthe Bank of America against the
New York CoAmissionere of Taxes, the Court of
Appeals decided that so much of the capital as is
invested in U. S securities is not taxable, thus sus
taining the law of Congress and the decision of the
U. S. Supreme Court. .
Ideavy Snow Storni.
31,—The heaviest andt most exten
iffte snow storm known in the West for many years
conitneneed last night and still conlintles. - Despateheft
received represent it as exceedingly severe beyond
the Mississippi and north as far as Green Bay,
while south it extended as far as Springfield. The
snow has drifted so that the several railroada are
completely blocked up. The storm is expected to
have been very violent in lowa.
Nem Tonic, Deo. 31.—The Royal . Mail steamship
Vermin arrived'at this port.at noon taday. -Fier ad
vice' have been anticipated.
Nom Yo R, Dee. 31.—Arrived—Ship Sarah March,
from Liverpool ; ship St.. Peter; from Pensacola;
chip Compromise, from Liverpool; bark...3ane, from
Also& Bay ; bark R. A. Allen, from Tortugas; bark
Cumberland from London ; bark Ibis. from New
Orleans ; brig Beaver, from Port-au-Prince.
BALTIMORE. Dec..3l. —The Flour maiket yeTY dull;
superfine Rostard-street is quoted:,jat $7.06®7.12%.
W heat dolly red is quoted at $1.6:,(g11 , 79 Corn dull and
heavY :
Whiskyll at $1.120L 13 : and-yellow al $1.14®
1 16. dull; Ohio sells at 94®96 cents.
Tun riano'oli THR COMMISSARY DEIPARTMENT.—
During the dark days of the siege, when food and
forage were scarce, and the ghastly corpses and
bleached skeletons of starved mules lined the tiler•
roughfares hereabouts, General Grant and Quarter
master General. Meigs arrived in Chattanooga.
Taking an airing on horseback one afternoon, thee
passed the carcass of a huge mule lying by the road
side, whose "ill savor went up" before and around
them. The hero of Vicksburg removed his brier
root from his lips, and.remarked sorrowfully, "Pi..h,
General, there lies a dead soldier of .the Quarter.
master's Department." " Yes,General? replied
the Quartermaster General, hrsubdued tone., "la
him you nee the ruling passion, strong ha death ex
emplified, for the old_ veteran hs =already assumed
the offensite."
CONTAIBUT/ONS TMOIESECRETAir-
S. P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, has for-.
warded for the Cincinnati Sauitary•Fair from virsati
ingion city, a box directed .to Mayor Li A. Harris.
The articles it contains are donated from Governor
Chase—an alethoscope, with a large number of
views, Arnerioan'and Italian, a remarkable instru.
merit, purchased. at Venice; also, complpte set of
medals,' from Philadelphia Mint. These si:e for sale,
mud should obtain a good price, -
L.A.8.G8 SALIE 037 STOprce, P.ItyVBO2.IIAL,ESTATA
5:4,, CM TuBRQAp neßt. Ostalogialirow ready.
WASrNGTOW.
Question—An Incoriect
Statement.
International Courtesies.
Peronal.
FORTRESS MONROE,
Notable Escape of Deserters
_NASHVILLE.
sionerq.
Court of Appeuils.Decision.,
Arrival of the Steamer Persia.
Ship News.
Markets by Telegnmit.
NORTH CAROLINA.
ACCEPTANCE OF THE AMNESTY.
XTRAOROtNARY LANGUAGE FROM THE-RICHMOND
" SL.A.VJOILY_ MUST DIE."
CRITICISM OE JEFF DAYIS' MESSAGE
&C. &C.
NBWIIE*It, N. C., Dec. 27.—The North Carolina
Times says that a five-dollar gold piece was sold at
auction for WO in Confederate notes at Danville a
few days since.
The same paper heartily endorses President -tin
coin's recent proclamation, and advises the people
of the State to accept it. It also copies and endorses
a remarhable article from the Richmond Whig, which
contains the following significant paragraph:
!‘ &awry has stabbed itself to death. It has sinned
again light -committed the unpardonable sin, and must
die."
The Raleigh Standard and the Raleigh Progress ere
very severe in their criticism on Jeff Davis' mes
sage. They publish President Lincoln's meisaage and
proclamation, with favorable comments.
The North Cat Mina Times says the British schooner
G. 0. Bigelow, widoh was captured by the United
States transport Fulton, and then abandoned, made
her way into Swanaboro, near Wilmington, unload
ed her salt, anti was about to run the blockade in
ballast, when she wais captured and burned by one
of the United States steamers.
The health of this department is good. The
weather is mild and pleasant.
Foreign Go'ssip.
FECHTBD. AND RifiTolll —Rev. M. D. Conway
writes to the Commonwealth the following striking
criticism on these two great performers :
Since I have been in London,..l have seen on the
stage two rotablts of whom I have always meant to
write some account, namely, Fechter and Meter'.
Ft ()liter, whom from his appearance, I should take to
be neither German or French, but one of those happy
geniuses (a. g. Chopin and Chernbini) who are LOW
and then born somewhere
near the border. line be
tween the two. Be has a trong,ringing accent, which .
.reminds ' me of that of Agasuz, whom, except for
his light eyes and hair, - - he somewhat resembles.
He is evidently born for the stage, and moves on
it with an unconsciousness and, self,possession which
show that what be IS is organic with him. Peude
moons btaucoup d'effet. He is moot startling when
Most simple. When other actors impersonating
similar characters are elaborately -dark, deep, and
mysterious, he is all transparency. He has no stage
strut or mannerism: His elasticity and celerity are
wonderful, and the changes of his countenance in
actnes representing passion and emotion, are awful.
Be flushes red with his anger, and turns pale in his
emergency, so that his audience is silent and breath
less, instead of noisy and applauslve. His move
ments are a ,Eeries of tableaux, like the leaps of a
stag. Where, in moments of agitation, other voices
are raised, his is usually lowered. - I think any
young person preparing for the stage could scarcely
have a better training than to attend Feetder's'plays
a few months.
very differeet is the great Italian actress. Meta
rPs first dart upon the stage is an electric touch.
She at once reminded me of Rachel, "and yet no
two persona could be more dissimilar—except "that
there is a strong family likeness between all great
geniuses. The same serpentine quickness and sup.
Omen) apparent in all great female actors are ob•
servable in both Rachel and Ristorl. The former
was the most remarkable person for Intensity that
I have ever seen ; but there was more sympathy
elicited by her than by Ristori. During all the
woes of Medea as represented by Ristori, one does
not weep, but writhe.- The artist's feeling, aleo, is
always "too deep for tears." She, like Fechter,
knows the superior power of calmness.
As she moves. through the - play, one thinks of
some great body , of silent force, like the flow of the
Rhine. She is tall, slender, and, at times, beautiful.
She acts a great deal with her hands ; and whilst
she speaks,ter fingers, clutching her dress, or her
wrists bending in and out, unconsciously are render
ing a striking obligeto to her speech. Her voice is
her great forte, however; it has a magical richness,
united with marvellous scope, and is every scene it
is pitched in a new key.
Indeed, she
-seems a new actress /at everrappear
ance on the stage, so various are her voices and
styles. She has a curious wey of throwing the light
into or out of her eyes. Her eyes can become
glazed with death without a movement of the lids.
Rachel I remember as a • strange, wild creature, but
Ristori is evidently the flower of a long culture;
queenly robes and trains become her, and tapestried
walls are a proper frame for her; she could not be a
peasant. I hope the rumor that she is going to
America is true; it will be a memorable event in
one's life to have seen her.
-
A TERRIBLE DEED.--rt is related after the en
gagement in the Palatinate of Prasnysz, in which
• the Polish leader Lenczica periehed,'several Polish
'prisoners were brought to MI/ma, to the Russian
commandant Bogdanowicz. This officer having
perceived a bOy of sixteen among the prisoners, had
him brought before him, addressed him in insulting
terms, and' flourished its sword about his head.
The boy meanwhile stood unmoved, and looked
' boldly into the eyes of his persecutor, Who foamed
at the mouth with rage. - "You Polish vagabond
'Neu Catholic . hangdog 1 so you are frightened, are
you t" he exclaimed. To this 'the boy quietly an
swered that he had not feared him on the field of
battle, and did not fear him then. "Do you not
fear met We shall see!" and with another flourish
of his sword the savage out off the boy's head.
which dashed against the wall. The body stood
fora moment with the hand raised, and then fell on
the blood stained ground by the side of the head,
Bogdanowicz meanwhile takings pull at but brandy
flask. The terrible deed was witnessed by several
persons who were in the room at the-time.
- THE NEW REMIT ENVOY TO FICANOIL—NIT. Su
peiveille, who had arrived in-Paris in the character
of " special envoy from the Confederate States, ,, is
a:Frenchman by birth, and was formerly an advo
cate in the south of France. He has been living in
Texas for the last seventeen years, and is now a
,naturalized American. He got away from Mata
moros on bond a French ship-of war, which the
Aditdral lent him to go to• Vera Cruz, where he
- embarked in the French steamer Florida for St.
Nazatre. -He is said to have a mission to notify. to
the - French Government the recognition by the
=Confederate Staten of the Empire of Mexico, and
also to try to - persuade 'Napoleon to recognize the
South in return. .
A SINGULAR APFAln.—Hunadorf. in Hungary, is
a small-place, with a Jewish community of. about
156' families. in which there are not lees than- 20
individuals between the ages of 80 and 90. One of
these octogenerians—Rabbi Abraham Yatbiom—was
for theitiet 40 years blind of both eyes, and his wife,
a centenarian, served him as a guide in his visit to
the synagogue or any other place. At last the old
lady died. Who was now to be the guide of the old
man? But lo! a few months ago Rabbi Abraham
awoke one fine morning,. and behold, the long, long
night had departed from his eyes. He could again
see the golden rays of the sun. Yes, the power of
vision was restored to him in its full vigor, and the
pious old man is now seen daily, morning and eve
ning, hastening to - the place of worship, without a
guide, there to pour forth thanks to the All.merciful
for the mercy shown to him.—Teinia Chronicle.
AN EXTRAORDINARY CHESS-PLAYSE —Let me
tell you of a wonderful chess. player, an account of
whose wonderful performances I received from. k
distinguished and learned Hlndoo Pundit here, Ram
Shandah Chriahni. The chess-player came
from Madras to Bombay, where Ram Shandah saw
hint. He is between forty-five and fifty years of age.
He plays several games—three, if 1 remember—
blindfold, and wins them. At the same time he
plays a game of cards—there are one hundred and
twenty different cards in a Hinder) pack—and wins.
At the time these games are going on, bets given,
orally, sums of multiplication to the extent of five
,flgurep, (e. g. 9.397x8,999,) and gives the correct re
sult. At the same time a sentence of about one
hundred words, each word being numbered, is given
to him irregularly, (35 if, 92- but, 61 pitcher, etc.,) and
he gives the whole sentence. During the games ft
bell ie touched every one or two seconds, and he
gives the number of times it has been touched. A
man stands behind him and throws little pebbles,
one by one, against his back these. too, he counts.
And after the games are over, and all there are told,
he recites a poem in perfect rhyme, which he has
composed, during the sitting t Rain Shandah is, I
assure you, an entirely orkdible witness, and a very
clever man every way.—M. D. Conway, in the Boston
Conimonwealth.
THE RETIRING. MAYOR-OF LONDON.—Aldermdu
Rose made an ass of himself by sending in a com
plaint to Lord Palmerston because he did not get a
baronetcy and the sheriff's knighthood, in gratitude
for their reception of, the Prince and Premiss of
Wales. Lord Palmerston replied, etiquette pre
scribed the conferring honors only when the Sove
reign in person paid a state visit to the city. Alder
man Rose is a very worthy citizen, but not the most
brilliant or polished of men. ,He commanded the
City of. London Volunteers, and once at Aldershot
set the whole camp in a roar, and got his corps un
met cifully quizzed, by shouting out at the close of a
review : "Herder harms 'I Stand hat hease P"—
Montreal Gazette.
Ineidenta 014 e War. 4 ,
FIIMALE SMUGGLERS TEAUED.—Eight or ten
days ago, - Miss Elizabetglitigocid, sister or Kr. Bid.
good, bookseller and , Stationer in Richmond, and
Mrs. Frances Levy, started from Washington lathe
Port Tobacco stage, en route for Richmond.-`Four
large trunks, several carpet bags, and a number of
bundles comprised their- baggage. Their journey
was interrupted, however, by Col. L. O. Baker,
near Port Tobacco', who arrested the twain, and
brought them and their baggage to town. An in.
vestlgation of the trunka, bags, and bundles disclosed
clothe, silks, handkerchiefs, hose, &0., which would
have readily brought in Richmond twelve to fifteen
thousand dollars. .
The goods were packed in the mostakillful manner
to escape detection. Handkerchiefs, towels, and
even cloths were stitched together to be passed off
as under skirts. Itlens' half hose were adroitly
Tolled up inside ladies' stockings, and every possible
device used to conceal the real mature and value of
the articles. In addition to the dry goods, Miss Bid
gcod had a large mail sewed into her skirts. An ac
count current with a firm in New York, showed a
balance of abbut $2 500 in favor of the Southern de
positor!, who had forwarded drafts to New York,
where they were sold. The ladies also had about
$1,200 in Confederate -money with them. , The cor
respondence implicated a number of persons, and
several arrests have since been made: The,two ladiei
are now in the Old Capitol.
,"ERF.II.OVMENT OF 1118 CAMPAIGN."—The Lon:-
don Telegraph (December 16) speaking of American
affairs, says : Refinement has been extended to the
campaign ; and the same republican impatience to
secure for all ranks the distinctions granted in Eu
rope only to the few, is enabling even the ordinary
'general officer to vie with the most potent imperial •
commander that ever lost a victory. The carriage
`with which the ladies of New York have lately
supplied General Sickles for his'campaigning pur
poses, is in itself a very bijou of war engines. An
English landau Americanized, with a dickey for two
orderlies, movable coach. box, and a bright lantern
'within, the carriage combines in its interior the
'drawing-room, official bureau, dressing-room, bed
room, kitchen, and all. Thus the gallant general—
illustrious in history for once refusing to drink the
health of Queen Victoria—goes to the war like a
true knight errant, equipped by the boat of ladies
whose 'cavalier he is.
• A SCHEME OF ESCAPE FROM . CASTLIC THUNDER.
—Early on Saturday morning, the officers in charge
of Castle Thunder struck" 'on a tunnel leading
from room No. 8, across the rear alley, into the yard
of Mr. McCormick's restaurant, a distance of, up•
wards of thirty feet, Both apertures of the tunnel
were carefully concealed, and everything was in
readiness for a break on Saturday night. The dis.
covery foiled the escape, of course, and the ring%
leaders, if they can be discovered. will spend the
holiday season in irbns.. 7 Riehniond Whig, Dec. 28.
The Japanese.
"A Traveller," in a letter to the London Times.,
pays; "I can assure you, if we go to War With the
Japanese, we must not blind ourselves with the be
lief we shall have a second Chinese affair. They ,
are bold, courageous, proud, and eager for every
kind of knowledge. A friend of mine gave a work
Oman a Bransah losk to put on a box ; it was not dis
covered until some time afterward, and only then by
the absence of the name, that the look had been
imitated, and, as the workmen confessed, the ori
ginal kept as a pattern. 1 have been on board a
steamer (paddle) which used three. years ago to run
between Nagasaki and Jeddo, Mx hundred miles;
whose, engines and boilers, and every part off her ,
machinery, were made of copper. She was built by.
a doctor, SA Jeddo, whose only guide was a Caton,
description of a steam. engine, translated into Saner
nese.- lois Arne' loan gunnery officer was sent over
in 180, in the Powhatan, to teach them gunnery.
He was courteously received, and • then taken aver-
the rottenest at Jeddo: Be returned to the ehtn,sesying
he - had been taught a lesson, instead -of having to
"In mans- of the , arts and manufactures they ex
eel-.us ; `their-beautiful ()siftings in bronze would
laccle the most exPerieneed Eurdpean workman:
have shown spEctmona to clover woilmercapact
have confessed they could not Imitate them. I have
Seen examples that would rival in brilliancy any
made in England. The French minister had a large
ball, co clear and of such perfect color that he be
lieved It to be a gigantic sapphire, and bought It
for a good round sum. Their paper imitations of
leather are perfect; their paper water proof coats
are bought by the captains of. ships for their ex
posed boats' crews ; their own clocks are good, and
they have imitated our watches ; they walk about
with pedometers attached to their belts, and they
are not backward in copperplate engraving and per.
ept ctive. Their china is far superior to the Chinese.
The country abetted' with coal, though they only
use that found close to the surface ; but even that,
a sort of bituminous shale,
is good. In gold and
silver, I believe they could rival Mexico and Aus
tralia ; iron, copper, and tin are found in profusion.
A friend of mine at Yokohama gave a Japanese a
piece of English cottonlahirting ; in a few days the
man brought back two pieces, and my friend ,had
much difficulty in saying which was his, so closely
had it been: imitated. In fact, they are a people
who want for nothing but teachers."
_
GAN. MAL CONTRACTOR FOR Tax NAVY An
nitstart.—J. D. Stover, a general contractor for the
Navy Department, haa been arrested, and is to he
tried before a military court in Philadelphia on the
4th of January. The charges are of an exceedingly
grave obaracter.—Tribune.
Public Entertainments.
Nsw 011.1613TNIIT.STREET THEATRE —ln another
column will be found a general resume of the
characters in which Mr. Forrest has lately ap
peered. To-night is the occasion of his last pub
lic appearance for some months in Philadelphia..
He will repeat William Tell for the seaond time in
ten years. The engagements of Mr. Forrest
are not like thoee of any other actor. They tell
upon the public mind, and leave a permanent im
pression there, Ilia dramatic impersonation% are
not mere theatrical effects, which flutter through a
brief sermon, then die and are forgotten. Nor is
Mr. Forrest the poor 'player that struts and frets hie
hour upon the attge, and then is heard no more.
He leaves a voice speaking in the hearts of his audi
tors. He unites dramatic genius with the full
knowledge of theatrical effect, the business of his
art. With the pencil of the one he blends the shades
and colors of the other, thus mellowing hie dramatic
performances with a rainbow consistency and beau
.
and tinting with hues of naturalness those pas
sages of a plaY which are most repugnant to the an
tipodal prejudices of modern times. His patient
study,,hla unwearying research, his vast experience,
his temperate life, his devotion to the dramatic art,
Can scarcely be called the auxiliaries of his admira
ble genius, for they are easentials included within it,
flowing out from it. At this era in the history of
the stage, when much that is meritricious in Cheat-
,sisal pageantry is made to usurp and monopolize the
position due to the simple inspirations of drama
tic genius, Mr. Forrest stands forth the champion
and faithful - delineator of the most wonderful dra
matic poet that ever breathed the breath of life. To
use an old illustration, Shakspeare is Mr. Forreat's
intellectual Bible. The great actor finds texts in
the great author, and preaches sermons from them
which affect each sex, every age, all conditions of
We, soul and body. Mr. Forrest is devoted to the
dramatic profession, the one profession of his life.
time. He is the prophet, priest, and king of that
profession, working at it as assiduously as the
clergyman over his cure, the doctor over hie doses,
or the barrister over his briefs. Through criticism, al•
ways lavish, sometimes malignant, rarely adulatory,
frequently imbecile, he has advanced steadily with
the advance of years. Whether his inherent energy
has been intensified by the desire to live in honored
remembrance, or whether it is merely the natural
offspring of a deeper insight into those characters of
Shakspeare in whose portrayal he most excels, or
whether 'it results from a union of the two, he has
not, it is likely, closely questioned himself. Hie
abilities do not evince the slightest evidence of de
cay They are in their prime, and abundantly fulfill
the promise of theiryouth. The play of " William
Tell," performed last evening by Mr. Forrest for the
first time •in ten years, is a drama of human free.
dom, and was fitly chosen for representation on the
last night of the old year, 1863.
p : Want of space precludes any lengthened remarks
upon Mr. Forrest's William Tell. Perhaps the
greatest compliment which can be paid to the rendi,
tion is to say that the crowded audience was kept in
a state of unbounded enthusiasm, and that the iv
plane lavished upon the performance was probably
the most vehement ever heard within the walls of
a theatre. The auditorium was as full of cheers
as it was of people. Every point. old. The genius
at Sheridan Knowles and the genius of Edwin For
rest set off each other. Part of the intense en
thurdasm, whioh became the order of the evening, is
of course due to our lofty notions as a people
of human freedom. The poet and the actor placed
our principles before us in a strong and dazzling
light. In the last scene of the third act the furore
reached its culmination, and many among the audi
ence rose to their feet in acclamation. But in the
quieter scenes, where the private and not the pub
lic heart is most appealed to, Mr. Forrest was
equally effective. Tell's love for his young son was
delineated with exquisite sweetness. The passages
which gave voice to this are pathetic and touching
in themselves. When Set to the richly-modulated
music of Mr. Forrest'S voice, their meaning was
tender and subduing in the extreme. Why '‘ Wil
liam Tell' , has not been more of a favorite with Mr.
Forrest, we do not know. The play is a noble play,
by a noble author, and appeals to the mightiest pas
sions, and the tenderest emotions of humanity.
'A few words are due to the support which Mr:
Forrest last evening received. Madame Ponisi
made a very good and affectionate wife, her cape
bilitiee lying above the' rede whioh she assumed.
Mrs. Allen as Albert, transformed herself into 'every
pretty boy, and acted with her usual energy, al
though somewhat kittenish and mincing. To Mr.
McCullough was confided the somewhat ungrateful
idle of Gamier, and he acted it—as well as he could ;
for he does not make a very good villain.
It is unnecessary to remind the public that this
evening is dedicated to the last appearance, this sea
son, of Dir. Forrest, and to his benefit.
WALNIIT•STEEET THEATRE. Clarke will
again play the Ticket-of-Leave Man. , ' The more
we nee of this actor the more evident is his originali:
ty and greatness.
ACADIOIT ov 311*10,—Mr. Hood's fine company
of dancers, pantomiraists, and gymnasts is very at
tractive. The Martinettin and the Marzettis are
the beat artists of the kind in the country, and with
she wonderful Arabs, form a splendid entertainment.
Gmnarania OnenicSTßA —The rehearsal to-mor
row afternoon, will have the following admirable
programme :
1. Overture—Semiramide Rossini.
2. Song— My Austria P. Suppe.
3. Waltz—Kroll's Ballkliinge Lumbye.
4. Larghetto, from Secondo Sinfanie..Beethoven.
a. Overture—Catharina Cornaro Lackner.
6. Burlerque—Oarnival of Venice....Tasf.
7. let Finale from Martha FlotoW.
S. New Year'; Polka Strange.
T. ..1E CITY.
[von ADDITIONAL DIFY NNW% 888 POURTHPAGIL
, THE TWENTY-FOURTH WARD. The
Twenty-fourth .ward is becoming a leading and influ
ential portion of the city. By the exertions of its
citizens it gained a decisive victory in favor of the
Government and the war at the last election, and it
is now first in the field in its efforts to fill its quota
by volunteering. While other wards are just open
ing their eyes to the importance of the Subject, this
ward - has almost succeeded already in rendering a
draft within its limits unnecessary.
It has achieved this success in part by public meet
ings, in part by generous contributions for addi
tional bounties, and in part by energy in the busi
ness of recruiting itself. No stone seems to be left
Unturned in pushing on the work.
A second most enthusiastic meeting was held at
Commissioners' Hall, Thirty-seventh and Market
streets, on Tuesday evening, at which addresses were
made by. Prof. E. D. Saunders, Hon. William D.
Kelley, end Mesars,..Tohn O'Byrne and E. SpenCer
The contributions to the bounty fund amount
already to many thousand dollars.
We understand that this ward owes,much to the
indefatigable, well-directed, and patriotic exertions
of Prof. Saunders. He aided his only son, Captain
Saunders, in recruiting a company for the HAM
Regiment. His ion died of wounds received in the
service, and, having given him to his country, he is
now devoting his entire time and energy to efforts
to fill the army of the Union.
Before going to press, we are informed that the
quota of this ward Is-filled, and the bounty has been
withdrawn. This is an example - and a warning.
There is no doubt but that the bounties will all
cease on the sth inst., and those who are drafted
will go without the money they might have obtained
by volunteering. The patriotism and energy of the
citizens of the Twenty-fourth ward should be imi
tated. Their action is in the highest degree honor
able.
FOUND DROWNED:—The bocly of an un
known white man was found drowned, yesterday, in
the Delaware at Spruce.street wharf. In his pocket
was found a discharge paper from a United Mates
naval hospital made out in• the name of Patrick
Curtain, aged 47 years. The Coroner took charge of
the body.
FINANCIAL AND common.
THE. MONEY MARKET.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 31,1863
The year closes very quietly on a steady gold market,
dull but Rim stock market, and, a somewhat stringent
money market, with a general expectation th - at the in-
coming of the new year will produce a renewed activity
in financial business circles. Gold, to-day, scarcely
moved fr0m.151%. although there was considerable traffic.
:Government securities are strong - Aid the demand nu
..
ceasing, all classes of customers aiqs?aring for them. A
healthy feeling runs through business movements gene
rally, and satisfaction for the past and confidence for the
future is largely expressed. The money market is 'till
under the influence of the shorts. and rates , appreciate
as the necessity of the borrower is urgent or otherwise.
Money was difficult to procure at 7 to-day.
Operations at the Stock -Exchange exhibited cons'.
derable life, the, e being au active demand for the low
priced speculative shares, while prices in the main
were very ttrong, 109% was bid for 10$t sixes. 107 for
Seven-thiaties. Five-twenties sold 'at 1013 n,%. State
fives were steady at pat ; sixes at 106%, Nevi filly sixes
declined after, selling at 114; the old sold at par. North
Penna. sixes sold at 96%, an advance of %. Lehigh
Valley elves at 116. Reading sixes 44; extended at 1103‘.
1103.: was bid for Pennsylvania first mortgagee ; 106% for
second do.
Reading shares closed at 66. 5631, bum 60. Catawissa
32,14, buyer JO Penssylvania closed at 69h1. =Beaver
Meadow 91. 'Philadelphia and Brie 323. i. Little Schuyl
kill at 51%. Camden and Amboy at 1643 g. 59 bid for Long
Island.' 911 for. Elmira. 2.53.1 for. North Pennsylvania.
Pafsenger Railwayewere dull but firm in prices
Can al and mining stocks are more active Susquehanna
sold at 16X ; Union preferred at, -Ig; the sixes at 26N.
Wyoming sixes at 9334; Schuylkill Navigation preferrei
it 33; 85 bid f0r,1582 sixes. 69 bid for Lehigh; scrip sold.
it 49. Big Mountain rose to 6, buy er 30; New York and
Middle Coal to 4g, an advance of X ; New Creek sold at
1:Polton,la new btocirtat 934; Lehig i Zinc acid at 49.
City. Bank sold at 521 i; 152 bid for Muth America; 122
foi
Drexel & Co. quote:
United States Bonds;
U. 13. new Certificates of Indebtedness.......— 983,14 98,ti;
S. old.Certibcates of. Indebtedness. 102% 10234'
U. B. 7 3-10 Notes.. 1063 i. 107
Quartermasters' "Aachen ' 97 98
G01d.... - 5 ig o) 52
Marling Zacharias (0166. N.,
The notes of the _First Natianal. Bank were, Issued 30.
day. Those we saw were very finely • executed Ma a
credit . to'ihe company engraving them. We feared tares
an abor'don, like the late postage taga.butwere agreeably
disappointed. - .
ThaCity.Tresieurer eyes notice that such loans or the
City, of Philadelphia as mature January 1, Y.. 41, will
he paid on preeentatioi and. that the earal-anunti lute.
rest on the funded debt of the city wilt be paid on and
after the 2d of January, and, as usual, in currency. .
The' Girard Baik will pay, on the' 2d January, the
semi. annual cOripogs Of the grate, due January 1. Is6l,
in geld, amounting to come +20.000 of interest. -The only
interest paid by the Commonwtalth. the let ot"Sanuary
and july, is that ; of ita coupon 6 •Yi,cents. Thereat-.
bilk- of the Efate Interest is payable lst Fehrn an 3
alto I.ri gold, at the Partnere" aid Meobanic*
Bank. It is proper to state, however. that the gold find
from which the interest is paid is realized ratably from
all the city banks, as per arrangement with the State au
thorities a year ago.
The following is the statement of coal transported over
the Hazleton Railroad for tbe week ending December
16, 1863, compared with the same time last year:
Week. Previous. TotaL.
Tone. Cwt. Tone. Cwt Tons. Cwt.
Hazleton Mines 1.141 14 164.409 06 155.656 02
Cranberry............ Gel 01 81.879 C 6 82.807 07
Diamond 497 17 62,018 08 62,486 05
East Sugar Loaf 147.44.5 12 1a7,445 12
Council Ridge . 115.471 rA 115,471 08
Mount Pleasant 124 l 5 35,212 04 56.3e6 10
Hariensh 62.810 06 62.8t3 06
Seddo 1/6.988 05 156.088 06
Ebersole66.oBB 10 66,688 10
96 Di '46.688 07 . 46.785 80
Buck Mountain. 20 15 35.400 18' 35,06 13
Total 2,435 16 945,940 09 947.676 04
Corresponding period -
last last year 13.003 07 712.070 02 725,013 119
increase
,Decrease
233,170 07
The following shows the amount of coal transported
over the Lehigh Valley Railroad for the week endlur
December 26, 1663, and previous since December 1. issz
compared with same time last year:
Week. Previously%
Tone. Cwt. Tone. Cwt. To
• 1,232 10 8.498 06
iliat, 'gigs! Loaf . --
6.314 10
Connell Ridge !. ~... • 4,986 07
Mount Pleasant 179 19 1.207 03
Spring Mountain 28 18 2,771 07
Coleraine 144 03 1,176 06
New York and Lehigh. 406 03 L 162 03
N. Sorin3 Mountain ..... 236 04 6.08618
leddo ' .1. - 0,07714
Harleigh
...... . :L .,.. L ., 2,230 01
.__ __
1.498 17 = 8,226 8 9,62102
188 10 674 08758 18
..... 2.037 85 2.037 06
•
. 20 - 15 3.606 02 3.616 17
219 14 1,761 12 1,633 13
190 07 1,413 19 2 661 19
German Penna.
Rbervale
Milnesville ....
Back Mountain
Other Shippers.
L. M. Goal
Total 4,925 00 52,740 08 57.674 06
Uorrespondingweek
last -
year —19,840 02 69,412 17 80.292 19
Deareahe
The following shows the shipments of coal over the
Delaware. Lackawanna, and Western Railroad. for the
week endingEaturday,Deeember 76,1863, compared glib
same time last year
Week. Year.
Tons. Cwt. Tons. Cwt
4,941 04 3 . 11,401
14,917 16 884,30 00
Shipr.Od North... •
Shipped South....
Total 19 869 00
For the corresponding time last year
Shipped North 2.432 09
Shipped Bondi
=lll
The Newil ork Evening Poet of to-day eaya
The stock market opened with a depressed feeling, bat
the speculative movements of Pacific Mail and one or
two Western stocks imparted a better tone to the general
market and checked the growing disposition to sell. Go
vernments are Quiet, State stocks dull, bank shares firm,
railroad'shares irregular. Bock-Island is less active,
the speculative cliques appear to be transferring their at
tention for the present to Michigan Southern.
Before the first Peeßion gold was se Hug at 16170152,
Brie at 10531(4)163g, Hudson River at 128@i1.28 X, Harlem
&t 90(491, Michigan Central at 120 g, Michigan Southern
at fiel 685 X. Pittsburg at 10.30108%,
_Toledo at it:0120%.
and Rock Island at 122 X.
The appended table exhibits the, chief movements of
the market comus_red 'with the latest prices of yester
day
Tb. Wed. Adv. Dee!
11. scum. reg 1042 f V* ..
11. S. Ba, 1881, eon.- -110 110 ..
11. S. Seven-thirties—MU 11181 i ..
11. & Iyr eer., gold--102 102 ..
11. S. 1 yr, Cir. •-•."...*. 98
American G01d—......16136 MIN • •
Tennessee 85..---.-- 68 68
Missouri 6e.—.....« »
_ 663 a; 66 - 4%
Pacific Mail.. • ----MT 222,E 'lk '
New Yorkeen7ll. 18214 1.481.1
• •
Erie ~...........---......10774 1.0834 • •
Brie Preferred—. —-102 X 108 Y a. • •
Hudson River- 128 1281 a: ..
Harlem .. . .... ..-.... 89 89%. ..
Harlem Preferred ...... .11.8.1 i 101 VA'
Beading --, ... .. . . -..1D X. 112% • •
Michigan CentreL........119.11121 • .
Michigan Southern.-- Sf% 86% Of
Michigan South. guar.. 114 . £l4
Illinola Can. &arDp.....117 1:17.'
Pittablirg ...... - • ...• • .108% 1184
Galena.lo6.4 19516
Toledo 12IX , 120 N - 1
Rock Island r 2.51 - 123
Fort Wayne. • .... • -- - 86% 86%
Phllada.., Stock 10..xcl
Reported by S. E. SLAYM. .
FIRST
500 City 6a, - new 164
1(00 over 1870-100
200 " new 103%
li 0 Big Monntain,2 dys
1(0
8(0
" _.bs. 5%
HO Y ., & Mid 9oel • • • :41
1(0 ' • • • 3%
- uno " " ... 4
ICO " " • • • 4% .
61 Fulton Coal 111
4,00 Reading 56%
21056
100 r Beadier 6s, '44 11032
OCCO Parma 5e 1( 0
BETWEEN
2EOO City 6s, n ew.. • • - -1031
.50 Phila & Erie 11 . b30 3044
201 Di & Mid Coal • 4%
SECOND
030 Big Mountain. •. b 5. 5%1
100 . b3O. 6
2CCODnIo . n. Can 6!..•...b5-26.5.4
( 0 • • ... 26%
00 15 Beaver Mead, cash b3o -81
13 Yenna Bl'eash 69%
CLOSING PEN
Bid Aslced.
S6s 'Bl. 109% 110
II ti 7-20 N0te5....107 108
PhilaOa 9933 100
Do new. 109% 104
Penna. 56 ..... 0544 100
Do Coupe - • -
Reedit ex. div.... 56 36%
Do Ida '7O .....105 106
Do 6a 'BO '43.... ..
Do bds '66 cony - .
Patna R. 66k,
Do let m ... D 0,14
Do 2d In 65...106% 4 .
Little Schnyll3.- z 51% all
Norris u'l contol. 67 70
Do prld 186 140
Do 61 '76.. .....
Do 2d
S mt g ...
awsprNfay stock- $
7Y' l
Do 6x'o2 85 87
Elmira .13 36 37
Do prfd 60 63%
Do 7s 108
Do 108
L Island B.
Do bds..
Lehigh Day 69
Do scrip .. 49 49%
Do shares .....
N Penna 2.5% 26 -
Do 6P • • •••• • • 96 97
Do Ms,
- Phtladelphta Markets.. -
DucEmBER 31—Evenine.
There is a moderate demand for Flour at former rates.
with sales of Mint 3010 mostly extra family, at
$7. 26@7. 1.234 20 bbl, including 1,100 bbls city mllls extra
and extra family on private terms: 200 bbla extra at $7.
and ICO bbls superfine at $6 20 bbl. The retailers and ba
kers are buying at frem $6®6.60 for superfine; $727. 25
for extra; t1i7.25208 far extra family. and $B. 5(.(4110.2"'1 bbl
for fancy brands. as to quality. Rye Flour is dull at
44.60 bbl. In Corn Meal these is little or nothing
doing; Pennsaisrania is offered at $5.60 20 bbl.
GRAlN.—Wheat is firmly held,Jant the demand is li
mited; about 5,000 bus sold at 160141165 c for fair to prime
red, ane 170@180c per bus for white. Rye is scarce and.
in demand.' witn small sales of 140 c per bus. Corn is less
active, with sales ()reboot 7,000 bus new yellow at 1120
114 c per bus, the latter for dry Jots; old is-scarce. and
worth Mc per bus. Oats are d.all, about 3.350 bas have
been disposed of at 86066 c weight; 3,000 bus Barley Malt
sold at 160@)170c, anc1.6,000 bus Western Barley on pri
vate terms.
BaRR. —There is nothing doing; first No.l Qaercitron
is held at $97 ton
COI TON. - - The market is firm, and prices are well
maintained, with small sales of Middlings at 8.43 c
lb, cash G
ROCERIES.—TI ere is very little doing in either
Sugar or Coffee. but the holders are firm in their views.
r 8831 i -Timothy and Flaxseed are without change;
tb e former is selling at $3, and the latter $3 16 20 bus.
Clover is in demand, with sales of SOO bus at $8203.10 20
64 its
PROVISIONS. —Holders are very firm in their views:
old Mess Pork is held at $lB 50®19, and new at $2' , 2 20
bbl. Dressed Hogs are selling at $8 25 the 10) lbs But
ter is in demand, and selling at from tato;km lb for
common to prime. Eggs are selling at 32c dozen. Lard
is ii m; 400 tierces sold at 42313 c, and, mixed-pksaat
13c `V lb. • -
WED. RY is unsettled; 400 bbls sold at 93g96c, and
drudge at .9,n, - -
The following are the receipts of Flour and Grain at
this port to day :
F10ur........ ...... ........ ...... ... 2.080 bbla
Wheat. .... . . .... . . ... ......-.• .• • • ..- 5 940 hua
oere.. ... • • . . ... , .... . ... . ... 6,200 bus
Oats... . 14.500 has
COAL OIL. —The following are the receipts. of crude
and refined at this port during - the past year;
Barrels.
.699.341
199,490
598,631
The fallowing arethe Reeetpt.9 of Reef Cattle. Cows,
Hogs, and Shtt.p at this Market during the vast year:
Beeves. Cows. Hogs. Sheep.
.... 6,360 690 20,200 11.600
6,350 460 13 680 14.000
• . 6.950 506 13.2410 18.613
.. 6 160 475 11,900 12,190
.
. 6,150 530 12,800 11,700
7,000 900 12 100 26.200
11,700 440 12,090 22 500
.. 9,460 100 9,400 47,5110
... 11,620 660 14,600 43.103
.... 11,100 660 16,700
.. 34.160 806 20,100 23,0)0
8,252 500 "....17,310 13.400
Jarman , . •
February.•
March
April
1.1a3
June
July
August.—
Eepttmber
October ..
PluvPmber
aieceraber.
• •••• • 163,150 6,9e5 174,370 273,103
SUGAR AND MOLASSES. •
The following are the receipts Coastwise, at the port of
Philadelphia, for the last two years :
Sugar, hbds and tcs
Do. bbla ....
bag 5.........
Mohan', htdsandt SOS lal
Do. bble 3 702 18,484
Receipts of Foreign Molasses at Philadelphia for the
year 1803:
, . Bhds
28,780
The following are. the imports of Foreign sugar at the
Port of. Philadelphia for, the year 1862 and 1863:
1862. 18&3.
Jan....
Feb....
biarch.
April...
June—.
'July.
Anratt
Sept...
0ct....
IZOP
Dec....
1072
2485
SUL
&ss7
9"3.34
0761
7673
a'66
1315
93
635
1373
oa
277
287
605
1176
324
COFFER.
Stake:Lent of receipts of Coffee at the port of 'Philadel
phia, for the last two years
latanayra
Rio de Janeiro.
Cnba
Porto Rico
Jam
Port an Prince.
litivanna. ..... .
Coastwise
Total, bags•.
New York Cotton Market. Dot. 31
CovroN. —The demand is.still very f sir, both from the
trade and speculators. and prices are maintained. We
ht. ar rf sales of about laOhalos, on a basis of 8.1g92c for
Middlings.
New York MarUets—Deceinber 31
. .
ASPES are quiet and unchanged, with small sales at
*S. S7. 4 i.ig/6 50 for pots. and.s9. 75 far pearls.
BREADSTUPPB --The market for State and Western flour
is dull, and closed heavily at our quotations.
Thee sales are 5.710 bble at *6 20116 . .40 . for superfine
State: $6 7606.85 for extra do: $6.256.45 for superfine
Michigan. Indiana. lowa Ohio. &c; $6;.9007.60 for extra
do, including shipping' brands of round.hoop Ohio at
s7.lf@7 70, and trade brands do at $7.7500.50.
Southern,liour is quiet, with sales of 6110 bbls at $7.650
8.15 for Superfine flaitimore, and. $B2OOlO 75 for extra do.
Canadian Flour la'dell and heavy. with sales of 450
'ibis at P 6. 006. 75 for common, and $6`75@8.90 for good
to choice extra.
Rye Flour is inactive, with amen sales at $5.50106 75
for the range of line and suPerAne.
Buckwheat Flour is quiet at $3 52M459.50. and -$4 for
very choice.
Wheat is very quiet, and the gimlet was heavy at the
close: sales 29.010 bushel& at $1.450148 for Chicago
gprir g $1 .46101.80 for Milwankee $1.5001 52 for
amber Milwaukee: $l. 5 , 01.53 for winter red. Western,
and $1 5601.61 for amber Michigan •
Rye and Barley are quiet and. prices nominal..
Oats opened. firmly, but closed dull at 6 /® 93 c for Ca
nada d 9709330 for State, and 92094 c for Western..
Corn opened with holders asking an advance of 102 c,
lint the market closed firm tv about yesterday's prises:
sales 56,000 bus at $l3O for prime Western mixed, in
store.
Tax,LOW is fit m. with tales of 40, hbole pritee city at
. •
N !Hairy —The market As Still and I.oVari BiaeS 6 GO
bble at Sf@P2c for State and Western.
SAL—fiat ricer bale is firm ar dIA demand at $1.135
@1.46 for ebipptiot- amt. retail tote. - •
Hors are quiet and unchanged, yak evaau gales at
6.315 10
4.906 07
1,387 08
2 800 05
1.331 00
1,610 06
6,523 02
0,677 14
2.290 01
16.663 11 31.678 1.3
1,2)7,770 01
2 .360 18
787,531 12
7GD91.912 10
..... ... 11,5, &57 11
Lange Sales, Dee. 31.
a,PhiladelphiaExch4nge.3
I. OARD.
5000 American G01d......151K
100 Sch.Fav cast as
ICO - <6O. 83
. . .
6 Cam Zt Amboy It —l6-01
KO Little Sah 11 61%
25 Phtla & Sue . 32&",
9 Spruce & Pine, csli 1,1%
200 U
,21A1011. dal%
2000 —lOl%
10 City Bank ..... •• .. 62%
1000 Lelllah Valley 65.1(6
150 Union Can. pref,bs.
1000 Is o rth Penna 6s. ash 963.1
,2003 Wyoming G'an.6s.. 9924
200.Snso Canal 15%
' BOARDS.
100 N Y di Mid Coal 4
2000 State 6s 106'
BOARD.
97 Lehigh Scrip 4.9
850 Calavilasa 8,pTer,..32
200 ' b 50.3234.
125 Sell Nav k 5.175 .4
100 Lehigh Zinc...• • •115.49
200 New Creek .1)5. 1
CBS—STEADY.
Bid Asked.
CataHissaß Con. 103 1.0%
Do prfd. ..... MX 32
Phil& & Brie R 34% 34%
Second. et R.
Do bonds.....
Fifth-st 60 ..
Do _bonds. .... .•
Tenth-atR.•.....:. 53%
Thirteenth-st H. 30 34%
Seventeenth- st R.— 14%
oprnce-stR 13% 14
Chestnut st. R.— 57 ..
W Philo R. 71 • •
Do bonds.....
arch-st R 30%
Nace-st R— 21%
Green-st It 44 45
Do bonds . •
Girard College B 27%
Lombard& South 16 ..
Ridge. av 8.. ..... 21%
Rely Mead B .
Minehill R. ......
Harrisburg-
Wilmington K.
Sam/ Canal•
Do GS -
Lehigh Val 11. •
Do . bonds
Phiht Ger & Nor. ..
Cain & drab R.—
Delaware
Do bonds.
1862. 1863.
045 4.500
103 475
.... 6.905
I MO
1200
2420
2590
2000
Bags, 1862. 11mics, 186:3.
... 27,235 , 9.185
•- 17,263 1,766
~ 101,802
CITY
A Oahu.—Being the sole . proprietors bktlite mar
ket of the celebrated Silver Flint Beekwhest i
which is pronounced, by all who have tried it, to be
far supriar to any other, not excepting the Betide
hem and other favorite brands, we would inform
our patrons that we have just received a fresh sup
ply of the "Silver Flint,” and are now prepared to
meet tie largest demand.
DAVIS & RICHARDS t
Arch and Tenth streets
GRBAT REDUCTION IN PRICE&
Great Reduction in Prices.
Ladies' and Mimes' Fine Cloaks.
Ladies' and Misses' Fine Cloaks,
Also,
Rich Furs of all kinds,
Risk Furs of iill kinds.
In anticipation of the close of the season, we are
now prepared to make a large concession from
former prices on ME our stook.
J. W. PROOTOR & se,
The Paris Cloak and Fur Emporium,
920 Chestnut street.
BEEF, EBBE? ' BEEF.
Two Maativion Rounda of Beef, weighing over
lee We. each, for Lunch, . -
On New Year's day, 1664.
All my friends will receive a hearty welcome at
the Shades, Strawberry street.
JOHN M. Caorrstt
Lunch from 10 A. DI., to continue all day.
THE'NEW YISAR—SIONS OF THE Toss.—tB6l
opens pleasantly and prosperously, as everybody
agrees, and the signs of the times are fair—particu.
larly the'busineee signs which adorn the streets of
Philadelphia. Prominent among those which he
who runs may read, is the sign or Granville Stoker
magnificent clothing establishment, No, GO@ Meat.
nut street, above Sixth.
OLD 013.11138.
'Poor Grimes is gone, he's now et rest,
Nor fears misfortune's frown;
Be had a double-breasted vest—
The stripes run up and down.
He modest merit sought to find.
And pap it its desert ;
tie had no man.c zu. biz =aro- -
No ruffle on his shirt.
Our grief for Griinea is much the mere
That he drc-saed so ornamental ;
That he never heard of Stokes' Store,
Beneath the " Continental."
AMERICAN GENTLEMEN.—AR accomplished En.
their lady, in a recent contribution. to Frazer's Ma.
gazine, says : If at any time I needed to find a gen..
tleman who should aid me in my little difficulties of
travel, or show me a kindness with that considers..
Eon of a woman which is the true tone of manly
courtesy, then I should desire to find a North Ama.
risen gentleman. They are simply the most kinds
and courteous of any people, and they generally show
as much good taste as courtesy, for the majority of
them procure their wearing apparel at the Brown
Stone Clothing Hall of Rockhill & Wilson, Nom. 608
and 605 Chestnut street, above Sixth.
HOLIDAY PRESENTS at Farson & Co.'s, Boat
street, below Walnut, Cutlery, Tea Trays, Japan.
%led and Plated Ware, Hobby-Horses and Sleds, &e.
dele-wautil
ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS
UP TO TWELVE O'CLOCK. LAST NIGHT.
nd Chestnut streets.
fliisa Clark
Oontinental—Ninth
G G Butler, New York
Capt A M Clarke. Boston
A Barclay, New Jersey
W B AUL on, lowa
J C Penderford, N Haven
W Barrowe, lowa
WStebbine, Baltimore
J P Brinton
A C Stinks. New York
J H Lee, Washington
F G-Sykes. Washington
J B Brigham, Boston
T W Chapin, Springfield
T C W Peerce, Boston
Mrs Yardley. Penn
bn Copp, Chicago, 11l
C Le. L, Wash, D 0
Edw T Kennedy_
G W Bigelow, New Haven
Geo P Sanger, Boston
WP Smith, Md
Mrs Bmith, Md
Dr C F Laming, Cape bity
Jos , ah Oakes. N Y
Pre dee, N Y
WWClarke.NY
J L Greene, Norwich
Congill
Mies Congill
Miss Ireland _
Mrs Phipps, Philada
Nies Phipps, Philada
B Sher- tz, Penns
LientCbasHAye,llSN
Copt Bartz
11K Nichols. Pottsyl le
J P Middleton, Philada
J T Eay N vet Cleveland
Lt Phipps, II S
GB B Thomas, Mt Holly
A.rou Van Cleve,Trenton
Lt Wm D Milliken, 13 8 A
Lt C It Blodgett. 13 S A
LtuWDoage, II S A
David Cook, Pittsburg
J E Reeside, Washington
S hi Bowman Sr la
Mr & Mrs J B Ireland
E W Crothers, Illinois
Geo Worthington, N York
Blehard,Thomas, Trenton
Mrs Janos J Jones. N York
Miss Jones, New York
Mr & Mrs A N tiorrie,N Y
.6 Coswell, Providence It I
C Hynson & la, New York
AC Anderson, St - Louis
John D Perry. St Lords
Henry Ai Colton. Conn
GP Overton. II 9 A .
D Parrish, Jr, New York
erect, below Ninth.
C Hughes, Lewiatomn
L Ja. Mackey. Lockhavea
6 Mayer. Lock Raven
C B Franklin, Penna.
Girard—Chestnut *
0 Lour, I Irippensburg
JR, Cantwell, - Penns
S Ellis, New Jersey
H 8 . e941E, RS A
Dr - hlilhan, II s A
H F Mcßeynolds. II iarials'g
L J Albertson, Penns.
1 A Spsneer. Delaware
nEtVGY • Washington
J S-Thomas, Weskit gbfin
T Rilffle Baltimore
$ H Dyer, Penna.
S EavagP, IT If
.1 Smith, New York
Waltere. New York
C Harris, Boston
1.1 Benedict. LeW15t051771
A B Parker, Lewistown
B Thomp• on. Lewistown
R B Balm. Levittown.
Airs H Harts, Lewistown.
A B Long At d Lewistown
Miss J a Alexander, Lewin
Miss C A Alexander. Pa
G'l' Daniels, Masenclinsetts
Gil McCabe,Tamatina
Henry Htihry„Tamarina
Geo S Coleman.ll S A
Wm 31 Bard« sly, CanadaW
T Ruben s, libvr 3 ork
E Smith.iNew 'York
A J Herr dr la, darriebur=
Wm It Stan n&wf.NJ.
1
'os Williamson. Si - Jersey
Jae Horner, New Yo.k
iSlereharite—Fourth
L G Crane, Maine
Elia, Bair,Lancaster
D G Rhodes, Penna
S W EIR1173,1"E111221
Join Fattner,Penna
Jzo'Rekd & son,Hantincdn
F 'Hoop, Phiiipsbarg,Pa
J C W , Thams. Pktilipsbc,Pa ,
W E Wilso o,Penn '
Hon 3no Cessna, Bat Ord
W D Bro M n 3 wf, Easton
Mro H Green, Easton
J S Morrison, Cocnranvilis
M Haberlonsti. Lancaster
B Nelson, Elmira
Wm H Bittinger, Penna
Agnericalt—Chentnut
W A F Stockton, 17 S A
Jar Webster, Philad
Alex Pert. Broad Top,Pa
B Lan odon, Broad TOP. Pa
'rhos 3 Lewis, Md
C H Thompson. Salem, N J
Howard W Townsend St ly
Jno Mitchell, Princeton.NJ
John Lindsay & wife
Et John George, Kansas
C Kilburn
Miss M F Cramer, Del
I Pearson, Baltimore
W E T. Baltimore
Lewis, Blaylock & la, Phila
Miss Forman. Cheetertown
St Louis—Chestnut
I M Wise, Cincinnati
F H. Intoes, Baltimore
T P Shalleross, Virginia
J Balm% Wheeling, Va '
J Fitzsimons, Wheeling, Va
F W Hicks, Fenna
R Bailey, Penna.
Francis Cronin, New York
L G Crane, Maine
C S hmith
D d'oceetser & la, Wash
John Quinn, Sew York.
L H Crowe, Perna
The Union—Arch s
J G Rose, Baltimore
H Guterman
W S Allgaier, Reading
A E Lyon, 13 S 1.1
t B F Williams. Bedford co
Mast J Williams. Bedford co
Barker. Hanel! Chunk '
B C Gallaher. Mifflin
States _Valois—Starke
6 Glover, Newport. Pa
A W Mitchell, Lewistown
Jos Sigler. Lewistown
J Shaffner; Huntingdon
J W Kearns, Lewistown
E %Townsend. Lewistown
C Kea: ne, Lewistown
Nies V Ogle, Delaware
MIAs Laura Ogle. Delaware
Mrs Cole & son, New Jereel
S C Lyford. New Jersey
Miss Maggie P:4.11, Pa
Jobe Preston, Lettlatown
David P Boyer
D A Stroup. Leuristoivil
B Berner, McVey town.
W Finch, Pennsylvania
Commercial—Sixth s
J H Bally. West Chester -
Jos G Reed, Maryland
L Janney, Maryland
!der onald &la. Oxford
Frank Parker. Maryland
C R JOl7llB. Lowell
J Hughes. Chester
B Larkin. Fairland.Del Co
Wso Woolsey, Mantes&
Win Brewster, Huntingdon
T Alexander. Saltville
S B Lehr, Lewistown,
It E. K.pperling, Lewistown
P W Wilson, Lewistown '
rintiorial--Retce ii
Wm H Beet. Penna
C B thling. Penns '
Oliver Whitaker, Fenn&
Chas Whitaker, Fauna
E Hntrnanle, Lewistown
Miss M Huffnagle, Lewistw ,
Peter Hoffer - Elizabethtown
Mice S Heffer,Blizabethtown
C H Hoffer. Dauphin co
F Armand, McCalleterville
Wm Raman. McCalidery
Madison—Second at
A J Steel, New Jeisey I
T Johnson. Delaware
John DaTiS, Delaware
Saml 0 W Dewey, N Y
-
Geolleadley.lVlillcille N
Chas Straitud. Lewistown
H C Vanzant Saa,Letvistwn
II Smith l la, Bucks co
Wilson 'rats, Bellville
Bald Eagle—Third streer.aboveCallowhiLll.
B Taylor ar. la. New Jersey Henry Dieeh.lageleville
A Lisk,..eJlentown,Pa Peter Bartholomew, POllllB
Wm Riegel, Hellertown Wm Beans. Backs co. Pa
Joe R Cress. Bellertorm M HenftearY, Bucks co
Motes Haes.Fogelerlho
Barmara's Hotel7-Thire
_
@eon, St flair, Pa
Sartou, Conoecticlat
I. Mc kle_nry, Jersey
P hiclaoislon,_Canalia
Thoi ste eel°, Iv Tenses'
Mount. Vernon—See
W Pugh, Trenton.
C A Wright. Delaware
L Sal ler, Metunkis
J Tnompson. NewTork
L Bendel., Williamsport
Black Bear—Third
Daniel Henry. 'Lebanon
Jos Young. Allentown
at pry Slat £ h la. Snyder co
F L Hitchcock. Scranton 'l4
F F Ilalbrook..New York
R Meriman, New York
C Dale, Allegheny City.
A... Hoffman, Mt. steriing,Kr
J F Jenkins. New York
Hon J K Dubois, Illinois
Mrs Dubois. Springfietd, 11l
Mrs Lase. Lafayette
GF Wright, bpringneld
J 11 &dame, New 'York
J P Barton, Massillon.Okio
slocum. Norwich
1111 Scarkweather. Norwich
Wm B Whitney. Louisville
Mr leech, Pa
Isaac EL Danis & Ladv.Pa
A. Crofton, II S
Mrs Reed Ohio
W Wilson. N Y
J P vrancis & lady, N y
S Stevenson & lady. N y
John Berdon. N
Mrs Bing"
Wm Nettams &lady. N Y
Isaac 0 Backer & lady. DL Y
Taylor, S Tenn
Silas Ravens, Maryland.
E Wetherill
G C Terhnna & wf, II 8 A.
Dr Echeverson, New York
Ballot & son. New rock
M Parodi & son. New York
H D Faulkner & la. N Y
Miss Lucy Richardson. N Y
L F Everett & Ln, N York
Wm D Brown, Warren. Pa
John H Cabot, Boston
J M Barris, Louisiana
Gen Smith & la. New York
Geo D Lehr & Wt. Easton
W t 1 Neuman, New York
B ! Shenk, Lancaster
J N Dickson
J Di. kso
Tyler. if S N
A W Leiseuring, M Chunk
Leisenring, M Chunk
Hon J W Fano , . Penns
L Campbell, New Jersey
Miss M B Campbell. el 3
Lt Col J Stewart, Jr, Ys
Gen H Walbridge, N York
Z H Jarman. New York
W H Ohl, New York
MKSimpson, New York
Sohn ir Martin. New York
G W Wootton & la Penns
D K Shoemaker. Penna.
D C 43atee, Spruce Creek
W A. Jacob, Spruce Creek
S H litcPhecran. &orate Cr
DDiffenderffer. Lancaster
W Heed, Pew York
• •
- •
Corn T Crabb, Haw Jersey
A P Wilson, Hantingdon.
S H Mann, Wrightstown
[Mrs J Yoang. Middletown.
Miss Young, Middletown
Mal H Bardwell & la„ Pa,
S Oyster, Harrisburg
Mrs ElTGastos, Chester co
Hies E Hatton, Cheater co
E A tinsion. Chester eo
Mr sr: Mrs Bower. N Y
G J Fry. Tamaqua
W L Diffenderffar, Lane co
W Fethertck, Port Kenedsr
J P Seller. Varriaburg
A Aldrick,hear York
Roht Fessertetn, New York
B F Moore 31a
idw Koons. Baltimore
T Good,Beitimore
Jan Worth. Boston
Thos R Jacola,New York
Paniel Gordon, Delaware
B c Lewis, Penna
B P Bieneman. Lanca3tar
street. below Arab.
Hon Jao D Stiles. Allentws
Eon J S heredith.Penna
C A 'Schaffner Marietta:Pa
O W Stahl, 'Hirietta,ra
J Rohrer. Kiddieto wa
_ .
Henry Kurtz. Hs Joy •
L G KeFsler,Pailipsburg
A 1. Donithen, Harrisburg
S llliman,Louisville, Sy
L Starr, Louisville. Ky
A Starr, Lonisvllie,XY
Dr H Markley, Lancaster
C K Campbell. II S A
Dr Stabler, Alexandria, Va
la P Cropper, Maryland
street. above
Miss Fotzinger, Green Castle
G F Ziegler. Green Castle
J F Lamb & wife. Lancaster
case E.anibear, N
irciiitiie:titzton, and
Lient Sas B Lilly, IT 8 ti
J %arm. Balt
J Fleishman, Bea
B Mason, Det
. .
F Pearson, TI S Iff
I. Graver. Pa
,
P Fithian, B ridgeion
Mrs J Neilson & son, N
Miss D hfcGormiek,. - Penna
Mies Nancy Taylor, Panne,
street, above Third.
C Mlles, Tuscarora
W T Tracy. New York
J J Harris. Wash, D
J H Lees; Washington, It G
J Tipton. Tremont
R. A Rosenbaum, N
AK Hay, Jr. New Jersey
S Raymond. Poona
in? Safer, New Jersey
J West, U S N
Chas C Dana. Jr. N Jersey
Wm Carpenter, New derser
treat, above Third. '
_
F 'Williams. Columbia
Lowber, Delaware
C W Blandy, Newark, Del
salowland, Eflorstown -
Miss Gelwieks. Hagerstown
.Tames Hagerstown
Bg Stade
E B Patterson & la, Lanc eon
street," above ...Sixtis.
Mt Bell. Pennsylvania
Z Rice, Perry co, Pa •
IH Rice, Perry county. Pa
Mies arena Epler. Pa
H,Epler, Middleton
Airs C Bierbotier„
E Bierboner, Middleton
Bierboner. Middleton
Sirs M Ports & dan. NY
.T Pyle. Chester - Valley
C A Hayes. E Marlborough
C K Henry. Lanc co. Pa
Miss Ada Kearnes. PA
. .
Bien N E Kearaes, Pe,
Miss Lizzie Strass, Pa
L Prtsey, Chester eo, Pa
set, above Chosbaitt.
John Todd, Bellefonte -
8 S Torbert Jr. COSlB6Tille
5 Ferguson, Parma
D B Epanogle, Sas:data co
Wee e. &thus. Chester so
atieslil Eachas, Chester co
J Z Hoffer, Columbia _
Jsa Goatee, Penna
James D geed Perna
Wan D Klett, Donstlaaville
F Clements, Now. Jersey
3 - V.Bdge. Downingtown
D B &welter. Lewistown
H Peters. le wistown
eel, above Third. ,
B. Hoffer. Mt Joy. Pa
Miss R. Hoffer, Mt Joy. Pa
W Wilson & wf. Lebe.non
Wm Simla. Barks co
Bowers. Ft *me, Ina
L Bat a la, Mondani].
D 8 Bare. Lancaster co
J L Bowen, Pottsvilie
T C Bowen, Pottsville
theoph H Smith. Pottsville
reet, above Market.
Sono II Moore, Ballville
Ti Shoemaker,CataearictaS
Dr J Dyer, Backe co
C S Sherer,Pa
B Newbold, New jersey
J F Boozer. New Jersey
Knight Patterson dr la, Pa.
McConnell &la, Pa -
NI street.. above Raab'
r.s Barrows, Clinton ca
Jas Adiller,iforthampton to
B Canard. Parma _ -
Peter Brown , hew Jersey
zul St above Arch.
H E Culp, Penua
Meta T J Fo:ey. wf. Penn&
H Abrams. Salem. 11 J
P Lewis, Princeton
%V Davis, lialeett. Sri I
it., above CanowhiLLl,
F.ti Cadvrala.ter, Do7lW:we
I I. S Paine. Lewistitirtt
G Dixon. Went Chatter