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c EDITLEMEN'S WRAPPERS,
SCAT PS, TIES,
ralJEwi, - lorts.
EMBROIDERED SUSPENDERS,
JOHN 0. ARRISONI3.
1 and 3 NoRT.I3 SIXTH STREET.
076-if
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
MOB BARLEY,
(Successor to Stauffer & Harter.)
No. 622 MARKET - STREET,
Has 230 W Cu by/Al:Awl . al St ock of
SW Lacy.
SILVER AND PLATED. WARE.
SUITABLE FOB, HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
hoo.int
IDLY PRESENTS,
HeiNTME & BROTHER'S,
ENTS' FURNISHING HOUSE,
So. 1033 CHISTNUT Svuurr
Pins and Edna, I Wrappers.
Mee and Cravats. I moire%
jars, i l fm ae7 r + e nare s. . u.
dkeroblefs.
FINEST SELECTION OF SILK SCARFS
IN THE CITY.
NT SKATING- CHAIRS.
BREAD PLATES.
MAGIC RUFFLE FLUTING IRONS.
. STEEL SKATES, a near article.
"'ER MACES CHESS TABLES AND TEA POTS.
'WILLIAM Y ARN 8
HOUSE-PITENISHIN4 STORE.
No. 1020 CHESTNUT Street. '
mite the Academy of Fine Art;
T-HE • PRETTLEST PRESENT
FOR A MATT,
GOLD COMPOSITE PATENT DETACHED
LEVER WATCH.
Jeweled in 13 actions,
fully engraved Hunting CaSee.by Raskell of Li
verpool, *Z.
TOR A GENTLEMAN.
THE OFFICER'S WATCH.
ied Lever Movement, 13 Jewels, in Marling fine
hinting Cases. with new Patent Time Indicator,
rented for the Army The handsomest and most
— *doh ever offered. gab.
Gold Composite can also be had in Gent. she..
fohee eentforinepeetionbefore payment
mein , can be seen by sending for our Catalogue.
wanted in every regiment and every eoanty
on unusually liberal terms.-
ARRAND ALE &
mters of Watches, SI2 BROAD WAY, N. CO. .r.
alm-RW
FOB
:ES, GENTS, AND BOYS_
The beet Assortment in the City,
BURNHAM'S DEPOT
TES UNIVERSAL WR,INGSE,
2'7 South SIXTH Street.
' CHESTNUT Street, Masonie t"'"
Y PRESENTS FOR GEN
numfflicent assortment of the rarest
WRAPPERS.
HANDKERCHIEFS.
°LOVES. .
SUSPEND MRS._
OARRLLGR RUGS.
&c.. EtcEßs.
J. W SCO TT'S.
ors
814 CHEE,TTJT . FF Street
i "
NEIYFLKSS
I:9KBEELLAS.
YARNS.
0 0 L.
On hand. and sandal:manta daily arrivinc of
TUB AND 'FLEECE
Common to Full Blood. choice and clean.
WOOLEN YARNS,
XI cats. dna, on band, and new supplies coining
COTTON YARNS,
6to 30s. of first-claw maker, - -
aambera and descriptions procured at ones.
on orders
X. WHILLDIN it SONS,
IN North FRONT Street.
EOBGE F. WORIRATHi
ROL fkli AHD 417 ARCH STRUT.
WI WOW 01111
A FULL ASSORTMENT
A. 11:1 I IC JP T. 7 Ng 8 •
to attiatiox of the aublie Is itll7-41M
NGS AN.
EGANT MIRRORS,
♦ LARGIi ASSORTUNT
NEW ENGRAVINGS,
„ OIL , PAINTINg%
JUST RECEIVED
LE'S 13,A_T_.LERIES;
R26.ORESTAIIT =BEAT:
WET VIURNIT
dT FIIBI3ITURE AND SIIr
TABU&
lIOORE & CAMPION,
No. *BI SOUTH SISCOND STEM.
to with their extensive Cabinet badness. are
featuring a stipertor article of
aLLIARI) TABLES
wr on hand a full
.sap_ply. finished
CIISHIOnwith the
' CAMPION'S Inct ha
VED
enonneed by all who have used theta to be
all others.
enalitir and finish of these Tables. the nuns.
refer to their numerous patrons thronahont
Who Cr, batiliar with the character of their
esl7 en
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VOL. 7-NO. 134.
.COMMISSION HOUSE-4.
COFFIN & ALTEMUS,
No. 220 CRESTNET STREET,
Agents for the following Goods
PRINTS.
GREENE MTV. CO
TAMES SANDERS.
BLEA ID HE
LONSDALE.
Hot.
BLACKSTONE,
AsHMEAD'S.
OUNIBERLAND,
PLYMOUTH,
MANTON
il - Farm 111YG. CO.
FORESTDALE. .
J. & W. SLATER,
SOCIAL.
BYEBVILLE,
RED BANK.
JAMESTOWN.
CENTRED ALE,
COVENTRY.
TRILBIES RIVER.
COTTONS.
FARMERS' EX NU.
YASSAIC_,
MECH&MICS' and
FARMERS', &c., &a
BROWN
A§HLAND. •
GREENBARK,
BTHAN ALLIM
FIIMIX A. A.
CORSET JEANS.
GLASGOW. EISHERVILLE. MANOFIESTEIA—CoIored
and Bleached.
SILE SIAS.
LONDON, BOOTAL, LONSDALN, &c.. &c,
PAPER CAMBRIC'S.
LONSDALE and WARREN NEV. co'S.
WOOLENS.
OLE/MARI CO'S CLOTHS—Slacks and Fancy
Bllatorer, Water Proofs, Sanwa% ltc
HINSDALE CO'S BLACK CLOTHS
CASSIA:EMS AND DOESKINS.
Gayeville, Perry's, Saxton's River.
SATINETTS—Bass River, Crystal Springs, CM--
'reneging. °nutty'lle, Bridgewater. Uxbridge, Cha-
Pin'a, Campbell's, Lathrop's. Goodrich. dr.c.. dm.
JEANS—Robert Rodman's Gold Medal, and others.
MESE:VS—Lam and. Small. Midis.
COFFIN ALTEMUS,
No.' 220 CHESTNUT Swann;
Offer by the package the following description of Coeds:
ARMY BLUR CLOTHS AND - KRISETS, AND
GRAY FLANNSLS.,
PRINTED AND FANCY SA.TINEITS,
IN GREAT VARIETY.
HEAVY TWEEDS AND COTTONADES.
NEGRO KERSEY'S 'PLAIN AND TWILLED.
PRINTED CLOAKINGS AND SLEEVE LININGS.
DOMET AND FANCY SHIRTING FLANNELS.
BLUE DRILLS. DENIMS, NANKEENS.
CORIsET JEANS AND CAMBRIC% OF VARIOUS
MAKES.
LAWNS—DUNNELL'S AND OTHERS.
BLEACHED GOODS OF STANDARD MAKES, IN
VARIOUS WIDTHS.
BROWN MEETINGS AND SHIRTING% IN GREAT
VARIETY, &c &c. jalwfm-tIS
TAMS M UR.P.I-IY.
COMMISSIO Di MERCHANT,
nag: CHESTNUT STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
AMERICAN COTTON AND WOOLEN GOODS.
Consignments Solicited, and Advances
Made if Desired
REFERENCES•
J. &J. Slavin. Hay & McDevitt. WeMing, CoDin&Co.
NOTICE TO GRAIN DEALERS AND
6.1 PRIM
W,OOO 'UNION A, SEAMLESS BAGS,
•n Linen. welsht 20 onneee,
The be Sad Cheered, Bag in the mutes,
/see.
BURLAP BAGS,
9f all Slam for Corn. Oats, Bone-duet. Coffee, ie., are
nenufastured and for wale, for net gash, by
CHARLES H. GRIGIO„ Agent:
80. 137 KeItICZT Street (Seeond Store).
0e22-22a Late of 219 Church alley.
ZHIPLET, FLA ZARD, k HIITOHIN
,aPOL
no. 11% OBINEMICIT STEraii.
COMMISSION MEROHANTS,
7036 'MB BALE Or
PHILADELPHIA-MA-DE GOODB,
ee2s-611
12Atati 1 BAGS I BAGS I
LP
NEW AND SECOND EIA.PCO,
VILIMIESEL STIRLAP, A D CaMr!
BAGS,
Constantly on hand.
JOHN T. BAILEY- & 004,
No, II ZOATH 730117 STISTI'.
wets. MACKIN TOE BALL enVists.
WATCHES AND 41BWRARY.
isG. BtrssELL, 22 NORTH SIXTH
Street, has jest received WY handsome assort-
Wait of VINE SEAL RINGS. nolSm
,FINE WATCH REPAIRING
attended to by the most - exp erienced workmen,
an every Watell warranted for one yer ßusniz.
nolaro %X North. SIXTH Street.
XOTER6S.
JONES . HOUSE,
HARRISBURG,
CHAS. H. MANN,
de23-b PROPErETOB,
Caner MARKET Street and MARKET . Square:
TO HOUSEKEEPERS AND PER
SONS COMMENCING HOUSEKREPING.
A COMPLETE STOOK OF
HOUSEKEEPING ARTICLES
CAS BE OBTAINED AT
922 CHESTNUT STREET,
IYi~Z~I~)~f=ISI~i=Y~Ii:;KU24J/CI:Y.YJ-~~[~Y~a+~
ar.ol-3EIeT - - A. - 141U1EWIEZIEOlir.
P. & C. R. TAYLOR,
PORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF
TOILET SOAPS AND PERFIIMERT,
ilti-bn No, 011 North NINTH Streak
p&POBTERS of
wirras ABB hicallolui.
11:4AUMAN, BALLADE,.da
Ao. JAB SOUTH NINTH STRAIT,
Between Chestnut and Walnut. Phtladelphhk
G. IL LAIIMAN,_
A. K BALLAD.",
soll3-6m Z. D. BITTING.
MESSRS. _GITION & BISON .ARE
about to close their PHOTOGRAPHIC ART GAL
LERIES. 1024 CHBSTRUT Street. In consequence Of
the early departure of Mr Gihon from the city.
Parties wishing to purchase their Negatives, or copies
from them. will please call at once. Daring the present
week, offers will be received for the Astsblishment. as it
elands, including its large stock and fixtures, with the
good will of the place. ial.6t*
To BOOT AND SHOE MA.NUFAO.
AL MUMS,
Leather BoilLtm Mille.
Splitting Machines.
• Skiving
Crimping
Welt and Counter Skivers.
Standing Eyelet. Pnnak and E'etti Combined,
And all other Machinery and Goode for Railed and
sewed work, co be had at mauuracturers' Prlaelh at
& ATAGlrirraW,
• Dealers In Shoe Findings, 30 N. THI3O St.
Agents for Illlton'a 'lnsoluble Cement. del9-/m*
BRASS STENCIL ALPHABETS.
N. J. METCALF & SON, -
41% SALEM STREET, BOSTON, MASK
The only manufacturers in the United States. of Iran
al p h a b e t s and Mares, to any ;treat extent 07 la MIT
variety.
Sold at wholesale at the LOWEST OAS" ?max& Auz.3.;
the BEST OF INDELIBLE STENCIL 1118.. very ch o w
Stencil Dies and all kinds of Stencil Stock. Inquiries
ardor. irrAnnictl. attandca .49-31 c,
FOR SALE—A VALUABLE sok
I. - FARM of 180 acres, on the Bethlehem turnpike, ;AZ
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. 19 miles from the
city, 2 miles from the Station on the North Pennsylvania
Railroad, known as the Wager Farm." The improve
ments me large and commodious, consisting of a stone
mansion, tenant-house stone barn, stabling for forts
five need of cattle, carriage home, wagon-honees, gra-
Buy, icehouse , & c. A good apple..orohard, peach or
chard. and a variety of all kinds of pear trees and other
fruit. The farm is 111 der a good fence, divided into con
venient fields, and well watered by three streams. The
avenue leading to the mansion is ornamented with rows
of shade trees. The mansion is surrounded with shade
trees. eighte e nants acres are iss valuable timber, end
about acres first-rate meadow. The farm
is well watered by 'Prim, welle, and running streams.
The location is desirable; very healthy. convenient to
churches, schools & e. The neighborhood Is good , and
the residents sociable. It is well worthy the attention
of those who desire to buy,as it is a cheap and good farm,
It is an old homestead, and is sold by order of
EXEOUTORS.
OEO. N. TOWNSEND.
No. 123% South FOURTH Street.
LATOUR OIL.-500 BASKETS LA
TOUR OLIV2 OIL. received per bark "Mao "sad
for sale by JATIRWrOBLE & L aVERGeB,
deal-12t w & and MA dOnth orrb reg.
COTTONS.
WARREN.
BUDD LEMON.
MAO% A. A.
AIIs , Rd.
EoIIAVE.
00HANNFIT,
CENTRAL.
OTCOWA.
KENT RIVER.
WHEATON.
COLLIES.
PALMER RIVER
BELLOWS FALL.
WOOD RIVER.
TOLLAND
MANCHESTER, &c.. act
V. M. NEEDLES,
-
1024 CHESTNUT STREET,
OFFERS FOR BALI
DESIRABLE, USEFUL, AND ACOEPTABLB
PRESENTS,
IN LACE GOODS.
1 .. i Real Lace Collars, in every' variety, from MI cents
to 15 each.
I I Lace Sets, from $1 to $BO each.
600 Lace Veils, front 121 to (Winch.
600 Valencienne Hdbfs. from $2 to 815 each. -
100 Pointe Lace and Pointe Appliqué, from $5 to *5O.
Coiffures, Barber, and every variety of other descrie
lions of Lace Goods, at very low prices.
IN EMBROIDERIES.
600 Embroidered Hdkfs. , $1 to $lO each.
600 do. Collars. 26 cts. ach y each.
800 do. , kets. -t1 to $lO -
. &Ulnas, Insertings, Flouncing's, and all other de.
seriptions of Embroideries.
IN HANDKERCHIEFS.
The best assortment of Mika_ in the city. including
every variety of Ladies'. Gents' and Children's Linen
Eldkfe., in plain, hem.stitched, embroidered. lase,
printed borders, ac., from 12 cts. to $6O each.
Persons in search oflusefel and acceptable presents
would do well to examine my stock before purchasing.
A. B. —I will open on MONDAY, the 14th inst. , a fresh
invoice of desirable goods, in Rich Lace Capes, Coiffures,
Barbee. HMG's. , Veils, &c.. ars . deit-tf
ial•wfm~~r,,
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
~,,,,,..w.n.r...,r,Nrw4e.r.**
E YRE da — LANDEI4I..
. ,
CARD-1864.
STAPLE HOUSEKEEPING GOODS
SENT V.AMIIar . CX3eVTOI .
lo 4 PEPPERELL SHEETINGS.
5.4 AND 6 4 PILLOW OASINGS.
44 BEST SHIRTING MUSLINS.
LARGEST PREMIUM BLANKETS.
oLoni. EMBROIDERED COVERS.
DAMASK CLOTHS AND NAPKINS.
RED BORDERED LARGE TOWELS. -
UNSHRINKING WHITE FLANNELS.
PREMIUM BED TIC/KINGS.
HICHARDSOPPS SHEETING LINENS.
GOOD BLACK SILKS.
GOOD PLAIN SILKS.
HILGER'S BLACK CLOTHS.
GOOD OASSIMERES.
FINE MERINOES.
SHROUDING CASHMERES.
BLACK BOMBAZINES.
JOUVIN'S KID GLOVES. '
3:01(1110 LA.NEMILTA.
FOURTH AND ARCH ISTREETS.
let mwt-ti
JOSEPH AND WILLIAM E. WOOD,
EXPORTERS AND DEALERS IN
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, VESTING%
TAILORS' TRIMMINGS,
WHOLESALE ♦ND RETAIL.
NO. 13 NORTH SECOND SMUT,
de9-1m PHILADELPHIA
.ftLANKETS. •
From *3 to *l6 - -- and every' intermediate price.
$lO. $l2, and $l5 Blankets are very desirable.
MIISLINS,
By the yard or piece. or all the well-known makes,
Buy them now for coming wants, and save dollars.
FLANNELS.
'Mites, from 46a. to $1; Reds, from 46 to 75 ate.
Grays, from 60 to 75 eta. ; Blues, from43o to 70 Ctl.
Fancy 6-4 Skirtings; Fami n
AeSKS Flannels, Ste.
DAM
Damask Table Clothe. Napkins. and Pow e ll,
Anreery Diapers,
ritINTS.
American. Merrimack. dm., In figures and stripes.
Neat shirting prints: Beal Manchester gingham% 50e.
BALMORALB.
Mildewed Balmorals. *2 50; Perfect Balmorale, $3.
Fine Balmorals, 83.50 and $4.150; Misses' Balmorals.
COOPER & 00a AND.
del7 8. Z. corner NINTH and MAR KIN'.
gSTEEL & SON WOULD OALL
• attention to their Stock of FINE DRESS GOODS.
all bought at very low prices, early in the season. and at
the recent Auction Sales:
French Merinoes, 76c to $2.60.
French Poplins and Reps, 87.30 to $1. 76.
Dress Goods of every variety. 20e to $2.
a great variety of styles. $3.25 to $l2.
m 0 garde two-yard wide Merino... $l. 25.
Elanlet Shawls,
Eroche Shawls, &Teat bargains, $2.50 to $l4.
Circulars and Sacques, of all kinds of Cloths, at low
Prices.
Fancy Silks, $1 to $5.
Plain Poll de Soles, $1.25 to $2 - . -
Noire Antiques and Corded 5iDc5,413.60 to le.
NOM, 718 and FM North VIETH St;
1 Lot All .wool Shaker Flannel. 0234 e. worth 90s ne2l
T . O N G BROOHE SHAWLS, FROM
L
$lO to $125 a piece,
Open Centre Long Broche Shawls.
Blakket Shawls, Plaids and Stripes.
A. large assortment of Misses' Blanket Shawls, from
$1.60 to $7 a piece.
Ladies Scarfs in great variety . . from $1 to $7 apiece.
Ladies' Cloaks of the latest styles.
EDWIN HALL & CO.,
de2141 No. $l6 South SECOND Street.
SPECIALLY INTERESTING!
7JEGHiI AND SPRING GARDEN.
INEFUL PRESENTS!
Superb Long Broche Shawls.
Beautiful Long Blanket Shawls.
Exceileut Long Black Thibet Shawls.
Gebtlemeu's heavy, warm Shawls.
341, ree S.S. pretty Shawls. -
Children's School Shawls. *lkc.. in great variety
and very al A len P T ,
t HORNLEY s CHISRUS,
Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN.
WARM GOODS FOR WINTER.
LARGE, SOFT, WOOL BLANKETS.
G oo d . Flannels. shaker, Welsh, Ballardvale. &c.
Quilts, Crib Blankets. and Cradle Blankets.
Heavy Velvet. Beaver Cloths, Black Beavers, &s
A splendid stock of Cissimeres &0..
At THORNLEY CHISM'S.
DRESS GOODS AND SILKS.
Beautiful French Poplins. silk and wool.
Beautiful Rep Poplins, all wool. -
Beautiful colors in French kierinoes.
Beautiful litde-plaid all-wool Cashmeres.
Beautiful figured all- wool Delaines.
Beautiful Quality in plain Delaines.
Excellent Bleck Silks. •
Plain Silks, Figured Silks. Fancy Silks, an,
With a great variety of general Dress Goode,
At THORNLEY & CHISM'S,
Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN
P,TAPLE GOODS.
ha A One stock of Chintzes and Calicoes.
cheap - Delainee and Ginghams.
Bleached and Unbleached Muslin&
Table Linens. Towels. Crashes. Diapers, &a.
Striped and plaid Shifting Flannels. -
Red, gray, bine, heavy ShirtingFlannele. As.,
At THORIiLEY 456 r OHISM'S
BALMORAL SKIRTS, &c.
A large stock of Balmoral&
Linen 'Hakim., Ladies' and Gentlemen%e .
Gents' Silk Ildkfs in great variety, drc
AT THE OLD.EST.AIILTSIIED I)$Y-GOODkiITOBE OY
THORNLEY & CHISM.,
aolEl-Em N. E. Gor.RIORTH and SPRING GARDEN.
10*4 CHESTNUT StBELIT
E. M. NEEDLES,
1024 CHESTNUT STREET.
Invites attentionto kb extensive assortment
of goods suitable for
usiorti, AND ACCEPTABLE
HOLIDAY PRESENTS.
IN LACE GOODS.
HANDKERCHIEFS, EMBROIDERIES,
VEILS, AND WHITE GOODS.
lo3'rxliwaloa4kiaAi
JOHN H. STOKES, .702: - .* , ARCH
STEDIIT, would call the attention of the ladles to
hie immense stock of DRESS GOODS. most of which
has been reduced for HOLIDAY PRESENTS. - consisting
of French Merinoes, Figured Oamiet Cloths, Wool and
oat Cotton Deadness, Figured and Striped Masan.
= lu s h Merinoes , Wool Plaids. Plaid Drees Goode. •
dom. del-tt
CLOTHING.
EDWARD P. KELLY,
J N KELL Y,
TAILORS,
14% 13013T11 TRIED STRUT. ABOVE WALNUT.
HEWS AL large assortment of
PALL and WINTER GOODS,
PATTERN OVERCOATS and
WINTER UNDERCOATS.
ROE SALE AT REDUCED PRICES.
TERMS CASH.—Frloes lower than other Customer
Tailors. Clothes istmerivr.
BLACK OAS& PANTS, 05.50 ;
At IN MARNE? Atreit.
BLACK CANS. PAVrfi. SEM i 704 MARKET Streak.
*LAM CASS. :mem N. CC At Vtii MARXIST Ertrict
VLACH' OAFS. PAWS. N.M. At 704 REATMEr3 §iftitt:
BLACK CASS. PANS. SAGO. At 704 FRET Stied.
ELII.MGT A VAN GUNTER'S, EG. 704 KARIM Skeet
MUGU A VAX 01INTB1113. No, 704 MAKE= Stmt.
ORM* it VAR' QUATILV'S, No. 704 HAREM amt.
YAW 41e. 704 itAIRET s tmt.
(IMMO lr VAN OVVTAWN. No. 704 KAMM Stmt.
se24-6nt
GENT'S 'FURNISHING GOODS.
REMOVAL.
xaIsTPC.ELT3 L I 732CEIINT3
HAS REMOVED
ntom
Ro. 81 SOUTH SIXTH STREET,
TO
N. W. CORNER CILESTNWI
Where he now °Wean a
LLueS WPM ILIGART STOOK
OF
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
Slaloming $ll the west novelties.
PRICES MODERATE. '
X lThe attention of the ix reonsiotinny ite-
SIBTIP MADE TO 08.111:11. os3l-Itie
WEW HALF PEACHES.-12,000 L 1313.
new Ulf reaches, for sale bir_
ERODES & WILLIAM&
d43•tt lOW &nth WATS& Street.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY," 3 - AMY/Via 6, 1864.
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WEZNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1864
National Quarterly Review, No. XV.
This comes very near to our idea of a tho
roughly good quarterly. It treats of a variety
of subjects, and is not disfigured by any Cant. It
leaves religious subjects to religious periodicals,
and discusses events of the time, and the history
and learning of the past, with freedom, facility,
and information to the reader. Moreover, it's
motto might be "En Avant," for its improvement
in some respects has been noticeable ie several
successive numher", of lete, There was a certain
kaliflOnilm and pereonality at first, the result Of
that "novitas regni," which the poet made one of
his heroes offer as an excuse for shortcoming in go
vernment ; .but these have subsided, and the No
honal Quarterly is as dignified now as any of its con
temporaries, at home or abroad. Its publisher,
Mr. Sears, who is also its editor, deserves great
credit for having made this his own experiment, so
entirely successful. Like him of °oriole, he may
say, "Alone I did it." He had to contend with
Opposition from publishers who disliked true criti
cism, but has conquered it. The work now has a
large and increasing circulation, and has won at
tention and respect by its impartiality and
learning.
Two subjects of interest to Philadelphia are
prominently-discussed here, in the articles "Prison
Discipline, Past and Present," and "Girard College
sea 11;g Founder." The first of these subjects is
most important, pad the Reviewer treats it as such,
eve/ante, having thought' and read much. upon it.
After examining Prison Disciplifie in Europe—es.
peeially England and France—he Portraits it.
with the American practice, particularly describing,
and even becoming the historian of, the solitary
System which was introduced in our Walnutestreet
priion towards the close of the last century, it being.
"the Quakers of Pennsylvania who first urged a
Undo!' the solitary system, with a view of avoiding
the painfulness - and demoralizing influence of public
executions." The Reviewer personally inspected the
Penitentiary in Cherry street, and, after giving some
painful - anecdotes of the effects of the solitary eye
tern, adds : "That the inspectors do all in their
power to alleviate the sufferings of the unfortu
nates placed under their care, we have seen every
reason to believe. Mr. Vaux brought us into the
library, which we were glad to find quite exten
sive, and to include many of the best standard
works. We have certainly no disposition to criti
cise anything we saw during our visit. Without
being unjust, we could find no fault with the man
ner in which the institution is managed; all we
say_ a word against is the' solitary system, per se.
- But to us this seems the worst kind of slavery; if
there is any other means by which human life can
be more embittered, or human suffering aggravated,
without instruments of physical torture, we know
nothing of it. Therefore, believing that there is as
much philanthropy and generosity in Pennsylvania
as there is in any other country of equal population,
we would earnestly appeal to those who have moat
influence in the State to have compassion on the
wretched female convicts, if not on the male. We
do not know a single instance in which the solitary
system has been relaxed, or superseded by the con- -
gregate, without good results. This is true, for ex
ample, of the prisons of Gloucester and Glasgow, in
which the solitary plan was duly tried (but found
wanting) more than a quarter of a century ago.
But we might mention two thirds of our own pri
sons in proof of the same fact."
The -Reviewer says "Of all the prisons we have
visited in this country, that whose system seemed
to us to be the best, on the whole, is • Sing Sing."
Yet, he subsequently mentions the instruments of
punishment at present used in the prison :
"The most formidable are the heavy iron, which,
when fastened to the culprit, seems not unlike a
cross, and the shower-bath. , The former has a
sort of ring attached to it, which embraces the
neck. The body of the instrument extends across
the, breast, on which it presses heavily, while the
hands are fastened to the ends at the wrists, the
arms being extended, as if tied to a cross, as inti
mated. We were informed that the strongest men
faint under the infliction of this punishment. The
ordinary shower bath gives no adequate idea of the
means of punishmeng called by that name; for the
latter not only brings a water-power to bear on the
head of the unfortunate iranegressor at a twink
ling, almost sufficient to work a mill; but his head
is so placed in a sort of dish or can—his neck, hands,
and feet, being firmly held between sliding boards as
if he were in stocks—that, except the party inflict-
Mg the punishment is careful, he Ps liable to be suf.
!cleated in a few minutes. It cannot be denied that
both these are instruments of torture; and then the
question arises whether they ought to be used.
Another instrument is a sort of iron crown, which
cover, the whole head and face, being so con
structed that it fastens on the neck like a collar. It
is of considerable weight, and is sometimes worn for
a whole week, night and day."
These_ are the very tortures, at once brutal and
Indefanaible, at which Charles Reeds so powerfully
directs his keen satire in "Very Hard Cash," as
used and abused in private madhouses in England.
The Reviewer sums up, as regards Philadelphia :
"When we come to examine the statistics of the
different prisons, we find none more complete or
more scientific than those of the Philadelphia insti
tution; if, indeed, those of any other prison in this
country are equal to them. This is of much greater
importance than it might seem at first sight, since
statistics of any kind possess value only in' propor
tion as they are more or less complete."
The article upon Girard College and its Founder
opene with a rapid sketch of Girard'a character, and
describes the will by which the College was founded
as "a remarkable document in itself; more so than
any similar paper now extant, not excepting the
will of Thomas Sutton, the famous London banker,
who founded the Charter House; or that of George
Heriot, the jeweler of Ring :Tamest the First, who
founded the Hospital for the Poor Fatherless Reyes'
of Edinburgh." As to the famous clause whereby
"no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect
whatever" shall hold office in the College, or even
be allowed to visit it, the Reviewer says: "The
most charitable view that can be taken of the pas
sage just quoted is, that it resulted from the fact
that if Mr. Girard was in the habit of associating
with clergymen of any denomination, either they
were very bad specimens of what Christian minis
ters ought to be, or he formed a very incorrect opi
nion of them." Of the management of the College,
the care taken of the pupils, the bast and most
wholesome food provided for the body as well as the
mind, the Reviewer expresses the highest opinion,
and concludes by expressing a hope that Mr. Smith,
the new President, who has already commenced the
polytechnic system, will also introduce the study of
the Latin language, which is " well qualified to in
vigorate the mind and invigorate. the Intellectual
faculties."
Riahard Bewley Sheridan is the subject of ahigh
ly interesting biography, in which his whole career
is traced, and his character examined in its different
phases. The papers on Laplace and his Discoveries
and upon the Rouse of Hapsburgh are also biograph
ical, but in the first Is an infusion of science, while
in the other there is a blending of history. "The
Influence of the Medici" is literary as wallas hie
torical. Under the head "Modern thviliration,"
neither the Writings of Buckle, Ruet, nor Magoon
upon that subject are reviewed. The writer gives
his own views upon the subject, which he treats
with no small novelty in someparts (especially when
claiming for authorship a considerable share in ma
dern civilization), and, indeed, we think the article
the best in the Review.
Two articles remain to be mentioned. The first is
a timely one, treating of Mexican Revolutions, from
Itm bide to Maximilian. The writer of this takes
nothing at second hand, but, with an evident pereo•
nal knowledge of the country and its people, has
gone directly to works in various language., relating
to Mexico. The fault of the writer is that he says
very little about the invasion by Napoleon and the
means by which the election of Maximilian to the
throne waa obtained ; per contra, as accountants say,
there is fault description of the recourses and pro.
duations of Mexico.
The Gipsies, their History, and Character, is the
closing article here. It exhausts the subject. The
writer errs in speaking of . 6 Borrows," for George
Borrow is :the man's name. Twentipseven pages,
closing the number, are devoted to shorter notices
and criticisms of new books, on various subjects.
These are written with ability and fairness.
We dismiss the December number of the National
Quarterly Review, with the decided opinion that it
will require very great talent, tact, and enterprise
to beat it now. It fortunately was commenced
When the North American Review wale in a dealing,
under clerical mismanagement, and °couples a pro
minent place now. Mr. Jame. S. Simons, 33 South
Sixth street, to agent here for the National Quarterly
Review.
The Report oiijeiiti'd McClellan.
A synopsis of the voluminous, report of General
McClellan has just been given in advance of the full
publication. Passing over a portion of the sketch,
which takes in as far as General McClellan's in
structions to General Burnside, we have the nape
and policy of General McClellan's operations and
military administration exhibited. The reader is
left to judge, in the light of later events, how far
that policy was a mama as carried out by General
Buell, and to what end it would have directed the
fortunes of the country Alta the failure before
Richmond, and in the general campaigns of Vir
ginie. It /nay be well to remark that General
McClellan wee not removed from command for a
want of liAttiolism. Ric iaLter association with .he
Peace Party will throw light upon events which
h e decoribes.
At sending his generals on expeditions' s , general
McClellan habitually recommended " cautiok about
proclamation," the commander being urged to say
as little about politics and the negro as possible.
General Halleck was ordered to hold Mlesouri by
fortified posts, and to concentrate on the Mississippi.
General Buell was thus instructed:
"The conduct of our political affairs is perhaps
more important than that of our military opera
times," and he was urged to bear in mind "that we
shall most readily suppress this rebellion and restore
the authority of the Government by religiously re
specting the constitutional rights of all." In ac
cordance "with the feelings and opinion of the Pre
sident," General McClellan requested General Buell
to assure "the people of Kentucky that their domes.
tic Institutions will in no manner be interfered
with," and "to allow nothing but the dictates of
military necessity" to cause him to "depart from
the spirit of his instructions." In respect to Ten
nessee, General Buell was ordered to throw the
man of his troops "by rapid marches by Cumber
land or Walker's Gap, on Knoxville, in order to
occupy the railroad at that point," and "cut the
communication between Eastern Virginia and the
Mississippi."
Of the instructions to Gen. Butler we are already
informed. Gen. Sherman was advised that the fa
vorable moment for a coup de main against Savan
nah had been lost, and that the beat course before
him wou l d " tojeclate and reduce Fort
How that favorable moment Was lost we are not yet
informed. The advance on Menswear was Intended
p to en o in ce s u u p la y
C o am ur
p f a o ig ro n. es during preparations for the
le this advance there was
much occupation, but no engagement. The enemy'.
force at Manassas was estimated at 115,000, with
500 fi eld guns kid 300 siege guns. Gen. AteClellan
reached the Peninsula with 65,000 effective..
After the battle of Malvern gill, General Mc-
Clellan writes: "This elosed,e says General Mc-
Clellan, "the hard fighting which had continued
from the afternoon of the 26th of „Tune, in a series of
engagements wholly unparalleled on this continent
for determination and slaughter on both sides."
Later, he writei to the President :
"The spirit of the army is excellent; stragglers
are finding their regiments, and the soldiers exhibit
the beet result, of discipline." He sums up the re
sults of the brief but fierce campaign: "I cannot
now approximate to any statement of our losses:
but we were not beaten in any conflict. TIM enemy
Were unable, by their utmost efforts, to drive ue
from the field. * * * We have lost no guns ex
cept twenty-five on the field of battle ; twenty-one of
Which were jest by the giving way of McCales divi
sion, under the onset of superior numbers. • When
all the circumstances of the case are known, it will
be acknowledged by all competent judges that the
movement just completed by our army is unpa
ralleled in the annals of war. Under the most diffi
cult circumstances we have preserved our trains
our guns, our material, and, above all, our horion'l
To this the President replied : "Be assured, the he
roism and skill of yoursele_officere, and men, is, and
forever will be, appreciated. If you can hold your
present position we shall hive the enemy yet." On
the ith General McClellan telegraphed : elf not ta
t:eked to-day I shall laugh at them. Flag Officer
Goldsborough is confident ne can keep open my con/.
munications by the JAIIItih n
The boldness of General McClellan's exultation,
under the many cbcumstances of the seven days'
battles, is. remarkable. Victories or defeats, these
battles were in the man e failure in the eyes of
the world. If our treniiii liA - Ahe eft:tory of courage,
our generals were apparently defeated in skill.
General McClellan'. modesty will rest on the
question of how much credit he claim, for himself
in stating that the movement mentioned was "un
paralleled in the annals of war." Perhaps he is
right. • •
Expecting another attack, he says, as a necessity
to tne enemy, and feeling the critical nature of the
position, Gen. McClellan on the eameday addressed
to the President the following letter ;
lIRADONARTIMM ARMY OF Tun POTOMAC,
Camp near Harrison'. Landing, Va.,
Monday, July '7; 1862.
Mu. PUBBIDEMIT : You have been fully informed
that the rebel army is in our front, with the pur
pose of overwhelming us by attacking our positron/
or reducing us by blockading our river communion,
dons. I cannot but regard our condition as critical,
and I earnestly desire, in view of possible-contin
gencies, to lay before your Excellency, for your pri
vate consideration, my general views concerning the
existing state of the rebellion, although they do not
strictly relate to the situation of the army, or strict
ly come within the scope of my official duties. Theme
views amount to convictions, and are deeply im.
pressed upon mind and heart. Our cause mum never
be abandoned—it is the cause of free institutions
and self-government. The Constitution and Union
mutt be preserved, whatever may be the cost in
time, treasure and blood. If eeceesioni,s
other dissolutions are clearly to be seen in the fu
ture. Let neither military disaster, political faction,
nor foreign war,-shake our settled purpuse to en
force the equal operation of the laws of the United
States upon the people of every State. The time
bas come when the Government must determine
npon a civil and military policy -covering the whole
ground ol our national trouble. The responsibility
of determining, declaring, and supporting such civil
and military policy, and of directing the whole
course of national Wain in regard to the rebellion,
must now be assumed and exercised by you, or our
cause will be lost. The Constitution gives you
power sufficient even for the present terrible ext.-
gency. This rebellion has assumed the character of
War ; as such tt should be regarded, and it should be
conducted upon the highest principles known to
Christian civilization. It should not be a war look
ing to the subjugation of the people of any State on
any event. It should not be at all a war uponpopu-
Mien, hut against armed forces and political organi
zation. Neither confiscation of property, political
executions of persons, territorial organizations of '
States, or forcible abolition of slavery, should
be contemplated for a moment. In prosecuting
the war all private property- and .unarmed per
sona should be strictly Protected, subject only to
the necessity of military operations. All private
property taken for military use should be paid or re
ceipted for; pillage and waste should be treated as ,
high crimes; all unnecessary trespass sternly pre-
hioitea, and offensive demeanor by the matters? to- I
Ward citizen, promptly
_rebuked. Military arrests
should not be tolerated except in places where active
hostilities exist, and oaths not required by enact
cents constitutionally made should be neither de
mended nor received. Military government should
be confined to the preservation of public order and
the protection of political rights. Military power
should not be allowato interfere with the relations
of servitude, either by supporting or impairing
the authority of the matter, except for repressing
disorder, as in other cases . Slave/ contraband
under the act of Congress, seeking military pro
tection, should receive it. The right of the
Government to appropriate permanently to its own
sr 'vice claims of lemealtbor should be asserted, and
the right of the owner to compensation therefor
should be recognized. This principle might be ex
ter dsd upon grounds of military necessity and secu
rity to ail the slaves within a particular State, hue
working manumission in such State; and ia Mia
- semi, perhaps in W. stern Virginia, also, and pos
sibly even in Maryland, the expediency of such a
measure is only a question of time. A system of
policy Mite sOnStit utional and conservative, and
-pervaded by the itifillrit ces of - Christianity and free
clone would receive the support of almost all truly
loyal men, would deeply impress the rebel masses
ane all foreign nations, and it might be humbly
hoped that it would commend itself to the favor
of the Almighty. Unless the principles govern
ing the future conauct of our struggle shall be
made known and approved, the effort to obtain
requisite forces will be almost hopeless. A. decla
ration of radical views, espeolally upon slavery, will
rapidly disintegrate our present armies
The policy of the Government must be supported
by concentrations of military power. The national
forces should not be dispersed in expeditions, posts
of occupation, and numerous armies, but should be
mainly collected into masses and brought to bear
upon the armies of the Confederate States. Those
armies thoroughly detested, the political structure
which they support would soon cease to exist. In
carrying out any system of policy which you may
form, you will require a commander-in-chief of the
army; one who possesses your confidence, under
stands your views, and who is competent to execute
- your orders by directing the military forces of the
nation to the accomplishment of the objects by you
proposed. Ido not &skillet place for myself. lam
willing to serve you in such position as you may as•
sign me, and will do so as faithfully as ever subor
dinate served superior. I may-be on the brink of
eternity, and, as I hope forgiveness from my Maker,
I have written this letter with sincerity toward
you, - and from love for my country.
GEORGE B. McCLELLAN.
This voluntary letter has apparently nothing
whatever to do with the army on the Peninsula, so
recently past its severe experience, and would seem
irrelevant and officious. But, though this synopsis
from which we quote is in every respect favorable
' to the general, judgment must be in a measure sus
pended until the report itself can be read.
After notice of his removal from command on the
eve of success—s portion of the report already pub.
'lathed and severely criticised—General McClellan
says r.
* * Instead of reporting a victorious campaign,
it has been my duty to relate the heroism of a re•
duced army, sent upon an expedition into an enemy's
country, there to abandon one and to originate
another nett plan of campaign, which might and
would have been successful, if supported with ap
predation of its necessities, but which - failed be
cause of the repeated failure of promised support
at thq most critical, and, it proved, the most fatal
moment,. That heroism surpasses ordinary de
scription. Its illustration must be left for the pen
of the historian in times of calm reflection, when
the nation shall be looking back to the past from
the midst of peaceful days. For me now it ls
dent to say that my comrades were victors in every
field save one, and there the endurance of a single
corps accomplished the object of it. fighting, and by
securing to the army its transit to the James river,
left to the enemy a ruinous and barren victory.
To General McClellan certainly belongs credit
as well as blame. That credit he received, in his
time, to a greater extent, perhaps, than any general
of the war. If he has failed, it is not for want of
long trial and encouragement of the Government
and the people. In the impartial verdict of his
countrymen the world, if not General McClellan
will be satisfied.
steam Engineering.
In the issue of the New. Yoik Herald of the• 19th
inst., there is.published the speech to the jury in the
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by E.
N. Dickerson, attorney in the case of a contested
patent suit for the use of Sickles' " cut-efi n in the
steamboat Columbia. Printed in small type, it
covers nearly two pager , a 4 if aiming by its quantity
to command the attention that eneainly does not be
long to its quality. Instead of bang an engineering
argument in support of certain. engineering views,
. it is throughout a personal attack upon the princi
pal Witnesi, Mr. Isherwood, the Chief of the Bureau
of Steam Engineering, Navy Department, and upon
all who stand in any way in the path of Dickerson
and the patents in which he is Interested.- From the
beginning to the end, it is filled with garbled state
ments, and with extracts from books and evidence,
so torn from their natural connection and arranged
in juxtaposition, as to produce erroneous impres
alone. He quotes verses too, without mercy, for deal
ing so much in fiction, he naturally appeals to the
evidence of the poets. The speech, Indeed, contains
almost as many errors as statements; and so over.
now, with personal rancor, that its animus is ap.
parent to the most cursory reader. There 111.11 , 41 of
course, be a reason for the personal feeling which
has carried its author with such passionate vitupe
ration and reckless rage through- two sides of the
"New York Herald," A brief sketch of his enter."
dentsthis con ne ction wi ll :ho
both
rations
eeeee
yualiH
tonna the motivesoioatta o g c u e s -
Dickerson was origi nall y mtded for the but he appears to hav
soon abandoned the law so '
far as to turn his enention to steam engineering—to
which he was tiirected by his connection with Mr.
Sickles, knewn chiefly as the inventor of a e cut•ofre
t ott bears his name—and immediately commenced
to „, r out the patents and views of his client. His
ti n t ateenV—hia 'prentice hand—war tried upon the
Detrolt•PurepiZer .Vng i ine ill which he embodied the
same crude engineering dea% and the same fall&
Mous principles, which he still entertains. He ob
tained the contract for that engine in precisely the
same manner as he obtained whatever others he
has had, and whatever notoriety he possesses—by
a n ineiserepenete and wholesale disparagement of
everytbing in hi m West, both Drivitely. ego through
tee press. That such was the fact, the follow - hit'
onetime! from the tenth annual report of the Water
Commissionera for the city of Detroit will prove:
"It being made public that it was in contempla
tion to procure-a pumping engine for these works,
Mr. Edward N. Dickerson, of the city of New York,
or cued a. correspondenct with individual members
of the board relative to 11ernishing such an engine,
and submitted propositions in variouB forms, ad
dressed to individual members of the board, and CO
the City Council ; also to the public through the co
lumns of a daily paper in this city, offering and gua
ranteeing the engine he proposed to construct, with
a peculiarly constructed pump of his own invention,
recently patented, to perform a duty' greater than
had been hitherto attained by any steam engine in
thejworld."
"The Jersey City record books, which were kept on
the Cornish plan—thts is an admirably constructed Cor
nish pumping en sine—shetwed a maximum duty of about
100. COMM, he (Dickerson) would contract to do Site. •
000,(00 of such millions as the Jersey My engine per
formed: I. e. he would contract to put no an engine that
would exceed the duty of any other engine in the corm
t•:by fifty per cent;
The progress and final result of this machinery
best told in a few extracts from the report already
cited, namely :
• The contract havingbeen prepared. was executed on
the VIM of July. 1850, the contractors filing secarity in
the Fl7llll of et y thousand dollars. o
••• By the terms of tie contract. this engine was to be
fully completed by the first day of July. 1867, bat the
ti m e was subsequently extended until July 1. 1858 and
egain until March 1. 1859; in both cases by and with the
content of the sureties."
. . . . .
— ln his report of January 1, 1813, the engineer of the
boare reported • that a coneiderable portion of the parts
of LLe nty engine have been Ticeived, and :he OR.
THREE CENTS.
tractors expect Soon to commence the erection of the en
nines.' But on the lot of January. 185 e. we had ti report
to you that the engine had • not been completed " the
of January. 1860. o me and we were again compelled to
report toy on the engine uncompleted." On the Ist of
January. 1861. we were competed to report to you that
the engine had not yet been offered us for acceptance.'
It was finally completed about the first of May,
1861, and used dining about six weeks. but gave so
inferior a performance that it was not offered for the
trial test. Its best duty was 40,000,000, Instead of
the promised 160,000,000.
Subsegnently." says the report, "the new engine
was thoroughly overhauled. rollers Were removed, end
elides substituted, and after making several short runs,
the engineer In charge, employed by the contractors.
closed the house and left for the city of New York.
taking with him the keys of the engine-honte to report
to his employ ere. Short), after this. in the month of
august last ('861), the keys of the house were returned
to the secretary of the Board. by express, and the Prem.,
dent of the Board received a communication from Mr B.
N. Dickerson; one of the contractors, apprising him that
the keys had been retuned as above, and with an intl.
relation that the contractors would probably abandon
their intention of making any further *ants to comp.ete
the engine.
The board "anticipating this seen% bad lona before
declared the mit act forfcited, and notified the contrac
tors and their sureties accordingly, and referred the
matUr to a committee of the board, with power to cause
kgal proceedings to be icatitoted for the recovery of
&meow for a breach of the contract ElgellAt both prin•
otral and sureties, who have placed the matter in the
hands of Meters. Bnrrill, Davison, A Burrill, adorns - , Ft
in the city of Li ew York, with instructions to institute
suit with t. ut delay."
Thus ended this first effort. Even Dickerson , '
effientery . was not sufficient to enable him to offer a
precarious performance of 40,000 000 In place of 150,-
0110 ,u 00 guaranteed, and with a machine that could
scarcely be got to run an hour without breaking
down. The unhappy Water Commissioners grew
wise With sorrow, and superseded the Dickerson
With an engine of the well tried and usual construc
tion the reputation of which, no one having any
particular interest in it, had thus been left to the
vindication of time.
While the Detroit pumping machine wee dragging
its slow length along to such utter ftilure, Dicker—
son was smitten with ambition to build a marine
engine—an engine for a rastolass naval V 4381131—
and be commenced in his usual characteristic man
ner, by vituperating to the Navy Department all
its engineers. Re assailed the engineers or that day
in exactly the style of his speech now published in
the Herald; they were fools -and knaves, because
they opposed their practical experience to his crudi
ties, and their knowlede to his ignorance; but he
made no progress until he brought his political
associates; to his assistance .
He was at that time affiliated with the then Sena.
tom Mallory and 'Yulee, of Florida, and they be•
stirred theniaelvea vigorously in his favor. mai
ion, wee chairman of the Senate Committee on
Naval Affairs, and necessarily bad great influence
with Mr. Tenney, the then Secretary of the Navy,
who Jong resisted the attempt, but hie oppoeition
was finally overborne, and the Secretary signed the
omened contract with great reluctance. Every
engineer be consulted, without exception, gave a
decided opinion against the proposed engines, and
confidently predicted—what was most unfortu
nately realized—that they would prove a complete
failure.
_ .
They were strongly opposed by the then Engineer
in-Chief of the Navy, and by his immediate prede
cessor, both of great experience and the highest pro
fessional standing, and by the entire_corps of naval
engineers. They were not recommended by any en
gineer in civil life, and were the common topic of
ridicule in engineering circles. By the terms of the
contract, the contractors were to furnish the nem*
sary drawings and directions for the entire machine
-
ry, and to superintend the construction of the same,
And to grant the use of their patents on that vessel.
The work was to be done at the Government ex
pense, in the shops of the Washington navy yard.
The contractors had thus the .public purse and the
finest shops in the county at their command. No
thing was wanting to the production of a perfect en
gine, but knowledge. on th - nf the contractors
of how to make it. Now was ated a second edi
tion of the operations with the Detroit engine. The
machinery was finally completed, after undergoing
many mooificatione, large and costly portions, owing
to. blunders in the design, having been thrown away
and others substituted, all being done at the Govern.
ment WOlhshops, and at its expense.
For instance : the screw propeller was intended to
be a two-bladed lifting one, in order that it might be
hoisted out of the water when the vessel was under
sail alone ; and it was also intended that the maxi
mum revolutiona of the engines should be eighty pet
minute, the pitch , of the screw being made suill
chntly small to allow that speed. The contractors,
however as their work progressed, lost faith in the
designs they had advocated with so much assurance,
and in order to make their machinery practicable,
increased the pitch of the screw enough to reduce
the speed of the engines to a maximum of forty per
minute.
. ,
This required a corresponding increase in the sur
face of the mew, which was now brought up to the
preposterous diameter of 18 feet 6. inches, and the
number of its blades increased from two to four. It
could no longer be hoisted out of the water. nor
even applied to the stern of the vessel, until that too
bad undergone a change to receive it; the key, like
wise, having to be greatly deepened, increased (by
the amount added) the vessel's draught of water—
already a maximum for service—and decreased her
value and usefulness to the same degree.
This change in the screw—which was absolutely
necessary to allow the engines to function at all—
after it had been made, required it to be thrown
away, together with its costly hoisting apparatus,
all of brace, and a large portion of the shafting. To
make these expensive changes the vessel had to be
taken into the dry dock of the Norfolk navy yard,
and the stern and keel altered to suit the new
screw.
They were resisted strenuously by the Darwin of
Construction, but without effect. The efforts of
Messrs. Mallory and Yulee, who openly exerted, on
this occasion, all their political influence, even to
the extent of menaces, prevailed, and tbe•Pensacola
was delivered into the hands of Dickerson to do
with her as he pleased.
Owing to the ignorance and inexperience of the
contractors in designipg steam machinery, the draw
legs were so slowly furnished, and the plunders in
them were so numerous, and involved - so many al
terations, that, notwithstanding the great facilities
of the Washington navy yard in tools, materials,
and mechanics, for this special kind of work, it was
not until January 3, 1862, that the trial trip was mode;
the long period of two years and nine months
having been consumed in the completion of the ma
chinery, or about three times longer than should
have been.
During this period there were long intervals in
which neither drawings nor directions were furnish
ed, and it seemed as though the contractors had
abandqped the work, which was consequently sus
pended, notwithstanding that the Bureau of Con.
atruci ion repeatedly Wrote them, complaining °lithe ,
unnecessary delay, and urging them to a proper ful- ;
fument of their contract, but in vain • and it proba
bly never would have been completed; and, like the
Detroit engine, never offered for a trial, had they
Dl
not employed r. Belwaia Farren, formerly an en
gineer in the navy, to take it in hand and finish it ;
and to him is due whatever merit there may be in
getting these engines to work at all.
The coat of the Pensacola's machinery was VS;
40, its weight is 840 tons, and, together, with its
coal, it occupies twelve feet more of the length of
the veered than was guaranteed, and in that increased
space there are carried only 220 tons of coal, or suffi
cient for barely six days moderate steaming, in
stead of elevens lays, as it should have been.
At the time the contract for the Pensacola's ma
chinery-
was- given, others were awarded for the
Lancaster's and Hartford's, vessels of the same class
and type, and substantially of the same size. The
machinery of the Lancaster cost $137,500, and
weighed 246te tons. That of the Hartford cost
$114,400, and weighed 200 tons. These vessels have
a maximum speed of 9;‘, knots, and carry in the
space originally allotted coal enough for eleven days'
moderate steaming. They were promptly completed,
and have ever since been in constant use, always
ready and reliable ; While the only steaming done
by the Pensacola was from' the Washington Navy
Yard to New Orleans, which city she reached with
difficulty, and with her miserable machinery in so
unreliable a condition as to bring forth a report from
her chief engineer to the admiral that lie could nets
count on its services in getting up the river.
Since that time she has lain at anchor in front of
New Orleans as a hulk or floating battery, and has
been entirely melees as a steamer, notwithstanding
the pressing need of her service. on the blockade,
and the Meta of her chief engineer.
- A few months since Dickerson assured the Navy
Department that the Pensacola's machinery was the
• finest in the world, and that the whole difficulty
lay in the want of capacity of her engineers, against
whom—as they are naval engineers—he rages in his
speech. He promised that if the Department would
place the machinery in his hands, he would send out
those who would soon demonstrate its perfection,
and the Department took him at his word.
The vessel was handed over to his agents, with in•
structions that every facility which the large squad
ron at New Orleans and the machine shops of that
city could afford, should be placed at his disposal.
No expense was spared, for the services of the
vessel was urgently heeded, and if even a mediocre
performance could be obtained it would be a great
benefit.
The work went on, and was at last reported ready
for a trial. Much time had been consumed, a great
deal of money expended, large promises made. The
result appears in the report of the fleet engineer of
the squadron, William H. Shock, who was ordered
by the admiral to attend and report on the trial,
which was made wholly by Dickerson's agent, with
out interference from the naval engineers. From
'bat report, dated New Orleans, September 11, 1868,
the following extracts are taken:
'• in obedience to your order (the admiral's) I was
present during tbe late trial of the machinery rephe
rensacola on the Oth, for the - Purpose of Making a ert ,
of : the 'results.
Mr. Cameron (Dickerson a agent) for the lest la x er
eight weeks has had excel ifiVe control of the rel" o .7irs and
adiuetment of the machinery, and has labored mee t es ,
sidnonsly: having at his commandall the f ',strides that
could be afforded him on board of the shita, and also such
as he required hem shore. " He Mee neset and &dent
ed 'tee valve-motion end other Portliras of the machine
re that were calculated tel /mixer. its efficiency, and on
the Bth made the trial." "'lit. thuneron informs me that
she exceeded his expectason en the trial, from which I
infer that he could have anticipated brit little. Yon wilt
observe that the expenditure of oil for the short period
nnder way was it gallons; and that the temperature of
the engine room ranged from 138 to 142 degrees Fehr.,
while the fire room was freer 140 tole° degrees."
The remarks (C.) sae a copy of the regular steam
log kept by the enaineen during the trial on the Bth, in
the columns of which Will be seen teat the maximum
revoluilous 01- the en genes were 24 ter minute. the ssie;
mein 20. averaging Vasa a ver ag e vs _
speed of ship 6Si ke ey e (the t n -m e d..., XI inches
hours, daring. vslitee 32 . 009 Peue ,- "": -. consecutive
slimed ) - From whet, A a^ of coal were con.
that the machinery is - -
_aye seen, it is opinion
design, and the' enrelialelefrom inherent defects in
lug combination of the highest engineer
be could not keep it in operation twenty-four
-“re consecutively without derangement, unless at so
low a speed ae to 7 ender the ship worthless as a man-of
I war, to say nothing of the killing temperature of engine
and ere rooms, which is more than human nature can
' endure." •
Now, it is to build machinery like that of the Pen
- sacola which Dickerson is urging. through the me
dium of abusive articles in newspapers. He wishes
to have a navy of Pensacolas, all constructed by
, himself, and because the Navy ' Department, on the
results just gilt% of a vessel slowly and deliberately
built by himself, without stint of money or time, and
by the best tools and mechanics in the country, de
clines to duplicate it, and prefers the well-known
and weZtried machinery of ordinary design to such
abortions, that he attacks it, and all connected with
it, with an effrontery and rage impossible to be be
lieved, except by those who know the man. But
the Pensacola is not the only naval evidence of his
performance as an engineer. He was enabled by his
political friends to nearly as effectually ruin another
Rtealner, the Richmond, by placing on her otherwise
excellent engine' his own absurd system of valve
gear, which has caused her to be almost as great a
failure as the Pensacola. His valve-gear was put in
this vessel by the tame influence and against the
same opposition as in the case of the Pensacola.
She- has the slowest speed of- any vessel in the
navy except the Pensacola, and is Wholly unreliable
on account of continual breakdowns. Such are the
engineering antecedents of Dickerson, and the
grounds of his modest request to have the engineer
mg of- the navy placed in his hands. When a man
undertakes to be a Wholesale critic, to offer himself
as solely qualified, and to pronounce all others in
the wrong on a professional matter, it is as well be
fore accepting his volunteer statements to inquire
Into the , competency of the would-be reformer. Such
an inquiry shows the machi matured ickerson to
differ as completely from the productions 1
of engineering skill, as sound mechanical pintos°.
ph y differs from the absurdities of an empiric. I
There remains to add, in connection with the
great delay experienced in finishing the Pensacola's
machinery, a few words in relation to the detention
of his partner, Sickles, on board until it was tried
and otTlickersmats fear to visit Washington at that
time, as stated in his speech. In truth, he apparent
ly never intended the vessel to be finished in time to
be used when wanted against the rebel,. At that
time they expected every day to seize Washington,
and they wanted the Pensacola as a prize. It was
supposed she would be a tolerably good vessel, in
stead of the wretched failure she proved, and had
she answered this expectation and fallen into their
bands, she would have been invaluable to them.
It should be added that in no way or manner did
Mr, Isherwood have any connectioli with this ves-
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sal; she failed, simply because succors with lush a
thing was impossible.
In regard to the navy sloops of the Ticonderoga
clam, the machinery of Which WAR designed by fur.
Isherwood, they have a maximum speed of 1934
knots per hour, as will be shown by subjoined ex
tracts of o ffi cial reports to the Navy Department.
These vessels have a beam of 38 feet, add a mean
draught of water of 14 feet 9 inches. Their burden
it 1.633 tors. There are no sorewateamers afloat et
their size that have such mimed or make it with so
little coal, and there are but few steamers in the
World of any size that can equal this speed at sea
when at their load draught.
They have chased and captured the fastest block
ade-running steamers that have been built on the
Clyde, of which the following two are well know*
instances. The first was the ease of the Thiene,
captured off' Charleston by the 'United States steamer
Canandaigua, after a chase of tive hours, the Thistle
iaving about six miles start. So contldeht was the
Captain of the Thistle in the superior speed of his
tz tre a a t se, h l e n bo oto w r i i y ou n s ne ly o m n p e te o d f t to he
e fa n a t t e e r st a C t iv m d i e d a
d t e s a y e s. eandrx
when the Canandaigua gave chaise laughed at the
idea of the possibility of capture. The reported
speed of the Thistle on her trial in the Clyde was fif
teen knots.
The other cue Was that of the capture of the Nep.
tune by the Lackawanna off Mobile. The Neptune
was iii. own as the fastest steamer ever built on the
Clyde, the official report of her trial giving he
speed at 18 knots. She had about fifteen miles 'tut
of the Lackawanna, which vessel overhaulded and
took her after a chase of 850 miles; during which
the Neptune threw overboard her entire cargo to
lighter, her for speed. These illustrations might be
multiplied, if necessary, but they are well known.
and sufficiently establish the high speed of these
Harp sloops. Even the lately constructed gunboats
are c•Moistly reported with a speed of 1134 knot. at
sea at their deep load draught of water. The line
new double bowed, pedalo-wheel steamers have is
speed of 14 knots. •
The small Dieppe of the Iroquois clue which Disk.
arson laude, and they merebuat during the Admirals.
tratioe of his Secession friends, are about 34 feat
trim 'tr i o. draw 12 feet of water; their burden is
tine tons ; they have precisely the same kind an.
quantity of boiler as the Ticonderoga class, and they
Dave much larger engines. The highest speed under
steam alone in the log of the Iroquois—the fastest—
is 1134: knots ; the bull being fully 30 per cesitum legs
in amidships section and resistance than that of the
Ticonderoga. The maximum *peed of the Niagara,
built by Steers, and greatly Battled for speed, le bare
t
ly 11 knots.
The valve gear of these sloop. is simply the well.
known Din valve and Stephenson link, of almost
universal use in the soma, steamers of Euro"
whether in the naval or merchant service. By %la
arrangement the steam can be cut oft anywhere be.
tween one-third and two-thirds the stroke of the
piston, at the will of the engineer, by merely turn
ing a wheel ; yet Dickerson attempts to produce the
impression that this valve gear is a non. mutilate*
one, is worthless, and that it is Mr. Isherwood's in
; whereas it is the most simple, elegant,
convenient, well known, and beat gear for a screw
engine ever contrived.
It is very rapidly being introduced on Amerioan
steamere, and will soon supersede all others here, as
it has already done in Europe ; but it is not a patent
in which Dickerson is interested, and is, therefore,
'wrong. This question of valve-gear was submitted
at the last session of Congress by the Senate Com.
mittee on Naval Atretirs, at the instance of Dicker.
eon, who drew up a catalogue of questions, to a
Board of Engineers in. civil life. This board was
composed 01 Messrs. Hibbard and Loring, of Bad.
ton ; Messrs. Everett, Copeland, Coryell, and Brom
ley, Of New York; Mr. 'Wright, of Hartford, and
Mesas. Merrick mid Bartol. ot Philadelphia, who
decided against all the positions taken by Mr. Dick
erson.
Extract trout a report, dated off Nassau, Suly 26.,
1862, by Chief FAL:hitter Alexander Henderson, of the
Adtrohdactt, one of the navy sloops, of the perform
ance 01 the vend at Bea :
`• Steaming outside Orders were to run as °comma
cally (of fool) ac possible, no slotved down to about thy
revolutions "' chance was given to open the throttle
until last' uetday. when we chum and captured the
schooner ',Emma,' the ensis es =noise op to about six
ty-eight revolutions.- sat; was made to topsail with a,
light wind and sharply braced up, the thin going
through tee water over twelve knots The performance
of the engines was very'satisfactory." "I am perfectly
satitfird itith the engines - in every 'lgoe& they work
smoothly, with cool Journals. Cud la ray ones of eloter
¢sne) Can drive tnis ship. without salt, twelve hoots. , '
our coal has been r: most inhi'h aothrac.te, burning
&poky but leaving an immense per cent. of ashes."
Extract from a report, dated Hampton Ronde,
August 4, He% by Chief Eogineer Alexander Han
del-eon, 01 the Adhondack, of the I)e:to:menus of the
vessel at sea:
"We came in tbir morrileg, and I have alrettey sent a
re port to Captain 0 anseveort regarding oar machinery."
D o t a journal has shown any sign of heating. and the
engines worked moothly all the time, n akie,r. on two
occasions, eeveety nyvolntiom per minute " The coal
we received in littesausrae the most mieerabletraeh ever
put on board tit a steamer. being .ma I anthracite mixed
with tine Welsh slack, and soaking wet at that Ir was
token trout the snook_ of the is ii. h steamer Karnak.
after eine about two months under water."
"The hollers are tight and steam wel i, and the blow
ers have never been necessary—Only tried at inteivale
to keep them in order
The etas Dag and reveree•gear Mill continue to give
satisfaction. and. while the vacuum remains, one per%
son can easily and quickly ratite the lir& " " the
this , is now mating 1134 and the eneines 70 revolutions,
with a light breeze ahead and strong head tide and come
swell on."
Extract from a letter of Chief Engineer Hender
son, of the Adirondack, dated Navy Yard, New
York, January 17, 1862, after the loss of the vessel
on the reef :
• • Onr ctuising certainly was under most dieadvan
tageous circumstances but at the same time we did well,
and must say her machinery was the most perfect work
ing screw engine that I. ever saw, and that the good site
nses of the vessel may be tally acknowledged to those to
whom the credit of the detigi, is due, is the reason of my
forwarding you this letter."
• • w e returned in the Canendaigna, (one of the navy
sloops, after the wrectr, or the adiroudack, ) and the
Erliootb•working cf her machinery [duplicate machinery
to that of the aeironeack3 was net only perfectly gates
fecterr to Chief kegler or Stamm. but the . rime of gene
ral.
remark-by ell the officers of toe vessel."
Extracts from a report sleeted November 2, 1865,
by Chief Engineer James W. Thomson, of the
Shenandoah, one of the navy eloops, of the per
formance of the vessel at sea on the blockade:
"I take pleasure ih stating everything now Worlre like
a clock. although, when starting, we always oil up
and set our blowers /eady, yet since we have been here
we have never used them We ern make a long eleven.
(haste) nicely, and standing forwa d of the fire-room
hetth. you would not snow we 'were underway. Onr
morale has expressed himeelf a number of times as
hiehly teemed with the performance of the ship "
Extracts from a report, dated Boston, July 8,
1863, by Chief Engineer James W. Thomson, of the
Shenandoah, of the performance of the vessel at
sea, (luting her trial trip:
.. One trial trip *al , far from a fair one, being short
handed in men at, well as having tevaral so sea-sick a s
to be of no service. " We were rent off in a hurry t.
CIIIAte for the Tacony and all other pirates " " I can
swear to the ship making 11;4 toots with 31 mine de of
steam, en. that she made leia knots with 40 p mnds of
e. emu.' '' The greatest number of re vole ions made by
the screw tens .814." " he 1.- g line was measured O•
nurels ref times. and Mr. leicho. , B (our master) inform
me that the speed, by chip and alaseey's Log agree within
a few teethe. The engines worn ed very well indeed,
nothing occurring eel rimer, tal to them "
Extracts from a report, dated May 24, 1863,- by
Chief Engineer Thomas J. .fonee, of the Ticonde
roga, one of the navy sloops, of the performance of
the verse] from Fortress Monroe to Philadelphia.:
"1 am pleased to berm you of she success of this ves
sel." 'Whet Men (firemen) I have are generally very
inferior there being hut two who have the first idea in
regard to their entice." ' I have no mecheuies at all."
"I did. the best with the men I had and a natural
draught. Bunnies for ail ht hours (consecutive), burn
ing 23;4 pounds eles al per noire, we averaged 69:2 revo
lutions per minute; with a steam pressure oriaVf: pounds.
The highest number of revolutions we made was 86.
During the eight hours referred to we run 103 (delete)
equal to la 6-miles per hoar [ll.B knots]; while
at Bea the chip-log often gave us IE4, ant WE
knots."
Extracts from a report made to the Navy.Depart
meat, dated New Yolk, May 22, 1863, by Fleet En
gineer Theodore Zeller, of the performance of the
Ticonderoga, on her trial trip, made under his per
supervision, from New Yof.s. to Fortress*
Monroe
. _
"1 herewith report the perfect success of the trial of
the ei Sines of the new etesm-sloop Ticonderoa. vehicle
left this port for Fortress Monroe on Monday , ttav tElth
" We attained a apeel of 121 i knots, oak about Oddp eig
pounds of !teem I allows unquenzionably have been
able to record a higher rate, bad not the maiority of
the tiro:nen been, from eon sickness and inexorience,
entirely unfit to perform the duties. required. " ••• Fro .n the
hour of departure to that of arrival at Hampton Roads,
Va.. nit a single journal required to be reeadjosted. , ' "A
final examination war made of the interior surface of
the. steam cylinders and main- valve faces and their
seats. They were found to - ea in excellent order and
finely polished."
Extract from a letter to Fleet Engineer Garvin by
Chief Engineer Thomas J. Jones, of the Ticondero•
ar
"I am happy to try the Tict uderoga is a success, and
a credit to all einem nod. The engines worked beauti
fully. and had I good men, I believe wo would • get 193;
opt of her. We did get 13. tliOngh it was logged 12.,‘"
Extract from a letter born Chief Engineer Alex
ander Auahinleck to Mr. Bartel, of Merrick & Son's
establishment, the builders of the machinery of the
Monongahela, one of the navy sloops :
"Allow me to congratulate vrou ott having built the
only propeller now afloat. I have the best evidence of
the fact. The United States steamer: Monongahela and
this ship (the Tennessee, of Which. Mr. Anchinioak was
chief engineer) started from Becon Rouge, and toe re.
eult was that the•Monongithe t a cams out, ahead. (The
race was to new Orleans. ":," I worked the engines to the
utmost You must al- o *anierstand that this ship is con
sidered the fastest in. tae unit:"
Extracts Iwo:, a report made on the' speed of the
Sacramento , by Capt. Boggs, dated Hampton Roads,
Februar , ' 17, 166 3:
e [ ' Wowing may give you some idea of her soeed.
T.'" . ie . calm , with a rough following see , !gip rol ling
'-eavity
95 revoiniione xnots, -
61 9 knots, short.
-" " 9 knots, large.
56 9 / 4 knots.
-
Steam from twenty to twenty-five rounds "
" With light bead wind and smooth seal
60 revolutions gattle S knots, large. •
56 ' • • 9 knots. large.
60 • ' • 1134 knots.
62 " " 11Y: knots.
66 " " lfig knots.
Steam thirty pounds."
• The greatest t umber of revolutions obtained, sixty
nine. with blowers in fall blast."
The whole animus of Diokerionle ppeech is vindlito
tive hatred of Mr. Isherwood, senom - he considers to
have crossed his u• - '
tined his vw injured his Interest, and tiler
.Ele availed himself of his oppor
r-:.....y as an attorney to assail, in his speech to the
jury, his antagonist in every possible way, and as
Alt Could make no impression on the evidence, t
d runner. - 'personal invective. His state-
- •••dflealz untrue in every
Mentil throughoutari um— • of naval
particular, those in relation to t.,,.. •-* Anew.'
steamers being easily proven so from 'Wilms.
ments. His statements in regard to Mesithi.
bert and Magee have been indignantly denied, by
those gentlemen in erode to the New York Herald.
The whole object is the gratification of Ida private
revenge__ and the furtherance of his pecuniary into
rest He Is understood to be the author, directly or
indirectly, of all tho attacks on Mr. Isherwood,
naval Steamers and the Navy Department, which
have from time to time appeared in the New York
papers during the last year, and in them he has ex
haunted all that malice etfuld invent and effrontery ,
press. Re seems to believe that a falsehood aoM-
Ciently often repeated will be accepted as truth and
to act on that doctrine.
A Bridal (Inertila Murder.
C COM rron dence of th e Cin el nn at! Com m arc [al
R.P.ADQUARTnitS 9TH ItinterzNrottrr BATTERY,
0. V. A., TULLAH.O3IA, Tenn., Deo. 27, 1803.
Our Obristnias here has bean a day of mourning.
On the 23d the forces here sent a foraging party into
'the country, under command of Lieut. Porter, of the
27th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, There was a
guard of the 4th Tennessee, Cavalry, and a detail
from the battery, to guard and loan forage. They
Went to Lincoln county, got loaded up, and were on
the way to camp for the night. The train was di
vided—one half, under Sergt. James, of the battery,
Was in camp about one mile ahead ; Lieut. Porter,
with the rear part of the train, was malcing for the
same place, There was one wagon considerably
ahead of the others, accompanied by the following
party : George Jacobs, driver; John Wesley Droughtand Newell Orcut, foragers; and James' W. Foley,
battery wagon.master—when they were pounced on
by four guerillas, and told to surrender or they
would blow their brains out. They being w iarine d,
could make no amooessful resistance.
Lieutenant Porter then came riding up, when he
was e etzed also. They were thelL taken through the
woods some eight miles, and halted to clamp, as the
guerilla," said, for the night. They then tied their
hands behind their busks, asked if they ware ready,
and fired when all fell except the lieutenant, who
being uninjured, ran. The bodies were then dragged
to the end of the bluff and thrown into Elk titer.
Drought was ki.Ued instantly. His body floated
down and lodged on a tree-top. Jacobs was only
wounded in the arm and was drowned. °Nutt was
shot through the bowels, and managed to get out of
the river, but died next day. Foley got his hands
loose and got ashore, but being severely wounded in
the groin, lay near the river all night. where he was
found next day by a citizen and properly oared for
until we sent after him. He is now in the hospital
bete doing well. Lieutenant Porter has got back.
his feet badly frozen, and his ankle sprained, he
having had to swim Elk river twice,