PPMSS, 4LI (SUNDAYS SNOUTED) MIN W. FOWNET. 1 804tH poem= STRUT. /ALLY PRESS, Ws= payable to the mewl at of the city at SEVEN DOLLANB °LEARN AND rim CENTS roe AR AND SNVENTT.NITS OENrs POE arlably to advance for the time of- inserted at tie alma rates. EX 'WEEKLY MUMS, out of the city at room DOLLAHa AY GOODS. 'BENTS. N'S WRAPPERS. VS. ICT 103, UVE I I_.EitS. GI-I_AOVEliffi, EMBROIDERED SUSPENDEEBB, JOHN 0. ARRIBON'S. 1 and 11 'NORTH SIXTU STREET. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. JACOB BARLEY, MARKETStauffer & EtArtslr.,) o. 622 STREET' ar on hand a beauttfal Stook of WATCHES. JEWELAY. MIME AND PLATED WAHL ABLE FOR HOLIDAY PREEMIE. Ay PRESENTS, CINTERE & BROTHER'S, TS' FURNISHING HOUSE, No. 10,5 CHNSTNUT STRZNY Pins and Rinse. Wrappers. lee and Crave'. Gloves. Suspenders. gmnrellas, dos. lON OF SILK SCARFS CITY. ENE ENT SKATING CHAIRS. TED BREAD PLATES. •: MAGIC RUFFLE FLITTING IRONS. +A , ' STEEL SHATZ& a stew article. ER MACRE CHESS TABLES AND TEA POTS. AT ILLIAM YARN/ail/13 HOUSE-FURNISHING STORE. No. 1020 CHESTNUT Street. [Opposite the Academy of Fine LAO HOLIDAY PRESENTS. CASSIDY & BATA, No. is SOUTH SECOND STREET. d invite attention to their stook of AND SILVER WATCHES. DIAMOND AND OoLD sBWIZLRY. SILVER, AND SILVER PLATED 'WA= ble for Holiday and Bridal Presents. all of which sold at reasonable prices. deS•lin TES-FOR lES, GENTS, AND BOYS. The beet Assortment in the City, BITENHA.M'S DEPOT OF THE UNIVERSAL WRINGER. 27 South SIXTH Street. arty at 721 CHESTNUT Street. Mason!, Hall. delo-Imo IDAY PRESENTS FOR GEN • .4 - • .-A magnificent assortment of the ramat WRAPPERS. HANDECTACHIEFIL GLOVES SUSPENDERS CARRIAGE hues. are . ego &a.. J. w snotrs, Sl4 CHESTNUT Street, Tour doer* below th e ' r!ontinontaL" i•PINS I:my-Rates, JUICK-TIES. munTERs, UMBRELLAS. at LADIES , FURS. YES' FANCY FURS. CYJEIN lErvkuaaritA. TM AXON irnerisr. BELOW MOHTEL importer and manufacturer DIES' FANCY PUBS. eat of NANOT VrISS for Laales sal MU now eompute, and trabraelna every variety that fashionable Amine tits present mamma £ll sold inaltutsatarers' prises. for sash. Ladies. please a sin ORGE F. WOMRILTH, JOB. 41J LND 41.7 AMR STRUT =MEMO A FULL ASSORTMENT ADIEU' TY It oh the attoatiox of the or_blio in lovitoot. t027.1t0 AINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS. _ 4 EGANT ATIMELOR.S. A LAW& ASSORTMENT. NEW ENGRAVINGS. rim OIL pAiNrThrOS. JUST RISCEIVBD ARL.E'S GALLERIES _lll6 OREHTNIIT STREP.T. nozet DRUGS• ET CASH DRUG HOUSE WRIGHT & SIDDAIAL. No. 118 MARKET STREET, Between ESONT end SECOND Streets EirESCO UGGISTS, PHYSICIANS, AND GE NERAL STOREKEEPERS an find at our establishment a fall assortment Imported and Domestic Drags. Popular Pa t Medicines, Paints, Coal Oil, Window Glass. .cription Vials. etc.. at as low prices as gum first. class goods can be sold: INE- ESSENTIAL OILS Dieettonera, hi fall variety. and of the best • Illy. °Wizen'. Bengal Indigo, bladder, Pot Ash. ' dbear. Soda Ash Atom, Oil of Vlttiol, nruaat- GOPPeTaa. Extract of Lomond, Am.. FOR DYERS' USE, always on hand at lowest net cash prices SULPHITE OF LIME, keeping eider sweet; a perfectly harmless pre ation. put up. with fell directions for use, in knees containing sufficient for one barrel. rders by mall or city post will meet with • mph attention, or special quotations Will ba inked when requested. WRIGHT & SIDDALL, WHOLESALE DRUG WAREHOUSE, No. 119 MARKET Street, above FRONT offt-thstnly-fx. T IPURNITURB. FURNITURE AND BIL. SOME & CAMPION, SISI SODTH 81313111% on with their extensive CabEIiSCIO ND net baldness, asris *attiring a annerior artiste of BILLIARD TABLES sew ea hind e an.wyly. Antehed with the & cuarnowei INLPI-Z(aVT,T, f l us Eijo y s, pram:mea d by ell erho have 1111C4 them to be ) all othera. Onnlity and Anise of these Tables, the mean• refer to tiller lIUDIOI . OIIX mtrons throe/010ra who sre yeetjl!er with the wherseter of thav NWT FaiN. rS HOUSE, HARRISBURO, CHAS_ /I. MANN, rito.PßlETolt, - mat:Rpm street and MARKET Square. CHES, JEWELRY, &o. .TOME VARIETY OF ABOVE superior quatittr, and et moderate MUM 7 0.1/ hang _ jAitia a, BROTHER.. rropotior* W4'E CHESTNUT Street. below Fourth. OARRIAinfi. 1863. WILLIAM D. BOOM, and Light Carriage Bander, i•se sat 1011 CHISTNCIE MEW FITUDILTZW. STENCIL ALPHABETS. STCALP & SON, iTERET, BOSTON MARL cora in the trotted State*. of )rave to an, great =tont or In 117 the LOWEST OAEU PEIONIL _ALM. 411 STIINUIL Iret7 c heek Is ofto. Stencil Roe twinkler Or VOL. 7-NO. 135. NAMES M. MURPHY. COMMISSION MERCHANT, 222 CHESTNUT STREET, AMERICAN COTTON AND WOOLEN GOODS Consignments Solicited, and Advances Blade if Desired. REFERENCES: T. &T. Slevin. Hay a McDevitt. Walling. Coffin/We jal-6t NOTICE TO GRAIN DEALERS AND EIMITIOSIL 20,000 UNION A, SEAMLESS BAGS, Of all Mao. for Cora. Oats. Bone-dust. Coffee. Ns.. are aanufsetured and for sale, for net sub, by CHARLES H. GRIGG, ASecio No. 137 MAXIM Street (Sesond Story). oerSlat Late of 219 Ohnrsh alley. RHIPLET, VIA 7.A RD, & HUTOHIN SOE. No. 11111 OMEITIIIT STREET. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, • NM TIN SALE OF PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. a46-6a BLOB 1 BAGS I BAGS 1 NEW AND SECOND HAND. swum& BURLAP. AIM GUNNY BAGS. Coutontly on hand. JOHN T. BAILEY ak 115 NONTIE TEO= MUT. Nl' WOOL BUM 101 BALI. sull<he EDWARD P. KELLY, JOHN K E L L Y. TAILORS, tfli SOUTR TRIED STREET. ABOVE WALNUT. Have a large assortment of NAIL and WINTER GOODS. — PATTERN OVERCOATS and 'WINTER UNDERCOATS, FOR SALE AT REDUCED PRICES. TERMS CAM—Prices lower than other Customer Tailors. Clothes superior. de7o-t[ BLA.OK PASS. PANTS, $5.150, At 704 MAP-ICAT abbot. &LACS! OARS. PAINT. *l.lO. At 704 MANICWP Etre& *LAOS CARL PANTS. $6.10. At 704 MARKET Street. ELAM CASE. PANTS. $5.00. At 704 MARKET Street. 'MAUR CASE. PANTS. ACK At 704 MARKET Stmt. MEE & VAN EIIITTEWS, Moo. TN MARKET Stmt. 63100 & TAN GIINTEXII. No. Tcht MARKET Stmt. 011031 & VAN ODDITESPS, No. 704 MARKET Street. GEMS & VAN GUNTER% No. 704 MARKET Stmt. &WOE & VAR aITITIArs. No. 704 MARKET farmi. 0e244354 GMAT D 180011731111 tunny ui imiumniz DISCOVERY! HILTON'S INSOLUBLE CEMENT I Is of more general practical Minty than any invention now before the Pnblie. It has been thoroughly test ed daring the last two years by practical men, and b PTOIIOIIIII it 1111 by all to Apsdisabetal Ar le tots. the M ♦ JR ew Thing Its Combination. loot and Shot Mannfactarers. Jewelers Familial FURS! jt G a Linea gsmember lels•tatlulf TO HOUSEKEEPERS AND PER SONS COMMENCING HOUSEKEEPING. HOUSEKEEPING ARTICLES F. H. SIDDALL 11 DOORS WEST OF THE CONTINENTAL HOTEL. ..701 - IZ 6 (A. NTAJlEtilDjarin - Sr. del6-1m H . P. & C. R. TAYLOR, IMPORTERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF TOILET SOAPS AND PER euREILY, IMPORTERS OF WINES AND LIQUOR& IJAUDIAN, SALLADE, Qo CO., No. MON SOUTH NINTH STRUT, ' Notwolen Cbostiint and Walnut. Phile.delphis. G. M. LATIMAN A. M. SALLADI, J. D. HITTING. TOOL CHESTS. SMA C LL. ontaining GOOD MEDIUM, AN TOOLS. E SIZE. For rsale by LESLEY & dels-Im* 607 MARKET T . A DIES', GENTLEMEN'S, AND CHILDREN'S SKATES. In nreat variety. for sale by - - - - - deln I.m STEEL SKATES.- A new and splendid article for eale by dels-Im. PARLOR SKATES— For male by LESLEY & CO.. 607 aracKET Street. Alpo, Fine Pen and rocket Knives, Table Ontlexy, &e del.',-lin* MESSRS. GIIION & RIXON ARE atom close their PHOTOGRAPHIC ART G ClihSTlfillT Street, In consequence of the early departure of. Mr Gihon from the city. Parties 'wish in l! to "purchase their Negatives, or COTAAS from them, will please call at once. During the present week, offers will be received for the eettbliehment. as it stands, including its latge stock and fixtures. with the good will of the place. ia4.6t* s from the ..11 le da FOR SALE—A VALUABLE mmi st FARM of ISO acres. on the Bethlehem Montgomery county, Pennsylvaata. city, 2 Miles from the Station on the North Pennsylvania- Railroad, known as the m Wager Far', he improve ments ate large and commodious. consisting of a atone mansion, tenant-house stone barn, stabling for foriy live need of cattle, carriage house, wagon-house, gra nary, ice-hence, Sic. A good apple orchard. peach or chard. and a variety of all kinds of pear trees and other fruit. The farm Is 12D 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 shale trees. The mansion is surrounded with shade trees. About twenty acres are in valuable timber. and about eighteen - acres first-rate meadow. The farm is well watered by springs, wells, and running streams. The location is desirable: very healthy. Convenient to churches, schools &c. 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 EXECUTORS. GEO. N. TOWNSEND. No. 1:23M South FOURTH Street. OLIVE OIL.-AN INVOICE OP CAESTAIPS' pare Olin OH jut noshed DW tibb ELM For side by ORAb. S_ JAS. OAREITAMEI,SoIoants. Iq6 WALINDT, and RI ORAIIITE Stook !dam as 111TWOO Or Um nal MI /swam ex -IM• STRIN.eeI .. r... , .- 0 . • . . ... . . - ,5.. , '' - •- ' ..'." -.. .. .. 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'- Ettei ". :,,-;;•,- , :,.,^-:'... -- .14 -- ~,-. _ - .---=-..-"•_- -_,....--,!-:-_-_-„,-...___ - -,,, j7 v... ,---_----,,--: , , . - ... -..;..., ......--- - --a-, .....„. ----...........,-.-:-_,;_..._-.-.,_,..---..., . ' -.1."-- .."---- _..--,----. --....,,...,........,,,,, -. •,..,. ; ,..----s-- ---....., . a • COMMISSION HOUSES. PHILADBLPHIA- ARFFT FOR THE SALE OF •ll Linen. weight 20 muse. Vas Stet mad Cheapest Bea M the market. AL,O. BURLAP BAOB, CLOTHING. CEMENT. SUPERIOR TO SIST Adhesive Preparation known- HILTON'S INSOLUBLE CEMENT Is a new thing. 111111 the result of Y‘sTl of study: its eorobtuatfouLsoa SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, And under no ittreumetenceo or all:tune of temperature. will it LO• some eorrmht or emit ani offeneive smell. BOOT AND SHOE kianufasturers, wing Idschinee, will find it the beat article knows for Cementing the Channels, as it worke without delay, Is not Wrested bar any 'Maze of temperature JEWELERS Will and it seineleittly adhesive for 'll3lr nee, as has been proved. IT IS ESPE CIAATHELLY ADAPTED TO LER. And we claim as an escesislanerit, Met it sticks Fetches and Liningi to Boots and Shoes satesienthr , strong without stitching. IT Is THE ONLY LIQUID OEMENT Tata*. that mgm l i gre thine for 110441TURE OROCKEE.I. TO BONE, IVORY. And articles of Household tuft. REMEMBER, Milton's Insoluble Cement Is in a Ilanld ed form aa , pas antda as ass" appli HILTON'S INSOLUBLE OEMEIIIT Is Insoluble la water or oIL HILTON'S INSOLUBLE ONMENT Adheres oily substances. Supplied in Family or Manufartn ten Pastimes from 9 ommas to 100 icairox Biwa. a co.; Proprietors. PROVIDEMOIL L L Agents In Philadelphia— LA NO A COMPLETE STOOK OF CAN BE OBTAINED AT 922 CHESTNUT STREET* No, 611 North NINTH Street. LESLEY & CO., ROT MARKET Street LESLEY & CO., 607 MAIIITET Street. RETAIL DRY GOODS. CIVIL AND MILITARY CLOTH HOUSE. WILLEM T. SNOIIGRISSi lfo. EI SOUTH SECOND. and $3 STRAWBERRY Streets, is hap tea ate that he has laid in an exteneiVa clock of CHOICE GOODS. out ec; Blue CiAßo th Ntir AND SATE'. s. Sky-blue Violist. Sky-blue Doeskins, Dark Bine Doeskins. Dark Blue Beavers, Dark Blue Pilots. S-4 4 inl i g (7 - 1 4 0 LIZ° Flannels. Mazarine Blue Clothe. come early, as our present Pnrcnase now. 7ao-1m CIVIL LIST. Black Cloths. Black Doeekine., Black. Cassimeree. Elegant Coatings, Billiard Cloths, Bagatelle Cloths. Trimmings. Beaverteena. Goods and Velvetines, We advise our friends t . stock is cheaper than we c REDUCTION PRICES. WE LEE NOW OFFERING THE WHOLE OP OUR STOOK OF LADIES AND MISSES' CLOAKS, AT A GREAT REDUCTION FROM FORMER PRICES. J. W. PROCTOR & Co., THE PARIS CLOAK AND FUR EMPORIUM. 920 CHESTNUT STREET, zoB-tathudm M. NEEDLES, 1024 CHESTNUT STREET , OFFERS FOR SALE • DESIRABLE, USEFUL, AND AO@EPTABLE HOLIDAY P r it:VASMN I TS, IN LACE GOODS. LOW Real Lace Collars, in every variety. from 50 cent, to $l5 each. 600 Lace Sets, from $1 to $BO each. 600 Lace Veils, from $1 to sloeach. - 500 Valencienne Hdk fa.. from $2 to Eli each. 100 Pointe Lace and Pointe Applique, from $5 to $6O. Coiffures. Barbee, and every variety of other deactiva tions of Lace Goods, at very low prices. IN EMBROIDERIES. 600 Embroidered Mkt& . $1 to $lO each. 500 do. Collars. 25 eta to $0 each. 300 do. Sets. $1 to $lO each. Edgings, Inserting% Flounclngs, and all other de scriptions of Embroideries. IN HANDKERCHIEFS- The best assortment of Hdkfs In the city, including every variety of Ladies', Gents' and Children's Linen Hdkfs. ' In plain. hem-stitched, embroidered, late. Printed borders, dtc., die., from 12 ctn. to $5O each. • Persons in search ofinsefal and acceptable presents would do well to examine my stock before purchaeing. IL B. will open on MONDAY, the 14th inst.. a fresh invoice of desirable goods, in Rich Lace Capes, Coiffures, Barbels, Hdkfs., Veils, dm.. as deB-tf JOSEPH AND WILLIAM E. WOOD, IKTORTERS AND DEALERS IN . . CLOTHS, CiSSIMERES, VESTING& AND TAILORS' TRIMMINGS, WHOLESALE AND NETAIL. NO. S NORTH SECOND STREET. • de9•lm PHILADELPHIA. BLANKETS. A-•" From $3 to $l9- and every intermediate price. $9, $lO. $l2, and $l5 Blankets are very desirable. • MUSLIN& By the yard or piece. (Kali the well-known makes. Buy them now for coming wants, and save dollars. FLANNEL& Whites, from Mo. to $1; Reds, from 45 to 76 ots. Grays, from 60 to 75 cts. • Blues, from 60 to 70 cts. Fancy Shirting's; Sac ; Flannels, &c. DAMASKS. Damask Table Cloths. Napkins. and Towels. Toweling's, Nursery Diapers. Ticking's. • PRINTS. American. Merrimack. &c.. in figures and stripes. Neat shirting prints Real Manchester ginghams, 50s BALMORALS. Mildewed Balmoral% $0 60; Perfect Ralmorals, $3. Fine Balmoral% $0.60 and &I. 60; Misses' Balmorals. COOPER & COYARD. dell S. B. corner NINTH and MARKET. HHSTEEL Jr SON WOULD CALL . 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 $2.50. French ropllne and Reps; 6730 to *1 75. Dress Goods of every variety, 20c to $2. Blanketrds two-yard wide f ustyMert $1.25. Sb awls, a great variety les. 113.25 to $l5. Broche Shawls , great bargains, $9.50 to *14.. Circulars and Savories, of all kinds of Cloths, at low prices. Fancy Silks, $1 to $5. Plain Poll de Soles, $1.25 to $2 SO. Moire Antiques and (lorded Silks, $3.50 to $5. Nos. 713 and 7111 North TENTH. St. 1.1.0 t All-wool Shaker Flannels. 623,1 c. Worth 90s. n 026 SPECIALLY INTERESTING EIGHTH AND SPRING GARDEN. USEFUL PRESENTS! Superb Long Broche Shawls. Beautiful Long Blanket Shawls. Excellent Long Bla.ck Thibet Shawls. Gentlemen's heavy, warm Shawls. Misses' guy. pretty Shawls. Children's School Shawls. &c., in great variety, •nd very cheap. At THORNLEY t CHISIII3, Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN. WARM GOODS FOR WINTER. LARGE, SOIL WOOL BLANK TB. Good Flannels. Shaker, Welsh, Ballardvale, &c. Quilts, Crib Blankets, and Cradle Blankets- Beavy Velvet, Beaver Cloths, Black Beavers. die At. splendid stock of Cissstmeres. &c., At THORNLEY & CHISM'S. DRESS GOODS AND SILKS. Beautiful French Poplins. silk and wool. Beautiful Rep Poplins, all wool Beautiful colors in French iderinoes. Beautiful little-plaid all-wool Cashmeres. Beautiful figured all-wool Delaines. • Beautiful quality in plain Delainea Excellent Black Silks. Plain Silks, Figured Silks; Fancy Silks, dic. With a great variety of _general I ").r_elis (foods, At THOBNLEY WOHISX'S, Corner of EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN R,TAFLE GOODS. A gns stock of Chintzes and Calicoes, Cheap Delaines and Ginghams. Bleached and Unbleached Muslin& Table Linens. Towels, Crashes, Diapers, dm Striped and plaid Shirting Flannels. Bed, gray, blue, heavy hhirtingFlanneht. &0., At TLIORNLEY B ALMORAL SKIRTS, &o. A large stock of Bahnorals. Linen Hdkfs., Ladies' and Gentlemen's. Gents' Silk Hdkfs in peat varietY, dtc., AT THE OLD-ESTABLISHED DRY-GOODS STORE OP THORNLEY & CHISM, .011-ft N. E. Gor. EIGHTH and SPRING GARDEN. MS* CIIESTNIIT STASea E. M. NEEDLES. 1024 CHESTNUT STREET. Invites ittentionto his extensive assortment of goods suitable for EFUL AND ACCEPTABLE HOLIDAY PRESENTS, IN LACE GOODS, HANDKERCHIEFS. EMBROIDERIES, VEILS. AND WHITE GOODS n tOTIDrST kit 1:1•414,k JOHN H. STOKES, 702 ARCH STREET, would call the attention. of the ladies to hie immense stock of DRESS GOODS. most of which has been reduced for HOLIDAY PRESENTS. consisting of French Merinoes, Figured Camlet Cloths. Wool and mil Cotton Delaines, Figured and Striped Dfohairs, English Bletinoes,Wool Plaids, Plaid Drees Goods, Cali. sone. die. de4-tf . GENT'S PIJRNIPSHING GOODS. GEkORCIE GRANT, No. 610 CHESTNUT BTEEITI Cm Row road, A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOOK GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, his own Imputation and manufacture Els seletormted "PRIZE MEDAL SHIRTS? liasulastnred ander the superintendense of . Joiart P. TAGGEET, (Forinerly of Oldenbert & Tsizzert.l are the most perfect-101n' Shirts of the sie. MB- Orders promptly attended to. 1713-thatadm REMOVAL I.diM4 - PC)II3Z) 1.. - Crim - jaws HAS REMOVED FROM UO. 81 SOUTH SIXTH STREET, TO W. W. CORNER SIXTH AND CERMET Where he now offers a LARGE. LAD ELEGANT STOCK GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Embracing all the latest novelties. PRICES - MODERATE. to The attention of the puha, Is respostfally ea- SHIRTS MADE TO ORDER, WBIGHT'S NE PLUS ULTRA NEThUMS WHOLESALE SAD RETAIL BIEAT. eTzizge ammo ~AND YRANKLur hams, to-smes rhuNdeims PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1864. NEW PUBLICATIONS. AN ELIGANT VOLUME DREAMTHORP. NEW EDITION NOW READY. ALEXANDER SMITH'S NEW BOOK. Soft tinted Paper. Hand.somly Printed and Bound.. PAIGE $1.50 J. E. TILTON '% CO., BOSTON. PUBLIEHER3 1864. -THE PHYSICIAN'S VISIT ING LIST FOR 1864, bound in various styles and of varione sizes. Also, an Interleaved Edition, neatly bound in leather. wkill pocket and pencil. LINDSAY & BL &HMOS', Publisbegi. de2B 25 South SIXTH Street. ab. Chestnut. 1864 -HOLIDAY BOOKS FOB NEW YEAR'S PRESENTS. —A great variety of standard authors, Illustrated and Juvenile Books, en table for presents, for sale at low prbes by LINDSAY & BLARISTON, Publishers and Booksellers, de2B 25 South. SLICTEI Street. ab. Cheatmit. NEW BOOKS-JUST RECEIVED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.. 715 Sara wa k 7 MARKET Street. LIFE OF JESUS. By Ronan. Translated from the French LOUIS'S LAST TERM AT ST. MARY'S. New edition. THE WAYSIDE INN. and other poems. By Henry W. Longfellow. SOUNDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC. By Oliver W THETHOU m HT THOUGHTS OF THE EMPEROR IL. AURELIUS ANTONINI:TS. GENERAL BUTLER IN NEW ORLEANS History of the Administration of the Department of the Gall In MI Er James Parton. J y EAN BELIE; or, The Adventures of a Little Frensh 80. TIMOTHY TITCOMB'S LETTERS TO THE JONSES. MY FARM OP EDGEWOOD By Ike Marvel. HUGH MILLER'S HEADSHIP OP CHRIST. and the Rights of the Christian People. ROUNDABOUT PAPERS. By Wm. Thackeray. With illustrations. HISTORY OF THE SIOUX WAR, and the Massacres of 1862 and 1863. By Isaac V. D. Heard. MARY LINDSAY. A Novel. By the Lady Emil? Ponsonby. POEM& .11 , Jean In low. IN WAR MMES, AND OTHER POEMS. By J. G. Whitney: MENTAL HYGIENE. By L. Ray. HANNAH THU.RSTO.N. A Story of American Life . By Bayard Taylor. no3o jIJST PUBLISHED-THE PRAYER at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettys burg. lit Rev. Thos. H. Stockton. D. D. Price. 10 lens. Published WM. by_ & ALFRED MAETIEN, 606 CHESTNUT Street. LUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE ALL BOOKSELLERS. THE NAN OF THE NORTH AND THE MAN OF THE SOUTH: or. The Intinencaof Climate. 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THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1864 To fte Editor of The Press: SIR When the City Councils tendered League Island as a site for the proposed new navy yard, to the Government, the Secretary of the Navy, being anxious to accept of the munificent gift, appointed a commission of scientific men to examine and re. port on The three sites presented—that at Podium, New London, and League Island, An examination of the soil to the depth of thirty feet caused the commission to report adversely to League Wand, and favorably as to that at New London, and yet members of the commission, who favored the New London site, speak meet unqualifiedly in fa. vor of the Delaware as the only proper location for the new yard, but as the Commission was restricted to League Nand, no other point on the Delaware was examined. A subsequent examination, made at the instance of the Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks, re. milted in a warm and earnest recommendation from Admiral Smith of a site at Chester, where a rocky formation will insure a permanent and solid founda tion, entirely free from the substantial objections urged against Lesgue Island. If, then, the question in narrowed down to League Island and New London, is it not more than proba ble that the latter will be selected, as Congress has already manifested its disapprobation by passing a resolution forbidding the Secretary of the Navy accepting the gift of League Inland from the city of Philadelphia, 'which, together with the favorable report of the, commission, makes strong points in favor of New London. The Secretary of the Navy, in favoring a site on the Delaware, has shown a soundjudgment, and has been goverfled by honest and patriotic motives ; but as he has had to encounter the almost unanimous opposition of his own State, it is not to be supposed bat that he may finally yield to the pressure from home, backed, as it is, by the report of the commis sion appointed by himself, who favored the New London rite. Why will not then Philadelphia withdraw the tender 'of League Island, and present the site at Metter, which is but twelve miles from the centre of the city, with which it is connected by railroad, along which, in a few years would be all town, if the yard is located at Chester, and in which event the present yard could be converted into an ord nance yard, which is greatly desired by the ordnance officers, and the erection of a foundry at small cost would enable them here to manufacture heavy ord nance. The river below Chester could easily he kept open during the hard freezing periods which every few years closes the port of Philadelphia, and which a few years since was so severe, that the bark Vir ginia and Estella," belonging to this port, was frozen up for six weeks after she had shipped her crew, received her load and clearance, and was de layed so long as to almost break up her voyage to a South American port. Other vessels, no doubt, were as inconveniently ;Mimed The same winter a steamer from Liverpool, with a full load of freight and passen gers, forming one of a line just established from Liverpool and Philadelphia, entered the bay, and finding the river blockaded with ice, steamed off to New York, and there discharged her cargo and passengers, and, which ended that line of steamers, and no eueeeesful attempt has been made to establish another line since. It would be easy to keep the river open from Chea ter to the Bay, and, if wharves were built at that point, shipping belonging to Philadelphia, during the few weeks of hard freezing, could discharge and receive their freight at the Chester wharves, and transport the same to and from Philadelphia by rail. road. This, at most, would be only for a few weeks in the winter ; but if shippers knew that there was a certainty of being able to ship and reship at Phila delphia during winter months, it would add greatly to the commerce of this port. It would seem to be madness to locate the new navy yard at a distance inconvenient to coal and iron, the materials so much needed in the construe. tion of iron-clad vessels, and yet, if we persist in presenting a plan that has been already condemned, fs there not danger of driving the new navy yard en tirely from the Delaware river To the Editor of The Press: SIR : If any one doubts the success of our armies, they should have witnessed something that occurred in Philadelphia a few days ago. The day was in tensely cold; a woman plainly but neatly dressed sat in a city railroad car, with a box on her lap, di rected to a boy now sick in the hospital at Alexan dria, Va. I moved over to the side of the car where the woman sat, and offered to carry the box for her. She said, "No, sir, I thank you, it is not heavy, I can carry it; it contains some delicacies for a young brother of mine, who has been a drum mer in the Army of the eotomac since the war began, and the little fellow has re-enlisted for the term of three years. My husband is a private in the 72d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and has been in all the battles in which the Army of the Potomac have been engaged, and been in several of the most tierce and bloody bayonet charges. He has been sick^ in the hospital for two or three weeks, twice or three times." The eyes of this poor woman fairly sparkled as she added : "He also has enlisted again for three years. It is a long time for me to work aod wait—but how gloriously patriotic our brave men are, to re enlist as they are now doing !" The car at this time had arrived at the street she was to take .to reach the express office. She took the box in her arms, and walked away. What an example this bravo woman must be to those sneaking traitors • who ran to Canada at the first alarm of a draft! I doubt not such brave, patriotic women will to rewarded, and when this rebellion is crushed out, such women a' this will be proud to say to their children and grandchildren, they never could know the hardship and diffictilties she endured, working at home to bring up the family, while her husband and brothers were battling for the glorious aid nag. Tire names of ,such women are apples of gold in pic tures 44 silver. They will be treasured and revered by every true American heart. I would now say to every patriotic mother and daughter :of the brave Old Nutmeg State, follow the example of your brave sister of Pennsylvania, To the Editor of The Press: Sin: In your Press of last Saturday, I read an article beaded "How the Busipess of Brick-making maybe Improved." In no part of the world is there more room for improvements in the art of making and burning of brick, than in the United states, owing, in some measure, to the cheapness of fuel in former years. Brick are made all the year round, and even during the severe winters, in Northern Europe. In the warming of our dwellings by heat err, warm air, warm water, and steam, we are ahead of the world ; but in the economy of heat and fuel, we are a long way behind, especially M. the burning of brick. I know a firm in Austria that are now doing a large business in filling up buildings with its appliances, machinery, he., for making of brick, at all seasons, worked by steam, and with the 'alele steam, the building:, together with the heat from the kilns, keeps the clay and drying.room at a Celightful temperature. The dry ing• rooms being over the kiln, the bricks are dried quicker than in any other way, and the machinery Is so nicely arranged that the clay is tempered and conveyed to the mould, and from the mould to tb,e upper story, or drying-rooms, and thence to the kilns, much in the same way as the grain is raised in those monstrous buildings in Chicago, requiring little or no hand-labor; and, although labor in the country where those machines are worked is very low—a man gets sixteen to eighteen cents per day, the women (for Most of the work is done by them) ten to fifteen cents per day, and they, out of that small pittance, maintain themselves ; not withstanding the cheapness of labor, they find it more profitable to employ steam. The kilns are so constructed that they never get cold, and in firing up they do not consume more than one fifth of the fuel used in clump or kilns in America. In fact, the kilns used around Philadelphia at this day are much the same used in Rome, where they made and burnt brick to build those wonderful piles of brick work the Baths of Caraealle and (the aqueducts, atd the same at Pompeii, where they made the brick to build the Senatorinro. At the great exhibi tion in Paris, in 1854, there were a number of models of machinery for making of brick, knee, ; since that day great improvements have been made in this branch of business; in the exhibi tion, in South Kensington, London, in 1862, there was still a much greater number of improveAmo dela, quite a number in operation making up clay. The moat complete are to be found in Austria, Hun gary, Northern Germany, Tyrol, Switzerland, Zu rich, on Lake Constance, one of the largest on the Danube, below Vienna. making 40,000 brick per day, beside draining and water-tube or tiles, when the thermometer is down ten to twenty degrees below zero; and the apparatus is cheap, a machine for making 30,000 to 40,000 brick per diem cost about $1,900. No. 11, to make 4,000 brick per diem, $215. This, of course, does not include building or kiln. I am satisfied that the best machine I have seen could be much improved. This is no newfangled notion. I have seen them at work in the neigh borhood of Carlsbad, Bohemia, in the winter, when the snow was knee deep. I have mentioned this subject to several brick makers, and one of them joking, asked me if I knew where the Marine Bar racks were at the navy yard, as much as saying tell it to them. It seems strange that, with all our go aheadativewess in this business, we are a. long way behind. I know of no business, if properly started and managed by practical men, that would pay a bigger dividend than a perpetual manufactory. Such is the opinion of your humble servant, _ _ JOHN SKIRVING GERMANTOWN, JAE. 2, 1864. A New System of Coinage—The President's Head to be on our Coin. To the Editor of The Pres., Sin : It has often been remarked that there was a great mistake made, from the first, in our metallic currency, by our departure from the rule observed in all other creintries, of placing the head of the ruler of the country, for the time being, upon all the coin struck during his reign. That system establishes everywhere else, but here, a perfect numismatic chronological record. We have upon our coin an unmeaning figure, (or rather a variety of figures and heads,) very poorly engraved, and supposed torepre sent Liberty. How much better it would have been if the heads of the several Prechtente had been placed on all the coins struck in The Mint during the.* re spective terms of service. It is never too late for a reform ; and we are yet a very young nation, with a long and brilliant future before us. The present time also appears specially adapted to such a change as I suggest. We are about taking a fresh start in our career, after recovering from a temporary prostration, which many, whose " wish was father to the thought," proclaimed was to be fatal ; but which, though a violent attack, has only left us more vigorous than before. This is an epoch which should be commemorated. I would, therefore, have all the money hereafter to be coined in the United States, bear the head of the President of the period ; and 1 think that Par. Lin coln's "image and superscription" (grim though it may be) will compare very favorably with most of the heads on European coins. He certainly de serves a monument " wre perennius and this would be a graceful way of showing to posterity the fea tures of the pilot who steered the good old ship Union safely through the breakers of rebellion. PHILADELPHIA. I think it is a measure which, although certain to be opposed, is equally certain to commend itself, on reflection, to thejudgment of the people. As a measure of making the chronological series perfect, it might be enacted that every year a cer. 'rain number of thousand pieces of the different vaine ations, should be coined with the heads of the former Presidents, until a sufficient number had been struck to insure their preservation. There is nothing monarchical in this measure, as "we, the people, ,, are tee rulers of the country; we merely place upon our coins the head of the luau we have selected to represent tot for four years. Respectfully, PnILADELPHIA, SWATS' 4th, 1961 The New Navy Yard. MANUFACTURER Unionism Speaks lior Brickmaking. CALITOENIA. The inaugural address of Governor Low is a straightforward, sensible, patriotic State paper, and if it is a fair specimen of the man, California Is for tunate in her chief magistrate for the next four years. Gov. Low's remarks on "special le gislation " we are constrained to quote in part for the benefit of Legislatures less remote : "A large proportion of each session of the Le gislature has been consumed in listening to the /vivo. Gates of relief hills, granting franchises and other special privileges, and bills even -to advance the personal interests of criminals, litigants in civil case., and the administrators of_the estates of de ceased persona. The Legislature cannot judge as intelligently concerning the bridges, furies, and roads of the several counties, ercan the county au thmities, nor concerning the rights of parties in courts as can the judges thereof. Believing that bills of the character referred to are too often allied to gether, and passed by the joint efforts of all, I !shall not hesitate to withhold my approval from any bill which might have been granted under the general laws of the State, by the Supervisors of the county therein concerned, hail they deemed it advisable, or any bill intended to aid parties in court to Divots de nim) them there." In respect to the mining interests, which must continue for years of paramount importance to California, the views presented ate all that could be desired by those who remember the vexatious controversy concerning the title to the mineral lands. A supreme judge. of California was Olin found to amen that the State and not the 'United States was rightful owner ; but the decision was equally repugnant to the loyal sentiment of the people and - fn conflict with the sovereignty of the nation, and is no longer supported. Governor Low justly congratulates the people of California on the firm support which they have given to the national cause "Twenty thousand majoritY for Representetives in Congress, known to be thirard- - -til of liber ty and Onion, must finally dmiti.,..Afi hopes which foreign or domes is foes of the United State* may ever have entertained of receiving aid and sympa thy from the recite coast. Our position on this great question has flow been four times announced by ballot since the commencement of the Southern rebellion, and four times has the popular will here emphatically declared against any other peace than that which will follow upon the submission Of the rebels to the nation's rightful authority:, Letter from the Rebel Secretary of War to the Itebel Quartermaster-General. 0011FRDEP.ATE STATES OF AMERICA, WAR DerA,RTMENT, Itrorraroaro, V.., Nov. 14, lees. GENERAL : Your letter, enclosing a communica tion from Larkin Smith, Assistant Quartermaster- General, stating that many of the farmers of Wir. rein Franklin, and Johnson counties, N. C., refuse to pay the tax in kind by delivering the Govern ment's tenth at the depOts established by you, and that many others are known to have concealed a portion of their grain and productions, and at tempted to destroy all evidence of the amount pro duced by them, has been received. It is true the law req ires farmers to deliver their tenth at depets not more than eight miles from the place of production; but your published order re questing them, for the purpose of supplying the immediate wants of the army, to deliver at the depOts named, although at a greater than eight miles, and offering to pay for the transportation in excess of that distance, is so reasonable, that no good citizen would refuse to comply with it. You will, therefore, promulgate an addition to your former order, requiring producers to deliver their quotas at the (Meets nearest to them by a spe cified day, and notifying them that in ease of their refusal or neglect to comply therewith, the Govern ment will provide the neces.ary transportation at the expense of the delinquents, and collect said expense by an immediate levy on their productions, catcall tine heir value at the rates allowed in oases of im pressment. If it becomes necessary to furnish transportation, the necessetly teams, teamsters, must be let pressed as in ordinary easel. All persons detected in secreting articles subject to the tax, or in deceiving as to the quantity produced by them, should be made to Buffer the confiacation of all such property found belonging to them. The people in the counties named, and, in fact, nearly all the western counties of that State, hove ever evinced a disposition to cavil at, and even re sist, the met cures of the Government, and it is quite time that they. and all others similarly disposed, should be dealt by with becoming vigor. Now that our energies are taxed to the utmost to subsist our armies, it will not do to be defrauded of this much needed tax. If necessary. force must be employel for its collection. Let striking examples be made of a few of the rogues, and I think the rest will re spond promptly. Yours, ,Src., JAMES A. SEDDON, Secretary of War. General A. C. lilvx.ftet. France and Russia. Faris correspondence of the London Times gives this description of the remarks of M. Dupin in the French Senate: There were some people who said that a French army might penetrate into Poland by , the Baltic. How many ships, he asked, would he required to transport, not 400,000, not 200,000, but even 100,000 men by the BaWel France had not, as th first Napoleon had, Dented° as a landing place. For six months of the year the Baltic was frozen, and during that time how was a French army to be fedi How were reinforcements to be sent'? The chance of reverses must also be taken into account, and if the English fell upon the rear of the French army with the ships which they did not employ. but which they were constantly building to be ready for the first occasion—and what better occasion than that 'I Suppose, however, that a French army suc ceeded in reaching Poland, no matter how, it would find the whole of Rlltikla up—Russia on her own soil and the French army at 500 leagues from its frontier. Russia, with her sixty millions of population, was to be asked, not merely to give a better form of go• vernnient to Poland, but to reconstitute an inde pendent State—to unite the duchy of Warsaw with the other fragments of Poland, to form a kingdom, placed so as to keep Russia in check, and that for a mere secondary interest! The Russians were a patriotic and a proud people. The masses might be barbarous ' but they were obedient and brave. They bad at their head an enlightened class, wall edu cated generals, devoted to their country, and that country was governed by means of a double ortho dor.y, imperial and religious. The French army would find itself isolated, in presence of a hostile nation from which it priiieo".ed to tear its very entrails, end' which would defen t itself to the last, and around. it there would be other nations threatened with French aggression, which would have no choice hut to rite against it. AL Dupin concluded by advising the Senate to do what was reasonable. No doubt Fiance bad a heart felt sympathy for Poland—a sympathy which was of no recent date. Let every means be em ployee which prudence suggested to the. Emperor, with a view to a better government of that people and a better administration. " But," said dl. Dupin, "to Sacrifice the country in a war such as I have given a general idea of, to injure it for the ad vantage of Poland, and to endanger France, the Empire, and the Emperor—no !" French Feeling on the American Question. A Visyr To M. Lamona.Avu —On my return home through Paris, I called upon that great admirer of America. Edward Rend Lefi.bre Laboulave ; I found him at home and alone, and enjoyed nearly an hour's conversation with him on a subject which we both have nearest our hearts. In pew onal appearance he is a thickset, well-built man, of apparently bay rive years of age, dark-complexioned, determined expression of countenance, and eyes piercing enough to look through and through any subject. Re speaks English very well, and much of his reading is done in our language. You are doubtless aware that he is, at the present time, the candidate of the opposi tion, or "Liberal," or Republican party, for the va cant seat in the lower house of the French Patna. n3ent ; and, what is more, he is certain of his election. In the late general elections another Republican was elected in two districts—the one in question and. another in Normandie. The member thus elect ed has the right to choose for which he will sit; and in the interests of his party he re signed that one, Paris, where none but a republican can possibly be elected. Monsieur Laboulaye assured me that his nomination was solely due to his womk, "Paris in America," a book which has run through an extraordinary number of editions, and is still selling at the rate of from forty to fifty copies a day. FRENCH EDITORS ON THE REEELLToN.—Before leaving Paris I met several 01 the editors of the leading journals of the capital and found them one and all heartily in favor of the Union and the crushing out of the rebellion. They laughed at the idea of France recognizing the Confederacy, assuring roe that, apart from political considerations, the fear is ridiculous. The commercial editor of oae paper stated that nearly all`the shipping in French ports is taken up many weeks ahead for the Amami can trade, and that most of the factories in the coun try are now engaged upon American orders. I fouLd this to he the case myself in the several factories I visited in Mulhouse and the environs. Steam an 01(1 Fogy If the following announcement shall prove in no respect mistaken, it embodies a truth of greater im portance than any which has dawned on man kind Since Fulton's first voyage by steam from this city to Albany. We know nothing of Captain Reeves, the inventor, and have had no cm:nu:mai cation with him, but we know well the writer of the subjoined, and his integrity and truth fulness are entirely beyond suspicion. Deceived, be may be; wilfully deceiving, he cannot be, Yet we advise no owner of steamboats or steam mills to sacrifice his property yet awhile. Many of us had high hopes of electricity as a source of power years ago—hopes which were doomed to chilling blight. Thrice, we believe, the civilized world has seemed on the very brink of the revolution fore shadowed below, but it has not yet advanced beyond that point. Now, let us all wait and see. Here is our friend's announcement : A DIRW MOTIVE POWER Capt. John Reeves ' of New York, is the inventor and patentee of en electromagnetic rotary engine for producing motive power by electricity to any ex tent atm for any purpose required. Tire inventor, in his experiments, nes discovered, and is now prepared to verify the fact, that electricity can be diffused over surfaces to the extent of hundreds of superficial feet, and thereby cause an electromagnetic attraction, which acts on and sets in motion the moat powerful machinery for producing motive power; and this at a moat reasonable expense for material consumed, The method on which tee inventor founds the principle for producing and augmenting motive power by electricity is peculiar in its machinery, but compa ratively similar in irs nature to that by which other elements are beetight into practical use; that is, the greater the area of surface exposed to the action of the motive or first cause, whether it be Wind, water, steam or electricity, the greater the effect produced in InOtira power. In regsrd to the expense, the inventor metres this comparison: Iu extending the area of surface in a, steam-engine to increase the power, the momentum being the same, the ratio of expense will increase in proportion. But electricity, being of a different nature, when the area of surface is extended, extra power is obtained, with a diminishing ratio of expense. For is/stance : s uppose it costs $1.25 per horse-power for the mate rial to keep a 50. horsepower condensing marine steam engine at work for 24 hours, and the area of surface in the piston is extended sufficiently to produce 100. horse-power, the cost per horse power for producing the additional6o would be equal to that of the first 80. But suppose the cost ie 10 cents per horse-power for material to keep a 50-home marine °lsidro-magnetic rotary engine at work for 24 hours, and the area of surface is extended to produce 100-horse power, the additional 50 horsepower would be obtained at a quarter less cost than the first 60, therefore the whole expense would be greatly reduced. A marine elea tro-magnetic rotary engine, and all its am:simper& Drente for a six months' cruise, would not occupy more space in wimp/lie/ than a marine steam engine of equal power, saving the room now required for furnace., boilers, coal-bunkers, ace. A vessel to be propelled by electricity can be built with one fourthevery lees capacity—at less expense—with finer lines for speed—carry equal burden, and in wa y possess superior qualities to one built for 1 sing propelled by steam. Again, a vessel pro- pelk dby electricity can be entirely closed up When required. This will make it available for Firming, in a ;smeller manner, either for assault or defence, and navigable submerged or on the surface of the water. This invention is destined to make great changes, not only in our river and ocean navigation, but also in railways of every description. The inventor has a woodire model at the capital, with plans of die. ferent descriptions, which he is plaparing to exhibit to the Cierepuwat,—fete rork 111014ne, THREE CENTS. Notes on General Roseerans, Report, by General Wood At date of Chattanooga, October 21, Brizmiet General Thomas L. Wood replies to the following extract from the report of General Bowman : General Wood overlooking the order to close up on General Reynolds, supposed he was to support him by withdrawing from the line and passing to the rear of General Brannan, who, it appears, was ot out of line, and In echelon. and slightly in rear or Reynolds , right. By this unfortunate mistake, a gap was opened in the line of battle, of which the enemy took instant advantage, and, striking Davis in flank and rear, as well as in front, threw hie whole division in eon. fusion. General Wood writes: _ . The plain intention and object of the entire para graph is to shield General Roseerans from the re sponsibility of the unfortunate mistake, and its still more unfortunate consequences, and to fix the re- Sponsibility on myself. He makes the following explanation and defence At ten o'clock and forty-five minutes, of Sunday mornieg, the 20th of September ult., the following was the position of my division in line of battle: The left of my division was closed up on and rested randy. Deafest the right of Gen. Brennan's which in turn had its left fully up and resting on the right of Gen . Reynolds' division. Gen. Brannan assures me that his division MU in line with Gen. Reynolds' division, with his left mosed up, and rest ing firmly on Beynold's right. On the right of my division was Gen. Davis' division. At the time my division was not engaged at all— not a shot being fired on the ftont. Half an hour previously them had been some skirmishing, but that had subsided. There was, however, satisfacto ry reason for believing that the enemy was in con siderable force in my front, hence I was keenly on the alert. But white the enemy was quiescent on my front, he was not so elsewhere. The roar of ar tillery and the rattle of musketry, borne to us from he left, told unmistakably that our comrades were heavily engaged with the foe. A few minutes, perhaps live before eleven o'clock A. Ptl., on the 20th, I received the following order: Beenorrs_wrana, D. 0., Sept. 20,10.45. Brig Gen. Wood, Cam's, Div., §-c.: The general eommauding (Drente that you close up on Reynolds as fast as possible, and support hint. Respectfully, &a., FRANK J. BOND, Maj. and A. D. O. This order was addressed as follows : "10.45 A, Pd., Gen'l. Wood, OonuPg Div." At the time it was received, there was a division (Brannan's) in line between my division and Gen. Reynolds'. I was immediately in rear of the centre of my division at the time. I immediately despatch ed my staff officers to the brigade commanders, di recting them to move by the lett, crossing in the rear of General Brannan's division, to close up on, and support General Reynolds; and as the order was peremptory, I directed the movement to be made at the ..double-quick.' , The movement was commenced immediately. As there was a division between General Rey. roles' and mine, it was absolutely, physically im possible for me to obey the order by any other move ment than the one I made. How was I to close up on General Reynolds and support him (as my divi sion was then situated in reference to General Rey nolds' division), but by withdrawing from the line and passing in rear of General Brannan's division The Inland Telegraph Company. A few days since we gave, as a matter of local in- terest, a notice of the new Inland Telegraph line, whose poles and wires are now stretched through our city. As this is a new company that will be brought in direct competition with the old lines, professing to possess all the facilities that utility, Invention, and the march of progress have added to the telegraph since its discovery, it is no more than right that we shoutd now explain what we really meant to say then. At the last session of the Legis lature this company obtained its charter. The route, as there defined, is " from a point of connection with the wires of the American Telegraph Company at Hanover Junction, in York county, on the Northern Central Railway, through the boroughs of Gettys burg, Chambersourg, Bedford, and Somerset, to the city of Pittsburg, and the other intermediate towns and villages ; and from Pittsburg west to the Ohio State line. We learn that the Inland hat one wire extended front Gettysburg to Chambersburg; thence along the route at defined by charter, two wires to Pittsburg; and, from Chambersburg east, they have two wires through Carlisle to Harrisburg, and through this city to Philadelphia. By what authority they extend their wires east of Chambersburg is not known. The charter also states that "the capital ate& of said corporation hereby created shall be two hundred thousand dol lars, and shall be divided into five thousand shares of fifty dollars each." The charter further provides that the stockholders, at any regular or special meeting convened for that purpose, " shall have the light to increase the capital stock if found times• sat y." Provided the new company succeed in getting the two hundred thousand dollars of stock subscribed, - they would be able to put half a dozen lines such as now built, from Philadelphia and Pittsburg ; for we are assured that twenty thousand dollars would he sufficient to build such a structure as they have erected along the route defined by their charter ; and forty thousand dollars would amply cover the whole line as now built from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, leaving a fair' margin for profits. Anew company, building a line supposed to ponces all the modern facilities for telegraphing, would be supposed at least, to have their lines erected in the most sub etantial manner. All the appliances that inge nuity can devise, or invention discover, to im prove upon the old and primitive system that characterized telegraphing in its infancy, ought to be now used in the erection of a line whose main oldect is competition with an old and established company. Now, the wire used is the common rusty iron wire generally manufactured for the oranary fencing purposes, that answer admirably to confine cattle, but not so well to hold chained lightning in abeyance and make it obedient as man's winged nwsseneer. The insulation, too, is of a very to character, costing, we are informed, betone tenth that used in the old line by the other company. This is a matter, however, that interests the new company alone. II -the {principal paint in the erec tion of a new line consists in using wire that has been condemned by telegraph companies as unrelia ble. and putting it up in the cheapest manner passi ble, in our opinion that point has been admirably attired. About twelve or fifteen years since, a number of telegraph lines ' , resemblin this one, were projected through this State under the directions 01 a Dr. A. Clement Goel, Ottinger, Shaw, Painter, Pennyman, and others. At that time some people went " daft," as the Scotch say, on telegraphing. The mores wariticoldia fever, the South sea project, the Califor. nia golu thrills, the Shanghse speculation,and tele Some - graphing, all marked important eras. have been revived, tried over again, anti been summarily laid on the shelf in deep disgust by their projectors. It would now seem to be the "era" for telegraph - mg, the result of which is the new poles and fence wire that connect Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Among all these sieculations, at that time, telegraphing proved the most disastrous. We do not desire now to specify what failed, for it is not our pro vince. Probably some of the projectors realized; but the wires were soon trailing on the ground and ware eventually carried away by pieces. Nothing is now left to mark these enterprises but the solitary stumps of the decayed poles. It was the same way in Onio and all the Western States. Every tuinoke, byway, and lane, had its poles and when strung along. It was anticipated that some embryo genius yet unkown to lame and the pro jcctors of these telegraph lines would discover a method by which marketing could be done, and light freight transmitted with as pinch speed as a message. But, alas ! for human calculations, the lines were speedily built and every break was ex pensive. They were accessible only by horse and buggy, the outlay for which engrossed the net re ceipts and considerable of the sinking fund. Thus it was for some time ; but finally a new era; sprung up, more enduring and profitable than any that had yet marked the history of disaster and ruin that had so far attended telegraph lines. The tele graph was found an indispensable auxiliary to rail road companies: and those companies owning the patents secured such privileges from the railroad companies as to relieve them, in a manner, from all expense of maintaining lines. The railroads were compelled to furnish the poles and provide such facilities in the way of repairs, that the tele graph' companies whose wires extended along the routes of railways became pay log and pro fitable. Those lines built along pilot!, in many instances, ran down and were suffered to go out of operation, the receipts not being sufficient to keep them up. In some instances, the stock was bought up at five cents on the dollar, and less, by the successful comnanics. One line extended front Baltimore to St. Louis along the National road through Maryland, Virginia, and Ohio, connecting Cincinnati. Louisville, Columbus, Indianapolis, &e., with New Fork; but it soon expired from want of support and competition. There are now no less than five different organizations building lines to connect the Eastern and Western cities by wires strung along turnpike roads, and have agents so liciting: subscriptions in every town and village through which they pasta They have generally had capital so large as to make it profitable to construct them out of the subicriptions. In some instances they issue tie controlling shares to themselves, scat offer to tell a majority of the stock to the old•esta bibbed cempenit s, even before the new line is com pleted. But thus we all live and learn, and we find, even in telegraphing, there are tricks of trade that must be closely - watched, and swindles that mutt be guarded against. -Lancaster Inquirer. Tun PusSUDENT . (I LAsr.—A New England gen tleman called at.the White House to propose a new plan for captut log Richmond. "I know, ltlr. President," said he. "that the Union men in the rebel capital, with the prisoners and the contrabands there, are able to overpower the Meade all that you have to do Is to let Gea. Meade make a (aversion againet Lee's army, and then let Gen. Butler go up the James river to co. operate with the Unionists." I have great confidence in Gen. Butler," replied Mr. Loncoln, but lam not so sure about Rich mond. Your plans remind me of a story of a lot of Methodist ministers, who were the trustees of a Western college. It so happened that this college was connected with a neighboring town bya bridge, and that this bridge was subject to be carried away by freshets. At last they held a special session to receive the plans of a noted bridge-bailder, a good mechanic, but rather a profane man. "`Can you build this bridge P asked a reverend gentleman. "`Build it P bluntly replied the mechanic, I could build a bridge to hell.' "This horrified the trustees, and after the bridge builder had retired, the minister who had recom mended him thought proper to apologize. ' 6 feel confident,' said he, that our energetic friend could build a safe bridge.to Hades, although I am not so sine of the abutment on the other side.' "And so With your plan," concluded the Presi dent; "I have great confidence in Gen. Butler. but doubt the strength of the Unionistc in Richmond." —CGrrespondence of the Bodon. Jourral, MITRDBRER CarTunisn.—Fred'ic F. Streetsr, v. , 1.1 murdered the Uot- family, at Medina, some months since, and who broke jail on Christmas Eve, was captured yesterday afternoon, at Richfield, under the following circumstances ;• Messrs Sanders, of hiedina, and Nelson, of Granger, who were searching through the country for Streeter, became convinced, from certain circumstances, that their game was secreted at the house of one Hart. of Richfield, who married the murderer's cousin. They accordingly proceeded to Hart's residence, made known their business, and demanded the where abouts of Streeter. Hart denied any knowledge of the latter. Sanders and Nelson then searched the house from cellar to garret, but in vain. They then transferred operations to the barn. Seizing a couple of pitchforks, they commenced general overturning of the haymow, in hopes of finding the object of their search concealed therein, but without avail. Noticing a pile of straw in one corner of the barn, however, that looked as though it had been recently disturbed, they , plunged their forks into it. No response was elicited, but, as the forks evidently came in contact with something be. sides straw, the latter was thoroughly Scattered, when the crouching form of Streeter was exposed to view. One of his pursuers immediately presented a revolver at the murderer's head, and threatened to blow his brains out if he made the least resistance. Streeter then quietly succumbed, and remarked_ : It's all up ; now I will go back to Medina and be hungl"—Cleveland Leader. itt IT is said that the Minister of Marine, of the <Mi lian Republic, has just received the plan of a meg. niticant monitor, with engines of five hundred horse. power, a speed of thirteen to sixteen knots an hour,_ twelve guns of six miles range, an iron costing of five inches thick, a spur (ram) and a solidity proof against anything, which is .offered to our Govern. went for four hundred thousand dollars. It was built on the Thames for the flonfederates, and it is thought that Government, which has recently voted a sum for the puroliMe of ships, will owe with the VIOL Tl - 1.1 W.R..X4 PRF.leiSs (P tr)3I.ISIIELI WI:Farr:VA TRH WAR Pima will be cent to subeortbers by mail (per annum in advance) at 35 00 Three copies 5 naa • nye coolea 800 Ten conies 10 00 Larger Chiba than Ten will be charged at the Gam rate, ii 1.50 per copy. The moan; must atteape accompany the order,intil to no tnetance can these terms be 06.1 , 4%04 from. co/ aim afford very tittle more than the coat of paper. Postmasters are requested to act as AlPAits fte Tras WAR PRE33, 1111 - To the getter. up of the Club of WA or twat*. NI extra copy of the Paper will be given. Ma!i Reviewing the case of Colonel D'Utassy, the Halifax Citizen says: 'Where are few here, we ima gine, who rightly know the real history of this in dividual ; and it is impossible to gather the truth from the conflicting opinions held here respecting Mtn. By hie own account he was a Hungarian gen. tlemaia—a Baron, we believe, he said—who had taken a patriotic part in Kossuthes army, and had been expatriated by the Austrians accordingly. Her had bean something or other in Stamboul, had visite nil the British stations in the Mediterranean, had published a book in Turin, knew a little of Bohe mian life in Paris, and in some undeecribed way made the acquaintance of Hugo Reid in London, Who brought:Wm over here as teacher of modern languages when he came from England to take charge of Dalhoueie College. There were some here, and Stenezel, a Hungarian soldier, was one of them, who declared that DE. D'Utasay's preten sions to nobility were mere humbug, and that the alleged medals he displayed in his buttonhole were foreign coins. We have heard it said also that ha caused a young man in this city, of some repute ea a penman. to draw up several diplomas and ruo tents of knighthood for him and affix seals and. Signatures thereto. In our own acquaintance With D'Utassy we found him possessed of polished manners and gentlemanly address." The committee charged with the organization of the proceedings incident to the celebration of the ler-centenary celebration of Shakspeare's birth day, April 231, 1861, have put in Dickens and Bed wer among the vice presidents, and have shut out Thackeray I For why 1 It seems that he known his own intel/cotual superiority to the gentlemen of the committee, and hasn't been sufficiently careful in concealing that egregious conviction within the of his own bosom. Wherefore they havezesolv.,d tb extinguieh him forever from the notice of posterity by this blighting exclusion. . The thing grows out of small, dirty oliquelesk which flourishes horribly on British soil, and has been laid at the door of Hepworth Dixon, editor of the bitter.blooded ilifienceron. The charge appeared first in "the Lounger at the Clubs," published in The Illustrated Times, the non-political portion of which is written by Edmund Yates, he who got in to trouble some years ago by describing Thackerare physiognomy rather too minutely, who is really very clever fellow, and has made haste to deny the authorship of the present paragraph. Concerning Augustus Cochin, one of the French publicists who wrote the letter to the Loyal League Of NeW Yerk, an Anti-slavery Catholic writes Cochin is a Catholic, as you will see by reading the preface to the American edition of the "Results of Slavery." No one but a Catholic could write that book, in the peculiar way it is written. Besides this. Cochin was knighted by the Pope for writing this very book. He is also a contributor to the Come spondent, a periodical having such contributors end proprietors as Dlontalembert, and the illustrious Duponloup, Bishop of Orleans ; the latter having or dered prayers in his diocese for the preservation of the "Union and the abolition of slavery. The Tribune, speaking of the alleged implica tion of certain custom-house officials in the recently.. developed contraband trade with Nassau, uses the following language relative to Mr. W. A. Smalley "We do not prejudge Mr. S., nor any of those implicated in the came ireneaction. Let each and all have a fair trial. l3ut if, they, or any of them, should be found guilty, we ask the court to Millet double the penalty on any of them who ever pretended to be Republicans that it does on the re sides. Be merciful, if you will, to avowed ColdPur heads, but mete out to every Republican the utmost penalty that the law allows." The English ladies are wearing plume, made of spun glass. Dr. Buckland, au English surgeon, has had the impudence to publish an article begging the gentlrin en to warn the lacier not to wear the plumes because they break into an almost impalpable pow. dt r, which may fall into the eyes of the wearers. Just as though such a trivial , con.ideration as that Were of any importance compared with the ad vantage to be derived from a plume, and just as though glass eyes were not easily to be procured. A glass blower publishes, in the Times, an indignant letter, declaring that the Doctor's caution 41 has a tendency to injure the glamblowing business." The Copperheads and rebels are having a fresh, ipaarn of hostility to Pliritanism. The Richmond Dispatch is shocked to see the Life of Oliver Orem• well for sale in that city. It thinks that this book should be accompanied by the life of Abraham coln and " the Life of the late lamented John Brown, whose soul is marching on in the track of prom• well." "In all soberness," says the Dispatch, "have the Yankee' taken Richmond, that the life of the hideous Puritan, Oliver Cromwell, is to be thrust into our faces at this season of the year t" The Invalide Busse, of St. Petersburg, states that a Russian citizen, named Mattianolf, having inserted in the journal Kolokol a letter addressed to the Em peror, in which he blamed the principles that guided the policy of the Government, has been condemned by the Council of the Empire to live years at the galleys, and to spend the remainder of his lffe In Siberia. The sentence hat been confirmed by the Emperor. A correspondent writes from New Mexico : It .ie minim to see how extensively connected by term. ly ties axe whole communities here. Every man we met yenned to be a relation of Col. Chavez. Two or three of these families like the Permit, Chavezee i and the Oteros, completely control New Mexico. The present delegate in Congress is a Peres ; an Otero was for three terms running. Gov. Connolly'a wife is a Pelee. The Cincinnati Gazette. says : Andrew Jackson Done'son, who ran for Vice President on the Ante. rican ticket in 1856, in in trouble, having said that be would not trust .1 - elf Davis farther than a blind mule could hick. He was arraigned for this, but let off; and when he returned home, he found that his rebel friends had stolen all his -- corn and bacon. Ha is very bitter in his denunciations of Confederates. The Boston Advertinr recommends the election of the Rev. Mr. Grimes, a colored clergyman, as chaplain of the Maseachusetts Legislature. The veil works and high character of this gentleman are not disputed. Poor Heenan suffers every indignity now. One paper denies that he has any science, another says he is deficient in pluck, a third intimates that he is a boasting, bouncing, big.boned humbug, and that he had received his just deserts. The Bronze Door at the Capitol. The new and splendid bronze door at the Capita, Very appropriately illustrated the history of Chris topher Columbus. The sixth and eighth panels of the door are the most attractive and interesting : The progressive navigator having returned to his own country is welcomed as a conqueror and e hero, and the populace, headed by the magnates of the realm, are greeting him as such. Irving says ' , The sovereigns sent him a letter, addressed to Don Christopher Columbus, our admiral of the ocean sea, and viceroy and governor of thejslands covered in the Indies, inviting him Ur Barcelona. As be drew near the place many of the youth ful courtiers and hidalgoes, together with the vast concourse of the populace came forth to meet and welcome him. This entry into this noble city has been compared tO one of those triumphs which the Romans were accustomed to decree to conquerors. First were paraded the In. thane, painted according to their savage passions, and decorated with their national ornaments of gold. After these were borne various kinds of live birds, together with stuffed parrots and animals of unknown species, and rare plants, supposed to be of precious qualities, while great care was taken to make a conspicuous display of Indian coronet*, bracelets, and other decorations of gold which might give an idea of the wealth of the newly discovered regions. After theme followed Coiner. bus on horseback, surrounded by a brilliant me. valcade of Spanish chivalry. The streets were almcst imp/unable from the countless multi. tude ; the windows and balconies were crowded with the fair; the very roofs were covered with spectators. It seemed as if the public eye could not be sated with gazing on these trophies of en un known world, or on the remarkable man by whom it had been discovered. There was a sublimity in this event that mingled a solemn feeling witn the public joy." The observer will notice that this de seription from Irving has been accurately carried Out by the artist. In the frames around the door the observer will find sixteen small statues representing the distin guished cotemporaries of Columbus—men who acted with a belief in him. Between the panels are pro jecting beads representing historians who have written on his veyage, from his own time to the pre sent, concluding with Irving and Prescott. Crown ing the door is a bust of Columbus himself. The ornaments around the door are chiefly emblematical of conquest and navigation. We have the heraldic emblem' of Europe, Asia, Africa, and Awed ca, and statues representing these nations. are eon spicucus features of the great external frame by which the whole is encircled. Tennysou's Alcaics. Cell Benson * writes to the Eming Post The English Laureate, in his "Attempts at Olarl sisal Metres in Quantity," contributed to the De• cember Corn/d/l, has strangely mistaken the Arch!. lesbian, or third Hoe of the Aleide stens s. It is an lambic dimeter eataleetio, with this peculiarity, that the third foot is always a spondee ; in other words, the fifth syllable must be long, and therefore an English imitation of it must have the fifth syllable accented. The exact model of the Arai lochian line, whether in English or Latin, whether inreference to accent or quantity, is supplied by the nand a of the three autumn months, "September. October. November." the three principal accents felling on the three WM. dle syllables, and the strongest accent of all on the fifth aNllable (the o of October), which in Tenni. eon', lines Is always short and unaoaented, e. g. " And bloom profuse and cedar arches," • ' And crimson. hued the stately palm trees." QUite a different metre, corresponding to Schlegel'u " Arion war der ?line Meister." in German, and to the minor old English poets, •• 3ly youth's first hope. my manhood's treasure." imitated by Bayard Taylor in A recent war lyric, Farewell. farewell. my bonnie darling." in some of these lines there iit no immure, after the third syllable, Whereas in the Arehilesbian the prin cipal mum is after the third syllable, that is to say, the third syllable must not be in the same word. [New Publications. Alexander Smith, the young Scottish poet who attracted so much attention a few years ago, by his "Life-Drama,' subsequently followed up by two other volumes, lately produced a book of Essays, written in the country, which he calls " Dream thor,.." There are a dozen of these essays, of va rious merit, it is true, but each shows the writer'. ability. Dreamthorp is the name of an imaginary ruralitylin Donnie Scotland, and the author ut• tremely happy in describing the place, the few peo ple whom he knows there (among whom the village doctor and the village clergyman take the lead, and are excellent men), the few incidents which agitate his own life, the books he reads, the thoughts he thinks. The essays which We prefer are those On the Writing of Essays, A Lark's Flight, Men of Letters, A Shelf on my Bookcase, Geoffrey Chaucer. Books and Gardens, and On Vagabonds. The story told in "A Lark's Flight" (pp. 104-115), shows how powerfully Mr. Smith can inagage the tragic el*. ment—how simply, too. " Dreamthorp" has been republished by T. E. Tilton 87, CO., Boston and is got up, in all respects, with the elegance for which that house; has long been distinguished.
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