TSCB FJEVBSS,
rOUKHXD DAILY (SUMDAYB BXOHPTKDI
BT JOH» W. FORHET.
OTVI3E' Bo 111 SOUTH POUBTH STREET
THE DAILY PRESS,
r<rn*> Owns Per Wsss. mj.tla to tho ««*«:
SitUod to B&lwcrihm out of the eltr »t Barns
nlnni Turks Dollars asi> Firrr
osißßt Os* Dollar ask Crsm tor
nn llosm. ißT.ri.tiT t. ** “• *»“ *•
»Un,“
tf »Mtlh.ta •'•" e . BKMr PRESBi
out »f the eltT*l POOR DOLLAR.
H ATSPS. U tl™”
CAKPETIIIGS.
mills.
ATWOOD,. RALSTON, & CO.,
MAA'UF AOTUKIK>- AKD Yv’-KOLESAIjE DEALERS [A
CARPETINGS,
OILCLOTHS,
MATTINGS, &c., &c.
WAREHOUSE, Sl» CUESTNVT STREET,
a>*’p ,
foaam r..r, .j ata-k street.
1864
1864.
ECHO _ MILLS,
SPRING,
germamowh, pa.
McCALLUM & CO.,
manufacturers, importers, and wholesale
DEALERS IK
O A 3&& ETITST C3-S,
OIL CLOTHS, AC.
Warehouse, 509 Chestnut Street,
OPPOSITE IK DEPENDENCE HALL. fel-tf
gPEOIAL NOTICE.
BET AH. I>EPASTMENT.
McCiU.LKM & CO.,
Beg leave to inform the public that they have leae-id the
old established Carpe' &iore,
NO. 519 CHESTNUT STREET,
OoppoUte Independence Hall, for
A MET AIL DEPART KENT,
Where they are bow opening a NEW STOCK of
IMPORTED AND AMERICAN CARPETS,"
Embracing the choicest patterns of
AXMINSTAB. ITAPSSTBT jCARPBTS.
ROYAL WILTON. B-'iD'SELi flAo-PATS.
VELVET. i VENETIANS-
Together with a fall assortment of everything pertain
ing to the Carpet Business. r< ! i-tr_
CLOTHING.
JjJDWABP F. KELLY,
JOH N SELL Tj
T.UIiOSS,
HAVE KEMOVED
FROM
L 42 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
ABOVE WALNUT,
TO
618 CHESTNUT STBBET.
i»a-tf _
DLAOK OASS. PANTS, $5.50,
3D At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK OAK!. PANTS, W. 50, At 704 MARKET Street
BLACK CABS, pasts, iS SO. At 704 MARKET Street
BLACK CASS. PANTS. «5 So, At 704 MARKET Street
BLACK CABS. PASTS, *5 50, At 704 MARKET Btreet
ORIGQ * VAN GUSTEN’S, No. 704 MARKET Btreet
SRIGG A VAE aUNTBN’S, No. 704 MARKET Street.
CRIGG * VAN GUNTEN’S, Eo. 704 MARKET Street
SRIGG A VAE GUNTEN’S, No. 701 MARKET Street
GBIGG A VAE GUNTEN’S, No. 704 MARKET Street
■e24-gm ■——
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
qeohgk gbant,
Ho. 810 CHRSTNUT STBKKT,
Haa now ready
A. LARGE 4ND COMPLETE STOCK
BESTS’ FURNISHING GOODS,
■Of Eli own Importation and manufacture.
His celebrated
“PBISE MEDAL SHIRTS,”
Manufactured ntder tha eupsrlntedence of
JOSH 7 TAGGRRT,
(Formerly of 01denberg & Taggart*)
Are the most perfect-fitting Shirts of the ago. _
HR* Orders promptly attended to, jalS-vriuk-Sm
JOHN O. AKRISON,
Ho>. 1 MMS s worth sixth surest.
hanofactueek of
THE IMPROVED PATTERN SHIRT,
HBST OUT BY J. BUKR MOOBE,
VISKUTW TO PIT AND QIVJ SATISFACTION,
Inwoiter and Wanufaeturer of
CJBNTLEMEN’S
ffUBNISHING GOODS.
K. 8.-All*rtiel<Ni madsltt*superiormannsr by h»a
t|j feogt the bwt mftiari»U.
t?ine shxbt manufactory. .
1? n, »^£S”]& o coto? shifts? *
they ma&e a speciality in their business. .
GB T4l^lsT^T H BT%lt?^-
Jal6-W Yonr doorsttelowthe^ntinental^
YARNS.
Y A R N S.
Ob hand mad constantly recelTlnc
ALL NOB. TWIST FBOM 5 TO 30. and
FILLING Noe. 10,ia, and 14.
gpttlbfcror Gottonades and Hosiery.
In a tort at present a beaatlflU article of
14 and 16 TWIST.
lmcrrganrnßP.Tts will And It their interest to glee me
a call.
Also on hand, and Aeent for the eale of the.
CHIOH A. B. AWD O JUTS OBAIN BAGS.
rTi Quantities of from 10Q to 10.000.
R. T. WHITE,
aia nobth thibd street.
OT- O o L .
On hands tnd coneifamonts daily arriTinc, of
TUB AND FLEECE,
Common to Foil Blood, cbolca and tllU*
WOOLEN YARNS, \
u to 10 ante. tne. on hand, and new enppliea doming
COTTON YARNS,
SfO>. 9 to 80s. of first-lass make*.
I, j,—JJJ notaber* and description! procured at one*.
ALEX. WHILLDIN A SONS,
lflll-lßUftt
JJOBEBT SHOEMAKER & 00.,
MorthMrt Corner of FODBTH and BACE Streets.
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOXiESA-IjE DRUGGISTS,
UFOBTEBS Ajn> DEALERS IS
FOBBISIf AIR) DOMESTIC
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS.
HANUFACTURBM ow _'
WHITE I.ei« AND ZINC PAINTS. PUTTY, Be.
AOBSTS FOB TXB OBLBBBATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
•al.r. ai4(Oßmmensupplied*t „ ___
W-ten VEKY LOW PBICHS FOB CASH.
gSMOVAL -JOHN C. BAKER,
DramcD.t. luu removed to 718 HABKET
Jt; attention i. aeked to JOHN O. BA
fig‘t ? 99; 8 COD-LIVES OIL. Having increased fact-
Uuw talUa UW establishment for manufacturing and
1? ' * a “-?£, 6 of fifteen yean* experience in
StfiSyfoy* brand of Oil has advantages over all
f&jni’Jßr 2 0 SP m i nellfS itself. Constant enpplie* are
tptainM tron the fisheries. fresh, pure, and sweet, and
moatcarefnl personal attention of the origi
££JE2P«!?& T * Tb* increasing demand and wide-spread
low, and afford great ad
ftf 191 •“ oll * in large quantities.
CABOtET niKNITUKE.
AND BID.
■OCRS ft CAMPION,
ng ajuTtlMiirlnx a superior article of
- BIUjIABd tables
ma.nn»<XiSd brail who k». SSl? h*
ttultHut flnlab of Huh Table,, tileM.pt,
Jutarm refer to thdr ntuowona oatrona tiurooruoa:
IkaValHL wls in fialn-T with tba efenroeUr of,h»V'
aaH t»
Corner of NEW.
In Warp. Bundle, and Cop.
on order,.
18 North FBONT Street.
_ Philadelphia.
DRUGS.
VOL. 7-NO. 158.
RETAII DRY GOODS.
1864.
COTTONS AT RETAIL.
We call the attention of Housekeepers to the
LARGEST STOCK OF COTTON GOODS
_ . Eto offered at retail in this city.
HaTinK purchased largely of these soods at the
COMPARaTIVISLY LOW PRICES
of las- month, "we can extend to our customers superior
inducvraentß, not only in the character of our assort
meat, hut
IS PRICES
Among onr extensive line of Cottons are to be found the
following popular makes of
4-4 Bleached Shirtings,
Wamsutta, WlUlamaville.
Semper Idem. A.ttaw*uic&a,
Rockland, Union,
New Jersey, Phenix, &c.
Tn Pillow-Case and Sheetings
Wa offer the following leading makes:
40-inch Bartalett, 6-4 P*pperill.
42-inch Waltham. 10-4 PepperiU,
§• 4 Bates. 10-4 Bates,
5-4 Boot W, oxtra heavy. And other makes.
ALSO,
9-4.10-4, and 11-4 UNBLEACHED SHEEPINGS.
Marseilles Counterpanes.
We can furnish these goods in all sites and dualities.
We have several lots in LOW-PRICED GOODS th*t are
FAB BELOW PRESENT IMPORTATION PRICE, and
are also prepared to furnish,inlarge quantities, the well
known
Lancaster, Manchester, and Honey-Comb
Quilts,
In 10-4.11 4, and 12-4 sizes
House-Furnishing Linen Goods.
LIVEN SHEETINGS, all widths.
TOWELS, from $2 to 17 per dozen.
NAPKINS, all Lines. *1,62.
Earn*ly 1; am ask, Power Loom, and other standard
makes of
Table Linen.
Persons about purchasing: Linen Goods would do well
to examine our stock. We invite comparison. Mo
trouble to show our goods.
COWPBETHWAIT & 00,
Northwest corner Eighth and Market Streets.
jalfi taw t»yl - . - .
SHEETINGIS,
SHIRTINGS, &c>,
By the Yard or Piece, at Lowest Market Prices.
UNBLEACHED MUSLINS.
IV 4 Wide Peperell Sheetings,
10-4 Wide Peperell Sheetings.
9-4 Wide Peperell Sheetings.
6- Wide Heavy Brown Mullins.
9-8 Unbleached of every make.
4-4 do. do. do.
7- and £ do. do. do.
BLEACHED MUSLINS.
10-4 and 9-4 Peperell Sheetings.
6-4 and 5 4 in all the good makes.
42 acd 40-inch Pillow Muslins.
4-4 WUliamsviUes, New York MUIb. Ac. , Ac.
TICKINGS.
Flannels for Winter and Spring Wear
Red, White, Blue, and Gray Twilled Flannels.
Drills and Linings for Ladies* and Tailors’ use.
Towels and Toweliugs—low-priced and fine goods.
Dinner Napkins, Damasks, Diapers, Ac.
J. N. Richardson, Sons, & Owden’s Fronting Linens
from 62 cents t 041.12.
BLANKETS.
Prices $4-59. $5, $6.60, $7.60. $B, $9, $ll, $l3, $l5, and
$l9, including every desirable kind, by the tingle pair
or quantiiy.
GRAY BLANKETS from $4 to $6.
WOOLENS.
Fine Fancy Cassimeres for best custom.
Black Doeskins and Cassimeres. t >
Goods adapted especially to Boys’ Wear.
Black Broad Cloths of superior makes.
Ladies’ Cloakinss of EVER? description.
Our stock of the above, in variety, extent, and Cheap*
ness, is probably unsurpassed by any.
TJP STAIRS DEPARTMENT.
Second-story Front Room devoted to Cloaks and Shawls.
We are closing out Winter Garments to make room for
Fpring Stock. We still have a fair assortment, and
buyers will be repaid by a visit. We continue to take
orders for Cloaks.
BOVS* CLOTHING ROOMS
IN SECOND STORY BACK BUILDING.
Jackets and Pants of Fancy Cassimeres.
Jackets and Pants ** West Point Cadet. ”
Jackets and Pants made to order.
Overcoats of every size at reduced prices.
We call attention to the quality and style of tills stock,
believing it to be strictly FIRST CLASS,
MEN’S CLOTHING MARK TO ORDER.
COOPER & CONARD,
S. B. CORNER NINTH AND MARKET STREETS.
jaK-smwft ■
Q.REAT REDUCTIONS,
VERY LOW PRICES,
Ai me are determined to close oot oar entire stock of
WINTER DRESS SO IDS
REGARDLESS OF COST.
CLOSING OUT FRENCH MERINOES at 75 cents.
CLOSING OUT FRENCH FOPLINS.
C-LOSIHG OUT SHAWLS.
CLOSIKG OUT CLOAKS.
All the leading makes of MUSLINS, Bleached and Un
bleached, 3 4, 7 8, 4 4, S-4, 6 i, H 9-i, and 10 4 wide,
at the
VERY LOWEST PRICES.
H. STEEL * SON.,
Noe. 713 and 715 North TENTH Street.
jaZI-gnm-dt: ;
HAINES’ MUSLIN LIST—CUT IT
OUT.—
Bleached Muslin at the low price of 16 cts.
Bleached Muslin, better, at IS and 20 cts-
Bieached Muslin, % wide\ at 23 cts. .
Bleached Mnalin, very heavy and go3d. at JSi CIS,
Bleached Muslin, extra heavy, at 28 ct#.
Bleached Muslm, full yard wide, at SO c.
Bleached Mnalin, much heavier- at 35c.
Bleached Mnalin, fine, (the Semper Idem,) at 35c.
Bleached Muslin of several qualities, at 27> a c.
Bleached Muslin of the verr finest, at 40c.
New York Mills. Wamsntta, Wiiliarnsville, Bay
Mills. White Rock, KasonviUe, and Utica
Unbleached Muslin, fine and thin at 20c.
Unbleached Muslin, % wide, at 25 cts.
Unßieached Muslin, much heavier, at 2Ss.
Unbleached Muslin, still better, atSl^c.
Unbleached Muslin, full- yard Wide, at osc.
Unbleached Muslin, much lo&vier. akol/aC*
Unbleached Mnslin, extia heavy, at S7laC.
Unbleached Muslin, fine, at 40c.
Unbleached Mnslin, the very best made, at4-jc.
Pocasset.. 9-8 Lawrence, Starks, Atlantlcs, 6-4 Lyman
Bates, and many others of the best makw. One case
good bleached Sheeting, fall 2>£ wide, at sLlo. Also.
VAe and Z% yards wide, both in Bitched Un
bleached. Theiabove prices are veryW, according to
the times. GRAKVILLIs B BAiMxis.
fcl-mwfe 4t 1013 MABKET Et., above Tenth.
XjVDWIN HALL & CO., No. 26 SOUTH
J-J SECOND, have on hand a Urge stock of SILKS.
■\yhich they are Bellies lose than the present cost of im-
p '" l * tl °i'j3la C k Corded Silks from *1 IS to to. SO.
Colored Corded Bilks. . ..
Black and Colored Moire Antiaues,
. Fancy plaids and Figured Silks.
Colored Poult de Boies.
Solid-colored Figured Silks.
Black Figured Silks.
White Silks, for Wedding Dresses,
WMte Corded Bilbs.
While Poult de Soies.
’ B.’&ck Arm ores.
Black Poult de Soies.
Black Groe de Bliiaes,
Black Tait'eta Silks.
QIVIL AND MILITARY CLOTH
HOUSE.
WILLIAM T. SNOBSMSS,
»o a* SOUTH SECOND, end S 3 STEA'WBEBRT
StievU, is happy to > site that he has laid ih an exieasiye
itoci of-CHOICE GOODS, inch as:
CIVIL LIST.
Black Cloths.
Black Doeskin*.
Black Cassimeres,
Elegant Coatings.
Billiard Cloths,
B&s&tfeUe Cloths,
Trimmings,
Beaverteens,
Cords and Velveteens,
We advise our friends to
stock is cheaper than we ca:
XPD'WIN HALL & CO., NO. 26 SOUTH
JEi SECOND Street, keep a fall stock of Staple Goods.
Linen and Cotton Bheettnis.
Linen and Cotton Pillow Muslins.
New York Mills and WiUlamsviHe Muslins.
Wamsnttaa and White Roek do
Water-twist Mnslins.
Damask Table Linens.
Marseilles Counterpanes,
Fine Blankets.
Towels* Napkins, «e.
r<REAT REDUCTIONS—VERY LOW
\J PRICES.—As we are determined to close out our
entire atoci of Winter Dress Goods
enure «« REGARDLESS OP GOST.
Closing out French Meriuoes at 75 cents.
Closing out French Poplins.
Closing out Shawls.
Glorias out Cloaks. . . -
AU the leading makes of Muslins. Bleached ana Un
bleached, H 4, 7*B. 4-4. 6*4. 6 4. S-4, 9-4. and iO-4 wide.
“ YEKV L ° WES * VSIa * S - H. STKBL & SON)
Noe. 713 and 71S N. TENTH street.
l<la* CHESTNUT STREET.
E. M. NEEDLES
Offers at Low Price* a large assortment oi jjj
LACX GOODS.
XMBBOIDBBIEB. HAWDKSBOHIBFS. »
VBILB. AMD WHITB GOODS. 2
Salted to the aeaaon, and of tho latest style*. 9
cn
A largo rarioty of
UNBBBBLEEVES.
Of tbe moat recent designs, and otter good*
suitable for party purposes.
io»a chestnut strb:
B^MMte^^tanneU-TickinKs-Towds— Diapere-
SRt Ctotha-Pamaak.-Napklnß^bl.
SHIRTINGS of every good make. "Wide.
Bleaihed. aSd Brown SHBBTiads By the yard or p.ec*
Pillow Casings, Bleached and Brown Mubllbb oi every
width and quality.
Materials for fine Shirts. COOpKR & CONABD,
jalfi B. B. eoraer NINTH and MABKKT Et«.
pABBON 01L.—500 BARBELS OF
V tj ie most approyed brands, In atore and for salsby
U9-lo" WM. KiHQ. UT ABOH BtrsA
1864.
M O V AL.
Offer to the Trade generally an entirely fresh line of
OF IMPROVED MAKE .AND FINISH,
Of their own direct importation,
Selected in person in the different markets of
jaso-“t GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND !
jyjELLOR, BAINS, & MELLOR,
Nos. -40 and 43 NORTH THIRD STREET,
IMPORTERS OF
HOSIERY,
SMALL WARES;
* AND ••
WHITE Gr O O I> S.
MANUFACTURERS OF
SHIRT FRONTS.
fe2-3m
1864. spring, 1864.
Ho. 617 CHESTNUT AND No. 614 JAYNE STREETS,
Have now in Store their SPRING IMPORTATION oj
BLACK AND FANCY SILKS,
SATINS, GLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS,
ALSO,
WHITE GOODS, LINENS. EMBROIDERIES,
AND DACES.
A large and handsome assortment of
SPRING AND SUMMER SHAWLS.
BALMORAL SKIRTS,
Of aU grade., Ac. Which they offer to the Trade at the
LOWEST PRICES jaSO-3in
IJHE ATTENTION OF
Is called t 6
SAXONY WOOLEN CO. All-wool Plain Flannel#.
TWILLED FLANNELS,
Various ma»es In Gray, Scarlet, and Dark Bins
PRINTED SHIRTING FLANNELS.
PLAIN OPERA FLANNELS.
- PREMIERE QUALITY” Snnare and Lon* Shawls.
WASHINGTON MILLS Lon* Shawls.
BLACK COTTON WARP CLOTHS,
15, 16, 17, 18. 19, 20, 21. 22 or.
FANCY cassimeres and satinetts.
BALMORAL SKIRTS, all Grades.
BED BLANKETS, 10-4. 11-4, 12-4,184.
COTTON GOODS. DENIMS, TICKS. STRIPES, SHIRT
INGS, Ac., from rations Mills.
lel-mW2t
J.RMT AND NAVY,
Blue Clotha,
Sky-blue Cloths,
Sky-blue Doesklne,
Dark Blue Doeskins.
Dark Blue Beavers,
Dark Blue Pilots,
3-4 and 6-4 Blue Flannels*
Scarlet Cloths, • t .
Mazarine Blue Cloths,
i come early* as onr pnMft*
m puTcaaae host. jao-lm
CURTAIN GOODS.
NEW CERTAIN COBBS,
WINDOW SHADES.
AND
LACE CUfiTAINS.
I. E.WALRAVEN,
(Successor to W H. Carryl.)
MABONIO HALL.
»10 CHESTNUT STREET.
IMPORTERS.
BENNERS & BOLTON,
REMOVED TO THE SE3OND STORY OF
HO. 833 CHESTNUT BT.,
WHITE GOODS,
LACE SOODS, and
embroideries,
DRY-GOODS JOBBING HOUSES.
EDMUND YARD & CO.,
BILK ASD FANCY DRY GOODB,
OOXSI3TIHO OF
DRESS GOODS,
OF ALL KINDS;
AND
DXCESS TRIMMINGS.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
THE TRADE
OUR STOCK OF
DECOUBSEY, HAMILTON, & EYAKfi,
33 LETITIA Street, and
33 Bonth EBOITO Street.
Ja6-wfrm2m
FANCY CASSIMERES,
DOESKINS,
SATINETS, &C.
ALFRED H. LOVE,
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
aig CHS3TKPT BTBB3T.
riRAIN BAGS.—A LARGE ASSORT
v3T MBN'T of GRAIN BAGS,
In various sires, for sale Os BARCROFT & CO..
Nos. *O5 and W MARKET Street.
CTAFFOBD BBOTHEBS’ AMEBIC AN
O SPOOL COTTON, in White, Black, and all colors.
In. quantities and assortments to 81 ?^, purchasers. The
attention of dealers 1, ewecmny
Drr Goods Commission Merchants,
»»1 CHESTNUT Street.
ials-lm»
gHIFLEY, HAZARD, A HUTCRIN*
BO *' a*. iu» ohsbwtot BTaim.
OOM3USSIOM MEKCHAKTB.
yOll THI SAjLS O?
. PHIIiADBXiFHIA-MADII GOODS,
s tM-9m
gAIiS I SA«S l BAGS I
SIBW AND SECOND HANLf.
auagn, smuii *M wnwi
BAGS,
BaisluUT on Ult
JOHN T. BAILEY A OOe,
So. 11* KOSTH WOK* «*KBB*.
am- woo* sacks *o» balk
RADIK*’ »URS.
RADIES’ FANCY FURS.
JOHK FABEIBA,
Be. (ID Asca STSSBC. BILOW BQHTK.
>nd SsnuMaref
0»
iiADIEB’ FANCY IHBS.
Xi uuonaut et taxct rcsa ioi uaiti «* oui>
lk kvhwliu. uiudiiuiiinnT anhtrltat
rtUtw fMUoaabUdiulutht wmatMUOI. AUaoli
it th« HiaMann' kl«m, lot «uk. Aaita*. aluat
Anm» »«*ll- QtT-t»
PAINTISOS AND BNGBAYINGS,
gLEGANT MIBBOBS,
A LABGI ASSOKTHBNT.
MEW BNQBAVIHBB,
vine on riramoia
JUST-ENOBIVBD.
EABEE’B OALLEBIESj
»1« OHKSTaUT BTKMT. aoM-M
ac\ CENTS PER POUND TAX ON
TOBACCO. The Government is About to put a
tax of 40 eestsper ponnd os Tobacco.
Ton can save 50 per cent, by
You can eave 50 per cent, by
You can save 60 per cent, by
You can save <5O per cent, by
Buying UpW at DBaN’S, No. 336 CHESTNUT.
Bnvics l'o(f at DEAN'S,' No.' 33 6 CHESTNUT.
Bnyiac now aIPEiNJS, No 335 CHESTNUT.
Baling now at DEAN’S, No. 335 CHESTNUT.
Prim® Navy Tobacco, 70, 75 aad 50c. per lb. _
Prime Cavendish Tobacco, to, 76 ana&Vpe* ft-
Prime Flounder Tobacco, 70, 76 and SOc. per ft.
Prime Congress Tobacco, 65, 70 and 75c. per ft-
Prime Fig and Twist Tobacco, 75 and 80c. per lb.
DEAN sells Old Virginia Navy.
DEAN sells Qld Virginia Sweet Cavendish.
DEAN sells Old Virslbia Roa*h andßeady.
DEAM sells Old Virginia Plain. Cavendish.
TVEAN aella Old Virginia Congress.
DEAN sells Old Virginia Fig and Twist.
BE&.N sells Old Virginia Smoking Tobacco.
DEAD'S Kanawha Fine Cat Chewing Tobacco
BEAU’S Kanawha Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco
Cannot he Equaled.
a Cannot be Eaualed.
BEAD’S Cigars are superior to all others.
BEAD’S Cigars are superior to ail others.
He raises his own Tobacco, on his own plantation in
Havana He sells his own Cigars at his own store. Do.
835 CHESTNUT Street. Philadelphia.
BBaN’S Minnehaha Smoking Tobacco is manufactured
from pure Virginia Tobacco, and contains no dangerous
concoctions of Weeds. Herbs, and Opium.
Pipes. Pipe*. Meerschaum Pipes. Brier Pipes. Bon
Pipes, Bose Pipes, Mahogany Pipes, Soboy Pipes. Apple
Pipes,Cherry Pipes, Gutta Pipes. Clay Pipes, and other
Pipes. And and get your Pipes, Tobacco.
Cigars. &C.. at DEAN’£ No. 336 Chestnut Street. And
there you will see biß Wholesale and BetaU Clerks go
WiS2?SS!®RSI?SIK3a, el. their Tobacco.
Cl«a»TPtpes. • f r «® BE AH’S, No. 335 CHEST 3UT
Street. They kaorr 9NA.91 the beet sad cheapest,
jalfl-tf
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1864.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1864,
Our Mineral Territories.
The subject of our mineral Territories is,
in a variety of forms, again crowding on
the attention of the journalist. Emigration
from the frontier States has, of late, taken
a new impulse,-and from week to week we
hear inspiriting accounts of new mining en
terprises and discoveries, or of a new route
to Idaho and Nevada, hearing upon the
grand prospect of a railroad to the Pacific,
tor which the growth and resources of our
mining regions are constant arguments and
appeals. This theme has also an interest to
the struggle through which the nation is
passing ; for the undeveloped and rich lands
of the far West, •which are yet to be
explored and setted, must afford an outlet
to the spirit of adventure excited by the
war; and a means of expansion by which
some of its worst effects may be dissipated
in the new future which these virgin lands
spread out to emigration. They are. a
splendid assurance that the country can-
not retrograde—that, instead of being over
grown, the Union has not yet com
pleted itself. While the war takes
off large numbers of our able-bodied
population, and is being fought to a success
ful issue, after great cost of life and money,
the Territories are steadily growing, and
opening to us new communities and new
wealth. We have a new treasury, which
Mr. Chase has not touched, and which the
country has liaidly begun to appreciate.
While we are hard at war to win back a
half dozen States, there are another hall
dozen ("perhaps a dozen ) which lie forgotten
—States which do not need the sword and
cannon-ball to win, but only the emigrant
train, the pick-axe, and the spade. New
States will ere long be wedded to the Uaion
with Golcondas for their dowry. Nevada
is already nominated for the Union, and
other Territories are growing to respectable
numbers and condition
connecting California with the Northwest,
towns, cities, and States would be bom out
of the great interlying gold territory. West-
ward the “ star of empire” still takes its
way, unmindful of the war; or, as though
the war were only a kindred step in pro
gress, and, conquering the South for free
dom and free labot, were simply winning
another El Dorado, which there are already
hands enough to mine. Whatever ruin it
may be alleged the war has inflicted, it is
certain that the country was never so con-
fident of its resources; that no Administra
tion before, even in the most opportune
times of peace, has given so much encou
ragement to our territorial interests. Doubt
less, at no f ormer time has the country itself
so ■well understood the subject. The Pacific
Railroad, which, when the war broke out,
was by some postponed as a very remote
speculation, has become a settled project.
The vast future of the country is ample to
compensate, and the nation proves its ability
to carry on a war and a peace at the
same time. There is, of course, a limit
even to patriotic enthusiasm and enterprise,
where it is well to observe prudence and
economy. We cannot put the rebellion down
at once, and will not build a Pacific Railroad
in a day, and make new States by the hour.
This, however, will not disturb the fact that
the nation has a providential reserve in its
Territories and their widely-branchinginte
rests, which must prove in time more than
a balance for all the evils of war.
Of the necessity of encouraging emigra
tion our Government has been long aware,
and the subject has been frequently recom
mended to Congress. The public men of
the West have not been slow to inform
themselves of the proposed Pacific road in
all its probable bearings, and to give their
grand project a proper start and direction.
In the meantime the Territories are organiz-
ing. After the war. emigration from Europe
into the North and West; emigration from
North and West into the South; and from
the South and Southwest into the territorial
neighborhood—this promises to be apart
of the national programme. The Pacific
railroad will, in a great measure, attract and
compel this general emigration. After a
general revolution of-opinion, society, and
people, such movements must necessarily oc
cur in a country so young and great as ours.
There is another reason for the establish
ment of a Pacific railroad—the all-eflective
one of competition. Observing how the
United States drew off all the emigration of
Euxope, and has monopolized an overwhelm
ing part of the trade, labor, and interests of
the Continent, the British Canadian authori
ties have for some time contemplated to run a
railroad to the Pacific along the boundary
line of the. British and American territories,
thus diverting trade and emigration from the
Union, and making ns dependent to a very
considerable extent on Great Britain.
While Secretary for Foreign Afiairs, Sir
Edward Lytton Btjlwer strongly ad
vised such an enterprise, as securing the
best route from London to Pekin and Jed
do, and the best means of colonizing Bri
tish territory. The Union has far more in
terest in a Northern road to the Pacific, and
a dozen times more facilities and practicable
means for its construction. It is necessary
that British America should be first depend
ent upon the United States. To divert
Western trade and population to the British
possessions, great amounts of Canadian and
English capital are already invested.
How we shall regulate the settlement of
our mineral lands is another question worthy
of consideration. In a pamphlet of some
research, Mr. Edgar Conkling earnestly
advocates the Benton policy for their sale
and development. This policy is, in brief,
the freehold, as opposed to the tenant
system. The latter, he argues, has been
a proverbial failure in interests of' every
kind. Mexico is endowed with every ele
ment essential to a great and prosperous na
tion ; but, still holding to its old Spanish
mining laws, made three hundred years ago,
to support the Spanish nobility through the
labors of an oppressed and conquered
people, the vast wealth of the Mexican
mines has been neglected, for the want of
encouragement to miners. Even now, if
the Mexican Government would decree the
minerals to the soil, and give away its public
lands as rewards of patriotism, it would soon
show five times its former greatest produc
tiveness. Mr. BKNTONfin 1833, criticised the
policy of concentrating into our hands the
possession of the mines and salines:
* 4 This system was adopted in 1807. Fifteen years
have since elapsed, and certainly fifteen years i f an*
nual experience is sufficient to test the vice or vir
tue of ail money-making schemes. What has been
the fruit of all this monopolizing and leasing sys
tem 1 H&T6 any leases been taken 1 Yes, many.
Has any lead been dug? Yes, millions of pounds
weight. Have any rents been paid 1 No, not a dol
lar —not one cent,” .
11 No improvement can be made at a mine, except
by sinking shafts, opening galleries, providing ven
tilators and hydraulic engines, and constructing
permanent furnaces; not one of which things has
been done at a public mine, or ever will be done by
a tenant or lease, for Tears.
11 This spirit has had its free range with mineral
lands of the United States, where no improvement
has been made, no rent paid, and great injury done
in the destruction of timber, and in ravaging the
Ground in search of minerals. Not even a mine
iscovered. Of the fifty or sixty public mines enu
merated in the repoit from the war Department,
not one was known as a mine at this time.”
Mr. Conklin g quotes the example of
England, which, even in the time of Mary,
gave np its mines to the skill, capital, and
industry of individuals, with the result that
has aided greatly in making a small island
one of the greatest Empires. The evils of
the tenant system in California Mr. Conk
ling complains of, and. says :
14 There are many who can see the propriety of the
Government selling farming lands at one dollar and
i twenty-five cents an acre, or disposing of lands un
der homestead laws, that are worth twenty times
; that to the farmer, but who cannot see the propriety
I of selling at public sale, to the highest bidder, to ac
tual mining settlers, the rioh mining lands of the
[ Itocky mountain country.
> “In either case, the lands are only valuable, be
cause ot the capital and labor used in developing the
; sell, or the minerals. One is as much entitled to be
favored by the Government as the other.
44 Or, if we mark a distinction* the miner of the
Rooky mountain country, away from society and
from Lome, developing a metal that does more to
stimulate every other interest of the country than
any other product of labor, ia entitled to the highest
favor.”
Hitter, the historian of California, pre
sents an argument against the tenant system
in the fact that men of steady and prudent
habits leave the State with more or less
money, while the dissipated and thriftless
remain:
“ (The only means of fixing and increasing the for
mer ciars, and giving them the proper influence in
society is to give them permanent homes, Itia one
of thn great evils of the tenant*at-will system, that
there is little security lor the investment of capital.
Land should be the main stock of wealth, and the
main basis of credit, and the increase of its value
with increasing population, should be OU6 of the
main sources of riches in any new country; but, of
this hind of property the mining districts are de
prived by an unwise policy.”
The same writer says :
“ The only way to equalize the taxation is to sell
the mineral lands, and oompel the miner to pay a
tax upon his mine, as well as the farmer upon his
farm. The offer of the mineral lands of the State,
comprising about ten millions of acres, for sale,
would present ore of the greatest opportunities in
the world for large numbers to secure great and cer
tain wealth at a small immediate outlay. * * *
From the moment it is known that the mineral
lands will be sold, California’s regeneration will be
gin. * * » * After the sale, titlea being secure,
comfortable houses will be built, wives will be sent
for, mining will be conducted economically and
steadily, claims will be worked which now will not
pay, our population will increase, and the
yield of the mines. * * * * The question of the
sale of the mineral lands is, then, the question of the
future of the State.”
The development of our mineral lands
bears an obvious relation to our currency.
A writer estimates that in the last ten years
property in the United States has increased
morev-.than two hundred times faster than
coin.' Mr. Conkling says: “ The increased
commerce of the country, and greater issue
of paper money and Government securities,
require, if possible, that we should preserve
a greater relative proportion, of gold and
silver.” He likewise claimsthat California,
with its sixty millions per annum, saved
our country from bankruptcy by an exten
sion and increase of our railroads, com
merce, and manufactures, and, by so en
riching the people, enabled them, to so
grandiy support the Government in break
ing down the rebellion. As some of the re
sults of the policy urged, he claims in
creased emigration, wealth, revenue, en
richment of the currency, neutralization of
Mormon power, and gradual dissipation of
Indian troubles and expense; creation of
railroads between the Pacific and the West
and Southwest, and increased valuation of
Government lands generally.
With a railroad
“It would stimulate every interest of the country,
giving greater value ana saleabmty to property,
and, by increasing the boats of taxafion.it would
render our war debt and its taxation light, lessen
exohange and interest, sustain Government securi
ties at par, and if needed to anextent equal to the
debt of England, prevent financial crisis, and Induce
a greater foreign immigration into the North, to
compensate for the large migration that must take
place from the Northern to the Southern States as
we gam possession of the States now in the rebel
lion.”
Whatever opinion may be formed of the
arguments here set forth, Mr. Conkling
has certainly presented a view of much in
terest. Necessarily, in a great war, the na
tion must move slowly in matters not im
mediately connected with the main work.
We have every evidence that the subject of
our mineral lands is included in the thought
ful attention of out Government, which,
with an unprecedented task before it, has
entertained such judicious and expansive
views of the public welfare.
We notice by late English paper* that the Shef
field manufacturer! are alive to the importance of
manufacturing iron of auoh superior quality as to
stand tbe aevere tests of late applied by the Eng
lish Admiralty, they oonseat to its use in
tbe armor plates which are now being prepared for
the enormous vessels they are constructing.
In a late trial, at Portimouth, of armor plates
manufactured by the well-known house of Charles.
CammeU4c Co., of the Cyclops Works, Sheffield, it
was found that after the 6>f-ineh plates made by
them had received the severe pounding ot ten to
twelve shots from a 63-pounder, smooth bore,
With 16 pounds of powder, at 300 yards distance,
and : mostly concentrated on a space of 18 Inches
horizontally, by 34 inches vertically, no break be
yond three surface cracks was discernible, after
the removal of the plates from the vessel’s side,
and subjecting them to the most careful scrutiny.
This was the more noteworthy from the fact that six
of these ballß fell in close proximity to two bait
holes, one ball, in fact, tailing directly upon the
bolt*head; and yet so great was the homogeneity and
toughness ol the metal, that no crack was created,
starting from either ol these holes. The unequalled
success of Messrs. OamtneU & Co., in thus produ
cing, at their first effort, armor-plates which with
stood the most severe tests demanded by the Admi
rallty, has, we learn, not only earned for them the
highest order of merit, “ A X,” (ol which there are
eight, ranging from “A 1 ”to “ A 4,” and “B 1 ”to
“B 4,”) but also the more substantial order
for a.ooo tons for the Government use. The success
of this enterprising house, which has been so long
and favorably known amongst our railroad men in
the United States, as manufacturers of springs of a
superior quality for railway use, as well as oast and
bar steel of all descriptions, is another instance of
the rule that honest industry and prudence, joined
to a determination to excel In the particular branch
ol trade which a firm may have chosen to embark
in, almost invariably bring with them the ■ most lu
crative results.
Upon the successful tests of their armor-plat© by
tne English Government, a* we ate informed by tUe
Sheffield papers, Messrs. Oammsll & Uo. gave a ban"
quet to some 2,000 to 3,000 of their workmen in their
machine shops. From the various speeches made
on the occasion we gather the information that the
Cyclops works, established by Mr. Oammell, beside
the Midland Railway, Sheffield, in 1844, covered a
little over one aere ol ground; now more than thir
ty-two acres are covered in its various works, em
ploying from 2,000 to 3.000 workmen. No less than
346,000 pounds (about 167 tons) of railway springs
have been produced in one week at this establish
ment ; whilst ordnance of cast-steel, of the largest
calibre, cast steel shot and shell, cast-steel rails, bars
and forgings, of every description, and cast-steel
files, all faU within the soope of their every-day em
ployment. Their eight large rolling-mills, we learn,
enable them to produce armor-plates, of the most
approved quality, up to forty feet in length and
twelve inches in thickness; and whilst they former
ly considered an ingot of cast-steel weighing six or
seven hundred weight a heavy job, they are now
daily sending out ingots of as many tons, and are
preparing to make ingots of forty tons weight.
The uses of cast-steel seem to be so rapidly in
creasing, that we venture the assertion that in a
very few years the principal forgings of our mer
chant and war steamers will be made of it entire
ly. For when it is considered that cast-steel per
fectly homogeneous and partially decarbonized, so
as to bend double cold, can be made into the most
difficult forgings for marine engines and locomo
tives, which will have a tensile strength more than
double that of the best iron used for such purposes,
its value is at once demonstrated; for not only can
great increase of strength be 'gained, but much de»
crease in weight, Remaps in nothing is cast-steel
so likely to be used as in rails. All iron rails lami
nate, split, and break. In stations where much
switching is done, and where the breaks are con
stantly applied, and engines are constantly passing
and repaesing, the rails are so rapidly destroyed
that in some cases they have to be relaid every
twelve months. Now, it 1b well known that oast
ateel does not laminate, and is not liable to split or
break like iron, and thus far the experience of the
Ec slash roads has been that cast-steel rails will out
wear iron from six to ten times. Some of our rail way
men to have taken up the idea that because a
tacrn**} of floe (w.a> .o^' lu rro.ty
weather if roughly handled, 1} nature of all
cast steeh&No idea Is more fallacious, past-steel,
if rightly adapted for the purpose required, is far
less likely to break than iron, by variation of tem
perature, as its expansion and contraction is much
less. Rails made or oast-steel should be made of a
very tough quality of metal, and not so highly con
verted sb that for tools, and if properly made may
be bent at right angles cold.
Their cost, we are told, is only about double that
of best iron, and they may certainly be relied upon
as enduring many times the wear and tear of iron';
and we must confess our surprise that so few rail
ways seem to have realized the importance of this
description of rail in the United States, whilst the
English roads are applying them so generally. In
the matter of cast-Bteeltyregreaterprogressappears
to have been made here, as most of our leading roads
a;e now using them, whilst the English and Frenoh
roads are rapidly discarding the iron tyre and taking
to oast-steel, because they have been found to wear
from eight to ten times as long as iron. The differ
ence in wear [arises from tne fact that iron tyre
will seldom bear turning down over twice, and in
reality is of but little value after once turning;
whilst cast-atee), being more homogeneous, harder,
and non-laminating, will run before turning from
three to five times more mileage than iron, and may
be depended upon for nearly the same amount of
mileage after each turning as before it went into the
lathe tbe first time. We invite an earnest inquiry
i!V o the use of cast-steel, believing much economy
will Msult fromih
Armor Plates.
Death oe Governor Gamble. —Gov. Hamilton
R. Gamble, of Missouri, whose death is reported,
was appointed Provisional Executive of that State
at a most critical period, with the hope that he
would be able to pacify the State and a)hty the ex
asperations of faction; but his course by no means
justified this expectation. Whatever may have
been Governor Gamble’s intentions, he was from
the first unfortunate in his selection of advisers and
subordinates, allying himself in almost every in
stance with those who, whatever their professions,
have shown themselves in every public act-to be in
fact conditional loyalists. As a necessary result the
radically-loyal men of Missouri have opposed Gam
ble and his policy, and there have been dissensions
and criminations where there should have been har
mony and earnest cooperation.
One of the latest movements of Governor Gamble
was his attempt to obtain control of the State mill
tia, with the design, as was alleged, of obstructing
the radical policy. In some cases, the militia was
actually employed against the loyal citizens in f svor
of slavery and the border bushwhacking “ conserva
tives.”
Governor Gamble was a brother-in-law of Attor
ney General Bates, and before the war, as after it,
was a conservative in politics.
Two Venetians had a serious quarrel, reoently
and agreed to settle their differences by an American
duel. They drew lots, and he who drew the shortest
straw was to blow out his own brains—a duel per
formed solo\ and without seoonde. The unlucky man
retired to shoot himself at home. The fortunate
hero went to the caf6 and had a “ poncho." Before
he had finished it, in walks his adversary, or bis
ghOßt. “Not dead 1” angrily askea punch-drinker.
“No," replied the other, “the police hRV6 rdfawa
me a shotting certificate."
NEW IOBK CITY.
(Correspondents of The Frea,.]
New York, Feb. 2,1384.
THE GREAT FAIR.
The mammoth fair in aid of the United State!
Sanitary Commission hot become a matter ,of ab
sorbing speculation, not only in business, but in
social circles. Flora MoFilm «ty i« bard at work
with crochet and worsted needles, ■< sharps,” “ be
tween*,” and helix-eyed; and sumptuous pin
cushions, and every variety of what the female mind
comprehends under the term “things,” arc being
created by her fair fingers expressly for the ocession.
Laura Matilda and Oushalian Crusbit are likewise
wearying their delightful sapphire eyes over fabrics
and material utilities, costly in device and execu
tion. Indeed, there ia quite a patriotic and benevo
lent mania observable among the female members of
our best society; a mania, too, which promisee fine
financial results.
Besides this, amateur theatricals will contribute
to the same fund, and “ Supetfiuous Lags, the vete
ran on the stage,” otherwise known as Mr. Wallaok,
is to have the supervision thereof. Altogether, it
will be a grand affair; and it wiU be worthy of this
great metropolis, always providing that the Com
mon Council can be nudged off, and prevented from
giTing a ball on behalf of the occasion, and George
Bancroft can be dissuaded from delivering an open
ing address. New Jersey Is to join Now York, and
many venerable fossils and specimens derived from
her existing political Dark Ages will be received.
The Fire Department will be represented in the Fair;
so wiU the Police Department, the Public Schools,
and the Press. The committees call for contribu
tions from every trade, business, and profession, not
excepting bakers, shoemakers, or green-grooere.
From this statement goihe idea of the heteroge
neous collections maybe gleaned,«nd of the vast
proportions which the Fsir is to iwirume.
The Fair is to be held at Palaoe Garden, a spot
bopored by the associations of Oremome Gardens
and traveUipg circuses. The plan reminds one of
travellers’ stories of Oonetantlnopolitan bazaars. In
little roomy bins, all styles of fabrics and articles of
taste and utility are to be stored, either upon sale or
exhibition. Artists, publishers, and authors are to
contribute their peculiar wares. Every department
Of mechanics, science, and art will contribute its
productions. In fact, the Fair will be an exhaustive
exposition of the productive powers of the North.
Old curiosity-shops will occupy odd oorners, where
dust and cobwebs, and a reasonable amount of
grime,maybe expected to accrue. A bookstall,
lull of rare old volumes, thumbed and dog-eared, is
to be established. A picture-gallery will be here;
a maobine-ehop there; here, coffee and cakes; yon
der, slippers worked by the women of America, horse
blankets, nubias, patent gridirons, toys, cloaks—
everything and anything—just as though the curi
osity-shops, and monts de piete of the country, and
half the bazaars of Stamboul, were emptied here of
their contents. **
THE CARNIVAL OF HORROR.
The record of the psst week has been blotched
with the blaek, sprawling spots of crime and horror,
to which we can never get exaotly reconciled, how
ever old-fashioned they may be. After tbe lull of
the penultimate week, the storm of fatality which
Monday inaugurated has rattled our nerves with no
little severity. On that day a negro shot a woman
dead, then blew out his own brains, Since then, an
explosion in Maiden lane has literally broken one
man to death, burnt the eyes out of another, and
chaired him fatally. The building ,in which this
occurred was burnt out. A brace of policemen
pacing up and down before the battered doors, a
stagnant scent of burnt wood, shattered windows
all about—these are left to teU the tale. Maiden
lane is a volcano. Now and then an eruption takes
place, and every hair in the neighborhood stands up
at an angle of confirmed horror. It is the street of
fireworks and things inflammable. A few years
ago one of these pyrotechnic craters blazed up, and,
blowing one man through the window, cent a rocket
stick through another. It is a neighborhood of ex
plosions, sending a periodical deputation of poor,
cindery, charred-up men to the hospitals, and now
and then one to the dead-house. The Mayor and
Fire Marshal are looking after the matter now, and
we shall soon have a report of the amount of powder
over which the business portion of the city has been
smoking at ease.
Another characteristic affair was the shooting of a
well-known bill-poster, in front of his own door, by
an outraged husband, stung to madness by the
shameless infidelity of his wife. The shot proved
instantaneously fatal, and the poor wretch then es
sayed to sacrifice the female debauchee before fol
lowing his victim. In this portion of the plan he
failed. The woman eluded him, and before he could
pursue be was in the clutahes of the police, At his
examination she exhibited the most vicious spirit
toward the man she had destroyed ; showing no
compunction for her own aots, and very little feeliug
for the partner in her crimes.
Still the ball went rolling on. On Friday evening
a man was slung-shotted and left lying In the mid
dle of Broadway. On Friday night, in Water street,
one of the vile localities in which Judge McOunn’s
“ innocent people” reside, one man was stabbed to
death, and another desperately beaten. On Satur..
day evening a warehouse came rattling down, and
crushed a man to jelly.
Such have been the main features in the carnival
of horrors. The minor fillings-in have not been ex
traordinary : an attempt to fire a tenement-house,
and consume its occupants; thehoillngof a German
in a soap factory, and a little scattering of prizes in
the awful lottery Of Accidental Death. Robberies
are on the inorease; pickpockets have prematurely
opened the spring season, and divorces grow uoplea
ssntly numerous. The story of the week has surely
been sensational enough, to say the least of it.
TAX ON BANKS AND INSURANCE OOMFA-
The Receiver of Taxes has, duriEg the week, made
an incursion upon the banks and insurance compa
nies, for the purpose of collecting the State tax
claimed to be due upon their investments in United
States securities. The Marshal levied right and
left, and, in most cases, received immediate pay
ment. Some of the corporations design contesting
the point; and a string of oases as interminable as
thatoi Jatndycevs. Jarndyce will worry the courts
from the Superior to the Appeals. The amount
thus secured to the county treasury is about one and
a half millions.
POLITIC AD,
There Is a Union Lincoln Association established
in the city, having for its only object the ro*eleotion
of Mr. Lincoln. The president is Simeon Draper,
Esq., one of our best known and most influential
citizenß. The meetings are frequent and, enthu
siastic, and excite much splenetic feeling on. the part
of the Opposition.
Hon. E. W. Gantt, the converted Secessionist
from Arkansas, will celebrate his own return to re
spectable society by lecturing at the Oooper In
stitute to-night. To-morrow evening Manager Wal
lack yield* his theatre, with its entire proceeds, to
the cause of the Great Fair. " Rosed ale 5 *isto be
the attraction. The “Tlcket-otLeave Man" has
finally settled for life at the Winter Garden. The
Italian opera commences Its season of sixteen nights
this (Monday) evening. STUXVESANT.
Extraordinary Case of Persecution*
A PREACHER IMPRISONS HIS WTIPS EOR THREE
TEARS ON PBKTENOE OP- IKSANITT.
:From the Kankakee Gazette (111. >» Jan. 26.1
The most remarkable case of persecution that has
perhaps been known within past century, hag
just received a Wholesome ventilation before the
Hon. G. R. Starr, on an application of Mrs. E,
F. W. Packard, of Mantena, Kankakee county, to
be discharged, on a writ of habeas corpus, from the
illegal imprisonment in her own house by her hus
band, Rev. TheophUus Packard.
About four years sincrj the Rev. Packard com
menced a system of persecutions towards his wife,
while he was officiating as the qainister of the Pres
byterian Church at Mantenoy for the purpose, as
alleged, of suppressing her free discussion of reli
gious tenets which were at variance with the ortho
dox views.of the Presbyterian Church. And because
doctrines on religion thus advanced and maintained
by her were new to the Rev. Packard and the three
deacons of the Church—although maintained by
tome of the most eminent soholar* of Europe and
America—they pronounced her insane, and, to be
lid of her influence in the GnUroh, and that the
Packard he rid of her company
come, he formed the moat infamous plot
of incarcerating her in an asylum for the insane.
With this end in view he pxonounoed her in
sane, refused her access and intercourse with her
friends, goaded and tormented her into excitement
upon the subject of religion, refused her attendance
to the Sabbath-school and Bible class, and finally to
tbe church; tore her children from her on the plea
that she was Insane and incapable of oaring for
them, and on every occasion gave out that she was
hopelessly insane. He appointed over her distorted
and prejudiced minds, who would construe every aot
on the theory that she was insane; and, after a vio
lent tumult and controversy with her on religion,
had it arranged to call in a physician to give an
opinion as to her sanity or insanity, and while in
that state of mind Packard obtained a certificate of
mental excitement upon the subject of religion from
a well-known physician of this city.
Mrs. Packard is a lady of about forty, five, of fine
mental endowments, and blessed with a liberal edu
cation. She is an original, vigorous, masculine
thinker, apd was it not lor her superior judgment
combined with native modesty, she would rank as
a “ strong-minded woman." as it is, she comports
her conduot strictly to the sphere usually occupied
by woman. She dislikes parade or show of any
kind. Her confidence that Bight will prevail leads
her too tamely to submit to wrong. She was
educated in the same religious belief of her husband,
and during the first twenty years of married life his
Isbois were greatly relieved by the willing hand and
able intellect of the wife.
Theie are six children of their intermarriage; the
Oldest was eighteen years old when she was kid
napped and transferred to Jacksonville. The young
fßt children have maintained a firm position against
the aFuce ahd pebiecuilon toward their mother, but
were of too tender age to render her any material
assistance; , _
Tbe question of her sanity or insanity was tried
by a jury, ordered by the judge, and every opportu
nity offered to produce ail the testimony on either
side of the case that would have a tendency to
throw light on the question* The physicians who
maintained and testified to her monomania were
Drs. Knott and Brown, of this city* The evidence
of Knott, however, was on the presumption that all
zealoUß advocates of a particular tenet were mono
maniacs on that question. Brown was very posi
tive that she was insane. He was sent there by
Packard, and employed for the purpose of granting
a certificate of insanity to enable Packard to abduct
her to Massachusetts, and confine her ia op
there; a plan very fast maturing when the writ or
habeas corpus was issued. «™r n iiw
Brown eave a number of lucid- reasons, care, uliy
written down, upon which he based his judgment of
the insanity, and the first was that she claimed to be
18 -mle"»ow^ e *A e «i 3 « 0 o 4 0 o I ff"h»t you ore that
mueht o. moie, behind the .get
2d That .he disliked to be called iniane.
3d. That .he pronounced me a Copperhead, and
did not prove the faot.
4lb. An ineoherency of thought. That .he failed
to illuminate me and nil me with light.
Sth. Her aver .ion to the doctrine of the total de
pravity of man.
[With Faokard and Brown before her it will be
deemed remarkable that the did not believe in the
total depravity of mankind.]
6th. Her belief that aome calamity would berail
her, owing to my being there, and her refuaal to
shake hand, with me when I went away.
7th, Her viewing the subject of religion from, tha
THREE CENTS.
OBteris stand point of Christian exegetioal analysis,
and aglutlnating the poisyatheticai eetobiasta or
homogeneous asoeficism.
All cl which is about as intelligent iw the jargon
of a Hindoo. His view was supported by the *estt
moiy of two witnesses} relatives of the Rev.
Packard, one of whom swore upon the said exami
nation that It was strong evidence to his miad of
insanity “that a person would offer to leave the
Presbyterian Church and join the Methodist.”
The days of bigotry and oppression are not yet
past. If three-fourths of the people or the world
were of the belief of Rev. Packard and his witnesses,
the other fourth would be burned at the stake.
On the defenoe the testimony of physicians who
had known her for a number of years was intro
duced, together with her neighbors and associates,
all of whom testified that not only was she not in
sane. but was a woman possessed of fine mental and
educational endowments, a good and affectinnate
mother, and a true ornament to society. After hear
iesra mass of evidence which occupied five days, and
the arguments of the able counsel who were retained
in thecase, upon a retirement of • few the
jury returned a verdict that Mrs. B. P« W» Packard
**The Ilev^Mrfp ackard is described by the Gazette
ar a brute and tyrant in features. Learning that the
cnee would go against him, he took his carpet bag
and tramped for parts unknown.
Ail Anti-Hanging Excitement in London.
The telegraph has already mentioned the excite
ment caused in London by the hanging of a poor
man (Wright) for murder, while another of respecta*
ble connection* (George Victor Townley) was re
spited on the ground that he was iufi&ne at the time
of his killing Miss Goodwin. Wright, on his mat,
pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman of bad
character with whom he cohabited, his own state
ment being that be inflioted the fatal injury in self
defence, she having threatened to stab him with a
knife.
It was believed that there were circumstances la
the case that would have justified his being con
victed only of the orime of manslaughter if he had
stood his trial and not pleaded guilty. This cir
cumstance, combined with Sir George Grey’s indul
gence in the other oase, excited great sympathy for
Wright, among the working classes particularly*
As the time for his execution approached, the ex
citement increased to an alarming extent. The fol
lowing handbill was extensively circulated through
out the neighborhood;
“ASoirmn Protest Ac+axvbt thr Execution
op Wright —Men and women of London, abstain
from witnessing this sad speotacle of injustice. Let
Galcraft and Company do their work this time
with none but tbe eye of Heaven to look upon their
crime* Let all window shutters be up and window
blinds he down for an hour on Tuesday morning in
Soutliwark* Englishmen, shall Wright be hung?
If to, there is one law for the rich and another for
the poor.’* • .
The advice was generally followed. In the long
line of neighboring houses, generally let out on such
occasions, at heavy prices, the blinds were drawn
cown as though the funeral of some respected in
habitant were going on instead of the execution of a
ciiminal for murder. The public houses, on pre
vious occasions tbe scenes of riotous revelry, were
all closed, and the whole conduct of the-people,.al
though comprising as usual many of the lowest
ranks, may proper.y be described as of the most
SOU mu character, it-was difficult for many to be
lieve up to the last hour that the prisoner would not
be reprieved.
The arrival of the executioner on the scaffold was
the signal for the outburst of the indignation of the
spectators. Soon alter the prisoner appeared, when,
says an aooount in a London paper:
“ The people seemed frantic with excitement. Ge
neral clapping of hands and cries of ‘Bravo, Wright, 1
‘ God bless you, lad, 1 took place from all parte of the
ciowd. On Galcraft proceeding to put the cap over
the face of Wright the hootfeg and hissing became
terrible, and the officials on and about the scaffold
appeared to be quite concerned. The hooting was
succeeded by oriea of ‘ Shame,’ ‘Judicial murder, 1
‘Where’s Towcley? 1 ‘Wo more hanging,* whioh
were continued without Intermission while the pro
ceedings were going on upon the soaffold, Wright all
the time bowing to the people, and while he was
bending forward the drop suddenly fell, and the un
fortunate man ceased to exist without the slightest
struggle.
“ The roar of indignation which at this moment
burst from the assembled crowd was something ap
palling, and evinced the strong feeling which had
been stirred up within them at the spectacle they
had witnessed.
“ Immediately after the execution several working
men mounted upon the steps and railings of the ad
joining houses, and announced that it was intended
to hold indignation meetings of the working-classes
throughout London, condemnatory of the conduct
of Sir George Grey, and demanding the total aboli
tion of capital punishment* The crowd then peace
ably dispersed, but few waiting-to see the body cut
down, which was done at ten o’clock. 11
A Small Revolution in Mexico*
The correspondent of the Missouri Republican, at
Brownsville, describes the late revolution in the
State of Tamaulipas. The Governor, Route, which
he mentioned, is properly the General Ruiz of our
telegrams:
Tbe long-expected battle at M.tamoro. ha* ju.t
come off. It wa* a ponderou* affair. For week.
Governor Serna ha. been expecting, and preparing
for an attack. Every available man wa. held in
readiness. and the .treet. blockaded with cotton
bale*. And it ha. been hinted that proposition,
were made by the Governor to one or our officers to
take command of the foree. during the anticipated
action. Of the truth of this, however, I oannot
speak positively. The point of difference, which
has caused an appeal to arms In the State of Ta
maulipas, seems to be the Governorship. Serna
holds that he 1* the legally-elected Governor, and,
as such, has been exercising the functions of offloe.
Governor Route, on the other hand, denounces
Serna as a bogus Governor, and hence the fight. It.
is a State efi'air altogether, and has nothing to do
with the French question. . . ,
On the 30!h ult. Governor llouie appeared before
the oity at the head of about soo troops, and sounded
a parley, demanding the gubernatorial chair. Go
veraor Serna declined to accede to thi* demand, but
pioposed to submit their respective elaims to the
General Government (Juarez), and agreed to be
bound by it. decision. To this Houle objected, and
the fight began. Opposed to Houle’s “powerful”
force of SOO men Serna had at least 400 troops and
three six-pound cannon. The fight lasted nearly ail
day, during which time nobody waa hurt, and
Houle’s forces slept on their arms outside the city.
On the morning of the 31st the battle was renewed
onDfiper. aad the day spent - In negotiation*. The
result is made known thi* morning. Governor Ser
na abdicates in favor of Route, and accept! some
unimportant position in the Government, and the
people seem to be as well satisfied with the new Go
veraor ai they were with the" old, and will support
him until he is supplanted by somebody else. And
thus a Governor has been deposed, and the State
Government practically revolutionized, by force of
aims, without the shedding of a drop of blood.
Glueer way they have of doing things in Mexico.
Murder of Unionists in Texas.
Under date of January I, a correspondent writes
from Brownsville t lt Dr. Foster, of Austin, ft Nortb*
ern man by birth and a Unionist lb feeling, found
himself In a whirlpool ol treason, and having a
large family dependent on him for support, while his
heart revolted at rebellion, resolved to keep himself
clear of it, and as It was out of hla power to effeot
anything against it, determined at least to give It
no aid. But his neutrality soon fastened suspicion
upon him, and at the urgent solicitations of his
friends he was forced to accept the position of sur
geon in the rebel army, to secure him personal safe
ty : but after serving a lew months in this capacity
he resigned. Two week* after his resignation, he
was called one night from bis bouse, and Shot down
in his own door-yard. He was not a friend 01 trea
son, and, therefore, he must not live.
“ Two German brothers, living in this oounty,
were suspected oi being Unionists. One night they
were visited by a band of ruffians with blackened
faces (and blacker hearts), taken from their home
and led to the river, where they were bound with
their backs together, a stone tied to their feet, and
thrown into the river.
“ I have before me an old oopy of the Fort Brown
Flag, which briefly mentions the fact that a ‘ Yan
kee’ had been hung in one of the interior counties.
Commenting upon it, the editor says: < Timely no
tice was given all who did not endorse the war for
Southern independence to leave the State and go
beyond the lines of the Confederacy. It is no fault
of our people if they have not availed themselveß
of the opportunity. We cannot fully endorse such
stringent measures, but the lesson must be taught
that traitors cannot be tolerated among us.’ ”
Shockimg Mubdbr at Sbfpield, Cokh. —Lu
ther Adams, a wealthy farmer, residing near Suf
held, Connecticut, murdered on Saturday after
noon one of bis farm laborers named Brown.
Brown claimed that Adams owed him $lB, which
he refused to pay. While the latter was split
ting wood in his shed on Sunday afternoon,
Brown appeared with a club, raising lt (as Adams
says) to strike him, Suddenly, in bis excite
ment, Adams dealt him ft Mow on the head with
his axe, knocking him down senseless. Losing all
eelf-ccntrol, he then continued his blows upon tub
prostrate man, until suddenly the thought that he
was a murderer flashed into his mind, and be left
the Bbed and went into his bouse leaving the mur
dered man lying face downward in his blood. When
discovered Brown’s bead was found to be fearfully
battered, with the skull broken in one or two plaoes.
Great gashes were seen on the forehead and back of
the head, and a bole was broken in back part of
tbe left ear, while the lower part of the skull was
literally smashed.
The victim, strange to say, continued to breathe,
and was not dead until an hour and a half after the
blows had been given. Adams gave himself up and
Is now in confinement. He 1b represented as being
a grasping, close-fisted mac. The place Where the
murder was committed, says a Conneotjoat ex
change, la fated ground. Near It Adams’ father
killed himself, by cutting hie throat; in the same
house, some years ago, ft woman hung herself;
later, another woman In the same house died
without a moment’s warning; on the same
premises, a lew years since, a negro fell from a
load of bay and broke his neck. In addition to this
catalogue of horrors, the house has been repeatedly
broken into by midnight robbers and murderers.
On one occasion two of Adams’ hired men, claiming
that they were unjustly kept out of their full wages,
entered his bedroom at night, threatening to shoot
him if their demands were not eotnplied with, ft ml
a woman, who, aroused by the noise, fearlessly en
tered the room, was shot through the arm, the ball
shattering her wrist. A popular superstition has It
that the place Is haunted.
lambs B. Olay and his slavbs.— The late
James B. Olay, like most wealthy slaveholders, was
very fond of boasting of the attachment and devo
tion of his bondmen to himself. Not only were his
slaves well fed and well boused, hut they were far
happier than free people, and knew and appreciated
the inestimable advantages of their position. They
did not want freedom, and wouldn’t take lt on any
terms. All they asked was to live on the old plan
tation, and to end their days under tbe easy yoke of
** Msaaa ” Olay.
Once upon a time—some two or three years Ago—
Mr, Clay had a Quaker friend from the Nortn viiii
tag him, and to whom he expressed
fidence in the attachment of hi* »i“T e C: Tiff
was Incredulous, and so Clay Vauntingly detetmiaed
to put the matter to the test.
An nld hnuie slave—one who enjoyed his conn*
dence who hSd bien always well treated, and who
seeme’d to entertain a real affection for his master—
urn* Aftiipi] and entered the rooms
W * Tom”said Mr. Olay, “ here’s a gentleman from
the North who says you and the other boys are
miserable here, and want to be free. You may go
Sway from home with him if you like.”
The old negro was puzzled and almost seared. He
ehcck us head doubtingly.
“ You are free, Tom, andean leave me if you want
to,” said the master.
The negro trembled with emotion* At last, all ex*
citement. he cried: “ Are you in earnest, massat
can 1 go North and be free ?”
“ Yes, if you want to leave me and your old home*
you can go,”
“I’ll go, maaea. I'll go anywhere to be free.”
And the oJd fellow was beside himself with joy and
gratitude at his expected liberation. , . ._ _
This was not, however, what the slaveholder
wanted or exported. He became very angry, order
ed the poor, credulous slave away, and soon maue
his Northern friend aware that hi* room was better
than his company. Of course Tom was oeyer freed,
hut it it probable that Mr. Clay was thenceforth
less assured of the affection of his negroes for slave
life.—Post,
Thb Museum of Prague ha. just received a valu
able sifr. oonsbtlng In a coloaia! map of China,
com uosed of eight large roll* of paper, neatly fitting
This work was exeouted in the seven
teenth ceffiuiv. bv some Catholic missionaries, under
Empelor ksng Hi. The Chevalier Llpowaki
pn.ch“Jd it latrly, during hla clay in China, of a
family which bad been turned by th® war.
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The Dinner to Gen. Grant in St. XiotsEa*
The grand -dinner to Gen. Grant* given by the ettti
ZiUUi Of St. Louis, took place on the evening of Jam..
Gen* Rosecrans had just arrived, receiving *
grar.*) military salute and reception, and was among
tbe gftcats at the feast. The dinner was given at
the magnificent new hotel of St. Louis, the Ltndsil
House. Judge Treat, Judge Dunn, Hon; Mr. How,
Lieutenant Governor Hall, and other prominent
Missourian?, and Generals Schofield, Osterhaua*
Brown, Gray, Fisk, Totten, and McNeil were
sent. Afte; a number of speeches, Gen. Grant w*MS
tcested as “ the distinguished guest. ll Kcrose
a storm of applause, but, true to his resolution not
to make speeches, he simply said :
“ Genthmen, -in response, it witt be impossible for nets
do more than to thank you.'*
G en. Roeccrans responded to the toast of the arum
and navy. He said he was but poorly qualified t*
respond to the toast which had been given am- tht*
occasion; nevertheless, he felt it his duty as an offi.
; cer of the army to return thanks for the compliment.
It bat been well said that this la a heroics age. and
j our soldiers will appear, in comparison with former
i oner, a* giant*, we owe honorto all of them, from
• tbe highest general to the lowest soldier tn the
j ranks. Be had been struck by the simplicity;
earnestness, and devotion displayed by the soldiexx,
and regaided this as one of the brightest hopes for
the salvation of tbe country. We are asked by
oroakera whether this Union can be restored; he had
seen our soldiers fraternizing with captured rebel*
forgettiDg all differences, and expressing mutual at
tachment to the old flag and the cause of the Union.
He had no doubt about the ultimate restoration of
the scattered fragments of the Confederacy. The
General related *n anecdote of a rebel soldier cap
tured at the battle of Chickamauga. This rebel was
asked by a Federal soldier if he was not tired of
fighting against the old Government, and replied
that he would fight again as soon as he was ex
changed. “ Well,” said the Federal soldier, “how
do you like the Western boyst” “ Well, I’ll tell
you,” replied the rebel, “ the brigade that came la
on us came in G—d d—n splendid.”
Call* were made for Gen. Sohofield, who said ht
was grateful for the compliment that had been ton*
deriid birci.- 4 He had been here moit of his time
durlcg the War; had fought for Missouri, and had
done what he could for the country and for tbe State
of Missouri. Inleaving now he went to a service
mote in accordance with his taste, and was happy
in leaving the interests of Missouri in the hands of
tbe best man that could have been appointed to the
position.
General Osterhaus was greeted with hearty cheer*.
He said he had been reminded of his neighbors and
friends ; but his neighbors and friends had forgotten
to teaoh him to speak English. As soon as ho came
back with General Sohofield he would make the
best speech be could.
A BooK of Uncommon Prayer.
“Sigma,” of the Boston Transcript, having picked
up a rebel prayer-book among some captured block
ade runner stock, In Boston, thus humorously de
scribes a curiosity:
The prayer* book is a curiosity, and Is well de
scribed in our caption: it is a book of uncommon
prayer* There are two editions of It, in 12ino» and
24m0., and it was intended to suit the complexion of
rebeldom ; that is, the prayersoffered byus, in Epis
copal churches, in behalf of the United States and
our President, are* in this book, intended to be of
fered in behalf of the rebels and their President.
In the pieparation of their prayer book, as in every
thing else, the devil seems to have helped -hem.
On the title*page we find these words at the bot
tom : “Richmond,.Virginia: J. \V. Randolph, 1863,”
At the bottom of tbe same leaf, on the other side, fa
very small type: “London: printed by G. E. Eyre
end W. SpottUwoode.”
After the creed, in morning prayer, and the collect*
for peace and grace, con.ee a prayer for “ the President
of the Confederate States .” The same is repeated In
the evening service. In the Litany, it would be
ludicrous, were its infamy less, to hod the traitors
praying to be delivered “from all sedition, privy con*
spiracy. and rebellion .” Then comes a prayer “for
me people qf these Confederate States.” So far all Is
consistent—the United States are given over to the
tender mercies of tbe evil one, or, at least, left out
in tbe cold. Tbe mercy of Heaven is besought for
the Confederate States alone. But it really seems as
if, In the preparation of this work, Satan, in a funny
mood, was resolved to try his hand at a gallimaufry,
Alter ihe “ churchiDg of women,” come u prayers
to be used at sea,” which “ may be used in ships of
war.” It is to our purpose to quote a part of thfe
1 prayer verbatim: will the reader be to kind as to
suppose these words, from a rebel prayer book, pro
ceed from Captain Semises, on board the British pi
rate Alabama: “ Preserve us from the dangers of the
sea , and the violence qf the enemy, that we may be a safe*
guard unto the Uwithd States of America, and a
security f<n' such as pass upon the seas > upon their laun
ful occasions.”
The consecrated scoundrels who set themselve*
apart to mutilate the Prayer-book, and adapt it to
rebellious purposes, have proved themselves the
veriest bunglers, blind guides, pharisees, and hypo
crites-
In their introduction to the psalms and hymns ap
pended to the Prayer-book we have the United State*
once more, .
There is, in this book, one fatal omission* A for*
tnula of prayer for those who are going to sea is duly
inserted, but there is no particular form of supplica
tion for those who are going to the devil.
A Fearful Adventure on tha Ice.
IFrom the Detroit Press J
On Friday, a Frenchman, whose name we did not
learn, residing in Springwells, wishing to visit Ow>
nada, ventured to cross the river on the loe with a
team. He had with him his wife and two children,
who were bundled up and snugly ensconced in the
bottom of the sleigh, for protection against the wind
that blows upon the river. The entire partv were
in the most disadvantageous position to meet an ac
cident of the nature of the one which.bef* 11 them on
their passage over. "When about half way across,
the ice gave way, precipitating them, into the water.
The frantic efforts of the team to got out were con
tinually increasing the size of the hole in whtoh
they had fallen, and rapidly accumulating fragments
of ice. Before he could reach out his arm to grasp
the child, one of the horses succeeded in raising one
foot high enough to rest if upon the edge of the ice,
upon which he attempted to raise himself. The
movement threw him. over backward, entangling
him in the harness, at the same time striking the
boy upon his head with one of- his fore feet, or else
some hard portion of his harness, opening a large
scalp wound. The father seized hia child just as fie
sank, and suooeeded in placing him with the others,
although nearly defeated by the commotion create*
by the horses, whose fear had entirely overcome,
them, and, being entangled in the harness, were at
last being drawn under the ice, the sleigh having
passed under by tho action of the current* Seeing
that all efforts to save the horses were rutile, he
turned bis attention toward the mother auA chil
dren, two of whom were heroically clinging to a box*
although nearly benumbed with cold, the mother
holding aUo the injured and senseless child upon a
board from the bottom o! the sleigh, which had be*
come detached.
Almost irDuiediately after leaving the team they
were taken under the ice. He labored energetically
in removing the family from the edge of the hole*
and was successful, although nearly chilled to .deaths
in placing them upon firm ioe, after almost incredi
ble labor. Upon reaching a place of safety, a few
feet tr&m the edge of the hole in which, they had
been enguiphed, that strength which had sustained
tbem sank from exhaustion, and this, combined
with the stupor caused by cold and. fatigue, almost;
overoame them. It was with great difficulty that
energy sufficient to keep awake and under motion
could be mustered, and their lives were equ illy in
danger from the effects of this lethargy with that of
their condition among the fragments of floating ice,
By strong exertions, however, they succeeded in
leaching the land and a house, where they were
taken care of. There axe feaiß that the child, which
was injured in tbe head, will not survive, as the
wound and exposure combined place him in a cri
tical condition. The others, however, are doing
well.
The New Comet.
OWICB OB* SILLIMAN’3 JOURNAL,
New Haven, Conn., Jan. 30, 1364.
To the Editors of the Evening Post:
You will observe from the accompanying note
from Professor Jameß O. Watson, of Ann Arbor,
that the comet discovered by him January 13th, ana
noticed in your issue of the 20th, is likely to be at
once visible to the naked eye. _ .
Youra respectfully, SILLIMAN & DANA*
«« Observatory,
“Ann Abbor, Jan. 23,1864*
“ Gentlemen : I beg to thank you for your kind
ness in issuing a circular announcing the discover?
of the new comet.
”11 is rnpldly approaching the earth, and bids
falx to be visible to the naked eye in the course ot (|
week.
"As the nucleus appears well defined, and linear
the comet will approach very near the earth about
February let, lt might perhaps furnish the means
of attempting the determination of the solar paral
lax# *V cry truly yours,
“JAMES 0. WATSON*
“Messrs. Stlltman &Dana, New Haven, Conn.”
Schleswig-Holstein,—The .total area of the
three Duchies does not amount to 7,500 English
square miles. Of these, Hoiatein covers about 3,600;
Schleswig 3.30 G; Lunenburg, only 430 square miles*
Holstein is the richest, as well in population (644,-
419) as in agriculture and in commerce* It possesses
also the largest towns and the greatest number of
them. In Schleswig, with a total population of
409.907, the chief towns are Flensburg, with 20,000
inhabitants; Sohleswig has 12,197. In Lunenburg,
there axe do towns of more than 5,000 inhabitants.
Alton*, the moat populous town, might appear to
be naturally the capital of Holstein; but Kiel, only
about one»third its size, has always been the centra
of the German movement in the Duchies and of
hostility to Denmark. It is a natural port, and its
fine situation on an arm of the Baltio, and its uni*
verslty, among other causes, have made it ttie fa
vorite residence of the (lile of the moneyed and
titled aristocracy of the country*
Daniel Webster’s Speeches.—From an article
in tbe lndependent on reminiscences of Webster wa
clip tbe following:
*• Mr* Webßter,” cnid a friend of oura once to tho
great expounder, “which of your own productions
do you place first?” He replied: ”J>ly friend, Mr*
Everett, prefers my speech on General Jaokson’a
protest. The mass of my countrymen probably pre
fer my reply to Colonel Hayne. But I prefer tho
first ipeech I ever made at Plymouth Rook.” Per
haps the great statesman was right. In these days
of our dear country’s fiery purification, when to the
thrilling music of falling chains the Republic is
marching UP to her destiny, it must be contested
that Daniel Webster never stood so strong and never
eo glorious as when he stood forth the champion of
freedom on Plymouth Hook.
An English writer describes the Duke of Au
gustenburg, about whose succession to the Govern
ment of Holstein Europe is threatened with war,
as a tall man, over six feet high, with hazel hair,
blue eyes, light eyebrows, “good” complexion,
manner somewhat alow but stately, and speech bo?
date, with u peculiarity,” lie talked “aft
fably,” and stems altogether a well-intentioned
but somewhat slow and heavy person, who win
govern Holstein without any blunders, without
being a very dangerous personage in Europe.
Hobobs to Gem. Avebill.— The leading cMzenr
of Bath, N. Y., gave a dinner In honor of Biigadle*
General W. W. Averill. on the atwhloU
the Hon. Constant CookpreUdcd.Komarli. were
made by cx-Governor B. Campbell, Judge G.H.
McMaster, Joseph Fellows, Liq-i Clark lieu, hsq,,
received on tbe occasion of hla vialt with distin
guished con sid
A pbivatb letter in the Boston Traveller states
that Lieutenant Charles E. Page, of Notridgewook,
who waa taken prisoner at Brashear City, has been
heard from In Texas, and is well, although kept In
irons by the rebels. He was one of the officers of
General Ullman’a colored brigade and superintend
ent of colored labor at the time of his capture. The
tame writer a.ya that Colonel Bangs, of Waterville.
formerly of Bangor, who is In eommand Of ft regi
ment of heavy artillery in New Orleans, has a floe
house well finished, which was abandoned by its re
bel owner, In readiness for his wife who has re
cently gone out. • .
A coekebpondbkt of a Cincinnati paper “*i*
that “ all the lottery drawings In the United States
are made at Covington, Ky., and in secret, jbl
number of lottery dealere from Eastern oit.es ere
now at the Kentucky capital to get the f' e ® , 3 |?n>ak
to compel the drawings to be made openly, O'. Draw,
the oharters of the companies.