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THE PKHHB,
ryUOHXD DAILY (BUKDATB BXOSFTICI
by joint W. FOBHET.
Dffnoi. >o. 11l SOUTH FOURTH STRUT
VHK DAILY PRESS,
f«nn tJwrn Pb* Wot. t»T»ble to the**“j**!
*IM to Bttbeeriber* out of the city »t Barge Po
at um: Tskkb Dollars jjtd riFT l T tom
nrw On Dollar akd Sevkhtt-FJ'™
xpn Bum. irorlAbly U aAwm* for the 800 or
*St !».«« .« *• U.UAI rA~. «X
fc~ “ «■*»«• yKxKSLT MtHMS,
' eJSgS£Sf*»» Dollam
CABPETINGS.
SFBINa,
1864.
-43X.53W
echo mills,
oerhahtown, pa.
MtOALLUM & CO.,
manufacturers, importers, and wholesale
DEALERS IN
CARP STINQS,
OIL CLOTHS, &c.
Warehouse. 509 Chestnut Street,
OPPOSITE INDEPENDENCE HALL. fel-tf
.gPEOIAL NOTICE.
RFiTATT, DEPARTMENT.
McCALLFM & CO.»
Her lean toinform tie pnbiie that they ha™ leasedthe
•old eetablfohed Carpet Sea-e, Tl , pPT
NO. 519 CHESTNUT STKEEI,
Ooppotlte Independence Hall, for
A BETAS It DEPARTMENT, "
they ate openina a NEW STOCK ol
IMPORTED AND AMERICAN CARPETS,
HmiiTulnff tho ekoicest pftUerns of
jTAPB»TRY CARPETS.
IfSSSaS""
Tokefcher with, a fallassortment of everything pertain
ing to the Carpet Business. -- fel-tf
Jj£NTESPEIBE MILLS.
ATWOOD.. RALSTON, & CO.,
SIAIfUTAGTUR3E9 a3D WHOLESALE DEALERS IST
CARPETINGS,
OILCLOTHS,
MATTINGS, &c„ &c.
■WAREHOUSE, 619 CHESTNUT STREET,
AND
feisau 010 JATIfE STREET.
CLOTHING.
gJDWABD P. KELLY,
JOE N' EEL L Tj
hate removed
£.49 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
&BUYS WALNUT,
CIBCHEBTNUT STREET.
iaza-tt
AC?IACK CABS. PANTS. $5.50,
Hj At 7M M.Rinrr street
SLACK GABS. PASTS, $6.60, At 704 MARKET Street
BLACK CASS, PASTS, *6 00. At 701 MARKET Street.
SLACK CASS. PANTS, #6 60, At 701 MARKET Street
SLACK GABB. PANT'S, $5.60, At 71>3 MARKET Street
QEIOO A VAN GHNTEH’B, No. 704 MARKET Street
SRI GO ft VAN OTTKTSN’S. No. 704 MARKET Street
SBIOQ ft VAN eUNTBN’S. No 704 MARKET Street
6RIOO * VAN GUSTEN’S, No. 704 MARKET Street
BRIGG ft VAN GUNTER'S. No. 704 MaRKST Street
•eM-fal ' .
GENTS’ FORNISHING GOODS,
jxShn" o. aebison,
«o». 1 and 8 KQBTH SIXTH BTRBBT.
nAanrACTuBEs of
THfi IMFBOVED PA.TTEHN SHI ST,
ITBST OUT BY J. BTIKB MOOBEt
TO FIT BTD GlVfl SATISFACTION*
| ALSO*
Imortor and Manttfaetnrar of
GENTLEMEN'S
ffUBNISHING GOODS.
0 4 If _m mrV.tin made in a anparlor manner St hand
Mi from th» b«at xaawri«.u. - I * l *
QEOBGE grant,
IT*. *lO CHESTNUT BTSSSI,
Hu now W*4t _
A LABOB AND COMPETE STOCK
OP
SKINTS’ FURNISHING GOODS.
Of M* own importation, and manufacture.
His celebrated
«PULES mctal smmsr-
H*nnfMSnted aider the superintedonoe of
JOHN F. TAGSBBT,
(Formerly of Oldenberg & Taggert,)
An the most perfect- fitting Shirts of the »ge.
yL Orders promptly attended to, jalB«wftn-6m
-571 NE SHIKT MANUFACTOBY.
Jl fin tnbseribers would Incite attention to tbeir
la * IMFBOViiD COT OP SHIsTS.
wU«li they make a speciality in their business. Al»o«
aBNTtBMKN’S WB IK
DREGS.
SHOEMAKER AGO.,
NortlMut eorner of FOURTH and RACE Street,.
PHI-LAD BLPHIA, ■>-
WHOLiESAIjE DRTJGCHSTB,
MFORTBRH Aire BBALEKB IH
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WHTDOI? AND FLATS SLABS.
If ANDFAOTtJRBRS OF ______
WBITB HAD AND ZINC PAINTS, PUTTY, A-’.
AOBBT? ?OR THH OBbSBBATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS,
and •0»«^«-f^V!oWPSICBSFOEC4EH.
X> BKOTAL JOHN C. BaKSR,
Wholesale Drurtist, hae removed to TlB MARKET
Street. Particular atteutiea 1* askedto JOHN 0. BA
ffgg At no. »B COD-LIV E a OIL. Having increased faci
lities in. tble new establishment for manufacturins ana
bottling, and the avails of fifteen years* experience in
Hie hnsuLßsa. this'brand of Oil has advantages over all
ethers, and recomrueu.' s itself. Constant supplier are
Obtained from the fi»herie», fresh, pure, and sweet, and
•solve the most earenrd personal attention of the origi-
UOproprietOl. Tt® itcreaaing demand and Wide-spread
market for It make Its figures low, and afford«re»t»d
vantages for those buying in large quantities.
Jaß-dtf
CABINET PURJIITURK.
CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL
\J liard tables.
MOOBE & CAMPION,
WO. 361 SOrTH SECOND STREET,,
in connection with tt eir extensive» abinet businest, are
aow manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
and have now on hand a foil supply • flnished with. the
MOOBE ft QAMPioN’S IMPROVED CUSHIONS,
Which are pronounced by all who have used them to be
to all others _ „,
l Por the quality and finish of these Tables, the manu
facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout
the Union, who are familiar with the character of their
■Work. , se!7-6m
WINES AND I,IQ,IJORS.
TMFOBTEBS of
X WISTSB 119 LIQUOB*.
laAUMAN, SALLADE, A 00-9
Mo. IMS SOUTH NINTH STRUT,
Setweea Ohs*tout and Walnut, Philadelphia
G. M. Laumah,
A. M. BALLADfe.
Aoio-m j. p rrfmn
'WILLIAM H. YEATON & 00.,
»l No. 301 South FRONT Street,
Agents for the sale of the ami
ORIGINAL HBIDSIECK & CO. CHAMPAGNE,
Offer that desirable Wine to the trade.
Also, 1,000 cases fine and medium grades.
BORDEAUX CLARETS _
100 cases *• Brandenburg frerea” COGNAC BRANDY*
Vintage of l&S. bottled in France.
SO cases finest Tuscan Oil. in fiaska; 2 dozen in case.
60 bbls finest duality -Mboongahela Whisky.
fiOhbla Jersey App ! e Brandy.
fiQ.OOT Havana Cigar*, extra fine. M ~,
Moet A Chandon Grand Vin Imperial, ‘ ‘ Green Seal
Champagne.
Together with a fine assortment of Madeira* Sherry*
Port, Ac. - fe2B
CARRIAGES. 18(J3 _
WILLIAM D. ROGERS,
Coach and Light Carriage Builder,
Nos. 1009 and 1011 CHESTNUT Street,
_ ffill-gm PHILADELPHIA.
Cr&O. Wv "WATSON & CO.,
v " _ CARRIAGE BUTLDEHB,
Mo. BMS Bortn THIRTEENTH Street,
ex ? e »^> or^era for every deserlp
ti°n of light and heavy carriages, and having at ail
times the very best materials and workman, ean sro*
wiS^s*JsSto“ tlB^Ction t 0 them
JS. Sfa sSsi‘d?ttt d ciSiraß
WtmL rear ofCsnetit Hall. ' a los-sip
JJEW HALF PEACHES.—I2,OOO BBS.
*’ in hiKFuilin. for sale by
REODRB & WILLIAMS.
_jat»W IS* So«*L Vtvee
rjABBON 01L.—500 BARRELS OP
.wwored brand., In .tors ud for mala b?
taS-lK* WK. SOIB. UI ARCH SllMb
VOL. 7-NO. 164.
KETAia DRY GOODS.
E. $2 L.
EIRE & LAMLL,
rOUBTH A-IV O ARC EX*
ABE OPENING FOR SPRING SALES.
1864,
MAGNIFICENT ORGANDIES,
DE PERCALES AND CHINTZES,
68 PIECES FANCY SILK 8,
100 DO. GOOD BLACK SILKS.
FINE PLAID SILKS,
ORDERED POULT DE SOIES,
SHAWLS, NEW STYLES,
STANDARD SHEETINGS,
HOUSEHOLD GOODS,
BEST GLOVES ONLY.
feS mwftf
JgDWIN HALL, & CO.,
26 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF BUYERS TO
THEIR
LARGE STOCK OF
SILKS,
For Pale Below the Present Cost of Itnpor-
tation.
Hcavy Black Corded Silks,
Black Corded Silks, from $1.25 to 5.50,
Colored Corded Silks,
Black and Colored Moire Antique,
Fancy Silks of Various Styles,
Black Figured Silks,
Black Armures.
Plain Brown, Leather, and Blue Silks,
Greens, Modes, Cuir, and Garnet Silks,
White, Pink, Pearl, and Light Blue Silks,
Heavy White Corded Silks.
Two cases of neat CHECK SILKS, styles selected and
ordered by ourselves.
A BARGAIN IN black silks.
Two cases which we purchased the past season to close
a foreign consignment, which we deferred opening till
this month, and we purpose giving oar customers the
advantage of the purchase by selling them below the
regular pikes.
One case, 25 pieces of different widths, 91,16. $1.26*
91.57& •
One case. 27 pieces, of various widths, at $1.40. $1,60,
$1 62, $1 76. 91 87 X, and $2.25, febB m&w2t +
1864.
COTTONS AT RETAIL.
We cell the attention of Housekeepers to the
LARGEST STOCK OF COTTON GOODS
. Brer offered at retail In this city.
Having purchased largely of these eoods at the
COMPARATIVELY low pricks
of last month, we can extend to onr customer* superior
inducements, not only in the character of our assort
ment, hut
IN PRICES.
Among our extensive line of Cottons are to be found ike
following popular makes of
4-1 Bleached Shirtings.
Wamßutta, WiUiamsville,
Semper Idem, Attawiugan,
Rockland, Union,
New Jersey, Phenix, Ac.
In Pillow-Case and Sheetings
We offer the following leading makes:
40-inch Bartalett, 6-4 P«f>perill,
42-inch Waltham* 10-4 Pepperill,
6-4 Bates, 10-4 Bates,
6-4 Boot W, extra hea-rr, And other makes.
also.
9-4,10-4, and 11-4 UNBLEACHED SHEETINGS.
Marseilles Counterpanes,
We can furnish these goods in all sites aud qualities.
We have several lots tu LOW-PRICEO GOODS that are
FAB BELOW PURSERT IMPORTATION - PRICE, and
are also prepared to furnish, in large Quantities, the well
known ' ,
Lancaster, Manchester, and Honey-Comh
Quilts,
In 10-4, 11 4, and 12-4 sizes
House-Furnishing Linen Goods*
LINEN SHEETI3GS. all widths.
TOWELS, from $2 to $7 per dozen.
NAPKINS, all Linen, *1.62. x a
Barnsly Damask, 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.
COWFERTHWAIT <S CO ,
Northwest comer Eighth and Market Streets.
jals fmw tjyl
! TTAINES’ MUSLIN LIST—CUT IT
: J.X OUT:
Bleacned Muslin, at the low price of 16 cts.
Bieaehtd Muslin, better, at IS and 20 cts.
Bleached A*utlin, 7-S wide, at 22 eta.
Bleached Msslin, very heavy and good* at 20 cts.
• Bleached Muslin, extra heavy, at 25 cts.
Bleached Muslin, full yard wide, at SO cti.
. Bleached Mus:in, much heavier, at Sscte.
Bleached Muslin, fine (the i eteper Idem), at 35 eta.
: Bleached Muslin, of several qualities, a* 27>£ cts.
; BUacbed Muslin, of the very finest, at 40 cts.
New York Mills. Wamsuita, WiUiamsville, Bay
;• Mills. White Rock, Masonville, and Utica.
; Unbleached Muslin, fine and thin, at2o cts.
• Unbleached Muslin, 7-8 wide at 25 cts.
t Unbleached Muslin, much heavier, at2Scis.
Unbleached Muslin, still better, at 31>4 cts.
I Unbleached Muslin full yard wide, ac 35 cts.
; Unbleached Muslin, much heavier, at SI.U ciB.
TTnblteched Muslin, extra heavy, ftt cts.
' Unbleached Muslin, fine, at 40 cents.
! Unbleached Muslin, the very bast made, at 45 cm.
Pccaseete, 9-8 Lawrence, Starks, Atlantics, 5-4 Lyman
I Bates, r and many others of the best makes. One case
' good bleached Sheeting, fall 2 H wide, at 8115. Also,
! l}st 1/a. and 2>4 yards wide, hath in Bleached and un
i bleached. The above prices are very low- according to
’ the times. GRANVILLE B. HaINES,
j feB-mwthfe4t 1013 M \RKET St., above Tenth.
Linen cambric hbkps.
WHOLESALE AGSNGY. ••
CHARLES ADAH 9,
No. 315 CHURCH Alley.
Just received, a consignment of. ,_. _ , ,
Dunbas, Dicksons, & Co. J s celebrated Lmen Cambric
HANDKERCHIEFS. lit .
6to aozen gents’ assorted qualities.
600 do. lidies’ do • do.
The attention of the trade Is invited. '
Also, an invoice of gents’ extra* size and ne*vy
beirmed do.. in boxes.
terms nbt cash.
i -VTAESEILLES QUILTS-OF FINE
■ XtJ_ quality at moderate price?.
r Good Blankets, in large sizes.
Sheeting Muslins, of every width.
! Seversl Krades "damasks.
Power-loom Table Linen, damask patterns.
- power*loom Table Linen. dice patterns
S-4 Bleached Table Damask, *i; a bargain,
i Unbleached Table Linens, a variety.
• Fine Towels. Napkins. Nursery Diapers.
BaHaidvale Flannels, d2 }£ to %1 per yard.
? illlamsviUe and Wamwitta Musiine.
New Fork Mills: and other good makes.
Best heavy and flue Shi» ting and Fronting Linens.
\ BLACK BILKB.
’ Just opened, a targe lot, marked low.
• Spring DeLalnes and Print*.
1 Mode Alpacas, choice shades.
: Printed BrUliante aad 4 4 SAKD ,
j fe4 B. S- corner WX3?TH and MARKET Stf»
T?DWIN HALL & 00., NO. 26 SOUTH
JJi SECOND Street, keep a fall stock of Staple Goods,
Linen and Cotton Sheetings.
Linen and Cot Ton Pillow Mnslins.
New York Mills and WiUtamsvUle Muer.ne.
Wamsnttas and White Ko«k ds
Water-twist Muslins. •
Damask Table Linens.
Marseilles Counterpanes
Pine Blankets.
Towels, Napkins, otc.
10*4 chesthut hrHa&T.
81. M* NEEDLES
Offers at Low Prices a large assortment ol
LAC* GOODS.
EMBROIDERIES, HASDSSSCHIEPB.
VEILS, AND WHITE GOODS.
Suited to the season, ana of the latest styles.
A large variety of
OHDBB6LEEVES.
Of the most recent designs, and other goods
Mutable for party purpose*.
10»4CflESTyUT STREET.
rjRBAT REDUCTIONS—VERY LOW
vJ PRICES.—As we are determined to close out onr
o«*?rA stoelc of Winter Dress Goods
Bnt i reMo ® iU EBGARDLESS OF CO'-T.
Closing out French Merinoes at 70 cents.
Closing out French Poplins.
Closing out Shawl*.
All mates of Muslins, Bleached and Un
bleached. 34, 7*B. 4-4, 6*4. 6-4. 8-4, 9-4, and 10-4 wide,
H * SON ,
ja23 .tf Nos. 713 and 715 N. TENTH Straot.
HTHE PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON
MINING COMPANY OF MICHIGAN.—The Srat
ir.eelihtrof the Philadelphia and Boston Mluine Cotp»dt
of Viebtßßn under its articles of Association, will be
Ma il fS M 3 WALKITP Street. Philadelphia. in
RoomNo®?. at 11 o’clock A. M.-on the 20* da, of Fe
bruary, 1664.
Two of the Associates of said Corporation.
Philadelphia, Feb. 1, 1864. . feS-latfp
AGATE HARBOR MINING COM-
L Pigjor LAKE SUPERIOR. —The first xneell a* of
the Agate Barhor Mining Company of Lake Baperior,
under its articles of Association, will be held at No. 4!J3
WAI-SUT Street- Philadelphia, Room No. 6, at Uo clock
A. M.. oathe!!otbdaToffebm«j; i|«4. BTBVBN
THOMAS S. FERNOtT,.
Two of the Associates of said Corporation.
PHU<AP£I'PfIJA» JM>*. L feO-tfifP
NEW CURTAIN 60098,
WINDOW SHADES,
AND
LACE CURTAINS. -
I. E. WAERAVEN,
(Successor to W.H-Carryl.)
MASOHIC HALL,
fl 9 CHESTNUT STREET,
DRY-GOODS JOBBING HOUSES.
jyjEL.L.OR, BAINS, <B MELLOB,
Km. 40 and 4» NORTH THIRD STREET,
IMPOSTBUS OF
HOSIERY,
SMALL WARES,
AHD
WHITE Gr O O X> S.
MANDFACTUBBBS OF
SHIRT FRONTS.
fe2-3m ;
1864.
EDMUND YARD & CO.,
No. BIT CHESTNUT AND. No. 614 JAYNE STBSBTB.
Have now In Store their BPRING IMPOBTATION or
SILK HD FANCT SKY GOODS,
CONSISTING OF
DRESS GOODS.
OF ALL KINDS:
BLACK AND FANCY SILKS,
SATINS, GLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS,
AXD
DRESS TRIMMINGS.
ALSO.
WHITE GOODS. LINENS. EMBROIDERIES,
AND LACES.
A larre and handsome assortment of
SPRING AND SUMMER SHAWLS.
BALMORAL SKIRTS,
Of all grades, As. Which ther offer to the Trade at the
LOWEST PRICES. ,ia3o-3m
DRY-GOODS COMMISSION HOUSES.
Q.AL33RAITH & LINDSAY,
IMPORTERS AND COMMISSION
MERCHANTS,
No. SI STRAWBERRY STREET,
1864.
would call the attention of the trade to the following, of
which they are prepared to .how fall liner, vir:
DRESS GOODS. WHITE GOODS,
BLACK AND COLORED IRISH LINENS,
ALPACAS. LINEN HDKFB.,
ITALIAN CLOTHS. BALMOBAL SKIRTS, &c.
SHAWLS, fet-lm*
MILLINERY GOODS.
NEW MILLINERY GOODS.
P. A. HARDING & CO.,
Respectfully inform the mercantile .community that
they will open*
FEBRUARY IOtD, 1864,
AT
HO. 113 iRCH STREET,
A. COMPLETE STOCK OP
STRAW
AND
GOODS,
Suited to the trade, and trust that prompt and careful at
tention, moderation In prices, good assortment, together
With their long experience in business, (having been for
the last seven years with the house of Lincoln, Wood, A
Nichols, and their successors. Wood Jt Cary,) they may
merit a share of the public patronage. .
AS- Orders solicited by mail and promptly executed.
■s fet-lm
COMMISSION HOUSES.
FANCY GASSIMERE3,
DOESKINS,
SATINETS, &o.
ALFRED U- LOVft
COMMISSION MERCHANT.
lal3-lm ,U CHESTNUT BTBBBT.
ijt H E ATTENTION OF
I« called to
OUR STOCK OF
SAXONY WOOLEN CO. all-wool Plain Flannels.
TWILLED FLANNELS,
Various makes in Gray, Scarlet, and Dark Blue.
PRINTED SHIRTING FLANNELS.
PLAIN OPERA FLANNELS.
“PREMIERE QUALITY” Square and Lon*ShawW.
WASHINGTON MILLS Lon* Shawls.
BLACK COTTON WARP CLOTHS,
15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 os.
FANCY CASSIMEBBS AND SATINSTTS.
BALMORAL SKIRTS, all Grades. "
BED BLANKETS. 10-4,11-4,12-4,154.
COTTON GOODS, DENIMS, TICKS, STRIPES. SHIRT
INGS, Ac., from various Mills.
BE COURSE!, HAMILTON, & EVANS,
M-w'rm2m
/~i RAIN BAGS.— A LARGE ASSORT
vJ MBNT of GBAIH BAGS.
In various .lies, for sale by BAECEO TT & CO..
Nos. 405 and 4-QT MARKET Street.
STAFFORD BROTHERS’ AMERICAN
£5 SPOOL COTTON, in 'White, Blacfc, and all ooloij.
la cman titles and asaortmenks to eait pnMbaiers. raft
attention ol dealear* ia soiicitsdtf^thia^.r.ide.
Dw Goods Commission Merchants,
mry wooes cH gg«nnTT Street.
feS-fanr3f
CHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHIN
SON’ Ko. ua CHESTNUT 6TBEBT.
COMMISSION MEBCHANTS,
JOE THE SALE OF
PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS.
0c25-Fm . . —i
JJAGS 1 BAGS 1 B*GS !
NEW AND SECOND-HAND.
SEAMLESS, BURLAP, AND GUNEY
BAGS,
Constantly on hand.
JOHN T. BAIIiBY «& CO.,
No. IX3 NORTH FRONT STREET,
| yy» "WOOL SACKS FOR SALE.
Y ABN S.
On band and sonstantlr recelrim
Ait HOS, TWIST PROM 5 TO 20. tad
FILLING Nos. 10,12, snd 14.
Suitable for Oottonades tnd Hoeiorr.
In atore at present a beautiful article of
14 and 16 TWIST.
will find it their Interest to me
a call.
Alio oa band, and Aieat for the sale of the.
UNION A, B. AND G JOTS OB AIN BAGS.
la oaantlties of from 100 to 10,000.
R. T. WHITE,
242 NOBTH THIRD BTBEBT.
o o l .
on hud. nd oomlinmenH cUlly ftrrlylnf. of
Common to Foil Blood, eholce and clean.
WOOLEN YARNS,
li to 10 cate, (no. on hand, and Mwauppllea eomin*
COTTON YARNS,
Vm. 6 to 9C*. of firct-clan makes.
K. All number* and description* procured at once*
ALEX. WHILLDIN A SONS,
aoll-mw/tf
PORTLAND KEROSENE, JDN HAND
A and for aai* bsr _ WM. KINO, ,
lab-la* 117 asoh
CURTAIN GOODS.
SPRING, 1364.
THE TRADE
33 LETITIA Street, and
33 South FBONT Street.
YARNS.
Corner of NEW.
TUB AND ILBECB,
In Warp, Bundle, and Cop,
on ordera.
U North IBOirr Street.
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1864.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY" 10, 1864.
Leu. Wlatar'a Expedition to Richmond*
On Saturday morning Gen. Butler 1 ! forces, under
command of Brigadier General Wistar, marched
frem Yorktown by the way of New Kent Court
House. The cavalry arrived at 2K o’clock yester
day morning at Bottom’s Bridge, across the Chicks
hominy, ten miles from Richmond, for the purpose
Of making a raid into Richmond, and endeavoring
by a surprise to liberate our prisoners there.
The cavalry reached the bridge at the time ap
pointed, marching in 16K hours forty seven miles.
A force of irfantry followed in their rear, for tho
purpose of supporting them. It was expsoted
to surprise the enemy at Bottom’s Bridge, who
had bad for some time only a small picket there.
The surprise failed beoause, as the Richmond
Examiner of Monday says, l4 a Yankee deserter gave
information in Richmond of the intended move
ment.” The enemy had felled a large amount of
timber so as to blook up and obstruct the fords, and
make it impossible for our cavalry to pass. After
remaining at the bridge from 2 o’clock until 12. Gen.
Wistar joined them with his infantry, and the whole
object of the surprise having been defeated, General
Wistar returned to Williamsburg. On his march
back to New Kent Court House his rear was at
tacked by the enemy, but they were repulsed with
out loss to us. A match by our infantry, threeregi
ments of which were oolored, of more than 80 miles,
was made in 66 hours. The cavalry marched over
100 miles in fifty hours. Thiß shows that it is possi
ble to make a campaign iu Virginia in winter. Gen.
Wistaria force was composed of the Ist N. Y.
Mounted Rifles, 3d New York, 6ih Pennsylvania,
lith Pennsylvania, and 20th New York Cavalry, the
118th N. Y. Vola., 139thSDfew York, one squadron of
the 145th New Yoik, the Uth Connecticut, the 4th,
stb, and 6th United States colored troops, and two
batteries of artillery,
THE GRAND RECONNOISSANOE FROM THE
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
The heavy reconnoissanoe sent out on Friday eve*
ning and Saturday morning returned on the night
of the 7th, having ascertained the enemy’s exact po
sition and probable strength. The 2d Corps (Gen.
Warren’s) took to Morton’s Ford at 7 A.M-, on Satur
day, under Gens. Cauldwell,Webb, and Hayes. Gen.
Alexander Hayes, commanding the 3d Division, led
the advance in person, fording the river waist de op,on
foot, at the head of Gen. J. T. Owen’s brigade. The re
bel sharpshooters, in rifle-pits, on the other aide, kept
up a galling fire, while a battery stationed on the
bills to the right, and a mile beyond the ford, hotly
shelled the advancing column. On reaching the
south I ack of the R&pidan a charge was ma-Je on
the rebel rifle' pits, and twenty-eight men and au offi
cer captured. A few of the prisoners regarded their
situation when taken with indifference, and the ma
jority seemed inclined to rejoice rather than weep
at the fate which had befallen them. Much skir
mishing ensued, and at midnight Wanen reoroased
his troops.
That gallant Pennsylvanian, Gen. Alex. Hayes,
commanding the 3d Division of the 2d Corps, whose
reckless daring on many a battle-field haß excited
the astonishment and admiration of his troops, met
with a narrow escape while on the other side of the
river. A rebel bullet pierced his trowsers, burying
itself in his saddle, without, however, inflicting a
wound. Above the flag of his division is a white
silk streamer, presented to him by members of his
command, bearing the words “My God, my Coun
try, and Gen. Hayes.”
Gen. Kilpatrick’s cavalry reconnoisaacce con
clusively proves that no force of the enemy occu
pies the country east of Mine Run. The small
parties of cavalry all belonged to Hampton’s Le
gion, which Is stationed at Fredericksburg. More
than half the videttes have no horses, are seldom
relieved, and are sometimes obliged to walk twenty
three miles to their post of duty. The rebels are
represented as being engaged in replanning the road
from Chanoellorsville jto Orange Court House, and
are laying out several hew roads through the wilder
ness.
CAFTTJRJ2 OF REBEL. CAVALRY IN NORTH
The Newbem (N. G.) Times y of the 6th last., says
an expedition left Newport on Wednesday for White
river, under command of Gol. Jourdan. The party
was composed of Vermont and New York troops,
and a part of the 2d North Carolina Regiment, who
rendered efficient service as guides, &c. On Thurs
day evening they came upon a body of cavalry about
five miles from Young’s Cross Roads, and captured
the entire party of twenty, eight men and thirty
holies, arms and accoutrements, &o. A quantity of
corn was also captured and brought in. The com
mand returned to Newport on Friday in fine spirits,
but somewhat fatigued, after their march of seventy
miles. They did not lose a man.
STRENGTH OF THE REBEE ARMIES.
Accounts from the South state that the rebel
armies embrace to*day more men than at any mo*
ment sines the commencement of the war, the con*
scription having been ruthles sly "*enforced in all
classes liable to its action. Unless our armies are
sirongly reinforced before next spring, the military
authorities believe that much of the advantages we
have gained within the last twelve months must in
evitably be lost by the evacuation of territory
which we will not have sufficient troops to garrison*
THE REBEL COUNTRY UNDER GRANT.
An officer just in from Gen. Grant’s headquarters
states that all through the country in the rear of the
Union lines a Union officer, in his uniform, can ride
unmolested to any portions of Mississippi, Tennes
see, and Alabama, halting at farm-houses along the
road for such leiieshinenta and shelter as he may
desire.
The country to the rear of our lines is thoroughly
pacified, and it now only requires some military
governor to do for these States what General Butler
did for Louisiana. It is believed that the transfer
of General Sutler to the military governorship of
the States embraced within General Grant’s com
mand would be most acceptable to the latter officer.
HOW A GENERAL WAS CAPTURED.
- Gen. Scsmmon, who was recently captured, with
his whole stall and guard, asleep in canal boats, tied
to the bank, In Western Virginia, has several times
previously been reported for misconduct and inca
pacity to the War Department, and hiß removal was
thereupon urged by the military authorities.
At an early hour on Monday (says the Herald)
Wall street was precipitated into a small panic by a
bogus “ Herald ” extra—Two days later from New
Orleans; capture of Mobile! B}ooo8 } ooo prisoners, 130
cannon, 400,000 bales of cotton!”
Washington, Feb. 8,1864.
The following highly important despatch has been
received :
Mobile, Feb, 1,1864.
Major General Hdlleck , Gcneral-in* Chief:
On Saturday, the 30th of January, at daylight, a
combined attack was made by Admiral Farragut
and the forces under my command upon this city,
which, alter sustaining a bombardment for sixteen
hours, and b«hg partially consumed by fire, was
carried at midnight by assault. I regret to add our
losses are severe. The importance of our victory is
beyond my immediate appreciation. We have taken
about 8,000 prisoners, 130 cannon, and About 400,000
bales of cotton. N. P. BANKS,
Major General Commanding.
» This document,” (taya the Herald) ‘‘was an
nounced in the vociferous way in which extras are
usually announced by the newsboys, and was, so
far, natural. Therefore, it sold readily, and had
some effect on the market. But the whole cxcitfr
ment was cut short by the arrest, at our instance, of
the newsboys engaged in this fraud upon the publie.
Sergeant Matthew and Officer Healy, of the Second
precinct, were commendably active in this matter.
This is a fair illustration of the manner in which a
certain part of Wall street manages its little game.”
REBEL OFFICERS RETURNING TO ALLE-
The Nashville Union of the 6fch inst. publishes no •
less than three public recantations of rebellion. One
is by D. C. Humphreys, an Alabamian Douglas
man. On the question of slavery he says:
This gieat moral, religions question we should
meet like men, as becomes a Christian people. We
should meet it openly and boldly, and if the voice of
Christendom Is against us, yield to that as the voice
of God. We have undertaken to fight out of it, but
it sticks the closer to us. We cannot shut ourselves
up within the cotton States and defiantly proclaim
to the world that our system is peculiar to our
selves, and that it must not be investigated.
Major T- H. Williams, of Tennessee, lately of the
rebel army, spoke on the 2d inst. at Nashville, to th*
a ame purpose. He said;
Many of his comp Anions-in-arms told him, when
he announced his determination to return home,
that lie was a disgraced man ; but since that time
some of these same fellows had told him that they
were disgraced in the same way l Near two hun
dred of his old regiment were now in the Federal
service, and more would be there.
He had been a slaveholder, but was ready to lose
his slaves rather than resign the protection or the
stars and stripes. Some Secession sympathizers, he
added, called the proclamation of emancipation un
constitutional. He asked them **if they wanted the
Constitution administered 1 If they did, they were
fools, for it would hang them and all their friends
now in the rebel ranks, if caught, for the penalty of
treason is death.”
A GIRL SOLDIER.
A young girl from Pennsylvania enlisted at Os
wego last week as John Davis. She went to Bing
hamton, and while on the cars her sex was disco
vered by a soldier, who reported her case to Officer
Farnham. She was arrested by Farnham, and is
now in jail. She is very pretty, and but for her voice
her sex would be scarcely suspected. She had not
been examined by the surgeon, and 'designed to
evade an examination by having a man (a friend of
hen) examined, and she take the enlisting papers.
She is but eixteen years of age, very intelligent, and
extremely modest.
THE LETTER OF MR. BOTTS,
The Washington -Star publishes the genuine text
of the admirable letter of John M. Botts to State
Treasurer Smith, of Yirginia, declining the proffered
Sen&lonhip. He says:
“ in taking the position I have done in reference
to the rebellion, I have been actuated by no sordid
considerations, and by no selfish desire to advance
my political or personal fortunes; but it has been
forced upon me by the clcar t unclouded l conscicntious t
and overwhelming convictions of my best judgment,
free from all passion, prejudice, or ambition.
“ The extent of my aspirations for the present is
to return ‘good for evil * to this once venerable and
venerated, but'now poor, downtrodden, shattered,
heartlessly-sacrificed, and dilapidated old * Mother
of States,’ that has been reduced to her present
miserable condition by her leading and trusted
statesmen, .who, with miscalculation upon miscalcu
lation, .and blunder upon blunder, with every pro
phecy and promise unfulfilled, have been groping
their way in Siberian darkness, and with the most
Philadelphia.
THE WAR,
CAROLINA.
A RABID CANARD.
GIANCE.
inexcusable ignorance, after a phantom engendered
by a corroded and diseased imagination, which was
excited by a heartUss selfishness, and insane am
bition to perpetuate their own power, that has been
without a parallel in the history of the world*
** I am aware that my counsels for the past three
years have been spurned and derided, and my person
eyen threatened with violence by many who once
looked with a moie charitable and friendly eye upon
my suggestions and advice. I have reason to think
this hallucination is passing off, and is being rapidly
dissipated by the terrible ordeal to whioh the for
tunes of the South have been subjected, and it may
be—at least lam not without hope—that at a future
day I may i?i some way stand as a link between the
North and the South, by whioh the chain that onoe
bound them together may again connect them, and
to this complexion it must come at last ; for neither pas
sion, nor prejudice, nor suffering, nor want, nor hun
ger*, nor pride, nor strife, can endure forever, and
the time must come when men will look at things as
they are, and no longer close their eyeß at bright
midday, and swear the sun does not shine, beoauße
they desire to shut out the light. ll
A Day at Convalescent Camp, near Alex*
andria, Virginia*
This camp wav organized by order of Maj. Gen.
Banks, commanding the defences of Washington,
August, 1862, the general supervision of which wav
under charge or Gen. Slough, Military Governor of
Alexandria. The first commandant selected for the
camp was Col. T. S. Belknap, of the 85th Regiment
N. Y. Yols. At this time the men were in the ordi
nary wedge tents, without floors, and entirely want*
ing the care and comfort necessary for the well
doing of ccfavalescents. On the 3d day of January,
1863, in compliance with orders from Major General
Heintzelman, Samuel McKelvy, Lieut. Col. and
• Chief Commissary, Department of Washington, as
sumed command of the camp. At this time bar
-1 racks were in course of erection, and the men quar
tered in tents near by. *
The morning report of January 3, 1863, showed
present (B,36o)eighty.three hundred and fifty mem
• a majority needing speedy medical examination*.to
/deciderelative to their final disposition, the medical
corps not being of sufficient force. Col. MoKelvy
the facts to the proper authorities, and had
the satisfaction of having the matter speedily re
medied by the appointment of two boards of medi
cal examiners. Through the experience of Surgeon
Charles Page, in charge, the medical department of
the- camp was placed in good working condition.
Surgeon Sanford B. Hunt relieved Surgeon Page,
and is still surgeon in charge,
Dr. Hunt has displayed the qualifications of a
tboiough medical offioer. His services will long be re.
mernbered by the very many gallant sufferers that
have received kindnesses at his hands. In February,
1862, fifty barracks, capable of accommodating five
thousand men, with dining rooms and cook houses,
together with hospitals for five hundred men, were
turned over to Lieutenant Colonel McKelvy, by
Captain Joshua Norton, A. Q. M. of General Heiat
zelman’s staff. In the erection of these buildings,
Captain Norton earned for himßelf the reputation of
an experienced quartermaster and thorough archi
tect. The labor on the buildings was performed by
soldiers temporarily detailed.
To explain more fully, Convalescent Camp is
situated between Fairfax Seminary and Long
Bridge, near Fort Barnard. The grounds are beau
tifully laid out, the drainage excellent, with plenty
of shade, and ample liberty for the exercise and en
joyment of the men. At this time, the following
named are the officers at Camp Headquarters:
Samuel MoKelvy, Lieut. Col. and C. S. com’ding.
R. P. Crawford, Captain and A. A. General.
Sanford B. Hunt, Surgeon in charge.
F. T. Stewart, Lieut. Com’ding Camp Distribution.
The camps are divided as follows:
Ist Division, commanded by Captain H. B. Patton,
sth P, R. Y. C., comprising men of Pennsylvania
regiments and United States regulars.
2d Division, commanded by Captain H. B. Paxton,
sth P. R. Y. C., comprising men of regiments of New
York State. __ a
3d Division, commanded by Captain J. N. Bird,
7th Wisconsin Volunteers, comprising men of regi
ments from the Eastern States.
4th Division, commanded by , comprising
men of xegiments from Western and Southern States,
and New Jersey,
The working Of the divisions are as follows: The
men are divided off into barracks of one hundred
men eaoh. A non-commissioned officer is in oharge
of a barracks, the non-commissioned officers are
designated as ward masters; they are held respon
sible for the proper conduct and discipline of the
men—to have roll-calls, note the arrival and de
parture of the men, and report the fact to the dl
vision commanders daily or oftener. Attaohed to
each division is an acting assistant surgeon, whose
duties are to examine the men o! their divisions
daily.
Those whom they think fit'subjeots for the Invalid
Corps, discharge, or to be returned to duty, are re
ported to division commanders. Those fit for duty
are sent to Camp Distribution, to be forwarded to
their respective regiments. Those for the “ Invalid
Corps” or “discharge” are sent before the Exami
ning Board, and from, there to the surgeon in charge,
whose decision is final. Commanders of regiments
seem to be fully capable of managing their com
mands. The cleanliness of the barracks, neatness
of the men, and- good order and discipline of the
camp, are due to these officers in rigidly enforcing
the orders of the camp. The medical depart
ment is in charge of Dr. Hunt, before men
tioned, His responsibility is great. Always
strict and attentive to his duties, his firmness,
together with his amiability, have wonfor him many
friends. The Quartermasters Department, under
charge of Captain John A. EWson, A. Q. M., has
suitable buildings for the protection of public pro
perty and stores; its stabling large and commo
dious, and the means of transportation amply suf
ficient for the calls of the service. The demands of
division commanders are promptly responded to by
the captain, who is a /most efficient and energetic
officer. The Commissary Department, under oharge
of Captain Charles F. Hoyt, C. S. Vols., has always
on hand an abundant supply of commissary stores,
giving as the ration all the regulations allow.
Cattle are slaughtered in oamp, and fresh beef at
all times delivered as part of the ration. Attached
to the department is a large bakery, where fresh
bread is issued daily, having a capacity for turning
out sixteen thousand rations of bread per diem, if
called for. In so case has Captain Hoyt failed to
honor requisitions on his department. Attached to
the camp are two large kitchens and dining roofns;
the kitchens are oapable of cooking rations tho
roughly for from twelve to fifteen thousand men.
The men eat their rations in the dining-rooms,
marched in in two ranks, in charge of the ward
master. No cooking is allowed outside of the kitch
en, cooks being detailed for that purpose; by that
means good and substantial rations are given the
soldiers, and much labor saved the men. The post
office of the camp, under the oharge of Captain
Marston, 82d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers,
receives and delivers on an average each week
fifteen thousand letters for the soldiers, many of the
letters containing money received and forwarded
to their families and friends. The number of un
called-for letters Bent to the dead-letter office
amounts to about three hundred and fifty per week.
The mail leaves camp daily at eight o’clock each
morniDg, and is received at eleven o’clock A. M-
The arrangements of the offloe are so complete, that
a mail of from two to five thousand letters is de
livered to their rightful owners inside of two hours;
the postal arrangements can compare favorably with
any cf the post-offices of our large cities.
Adams 7 Express, too, has eßtablishen an agent
id camp for the delivery of all packages addressed to
soldiers in camp, and for the purpose of forwarding
money to the families of soldiers. A vast amount
of money is sent per express through this office.
Another feature is the photograph gallery, under
the charge of Mr. Jones. He is an old and expe
rienced photographer, and is daily visited by the sol
diers, having their bronzed faces taken to send to
their families and friends. His charges are mode
rate, and the pictures compare well with any taken
in our principal cities.
The Sanitary Commission has established a
branch in thiß camp. Their agent, Miss Amy Brad
ley, is one of the noble ladies of the country whose
voluntary service has done much, very much, for the
soldiers connected with this camp. Articles of
clothing needed by the soldier, not furnished by the
. Government, can always be had by applying to Miss
Bradley.
There is a library, too, with a large and commo
dious building, well adapted for the purpose, con
taining about six thousand volumes. Some twelve
to fifteen hundred volumes are issued daily to our
literary defenders. Mr. Miller, of Massachusetts,
is in charge.
The chapel is beautifully situated in a quiet grove,
and with its steeple and bell cannot fall to awaken
home-like emotions, even to those passing by. One
thousand soldiers can be seated, and services are
held three times a Hay, under the auspices of the
Christian Commission.
In connection with the church, I must refer to the
Jinal resting-place of some of our poor boys. In the
rear of the hospital are the cemetery grounds, neatly
laid out, and sufficient for a thousand graves, it Is
enclosed with a neat and substantial fence, every
gravehaving ahead-board, with the name, company,
and regiment of the deceased*
I cannot conclude without bearing testimony to
the officer-like conduct and executive military
ability of Captain R, P. Crawford, assistant adju
tant general. To him and his business-like quali
ties is due much of the efficiency of the camp*
*+**
A Mercantile Tragedy*
On the person of Mr. Luther C. Tibbetts, the in
sane broker who stabbed the policeman, on Monday,
in the New York Produce Exchange, was found the
following singular letter:
Enclosed is a report of Friday’s oorn market from
the New Yoik Times, which is very correct, ana pro
bably better than I can do it myself. The contest
that 1 am now carrying on is what I have often told
you that I would do, if it cost me my life. It has
now arrived at a point where my life will be put at
stake, and I shall surely lay it down rather than
swerve one jot or one tittle from what I consider
right and just.
If my lire is sacrificed in this contest you will be
telegraphed immediately, and I wish you to come to
this city with all of the six obildren, and take the
same weapon that I used, and with the same zeal, of.
tiuth and justice, go immediately on ’Change, and
have some one point out to you the individuals that
have sacrificed my property And tried to destroy my
character, and there stand and sell day by day oorn
enough for cash down to meet the payments as they
become due; but sell only one load of oorn to any
one party. Keep the children on ’Change with you,
and lay down your life—and saorifioe which I know
you will do—to carryout the principles which I
have inaugurated on that Corn Exchange. Don’t
wait for or take any care for my burial. Let others
do that; your work is of muoh more importance.
Mr. Hatchie will instruct you in regard to the way
and manner of doing the business in carrying out
my wishes. Try and be ready at a moment’s warn
ing to come with all the children. Let me assure
you thAt I shall not return home until this thiog Is
deoiled, and it shall be victory or death with me.
Have faith, be of good cheer, and rejoice, for all
things ate working well. My eyes are so weak that
I date apt write. ,
Fernando Wood called to Account in the
House of' Representatives, by Hon* John
F, Kixmey» Delegate from the Terri
tory of Utah*
On Wednesday, the 27th of January, 1864, Hon.
John F, Kinney, delegate in Congress from the Ter
ritory of Utah, rose in his scat and made the follow
ing remarks:
, Mr .' *o® Delaware
to yield m 3 the floor for the purpose of a personal
explanation. 1
Mr. Suithbbs. I do not like to be discourteous
and I will yield the floor with the understanding
that the time the gentleman occupies is not to be
taken out of my time, and that the gentleman will
occupy not more than ten minutes.
Mr. Kinnby. I tire to repel the attack made upon
the people I represent, by the gentleman from New
Yolk [Mr. Fernando Wood] In hla apeeeh yester
day. I ehoulil eonaider myself unworthy to repre
■ent that people were I to remain ailent and allow
that aocuaatioD, coming from the eource it doea, to
remain tinanaw ered ana unrepelled.
The gentleman waa not discuaaing anything
which pertains to my Territory or constituents
when be deecendEd from the legitimate argument he
waa making upon a oonatitutional question before
the Houae lor the purpoao of travelling clear around
into the Territory of Utah , o attsok a loyal people.
I cay the gentleman had no right to dothia. If Utah
had been before the Houae, or any measurea affect
ing ita interest*, then perhapa it might have been ger
mane for the gentleman to indulge in thia vindictive
attack upon my Territory. lam aorry that I have
been compelled to aak the gentleman from Delaware
(Mr. Smlthers) to yield me the Uoor to reply to that
part of the apeeeh or the gentleman from New York.
Sir, I preeume that thia attack falla more harmleaa
upon the eara of the country and the memberaofthlc
House than if it emanated from any other aource in
thi. Houae. „
Mr. Fernando Wood. Permit me to aak the gen
tlemar—
Mr. Kmm. I have but a very few moments, and
I am not disposed to- yield the floor for the purpose
of answering any question,
Mr. Feknando wqod. i desire simply—
Mr. I yield. The gentleman
introduced bimselt into this House by offering a
resolution declaring the present war to be inhuman ;
and for that reason, and because of the known po
litical standing of the gentleman, his known sym
pathy with rebels against the best Government the
world ever saw, his attempt yesterday fell compara
tively harmless upon the country and upon the
members of this House.
The gentleman does not confine himself to de
claring this war to be inhuman; but in his speeoh,
as reported in the Globe of this morning, he charac
terizes this war as a hellish crusade of blood and
famine • Has it come to this, that a man can stand
up in the American Congress, when the Government
is struggling for its existence, when a formidable
attack is made to destroy the Government handed
down to us by our fathers-1 say has it come to thW,
that a man can stand up in the Amerioan Congress
and ptonounce this as a hellish crusade of blood? A
hellish crusade, indeed, sir! A hellish crusade I
presume it would be for a man to defend himself
against an assassin ; a crusade for a father to defend
bis wife aDd children against an attack made by an
assassin at midnight; a erusade, indeed, for the Go
vernment to struggle in putting down a rebellion
whioh strikes at the life of the nation !
Why, I say, did the gentleman travel out of the
order of discussion for the purpose of attacking the
people I represent 1 Why did he do it? I will tell
J’ou why. It was because the people of Utah are
oyal to the Government, and have no sympathy
with rebels. I know of no other reason but thia.
They are loyal, and have been, to the Constitution
and the Government ever since the war commenced;
yea, before, ever since the people have had an orga
nization in thiß country; loyal to the Government,
loyal to its institutions, and submissive to its laws.
But, sir, in justice to the gentleman from Dela
ware I must be brief. The gentleman from New
York says:
1 * But, sir, that is not the only case. I come to a later
ana yet more peitiuBnt and significant case—the Mormon
rebellion. These profligate outcasts, who bare alwtys
been hostile tiryour moral and political institutions, were
treated with by commissioners. 11
These “ outcasts!” Mr. Speaker, HI am'told, and
this House is told that the people of Utah are out
casts. I hurl back the accusation upon the gen-,
tleman. I pronounce it false. I pronounce the
statement false that the people of Utah have ever
been in rebellion against the Government or its
laws. I have had some experience in tte Terri
tory of Utah for some years as its
and I take this occasion to say that the or
that Territory have always been submfWlvd to
the laws, have always been loyal to the Constitu
tion and the Government, ana have always been
obedient to the authorities of the Federal Govern
ment in that Territory. I will tell you, sir, why
this formidable military force was sent to Utah in
1858. John B. Floyd was then Secretary of War.
and James. Buchanan was President of the United
States; and it was for the purpose of bringing about
this very state of things that now exists, and pre
paring the way for it, that a large force of ten or fifteen
thousand men was sent into the Territory of Utah,
and that, too, when the people of the Territory were
pursuing their peaceful avocations, loyal to the
Constitution and the Union. I say that there was
no cause for sending that army to Utah. None ex
isted whatever. There was no reason for it, but that
arch-traitor, John B. Floyd, foreseeing, as he did,
that the time was near at iapd when the Southern
States would revolt against the Government and
establish a Government of their own, set on foot a
large military force against the people of Utah,
transporting to it an army at an expense of forty or
filty million dollars, thus impoverishing the United
States treasury, and for the purpose of preparing
the way by crippling the North, with a view to the
rebellion which is now upon us. These men were
sent to Utah with all the paraphernalia of war, with
infantry, artillery, and cavalry, for this purpose
alone. The people were quiet; they were peaceful;
they were loyal; they were submissive to the Go
vernment and to its laws. I say that it was for this
purpose, and only for the purpose of impoverishing
the treasury of the United States and of disposing
of the army of the United States; for after that army
was recalled it was engaged at Fort Crittenden in
destroying the munitions of war that they might
not be brought back to the Northern States to assist
in putting down this rebellion. .
Mr. Smithhbs. Will the gentleman from Utah
pause awhile? He has already oooupied the ten
minutes he requested of me. I wish now to under
stand whether the time which he ooouples is to
come out of my hour? If not, lam perfectly con
tent that he shall proceed.
The Sfbakeb. The understanding is that the gen
tleman from Delaware has yielded the floor to the
gentleman from Utah for a personal explanation by
unanimous consent, and hence the time occupied by
the gentleman from Utah will not come out of the
gentleman’s hour.
Mr. Kinney. Mr. Speaker, it was for the reason
I have stated, and for that reason alone, that the
traitor, John B. Floyd, inaugurated this war against
the people of the Territory of U : *h; but I say to
the gentleman that not a gun was fired upon either
side, neither by the Federal troops nor by the
people of the Territory. It was only the appear
ance of war, and it was for the purpose of destroy
ing the aims and crippling the means of the
Government and impoverishing the Treasury oj
the United States, as I have stated, that this
Urge military force was sent forlk against a peaceful
ana loyal people. The gentleman says that the
people of Utah were in rebellion. Sir, they never
have been in rebellion against this Government.
They have not, as the gentleman from New York
has, any sympathy with rebels. The gentleman
should look to his own city. I thick he has been
a very distinguished citizen of the city of New
York, and has had the honor of presiding over that
vast metropolis; and it is said, Ido not know with
how much truth, that the recent riot in the city
of New York, by which the street flowed with
blood, and innocent women and children were
butchered—it is said that a large share of the re
sponsibility of that riot rests upon the shoulders of
toe gentleman from New York. But, Mr. Speaker,
when a man will stsndupin the halls of this Con
gresss at this time, when it is important for every
man, if he enunciates sentiments at all, to enunciate
loyal sediments, and attack the Government and
the loyal people I represent, I trust that his attacks
Will be bAimksß and of no oflec’.
1 would ask the gentleman if he did not, when
vessels carrying arms to the South from New York
were detained by the Government, and he was tele
graphed to by the Governor of Georgia on the sub-,
ject, telegraph to the Governor of Georgia that he
regretted exceedingly that these vessels had been
taken into custody by the Government, and that he
bad not the power of releasing them and sending
them on their way rejoicing ?
I presume such is the case; and are we, I say—are
grave members of the American Congress, aeeem«
bied to legislate for the best interests of the country,
who arc trying to save for posterity the Government
bequeathed to ua by our fathers—are we to sit here
and listen to sentiments breathing treason against
the Government without saying a word against it?
If I were a member of this House in full fellow
ship, in place of being a delegate, the first thing I
would do would be to introduce a resolution in this
House to expel the gentleman, as unworthy to oc
cupy a seat upon this floor. [Great laughter.! I
think it due to the dignity of tho body, due to the
nation, due to the people whom we represent, that
he go back to his constituents, or rather to the place
to which be more legitimately belongs—to the
Southern Confederacy.
Mr. Speaker, I propose to quote a little further
from the gentleman’s speech; and I will say that
the speech, as it appears in the Globe : and as it
was delivered yesterday in the House, differs in
some very essential particulars. Undoubtedly it
has been prepared with care by the gentleman, &Qil
tb&t we have the right to take it as it appears in the
Globe ,
He says, in speaking of what he terms the Mor-
Don rebellion:
“It coruruenctd early in 1867. The immediate caufq
was opposition to the txerciee of Federal authority, and
the appointment of a Territorial Governor. On the 15th
ol September of that year BrlßhainTonnglsBn9dap.ro
cleniation. in the style of an independent sovereign, an
nouncing his purpose to resist, by force of arms, the
entrs of the United States troops into the Territory of
Utah. Be proceeded to carryout this threat. lie or
ganized an army, declared martial law, seized Govern
ment fortifications, destroyed Government property., and
pntthe Territory in a state of complete defence against
the Federal army.”
I ask the gentleman for his authority when he
says that Governor Brigham Young seized Govern
ment fortifications and destroyed public property.
If he was as familiar with Utah as he seems to be
with the rebels, he would never have made that
statement. There were no Government fortifica
tions in Utah at that time, and none were seized by
Governor Brigham Young, or by the people of Utah.
It is true, Mr. Speaker, that when] the people of
Utah heard, lor the first time, after the Federal army
was fairly on its way across the plains, that a tre
mendous military force was on ita way to that Ter
ritory for the purpose of destroying them, of exter
minating them from the face of the earth, for the
purpose of pillaging and plundering their fair pos
sessions—it is true they did then precisely as any
other people would have done under such circum
stances ; they prepared for their defence.
But that army entered Salt Lake City peaceably,
asd 10 quiet No* a gun was fired, not a drop of
blood was shed. Andjhia grand programme, inaugu*
rated by Floyd for the purpose I have indicated, and
as has since fully appeared to be true, after remain
ing there for some two years* destroyed nearly all
their munitions of war (for they were engaged many
months in doing it), and were then recalled, and the
gland farce ended.
That is all there was of the Mormon rebellion, as
the gentleman called it; not a rebellion by the Mor
mons, not at all, but a military expedition, set on
foot and carried into effect in 1858 by John B. Floyd,
for the purposes which I have already stated ; and
it has hAd its effect. It has crippled the North.
For the time being it crippled and impoverished the
tteatury of the United States; and Mr. Floyd and
Mr. Buchanan were content, for it ooat the Govern
ment nearly fifty million dollars.
Sir, the people of Utah have, under all their dis
couragements and embarrassments, built up a beau
tiful city in the midst of the great American desert.
They are feeding, and have been for years, the em
ploy £a of the overland mail. They are furnishing
the necessary supplies for the purpose of developing
the reacuicfci of the rich mineral regions which sur
round them. They have afforded a safe retreat rrom
the Indian, to the wayfarer a. he P»»=e* o“ “
weary pilgrimage to the other slde' }"J thfl T ?
Mountains for the purpose of developing the re
sources of the Pacific (wst. . T *, ftnA i*
Th« time mav come, Mr. Speaker, ana i nope n
«riii «niSdnrine «ie present session of Congress,
when I may h«rethe opportunity of elaborating
tni»iubieot;»n(l .bowing to the American nation
th»t the oeople I have the Jionor to represent upon
thh> floorare » much-abu«ed people; that they are
infilled to receive, in place of the condemnation of
the country, and of those who represent the people
in Oongreu. their .ympathte. for what they have
done in eatabllahing a colony In the great heart of
the American; de.ert which 1. indiapenaable to the
people and to the Government. Thanking agate
the gentleman from Delaware very kindly for hi.
couite.y in yielding me the floor, I will not detain
the Home longer, . ;
February 7, 1864.
J&4-
THREE CENTS.
Revision of tile Revenue Laws.
lII.—PRINCIPLES OF TAXATION.
To the Editor of The Press;
Sis ; Having suggested pinna of assessing and
collecting taxes whioh conform to the principles of
equality, I have now to oonalder how far thlß prin
ciple can be oarrled out In the new ayatem by which
baaea and rates of taxation are to be reaiaasi&ed and
regulated. The impression prevails that means must
be taken to raise additional revenue, and this seems
to be the main purpose in suggesting a revision of
existing laws. State Treasurer McGrath-c'oses the
recommendation, which I have hereto! quoted,
with the assertion that, if adopted, “ it will produce
a very largely increased revenue.” Governor Curtin
says, “ I should be glad if the Legislature would
make a general revision of the revenue laws, with a
view to their increased productiveness.” True, the
Governor insists upon distributing the burden of
taxation equally among the people of thg Common
wealth ; but, in default of seouring this by a system
atic reconstruction of our revenue aode, he suggests
at least one measure of a partial and inequitable
character.
It does not seem so clear to me that the State
wants lsrgely. increased revenues; they lead natural
ly to increased expenditures. There is at present
enough for all current needs, and we are reducing
the State debt at the rate of a million dollars per
annum, which will extinguish the whole la about
thirty years. There is no clamor for its payment,
and there is no reason why this generation should
burden itself gratuitously for the benefit of the next.
To my mind the first thing to be sought fori id *'
revision of our revenue code, is to secure the
thorough assessment, at its true value, of ail pro
perty liable to taxation. I have proposed a plan by
which this may be accomplished, and increased'
revenue will flow from its adoption.
I quote from the report of the Hon. HenryD;.
Moore, late State Treasurer, and to aavo. fattier
eulogy upon its incidental mention, I now say that
it is the most liberal, sagacious, and statesman-like
document which has appeared upon State finances.
He says: “ I again express the hope that, in what
ever action you may take, you will endeavor to
bring within the operations of the law those citizens,
and their immense property and wealth, who have
hitherto escaped taxation, by falling to make a true
and just return to the oifioers of the State. By doing
this you will (In my opinion) nearly double the in
come or revenue of the State, without the least in
crease of the present rate of taxation.”
Assume this to be true, or even partially true,
and It gives us more revenue bun we want, impo
sing upon us the duty of considering how to reduce
and equalize the burden of taxation. It will make it
easy for us to gradually remove all impositions and
restrictions upon trade and commerce, and to foster
such associations for road making, I tabling, manufac
turing, and improving, as develop the great mineral
wealth and resources of the State, and thus direotly
and incidentally enrich and strengthen the Common
wealth.
The principle of equality is most precious, and I
would neyer depart from it, except to favor such
corporations as I have alluded to. The tendency of
legislation has heretofore been in the apposite di
rection, and the taxes imposed upon suoh associa
tions are most glaringly inequitable. The Hon.
Henry D. Moore, says: “ There are to my knowledge
mining companies in the State which pay very
heavy State and county taxes upon the land which
is the basiß of their stock and corporation, and also
a State tax upon their stock according to its assessed
value, and the stockholders have never received a dollar of
dividends or revenue from their shares .” Here the
same property is taxed doubly, and the case becomes
much worse if these plundered stockholders, with
more than human virtue, make return under the
law which imposes a further tax upon the stock in
their hands.
What a miserably mistaken policy is this! Yet
it is proposed to extend and perpetuate it.
Railroad companies are not treated quite so badly,
yet they seem to be regarded with special animosity.
The commissioners appointed to revise the revenue
code adopt the plan of taxing the gross receipts of
all railroad companies, and fix a iax of two cents
upon every dollar of their earnings. They propose
to tax tonnage as follows : Upon the produat of
mines, for each ton of two thousand pounds, two
cents ; upon the product of the forest, upon animals,
vegetable food, and and all other agricultural pro
ducts, three cents; upon merchandise, manufactures,
and ail other artloles, five eents. In addition to this,
the stock of railroad companies is taxed for State
and county purposes in the hands of the holders,
Examining the Governor’s message, I find, out of
four propositions for raising increased revenues,
three are aimed at corporations.
State Treasurer McGrath, in his report, harps
upon corporations.
The best reason for imposing additional burdens
upon companies is the ilippsnt assertion that they
can bear it; not that the State needs additional re
venue ; not that corporations do not pay their pro
portion of taxes. No; here is something that may
be taxed; therefore, tax it. It proeeedß upon the
same principle with Pat’s advice to his friend at the
fair: “ Wln’iver you see a head, hit it.”
It is said by the commissioners that, owing to the
intangible nature of the property of corporations,
a general system of taxation cannot be made
cable to them. This is a mistake. It is said that'
their franchises are valuable. That is true s but
whatever value they have Is represented by some
thing whioh may be estimated, returned, and taxed,
like any other property. It will take the shape of
capital and accrued profits, and be represented by
stocks, bonds, dividends, or ready money.
Tbe Governor would impose a special additional
tax upon companies which enjoy “substantial mo
nopolies.” This is bad in principle, and would be
worse in practice. If certain corporations possess
exclusive privileges wbich should never have been
granted, let them be repealed. If the State will
burden oppressively these privileges, the companies
will use them to caßt the burden on the community,
and the original injustice is thus aggravated. In
suoh cases it is always some partieular interest, or a
certain class of individuals, that suiTers, and in that
end tbere is lots to the Commonwealth.
I propone a general system of taxation, which
shall apply to the property of corporations and in
dividuals alike. By it all ‘property shall be taxed
—all property shall be taxed equally—and aU properly
shall be taxed but once. If, under this system, rail
road companies pay more or less taxes than at pre
sent, neither the companies nor the public can com
plain, No association, no individual, can success
fully oppose the principle of equality. Theiatereata
which may he more heavily taxed under this system
will be protected by the principle of equality from
the burdens which popular ignorance or legislative
caprice might in.the future cast upon them.
Certain corporations are, from their nature, be
yond the reach of local taxation, and being peculiar
ly within the authority of the State, should be taxed
only for State purposes. This will relieve real estate
from the burden of State taxation, except the tax of
one and a half mills, specially appropriated to the
liquidation of the State debt. As taxation for local
purpores falls mainly upon real estate, this is no
more than just, and in a few years, with the im
provement of State finances, even this light tax
may be taken off.
There are certain other corporations which have
a local habitation, and all their property exists in a
tangible form. Of this; nature are manufacturing,
mining, improvement, gas, and water companies.
Their real estate should also be relieved from all
State taxation, except the tax of a mill and a half
before adverted to. The former olass of corpora
tions should mane returns to the Commissioner of
Revenue; the latter to the assessor of the proper
county or district. To effect this the revised code
should contain something like the following pro
visions i
Every incorporated bank, or similar institution,
shall report annually, in writing, and under oath, to
the Commissioner of Bevenue, stating the amount
of its capital paid in, and its true value; the amount
and rate per cent, of every dividend declared; the
amount of any surplus or contingent fund 5 and all
its asset* and property, of every nature and kind
whatever.
Incorporated railroad, steamboat, ferry, express,
telegraph, or transportation companies to make
report as above, setting forth the amount of stock
and bonded debt, and $ll other securities; repre
senting the cost of their improvements, machinery,
and other property, their assets of every nature,
dividends declared, and the amount of any contin-
gent or sinking fund.
The real and personal estate of manufacturing,
mining, improvement, and other companies, not re
quired to make returns to the Commissioner of Re
venue, to be assessed in the district where located,
and, when assessed, the corporation and stockhold
ers not to be required to return the stock repre
sented by such property.
'Where any corporation pays tax upon its property
direotly into the State Treasury, the stockholders
not to be required to make return of their shares.
These propositions are not Btated with much art.
I am making suggestions, not framing a bill, and my
only care is to convey my idea.
Having discussed the principles of taxation, I
shall endeavor, in my next, to fix what I conceive
to be equitable rates of taxation. C.
m Exemption of Friends from Military
Service.”
To the Editor of The Press:
Sir: Having read with muoh interest the com
munication of your correspondent on the above sub
ject, I would, with your permission, add a few com
ments upon it. Although 14 Citizen ” has given a very
fair argument against the exemption of Friends, ho
does not appear to have touched the mala points ©r
the esse. These appear, to the writer, to be two;
the first being general In its bearing, the other par
ticular, and of special interest to Philadelphia, or
portions of Pennsylvania. The first is this, that
should Congress recognize the principle of being
number of the Society of Friends, °r »nv other con
icientious antiwar society, a.acause case
It would open a very wide door through w .
of a war if opinion, which the pre.ent war ha. Mh
come, all who were opposed io the war could e«eape
Ihe draft We mieht have all the brooa oi ijopper
helde little «uSI« and all, joining the .ooiety, and
a .rr.n’« «e“nent of your oorreepondent would
not li able to eit them «p before they got through
tSi Jkmr Now? if an? ono doubts the probability of
thi. l Kippoiredcaiie, I would ask him if he thtak.
the preconceived religious opinion, of any Copper
heed opponent of the war and opponent of emanci
pation would be strong enough to prevent him
joining so respectable a society. In such an event
the very respectable society would suffer much de
terioration, and the presiding elder would have to
exclaim with St. Paul: “ Alexander, the' Copper
head, has done me much evil.” The other objection
to the exemption of Friends, which is. of particular
interest to the people of such districts as those in
which they might happen to be a majority, or a
large plurality, is that such exemption would throw
the onus of the draft on the remaining portion of
the inhabitants. This objection I think that Con
gress, out of regard to simple right, is bound to tsice
In conclusion, allow me to say that i r 2 n !. o ?Jnu!d
phrases in your correspondent’s remarks it woul
appear that he had availed himself of a cause of ex
emptton the principles of which *}e condemns, and 1
would ask, for ihe information of those who migni
he protected by similar clauses, whether fti- juni
liable for those who agree heart and With the
war, and with the underisingprlnoiplea of It, wnion
your oorreepondent certainly does, to receive me
benefit of «l!>h exemption Hicrs A4IIC oRl r M,
Fbubpabt Slit, ISO-? :
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New Publications.
A tiCf catalogue, some three Inches long by two
brood, rcwelved ftotn T. LeypoldVpubltgher ia this
oity, remlittb as of the foot that he bm i.aued,within
the laat thrc* months, varioua works, some of them
possessing mote Shan ordinary value. Among his
illustrated eeriee are photographs of Gujtavu*
Dort’s wondrously expressive drawings, telling the
etoriea of the Wandering Jew, or Chateaubriand'*
Atala, and of Perrauit’s Sleeping Beauty in the
Wood, in thia manner, too, have Dord's iltuatra.
tioca or Dantd'B Inferno been reproduced, firat. In.
large siz.e, and next in a complete series of seventy,
*| x T CB , rt l*’ for albnma. To thia olaas alao belong Ct..
it. Leland'a Legend* of the Birds, Mother Goode
from Germany, and Mother Pitcher’a Poema foe
Little People.
Leypoldt's Foreign Library, of which aevon vn>
lumea have appeared, ia also a popular aertea It
oonaieta exoluaively of worka of ilotion by foreign
noveliats—Englieb, French, and German. The laat,
issued volume ia The Romance of the Mummy,
from the French of Theophile Gautier, translated
by Mra. Anne T. Wood, who has done her worlc
well, but unfortunately shows a curious deficiency
in spelling, inasmuch aa for sombre, mitre, sceptre,
ahe gives such unwarrantable Webateriau substi
tutes as somber, miter, and scepter. The tale is well
told, particularly the opening, describing the finding
of the Mummy, which turns out to be the virgin,
wire of Pharoab, who perished in the Red Sea I
Mr. Leypoldt’s third aeries ‘'Standard Works of Fo
reign Literature;” la not uniform In size, for It varies
from lSmo to Imperial Bvo. There have lately been
added to it, Musical Sketohea, by Eliee Polko, trano
lated from the fifth German edition by Fanny Fuller,
’ This consists of twenty-two novelettes, in which
.musical composers, performers, or singers are tha
> leading personages. There ia variety enough here,
at all events, for the persona thua treated of are Se>
t&ytlah Bach, Gluek, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Pergo
leal, Schubert, Scarlatti, Weber, Paganlnf, Grety,
Catalan!, Malibran, Fanny Hensel, Haydn, Garola
Boieldieu, Gimarosa, Beethoven, Sully, and Berger?
For the moat part, these sketches are entertaining—'
some of them even spirited—but a few are feeble, and
that of which Handel ia the hero is extravagant is,
vention. In thia, too, Mias Fuller Shows herself fat
too literal as a translator. She makes Handel visit
a prlma donna, and repeatedly ask her to give him
her partition, By considering this work with the
context, or by oonsultiDg a dictionary, one may And
that partition is here used for a musioal score;— bp.
lng, indeed, only a Frenoh noun whleh, on some few
occasions, has been pressed into the English service
by pedantic writers. The simpler and more intelli
gible word score would have been better used here.
Another volume in this series is a carefully edited
reprint of Chaucer’s Legende of Goods Women,
with an introduction and notes, glosiarial and criti
cal, by Hiram Ooreon. This is the first time, w»
believe, that Chaucer's Legende has been'made aa
easy to the general reader as his more popular Can
terbury Tales. We confess to the belief that tha
latter are by far the be-t, in all respects ;-but still
tbe Legende was worthy of being edited and anno
tated by a sensible scholar. Mr. Corson evidently
has devoted much labor upon this task, which will
do much to make Chaucer more read than he hith
erto has been among us. His exposition of Chau
cer’s metre will facilitate this a great deal, and
help students who desire to beaome acquainted
with early EDgUih literature. Mr. Corson’*
introduction should be read several times
before entering on the perutal of the Le
geode, for it is the key to its being readily
understood,—by the way, we dislike the familiarity
with which Mr. Corson speaks of “ Sam Johnson's
critical dicta ” The next thing, perhaps, will be to
make mention «r Jack Milton, Johnny Dryden,
Alick Pope, Bill Shakspeare, Wat Scott, Georgy
Byron, Alf Tennyson, and Noll Goldsmith It i*
only just to Mr.Coreon, to add that his notes, nu
merous, but neither too many nor too long, are of
great value, and show an extensive range of read
ing among the poets of England, recent as well at
ancient. Tyrwhltt has been before him in anno
tating tbe Canterbury Tales; but if Mr. Corsna
will edit Tyrwhltt, introducing the new lights of
later critics, Mr./Leypoldt will find the publication
a remunerative «ne.
Among Mr. Lsypoldt’s recent Issues is the edition,
two volumes Imperial, Svo, of Schiller’s Complete
Works, in pr.se and verse—every line that tk«
greatest German poet published, except hit
translations, ; not many, ofrom the Greek,
French, Italian, and English. These are dl
his poems, including his dramatic compositions,
with his essay s, criticisms, biographies, his
tories, novell, and romances. These translation*,
revised, with additions, by Charles J. Hempai,
M. D., of this city, have been executed by various
hands, viz: The Poems and Ballads, by Sir Edward
Bulwer Lytton ; the Robbers, by Henry G. Bohn ;
Don Carlos, by R. D. Boylan; the Camp of Wallen
stein, by James Churchett; the Plccolomini and
Death of Wallenstein, by S. T. Coleridge; William
Tell and Demetrius, by Theodore Martin; Mary
Stuart, by Joseph Mellish; the Maid of Orleans,
by Anna Swanwiok; the Bride of Messina, by A.
Lodge; the History of the Revolt ol the Nether
lands, and the History of the Thirty Tears’ War, by
the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison; the Ghost Seer, and
the Child of Destiny, by H. G. Bohn; the Dignity
of Man, the Verses to Goethe, Semele, the Homage
of the Arts, the Philosophical ami Aesthetic al Writ
ings of Schiller, by Dr. Hempel, the American edi
tor. These volumes, oontaining nearly 1,309 very
large pages, equal to nearly 3,000 pages of ordina
ry 19mo size, are sold at five dollars:— << the force of
cheapness can no lower go.”
Lastly, Leypoldt’s Series or Educational Work*
are to be glanced at. They are all practical: The
last is Bellinger’s New Guide to Modern Conversa
tions, in French and English; a new edition, re
vised, corrected, and enlarged by dialogues on tra
velling, railways, steam-vessels, &c , by C. and H.
Witcomb.
Powers* “ America.** —A writer in the Detroit
referring to the studio of Powers in Flo
rence, says: “Here stands one most beautiful thing*
•which was designed for the Capito! at Waablagtoa*
but was not acceptable to the powers that were, and
stands still in waiting for an order from the Ameri
can Government, which the artist hopes to receive
by-and’by. It is a beautiful female figure, which he
calls ‘ America. 1 It is of thefiDest marble, six feet
and one inch high, and wears a crown on which are
thirteen stars. 4 America * stands with her right hand
resting on abundleof rodsbound firmly together,with
her mantle fallen partly over it. Her left fr>;>fc rests
on a broken chain, and her left hand points to heaven,
attributing to God the freedom and the strength
whioh have been attained. The whole is most
beautiful. But Franklin Pierce was President
when this was executed as the model from whioh
a larger figure In bronze was to be oast for the dome
of the Capitol, and he was afraid that the South
might not Jibe the looks of broken chains; so it was
rejected. Mr. Powers remarked that he was inno
cent at the time of intending any allusion to slavery,
but now be was quite willing to accept the fact; and
when our country shall come forth from the present
•war with slavery destroyed, and the Union more
fiimly cemented than ever, they might not oKjso 4 . to
4 America*** standing with one foot on the broken,
fetters.**
Elihu Veddbr*s 44 Sphinx,** the 44 Roc’s Egg,**
the 44 Fisherman and the G-eni,” (from tho Ara
bian Nigh 4 *.) and the three jolly 41 Dominicans M are
cn exhibition In Boston, and are attracting muoh
favorable notice.
GEMIKAL NEWS.
Who Firxd ConT*s Armory I-— That the suppo
sition of an emissary coming from the rebels to fire
the building is not preposterous, is shown by the
fact that not long ago a workman did oome there
with the piteous story that he was a deserter front
the rebels, and was employed. But notice how and
when the fire broke out. It was during the only half
hour in the twenty-four when a watchman was not present:
there being an interval of half an hour in the morning
between the goi&g away of the night watchman for
that floor and the one below it, and the coming of
the day watchman. It could not have been fired in
the night, because then the watchmen are all about,
and no one could have got into the building. It was
kindled in the wing connecting the two main build
ings, so that it was likely to take both and destroy
the rifle as well as tho pistol shops. It started
where the patterns and much choice dry wood were
stored, which would readily kindle. It is a great
mystery how It could have caught fire Itself, and no
one but a rebel sympathizer could have desired it*
destruction.— Hartford Press,
Tee Malden Bank Mup.der.— lt appears im
possible to entertAin a doubt that the murder of the
young cashier, Converse, was deliberately planned
and executed. The murderer, Postmaster Green,
stated, that about ten days before the murder he
purobAsed thd pUtol with whioh he committed the
deed; that he loaded the pistol in every barrel, and
kept it in a drawer in the poet office until tbs 13th
day of December last, two days before tho murder,
when he took it from the drawer and carried It about
his person. He is a man of small stature, being
scarcely over five feet an inch or two in heightj was
twenty-seven years of age last Ootober, and has an
estimable lady for a wife, who has an In fiat but.
three or four months old.
The Great Prize Fight.— The editor of Pel} e
Life> on a visit to Heenan, January 22d, finds him
still suffering. He has been.so much reduced in
weight that he now barely weighs
seven pounds.. He declares that beyond the first rtf*
or three rounds of his match 7trith King he had no re*
collectim whatevtr of anything that to ohplaee^i sor cm.
he in bev way account for the extraordinary failing
oft in his Wring. He felt on entering the ring fit
to fipht for his life,, andhe looked upon victory as a
foregone conclusion; but in a very few minutes *
giddiness -came over him, for which be c.nnot ac
count, and beyond this he remembers nothing at ail.
acd he deolArcs he hasneyer- fill the same man since,
Danish Bravado.—Gen. De Meza has command
of the Danish troops In Schleswig. The following
anecdote of him is told by the correspondent of the
Brndon Beraids • • • •
When the Federal generals last summer were in
Copenhagen to inspect the Holstein contingent, on*
of them asked the Danish general whether the
Dannevirke could he taken, and if so, how many
men would be wanted. 44 Ob,’* answered E* Meza,
44 of course it can be taken, but you must aaorifioa
60,000 men every day during a week.** Fine pros
pects Tot the poor Saxons and Austrians, to whom
this hard frost is exceeding unwelcome, while the
Danish soldiers stand it well. . _ ..
The Dannevirke is the point at which the Dane*
are ordered lomake a stand.
A “ BATTLE MONO MEET »is »bO U t tO be
West Point, the expenses of whichi will be deir»yea
by a sliding scale of taxation upon *bo oMoersof the
SSSss p “;
A wiRTODON’s tusk. exhumed by *pattv of salt*
w.A*?/iS < i?reeonJhas recently been contributed to
if riScteShes in diameter at the largar end, and about
two Md a half Inches at the smaller, It. length is
about four feet, which is perhaps not more than one*
half the original.
Thu Washington correspondent of the Worcester
Transcript, who has examined the Internal Rovenua
returns, says that tobacco pays a tax of $2,850,900;
.leather oomea next, paying $1,900,000$ then iron t
$1,200 000; and then malt liquor, $1,509,000, Fedler*
pay $300,000 for their licenses, and those who ride
in carriages $250,000.
A Nbwbouki>i.ahi» paper, in speaking Of the
House ol Assembly oi that Island, eulogizes » in the
following unequivocal language; “Take them roc
all in all, from their Speaker downward, we do no*
tuppore that a greater set of low-lived and lawless
scoundrels, as public men, can be found uo-er *“®
canopy of heaves.” .