THE PRESS, r .iBLISHBD DAILY (SUNDAYS tXCKPTBDJ BY JOHN W. lOBNET, oFFICB. No, 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. THE DAII.Y PRESS, FinM-.K Cents Per Week, ramble to tbe ******** yelled to Sabstribere oat of the city «t Seven Dollars t-ck Annum; Three Dollars an» ► irrr Cetn-e por six Months ; One Dollar abb srventt five Cents for Three Months, invariably in advance for e Advertisements »t the usual rate,. Six “■•’TbeWWBKKIt r« B ss. Mailed to Subscribers out of the city at Four Dollars Per Ann dm, m advance. carpetings.- 1864. CH.BN ECHO MILLS, SPRING, 1864. BBKMABTOWH, PA McOALLUM & CO., «ASro?J.CTUBBBB. imfoktbks. and wholbsale DEALERS IN CJAYMPBariisrca-s, OIL CLOTHS, &c. Warehouse, 509 Chestnut Street, OPPOSITE INDEPENDENCE a ALL- gPEOIAL NOTICE RETAIL DEPARTMENT. McCftLLFM tt Besiege toiaforn. the p»Mlc that they have leased the «Ld« , trtUehMCarre^ iMuT STREET ’ ooppoette Independence Hall, for AKKTAIL depart dent, •Where th«y u» noir openln* a NEW STOCK of IMfOETED AND AMEBICIN CARPETS, AoiCo9tPa CARPETS. ROYAL WILTON. BSC-SBLSCAaPISTS. V*LT»r. I VENETIANS Together with A fall assortment ofeverything pertsin int to tie Carpet Business. fel-tf ENTERPRISE MILLS. ATWOOD, RALSTON, & €O., S£ANSrPAOTUBBKB AND WHOLESALE DBALXBS IN CARPETINGS, OIL-CLOTHS, MATTINGS, &c., &c. WAREHOUSE, 816 CHESTNUT STREET, f.t-Sm 016 JATNS STREET. CLOTHING. gJDVABD T. KELLY, JOHN K E L L TJ TAILOKS, HAVE removed SOUTH THIRD STREET, above walnut, «ASS CHESTNUT STBEET. i«ga-tr I OLAOK OASS. PANTS. $5.50, D At 704 MASSET Street. -SLACK CASS. PANTS. *6.50, At 704 MARKET Btreet. SLACK a ASS. PANTS, *5 80. At 704 MARKET Street SLACK OASS. PANTS. 58.60, At 704 MARKET Btreet SLACK CASS. PANTS, SB. 60, At 704 MARKET Street. >3Ria<3 & VAN OHNTEH’S, No. 704 MARKET Btreet *33100 4 VAN OBNTBN’S. No. 704 MARKET Street. rjßjaa 4 VAN CCNTEN’S, N0.'704 MARKET Street 3EXGG 4 VAN GTJBTECTS, No. 704 MARKET Street. SBIGG A VAN GDNTEN’S, No. 704 MARKET Street te24-6m . GENTS’ BURNISHING GOODS. JOHN O. AEBISON, Ssoa, 1 $.6-1 3 NORTH SIXTH STREET. y i¥TTy a mrr&SE of rent improved pattern shirt, FIRST OUT BT J. BUEE MOORE, WAEBANTED TO PIT AND GIVE SATISPAOTION. Mid Manufacturer of OENTLEMEN ’ S BURNISHING GOODS. p, Ail articles made la * superior mannerby hand and from the best material,. JaM yiBST PREMIUM SHIRT AND WRAPPER MANDFAOTOKY. BBTABLISHED 1840. Q. A. HOFFMANN, •0C ARCH STREET, Would invito the attention of the Public to hie luxe <£gd complete stock of eiSTLKBKS’S HTBHIBHIN© GOODS, Amonc whMi Will be found tie large", stock of GENTLEMEN'S WRAPPERS IS THE CITY. Special attention given to tie manufacture o! ifflHE SHIRTS AND WRAPPERS TO ORDER. Every variety of Underclothing, Hosiery, Slei* fiiarts. Mufflers. Ac. de^-mtui»3in QEOBGE grant, Ho. 010 CHESTNUT STSSST, 3u now ready A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK OF GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, Of hit own importation and manufacture. His celebrated “PRISE MEDAL SHIRTS," Manufactured under the superlntedence of JOHV I. TAG3EBT. (Formerly of Oldehherx A Ta*gert,| Are the most perfect-fitting Shirts of the age. VS» Orders promptly attended to, jal3-wfm-9ia ■OINB SHIRT MANUFACTORY. A. Yh, mburtben would invito attention to their IMPROVED COT OP SHIRTS, nrbiob they make a apeclallty In their bußineas. Also* *° lWtt GENTLEMEN’S WEAK. stoSP*’ No. El* CHESTNUT STREET, . lllMf Four doors below thf. noatlneatal. DKUGSi ROBERT SHOEMAKER & 00., Nortbaaat Comar of FOURTH and RACE Streets, rHILADRLPHIA, WHOUEJSAXiE 1> RDGGIBTS, MPORTERS AMD DEALERS IN POBEIGN AND DOMESTIC WIXITOir AND FLATS GLASS. JCAKUPAOTURBRS OF WHITB LCAD AMD ZINC FAINTS, POTTY, fte. AQRITR TOK m OBLBEBATBP FEENCH ZINC PAINTS, ealert and tonsumerf supplied at faTSrn VbHt low FEIC3S FOR CASH. MBtm vtnunTURK. CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL. V/ LIARD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, No. asi SOOTH SECOND STBBBT, in connection with their extensive cabinet business, are now mtLnnfastnrlnc a enseilor article of BILLIARD TABLES, •and hare now on hand a fall *nppl?, finished with the MOORE ft CAMPION’S IHP&OV2D CUSHIONS. Which are pronounced hy all who have used them to he auperior to all others. For the quality and finish of these Tables, the manu facturers refer to their numerous natrons throughout whe Union, who am-familiar with the character of their work. sei7*6m WINES AND UftWORS. JMPOHTERS OF wimBANi)LiOToEgi TiACMAN, BALLADE, & GO., Ho. lag SOUTH HISTH STEEBT, Sotwooo Okostimt and W&limt, Pidladfilpbiß* 8. If. LATJMaN, A. M SILL A 08, J. D BlTftya. '•WILLIAM H. YEATOV & CO., * f T , Ho. 301 South PROMT Street, AI>TnTW . «onta for the stle of tha ORIOIBAL HBIDSIKCK A CO. CHAMPAGNB, ~ . ir that desirable Wine to the trade. .Also. 1.000 cases fineandmedinn, grades. -inn „„ BOBDBAtTS: CLARETS 3,00 Rrandonborg freres” COGNAC BE ANDY. ,Sntaae of lats. hottled la France. £9 Tn^, aa ,.9 n ln flask.; 2 o or an in ease. 2} fvi. f n . Mt M»MtyMonongah.la Whiskr. SsK/® r “y Apple Brandy. Claarß. extra fine. Champaino > ‘ !U “ lott arajl4 Vln Imperial. "Green Seal’’ -1.™.*55 er * lt,L a fi “ assortment of Madeira, Sherry, yoIt ’ **■ fe2B caekiagbs. 1863< WILLIAM D. ROGERS, CoMh ul Ught Cunagt Builder, *®«- MO® and 1011 CHKBTUDT Stmt. Pgn.innTJgrt. f YLIVK OIL.—AN INVOICE OP OAB- V; STAIRS' pare Olhre Oiljurt reoeWed per SMa Kllea. Sftlo hr ee**Bw # CHA& A JAS. CABBTAIRB. Bole Acente I*6 WALHtir. Ud »1 GRAtflrK*BtSit Pestaii ,nToIe,oJ ti 9 Maw * lAttdUa*. ex^lir- YOL. 7-NO. J 66. BETAU DRY GOODS. EIRE & LANDELL, fourth ajvd arch, AKB OPENING FOB SPRING SALES, 1864, MAGNIFICENT ORGANDIES, DE PERCALES AND CHINTZES, 68 PIECES FANCY SILK s, 100 DO. GOOD BLACK SILKS, FINE PLAID SILKS, ORDERED POULT DE SOIES, SHAWLS, NEW STYLES, STANDARD SHEETINGS, HOUSEHOLD GOODS, BEST GLOVES ONLY. feB mwftf • 1864. 1864. COTTONS AT RETAIL. We tali tie attention ot Housekeeper* to the LARGEST STOCK OP COTTOJf GOODS Brer offered at retail In thl« city. of last month* we can extend to onr enstomsrs superior Inducements, not only in tie character of onr assort ment.lrat IK psicES. Among onr extensive line of Cottons are to be found tie following popnlar makes of 44 Bleached Shirtings. WamßUtta, WiUiamsviUe* Semoer Idem. AttaWfcUgaQ, Rockland, Union* New Jersey* Phentx, 4c, In Pillow-Case and Sheetings We offer tie following leading makes: 40-inch. Bartalett, 6r4 Pepper ill, 42-in ci Waltham. 10-4 Pepperiu, 6-4 Bates. 10-4 Bates, 6*4 Boot W, extra Leary, And other makes, AT.RO. 9-4.10-4, and 11-4 UNBLEACHED SHEEtTNGS. Marseilles Counterpanes. We can famish these goods in all sites and quaUHee. We bare several lots in LOW-PKIGBO GOODS that are FAR BELOW PRESENT IMPORTATION PRICB, and are also prepared to furnish, inl&ige quantities, the well known Lancaster. Manchester, and Honey-Comb Quilts, In 10-4,11 4, and 12-4 sizes Honse-Furnishing Linen Goods. LINEN SHEETINGS, alt wtdthe, TOWELS, from $2 to $7 per dozen. NAPKINS, all Linen, *1.62. - , . Barnsly Damask, Power Loom, and other atandard makes or Table Linen. Persons about purchasing Linen Goods would do well to examine our stock. We invite comparison. No trouble to show onr goods. COWPERTHWAIT B, OF ALL KINDS; BLACK AND FANCY SILKS, SATINS, GLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS, AHD DRESS TRIMMING^. ALSO, WHITE GOODS. LWENB. EMBBOIDEBIKB, AND LACES. A large and handsome assortment of SPRING AND SUMMER SHAWLS. BALMORAL SKIRTS, Of all grade., A*. Which they offer tA the Trade at the LOWEST PRICKS. jaSMm SILK AND DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. SPRING 1864. - 1864. IABER & HABBERX, No. 401 MARKET STREET. SILKS, KIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS, Mix.x.ijsrEsn'sr qoods. Merchant are invited to .all and examine oar stock or SPRING RIBBONS, which, will be sold at the LOWEST PRICKS. DRY-GOODS COMMISSION HOUSES. Q.ALBRAITH BANK, JAMESTOWN. CENTRED ALS, COVENTRY, THAMES RIYEK. BROWN ASHLAND, GREEN BANK, ETHAN ALLAN, PHENIX A. A., CORSET JEANS. GLASGOW, FISBBRVILLB, MANCHESTER—CoIored end Bleached. ' SILESIAS. LONDON. SOCIAL. LONSDALE,Ac., Ac. PAPER CAMBRICS. LONSDALE and WABBF.N MFC' GO’S. WOOLENS. GLBXHAM CO'S CLOTHS—Black* aad Finer HIJffSDALB°c6 T S BLACK CLOTHS.’ CaSSIMERES AND DOESKINS—Gaya ville* Perry’s, Jaxton/s KiveT.__ _ SATiji’K'l'TS—BaM River. Crystal Soring,, Con versevilie, Orcrittville, Bridgewater, Uxbridge, Gill* pin’a Campbell's, Lathrop’s. Goodrich, Ac., &c. JEANS—Robert Rodman’s Cold Modal, and others. UMSE VS-Large and SmaU Plaids, jal- tnfrifeb!9 • - COFFIN 4 ALTBMUS, No. 220 CHESTNUT STREET. Offer by the package the following description of Goods: ARMY BLUE CLOTHS ASH KEBSEXB, AJii) GRAY FLANNELS, PRINTED AND FANCY BATINETTS, IN GREAT VARIETY. HEAVY TWEEDS AND COTTON ABES. NEGRO KERSEYS PLAIN AND TWILLED. PRINTED CLOAKINGS AND SLEEVE LININGS. DOMET AND FANCY SHIRTING FLANNELS. BLUE DRILLS. DENIMS. NANKEENS. CORSET JEANS AND CAMBRICS. OF VARIOUS MAKES. LAWNS—DUNNSIiIi’S AND OTHERS. _ BLEACHED GOODS OF STANDARD MAKES, fIN VARIOUS WIDTHS. BROWN SHEETINGS AND SHIRTINGS. IN GREAT VARIETY, Ac . Ac. jal-tufrtfebis FANCY CASSIMERES, DOESKINS, SATINETS, &c, ALFRED H. LOVE, .COMMISSION MERCHANT. ial3-lm Blit CHESTNUT STREET. IJIHE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE I. called to OUR STOCK OF SAXONY WOOLEN CO. all-wool Plain Flannels. TWILLED FLANNELS, Various makes in Gray, Scarlet, and Dark Bine, PRINTED SHIRTING FLANNELS. PLAIN OPERA FLANNELS. - PREMIERE QUALITY" Snnare and Lon. Shawls. WASHINGTON MILLS Lon* Shawls. BLACK COTTON WASP CLOTHS. 15, IS, 17. 18. 19, 20. 21, 22 01. FANCY CASSIMERES AND BATINETTS. BALMORAL SKIRTS, all Grades. BED BLANKETS. 10-4. 114. 12-4.13-4. OOTTON GOODS, DENIMS, TICKS, STRIPES, SHIRT INGS, Ac., from various Mills. DE COURBET, HAMILTON, £ STANS, 33 LETITIA Street, and iae-wfrm2m 3a Booth FRONT Street. 7^RAIN BAGS.—A LARGE ASSORT IN' HUNT of GRAIN BAGS. In various sires, for sale by BANCROFT * CO.. lalfl-Om Nob. 405 and ROT MARKET Street OTAFFORD BROTHERS’ AMERICAN SPOOL COTTON* In White. Black, and ail colors, is Quantities and assortments to salt purchasers. The attention of dealears is especially solicited to this article* H. P. & W- P. SMITH. Dry Goods Commission Merchants, Jalg-lm* 9»1 CHESTNUT fairest CHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTOHIN SON. NO. 118 CHESTNUT STREET. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOR THE SALE OF PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. 0e26-6m . . JJAGSI BAGS 1 BAGS! HEW AND SECOND-HAND. SEAMLESS, BURLAP, AND GUNNY BAGS, Constantly on hand. JOHN T. BAILEY 6w Af\ CENTS PER POUND TAX ON *±vr TOBACCO. The Government is About to put» tax of 40 cents per pound on Tobacco. You can save 00 per cent, by Ton can save CO per cent, by Ton can save CO per cent, by Tou can save 50 per cent* bV Buyla* now at pEaN’S, No. 335 CfIjBSTMPT. Bayinc now at DEAN’* ’ No.' 33ft Bukins now at DEANES. No. 336 CHESTNUT, Buying now at DBAN'SI No! 336 Prim© Navy Tobacco, 70, 70 and 80c. per fb. __ Prime Cavendish Tobacco, 70, 75 and BPc. per jo. Prime Flounder Tobacco, 70. 75 and 80c. per lb. Prime Congress Tobacco. 65, 70 and 75c. per lb. Prime Fig and Twist Tobacco. 75 and 80a per A. DEAN sells Old Virginia Navy. DEAN sells Old Virginia Sweet Cavendish. DEAN sells Old Virginia Rough and Ready. DEAN sells Old Virginia Plain Cavendish. DEAN sells Old Virginia Congress. DFaK sells Old Virginia Pig and Twist. DEAN fells Old Virginia Smoking Tobacco. DEAN’S Kanawha Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco BEASTS Kanawha Fine Cat Chewing Tobacco ■ Cannot be Equaled, Cannot be Equaled. DEAN’S Cigars are superior to all others. DEAN'S Cigars are superior to ail others,- He raises his own Tobacco, on his own plantation In Havana He sell* his own Cigars at his own store. No. SS6 CHESTNUT Street, Philadelphia. DEAN’S Minnehaha Smoking Tobacco is manufactured from pure Virginia Tobacco, and contains no dangerous concoctions of Weeds, Herbs, and Opium. Pipes, Pipes, Meerschaum Pipes, Brier Pipes, Box Pipes, Bose Pipes. Mahogany Pipes. Sohoy Pipes, Apple Pipes,Cherry Pipes. Gutts Pipes. Clay Pipes, and other Pipes. And Pipe down and get your Pipes, Tobacco, Cigars, Ac., at DEAN’S. No. 535 Chestnut Street. And there you will see bis Wholet&le and Retail Clerks go Piping around waiting on Customers. The Army of the Potomac cow order all their Tobacco. Cigars. Pipes, &e , from DEAN’S, No. 339 CHESTNUT Street They know DEAN sella the beat and cheapest ip.ls.tf rjEO. W. WATSON & 00., V* OABBIAQE BUILDERS, RO, BJ*» North THIKTfiEHTH Street, An now prepared to execute orders for every dextrin* tlofi of light and heavy CARRIAGES, and haring At So time* the very beet materials and workmen, can pro* mlee the utmost satixfiMtion to all who mar raror them with their cue tom. The Repairing btuinees will be continued by Mr. JACOB LQUDBSSLAGEB. at the old stand, on OLoVBI Street, rear of Concert Hall. tmJUSos |JEW DBIED APPLES.—IOO BBLS. new Dried Apples* for exle hr RHODES & WILLIAMS. MW m tom WW StrwU Jims. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1864. AMERICAN MINERAL LAUDS, Wealth of the National Terri" torieg. RECENT GOLD DISCOVERIES, &c As the resources of the country ore now being 10 actively called into the seivice of the war, oonside ration for the future has been of late directed to the mineral wealth and growing importance of the vast Territories owned by the Government. Some ac count of the mineral fertility of these lands will prove valuable and interesting. According to the admirable report of Hon. J. S' Buggies to the Statistical Congress, the great gold beating region in the West embraces portions of Hskotah, Nebraska, Colorado, all of New Mexico, with Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Californio, Oregon, and Washington Territories, comprising 17 degrees of latitude, or a breadth of 1,100 miles by nearly an equal length, and malting an area of more than a million square miles. This vast region is traversed by numerous mountains, which divide it into five great basins, each of wbich is surrounded by moun tslnsfand watered by their streams and snows, u thereby interspersing this immense territory with agricultural lands equal to the support not only or the miners, but of a dense population.” All these mountains are “ literally stocked with minerals, gold ke d. silver being interspersed in profusion over thi, immense surface, and daily' brought to light b# 1 new discoveries.” Nor do they abound only fa gold and silver, but “various sections of the whole region are rich in precious atones, marble,, gypsum, salt, tin, quicksilver, asphah turn, coal, iron, copper, and lead; together with mineral and medicinal, thermal and cold springs and streams.” The yield of this region In the precious metals alone, for the year just ended, will not I*ll below $110,000,000, and the Oommis. eloner or the General Land Offloe, iu his last report, expresses the conviction that “it will augment with the increase of population for yeais to come.’’ He further adds, that “with an amount of labor relatively equal to that expended in California, ap' plied to the gold-fields alieady known to exist out aide of that State, the production of this year, In cluding that of California, would exceed $400,000,000." “ In a word,” he says, “ the value of these mines Is absolutely incolculable." inn GUKAT GOLD REGIONS OF IDAHO. The gold regions of Idaho owe their first discovery to the rebound of the wave of emigration that first rolled from the older States toward the Pacific coast, sheer across the continent This vast adventurous army of restless and tireless gold-seekers first dif fused themselves.througu the rich traet.of California and the Pacific coast, and has been working its way back thence toward the heart of the wilderness, until what was onee laid down in the maps as an unknown waste, Bave where sparsely investigated by vaiious explorers, Is becoming dotted with infant settlements by the magie wand of the enchanter gold. The Territory of Idaho is yet unsurveyed, and only imperfectly subjected to scientific exploration. Gold was first discovered In the neighborhood of what is now called Bannock City, the grand resort of present emigration. Numerous gulches of large wealth were rapidly brought to note, and there ap pear to be no bounds to discovery if adventurers will onlv take the trouble to “ prospect.” One guleh in the neighborhood of Bannock is fifteen miles long, and paid exceedingly well the entire length. South of Salmon river is a large extent of country as yet wholly unexplored. On Clearwater river and iis branches, north of Salmon, gold is found over a large extent of country, Elk City and Oro Fino being the principal centres of business and population. At the junction of the Clearwater with Snake river is situated Ihe town of Lewiston, the principal capital of Idaho, which is the largest town In the Territory, up to which point Snake river is navigable for steam boats of light draught, thus making a continuous line of navigation from the mouth of the Columbia, with the exception of two short portages on the latter river—one called “the Dalles,” the other “ Cascades,” where the Columbia breaks through the rsDge of mountains by that name. Upon the Borse river, extensive mines have recently been dis covered, and the town of Weßt Bannock built up. One lode in this neighborhood is said to be one of the richest on the continent, and yields from five hundred to three thousand dollars per cord. There are many other lodes, supposed to be equally rich, which have not been further prospected than to dis cover and Btake them out. The gulch and bar mines here have yielded exceedingly well, and many for tunes have been made. The Indians of Idaho are the Snakes, Bannocks, Flatheads,'Blackfoots, Nez Perces, and other smaller segments of once great, but now fading, national!, ties. Beyond all doubt hundreds of adventurous whites have paid the penalty of life ior the fatal quest of gold in these mountain passes. Party after party has in time past been formed and pressed for ward, only to return scattered and broken from the -fierce assault of the lurking savages. - Our Government has concluded a treaty with the Indiana of Idaho, by which, for a coat of not over $200,000, the Nez Fexcts. surrender their portion of the Territory. About tho “ diggings ” are traoes of ancient mines. It is believed that these mines were the work of Spaniards, penetrating northwaTd f com Me> ico in the i»Bt century, Mexican chronicles re ferring to some such expedition in quest of gold, which pushed far north, beyond the Great Desert. Caleb Lyons, the poet and Oriental scholar, has just been called to the Governorship of Idaho. THE KBVADi. SII/VER MINES. The Bannock City Mines are on latitude 44° 30', and the Virginia City Mines about 45° 30V They are both situated in the Horseshoe Bend of the Eocky Mountains* as it is termed, a vast defleotion in that chain, making a grand basin, with a temperate cli mate. Virginia City is the chief town in Nevada; Bannock the gold centre of Idaho. The Washoe Silver Mines are at present the great feature of the Nevada Territory. A Virginia City correspondent says: ‘ One of the chief silver ledges is known as the Comstock Ledge, worked mainly by the Savags, Ophir, Spaniih, and Gould 8t Uurry Companies. The last-named company have one of the finest mills in the world, costing a million and a half of dollars. They ron eighty stamps of their own, besides fur nishing ore lor several other mills, ana have three thousand men in their employment, whose wages are from four to ten dollars a day each. The com pany took forty thousand dollars’ worth of. silver daily. The other companies named are large ope* ratora, but do not compare, of course, with the gigantic operations just described. There are be* tween two and three hundred mills altogether, the proprietors of whloh have no interest in the mines, but crush ore on commission. Gold mining is con* ducted precisely as It is in California, Australia, and other auriferous lands. The silver all contains more or less gold. Shares in a company called the Central are held at $30,000 per foot, “ The country round about the mines is of a bar ren and desert character, marked with a decided scarcity of timber. Virginia City, therefore, is arti ficially sustained, the goods and provisions used by the inhabitants being brought in wagons from Cali fornia, over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Lum ber is worth one hundred dollars per thousand feet, flour fifteen dollars per hundred pounds, and other things in proportion. Beer costs twenty-five cents per glass, and cigars twenty-five cents apiece. -Gold and silver only are current, and greenbacks are not seen except behind the counters of the bankers and brokers, of whom there are ten doing business in Virginia City. “As in all new countries, and at all mining cen tres, the population is reckless and lawless in cha racter. Gambling thrives, and life and limb are held in very slight estimation. Artemus Ward was at the mines on a lecturing enterprise, and expeoted to return to the States by the overland mail routs. J. Boss Browne, formerly dragoman to the Ame rican embassy at Constantinople, and well known in the magazine literature of the day, by his nom de plume of ‘Yutsuf,’ was also there, and would return via California. Carson City, about twenty miles southwest of Virginia City, is the capital of the Territory, and the place of residence of General Nye, the Governor. A Territorial Convention adjourned there about the 20th of last month, alter adopting a Constitution and a memorial to Congress asking,ad« mission into the Union as a State.” THB COFFER MIKES OF NEW MEXICO. The Santa F 6 Gazette brings to notice the value of the copper mines in the southern portion of New Mexico. Those mines, besides producing the richest ore of any in the United States, not excluding those of Lake Superior, yield the best metal in the greatest abundance and with the least labor. For a few years before tbe beginning of the war some of these mines were worked by Messrs. Elsberg & Amberg of this city, and the copper was shipped by wagon* overland to Fort Labaca, on the Gull of Mexico, and thence by ship to New York, yielding a handsome profit to the gentlemen who were engaged in the enterprise. Inthe New York market the New Mexican cop per cofenmanded a higher prloe than any other. The rebellion and the irruption of the Texans into this Territory in the spring of 1862 had a dis astrous effect upon the operating of New Mexican copper mines, but that effect will terminate with the war, and those large beds of Almost pure copper will again command tbe attention of capitalists, who will make them known to the commerce of the world as the best and most profitable mines in ex istence. COLORADO AND UTAH. Colonel Nicolay, the President’s secretary, who ac companied a treaty expedition to Colorado, writes: “Beside its gold, Colorado appears to have great wealth in other minerals. To supply the actual wants of the community itself, the production or coal, petroleum, salt, lead, and iron, has already been,begun, and is believed to be capable of Indefi nite extension. Immense beds of gypsum have been discovered. Copper forms the principal part of the ore from whloh gold is at present extracted, and sil ver is not unirequently found mingled with it. Large and fine mineral springs, too, supposed to possess active medicinal virtues, form a characteristic fea ture Of the country, and appear destined, in oonaeo tion with the delightful and healthful olimate and the beautiful and romantic natural soenery in which they arc found, to become places of great public re sort.” That there are vast deposits of gold in these mountains, however, he testifies from observa tion; also that large and increasing amounts of it are now being extracted. But with flour at $25 to $6O per barrel, and bacon from $2O to $3O per hun dred, we 1 must doubt whether a majority of those who rush into mining without capital, scientific knowledge, or experience, will not come out of it poorer than when they went in: “ it must not be forgotten that the discoveries of mineral deposits in these mountains have but just begun. Prospecting parties, provided with only pick and pan and a few days* rations, have indeed traversed much of the country ; but, as before re. marked, tbe metals do not lie upon the surface: they are concealed in deep veins, and will be found Only upon more patient and thorough research. At the present population of Colorado only began emi grating there four years ago, and went empty handed, they have had neither the time nor means to make the careful examination necessary to bring to light this bidden mineral wealth.” In bis late message, Governor Reed, of Utah, re marks : “Already are the eyes of thousands fixed upon our mountains as containing rich stores of yet un discovered mineral wealth, and with the early spring it cannot be doubted that many will hsstea hither to seek for the precious ore. Unless the signs of the times and the evidences all about us are inaorreetiy intrepreted, gold, silver, and copper mining will soon become one of the most important. If, indeed, not the predominant interest of the Territory. 11 THB CALIFORNIA MINES. An article in the AUa Californian says: « The silver mines of the State have been thrown into tft? .tad. by Of Kevgda Territory, bn, U is not to be doubted that in a few year* Esmeralda, the Slate Range, Coao, Inyo, ana the Mojave re gions, will contribute thousands of pounds of silver to commeice monthly. i n e u vet mining, too* we have made important improvements* and the time is not far distant when the silver miners of California and Nevada will stand as high in their branches as do the gold miners now. ‘•The Almaden mine is recognized os the best quicksilver mine in the world. The copper mines of California, though they have been opened but a few yearn, And the vame of many is still in doubt, axe considered to be the most valu able collection of mines known, bone oth e r lodes ate richer than any we have, but no country con tains so large a number or rich veinc, Whether we are to sc weed or not with the new flu* is still doubtful, but, if so, it will prove the greatest disco very in the metallurgy of copper within two thou sand years. Our tin mines are not yet opened, and various difficulties may stand in the way for sevexal years to come, but before the year 1870 the tin mines of California will have become the most productive and the most valuable mines of their olaas. TBB GREAT SILVER MINES OF MEXICO. The inducements to silver mining are, no doubt, immense in any country supposed to contain that mineral, if reference is hou to the experience m Mexico. The recent returns from the iciocs there show a product, up to 1856, of $3 t 534,115,000', while vast amounts have’been smuggled out of the coun try in the shape of bars, in which Bhape its export is prohibited. When it is considered that these official returns show the least that the mine* have yielded, with imperfect means of extracting the silver, adding what might have been saved by better piooetees, and what has been clandestinely re moved from the country, it is easy to see that the sum above stated falls far abort ol what really has been and might be produced of the ores aotually raised to the surface. The accounts of particular silver mines in Mexico show what handsome foi tunes they have been to their lucky owners- There were io the State of Mexico the mines El Laoal and La Bicaioa, which, in one series of twelve years netted over $7, 000,000, A particularly rich lead is called a bonanza, and one oi these luoky bits yJWded $3,000000 net in seven Sears. The vera Madre, in %w«Uju*to, yielded, uring the space of.-fifty-ome-tiara, $39,000,000 a year. The vein of Gatoroe yielded, In two years, to 4 good Jesuit Father, who was ode of its proprietors, as his share of the profit, $3,600,000.. The working miners there must have made a good thing of it, as they had half the ore they brought up, which was a dollar a pound at the pit's mouth. The owner of the Pavellon mine in Zacateoas paid, in ten yeaTS, to the crown $12,000 000, which was only a fifth part of the whole product, and shows that product to have been six millions a year. The asme it.dividual struck a “bonanza,” about 90 feet by 180 in dimensions, which in eight months yielded eleven millions and a half of dollars. Ague Caliente, in Sonora, produced immensely for five years. It was owned by three extensive families, numbering several hundred, including all [the rela tives, each of whom had his commonest family uten sils made of virgin silver. T GOLD AND SILVER DISCOVERED IN THE;LAKB SU- PBRIOR REGION* The Detroit Tribune says: “There is apparently no limit, either in extent or variety, to the rich re sources of. Michigan. No similar ex tent,ol country upon the habitable globe 1b equally rick in natural wealth, and ceitainly no other region' offers such tempting inducements for the investment of capital to properly develop its resources. She is rich in iron, copper, coal, gypsum, and salt, to which silver bss recently been added, and it is now ascertained thai| rich deposits of gold lie imbedded |in her virgin soil, as will he seen by the folio wing extract from the Philadelphia Mining Register, of J»a. 2 ; ‘•ln connection with this silver*fead region, there has transpired in this city a circumstance which it is not pretended will, if believed.'abate the excite ment now prevailing therein. -A sample of iron pyrites, said by its owner to have taken from a quartz lode in the silver-lead region in Michigan, by analysis of Du Bois & Williucß, analytical che mists, of this city, waa found tobe wonderfully rich in gold; the value for the ton of rock being above the average of that of the ore of Colorado ” The specimen above referred to was, delivered to Messrs. Du Bois & Williams by Capt.< John Spaulding, of the steamer Northern Eight, ose of the pioneers of the silver-lead enterprise, and tame from seotion 10, town 49, range 28 west, belonging to the Marquette Silver Mining Company of this city. NSW niSCOVBRTES. We have circumstantial accounts, says the To ronto Globe, of the discovery of gold in large quanti ties on this side of the Kooky Mountains, within Brish territory. It was dlsooved by American miners, who are flocking to the looality, Bow river, in large numbers. A new silver legion has been discovered in the Argentine Republic, at the foot of the Andes. The ore is found in a tract one mile by forty in extent. In a British Colony of Victoria; also, very rich silver deposits have been discovered. These with the production of Nevada and the prospeet of in creased production in Mexico, as soon as order can be restored in th&t country, will soon give the world as full a supply of silperaswe now have of gold. THE WAR. Tire Mxcliange of Prisoners. Mr. C. C. Fulton, of the Baltimore American , has given an account of his mission to Rlohmond, in which he say* that the present obstacle to exchange is the outlawry of Gen, Butler, an objection which the rebels promise to overcome by undoing the bAn under which they have placed the terrible general. Mr. Fulton reports that Judge Ould had offered to allow our surgeons to have the liberty of Richmond, and to act as commissaries for our prisoners, but re ceived no answer fpom our authorities, for reasons which mssr be imagined. With regard to the treat ment oi[our prisoners, Mr. Fulton reports: “ In the course of our conversation, I was assured that the most unfounded statements had been made against the people and authorities of Richmond in the Northern papers, especially by the returned cler gymen, whom, he asserted, bad each endeavored to excel the other in malignant falsehood. Of all men, he thought that the truth might have been looked for from them. On the contrary, they had misrepre sented everything, and never told a truth when a falsehood could be substituted. No true aoidier who had gone North, he asserted, had corroborated or substantiated their slanderous statements. To put & etop to these misrepresentations, he had made the proposition to our Government for the reception of surgeons, whom we now mutually treated as non combatants, and he still had hopes that so reason able and feasible a proposition would be accepted. Warfare had enough horrors inseparably connected with it without uselessly multiplying them by pro voking the most embittered animosity between the people of the * two countries,’ as to the condition of their pritonerß of war. He admitted that there had aleo been great misrepresentations on this score by some of their returned prisoners.” We contrast this statement with a letter vouohed for by the Indianapolis Journal. It was written in German, from tbe Libby Prison, January 29, and seems to have escaped detection: Bear Brother-in-law : All letters written by the prisoners are read by tbe Confederate officers appointed for that purpose, find, as they cannot read German, I write this in my mother tongua. For the last ten days out daily fare has been no thing but a piece of corn bread, baked hard as a rock, about two inches high, three inohes wide, and about as long, and one pint of boiled rice. We have received no meat. lean assure you it is no child’s play. If our Government don’t soon take some measures for the exchange of prisoners, it will not be necessary; for death from starvation Has relieved a great many of my comrades from this misery. , ORDER OF GENERAL LEE. General Lee thua announced to the Mississippi soldiers of his army the resolutions of thanks of their State Legislature: Headquarters Arm? Northern Virginia, Jan. 20,1864. Special Order No. 18.— II. Soldiers op Mis sissippi : It is with great gratification that the commanding general announces to you the joint re solution of thanks passed by the Legislature of your State. It is a just tribute to that conduct which, in every campaign and on every battle-field of the Army of Northern Virginia, has won for you his highest admiration. He mourns with you your gal lant leaders and brave comrades who have fallen. May you cherUh their memories and emulate their deeds! From her wasted fields and deserted homes, Mississippi calls upon you to vindicate her honor and achieve her independence. R. E. LEE, General. MISSOUBI JAYHA.WKERS, The Missouri jayhawkerß and horse thieves, who. General Ewing said, were “stealing themselves rich in the name of liberty,” have got a hard rub from General Curtis. He says: “If I catch horse thieves with my soldiers, I will try to make summary and certain punishment a greater terror to rogues. . “You may rely on my doing All in my power to preventbordekfltrife and sectional animosities, and I hope you efforts to tbe same purpose. There is it. are all in the same boat; a* the negro left to quar rel about, notgolng to allow loyalty to be a lioense stealing.” PERSONAL. General Grant' on the Lieutenant Gbne- RAiißHiv. —General Grant, in a private letter to Hon. E. b. Washburne. written After theYesolution reviving the grade of Lieutenant General was intro duced into the House, says : “You should recollect that I have been highly honored already by the Government, and do not ask, or feel that I deserve, anything more in the shape of honors or promotion; a success over the enemy Is what I orave above everything else, and desire to hold such an influence over those under my command as to enable me to use them to the best advantage to secure this end.” General Grant is evidently suspicious that the honor proposed for him is not kindly intended. Humphrey Marshall.— The Chattanooga Rebel says: Gen. Humphrey Marshall is a candidate for Congress from the State of Kentucky. As he weighs about five hundred pounds, the presumption is, that if elected he will be able to fill his seat. He is much better qualified for Congress than for light infantry. Gen. Hardee.— Tbe marriage of Lieut. General Hardee was announced some time since, but to whom was not stated. The Greensboro (Ala.) Beacon states that the General was married on the 13th ult., to Miss Mary T. Lewis, of that place. A PICTURE OF CHARLESTON UNDER FIRF. A correspondent of the Augusta (Ga.) Constitu* tionaliBt % writing from Charleston, gives the follow ing picture of that city under the bombardment of the enemy: “ xhe limited destruction of property by the pro tracted rain of shells is as wonderful as the small loss ol life. I walked through the streets where the effect of the shells is most apparent. Here a cornice is knocked off, there is a small round hole through the side of a building, and at remote intervals the earth 4s torn where a shell exploded, ana looks like the work of a porker in searoh of some hidden tre v sure. Venders of the staples of the market sit se renely by their little stores, unmindful of the pyro technic salutations of their Yankee deliverers. I bought delicious apples and cakes at one-fourth the price charged two hundred miles away in tbe interior, where abundance and extortion seem to go band in hand. “In reply to a question If she were not afraid, one of these old women replied: 11 Lor maas, we no feered now—we’s usen to ’em. Day make big noise and fro trash ali about—dat’s all—de good Lord perfects us.” Thus is the reliant trust of these people exemplified even in the spirit of this simple African- I confess that I could not feel thus indifferent to these missiles of destruction and as they came screeching aotois the bay, i f® lf stinotive inclination to ohange my base of observa tion. Extending, my ramble to other Patton- of the city, the tract of shells was here and there di*» cernible. but they have not effected a tithe of the hojury sustained by the great fire of two years ago, blackened outline stretches across what was mum the heart of the city. In only two or three in ?£sfcw bav* fires been occasioned by them, and then the loss was trilling. In localities moat ex* posed to the shells the old tide of business is sus pended.” i Tbe Kev.fJame. |H. Brook., in a eulogy of the late Gov. Gamble, of Minouri, .ala: <• It 1. bo Idle panegyrio when I .ay that, taken all in all, he wa. the wiaett and beat man I have ever known. Ido not expect to .eehi. like again in thl» world. He >wa. one of the few men with whom a growing intimacy but produced a growing lmpreaaion of true greatneac, and who enlarged all the time the eapaoity of you* heart love htm," * THREE CENTS. lIARKISBVRO. [Correspondence of The Press J Hakkisbubo, Feb. u, 186*. Daring tbe put four weeks this city has been full of re-enlisted soldiers, who are going home on fur lough. None are going home but those who hare re- enlisted, and they are as fino-looking men ae one would wish to see. None are left but men of cour age, muscle, and patriotism. Those that entered the seivice for pleasure or profit left it long ago. You see no feeble men among them. All appear strong and healthy, and hare no idea of quitting the aerrioe until the Bebelllon la effectually ended; 'Where all hare done so well, no discrimination Should be made. Each regiment has a ball dozen battles Inscribed upon its regimental flags, Whiol; indicate the bloody oonteata in whioh they have been engaged. Their wasted ranks eloquently speak the cervices which they hare rendered .their country. Two years ainoe they left here one thousand strong. Now they return with about a third of that number. The tsth Regiment airired here on Saturday last from Tennessee, and mustered four hundred and ten meD, ail of whom hare again enlisted for three years. This regiment left Harrisburg In September, 1861, under command of Colonel (since General) Welch, and under his supervision It soon became one of the best disciplined regiments In the field, and to-day has more men upon its muster rolls than many regimenta not half as old. It has been nearly arojlnd the Confederacy, and has done much hard ser vice and its Bhare of fighting in the meantime. In the falloflB6l, It went to Washington, from thence . to Fortress Monroe, and South Carolina, where it temained many months, and while there it took part in the battle of James Island. In the summer of 1862, it was ordered North just In time to take part In the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. where it lost about one hundred and fifty in killed and wounded. It was at the battle of Fredericks burg in December, and last spring it was ordered to! Kentucky, where it underwent much hardship from foreed marohea and insufficiency of rations. They had been there but a few daya when they were ordered .to Vicksburg, where they remained until its eapltulatlon, after which they were sent to Ten nessee, where their labors have been heavy and dangerous. They took a prominent part in the siege of Knoxville; lived and fought for weeks upon half rations, and four hundred of them are here today, enlisted for smother three years. This regi ment ii now commanded by Colonel John I, Curtin, who originally went out with the 46th ae captain. Colonel Curtin la an accomplished officer, a brave soldier, and one who believes in puttfDg down the rebellion without any conditions or compromises. A large number of volunteers are being sworn into the service daily. A large crowd is constantly In front of the mustering office. Many of the coun ties have tbelr quotas nearly lull, and hope to escape the draft entirely. Volunteering never was more brisk in this portion of the State. I understand that Berks county is making a great effort to fill her quota for the 600,000, with a fair chance of suc cess. Beading is nearly full, and many of the rural districts are doing much better than could have been expected. Dills are constantly passing tbe Housa to enable the local authorities to pay bounties to volunteers, and all parties appear to be doing their best to make the March draft at light as possible. Your readers are already aware that a special elec tion will be held in the Indiana district, on the 19th iDßtant, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the con tinued imprisonment of Major White. The Union men have nominated Dr. Thomas st Glair, of Indiana county, and, of course, there oan be no doubt or his election. He has received the unanimous nomina tion in that district, and the friends of the Govern ment have gone to work in earnest. The Democrats have made no formal nomination, though it is sus pected that Judge On, of Kittanning, will be their man. Mr. Orr is represented as being a War Demo crat. He may be a good an£ loyal man, but he will be served like poor Tray for being caught in bad com pany—he will be terribly beaten. The Union men of that district were never more united or more perfeetly organized, and the friends ol Harry White will not be drawn aside by any side issues, hut will send St. Clair here with 2,000 ma jority. The Democrats, you know, contend that Senator Penney is not Speaker, and, therefore, had no authority to order a new election. If they follow up their position, they will contend that no person elected at the approaching election is entitled to a seat. It is already Intimated that they will as sume this position. But it will avail them no thing. Whoever is elected will appear with certificatea of his election, and upon their present ment will have the oath of office administered to him, and at once will take his seat, and how can he beouatedl The Union men will then be in a ma jority, and will proceed at once to necessary legisla tion, which has been for weeks neglected by this “ dead-lock.” The Senate Is doing nothing of any consequence. The House is passing a large number of bills, which will -be ready lor the Senate when ready for work. FRANK. NEW YORK CITY. Nbw Yobk, February.il, 1864, [Correspondence of The Press. 1 NOTES ON THE WEATHER. The wealher ba> at length beoome a topic of ab aolute interest, aside from its social and colloquial value. I cannot say whether this bluest of blue concavities which hangs over this vapor-begrimed city extends to neighboring metropolises. It may be, that as the literal Heaven was supposed to bejust over moorish Grenada, this pertinacious blueness Un gers only over us. If so, the fact constitutes an item of news, and I give it as such. But very certain it is, that the weather, and its concomitants innature, are worthy of remark. Such mouthfuls of tepid sunshine have been stolen by the populace at large, such thermal influences have been imbibed, that February, With its keenness, has beoome a hyper bole and a myth. How and then a foggy damp; at intervals, white, luger-looking clouds sallingthrough the narrow lagunes of vapory blue; at times an Arc tic whiff from around bleak corners, a rattling of shutters, a flight of hats in the air, like black pyro technics—and this is about all wo have had fop a fortnight, nearly, to remind us that, as Tom Hood said— ** January is cold!, but Feber—very! ’ Gentlemen who possess country-seats already wear an aspect suggestive of summer hegiras, One can almost imagine the quiet old women of the pic tnresque lower class, stealing out to smoke their pipes in speculative rivulets of shade, where they maybe shaded at the mouths of cool alley.ways from a premature.vist or the tropical sun. Such weather reliable gentlemen declared to be a phe nomenon, considering the season. ARTISTS IN PETTO. It is very sad that the muses must sometimes come down from their pedestals, and it breaks the •* divine harmony” when singers must snsgeic court. Think of it—two of Maretzek’s norita Sulzer and Signor Biach], up three flights of stairs to the Marine charge of slander preferred against them bermaid.” The idea may be a very the habitues of the opera; but it is true, and the chambermaid promises to victor over grand art. In the month of November last, it appears, the artists in question were boarding at the residence of Dr. Begensburger, in Fourteenth street, near the Academy of Music. The plaintiff in this ac tion, Annie Wilson, offiolatedln the capacity of cham bermaid and waitress, and was suspected of stealing a one hundred dollar bill from Signor Biaohl’s bureau. She Indignantly denied all knowledge of the where abouts of the money, and when Signorita Sulzer ventured to express an opinion as to her honesty, she turned upon her rather sharply and toid her to mind her own business j that she had as much ac cess to the room as anybody, and probably laaew more about the money than the person suspected. The Signor thereupon flew into a great rage, and struck the plaintiff in the faoe, and followed up the fistic demonstration by emptying a dish of melted fat over the person of the chambermaid. During the encounter the word ■* thief ’’ was frequently applied to the plaintifi' by the Signorita, and the following day, when the latter was atrested and brought to the Jefferson Market Police Court on charge of assault and battery, the Doctor got quite excited, and, allowing his temper to get the better of his judgment, also made use of the same epithet. Grand artists are sometimes proud and hasty, but chambermaids are occasionally grand also. Singers, who have so many in their repertoire, might afford to give their injured serving-maid a character. FAIBS AND THEATBES. The Metropolitan fair still engrosses much attention and jugding from st, ay lnstanoeawhleh have come to my knowledge, there is no reason to prognosticate a failure of snpport as far as the donation of articles Is concerned. One of the promenant features of the oceasion will be the department devoted to female handiwork; another, an immense book of auto* graphs, contributions to which are being already ob tained. At the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, a daily paper Is to be published, (TAe Drum Beal) under the editorial charge and supervision of Bev. Biohard S, Storrs, Jr., D. D. On Monday, an English oomedy, by Westland Marston, Esq., was produced at Wal laces theatre. It is entitled “Pure Gold,” and consists of a prologue and three acts. It has been stated that Mr. Wallack possesses a new drama from the pen of Dion Boueioault. Whether Dion »ad Westland are Identical, remains to be seen. The Olympic opened the week with a fresh burlesque called " 111-treated II Trovatore,” which proved a fair success. At the same time, the “ Hippotheation opened Its doors. It is a circus, contained in a highly feiruglnous building, erected especially for itsjbehoof, ouDositc the Opera House. The Opera alternates from Now Yorkto Brooklyn, STUYYESAKT. BALTIMORE* legislature and Councils—The BanliUal Correspondent* Ac. Baltimobb, Feb. Xl.—ln the Maryland Senate, yeeterday, a special committee was appointed In relation to the purchase ot a portion of the Antietam battle ground and the erection of a monument to the memory of those who fell there. The Committee on Finance reported the bill pro viding for State compensation (or property damaged, deatroyed, or taken by the United states or rebe armies, ought not to pass. The first branob of the City Council yesterday passed an ordinance giving a bounty of two hundred dollars for recruits to fill the oity's quota. The bill makes no distinction in relation to the color of the recruit. The total bounty for recruits In white regiments to fill the oity’s quota will be to re-enlisted veterans, nine hundred and twenty.flve dollars: to new recruits, eight hundred dollars. Mr. Shore, who was yesterday expelled worn General Butler’s Department as a correspondent of tha brew York fFbrftf and ffew, states that he tciaa WAS PRESS, gPBHWHM WEBSJ/r.) tm Win Pams Will b* santtasubsaithaahf nail(nara&aam In sdrsnos) at... gg Tbresoopiea g oa Five 'copies..,. g oB Tea cop!**.... o* Larger Clubs than Tsn will be charged at the sassa rate. *l. BO per copy. money must alwaya acoomvanv tbs erder, tnul tn no intUmoe cantheee term* * deviatedfnm, atthm afford very Uttle mart than the coat of paper. Postmasters are requested .to act ae Agent* Me Tax Wad Press. ItS- To the getter-up of the Club of tea or twenty, *0 extra copy of the Paper will be riven. -«BH hue written but two letters for the World, and one for the News, all of a Strictly news character, and that no articles or letters from his pen have erer h, ten copied into a Southern journal. yVe wa» engaged by the papers alluded to simply to I,'vrward Richmond papers aa they arrived by the Sag o t truce or other channel*. He has been in that depart ment for two years. BOSTON, SjcrcU orVecrge Thompson—The.Western Hell.oart Corporation. Bobtok, I tb. n— a large company assembled at the United St; 'tts Hotel latt night, on the Invitation of Col. Goodnoh, tonuetOOL Taylorj of r £ast Ten nessee. Speech Wert, mede by Mr. Taylor and others. Including George Thompson, the English Abolitionist. The latter thanked God that he had lived to sec the no.bi® position America had taken, ano hoped in a few