PRESS, PUBLISHED DAILY (SUNDAYS fcXORPTRD) BY JOHH W. FORNYT, ornoi> »o. m south fourth stbhb*. THE DAILY PRESS, pfFTBBK Certs Pea Wees, payable to the Mrrlarj SdftUoi toSnbaeribers out of the city at Seven Dollam Fb* Abotx; Thbke Dollar? and f iftt Cbhtb for 8« jhobths; Obe Dollar abl fep.VBNTT five Cents for THREE Montes. Invariably In advance for the ttm* or- Adv«rtiMmmta Inserted at tbe usual r»te». ®x Uw ooMlitat* a moan. tjuttbS. IT THK TKI WKKK 11 PRKS '' iuUad to Subscribers out onto city at Fotm Do.*a« ta Amro*. ta « |TMM - —. CARPETINGS. 1864. sPBiNGi, 1864. OLBSN ECHO MILLS, gbrmantown. fa. McCALLUM & 00., y .wrrr.nfirßnnH IMPORTERS. AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ‘cA-H^BTiisrca-s, UUGGIBTO, HPOBTKKS AJTB DEALERS IS FOREIGN AE2> DOMESTIC WIKDOW ANI) FLAIS GLASS. KAHDFAOTURRRS OF WHITS LEAD AND ZlffC PAT NTS. PUTTY, &«- AOIVT& ?pn TBB CELEBRATED PEENOH ZINC PAlNTS *og*lUntr LOW PRICES FOB CASH. CABDIST PHREITDBB. /HABINET FUBNjTUKE AND BIL* LIARD TAB LBS. MOORE & CAMPION, Ho 361 SOUTH SECOND STREET, n connection ’with ttatir extensive i abinet basinesi, are now manufacturing a superior article of BILLIARD TABLES, nd have now on hand a foil • npr,l>, finished With the MOORE A CAMPION’S IMPrtOViD CUSHIONS, Whleb are pionounced by all who Lave used them to be aimerlor to all others. and finish or These Tables, the m&nu r*t*r w their aumvroßS patrons throughout be union, wno are familiar with the character of their Work. sel7-6m WINES AND I.IQ.UOKS. TMPOBTKRS OF •*- WINES and liquors, LAt'MAN, SALLADE, & 00., Ho. 138 SOUTH NINTH STREET, Between Chestnut and Walnnt, Philadelphia. G. H. T.AUHAN, A. M SALLADE. nolO-6111 J. d BITTING. WILLIAM H. YEATOV & QO., * * ... Ho- *Ol South FRONT Street. Agents for the sileof the oet ’ ORIGINAL VEIDSIECK At 00. CHAMPAGNE. Offer that desirable Wine to the trad. Alee. I.OuO ca*Ofl fine and Medium grades BORDEAUX CLARETS. iOOcasct '* Brandenburg Freree” COGNAC BRANDY. Vintage of 1848, bottled In France. S S 8 ® 8 finest Tuscan OIL In flasks; 2 dozen in case. S9£ble fl neat Quality Monongabela Whisky, I ChaSJ^| t ® luill don Grand Vln Imperial, • ■ Green Seal” I Pltb a hue assortment of Madeira, Shorty. VOL. 7-NO. 171 SHEETINGS, DOMESTIC SHEETINGS, AND LINEN. AND HOUSE FURNISHING DRY HOODS. OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. At the lowest east prices. SHEPPARD, VAN HARLING-EN, & ARRI&ON, fe4-thBtnSt jjIOH LACE CURTAINS, AND FURNITURE COVERINGS. SHEFPABP, VAN HARLINGEN, t ARRISON, fe4 thstu St QIVIL AND MILITARY CLOTH JTO. 34 SOUTH SECOND and »3 STBAWBERBT Streets, is happy to *tate that he has laid in an exten sive stock of CHOICE GOODS, such as: CIVIL LIST. ARMY AMD MATT. Black Cloths, Bine Cloths. Black Doeskins, Shy blue Cloths, Black Ca»simeT«, Bky-blue Doaskihs, Elegant Coatings, Dark Blue Doeskins. Billiard Cloths, Dark Bine Beavers, Bagatelle Cloths, Dark Bine Pilots Trimmings,'' 3-1 &ad 6-4 Blue rlßnnalg, Beaverteens. Scarlet Cloths* Cordi and Velveteens, Mazarine Bine Cloths. We advise onr friends to come early, as our present stock Is cheaper than we can purchase now. feiu* lm ■DABIS PRINTED CHINTZES. PARIS PRINTED PERCALES, Of Rich Design, and Colerimra. CUSWEH STODDART & BROTHER, 450, *53 and 454 N. gRCOtIDSL. fe!7-3t - above Willow mLMOBAL SKIRTS. A* IN BSW DESIGNS FOR SPRING. Cloninr oat Dark Colors at $3, $3 35, $3.50, $3.75, and *3. CURWEN STODDART & BROTHER, 450, -453. and *S4K. SECOND St.. fe!7-3t above Willow, TTEAVY 44 cHIRIING LINENS. 50 ,B 1 CENTS CURWEN STODDART & BROTHER, 450, 453, and 454 N. SECOND St.. fe!7*3t ■ above Willow. L’ANCY DBESS SILKS, 56 CENTS. A FANCY DRESS SILKS, OitH CENTS. FANCY DSE.S SILKS 75 OE STS. _ FANCY DEESS S LKS, 87J4 CENTS. We bave lots aa above. wb*cb are arraaaed to close oat rapidly. „. CURWEN STODDART A BROTHER, 450. 453. and *S4N. SECOND St.. fe!7-3t above Willow. pHEAP DRY GOOI'S, CARPETS, V OIL CLOTHB, AND WINDOW SHADES.—V. E. ABC HA MB AULT, N E corner of ELEVENTH and MARKET Streets, will open THIS MORNING. from auction. Ingrain Carpets, all wool, at 76c., 87c , $l, $1.12, $1.25, and SL.S7; Ingrain Carpets, wool BtHnir. 60.66, and 62% cents: Entrr and Stair Carpets* 26c to $L Floor Oil Cloths* CO, 62 and 76 rent?, Gilt- Wardered Window Shades, 75c to $2 Woolen Druggets. $1; Stair Oil 'Cloths, 25c.; Bag and Hemp Carpets, 27, 60, and 62 eents. . CHEAP DBY GOODS AND TRIMMINGS. „ Bleached and Brown Sheeting and Shirting Muslins, 16 to 37 cents: N. Y. Mills Maslin, at 43c, hy the piece; fcpring Delaine*, 31c ; Light Alpacas 60 to 75c.: Black Alpacas, SI to 75c.; Black Silks, $1.25 to $1.62: Spring Chintzes, 20 t025c.; Table Linens, 62c to $1.50; Napkins, 16 t050c.: 10*4 Sheetings at $1.10; Marseilles Quilt*, $3 to $10; Blankets, $5 to $l2; Comfortables at $3 60; Gassi zneres. 62c to $1.50: Coats’ Whits Spool Cotton Ooly 9c. i be»t quality Skirt Braids only 9e ; Pine, 5e.; Hooks aul Eyes, Sc.; Palm Soap only Sc.; Ladies’ Cotton Hose only 25c. Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods and Carpet Store* N. E. cor ELEVENTH and MARKET. fe9-tuthslm U'DWIN TTAT.T. & CO.. NO. 26 SOUTH Tl BECOND Street, are now OPENING new Goods la every department: ' New French Chintze* and Brilliantes. Percale Kobes, sew designs, N Organdies and Jaconets. Splendid quality and Styles of Grenadines. Fine aU-Wool De Dailies, beautiful ehades. New styles of Dress Goods of various kinds. Colored Alpacas and Poplins.. Fine Black Alpacas and Mohairs. New Goods opening daily. fei6-tf coo HOOP SKIRTS. ft9o MtNDFACTOEY, No. 65*8 ARCH VlwL?* Street, above &isth. Wholesale and BetaiL n The most complete assortment of Ladies’, Misses’, and Children’s HOOP SSi RTS in the city, in every respect FIRST CLASS, which, for styles, finish, durability, and cheapness, have bo equal in the market. Skirts to order, altered, and repaired. fe!3-6fc* SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE LADIES. O —THB cheapest silks in the MIRK ST. 1,600 yards Neat Plaid India Silks, at *1 per yard. 600 yard* Brown and White India feilha. at $1 per yard. 1,100 yards Broken Plaids India Silk, at $ 1 per yard 400 yards Bine and White Intfia silk?,' at §1 per yard. They make the most serviceable dress a lady can wear* Call and make your choice before the assortment is broken, at JOHN H. STORES’. 703 ARCH Street. fa!2 MARSEILLES QUILTS—OF FINE quality at moderate prices. Good Blankets, in large sizes. Sheeting Muslins, of every width. SeyeraUradee of Ticking. Bii Ks Just opened, a large lot. marked low. Spring De Laines and Prints. Mode Alpacas, choice shades. Printed Brilliants and 4 4 Fancy Shirting,. COOPER a (JONAKD, fe4 B. A corner NINTH and MARKET Sts. Ofiers at Low Prices a large assortment of LAGS GOODS. ZHBROIDERIRB, HA! DKBSOHIBJB, Suited to the season, and of the latest styles. Of the most recent designs, and other goods gnltable for party purposes. BEAT REDUCTIONS—YEBY LOW VJ pricks. — as we are determined to dose out onr entire stock of Winter Dress Goods BEGARDLESS OF COST. Closing out French Merinoes at 76 cents. Closing out French Poplins. Closing out Shawls. Closing out Cloaks. _ All the leading makes of Muslins, Bleached and Un bleached, £4, 7-3. 4-4, 6-4 6-4. 8-4, 9-4, and 10-4 wide* ntthe Vto LOWEST PRICES. h STEEL & SON, ja23-U Nos. 713 and 715 N. TENTH Street. y. H. BIDPALL. Shat Dibootskt ! Applicable to the Useful Arts. & K,W This, It, Combination. Hoot and Sboa Mumlattareri. Jewalera. Tamil laa It la a LlqnlA Ktmamber. iaM-lnthalr I IW OABBIASES. 1803. WILLIAM D. ROGERS, Cou«l> and z*l£llt Can-tag, Bnlldw, Moa 1009 and 1011 CHESTNUT Street. itil-Sa Pan,APBLPHiA* COFFEE BOASTER— -1.1 hydb’b patent. All lovers of good Coffee should try one. It Is provided with a patent Trier, to test the Coffee and prevent burn ing. All the principal Hotels, Restaurants, Boarding Houses, and private families are putting them In use. The family sizes are suited to either stove or range. For saleattbeHardware, House Furnishing, and Stove Stores. Price from S 2 to «100. ManuActnred and foraale, wholesale and retail, by the Coffee Roaster and Mill Ma nufactnrlufrCoropanT, PENNSYLVANIA Avenue and FIFTEENTH Street, Philadelphia.: jaSS-etuthlmiP RETAII DRY GOODS. 1008 CHEBTNUT Street. CURTAIN GOODS, A LARGE ASSORTMENT * OF NEW AND DESIRABLE GOODS. 1008 CHEST BUT Street. HOUSE WILLIAM T. SNODGRASS, lONA OHBSTHI7T STREET. E. M. NEEDLES VEILS, AND WHITE GOODS. A large variety of UNDBRSLEEVEB. 103 A CHESTNUT STREET. GKHBIT. ¥SI9U& ASD TALUABL* aiBGOTSBTt HILTON’S INSOLUBLE CEMENT! Is ol more general practical utility than any invention now before the >*bli*. It hu been thoroughly test ed during the last two years by practical men, and pronounced by el] to be gUFIRIOR TO AMY Adhesive Preparation known. aiLTOJTB INSOLUBLE OEM3NY Is a new thing, and the result of y«ara*of study f its combination Ison aOIBHTIFIG F&INCIFLfiti. Ana under no sireumswucee or change of temperature, will It be come corrupt or emit any offensive smell. BOOT AND SHOE Manufacturers, using Machines, will find it the best article know* fot Csmenilng the Channels, as it works without delay. Is not affected by any change of temperature. JEWELERS Will And It «nffloientlT edhesive for their m uku been proved. IT IS ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO LEATHER, And we elnlm u >n eepeelnl merit, that it stick, Fstehes nsd Llnlsn to Boots and Shoes snßelonuy stronr withont stttehiztz- IT IB THE ONLY LIQUID CEMENT BrUnt* that Is a sure thing for mending FURNITURE, CBOCKEBY. fOBL„ BdJTKs IVORY. And srtislw ol Honsobold nse. REMEMBER, ailton’s Insoluble Cement la in * liquid form, and aa eaally applied as paste. _ HILTON’S INSOLUBLE CBMiNY Is Insoluble In water or oIL HILTON’S INSOLUBLE CNMNJTf Adheres oily substancea. Family or Manufaetu if” y ** k ** # * &om 2 ounces to 100 aiLTOX BROS, a c*„ Afests lm PhUsdelphls- LAING *. MAGIHNIS. JOSEPH RODFRETACo. No. 3S North FOURTH St. DRY-GOODS JOBBING HOUSES. BAINS. St MBLLOR, Noe. «0 and O NORTH THIRD STREET. IMP 0 X TB XS OF HOSIERY, SMALL WARES. WHITE GOO D S. MANUFACTURERS OF SHIRT FRONTS. fe2-.?m . 1864. spring, 1364. No. 017 CHESTNUT AND No. 614 JAYNE STREETS. Hard now in Store their SPRING IMPORTATION of BLACK AND FATSTCY SILKS, SATINS, GLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS, DRESS TRIMMINGS. ALSO. WHITE GOODS, LIKENS, EMBROIDERIES, AND LACES. A large and handaome assortment of SPRING AND SUMMER SHAWLS. BALMORAL SKIRTS, Of al) grade., &«. Which they offer to the Trade at the LOWEST PRICKS. iaSO-3m SILK AKD DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. 1864. spr_ing 1864< TABER &, HARBERT, No. 401 MARKET STREET. SILKS, RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS; AND MLIiLUNSBY GOODS. Merchants are Invited to call and examine our stock of SPRING RIBBONS, ■which will be sold at the LOWEST FRICKS. fe9-lm DRY-GOODS COMMISSION HOUSES. 1864. JAMES, KENT, SANTEE, & CO., IMPOSTERS AND JOBBERS OF DRY GO Ol> S , Noe. *39 and *4l NORTH THIRD ST., aboTe Race. PHILADELPHIA, Havo cow open their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS. Notwithstanding .the scarcity of many kinds of Dry Goods, our stock is now full and varied In all its de partments. . • . Special attention is invited to our assortment of PHILADELPHIA- HAttfi GOODS. A full assortment'of Cloths, ‘Casslmeres* Ac. A full assortment of Prints. Pe Laines. Ac. A full assortment of Notions, White Goods, &c. A full assortment of Sheetings, Shirtings, Ac. A full assortment of Ornish Goods. Ac- fell 3m QALBRAITH & LINDSAY, IMPOSTERS AND COMMISSION " MERCHANTS, No. 21 STRAWBERRY STREET, wonld call the attention of the trade to tho following, of which they are prepared to ,bow fall lino., viz: DRESS GOODS. W HITE GOODS, BLA COMMISSION HOUSES. COAX. FUfASCIAL. do. MAT 1. HIGHEST MARKET RATES PAIR bankers, No. 131 Sonth THIRD Street, Philadelphia. PURCHASED AND FOR SALE. BANKEKS AND DEALERS 6- BONDS. 6 PER CENT. LEGAL TENDERS. 7- TREASURY NOTES. 1881 LOANS. ONE-YEAR CERTIFICATES. QUARTERMASTERS' VOUCHEES. QUARTERMASTERS' CHECKS. CITY AND STATS STOCKS. BANK. RAILROAD. AND CANAL STOCKS AND BONDS. JAY COOKE A CO., No. 114 Sonth THIRD STREET. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1864. CURTAIN GOODS. I. E. W A LEAVEN, -(SUCCESSOR TO W. H. CARBYL.) MASONIC HALL, 719 CHESTNUT STREET, HAS OPENED A SPRING STOCK OF . * CURTAIN MATERIALS, FURNITURE COVERINGS, LACE CURTAINS, WINDOW SHADES, PIANO and TABLE COVERS, OF NEW AND RICH DESIGNS. AT EXTREMELY LOW PRICES. SEW PUBIICATIOS S. THE NEWEST THING OUT—STE. A PHBNS’ COLORED ALBUM CARDS. Past I.—DROLLERIES. Our Relatione at Home and Abroad. _ Part lI.—DROLLERIES. The Adventnree of a Con script. Part lII.—’THE SLAVS OF 1863. A thrilling aeries of the Great Evil, interesting to every lover of Freedom. Each series forming an illustrated Story In Twelve Cards. 6plendldly Lithographed In Oil Colors, from original deMsms by Henry I. Stephens- . PRIOE FIFTY CENTS, each part, mailed free any- Wheie. Parties in the city, not finding them at bookstores, by addres&ingpnblisherthroughPost-office, with the price, supplied promptly. A liberal discount to the trede. WM. A. STEPHENS Publisher, fe!3-7t* 400 CHESTNUT St.. Philadelphia. New medic a.l books. JUST PUBLISHED. CHEW'S LECTURES Iff MEDICAL EDUCATION, lvol. l2mo. » ' BAUER’S LECTURES ON ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY, with illustrations, lvol. Octavo. 3 ROBSBTfiON’S MANUAL ON EXTRACTING TEETH, With illustrations. 1 vol. 12mo. 4. THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN MEDICO-CHIRURGI CAL REVIEW for January. 1884 Price $6 per annum. LINDSAY & BLAKISTON. Publishers. fel2 25 South SIXTH Street, above Chestnut. FSB. MAGAZINES NEW BOOKS. FRENCH PAPER. HAND-MADE PAPER. QCADRILLE PAPER, DAMASK PAPES Fifty Patterns. ALH aMBRA A?PAPER. GROSS-BAR PAP £3, LINEN PAPER MOCKNING PAPER. Every kind of Note and Letter Paper. Envelopes to match perfectly—lnitials Stamped gratis. Also, in colors. Counting-house Stationery. Every article promptly delivered • _ j*2S-thgtfam CHALLEN. 1308 CHESTNUT. XfVBRYTHING AT A. DISCOUNT. -A-i Portfolios. Diaries. Stationery, Frames. Juvenile Books, Bibles and Prayers, Magazines, &c.. And atl New Publications of the day. ja2s-mth tf PITCHER’S, 808 CHESTNUT Street. 40 nOfVOAED PHOTOGRAPHS, ‘iV ’.wl/v/ Plain and Colored. LARGEST STCCK, BEST SELECTION, and LOWEST PRICES in the city. PITCH SB’S, ja2fimth tf 808 CHESTNUT Street. NEW AMERICAN The agency for this invaluable Library of Universal Information ii»*t 33 South SIXTH Street, second story. Also. RECORD OF THE REBELLION. By Frank Moore,, - . ' ‘ fall-tf TNSURANCE.—ALL INTERESTED IN -L insurance Companies, or on the subject of Insu rance, should reaa the LEGAL INSDKANCE KE* POR CEK. Subscription price only one dollar per year. Office 703 WALNUT Street felfrCt nDDJO’S GAVE! CUD JO’S CAVE !! Jast received by ASH ME AD & EVANS, Successors to Willis P Hazard* No. 734 Street. CUi> JO’S CAVE. A new story, By J. T. Trow&ridje, author of “Neighbor jacrwooa/* &c. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THEODORS PARKER. Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congrega tional Society, Boston. By John Weiss. 2 vola., with portrait, $B. _ INEZ. A Tale of the Alamo. By Augustus J. Evans, author of “Beulah.” _ LIFE OF 'WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT. A superb book. THE GREAT CONSUMMATION. Second series By Rev. John humming, D D. TfiE WHIP. HOE. AND «WOBD: or. The Gulf De- ; partmei tin ’63. By oww£.?sP t „ ' LYRICS O 7 LOYALTY. Edited by Frank Moore. THE MERCY BEAT; or. Thoughts m Prayer. By Angnstng C. 11 It ornyHon, D D- fee •VTBW BOOKS! NEW BOOKS 1 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CORRESPONDENCE. &c.. OF LYMAN BEECUEK, D.D. Edited by diaries Baeclier. I ’a B POPUL*R < H'aND BOOK OP THE NEW TESTA MENT. By George Camming McWhorton. THE SILVER CASKET; or, The World and Its Wiles. B the L great CONSUMMATION.-the millxnial REfcT; or, Tbs World As It Will Be. Br Rev. John Curomirg* F-K. g, E. 2vols. INEZ. A Tale of the Alamo, By Augusta J. Evans, R THE PROPHET OF FIRE; or. The Life and Times of Elijah, with their Lessons, By J. R. Macdnff. D> D. For sale by WILLIAM S. & ALFRED MA&TIEN, fell-tf 606'CHESTNUT Street. PAINTINGS AND JENGRAFING3. gUBGA-HT MinEoas, A LABOB ASSORTMENT. Sill BHGBAViaeS, fEsi oil rAisrnfes, EAKLE'B GALLEBIEB, •1« CHESTNUT BTBBIT. seU-tf EDUCATIONAL. SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN Will be opened on MONDAY. February 15tli. 1851* at the 8. E. corner «*f NINTH and fcPBING GARDEN. The PEIM&EI DEPARTMENT will be conducted as a Kindergarten, upon the German (Froebel’s) system, and will include Bc-ys and Girls under ten years of age. A class of old er pupi s will be received. In both departments, GY MNASTIC6, under the system of Dr. Dio Lewis, will be taught GBRTRUOE W. FULTON, HARRIET B. DARLINGTON. fel6-6t Address 315 MARSHALL Street. 'ROEDENTOWN FEMALE COLLEGE A> BOBDESTO WN, N. J. This Institution is pleasantly located on the Delaware river, hoar’s ride from Philadelphia. Special atten tion is paid to the common and nigher branches. o: ENGLISH, and superior advantages famished in Toes? and Instrumental Music. FRENCH taught by native and spoken In the family. For Catalogues, address Rev. JOHN H. BRAKaLBY. A. U. a Jal4-2m* President, _ VILLAGE GREEN SEMINARY, f NEAR MEDIA. PA.—Pupils received at any time. English. Mathematics, Classics, and Natural Bciencei taught. Military Tactics, Book-keeping, and Civil Eu gineering taught. Entite expenses about *3 per week. oys of all ages taken, i’efera to Wm. H Kern, ex- Sheriff; John C. Capp & Co., No. 23 South Third street; and Thomas J. Clayton. Esq,, Fifth and Prune streets. Address Rev. J. HARVEY BARTON, A. M., Villa*# Green. Pa. 806-ti COPARTNERSHIPS. Notice of copartnership GKOBGE ALK N 8 & JoSEPH H. THOMPSON have formed aCopa tnership. for the purpose of transact ing bmineps as bhipplug and Commission Agents and General Merchandise Brokers, 1541 North DEL AWARE Avenue,under the style and firm of GEORGE ALKINS A GO. GEORGE ALKINS & CO * GBORGE ALKHfS, „ Feb 16 1864. JOSEPH H. THOMPSON. fei7»iot ; Dissolution of copartner-.. SHIP.—The Copartnership heretofore existing be tween WILLIAM S. WIEL and ABGU3TDS CORAN, under the lin of WILLIAM S. WEIL S C 0... was dis solved on the first day of Februar-, 1861, by mutual consent. The bnsiness of the firm will he settled up by William fe. Weil, at the old place. 39 North THIRD Street, wlio is tlene authorized to sign the firm’s name in liquidation. WILLIAM S. WEIL, fil7-Bt* ■_ AUGUSTUS CORAN. pOPARTNEBSB IP. VV Philadelphia February 1,1861. The undersigned have thi, day associated themselves under the firm of BOLDIN At WAKfUAN, as Tobacco and General Commission Merchants, at No. 105 N. WA TER Street, and No. 106 N. DELAWARE Avenue. GEORGE BOLDIN, (late of Boldin & Penrose.) MICHAEL WaRTMAN, ■ . „ , fe!6-3t* (Late M. Wartman & Co.) "VTOTICE —THE PARTNERSHIP EX -*-l IBTING under the firm names of KIRK It BAUM, and BAUM, OQLB, & CO., was dissolved on the 31st of January. 1864, by the death of Henry K. B Ogle, one. of the partners. The affairs of the fir£l3 Will b$ Betties oy the undersigned. . .. , _ The Mining and Shipping Business of the said firm will, hereafter, be conducted under the firm names of KIRK & BAUM, and BAUM, GROSS, & CO., by the following Copartners, JAMB? 8* KIRK, JOHN B BAUM. HBNRY S. G*OSS, fe!3.6t» JONATHAN CLAttK, GO PART NERSHIP.—THE SUB SCRIBERS have this, eighth day of February, 1564. entered into Copartnership, under the name and style of BENNETT & SNYDER, for thepurpOße of transacting a WHOLESALE COMMISSION LUMBER BUSINESS. EDWARD MAGARGE 19 -L a admitted to an interest in our bnsiness from Janu ary Ist. 1864. CHAS. MAGARGE St CO. Philadelphia., Feb. 12, 1864. fel2-10t /COPARTNERS HI P.—NOTICE.—I V-J have this day associated with me in business my son, FREDERICK BROWN', Jr., under the name and •tyle of FREDERICK BROWN. Druggist and Chemist. FREDERICK BROWN. Philadelphia, February 1,1564. The said firm will continue business at the old stand (establ shed In 1622). northeast corner or Chestnut and Fifth streets, Philadelphia. FREDERICK BROWN. FREDERICK BROWN. Jr. XTOTICE.—JOSEPH LEA. & CO. H AVE THIS DAT admitted JOSEPH TATNALL LEA as a general partner in the House. . Their business in the city of Mew York Will be conduct' ed under the style of _ * J. d J. T. LEA & GO.« 119 BEADS Street, New York. Philadelphia. February Ist. 1864. feB-12t* poi TON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS of all numbers and brands. Haven's Duck Annina Twills, of all descriptions, for Tents. A wains*. Trunk and Wagon Covers. Also, Paper ftf&nfacturers* Drier Felts, from 1 to 5 feet wide. Tarpaulin. Bolting, Bail Twine, sa. JOH* W. BVEEMAN * CO., m? 9 tf lea JONHS' AlUy. CYCLOPEDIA. JUST K3CK7BD. J.F. BENNETT* J. P. SNYDEB. Office 539 COMMERCE Street. C'jj.e THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1864. Three Months Down South. Last year several articles appeared, in Blackwood's Magazine , describing warfare in the South—articles remarkable for per version of fact, reckless assertion, and strong partisanship. They pandered to the vitiated taste and strong prejudice of a cer tain class of British readers. They were generally accredited to an officer in the English army, bis name, however, being then concealed. Latterly, he has himself cast aside hiß incognito, having published a volume in London, entilted “ Three Months in the Southern States : April—June, 1803. By Lieut. Colonel Fremantle, Coldstream Guards," which book has been republished by Mr. John Bradburn, New York. The writer in Blackwood is author of this book. Every Ensign in the Foot Guards.ranks as Lieutenant in the army, every Lieutenant as Captain; and every Captain as Lieutenant Colonel. Referring to the official British “Army List” for October, 1802, the latest we have access to, we discover that Arthur James Freemantle really is only sixteenth among twenty Captains, his Lieut. Colonelcy biting: only nominal. - yiaving obtained leave of absence from his regiment, he left England on the 3d of March, 1863, and arrived at, Havan'a oh tlie 22d, where Captain Hancock, of H. B. M.’s frigate Immortalitd, not having the fear of Victoiia’s neutrality proclamation before his eyes, “ volunteered” to take him to Mata moros, with the avowed purpose of getting into the theatre of war, vw Texas. Arriv ing near the mouth of the Rio Grande, he was landed on its Mexican bank, and thence passed over into Texas. It was some time before the aristocratic British colonel could get “ accustomed and reconciled to the ne cessity of shaking hands anddrinking brandy with every one.” At Brownsville, where he first touched American soil, he chuckled over having sold his gold for four times its value —in Confederate notes; but, at Charleston, he was offered six to one, and at Richmond eight to one for it; the owner, as [well as the gold, was “ sold” at Brownsville. On the other hand, he retrieved his Joss at San Antonio, where he sold his portmanteau for $333. He chuckles over the recollec tion that “its value in England couldn’t have been more than £8 or £9. The port manteau itself, which was an old one, fetched $5l; a very old pair of butcher boots, $32; five shirts, $42; an old over coat, $35," We are not going to track Captain Fre mantle through Texas up to Natchez, hut shall merely note down some of his occa sional observations upon men and things in the South. General Magruder, 'who was command ing in Texas, he describes as “a fine sol dier-like man, of about fifty-five, with broad shoulders, a- florid complexion, and bright eyes. He wears his whiskers and mustaches in the English fashion, and he was dressed in the Confederate gray uniform.” Of course, he generally abused the Union Generals, but praised himself exceedingly. He would seem to have a jolly time with his stall, who lived with him on a free and easy footing. After dinner they have sing ing, speech- making, and fiddling, accom panied plenty of punch, brewed by “an aged and slightly elevated militia rough faced hero, who gloried in the name of McGuffin.” Fremantle informs the world that “on these' festive occasions General JUfogritder wears a red woolen cap, and fills the president’s chair with great aptitude.” En route to Galveston, General Samuel Houston was encountered: ‘‘ He told me he was born in Virginia, seventy years ago; that he was United States Senator at thirty, and Governor of Tennessee at thirty-six. * ' * * As Governor of Texas in 1860, he had opposed the Secession movement, and was deposed. Though evidently a remarka ble and clever man, he is extremely egotisti cal and vain, and much disappointed at hav ing to subside from his former grandeur. In appearance, he is a tall, handsome old man, much given to chewing tobacco, and blowing his nose with his fingers.” "We are told, as matter of grave moment, that General Kirby Smith “ wears big spec tacles and a black beard,” and that “his wife is an extremely pretty woman, from Balti more, but she had cut her hair quite short like a man’s.” Kirby Smith told Freman tle “ that McClellan might probably have destroyed the Southern army with the great est ease during the first winter, and without running much risk to himself, as the South erners were so much over-elated by their easy triumph at Manassas, and their army had dwindled away.”* Gen. Hebert is “a good-looking creole, , extremely down upon England for not re cognizing the South.” Elsewhere, with equal elegance of diction, the Coldstream officer sayß, “ Six of us pigged in one very small room. 1 ’ General Joseph E. Johnson ("commonly called Joe Johnson,J) we learn, “haslately taken to wearing a grayish beard. He lives very plainly, and at present his only cooking-utensils consisted of an old coffee pot and frying-pan—both very inferior arti cles. There was only one fork Cone prong deficient) between himself and staff, and this was handed to me ceremoniously as the‘guest.’” General Loring “is a stout man, with one arm.” General Maury, met at Mobile, is “an intelligent but diminutive Virgini an.” Mr. Fremantle accompanied him on a visit to the four forts which guard Mobile. “During the trip I overheard Gen. Maury soliloquizing over a Yankee flag, and saying, ‘ Well, I never should have believed that I could have lived to see the day in which I should detest that old .flag.’” Ho doubt some other rebels have similar offshoots of remorse. ' Of Stonewall Jackson, the brave man who fell in a bad cause, the following is related: “ It appears that previous to the war he was al most at oionomaDise about his health. When, he left the United States seivice he was under the impres sion that one or his legs was getting shorter than the other; and afterwards his idea was that he only perspired on one aide, and that it was necessary to keep the arm and leg of the other side in constant motion, in order to preserve the circulation; but it seemß that after the war broke out he never made any iurther allusion to his health.” The description of Gen. Bragg is not quite rose-tinted. Mr. Fremantle says: “This officer is in appearance the least prepossess* fog of the confederate generals. He ii very thin; he stoop,, and has a siokly, cadaverous, haggard ap pearance, rather plain feature,, bushy black eye brows, which unite in a tuft ou the top of hi, no»e, and a atubby iron-gray beard; but hi, eye, are bright and pleroirg. He ha, the reputation of being a rigid ufsdfp’hiiiad, and of ,hooting freely for in ■ubordinalion. I uaderttaild hc It rather Unpopular on thi, account, and alao by reaion of hi, 6C?.V 10 hM acerbity of manner.” Among tie rebels, it seems, only two foreigners are generals. One of these is Brigadier General de Polignac ; the other is Major General Cleburne, from the south of Ireland, who had served in an English in fantry Tegiment for three years, bought his discharge, became a lawyer in Arkansas, was elected captain of a company and then colonel of a regiment, and now commands a division—nominally of 10,000 men. Mr. Freemantle says, somewhat exultiagly, “He told me that he ascribed his admnee- •Except that Magruder is represented a* ridiculing his eaceftsive caution, this is the only mention of McClellan in this book. In 1 ' Battle-fields of the South, from* Ball Ban to Fredericksburg; by An Jnglish Oombatant, Lieu tenant of Artillery of the Field Staff, "(also published, or republished, by Mr. Bradburn, and a very interest* ingtlioogh paitial production,) is the following: *‘l have frequently heard distinguished Bouthern leaders speak of McClellan in the highest terms of compliment. His successful retreat through the '.Chickahominy swamp is coneidend by officers to be equal to the best deeds on military record. It may. not be generally known, but men of high position and high veracity have said in Bicbmond, that McClellan offered his services to the Sonthwhen the w®r betas, and that he asked to com mand a division. He was answered that.if his heart was In the cause let him join the ranks, like Longstreet and others, atd fight his way up to that position. There are documents which place this question beyond dispute,bat I have net seek them." ment mainly to the useful lessons which he had learnt in the ranks of the British army, and he pointed with a laugh to his general’s white facings, which he said his 41st expe rience enabled him to keep cleaner than any other Confederate general.” Charleston, as he saw it in June, 1863, he found nearly all the shops shut up, and “ the lighting and paving of the city gone to the bad entirely." There, as at Mobile, the hotel charge was $8 a day, and “ in consequence of the fabulous value of boots, they must not be left outside the door of one’s room, from danger of annexation by a needy and unscrupulous warrior.” At Charleston, the English sympathizer “calledon Gen. Beauregard, who is a man of middle height, about forty-seven years of age. He would be very youthful in appear ance were it not for the color of his hair, which is much grayer than his earlier pho tographs represent. Some persons account for the sudden manner in which his hair turned gray by allusions to his cares and anxieties during the last two years ; but the real and less romantic reason is to be found in the rigidity of the Yankee blockade, which, interrupts the arrival of articles of toilet. He has a long straight nose, handsome brown eyes, and a dark mustache, without whiskers, and his manners ijre extremely polite. He is a New Orleans ud French is hia native language. Of the President of'the Rebel Confedera tion, we are told 1 “ Mr. Jefferson Davis struck me as looking older then I expected. Re is only urty-six, bnt his face is emaoiated, and muoh wrinkled. He ia nearly six feet htgh, hut is extremely thin, and stoops a little. His features are good, especially his eye, whleh is very bright, and full of life and humor. I was aftsr waxds told he had lost the sight of his left eye from a recent illness. He wore a linen coat and gray trousers, and he looked what he evidently is, a well breit gentleman* H.e said that, when the inevitable amteh came—and that teparation was an aoaom* phshed fact—ihe State oi Blaine would probably try to join Canada, as moat of the intelligent people Inlbat State have a horror of being ‘wider the thumb of Massachusetts,' ” This will somewhat astonish Maine. Of the visit to Richmond little is told. His stay there was brief, for he was anxious to join Lee and Longstreet, of the Virginian rebel army, to whom he had special letters of introduction. Accompanied by the Hon. F. Lawley, The Times' Southern corres pondent, he came up with them, in Penn sylvania, on the 37th of last June. Long street is “a thickset, determined-looking man, forty-three years old Lee is, “with out exception, the. handsomest man of his age (56) I ever saw;” and, “throughout the South, all agree in pronouncing him to be as near perfection as a man can be. His only faults, so far as I can. learn, arise from his excessive amiability. ” . In short, as Mr. Wackford £ queers said of his amiable son, Lee must be “ next door to a cherubim.” Full details are here given of the Rebel plunderings in Maryland and Pennsylvania last summer, also a confused account of the glorious three days at Gettysburg. Of the first day’s encounter (July 13, the author says: “ I have the best reason for supposing that the fight came off premature ly, and that neither Lee nor Longstreet in tended that it should have begun that day. I also think that their plans were deranged by the events of the first.” Here, after the final repulse of the Rebels, on July 3d, is another confession: “General Lee said to me, ‘ This has been a sad day for us, Colonel —a sad day ; but we can’t expect always to gain victories.’ I saw General Willcox (an officer who wears a short round jacket and a battered straw hatj come up to him, and explain, almost crying, the state of his brigade. General Lee immediately shook hands with him, and said cheerfully, 'Never mind, General, all this has been m.y fault- it is I that have lost this fight, and you must help me out of it in the best way you can.’ ” His “ leave ” nearly expired, Colonel ("or Captain ) Fremantle wascom polled to leave his Rebel friends. He left Hagerstown on the 9th of last July, and represented him self, on Union soil, as “an English travel ler.” Arrested, he was taken to General Kelly, at Hancock, to whom he confessed that he had passed from Mexico to Texas, had visited all the Southern armies in Mis sissippi, Tennessee, Charleston, and Virgi nia, and seen the late campaign as General Longstrect’s guest, but had in no way enter ed the Confederate service. General Kelly allowed him to pass on to New York, in stead of sending him across the lines, to find his way back to England through the Rebel States, by which he had entered. “Three Months in the Bouthern States” is an amusing instance of excessive preju dice and self-conceit. Its author, much ad dicted to slang and vulgar phraseology, has . not-wiitten his book like a gentleman. With all his praise of the South, he evidently is laughing in his sleeve at their raw regi ments, punch-drinking generals, and blus tering subalterns. With very questionable taste, also, he crowds his pages with many specimens of the horrible profanity that forms the woof of general Southern conver sation. He has not elevated himself nor his military commission by the tone and spirit of his book. It has been accepted in England, by a certain class, as “ unbiased,” but some of the London journals, we notice, are severe on its slip-slop style, its occa sional vulgarity, and its too frequent quota tion of Southern profanity. ■Streets Here and There. Popular titleß were formerly given to our etreet, and places, somewhat to"WSL-^prejud io e of the pre ecribed and registered names. As citizens we have something more Important to attend to just at pre sent than the revival of these ancient appellations and innovations in our street nomenclature. Streets, lanes, alleys, courts, avenues, and roads, are all the generia distinctions which our directory admits of. These should be extensive enough. The individual namt a which they comprise do not correspond with this arrangement in distinctiveness. Local identities are mixed up and confused. 11 Which Is which V> might very readily be the first question of the perplexed pedestrian. Streets, like individuals, have characters, and should not be unbecomingly baptised. To dub them with a presi dential sur-name is all very well, but we do not wsnt a heterogeneous tangle of Washingtons, Ad amses, Jefiertons, Madisons, and Monroes. We oan dispense with the plentiful peppering or Smiths, Greene, Joneses, and Browns, and the numerous little, which are diminutives of some of the larger Btieeta a little over-do the matter. In foreign eities and towns a hew system of great precision ha, been adopted, both with respect tq the names of street, themselves, and to the distinction between the seve ral orders of streets. In Naples, for instanee, all principal streets are designated strode; cross streets, viche ; smaller streets, vicoletti; lanes, slrettole; hilly streets leading to the old tower, and up to the castle, colati; those leading to the suburbs, sdlati; those so steep as to require steps, gradoni ; and those with many branch es, rampe. But it would be to little purpose to make these nice distinctions unless, as in the present oase, they were as nicely maintained and observed. The tame graduated distinction is recognized in Milan. There, all streets radiating from the centre of the town are known ai corsie. Continuation! of these beyond the line of the most dis tant fortifications are called corat —a very slight distinction. Borgo being the Italian for suburb, '; the streets which traverse the suburbs have the general name of borghi applied to them. h)Ttreet haa almoat sunk Into oblivion; and Kace street, whiau received that name from its having led to the races, has usurped the reputation. It was also known as lionghurat atreet. Arch street, ao baptized be cause of ita having an aroh or bridge across it at Front street, w« known as Mulberry, and also as Holmes afreet. Market street wai, of course, named after its own markets, its farmer name having been High street, because of its elevation above the river. What ia Water was formerly King street; Branoh street was krown as Sour-Orout, because the first cutter of cabbage, who used to go abroad with his machine to cut for families, used to live alone there. In like manner Jones’ Alley was recognized as Pewier plaiter Ayey, a large pewter dish being hung up, ssa sign-board, at Front atreet. Duke street be came Artillery Dsne, from the planting of osnnon there by the British, and Prime atreet was onoa railed Dove Dane. Vine, once upon a time, was Valley, and Chestnut was Wynn street, after Thomas Wynn. What was onoe Fool atreet, leading to Dock Creek, la now Walnut. The names of large atieeta seem to have bean suggest ed by the kinds of trees prevailing, and Watson’s Annals remarks that' William Penn, in his letter of 1689, explains that the names of streets appear to have been taken from the things that sponta neously grew in the looaUty, He instances Vine. Mulberry, Cranberry, Hickory, Oak, Beech, Ash< and Poplar streets. Dikeohargea have taken place in the atreet no*, menolature of New York city. If is curious to notice how the difference between the old names and the new illustrate in some instances the spruit of ; the Colonies and that of the Republic. The, old names of King, Queen, Dittle Queen, CrowaVi Prlncers, and Duke streets were altogether set aside, and it is noticable that Crown street became Dlberty street, ss evidencing at once the genius of the na tion and that of the locality. _ Broadway is represented to have been originally an extensive parade, which the British military planted down the middle with trees, and which they called their Mall. A writer in The Bunder gives an illustration of the influence a name may exert even upon a street, which lately ocourred In his neighborhood, where a street was named Benjamin road by the freeholder. The houses, however, not letting as quickly as they should, tt i builder changed the name to Clifton road, and rapidly found tenants. The proverb, “ give a dog a bad name,” applies to a atreet. It is a misfortune that the importance of a good name ia not better understood. The same writer refers to the confusion arising from misnomers. The word “ garden,” as used In Dondon, meant blocks of houses inhabited by the poorer classes, as Dobney's (D'Au bigny’s) garden, Short’s garden. The same term is now applied to handsome rows of gardens in the neighborhood of Kensington. The word “ street,” he remarks, Is becoming obsolete; every thorough, fare becomes a ” road,” and treeless parks and tor tuous avenues augment the incongruity. In Paris attention is being called to the faot that the term “ square ” will be discontinued, and that of “place” applied to all open spaces, planted ae gar dens, like the grounds before the Arts et Metiers and around the Tower of fct. Jacques. “Boulevard ” will be applied only to roads which follow the line of anoient fortifications or old municipal boundaries. Wide thoroughfares radiating from the centre of the city, or running obliquely aoross it, will be termed avenues. Probably the terms barriere, route, che min, sentier, otter , chaussbr, will no longer bo so in discriminately used. Here, in Philadelphia, al though the regularity with which the oity is laid, and the general propriety of its atreet nomenclature, render any portion of it easily accessible to the visi tor, yet there are plenty improvements to be made, when circumstances admit of the public attention being ao directed. MW TOBK CITI. (Correspondence of The Press J Nbw Yoke, February 16.1861. DITEHAKY GOSSIP. The war on Bohemia now trebly thunders on the gale, and exoitea no Utile irritation in certain quar ters. Bohemia is certainly inflamed and feverish, and is vindicating itself as well as it oan. Thus much may be said on behalf the Bedouins, that the assault made upon them by the columns of the Round Tahte, was not very genteel or ehoiae as regards the selection of epithets. The original article whloh initiated the combat, is said to have been penned by Mr. O ,of the Tribune. I give this merely as a rumor, which ia current in Bohemian circles; but one which, of course, is at present incapable of veri fication. The glove thus thrown down, was picked up by Mr. Frstk Wood, dramatic critic of Wilkes’ spirit, and an artioleon “Barclolph" was the counter-assault. From this point, the chattering grew indiscriminate. Bedouins and anti-Bedouins have gone through the most intricate war-dances, and tomahawked esch other periodically ever since. The Round Table has gone round seeking whom it might devour; bat its crusade seems somewhat feeble. An Illustrated paper has also taken up the cudgels In a mysterious*' sort of way—conservative, probably—and ia imping ing upon the ease-hardened Bedouins, whether with love taps or not, it Is hard to decide. The drawings are from the pencil of Frank Bellew, and appear in Dcmorest's Illustrated Kars for last week. If any should deßire to see some excellent portraits of the leaders of the New York Bohemia, they will And throughout the plate referred to. The Queen of Bohemia has recently sailed for Cali fornia, where, it is announced, she will remain for tome time. This lady is known ass rather pleasant contributor to the weekly press, under the nom de Silnme of 11 Ada Clare.” She is spoken oFasalsdy of kindly instincts, and one to whom more than one poor struggling author has been indebted for tempo rary relief. To such admirable qualities, perhaps, she owes her elevation to this fanciful dignity—the only reward in the gilt of the poor Bedouins of lite rature. Appropos to the subject of the Round Table, a va»t mistake has been made by journalists in this and other cities, in attributing its editorship to Stod dard, the poet. This gentleman holds no other po sition than that of contributor. A new comic illustrated paper is to be started in this city, to which Messrs. Frank Bellow, John Ma- Lenn, Ed. Mullen, and other artists prominent in the humorous line, will contribute. Possibly the proprietors will avoid the rock upon which Vanity Fair split, and, profiting by its experience, become an established institution. Comic journals, of the so-called “high standard,” have never flourished like green bay trees, in the metropolis; and we have successively witnessed tbe extinguishment or John Brougham’s Lantern, the Batty Momus, and V, F. How tbe new journal will fare, seems entirely pro blematical. Publishers seem to have a mania for imitating the London Punch, forgetful that the Eng lish, as a nation, will go convulsed with laughter over the heavy humor which Jonathan would view with all the imperturbability of a bored gentleman at a'bad play. As long as we deal in servile imita tions of a paper which is in its very dotage, failure must, in all probability, result. BIBLIOMANIA. Up to within the last quarter of 1863, visitors to the book-stalls were accustomed to the sight of a quiet, gray-haired gentleman, pleasant-faced and in telligent, who was in the habit of walking sharply into these repositories of thumbed and ancient lite rature, running his bright, apprecistive eyes over the title-pages of old volumes, and buying or declining, as the case might be. When George Cruikshank illustrated that portion of Oliver Twist which treats of the methods of action by which the Artful Dodger secured the handkerchief of ‘the “ prime plant ’’—the " old cove at the book- stall ” —he may not have had this Bame quiet old gentleman in his eyes; but the Bludioua and wrapt quiescence given by the artist to the 11 prime plant ” was a characteristic of this aame quiet old gentleman—a way of his in turning over musty leaves and settling in his mind their biblio graphical values. There was a sort of smacking of the mental lips over the jaundiced and freckled title pages which bespoke at once the confirmed biblio maniac. I looked at his portrait a few' hours ago, and could almost fancy that the pupils of hia eyes were little coiled black worms—genuine book-worms, possessing sapid palates that could detect false flavors in volumes as readily aa a bon*vivant can perceive the earthy flavor in sherry cooled for years in Xeres’ cellars. This gentleman was Mr. John Allen, who led the life not only of your thorough-going bibliomaniac, but of a veritable Marquis de la Tabatldre. He hunted through thousands of smoky volumes, mum mied in parchment and calf, blew dust from ragged bindings on every book-stall which has existed here for the last half century, rummaged everything and everywhere ; and dying in November last, left be hind him a superb library of some seven thousand volumes, and a collection of uniqnes and cariosities, comprehending, among other thinge, upwards of a hundred snuff boxes of gold, silver, and wood. He lived in Yandewater street, an out-of-the way loca lity, where, like a second Metastasio, walled in with hooks, he passed hia llesure hours. AU his volumes were handsomely bound, and he kept them with sorupuloue eare. Among them is Elliot’s In dian Bible, the finest of the very few copies extant. Connoisseurs fix its value at a thousand dollars. The original edition of Robert Burns ic valued at some two hundred dollars. The entire collection In cludes the finest library of illustrated works ever ottered—as they soon will be—for sale in this coun try. Mr. Allen was an enthusiast in his work. He lived to be eighty- seven; and his of ten-repeated wish to see hi* one-hundredth birthday might have been gratified, hsd the mere endurance of physical strength LiSSpred his davs. full of vitality, fresh in mind and judgment, he wti CAttled pff suddenly by an acute disease. * , , Book-buyers arc looking forward with great, in terest to the sale by auction, whioh will take place ■ early in April. Catalogues containing a portrait or the deceased, printed for the weH- known Bradford Club of this city, are being gotten U ,P style, and will be sold at the appropriate tline. Al together, the occasion will be one of notability. The befoved volumes of the incorrigible book-hunter will new resting-places, and the flve*»core enuff boxesof this new Mar>•.ls 09 Latier dabs than Tan will bs chatted at the same rate» 11 50 per copy. The money must always accompany the order, anti in no instance can these terms-be deviated from, as Chew afford very little- more than the cost of paper. are requested to Mt as Agents go* Thr War Paras, To the wtten-np of the Clab of tea or twenty, extra copy of the Paper will be alven. THE WAR. Tile SitvstSca at KaoxfHlc iCorrfSSPOAdence of The Press. 1 The enterprising Col* ISoCJallum, with hie £,aw railroad men and bridge-builders, gives us assurance that be will have the railroad between BoUdonan* Chattanooga completed and In running order by isth of the month. At present we hare but little transportation by the river, as' it is very low, but when we shall have had railroad communioatfoa opened to us again our soldiers wUI begin to lire ae* patriots should. Surely their sufferings hare bees' severe and long, on aooount of the scarcity of every kind of food and clothing. Yet, in the midst or these extreme wants, during the cold snap about New Year, men came without shoeß and stockings to their commanders to re-enlisl. Patriotism and love for our cause has, perhaps, shone nowhere co brightly as in this department of our army, 9 There are, perhaps, 2,500 sick and wcucderi Ea hospitals. Not more than a foutth of these are wounded. There are many that hare and will aooa be taken away. The mortality of January ia not lunch more than half that of December* The clti zcni, loyal and disloyal, are moving out of the pI&QQ rapidly, so that in a month there will scarcely any family have been left* On the3lit ult. twenty-four were rent beyond the lines. Among them wera two rebel Presbyterian pastors of this place. The one had taken up arms, and the other had made himself a name among his own kind by saying in his pulput that he would 41 rather preaoh from a Bible piloted in hell than one printed In Massaohti* setts.” This is the length of madness to whioh treason praqUoally, as well as logically leads* Another shipment of rebel citizens occurred last Wednesday. The loyal are compelled by want, by reason of confusion and exoitemeht of military life, North for the winter. £*. »•<, Emancipation in Maryland. A LETTER FROM POETHASTBR QBHBBAL BLAIS Washieotok, Feb. la, 1864. C C. FiUfon x Esq,. Dear si a ; 1 observe, with regret, some sytnp* to Me of division among the Emancipationists, con nected with the question of lf, how ever, those opposed to compensation mean only that it should not be made by the State, or that it should not be a condition precedent to emancipation, this proves no reason lor division among us, for all now agree to emancipation, immediate and uncondi tional. ' Id my view, emancipation was substantially as sented to by me people or the state when, la issi ( they voted to adhere to the Union; and Congress, by rhe resolution of Marob, 18$2, which was drawn and recommended by the President, undertook and promised to indemnify the State for the loss thereby sustained when emancipation should be formally adopted. Slavery has now, in fact, ceased to exist, and it only remains to recognize this fact by ordi nance to entitle the State to the indemnity pledged by congress* It may be said that this claim, though based on the same faith as the five-twenties, will be resitted. 1 fear, indeed, from indications which I regret to observe, that it may find opposition even, among oursehtes. But it will be time enough for the friends of emancipation to divide on that question when tt arises, and there should certainly be no controversy among them about it at this stage or the proceed ings. Yours truly, M. BLAIR. George Thompson. [l'rcm tlie Hartford FressJ Hr. Thompson was bred In a mercantile house, in London, and it was not till 1830 that he became known to the publlo. At that time he read the gieat speech of l)r. Thomson, of Edinburg, m favor of immediate emancipation, embraced its view?, mad was soon after employed by the Anti-SWvery .Socie ty of London to travel and lecture. His success was complete, astonishing. •No antagonist could stand before him. The West India body, taking alarm, put forward Mr. Peter Borthwiok. to present the slaveholdtng view of the question/ and though ha was a foeman worthy of Thompson’s steel, yet tha advocate of slavery could not stand before tha champion of freedom. The wit, eloquence, sarcasm, logic, facts, of the latttr always gained him tha victory. After the passage of the West India abolition bill, Mr.. Thompson came to this country, but was driven away. Returning, he turned his attention to the affairs of British Todla, advocithig tho rights of the natives against ttse rapacity and.op preislon of the E&it India company, la 164-2 he visited India, and was received Jiiie a conqueror, greeted with long processions of richly caparisoned elephants and camels, with cymbals and trumpets, and escorted with all the gorgeous pomp of the orient. He, however, busied himself with investigations, and on his return made hU attack on the East India house, in defence of the dethroned K&jth. lie made a great sensation, and a scene ensued that recalled the days of Lord Olive and Warren Hast ings. It was an era in the history of the (Jourt of Proprietors, and his eloquent plea for justice aud honor were not in vain. In tbe corn law struggle be fought side by side witliCobdeu and Blight, and swung the keenest blade in the. free-trade contest. In 1817 he was elected, by a majority unprecedentedly large, to toe House of Commons. He is an advocate of univer sal suffrage, of tbe dissolution of the union of church and State, and free education. Mr. Thompson’s oratory we have never heard equalled. His compass la greater than that of any speaker we know. Others may excel him in certain things, but he is remarkable in every* thing. In lofty flights he is irresistible, full of passion and the fire of genius-; his sarcasm is ter rible; and yet his pathos is more moving, his wit is very been, and hlB humor is so taking that at times you think he would have made the best come dian in tbe world, and withal he is the most grace -- ful, polished, and elegant of speakers. Ho recalled to us, when we heard Id 1850, what we had read of the greatest orators or the English Parliament, when such men as Burke and Pox and Sheridan f wese- its ornaments. ■ Upon an occasion when Mr. had been speaking on the formation of . the British India Society, Lord Brougham arose aedsaid: “I have always pleasure in listening to Mr. Thompson, who is the most eloquent man and the most accomplished orator whom I know.'* Theie could not be higher praise, but those who hear him will be likely to endorse it. THE STATE. Shocking Teagebt In Johnstown—A Cm zbk Killb the Alleged Seduces of his Wife?.— We learn from the Johnstown Tribune y of Cambria county, foil particulars of a remarkable tragedy which occurred there on Friday morning, the 12th inst. The affair took plaoe on the pavement, below toe office of the Tribute. The *dil6* Uhfi : Immediately beneath the window which we raised, we found two citizens whom we recognized as Mr. Joseph Moore and Mr. Jordan Marbourg. Mr. Moore had hold of Mr. Marbourg, (whom he had shoved back against the closed window shutter of the post offioe, next to the entraaoe to our office.) about the neck with his left hand, while in hit right hand he held and flourished above his head a revolver ’pistol. Moore, in a very wild, frantic, and loud manner, charged Mao bouig with having seduced his wife, and ruined him. Marbourg softly denied the charge, said it was not to; that he had never injured him. Moore repeated the charge; saying that slue had made a clear breast of it; that she had confessed all to him; that she bad acknowledged the corn ; that while ha had been in tbe service of his country, he (Mao bourg) bad debauched bis wife, and he^would be fully justified in snooting him like a dog—in killing him. We think all these words were used, or words to the same effect, though perhaps not just in the order they are here introduced, as Moore ex pressed himself very frantioaliy and incoherent ly, accompanying his charges and threats with vehement oaths. Marbourg, in the meantime, made no resistance other than repeated pro testations of his innocence. After continuing thus for perhaps a couple of minutes, Moore let go his hold of Marbourg, and stepping back a pace, levelled hia pistol at his viotim and fired, the ball apparently taking effect in his forehead. He in stantly fired another which seemed to take effect in his breast; then another, and an other, and—after Marbourg had fallen to the pavement—another 1 in all, five balls, every one of whioh took effect, and three of which indicted mortal wound*! The first ball, however, did its fatal errand but too surely* and ail the rest were thrown away—it killed the* man instantly, and his body fell to the earth a life less lump, entirely unconscious of the after shots*. He never uttered a groan, or heaved a sigh, or moved a muscle, so far as we saw, afterwards. After the shooting, Moore deliberately walked across the street to the opposite corner,* and thence, at the suggestion of a citizen, to the office of Esqr. Rutledge, where he surrendered himself into tne hands of the law. In the meantime, the shocking occurrence bad attracted a number of citizens to the •pot. who picked uu the dead hotly anil conveyed it to the family residence, on Main street. Moore, upon his own information, was committed by the magistrate, and in a few minutes a’ter wia oa his way to Ebenaburg, there to await in jail the meat ing of court. Mr. Marbourg and Mr. Moore werewell koown and respectable citizens of Johnstown. Moore was auc tioneer of the borough or Johnstown, from whioh position he enlisted aa a corporal in the 135th. He has heretofore been noted for his evenness of tem per, his genial, hearty good nature, and lively social qualifier, toned by scrupulous morality and earnest piety. How this sad affair originated, is told as fol lows : Sometendays ago, Mr. Moore received an in timation .of the infidelity of bis wife, how, we are cot informed; her alleged “ illicit rove ” being Mr. Jordan Marbourg. Henet about investigating tbe imputation upon bis wife’s virtue, and when he thought he had obtained sufficient evidence to crimi nate Mr. Marbourg, he called upon that gentleman and stated bis business. The latter emphatically denied the imputation, and offered to go anywhere, and before anybody, and do anything, to trace the origin of the story and disprove it. Subsequently, he and Mr. Moore called upon a police officer, who alleged he had seen Mr. Marbourg and Mrs. Moore meet on the street, under suspicious circumstances, one evening a week or two previous. Mr. Marbourg' denied all recollection of any such meeting, when Mr. Moore told him he would investigate tbe matter to the source, and, if he found him guilty, he would certainly shoot him. Mr. Marbourg professed hia willingness to be shot, if he was guilty. The men then separated. wr- 5~ 1 0. °.r ? „ *> in vestigate tko matter, and though he did not find ■uffleient to justify Mm in taking extreme vengeanoe of Mr. Marbourg, be became latlafieii of the Infide lity of his wife. Under thie impression, he was pre parirg to leave her to the care and embraces ol those to whom he believed she had lent herself, without further troubling Mr. Marbourg. But on Thui mint Ihf—prudently or imprudently, aa each may judge for himself—admitted her criminality with Marbourg to her husband, and gavehim money and showed him gifts she alleged she had received from her paramour, This so enraged Moore that, after walking hie garden all night long, be repaired to the neighborhood of tbe post office early in the morning, to await the coming thither of the de stroyer of hia peace, with the result aa above de tailed. Fatal Railroad Accident.—On Friday night the engineer of the faat line West, on the Pennra- Vftnin Railroad, di.cov.red a lamp on the traoir, De tween Bolivar and Blairsville, ThelJmp ?£&,.!?» to be stationary, but he i Whistled * down brakw. and checked the train. The aow-catcher struck the lamp a: d knooked It off the ‘«i k hodi ofa woman struck TyThe fait line East, which had pissed that SEE* a short time previously. The woman was recopnfzed as the wife of Jo.eph Henderson, watch man 6 on that division* She had started, lamp in ~ l ta ca rry .upper to her husband, and her heed exhibited a mark which left no doubt that she had been atiuck by the engine and instantly killed. Deceased was about forty years of age, and wae the mother of nine children. remarkable Hold on Lira—Major George N- Lewis, of the 13th Regiment, is in town, stopping at the United States Hotel. His remarkable wound promises to heal, and his life will be saved. Hot ana man in ten thousand Would survive such a wound. It was a canister shot, weighing about four ounce*, and made a hole clear through him, shattering nut collai-bone and shoulder-blade, and splintering his spine. It didnot displace thevertebrne, whioh would probably have ended his life suddenly; but it naa left a hole through him, and It la a stick can be passed through it.— Hartford Times, Kz.oxru.bn, reb,«;