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in sdTftno*.
SPBINGt,
ECHO M
QKKMAKTOWS, FA.
tCALLUM & GO.,
IHFOKTBBS, AND WHI
DBALKES IN
oAOßFJßTiasrcsts,
on CLOTHS, Ac.
Warehouse, 509 Chestnut Street,
IHDEPINDBHGE
PEOIAL NOTICE.
RETAIL DEPARTMENT*
McCALLPM & CO.,
im to lofoim th« public that they h»T»
AbllEtaed Carpet Store,
»o. Sl9 CBESTSCT STREET,
Ooppoelte Independence Hell, tat
A STTAIIi DEPART If ENT,
th«y ah bow openiiif & NBW BTOOS
MFOBTEB AM) AMERICA!! CARPETS,
the sholeeet patterns of
. ITAPBSTET CAKPBTB,
BRUSSELS OAkPBTS,
IVEXfSTIAITS.
with a fall assortment of everything '
Barpet Business.
iTWOOD, BILSTON, & CO.,
IyACTUBBBS J*» VHOLBUI dearies ir
CARPETINGS,
OIL-CLOTHS,
MATTINGS, &c., &C.
WAREHOUSE, 618 CHESTNUT STREET,
UR JAVNK STREET.
CtOTHING.
'DWABD F. KELLY,
JOHN K E L L Ti
TAILOBS,
HATE REMOVED
;2 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
above wausut,
iia CHEBTKCT BTBEET.
B-tf
[LACK OABS. PANTS, $5.50,
At 701 MARKBT Street.
ICK CABS. TAMTB, *8.60, At 701 MARKET Street.
LCE CABS. PANTS, *6 GO. At 701 MARKET Street.
ICK CASK PARTS, *6.80, At 704 MARKBT Street.
ICK CASS. PANTS, *8.60, At 704 MARKET Street.
[OO A TAN GOATISH 3, Ao 7W MARKBT Street.
[QO ■* VAN OUMTBR’S. No. 701 MARKET Street.
[OS & TAN GUNTER’S, No 701 MARKET Street
[OO fe TAN SUMTER’S, No. 701 MARKBT Street.
[QO * TAN SUMTER'S. No. 701 MARKBT Street,
91-Ira '
GENTS’ PURNISBIN6 GOODS.
IBST PREMIUM SHIRT AND
RAPPER MANUFACTORY.
ESTABLISHED 1840.
a. A. HOFFMANN,
SOS ARCH STREET,
oaiJ*i*rlte tb, Attention of the Public to hit hum
•omplet, ,tck of
rESTLBMM’S JTKSISHESB HOODS,
Amonc Whl,h will befonnd the lar.eit atoek of
GENTLEMEN’S WRAPPERS
IN TUB CITT.
Spetlu Attention ElTea to the mutnbetnre of
[R SHIRTS AND WRAPPERS TO ORDER..
in nrletr of Underolothin*. Hosiery, SloTes,
, Benh, Maflers, to. des-mtaf-3m
iHN O. ARRISON,
■ and 8 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
MAMDPAOTUBSB OP
S IMPROVED PATTERN SHIRT,
TIB ST OUT BY J. BUBS MOOBE,
FTID TO TIT AMD GIVS BATISFACTIOM,
importer ud Huiaiuturer of
GENTLEMEN’S
IRNISHING GOODS.
i. -ill smiles midi In • superior nwi« by Aant
roa ilu bsst materiel*. W*
lOBOE GRANT,
Mo. 010 CHBSTHOT STKBBT.
u>vr read?
A. ULSOS AHD COMPLETE 6TOOK
OF
SENTB' FURNISHING GOODS,
«own Importation and manufacture.
Hi* celebrated
“PRIZE MEDAL SHIRTS,”
Uulatai trader the enpoilnladeaea of
JOHM T. TAGGIBT.
(Formerly of Oldenber* h Tacgert, 1
most perfeet-ilttini Shirts of the .re,
■ Orders promptly sttended to, jal3-wfm-Cm
NE STTTRT MANUFACTORY.
Jh. labwriben would invito attention to their
rarBOTBD CUT OP SHIRTS,
i tier make a apeelaUty In their business. Also,
GBim.BMBH’S WBiK.
9 %a°-
jfo.il4 CHESTNUT STREET,
,>f Four doom below tb« <K>ntinental.
DRUGS.
IT.T.T AM M. WILSON,
80S MARKET Street
True Turkey Hyrrh, eerooxui
Coriander Seeds* bag*.
CorrawaT Seeds* baas.
tTnb. Jam. Ginger, bbla.
Grain Ergot*)ieW crop* bbll.
Ber. Arrow jtoot*kegß.
Union Salad Oil* bbla.
Oil Sasiafras, cane.
“ Citronella* Winter’s, cases.
Cltronella* native* cases
11 Lemon, new crop* ease*.
11 Boee» Commercial* cases.
“ Orange* cans.
*• Bergamo* w.C.jcanB.
’ow'd Antimony, 100 lo cases.
Rad Gentian, bales.
BantfT f>ami bbla.
■tore in this port and Hew York* and for sale> a*
Ki fele-u
iBEBT SHOEMAKER & 00.,
irtheut Ooraei of FOURTH sad BACB Streets,
rHIIADgT.PHIA.
lOUBBALE DRUGGISTS,
ksmB ABB DNAIKBB IM
FOBKIGM AMD DOHB3TIO
IH9BOW UTD PLATS GLASS.
uutiunmiuw _____
IITI T.iin AMD znc PAINTS, PUTTY. Ae.
Aenw you m oilkbsatsd
BENCH ZINC PAINTS.
VOL. 7-NO. 174
RBTAU DRT GOODS*
1864
COTTONS AT RETAIL.
[OLBSALB
W* «»11 the attention of Housekeepers to tha
STOCK OK COTTON GOODS
Ever offered at retail in. thU eitr.
Having purchased largely of those loods at tha
COMPARATIVELY LOW PRICKS
of last month, we can extend to our customers superior
inducements, not only in the character of our assort
ment, hnt
IST PRICKS.
Among onr extensive line of Cottons are to be found the
following popular makes of
4-4 Bleached Shirtings.
Wameutta, WlUiamevUlet
Kemper Idem, Altawiugau,
Rockland, Union,
Hew Jersey, Phenix, &o.
In Pillow-Case and Sheetings
We offer the following leading makes:
40-inch Bartalett, 6-4 Pepperill,
42-inch Waltham, 10-4 PepperuL,
S< 4 Bates. 10-4 Bates,
S-4 Boot W, extra heavy. And other makes.
i!tSO.
9-4.10-4. and U-4 UNBLEACHED SUES PINGS.
Marseilles Counterpanes.
We can furnish these goods in all si tea and oualltiee.
We have several lots lzt LOW-PRICE® ClooDS that are
PAR BELOW PRESENT IMPORTATION PRIGS, and
are also prepared to famish, in large auantities, the well
known
Lancaster, Manchester, and Honey-Comb
Quilts,
In 10-4,11 4, and 12-4 sizes
House-Furnishing Linen Goods.
LINEN SHEETINGS, all widths.
TOWELS, from S 3 to $7 per doien.
NAPKINS, all Linen. *162.
Bamely Damask, Power Loom* and other standard
makes of
Table Linen.
Persons about purchasing Linen Goods would do well
to 'examine onr stock. We invite comparison. Me
trouble to show our goods.
COWPERTHWAIT A CO.,
Northwest corner Eighth and market Streets.
jalfi finw tjyl
E. & L.
EIRE & LANDELL,
FOURTH AND ARCH,
ABE OPENING FOB SPRING SALES.
1864,
FINE PLAID SILKS,
HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
INDIA PLAID SILKS,
BEST GLOVES. ONLY,
STANDARD SHEETINGS,
BROCADE GRENADINES,
SHAWLS, NEW STYLES,
68 PIECES FANCY SILK 8,
MAGNIFICENT ORGANDIES,
FINE PLAID BONNE! SILKS,
ORDERED POULT DE SOIES,
100 PIECES GOOD BLACK SILKS,
MAGNIFICENT PERCALES AND
CHINTZES.
fe!3 smwtiel3
£JIYIL AND MILITARY CLOTH
WILLIAM T. SNODGRASS,
No. 34 SOUTH SECOND and 23 STRAWBERRY
Streets, 1b happy to itate that he has laid ini an extea*
eive stock of CHOICB GOODS, such as;
CIVIL LIST.
Black Cloths,
Black Doeskins,
Black Gaisimeres,
Elegant Coatings,
Billiard Cloths.
Bagatelle Cloths,
Trimmings,
Beavertfiens,
Cords and Velveteens,
We advise onr friends to
stock Is cheaper than, we can
XT STEEL* SON HAVE NOW OPEN
JJ* a choice assortment of
NEW SILKS.
Moire Antiques. $3 to $5
Plain Corded Silks, sl.62>a to $3.00.
Figured Corded Silks, SL62&.
Plain Poil de Soles. $125 to $3.20.
Farcy Silks- 75c. to 95.
Black Gros Grain Silks,<sl,26 to $3.26.
Figured Black Silks, $1.20 to $2.
Plain Black Silks 8751 c. to $6.
PJaid India Silks, S7Kc.
Light* ground Rich-figured Foulards, $1.25 to $162.
fq2o-tf , Hoe. ffl3and VISM. TENTH Street.
T?DWIN HALL & CO., NO. 26 SOUTH
AJ SECOND Street, dre now OPENING new Goods in
©very department:
New Trench. Chintze* and Brilliants.
Percale Kobes, new designs.
Organdies and Jaconets.
Splendid quality a tut Styles of Grenadines.
Tine all-Wool De Lainea, beautiful shades.
New styles of Diess Goods of various, kinds.
Colored Alpacas and Poplins.
Fine Black Alpacas and Mohairs.
New Goods opening daily
TLf ARBEILLEB QUILTS—OF FINE!
JT-L Quality at moderate prices.
Good Blankets, in large sizes.
Sheeting Muslins, of every width.
Several grades of ‘tickings. _
BLAGS SILKS.
Just opened, a large lot, marked low*
Spring Be Lalnes and Prints.
Mode Alpacas, choice shades. ’
Printed Brilliants and 4 4 Fancy Shirtings. _
COOPBB A OONARD,
fe4 3. B. corner NINTH and MARKET Sts,
lON* CHESTNUT STBEgf.
S 3. M. NEEDLES
Often at Low Fries* a lares assortment ot
LACS GOODS.
EMBROIDERIES, HANDKERCHIEFS,
VEILS, 111 WHITE GOODS.
Suited to the season, and of the latest style*.
A lane variety of
UNDEBBLREVES,
Of the most recent design., and other foods
snltahl* for party purposes.
10M CHESTNUT STREET.
CPBCIAL NOTICE TO THE LADIES.
—THE CHEAPEST SILKS IN THE MARKET.
1, COO yards Neat Plaid India Silks, at El per yard.
600 yard* Brown and White India bilks, at $1 per yard.
1,100 yards Broken Plaids India Silk, at $1 per yard
400 yards Bine and White India Silks, at $1 per yard.
They make the most serviceable dress a lady can wear*
Gall and make your choice before the assortment Ib
broken, at JOHN B. STOKES*. 703 ARCH Street. fa!2
WISES AND LIQUORS.
TMFORTEBS OF
•L " WIVES AND LIQUORS.
LAUMAN, SALLADE, & 00.,
No. 198 SOUTH KIHTH STREET,
Between Chestnut and Walnut, Philadelphia.
G. M LAUMAN,
A. M BALLADE.
J. D BITTING.
GAS FIXTURES, die.
CHARLES FACE,
Favorably known for the last twenty years as Princi
pal Designer of GAS FIXTURES for
' , MESSRS. CORNELIUS ft BAKER,
is this day admitted a Partner in our firm.
We will continue tie sale and manufacture of
GAS FIXTURES
under the firm name of
tax kirk & co.,
mahufactory at frankford.
salesrooms -oj »' arch sthbrt.
February 1, 1804. faltMmwSin
COPARTNERSHIPS.
THE COPARTNERSHIP HERETO
fore existing between the undersigned under the
Aim of COWPEKTH WAIT & CO. is hereby dissolved by
mutual consent. The business of the firm will be settled'
arwSp B 0> STKA-WBBIDQEt at the store. Ho.
T stlee J- OSIB p H coWPERTHWAIT. Jr ,
„ « JUSTUS C. feTRaWBRIDOB.
J- 0. STRAWBBIDOB will continue the Wholesale
Udßetail Dry Goods basinets, at tbe Old htand. No.
601 UABKBT Btrset.
February 19, 1884. fe2o-3t
OF COPARTNERSHIP.—
v GEORGE ALKINS ft JOSEPH H. THOMPSON
hare formed a Copai tnenblp, for the purpose of tranaaet
lng bnuness as Shipping and Commission A rent, and
General Merchandise Broken. IB* North DELAWARE
Atmne,under the style and firm of GEORGE ALKINS
* GO. GEORGE ALBINO A CO ,
OKORGK ALKINS.
gB 16.1861. JOSEPH H. THOMPSON.
Dissolution of copartner.
SHIP.—The Copartnership heretofore existing be
tween WILLIAM S. WIEL and AOGIISttth cog an.
Sdl?the 4nn“WILLIAM S.WBIL SCO waSdfil
tolved on the first dayofFebrnar., 1861. by mutual
eneiant. The business of tbe firm will be settled up by
WUISm sT WelL at the old plaoe. 39 Nor* TtflK*
Street, Who 1* alone authorized to atau the firm..name
rOPABTNBBSHIP.-ITHE 1 THE SUB.
SCBIBBHB have this, elchth day of February. 1864.
entered Into Copartnership, under the name and. style of
fe9-lm OfflQQ 589 COMMB&OE Brwt
NOTICE.—EDWARD MAGARGE IS
-L” admitted to an Interest in onr bnslnees from Janu
ary let, 1864. CHAS. MAGAKQX ft CO.
Philadelphia* Feb. 18* 1964- fel2-10t
pO P A R T N E R S HIP.—NOTICE.—I
have this day associated with mo in bußiness my
son, FBBDBRICK BBOWN, Jr., under the, name snd
,t,IeofFBBDfeBIOKBBOVN ii 6r g j«^d B ChemUt.
Philadelphia, February 1, 1961.
The said firm will continue boslnee* at the old stand
(established in 1811). northeast eofner of .Chestnut and
Fifth streets, Philadelphia.
FBEDBBIOK BBOWN.
fel-lm FBEDBBICK BBOWN. Jr. .
, rjOTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS
of all numbers and brands.*
Awning TwiUa. of all deecrlpMons. for
Also. PaMr’&anfoctiirSa’tffFoltefftom 1 to 6feat
wide. Tarpaulin. » <*>..
m 9« 198 JONES' *JIw,
1864.
HOUSE.
ABUT AND NAVY.
Blue Cloths,
Sky blue Cloths,
Sky-blue Doeskins,
Dark Blue Doeskins,
Dark Blue Beavers,
Dark Blue Pilots
3-4 and 6-4 Blue flannels.
Scarlet Cloths.
Mazarine Blue Cloths,
come early, as our present
. purchase now. felO-lm
HEW PUBLICATIONS.
pATENT HINGE BACK
PDOTQVMPB ALBUMS.
The moat indestructible ALBUM made.
It lies open perfectly flat, without injury or strata to
the Book,
For sale by Photographers and Booksellers.
*
ALTEMIfS & GO.,
N. W. CORNER FOURTH AMD RACE.
feSO-lm • Entrance ou RACE Street.
fJENEBAL McOLELLAN’S REPORT.
BBOORD-'-Dompanion,, parts 0 and
6, will contain this Report in full, with many other
valuable documents, Engravings, Maps. Plans, &o
This will be the cheapest edition of his Report. In good
shape for preserving Part 6 now ready.
The REBfiLLIOIT RECORD is the most fall and valu
able work on the present war * hat can be issued-
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Speke’s Journal of the Discovery of the Sources of the
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Mayhew’s Illustrated Horse Management.
Youatt & Burn’s Complete Grazier, Farmer, and Cattle
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The Locdon Quarterly Review for January,
The Edinburgh Review for January.
Gamyee & Laws’ General and Descriptive Anatomy of
Domestic Animals. Illustrated.
Byrnes’ Principles of Surgery. Fifth edition.
Foreign Medical and Scientific Bookslmportedto order.
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fe2o _ 35 Sonth SIXTH Street, above Chestnut.
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CUD JO’S GAVE. A new story. By J. T. Trowbridge,
author of 4 ‘Neighbor Jackwood, ’Ac.
LIFE AMD CORRESPONDENCE OF THEODORE
PARKER, Minister of the Twenty-eighth Congrega
tional Society, Boston. By John Woiss. 2 vola., with
portrait. $6.
INEZ. A Tale of the Alamo. By Augustus J. Kraus,
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LIFE OF WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT. Asuperhbook.
THE GREAT CONSUMMATION. Second seziss. By
Bev. John Camming, D.D. •
THE WHIP. HOE, AND SWORD; or, The Gulf De
partment in *63. By George H. Hepworth.
LYRICS OF LOYALTY. Edited by Frank Moore.
THE MERCY SEAT; or. Thoughts in Prayer. By
Augustus C. Thompson. D D. fe3
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CYCLOPEDIA.
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■“ Portfolios.
Diaries. _
Stationery,
/* Frames* . _ .
Juvenile Books,
• Bibles and Prayers*
Magazines, ftc..
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zlfinnn CARD PHOTOGRAPHS,
rtli,V/Uu Plain and Colored.
LARGEST STOCK, BEST SELECTION, and LOWEST
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COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
QOMMERCIAL EDUCATION.
BRYANT, STRATTON, & BANNISTER’S
STATE AND NATIONAL
BUSINESS COLLEGE,
S. E. Cor. Seventh and Chestnut Streets.
An Institution which enjoys the confldence und pa
tronage of the best butine- s men and citizens, and, in
point of accommodations- facilitit'S, business associa
tions, and advantages to young men upon graduation, Is
unequalled by any similar institution ia the State.
Asa schc ol of preparation for the duties of active busi
ness life it stands pie-eminent, and.beisg-connected with
seventeen other leading Commercial Colleges establish
ed in the principal cities of the United States and Canada
its advantages over mere loe&l schools cannot bs overra
ted.
INTER-COMMLUNICA.TION BETWEEN THE
COltltEtfES.
To interpret to tbe student’s mind the natural course of
trade and internal exchange, a system of inter commu
nication is established between the Colleges, which in
volves a business correspondence with other cities;
brings into.proper relief all the essential facts as to the
details in. tbe matter of buying, shipping, receiving con
signments! rendering account of sales and making re
mittances, and illustrates such other transactions as
may arise between business men in different parts of the
country.
The text-book on Book Keeping, Commercial Law,
and Commercial Arithmetic, prepared by the proprie
tors expressly for schools are pronounced by com
petent critics to be the most thorough and reliable works
on these subjects ever published. Young men who be
come members of this institution have the assurance that
they will be fully prepared for tbe'duties of active busi
ness life. Nothing is left undone which will promote
the interests of its pupils and patrons, and those who
have become acquainted with the new system ofactuil
business training introduced by the present principal
aud especially those wbo nave received its advantages,
many of whom are now occupying responsible positions
as Book-keepers, Tellers, &c.,wLU attest to its super!*
ority and its capability to attain the end proposed.
This new system of commercial infractions is un**
known in any similar institution in the State. The stu
dent. after becomU-g thoroughly informed in.the science
of accounts and all its collateral branches, is advanced
lotk ° PRACTICAL DEPARTMENT,
which is arranged with Banks and Business Office* to
represent the different departments of trade, and with
neatly engraved notes to represent money, and all the
forms necessary for the conduct o( a systematic business,
he is thoroughly practiced, and becomes experienced in
the principles of real business.
Telegraphing has recently been intioduced, and bids
fair to become an important branch.
Tbe Spencerian System of Business Penmanship Is
taught by a gentleman trained by the author, Mr. P. B.
Spencer.
Scholarships issued at this College are good in all time
unlimited.
The success with which this enterprise is meeting is
unparalleled in the history of Commercial Schools. Up
ward* of sixty students have entered within the past
month, making an aggregate of over three hundred and
fifty present members.
Young men about deciding between Commercial
Schools would coheult their own interests by calling at
this Institution before entering upon a courseofsfcttdy
elsewhere fey)-2t
EDUCATION At.
A" YOUNG LADY, FULLY COMPE
TENT to teacli. would be glad to take a few
Pupil. for Manic, at $l5 per quarter Please call on, or
address, MISS BISPHAM.
fel9-fmw* 31» South FIFTEENTH Streat.
PRITTBNDBN’S ■*>
COMMBBGIAL COLLEGE,
637 CHESTNUT Street, comer of Seventh*
The Course of Instruction Include*:
BOOK-KEEPING in all its different branches.
PENMANSHIP. COMMERCIAL CALCULATIONS,
Business Forms, Commercial Laws &c.
Students Instructed separately, and received at any
time. Open Bay and Evening. a
• A Diploma, with tre Seal of the Institution'attached,
awarded on graduation. •
Catalogues furnished gratis on applications f>lB 4t*
COHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN
O W ni b 8 opened on MONDAY, February 15th. 1864, at
tbe 8. E. corner of NINTH and SPRING GARDEN.
Tbe PRIMARY DEPARTMENT will be conducted as a
Kindergarten, upon tbe German (FrmbePs) Byetem,
and will lnelnde Boys and Girls under ten yeare of
RgBe
A class of cider pupil b will he received.
In both departments, GYMNASTICS, under the system
ofDr. Dio Lewis, will bB taught. *
G&RTtUXOB W. FULTON,
HAUBitT b. Darlington.
fel6-6t Address 315 MARSHALL Street
OOBDENTOWN FEMALE COLLEGE.
*■* BORDSNTOWfI, N. S.
This Institution Is pleasantly located on the Del&wart
river. hour’s ride from Philadelphia. Special atten*
tton is paid to the common and higher branches ol
ENGLISH, and superior advantages furnished in Vosfcj
and Instrumental Music. FRENCH taught by native,
a» d spoken In thefcmU & Mfl&EfcHSfißL
jal4-2m« President,
VILLAGE GREEN SEMINARY*
NBAB MEDIA# PA. —Pupils rt celved at any time.
English, Mathematics, Classics, and Natural telenet*
taught. Military Tactics, Book-keeping, and Civil Bn*
gn Bering taught. Entile expenses about %3 per week.
>ys of all ages taken. .Refers to 7m, H Kern, ex*
Sheriff; John C. Capp A Co., No. .23 South Third strwt:
and Thomas J. Clayton. Esq.. Fifth'and Prune streets,
Address Bev. J- HABVEIT DaBTON, A M., vEua«
Green, Pa. to6-tf
gBYSON & SON,
No. 8 NORTH SIXTH STREET,
TRIKTERS A»D STITIOKIBB.
BLANK BOOKS,
PAPERS, PENS, AND INKS OF SUPERIOR
QUALITY. 0
Corporations. Banks, and Business Men supplied with
everythin ft necessary for tbe Counting-room.
ft6tf ~
& CO.,
488 CHESTNUT STREET,
COUNTING HOUSE and .... -
OFFICE STATIONERS.
ENVELOPE, BLANK ACCOUNT, and
MEMORANDUM BOOK MAIUFA3TUBBBS.
An extensive assortment of Gap, Letter, and Note Pa
pent Copying Books, Presses, and Tables; Letter Press
and Lithograph Printing: Bill Heads, Notes, Drafts.aud
Checks made to order—all at the lowest prices and of the
best Quality,
Orders solicited, and executed promptly and satlsfac
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PHILADELPHIA
“ By mebse of ft* svetsm of conjoint Advertising ren
dered practicable by Messrs. JOY. COE, ft GO , throngh
their Newspaper Agency, the expense to each adver
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SRHerth FROST Strwt,
%jje ress.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1884.
THE WAR.
The Campaign In Florida.
(.Correspondents of The Frees. ]
HnADqoAKTSBS, Dbfaktmhnt of thh South,
Jaoksonvillh, Fla., Feb. 13,1864.
If the country has been disappointed and 1* dissa
tlefled at our failure to gain possession of Charles
ton, it will derive some consolation from the sudden
and unexpected movement ol General Gilmore’s
army upon Northern Florida. This campaign, now
fairly opened, must be as bewildering and annoying
to the felon authorities at Richmond aa gratifying
to the Government and loyal portlono! the country.
Bragg, Haidee, Johnson, or whoever commands at
Atlanta, may have something to elaim their atten
tion ere long besides Chattanooga or Eastern Ten
nessee j or, as It laoertain that Charleston and Sa
vannah arc difficult of approach • from the front, It
may be found tbat there la a back door at which
there may fee & gentle tapping by and by; or what
ever General Gilmore’s programme may be, you
may consider that the monotony of the past two
months is broken, and that the next campaign, and
1 trust and believe, the last, is opened,
wjEIAT GILMORK HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The64th “Colored Regiment” landed in Jackson
ville thejeventh, and at this date our advance is
near Lake City, and probably holds that plaoe-r-a
railroad rtation, about sixty miles from this point.
We one hundred prisoners, five can
non, four railroad oars, a quantity of cotton, turpen
tine, and other stores, an important railroad junta
tlon at Baldwin, one rebel oamp, with flags and
colors, a signal station, put the Jacksonville and
Tallahassee Railroad in running order, procured an
engine from Fernandina, driven the rebels from the
whole of Northeastern Florida, and our casualties
have been—one man rose in his sleep aboard a trans
port, walked overboard, and was drowned; one fell
down inlthe road on a march, and in a few minutes
died; three have been killed by the enemy, and
seventeen wounded. With suoh facts before us we
have reason to thank God and congratulate the na
tion on this auspicious opening of the third'grand
campaign of the war.
The planning and ordering of all this belongs to
.Major General Gilmore, and the executive Held
officer is Brigadier General Seymour. But in this
connection the names of Major Stevens, command
er of the Ist Massachusetts Battalion of Mounted
Infantry, and :of . Col. Gay V. Henry, 46th Massa
chusetts Cavalry, should be honorably mentioned*
More bold, enterprising, skllliul, and exaottog offi
cers than these cannot be found in the service.
They are well mounted and armed, and their ap'
proach to a rebel camp or force la a* stealthy as
that of a catamount upon its prey, and as swift and
powerful as the fall of an avalanche. The artillery
captured were in position and loaded, but the sur
prise was such that the enemy had not time to pull
the lanyard. When Oamp Finnegan was captured,
the enemy were at breakfast, and those that escaped
left sabres, pistols, and gnns behind them on the
ground.
LAKE CITY.
’Not a shot was exchanged with the enemy till we
reached the north branch ol St. Mary’s river. All
our casualties by arms we suffered here. We oap
tured forty prisoners, and the rest were too fleet for
our jaded horses to pursue with the hope of aueoeis.
It is not expected that Finnegan will give us Lake
City without a fight. This morning our advance
was distant only seven miles, and probably our
troops hold the town to-night. The rebels attach
much importance to this place, the reasons for whloh
are not very apparent. Probably It is a small ddpOt
of supplies; or it may be—which is the more proba
ble—a point on which the safety of Tallahassee very
much depends. At any rate, our officers have be
come as anxious to gain possession of Lake City
and the railroad ddpOt there, as the enemy is to hold
it* On our old maps this place is known as
“Alligator Lake.” The “City” sprung Into ex
istence since the railroad was built, and as a town
la not of much business or Importance,
PURPOSES OF THR EXPEDITION.
One drawback to the campaign has been the diffi
culty of carrying supplies to the front by teams over
sandy roads.: Our men have had hard service, and
been, a part of the time, on short rations. But the
cars will be running in a day or so, and then the
transportation of troops and supplies will be another
matter. This campaign la to increase In maguituda,
interest, and results as it advances. I shall be dis
appointed if its effeots upon the Confederacy are not
as gnat as the capture of Fort Royal, or Burnside’s
expedition to North Carolina. It may leave them
both far in the shade, and culminate in a requiem
over the grave of the rebellion.
TH3 PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION,
- .It is regarded bantu smarter of considerable im
portance that we hold Baldwin Station, At thle
place the 01117 two rallroadi in Florida crou each
other, and give ua access by rail to Jacksonville,
Tallahassee, Cedar Keys, and Fernandina. Within
a month all theie roada will be contributing
to the success of the loyal anna, and Baldwin will
become a central ddpdt of much importance.
The Federal occupation of Florida thia time ia to
be permanent, and military authority aucoeeded by
civil government. While President Unooln’s sword
ia pursuing armed rebela hia proclamation ia posted
on trees, printed in large type, and as our army ad
vancea It will be scattered far and wide through the
country. Already a large bualneaa la done at the
provost marshal's office, between that official and
the people returning to their allegianoe. On the
12th, a squad of the Bth U. S. Colored Troopa
eacorted fourteen deaertera Into Jacksonville, who
had aeonred a discharge from the rebel aervioe by
coming into our lines. These men—pale, famished
looking, and woe-begone—were glad enough to take
the oath, proclamation, and all, and return to their
homes again. Moat of the few left in the country
are doing the same. But the women in thia country
outnumber the men more than “seven” to one,
and'the “widows,” not of Asher but of Jack
sonville, point to Virginia as the graveyard of
their husbanda’ oomforta and hopes. Virginia, by
these Southern people, io mentioned in about the
same tone and spirit that I have heard Kentuoby
slavea speak of “New Orleans,” or being “sold
down the river.” The ehasteniDg rod of affliction,
and the waning of the fortunes of the Confederacy,
have made room for the growth of a sincere and
strong loyal feeling, among even those who have
been thorough rebels.
BUBIHBBS BEVIVAL—CONDITION AND CHABACTBR
OV THH I‘EOFLB.
A* far a» possible, business should be revived in
Florida at once. The beet live oak can now- be
obtained for chipping; the families tvho have been
forced to leave their farms or business on account of
their loyalty should return, and' every encourage
ment should be given to saoh aa are ready to take
the oath of allegiance and enter upon their duties aa
oitizena.
General Gilmore has received an order from
'Washington to reeruit, wherever he goes, aa many
colored regiments aa possible. He will be able to do
but little at this till his army advances as far as
Tallahassee. There is no part of their property or
population the rebels guard with such jealous care
M their slaves, knowing the use we intend,to make
of them. lam not surprised at their oonduot. The
blacks form a war power whloh we can use to
far better advantage than the rebels. As far as pos
sible, they are kept In the rear of their own army*
Not an able-bodied man was found in Jacksonville,
nor has one, for some months past, been permittedto
stay within forty miles of here. Northern Florida and
Southern Georgia are crowded with them. A few,
however, within a few days past, have found their
way in from the extreme front. The rebels try to
keep a knowledge of all our main movements from
their slaves, asa general does the plan of a cam
paign from the enemy, as it is hoped that by plant
ing time all the abandoned and vacant plantations
on the St. John’s and about- Jacksonville will be
cultivated by their, former owners, or that colored
families will be installed ou them. Civil life, civil
pursuits and habits, and- a state of aivil feeling and
thinking, should be Inaugurated at once. We need
the clergyman and schoolmaster immediately.
Here Is a grand opening for European emigrants,
and for all Northern people whose health or Incll
nations require a mild climate. Here la a broad
field for the display of generalship, statesmanship,
and philanthropy. As the Roman empire extended
its conquests, its first business was to build dues
and plant oolonies on the newly-acquired territory.
Only in this way can our Government give to this
nation a homogeneous population and an all-pep.
vading sympathy.
THIS BEBEL GENERAL PINNBGAN.
OoL Montgomery haa just returned from an ex)
tended reconnoiasance up the St. John’s river. A
small post and prisoners, and stores to the amount
of a few thousand dollars, were captured, but no
enemy in force was to be found. Qblte a number of
deserters were met returning to their homes. It is
evident Gen. Flnnegtn has called in all his foroes,
and is preparing to give us battle. Deiertera say
his force numbers 6,000 when concentrated. Sueh
may have bean his strength a month ago, but I
think he cannot mutter half that strength at pre
sent. He cannot make much of a stand unless he
hss strong fortifications, or is reinforced from
Georgia.
Other expeditions of importance are on foot, but
all knowledge of them must be kept bom the enemy
till he learns their character by experience. Of one
thing the country may be assured, and that is, no
rest will be given to the array here, and,the army
Will allow no rest to the rebels.
The weather Is splendid for campaigning in this
country. The nights are somewhat cool, but the
daya are very pleasant. Plum and peach trees are
in blossom, grass is beginning to grow, and all na
ture ia putting on a smiling aspect.
“ Only men is vile,”
and the contrast between the havoc and horrors
of war, and the quiet beauties of nature, lnollne
us "not to love man less, but nature more.”
, THE DEFENCES OF MOBILE.
A correspondent of the Chisago Tribune, writing
from Huntsville, Alabama, contributes the follow
ing Interesting information, gained through military
sources:
In the rear of Mobile, mid as mush as live miles
from the city, are three heavy lines of earthworks.
Fort No. 1 is on the southeast side of the. city. - No
2 is on the east side of the river, oppoeite the termi
nation of St. Michael street. As you go down the
river and turning to the lelt.is the landing of the.
Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Here Is looatea battery
No. 3, consisting or three rifled 32- pound guns, and
one 10 inch gun. This o&Ued the Spanish Battery.
Further down the bay, to the left, is Battery No. 6,
cells d Pinto’s Battery, Between this and Fort Mor
gan are Batteries Choctaw, Cedar Plata, Grand
Spell, and Light House Battery, in all. aix. aonstst-
Ing esoh.of six expound rilled cannon. ***
At the time my informant was there. Fort Mormn
had 600 men in it of the Ist OonfedSateßarimlnt
and FortGaine*wa* garrisoned by aboutahlv,,iVl
number.
Upon the walls and within the embrasures nr
- Fort Gaines are eighty guns—or thirty-two eun«
and the rest howitzers—to repulse a land attack
Fort Moigsn has one hundred guns and a number
of howitzers. Two of the •guns rrom Fort Sumpter
used In sinking the Keokuk,have been removed to
Fort Morgan, and are now there prepared to do
more of the same kind of work.
About the harbor of Mobile the rebels have two
gunboats, the Morgan and the Gaines, each having
on deck some ten guns, but the propelling power of
these boats Is defective. They, move very slowly.
Thera is a third gunboat, called the Selma, made
like a barge, alter the; monitor pattern, carrying
eight guns, Dut she cannot be of mush effect, from
the same eause, defective propelling power. In ad
dition to these the Confederates Have two very
small iron-clad monitors, but they also move clum
sily along in the water. Tbeyhave a howllzer in
front and five port guns each. These, with the Lady
Davis, 10 guns, and Richmond, e gnus, and two
others, not as Urge, oarryleg 6 guns—now off or in
the vicinity of Rlohmond—constitute tbe rebel
navy now stationed at the two points mentioned.
With the exceptions named, my informant aays
the entire distance from Meridian to within Jive mites
of Mobile was unfortified) and 'Unprotected by Confide
rate soldiere. Except the railroad is tom up and com
plctely destroyed , there is nothing to prevent a fierce
from moving direct by that route. At the same time
the cavalry troops might co-operato by moving them
south from Jaekion as far as say Broadhaven, and
then outtiDg across the country obliquely and in a
southwesterly course to the rear of Mobile.
GILMORE IN FLORIDA—CONDITION OF
THE REBEL ARMIES.
It has been for some time known that the.rebel
armies had no other recourse for their needed supply
of beef cattle than Florida, and'that a weekly ave
rage of 2,260 head of beeves had been drawn from
that State. To cut off thii.juw»&was one of the
purposes of Gen. Gilmore'swxjAintlon, and he no
sooner enters the State thanhe has the documentary
evidence from the rebels themselveswf how serious
a disaster he Is about to inflict upon them, This
circular was to be transferred only from hand to
hand, and the greatest precautions were taken to
guard against publicity, and no wonder. It dls
olosei a state of impoverishment aa terrible to them
to feel as it is important to know.
THE SECRET REBEL CIRCULAR.
Office of Chief Commi&sart,
, ■„ * . O.UINOY, Fla., Not. 2, 18631
* *. * * A country whloh oan afford to send
forth In its defence the flower of iu youth and the
best of its manhood oan afford and are la honor
bounr to sustain them at any cost of money and
property. Thsy-have sacrificed home and ease, and
suffered untold hardships, and with their lives are
now defending everything we hold most saored.
Florida baa done nobly In this contest. Her sons
have achieved the highest character for their state,
and won imperishable honors for themselves. These
brave men are now suffering for want of.food. Not
only the men from Florida, but the army are in this
condition. Our honor aa a people demands that we
do our duty to them.' They must be fed. The fol
' lowing extracts from official letters in my possession
do but partially represent the condition of the
armies of Generals Bragg and Beauregard, and
their gloomy prospect for future supplies.
Major J. F. Camming, who supplies Gen. Bragg’s
army, wrltea:
“ it is absolutely and vitally important that all
the cattle that oan possibly be brought here shall be
brought as promptly as possible.”
And sgain, on tbe Sth of October, he says : ■
“ I cannot too strongly urge upon you the neoes
lity of tending forward’ osttla promptly. It *eem«
that all other resources are exhausted, and that we
are now dependent upon your State for beef lor the
very large army of General Bragg. I know yon
will leave no stone unturned; and I. must say that
we aie now dependent upon your exertions, so far
as beef is concerned. In regard to bacon, tbe stock
is About exhausted ; hence beef is our only hope. I
know the prospect is very discouraging* anditroaly
remaina with those of us having charge of this most
important work to do all we can to exhaust oar re
sources, and when we have done that ouroouatry
cannot complain of us. If we fall to do all that can
be done, and our cause shall fail, upon us will rest
the responsibility $ therefore, let us employ all the
means at our command. 1 ’
Again, on the 6th, he says:
“ Major A* oan explain to you the great and abso
lute necessity for prompt action in the matter; for,
Major, I assure you that nearly all now depends on
you.”
And on October 19 he says:
“Captain Townsend, A. O. S., having a leave of
absence thirty days from the Army of Tennessee,
I have prevailed on him to see you, and explain to
you my straitened condition, and the imminent
danger of our army suffering for the want of beef.”
And on October 20th be wrote;
11 The army is to-day on half rations of beef, and I
fear in a few days will have nothing but bread to
eat. This is truly a dark hour with us, and I can
not see what is to be done. All that is left for us to
do is to do all we can, and then we willhave a clear
conscience, no matter what the world may say.”
Mftjor Locke, chief commissary of Georgia, wrote:
“ I pray you, M&jor, to put every agency in motion
that you can to send cattle, without a moment’s d>
lay, towards the Georgia borders. The troops In
Charleston are in great extremity. We look alone
to you tor cattle. Those in Georgia are ex
hausted.”
Major Guerin, chief commissary of South Caro
lina, wrote:
“We are Almost entirely dependent on Florida,
and it is of the last importance at this time that the
troops here should be subsisted.”
Again, he says:
“ As it is, our situation is full of danger from want
of meat, and extraordinary efforts are required to
prevent disaster.”
At d on October 9th, he says:
“We have now 40,000 troops and laborers to sub
sist. The supply of bacoxron hand in the eity is
20,000 pounds, and the cattle furnished by this State
is not one-tenth of what is needed. My anxieties
and apprehensions, as you may suppose, are greatly
excited.”
Major MlUen, of Savannah, on October 19th, says:
"I assure you, Major, that the stock of bacon and
beelfor the armies of the Confederate States Is now
exhausted, and we must depend entirely upon what
we may gather weekly. Starvation stares the army
in the face! The handwriting ie on the wall I
“ From the best Information I have, the resources
of food (meat) of both the Tennessee and Virginia
armies are exhausted. This remark now applies
with equal foroe to South Carolina and Georgia,
ana the army muat henceforth depend upon the ener
gies of the Purchasing Commissaries, through their
daily or weekly collections. I have exhausted
the beef cattle, and am now obliged to kill stock
cattle.”
I have thought it my duty to address this confi
dential circular to the principal men in the various
sections of the State, and invoke their aid and co
operation with the purchasing commissaries and
Government agents in their districts in inaugu
rating and putting into operation some system by
which our armies can be more properly cupplied,
and all of our resources, which are necessary, se
cured to the Government. The appeals to me are
more and more urgent every day. The pressure
upon our State Is very great. Should she now re
spond to the osll made upon her resources, as she
has upon the bloodiest battle-fields of the war, the
measure other glory will be full. But it we with
hold our supplies, we cripple our army, and render
it impossible for them to advance, alter achieving
the most signal victories. The people at home must
put themselves upon a war-footing. This they have
never yet done. They must sow and plant, and
gather for the Government. Then, and not till
then, will the bright rays of peaoe break through
the clouds of war which overhang üb.
P- W. WHITE, Major, and Chief Commissary.
P. S.—You are especially requested not to allow
this circular to go out of your possession, but to
read It to aucb persons as you know to be true and
prudent, and to begin the contemplated work imme
diately. -
BRIGADIER GENERAL BENHAM.
General Benham having, on August 7,1862, been
reduoed from bis rank of brigadier general of volun
teers, through a conception that he had broken posi
tive orders at James Island in attacking the rebel
works at Secesslonville, but no aharges hairing been
preferred against him, the President ordered his case
to be Investigated by Judge Advocate Holt, who
decided that he had not broken any orders, but in
stead obeyed them to the best of his ability. He
was, therefore, restored to his rank, and placed
in command of the Engineer Brigade of the Army
of the Potomac. In justice to General Benham;
the President has reeently ordered Judge Holt’s
opinion to be published, in order to correct the
impression that General Benham hsdnot been re
stored to his position.
In this report Col. Holt reviews all the eireum
stances ol the James Island a flair, and draws these
conclusions: “It thus appears that the principal
ground on whloh Gen. Benham was dismissed from
the volunteer service was a total misapprehension,
and was completely swept away by the frank and
emphatic testimony of Gen. Stevens.
General Hunter has preferred nocharge against
General Benham, because of this attack on the
earthwork, though it appears, from a single ex
pression in ' one of bis letters to the Secretary of
war, that he regarded the movement as In violation
of his order. It must be Inferred that it was in op
position to some plan or purpose actually enter
tained by him-, but. that it was in violation of any
purpose or wish dlselosed by him in the order to
General Benham, cannot be successfully main-,
tsired. * * I think lam justified in holding that
the attack on the earthwork was not in faot, and
certainly was not. Intended to be, a violation of or
ders ; nor was it an ill-digested or criminally rash
movement, but one which was made from a sense of
duty, which should hare succeeded, and which
failed from no fault of Gen. JSeuham, but from
causes which he could not control. '
"Over-aggressiveness has certainly not been so
pervading a vice In the military service, during the
present war, as to call tor auon an example as the
sudden dismissal of this officer presents. Rashness
and over-eagerness to strike the enemy may cer
tainly become culpable, and be fraught with dis
aster, but the in notion of military men ia olten yet
more to be deplored.”
THE REBEL GENERAL CLEBURNE.
Tbe Mobile Advertiser and Register thus sketches
General Cleburne, as he appeared on a recent re
view of troopa In Mobile: “The leader of the re
viewing party was a tall and rather Blender officer,
witlLereot form, but slightly bowed shoulders, a
flnelytshaped head, with features prominent and
striking—-the firm-set lip, betokening resolution and
will, graced by a black moustache, and the long chin
hearing a goatee a ia Empereur. The hair of the
head was blaek, tinged with a sprinkling of gray,
and worn cut close to the head, in military style.
The appearance of the hero of the Ringgold Gap is
striking and not easily forgotten. It may be a
source of pleasure for Major General Cleburne to
know that he waa the cynosure of all observers.”
PROPERTY CAPTURED AND DESTROYED
IN FLORIDA.
I estimate the amount of rebel Government pro
perty captured and destroyed thus far by the raid
Into Florida will resell the value of one and a half
million dollars. I will give a list of the most impor
tant items:.
Two 12-pounder rifledgun*.
Two 6 pounder guns.
One 3-inch gun.
Two other guns.
Five ealaaont.
A large quantity of ammunition.
An Immense supply of oamp and garrison equip
age,
Four railroad oars.
One hundred and thirteen hales of cotton. '
Four army wagons.
One hundred and five horses and mules.
A large stock of saddlery.
Tanning machinery.
Three thousand and eighty three barrels turpen.
tine.
Six thousand bushels oom.
Three large warehouses destroyed. „
In the above list I have not enumerated the same
we have slaughtered, nor the railroad traok webave
destroyed, nor tbe officers* &WW *
thousand things whloh wotuq amply warrant my
estimate*—Ctor. Times*
A LETTER FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL
A BATES,
The following letter, from Attorney General Bates,
was written In connection with a ease which trans
pired in New Mexico:
ATTOSHB Y GHHKBAL'B OPFIOH,
Washihgton, Sept, 16, 1863,
Hon. J. G. Knapp, Judge, 6rc., ISetiUa, N. M.:
Sib : Your letter of the 4th of August, complain
ing of military arrests, was slow in reaching me, and
then sueh was the urgent and continued occupation
of the President in the great affairs of the Govern
ment, that I have not been able until now to fix his
attention upon the particular outrage upon you, as
your letter makes me believe It to be.
There seems to be a general and growing disposl*
THREE CENTS.
tk w of tbe military, wherever atationed, to engrou
all power, and to treat the civil government with
eon tamely, at if tbe object were to brine it into
oonktmpt
I h-'ve delivered my opinion very plainly to the
Pmidi tnt, and I have reason to hope that he, In the
main, c vnonrt with me in believing that thoee arbi
trary nn.'eeedlnga ought to be suppressed.
He has issued an order to have Captain Bennett
called to a,»sennt for his arbitrary conduct in your
case. Jl remain, very respectfully,
You obedient servant,
EDW. BATES.
PRINCE SSH.M SALM IN TROUBLE.
The celebrate.!’ Prince Satan Salm was arrested
yesterday by ord*!»of General Hayes. It seems that
the Pi luce has of liste represented that he was colo
nel of the 68th Rsylment New York Volunteers,
thereby greatly annoying tbe commandant of the
regiment, Lieutenant! Colonel Steinhaucen. He is
also charged with imttdling youny men, who wish
to secure positions, by advertising through the Ger
man papers for officers Star the regiment, said officers
having already been appointed.—N. V. News.
Substitute Brokerage Id Reading,
[Correspondence of The Press 1
Evading, Feb. 19,’ 1864.
The disgraceful transactions of the Now York
Board of Substitute Broken have been attempted in
our city, but, tbanks to Captain Tates and'Lieute
nant Axe, aids to General stgei, these miserable
scoundrels have happily been frustrated in tholrgie
farious schemes, and an example made of the first
known case that will prevent anything of the kind
from occulting again. A poor old German was
esught on the street, tsken into a rum-shop, made
beastly drunk, then induced to enlist, the broker
paying him the ward bounty of fifty dollars, the
recruit giving him a power of attorney to get the
city bounty of $260, whloh was duly drawn and put
jdiA.the pockets of the broker; the peor old fellow
to the scene of strife with his SBO, while
the broker sits comfortably in his deg waiting for
another victim, at the same time swearing at the
“ Abolition Administration,” " infernal nigger war,”
and cursing the President roundly for retaining so
msny thieves in the employ of the Government. It is
uecdleii to add that he ia a Copperhead of the deep
est dye, and a leader in the “ Adler Brigade.”
Some whisper of the above transaction having
reached Captain Yates, General Sigel’a provost, the
bioker was sent for, and, in as few words as would
state the ease, he wes desired to refund the money.
Sir. Broker put on the innocent, and began to blus
ter stoni “ business transactions,” Ac., &0., when
he wss informed that if the money was not forth
coming at once the next train would carry
him under guard to Fort Mifflin. This wae a stun
ner, and quite took the breath of the "honest busi
ness man,” but had the desired effect, the broker
leaving the office a sadder, and, It is to be hoped, a
wiser man, having had a little practical experi
ence of the thieving propensities of our Government
effiolals. The money was placed in the hands of
General Sigel, who forwarded it to the reoruit.
PERSONAL.
’ General Fremont writes to Major General
Sehenek, chairman of the Home Military Commit
tee, that he requested to be relieved from the army
of Virginia because he 11 regarded the order which
reduced him to serve under General Pope as an un
merited Insult;” that since then he has been wait'
ing orders; that he was once promised a command
but did not get it; that he has kept part of his staff
to have their services when he should be recalled to
aetive service; and that he has drawn his pay,
“since tbe close of the last session of Congress, to
be applied where it might alleviate distresses re
sulting from the war, and it has been used accord
ingly.”
’ M. D. Conway, in a letter to the Boston Com
monwealth, thus shows one of the many forms of
court etiquette, which restriot the will and affec
tions of English princes;
“ I learn that there was quite a rebellion at Wind
sor Castle. The prlneess vehemently opposed hav
ing a wet nuise, end the prince took her side, and
could not see why she should not be allowed to
nurse the babe, as she strongly desired to do. But
she was told that the court traditions could not be
set atide; never was Engliih prince or princess yet
nursEd by its own mother. So the healthy and vir
tuous Mrs. O’Somebody was sent for, and the prla
cecshadalocg cry. This is a true story, and some
what mere valuable than ordinary court gossip.”
Tbe New Orleans Era, in describing one ot the
orators at a Free-State meeting there, says: “ Capt.
Jones possesses, by hereditary descent and the spe
cial gift of Providence, or from constant exercise, a
most powerful pair of lungs—lf, Indeed, he is limited
to.a single pair—and has the voice of a stentor, with
no regard to its legitimate ute; and, on this occa
sion, when he got fairly wanned up by—whatever it
might have been—he spoke so loud it was quite Im
possible to hear him.”
Which was the property 1 was a question very
neatly settled the other day by Daniel Drew, the
great steamboat proprietor of Gotham. Daniel,
although a man of immense wealth,i» an old-fash
ioned Methodist, and dresses very plainly at all
times, and sometimes rather shabbily. Being on one
of his own steamers, not long since, he was accosted
by a passenges, who took him for one of the crew,
with tbe interrogatory : “Do you belong to this
boat 1 )” “No,” said Daniel, quietly, “the boat be
longs to me I”
—The following paragraph la taken from a private
letter from Gen. Butler to a member of Congress,
who bad written to him concerning Fernando
Wood’s proposition to investigate some of his (But
ler’s) doings:
I will rely on your friendship always to vote in fa
vor of having any official act of mine Investigated;
such investigations will show mistakes, blunders,
and failures of judgment Innumerable, and for these
I must suffer; but I fear nothing else. I should
even be willing for them to be investigated by Fer
nando Wood, were it not for the maxim, set a thief
to catch a thief.
John P. Putnam, a grandson or Gen. Putnam,
has presented for exhibition, at the Albany Army
Belief Bazaar, the pistols in whloh was burnt the
first powder of the Revolution. It will be remem
bered that Major Pitcairn rode toward the crowd
drawn up in hoatile array at Lexington, ehouted
“ disperse ye rebels,” and fired his pistols into their
midst. His horse was shot under him, but he ma
naged to escape. The pistols were found in the
saddle, became the property of Gen. Putnam, and
were worn by him during the Revolution.
—Mrs. General Robert Eppes Dee (recently pre
sented thirty-seven pairs of gloves, made with her
own hands, to a detail of men from the 631 North
Carolina (rebel). Regiment, engaged in rebuilding
the plank road near Orange Court House, To. It
is very necessary that this distinguißhed lady should
enjoy her regular evening drive, and very neceiiaty
that the plank road should be in good order therefor
—Rev. George Gilfillan, of England, pleasantly
remaiks: “It is generally understood that the first
shot, let It be fired where it may, will awaken all
the guns an the continent, and that then shall be
seen the awful sight of a blazing Europe respond
ing to the fires of a blazing Ameriea, like Vesuvius
replying to Cotopaxi across the deep.” If Coto
paxi were a little farther north the simile would be
better.
Lady Pi got made a speeeh on education at a
public meeting In Oowlinge, England, a abort time
alnce. Her ladyship spoke at considerable length
with mush zeal and energy, and was loudly, ap
plauded. .
GKNEBAI* NEWS.
Yankee Doodee, —The Rev. Mr. Wiggin, now
travelling In the East, met on an oriental steamer a
German aavant, who, with the boldness of his race,
informed Mr. Wiggin that he was wrong in sup
posing “ Yankee 11 a corruption of the Indian
“Yengeese.” He aaid that “Yankee” was Dutch
for “ little John,” and that “ Doodle” was Dutoh
for song; and that our national name and national
anthem were thus both given to us by. our neighbors
the early settlers of New York.
Mr. Wiggin stated these critloisms In an Interest
ing letter In the Christian Register, for what they
were worth.
We at once submitted them to the drat authority
in matters of history and oritleism, relating to the
brave Hollanders who created to us the Empire
State. We receive from our friend the following re
ply, written at Albany, In the very centre of informa
tion, regeiding their history :
“ { Jan Kitin’ ha a but a far-off sound like Yankee,
but ‘little John,’l think, would be most commonly
uttered 'Klein Jan,’ which ianotso near the sound.
Our word for song, gesang, leideren, gives no due to
the other word.”
“I cannot aee how your- national air ie Holland
drrlvate. Indeed, it was unknown at Ghent (in the
low countries). in 1816, for It .was the whistling of
Mr. Clay’s servant which imparted it to the band
master there, who was in search of materials for a
serenade to our commissioners.”
We fall back, therefore, on the derivation Yen
reeie, which may be considered ee established. Hut
Mr. Bartlett, in his Dictionary of Americanisms,
says “ the song is said to be Identical with one sung
by the agricultural laborers m the Netherlands.”
We must have readers In the Netherlands who can
determine the value of that statement for na before
March is over. Till we hear from them we shall
hold by the suggestions of our Albany corre
spondent.—Boston Advertiser.
Demoo ratio Conspiracy.—' The statement has
been made that, out of ninety-six colonels appointed
by Gov. Seymour, all but one are Democrats! Faots
of this nature gave rise to ratber an acrimonious
debate in the New York legislature last Tuesday
evening. Several Democratic speakers having com
plained of the charges of disloyalty thrown out
against their party, Gen. Orooke,' of Brooklyn, an
old Democrat, is sketched as responding:
“Everybody knew that Democrats, as a body,
were not all secessionists, but it was a lamentable
fact that when a man was found whose sympathies
were with the rebels he naturally sagged over to the
Democratic party. For this he did not blame the
Democratic party— it was their misfortune. Ttic
•brought down the house.’ He said Jhat on fils
return from Gettysburg with the Brooklyn trow*
last July, he was informed that organizations were
fciml g for secret purposes. He madataennmr
tions in relation to this matter, and ascertained that
there were in King’s county two suoh, with over
fifteen hundred members each, sworn to pPIjCSC auy
draft by the General Government, and to stand by
“he State; and farther, that every man ofthesewas
either a so-called Democrat or an alien. He did not
slate this on hearsay, out o» on actual fact”
Remarkable , Boiler Explosion.— The Troy
Times describe* a remarkable boiler explosion which
happened at a paper-mill In Schuylaiville, |New
York, a few days sinee. The boiler moved horizon
tally, with fearful velooity, passing! like an lron
' clad ram, or a combinalion of two-hundred-pound
shot, through eleven buildings, wrecking them as
completely as it an earthquake had toppled them
over. The calamity took place at two o’olook on
Saturday morning, when many of the structures
were filled with slumbering occupants, all uncon
scious of danger; and It is really wonderful that
•cotes of people were not killed and wounded. Thu*
far, only two of the vioUma have died, but several
others were injured. The holler stopped within a
tew feet of a bed in which a woman was lying.
Thb Louisville Journal, of the 6th, says: “ During
the past five days, we have met with a number of
offioeis direct from Knoxville and Chattanooga.
They state that the army is In excellent eondlMoii
and well supplied with all the comforts of tee camp.
From all wesan learn there will be a
mentlrcnghl an either at Rattan or Knoxville within the
next thirty days."
I» France a new feature has been added to photo
graphy. A man may now enter a lAotographlo
studio, constructed according to a new method, be
therein photographed In a few seconds, and, on sail"
lnK in a day or two, receive, instead of tne usual
photographic print ozone’s face and figure, an exact
fac-stmile of himself in the shape ol a statuette In
ttedeUisgelay.
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The American Question In England. •
**■ JAMES PAUL OOBBETT’S BBPLT TO THB MAN-
CHESTER BOUTHEBH CLUB.
Mr jame. p au i Oobbett, a well-known Ragtish
barrister, issued a reply, i n December last, to an ad'
r"f P r tb ® Southern Club at Manchester. HU
- - ° M, . been received with the favor whloh I*
Re meets and conquers the Secession
show Its aualitv et^ifi oln, ‘ A pa * Ba « 0 or two wUI
snow its quality. After expanding uoon Mr Bht.
ard s text, that “The nation has a right and It ia
its duty to Hve,” Mr. Oobbett s ays • *' “
Moreover, U I might take the liberty I wnnld uta
those of.you who call yom.eive, by the ™blsX
name of Conservative, to reconcile, if
wild immorality of your Circular with the
Governments, that everything established hsl a
prftne/octe right to stand and to be protected Are
we told that distraoted America has tumbled to
pieces; that her Government retains nothing worth
dying lor, or fit to live under! Yes, you assert it to
be so. If so, then how does that go with the fart
ot the lens of thousands of your fenow-suojeenr
at this moment traversing the Atlantic to dwell im
the “distracted” land! Your party have, indeed,,
made extraordinary attempts, by debauching the
minds oi your “ guiltless” people, to enlist them'to
petition for another crazy and bloody anti-republi
can crusade, Luckily for the reputation or that
?“**> you have but partially succeeded, mors of
them, I dare say, having escaped to the Northern
reluge than you nave been able to oofruptor stultify,
-N*v„.i? h £ way S* Proceeding of your party had
been really biave, howevemrash and unjust, and If
you had made some dear and daring proposal,
gtv utided on national expediency ami a patriotic
love of sway, to break into the Yankee house again,
and once more to burn and play havoc as formorlv
at Washington, and lately at Canton and elsewhere,
then, at any rate, you might have passed for courage,
notwithstanding the pruflgaoy. But, while it has
been plain, at eveay turn, that greed was the sub
•tant'rt-maUer of calculation, it .is also at plain
thic Jfce only thing to counteract the ferocity has
beep the reuse of danger; that sense, which hat at
length brought forth Lord Russell’s speeoh at Blair*
gowiie, which has occasioned so sudden a twist
round in your instructors of the press respecting the
“law of nations,” and put Mr. Laird and hi*
11 ram*” in a state of embargo.
-iiy ou .a b c ave want€ d*o be doing something, and vet
ala not know ex&otly what to do, and stiff wanted.
sod even now want soiaelhtog to be done: butvoii
can suggest nothing more definite than “some
plan," and nothing more feasible than what your
clever penman calls a "pacifying” of
ble!” This Odd mixture of the irresolute with the
malignant has possessed your whole party, and this
has exhibited itself by your leading organs in one
shape so remarkable as to deserve immortality, if
anything base ever did. 11 Market Street” so repre
sented, baa been anxious to discover in the war s
peculiar grievance for the French, and to stir them up
to make a war upon the Union single'handed, we#
as alleged, being too much 11 embarrassed by ties of
relationship” to the object of attack to be the proper
people to do it! That is, putting it more frankly,
the yearnings of nature towards our “ American
kinsmen” have in our bowels been of sueh virtue
as to make us recoil, and, on that account, to make
us prefer oharging a Bonaparte with the task of
out ting their throats. I must congratulate you-on
this unexampled device of u common humanity s**
particularly M, considering the relative positions in
history of the three parties, England, France, and
America, the shamelessness of committing suck a
thought to print ia equally without a match.
You are fully a ware that that ‘ ‘pc rfeot neutrality,**
“ strict neutrality,” which members of Parliament
are taught to go about repeating, is tbe extrema
opposite of the faot; for you are of- those who have
done their worst to render our country, what it naa
resily been, the great abettor and instigator of the
41 frightful slaughter;” aye, both morally (that is.
immorally) and materially. Actuated, seemingly,
by that perfldiousneis which the Bourbon showed
during the rebellion of the Golonies, you have been
for war on the Union because of its using the same
means for self preservation as England had ea«
ployed on the same spots. To stop up a medium of
tismo, when a nation’s existence was at stake, haa
with *ou been treason against all a common huma
nity.” On the captureof New Orleans by the North*
you expected to see that city become the prey 01
disorder and assassination, like Borne when invaded
by the first Napoleon. In that you were disappoint
ed, and, therefore, ai General Butler anticipated
your kind reckoning,while our Foreign Office called
him “ brutal,” your press called him k( blackguard, 1 *
and your hands have placarded him on the wall a*
“an inhuman monster I” Some of you. At least,
must see that the idea of “ North fighting for supra*
macy and South for independence ” is no more than A
sheer truism, applicable to every instanoe where
there is government side and rebellion oa
the other. Uttered by' Lord Bussell, repeated by
Mr. Gladstone, and stuck by you on the walls, ti
was meant for something more, and had Its effect
accordingly, like many other bits of sophistry which
convince empty heads without their peroetving
'why. Yet the most simple of you must be conscious
that the u neutrality, s> the boasted ‘forbearance* 1
on our part, has been just that of the dog towards -
the hedgehog. Bid you ever see the dog when die*
covering the other animal’s defence? If not tho
roughly hard* mouthed, ho hesitates, maklnsr but
cautious approaches; starts forward, and back
again with awi filing growl; stands off, with a pause
to survey, the prickly object, looking aoute, with
head on one side and one ear erect; then paws him
a bit, and then rolls him over and over, to see where
to find an assailable place, so as to get in a tooth
without hurt to the nose. This, you well know, has
been the precise attitude, the whole marale al our
exemplary u forbearanceand here, as it oomtnon
ly is with the dog, it seems finally to have been re
solved that it will be safest to to ake no bite, because
the arms of the Union have lately appeared to us
more likely to prevail; and, in case of their success,
a continued provocation from our side might pro*
duce another nonimportation aot, and a swarm of
privateers like those of 1812.
JUSTICE.
’Tis of a little drummer,
The story I shall tel],
Of how he marched to battle,
- And all that there befel.
Out in the West with Lyon,
(For once the name was true).
For whom the little drummer boat
His rat-tattoo.
Our army rose at midnight,
Ten thousand men as one,
Each sUDging oh his knapsack,
And snatohiog up hit gun.
” Forward /” ana off they started,
As all good soldiers do,
When tbe little drummer beats for them
The ral-iaUtQQe
m.
Across a rolling country,.
Where the mist began to rise; -
Fast many a blackened fann>house,
Till tbe sun was in the skies;
Then we met the rebel pickets,
Who skirmished and withdrew.
While the little drummer beat and beat
The rat-hit-too.
IV.
Along the wooded hollows
The line of battle ran.
Our centre poured a volley,
And the fight at once began 5
For the rebels answered shouting,
And a shower of bullets flew;
But still the little drummer beat
Hii rot tattoo.
He stood among his comrades.
As they quickly formed the line,
And when they raised their muskets
He watched the barrels shine I
When the volley rang he started,
For war to him was new $
But still the little drummer beat
TK» rd-tat-tce.
VI.
It was a eight to see them,
That early autumn day,
Our soldiers in their blue coats,
And the rebel ranks in gray,
The smoke that rolled between them.
Tbe balls that whistled through,
And the little drummer as he beat
His ratial-loa!
Hia comrades dropped around him,—
By fives and tens they fell,
Some pierced by minnie bullet*,
Some torn by shot and shell:
They played against our cannon,
And a caisson’s splinters flew:
But >ti)i toe little drummer beat
Hi* rat-tat- too!
The light, the left, thecentre—
The fight wsb everywhere:
They pushed us here,—we wavered,
We drove and broke them there.
The graybacks fixed their bayonet*,
And charged the coats of blue.
But still the little drummer beat
His rat tat-tool
“ Where is our little drummer?”
His nearest oomrades say,
When the dreadful fight is over,
And the smoke has cleared away.
As the rebel eorpß was scattering
He urged them to pursue,
For furiously he beat and beat
The rat-tattoo !
He atood no more among tbem (
For a bullet ae It aped
Had glanced and atruok hi* auklOi
And atretohed him with the dead t
Be orawled behind a cannon.
And pale, and paler grew:
But itlll the little drummer beat
Hie rat tattoo t
They bore him to the surgeon,
A busy man was he:
“A drummer boy—what alia hlmt”
His comrades answered, “ See I”
As they took him from the stretcher,
A heavy breath he drew, ,
And his little fingers strove to beat.
The rob tattoo!
Hi.
The ball had spent Its fury 1
•• A scratch,” the surgeon a aid.
As he wound the snowy bandage
Which the lint was staining mdt
“ I must leave you now, old fellow.”
>• o take me back with you,
For I know the men are missing mo.
Andtherotlal./oo.'”
xm.
Upon his comrade’s shoulder.
They lifted him ao grand,
With nil duity drumjmfore him,
And hie drumsUokfflnhii hand I
To the fiery front of battle,
That nearer, nearer drew,
And evermore he beat, and beat,
Hli rat tat-too!
XIV.
The wounded at he patted them
Looked up and gave a cheer;
And one In dying bleued him.
Between a amue And tear I . .
And the gray»t)aoKt—they are flyinff
Before the eoata of blue# . .
For whom the little drummer beate
Ff* raLtat'too.
When the west wee red with eunieti
.The Jaatpurtult wat o*er;
Brave Lion rode the foremost)
And looked the name he bore I
And before him on hit saddle)
At a weary ChildWOuld'dO,
Sat the little drummer fait asleep.
With hit rat-UU-too.
B. K. STODDABD.
■ Epigram.
[i Suggested by seeing F. W.’s house lit up JbrnptlUi*
■ • reception.), ...
[for The Frees.) ' .
Fernando 1 * houie 1* all ablazewithlight,
Centre ol fashion and of pomp to-night.
Senators, members, crowd thegarish rooms,
Ana summer’s flowers mock the winter's gleams .
Through the. thronged streets delicious strain* as*
From sweet-voiced viol and the silvery horn..
'* Musio hath charms to soothe the savage breast,”
And who so fit es Wood to make the test I
Since first he heard a dollars magic ring _
His life’s whole work but fits him to—
The Little Drummer*
■ A bolpxbb’s story.
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