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f ._ H gp DAILY (SUNDAYS SXCKPTEtt
F 3> „ r JOHN \V. FORNEY,
r(0 j. no. 11l SOPTH FOPRTB BTBKBT.
I TIUE DAILY PRESS,
I freer Obkts Pbr Week, parable to th» earrisrt
of the cltr At Biykn Dollars'
ETjEtr*: Thebe Dollaks and Fifty Gists sob Sis
t^ B : OFH DoliAß AHD SEVENTY FIVE CENTS FOB
Ljg JIOFTM. Invariably In advance for the tlm* or-
ndverttaementa inserted at the nenal ratal. BIX
, gonetUnW A square.
SHE THI-WEEKI.Y PBSSSi
lUeeto Bobserlber* out of the elti At FoTO DOIIABS
iiwn. In a&T&ne*.
rfnwMgSIOS HOUSES.
OBACE H. SOULE,
3Sl c S» io / R .^«st.
FSIIiiSEirHIAi
m tforthe gAXOHVItT B hum.
BILDWI3 COMPANY.
WILTON MANUFACTTJBINO CO..
ABBOT WORSTED COMPANY.
CARPET WORSTED AND YARNS.
in 9 Worsted. in colors: Nos. 12s and 265. Jute Yarns.
COTTON YARNS,
«r&w and Bnnftlei Dy
ti AdarKl B|
PBALL,
OAKMaK.
1 other vr ell-known Mttle.
CARPETS.
yTINEKTAL MILLS. INQRAIN. AND YBNITIAN
carpets.
LINEN THREAD.
SAMPSON'S ARGYLB,
VINCENT MILLS.
MCDONALD'S.
satin finish bookbinders’,
CARPEISTHREAD,
Eorealeby Y _ „„_ r _
HORACE H. BOTTLE,
Ul-3m 3» North FRONT Street.
iSEEEP & TRIJEFITT,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
No. Stftl CHESTNUT STREET.
re in Store* and offer to the trade.
PEEFCH. BSirISU, AND GERMAN
DRE S e GOODS.
HAWLB. of all descriptions. S
EIL GOODB, In all color!.
4 6-4. and 6 4 ENGLISH ORiPBS.
INEN CAMBRIC HANDKSRCHIEFS, Ac. feW-lm
AGS! BAGS 1 BAGS I
EW AND SECOND-HAND.
SEAMLESS, BUBLAP. AMD GUNNT
BAGS,
PLCnE^IALTBiO^ALLS^HS.
aKRJUNTOWH, PJL.
JtoCAIXTTM & CO.,
JDTAOnOTKB. IMFOKTSBS, AUD WHOIBSAI*
dealersin
CABPBTHSTOS,
OIL CLOTHS, &C,
wuetonte, 509 Chestnut Street,
WertTer wlli * fall Msotiment ofeverytMnr
t to tho G*r*ot Business. ; ”*~* f
'NTBBPBISE MILLS.
ATWOOD, RALSTON, & €0„
rAornssu ard wholesale dealers ik
CARPETINGS,
OIL-CLOTHS,
MATTINGS, &c., &C.
WAREHOUSE, «9 CHESTKtJT STREET,
on and at OUT osubliciment a faU «»*ortmant
,/ luporUd and Bomestls Brnij. Popular P»-
Unt Medicines. Paints, Coal Oil, Window Blass,
Prescription Vials, ate., at as low prices as senu
ine, first- tlast roods can bo sold.
FINE ESSEUSTiAL OILS
or ConfMtiosars, la full satiety, and o{ tho beat
'llocUnsili Bansal Indito, Maddar.
Cudbear, Soda A«a, Alum, Oil of Vitriol, Awnftt
a, Copperas, Extract of boxwood, ae..
FOB DYERS* USE,
always on band at lowest net cash prime.
SULPHITE OF LIME,
lor keeplnz sidor aweot i a perfectly bannleaa pre
paration, put up, with full directions for use, la
suksfU containing Boficient for one
Orders by mail or city poet wiU meet with
prompt attention, or special Quotations will be
fnrnUbed when rsQueated.
WEIGHT & SIDDAEIj,
WHOLESALE DRUG WABEHOUBE,
HO. IX9 BASKET Street, above FROUT.
ao2S-th*tnly -fp
TLLIAM M- WILSON,
*OB MAEKST Street
True Turkey Myrrh, oeroont.
Coriander Seeds, bags.
Corrawav See as, bags.
Unb. Jam. Ginger, bbla.
Brain Ergot.new crop, bbls.
Ser. Arrow B®bt. less.
Union Salad Oil, bbls.
Oil Sassafras, cans.
** Cltrouella, Winter’s; cases.
* ‘ Cltrouella. native, cases
41 Lemon, new crop, eases.
44 Bose, Commercial, cases.
*' Orange, cans.
44 Bergamot JT. C*. cans.
Bow’d Antimony, 100 lb cases,
S&d Gentian. bales.
Canary Seed, bbls. _ . _ _
■ tre in this port and Hew York, and for
;EBT' SHOEMAKER' A
■otthMut Goran of FOURTH and BAGS Strata,
FHILAD3LPHIA,
lAT-TS DBT
HFORTBBS un> MS4L3RS 131
FOEEIdH AKD DOMESTIC
WOTOOIV MO) ?Ml* SLABS.
KAStTFACTffBIRRB OF
IPHXT* t.fap jJJD ZINC PAINTS. PUTTY, &*.
Aesvra vox xa» celsssates
fbesch zino paints.
PAPES HANGINGS.
4 ' PHILADELPHIA. J
PAPER HANGINGS.
HOWELL & BOTJME,
aUNUFACrUBEKS OP
"W A Xj 3F A. JP 33 P 5. S
AND'
:ndow curtain pap:
FOURTH AND MARKET
PHILADELPHIA.
—A fine stock of LISTEN SHADES const!
CARRIAGES*
CARRIAGES.
WILLIAM D. ROGERS,
COMb Mri bight Carriage llullder,
Km. I*o# and 1011 CHESTHOT Street.
.43.—50 KEGS NEW FB.
French Prunes.
« r s ?' 11, J** B new French. Prunes.
1 rsc «-ved and for sale by
BHOBEB &WILLI A.MB*
10T South WATIBJSti
VOL. 7-NO. 186.
SII.K AND DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
1864. spring 18Q4,
DRY GOODS.
GREAT INDUCEMENTS TO CASH BUYERS.
Has MARKET Street, and 586 COMMERCE Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
Would reepectfnllT invite attention to their LARGE
STOCK of leading
DOMESTICS,
DRESS GOODS,
MEN’S AND BOYS’ WEAR,
and many popular goods of
PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURE.
mb2-2m
CASH DOUSE.
GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD FOR CASH.
LITTLE & ADAMSON,
3*5 MARKET STREET,
Invito attention to their entire new and Splendid Stools
SPRING DRESS GOODS.
BLACK SILKS, MOURNING SILKS,
FANCY SILKS, POULT DE SOIES,
SEASONABLE SHAWLS,
CLOAKING CLOTHS, MANTILLA SILKS,
MANTILLAS,
Manufactured by themselves from late Paris Styles.
mhl-2m
1864. SPBING ’ 1864.
JAMES, KENT, SANTEE, & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OP
DRY GOODS.
Noe. 839 and SB! NORTH THIRD ST., above Race.
PHILADELPHIA,
Have now open thetr nenal
large and complete stock
OP
FOREION AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS.
Notwithstanding the scarcity of many kinds of Dry
Goods, our stock is now full and varied in all its de
pertinents.
Special attention is invited to our assortment of
PHILADELPHIA MADE GOODS.
A full assortment of Cloths, Casslmeres, &fl.
A full assortment of Prints. De Laines, &e,
A full assortment of Notions, White Goods, &c.
A full assortment of Sheetings, Shirtings, Ac.
A full assortment of Ornish. Goods. Ac. fell am
BAINS, A MELLOB,
Not. 40 and 48 NORTH THIRD STREET.
zxpob rsx s or
HOSIERY,
SMALL WARES;
AH»
WHITE GOODS.
MANUFACTURERS OF
_ SHIRT FRONTS.
fe!-3m __
1864.
Mo. 617 CHESTNUT AND No. 614 JAYNE STREETS.
Have now in Store their BPRING IMPORTATION of
BLACK AND FANCY SILKS.
SATINS, tiLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS,
Ann
DRESS TRIMMINGS.
ALSO,
WHITE GOODS, MSESTS, EMBROIDERIES,
AND LACES.
A lane and handeome aeiortment of
SPRING AND SUMMER SHAWLS.
BALMORAL SKIRTS,
Of all grades, &«. Which they offer to the Trade at the
LOWEST PRICES. ja3o-3m
QHOICE SPRING IMPORTATIONS,
* 1864.
DAWSON, BRANSON, & CO.,
801 MARKET STREET,
CORNER OF FIFTH,
Have now in store, and wi)l be
during the season, an attractive line of -
PARIS, GERMAN, AND BRITISH
DRESS GOODS,
black bilks,
STAPLE AND FANCY SHAWLS, Sea., Sea.
All of which will he sold at the
ftfi3-2m LOWEST MARKET FRICBR,
1864. spbing 1864>
XABEK & lIARBEKT,
SILKS, RIBBONS, FRENCH FLOWERS,
AKD
MI 1.1.1 ITER'S' GOODS.
Merchants are Invited to call and examine our stock of
SPRING RIBBONS,
which will be cold at the
LOWEST PRICES. fe9lm
NEW YORK ADVERTISEMENTS.
gHAW & COFFIN,
19 PARK PLAGE AND 16 MURRAY STREET.
Have in etore and eonstaatly receivinz direct from
Manufacturer!-.:
BTJRIjAPS, all widthe.
FLOOR CLOTH CANVAS, 4,8, and 8 yard*.
BAGGING, In Bond, or Export.
CANVAS PADDINGS,
HEMP CARPETING,
BED PADDINGS,
towels,
DIAPERS,
sheetings, No.
FLAX AND JUTE YARNS,
FOB CARPET MAH DFACTUEERS.
For sale on favorable terms, ffil7»lni
G. W. BLABON db CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
OIL CLOTHS,
No. 13* NORTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Offer to the Trade a full Stock of
FLOOR, TABLE, AND CARRIAGE
GREEN-GLAZED OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW
mhl-2m - SHADES.
Q.EOEGE W. HILL,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in
CARPETINGS, MATTINGS, RUGS.
ALSO,
COTTON AND WOOLEN TARNS.
At very Low Prices.
Ho. NORTH THIRD STREET. ABOVE ARCH,
mbi-2m ' Philadelphia,
IJGOIBTB,
PAINTINGS AND ENGRAVINGS.
gLBGANT MIRBORS,
SABLE’S GALLEBIESj
pOBE LEHIGH COAL. HOUSE
eaat P “ 8 “UcleatB<)“‘Jl
feio-lm- JOHN W. HAMPTON.
EAGLE VEIN COAL—
Tonal If not superior to Lehizh. aim PTn.rt*aTV*
Fine Ultra Family Rainbow Coal; and Stove sizes
KUO. Large Nut, s£76 per ton ’ ifKl
Full weight cs per ticket. Depot, 1419 CALLOWHILL
Street, above Broad. Office 191 feouth FOURTH. be
low Chestnut. Cadi and examine. Order* by dispatch
promptly attended to by
201 l 6m ELLIS BRANSON.
COAL— SUGAR LOAF, BEAVER
UEADOW, and Spring Mountain Lehigh Coal, and
beet Locust Mountain, from Echnvlkill; prepared ex
pressly for Tamily use. Depot, N. W. corner EIGHTH
!nd WILLOW stf. Office, No. 113 st.
ap4'ly J- ”ALTON A CO.
pAPEB WAREHOUSE.
FARRELL, IRVING, & CO,
510 MINOR STREET.
Manufacturers of ROLL WRAPPERS, DOUBLE and
6INOLE MEDIUM, CAP, anV CROWN MANILLA, on
hand, or made to order.
Bigheat price paid for rope in large or smallquanti
ties. fe26-3m
Paper hangings.—john h.
LONGSTRKTH.No. 13 North THIRD Street. Ha
ving the sole agency for several of the largest Eastern
manufacturers enables ub to ahow An nneauaUed variety
of new designs, which will be sold at manufacturer**
prices. The first floor will be devoted to retailing.
Dwellings decorated in first-class style, and the hang
ing department properly attended to.
, _ , JOHN H. LONGBTSETH,
lm” No. 19 North THIRD Btr«t.
HOOD, BONBBIGHT, & €O.,
Wholesale Dealers in
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS,
spring, 1364.
EDMUND YARD & GO.,
SILK AKD FAHCY DRY BOOBS,
CONSISTING OP
DRESS GOODS,
OF ALL KINDS;
No. 401 MARKET STREET.
IMPORTERS,
NEW YORK,
OIL CLOTHS, &C.
OIL CLOTHS.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT.
mBYf ENGRAVINGS
TINS TIL TAINTIN6S'
JUST KIGUVSD.
SIB CHE6TEUT STRUT. neC-tf
GOAK.
RETAIL DRY GOOD!
gPRING OPENING
NEW SILKS.
FRENCH CHINTZES,
NEW DRESS GOODS,
FRENCH CLOAKINGS.
H. STEEL * SON.
Hos. 7f3 and 715 North TENTH fit.
£jrriL AND MILITARY CLOTH
HOUSE.
WILLIAM T. SNODGRASS,
No. 34 SOUTH SECOND and 83 STRAWBERRY
Streets, is happy to state that he has laid in. an ezten
•ive stock of CHOICE GOODS, snob as:
OYVTL ZJST.
Slack Oioths,
Black Doeskins.
Black Catsimersi.
Elegant Costings,
Billiard Cloths,
Bagatelle Cloths,
Trimmings,
Beaverteess,
Cords and Velveteens,
We advise our friends to
stock la cheaper than we can
gPRING GOODS.
FIRST OPENING OF
SPRING DRESS CJOODS,
At the Store of
J. P. YOUNG,
(Gttccesior to T Fishbr).
. No. 70 North FOURTH Street.
JOHN F. YOUNG
Is now opening one of the most complete selections of
LADIES' DRESS STUFFS that can be found in thin
marfeet. Special attention is directed to the styles and
prices. feS7«stnthim
JN DIA SHAWLS.
G-EO. PH-VEn,
NO 910 CHESTNUT STREET,
WUI display on MONDAY, Marcb7tn, bis
SPAING IMPORTATION OP
HEAL INDIA SHAWLS.
Tke handsomest and largest assortment he has ever
shown.
The attention of the ladies is reauested.
Also, ELEGAIfT SILKS,
“ ORGANDIES, &o ,
and other description of Shawls.
ERY WIDTH AND
TV/TUSLINS OF EY
"j- quality.
New York Mills, Williamsville.
Wmasntta. Bay Mills*
White Hock, Forestdale.
Semper Idem. Housekeeper A,
Slsterviiie. New Jersey.
Waltham Mills, 2X yards wide; Peppenll Mills, IX,
2}£, and 2}i wide: Boot Mills, heavy. IX wide. Also,
unbleached in every quality.
The cheapest place to buy any ot the above is
GRANVILLB B. HAINES*.
Vo. 1013MA3KET Street. above Tenth.
mb? mltiwfe 4t . « '
TVABLE LINENS.—WE ARE SELL
-L ING * real good, fine, stout, bleached Table Lines.
8- wide, for 76c per yard. These are pan cotton, ana
aie a bargain. Heavy Barnsley all linen, B'c, 91. and
91. ?5 per yard; half bleached Hand-Loom do.,
These are the beat goods to wear made. Unbleached
do., flCc. a first-rate Towel, $2.26 per dozen. Nnrsery
Diapers, Napkins. • ~ , ,
MUSLINS.—We are selling the very beet bleached
Muslins made. 38 inches -wide, for 25c per yard. We
have every make of Muslin in 4*4 wide, 6 4 Wide, 6 4,
9- S 4 wide, 9-4 wide, 10 4 wide, 11-4 wide, and 12 4 wide,
and we warrant ihem all to be as low or less than they
csn be bought at any other place.
We are closing out onr Blankets very cheap, from $4
up to finest made Comfortables, $3.60. Everything
made in Furnishing Goods.
IL B. & W. H PENNELL,
mh7-2t lOai MAEKEf Street, below Eleventh.
T INEN GOODS, OP ALL KINDS,
EXTRA CH3AP. —Heavy hand-loom Table Idnens.
at S7>kc- 90a. and $1: unbleached Table Linen at 76c,
S7>£c. and $1; balf-cotton at 62J£c 76c, and 87>*c;
bleached do, pure Linen.; 75c. S7>sc., 90c, $l. ands2.2s;
extra width and quality at $1 S7#, $1 50, $1 75. and $2.
1 am now selling great quantities of these on account of
their cheapness. ... .
Napkins of every variety; damask and aaowdrop at
$2; heavier do at $2 60 and $3; extra quality at $4 and
at $1.50 and $2. either plain or with red
border; also, colored for fruit
TOWELS with red and blue borders, with and without
fringed ends, at $2.26; fine do., with border all around,
at $3; extra size do,, fringed, at $3.50; very fine do., at
$4.60. *
DIAPEBING of ail widths. „ ...
Richardson’s heavy HOUSEWIFE LINENS for family
use, at 6Cc, 62)£c, 66c, 70c, 76c. and 87&c. These are very
desirable, being extra heavy
HUCKABACK, both bleached and half bleached, at
20c, 57>a!c, 40c and 50c. . - —’
LINEN SHEETINGS of the Barnsley make, at $1.60
and $1 76 One lot, 12-4 wide, at $1.76. _ .
Thiee bales. »xtra wide, heavy CRASH, at 14c and
16c; better and b. at 18c B HAINEg>
Bah7-mtnws4t 1013 MARKET Street, above Tenth.
pHEAP DRY GOODS, CARPETS,
V OIL CLOTHS, AND WINDOW SHADES.—V. E.
ABCHAMBAULT. S. E. corner of ELEVEN TH and
MARKET Streets, Will open THIS MORNING, from
auction. Ingrain Carpets, all wool, at 76c., 87c., Si,
$1.12. $1.25, and $1.37; Ingrain Carpets, wool filling,
60, 66, and 62K cents; Entry and Stair Carpetß, 25c. to $l.
Floor Oil Cloths, 60, 62. and 76 cents. Gilt-Bordered
Window Shades, 76c. to $2. Woolen Druggets, $1;
Stair Oil [Cloths, 26c.« Bag and Hemp Carpets, 27, 60,
and 62 DM OOODS AND TRIMMINGS. „
Bleached and Brown Sheeting and Shirting Muslins,
16to37cents: CT. Y- Mills Muslin, at 43c, by the piece;
Spring Deiaines, 33c ; Light Alpacas. 60 to 75c.: Black
Alpacas. 31 to 7fc.; Black Silks, $1.25 to $l-62: Spring
Chintzes, 20 t026c.; Table Linens, 62c to $1.60; Napkins,
16t060c.: 10*4 Sheetings at $1.10; Marseilles Quilts, $3
to $10; Blankets, $5 to $l2; Comfortables at $3.60; Casßi
meres. 62c to $1.50; Coats 1 White Spool Cotton only 9c.;
best quality Skirt Braidß only 90.; Pins, 5c.; Hooks and
Eyes, 3c.; Palm Soap only Bc.; Ladies Cotton Hose only
26c. Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods and
N. E. cor- ELEVENTH and MARKET. fe9-t^hslm
TN THE gCLOTH AND OABSIMERE
A DEPARTMENT will be found Harris’ Mixed, Striped,
and Plaid Cassimeres.
Cat! et Mixtures for boys’ suits.
Water-proof and Colored Cloakings,
Fine Black Cloths and Cassimeres,
Cassia eras all prices, John H. STOKES’.
JJJI6 TQ3 ARCH Street,
T?D“WIN HALL & CO., NO. 26 SOUTH
-C4 gscOND Street, would call attention to their
stock of DBESS GOODS:
Plaid as d Figured Poplins.
Plaid end Stripe silk warp Taffetas.
Dress Goods, of new stylea. ia variety.
French Chintzes and Percales.
Stripe French Chintzes, for trimmings.
Organdies and Jaconet Lawns.
Figured Silk Challles.
Percale Bobea, &c
10a4r CHESTHDT ST BEST.
SPRING TRADE!.
E*'M. NEEDLES
Is now receiving, and offers for .sale below
present market rates, many novelties in
LACE AND WHITE GOODS ff . B
He would call * ‘ special attention 7 ,to his
assortment of over 20 different new fabrics and
styles of White Goods, suitable for Ladies
Bodies and Dres&es,” in stripes, plaids, and
figured, puffed and tucked Muslins
100 pieces of figured and plain Buff and
White Piques, bought before the recent ad
vance. _ _
New invoices of Guipure and Thread Laces,
Thread and Grenadine Veilß, Edgings, Insert
in es, Flooncings, &c.
Broad Hem-Stitched HANDKERCHIEFS,
all linen , good quality, from 26 cents up.
1084 CHESTNUT STREET.
H STEEL & SON HAVE NO W OPEN
* a choice assortment of _
HEW SILKS. *
Moire Antiques. s'3 to $5
Plain Corded Silk*, $1.62& to $3.50.
Figured Corded Silks. sl.62>£.
Plain Poll de Soies, SI2S to $3.26.
Fancy Silks, 7Gc. to $5. "
Slack Gros Grain Silks. $1.25 to $3.25.
Figured Black Silks, $1.25 to $2.
Plain Black Sllkß 87>ic. to $6.
Plaid India Silks, S7Kc.
Bight-ground Rich~figured Foulards. $1.25 to $1.62.
fe2o-tf Sion. 713 and Tl 5 N. TENTH Street.
ItTABBEILIiES QUILTS—OF FINE
i*-A- quality at moderate price*.
Good Blankets, in large sizes.
Sheeting Muslins, of every width.
Just opened, a large lot, marked low.
Spring De Lalnea and Prints.
Mode Alpacas, choiee shades.
few Brilliant, and 4 4
fe4 B. Tt «otu*t NTHTH and MARKET Btc.
YARNS.
REMOVAL.
ALEX. WHILLDIN A SONS
HAVE REMOVED TO
Nos. 20 and 22 South Front Street,
21 and 23 Lctitia Street,
PHIL ADEIiFHI A,
Where, from most desirable stocks of
WOOL AND WOOLEN YARNS,
COTTON AND COTTON YARNS,
They will be pleased to serve all customers. fe2<Pstuthtf
f ro HOUBEKEEPKRS.
-f- Jnmakiigyour spring purchases, be sure to pro
Jide youT*tlf •with the best—-the only RELIABLE and
WARRANTED CLOT FI E 8 WRINGER- aB
• THE UNIVERSAL WRINGER.
Mith rtbe Patent COG-WHEEL REGULATOR, which
positively prevents the rolls from breaking or twist
i so on the shaft and tearing the clothing, as all Wringers
without Cog Wheels will do, however strongly it may
be asserted to the contrary. * * 3
No family can be without
THE UfiIVBBSAL WRINGER.
It will pay for itself in si* months, in the saving of
garments alone, in the smallest family.
The ’amily 6izes are $7 and $lO, and are WAR
ANTED in every particular.
RFor sale wholesale and retail, by
E L. BURNHAM, Manufacturer's Agent.
No. 3* fcouth SIXTH Street, between Chestnut and
Market.. Philadelphia mhß-lm
fUIOQTJOT CHAMPAGNE.
4-/ JOO case* WIDOW OLIOQHOT PONBAHDIH OF
HEIMS jnst received, and far aals to the trad, at the
Agent’, price,. Aleo, - -
200 basket. LATOTTK OLIVE OIL.
WILLIAM H. YEATOH ft CO..
fa2o-tf Ho. HOI Booth FEOHT BtrMt.
ARXT AND UAVr.
Blue Cloths,
Sky'bine Cloths,
Sky-blue Doeskins,
Bark Bine Boesklne,
Bark Bine Beavers,
Bark Blue Pilots.
3-4 and 6-4 Bine Flannels,
Scarlet Cloths,
Mazarine Blue Cloths,
come early, as onr present
, purchase now. feio-lm
mhS'6tlf
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1864.
SEWING MACHINES.
Q.REAT TRIUMPH
SXSWINCI MACHINES.
TEARS HAVE BEEN SPENT IN THEIR PERFECTION,
WE CLAIM FOR THE
•‘FLORENCE"
THE FOLLOWING ADVANTAGES OVER ANT AND
ALL OTHERS:
A®* It is the only Machine that makes more then one
kind of a stitch, and has the reversible feed with a
uniform tension.
4S“ It makes lour different stiches, the lock, knot ,
double lock, and double knot,on one and the same ma
chine. Each stitch being alike on both sides of the
fabric, and neither of them will raveL
It hae the reversible feed motion, which onablatj
the operator, by simply tmulntf a thumb screw, to have
the work run either to the right or left, to stay any part
of the same, or fasten the ends of the seams, without
turning the fabric, a great advantage over all others.
JtSr Changing the length of the stitch, and from one
kind of stitch to another, can readily be done while the
Machine is in motion.
£C A®- Every stitch is perfect in itself, making the seam
secure and uniform,
43- It is almost noiseless in its operations.
«3- Its motions are nil positive; there are no springs
to set out of order, and its simplicity enables the most
inexperienced to operate it.
43» It will not oil the dress of the operator, as all the
machinery is on the top of the table.
It is the most rapid setoer in the world ; making
five stitches to each revolution.
MST Its stitch is the wonder of all, because of its
combined elabticity, itrength, and beauty.\
43- It does the heaviet t or finest work with equal
facility, without change of tension.
43- Every Machine has one of Jenok’g patent henp
mere attached, (the right to use which we control.)
enabling the operator to turn any width of hem cfc
sired.
43- There Is no other Machine which will do so large
a i ange of work as the Florence.
M 9" It dees not require finer thread on the underside
than it does on the upper, and uses any kind of thread
or silk.
43- The needle is more easily adjusted than in any
other Machine.
4®*- it will sew across the heaviest seams, without
change of tension or breaking of thread.
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Kilpatrick's Raid and Col. DaiUgrcn’s Safety,
PAUSE REPORT OF DISASTER TO SHAe MAN
An Interview between McClellan ami Dee
GEN. MEADE AND THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
THE RAID TO RICHMOND—SAFETY OP COL, DAHL-
WASHINGTON, March 6.—At this date the Tribune
has the following despatch:
Tbe Piesident received a despatch from Fortress
Blonioe this aitcrncon, stating that Col. Dahlgren,
with his hundred men, had safely arrived within our
lines. The Colonel was at Fortress Monroe. The
President aDd Secretary Stanton Immediately called
upon Admiral Dahlgren, to convey the glad tidingl
and congratulate him upon tlse safety of his gallant
son.
We have been enabled to glean the following ad
ditional Retails of Gen. Kilpatrick’s raid: From
Spotsylvania. Court House the main body prOoeed*
cd to Newmarket, and thence to Childaburg, Where
a detachment was despatched to destroy the bridges
on and Fredericksburg Railroad*
which wae done. Continuing their march, they
crossed the North Anna at Beaver Dam, tearing up
the track of the Virginia Central Railroad, blowing
up culveitt, burning the station-house, a number of
cars, twenty army wagons, several warehouses con
tabling grain, and deitioyiug the water-tanks, tele*
graph linen, etc.
'While engaged in this work, a train filled with
eolCicis approached from Richmond, and our men
were at once ambushed; but the conductor waa
warned, and the train stopped. The rebels then
threw out skirmishers, and shot* were exchanged.
A charge upon the tiain e#u*ed a hasty withdrawal,
and no further molestation occurred at that point.
From thence they proceeded to Taylorsville, halt
ing ft t the “ Senetto Anna” river to refresh their
horses. A detachment sent to destroy the bridge
above Ashland Station returned unsuccessful, hav
ing encountered several thousand rebel troops.
Leaving Ashland to the light, they pushed ou,
crossing the Chickahominy, and striking the Brooke
turnpike, moved upon Richmond. The outer forti
fications, five miles from the city, were soon reached,
and the force Ihere speedily overcome. Pushing on,
they aevanced to within two miles of the oity,
where a rebel brigade, stalioned behind the fortifica
tion?, met tfcem with a sharp fire, Dismounting a
portion of biß loice, a charge was made on foot, but
a destructive fire of musketry forced them to retire.
General Kilpatriek then withdrew to Meadow
Bridge, where he encamped, but was soon after
shelled from this position, and, destroying the bridge
and railroad, he moved to Old Churoh, where he was
joined by a portion or Colonel DaMgren’a command.
From thence to Mecbanicsvllle, White and New
Kent Court House, where they met General Butler’s
forces.
The Times correspondent says: Several prisoners
taken in front of Richmond while our cavalry were
engaged Within the defences of that capital state
positively that General Brsgg was on the field during
the action, and was furious at the audacity of the
Yankees. The panic in Richmond was undoubted.
Citizens who left the oity at 8 o’clock, and were
taken Into custody between 10 and 11 o’clook, said
that they heard nothing of the approaoh of our
forces. It is believed that they first knew of the
pieser.ee of a cavalry lorce by a messenger who
went across the fielde soon alter orosaing Brook
Creek.
GEKBRAL LEE’S ESCAPE.
At headquarters, Msroh 6, the Herald corres
pondent writes: Three deserters oame inside our
lines yesterday, whose reports shed some additional
light upon General Kilpatrick’s movements. They
state that when onr forces arrived at Frederick’s
Ball a tiain of oars waa just Btariing out for Gor
donaville, containing General K. E, Dee and a por
tion of his Stair. Had our troops been ten minutei
eatlier they would undoubtedly have secured this
much vaunted hero.
THE OBJECT OP THE RAID BAID TO EE ATTAINED.
It is now stated, in circles which are generally
well infoimed, that Kilpatrick fully accomplished
all that he started out to do j that neither he nor
the officials who planned the enterprise ever had an
idea that so small a force could enter Richmond,
fortified as it is, after the finest armies the world
ever produced had failed; that it had long been in
contemplation by the War Department to transfer
General Kilpatrick’s division to another field or
labor, which .Rquid involve the '-necessity of their
going to Fortress Monroe for embarkation, and that
this was only to be the premonitory step towards a
grander movement by the whole Army of the Po
tomac. Another theory is, that it was the object
only to destroy the railroads lending from Richmond
to Bee's army, thus foroing the rebels to taka a posi
tion nearer Richmond. These are mere speculations,
and I give them for what they are worth.
PHILADELPHIA, Fa,
IKCIDEIiTS OP THE ROUTE—DEVOTION OP THE BLACK
The Times 1 narrative of the raid contain! these in*
teresting paragraph!:
The negroes everywhere) as usual, manifested
great delight at seeing a column of Yankees, and
acted unreservedly, as though they expected to find
them ail mends, and aided the expedition in various
ways. They could always tell where coruoould be
found for the horses, and where provisions and horses
had been concealed. They frequently gave valuable
inhumation as to the location of the enemy’s pick
ets, of the presence of scouts in the neighborhood,
and could tell when the last Confederate soldier
had passed along the road. Theße services were
rendered freely and without hesitation, often with
out the atklng. Their services were brought
into requisition in destroying railroads, and in
one instance, at- least, continued the work of
destruction after the troops had left the spot,
saying, as the column moved off, “ We’ll catch
up.” Nearly all asked permission to eome along,
and many did bo without asking the privilege,
seeming to take it as a matter of course they
were expected to join the command. There was no
large number of uegroeß in any one place, but there
: were a few found in every locality, just enough, the
whites said, to raise crops for the local population
to consume. Only about a million dollars’ worth of
thi. kind of propeity was brought away. Many of
the negroes and Regresses gave out on the long
matches, axd were left on the road. One squad of
stoutdimbed and stout-hearted women marched for
two days with the command, and were finally re
warded by reaching General Butler’s lines, where
.they have tome rights that white men are bound to
respect under the present regime.
All the real Seccsh capable of bearing arms are
already in the army, together with many others
whose hearts are not in the cause. I had frequent
opportunities to converse with both of these classes.
One of the most bitter rebels, in his talk £ ever met
With, when captured, commenced a tirade of charac
teristic Southern braggadocio. He talked of “our
best men in the field the South “ could never be
whipped j” “ never had been whipped“it was a
shame that Southern gentlemen were compelled to
fight niggers;” and a whole series of the usual
twaddle made use of by braggart*, of the negro
school, leading every one who heard him to suppose
that he was a perfect pink of perfection—a pure
F. F. V.
This man, who is the type of the so-oalled chi
valric soni oi the South, waß caught bushwhaoking,
shot at a man after he had surrendered, told half a
dozen lies in almost as many minutes, admitted that
he never owned a negro in his life, and that his family
is both poor and illiterate—the poor white trash of
which Toombs «o picturesquely «et off onca in the
United States Senate. This is no fancy skdtch;
and, when the fellow was exposed, he very coolly
fell back upon the rights of a prisoner of war—that
is, in his opinion, a prisoner of war should not be
exposed in his arrogance and falsehood.
As you move toward the heart of rebeldom the
feeling of animosity is more intense in hatred
toward Yankees, and 1b more openly manifested.
Around the outer borders, where the people have
more frequently seen Union troops, and know more
of what is going on in the outside world, they seem
to have enlarged and more liberal ideas; as you ap*
preach the centre more bigotry and intolerance,
more outspoken hatred is met with. Until a point
near Richmond was reached there was but little on
the part of the people to indicate that we were
moving among a united mass of enemies.
On The Biooke pike, within a few miles of Rich
mond, quite a number of very respectable-looking
young women came out to the roadside and made
use of some taunting expletives—such as no real
lady would be guilty of—but, judging from the sur
roundings, I suppose they were considered ladies at
home. One of these women was almost frantic with
indignation. “ I never thought,” said she, raising
her hands in holy horror, “ that you would be mean
enough for this.” This she repeated frequently as
the column moved along. No one ottered any disre
spectful remark in reply. The boys were simply
amused at her eccentric eonduot This course of
conduot seemed to exasperate her? to have Yankee
soldiers come there was bad enough, but to be
laughed at by them seemed to her the very height of
the intoler&bles.
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1864.
THE WAR.
BRAGG ON THE FIELD AT RICHMOND
IN arrow Escape ol' lieo.
.at the Bailie or Antlctam.
GBEN AND BIS DETACHMENT,
BRAGG AT RICHMOND,
PEOPLE.
THE REAL BEOBSH,
the HEART 07 BBBBLDOM.
KILPATRICK’S BBT WITH PLEA BON TON.
The World says : “We are authorized to deny the
rumor that the clergymen who signed the protest
against raffling at the great fair also prepared a
protest against our holding Richmond, whioh was
to have been presented to President Lincoln had
General Kilpatrick won it on his five-thousand*dol-
Ur bet with General Pleaionton.”
THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR.
GEN. MBADB AND THE BATTLE 07 GETTYSBURG.
General John Gibbon, one of the heroes of the
Gettysburg battle, writes as follows to the press of
this city i
“ There is no truth in the statement, recently pub
lished in the New York that one of the
corps commanders at the battle of Gettysburg had iu
his poekef, on the 2d of July, an order from General
Meade directing the army to retreat.”
The following, from the Washington despatches
Of the New York Times, is also explanatory:
“The War Committee bad Gen. Meade before
them on Saturday for over three hours. He denied
the charges preferred against him by Gens. Sickles
and Doubleday, and gave the committee a full histo
ry of all the circumstances attending the battle of
Gettysburg, and, also, of his subsequent conduct.
The order, which It is alleged he wrote, directing a
retreat of the army to Taney town, after the first
day’s engagement, was folly explained. He declared
that it related to matters entirely foreign to those
contained in the charges of Sickles and Doubleday.
The committee intend to followup the matter, and
have sent for Gen. Butterfield, who wrote the or
ders. Gens. Wadsworth and Hancock will also be
called.”
AN INTERVIEW BETWEEN GENERAL LRB AND
general m’clkllan.
A written communication was sent to the Secre
tary of War on Saturday last, by a former member
o 1 the Maryland Legislature, and a cousin of the
tebel General Lee, stating that during the battle o
Antietam General Lee had his headquarters at his
house; that on the night after the battle he sent a
messenger into cur lines to General MoOlellan, re
questing an interview at his headquarters! that
Gtnerar MoOlellan, accompanied by some of hie
Btaff, rode that night through the rebel liues, and
had » Jong interview with General r joo . who, among
other things, informed McClellan that hig army was
mossing the Potomac. The writer has been sub
jxrnafcd before the Committee on the Conduct ol the
Hon* W. D. Kelley.
EXTRACT FROM HIS SPBRCH ON THE BELL TO ES
TABLISH A 'BUREAU OF FRRBDMen’s AFFAIRS,
BOUSE OF BBrEBSBIfTATIYBS, PUB. 33, 18G1. *
SIR: In the absence of assailable provisions in
the bill, the gentleman from New York (Mr. Brooke)
poured forth his indignation upon the grand old pq.
iit an State. He gain:
“ i know the spirit of Massachusetts. I know her
inexorable, unappeasable, demoniac energy. I know
that what she decrees she will execute, as when she
ordered the burning of witches at Salem, or the,
scourging of tbe Quakers, or the exile of the Bap
tists to the rooky shores of the N&rragansett or to
the mountain fastnesses and gteus Of NOW H*mp
shire, where my maternal Baptist ancestors were
banished. Hence when, as now, she decrees on the
African, I tremble for three million of hitherto hap*
py human beings now doomed to extermination.”
And again he said:
11 The spirit of Massachusetts has done in two or
three years only what Christ, or the Churoh of
Chi ist, was twelve or fifteen hundred years in ac
complishing In the Roman Bmpire.”
Sir, I ara no son of Massachusetts or New Eng
land, as the ..gentleman is; but I remember that, in'
my wayward youtb, being free from the indenture
that had bound me to a long apprenticeship, but not
having attained manhood, I wandered from my na
tive Pennsylvania, counter to the current tide of
emigration, in pursuit of employment, »ad fouud a
home in Massachusetts, afld I may be pardoned if X
pause for a moment to feebly testify my gratitude
to her in whom I found a gentle and generous foster
mother. 1 thank God for the Puritan spiilt or Mas*
saebusetts. A boy, poor, friendless, ami in pursuit
of wages for manual toll, I found opeifto me in the
libraiies of Boston the science, history, and litera
ture of the world. At a cost that even the laboring
man did not feel, I found, sight after night, ana
week after week, in her lyceumsand lecture-rooms,
the means of intercourse with: kjfer har
Brownson, her Everetts, her Qha&nlfigi, her Pres
cott, her Emerson, and scores of dthes as learned
and as able, though perhaps less distinguished sons
than these. I thus learned what it was to bean
American citizen, and to what a height American
civilization will be carried; and I found four years,
of life spent at well-paid toil worth to me ivhat
the same number of years in a college might have
been. I thank the men or Massachusetts, as will
the scholars in public schools fashioned upon her
principles in tbe city of Charleston in good time.
They may be white, they may be black, they may
be jellow, but when the civilization of Massachu
setts shall have penetrated that dark city, and
fashioned its institutions, as it will, the pleasure
of the pupils in the schools will be to thank God
night acd morning for the spirit of Massachusetts
which kept liberty alive, and finally brought its
blessings to tbe entire people of the country. Yes,
sir, Massachusetts in the past two or thiee years
has given a practical application of those principles
which, in twelve or fifteen centuries gave freedom
to Europe, and is about giving it to all the people of
Ameiica. Hot without war, however m , and tbe
gen leman ignored the teachings of history when he
said that it had been done without war in Europe.
Sir, the history of the contest for freedom in Europe
is a history of continuous, sanguinary, and destruc
tive war.
The gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Cox) less gravely
—1 will not cay more flippantly, for that might be
ofiensive —devoted his hour, as I hive said, not to
the examination of the bill, but to a criticism of cer
tain utterances of Wendell Phillips and Theodore
Tilton, and the reading of copious extracts from an
aDDoymous pamphlet recently published by Dexter,
Hamilton, fit Co., Nassau street, New York, entitled
“ Miscegenation.”
I am a little disappointed, Mr. Speaker, that this
bill should receive such treatment at the hands of
gentlemen on tbe other side of the House. They
profess sympathize with the people of the South.
They profess to wish for peace and to restore them
to the bteaUngs of society. Sir, do they not know
that this bill relates to four million people of the
South, half a million, certainly more than four hun
dred thousand, of whom are the near relatives of
their former associates upon this floor and their par
tisans in tbe South, men to whom they and their
deluded partisans confided the administration of our
Government for more than thirty years? None
-know better than these gentlemen that one-half
million of those slaves are the near relatives, the,
uncles, aunts, and cousins, brothers, sisters, and chil
dren of the Democracy of the South; that in the veins
of that number of colored people tingles the blood
of what the gentlemen have been pleased to con
sider the master race of this country. The gentleman
intimated that, by reason of the utterances to which
he zeferred, he was satisfied that the Republicans
and Abolitionists of the North would fall Into the
practice of amalgamation. Sir, he knows very well
that the complaint of the alleged illegal and uncon
stitutional ivrrett of that specimen of Southern
chivalry, that representative of Virginia manners
ami morals, that leader of the New York Democracy,
Captain J. U. Andrews. Is not their real grievance
in the premises. He knows very well that their real
grievance, and that out of which they expected to
make most capital while they hoped to restore
slavery to its old political power, is that when the
officers tore that husband of a white woman ruth
lessly from the sweltering embrace of hit African
inamorata they violated Democratic usages. Yes,
sir, this is their real cause of complaint in the
premises.
It is not the men of the North who have been
enamored by that complexion which is described as
the “ shadowed livery of the burning sun.” It is
not tbe men of the North who have laid their
“ snowy bands” in “ palms of russet,” or “ hung
Europe’s priceless pearl that shames the Orient on
ATlic’B swarthy neck” or realized experimentally
the truth of the poet’s Aphorism, that
In joining contrasts lleth Love’s delight.”
These exquisite and delicate sources, of enjoy
ment have been in the exclusive possession of the
Southern Democracy, the co-laborers in politics of
the gentleman who charges them so wantonly upon
the people of bis own section. He has never seen'"
the white Northern man choose his compapion from
that race. I have by me the picture of a band of i
slaves cent North by General Banks, four, of whom I
are as white as we who hold this discussion. ~ They |
come from the colored schools recently established •
in New Orleans. They are children of Southern >
Democrats, born in Virginia and Louisiana j they i
were owned or sold by their fathers as negro j
slaves.
I look, sir, upon that picture of Washington’s
companion in the Revolution [pointing to the pic
ture of Lafayette] and his fit .associate in this
Hal], and I remember that when on hie tour
through this country in 1824 he visited the South
ern States, he very publicly expressed his surprise
at finding the complexion of the negro population
in their oities so largely changed from what it had
been at the close of the revolutionary war, and
expressed the hope that in finding the two races
thus blending their blood he might discover the
solution of the slavery question.
But a few weeks ago, in conversation with a dis
tinguished son of Kentucky, himself a slaveholder,
upon the question now under discussion, he said to
me that in 1349 he was at school at Danville, Ken
tucky ; that there were there on an average three
hundred young men, and that though the colored
population of the town numbered six hundred, there
weic but six of pure African blood. The students
at that school were not Northern Abolitionists or
Republicans. They were the wealthy and educated
young gentlemen of the Democratic South.
But, sir, let this question not rest upon isolated
instances of narrow localities. Let us look at the
cemus «f iB6O. I find by it that more than half
a million of the colored people of that section are,
as X have already intimated, the kindred of the
white race of the South. Thus in Louisiana, of
the free coioredpeople, 81.29 per cent, are of mixed
blood, while in Pennsylvania only 33 67 are of mixed
blood. And here let me say the latter are nearly all
of Southern birth. I remember while litigation was
pending in our courts between two colored natives
of Charleston, there were on one occasion about
fifty witnesiesin court, Some of my colleagues re
member the occasion. The contest was between
Robert J. Douglass and Wilkinson Jones, and,
among the fifty witnesses, all of whom were natives
of Charleston, South Carolina, and its immediate
vicinity, there was not a black or one white man.
They were all of mixed blood. And, in behair of
Pennsylvania, I claim that the South has sent us by
far the greater portion of what we have of that
Btock. In Alabama the per eentage of mixed blood
la 77.99, and in Vermont 27.08. In Texas it
swells to 76 90; in Rhode liland it Biaks to
25.23; in South Carolina it Uses again to
71.96, notwithstanding her exportations to Penn
sylvania and elsewhere $' la Connecticut it sicks
to 22.04. In North Carolina it is 71.59; in New
Yoik it is 15.85; in Florida it is 68.99; in New Jersey
it is but 13.64. But these, you say, are freed people;
these are persons whore fathers, unwilling to sell
their own blood, have manumitted their children.
Let us look, then, to the statistics of the slave popu
lation. I find that by the census of 1550 there were
of mixed blood among the slave population but 7 30
percent.; and in iB6O, so busy had the pro* slavery
Democracy been In augmenting the numerical power
of the institution, that the 7.39 had swollen to 10 41;
and it the negro race is to be saved as a distinct race,
the only way to do it is to take it from the embrace
of the slaveholders, to acknowledge the humanity
of the slave, to give him the rite of marriage, and to
teach him those great truths which, according to the
gentleman from New York, in twelve or fifteen hun
dred years gave freedom, and with It morals, to
Europe. _
The Presidential Question.
(From the New York Timas. March 5.2
Prebident Lincoln and sbcrbtabt Crash.—
We.find the following paragraph.in the Wash*
ington correspondence of the Cincinnati Commercial:
*• An interesting correspondence has taken place
between Secretary Chase and President Lincoln
oh the subject of the Pomeroy Circular. Some
data since Mr. Chase sent a note to the President,
saying be had not seen tbe Pomeroy circular until
published, and that he disapproved of it; but,
nevertheless, at the solicitation of friends, he stood
in the attitude of a candidate for the Presidency ;
and he submitted to Mr. Lincoln the question
whether such an attitude was incompatible with his
relations as a member of the Cabinet.
“ The President replied that he had not seen Mr.
Pomeroy’s circular at all, and as to whether Mr.
Chase's candidacy was incompatible with his position, as
a member of the Cabinet, that was a question for him
(Chase) to decide,"
Whether any such correspondence hays taken place
or not, we have no means of knowing, beyond the
general trustworthiness of the journal in which
the statement appears. There is nothing improba
ble in it. It wq’aid be quite natural for Mr. Chase
to make’ the inquiry; and Mr. Lincoln’s reply is
certainly very pertinent and just. If Chase in
tends, by being a candidate, to put himself in an at
tifude St jaasTkortUity to thf Pre.ident-if he in
tends to use the public patronage fill OOBltlOfl
as a member of the Cabinet by appointment
of Mr. Lincoln enables him to control for
his own advancement against the President,
or if he permits it to be understood that
he enters the ca ivass as the advocate of a policy
tiitteient from that of Mr. Lincoln’s Administration,
then it is dear that his candidacy ia “incompatible
With his position as a member or the Cabinetand
Mr, Lincoln may safely rely on Mr. Chase’s saga
city and delicacy to find it out. Bat if the choice
between them turns wholly on personal considera
tions, and Mr. Chase does not permit himseir, either
by the acts ol office-holders under him, or by dissent
from the policy of the Administration of which he
form a pait, to be put iu an attitude of opposition
to it, there can bo no harm or indelioaoy iu his re
maining a member of Mr. Lincoln’s Cabinet.
[From the Tribune ] „ .
A fuller and more exaot statemenfof the character
of the correspondence between Secretary Chase and
President Lincoln is that, after tbe appearance of
the Pomeroy circular advocating Mr. Ohaaa’s elec
tion to the Presidency, the Secretary wrote to Mr.
Lincoln, and asked if he thought that the attitude
of a candidate, in which bis friends bad placed him,
would prejudice the public interests entrusted to his
care, adding that he did not desire to administer the
Treasury Department one day longer than he pos
sessed the President’s confidence. Mr. Lincolns
reply, frank and friendly, assured Mr. Chasß that he
did not perceive any occasion for any change.
Lincoln and Hamlin.— The Portland Prew says
the following is the ** resolve relating to the Presi
deSt arT Vice President of the United States,”
passed to he engrossed by both Houses of the Legis
lature, under a suspension of the rules, with a degree
of unanimity seldom witnessed in a deliberative
assembly i
Resolved, That for their eminent .ervloe, to their
couDtry in the year. o( It. srayert peril, President
Abrnhom Lincoln and Vice Pmident Ifannibal
Hamlin are de.erving the confldenoe and regard of
the American people, and that, in the opinion of
thit Legislature, the loyal citizen, of Maine de*in
THREE CENTS.
We fully agree with the Kennebec Journal that
“ the Legislature hai performed it* duty in Kiviee
the endonement or the State in favor or the re
election of Lincoln and Hamlin. Their name*
were the battle-ory of freemen in 1860, and bo let
then) he in the momentoui FreMdential struggle of
1864.” ; •‘ ■
The First Abolitionist.
CFrrm Specimen Feres of Horace Greeley's Work on the
War. ] ,
Benjamin Lundy deserve* the highest honor o>
ranking as the pioneer of direot: and distinctive
anti-slavery in America. Many who lived bßfore
and cotemporary with him were AooUttomst*; but
he was the Oi*t of our oountrymen who devoted
hi* life and all hi* power* exclusively to the
esuse of the slave. Slight In frame, and below the
oommon height, unassuming in manner and gentle
in spirit, he gave the oauae of emancipation pelther
wcmth, nor eloquence, nor lofty abilities, for he
had them not; but hi* courage, perseverance, and
devotion were unsurpassed, and these combined to
render him a formidable, though disregarded if not
uear.iited, antagonist to our national crime.
lu the year 1816, when twenty.*ix yearn of age, he
f< } -£ i - an anti*slavery association, known as the
. Union Humane Society,” whereof the firat meet
ing w&a held at his own house, and consisted of but
five or six persons. Within a few months its num
bers weie * welled to four or five hundred, and in
cluded the beat and moat prominent citizens of Bal
mont and the adjacent oountiei. Lundy wrote an
appeal to philanthropists on the subject of slavery,
which was first piloted on the 4th of January, lBie,
being Lis twenty-seventh birthday. Short and
simple as it war, it contained the germ of the entire
anti- slavery movement, a weekly journal, entitled
The Philanthropist) was scon after started at Mount
Fieasant by Charic-s Osborne; ardl.undy, at the
editoi’s invitation, contributed to its culumns, main
ly by selections. In a few months he was urged by
Oabexaa to join him in the newspaper enterprise*
&no finally consented to do so, removing to Mount
Pleasant.
He there started, in Januaiy, 1821, a monthly en
titled The Genius of Universal Emancipation. He
commcncedut with six subscribers, himself ignorant
of printing and without materials, having his work
done at Steubenville, twenty miles distaat, travel
ling thither frequently on foot, and returning with
his edition on his back. Pour months later he had
a'very considerable subscription list* >
In 1828 he traveled eastward, lecturing and so
liciting subscribers to his Genius, and calling, in New
York, on Arthur Tappan, William Goculell, aod
other anti* slavery men. At Boston he could hear
of no Abolitionists, but made the acquaintance, at
his boarding-house, of William Lloyd Garrison, a
fellow- boarder, whose attention had not previously
betn drawn to the slavery question, but who readily
embraced his views* He vieited successively most
of the clergymen of Boston, and induced eight of
them, belonging to various sects, to meet him. All
of them, on explanation, approved his labors and
subscribed for his periodical; and, In the oourae of a
few days, they aided him to hold an anti-slavery
meeting, which was largely attended.
Tile President’s Amnesty Proclamation—
A Suggestion.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23, 1661.
To the Editor of The Press:
Sib: I venture to trouble you with a suggestion,
whicln~l think, would receive public attention.
I have not seen in any quarter any allusion to the
course I wish to suggest, viz : That by Presiden
tial proclamation all soldiers, deserting from tbe rebel
aimy, should be promptly admitted, after satisfactory
proof of loyalty, and enrolled as soldiers in our
army. Hebei prisoners have been admitted into the
navy, perhaps into the army. Hebei citizens, also,
have made their escape, and as citizens of the United
States have enlisted; but what should prevent the cir
culation, side by side with and as part of the amnesty
proclamation, 01 a proclamation assuring to every
Southerner, eltizen or soldier, entering our lines, im
mediate employment, pay, subsistence, and boun
ties, even as a soldier of the Union?
The only danger is the risk of half loyalty and of
want of zeal, in doubtful oases, or as the general
lule, such recruits could be so scattered, perhaps,
in stations well northward that they woufd be al
most powerless for barm; white, it should be borne
in mind that, by the time they oould largely affeot
our army, they would have dissolved the Southern
aimy. The probable expense could be no objection,
as in no other way could we so cheaply subdue the
rebellion.
The advantage would be the obvious one, that
whereas the amnesty proclamation says to South
erners, soldiers, and others, simply you will be par
doned and received as citizens, to what citizenship
docs it invite To one of starvation, of con
stant tear of life, of want of support for those
dependent, and of inaction. Those who know
the condition of the South assure us that
it is useless to attempt to carry on civil
occupations in most parts of the South; ia the
bolder States on account of the uncertainty
of everything in the others on account of the con
scription. what folly it seems then to proclaim to
the Southern soldier, lay down your arms and go
home and be a citizen. If, however, the amnesty
proclamation, as doubtless it will, shall work good, a
proclamation such as I suggest would be many times
more effective. It would offer at once a home, a
refuge, an occupation akin to the feelings of the mo
ment, and pay for the future support of helpless
ones left behind. When the President published
the emancipation proclamation, however admirable
and effective it was, the practical results did not
begin to develop until measures were taken to or
ganize black soldiers. So here sgain the amnesty
proclamation, followed up by inducements to South
ern white men to enter our ranks, would, it may
jeaeocably be hoped, strike a deadly blow at the
rebellion.
The theoiy which alone, according to the belief of
many, justifies and renders obligatory this war, is
our duty to Southern Union men, and this duty
should never be lost sight of. The President’s
noble and comprehensive amnesty proclamation
shows that he bears it fully in mind, by pointing
out the mode of bringing back States into the Union
through their Union men *, but the point I wish to
make is merely this, in extension of his expressed
views, that as it is impossible just now for out
spoken Union men to live in the rebellious States,
»o our duty to them, to ourselves, and to our coun
try is to enable them to do their duty, by giving them
a home in our ranks and arms to fight their way
back to their civil rights. Yours, N. B.
Cax>tain Symnu,
To ike Editor of The Press .*
Sir : In your daily itaue of March Ist, under the
head of “ Personal,” noticing the death of the vene
rable widow of General Harrison, on the 26th uH.,
it is truly Btated that ahe waa the daughter of John
Oieve* Symms. the founder of the Miami settle
ment!, but who was not the inventor of the famous
“Symma’ Hole” theory, according to which the
earth is hollow, open at the poles, &o, We must
give the credit of this theory, for the truth of his*
tory, to Captain John Oleves Symmi, late of the Ist
Regiment United States Infantry. This fact re
mains indelibly fixed on our mind from an incident
which waa very near causing our arrest on the
plains ef Chippewa, Upper Canada, in October,
1814. We were the Captain’s subaltern in the ad
vance upon the enemy at Chippewa. At night we
formed The rear picket guard, when all was quiet,
save the cautiou? tread of the sentinel, our gallant
Captain, as we were seated in the lock of a rail
fence, asked us if we knew that the earth was open
at the poler, hollow within, and buffaloes grazing
fine vegetation; and, further, could he procure the
seivioe* of eighty brave men, he would undertake to
prove this to the world. After some hours we
ceased, the one to talk, the others to give heed,
when we heard the clattering of horses’ hoofs rapid
ly approaching. It proved to be the field officers of
the uay. Major Martin, who answered “ A friend,”
gave tne countersign, and rode up to the guard, our
captain on his feet to receive him. After a question
or two. “All present, sir!” “Where Is your sub
altern?” Response, “ Why, I don't know, indeed;
he was here just a moment since.” “Arrest Mm,
sir • arrest him!” This order brought us promptly
to our feet, simply remarking, “ Subaltern present,
sir; you hadn’t ought to be so fast, officer of the day:
and you, my Captain, got into the north pole, among
the buffaloes, and forgot you had a subaltern.” The
officer of the day (full of bad whisky) turned hla
steed promptly, burst into a roar of laughter, and
left the guard and the Captain and us to settle his
forgetfulness and our presence in the fence-corner.
Captain Symmi, like Moses, waa slow of speech, so
he employed Reynolds to lecture upon his theory,
but who. did not prove a faithful Aaron, as may be
seen on reference to the thirty-third volume of
«‘ Niles’ Register.” LAW. TALIAFERRO.
Note.— Captain S. was a gallant officer in battle,
and his bod, John C. Symms, la now a captain of
ordnance.
Basil Duke, tile Guerilla.
To ike Editor of The Press:
Sir : It was with no small degree of indignation
that we read In your paper a notice of the reception
cf the rebel Basil Duke at the Continental, on Fri
day last. Certainly, no one who is acquainted with
the past of this man’s life could take his bloody
hand in his without a thrill of horror and disgust.
The writer had the honor of once meeting Duke
under rather unpleasant circumstances, and of
taking part in a fete he gave to Union men. It was at
a town in Kentucky, in the fall of 1862. Duke, with
seven companies of rebel guerillas, came to the town
for the purpose of destroying it, though it was of no
importance to him, and entirely out of his line of
xnaich. He planted a battery on a hill back of the
town, not a quarter of a mile off, and immediately
commenced shelling it, without giving a moment’s
warning for the removal of the women and children.
When his forces camedown into the place they were
resisted by about one hundred of the citizens, who
took refuge in the houses for this purpose. For this
resistance they were doomed. The houses were
burned, and the wounded, not allowed to be removed
from them, were burned in them; men were shot
down alter their surrender, and the prisoners were
treated with marked indignity and cruelty.. The
order was given to kill every Union man in the
place, and the order would, doubtless, have been
canied into effect but for the approach of aid. It
may be mentioned here that the few Union citizen*
who took an active part in the fight did good service.
Duke lost, in killed, five out of nis seven captains,
several lieutenants, and nearly one hundred men.
On the arrival of the Union prisoners at Lexing
ton they were placed in what is termed a “negro
pen," an enclosure without cover, and there kept
for several daps. In a council of officers held to
consider their cate, Basil Duke advocated the shoot
ing cf all the prisoners, and threatened to resign if
it were not done; nor was he alone In this desire.
Kirby Smith, the general in command, overruled
them. From this short statement, the character of
the traitor Duke may be seen; in the whole affair
he manifested a mean, meroiiess, fiendish spirit.
Basil Duke was truly “Morgan’s right-hand
man,” and once, when he was badly wounded. Mor
gan could do nothing till his recovery. This led to
George D, Fentice’s bon mot on Duke’s being taken
prisoner: “Don’t anybody knock Morgan’s brains
out by tapping Basil Duke 6n the head.” Suoh is
the man whom men delighted to honor at the “ Con
tinental,” and who over their wiae wished him
health and prosperity—a common horse*thief, the
lUUlderer Of hundreds of Union men, the deeply
dyed traitor against his own State and his whole
country.
The writer knows whereof he affirms, having
been an actor in the fight spoken of, and a witness
©f the outrages committed. • _
Yours, respectfully, KENTUCKY.
Acknowledgment*
Philadelphia, March 6,1564.
To the Editor of The Press:
Sir : We desire in this public manner to acknow*
ledge our thunk, to the manager, otthe Oooperahop
Volunteer Refreshment saloon, of this oiw, for the
very kind treatment received at their hand, by our
eelve. and guard, escorting rebel prisoner* from
Alton, IlHnoia, to Fort Delaware.
These gentlemen met us at the cave, and conduct*
ed us to their saloon, where we were furnished an
elegant supper, and on our return, being compelled
to remain in the city over Sunday, they very gene
rously furnished us with good accommodations,
both foresting and sleeping.
We feel highly gratified at this exhibition of kind
ness on the part of our Eastern friends, and we as
sure them that ourselves and men feel trulv grate
ful for their kind attentions.
SAMUEL J. STEWART,
Capt* 10th Kansas Yols., Oomd’g Detaohment.
W. B. STONE,
First Lieut. 10th Kansas.
R. w. wood,
Second Lieut. 10th Kansas.
‘ Thb Spotted Fever.— This alarming malady
prevails to a great extent in the neighborhood of
the Black Horse, about a mile below our borough.
On Friday evening three children in one family
were taken with the disease, and on Saturday BJprn
Ing two of them died, and the
covery. Other families are afflicted, though not M
a like extent, ond the disease threatening,
though yet In it* infancy,—ftomifewn. Hereto.
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EUROPE.
The Steamship City of New York Arrived.
THE REBEL RAMBHIPS—RUSSELL'S COURSE
SUSTAINED,
UERMAHS EVACUATING- JUTLAND.
CONFERENCE OF THE GREAT POWERS.
RIOT OB’ ®II* FENUs; EDI ODBLU.
The City of New York ..lied from Ltven.ool on
the 84th, via Uuetn.town on the 25th ult 1 Bo * °“
The steamship Hibernian arrived out on th« ei«t
and the America at Southampton ou the ac-th *
England has proposed a conference on the Oanlife
difficulties on a new basis, and Austria and Pruitia
have given their assent to it.
The Times hopfs that a pacific solution of- the
question will be arrived at. >
The House of Gommons has debated the question
of the Mersey rams. A motion for the production
of the papers was rejeoted by 25 majority for the-
Government.
The Morning Post's city article says that the re*
portc from Paris are still more positive that cons
ceiiTial negotiations are progressing between Friaoc
and England for a joint recognition of the Confede
rates, and if England refuses, France will act alone.
The Post declines to vouch for these reports.
In the House of Commons, Mr. Fitzgerald .de
nounced the Government for seizing Laird’s rams,
and asserted that the action was in contravention
of the law* In moving for ail the correspondence
on the subject, he should oeplore war with America,
but would rather go to war than that the law of
England should be infringed in consequence of the
threats of forcigu ambassadors.
The Attorney General defended 'the Government,
and explained the legality of their action. He
claimed-for the Government the merit of acting
from a sense of justice, and no Other motive. Seve
ral speakers’denounced the course of the Govern
ment, with pusillanimity.
Finally the motion was rejected by a vote of IT’S
against 163—a majority of 26 for the Government.
The announcement of the vote was received with
loud cheers from the ministerial side.
Mr. Lsyard sakl that it was true that, with the
consent of tho British and American Governments
tobacco bad been parsed through the blockade from
Richmond for tho Austrian a fid French Govern
ments. England had made no similar application
for cotton, because the case was altogether dif
ferent.
An immense meeting at Dublin to protest against
the erection of the Albert memorial on College
Green was broken up by riotous proceedings of the
Fenian Brotherhood. A desperate fight took place,
but resulted in nothing serious. It is asserted that
come of the combatant* wore, the American uni
form.
THE YURY LATEST.
[Per the City of ffew York via Queenstown. J
The Confederate loan has deolined to 52 @5l.
The rate of discount of the Bank of England has
been reduced to 6 per cent.
The Jura, from Portland, arrived out on the 24th.
Affairs in Schleswig are unchanged. The report is
cod filmed that Austria aod Prussia have agreed
a conference iu London, but they will not discon
tinue hostilities in the meantime.
The Danish Minister of Fore<gi Affairs, In a
speech, distinctly asserts that not-" until the former
state of things is reinstated in Schleswig, will the
Danish Government renew its efforts for termi
nating by mean* or negotiations our conmotwith
the Germans.”
The London Times thinks It Is probable that the
spring will see a revolution in Germany.
Additional particulars of the Prussian repulse at
Dtippeln are conflicting. One account looks disas
trous for the Prussians; but the Prussian official
account is the reverse, only admitting three kJled
and twenty wounded.
It is asserted that an entente cordiale betweoa
FfAPCP and England is no loDger douotmi. The
Emperor agrees to co-operate. The Bourse ia Hrmer,
and rentes 66f.@55e.
INDIA AND CHINA.
Calcutta, .Tan. 30 —Cotton goods are improving.
Indigo firm. Exchange 2s. o;;d. Freights are droop
ing.
Shakghab, Jan. 10.—Trade is paralyzed by a
panic in the money maikot. Exchange has ad
vanced to 7s, Silk is lower. At Hong Koa« ex
change is quoted at ss. o>£d.
NEWS BY THE STEAMER SIDON.
The following is a synopsis of the news seat out
per the Sidon:
The ship destroyed by the Alabama was the
Emma Jane.
In the House of Lords, Earl Gray said the Go
vernment did not Intend to send commissioners to
report on the operations of the American armies.
but three officers had been sent to report on the
iron*clads. For obvious reasons, no officers had
been sent to the Confederate States.
In the House of Commons Disraeli made a sar
castic attack on the policy of the Government rela
tive to Denmark. He complained of the absence of
Lord Palmerston, and the delay in producing the
correspondence.
Several members expressed strongly their waabof
confidence in the Ministers, and Mr. Osborne
moved, in view of the unsatisfactory position of
affaire, that the consideration of the navy estimates
be postponed for three weeks.
After a general debate the motion was lost by a
Vote Of 47 to 220.
The papers say that the fate of the Ministers for
a few minutes trembled in the balance; but there
was an unwillingness to condemn without a lair
hearing.
Official returns show that the exports in 1863 were
£22,000 000, about those of 1882.
Five of the pirates of the ship Flowery Land were
executed together at Nexvgate.
It is reported that the Mexioan financial plans are
matured. They inolude a loan of twenty millions
sterling.
A telegram from Hamburg announces that the
Prussians had evacuated Jutland, but the Berlin pa
pers say they retained possession of Kolding* with
orders not to advance beyond that point.
The Germans were busily engaged in demolishing
the Dannetwerke at Schleswig.
On the 22d the\ Prussians attacked the whole
Danish lines at Duppeln. The Danes were driven
in, but finally reoccuoled their former position.
it is asserted that Denmark is about to announce
the blockade of all the Schea wig- Holstein ports.
The London Times strongly opposes the mterre
lence of England, single-handed, but bitterly de
nounces the Powers who refuse co operation.
A conference of the minor Gorman States hod
adopted strong resolutions in opposition to the
Austro* Prussian policy.
A suspicious British steamer, with a cargo of
arms, was seized at Malaga. Her destination was
unknown.
Three pirates of the Amerioan schooner Joseph
Gerety, captured by the passengers in the Gulf of
Mexutf, had been arrested in Liverpool.
Minister Dayton gave a bAll at Paris on
W ashington’s birthday.
Commercial Intelligence.
yUVBBPOOL COTTON MARKET, Fsb. 24.—Sales of
Cotton for the last two days 9,000 bales. Tim market Is
dull, and quotations are barely maintained. Sales to
speculators and exporters 2,000 bales.
MAHfiHKRTfcR COTTON MARKET. —The advices from
Manchester me uofavoiable, and prices arc fiat, with a
downward tendency. _ _ _
LIVERPOOL BREAD STUFFS MARKET,—Breaditaffa
dull. Flour still declining. Provisions quiet and steady.
Lard dull.
Wakefield, Nash, A Go., and Richardson. Bros., &
Go., report Flour doll and declined tfd; 20s6d@21a for
estra State. Beef is quiet and steady. Red western
Wheat 8s 3d@9s. Mixed Com dull at 29s Pork steady.
Bacon easier. Lard heavy and declined 3@6d. Tallow
dull. Ashes firm. Sugar quiet akid steady. Coffee
steady. Rice quiet. Rosin inactive. Spirits Turpentine
steady. Crude Petroleum quUt at Is !)d@ Is lOd.
LONDON MARKETS.—Breadstuff* dull. Susarquiet
and steady Coffee firm. Tea quiet. Rice steady. Tal*.
low inactive.
Illinois Central shares 20s 6d@l9s 6d; Erie shares 625
ed@63s6d.
Lokdon*. Feb. 25. Consols, for money, 91#®91Jtf*
Liverpool, Feb. 25 —The cotton sales on Wednesday
and Thursday were 12.000 bales, including 4.000 to specu
lators and exporters. The market is unchanged.
Breadstuffs quiet and Bteady a; Tuesday’s sales. Pro
vhions dull and tending downward. Produce steady
and nr changed.
AMERICAN STOCKS —Erie shares 62@61. Illinois
Central shares 20)a@19Ia discount.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
Arrived from BoHton, ship Torrlneton. at Smyrna.
PERSONAL.
A few day. ago a half crazy Massachuietta wo
man arrived at 1178.111118100, to make inquiriea In
reference to a aon of hen, who had been enlisted
into the army under the age of eighteen, and who, it
affills, is peculiarly unfitted for lUe in the army.
She made repeated attempts at the War Office to
get him back, but waa met with a refusal. Finally
she applied to Mr. Dawes, member of Congress from
Massacbusettr, who had an interview with the Pre
sident ; and the latter, upon hearing the racts, and
fib ding it a clear case of hardship, at once ordered
the discharge of the young man. His same is An
drew lioveioy, of Western Massachusetts. Though,
not sixteen years old, he was seduced into the army
by a substitute broker, who took all but $46 of the
$3OO which was paid by the principal. It was an in
famous outrage, the boy, while on a visit to Mew
Haven, Connecticut, being literally abducted, hla
mother never seeing him afterwards, and Mr. Lin
coin very promptly set It light.
Bancroft will be <4 years of age the 3d of next
October; Motley, 60 the 16 th of April; Emerson,
ei the 25th of May; Bryant, 70 the 3d of November;
Longfellow, 67the 87th of February; Whittier, 67
in December; Holmes, 66 the 20th of August; Lo
well, 45 tn February; Mitchell (Ike Marvel), 42 in
April; Curtis, 40 the 24th of February; Stoddard,
39 in July; and Bayard Taylor was 39 the 11th of
January. All were born in New England except,
one; no lesa than eight of the twelve saw the light
in Massachusetts; and Maine, Rhode Island, Con
necticut, and Pennsylvania, each produced one.
The executors of the estate of Rembrandt Peale
have offered for sale to the Art Committee of the
Metropolitan Fair, in New York, that distinguished
artist’s great national picture of 11 Washington be
fore Yorktown.” The price they ask Is eight thou
sand dollars, and a oommittee has been appointed to
solicit subscriptions for the purpose of securing iy
to the Metropolitan Fair. The committee are 6f
opinion that the addition of ao meritorious a work
to the art s»>l c >7 ot the fair will greatly add to it*
attiaotivenesi, while it* exhibition and subsequent
disposal will largely increase the income of the fair.
—lt may be interesting to lady readers to know
that the Empress of Austria has the smallest waist
in Christendom. It measures lnches, about the
circumference of her husband’s neck. And yet, the
oiroumference of her body at the shoulders la 33’i
indies. _
—Harry Macarty, well knmvn as the “Arkansas
Comedian,” and the author of the proscribed songs
of “The Bonny Blue Flag,” “The Volunteer,"
“Missouri,” and Other airs, died recently near At
lanta, Gs, ,
-It la one of the roost singnlar coincidences of
the war that Col. Straight, for whom John Morgan
waa held aa a hostage, should have esoped from
prison at Richmond in precisely the same manner as
Morgan got away from Columbus.
Maj Gen. Crawford, commander of the Penn
sylvania Reserve Corps, is at the State oapital.
Hia ieoeption by the membert of both Houaea of
the Legislature waa highly flattering and enthuai
**_ Married, on Moose Head Lake, forty roda from
the shore, on Wednesday, 17th Inst, (mercury 20®
below zero,) by J, H. Eveleth, Esq., Mr. Samuel
Dalton to Miss Marla Hartford.
—Hon, Horatio Ballard haa forwarded to Wash
ington an elaborate defence of himself against the
charges which have operated thus far to prevent hla
confirmation at consul to Havana.
—Bsyard.Taylor la aiok in Michigan. He write*
from Jackaon, Feb. ST, “I am attacked with fever,
and cannot lecture on Monday.”