THE PRESS, rnUIHD DAILY (SUNDAYS IXCKPTIDt ■T JOBI W. FORIIEY, OFFICE. *4. 11l SOUTH FOURTH STREET. «n daii.y press, rirmv Onn Pb* Tsm, payable to tho carrier i mailed to Bnbeerlbere oat of tho city at Stmn Doli.ash Pi* inm Tx*«* Dolsahs a»d Piftt Obkts fob 8« UoFTEe; Oir* Dollar asd Sbtrbtt fit* Obbto for Thru Hocth. Inyariably In advance for tho time or* Sired. 49* Advertluaonto Inaortod at the nenal ratoe. Six flnoo constitute a enure. VHI TRI-WEEKT.Y PRESS, Mailed to Babaoribon oat of the elty at Fora Dollars Pb* Aura, la advance. COMMISSION HOUSES. fJHE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE Ie called to OUR STOCK OF SAXONY WOOLEN 00. all-wool Plain Flannele. TWILLED FLANNELS, Yarlona makea In Gray, Scarlet, and Dark Bine, TRENTED SHIRTING FLANNELS. PLAIN OPERA FLANNELS. SLACK COTTON WARP CLOTHS, 16, .18, 17, IS, 19, 39, 31, 31 OL PANOT CABSIMEBBS AND SATINETTB. BALMORAL SKIRTS, all Grades. COTTON GOODS, DENIMS, TICKS, STRIPES, SHIRT INGS, Re., from varione Mills. DKCOUKBEY, lAMILTON, A EYAHB, ■3 LBTITIA Street, and 33 South FRONT Street. f037-womtsoß fTORACE H. SOULE, XL COMMISSION MERCHANT, 3D NORTH FRONT STREET, FHILADBLFHIA, Hont for MILLS. BALDWIN COMPANY. WILTON MANUFACTURING CO.. ABBOT WORSTED COMPANY. CARPET WORSTED AND YARNS. FlnaWontod, In colors; Nos. 12s and 28s, Joto Yarns. COTTON YATBNS, In Watp and Bundl*« manufactured by . ZABBIoKI£ t PBAlsti, OAKMAN. And other well-known Mills, CARPETS. CONTINEHTAL MILLS, INGRAIN. AND VENITIAM CARPETS. X.INEN THREAD. SAHPSOM'B ARQYLB, VIHCBHT MILLS. MoDOMALD'S. BATIK TIHISH BOOKBUTDEBS’, OAEPIT THREAD Eor br HORACE H. BOTTLE, 33 North TROUT Street JNSKEEP & TRUEFITT; COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. E*l CHESTNUT STREET, Hare In Stors. and offer to the trade, FRENCH. BRITISH, AND GERMAN DBBBB GOODSv SHAWLS, of all descriptions. VEIL GOODS, In aH colors. 4-4, 6-4, and 6-4 ENGLISH CRAPES. LINEN CAMBRIC HANDKBRCHIBPB. Ac. feK-lm JJAGSI BAGSI BAGS! NEW AND SECOND-HAND. SEAMLESS, BURLAP, AND GUNNY BAGS, flour and salt bag-), all sizes. PRINTED'TO ORDBR* BY Hr WT StSblt. pmre BAGS.—A LARGE ASSORT sj MEBT of GKAIH BAGS. TUloa* .S».. tor .le by BAECBOPT to 00.. Bo*. 40» wd tOT MABKBT Stmt gHIPLEY, HAZARD, & HUTOHIN- Mo. 11» CHESTNUT BTBEET. COMMISSION MEKOHANTS, FOB THE SALS OP PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. otftMTm . CARPETINGS. 1864. echo mills, 1864. SPRING, OKEMAHTOWIT, PA. McCALLUM & CO, iiAiniio?uas*s. impoetsbs, ahd wholbsali DEALERS IN OA-R^-BTI-tSTCa-S, OIL CLOTHS, &C. WiurehonM, 809 CRestuut Street, orrosin independence hall m-h gPBOIAIi NOTICE. KBTAIL DEPAKTMENTi HcCALLCiH & CO. Sec leap. to tstonn tbs public tbat Uioy hap. IWMi tbs aid eetabliahed Carpet Store, Wo. Sl» CHESTNUT STREET, Ooppo<lte Independence Hall, for ABITAIIi DEPART BENT, Wber. tb.y an now openlnr a HEW STOCK of IMPORTED UD AMERICiN CIRPETS, # “ Pa f“ S f TKT CASP*rs. tofjS, VnGtov. brusskls OAj&PBTSt VELVET. I VENETIANS. Together with ft full assortment ofevorythLnr portftia. Ol to th# Oftn»t Baitnw. fel-ii ■gJNTBBPSISB MILLS. ATWOOD, RALSTON, & CO., UAITtJIAOTDKEKfI AJ!D ’WHOLSSALS DllLlb!b Of CARPETINGS, OIL-CLOTHS, MATTINGS, &c., &C. WAJREHOTJSEi «» CHESTNUT STKEKT, jd-Sx 616 JAYITS STSSA7. OIL CLOTHS, &C. fI.W.BLABON * 00., 'Of MAMUFACTTIIIBIiS OF OIL CLOTHS, Wo. 13* JTORTH THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Offer to tie Trade a full Stock of FLOOR, TABLE, AND CARRIAGE OIL CLOTHS. GREEK-GLAZED OIL CLOTHS AHD WINDOW jnhl-2m SHAD SS. W. HtlLlj, Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer la CARPETINGS, MATTINGS, RUGS. ALSO, COTTON AND WOOLEN TARNS, ~ s 4t very Low Juices, SXo. 1/26 NORTH THIRD STRjsBT, ABOVE ARCH. ynM.gm . Philadelphia. DRUGS. JJOBEBT SHOEMAKER <6 00., Northeast Corner of FOURTH and BACK Street*, PHILADELPHIA, JUTHOLEBAIdE DKUGGIBTB, KPORTERS AND DIALERS IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WIKDim iXD PLATE SLABS. KAktJf Aortnißaa or j white lead and zikc paints, putty, a*. Aonra roa ihb cblbbbatbd FBENOH ZINC PAINTS. •alert and *onsuM*rs supplied at aT Sm VERY LOW PRIONS 70S CASH. GAS FIXTURES, dec. CHARLES PAGE, Favorably known for the last twenty yean as Pried tj?al Designer of GAS FIXTURES for MESSRS. CORNELIUS A BAKER.- ■ 2* this day admitted a Partner in our firm. - We will continue the sale and manufacture of GAS FIXTURES ander the Arm-name of YAJf KIRK & CO., .-MANUFACTORY AT FRANKFORD. SALESROOMB-013 ABCH STREET. February 1,1881. fe!9-fmw2m CARRIAGES. 'SME9&: GEO. W. WATSON A CO., . CASBIAGE BUILDERS. No «** North THIRTESNTH Street, Are BOVr prfjp.red to eyp«!iU) order, for every deaerly .ion of licit and heavy OA K?.! AOBB, and haylnf at aU tlmei theyery be»t materU:. and workmen, «an nro- O M tie utmost MtUfwUoD to all who may favor them With their cnetom/ The Repairing business will be continued by Mr JACOB LOUDEHSLAabR, « tb« old stand. onOLOVBfi Htiraat. ranv of CnusaH VfaP lae.Sw agm EVANS & WATSON’S store. 16 SOUTH FOU KTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA PA. A large variety of FIRE PROOF SAFES always 01 hand. jgUILDING HARDWARE. ' STRAP HINGES, IT HINGES, BEVEaL HINGES, I SHUTTER STRAPS, and all kiode o! wronKht Hinges, large orsmaU. SHUTTER BOLTS, i NECK BOLTS, and mant articles of Building and Carriage Hardware, manufactured and kept on hand at -»• „ JACKSON IRON WORKS. mhll-3m , Offite Na 336 CHURCH Alley. Mannfactnra- s of Warranted BEAM and HAY SCALES. MACKEREL, HERRING, SHAD, S. COO bile Mass. No.l, a, and a Hackerel, late-eanihl fat fish. In assorted package*. 2.000 bble New Baatport, Fortune Bay, and Halifax JEerring. . 9.600 boxes Lubee, Scaled. and Ho. 1 Herrin*. lfiObbls new Mess Shad. fiSO boxes Herkimer County Cheese, fa. In store and for sal* by MURPHY A KOONg. fctf-if No, 14* NQETH WfIAEVM. VOL. 7.—NO. 199. SIIiK AND DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. 1864. spring , JS64. DRY GOODS I RIEGEIi, ~ WIEST, & ' ERYIY, IMPORTERS ANdVobBEBS OP X>RY GOODS, HO. 47 K. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Hath now in store, and are dally In receipt of. all kind* of FRESH SPRING DRY GOODS, OF THE YERY LATEST STYLES. Have a Foil Stock of all the different kinds of PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. Merchants will find It to their Interest to call and ex* amine onr stock, as we can offer them UNEQUALLED INDUCEMENTS. " mh9-2m CHARLES WATSON. •' FRANKLIN JAKNET. SILK HOUSE WATSON & JAMEY, - , No. 333 MARKET STREET. . WHOLESALE DBALKBS tN SILKS, DRESS GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE GOODS, EMBROIDERIES, &c. To which they respectfully Invite the attention of buyers. mh9-Sm 1864. SPBINtfi 1864. JAMES, 4£ENT, SANTEE, & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS 0? DB Y GOODS, Noe. 339 and 3*l NORTH THIRD ST., abore Raw, PHILADELPHXAe Have now open their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK ‘ OF TOBEIG3I AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS- Notwithstanding the soarclty of many kinds of Dry Goods, our stook Is now full and varied In all Its de partments. Special attention Is Invited to our assortment of PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. A full assortment'of Cloths, Casslmeres, Ae. A full assortnfent of Prints, De Laines,-Ac. A full assortment of Motions, White Goods. Ac. A full assortment of Sheetings, Shirtings, Ac. A full assortment of Omlsh Goods. Ac. fell Sm jq-EW CASH HOUSE. GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD FOB CASH, LITTLE & ADAMSON, 318 MARKET STREET, Invite attention to their entire new and Splendid Stock SPRING DRESS GOODS. BLACK SILKS, MOURNING SILKS, FANCY SILKS, POULT DE BOIES. SEASONABLE SHAWLS, CLOAKING CLOTHS, MANTILLA SILKS, MANTILLAS, Manufactured by themselves from late Paris Styles. mhl-3m __ ' 1864. 1864. SPRING DRY GOODS. GEBAT INDUCEMENTS TO GASH BUYEBB. HOOD, BONBRIGHT, & C 0„ Wholesale Dealers In FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC DRY GOODS, •SO MARKET Street, and 536 COMMERCE Street, PHILADELPHIA, Woold lespectfriUYoiavlte attention to their XiABGB STOCK of leadinV ' DOMESTICS, DRESS GOODS, MEN’S AND BOYS’ WEAR, and many popular foods of FHIiiADELPHIA MANUFACTURE/ mh2*2m _ BAINS, * MBLLOB, Noa 40 and M NORTH THIRD STREET, IMP ORT £ R S or HOSIERY, ' SMALL WARES, AV2> WHITE goods. MANUFACTURERS OP SHIRT FRONTS. fel-Sm ■ ' ■ SPRING, 1564. 1864. EDMUND YARD & CO., NO. 617 CHESTNUT AND No. 614 JAYNE STREETS, Hay, now In Store their SPRING IMPORTATION of BILK AITD FAHOT DBI GOODS, OOKSISTIHS OP DBESB GOODS. OF ALL KINDS; BLACK AND FANCY SILKS, SATINS, GLOVES, MITTS, RIBBONS, AND DXUE&S TRIMMINGS. . ALSO, WXITE GOODS, LINENS, EMBBOIDSKIES, AND I.ACES. A large and handsome assortment of SPBING AND SUMMER SHAWLS. BALMORAL SKIRTS, Of all grade*. fa. Which they offer to the Trade at the LOWEST PRICES. ja3o3m CHOICE SPRING IMPORTATIONS, C , 1864. DAWSON, BRANSON, & GO., 501 MARKET BTRE E T, CORNER OF FIFTH, Have now in store, and will be constantlySrecelving, during the season, an attractive line of PARIS, GERMAN, AND BRITISH ' DRESS GOODS, BLACK SILKSt STAPLE AND FANCY SHAWLS, Jto., &o. All of which will be sold at the ' fe23-2m ‘ ‘ LQWB3T MARKET PRICES. HOTELS. “ A VENUE HOUSE ” ■tl WASHINGTON, Df'C. The undersigned having leased the above House, situated en the corner of bEVBNTH Street and PENN SYLYANIA Avenue, for a term of years, he solicits the former patronage and the travelling public generally, and will at all tlmss be happy to see his old friends. Respectfully, C. T. JONES. Washington. D. C.. March 3,1864. mhlo-6m JONES HOUSE, HARRIBBURG, Pa., CORNER MARKET STREET AND MARKET SQUASH. A flrst*cla«s house. Terms, $2 per day. WINES AND LIQUORS. IMPORTERS OF I- WINES AND LIQUORS. LAUMAN, SALLADE, & CO.; No. 138 SOUTH NINTH STREET, Between Chestnut and Walnut, Philadelphia. G. M. LAUMAN, A. M, SALLADE, noIO-Cm - J. D- BITTING. BLANK BOOKS AND STATIONERY* JJRYSON & SON, NO. 8 NOBTH SIXTH STHEET, PRINTERS AND STATIONERS. BLANK BOOKS, FAPEKS, PENS, AND INKS OF SUPERIOR QUALITY. Corporation.. Banks, and Basines, Men supplied with' everything tecegsary for the Counting-room. mhll-Im PAUmiGS AND KWGRAVIWGS. gLBQANT MIBBOBB, A LARGE ABSOSTMIirr. 9IBW BNGRAVIHaa, rum oil t aiktixgi. JUST RIOSIVXD. GABLE’S GALLERIES, •16 CHESTNUT STRUT. PARD AND FANCY JOB PRINTING, G At EINQWAL? * INGWNU Ilia. FOSETH B’J “A T R ETAIL " JAS. R. CAMPBELL & CO., 721 CHESTNUT STREET, Invite attention to their stock of STAPLE AND FANCY SILKS AND DRXSSS G-OODS, Of very recent importation, embracing the most exten sive and desirable assortments that they hare ever offered. ■ * COURVOISIER’S KID GLOVES, BLACK, WHITE, AND COLORED. MOURNING GOODS. 8-4 and 8 4 BAREGE HERNANI. 8-4 and 8-4 CRAPE MARETZ. 8-4 and 8-4 TAMARTINES. 8-4 and &4 DELAINES. BYZANTINES and FLORENTINES. FRENCH and ENGLISH BOMBAZINES. ALPACAS, in all qualiHoa. MOURNING JACONETS. BLACK SILKS In great variety. All widths and best brand,. mh9-Im MOURNING STORE. MOIIRmC BOMETS. Bow recelvine our SPRING STYLES of MOURNING BONNETS. Ladies will find always at this Emporium a LABGEB STOCK OF MOUBNING BONNSrS than at any other store in the city. Orders promptly attended at the NEW MOURNING STORE, 936 CHESTNUT STREET, a/C- <Se -A.. «So GO. mhlB-6t E. & L. EYRE & LANDELL, FOURTH A.INT) ARCH, HAVE THE FOLLOWIUO DEPARTMENTS WELL STOCKED FOR THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL SPRING TRADE 1864: SILK DEPARTMENT. SHAWL DEPARTMENT. DRESS-GOODS DEPARTMENT. • WHITE-GOODS DEPARTMENT. POINT LACE DEPARTMENT. MOURNING DEPARTMENT. HOSIERY. DEPARTMENT. . MEN’S-WEAR DEPARTMENT. . HOUSEKEEPING STAPLE GOODS. mhl6-wfm NJ W. CORNER EIGHTH AND a .MARKET.. J. C. STRAWBRIDGE & CO, (FORMERLY COWPERTHWAIT & CO.), HAVE NOW OPEN, A fine assortment of Black Silks, Sttiall Plaid India Silks, Plain, Striped, and Plaid Poplins. Superior Black a»d.Colored Alpacas, Pink, Elae, &nfi Ba.ff Brilliants, ~ - Pink, Bine, and Buff Percale*,' Striped and Figured French Chintzes. SHAWLS, SH A WLS, SHAWL S. 100 lama WoolSwawls, from $2 50 to SS. ICO Mozambique “ $3 to $7. ICO Silk Check $4 to *9. 100 Black Stella *V 50 to $2O. We still have an immense stock of COTTON AND LIKEN SHEETINGS AifD SHIRTINGS. GGO dozen Towels and Napkins. - A full line of Barnesly Table Linens. The celebrated Power and Band-Loom Table Linens. Huclfltb&ck,Birdeye» and Diaper. Lancaster, Manchester, and Honey comb Qnilts. Pink, Blue, and White Marseilles Counterpanes and Quilts. Cloths, Cassimcrcs, and Cloakings. A full assortment of Sackings. A full assortment of Cloths and Cassimerea. A full assortment of Boys’ wear. At Wholesale and Retail, N. W. Corner Eighth and Market Streets. mh2lmwf tjyl LEFEYRE& GO., ' ' Having, since ISSS, manufactured the CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, &c., Of the late firm of Xj. J-- LEVY <se CO, 3 / * And their successors, would respectfully inform their old friends and the ladies generally, that they will open, on the Ist day of April, a SPLENDID AND CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF CLOAKS, MANTILLAS, ' Embracing many HEW AND BEAUTIFUL PATTERNS, Received direct from their Paris Agents. It will be tbelr aim to give to the Philadelphia public ALL THE ADVANTAGES POSSESSED BY PARIS AND NEW YORE HOUSES, and their customers will find their stack SUPERIOR IN STYLE AND WORKMANSHIP To any ever offered in this city. No effort will be spared to merit the confidence of those who may favor them wiih their patronage. * P. S-—Madame LEFEVRJS will give his special atten tion to the FITTING AND TRIMMING DEPARTMENT of the business. - / L. LEFEVRE & CO., Importers and Manufacturers of Cloaks, Mantillas, &c. Salerooms 70* CHESTNUT Street, Wheeler & Wil sons Sewing Machine Agency. mhl2'Bw&s6t - -go VS’ CLOTHING. SPR.I3XTO STYLES, JACKETS, SUITS MADE TO ORDER^ 0. H. MAE*. S. E. Comer NINTH and MARKET Streets, mh!2-swf 2m Is now receiving, and offers ’for sale below present market rates, many novelties in LACE AND WHITE GOODS He would call 4 ’special attention” to his assortment of over 20 different new fabrics and styles of White Goods, suitable for 4 * Ladies Bodies and Dresses. " In stripes, plaids, and figured, puffed and tucked Muslins 100 piece* of figured and plain Buff and White Piques, bought before the recent ad vance.’ New Invoices of Guipure and Thread Laces, Thread and Grenadine Veils, Edgings, Insert lngs, Flouncings, &c. Broad Hem-Stitched HANDKERCHIEFS, all linen , good quality, from 26 cents up. ARBEILLEB QUILTS-OF FINK quality at moderate prices. Good Bl&nketß, in large sizes. Sheeting Muslins, of every width. Several grades of Tickings. BLACK SILKS. Just opened, a laTge lot. marked low. Spring DeLaines and Prints. . Mode Alpacas, choice shades. Printed Brilliants and 4 4 Fancy Shirtings. - COOPER * (JONASD, f«4 ILI. corner NINTH and MARKET Sts. T>BST BLACK SILKS IMPORTED. JL) Wide and heavy Black Corded Silks, Mainlficont Moire Antiques. all colors. Splendid quality Corded Silks; all colors. Bich Chorea Stripe and Piail Silks, Magnificent Grenadines and Organdies. New styles Spring Shawls. , • Nevr .tyle for * 00 .. 20 South BKUOND Street, CPLENDID DRESS GOODS. Lawns, Challies, and Grenadines, Fjunred and Plain Poplins, now colors. Black Silks, from 9L25 to $2. . „ Pongees, of brown and black mixtures,! All the new shades of Alpacas, Xfow oponat JOHN H. SrOKBS*, ml: 12 p 703 ABCH Street, RETAH DRY GOODS. NOW READY, PANTS, &c. COOPER & CONARD, 10*4 OHESTNUT STREET. SPRING TRADE. E M. NEEDLES 10*4 CHESTNUT STREET. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1864. CUBT/iIK GOODS. SPRING RAMASRS, VE S TIB UL E LACE CUBITAINS, AND A LARGE INYOIOE OF BROWN SHADES, OF ENTIRELY NEW DESIGNS. L E. WALK A YEN, (SUCCESSOR TO W. H. CARRYL.) MASONIC HALL, 719 CHESTNUT STREET. WATCHES AND JEWELRY. ■^yATCHES! WATCHES FOE $6. WATCHES FOR $B, WATCHES FOR *lO. •WATOHXS FOR *l2. WATCHES FOR $l4. WATCHES FOR $l6. WATCHES FOR $lO. watches for $2O. WATCHES FOR S2L WATCHES FOR $22. WaTOBES FOR *23. WATCHES FOR $24. Watches for 92s „ AT CLASH’S, 1085 MARKET STREET. Composition Watches for $8; Stiver Watches for $8; Silver Watches for $10; Hunting-Case Watches for $l2; Fine Silver Hunting-Case Watches for $l4; Fine Silver Bunting-Case, fall jeweled. Lever Watches, for $l6. AT CLARK’S, 1089 MARKET STREET. ~ ', . AMBRICAN WATCHEB. in 2,3, 4, and 6-oz coin Silver Hunting Cases for $26, $3O, $34, and $4O, AT CLARK’S, 1085 MARKET STREET.: Agennine Sandoz fine Silver Hunting Case, full jew eled. Lever Watch, for s2o*. A genuine Thomas Russell English Patent Lever,. Chronometer balance, fall jew eled, Bicfcelmovement. Sterling Silver, .Hunting-Case, *25. Fine Geneva Watches- beautifully enamelled cases, $25.. A great variety of fancy Watches, fancy move ments, fancy cases, fancy dial, duplex, double-time, ai d other styles, which we will sell at the lowest wholes sale price, by the case or single one. A hundred differ ent styles of gold ana plated Vest Chains, Gold Pins, Gold Rings, Pinp, Studs, Buttons, and, in fact, every article usually found .in & first class jewelry store. Don’t make a mistake, and buy before examining our stock. Comparison is the only test, and that is all we ask at - Wl L. CLARK’S, • mhl2-Pmw*l3t'fp 1085 MARKET Street, GBNT»> BURNISHING GOODS. JOHN C. AREISON, Nos. 1 and 3 NORTH SIXTH STREET, MANUFACTURER OF THE IMPROVED PATTERN SHIRT, FIE ST CUT BY J. BUEK MOOEE, WARRANTED TO TIT AND GIVE SATISFACTION. Importer and Manufacturer of GENTLEMEN’S FUBNIBHING GOODS. N. B.—All articles made in a superior manner by hand and from the best Materials. ja!4 QEOBGE grant, No. All CHESTNUT BTEEBT. Smm now ready A LAEGI AND COUPLETS STOCK • -V . . &JSWTB’ FURNISHING GfOOIiS. Of hi* own Importation and manufacture. Hit celebrated “ PRIZE MEDAL SHIRTS,” Hanufactured under tbe euperlntedence of ■ JOHJf 7. TAGOHET, (formerly of Oldenberc & Taggert, I ire the moat perfeet-fittlng Shirts of the age. la* Order* promptly attended to, ja!3-wfm-6xa DINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY. A. Th« subscribers would invite attention to their IMPROVED OUT OP SHIRTS, yhish they make a speciality in their business. Also. iemiUntiy receiving - JTOVILWEB TOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR. OEBTLikkN’^ stoSP'* 80. *l* CHESTNUT BTRBET, ialfctf Tour doore below the Continental. CLOTHING. gPBING GOODS. EDWARD P. "KELLY, JOHN KELLY, T A I L 0 R S, 613 CHESTNUT STREET, (JONES* HOTEL. > LATE 1« SOUTH THIRD STREET, Kaye just received a larie stock of clioica SPRING GOODS. TO LET. —BOOMS UP STAIES. 613, 614 CHESTNUT STRBBT. • fa 2- tf DLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, u At 704 MARKET Street BLACK CASK rABTS, *6.66. At 704 MARKET Street SLACK OASS. PAJSTS, tS. 60.'At 704 MARKET Street SLACK OASS. TAHTB, $6.60, At 704 MARKET Street SLACK OASS. PARTS, $6.60, At 704 MARKET Street IRIGG A TAB OUBTEN’S, Ho. 7M MARKET Street JRIGO A YAM GUHTEH’S. Ho. 704 MARKET Street 3EIOG A YAH GUHTBH’S, Ho. 704 MARKET Street' JRIGO A TAB GUHTEH’S; 80. 704 MARKET Street JSiaa A VAB GUHTBH’S, 80. 704 MARKET Street eeS4-6n PAPER HANGINGS. gILK PAPER HANGINGS. HOWELL & BROS., Ninth and Chestnut Streets, Would offer to their customers and the public A SPECIALITY IN PAPER-HANGINGS, EXCLUSIVELY THEIR OWH MANUFACTURE, YIZ. SILK INSERTINGS IN PAPER HANGINGS, To which they ask the attentiou of parties seeking RICH DECORATIONS FOR PARLORS, Ao., HOWELL & BROTHERS, S. W. CORNER NINTH AND CHESTNUT. We would also respectfully Invite the attention of our customers to our New Styles of PAPER HANGINGS. DECORATIONS. Ac,, Ac., for Parlors, Halls. Chambers, &c.» Ac. mhl6-wfmSlfp 1864. PHILADELPHIA PAPER HANGINGS. HOWELL & BOURRE, MANUFACTURERS OF , W A. Xj Xj papers AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS, COR. FOURTH AND MARKET STS., PHILADELPHIA. M. B.—A fine stock of LINEN SHADES constantly on band. •• • fe27-2m fp PAPER HANGINGS.—JOHN H. LONGSTRETH.No. 13 North THIRD Street. Ha ying the sola agency for several of the largest Eastern manufacturers enables us to show au unequalled variety, of new designs, which will be sold at manufacturers' prices. The first floor will be devoted to retailing. Dwellings decorated In first-class style, and the hang ing department proporly > ttended to. JOHN H. LONGSTRETH. fe27-lm* No. 13 North THIRD Street. IMPORTERS. A LEX. WRAY & CO., A. ji39 CHESTNUT Street. Philadelphia, Importers of British DRY GOODS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, Ac., Ao , have just opened, In addition to the above, a very large ana v&iled assortment of MEN'S SPRING UNDER6HIRCS, contlsilng of Merino. Imitation Me* rino, India Gauze, and Brown and White Cotton, to which they most respectfully Invite the attention of buyers. fe29-lm* piICQUOT CHAMPAGNE. L 100 caeee WIDOW CLICQUOT FOHBARDIH OF REIMS just received, and for Bale to the trade at the . Atent’* price., also, aMbatketi LATOUR OLIVE OIL. ■_ WILLIAM H. TEATOH * CO., fc*Hf 80. Ml Soutk IBOBT StneL WATCHES I! WATCHB3!!! fjrtss. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1864.- The Palmerston-Russell Administration. The British Government having been de feated in the’House of Commons, upon the public question, of national,defence—the votes being 158 to 157, politicians had imme diately begaii to speculate upon what may follow. There are three modes of action— to resign office, and allow the Tories to go vern the British Empire ; to dissolve Parlia ment, which'already has lasted longer than the average period; or .to eject the Minister or Ministers, if such there be, whose unpo pularity may have provoked what is tanta mount to a vote of censure on the Govern ment. It is easy to foresee what will be done, should the Tory Opposition defeat the Ministry ilf'it'pUched contest. Lord Pal merston will'not resign; neither will he, by remodeling his Cabinet, admit his opponents to dictate to him. » Most probably he will “throw himself on the country,” as it is called, by calling a new Parliament. At all events, this would enable him to retain office for several-months, and the chapter of_acci dents might aid him also. It cannot be conceded that American interests are deep ly involved in the continuance of the Palmerston-Russell Administration, for were Lord Derby and his friends to become Ministers of the Crown, they would proba bly abandon the neutrality which Lord Rus sell has very fairly observed, all things con sidered, during the last twelve months. The DerbyiteSj.who, out of office, notoriously are the allies and champions of the Seces sionists, would not be less than friends when in possession of political sta station and power. Let us analyze the pie sent Government- of England... In June, 1859, on the downfall of the Derby-Disraeli Government, Lord Palmerston was empow ered to make a new Cabinet. At that time, Lord Campbell, made Lord Chancellor, was eighty; Lord Palmerston, seventy-five; Lord John Russell, sixty-seven years old. In December, 1859, the first alteration ensued. Mr. Henry Fitzroy died, in his 53d year, and his post of Chief Commissioner of Pub lic Works was given to Mr. William Cow per, one of Lady Palmerston’s sons by her first marriage, and then Under-Secretary for the Home Department. In August, 1860, the Earl of Elgin, then Postmaster. Ge neral, having been appointed Viceroy of India, his former post was given to Lord Stanley, of Alderley, who now holds it. In October, 1860, Mr. Laing, Secretary to the having been sent to India as Fi nancial Minister, was succegjied by Mr. Frederick Peel, second son of the late Sir Robert. < On Nev' Tear’s Day, 1861, Mr. Sidney Herbert, War Secretary, being in bad health, ms raised to the peerage in the hope that the easier hours of the House of Lords might enable him to retain office and recruit his strength. As the Under-Secre tary of War (the Earl de Grey and Ripon) was a peer, it was to provide a representative of the War Office for the House ol Commons. So Earl de Grey exchanged places with Mr. Thomas G. Baring—the former becoming Under secretary.' for India, and the latter Under secretary ot War. In the following sum mer so many changes took place, it was thought the Cabinet would scarcely survive so complete a resurrection. In June, 1861, Lord Campbell was found dead in his bed. ' BirHlaSsra Bethell,-the Attorney-General, was then made Lord Chancellor, and created Baron Westbury; Sir William Ather ton, the Solicitor-General, was raised to the office of Attorney and Mr., now Sir, Bounded Palmer was made Solicitor General. A month later, Lord Herbert, literally worn out by public work, at the age of 51, resigned office, and Lord John Russell, finding it difficult to maintain hi 3 position in the House of Commons, where he was overshadowed by Lord Palmerston as leader, arranged to have a peerage, and went to the Upper House as Earl Russell. Mr. Layard, the explorer of Nineveh, was made Under-Secretary of Foreign Affairs, on the resignation of Lord Wodehouse. Sir George Cornwall Lewis, Home Secretary, succeeded Lord Herbert as War Secretary. Sir George Grey was appointed Home Se cretary, and the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, which he had held, was given to Mr. Edward Cardwell (the gentle man who defeated- Mr. Thackeray at Ox ford election in July, 1857.), and Mr. Card well’s office of Chief Secretary for Ireland was given to Sir Robert Peel. Earl de Grey and Mr. F. G. Baring again exchanged back to their old places. Mr. Bag well, an Irish member, who was a junior Lord of the Treasury, finding his constituents (he sat for the borough of Clonmel) dissatis fied with the course the-Government had taken on the Galway steam-packet contract, resigned his office, to, which Colonel White was appointed, but this gentleman, on going back to his constituents of the County of Longford, for re-election, was beaten by Major O’Reilly, and. had to find refuge in an English borough. There were few changes in the Palmer stomßussell Administration in 1882. Mr. George Clive resigned the Home Under- Secretaryship in November, and was suc ceeded by Mr./Henry Bruce. In 1863, two Lord 3 of the Admiralty—Sir R. Dundas and Admiral Pelham—were suc ceeded by Sir Frederick Grey and Captain Drummond. The chief duty of -preparing the naval estimates devolved upon Mr. Samuel Whitehead, also an Admiralty Ju iiior Lord, who was compelled by ill health to resign his office, and was succeeded by the Marquis of Hartington, eldest son of the Duke of Devonshire, and not likely to be forgotten in this country, being the noble man who, at a‘grand ball'in New York, had the bad tastjf to promenade with rebel ribands attached to his coat. The Marquis, a young maAof 30, with more ability than persons of liis rank generally possess, did not long remain at the Admiralty. Sir G. C. Lewis, as a Minister who strenuously ex pressed his opinion, publicly as well as pri vately; in favor; of the great principle of Human Freedom, for which this Republic has been contending since the accession of Mr. Lincoln to the Supreme Magistracy of the Union, died unexpectedly, and Earl de Grey, who had shown much tact as Under-Becretary of War, was promoted to the Secretaryship, with a seat in the Cabinet, thus vacated by death. The Marquis of Hartington was re moved from the Admiralty, to succeed Earl de Grey as Under-Secretary of War, and the Junior Lordship of the Admiralty, vacated by the retirement of the Marquis, was given to Mr. James Stansfield, member for Hali fax—the gentleman personally assailed by the Procurer-general : imperial. of France, M. Cordeon, in the recent trial of the Ita lian conspirators to assassinate the Emperor Napoleon, as being guilty of complicity with Mazzini, accused and convicted (with out being personally before the tribunal.) as head of the plot. Chiefly' in consequence of his having neither the physical nor mental strength for conducting the highly momentous proceed ing in connection with the Foreign Enlist ment Act (the trial on the seizure of the 'Alexandra.), Sir William Atherton re signed,* and was succeeded by Sir Roundel Palmer as Attorney-General—one of the ablest lawyers at the bar, one of the best speakers in the House of Commons. Mr. (now Sir Robert Porrett.) Collier, Judge Advocate of the Fleet, and Counsel to the Admiralty, was appointed Solicitor-General, hiß place as Judge Advocate being given to Mr. Phinn. Besides these changes, Sir Robert Philliniore succeeded Sir J. Hard ing as Queen’s Advocate, and Sir Benjamin Hawes, permanent Secretary of War, having-died, his office was abolished. Du ring the present year there have been no ’changes. To sum up, during four years and nine months ("June 1859—March 1864), the Secretaryship of State for War lias been twice vacant; the Home Secretaryship once ; the Lord Chancellorship once; the Postmaster-Generalship once; the four posts of Attorney General and Solicitor-General for England and for Ireland have been va cant twice, and there have been four changes among the Lords of the Admi ralty." The chief Secretary for Ireland has been changed once, the Under-Secretary of the Home Department and Foreign Affairs once,,of India twice, and of the War Office three times. Notwithstanding these changes, the per sonality of the Palmerston-Russell Admi nistration has been very little altered. Lords Campbell, Herbert, and Elgin, with Sir G. C. Lewis, all members of the Cabinet when formed, in June, 1859, are dead. Lords ■Palmerston, Russell, Granville, Argyle, Newcastle, and Somerset, with Gladstone, C. Wood, G. Grey, Milner Gibson, and C. P.Wilbers, eleven of the fifteen originally appointed, remain in the Cabinet. Earl de Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Mr. Card well, and Lord Westbury, who now are Cabinet Ministers, were respectively mem bers of the Government, in subordinate sta tions, in 1859. At that time the Derby-Disraeli Ministry w&b defeated, the first thing .after the meet ing of the newly-elected House of Com mons,by a vote of 323 to 310, on the Ad dress in answer to the Queen’s Speech two tellers on eachside and the Speaker in the chair made a House of 638 mem bers—actually within 20 of the whole number elected. Thus, Lord Palmerston started, in 1859, with only .thirteen more backers than his defeated opponents. He has lost some of these by various elections, and perllaps now stands in a minority in the Commonß. But this Parliament, which first met on June 7, 1859, is now in its sixth session, and though, nominally Septennial, there is no instance since the time of Charles 11. of a Parliament going into a seventh session. Therefore, even if not forced to it, as he may he, by the Opposition, it would be Lord Palmerston’s duty to have a Gene ral Election this autumn. If compelled to dissolve Parliament, a new House of Com mons could assemble in less than two months thereafter. The last dissolution took place on April 19, and the new Parliament met on June 7, 1859, which is fifty days. Lord Palmerston will scarcely throw up his hand in despair with the chances he has, from his personal popularity, of greatly strength ening himself in the House of Commons by summoning a new Parliament. No doubt he will do this. At the present crisis the retirement of the Palmerston-Russell Administration would be highly detrimental to the good cause in the United States. We may safely calculate that these gentlemen will not cease to hold firm to that neutral policy, which is all that we ever expected England to exercise, as due from one great nation to another ; but we have to fear that, with his avowed hostility to the Union cause, an}- Administration in which Lord Derby would have the lead would exercise open or-secret opposition to the United States. New Periodicals. The Atlantic Monthly for April has several valua ble articles. Foremoat among these may be named “ Our Progressive Independence,” by Oliver Wen* dell Holmes, rather the declaration of a statesman than of a politician— bo much breadth is there in its argQme!it,--Mr*.jstowe , a.excellent*erieß of “ House and Home Papers’ l rather improves, good from the first. The present portion contains common-sense views on the difference of house furnishing with money and with taste. “ The Schoolmaster’s Story ll is a pleasant love*tale. “Fouquet the Magnificent ll is a rapid sketch of the famous Sur-intendartt of Louis XIV., who figures extensively in some of the numerous continuations of DumaB 1 “ Three Houaquetaires. ll Gail Hamil ton (as Abigail Hodge ohooses to call herself) con tributes a biographical notice of William Blake,"the visionary English painter, as she calls him, “Pic tor Ignotue,” though he has been far from obscure, thftDks to Allan Cunningham’s life of him in the Family Library—and has compiled a readable article out ol Arthur Gilchrist’s recent biography of the spiritual artist. “ The First Yisit to Washing ton,” purporting to desoribe scenes in the early life of the preeent Secretary of the Treasury, United States, strikes ub as being in excessive bad taste. This romancing about living folkß should be dis countenanced. The poem called “The Wreck or Rivermouth” has one element of sublimity—it is ' unintelligible. The Breton Legend of “ The Black Preacher” •a citizen of African descent) is quaint, grave, and true, with even a touch of grim humor in it, . _ Ticknor & Fields, publishers of the Atlantic Month fy, have just issued several valuable books. Chief among them, not only for its subject being one of universal interest, here treated in the. scholarly manner it requires, but because of its numerous, and sometimes even brilliant illustrations, to say nothing of its being one of the best printed works ever sent out from the famous University Press, at Cambridge, is a tall octavo, written by Edward L. Clark, entitled “ Daletb, or the Homestead of the Nations; Egypt Illustrated. 11 In this volume is col lected and condensed the various information which soholars and antiquarians, critics and artists, have laboriously got together in the last two centuries. The pen and the pencil have combined to produce this work, and photography and lithography have also been employed to illustrate it. The colored lithographs are not only superb in their effect, but even vivid. There are nearly one hundred engrav ings in all. The oharm of the text is, that while it reproduces the Past, it also shows much, ef the Present, of Egypt. Mr. Clark evidently writes with fullness of knowledge. Even the exterior of the volume is beautiful. * Robert Browmng’s philosophical poemof “Sor* dello,” his tragedy of 41 Strafford,” and two delight ful lyrics on Chriatmas-day and Easter-day have been published (aiftbor’s edition) by T. &F, There was much truth, with the usual alloy of ill-nature, in Douglas Jerrold’a remark that “ Sordello, 1 ’ like the fear of the Lord, passeth all understanding. We have vainly tried to discover what the author’s purpose was. The play of “Strafford” is better, though rather adapted for the closet than the stage. The Christmas and Easter poems are “beautiful, exceedingly.” The portrait of Mr. Browning does scant justice to his handsome features, of rather a Hebrew- cast, with well-cut nose, and raven dark hair. Another volume by the “ Country Parson” (Rev. Wm. Boyd) is entitled “ Counsel and Comfort Spo ken from a City Pulpit.” It contains sixteen well written Sermons, prefaced by a paper open holiday time and pulpits. Mr. Boyd is such a genial, liberal, plain, and pious Christian, that his sermons will find favor and create serious thought In the minds of all who read them. “ The Revelations of Mother Juliana,” an ancho* rite of Norwich, who lived in the days of King Ed ward the Third, is-a book very different from the last. An English nun, nearly five hundred years ago, it would seem, believed that certain religious musings, whieh she wrote down, were revealed to her by Divine inspiration. They are curious, at any rate. Dr. Samuel Smiles, of London, whose admirable biography of George Stephenson, the great railway man, and equally agreeable volume entitltd “ Self Help,” are standard books in thiß country, lately published another readable work entitled “ In dustrial Biography: Iron-workers and Tool-ma kers.” It has been reproduced here, for the author, bv Ticknor & Fields. We may it, in few words, as a history of the iron manufacture of Eng land, with memoirs of the various inventors of the processes which have elevated it to its present status, and an account of the more important tools used by artificers in iron to produce their in genious and sometimes beautiful work. The book is practical, but really as entertaining as a romance. We hope that its success may induce Dr. Smiles to have a .reprint of his “Lives of the Engineers,” also produced here. Mr. Childs’ American Literary Gazette and Pub lishers' Circular t of whioh the last semi-monthly part was published a week ago, has the best Parisian correspondence, about French authors and their writings, yet sent to this country. American pub lishers, we see, largely sustain this periodical, for more than half of it is ocoupied with their adver tisements and announcements. Gift to tile Soldiers. West Chester, March 19th, To the Editor' of The Press: Sir : Permit me to correct a statement in an ar» tide headed "The Cooper Shop Soldier.' Home,” which appears in jour paper of today. The one hundred pilloweand piilow-daaea mentioned, were not tent to the Home by the Aid Society of Weet Ohe.ter, but were, aa the mark on eaoh one thowt, aglftlrom " The League of the Loyal Women of Cheßter county lo the Soldiers’ Home,” and were forwaided from here by the preiident thereof. Beipecifully, S. H. HIE3TER. Thu autograph sale ot the Cincinnati Sanitary Fair took place lact week. General Jamee Clinton 1 # oilginai Older Book told for $l6; a mauaoript speech of William H. Harriton for $10; B. B. Frenoh’e "Laet Wordt of John Brown” for Sic; Elizabeth Bairett Browning’s -autograph for $6: Washington Irvirg’i, $6.60; Jeff Davie’, $6 35; John Adam.’, $5; Buchanan’*, with a letter of Baron Humboldt, bought for the lake of the latter, $6. THREE CENTS. THE WAR. A Complaint from General Meade* A Washington despatch to the. New York Times •aye an extract from a rebel paper, cent here by General Meade, contains full details of the proposed reorganization of the army. They assume to be very knowing as to what changes are to be made. General Meade Is anxious to koow in what manner the rebels obtain Information concerning prospective military events in advance of that received at head* quartets. A GRAND REVIEW. Thursday will be a great day In the Army of the Potomac. General Grant will review the victors of Gettysburg. The President, Secretary Of War, General Halleck, and other distinguished person* ages will grace the occasion by their presence. A COPPERHEAD OFFICER. A private letter published in the Memphls-Dal tod Appeal, written by a female rebel, gives an ao count of the occupation of Meridian, Mississippi, by Gen. Sherman’s troops, on the l&te raid from Vicksburg. The writer describes the skirmishing, and adds that a general gave her a guard to proteet her property. She adds: “ One of bis officers asked me where my husband was. I told him he left on Sunday. He asked if I was a Southerner. J replied yes ; a genuine South erner, as I had never been In a. Northern State. All of the children were-questioned very close -ISt but got on finely* Mary said just what ihe pleased. Told them she did not like Yan kees. One of the captains told her if she would only go home with him she would not be in Anymore She replied: ‘No, 1 am a rebel, and Ido not want to be with Yankees. 1 Our store was burned to the gronnd, and so tyas another one ol our new houses. My two milch cows were killed, and every one in the to wn, and for eight or ten miles around, all oattle and horses. - The printing office and all public buildings were burned up. All the railroad is torn up. both up and down, for miles, and all the ties burned, and the Iron bent and destroyed. Ther eis not a fence in Meridiaif. I have not one rail left. My grown girl, Violetta, got ready to go, but as good fortune would have it, I had heard an officer express himself on slavery, so I went to him and got him to scare it out of her. 1 was lucky, so many negroes went from about here. 1 ' A LETTER PROM GENERAL LEE TO HIS SON. W. H. Hawkins, book-keeper in Samuel Norris’ office, bas an autograph letter of the rebel general Lee, which, with several letters written by General Lee’s wile and mother, he obtained at Lee’s house on Arlington Heights, Va., last March, while serv ing in the 22d Connecticut. Lee’s letter is written and addressed to his son Cadet G. W. Custls Lee, U. S. Military Academy, Weit Point, New York.” With the exception of those parts which relate merely to family matters, it is eminently charac teristic of the man. Young Lee’s mother follows the page and a half of her husband’s with two pages and a half of home gossip and Kindly counsel for her boy. We append nearly all of that part written by the general, exactly as he wrote it: Baltimore 1 Feb 1552. My dear M’Boo .This is not my day for writing to you. It is your mother’s turn and she claims the privilege. But being not yet ready to take up the pen, lam merely getting it ready for her. I shall leave her to tell you of domestic events, and will at once jump to what is first in my mind, viz That only four months have tojly by, you may say, before the June examination and your furlough. Have you thought of that 1 Has it ever oocurred to your mind that such an event 1b hastening on. with irrepressi ble (peed? Why man, It will be upon as before you aie aware. I must begin to prepare I must get at my v ork and try and get through it before that time. * * You must prepare too. You must press for ward in your studies. You mast “crowd that boy How&id.” You must be No. 1. It is a fine number. Easily found and remembered. Simple and unique. Jump to it, fellow. * * Your father, It. E. LEE.. PROPOSED PURCHASE OF A HOUSE FOR GE£. LEE. Mr. Scott, from the special committee appointed to purchase a house for the family of General Lee, said he was not prepared to make a report; but as this was a last meeting of the Council, he felt ifc’hls duty to lay before them a letter received from Gene ral Lee, which he would move should he spread upon the records of the Council. Mr. Scott then read the following letter: Headquarters Army Northern Va-, November 12, 1863, To the President of the City Council. Richmond, Va.: Sir : My attention has been directed to a resolu tion, reported in the newspapers as having been in troduced into the body over which you preside, hav ing for its object the pur chase, by thecityofHiohmond. ol a house for the use of my family. I-assure you] sir, that no want of appreciation of the honor con ferred upon me by this resolution, or. insensibility to the kind feeling which prompted it, induces me to *tk, as I must respectfully do, that no further proceedings be taken with reference to the subject. The house is not necessary for the use of my family, and my own duties will prevent my residence in Richmond. I should, therefore, be compelled to de cline the generous otter, and trust -that whatever means the City Council may have to spare for the purpose may be devoted to the relief of the families of our soldiers in the field, who are more in need of assistance, and more deserving of it, than myself. I have the honor to be, very respeotfully, your obtclient servant. R. E LEE, General. PROCEEDINGS OF THE RICHMOND CITT COUNCIL— HOLING 07 YANKEE DESERTERS. March 14, 1564 —Mr. Hiil, from the committee ap pointed to see the Secretary of War on the subject of paroling Yankee deserters, and ask him to stop it, reported that he had waited on the Secretary, who had said that it would not do to cease paroling them ; that deserters was a source of weakness to the enemy and strength to us, and that it was an ob jrot with our government to encourage it; but that if xur-governmeniwerfi to confine in jsil such as come over-to u?, fiO more> would, come 5 that it had been, and still was, the effort of the government to scatter these paroled deserters as much as possible, turning some loose here, sending some to Wilmmg toD, and others to the Chesterfield coal-pits j and that if they did not behave themselves, the only thing that could be done WBB to punish them accord ing to the offence they should commit. Hang them, if necessary. • _ THE STATE. Fatal Accident.— Hon. Ezekiel Mowrey, of Me shoppen, Wyoming county, Pa., met Mb death un der the following circumstances: He was engaged in hi* plaster mill-grinding corn, and while working about the cracker, hia coat caught by the button hole on a screw that held the coupling of the shaft together, just above the cracker, and before he was aware of his situation, had wound so closely up that be could not extricate himself. In this position he remained until bis knit coat, a thick flannel, and a cotton shirt, and his vest, were tom into shreds, and he waß only liberated when his body had been forced tbiough a space of ten inches between the turning abaft and a post. From this he fell into the hopper and then to the door, where he lay about an hour before he was discovered. He died is a few minutes. He represented Wyoming county in the Legislature in 1849 and 1850. - Con viction.— Joseph Moore, charged with the murder of Jordan Marbourg at Johnstown, has been found guilty of murder in the second degree, and sentenced to the penitentiary for six years. The jury, we understand, BJgoed -a “petition to the Go vernor for bis pardon. The verdict was totally un looked for, as it was the general opinion the pri soner would be acquitted upon the ground of in sanity. The conviction of Moorej-for the murder of Marbourg, is a rare .instance of the slayer of a se ducer and adulturer being convicted of murder in any degree before a Pennsylvania jury. Mbs. Catharine Savagr. formerly of Eait Co ventry township, Chester county, died on the 20fch of February, in PtcoDixville. ‘ She was born Janu ary Ist, 1767, and was therefore 97 pears 1 month and 19 daps old. She raised 11 children. Bof whom, we believe, are ’still living, the eldest 77. and the youngest 49 years. She also leaves 56 grand children, and 54 great*grand-children. During her younger days she more than once saw General Washington, and had a distinct recollection of him. National Banks.— The following new national banks have been authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury: The First National Bank af Wayne*- burg. Pa., president, Daniel Bonner ;"cashier, John C. Fleming, capital, $lOO,OOO. First National Bank of Butler, Pa, president, Jas. Campbell; cashier, J. J. Canning*; capital, $50,000. First National Back of Gettysburg, Pa., president George Thorne; cashier, George Arnold; capital* $50,000. SATS the Harrisburg Telegraph: Several funerals, some of them largely attended, took place in this city yesterday. This afternoon the remains of two well-known and highly esteemed citizens, Richard HogaD, Sr., and Robert McElwee, will be consigned to their last resting place in Mount Raima ceme tery. ” Several refugees from Rockingham county, Vir ginia, have just arrived at Harrisburg, Penna. They left early in February, and after much suffering suc ceeded In passing the rebel pickets and getting into our lines. For several nights they camped in tlfl woods without shelter or food. New Methodist Church.— The Methodists of Canton, Pittsburg Conference, recently dedicated an elegant church edifice, the erection of which coßt Borne $4O 000. The furnishing is on a magnificent scale.: Thb First National Bank of Chester or ganized at that place on Tuesday last. An applica tion has been made for a Second National Bank at the same place. . Petitions have been presented to the Legisla ture asking-for the passage of a law which wul al low the people or Erie county to eleot their tax col lector. Sons fifteen regiments are expected to pass through Pittsburg during the present week. Thb gas honee at Honesdale, Penna., was blown up recently. Two persons were seriously injured. The Royal-Insurance Company and the Powder Explosion in the Lotty Sleigh* [From the Liverpool Pally Post. Saturday, March 5. 3 Liverpool has a right to be proud of .the liberality and courteßy which characterize all our public offices. The conduct noted in London and other places is un known here. The corporation officials are never tired of obliging all who have or have’not business transactions with them, and our public officials, not municipal, are well entitled to the same praise. The insurance offices axe great institutions, and they have become greater tinbe the establishment of local offices. One of these, the Royal Insurance Offlse, has this week been in the Court of Chancery. The management is too prudent and considerate to tempt the dangera of the law needlessly; and al though the directors might’have avoided the ordeal, they sacrificed to the public interest, and came out tiiumphantly. The explosion in the Lotty Sleigh was a terrible affair, but the effects were not terrible. The vessel was burnt, many windows in Liverpool and Birken head were broken, but no lives were lost, and no house was thrown down. The damage was caused by Are,~and the Royal Insurance Company insures against fire. The loss ashore was greatly exaggerated, but the company promptly allayed alarm and anxiety by announcing that the Royal would pay for all damage to property insured in that office. The an nouncement appeared next morning, and at slight intervals the other offices made a similar announce ment. The Royal had the honor of being the first. It became a company of so high a character and standing, and of course it lost nothing by so great a gain in Ihe public estimation. Supposing even the the proceeding obnoxious to law there is nowand then a grace beyond the reasb of art; and a liberal and generous act, which refuses to submit itielf to cold technical formalities, never fails to benefit large publio companies. The Royal has benefited by an ticipating claims wbioh some conside ed dubious, and the reward we have no doubt may be seen in long lists of new Insurers. we had no doubt then, and have no doubt now, that the insurance offices were responsible to parties insured for the damage done by the explosion. The event was unexpected, and of oourse no provision was made against it in the policies. Distance of a fire is no impediment to responsibility when the dis tant fire damages insured premises not near. If a shop In Bold street Is burnt down, and sets fire to or damages a shop.opposite, no office would decline to pay for the damage done, and the principle is just as applicable to a mile as to a dozen yards. Juries have Instincts in matters of this kind, and their in . atincts are decidedly against public offices. Mr. Taunton, however, has thought otherwise. No man in Lancashire or Cheshire will impute any but the fairest and most honorable motive* to any-, thing he may do. He is a shareholder in the Royal, and i kinking the secretary and.directors in the Lotty Slefr h oase wrong, he appealed to judgment. A let . ter of hiß appears in. our paper of to day ; and al though every one will acquit him of seeking to injure the company, few will be able to acquit him of hav ing acted ui der a very groundless alarm, and of a misapprehension or the duty he owed to himself and 7X33=2 PRESS, (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.! Tat War PR9SO will be senttorabasTibenby mall (per tonnm in advance) at H <*9 Three copies. — O9 fit# .COPIM--.... ...... .*■»** »•*•* ( 9*l Ten sop Us........... l9 Larger Club* than Ten will be charged at the same rate, $l. BO per copy, * The money must always accompany the order, and tnno instance can these terms be deviated from, fas the* afford very little more than the cost of paper. 99* Postmasters are requested to act as Agents ft* Teb Wan Press. 99“T0 the iett«r-npof the Clnb often or twenty, aa e.vtra eopy of the Paper will be glven. to others. The world is practical, and denier to people the privilege of seeking, precedents in occur rences that present themselves only once in a cen tlie precedent Mr. Taunton desired to establish was traceable, like the offence of -the uo» « hcr * to a ver y ra&U incident, so far at in surance offices wereconoerned. Nothiog so terrible had ever occurred before; nothing so* terrible is to occur sgaln. If the damage done by ° f . Sleigh was therefore ** trifling, only 2*. 6d. to Bdr. Taunton, there is a pal pable absurdity m Thinking itneoeuarv to anneal to the Gouit of Chancery in order to establish antece dent—a precedent to save to an opulent oompanv a few shillings, the probability that the few ihlUinrs will never again be in danger. 6 Mr. Taunton and his friends have for the moment been victims of idle fears. Their nerves must have been shaken by the shock out of the healthy tone which constitutes happiness; and we have no doubt that a calm review 0/ their proceeding will apprise them that they have been wrong in every way—par ticularly wrong in deference to their especial inte rest, which they do well nottooverlook* The offices with which they are connected need to be constant ly in contact with public opinion. 0 They live by be ing known, and, fortunately for Mr. Taunton’s divi dend, none are better or more deservedly known than the Royal. Tbe act of tbe secretary and directors which immediately followed the explosion was a noble act. It spoke to the feelings and the opinions of the people, when these feelings aod opinions were peculiarly accessible to the announcement, and the company has been an immense gainer in conse quence. Tbe proceeding has been fully appreciated, and the company did well to oppose tar. Taunton in. the Chancery Court. j Mr. Taunton hints at further proceedings, but his own letter suggests not only the impolicy, but the impropriety,©! teasing himself and others by per sistence in a losing suit,for he admits “that both here and in London, some of the managers of our leading insurance companies were in doubt, and ex pressed contrary opinions, as to their liability or otherwise.” - When dootors. differ, it is only rea sonable to indulge in doubt; and on reflection we are satisfied that Mr. Taunton will have no doubt that tbe Royal Insurance Company did precisely the thing it ought. * PERSONAL. v Major Willard, recently married to An* tosia Ford, at Fairfax Court House, Va., had a narrow esoape from capture by guerillas while on his way to Washington with the young lady and her father, preparatory to the marriage. The car riage was stopped by a gang, who, after some ex; planation by Mr. Ford, who was known to them, suffered it to proceed. A few after the guerillas learned that the younger gentleman wa# Major Willard, whereupon they galloped off in pur suit, but without overtaking the carriage, the major reaching our pickets but a few moments in advance of the gang.— Washington letter. —Whether Abraham Lincoln ever perpetrated the following or not, the humor imputed to himis worthy of even the President of the United States. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Herald first gave publicity to the President’s good-natured criticism of bis subordinates. The story is at fol lows: “Judge Baldwin, of California, an old and highly respectable and sedate gentleman], called a few days since on Gen- Halleck, and, presuming upon a fa miliar acquaintance a few years since, solicited a pass outside of our lines, to see a brother in Virginia, not thinking that he would meet with a refusal, as both his brother and himself were good Union men. *We have been deceived too often,* said Gen, Halleck, c and I regret I can’t grant it.* Judge B. then went to Stanton, and was very briefly disposed of with the same result. Finally he ob tained an interview with Mr. Lincoln, and stated bis case. ‘Have you applied to Gen. Halleck V in quired thePreaident; * and met with a fist refusal,* said Judge B. ’Then you must see Staaton,’ con tinued the President. ‘I have, and with the same result,’, was the reply. * Well, then,’ said Old Abe, with a smile of good humor, ‘ I can do nothing, for you must know that I have very little influence with this Adminiitration /” —.The wife of President Hill, of Harvard College died at Cambridge on Saturday. Mrs. Hill was the .daughter of the late Josiah Bellows, of Walpole, N. H* : She wasaladyof high intellectual culture and of the most estimable character. A testimonial, in the shape of a magnificent sil ver service, costing $3,500, is to be presented to Commodore John Rodgers by a number of citizens of New York, M for bis gallant conduct and scientific ability in capturing the rebel ram Atlanta, while in command of the monitor Weehawken, on June 17, 1863.” The Norfolk Regime says that the Government has a contract with. John Minor Bott3 to furnish two corps of the Army of the Potomac- with wood. The soldiers are cutting and hauling it themselves. He furnishes 2,000 cords a month, at $4 a cord. v Major General John G. Foster, the last survivor of six brothers and sisters, is visiting his mother and old friends in Nashua, N. H., where he qaietly ar rived on the 19th inst. Miss Anna E. Dickenson lectures in New York on the anniversary of the murder of Massachusetts tioops in the streets of Baltimore. Subject, “April 19. Lexington, 1775. Baltimore,"lB6l.” Neal Dow remained long enough in Richmond to see tbe rebel Legislature pass an act to seal up every grogshop in Richmond, and perhaps in Vir ginia, on the Ist day of May. Gen. Lee asked for the law, and it was conceded. Major C. A. E. Dimon, of Salem, Mass., is or dered to Point Lookout, Md., by Gen. Butler, to organize into regiments Confederate prisoners of war enlisting in the United States service. Lady Don hasYeturned to-Australia, where,her husband, Sir "William, the long man, died some two years ago. - - ~ • Mesirs. Bechtel and Wheat, member* of the West Virginia. Legislature, were captured by rebel guerillas, on Saturday night, at Bath. The brother of Formes, the weU-known singer* has retired on a pension from the Berlin Opera. Dr. Beriot, the celebrated violinist, is passing the winter at Hyeies for his health. —The Milford News says that the rebel General Hill is somewhere in Delaware. GENERAL NEWS. The New York Journal of Commerce says; Illi nois presents the most wonderful example of great, continuous, and healthful increase. In 1830 Illinois contained 157,445 inhabitants; in 1340, 476,183: in 1850,851,470; in 18S0, 1,711951. The gain during the last decade was, therefore,* 861, 451, or 101.06 per cent* So large a population, more than doubling itself in ten years, by the regular course of settlement and natural increase, is without a parallel. The condi tion to which Illinois has attained under the pro gress of the last thirty years is a monument of the blesßings of industry, enterprise, peace, and free in* stitutions. Thb iron railß on the Southern railroads are worn down to the thickness of a lady’s little finger, the trestle bridges shiver and creak warningly under evefy train, the cars run at times to suit the con ductor’s convenience, and it took the correspondent of the London Times two days and nights to getfrom Chickamhuga to Atlanta, a distance of one hundred and thirty miles. A liberal spirit of toleration seems to prevail among the nations of the earth. Through the're monstrances of the Governments of England, France, Italy, and the United States, the persecutions that, have been waged against the Jews of Morocco have ceased. There are over 200.000 Jews in the Kingdom of Morocco, and this act of clemency towards that race has been brought about by the perseverance of Sir Moses Montefiori. a Jewish baronet of great wealth and influence in England. A Louisiana Unionist, who enlisted in the 12th Connecticut Regiment, and came with it on its .re cent furlough,recently said: “ Since I came here X have heard, more treasonable talk, and read more treasonable articles, than I did for months in the South among Southern men before I left there. The Union men of the South didn’t permit such talk within Union lines.” Thb London Musical World declares that English, organ builders have such a mania = for underbidding each other that cheapness is now the main quality demanded in an organ; and consequently English organs are now very big and very bad,- and constant ly deteriorating. The recent strike of the engineers on the Western, railroads produced a very spicy correspondence be tween tbe strikers and the officers of the roads. The former charged the latter with“unblushing mendaci ty,” and the officers rebuked the bad spirit exhibited by tbe men. Nevertheless, the roads are still in operation, and time will heal the gaps. Houses are so scarce on Staten Island, according to the Richmond County Gazette , andthe prices asked so large, that old residents are letting their houses and furniture and taking board among their friends. Thb India trade of Boston has greatly fallen off. About ten ships-are now on the way from Calcutta, and several others from various parts of India, but this is not at all equal to the average of former year*. .. Therb is an oil excitement at Jaokson, Michi gan, While boring for salt, last week, workmen struck an oil-bearing stratum at a depth of 147 feet. Including the city railroads, 208 persons were killed, and 139 injured, on the railroads of - New Yoik in the year 1863. So says the .official report from Albany. Ninb hundred persons were killed by the recent explosion of a powder magazine in Morooco. : thb Nashville paper* are calling for better mail facilities,. The cry should be answered.. A Medici, we read, had a splendid Stradivariu* violin, and it was'lately sold in Paris, at auction* for some $1,200! Verdi’* u Bigoletto” is just now the chief attrac tion at the Theatre Lyrique, and is given three timet a week. The Hon* Reverdy Johnson* To the Editor of the N. Y. Trilmne: Will you afford me a few lines of your valuable space for the purpose of correcting an error in my work, entitled “General Butler in New Orleans.” It is stated therein that, in the Charleston Conven tion of i860,a collision occurred in debate between Gen. Butler and the Hon. Reverdy Johnson of Mary land, in the course of whloh Mr. Johnson is re ported to have said that, in almost any circum stances, Maryland would claim her rights as a Southern State, and would fete with the people of the South. I now learn that no language like this ever fell from the lips of Mr. Reverdy Johnson, and that he was not a member of the Charleston Convention,. The person who figured in the debate referred to was a certain Bradley-Johnson, who was mentioned in the newspaper reports as **Mr. Johnson of Mary* land.” This individual, as soon as hostilities be gan. led a company of rebels from Baltimore to Harper’s Perry to join the forces ; of, the Con federacy,' Mr. Reverdy Johnson, on the contrary, from the first daya’of the rebellion, conspicuously sided with the Union, and threw the whole weight of his in fluence and talents upon that side. The evidence of this is -accessible in the Rebellion Record, vol. i, doc. p. IS9, where a speech of Mr. Reverdy Johnson is printed, delivered in May, 1861, which denounced the rebellion as groundleas'and absurd, and predicts the triumph of the Union cause. The error will be corrected in subsequent editions, but as 13,000 of the work have already been dis tributed, it is only just to Mr. Reverdy Johnson that a correction should be made in the manner now adopted. * New Yoke, March-21,1564 Coal* Digging Machines —The Pittsburg Chroni cle says that, at k late meeting of the Coal Associa tion of that city, the subject of coal-digging ma chines was diacußaed.at some length. The machine invented by Mr. Gtissinger was on exhibition, and the Coal Exchange, through their committee, pro posed to make & thorough practical test of its utili ty, but the inventor, we are informed, has not yet accepted the proposition. A gentleman residing in Steubenville, who has been engaged time with a machine for digging coal, was also present at the meeting, and announced that he would be ready to exhibit a model in a few day*. We unaemtaml ;this appaiatua to be essentially different in its con strue] ion from the one Invented here, and the inven tor seems sanguine of sucoeiß. The consideration of the subject was postponed until the next meet ing when the new machine of the gentleman front. Steubenville is expected to he - . JAMES PARTON.
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