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•. TUESDAY, JANUABY 3, 1865.
y 3KU"|We can take no notice of, anonymous commu
nications. We do not retain reacted manuscripts-
Mr Voluntary oorrespondenoe Is solicited from all
parts of the world, and especially from our different
military and naval departments. When used, it will
be paid for. -
Newspaper Changes,
The many recent changes in our city,
newspapers should not fail to receive a
word of comment, No class of enterprises
has been more annoyed by the war than
the business of procuring intelligence and
printing it in'a newspaper. Wehavesuft
fered from the high price of paper, the
cessation of the cotton supply, indiscrimi
nating and oppressive imposts, combina
tions of labor, and the speculations of
paper-makers. When the war broke out
there were two classes of journals—those
which claimed to be first-class and were
printed at two cents, and the penny
papers. The first-class journals pub
lished large sheets and gave full de
tails of the news, the others con
tented themselves with merely condensing
the news and expressing no opinion on
general and exciting topics. The New
York journals were in'the first class, and in
Philadelphia the Inquirer and The Pjsess
were its representatives. The North Ame
rican had always represented the special
commercial interests, and was sold at a
larger price. There was still another news
paper which, we believe, is still published.
If we ■remember correctly, it sold also at
two cents; but as it devoted itself to the
interests of the Democratic party and York
county, it did not enter into the lists as a .
first-class journal.
When.tbe war began to oppress our busi
ness, the first-class journals determined to
continue to furnish all the news with ap
propriate comments, and to charge a higher
price. In New York the price was raised
to three cents. In Philadelphia The Press
followed the New York journals; the In
quirer retired from the list of first-class
journals, and reduced its size; the Ledger,
sustained by Mr. Swain’s immense for
tune, determined to ride the storm, and
charge only a penny. The retirement of
the Inquirer occasioned a great deal of re
gret, for it was hoped that Philadelphia
would do as well as New York, and have
journals containing ail the news. The
continued advance of paper compelled the
first-class journals to again advance. In
New York and Philadelphia four cents was
charged, and in the West five cents. In
this city the Inquirer remained at three
cents, and Mr. Swain continued his ledger
at one cent. Finally, he disposed- of Ms
newspaper, and Mr; Childs, the present
publisher, yielded to necessity and advanced
the price to two cents. Accepting this ad
vance as a business rivalry, the Inquirer ,
with the beginning of the year, increased
the size of its type to reduce the price of
composition and the quantity of news, and
is now printed'at two cents. The after
noon journals continue to print small quar
tos and charge three cents.
We note these changes because they mark
an important era in newspaper business.
They leave The Pbess alone among first
class journals, and we are now the only
newspaper that, during the war, has kept
pace with New York. Our policy is to
print a paper equal to the EeraM and Tri
bune at the cheapest rat*, whatever that
may be. We shall never reduce the size of
The Pbess. We believe the people of
Philadelphia will continue to support a
newspaper as good as those printed in New
York. Our gratifying success illustrates
this, and, as an evidence of our apprecia
tion of the people’s kindness, we shall
at an early day give new and com
prehensive features. It shall -never
be said that .Philadelphia abandons
the field to New York in this enter
prise of journalism. We wish our contem
poraries all possible success in their new
and exclusive field; and now that they have
parted company and left us alone in our
sphere, we shall watch their progress with
interest, and give them all the encourage
ment in our power. Cheap journalism has
been such a blessing to the poor, and has
So successfully educated them, to the appre
ciation of joumals like The Press, that we
should regret to see the field abandoned
altogether.
The Honest Canadian Judge,
Mr. Justice Morrison, whose charge to
the Grand Jury at the opening of the
winter assizes in Toronto, (Canada), we
published on Saturday,—a charge which
wholly condemns, by reversing as illegal,
the recent action of Police Justice Coubsal
on liberating the St. Alban murderers and
robbers, —is one of the ablest lawyers in
British h orth America. He is now about
forty-seven years old, and, before his
vation to the Supreme Bench, had re
peatedly been in oflice—first under his
friend Prime Minister Kircks, now Go
vernor of British Guiana, then under the
late Sir Alai? MoNab, Mr. Galt, &c.
He has several timeß served as first law
officer of the Crown in Upper Canada,
and was a member of the Cabinet at
one time, only a few years ago. -Judge
Morrison is a native of the north
of Ireland, and is a man of letters, as well
as law. He accepted the ermine about two
years ago, and his brethren of the bar
rather blamed him for not having waited
until the Chief-Justiceship became vacant,
his talents, great experience at the bar, and.
public services having united to give Mm
the strongest claim to such promotion.
What gives especial weight to his decision
in the case of the St. Albans robbers and
murderers is that, even in office, he never
•was a violent party man. His clear mind
saw . and his fearless tongue proclaimed
that those, whether Canadians or refugees,
who violated the law by molesting the
citizens of the United States, and breaMng
the treaties between the two countries, are
to be held as within the jurisdiction of the
Gopttdwx. itt.-nr, and, .if apprehended and
•detected, are to prepare for encountering
•public indignation apd receiving due pun
ishment from the law which they have
This, we are pleased to see, is
also the opinion oULord Mokcx, Governor
General of British North America,' and of
his Cabinet.
A celebrated Portuguese who flou
rished in the sixteenth century, and exer
cised the traveller’s privilege of relating
very surprising adventures of wMch he
made himself the hero, thereby antici
pating the German Munchausen and our
own immortal Longbow, is chiefly remem
bered in literature by a familiar line in
Congbbve’s comedy of 41 Love for Love,”
which runs thus : ‘‘Ferdinand Mendez
Pinto was blit a type of tbee, thou liar
of the first magnitude.” When William
Godwin wrote Ms wondrous romance of
“ St. Leon,” (the hero of which is a man
.*who is supposed to possess perpetual
youth, from knowing how to make the
Elixir of Life, wMeh also bad-supposed
to have-the power of changing the
•meaner metals into gold,) he took this
line from Congbkve as - the motto to "Ms
Utterly impossible story.
The heroic gentleman who conducts the
Daily Telegraph, in London, may fairly be
claimed as belonging to the Mendez-Pinto
school. Not that he relates marvellous
adventures, but that he has so much fallen
into the habit of making false statements
that, at last, he has a strong idea that they
are true. Constant repetition has impressed
upon Ms. mind a thorough conviction that,
during the whole period of the present
war, which now has lasted nearly four
years, England* and the English maintain
ed a remarkable and praiseworthy neutra
lity ! The Daily Telegraph , of December
17th, says:
‘‘The neutrality of England with regard to the
civil war-in America has excited the resentment
and Indignation of both the combatants.. Had we
-declined to acknowledge the belligerent rights of
the South, we should have been In high favor with
the worth; had we, by recognising the Confede
racy, marked our sense of the IruiUe3sne|p of Fede
ral aggression, we stmuld have obtained the grati
tude and friendship oFthe South.’.’ . ~ ,
This, if it Mean anything, Must imply
. that the Alabama, the Georgia, the Flori
da, and other piratical- vessels were not
• built, sold, equipped, armed, provisioned,
and manned in England—that arms and
ammunition, as well as clothing, were not
' made in England for the rebels who rose,
against the Constitution and for slavery, In
the South—that a fleet of blockade-runners
were not sent out to the British Islands in
, the Atlantic, (especially to Bermuda and
the Bahamas,) as well as to Halifax, and
other British'American ports ;. that the ca
pital of British merchants, some of them
members of Parliament, was not largely
invested in running the blockade, with the
double view of making money and aiding
the South, and that the Alabama and ves
sels of that class, (as much buccaneers as
any on which Sir Henry Morgan, L’Olon
nais, Van Horn, or Kid ever raised the
black flag,) were not permitted to coal, pro
vision, and refit in such of the British
ports as were most convenient to them. If
these things constitute neutrality, we make
a present of them to the Mendez-Pinto
of the English press.
However, he is not alone in bragging of
British neutrality—in the very face offset.
On the 15th December, at a political dinner
in Essex, the principal speech was made
by Mr. Chichester Fortesqtte, who is
Under-Secretary of the-Colonies. This,
gentleman, brother of lord Clermont,
and heir to the title, highly distinguished
himself in his University career at Oxford,
has sat in Parliament for an Irish county
since 1847, and has been in office, with
little intermission, since 1854, It was very
natural for such an official, at a public
political dinner, to speak of the colonial
affairs of England, but his referring to
American matters was gratuitous and un
called for. It may” have been Ms duty to
defend Mr. Cardwell, now head of the
Colonial Department, but there was no
warrant for Ms championing. Lord Rus
sell, the head of the Foreign Department:
Yet he emphatically declared, speaking of
the war now raging in this country, “that
he believed tliere would be nothing in after
times more creditable to this Government,
and more honorable especiaily to Earl Rus
sell, as head of the Foreign Office, than the
strict, true, and honor Able neutrality which he
had maintained in this matfer. He believed
that he had been right in not identifying the
Government with the enthusiasm, on the
one hand, for the Southern States, wMch
is so strongly felt by the Conservative
party in this country ; nor, on the other
hand, with that fanaticism on behalf of the
Northern States which was expressed by a
section of the Liberal party.” Then, to •
state Ms own opinion, he said that “he
sympathized with the Northern States so
far as this was a struggle for boundary, and
for territory, and so far as it was a strag
gle to redeem for freedom the doubtful
StateSf-nnd -to save from the extension of
slavery Territories still free from it. On
the other hand, he could not withhold some
sympathy for those States which had fought
so gallantly for their independence, which
had proved their determination, at most as-'
toniehing cost of blood and treasure, to at
tain that object, and who ought not to he
made an exception from all those rules
which w,e had-Mtherto laid down for the
conduct of nations, merely because they
had the misfortune to contain the institu
tion of slavery.” So, Algiers ought to
have been sympathized with 1 and not pro
ceeded against,in 1815, “because it had
the misfortune to contain the institution
of" —piracy ! Mr. Chichester Fobtes
qxte’s logic is on a par with the historical
truth of Ms boast that England had main
tained a strict, true,’ and honorable neutra
lity in American affairs. This last asser
tion is wholly of the Mendez-Pinto school
of oratory.
At that political dinner in Essex one Mr.
Thomas Sutton Western, M. P. for
Maldoh, and a large landed proprietor,
who seldom if ever has heard his own voice
in the House of Commons during the seven
years he has sat there, waxed wordy—pro
bably under post-prandial fluid excitement.
He, too, made a great glorification of Eng
lish neutrartty. “America,” he said, “had
drunk to the last dregs of national suffering
and misery, and the end of the war appear
ed as remote, if not remoter, than ever.”
He added, “ whatever the end might be—
whether the separation of the great Repub
lic • into two divisions, which was the aim
of those who originally revolted from the
United States, or whether the restoration
of the Union, it would be England’s glory
that, deeply as she had been a sufferer by
the war, she had never been tempted, in or
der to relieve the distress of her own children,
to do one act which would embitter the con
test or retard its termination .” Of course,
then, no such pirates as the Alabama, the.
Georgia, or the Florida, were built,, equip
ped, and manned in England, were not re
ceived as favored ships in British West In
dian ports, and not a British shilling has
been invested in the now hazardous risk of
blockade-running, to pour in supplies to
Southern rebeldom! If otherwise, then
Mr, Western, M. P., undefiiably'kelongs
to the mendacious family of Ferdinand
Mendez-Pinto, and is worthy of the folks
of Essex (a county famous for
whom he represents.
Japanese Civilization.
The question may arise, ere long, for the
consideration of civilized nations, what
shall be their treatment of barbarous coun
tries ? The horrible enormities committed,
on certain annual occasions, at the Court of
Dahomey, (when unfortunate victims, not
guilty of crime, are brutally slaughtered in
scores and hundreds,) may have a shadow
of excuse in the fact that Ms v noble Majesty
of Dahomey is utterly uncultured, and
knows no better, not having been taught
any better. But Japan is a country where,
whatever the state of religion, a certain de
gree of inteUigenee ..prevails, where many
of the arts of civilization are cultivated,
where, indeed, a steamboat has already
been built by the natives, machinery in
cluded, and writing, painting, and en
graving are common. A country whose
natives can manufacture rifles, cannon,
nmA gHnnowder, and uSe them for offence
and defence, ought not te be held as bar
barian.
The latest news from Japan is as follows:
“The Prince of Nagato, who contended with the
allies at the Straits of Shimonosekl, had. It was
known, after signing the treaty which was extorted
from him, refused or hesitated to comply with the
condition which prescribed the payment of an in
demnity. His course was not sanctioned by tha
authorities, and he was condemned by the criminal
coart at- Yeddo to the following peculiar penalty:
That his two palaces should be razed, and his ser
vants put to Heath. The execution of such a sen
tence it Is difficult to conceive. It has, however,
been literally carried out. The two palaces have
been destroyed, and the slaughter of the servants
accomplished. Two hundred and fifteen women and
Children and four hundred and twenty men in the ser
vice of the Prince were hilled, and then his Highness,
deeply concerned, made his submission to the Ty
coon and the Mikado, who had given their approval of
the sentencepionounoea by the court. He applied
to Admiral Knper, who placed the Barrosa at the
service of the Prince’s First Minister, who was de
spatched to Yeddo, where the envoy first besought
the Intercession of aU the European and the Ameri
can representatives, and declared his intention or
Saying the sums due for indemnity without further
elay, and complying with all the provisions of the
treaty he had Blgnea.”
This is about the most horrible event of
the present time. A man refused to pay a
certain sum of mouey which he had signed
a promise to pay, and one of the courts of
law subjects Mm to the penalty of having
his two palaces razed to the ground (which
was done), and tMs was a heavy punish
ment inflicted upon him,, the .offender.
But there was another penalty , which con
signed four hundred and tMrty-five (435)
human beings to a cruel death. They were
slain because they were his servants, and
the Tycoon and the Mikado—respectively
the temporal and spiritual rulers of Japan
approved of the judgment of the court
under which tMs was done. We do not
approve of meddling in the affairs of other
nations, buf if ever there was a casein
which it was justifiable, surely it is this.
British Comments on American Facts.
That remarkable London newspaper, the
Daily Telegraph, favors its readers with a
long leader upon the attempt to bum all
the leading hotels of New York, with the
exception of one which is noted .as a
Copperhead haunt, and gravely affirms ,
that the circumstances related in oar news
papers were ingenious inventions, exciting •
fancies-existing only in reporters’ imagi-r
nation—sensation sews designed to keep'
the public in a lively condition. “It be
came imperative,” Mr. Bala says, (for
the article must be his, ) “to get up a sen
sation on some topic or another; and the
great Phosphorus Plot of the twenty-fifth
of November was not a had peg to hang
patriotism upon.” Above all, Mr. Bala
questions the possibility' of .the Con
federates being engaged In any attempt
to commit wholesale arson''.jin New
York. To say so, he pronounces “as
a silly fiction, designed only to serve
rogues and to frighten timorous people.”
He declares that “ the Confederates,”
whom he specially admires, “have other
fish to fry. They are fighting a-fair fight,
and have hitherto disdained to carry it on
by any but legitimate means. They are
not in the habit of getting fire to hotels and
waxwork shows. It is not they, but. the
Federate, who are accustomed to pour
camphene over carpets and paraffin into
drawers full of ladies’ linen, and then set
fire to them.” Of course, then, according
to this accurate authority, it was not “ the
Confederates" who set fire to Ohambers
burg last summer, and destroyed the .city.
Of course, the Federate di.d the miseMef
there!
Obituary,
Mr, Robert H» Bebesfobd, au aged
citizen of Philadelphia,' and one of the
-oldest representatives of the newspaper
fraternity, died yesterday morning at 3
o’clock, after a short attack of disease of
the heart, in the eightieth year of Ms age.
Mr. Beresford .was born in London, but
' came to this country in Ms early boyhood,
and learned the printing business in the
city of New York, where he published a
daily paper, the Advertiser, as early as the
year 1811. Coming to this city soon
after, on the breaking out of the war
with England, he enlisted in the second
company of Washington Guards, and per
formed duty with that organization during
its military service at Camp Dupont. He
entered the. employ of the late Mr. Fry,
and, upon" that gentleman becoming the
proprietor of the National Gazette, was
made foreman, and afterwards one of the
editors of the paper. When the publica
tion of that journal was suspended, Mr.
Bebesfobd, together with Messrs. Fottlke
and McCarty, for some time published the
Philadelphia Gazette. Leaving the pro
fession of journalism, he was appointed
collector of taxes for Locust ward, and held
that office until the consolidation of the city,
when, in the reorganization of affairs, the
position which he occupied was abolished.
Since that time he has led the quiet life of
an old man, -whose personal duties in the
busy world have been fulfilled, , and from,
the shades of Ms retirement has seen
another generation laboring as he had
done, and bearing up under'the world’s
toils and burdens. During his long life,
from the nature of the positions he occu
pied, he became widely known, and Ms
qualities as a gentleman commanded uni
versal respect.
WASHBVGTOW.
Washington, January 2.
’the celebration of new year’s day.
This day is observed os the New Year holiday,
and business generally Is suspended. The weather'
is favorable, though the walking la bad.
The foreign ministers and attaohes paid their
annual customary respects to the President, as did
also soon thereafter the. Justices of the Supreme’
Court of tho United states, together with members
of the Cabinet, army and navy officers, and other
prominent gentlemen. At 1 o’clock the doors of
the Executive Mansion were thrown open to the
pnblio, and quickly the halls and East Room were
densely crowded with visitors of both sexes, many of
whom were personally Introduced to the President.
A band of music was In attendance. The reception
continued for two hours. Thousands of persons,
meanwhile, were continually going and returning
from the animated scene. A guard of cavalry was
stationed at each carriage gate, and a squad of in
fantry, together with policemen, were In front of
the Executive Mansion to enforce compliance with
the order of arrangements.
Conflagration of » Newspaper Esiain
llalimeat
Bobtok, Jan. 2.—Tie Traveller building, In State
street, was nearly destroyed by an Incendiary Are at
an early hour tbls morning. The composing and
editorial rooms were destroyed, but the press, being
In the cellar, was not injured. Willard’s chrononse
ter works, on the first floor, were notmnoh damaged,
most of their property being onoloscdfn fire-proof
safes. The other portions of the bulldifig were oc
cupied as small offioes, and the fire was mainly con
fined to the upper stories. The Traveller was fall?
Insured, and its publication will soon be resumed. -
Arrival of Mon, W. i. Dayton’s Bemains
at Tien tun.
Tbentoj;, Jan. 2.— The remains or the HonPW.
L. Dayton, late United States minister to France,
arrived here on Saturday evening, and were re
ceived by Governor Parker. A large number or Ci
tizens were assembled at the - depot, from whence
the coffin was removed to the Senate Chamber of
the State House, where it will remain' until Thurs
day,
Inauguration of Governor Fenton.
Albas*, January, 2.—Governor Fenton was
inaugurated to-day, and has issued a proclamation
urging the people to fill up the last call by volun
teers.
The Late Honsieor Jlocqaard.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times,
wilting December loth, speaking of the death or
M. Mocquard, furnishes a sketch of Ms life. The
correspondent says:
He was In his 74thyear, having been bom at Bor
deaux In 1791. He was educated in Paris, and ob
tained the place of barsar In the College of Louis le
Grand, which, in compliance with the fashion then
prevailing of applying the Greek nomenclature to
pubUc institutions, then bore the name of Pryta
nee.. On completing his college' course he entered
tbe School of Law. and was called to the bar In
1817. Like most of the young men of his day,
he joined the Liberal party in Its opposition to the
Government of the Restoration. Hff was em
ployed as counsel In soma of the political trials
of the period, and particularly in that of the mili
tary conspiracy, In which the rour sergoantß of Ro
chelle were implicated, and for which they suffered
death. He ceased to practice as a lawyer In 1826.
If M. Mocquard was at that time a uonapartlst his
opinions most have sat very loosely on him, for we
find that after the Revolution of July he solicited
employment, and obtained the post of Soua-Prafoot
ofßagndres de Bigorre, In the department of the
Hautes-Pyrenees. This he held lor eight or nine
years; but whether lie quitted it of his own accord,
or was removed by the Government, Is not clear.
Soon alter ho estaolished relations with some of the
members of the Bonaparte family, and paid several
visits to Amenberg, where Hortehse, the wife of
Louis Bonaparte, was then residing; and it appears
he succeeded in gaining the confidence of that lany,
and of her son, the present Emperor. In .mo
he proceeded to London, and had frequent
Interviews with Fgnce Louis Napoleon. On his
return to Faris,he undertook the management of
the journal Le Commerce, which was devoted to the
interests of the Bonaparte family. After the affair
of Boulogne, he ebntfnued, as before, to defend the
same cause, and paid several visits to Ham, where
the Prince was then a prisoner. It doesnotappear.
however, that he suffered persecution Of any kind
from the Orleans Government for his open ad
vocacy of the Bonaparte cause, nor that he was pre
vented fromcommunioatlngwlth the representative
of it whenever he pleased. The Revolution of 1848
opened new hopes to the friends of the family,
and M. Mocquard exsrtoa islmsblj id the Utmost
in gaining partisans to the oaute to which,
since he had ceased to be an Orleanlst functionary,
he attached himself. When the period, of the
election for the Presidency of the Republic ap
proached he became a member of the electoral
committee, presided over by General Plat. With
that committee the Government never Interfered,
It had its ramifications in every quarter 6T Paris
and in the departments', and, on the whole, was
far more fortunate than the “thirteen” who have
just been prosecuted by the Imperial Government.
Prince Louis Napoleon had then his headquarters
- at the Hotel du Rhln, in the Place YendOme, and ’
there M. Mocquard established himself as his private
secretary. The new President had assigned to him
the palace of the Ely see for Us residence, and M.
Mocquard was, of course, confirmed in his post as
private secretary and Ohef du Cabinet. M. Ferdi
nand Barrott, brother or M. Odilon Barrott, the
President’s first minister, was appointed omolal
•Secretary of the Presidency; ho held the post only
lor a few months, and was succeeded by M. Au
guste Chevalier, now one of the deputies to the
Corps Legit latlt for the department of the Aveyron.
It is probable that M. Mcoquard was more or IeBS
initiated in all the Bonapartist plots since 1840. It
Is certain that he was from the first one of the most
active promoters of the coup d’itat of the 2d of
December,. He was always remarkable for his
buoyant spirits, and had, moreover, a keen percep
tion of the ludicrous. I think it is in the M*
moirs -of the Bourgeois de Paris it is related how
on the very eve of Its being carried, into execu
tion, and when everything was arranged for the
morrow, M. Mocquard greatly diverted the con
clave of the EiysCe by Us description of the curious
figure which certain poisons would make when
they were taken out of their beds in the night
by the police. It was not merely the tranquillity
ot tte country ana tUoc&ase of order generally
that depended on the issue of the coup a'tat, but
the fortunesof several of those concerned In it. M.
Mocquard was among those who at least did not
lose by it. Instead of holding the precarlons and
not over lucrative post of Secretary of a President
who had little means of adequately rewarding Us
friends, he was established permanently In the con
fidence, both political and personal, of the ruler of a
mighty Empire who could bestow on Us followers
wealth and honors. In foot, he" shared the confi
dence of the Emperor In a degree far superior to the
Ministers themselves. Notwithstanding his In
fluence in the Imperial oloset, there was a moment
after the Emperor’s marriage when Us position
seemed to he threatened. M. MocquarfUappeared
to have some apprehensions that he was not favora
bly looked upon by the Empress and the Empress’s 1
mother (Madame Montljo) as he had so long been
by the Emperor Umself, and feared that he might
be supplanted. The danger, If danger there really
was, soon passed away, and M. Mocquard remained
at bis post wltbont any diminution of favor. A few
years ago he was named Commander of the Legion
°f Honor, and onlv last year, was raised to the dig
nity of Senator, °
M. Mocquard wrote In Us earlier as well as In Us
later days several dramatic places. One of the last
was the “ Prise de FOkln. He also pnbllshed a few
years ago a novel called “Jessie,” which, though it
was very nearlv written down by fulsome puffing,
had reslly a certain success, ■ M. -Mooquard was un
doubtedly a most agreeable companion, never with
out the mot pour tire, always fond of a jokej-and, I
believe, incapable of willingly doing injury to any
-one. -It will be very difficult for theEihperor to
. find a EUbßtltute for atm. Several have been spoken
of, stsoh as MM. Duruy (Mlnlster of Public Instruc
tion): Lagceronnifiro, and others;, but not one can
ever bo what M. mocquard was ; aud thiathe Em
peror knows better than any one.
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1865.
OF.TV. GRAINT’a ABMY.
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ANOTHER ATTACK ON OCR JACKETS
Part of oar line Surprised and Captured.
THE REBELS ESCAPE WITHOUT
Capture of Pollard, Alabama, by onr Saidek
CHHtKBAL DESTRUCTION OF REBEC
THE BEEEUS INTERUEFT THE EIPOMTIOIf, BUT
ABE lUHir WHIPPEJJ.
Charleston a Place or Poverty and Gloom
OTTB" PICKETS HEAK FOBTS HOWARD -WADS
WORTH SURPRISED' BY THE REBELS—OUB. LOSS
POKTT—THB REBEL LOSS ZTOKB.
Washinoton, Jan. 2,—lnformation from the
Army of the Potomac to the evening of Saturday Is
as follows: About daylight this morning our pickets
ou that portion of the front line between Ports
Howard and "Wadsworth, now occupied by the Ist
and 3d Brigades of the Ist Corps, were surprised by
about three hundred rebels, who charged upon them
wlthout'any previous warning, and drove them back
within the entrenchments, killing two, \fonndlng
three, and capturing thirty-five. The rebels then
gathered the blankets, knapsacks, &s,, which our
men left at the picket posts, and - retired to
their own lines without losing a man. The
attack was so entirely unexpected, and the
affair so quickly over thatthgoffioersof our picket
guard bad not time to even give orders to the
men with a view to resistance until they had fab
len back nponTbe entrenchments. The assault was of
a moatfurious character. Theehemy charging with
terrific yells, and firing rapidly as they -advanced,
very naturally induced the bollaf that it was ah at
tack in force. The scattering fire maintained by
our pickets during their retreat was ineffective, and
the enemy did sot remain long enough for those be
yond the entrenchments to be aroufed. Nothing
further of interest bos occurred here for a few days
past. The weather continues extremely disagree
able. are havingA iali-ef snow, which,
however, melts nearly as fsitaS itffosocnds.
THE SOUTHWEST/ :
A EAID INTO ALABAMA—OXPTUTt It OF POLLARD
AAD DESTRUCTION OF EAILBOAD. AND BBBBL
GOVBBEMENT FKOPBBTV—A -FfQBTf WITH THU
KEBXLS AKD A VIOTOBT—NBW OKISAKS MAT
TBBB. , - ' j ,
Oaxbo, Jan. I.— The steamer Mollis Able, from
New Orleans on the 28th, arrived with 13T bales of
cotton for Cincinnati. : i
An English steam blockade-runner 'had arrived
at New Orleans, with 50 bales of cotton. She bleared
from Galveston, and was-eaptured .by the Princess
Royal on the 13th December, f - .
A force of about two thousand men, Including the
2d Maine Cavalry, Ist Alahama'Oavalry, 14th New
York Cavalry, and three regiments of colored
troops, with two pieces of artilleryjsuoder command
of Colonel G,D, Robinson, ofthe* BTth Colored In
fantry, left for a raid into Alabama, to sever tele
grapbio and railroad communications at Pollard,
and to destroy such property and stores as might
be found there. *7-""" #r
- Beaching Pollard on the isthult., the place was
fonnd to be evacuated, and the- railroad depot, In
cluding a train of eight cam, mostly filled with
grain, the railroad storehouse, filled with grain and
Government property, quartermaster’s aind commis
sary stores, ordnance building, with -2,000 stand of
arms, a treßtlework and a nunaberof miles ’bf rail
road, were destroyed by our troops, which being ac
complished, the expedition started to return, but
wore met at Little Escßmbla by Jthpjenemy under
Colonel Olmstead, who opposed their-crossing the
bridge. /• - .
The colored Infantry made a successful charge,
-led by Col, Robinson, who feU, s Bhpt through the
thigh, when half way across the bridge. After Ro
binson was wounded the command devolved upon
Lieut. Col. A. B. Speeding, .2d Maine. A second
attack was made by the enemy, which was repulsed
and the rebels scattered through the woods with
heavy loss, Including'Col. Olmstead, their leader,
who was killed. Seven of the-enemy’s -flags were
captured, ana the expedition was not again rqolest
ed during Its return. Our total ioss daring the time
the expedition was out was estimated at 76 killed,
wounded, and missing.
The New Orleans cotton market whs at a stand,
still. There Is no inquiry, and no sales are report
ed. Falrinquiry for sugar and molasses.
The steamer Olty pf, Cairo, from Memphis, has
arrived here (Cairo), wlih 19tba!es of cotton for St,
Louis.
GBBAT EISTBEBB IN THlfe-apry *WO BUSINESS
BOIHG—THE INHABITANTS RBMOVTITOTO THB
COUNTBT ALAICMBD AT BHBKMAN’S MOVEMENTS—
BLOCKADE-BUNNBBS WAIJIHG TO. ESOAFB,
Washington, Jan 2.—A private letter from the
fleet says that refugees from Charleston, and other
parts of South Carollnvakate that all the In
habitants, who could do so, hsye removed Into the
country. Great distress prevails, and flour and
other necessaries of life are scarcely to be obtained
at any price. Sherman’s movps occasioned gene
ral alarm. Several blockade-runners are in Charles
ton harbor awaiting an opportunity toescape. Many
passengers for Nassauhavealroady engaged berths.
Yery little business is doing In Charleston other
than that connectodg*iih blockadeTonnlng and
war matters : ’ r
Foktebsb Monbob, Dec. 31.—The stormy weather
still continues to prevail with unabated severity.
There have been no arrivals'ftom the South or ftom
off "Wilmington, N. C. Snow has been falling here
all day. The mall steamer Dictator brings no news
from the front. Everything, is quiet.
Arrived—Ship Boslln Castle, Hong Kong j hrigs
Oaoiqne, Rio Grande; Ceres, Remedies.
Returned—Brig Foste* ror Philadelphia, withlosi
Of topsails. -•
Below—United States*supply ship, froin Norfolk,
Another Rebel Privateer—Her Depreda
tions on onr Commerce.
The rebel pirate Shenandoah, formerly the Bri
tish steamer Sea King, Is aotlvdy employed In the
destruction of our merchant vessels on the Atlantic.
Captain F. W. Hansen, of the brig Susan, who-was
captured on the 4th of November, while on tig wav
from Cardiff td Rio Grande do Sul, with a cargo of
coals, arrived in New York'on Sunday, in the bark-
Graoe, of Baltimore, and furnishes the following
aeconnt of the.plratehrd&ihgs:
. “On the morning of the Ith of November, about
two o’dook, we maaealargesteamer in the distance.
At three o>olook she tacked and stood after ns, and
at daylight she was off the starboard quarter, half a
mile distant, when she hoisted the English flag and
fired a gun. We set the eolors, but did not heave to.
She then hauled down the English flag and fired
another gun, at the same time hoisting the rebel
flag. We then haokedour yards, and were shortly
afterwords hoarded by an armed boat from the
steamer, whloh proved to be the Shenandoah. They
took possession of the brig and ordered the captain
and mate to repair on board with the ship’s papers.
This occurred Id latitude 4.30 north, longitude 26.40
west from Greenwich. Alter examining the sblp’s
papers the captain of the pirate ordered the brig to
he sunk, taking cut of her everything that could be
of any übo, such as provisions, canvas, and rope,
and allowing the ship’s company to take away all
personal effects, except the nautieal Instruments.
“This steamer Is a fall-rigged shlpj with rolling top
sails, iron lower masts, bowsprit, steel lower yards,
ana capable of steamli g under full sail eleven knots.
She was'built at Glasgow by Messrs. Stevens &
Sons in 1863, and was formerly called the Saa lClng,
snd.by theoffieere’ own report, had been employed
on the London and Bombay lineof steamers; She
Is now armed with four sixty eight-pounder smooth
bore guns, two thlrty-two-poundeif rifles, and two
twelve pounder smooth-bore guns. She had forty
three men on hoard, nearly sSI of Whom had joined
from captured vessels. She was fitted out at sea,
or at Funchal harbor, fey another steamer, which
had been Sent out from England for the purpose.
She had a clearance from London to Bombay, which
they said she had on board it th» time; In my
opinion she Is not fit to fight any vessel, as she Is not
able to use any of her guns, except the small ones,
and for these she had only one or two rounds of am
mu&Mitdi. She is- commanded-by a man who is
very Imprudent in hoarding vessels... In capturing
the ship Kate Prince, which I subsequenfiy wi*
nessed, he exposed his whole broadside without
knowing Whether'sho'was a man-of-war or a mer
chant vessel, and neglected to have his men at quar
ters. The orew were so situated that they could
have been swept away by a discharge from an op
posing vessel. It astonished me greatly to see his
management In this respect, as he said he had been
reared inthcAmerfcan navy. By. Ms own statement
his name is Warden, was a native of Maryland, and a
graduate of Annapolis. He was formerly in com
mand of the United States sloop-of-war Saratoga.
All of us who were on board as pri* oners must ac
knowledge that this Same Captain Wardelh aB well
as his (.ffleers, treated us very kindly, and were, la®
every respect, perfect gentlemen, ’Previous to the
capture of the Susan, the bark Elena, of Boston,
hark E. G. Godfrey, (place unknown,) and sohooner
Charter Oak, of San-rranolEco, had been oaptured.
The officers of the two first named vessels were sent
Info Rio Janeiro by a Banish brig. The Rate
Prince wasbonded, and .oonveyed-me and Captain
Gilman to Bahia- .From thence we sailed In the
bark Grace, of Baltimore, for New York.’* ' ■
ARoman ConsrntAor ato its Disoovbby.—A
correspondent at Rome sends us'a oommunicatlon
announcing that a conspiracy ogaUistthelifo of the
Pope, the King of Naples, and Cardinal Antonelll,
which was to have been carried into effect on the
Bth nit., had been discovered in that of ty. The let
ter contains the following strange details of the af
fair : “ The ■ conspiracy was conoootea at - Bologna
about six months ago. In September last three of
the parties engaged In it came ta Rome, each hav
ing lour passports under different names. They ap
plied to the police and obtained cards allowing
them to reside la theclty, They did not live to
gether, and only saw each other daring the night.
They called themselves shoemakers, but- lived in
idleness, and spent much money, always paying in
20f. plroes. They each of them had a kntte with
three blades, and also a pistol loaded with shot.
These threemen were brothers, and so much alike
that they oonld be readily mistaken one for the other.
They also had each seven dresses exactly alike.
One of the three never showed Mmsetf, and was
unknown to the poltee. Another pretended to feel
freat devotedness towards the. Pope, lollewlng
imin all his promenades, accompanied by Borne
associates. The three men were in oorrespondenoe
with a female who resided at'Rome, but who left
the city at the end of for Upper Italy.
She gave them orders and money, ana Informed
them of the means of introducing arms, whloh were
distributed to other conspirators in the Oity. The
first Indication of the affair was given to Cardinal
Antonelll in a letter from Naples. He at first re
fused to believe the statement , made, but neverthe
less set the police to work. The first of the three
was arrested at his own residence; the seeond, who
was laid hold of on the Bridge of St. Angelo, en
deavored to throw himself Into the Tiber. Aseareh
made at their lodgings led to the discovery of im
portant letters, receipts for money paid to associ
ates, arms, &e. In the list of the aooomnltoea are
the names of some ex-Fontlttoal gendarmesm Thy
third was captured at the moment when hr was
going to see his brother. They have been placed In
the prison of San Michelino ta await their trial.”
THE WAR.
BXFOBE PETERSBURG,
LOSING A MAN.
MATERIEL OF WAR.
GENERAL GRANT'S ARMY.
CHAREEISTON.
FORTRESS MONROE.
STOEHV -WEATHER AND HO THING NEW.
Hfi#VSEK CITY. -
, New Y&ur,-Jan. 2, 1885.
iLABIHE. "'"
£ U BOP M-
Arrival of the Steamship Hew Terk
v TNG' Reception or tlie President's Wen
" Sage in England—The Times on the Re.
port or the Secretory of" the Navy—
Spanish, Prussian, and Italian Affairs.
Nbw York, Jan. 2 —The steamer New York,
from Southampton on the 21st ult., has arrived
here. The Asia arrived out Deoomber l&j the"
Washington at Havre on the 20th, and the Moravian
on the 21st.
President Lincoln’s message was received in Eng
land on the 18th December, by the Asia. •
Parliament was expected to reassemble on Febru
ary 9. .
The Moravian arrived December 21.
2he Daniel Webster passed Deal Deoeniber2o,
for London.
THE FBESIDEBT’S itBSBAGB.
The Times says: “Lincoln’s message contains little
from whtch the Federals can derive encouragement
or consolation. The Government’s position, military
and-financial, lmapidly growing worse, and the
message effectually destroys peace expectations.”
The Times thicks the North does not possess the
power of confiscating property: The mere threat of
confiscation gives the Sleuth the strongest possible
motive to resist It to the last extremity,
. The report of the state of the Federal finances Is
even more discouraging than the military Intelli
gence is unfavorable, although the situation, even
ias depicted in the message and accompanying re
pel ts, financial and military, renders it the most un
comfortable address ever read to the American
House of Representatives. British neutrality has
been sojyell maintained that there la only one point
In the message which concerns England directly—
the resolution to place an additional force on the
Takes. This Is not to be complained of, and we hope
- the Canadians will take measures to prevent Canada
being made a basis of incursions into a friendly
State. 11, by placing gunboats on Lakes Ontario
and Erie, these enterprises can be impeded, Lincoln
. will only bo engaged in an object In which the
British authorltleawill bo bound to assist him; but
we sincerely trust that this increase of force Is not
meant to he permanent. We conceive the necessity
that occasional forays of a few adventurers should
be brought Into connection with the question of con
tinuing or modifying'the rights ot transit from
Canada through the. United Stateß, as well as the
regulation of imports which was temporarily esta
blished by the reciprocity treaty of 1854.
THE BBFOBT OF BBOBBTABV OF HAW WHOLES.
The same journal has the following long leader on
the report of our Secretary of the Navy;
Mr. Gideon We{ies, the Secretary of the Federal
Navy, Is undoubtedly entitled to claim credit for the
exertions otbis department during the great civil
-war. He falls info the exaggeration characteristic
Of his countrymen when ho-asirlbes to the American
marine achievements wlthonriparallel or precedent
In any naval history; for good admirals hare lived
before Farregnt, though they did not go into battle
with iron-dads, and great naval expeditions have
been undertaken, though the means were adapted
to the age and the occasion. But if we look Impar
tially at the work which devblved suddenly upon
the American admiralty four years ago, at the re
sources which then existed tor its performance, and
at the manner in which It has been actually perform
ed, we must admit that the tone of gratulation per
vading the Secretary’s report is by no means with
out justification
in the month of Maroh, 1861, when Mr. Welles
entered upon his duties as head of the Naval De
. pertinent, the navy of the United States contained
but 76 vessels of all descriptions available for ser
vice. It now contains 671, a large proportion of
• which are vessels newly constructed, on the prinol-v
: pies suggested by modern wariare. In this power
ful fleet there are no fewer than 71 Iron-dads, and
559 ships out of the 671 are propelled by steam. At
the commencement of the war the Government had
but 7,600 seamen In Its pay, and of these only 261
; were in the home ports, in the present month the
j number o| men borne on the- estimates is 61,000,
i while during the present year, though 23 vessels
, have been lost to the Federals bysMpwreak, battle,
' or capture, the Navy List still shows an Increase ot
83 vessels over the fleet of 1863. Nor has this
t provision lor the exigencies of the war been
i upon any excessive scale. The blockade main
: talced by the Federals extends over a coast
line of 3,600 miles, and this service, at any
rate, Is really unprecedented in magnitude: The
“squadrons” maintained on the several stations oe
cupieo by the fleet deserve the epithet of “Im
mense,” which Mr. Lincoln gave them. The Mls
sitrippl Itself Is divided Into ten naval districts,
each under a separate command, and the incidents
ofthe war Lave taught as how skillfully and service
ably the nayy has co-operated with the army even in
the interior of the continent. The whole war, In
fact, on the federal side has been a half naval war,
and the gunboats of the Union have enabled Its land
forces to attempt and execute what would other
wise have been impracticable enterprises. In the
face of so much success It would be Invidious to in
sist npon failures; but we cannot forget that all
the chief Eeaports of the Confederacy, with the ex
ception of Now Orleans, are still In Confederate
hands, that the formidable navy ofthe Federals had
no enemy to deal with, and that the depredations
on American commerce, which Mr. Welieachargas
so bitterly to the account of British malice, were
due only to the temporary inability of the North
erners to keep the police of the sea.
If Mr. Lincoln’s statistics are correctly reported.,
we may say something more of the Federal navy,
and admit that It has been economically raised and
thriftily maintained. The President’s message gives
the entire cost of the navy, from the beginning of
the war to the present time, as less than. £50.000,-
000, which would represent an annual expenditure
of some A 12.000.000 only—a chargehardly exceeding
our own. But there la either some mistake In these'
figures, on the Federal navy estimates must be In
creasing at an enormous rate, for Mr. Welles now
informs us particularly that the charge for the ap
proaching year will be upwards of £22,000,000, or
nearly double the average of former years, Sttllr
even that sum appears moderate in comparison
with the prodigious expenditure upon the army,
especially if we recollect that the American esti
mate Includes the cost of the ordnance stores, which
In our own estimates are separately provided for.
Mr. Welles, however, contemplates spending no
less than £11,000,000 in the construction, repair, and
equipment of vessels during the coming year.
itwUlnot have escaped the notice ot attentive
readers that at the moment when we are urged In
this country to abandon or curtail our Government
establlsbmehts lor the maintenance- of the navy,
the head of the Navy Department in America is
strenuously insisting on the absolute necessity of
such establishments. - What Mr. Gideon Welles
Bald in previous years he says over again nojv, and
reiterates more eagerly than ever his conviction
that the Federate must have such yards and
• arsen&lß as wonld place the Government above the
necesuty ol depenalng on contracts with- private
builders. He has argued this question, Indeed, not
only on the score of exigency) but on that of
economy; asserting that It would he cheaper as
well as better for the oountry to manufacture for
Itself the vessels and maohlnery which it Is now
compelled to buy. We have remarked on former
occasions , that these opinions are to be received,
perhaps, with some qualification as proceeding
from the pen bf an official; but it was Impossible
not to perceive, from the more detailed statements
given In some of his previous reports, that the ser
vice and the Treasury were really suffering to
gether Grom the system which has been recom
mended for our own adoption.
The instruction which we migkt otherwise derive
from the experience of the Americans in marine
armor and projectiles Is materially diminished by
-the Circumstances under which the chief reports
have been made. The great trial of the Federal
lron-clads took place In the attaok upon Charleston,
and the lailure of that attack was attended with so
much quarrelling and recrimination- among the
officers concerned as almost to invalidate the
accounts recelvedo! the engagement. The Admiral
in command reported disparagingly of the monitors
and their performances; other officers differed en
tirely ft om him In their estimates of facts, and the
Federal Government was disposed to reject reports
, tending to depreciate the new navy of the nation,
and to give corresponding encouragement to the’
Confederates,' These contests led all parties to
speak with so much personal feeling on the subject
that it is natural to suspect their statements of
bias, and we feel unable-to say whether the model
on which the Federals have constructed an iron
fleet Is or is not succesefai. We do, however, know
that the monitors are, at any rate, unfit for sea ser
vice, and .that Admiral Farraaut has persisted,
hitherto, with Impunity, In hoisting his flag on board
a wooden frigate.
It should not be forgotten is looking at the ex
penditure of the Americans npon their navy that
they have hitherto been exempted from the charge
for the non. effective service by which our own
estimates are necessarily swelled. Our effective
navy costs us at present only; £8,700,000, to which
£1,400,000 mußt be added for liaii-pay and pensions.
But it is obvious that no navy oan be actively em
ployed without creating claimants entitled to this
consideration, and Mr. Welles is already obliged-to
introduce the Item into his accounts. The“ pension
toll,” he tells us, comprised at the date ofhls report
769 Invalids, and 840 wioows and orphans. Whether
rlsese are provided for In the “ miscellaneous ” vote,
or whether the “pension fund " suffices to defray
the charge we do not know, hut the fund in question
seems to he rapidly increasing. It Is constituted
from a moiety of all the prize property forthcoming
from the war, an amount rendered very considerable
bythe incidents of the blockade. No fewer than
324 vessels were captured during the past year, and
tbe whole number of prizes since the beginning or
the war amounts to 1,379. Half of the proceeds go
to the captors, half, to the pension fund; so' that if
the fund; is judiciously preserved, the American
estimates will he lightened of some of their burden.
Tbe extreme acrimony displayed by Mr. Gideon
Welles in. his remarks upon the Confederate crui
sers is doubtless due In some measure to the suscep
tibilities of bis Department: but It may be usefully
contrasted with the moderation and candor observa
ble In the language of President Lincoln himself.
Mr. Welles must know fall well that our Govern
ment could not have done more than It did to pre
vent the sailing of these vessels. The question of
right itself was legally debatable, and even If It had
not been, the means of evasion were so numerous
that the efforts of any authorities might have been
defeated. The real source of the mischief was the
Inefficiency, or rather the pre-occupation, of that
Navy over which Mr. Welles presides. For soma
rime the Federals bad more than enough to do In
giving a character of efficiency to the prodigious
blockade which they had undertaken, ana in the In
terval a couple of Southern cruisers ranged the
seas uncontrolled. The event might have been un
avoidable, but its consequences Should not be laid -
tbns unjustly at our door.
• T!i* Asians news had no effect on the markets.
Confederate loan was 61@63. Freneh Rentes «5f
260.
A contract for a loan of £8,000,000 to Spain by
Pereira has been signed. Consols 89X039if. .Illi
nois Central declined X per cent. United'. States
6-208 declined x per cent. Erie paid-up shares de
clined X per share.
. ; lONIAN ISLANDS- ‘
The Paris papers published a despatch from Mes
sina, announcing disturbances In Haute from poli
tical causes. Several persons were wounded.
SPAIN.
The ministerial crisis has ended, the endeavors to
form a new ministry being futile. Narvaez retains
his office, and the cabinet remains unchanged; The
Corttß will be re-opened on the 23d. The Queen
will make a speech from the throne.
PRUSSIA
The generals engaged In the Danish war have re
turned to Berlin and were received enthusiastically,
The King said they had added another leaf to their
glorious history.
ITALY.
Marmora has remonstrated on the necessity of
economy In the maintenance of the army and navy.
The provisional budget for the first three months of
1865 has been agreed to. The Chamber then ad-;
jouraed.
GREECE. '
The Foreign Minister has resigned. -
TUNIS.
The disturbances have recommenced. '
INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN.
Bowbav, Nov. 29.—The railway between Bombay
and Abmedabad was opened yesterday. The Tholl
Ghaut line Is finished. Cotton firm. Gray Shirt--
logs lower. Exchange on London 2s. id. Freights
declining. -
Calcutta, Nov. 29.—Gray Shirtings tending np-,
wards. Mule Twist quiet. Freights declining.
Exchange on London 2a- Id. . Money tight.
cantos, Nov. 16.—Gray Shirtings declining.
Water Twist quiet. Total export of tea 86,126,000
pounds. Exchange on London 4s. 9jfd. ' . \
Shanghais, Nov. 9.—The China news Is unsatis
factory. The presence of rebels In the vicinity or;
Amoy has stopped trade. The Anglo and Franco-,
Chinese forces are to be disbanded. : |
Gray Shirtings unchanged. Tea duH. Silk ao-1
'live and advancing. Exohangeon Loudon 6s. 4><cl,;
Freights quiet. _ '
The advices Rom Japan are favorable,
' Commercial Intelligence.
XivßßPoon, bee. 25—Bvejolng —The salsa of Cotton
for two days have been 30.W0 Bides, the market .being
firm, wiih a» advance of Xu @ld. The salat to specu
lates were 15,000 bales. . ...
The advices from Manchester are favorable, the mar
ket for. lords being firmer and still advancing.
Flour is qfilet and Bteady. Wheat firm. CornlsutlU
ai Beef C is g <iuiet and steady. Pork inactive, and a de
dining: tendency ror new. Lard dull. Tallow steady.
Ashes quiet and steady, Sugar firmer. Coffee steady.
Rice quiet. Common itoslh inaetlve; Spirits Turpen
tine quiet and steady. Crude Petroleum-firm; 48s. Gd:
for refined. ... *
LONDON MONEY MARKET, Dec. 19. —The BagUsh
funds this, morning opened at the dull prices of Satur
day, bnt have since been lees Iweshi OonsdU ctorsd at
K)k@S9X. Thasew* from America, together with the
Prcaldent s sneA&g*, p*odnc#d no affdet ltt depart
ment of busing** with the exaen lonot a wUr of Xd
is the Cotton market, and * deemie of Hd In Cnnfede
rate kao, owing to the absence of ?he. dighMstiedlea'*
tion of anr policy The loan closed 11112011
Central shares declined 1; United States S-and
Elio patd-np share* )s. .... J ••...•
The discount at the bank to-day was &J the
extent usual at this period, and in the Stack Exetfen**
chore advances were In request. The India Cotznctlare
understood at present to have about a million or
a ..million and a half nut on loai. and there seewe
to he some doubt as to whether th* whole or part may
be cailed ln at the end of the mouth. In the opea dis
count market the sup ply is Yery abundant, and symp
toms are observable in all quarters of the extent to
which the oommeiclal paper afloat has been ieduced.
The Stock Kxchange will be closed from Friday after
noon till the following Tuesd w;
LOKUOJS MONEr Tuesday
evening, Dec. 20. —All the markets dosed flat to-day.
Ifo movement is looked for until after the olomo ofthe
year. Consols closed without animation n.tB3}£&393£.
There was a full discount demand'at th©'B ink to-day.
and in the Stock Exchange ad ranees were in request at
tooy cent.
The Confederate loan dosed H better-61 to BJ.
Freocb R-ntee, 65f.26c
Paris ad.vlces confirm tie statement that the contract
for the loan of £3,000,900 to Spain by M. Pereira was
signed on Saturday.
Antricsußeeurl'leß unaltered.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Dee. 19.-There
has been an extensive demand for cotton to-day, and
tbe ealea amount to 15,000 bales, 7,000 on epeculation.
Prices of all long staple cotton are X@%d, f. lb, and
short staple K@)id. 76 to higher.
Tuesday, Dec. 20.—Sales to-day 15.003 bales, 8.000 on
speculation and for extort; market closing strong at
ft n> higher than yesterday. _
LIVERPOOL COBS MARKET, Dec. 20.—Wheat and
Fleur in moderate reaueit at a i light advance, f adiait
Corn was held at 26a. 9d. to 27c, for prime Danube.
LONDON COLONIAL MARKET. Dec, 20.-Sagar
steady. Rice firm. Tallow quiet at 41s. -
Wit slid Humor.
The following amusing paragraphs are from the
London Times:
New York has boon "80 wholly engrossed with
this new sensation as almost to have forgotten that
. General Sherman, whom it is the present fashion to
plaee above Grant and all the other generals whom
merit or favor has brought to the surface, is engaged
in one of the most daring, as well as most perilous,
movements that a general can make. The mystery
that has attended his progress Is removed. FoUcd
by General Hood, and unable to retain his hold
upon Atlanta, he has made a virtue of neaes
stty, and commenced a rapid march through the
enemy’s country, burning and destroying ail be
fore him, In hopes to reaoh-the sea, either at Savan
nah or Uharleiton, or some such other point on the
Georgian or Sonth Carolinian coast as olrcum
stsncca may recommend, and whither a large Fede
ral fltet may easily proceed to receive him with sup
plles.ahd reinforcements. The march will be of 350
miles, If successfully accomplished; and II ne make
a new base for himself on the seaboard, In exchange
for his abandoned Inland base at Ohattanooga, he
will have achieved a work that will entitle him to
rank as the boldest, the ablest, and most fortunate
commander whom the war has produced. It would
appear that the abandonment of the grand attaok
which was to have been made npon Wilmington,
prior to the day of .election, was oaused by the
necessities of General Sherman; that, having
made up his mind to retreat through Georgia, as
his only chance of escape from aunihf ration of thread
surrender, he communicated his plans to Washing
ton, and requested the co-operation of Admiral
Porter’s fleet, to be within easy distance of suoh
place or city on the coast as he might succeed In
reaching. Sherman Is now completely cut off from
the North, and from communication with his own
Government!; consequently the only news of his
movements is derived from Southern sources. But,
as the Southern journals have been requested orXor
biaden to give Information through their columns
that may be of advantage to the Northern generals
and Government, It Is probable that little or nothing
will be heard of Shormtui—until the North has to
announce his triumph or the South Ms defeat. A
levie en masse or imisiurm of the'Georgians has
been ordered to impede Ms progress, to harass him
in front, rear, and either flank, while General Beam,
regard is preparing to contest his advance by more
scientific and perhaps more effectual means. Gene
ral Thomas, whom he left behind, either to guard
Chattanooga or to assume suoh -other position as
: would most surely hold General Hood in check, has,
it wonld appear, found himself outnumbered—if not
outgeneralled —and will either have to give or accept
battle for the possession of the city ot Nashville and
of Western Tennessee. Thus the whole interest of
the war settles, for the time, in the armies of Sher
man and Thomas; while Grant and Sheridan re
main inactive—too much dependent upon the re
sults elsewhere to riskafly independent movement
of their own.
—The first object of Shorman will doubtless be the
capture of Augusta. It is a town of very conside
rable importance. The destruction of the powder
mills here is expected in the North to have a won
derful effect. It escapes their recollection that the
Sonth contrived to find powder before these mills
were erected, and may do so If they cease to exist.
However, tMs is no doubt his object, for a march
down to the coast would be palpably a mere
“change of base:” Now, the capture of Augusta
will be a work of difficulty. From its position, on a
large river, It can hardly be invested. General Lee
has doubtless sent a division to head the defence,
and an ample militia force could be massed there be
fore the assailants would arrive. Beauregard would
probably arrive In time to direct the deftnoe, and
his skill as an engineer has been well exemplified at
Charleston and Petersburg. Possibly some troops
may be spared from Charleston Itself, who, having
stood the fire ol monster guns for twelve months,
are not likely to bo terrified by any artillery Slier
man can bring with htm. So far as a judgment can
be formed from all experience ol the war, there ts
no probability that Augusta can.be taken. If
Sherman should make an attach and be repulsed, his
army will be in extreme danger j for In that case the
troops at Augusta could be moved to the coast by
' the South Carolina railroad in time to intercept
Mm.
A Convict’s Stoey —At the Gloucester (Eng
land) assizes, George Seaman, otherwise Joseph
Rossiter. described as a school master, pleaded guilty
to an Indictment for feloniously being at large be
fore the expiration of a sentence of transportation
for a term of fifteen years, passed upon him in 1356 5
and also to two other indictments, which charged
him with sacrilege, and stealing various articles
from the Wesleyan chapels of Hanham and staple
ton, on the 27th of October last and the 2d of No
vember last respectively. The prisoner read an
elaborate history of his life in the penal settlement
of West Australia, and complained bitterly that the
colonists would not mix with the convicts socially.
He stated that he set up a school there, but even his
pupils and their parents wonld not acknowledgehlm
in thestreet. He alluded to the wretched lift « poor”
Robson&nd “ poor” Redpatii were leading. He stated
that he had tried togetemploymentln varlons places,
and that when on board ship It had been discovered
that he was a convict. The sailors called him
“lag,” and nailed his ticket-of-leave to the mast.
Since he'bad been in England he had tried to get
• employment In various ways, but he had failed; ha
had been In tbe union, bat on Inquiries being made
as to his parish settlement he got discharged. His
lordship, in sentencing bito, stated that by a carious
coincidence this was -the third time the prisoner
had come before him for trial In the same court.
The first time was when he was quite a boy, and
was charged with highway robbery, when he was
acquitted. The second tlme was In 1856, when he
waß sentenced to fifteen years’ transportation. His
lordship added that he must bear In mind that It
was part of the burden and punishment attached to
the conviction ftr crime that society should turn
their backs .upon the criminals, and refuse to re
celve thorn as. men of good character are received,
and that It wonkLbe a bad thing for-soelety If such
men as the prisoner had termed “ poor” Kooson and
“poor” Retfpath were held in the same light as
honest men. Hlb lordship sentenced him to fifteen
years’ penal servitude; •
Tojj Thumb in Paris —A Paris letter of the 9fh
says: “I must put npon record that I have this day
had the honor of an Interview with General Tom
Thumb, Mrs. Thumb, the baby, and the baby’s
aunt, Miss Minnie. 1 received a polite note from
the General’s private secretary, Intimating that, al
though the public receptions were over, tbe ‘fa
mily ’ wonld have pleasure In receiving myself and
wile at a private interview’. In a handsome draw
ing-room, No. 95, on the first floor of the Hotel du
Louvre, we found the Interesting party. The only
visitors besides ourselves were the Peruvian minis
ter, with Ms wife and two ladles. The General,
who has Jong been known la Europe, is In splendid
health; Ms manners are affable and unaffected,
and Ms toilette unexceptionable. His wife is really
pretty, and like her Lilliputian sister, wring
Minnie, remarkably intelligent. Bat the lion of
the party was the baby, a little girl twelve
months old, looking the picture of health, and, with
out exaggeration, extremely beautiful. The face
has nothing of the dwarf about it, but my observa
tion" that she looked as big as an "ordinary child of
her age was not approved by the secretary, who as
sured me that the weight was something very far
below the average, ana, lifting up the expensive
lace frock, showed me her little feet In red morocco
shoes, WMch are not larger than those of a moderate
sited doll. My Inquiry whether the child was ex
pteted to grow up a dwarf met with the cautious
answer that there was ‘no precedent.’ TMs Is, I
believe, true. There is, lam pretty sure, no in
stance of such a small eouple'as Tom Thumb and
Ms wife having bten the progenitors of a child. I
venture to propheoy, however, that Miss Minnie
Stratton (that is the name ofthe Infant) will, if she
lives to attain her majority, be nearer she ordinary
size of mankind than that of her parents.- Ido not
believe in the foundation of a race of pigmies.”
'FOEMIBS NOTES.
It is stated that Parliament will meet “for the
despatch of business” on the 7th of February.
Three thousand pounds Is named as the sum
given for . the English copyright of Meyerbeer's
“Afrioalne.” ~ - -
. The late Mr. David Roberts has left behind
Mm nine hundred and seventy-six sketches, the ori
ginals or all Ms great and best-known Works.
The inquiry into the ioss of the steamer Stan
ley, at Tynemouth, terminated on tbe loth, and Cap
tain Howling has been entitled to renewal of Ms
certificate.
The oost ofahalr mile of the metropolitan exten
sion line of the London, Chatham, and Dover Rafl
way, north of the Thames, is £1,000,000, probably
the most oostly half mile of railway In tfie world,
The Bishop of Exeter has written a letter [to
Hie churchwardens of St, John’s Church, Torquay,
Inreferenoe to arerodosin the ohureh,'and hopes
that the objectionable ornament would he removed.
A boy was shot In the market-place of Booh- ,
dale' on the 13t h through a foolish misadventure, A
man standing near a shooting gallery took np a
rifle without question, and presenting it at a boy,
he shot him In the head. The hoy lies la a most
precarious state.
Last week an aged horse, belonging to Mr.
Robert Nichols, of Staveley, Derbyshire, was in the
field lying down, when a boar astray got into thß
field and set npon and worried the animal, whloh
afterwards had to be killed on the spot.
Mr, John C. A. Bones, depnty governor of
Portsmouth Convict Prison, haß been appointed
governor of Pentonville Prison; and Captain O. B.
La Touche has been appointed to succeed Mr.Bsnes
at Portsmouth Prison. ' -
—A deputation, consisting of Parliamentary and
municipal representatives of several large towns,
had an ihtervleWiWlth. the Home Secretary, .on the
10th, on the subject of the utilization of town sewage
and the prevention of the pollution of rivers and
streams.
Several of the farmers of the Yorkshire Wolds
have suffered mueh loss lately on account of the
worrying of sheep by dogs, which are supposed to
belong to poachers. loone ease Mr. Thorps,"of Al
dro, lOßtabouttwenty sheep in one night. Solar
the owners of the dogs cannot be made out.
•-The paragraph which has been going the round
of the papqrs, announcing that.lt had been decided
to give the whole of the reward of £3OO for the ap
prehension ,ef the murderer of Mr. Briggs to
Matthews, the oahman, la' entirely destitute of
truth. f
—A Mr. Blackmore writes to thaSalisbury Jour
wd that the wild groat bustard was last seen In the
neighborhood of Salisbury, in 1856, and. that a gen
tleman now 'living saw, many years ago, a small
flock of them In Wiltshire Downs.
—The port of Hull has received about M.OOtttons
more shipping this year as compared with the cor
responding period of 1863. For some years past
about 1,000 houses have been bullt annually in Hull,
and the Inhabitants are estimated to Increase at
the rate iif 6,000 per'annum.
At the Manchester. Polloe Court, on the 12th,
Isaao Rollings, described as a commission agent,
but formerly a wealthy manufacturer at Rochdale,
was committed for trial for stealing 6 ewt. of cotton;
fonts, the property of Mr. Holt, of Rochdale. ;
There-was a disturbance at the Liberation
Society’s meeting at Macclesfield on the lgth. The
attempt to drive the Liberation Society from'the
Town Hail was unsuccessful, but the Church party
mustered strong, and broke up the meeting* in oW
fusion. ... .. A; ■';>
Mr. Knight’s third and' oonoludlng*'volume or
his “ Passages of a Working Ufe” wIU. oe published
during the pre6ent ffionth. ; ; "
Ksv. Oalvhi FaikbAatk, whom'.our raiders win
KOOgntec tu the gcntlomad'who, because of the part
he had taken In assisting a slave girl neatly white
In weeping to freedom, was imprisoned In Ken
tacky, under the barbarous but now dead slays code
of the State, will lecture to Concert Hau, on Thurs
day evening. Ho spent thirteen years to a damp
dungeon, to the State prison. For years he was
subjected to the harshest treatment by the base
slave-masters In charge of the prison, who had un
limited power over him. He was only released from
his life of horror, and everything but death, by the
war. HJs ieeture Is a relation or his prison experi
ences, and those who hare memories of 1 Baron
Trench, Albert Crenshaw, and the Ulan to the boh
Mask, cannot but bo Interested in-his story.
Thb Classical Quintettb Club,—The eighty
matinee oonoert will take place to-morrow. A
.choice programme la presented, consisting of Bee
thoven’s Quartette No. * li G; Mendelssohn’s
Quintette to B flat, op. 67, and Chopin’s Introduc
tion and Polonaise to C, for piano and violoncello.
THE CITY.
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CEDEBBATION OF THE EMANCIPATION
PROCLAMATION.
; The second anniversary of the Proclamation of
Emancipation was celebrated at National Hall
last night, by a very large and enthusiastic audi
ence, gathered under the auspices of the Banne
her Institute. The assemblage was oomposdd
principally of the colored people or the city, but
contained a large sprinkling of white auditors. The
XI. S. Military eobi Band lrom Camp Wm, paon
was to attendance, and enlivened the proceedings
with some excellent music. B
The meeting was opened by the selection of Mr.
Jacob C. White as president, tetters "Vo re then
read lrom the Hon. Charles Sumner, Frederick
Douglass, and otbors.
Mr. Sumner’s letter Is addressed to Mr. White,
and is as follows:
LETTEK MtOM BOW. OHAHLBS SIJHWKB.
SBB-ATB Ohambbk, Oco. 28,-1851.
Dbak Sib : It will not be in my power to be pre
sent at the celebration of the Emancipation Pro
clamation by'the Banneker Xostitute. But wherever
I may be, I shall celebrate it lu my heart.
That proclamation has done more even than any
military success to save the country. It has already
saved the national character. The future historian
will confess that It saved everything.
It remalDS for us to uphold It faithfully, so that It
may not he Impaired to a single jot or tittle.
And.ln the spirit of the proclamation, and taught
by Its example, wo must press forward In the work
ol justice to the colored race until abuse and out
rage have ceased and all ate equal before the law.
The astronomer, Banneker, whose honored name
you hear, would be shut out’of the street cars In
some of our titles, but such a petty meanness eaunot
last long.
Accept my best wishes, and believe me, dear sir,
faithiUUy yours, Ohablbs Soar mss.
This letter, during its reading, elicited loud ap
plause, as also the letter of Mr. Douglass, from
which we make the following extracts:
Frederick Douglass, after apologizing for his
Inability to attend, and stating that great steps had
already been mace by the colored race to the favor
able regard of their fellow-citizens during the past
two years, proceeds to say :
The work of an age has been suddenly com
pressed into a single day. Events have succeeded
each other so rapidly, overlapping and overstepping
each other so thickly, each rising higher than the
other, that we are puzzled to separate and estimate
at Its value any one of all of them. Their variety,
velocity, and proximity dazzle us and oause us to
lose onr reckoning. Only after-coming generations
of men, far remote from this stormy and bewildering
hour, will be able to describe with accuracy these
great events and give to each Its true grandeur and
Importance. There Is one,.however, which towers
aieft-above all the rest, like the mountain rock amid
the dashing waves of a troubled ocean—solid, calm,
. unshaken, and immovable—and that Is the Emanci
pation Proclamation of President Lincoln, whose
second anniversary you arc about to commemorate.
Baytt and Liberia recognized; the colored man
received at the capital of the United States;
slavery abolished 'ln the District of Co
lumbia ; (slavery prohibited to all the Territories
oi the country; slavery recognized as the cause of
the war, and Its abolition decreed as the only wise
remedy ; Virginia half free; Missouri soon to lot
low; Tennessee not far behind; Kentucky trem
blirg; ‘'Maryland, My Maryland,” unfettered, her
chains broken, ana her limbs all free; Judge Taney
dead; Judge Chase alive; McClellan defeated;
Abraham Lincoln elected; slaveholdtog abolished;
and brave black men, side by side with loyal
white soldiers, are winning laurels for their race
upon every battle-field where they ara permitted to
confront the foe—constitute a few of the points of
pi ogress which rivet the attention, command our gra
titude, and jvaken hlghhopesfov thefutureoi our race
upon this our native soil. * * * until the colored
man can handle the ballot as well as the musket—
until he can vote to the country, as wall as fight
under Us flag—until he shall be as welcome as a‘
citizen as he now Is as a soldier, he will be a despised
and persecuted man, floundering In the depths
ol social degradation, a tempting target for all
that is 'mean and malicious Is the American
mind and heart—having no rights which
a white man Is bound to respect. Let
no man say within himself that this Is untimely.
The Iron la hot, and now Is the time to strike. The
nation Is looking about for safe anchoring ground
for the ship of state, and you and I know.where the
safe ground Is. Then let us firmly point out that
ground. Onr own cause, and the cause of the coun
try, alike demand this at our hands. I will not
argue here. The case is a plain one. It would be a
sbame, deeply scandalous and disgraceful to the
nation,' to treat us as citizens to war and as aliens to
peace—tax us to support the country, and arm us
to defend It, and yet deny us the lull rights of
American citizenship. Profoundly grateful for
what has been already accomplished, to full faith
to the ultimate triumph of our country and our
cause, 1 am, very truly,
- Frederick Dojjslass,
After the recitation of a poem by Mr. John Smith,
the opening address was delivered by Mr. Octavios
V. Catto, & young man of considerable ability, and
was frequently interrupted by loud applause aa he
advocated the rights of the negro to freedom and
equality.
The oration of the evening was then delivered by
Henry Highland Garnet. Taking for his subject
the progress of freedom In the last four years, he de
picted to graphic colors the different events and ac
tions by which tbe condition of his race has been so
much ameliorated. In.the course of his remarks he
referred to the good which the negro had already
wrought for the American people, mentioning among
other tbtogß the bravery of the eoloied regiments at
Port Hudson, Fort Jackson, before Petersburg, and
on numerous other battle-fields of the Bepubllo.
Mr. Garnet’s remarks, which Jwere extended to a
considerable length, were frequently and loudly
applauded.
After the singing of a song by a colored vocalist,
the recitation of Bokerfe welMmewn “ Second Loui
siana Eegtment,” and a short address by Mr. J. W.
Simpson, the large meeting adjourned, the affair
having been a decided success.
COLORED'PERSONS AND THE CABS.
The Ridge-avenue Passenger Railway Company
have placed cars on their track, on each of which It
Ib' announced conspicuously that “ Colored people can
ride in this car.” This Is one large Btep towards a
humane reform.
CSTT ITEMS.
Great Kanawha Oil Field of West Tib
ginia.—Considerable excitement has been produced
in this region by the discoveries of Ollln various
sections, and numerous parties from the cities of
Philadelphia, New York, and Boston have been
prospecting through the hills and valleys of the
Elk, Gauley and other tributaries of the Great
Kanawha, and the most startling dioovories have
been made in sections where It was not supposed
nntll lately that any oil was to he found.
On the Gauley, inthe vicinity of Bell and Twenty
mile Creek, from all Indications, there will be a
very largeyield, and it Is reported hero that a large
amount of land has recently changed hands at prices
which a few years since would have been deemed
fabulouß.
On Little Bandy Creek, a tributary of Elk, large
quantities of oil have been found,“and at the junc
tion of Indian creek and Elk river a well is now
being bored by Mr. Slack, of this place, anil from
all the indications he confidently expects a yield of
from 80 to 100 barrels per day as Soon as it is pro*
perly tubed.
On Big Sandy Indications are also very strong!
and several .tracts of land have been recently sold
at large prices to Boston parties, who are now
making active preparations for developing their
property.
On Bine Creek, also a tributary of Elk, although
oil has been known to abound for a long time, re
cent discoveries have shown that no adequate know
let 1 ge existed of the immense quantities of oil in
this vicinity. Burning springs and gas fountains
occur through all this locality ? and a well was
opened in 1860 which, at the dep&of less than 300
feet, produced over 120 barrels per day. In conse
quence of the incursion of the rebels this was aban
doned, but the company who now own these lands
are making active preparations for tubing this and
sinking a number of other wells on their tends. -
I understand from a gentleman from Philadelphia
that the Blue Creek Company have 2,000 acres of
land on thiß creek, Including the well. If that Is bo,
they certainly have one of the most desirable pro
perties in West Virginia. C. L. B.
Charleston, West Va., Deo. 16,1864
We are pleased to announce the arrival In our
city, from Washington, ofsrme. L. Gomez do Wo
lowski, Frlma Donna of the Italian Opera, and the
well-known Professor Alexander Wolowskl, pianist
and composer. Mme. Gomez do Wolowskl, assisted
by her husband, will open singing mid piano forto
classes by their new and simplified method, at their
residence, 234 South Eighth street. Judging from
the immense' success they have obtained In Wash
ington, there is no doubt of their success here.
A Queer Hat.—An election hat'won in Balti
more measured in height fifteen inches; breadth of
brim, six Inches; breadth of top, twelve inches. The
winner must wear it one year. We do not wear
such ridiculous “ tiles” In Philadelphia. We don
sensible hats, and cover our limbs with the elegant
garments made at the Brown Stone Clothing Hall
of Bockhiil & Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut
street, above Sixth,
“ A Happv New Year.”— To the friends and
patrons of Chas. Stokes & Co.’s 11 One-Price”
Clothing Honse, under the Continental, greeting:
A happy New Year to our friends far and near,
Old cares and old crosses, forget them!
For the hells pealing out, with a right merry shout,
Teach the welcome that wisdom has set them.
A happy New Year, and though peril be near,
• May It never reach those whom we treasure ;
But guarded from in, may they gratefully still,
Heap rite blessings of earth without measure.
There are sighs, there are tears, for the sorrows of
years, v _•
We have troubles and sore tribulation;
May the Euler above, In His mercy and love,
Lend an oar to the prayers of the nation.
To our brave “boys" on land, andour brave “boys ”
on sea,
(The wish it will bear olt repeating),
To oar army and navy, who In patience endue,
A happy New Year! we send greeting.
Yes, a happy New Year! to an those who are dear,
May hope, love, and joy e’er possess them;
And the “Battle of Life” be to them, void of strife;
Here’s a health to our “Boys,” and God bless
. them.
Seating.— Elegant skating on the Union Skating
Park, Fourth and Diamond streets. Open daily,
and illuminated in the evening from 7 to id o’clock.
Take the Third, Filth, and Eighth-street cars.
V M. O. Campbell, Proprietor.
BtmnSAix’a Arnica Liniment, an In fallible
cure fer bums, scalds, sprains, rheumatism, gun
shot wounds.&o. A single application aSays the
pain from a burn the Instant it is applied. Nofumi
ly shoold be without it. delfl-lm
George stuck & Co.’s Pianos, aod Masen A
aair.Hn’s catenet Organs, for sale only by j, E,
Gould, Seventh and Ohogtnut streeta. nolfl-tf
Era, Eab, 'And Catarrh, suweaffaily treated
zy.J. Isaacs, M. D.,'Oculistd&gXwiet, su Pine st
Artificial eyes Inserted. No cmarve lor .
'Lames* -Fims.-3A large assortment of elegant
goods, at DavtSHiSoMfi*, 622 Arch street. ‘ f ae2S-'66*
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Capt J M Roder. USA
Geo I* Eckert, Lane co
J EKreybill, Marietta
Rpbt Snodgrass; Barrfrtrarg
W R Schuyler- Oil Creek
Jos A Green. Penna
Henry Ward, Washington’
J Carxnichael, Washington
WOslktu, Washington I
6 M Oberton, Baltimore f
J H Black, Colnmbia. Pa (
Thos H Addieks
A it Eoumfoit, Hftrrishnrg 1
™ Tli« Am
JEberi, Oil City
W W Smith, OU City
J G Butler, Oil City
JM Clayton, Belawazo co
M Bear, Washington
G Billon
Bx J Maiiit, Baltimore
Major H. FCtew; H J
Lieut G F SlCKies F J
J F Bmith, Seadißg
A Thompson. Salem; F J
WBTbompartn, Salem,FJ
A Biakely, Few Hope
J H Cotton* Delaware
W Beaney, Jr, Delaware
G Stokes, Few Jersey
J BJake, Crag son
P S b'cbopp, Reading i
Miss L E Francie, Reading
P Brown, Cotuaecticat
MSss Cleaver, Dels ware
Tlie Mei
P B Bnell, Marietta, O
HBurtison; Hew York
H B McCatley, Hew York
Chas Hope, Hew York
Capfc S S Elder
Mrs Mnnson. Hertford. Ct
H B Piper, Latrobe, Pa
JjßilchrtsVFtttsbtirgr
W T Beatty, Penna
J? H Williams, Pittsburg ,
J W Reynolds, Boston
B C BayJer, Allentown
Owen Bice, Haaareth,Pa
B P Lindsay, Exeter, H H
John Wadlinaer, Mineray ;
Francis Wadlineer, Penna
H P Everett, Benton
T Poole, Pennsylvania
H Lyon, Pennsylvania
Inland,
E Haines, 811(17!,;, *
CbaaSywanßrnWpi
J Gemosei, oe»e*«iu J
D Pra r P7 1
r^i takec */«
KF Brewer, Blms wa
• n^o 3 »*r? a, t *
j?^ ie LP HTi «*» Sj4np;
’»T®w?n^»? eyD^fl% * Del
15.i&5K5%7
Ur'
The Union.
.Wallace* wf, Penna Mm Sinimater, p 4Mi
aTc« Betting. Philada 4 Hixson
Eewell J ft Kauffman, Pen,.
Jit Oarrwr,
Partndeo Mew Tork W Dax-mport, 1£5,«
!M L Potttoger. Easton 81 Haveretitk, Curl',
O Fotttnger, Easton H LonrweU, G«““S'.
in KUtetu Ohio C 8 Conklin:, ttsir t.
Baa*. Pklada. Sami fi££? kffi?
i> Beabin, Lancaster 3 Friedel, Je**y
i«km. Bo&ding JolmEo'inoHj. Dskj
" Stewart. Penna *3 H Wlliiu. Dali*.
ni Eagle.
Cit as HimprVrisi :. ft
a P* W WSu.oit,-, p 4
Baidelmaii. Pi
RY YerVe>, Bsthhw
Bdwin Camp, Lynn
Jonas F Snyder, lym
Aaron Trine, Lyaa
Jacob Mas-er, Lyaa
Stephen Itktler, i,yna
ttrs Butler, Ljaa
8 o einse t rain, Lynn
H H Bader, Peaasbnrg
Geo Garber, Peaasi)£ii
The Bal<
i Hfmsen, M drank
r J Roth, Orefield, Pft
I Erdmaa, Lehigh co
f Trexler, Lehigh co
[ Snyder* Qoakertown
Morris, Qnakertown
F Klojiu Orofleid, Pa
* Edmond*, Easton
irid waiter, Easton
o Hutchinson, Easton
Froonfelker, Easton
in Euibexson, Beaton
Greener aid, Eutzto wn
Til© €©l
orter, Hew Turk
Lon jr, Chester co
B Foster, Hew York
ally, Pennsylranfa
3 Eider, Maryland
Cox, Chester co
unercial.
W Aucheabaek,.
A J Watsoa, Cfce* t
WPM«iU, Baci«u
Alex B Johaso i, fos
GW Day,
W G Meigs, Po*M;if;
Chas Peacock, KaryJ
PttMyJ NicbMs,
W E WtUiaiO'oa, Sad
Jolm JoQes v Kadi*. P-
Jas A Siartin, Carlins
S W.fliyster, Peeaa
■ Vail, Chester co
aines, West Cheater
Harlan, Chester co
then Baker,Cheater co
? Steer
D Perry & la, Salem
Bergenstock & la, fa
The 6h
HBacbmaj*, Pcaaa
• KiUbel. Pennsbury
fcch'-fiprt, Pfnna
> ?ag*ly, Peana
KGrmi, Bojerstown
| H J BorQpiaaQ,Borg
(Jacob A Smitn, Ailgui.
! John KaecbeJd. Aifeat
[Heary S&liers,Auti*^
Hie States Union.
Wentworth, Phila /Jos Q Horner, Sals)
Btter, B&rmlmrg Francis Bradley, r
Ji Beal, 01 Epnngs.CWlH H C Kays
iltUlin, DownlnEtown. >W W Davis, Tttarylaid
Hatlack, Parkeßtraxg \Thos Halting
Hopkins, Indiana I
Tlte Xndi§on.
regory* Bradford co, Pa.Mias LE Henry, 0
{shoemaker, Penna Jag Hamilton, TO
t Force, TardleyvlHe J T Frail, Wa?k:
McGee, Car boa co, Pa f
SPECIAI NOTICES.
Haying DETERMINED to CLOSE V
INTER STOCK OF READY-MADE CLOTH!
t sailing it in large amounts daily at H'
ICIB, MUCH BELOW COST
CTIOjST. Osr purchases haying been mad!/-.
he lowest prices of the season, we are east
1 easterners tie advantages thereby aaesrsi
rtoeet is full and complete—our goods rm,;
fashionable, equal to any made to order, as
aeh lower is price, as to astonish those z'x
icnrs their clothing in that wej. An f
SOWE2-
518 MARKS! s:
BBN.SLTT
-mtntMr tf
[EW -Frans WILL FIND IN OLB
ir Gilt lets, Cotton Samplers, Bale How
see, and Butter Testers, Tap Borers, I>w
Lets, H&teliets, Board Meascrers, ii'
Ac. TStJMal* & S3i<
2To, 835 {Eight Thirty. fly«) MASKS? fc
, • - Bale?'
Pakiob Skates, Ladies’, Me
ys-» and Gentlemen 9 * Skates, Skaters’
Si Skate Strap® and Heel Plates; also,
Creepers for walking on ite or slippery
■ gale hy TBUMiS&SHt
Ko. 835 (Sight Thirty- fly*} KAKEE? &
It Belo*
Magnificent 7-octave Bos
> FOB SALS at a great sacrifice. Cost *
sago. Will lia sold for $.325. Besw*'
id lege. To be mea at
If©. 1936 LOCUS’
Owner obliged to Isays fire city cause of ed&t
Colgate’s Hokey Soap.
CMb celebrated TOILET SOAP, in raek i«!"
tad, Is mads from tie CHOICEST matotil' >
i ESIOLLIEKTtn its nature, EEASBASTIL
>, and EXTHEMELY BESBPICtAI in its “ :i '
»SSin. Par sale by aU Druggists and r ‘ K
Hers, a*"
E, McCiArs’s Cactus Gbakdi
I, HISHT-BtOOMIKQ CEBU 5 -TO
» only gejraiae extract i a. the mar*#*« »
)in one of file most beautiful and ‘
s Cactus tribe; also, bis new extras _
?adows. Perfect Lore, m g 0 ■
> toilet. Prepared »r W. B. KcClaffi, a °-
discount girea.it) wtoto
gjSB GjSOKGE STECK & CO.’S
TP pun os,
M A S ° H M 5 * 3
CABIHBT OBGjlbS. cj
LITO f OverfitO each o* these fiaj
[TBS. inetraments .have baea eoia C)
180 by BSx. G., and the demand
;TES. is constantly increasing.
i.IfO T or aal* osly by
,TE&. J. B. GOULD. [X ..
Lso SEVEKTH aadCHBOTKIITK?
TBS. nol9-«
JFBOM $l4 TO $55.
[OATS lEOK «4 to *SS. Of® oo
«« ««
II •*
VSSOOiTS EEOM tU to *55. oV2**
SBCOATB FBOM *l4 to *55.
WA*AMAKBE »«»
OiK F
8. E. *omer SIXTH aaS
HUlg Man ’ii Saito waS eiefian*
I Clothing at BEABOKiBS<S PB
Wiuson’b Highest
IOCX-Sf IT cS
SEWiua KiCimsss.
TEE CHEAPEST, SIMPLEST, AS®
TO* OHSSTimT »»«■«• *'
XSXED
iSFORD.-On themorning«/ |" W i,
Illness, Robert H. Beresloid.»
relatives and friends ara J' -
He funeral. on Thursday me* J;
residence of Ms eon itt'***’
. 1706 Green street. ' n (IO WT
BEKIIL.—OJutto list of .r,,*, B.
eldest Oaoeiterof the ta» »°“ ly ~-r:
j relatives and mends of the ““ ; sf ■
iTiked to attend the funeral.' r< ’® t(tiK
mother, in Burlington, “Skooi ! -"
Instant, at 2 o'clock F. H.,
,AS.-On Saturday
* of his ftfe. G*o?ge *?f* fas' rJ t
5HdB are invited to ns .
idenc*. So- 925 Walnut f tr rfV'>
f«L 4th, at 19- o’clock A. «•*
no, eon of Joßepfe. and a*ry
'!oMrll“w?Utal!e !’>'
Is. So iH Jtontsray *t real - t ,
XVAW. —Ob the 51st «!&■ • HOT itw
airM: -
leMAN.-M tie:.r
, Ba., trom sturestio®;, H! U” E . f f< -■.
» Alex H rajft*'
ctiy paiolod from fiorcacb ? -
wUmontliß.tti"? T ry- f
i 3 ttlailvec and „ (jpr.t ~■ >
rVlmtnt, and Wajwy g; £; c * * ■-A
IE HOTELS,
Soo Pattonoa, b...
K&Oamdic
X?* P«ws,
J G Mathew*, r> 4 i,_
Miss £* £ lonh r
S,^ t : 5 s K
5*4*6 Macfrav J?,..
J F Batteries ‘ &?
CbasDana o],:,
J h Wood! f £ A.,
P M M mub ' 1
** M H<jr.<e. Oil /■».*.
? o™m. Wi.itai 1 *
KefeMao.
Mr* / CrOoifty, Bro->5 ir *
; gew P Cook,\w T tf !
’RHapiaQrt’aL/kJ*
toaudos n * Bf t
TP , S tf *'? BcUtf> a
>J C Haghrg, s«»y, -
[£ Koeeiiawi*,
[WHGIU, LVa„ t ;>
terlnon.
J B Xeafer
Mr Bon&bas, p»„,
J i? Robinson, w£ ,
S<romeU. t.> B •”' >«
Mm O M J-hu-' s
HEBialforl’p®'•?%
aJETokluisos, a j
fll-WaiP^O
3 T Mitchell Wins
L L St#arrn,
» H jr-rmAnti^ l '
;tc Bear.