the Ptatiettlint. ,/ttai , leita, Ofa_. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1863. IL,' Messrs. MArnym & ABBOTT, No. 335 Broadway, Ne;v-Yozlc, are duly authorized to act for us in 'Melting advertisments, &c., and receipt for the same. THE PENNSYLVANIA. RAILROAD.—We understand that the report of the Penn sylvania Railroad company, which was submitted to the stockholders on Tues day last, showed a more favorable re sult from the year's operations than that of any similar corporation in the world. Its total receipts amount to ten million three hundred thousand dollars. Its running expenses are only about forty per cent, of this sum—a less rate al most than that of any other railroad in existence—and after deducting inter ests on bonds, &C., its net receipts will exceed live millions of dollars I Is not thii a wonderful result for an organiza tion with a tactic capital of thirteen million of dollars, and that too, in the midst of a terrible civil war ? A PITIFUL BIGHT.—One of the most pitiful and humiliating sights that has yet come within the range of bur vision was that of a drunken army Chaplain, this morning, who came reeling out of Strawberry alley into third street. Ho was filthy and furious. Oaths leaped from his lips with the seeming fluency with which whisky must have run down his throat. His was only a disgrace to himself. Neither religion, valor, pa. triotism or purity suffer by the action of such men, b!cause they are brutes that only need'-iieveloping, and the sootier they alllknigwa and exterminated the' bdtter for the cause of religion and of freedo m.--Harrisburg nlegraph. ifig. The will of Col. John A. Wash ington was admitted to probate in court at Chicago, 111,, on-the 26th ult. Col. W. was the late'owner of Mount Ver non, and.elias killed at the battle of Cheat Monntain in 1861, while serving as a Confederate officer. At the time of his death he owned about $30,000 worth of real estate in Chicago. Rich ard B. Washington, of Jefferson county, Va., is the executor, and the heirs are seven minor children of the deceased, all residents of the same county. or A few days since, Mr. Edward S. Terry was found dead at a low drinking house of New York city, his death re sulting from the inordinate use of ar dent spirits. A few years ago he was .a lawyer of eminence and ability, moving in good society and at one time he was a law partner of Charles O'Conbr, a leading lawyer of the New York bar. Gir Paper from wood is no longer an experiment, it is a success. There is a mill at Roger's Ford, Pennsylvania, new making printing paper from 80 per cent. of white or bass wood, and 20 per cent. of the coarse flax fibre sweepings, which is in use upon the Baton Journal and other papers, and which is just as good as any newspaper wants. gir The friends of the brave Pennsyl vania, Reserves will be 'glad to . learn that the skeleton regiments of the Penn sylvania Reserves are all to be immedi ately ordered into the fortifications around Washington, to rest and recruit; their places will be filled with the fresh Pennsylvania regiments now around Washington. Or A letter from the Army of the Potomac, dated the 30th, says that Gun. Burnside is offered the command of a new Department, embracing North and South Carolina, and thirty days' time is allowed for him to decide whether he will accept it or not. sr The "Butternuts" in the Indiana Legislature refused to receive the mes sage of Governor Morton. Subsequent ly they reconsidered their foolish resolve and begged that he might send it back, but the Governor eeoly told them he kad "nothing farther to communicate." sr John Fitzgerald, the son-in-law of Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, and himself a wealthy banker of that State, committed suicide at the St. Nicholas Hotel, with a pistol. He leaves prop erty amounting to $400,000. sir The Russian Prince Demidoff, a noble with no end of millions, has bought Prince Napoleon's Pompeian house in Paris, where he means to- 'reside in fu ture. He is the divorced husband of the Ptincess Mathilde, and has lived in Fkotenco for'suany . years. et Commodore Nutt will act as groomsman at the wedding of his friend Fin F Foin Thumb, and the bridesmaid will be a little sister of the bride—a young ladrquite as miaute and pretty as the future:Mn.i Tom Thumb. at , Voreet is playing at the new etestant Street Theatt.e, ?Philadelphia. QUITE LIDEIIAL.—Mrs. Glen. McClel lan is the lucky recipient of such a pres ent as even monarchs rarely give. She received a neat little note from a num ber of her husband's New York wor shippers, tendering her a magnificent residence up town, and begging her to accept it as a testimonial of the estima tion in which her husband's abilities and services are held by the donors. The house i 3 superbly furnished from top to bottom—costly Tarkey carpets cover the floors, rare pictures adorn the walls, the cellar is fully stocked with the choi cest wines, and everything connected with luxurious housekeeping—even to groceries—abounds in lavish profusion. Astor, who was once on McClellan's staff in Virginia, is one of the principal subscribers in the princely gift, and a number of "conservative" bankers and merchants follow suit. THEY WON'T WORK !—A.New Orleans letter gives the following instructive fact : "I have just met an old friend, - whom I not only find a loyal man, but actively engaged in aiding the government. His father owns the estate on the river be low the city known as the 'Magnolia Estate'—the large brick building look ing, with the sugar-mills, like a village on the banks of the siver as we came up. He says he is hiring the negroes by the month, and they work day and night in the cane in this the most dri ving of plantation work. They need no urging—they work too much. He says the large hospital he has for the sick negroes, which was always sure to be filled at this season, is now without a tenant, and all are over-anxious to work." Two SfIES TO BE HUNG.--It is report ed, and we hope truly, that John S. Boyle and Charles Powell, both cap titins on the Rebel Stuart's staff, who were arrested by our detectives near Dumfries, a few days since, are to be hung as spies. The evidence against them is positive that they were at Dum fries, in citizens' dress, mingling amongst oar troops, and that they suddenly dis appeared and informed Stuart, and con ducted him on his last raid into Dam fries; that they subsequently again ap peared in citizens' dress, and were cap tared while lurking about our camps, one having in his possession important information in writing. We hope the governmens will execute the law upon them. How GAMBLERS Tuarva.—The rooms in Cleveland occupied by Conlisk, a no ted gambler, and one of those concerned in the fleecing of Paymaster Cook, were cleaned out by an execution lately ) , when some curious dikienVeTiee w@ro Made.— There were peep-holes in the walls, through which an accomplice of the gambler, ,stationed outside, could see the hand of his victim, and a system of wires and hammers under the floor by which he could communicate to his prin cipal the results of his observations.— The,contrivance looks• very much like an infringement of the patent of the well known spirit-rapping machine. TIIE PRESIDENT'S Wire.--The Wash ington Republican says that Mrs. Lin coln has contributed more than any la dy in Washington, from her private purse, to alleviate the sufferings of our wounded soldiers ; and it is but just to add that day by day her carriage is seen in front of the hospitals, where she dis tributes with her own hands delicacies prepared in the kitchen of the White House. The fear of contagion and the outcries of pestilence fall unheeded up on the ear of those whose missions are mercy. Tharlow Weed.has sold his share of the Albany Evening Journal. to the other partners, and retires from the pa per. Me was the founder of . the 4 paper, and has been its responsible editor for thirty-three years. Counting previous engagements, he has been nearly half a century in newspaper editorial life. It appears that he retires because he .dif fere from his partners and his party— he is no longer a Republican, but a Seymourite, if we may judge from his re cent course. Cr John 0. Broivn of Shelby county, Indiana, member of a cavalry regiment, convicted by court martial of being a member of a secret political society in opposition to the Government, will, it is said, be executed. He was tried in Indianapolis by the military authorities. or Two attorneys got into a game of fisticuffs in the Superior Court of Chi cago, some days since, and, after _pum melling each other to their mutual sat isfaction, were each fined $lOO for'con tempt of court. When the late Dr. Beecher was first, in Poston, somebody sneeringly said to him that his congregation was mostly coMposed of servants, "Very well," replied the Doctor, "that's all right. They have the education ,of the children." Ex-Governoi Morgan has been el ected U. S. Senator from New York, Gen. John A. Dis,,Ere.sttf Corning and Fernando Wood ivere also Candidates. er Robert Dale, Owen has been ap. pointed 19,,a Oeriahip.la the . War De zartpint. • U NB A Short Scraps of News from our Exchanges. It is said that Mr. A. T. Stewart, the great dry goods merchant of New York has refused to sell cotton goods at any price, and that he has been engaged in buying up all the goods he could pur chase ; that empty stores have been taken. warehouses rented and filled to the rafters with goods, and this done that he closed sales and waits for coming events. The President favors a plan proposed by some of the Northwestern members, to enlist some of the loyal Indians in the western part of Minnesota and Da cotah, to protect the white settlers and repel the invasion of those Indians who are still in arms, and disposed to make more trouble. A. Belgian glass-blower • has lately blown two large bottles, eaeh of a capa city of sixty-two and a half gallons, and weighing fifty pounds. They were blown at the glass-works of Lefevre &. Co., at Lodelingart, and are nearly double the size of the largest bottles heretofore made. Major General Banks was still in New Orleans. He hnd 'reiterated General Butler's order taxing certain rebel mer chants for the support of the poor; had cautioned the public against offering in sults to the soldiers, and in several acts had indicated a rigorous administration. The English correspondent of the . Christian Free-Mason says that the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon, of London, was re cently presented with a plum cake, which was found before it was eaten, to contain sufficient poison for the destruc tion of half a dozen people. A girl soldier has been discovered in the camp of the 10th Ohio Cavalry at Cleveland. She gave her name as Hen rietta Spencer, said her home was in Oberlin, and that she enlitsed to avenge her father and brother who fell at Mur freesboro. A. relic of the past has come to light in Boston, illustrative of the deprecia- tion of Continental curroncy. It is a receipt taken by Gov. John Hancock in 1793, showing that he paid sixty dollars for two packs of playing-cards, to be used at a party. Pilot' Knob; in Missouri, is a. conical mound of a sugar-loaf shape, 560 feet in bight, and covering 500 acres. Accor ding to an - estimate, it contains - no less than 200,000,000 tans of iron ore, having sixty-five per cent. of pure metal in it, The sum necessary for the erection of a statue to Prince Albert having been collected in Saxe Coburg., the Grand Duke has approved of the spot chosen by - Queen' Victoria for its. erection, in the market place at Coburg. There is the best authority for saying that the statement that the Emperor:of of the French has made a renewed pro posal of mediation to the British GO vernment, since the battle of Fredericks burg, is entirely without truth. Clement L. Vallandingham has an nounced, in a letter, his determination to go before the Ohio Democratic State Convention as an applicant for the nom ination for the office of Governor of that State. One of the latest Yankee ideas is a patent milking machine. is worked with handles, like a pair of pincers, and draws'the milk three times more rapidly than by the ordinary method. Tapioca is the gum or sediment of the juice of the Mandioca plant, found in Brazil. The juice is obtained from the tubers which are about a foot in length and resemble sweet potatoes. The Charleston Mercury publishes a table in which it concedes the death, on the battle-field, in hospital;etc., of one hundred thousand men since the war commenced. . General Scott's health is said to be fast failing him, especially his intellect. He is still at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York city, and receives visits only from hie most intimate friends. In Jefferson county (Ky.) Circuit Court, on the 19th inst., the base of Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, for manslaught er, in killing Gen. Nelson, was contin ued until the next term. The eonfiscated law library of the re bel- General Humphrey Marshall, was sold last week at Cincinnati for $1,686, and the proceeds paid in the U. S. Tree t sury. . Jar, beyond the city limits of Freder icksburg, Va., an unfinished monument, begun in 1833, marks the tomb of the mother of Washington, who died in 1789. A.lbertD. Boileau, proprietor of the Philadelphia Evening Journal, has been arrested for publishing treasonable arti cles against the Government. Prof. 0. A. Brownson (white man), Fred Douglass (colored man), and T. W. .Brown, a Cayuga chief (red man), are lecturing in Chicago: 0 ( A. Brownson, L. F. Tasistro, Mrs. Swisshelm and Gen. Turchin have just been lecturing in Chicagp., John B. Gough is announced to de liver a course of twelvellestures in'Cin .einnati. - • The editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican says he has a re ceipt, signed by Nathaniel P. Banks in 1836, for money received by him from Sargent M. Davis, of Roxbury, Mass., in whose employ he then was, a machin ist, at $1,33 per day. The same Na thaniel P. Banks, since that time, has been Governor of Massachusetts, Speak er of the United States House of Rep resentatives, and pronounced the most accomplished, with a single exception (Henry Clay), that ever held that place —and a Major General in the United States army, and in command of the Federal forces at New Orleans. ffir The President has determined to rescind so much of the general order which dismissed Colonel Tom Ford, of the Thirtysecond'Ohio, from the ser vice, for cowardice at Harper's Ferry, on condition that he tender his resigna tion, to take effect the day he was cash iered. This does not mitigate hie cow ardice, but merely allows him to accept office again, should any ever be offered him. Or It appears to be determined by the Government to call into the mili tary service of the country the fighting African population. General Daniel Ullman, of New York, is now organi zing a negro brigade in the South. Ap plication to organize colored Unionists come from several States, one of them from Tennessee. They will all have white officers from captains up. or A. murder of the most horrible character was committed early on Mon day morning last in Columbia county, in this State. A step-mother named Soult murdered three of her step-chil dren aged respectively 7,9, and 14 years by severing their heads from their bodies with an yfixe and afterwards throwing their bodies into the fire. She is now confined in the Columbia county jail. The President is strongly urged to appoint General Fremont Military Governor of North Carolina, in place of Gov. Stanly, whom it is desired to su pursede for numerous causes. It is thought by those who press this. change upon the government, that the name of Fremont would summon, in a week, an army of colored Unionists almost as large as the white army Foster com mands. Sr It_ has already been mentioned that about one.half of the market house at Zanesville, Ohio, fell, with a terrible crash, on Saturday morning last, while a large number of persons were atten ding market. Five lives were lost, five other persons mortally wounded, and tillialltyl@lTY Ober@ wlßlUded—severat having a leg or urm broken. as- The Wheeling Intelligencer, says of the newly elected United States Sen ator : "Judge Boyden is the uncompro mising friend aLd advocate of the Fed eral Union, without compromises. To it be is loyal without provisions or con ditions ; and, for this loyality and integ rity he has been made the object of the most merciless rebel persecution." Cr A dispatch from Indianapolis says that John 0. Brown, of,Shelby county, member of a cavalry regiment, convicted by court martial of being a member of a secret society, in opposition to the ad ministration, will, it is said, be executed. He was tried in that city by the author ties. plir Charles F. Brown, .(Axtemns Ward,) the showman, according to the Lexington Observer, is about to tend to the alter one of the most beautiful girls in Kentucky. The young lady, is very wealthy, too, possessing in her own right no less than one hundred "con trabands." gir The htfalth officer of Brooklyn has prohibited the sale of rye coffee in several stores in that city, a respectable German family of eight persons having been poisoned. The seeds of poisonous weeds growing among the rye are rout ed and ground up with it. or Soldiers, Attention.!-Pain, dis ease and exposure, with a hot climate, muddy water and bad diet will be un a voidable, but armed with Holloway's purifying and strengthening pills you can endure all these and still retain good health. Only 25 cents per Box. 220. eir A• physician, in speaking of the frail constitution of the women of the present 'day, remarked that We ought to tali() great-care of our grandmothers, for we should-never get any more. eir The following bill, rendered by a carpenter to a farmer for whom he had worked seems at least curious : "To hanging two barn doors and myself sev en hours one dollar and a half." Aar Robert J. Walker has written a long letter to the Senate Finance Com , mitten, in which he declares the adop tion of Secretary Chase's Bank scheme an absolute necessity. fir It is probable that Gen. Burnside will take the command again, in North Carolina, which will be made a separate department. AgrA. western editor cautions his tall readers against kissing short women as the habit has rendered him round shoal . dared. FIRST NEGRO REGIMENT :—Saxton, writing from South Carolina to the War Department, says : "I have the honor to report that the organization of the First regiment of South Carolina vol unteers is now completed. The regi ment is light infantry, composed of ten companies of about eighty-six men each, armed with muskets, and officered by white men. In organization, drill, dis cipline, and morale, this regiment, for the length of time it has been in service, is not surpassed by any white regiment in this Department. Should it ever be its good fortune to get into action, I have no fear but it will win its own way to the confidence of those who are will ing to recognize courage and manhood, and vindicate the wise policy of the Ad ministration, in putting these men into the field, and .in giving them a chance to strike a blow for the country and their own liberty. In no regiment have 1 ever seen duty performed with so much cheerfulness and alacrity; and as sentinels, they are peculiarly vigilant.— I hive never seen, in any body of men, such enthusiasm and deep-seated devo tion to their officers as exists in this ; they will surely go wherever they are led. Every man is a volunteer, and seems fully persuaded of his importance of his service to his race. STAMPS ON PROMISSORY NOTES.—As the season for sales of personal proper ty is rapidly approaching, when large numbers of promissory notes are execu ted, it may be interesting to the public to know the scale of stamp duties which the law of 1862 imposes upon such notes. It is as follows : From $2O to $lOO $ 05 " 100 to 200 10 " 200 to 350 15 " 350 to 500 20 " 500 to 7bo 30 " 750 to 1000 40 " 1000 to 1500 GO " 1500 to 2500 1 00 " 2500 to 5000 1 50 The penalty for violating the law is fifty dollars, and the instrument is ren dered invalid and of no avail. These stamps can always be procured from the U. S. Revenue collectors of the different districts. GEN. BUTLER'S NEW MISSION--Gener al Butler has had several interviews with the President and Secretary of War, who have formally renewed the proposition that he shall go back to New Orleans to resume command of the De partment of the Gulf; Texas, and the troops which Gen. Banks will lead thith er, but with additional powers and re sponsibilities, including those attached to the organization of an African army on the Mississippi. It is said that Gen. Butler now hesitates about accepting the command in the shape offered, fear ing that the means, to be given him are disproportionate to the end to be accom plished. , . AFRICANS TO BE CALLED INTO SERVICE. —There are fresh indications that the government is determined to call into the military service of the country the fighting African population. G9vernor Andrew and other Republicans in offi cial positions have been requested to recommend white officers to Gen. Dan iel Ullman, who are willing and capable to take commands in the negro brigade which he is about to organize in the south. Applications to organize col ored Unionists come from several States. one of them from Tennessee. THE '_MISSISSIPPI . CUT-OFF CANAL.- Gen. Grant has been obliged to dig an entirely new canal opposite Vicksburg, that commenced by Gen. Williams last Fall having been planned on un sound engineering principles. At last accounts the water was flowing in rapid ly and it was expected that the river would soon malie itself at home in- the new channel. Gen. Grant had sev eralguns in position at the foot of the canal, with which to silence a battery planted by the rebels opposite. A SOUTHERN PROPHET.—Mr. 110yee p of South Carolina, said in 1851 "I ob ject, in as strong terms as I can, to the secession of South Carolina. Such is the intensity of my conviction upon the subject, that if secession shdtild take place, I shall consider the institution of slavery doomed, and that the Great God, in our blindness, has made us the instruments of its destruction." MORMON TREATER.—The Mormon saints have established a theater at Salt Lake City, Brigham Young and President Kimball officiating at its open ing. Songs, dances, the comedy of "The Honeymoon," and the farce of "Paddy Miles' Boy," made up the initi atory bill ' • . isr Mr. A. D. Boileau, of the Phila delphia Evening Journal, has been re leased from his confinement in Fort McHenry. He has given his parole that, in future, he will:not publish any matter of a treasonable or inflammatory character. General Banks is carrying out all the orders of Gen. Butler. The concil iatory policy would not do. Gen. But ler's plan is again adopted. Er The President sent, to' the Sen ate, for confirmation, on Saturday, Ab ner Doubleday and Frank Blair to be Major-Generals. NEW ENLISTMENT 13F1.1..—lothe united States House of Rvpresentativei oa Monday, the bill authorizing President Lincoln to enlist as soldiers as inimy colored men as he may deem necessary was passed by a vote of 83 to 55. The strenuous and desperate resistance made to the measure by the Democratic mem bers of the House has attracted a great deal of attention to it—much more, in deed, than was called for, as the act merely sanctioned by law what has been for months past in process of accomplish ment, under the direction of the War Department. Indeed, the President distinctly announced in his proclamation that freedmen were to be enlisted as sol diers. There are already some six thousand of them enrolled, uniformed, equipped, drilled, armed, and in active service, under Gens. Saxton, Hunter, Banks, and others, and thus far they have proved excellent soldiers, standing fire well, and preserving their discipline under all circumstances. GENERALS:—According to a report of the War Secretary, which has just been laid before the Senate, there were fifty two major generals and two hundred and eight brigadier generals in the ser vice of the United States. The dismis sal of Fitz John Porter reduces the number of major generals to fifty-one, leaving the total number of geaeral offi cers in our army two hundred and fifty nine. The first eight major generals in the list rank in the following order : McClellan, Fremont, Halleck, Wool, Dix, Banks, Butler, and Hunter. The first name on the list of Brigadier gen erals is that of William S. Harney; Michael Corcoran the seventeenth ; Ab ner Doubleday the seventy-fourth. A number of nominations are -pending in the Senate. Mr. Stanton reports that Gen. Fremont has not been assigned to active command since August 12, 1862 nor McDowell since September 6,1862; nor Harney since May 16, 1861 ; nor Anderson (of Fort Sumpter) since Oc tober 8, 1861. A LARoI Haar,.—Jelf. Davis wilt probably have to reconsider his deter mination to band over all officers taken prisoners to the rebel State authorities to be treated—that is hung—as slave stealers ; for, if retaliation is to be the order of the day, Jeff's attachment to his word will be very uncomfortable in the matter of some hundreds captured at Arkansas Post. Among the rebel prisoners taken there were one general, ten colonels, ten lieutenant colenels, ten Majors, one hundred captains, nearly two hundred lieutenants, and a lot of adjutants, quartermasters, surgeons and staff officers. STATUE OF Wesnixorox.—A statue of Washington, by Powers, has been brought to Washington city and placed in the rotunda of the Capitol. The stet_ us was captured at Baton Rogue, by General Butler. It is somewhat dam aged by transportation, but not to an extent to peimanently disfigure it. It is considerably. stained, but it is being cleaned. It isjegarded by experienced critics as being a most correct and stri king representation of the Father of his Country. GROUND 800 DAL—There is a popu lar superstition that the ground hog quits his "winter quarters" on the 2d of February, NO if he happens to spy his shadow in• the sun he hastens back to his hole, there to remain for six weeks longer—as•the sun shine of this day in dicates a continuance of six weeks more of cold, freezing weather. If we don't have- six weeks cold weather now, it will not be because the sun didn't shine on ground hog day. LOCUSTS ESPECTED.—Joseph Harris, writes to the St. Clairsvile (Ohio) Chron icle, that the locusts will be on hand this year, being the seventeenth year since their last appearance. He says : "This year there will be locusts in abun dance. Prepare your small trees, by tying them up with straw for twenty five days and you are safe, if you do it right." etir The President has sent to the Senate the names of Frank P. Blair and Abner Doubleday as 'major Generals o f Volunteer Service. HALT ! HALT ! Hata. 1 !!-4 Cry from Washington! ATTENTION ! ATTENTION ! ! Wives, Mothers and Sisters, .Whose husbands, sons and brothers are ser ving in the Army, cannot put into their knap sacks a more necessary or valuable gift than a few boxes of HOLLOWAY'S PILLS 'AND OINTMENY. They insure health even under the exposure of a Soldier's life. Only 25 cents a Box or Pot. SOLDIERS' SPECIAL NOTICE ! Do your duty to yourselves ! Protect your Health ! D Read the following, just received this day from Washington WASHINGTON, D. C. T. HotLow.sy, M. D. DEAR SIR :---I avail myselfof this oppor tunity to-express my gratitude for your kind ness in being so prompt in sending. me your valuable Pills and Ointment. Hundreds of poor soldiers have been made comfortable and well by the use of your medicines, and they all can testify to their healing powers and ca pability of giving instant relief. It has, with in my own observation, saved many a poor soldier front long sickness and much suffering. Yours truly, D. G. YDS; Washington, D. Q. November 4, 1142: pa-I2t
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