The New York Herald Newspaper, November 21, 1864, Page 5

THE NEW CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. ‘The Dedication Yesterday of the New Cathedral of St. Paul and st. Peter in Philade!pbia. “HE BUILDING. RMON OF ARCHBISHOP SPAULDING, te, ia, de. Bunday, November 20, 1864, will be a day long remem - ered by the people, but especially by tne Catholics of the Quaker City—no longer Quaker now, however, if we fare to judge from the apposrauce of the city on iast Sun y ; for every one seemed to ve Lolag tothe new cathe- ‘al, which was solemnly dodicated to the service of God #@p that day, according tv the ritual of the Catholic jhurch, This splendid editice—the foest ia the United itaies—is located on Eighteenth. street, facing Logan quare, one of the finest positions inthe city. The ita butiding was crowded to its utmost capacity, and uadreds bad to go away, as there was only @ limited jmumber of tickets for seiis soid at three dollars each. {The price of theftickets forjstanding room was one dollar, and over eight thousand were sola. There was no mags later than eight o'clock in any of She Catholic churches of the city, tn order to give all tho clergy @ chauce of being present at the dedicatory Oeremonies, which commenced at ten o’cluck. Not only ‘were all the Catholic clergy of Puiladeiphia preseat, but ly ali from the diocese were there, as well as many from the neighboring dioceses of Pittsburg, Baitim Erie, Newark and New York. The following ia a list of the dignitaries of the church rho were present Most. Rev. M J, Spaulding, D. D., Archbishop of Baltl ore; Most Rev. J.B Purcell, {). D., Arenbishop of Cin- touati; Most Kev, Jono MoCioskey 1, Archbishop if Now York; Right Rev. Dr. Wood, Phiadelphia, Kigbt Rov. Dr. Fitzpatrick, Moston; Right Kev Dr. Bayley, Nowark; Rigut Rey. Dr. Limon, Builalo; Right Rev. Lr. ughiin, Brookiym, Right Kev. Le. DeGuesvriand, Bue- into ; Kigbt Rey. Dr. bic ariand, Providence, Kight Rey. . Domenes, Pittsburg, Kight Kev, Dr. Wimmer, 0 3. , Latrobe; Right Ker. br. Luere, Fort Wayne; Right . Dr. Farreli, Kingston, C. W.; Rizht Rev. Dr. Lynch, oronto, ©. W ; Kigut Key. Dr, way, St. Joon, N. i here were also present all or neuply ail the reverend lergy of the di-cese of PhiladvipOia aud (rom other parts of the country We nuticed Kev. Messrs. Foley, Itimore; McNierny, Hecker, Quinoa, Cummings, D. D.; Netligan, DL. 1); Driscoll, S.J, of New ‘ork; Very Kev. Father Moran, VG, aud Newark; Burcese, Ciccturatt, Sourin, 3. J; jayden, Bediord, Va, Hesiend, Beroagh, MoCaflray, D , Emmetisburg; McElroy S.J. Wiuiams, V. G., Boston; oung, 0. 3.D.; Barty i. D., Maguire, A J; Teban, Vasbivgtou; Reynolds, Loretto, Penasyivania; Couroy, .G, Aibany; Brady, Newark, Pa, 7r. Pittsburg; ise, ) D., Brooklyn; Suiltiuger, Blairsvilie, There wore several others, in all amounting to about o hundred priests, who,were present, but whose oames limited space wili uot allow us to give, ORDER OF CBREMUNIRS AND FROCFSSION. ‘The Most Reverend Archbisbops and Right Reverend ops put on their vestments in the Episcopui resi. joe of Pishop Wood, adjo:ming tne cathedral The Rey. ergy vested in the chapel, and the procession moved om the cathedral chapel at baif-past ten o'clock, to ummer stroct, up Summer street to Logan squa! rough Logan square and returoed to the gate of en- nee, thence to tue frout door of the cathedral in the Mowing order:— Maater of Ceremonies and Thusifer, Brothers of tue Chriatian ~chools and Broiers of the Hoy Cress. tical Students of the l’reparatory and Theolpgtoal seminary Reverend Clorgy of the Diocese, ip cassock and surplice. erend Clery of otuer Lioceues, in cascook and surplice. Vory Reverend and Reverend Viergy of the Liecese, in chasubles, jery Reverend and Reverend Viergy of other Dioceses, tu chasubies, Very Reverend and Keveren: Clergy of the Diocese, iu copes. Wery Reverend and Reverend Clergy of other Dioceses, mm copes, Mitred Abbots tight Reverend Bishops, in cope sod miti / Chaplains aud Mitre Bearers, bt Reverend Jainos F. Wood, 1).0., celebrant, tn cope ‘and mitre, attended by Assisia.t Priest, Deacons of Honor, Deac.u aud sub Deacon, and other Miviaters. Reverend Archdistiops from other Provinces, to cope and mitre, ationdea by Chaplains aad Mitre Wboarers Reverend Archdiabop 01 tue Province, preceded by bis cross, and attended by the usual Mivisters. ‘fh thie manner the procession moved around the cathe- al, and having compiete@ the circuit ontered {tm the order, singing the usual hymos and iitanies accord ng to the Roman ritual. After the litanies were over e Right Reverened celebrant procesded to dedicate the of the cathedral io tbe asus! maoner, of which following ts @ compiete and {aitbiul history aud criptiot HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF TIE BUILDING. ‘Tho corner stone was isid on September 9, 1846, by yo Inve Jamevied wod talented Dr. Kenrick, then Mshop Philadelphia, and latterly Archbisbop of Baltimore. ike Archbishop Hugues, be did pot live to see thir plendid conception of bis genius completed, although be d to seo it roofed and to view iis immense ¢imensions— privilege not accorded by Divine wisdom to Archbishop Hughes, who only lived to see the foundations of the ew &t. Patrick’s Cathedral in ibis city (arly om- enced. After the promotion of Dr. Kenrick to the cbieptscopal See of Daitimore, the building was con. {oucd by his euccessor, the iate Bishop Neumann, who died before its ¢ mplotion, it therefore devolved pon the present Bishop, Rt. Rev. James F. Wood, jo fivish the work commenced by bis predecessors, bis be bas done in a most efficient maacer, which oets groot credit on bis esergy and taleots, as wolt 8 on the liberality of the Catholics of Philadelphia, ho bave so nobly contributed the wecessary funda to oteuch an immense structure, It will remain a onumont of what hax beea done by bishops, priests and opie of this age for future generations to admire, just the traveller now admires those sploudid cathedrris Europe erected by former geaerations, It 1 the rgest church in North Amorica, and is on!y excelled by ne in the City of Mexice. It exceeds in eize the great hurch of Notre Dame at Montreal, Caonda fart, and ae monument of massive architecture will last as tong as round on which it is erected, The cathedral bas o paid for am ithas been built, by periodical cotlec- ons among the Catholics of Philadelphia and occasional bnes in the various country churches of that diocese. ch stone laid, every nail driven, bas been paid for bes fore being used eut of the offerings of the faithful mem rs ofthe church io Philadelphia; for no others thas atholice have been sekes to contribu The work b: on slowly for eighteen years, Bot few men have | employed on it, aud there have been on it since tt gan, Almost impercoptibly bas it grown up, seem- logly unnoticed and unbeard of outside of the Catholic hommunity; but now tt {sa creat fact. Thero it aiecde, eof the greatest monuments of the age,and tt o in visited by thousands withiu the past two week: account of the notices inthe papers. This eplen tid difice was designed by Napoleon Le Bran, £9q., aud is wilt of dirk brown sto Everything about it te aasive Hage columns adorn the front and fore ponnted by enortnous capitals, which In turn pport the solid brown (romt the roof, The wroice is «the = largest’ of avy budulag to the «United States, and projects farther forward Hough mossive, everyibing i# elaborately ornemented The butiding Is @haped {ike @ crows, nod ws 216 (eat Me, 136 teut wide, and 102 (eet high co the ex of the attended by of iment The extren meteor of the dome a ts dave (6 71 feet, um! itm entire hewht is over fest, The plan of the building @ that of the modero oman cruciform churches, having im the centre # great ave The vaullover the great nave and transepts ix out 78 feet high, cylindriva! and paneited, Over the Intersections of the cros4 vaults Is the celebrated * pond. ntive domo," whieh is ti (be highest dexree grana end posing. The side aisles wud traneepts are diy trom 6 nave by Massive plors. [hese clers support the rohea of Which the cv gestory Is bulit, the piers® being Jobly Oroamented with foliated mouldings, tereved by | uied pilasters of the Corinthian order, with enriched and oupttals. support aD entablatura, euldiog the arch frieve, cornice, and wlocking whien the vaulted gem\-errcatar eet 50 feat wide, ana espectivoly 192 feet aud 148 tees long, tho vauited ceil g being very high, The domed aiaien are 22 (eot wide ud 47 (oot High, Th? sanctuary, or ebancel, ® 60 Veet ido and 44 fort doop; the chapels on exch sida are 22 t wide and 29 feet long. Tho Interior of the main jome ie 62 (eet im diameter, and its height 166 feet above ya yemnoints ‘ Toit ke moss of the other Catbolio or Protestant churches this country, there are no elde windows, the lighs being troduced from above and taken in conjunetion with color Of the Whole interior, Which ja made to ro fable Paris stome, beigoiens the rohitect feet 4 imparia a solemn and religioue feeling to pper, so appropriate to such an edidce, This noveity racks mach attention, and Sioita couriderabie vom: at, for yory few pers thoronghly onderstand the inciple of action. The light Is mainly totroduced the lanverna of the great dome, the smal! pen domoa over the aisis, and the large semi-circular 0 ‘woat end of the nuliding. supluary as the east ond is fifty foot square, nod pet WAVE AG transepiA are sac the high altar within ft is ove of the 10st magoiocert tn America, It ts approacued by a fight of marbie steps, gracefuly revered as to color, exceedingly chaste in de Sigh und Deal in execution, 1 are wo droid Bt con aud subdeacon—s great improv y8iem Bow In yogue-—for Lue steps voeu, assiviania ot biga muss are geveroily too contrac size, The very richest siyleof the Soman Corimthion order prevails throughout the butiding, Thy frevt on Fignteenth sireet, 1s # beautiful desige by Joho Neves Esq., of & bigh y decorative clara It consists of portico, of four gigantic columns, sixty fook-pigh od six fees in diimete™, finished with riouly scubjtured bases ond capitals, Over tbese are an entoblature and pedt ment ta corresponding architectural taste, eat upon ths freize ia evgraved the Latio tneription, **4d majorem ve ploriam”—For the greater glory of God." The main entrance ta approached by & flight of steps forty feet loug; over the central doorway is the largo west window, aod over the side doors aré niches, in which will be placed the figures of the patro saints of the cathedral— Sainte Peier and Paul. These niches, together with the © orways and the large window, are relteved with a boid | aod richly executed architreve. The win.a, which ure lower thio (he central (acade, are ago deco-aced with co Umus, pilustere and entadlatures, aud eurinounted by towers rising to the altitude of ove Luudred and teu feet, The floor is of splendid marble work, laid ou brick arches, © veriog the whvle area of the building, and is partially covered with apine board fooring, Ihe pe of Whive pine, with a capping of mohoginy. and y the mats witar, The pulpit is placed at the south west pillar of (he building, which causes thos vceu)y Seats EXst of (GLO eib with their backs to the p To remeay this however, those pews are prov ded with revolving backs which answers the purposs admirably, ‘The railibg surrounding the sanctuary is of (he most of Italian marble, bigbiy chas'e in de- ecation, There iB a {rceoo painting of ab ia jon over (he main allar, from the peveil of tine Brumidi, as weilas all the other paintings. icwnt work of frescving upoa tbo fresh mor alter sketching out his r pohes of the dry plaster and replace it wilh soft wet plaster. He did this until tue whole surface bad been painted apon. By this meaus the plaster ana the painting dried together, and gave the whoie @ delicate softness whfch cau only be at- tained in that way, We will in briot give a short description of the various paintings which adorn this courch. At tho feet of ¢ Agovized Saviour, i the Crucifixion just mentioned, is aven the Blessed Virgin, ia the aititude of keow anguish, whilst the boloved disciple, St. John, and Mary Maxdalea areciose at band; in the rear are Nicodemus and Roman soldier; and afar off in the distance are groups of e8 1a excellent glee at tbe death of the saviour, : of (bis painting corresponds with (he dimexsious cathedral ating above the Crucifixion rep: eceuts tue Eternal Father and the Loly Ghost under the vaurl symbol of x dove; on che sides are four dgurea, in caiaro oscuro, Tepresenting the :our Apoaties—st. Pe St, Veul, St. John and St. James the greater, Toere four medstlions in the corver of the dome, which represent the four Evapgelisis—Matthow, Mark, Luke and Jonu--while & mvssive pawtiog in the apes of tue dome represents the Assumptiou of tLe Blosved Virgin into Heaven, Some idea of the maasivencss aud heighth of the dome may ve (ormed when we teil our readers (oat Lois pamting. which ta at the top of tbe dome in the aside, 1s in circular form, uod twenty seven eet broad, aud nearly eighty six (eet wround the: uter edge, yet it locks smail enough tor ones bands to apn: tt, ‘The ends of the transept are decorated by two Jargo paintings representtog tue Nativity of our Lord and the Adoretion of the Lures Wise Kin-s from tbe East. ‘There are also, ext smal! micbes, which will be Ailed with statues of the emaiuing Apostles, {ne paintings are ail fine pieces Of artis at work mansbip, and attract much attention. Above sue niaio Alter ty proineut tetters are placed the memoiabio words Of our Saviour to St. Potor:—*' Tu es Le rus, & super hance petram wdificavo soclesvam meam”— “Toou ack leter, aud on this rock | will bard my the | church," Ovor the large window at the wast end is ao n ate, sit poriel nomen meum coram Gentiu:"-—*'Tuou art to mo a Vessel of election. that thou muyest carry my hume beore the Gentiles.” ip commemoration of the opening of the new catbedral | | Coneu Tew mage As the ar Otuer scription from St, Paul: Vas electionis est om Biahuy Wood has hud prepared a bronze medal, which bas beea designed and cast at the United #: ates Mint, three tnches 1 ciamoter, neat in design uns execution, the, cathedral, surrounaed by tue iuseripiion, SS. Voter and Paul; be- BAU 1546. finished Ls64,’" On the obverae is an elabo- Fated wtertor view of the cathedral, drawn with ex Quisite poriection, Over the upper semicircle are the words, “du eg Vetrus," &6., aud under the lower balf are the words of St. Paul, * Vae election abov ‘The meduia sively purchased by the Catuolics o: Philadelphia as @ meinecto o: the dedication of their new cathedral. As wo baiore stuted, the while edifice was designed and erected under the superintendence 0: Napvloon Le Brun, Esq. , formeriy arebitect, but (or tbe lust two years en- gaged in otber pursuits, in New York. This is the last monument of bis genius, and is one of which he may well be proud, Upon one sido is &c., as givon been exten- PONTIFIOAL HIGH MASS. The dedicatory nervicus having been coneluded, the Most Kev. archbishons, Right Rev. bisuops ana Rev. clergy were aasixued their proper places, Von tuusl bigh macs was commenced, the bight Rey. bishe» Wood being ceivbrant, aesisied by Very Rev. Dr, v sara, V. G., a8- sistant priest, Kevs. James O'Reilly aod Jobn Elcock, as duacous of bonor; Very Rev. James O'Connor, deacoa of the mass; Rey. J. F. Shanahan, sud-dencon; Rev. A. J. MeCounomy, first master of ceremenies, and Mr, Fran- ci3 P. O'Neill, Becond master Of Ceremonies. THR SEKMUN. After the Gospel the Most Rev. M. J, Spaulding, D. D. Archbishop of Baltimore, ascended the pulpit au: preached the dedicatory sermon, taking his tex: trom che Orth chapter of St. Paul to the Kpne from the y-recoud to the tweaty seventh vi Let womeu be sub.ect to their hilsbauds as to the Lord; for the husband is bead of the wile, az Obrist is bead’ of ibe church, He is the Saviour of His body. ihere‘ore, as the church is subject to Christ, 80 iso lot women be to their husbands in all things. Husbands, love your wives, a8 cbrist also loved the church aud de- livered Himself up (or it, that be migit sauctily it, cleansing it by the taven ot water in tho word of life; chat rie might present it to Himself a giuvious churce, not having spot or wrivkie, bor auy Suct thing, but twat at should be boly aud without biemisn.”” isis Grace commenced by saying that the charch of which ihe apostie spoke is the organized body of the owors of Chrint, but Of one faith, practice but oue , Deing Lound together by one episitual govera piritual, yet vie ic. and extending all over tb Ybischarch is ove tp faith, one in soul wad ove | in body; «Be i communioa, This ts the church which is ine house of Curist; the pride of the laud. Toe churca which Christ loved, tor which He delivered Himweif unto deach—ihat spouse of Hes borom which He wivhed to be pure and undellied, without spot or wriokle Agloricus church wes this to be, loviog God, ub cet to Him jo ali (uings,@ model and precevent tor aimen. This church is the pride of the land. It cannot fall ayay from Cbrist; sbe Is Hie lawful bride, partakes of Libs divinity, and Cannot be separated from }tim, for He Bas seid ‘et not mao pub asunder what God hes jowea, Ths cburch shared fo all Christ's fullness and , eyropathies; t# subject to fim in all imings. It doek not | wish aniguer lot than thet assigned to Ifira; tor tue | disciple is Hot avove the master WhO Was deuvered up to the executioner, aud sbe must expect (he seme weapon, the same beourge, so she, as ite, will triumph over ber euemies, He erves again iD respleudar earth. glory; #0 sbe Lath risen again, alter every persecution for exghteen huudred years, avd ehe bas cone out of iin xlorious churea. pot ba! either spot or wrinkle. Lightoow bovdred years lave not weakened ber vigor or dimmed er arduous duty, abd soe 1 now, as then, His pride and ovr ‘comfort, she i the mother as well as the price of the land. As the lenrved St. Cyprian said" sou eanpot have Gc your inher unless you Lave the church for your mower.” She tes stood the storms and whirlwiods that have caused the downlstl of empires anu dyvreti dati) Btauas the wotber’s love andthe (aiuer’s right 1, She i com@times beut by the storm, bus érlun jy she end. The Christies courch ts most woudertul in ber history #4 woll agin ber origin, Sbe stanus in tals world a8 an ipte-mediate yower between the pact aud the preseat; Bic locke to that heaventy Jerusaem which is her @weroat nome, sbe joke to the past, and re- coguizes in the past the types and figures of what 6h: is the reaity ‘Ihe Cuture is beore bher—with Bua ning eyes, aud beating heart looking to that blevwed Jerusalem, to whicd, ® pilgrim, she is journeying During ber pilgrimage on tu.s oerth ‘she ev ects stations; builds temples over the face of the Curtd— they are oases in the desert, io this lane of pri grimege, und are (ound all over the earth Rarthquakes may overthrow them, conflagrations may burn tuem, bat she rebuilds them at ber leisure, for she hus eternity be. fore ver. She knows buat (be earsh is the Lord's, and = tue al thereof ; she knows what Bulommon salt at the dedication of bis tem- plu. Such a pines as this I dave spoken about, wor tbat woere Jacop rested im ibe oesert ch apother Rpot | wis Giet Where Moses sew thw Dorming bued; such another spot wos the banks of the Jordan; such anocher plice wes Mowat Sioat, wheu the i ere given to diuree eter KPet WAS Solomon's temple—tbese laces which ail considered holy aod plicas eet apart a. A grastor (hao Solomon's temple was teat deticated; for, greater thay Solomon would soon be present op that altar—the God of Solomon ip the ntof the aitar A Christian tempio wae d to the service of God, and it was truly riDIO place, for the fouse of La tecture room; it was @ honge of prayer abd for God i# there olfering Liimsel’ His Grace then went on to slow that ine ® great God was 0 # bouse of & for hia people, Jewish church wes ouly atype of the Christian, whieh wae rea! for we had tbo Mea} |'resence iM the eaorament Of the Bucuariet, Por ofteen bundred yeara the dootrine waa not denied. cither by Greek, Latia or Armen) and in not denied by ti today. — Toey had quarreiied on other question 1be Ip. th, the Iriwity wad other wubjecie, Bul aereed on tie subject. Cw ingle was thé first man thet attacked the doo.rive, and for whieb Luther desounced bim, Poor Orths of the Christion world et (bin di beheves Thie anould be enough $0 aflirm tte (ruth, of the new cathedral thon dedicated, said it) wat an Orpament to Philadephia and to toe egautry, but a credit to all who partictonted in 10g s erection, It was Commecesd bya man at the mention of whoee Dame many eyes are dim—tue la. mented Kenrick tis awork of which all @bhe con- irihuted (to «may be proud, for it will for future ages, The architecture # pest! bo excelled Ip the country, It was, thought, like the Church of San ta! Borromeo at Rome, Ho wasthere, avd thought it war equal to tbat churoa, ‘ali tnioge axcept in sculpture, paity Ae, which ore Giways to be foend ia churches lo Cath With these) exceptions, tw: qrat togthat church. had made: a calculation, and although thas church was the jargon: im the United Staies, fiiteem fuch could be pinced inside St. Petere at Rome. ‘Tho present Duitaing bad cost about bait @ miijion dollars, and was contributed to by the ooble-bes:ted Pate ihe diccese, aided womewhat by Protestarts, o presumed It wok a long time to build; longer than tho vew and larger one of New York wilt take, but he was bs | fo say that it was almost clear of jucuum bravces. It was begun by the iamented Kenrick, eho whe hia preceptor to Kentucky, afterwards Bishop of I'S iadel. ja, aud died #8 Archbishop of Baltimore. Teas eoutiue ved by bores | ae ae ished by Bishop Wood, fla araininved them all on ite completion, His Grace stated that there were present three archbishops. twolt* Disbops and pumerous priests, That church was com meuced by a native of Ireland, continued by a native of Bohomia, and completed by an Awerioan; whien to how iusto puastor where « bishap ta berm Ve Castella caron| | your readers the true disad | James river, with faith | | distinctions, levels sii antipatvies hore be Jow: and will level 4! he triumo fee te here! ter, iu the triamph of twat ehorch Afver a short ath anes! Peroration tbe Archbishop concluded bis ini hece Were present at the core:nunieg about eight J pereoos, Several u rontof the allar, among whem were pisiers of ©. Disterd of the Sacrod Heart, aud threé Sisters OF the Orier o: Odlaiee, who are of Africa» doivent, und who vave a house of thelr Order iu Philadelphia, Several inGueutial laymen were also presest We no- ticed amoug them Edwin I Doberty aad the How. J. R. Chandier, Our reporter thanks tho Kev. sr. Hennessy for bis Kindvess in furnishing information, ke. Y THE CATHOLICS AND THANKSGIVING. Mayor Henry, D. Recommendation from the Most Rev- exend Avcukishop Purcell of Onto. (From the Catholic Telegraph, Nov, 16 | The Presideut of the United states and ths Governor of the state of Ohio hay Ng, IN conformity with a most pro- per a time-Lonored practice, appointed the fourth Thursday of November as aduy of devout thavasgiving to tho Almighty God tor Lis morcies, of humiliation for our 104, aDd OF suoplication for perce, we bereby ordaia that the Carholio congregations of this diocese ve earnestly exboried by their pastors to mest ip their re- spective churoves on the day above specified, and assist, becoming sentiments of gratiwud nitence and at the grest Eucharistic, expiatory and impetra tory ritice OF Lhe How law We, (atuolics, have largely sbared in the blossinge of Heaith, abundavs harvests sud exemption (rom thy axes of war which God ug granted to 1ue peuple 0 Orta. w be Oar sing bave as largely meriied tho chastise. went which bas overtaken our erring brethrea of the South, and which bas cost the life blood of so many thousends of our Own brave go'diers who left the'r plea. { | gant homes to check the,udvauce of the foe avd cov tho deadiy strife to the battle fields on which it madly originated. Our bopes of future bh fre vain if the peace, Luo gress in “arts, sciences’ and religion which have distiogaished us amoug all the uations of tue earth for ourscore and eigbt yeare, and which, ander tho divine bicesing, wre mainly attributable ¢o our con. stitution and Union, be not continued by tho maiutenance of that Uuion und the eliminution of those defects wiic! Christian civilization and our own experieuce have shown Us the constitution contained. lt therefore becomes our solemn duty to observe with no ordivary tervor the national holiday; and as we caunot enjoy, and sboutd net desire. peace, beppiness und independence except in the society of our fellow citizens, we should pray for and promote, by every means in our powsr, their \eilare us well 4s our own. We confess that it has greatly pained us to haar (unt certain rash, irreverent and thoughtless men of our communion bive denounced end cursed the government, the administraiion «nd their abettors. Now, God com mands ue ty curse not, And whea bad men cursed the Gupporters of ihe government cid they not reflect that fusy cursed the lore thaa huudreds of thousands of | Cachoite votera and Catholic soldiers of ovr army who | doiend the government in tho field? Did they not reftecs | that its downfall would bo baijied with accitmaiton by | our own bereditury oppressors acroga the ocean? Did they not reflec: that if politica salvation ta ever to reacn a (ar distant and boloved iwland it must core to tt from. these United States which they would sever? There is no justivying cause OF reason to curse ihe gor- eroment or the xdaivistration. They did not commonce this war. Tbey could sczrcely bring themselves to be: Hove tbat it wag seriously commouced, even when forse bad fallen and the blood of our people was sled by the bapds of the South Aud when force bad te be repulled by force, when armies had to be raised and, therefore, troops te be drafted to raize the blockade of our rivers and stem the tide of aggression, what more did appiness cn earth prosperity, the Pe our government do than was done in the Southy Where in the North was the drait. the covscrivtion, enforced as rutblewalr and es ivdis crimivately as in the South? Where wus the citizens property confiscated, without compausatiou, for the alleged uses of the government, a8 it was to tho South We have conversed with Irish’ Catholic refugees from Gempta and Arkansas, from Alabama and oer Southern Slates, and we inorw how they were stripped of (heir money and ther ciothes, and cast mle prison whan they refused (0 into the ranks of the Confedcraie army. Many an Irish laborer toid us iu (29 hospitals, here and elsowhere, that when the war broke out ia the South, aud the public works were suspended, thoy were either violently con- gcripted or had to eolist or starve. We do not adduve these facts t0 excite unkind feelings Agutosi the South, but co pul to shame the jourrialists of the specially sue Freeman's Journal and the Meirapoit- tan Kecord of Now Fork, who instigaied our too confitmy people (o evil words and deeds, nnd the people themselvon who patronized +.ch Journalists and wore dupzd and de- Ceieed by their malignity. It i tune, therefore, now that the election tx part, that ali should retari to thoir acber pecond thought, and that we sbould ra round the constituted suthorities, “powers” which the apostle commands us to obey, and thus presevting an undivided froot to the enemy, reestablish the Union, without which there can be no panacea, present or prospective, for tbe ills wesuifer. The South behoiding us thus of one miud will, we devoutly trust, baste to muke peaco, and we, on our side, will show them that we are dy aug will- ing to make greater sacrifices tor peace and union wits them than ever we made for war ‘The reverand clergy will please recite the litany of the Saints, in woton with their beloved flock, before mass, ropaating three times the two prayers for pewe aod (he prayer: 0 God, who by sia art offen unce pacified, sc, Cincinnati, 13th November. THE RELATIVE POSITIONS OF GRANT AND LEE. A, Archbishop of Cincinnati. ‘s Movement Will Endanger Kich- mond, &e. {From tbe Richmond Correapendence of Londen Times.) In many of my previous ietters | baye pointed out to 08 Of Lee's position as Compared with Grant's. Ag xousral illustration it may be said that Lee is on (he arc, (irant on the chord, of « cir- cle: but as this expression does not exactiy define the position of the two armies, whose tines (extending ouch of them over a length of tbirty miles) do pot pursue an. uniform course oF inolination, 1 will endeavor, as U riak of repouting what 1 bave described manvy times , before, to make tay meaning clearer Your roudorn wilt understand that, in such an attitude as tg occupied by the | armies of Lee aud Grant, the army which taker the ia itiative and acts on the uggreesive has an immonse ad- | vantage Lee ts like @ skilful one-armed prize firbter. who Is fighting a big bully with two arms, stronger, taller, more active and keouer sighted than himartr. The most lomp. tos ond promising opportunities oer themesives to bim | every duy. He cxunot aiford to hazard even twenty | lives io a teolative operation. The ‘act of his groat nu inerical inferiority to bis enemy, and that be is tatherad | Gown ana forced to keep always a large portion of hie army botore Petersburg. are divcdy: the lows of an arm by @ prize fighter, Grant, ou the other bend, has, {o the eyes of thowe who righ ey the gronod, such advantages ax make tf aswoniebing (at, in | the (our months between tov 12th of June, when be | croseed the James river, and the present tine. he should Dave made so little use of them. In his contre lies the 8 devons of Yankee gusbouts aud wering tbe federal ba. unapproachable by General Lo: Monitors making tt even of operations, and It doubticss wit m view to getting Atiil more ont Monitors that Geueral Butler ig attempting to cut a cana’ through butch Gap, tuto which be bopes to tampt the Jamee riv! ‘ It ig uot thought here—I may say por paren’hese—thar any sdivactage will result. to Batier’# comrades from Uuis canal, even i, cootrery to federal experience at \ icks. burg, it prove a success. By means of tue pontoon brides which connect Rermota Hundred with Leep Bot. tom, Grant cao throw any number of mea by wight or ay to tbe north of south of the James, It is Almost im. possible for Lee w kuow if Grant's demonstrations, whetuer they turesten |'icumond the ext ie (ederal right, of the Southside Railroad on the federal lett, feiuts or resiiliew. On the ether band, from the configu. | ration of the ground, ft i* a.nost impossible for Lee to cut Grant's ext ed lines jo any vital place The mont tem pting piace to asmail thove lines wenuld be somewhere bot far from the epot where Graot’s mine was sprung. But the ehaoe of ibe ground and the position the | forests is such (hot the tes cad ovly be attac or three confined apots, and bers oaturally ¢ defended himer!f with triple frovtierr of tortifcations, | aud keope min aye strong bodies of men in position. Fam in hopes that during tbe coming wivter rast wilt | not be denied to Lre’ a# is becomes stronger; but | be that as it may need that when the true! Bistory of the Confederate campaign of 1864 in Virgiain 4 is written , it will record a struggie unsurpassed in boro: iam, and In the patience and e6i).denyiog endurance of the troops siuce the Lime whan blood was frat spilt upoo i the earth, and mao frst ifted big band 10 anger against } bis brow There ig on@ plan by which, at the price of the brick: and mortar of Potermburg, General Lee might curtail the existing proiengation of his liver, might agsume® wuch strooger defovrive position and considerably increase the Ittee of bw opponent, That this plan will be adupt- yoeasion requires, is by ao means imaprobable, Dut long as General Lee (eels binself alroog enough to bold wot Peterspurg Hi aw Richmond lve will cm Lioue to cliog to both, It be gave up the town of Peters. Durg, and fell back upon the western and Digher bank of the Appomatioz, holding she beigiits of Pocahontas, which 1 eburg 00 the west aod orth, biv strongth (or be much greater, but he’ wonld bave, tn to give the little city upto ite aseatiants, 1a Fre’ Heights, Te bas often bosn orged by wine military beads thet thie would bo & judiciour step, but experience bas shown to what misery the iobe feof towns eurtendered this misery General Lee | be exposed, if be can prevent tt, My own \mpres is thet the seccess or failure which roay follow Bood's dariny move tn Gaor gis (of wick (spoke iu tuy last letter) will govern the Optrations of Grant against Richmond. ibe reciprocity uali'y which bave Always Baxisted between (be various armiea of the Cecerals ot the one hand and of the Confederates on the other, in the Fast and Wost, wore never more apoarent than At this tomont, If the Con- foderates mainsaln their present nttinde before Rich mond, and cootinue to hod their enemy back until, as i# here anticipated, a great (isasier bas overt jn (he West, I do not scruple to say thet, In my op) Riebmond wil iaugh ite asemilaais to If, on the other bend, Sherman is able to extricate himself ir his prosomt oritioa: pesition, by sither beating or ow witing Hood, there will be reason for appreheosion avout Kichmoma during the coming winter he like of which bas never existed before, Personal Inte OMCe, the following — Jamon D, Westcott, formerty United States Senator from Florida, but for iy years living in New York, came to Montreal recently as the guest of N, Sanders, and acted aa PA eae the Bt. Albaes raiders. He revarne to New York, and, it ia thought, he will get lato Woubie as an alder aud abettog of the rebgim, | obliged. to tages equivalent to | pu t i ) dur ’ AFFAIRS [IX WASHINGTON, Opening te Commerce ef Reciaimed Bouthera Ports. The Rumors and News of the Capital. THE COMING SESSiON QF CONGRESS, ke, as, de Wasummatow, Nov. 20, 1864, NORPOLE, FERNANDIMA AND PENSACOLA OPENED TO DOMESTIC AND FUBRION CUMYERO The ports of Noriolk, Virginia, ani Fernandina and Pensacola, Florida, having for some time past been in the military possession of the United states, i 1@ deemed advisable that they should be opened to domestic and fore\gn commerce. Therefore the Prosidont of the United States bas issued @ proclamation making kuowo that pursuant to the authority veuted im him by the act of Congress of June, 1861, the Diockade of those ports shall go {ar cease and determine from und after the Int day of December next that commercial intercourse with them, excopt as to persons and things aud ivformation eontra- band of war, may from that Lime be carried on, subject to tho laws of the Uaited States, to the limitations and tn pursuance of the regulations which may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, and to aueb military and nayal regulations as are uow tn fore, or may bere. aftor be found necessary. ATTACK ON THR GOVARNMENT STEAMER PONTIAC. A private letter from the flect off Charleston mays that recently the steamer I’ontiac, sigating a blockade runner, slipyed ber cable and gave chase, without effect. Re turing subsequently to get her anchor the rebols opened on hor, either from Fort Marsbail or Beuch Inlet, to which she pald no attention, until a tem inch shell struck her on the forecastle, killing and wounding & uusobder of men, seven of whom died on (he instant, RB-RSTALLISHMENT OF THE POST OF FICK AT MINLENA, ART ANSAS. The Post Office Department has re-established the post office at Helena, Arkansas. OAKDIDATES FOK TH CHIEY JCBTIONS AIP. R. A, Dana and Judge Hood. of Magnachueetts, are io town. It is understood thas they are both candidates for the vacant Chief Justicestip. A QUIET AND KAINY SUNDAY. Tt has bean raining cootinuonely all day, and the neuel dulnese nod quiet of the Sxobath has been increased by the unfavorable state of the weather, There {sno news of any importance to be obtained, and few people are to be seen ip the streets or in the lobbies of the hotels, TDK ANTICIPATED DRFAKTHENTAL QM ANORS, (Washingtup correspondence (Nov. 17) of Boston Ad- vertiaer.} Thore is her one might suy, anegverendiog and yet alwaye new rumer of Cabinet changes To-day it that Str. Stantoa i# guing ont and that General Banks is coming in; aud yet aly Monday morning | was assured i the most positive terins by one who professed te kuow all about the matter tbat Genera! Buuer would be Secre- tary of War in less thio s wook To-morrow the rumor may be that Mr. Weiles ia lo give way Wo Governor Cur to or Mr. Dowald McKay, or tha: Joho sherman or Robert J. Waiker Is to take Mr. Foeseaden’s place in the Trea- ory Department ‘the day vwing we are Hicely to Journ to tbe roorning that General Ranks (9 to be mads Seoretury of the Navy, Mr Maua sccretary of War, and & “prominent financter’ of New York’? Secretary of the Treasury; while before night the whole progeamme ts re- arranged, and (Gjeceral Hooker comes into the War De- pariment, Mr, Coltax into the Pest Oftice Department, Mr Coase tato the Sopreme Court, and Mr Harrington is pro- moted to the first place ia the Treasury, with the “pro- minent financier’ as his assistant. Mr, Stanton is seriousiy, (hough Present not dan geronsty, til During bis visit te Geoera! Grant, about the middie of jaet month, he suffered from chilis and fever aud cawp disrrbma. | don’t know any man capa. bie of more hard work than he ts, yot he has overworked Dimsel. Overwork and thas trip to the front are t causer Of Dis preseot illness. Quiet aod rest are woat he very much needs, but what he will be hardiy likely to give himself at prevent, unless absolntely confined to his hed. During bis torced absence Assistant Secretary Dana is cotlog wary of War. . Bir. Watson's neme still appears in the offictal regiatere as swcond Assuwteut Secretary, bet be bas been ee an frown Lae oflice aud the city tor six or eight month: eri secoud sseisinot i courteous Colonel Hardi gular army. Mr. ‘yateon has tendered hi tation twice, Understand, on account of itt health, but it bas boon preferred to give him further leave of ab Bence Tathe than to accept it. He bas not drawn any selary for some months, apd will not accept any for the pertod of bis alsewer, I aw told. Some of Mr. Chase's (rieuds seem to be endeavoring to force Mr. Lincoln to make tim Chier Justice of the Su. peome Court by representing that be is sure to be Apyolated “unless Mr. Lincoln breaks fulth.’"’ I don't bee a wingie reason for believing that the resident how arrived at any determination rewpectiog Chier Justi Tauey's successor; ed } am certain thas Mr. Chase Weatern friends are pot atal! sire upon the question, as J ei aia certain that Mr, Chase is ueither directly nor indirectly & party to the tosinvation made ta bis bebalt by [riends here. “A strong ellort i6 making 1 Ohio, and ty Some @xient in otuer parts of the West, to secure the Chiet Justiceship tor Nir, Justice Swayne. Now thas election le over the numerous clerks and employe are returuing in tinmouse crowds. Night before inst the New York train was made up Of seventeen crowded cars, and last Bight of atucieen, whie tp yesterday tuoruing’s traiu there wero ao lose thi twevty-one—all so crowded that many persons wer staud for bours—and this morgiug there were thirteen more. Large numbers of furlonghed aoi- diers are also comlog (rom the North and Wost, and | wing On 10 che fromt. Kverybody reports a cheering ' ing ia tbe country, wad vot a few strong Union men are bearty ip expression of glad feeling et tbe sens. bie manorr in which the grest majority om tion bear thelr defeat. Some of Mr. Saward’s predictions have brea wide of the mark, but we uw y al! bove that | Lis prediction of anera of good leeling will prove well udeg. Certainiy, as he suggested, the vicworious ty can well aflord to do all that is possible to bring it about. With the return of the clerks the buriners of the va. partments weakens to more etgorous sight. Par. | secretary Femenden infusing new evergy into rious ¢ heula the udmiot-iratta of ailuirs tw bis deparaneut ihe in torval Revenue Uoreau tee lately mde some ita- portant di sof frauds ander the revenue nw, Io 5 ene an inspector discov | a large weyar manufacturer had beoo revue! r raven months, und that there were forty thoavand gegare on whied be bad not pawl duty, He | Con eseed his guilt, nad versed the case without going to | trial ver the juil aWOUnE due gove was five thoussnd five bh lar2, ball of which went to the go tee ormer, Who, ip tb: epector, iv another case ® pur necensary two ceot stamp upon & receipt. Tn two hours be bad heen arrorted, taken de(ore the proper officer, © ‘od, made confession and paid the penalty | of two be dred doilara, balf of which went to the in- former. Joubtedty it may de #uid that be went rer, \f not ® sadder and wiser man, Toe secretary | ietioner, Mr. Lewie, are determined that ali be en.ofeed, and iuepeciure and agents are jostructed 0 s wo bring epeedy and terited punishment. fH penaity ine!) cases goes to the informer Loere ere rumors that Jud, ewe intends to resign Rodiene & the law * te Me. Wil Drinted ebie® ¢ burean, He ie ticiect. The popition was lirrt olfered Jounten, formerly of Boston, long the W pot of yo ot of the Travel! pal corr it of the Ade tly been a o. mud ¢ to Me un capadie AR. ingt and nso He had bee! clerk X mOUtLE oF more, aud made neti © sioner by (he Presid nee of Commissioner Lewis and | Deputy tine, These facta mark heap. | preciation bin rarvices were beld. He deciued | the permanent chief clerkship for busivess considera tions, though he etiil remains conuected with the bureau MERCHANTS SUSPECTED OF CON- RLOCKADR RUNNING TRADE. THE BALTIMORE NECTION WITT TH (Waplingion correspondence of the Laltimore Sun } Wasnimitos, Nov. 17, 1804 Vhe trial of Marailton Easter & Co your city, war Iny before the Military Commireion, of woich vblelay te Presitent, Aad Colona! J. A, Fuster he charge, twit be re sd, being vatoms Of war, In that they sold gods | Mra Cheucelior and otters, tw be conveyed clu ely into Loudon apd adjacent Go. thee of Virgiuia, {0 Lhe limes of koe enemy, Ex-Goveruor } Thoras Ford, oF ON, appeared for devence, The only | wines oxemine’ day was air, Joba A, Karnes, a New | Fork merohent, wo mate @ depoition wo the effect that | about 010m, on Ue Tth of Uctober, Mr. James Kastor was | in New York city, And made several pnecaases at wit: Hocver’ cnuavitshoiset, om Franklin siraet. This rebute | the testimony of Pardon Worsoly, who ateted that Mr James Kustor War th Baltimore od the 7th of October. | The cas wea edjourned til to-morrow oc Oehe body of mort wratched tooking and ragged prison. ore who were marcoe? Up Pennsylvanian avenue yester- day aviervav, chaned one W the ober by the right leg, | and who ved beeo brenght here (rom Leriugton, Ke. 1 appears ware capiored Ax OUtiawe Who bad enlisted ‘or morning at ten the bov deserted to the enemy, joinad, in some cases, bands of depredators, thea undertook to make thetr » ay into cur fives, througs Cumberiax As deaerte refugees, Sc. 1 re that eon fix of our men, woo were taken pritoners aod carried to Rich mond, sudeequently made their srcape, nod, bearing of Uhre band of outlaws, they communicated the facts to the anthoriiice A (orce wae sent ont which captured nearly the whe ng. Boventy-one were brought here, and others co O€ thie baton, #ix jumped (ro ‘oars on the Baltimore and Ohio Raliroad, noar Ni while en route aud (be train at goBd syecd, The gu which was sont back found one of of the rond, but bad aot discovered the others. are now al! confined Im Forrest Hail prison, io (oor town, to await thelr trial by court martial Beversl w ners are here to teatily againet them. Last evening, between aix and geven o'clock, Peterson, who was tracked from Canada and arrested in ‘Alexapdria op the 11th of November an a rebel spy and _ppeil carcier, succeeded in qmaking pis escape irom (he NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, NOVEMBER ZI, 1864, C4 Cartiol ‘The sertine’s on posts No. T and 12 allowed Peterson, ucder some excuse which he offered, to go into AD Bdjoiving yard Belog dinguised, he shence made bis. ¥ ivto ployes' messroom, Mere be ie Boppored fo ave procured aa iroa enisel loft im the room by the gas fitters, with whion be forced the door of the inessronm and crossed the parse, to tho female department, ite then picked the lock of the passage door aud entered to Storeroor, Here be picked another lock and evterad front office, from which piace he made Lis way into tbe street Polerson {8 a smart, intelligent man, abo twenty four years of age, and ta regarded as one of the most determined aud servicvabis emissaries (n the ova- Ploy of the rebein. The case of Captain Hogh A. McDonald, Company D First Pennsylvania oavalry, charged with’ uttering Caine acd counter.eit Treasury notes of the United States, aad bank noes upon the Farmers’ aog Mecbunioa’ Hank of Bucks county, Peansylvania, was m up this moroing by the Military Commission, ‘the prisoner pieat guilty, making « jong confession, tmplicating many others, He was allowed time until ‘to morrow to give further evs decce in mitigation of the offeuce. McDonald, it is etated, bas prospered in bis infamous practices (or two years, and (to such ao extent that a government seat bas made the statement that owe-third of the (ractional currency uaed 1a the army ia talse aud counterieited, all vitered by the prisoner. He ta ab Englishman by birth, Qud came (rom Canada, aud jowed the Unino eer vice He ues never been uaturalixed, and is ropresenied as fatensely disioyal. He was arrested in Look Haven, Clinton County, Pa, where he was detailed as a reoruit- tog officer, Gonoral Cameron arrived in town las at Willards Baron Genbolt, the Minister of Pruas to thie city trom Berlin, Captem Gusinye Bt. Albe, of Austria, aid-de-camp of Major General Augur was, morried yesterday to Madame Marie A. Berauls, nes Auderson, of this city. ° {trom letter of Nov, 18.) ‘The trial of Mamiiton Faster & (o,, of your city, was continuned before the military cemmisai n to-day, and two New York morohants, Messrs. J. Loogtoore and J. Strothers, {urther rebutted the government witness’ (Worsely) statement of seeing Jamew [H, Easter in the siore in Baltimore on the Tih or 9th of September last, when ho (W.) was buying goods to carry to tbe enemy, by Wat ying that they, on those days, saw him in their storos ia New York, and in addition R'M. Cator, of Bal- timore, testified to baving on the 6th of september truvelted to New York with Mr. James H, Easter. Ar- chibald Stirling, Sr., was also examined as to Mr. Hamil- ton Easter’s loyaliy, and while atatiog that be bi generally heard io time past that Mr. Kuster’s sympaiti Wore with the South, yet be considered bir fi. ab tl period a loyal man, and of too bigh character to do a dis- loyal act, Several clerks of the tirm vestified to their having always recetved directions to seil no Kvods to go futo waurrectionary districts, except on permits, and one employe, Mr. Fieid, testited to bearing Worsely to!l Mr. Weeden who sold poods wo W., that hi case was adjourned over toallow mony in Boston ta relasion to Wi THR UNFINISHED LEGISLATION OF THE @xnss. The Washiugton Chronicle publishes the following {ist of the mensures which passed ove branch of Congress at the last sossion and were pending in the other ab the date of the adjournment, Under ruie they will come up at the beginning of the coming session and be reforred, and if they pass, that action wili be dual, or, in other words, they will not go back to the house in which tbey origivated, The important Senate bills pend- fog in the House were;— 1. A bill to cpoourage immigration, which we think was of Executive origin, and covtemplated the abipping foreigners vo this couutry in nations! vessels, aod trans. porting them to the public domaia in the West and aid. them other@ixe—the goverument meantime to have 1m OD Lbeir property. A bill to ovilecs direct taxes ia the insurrectionary istriots of the United States. 3. A bill to ectabiish « bureau of freedmon’s affairs, 4, A joint reepiution submisting to the Legislatures of the several ition to amend the constitution of the Uni : relating to slavery. The important House billa pending in the Senate were:— 1. A bill to reimburse to the State of Peonsytvania her expenditures in calling out the militia during the recent juvasion. 2 A bill to secure the speedy transportation of ¢! manila. 3. A bill to regulate the dismissal of offoers in the Military and naval service 4. A bill for the better management of the Indians. (To consolidate thor in one grand reservation. ) 5. A Dill Waid in the protection of emigrants to the Territories. (Since the seusion events have occurred ou the frontter to show the necessity of legislating on the subject.) 6. A bill to facilitate the payment of the bounties and arrears of pay due wounded and deceased soldiers. 1. A bill to secure to persons Lo the military and naval service homesteuds on confiscated or forteited catates ta inaurreotionary districts. 8. A Dill to regulate commerce among the soveral Btates. 9. A bill to agcertain and adjust claims against the government for injuries or destruction of property by the Ormy or miliary aubnority duriug the rebellion 10, Joint resvintion to amond joint resoiution explana. tory of an act to suppress insurrection, punish treason and rebellion, to seize and conilseste the property of pproved June 17, 1863 11. Joint resolution to drop from the rolls of the army unemployed general officers. 12, Joint resolution relating to the Maximilian mon: chy in Mexioo. 13. Joint resolution for the construction of « military Tailroad trom the Ohio river to Kast Tennessee, ening, and is hae returned Last CON: Dr. Oheever om Christian Madicalism., Last evening tho Rev. Dr. Cheever preached fires of @ series of discourses on what be terms‘ Christian Radicalism," fo the Churoh of the Puritans, toa com. Daratively small congregation, He took for his toxt some verses from the second book of Samuol, the pur port of which was that ‘he that ruleth over mon must be just, ruling 10 the fear of God.'’ He asserted ibat American poople had beon attempting to carry on a gov- ernment subversive of the principles taught in God's word, and contrary to the spirit of the constitution, Which he cousidered was @ wonderful luearnaticn of principles of Christian radiculivm and justice. ‘The oxt of the couilict between freedom aud siavery w: set forth in the speaker's characteristic style, aud 4 eulogy a was passed upon Jobo Brown, who, if he had been pia upon a throve, would have ruled the nation justly. He pictured siavery and (reedom under the figure of a train, God being tbo conductor of one train, baying obarge of the uezeoos, while the loader of the other was tae demon al expediency He hoped that at the opening of ext session of Congress tue nation would be set fr yht with God aod maokiod, and urged the importance of tho governmeot adoptiog @ radical emancipation police thus anticipate she prop sed action of the rebels f (reedom and homesteads to tho slaves. Ia conch Dr. Cheever read a letter {row an ex momber of the British Uarliament, and pow a di tioguished officer tn the army, in which be expressed Opiion that i the President continued to pursue the poliey which he bad done for the noxt four yeurs there would be intervention by Kuropean governaneata in favor of the South The Savy. LARG® AMOUNT OF PRIZE MONRY PACD OFER PROM BOSTON. We learn from the Boston Traveller that from the tat of Jung, 1863, to the pronent time,a period of betwaca fArteen and sixteen months, the United States Marshal Keyes has paid over to the United tates assis the proceeds of captured blockade runuers, adjudicated At thin port, over five million dollara. In these prize cages the expenses were very small, thus materially to orensing the amount to be distributed, Iu ono casea single blockade runnor netted, with the cargo, upwards of three hundred thousand dollars. There are pow but very few ensettied prize cases to be disposed of, as Marshal Keyos traosacte bis business with great promp. ttude. HE TON-CLAD MONITORS RTLAH AND AHTLOM. It js not generally known to our citizens, says the St Lovis Nepublican, that thore are building in their midst two of tho most formidable engines of destruction known to modern warfare = Whi'e the Eastern States, provided with most skilifal ertificers in ship building, have | seemed to centre al! the iron ciad interests, the work on the two Monttory Ftinh and Shiloh bas been quietly pr gressing, and now approaches completion The cont tore, ©. W ‘ord tor the former, and George C. Beator for the latter, in the face of the difficulties that « new Work in a section of the country where tho iron ipterast | is es Yet Undeveloped always encounters, bave ¢ ved | on ther work i & manner that cannot fail to} give not only SAativiaction to tbe government, Dut Also reflect the utmost crodit on the skill of our Wee k At the versels ay they now Jay on the eure how ably their dut es have been periormed, and speaks their best praise. Toa some ides of the maguiteds of the work MAY v4 gained, e description of the vesso's may not be ay —The Kuh and Shelob are light draft Montiors, Erteegon turrets, built under the sapervision of 1), G. Wel E2q., engineer of bebaif cf tho government. They each carry Lwo guut—one eleven inch Pablgren aud one one hundred aad Ofty-pouvder ritie Parrott, fxtreme length, srandth of banin 46 feet; depth of hold, LL feet; thickuess of deck 225 toot tbicknese of eide armor, three inches armor, ove inch, iuterusi diameter of turret, twenty feat thicknerstof turret, sight inches, tutorsal ‘diameter of pilot house, six feet, Liickvess of pilot house, ten inchoe number of taotive angiace, two, diamoter rs twenty-two ircties: lengin of stPowo, thirty inches; pro. peliers, two; diametor of propellers, pine (eet ndar—This Day, javrens Taaw,—No caleoder made ap, -Now is, 5, 4408, 1764, 1422, 2445, 2484, 1878, 2494. SvPaeue Courr-Sraciat Tena —Detaurrer —No. §0— Insuea of inw setNow, 144, 209, 802, 304, 806, 807 to 320, inolusies. Screen Cookt.—-Part 1—-Nom. 4007, 8465, 8463, 8909, 86005;, 9048, 1743, 4826, 3199, 4445," 2797, 8808, 2249 3900, 4001. ‘Part %—Nos, 225, 3078, 8644, 4190, $300) $402, 4610, 4668, 4052, 4854, 4656, 4658, 4500, 4962, 4094) Died. O'ConnoRn. —On Sunday, November 20, Barasr Mcarrr, tive of the parish of Ahaseragh, Ireland , tho beloved wife of Jenn O'Connor, ia the 50tb year of her The reiatives and friends of the family, a also the bers of the Kmmet Matual Heneft Renevolent So- ‘oly , are roxpectfully Invited to attend the funeral, om Tuesday, Crom ber late residence, 182 Kast Tweaty- feoond atreot, Her remaina will be taken to Calvary (eer Omer Denis ar Phird Page) found us too well prepared to receive them; for they dk@ Q0t ventdre to molest our lines, AN ATTACK ON THY URAMUDA FRONT. About oight o'clock Inst evening a very desperate attne® was made on our picket [aes at the Bermuda (ront, be tween the Jamon and the Appomattox, by two brigades 5 RIcH:wOND. The Enemy Attach’ General Graham’s Froa.* Our Troops Ultimately Re-estath. Their Lin General Butler Temporarily Returned to the Army of the James, fe ae, ae BUTLER'S BEANQUARTERS, Mr, Jamos B. Wardoll's Drapatoh, Agangvantens Davaxtakvr oF Vinci amp 1s, 1864, Nowrn Canouis, in rms Poa Nov. FH RNKMY WATCHING AN CPPORTONITY, For a week or more the rebela have evinced a desire te domonstrate upon our fines, and (rom several indications it was evident (hoy wors fooling us to ind (he weakest point, and at the right momout, when our vigilance wag somewhat rolaxed, would attack, Up to lass night they of the enemy, which succeeded in capturing four oMlcers and about eighty men. The oharge was not altogether unexpected; but no intimation of the movement wes re the ie, coived until the enemy were upon Thelr success, excepting the capture, was trifiteg, as the picket line bas been reestablished, wit the exception of that point in the open field in front of Battory Marsball, where the enemy boid our rifle pits, ‘The attack was mot with spirit, and repuleod with some Joas to the enomy, though nothing definite ix known. Col. Kaufmann, of the Two iundred and ihird Pennsyivante regiment, is missing, and it is supposed that he was cage tured. Brigadier General Charles K. Graham fs ta command of that part of the line between the two rivers, and is de gorving of credit for the prompt and determined manner in which he mos ana repulsed an attack which, if sme ‘entailed disastrous consequences apem cessful, would hi ANOTHER ATTACK. AG (this writing (eight P M.) another attack by te onomy ta being made upon the same part of our Hines. The fring commenced suddenly and very rapidity, and = very distinctly heard at these head ;nartera, bat has new quieted to deaultory ena iufreq:.ont fring, from which the copolusion is drawn that tt baa not bec successful. ‘The vight Is rainy aud dork—a very Otting ono for the Jobonies to wake their attacks, THM LINKS BERONGLY DRFENDRD. Our toes are atrougly guarded, and every precaution te taken to render abortive auy attempt the rebels may make to break througd them. GeNEHAL HUILKR'A RETORS, Major General Butler arrived at nis headquarters thaw morning, and has resumed command of ha dopartnes & AD air of increased activity prevalis throuxh the cas end all seem oiced that the now Secretary of Wer prospective has returned to remato a abet time Linger Several civilians came te the front with Gene , among whom { noltce Professor Goliwie Smith, of Koylaod, who ix knows bot at bomo und tbia country as tne friend of (he poor mau aud (be slave, He la the guest of Geworal iutio Nov 10, 1866 THA ATTACE OF THR RTENING OF PHB 18TH IKAT, Ths atiack made last oight by the eoemy upon oar Lines war insigdificant, resultiog (8 00 10a to os what over. It wae easily ropulsed, and our forces occupy thet origioas tines, ire in Philadcipn: Paravecrnia, Now. 30, 1866 A fire to day destroyed tis Veuctian blind fact ry @ B J. Williama, 16 North Stxth sireet. and damaged sevorm: of the adjoining buildings. Totul lose about twenty five thousand dollars, partiaily inyu Tee Atiautic lasurance Compony of New York, and another New York insurance cotnpany tose Ove thousand dolinee each. A Cara from PV. ¢, Barnam.—To Public —Various persona hare been known to remark that oocastonal y In the course of bis tie, Taraum has ecb te rety queer things, Weil. Loonress tnia iw ieuep for L rather like te astonis!, en well as delight, the publie end sot them to woudering where the humbug" part i when they are foresd to exciai We never before ea for ten Umes the cost, one baif so wuch that was tri worth seeing as wacan seein Barniia's Museuin ‘The fact is. stoce | retired {rom Yankee clock speculations 0; steam, aud en I bare put on a double b Outde myself, During & Greenwood, Jr. tes, and has ewiadlished goo: Old’ World. My emiasariee bave «50 upos thie contluent, and the resuits a themselves at the 'M: My ndvertiag newt ov jublic to read, will cou vieee fore the face of tite aecher 10 one pinee sub ao extreee- * curtous taline, tunoy aot unobe nding combination of aa mate and wreto besean atthe Mussa = eavored te Mi besa to dev Cipses anylhing of shich ove neeption unlil. the present tim». and as not born yesterda; To writa this, therefore, te remind the puble that, in addition te all the curioctes to be seca at al hours we henceforch rive three dramas sod other performances In thu Lecture Ruorn each day - vi, at Il, Sand 7% o'clock No charge whatever is made for weats at the iL o'c ock performances. As ihe nfteracee entertainraeais are amialiy crowded, sich fami ies, ladsew Aad children as ca witend to the mornieg or (he eeaning Will find the Museum more comfortable My recent aream ments (or eurens are, how wo excona ve and comme dious, 1 shail hope to satiafy the public at soy and alt hows af the day. How it lt possible to afford atch a ande! sivevarray of attractions (or the sin rey Asioniabes nobody more shan it doce the public s onrecioal servant, T. BARNUM N_ B.—The Mewenm fs open aver; f to 10 P. washers 9 Work all uight, amg nt tbe wh Vabe every morning esyenses of the Mw more tba v oriwe hundred and twenty tousan’ do lars per year. yet tt prow wuse the proprimtor korp: never end he matters pere bayond all precedent, simy A.—Why Does tt Keom Onnecesenry te praise PHALONS NIGHT BLOOMING CEREUS in the newspapers! Because awh FINE PUPES OF THB PEM FUME come out of the b themarlren. Artic of Real Merit are Worth the ralue Such is (be case with Murpert's Preoarations HELABOLOS, 9 Browdway, st io (he Phe on'y perfeat Ratchelor's Hatr world. Harmiens, reliable, instantanee: dye, Boid by ali druggists.” Factory 5) ba Dyewshe eo. at Great Bargatase between Thirty A/th and Thirye Cristadoro’s Hair Dye. Breservative and Wig Depot, wholesale and retall, No. 6 Astor House ‘The dye applied by sk lial aruew Estnbitehed 1840.--Burdes i's Arntes Liniment t# the original, genuine preparation of this neal wable plaut. Contains oe chioroform ber irr) sae Orestes o0 smart pain when applied to lucerated woun@e Elliptle Sewing MuchinesRum by Hot alr, OFFICE S87 PROAD WAY. Gilt Combs—New Styles, Just Recety Toyo, three, etotwents dollars each. Por eal» GEV. Q ALLEN, 615 Broadway, une door below Ge wireek ighest Prem Machines, WHE Wheeler & Wisco a am Lock Stitem Sewtr & WILSCN, Gas Broadway toohole Maraior tor O'8 Rooks— "rae Masonry. Ac. ater Beekman, of the Skim iadaipbia, Immense Prices 100,109 Booka, off Am LEGGAT BROTH Jared & Rone, & and importers of L’ Pmail Broustpins=Yow Stylos. ight, ten bo thirty-dve dollars each & ALLEN, 619 Broadway, ons door below Oe by GEV. C street. Popniar Taste All (te phases has beam anticipaled io VERY DEPARTMENT OF MATTING, a GENIN'S, NO 51) BROADWAY, (80) Nicho as | a ead & + boy, ab for, Oot whore the assortment of D and other Capa for gentieman yous THE LAKGSoT IN AM and where, for whe purpose of 4 POPULAR CUSTOM. dyrmeeting the eeoanmis vi ne pabit e ye PRICES ARE & ATED by the principles of legitimat ANIM, No O13 Broadway, heuimg Plaster te the The Best 5 “They are warranted to temp Porous Plaster of Dr. Allooe B good twenty years, but ro returned for 4 frean plaster without charge. ame IMPORTANT QUALITIB®, ‘They will cure & + aknese of the Dack, pate in the side, lameness of the knee or of th ankles, OF cold feat, pooner and with more comfort than any other application. 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