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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1861.
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laielphia.
Thb action of tho New York and Ohio
State Democratic Conventions virtually set
tles the political position of the loyal States.
The Republican organizations of these States
tendered to the Conventions representing the
Democratic party, a compromise in the shape
of a Union ticket. They presented as a mu
tual platform this simple principle Loyalty
to ihe Union,—confidence in the Adminis
tration,—and an unqualified support of its
war measures. In both States they controlled
s majority of the votes; in both Stateß it
was in their power, under ordinary events,
to maintain possession of the Government,
and to place their friendß in nearly every
department of government. And yet, anx
ious to conciliate the Democratic sentiment,
and to recognize the devotion and solf-sacrl
flee of the Democratic masses, they gene
rously tendered them one-half oi the offices
to be filled. Nothing could have been fairer.
The platiorm was one which no patriot conld
have refused to occupy; the interests at
stake were those involved in the destiny of
our beloved country, and certainly no citizen
was anxious to revive the platforms of Cin
cinnati, Chicago, or Baltimore, or to discos*
any abstruse or obsolete principle therein
declared, when hiß only duty was one to his
country. What do we care about Popular
Sovereignty or Congressional Intervention,
when the National Sovereignty is threatened,
and the peace of the country destroyed by
the intervention of the sword ? So far as the
mere personnel of the positions are concerned,
there are able and honest men enough in
both parties to execute thoir duties properly.
There are men who would have gladly ac
cepted the united suffrages of both parties.
The proposition was a feasible one, and it
would have been accepted by the masses of
the country with enthusiasm. Why, then,
has it been rejected l
The New York Democratic Convention, in
declining to unite, Sty that it is « due to the
Federal Government to hold out terms of
peace and accommodation to dissevered
States, assuring them of all their rights under
the Constitution.” The Ohio Convention,
among other things, recommends a National
Convention lor restoring and preserving the
Union, and condemns the President's “late
attempt to suspend the writ ol habeas corpus
These two propositions embiace the whole
platform of the Northern Peace Party, and
on these propositions the Democratic organi.
zations of the North have placed themselves
and gone before the country. And yet they
mean nothing more than a divided North
now, and a divided Union in a year or two to
come. These gentlemen forget that for the
North to “ hold out terms oi accommodation to
dissevered States,” is to accept the cup of
humiliation and disgrace. What terms can
he offered 7 What compromise can be made 7
Why did not these Conventions, in laying
down their platiorm, go more into details?
Has the South not oeen “ assnred of all their
rights under the Constitution?” In fact,
what has the Government been doing
for the past year but giving these very as
snrances 7 The Republican leaders have
covered themselves all over with such
pledges. Hr. Sewabd in his Senatorial
speech—Mr. Camehon repeatedly as Senator
—and in fact, every representative Republi
can, without even excepting such radical men
as Hr. Lovejot in the House, or Hr. Suunek
in the Senate, joined in the declarations of
the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of
War. The President in his fnangnral gave
the South the most abundant assurances of
hiß kindness to the South, and his respect for
their righto. The first duty the Administra
tion assumed was an attempt to negotiate
«terms of accommodation,” and they were
carried forward with earnestness and good
faith by the President and his Cabinet, nntil
the unprovoked assault upon Fort Sumpter
assured the nation that the only “ terms of
accommodation” the South entertained were
the cannon of Fort Moultrie and Morris
Island. In a spirit of haughty disdain they
told the North that the only terms they could
accept would he a complete surrender on the
part of the North, the evacuation of the capi
tal, the disgrace and annihilation of the Re
public.
Are these the “ terms of accommodation ”
which the New York Democracy proposes 7
There can be none other. The South is in
earnest, and they have proved their earnest
ness at Charleston and Manassas. We may
assnre them of every possible right the Con
stitution bestows, and they wonld most cer
tainly hold the bearer of the “ assurances " a
prisoner of war, and go on building their en
trenchments within a morning’s maroh of
Washington City- Their ultimatum is a com
plete and final separation, and in view of this
there can be “no terms of' accommodation ”
which will not assume the accomplishment of
a separation as a part of the treaty. Is that
the meaning of the Democratic Convention oi
New York? The proposition of the Ohio
Convention is equally wicked, for it not only
endorses the « accommodation ” scheme of
New York, bat makes an issue directly on the
Administration, and insists that the Demo
cracy of that State shall condemn the Presi
dent’s “ late attempt to suspend the writ of
habeas corpus.”
If the Democracy of Ohio condemns one act
of the Administration, they must condemn
every act. If it was wrong for the Presi
dent to suspend the writ of habeas corpus,
it was wrong for him toattempt a rein
forcement of Fort Sumpter; to reinforce
Fort Pickens; to callout the three-months
volunteers; to open the road to Washing
ton; to eccnpy Alexandria; to erect for
tifications on Arlington Heights; to block
ade the Southern ports; to arrest the Balti
more Commissioners; and drive traitors from
the capital. Every one of these measures
was undertaken fur the public good. They
were necessary as means of national self
defence. If one is to be censured, all are to
be censured; and ii the Ohio Democratic Con
vention insists that the President is to be con
demned ter suspending the habeas corpus, they
must also condemn him for not abandoning
Washington, and permitting Jefferson Davis
to carry out his boast that he wonld dine in
the White House on the Fourth of July. A
National Convention is an insult to the North—
and even if the North demeaned itself into
making the proffer, what States wonld be re
presented 7 Who would Sonth Carolina, or
Yugiuia, or Alabama send? Where would
this Convention sit T Wonld it be ia Rich
mond, under the traitors’ flag, or in Philadel
phia, under the stars and stripes 7 What can
they do *• towards restoring and preserving
the Union?” What propositions can they
make that the Administration has not already
made 7 For the Administration has gone as
tar as national honor will permit, and no Na
tional Convention can go farther.
Tie truth is that the Democratic organiza
tions, both in New York and Ohio, are con
trolled by the meanest of the old Breckinridge
cabal. They were principals in the treason
against the Democratic party,—they were in
atru nental in accomplishing its division and
the defeat oi Douglas, and now, in building
up these infamous platforms, they are the
accessories oi Mr. Davis, Vallahdigham
m> ant Disunion; Bkn Wood means Disunion,
and Bmght, of Indiana, whose every vote
this session was cast with that of Bbiokinridoe
and Bayard, and who enjoys the notoriety ot
having been the only Northern Senator who
consistently voted against the conntiy, means
Disunion also. These are the min who oon
trol the organizations of Ohio, New York,
and other Northern States, and, after eudea
voring to embarrass and ruin the Administra
tion in Congress, they go home to demoralia
the people and build up a party against it on
the site of the old Democratic party. The
old Democratic temple is deserted—ils great
men have passed away—its principles have
been trampled in the dust— Jefferson and
Jackson have been taken trora their niches,
to be replaced by Oalhoun and Davis —its
glory, grandeur, and sacredness have departed
with the principles which made it glorious,
grand, and sacred, and as the money-changers
and thieves plundered and defiled the temples
in the olden time, so is our Democratic edifice
being plundered and defiled to-day. The pure
Democracy you will find on the field, laying
down their lives; at tho Treasnry-box, paying
in their hard-earned gold, and laboring with
enthusiasm in the cause of their country
wherever their country calls. And the old
shrine, with its conspirators and peace
hawkers, must be thoroughly purified before
they can ever again kneel before it-
Affaire m Tennessee
We are indebted to Adams’ Express Com
pany for copies of late numbers of Memphis
papers, which contain some interesting infor
matron in regard to the state of affairs in that
Secession region.
The feeling of rejoicing caused by the re
sult Of the battle near Manassas has not yet
subsided, and the disposition to exaggerate the
losses suffered by our troops, the bravery of
the insurgent soldiers, and the valor and skill
of their generals, is still very strong. The
editors are bad enough, but tho clergy
men appear to be still worse. The former
use the most extravagant phrases of our
language in describing the genius of Beau
regard, Johnston, and Davis ; but the
Reverend Richard Hires, who delivered
a thanksgiving sermon in honor of tho vic
tory, which is published in the Avalanche, as
sured his hearers the insurgents had taken at
Manassas from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000 of
property, lulled and wounded from 10,00 Q to
20,000 of our men, and captured 1,200 pri
soners, while their own loss was but about
400 killed Mid 1,200 wounded! The principal
portion of his sermon consists of a philippic
against the people of the North, which has
rarely been equalled in bitterness.
The election that has recently boon held
clearly shows that there is a strong UnioD
feeling existing in Tennessee, although its
friends are in a minority. The contest tor the
office of Governor was between Ishah G. Har
ris, the present Incumbent, and Major Wm. H.
Pole, the brother of President Pone. The
people voted for and against a permanent
Constitution, which is, if adopted, (theoreti
cally,) to unite Tennessee permanentljmwith
the Southern Confederacy. Tho returns, as
far as heard from, are considered by the Se-
GGBBiOU papers to indicate tho election of
Harris and the triumph of the permanent
Constitution. They are as follows:
For Againit
Counties- Con. Con. Harris- Folic,
•nde ton, p'rt a VB ~
B-dtO'd, o'>t »0 ■ - -
Bloun 1 -. part. M 171 *3 «
hraolej, put.. M 7 - Ml W
navids n.part -
Fajstts, whole— .186 S 6 IJ3S 144
C sens-part.. - MS
frrvn-«r rVt- 378 171 » 146
H'lu'ltoa, part—. ■ - m *S
Hawk us. P‘'t......... - f. 9
Mtnerson part— -
a iW.-OU.part -• y 5J2 gs
Jaffa won.DHXt. ».»•—«— 4H 376 328 139
K.ol.wMo 904 2,696 733 2,670
Lawrssos. part. —— •- •- "j" llz
Mo Minn, part—- 1,047 #l2 20
SSB.’S?—— 179 193 )s5 19i
Bhe“y,p"t 4,308 14 3 836 786
Sullivan, part. is* - JJ£ J
Washington, ptrt— 231 171) 337 170
') he fi-.-irea of ihe tabuler statement will foot up:
For f o.iotitution, 9,671 i asaisat. 4,7i5; Barm, 11,121;
folk, 6,679.
The Memphis papers express perfect con
fidenee in tho ability of their generals to cap
ture Washington in their own good time, bnt
advise patience; and meanwhile they urge
that complete preparations be made for the
campaign on the Mississippi. They boast
that they will capture Cairo, drive onr army
from Missouri, and, if an attempt is made to
assail them at Memphis, easily repulse it.
The following paragraph from the Argu*
briefly expresses its (real or pretended) sen
timents :
“ Fremont and Siegel, MeCnllooh and Fit
low, are about drawing near to eaoh other. A
collision is imminent, and somebody must be
Whipped MoCuUoob oau’t be, and Pillow
wouldn’t bo if he eould, under whieh eireum
stances we think it likely that the reputed skill of
Siegel and the geological lore of Fremont will
fell to solidify tbs fabric of Federal power in Mis
souri We are in weokly anticipation of a 1 tog
battle,’ and wonder maoh how the Teuton win
stand the bowie When the small vermin shall
have been combed oat of Missouri, we may antiei
pate a swarm of water rata down the Mississippi,
And we trust ail our traos will be duly set ”
The habits and condition of a large portion
of the Southern troops may be inferred from
the following extract from the Avalanche of
the sth Inst., which describes a drunken riot
among them, in which thirteen men were
killed, and several fatally injured, as follows;
“ From a gentleman who arrived from Grand
Junction yesterday morning we learn the following
in regard to the riot: Two or three oompeniea of
Lomnana volunteers, under command of Oolonel
Bonlakowski. arrived at Grand Junotion about 12
o’olook on Friday. By some accident they got
hold of a barrel of whisky, and a nnmber of them
soon became intoxioated and commenced fighting
inn png themselves It was found imqosßible to
koop thorn quiet, and Colonel Sonlekowsai, in at
tempting to feature order, was compelled to fire
upon them The rioters broke open the Percy
Hotel, and completely demolished everything that
stood in their way. We are informed that several
of the wounded will probably die of their injuries
Nine were killed on the spot, and four have ainoo
died.”
The Southern journals boast that a number
of negroes have entered their ranks who are
extremely anxious to kill « Yankees,” and
the Avalanche copies, as an evidence of this
statement, from the N. O. Crescent, the fol
lowing article:
“ Tom, the slave of our eitizan, J ames H Phelps,
raised in his family, took a fancy to go soldiering
His muter willingly gratified him, and Tom was
engaged by Captain Konnlz. of the De Soto Rifles,
to attend him through the war. There are hun
dreds of other slaves li/be Tom gone to Hull the
Yanhees. Tom's highest ambition appears to be
to kill a Yankee. He writes to his mother, who
is owned in the family of Mt. Phelps, the letter
below Tom has travelled for two or three years
past ia the lower Mississippi trade, and pioked up
some writing material. We hope he will be grati
fied in hunting up end obtaining a Yankee’s sealp.”
There seems to be-a general understanding
now that it is best for the planters to keep
their cotton upon their own plantations until
the blockade is broken np, and they are ad
vised to do so to prevent it from falling into
the hands of our Government, as well as to
«keep the Nertb from obtaining a single
bale.”
It is a common thing for Southern mer
chants to advertise that they are willing to
take the <( Treasury notes and bonds of the
Confederate States,” in payment of claims
due them. The following card appears in the
Avalanche, signed by forty-two firms of
Charleston, S. C.:
A Oaud. —We, the undersigned merchants of
Charleston, have received communications from
many of oar friends in the interior stating that
Treasury Notes aed Bonds of the Confbde
bate Btatbs would bo tendered to them* in pay
ment of dobts, and that thoir oolfretione would be
stimulated were it generally known that these se
entities conld be freely used by the merchants.
In order that all of our customers may be ad
vised os to our course, we have deemed it proper
to issue forthwith a general notice that we will
cheerfully receive the aforesaid Treasury Notes
and Bonds for oil claims due us.
Chaelnston, July 20, 1861.
They are evidently preparing to make Trea
sury notes and bonds the principal currency
of the Southern States.
The Murderous Affray in London.
The mystery attending the extraordinary and
fatal enoounter between Major Murray and Mr.
Roberta, in London, waß solved at the coroner’s
inquest- The evideneo of a lady living under
M jar Murray’s protection shews that Roberts
sought to gain her affeotions, and, falling, at
tempted the life of Murray. The jury returned a
verdict of justifiable homioido.
Dickens’ “ Great Expectations ” —Petersons
have brought out, complete in one volume, their
lino- edition of this work, the most artiitiosl, in
many respeots, of Diokons’ stories. Good print,
good paper, neat binding, and MoLansn’s 34 ori
ginal illustrations well “ brought up,” make this a
very superior edition. It forms Vol. XXX. of the
best reprint of “ Box ”
Bulwbb’s •' Strabos Stort ’’—The oonthraa
tion ot this tale, mil of interest, 1b is the new
somber of Harper’3 Weekly, {For August 17zh : )
'wbioh ire have reeoived from Ur. Callender, Third
street.
From' General Banks’s Army.
Bahdy Book, Aug 8 —Yesterday the wife and
daughter of John Sunder, one of the rebel prison
ers here, were escorted to headquarters for an in
terview with General Backs, lhey represent that
the prisoner is a quiet, domeatio man, bat was
foroed from his bed bv rebel eoonts, reoently cap
tured at the Point of Bocks.
General Banks told them that if the evidence
corroborated their statement he would be re
leased, but the; had searoely departed before
other parties made a contrary statement. To
day, others from Maryland appeared on the same
prisoner’s behalf, bnt General Banka awaits far
ther evidence.
Two spans of the bridge at Harper’s Ferry are
completed, and the work Is rapidly progressing.
Then It a rumor in some of the camps that Gen.
Johnson is approaching the river opposite Point
of Books, rads is doubtful;
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE-
Letter from “ occasional.”
[Correspondence of The Prau.l
Washington, August 1).
A theory has been started wiihin the lest two
days aooredited to fits Soott, that the ioroes of
the traitors in Virginia are being organised into
three or iour divisions, eaoh of whioh ie to be di
rected to a particular point, so as to formaaoni
olasJ and simultaneous attack on the oily «f
Washington Thus we are to be assailed from tho
Maryland Side and the Virgiuia side. A feint will
to, made upon Arlington Heights, so as to occupy
onr troops there entrenohed, wMi« th * enemy
rashes in upon ni from the other side of George
town, and from the borders of Maryland on the
north. The aeereoy of the Confederates renders it
extremely diffioult to anticipate their movements,
it is certain that oomo weight is attached to this
theory in high qaarters. Fortunately, however,
the retioenoe of Hen McClellan is aulte equal to
that of his former friend, Beauregard, and hiß vl
gilnnoe oouid not be excelled Be is rapidly
moulding onr volunteers into well-trained and
hardy soldlerß. He is weeding ont incompetent
offioers, and by his own example filling the rank
and file with the noblest emulation It is astonish
ing howsoon we beoome aocustomed to that we oan
not ohaagedo suit ourselves, Already newspaper
reporters boast, not what they have sent, but whAt
they have refused to seud to their employers, and
the people, hungry as they are for news, are ready
to lose their patienoe when they enoounter a para
graph giving information of the operations of onr
army.
I have repeatedly spoken in this oorrespondonoe
of the number of spies that infest this oity in ihe
interest of the Southern traitors. Their namo is
legion. Artful, scoret, and aetive, they deceive
onr best friends by pretending to favor the Union,
and assist onr worst enemies by seising upon every
opportunity to wound it. Ready to take any
favor or patronage that may be offered to them by
the Administration, they do not hesitate to employ
the very influence thus acquired to break that Ad
ministration down. The most malignant and
misohievous of these spies are females. Some of
them are ladies of high position, too, who, shield
ing themselves behind the so-called weakness of
their sex, rejeot the disguises assumed by their
husbands, fathers, and brothers, and proolaim their
sympathy with treason and their earnest hope that
the eauae of our oonntry may be defeated. In the
magnificent saloons and around the luxurious ta
bles of these people, sentiments are uttsrefi and
plans perfected of the most atrocious character.
Midnight meetings, after the fashion of the cele
brated Know-nothing lodges, ape regularly held.
What is most disgusting in this whole affair is the
fact that nearly ell those engaged in this oonspi
raoy are people who have prospered upon the
money they hive eoined from the jibs they have
reoeived from the Federal Government. There
has been too mueb lenieney for this soandalons,
flagrant, end notorious Ingratitude, and a growing
feeling will demand the punishment of all the
men engaged in this bad business, or else their
prompt expulsion, with their fsihilieJ, from this
community.
After all, however we may seold political lead
ers, It is a good thing to hold out to our pnblio
men the alia ring halt of being President of the
(jotted States Beyond the approval of his own
aonseienoe, what more honorable and fitting re
ward could a euoeesafqj patriot in the Cabinet or
in the field desire 1 I am siek of the talk of
mere partisans of the dangers of a standing
army and a military dictatorship, and I am in
tensely so when I remember how my eountry
has suffered coder the ruiflons rale of oorrupt
civilians. I would rathpr sep this Republic main
tained by arms, its majestic edifice cemented by
the blood of traitors, and Us threshold whitened
With their bones, than witness Its rapid deoay un
der the eenupting infiaenoe of treason. Three
yonng. generals—and a noble triumvirate they are
—now lead the three grand divisions of the Ame
rican army: George B. MoClellanon the Poto
mao, Nathaniel P. Banks on the Shenandoah, and
John C. F, emont on the Mississippi Some of onr
prophets are busy in easting their Presidential
horoscope; and why not? What brighter guer
don oouid be held forth to contending warriors
than the Presidential prize? They are all pa
triotlo men—conscientious in the belief that they
are fighting a battle in the result of whioh civiliza
tion now, and posterity hereafter, must feel an
indescribable interest. Jt will assuredly not para
lyse their energies to feel that hp who wins in this
great race may attain the right to administer the
laws of a great people. Occasional
Public Amusements.
We an promised a few perfotmanees at Walnut,
street Thoutre —the first to be given this evening.
Among the oompany are the highly respectable
names of Mrs. Dnffield and Mrs. Helen Muzzy,
Mr. Edwin Adams, Mr. L. R Bhewell, Mr Vicing
Bowers, borides Mr. and Miss Rose Wood and
Mad’lie Thereto, in “ a patriotic pas de trois,
prepared expressly for the oooaiisn ” This eve
ning’s dramatic performances will consist of the
play of “Damon and Pythias,” in whioh (drat
time in this pity) Mr. Sbewell will play Demon
to Mrs. Soffield’a' Herigxone and Mr . Adams’
Pythias ; and a new one-act throe, “ Too' Much
for Good Nature,” in which Mrs. Helen Mnzzy
(after eevea years’ absence from the Philadelphia
stage), Mr. Edwin Adams, and Mr. Vinlng Bowers
teke the leading parts. We sineerely hope that
the oompany, who are under the joint management
of Messrs. Bowers and Adams, may have sueh,
orowded housos daring the three nights they an
nounoo as to induoe them to play on to, at least
the dose of next week.
McDoaoups’s Olympic! Theatre. —This pretty
Uttle boudoir Theatre will open for a summer sea
son this evening, with a new company, now pieoes,
and old favorites. Mr. MoDcnongh has scoured
the services of the gay and brilliant Annie Lons
dale as his ohief aide-de camp, who will appear
in a series of her own manußoript pieoes and
oom:dy revival of the Dejazot school, hitherto
unknown is our oity. This evening she ap
pears in a now three aot comedy, entitled “Tho
Pet of the Pnblie,” written by Edward Stirling,
of London, of whioh she L the original heroine.
She also delivers a patriotic war address, written
for the oacasion, and appears in her inimitable im
personation of Nan, in “ The Good for Nothing,”
of whioh she was the original in this oountry,
L and in whieh ail her imitators have failed in ap
preaching her. All our volunteers owe Annie
Lonsdale a debt of gratitude. She it was who
inaugurated the Lone Mothor and Widow’s Relief
Fond during their absenoe, and those who have
returned should weloome this lady as she deserves-
Mr. MoDonough appears in a favorite rile the
same evening.
Important from Fortress Monroe.
Fobtsbss Monboe, August B. —The village of
Hampton has boon burnt by General Magruder, in
bis advanoe with the rebel forces.
Boouta and fugitives yesterday morning brought
word of the approach of a large Confederate foroo
from Yorktown. . „ „ .
These rnmors were confirmed at 5 P. M. by an
intelligent deserter from the Beoessioaists, named
K A. Mabew, a native of Maine, bnt a resident of
Georgia until impressed into the service, who fur
nished an account of tho expedition.
Mr. Mahow has been stationed at Ycrktowu ainoo
the Ist of June.
On Friday last Colonel, now General, Magruder
left Yorktown with a Lroe of 7,000 men, including
two handrad cavalry and eight pieoec of artillery,
viz: throe Parrot guns, four howitzers, and on*
riflod cannon.
A part of the troops wore from WlllUmsbnrg.
On Monday night they onoamped at Great Bethel,
which had been completely deserted
Oa Tuesday night they advanoad towards Hamp
ton, and at noon yesterday took up a position on
Book river, some three miles from the town, where
Mahcw managed to escape through a cornfield, end
by swimming a oouplo or streams reaohed tho For
tress.
He says tbs object of the expedition was to draw
out onr forces to attack Camp Hamilton, nasr
Newport News, if praotiesble, and at least to do
stroy Hampton so a* to prevent us from using it
for winter quarters
General Butler at ones repaired to this pud of
Hampton bridge, where he remained until eleven
o’clock.
Col. Weber created a barricade near the Hamp
ton side of the bridge, and placed a strong guard at
various points on this side of tho creek.
A few minutes past midnight Gen. Magrader,
with about five hundred Confederates, some of
them belonging to Hampton, entered the town, and
immediately fired the buildings with torches.
The greater part of the five hnndred houses
were built of wood, and as no rain has fallen lately,
the strong south wind coon produced u terrible
oonflegraflea. . , .
Tnere were perhaps twenty white people and
double that number of negroee remaining in tbe
town, from inability to remove, some of whose
houses were fired without waking tho Inmates
The rebels gave Carey Jones and hie wife, both
of them aged and infirm, but 15 minntes to remove
a few articles ot furniture to tbe garden.
Several of the whites, and also of tbo negroes
wera hurried away to bo pressed info tbo Ooufedo
rata serrioa. Wm Soofiold, a morohant, took re
fuge in our camp above tbe town.
Two negroee were drowned while attempting to
arose the oreek.
A company of the rebels attempted to foree tbe
passege of the bridge, but were repulsed, with a
loss of three killed and six wounded. Tho firo
raged ell night. 4 , .
The greater part of the Confederates withdrew
towards morning, and at noon to day, when I vi
sited the place, but seven or eight baildings were
left standing.
The destruotion of the town was a wanton act of
eruelty to the resident Unionists, and moreover
entirely useless, as General Butler intends to win
ter his army beyond Hampton.
An attempt will be made to fasten tbe act upon
the General, bat after ten o’olnok on Wednesday
night thera was not a Federal soldier in Hampton
.. A flag of trnoe Justin from Norfolk with Miss
Mayo, a nieoe of General Scott, oh her way from
Biobmond to New York, states that tbe rebels at
tribute tbe aet to Gen. Butler
Gen Magruder hae encamped near New Market
bridge. He will hardly venture to attack New
port News.
Mr. Mayhew states that there have been abont
7,000 robols etatioued at Yorktowu. Some ten
days ago a battalion e-me down to the outskirts of
Hampton, and eanied away 180 nagroes.
Provisions are abundant at Yorktowß, and most
of tbe regimen's are reoeivlng new uniforms for
the winter campaign.
Another Pirate Steamer Escaped from
New Orleans.
Bostok, Aug 9 —A letter from a Boston mer
chant, dated at New Orleans on the 31st nit., states
tint the pirate steamer Mcßat ran the blockade
on the 30th.
THE I’HESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURUAV, AUGUST 10, 1861.
LATEST NEWS
By Telegraph to The Press.
Speoial Deipatohe* to “ The Preu.’
There are few men living who oonld exert a
greater infiaenoe for good from this date hence
titan John 0. Breckinridge. If he had the
patriotism of an hottest man —nay, even if he had
a spark of that element left, he would return to
his State, whioh has now, by the voioe of the peo
ple, dtolared for the Union, and throw his in
fluence with those who are straggling tonpbeld the
Union and the Constitution against the elements
of Seoession. Even if the last spark of patriotism
had been extinguished in his breast, the very fact
of me Union vote, given so decidedly on Monday,
would, if he pretends to tho olaims of common
honesty, induce Mm, as the people’s representa
tive, to oarry out their views by throwing
his influenoo in favor of the Union, or
resign the position he holds. An adherenoe to Mb
past professions demands this, at least, at hiw
hands, for he haa always deolared in Congress that
be wonld be guided by the voioe and the wishes of
his constituents. Bat the ooarse pursued by Mr.
Bbeckinbidgs In the last Congress leaves little
hope for anything from that man but a stndied de
feat of the friends of the Union. He openly and
boldly abused the President for an honest effort to
save the Union, hecanse there was no specific
law for BOID6 of tl&O spoolfio BtOpß tftfeOß tO
arrest the progress of treason. Where do we
find Senator Breckinridge after the close of
tho Senate ? Not hurrying home to help his con
stituents to oarry out their wishes as they expressed
them in the vote on Monday. Do we see him re
maining here, and by his voioe and pen oalling to
the people to sustain the Union? (and what an
infiaenoe he might yield! !) No, no, we find him
in Baltimore supping with traitors. We hear him
on the baloony of the Eutaw House, in that oity,
inflaming the minds of disafooted citizens against
the Union, the Administration, and the citizens of
the North! I have hoped and prayed, and
ffatohed for months to see that man throw himself,
body and soul, in for Ms oonntry ; bnt he is lost—
lost to the Union, to the prinoiples of patriotism 1
Mid to a 6odm of honesty to his constitnonts.
From tb« seeond in power in the nation, he has
fallen, jjueifer like, to the low level of a traitor,
affording a terrible pioture of the reaulte of politi
cal dishonesty.
The appeal from the Sonth to he let alone Ji
changed to a proposition for peace, not yet official
ly made, bat mooted in inflaential oiroles Feeoe
see say; peso* we all desire; bnt not snob a peace
ae will acknowledge this Union broken Into frag
ments, and Government, law, and order tram
pled under foot by tyrants and traitors. Oar
present straggle is a test question. If our Govern
ment Is worthy Of being perpetuated, Its subjects
demand that it put down Insurrection. If it is
worthy of being recognized by other nations, those
nations olaim that It must exercise a power (qi> 1
to any emergenoy to which it may be called, one
of whioh is the suppression of rebellion. If these
attributes are wanting, then it mast fall, and re
pabltoaniam most be swept away as one of the fol
lies oi ipan This, then, is the question now to he
deoided: Shall wo sne for peace on the basis pro
posed by Jeff Davis, and pat the continent
henosforth under the rale of tyrants, or shall we
have one more strong pull, and a long toll (if it
must be), and a PU£L ALTOGETHER to redeem
sustain, and perpetuate a Government whose
strength is vested in ran People ?
General Johnston acknowledges eighteen hnn
drad sick In the hospitals at Winoheßter, when he
gathered Ms forces to proeeed to Manass&B Juno
tion. Thera were at that time twelve hundred
dekin the Culpeper Court House hospitals, while
the siek and wounded received at the hospitals at
ChailottesviUe, sihoo the battle, nnmber over a
thousand, and every farm house in and around
Centrevill# and Manassas Junction is oonverted
into a hrspital, and filled with the siek and
wounded. Poor fellows! Second sober thought
oomeß to the siok-bed when it finds no entrance
into masked batteries. Hospitals oontain many
vivid pictures of the horrors of war, and Bbaure
sard has, it appears, large oolleetioss of these
jast now for contemplation—the fruits of his labors
as the willing war servant of Jeff Davlß A Co,,
under whose auspices these Death's portrait galle
ries have been supplied.
Misrepresentations.
Jeff Davis will not permit the few Southern
papers that still exist to report anything concern
ing his army, bnt they have fail license to mis
represent the Northern army, Ac The privilege
is evidently enjoyed by press and peeple The
pyramid of falsehood is growing rapidly, and every
new edition of their publications adds a new layer
to the s upendons structure. As specimens, the
Riohmond Whig and Enquirer may be quoted.
“ Following up the retreating forces of the Yan
kees, onr troops found two of onr Sou‘hern videttes
deed, and suspended by ropes from trees on
the roadside.” “ Our gallant and victorious army
captured a large nnmber of boxes, A?, belQSgiGg
to Gan. Booty, And other ( grand army’ officers,
and all marked as destined to ‘ Richmond.’ Many
of the boxes were filled with sanoes, sardines, pre
served meats, peach preserves, olives, As.” “I
have a man from Manassas, who saw them (30 000
handcuff.), and the ropes, with nooses, to hang
> traitors.’ ” «Who ever before dreamed pf a
regiment, with nothing bnt bowie knives,
charging another regiment armed with the best
gone and bayonets, and literally outting them to
pieoes? The regiment thns assaulted, whioh had
fought bravely enough with bullets, quailed nnder
the operation of this dreadful weapon, and shouted
murder.” “When the news of the oaptnre of
Sherman's battery reaohed Washington, General
Soott privately ordered six cannon to be taken
from the navy yard, and sent to Washington, with
the announcement that it was Sherman’s battery
ntnrhed from the field safe.” [Not a single gun
of Sherman’s battery was lost J
These newspaper misrepresentations are bad
enough, bnt they will not do a tithe of the evil that
is paused by misrepresentations from the pulpit,
and in letters by clergymen, published in the
papers and in pamphlet fonn, and eiretdatad
broadoast over the Booth. The Epiaoopal bishop
of Tennessee in his letter addressed to the Secre
tary of State, bnt written for Southern circulation,
pronounces the Northern array a horde of liber
tines, iwd its advanos markgd by the rain gf wives
and daughters. These charges, thorougMy false ae
their authors know them to be, are made for effect
upon the pnblie mind, and being prononneed nnder
the assumed sanctity of a bishop’s lips, they are be
lieved throughont the Sonth. The result we may
all easily oonoeive.
If Gcu. McDowell’s official report of the Bill
Run affair is true, and wo oannot doubt it, tho psrt
played by the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment is
not, I regret to say, oreditabla to their professed
patriotism. The report made by the General sayi :
“ Oo the eve of the battle the Fourth Pennsyln
nia Regiment of Volunteers, and the battery if
volnntaex arcillary of tho New York Eighth Mil
da, whose term of servioa expired, insisted on thdr
disshsrge. I wrote to the regimen , expressing*
nquest for them to remain a short time, and ttje
Hon Secretary of War, who was at the time on toe
? pound, tried to 1> duos the battery to remain St
east five days. Bat In vain Th*y insisted to
their discharge that night, ft was granted, a *i
the next morning, when the army moved fbrwart
Into battle, tuese troops moved to the roar of tit
enemy’s oannon ” 1
If these men went forward without giving no
tieo that they would not take any part in an an
gagement—thus oausing full dependence to u
plaoed upon them, and, afterwards, at the hour dr
need, refused to taka a position in the army, thej
oannot avoid the oensure of the public. Their ad|
vance was assuranoe; their refusal, on thj
ground, to do duty, deoeivod tho gestrtl anj
weakened his forces The well directed efforts 4
that regiment might have turned the results ii
that day’s experienee in our favor- !
The Increased Pay.
You will peroeive that Congress, before its ad
journment, passed a bill increasing the pay of tfe
volunteers now in the service of thoir oountrj.
This measure, so eminently jast, meets the appro
bation of all classes—for it is only fair that th(y
who fight onr battles should be paid for doing a.
I am glad to say that much of the oredit for tljs
mea-ure is due to ALEXAensu Cummings, Esq ,of
theNewYoik World, your latefellotr-oitizeu I
The Prisoners at Richmond, j
A letter was reoeived to-day from Lieutenant
Parks, of the First Michigan Regiment, datjd
Riohmond, July 29, in whioh he says that be|}a
a prisoner with hundreds of others in that oiff.
More than thirty officers are with Mm. He bis
the names of 56 of Ms regiment held there, aid
these ho heUtTOi are all- Captain
Lieutenant Maubb, Lieutenant Warn an, and
perhaps others, are still at Manassas among Ihe
wounded. Only three of his company were with
Mm— namely, George Phillips, Mubbay Bakxr,
and George Bakeb.
A Skirmish with the Rebel Pickets,
A company sent ont last night by Col Mo-
Cunw to relieve bis pickets beyond Alexandria,
fell in with a body of rebels, when she;a between
them were briskly ezebanged, killing two man,
but on whioh side tbe Colonel did not state when
he to-day mentioned the occurrence to several
friends in Washington. Beinforcements were sant
to our pickets, when the enemy fled.
Our troops on the Virginia aide are more vigi
lant than heretofore against any possible surprise.
Ex-Minister Faulkner.
Bi- Minister Faulkbrb, lately returned from
France, paid a visit to the Secretary of State .to
day.
Prinoe NAPOL*on,‘who left here yesterday to visit
beyond onr lines in the direotion of Bull Bun, bad
not returned this morning no be intended- The
supposition is that tha Confederates have invited
him to extend his journey.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington. Angus* 9,1861
The Fntnre of lfrechin idge
Peace, Peace.”
Sick and Sorrowing.
Discreditable.
Prince Napoleon.
Appointments ol llngadier Generals.
The President to day made the following addi
tional appointments of brigadier generals for the
volunteers, all of them, Professor Miteboll ex
oepted, being from the list recommended by the
New York Congressional delegation:
Colonels Bleaker and Slocum, of the volunteers
M»jor Wadsworth, aid to General MoDowell
Colonel John A Peek, ex m»jor of the regular
army, who distinguished himself during the Mexi
can war.
Jehu H Mariindala, a graduate of West Point :
Ormsby M Mitchell, professur of astronomy, of
Cincinnati, graduate of West Point, and ex-army
offioor.
Consular Appointments.
The following oousnlar appolutmests have re
oently been made, and some of them have been
confirmed by the Senate, and others made since the
adjournment oi Congress:
John T. Nealy, of Kansas, oonanl to Kingston,
Jamaica.
G. Hogg, to Trinidad.
M Jackson, of Wisconsin, to Halifax,
T. 8 King, of Rhode Island, to Oporto.
J. G Bowman,-of Indiana, to Metausas.
David H Wheeler, of lowa, to Genoa.
Linge Monte, of Massachusetts, to Palermo.
- Charles W. Goddard, of Maine, to Constan
tinople.
Arthur Faison, to Oape Haytlen.
William L. Baker, of Maryland, to Guaymas.
L. Pieros, of Texas, to Matamoros.
James H Armsby, of New York, to Naples,
viee M. Hammett, who has held that olfioe for
fifty-two years
The Vanderbilt Steamships.
The naval constructor charged with that particu
lar duty, reportß tbat he bas twioe rxsmiued Com
Vanderbilt's steamers, snd considers them unfit
for the serrloe required, namely—for blockading
purposes, and the Navy Department, in view of
the foots presented, oonours with him In the
•pinion.
Visiting the Capitol.
Company P, the crack company of Oolonel
Bakeu’s California Regiment, visited the Capitol,
by invitation, this morning.
Capt Wittington.
Oapt. Wittington, of tho Michigan First, re
ported killed at 801 l Ron, is alive, and at Rioh
mond. His wife had a letter from him yesterday.
Capt. Rickets.
Oapt. Etfxm was wounded, and ia a prisoner
at Richmond- Mrs R is with him, and he is
doing wsll. Dr. Lewis, of the Seoond Wisconsin
Regiment, a prisoner, is Ms physiolan
LI eat. Dempsey.
Lieut. Dbhpsey, of the New York Seoond, re
ported killed, is in a hospital, near Manassas, and
doing well.
More Troops Arrived.
, The Nineteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers,
Colonel Mbrioith, arrived last night They
master eleven hundred meu, and are uniformed
with gray jaokets and pants, with s handsome
gray felt hat trimmed with red tape
The Sixth Wisoonsin Regiment, Colonel Cutler,
arrived last evening. They nnmber one thousand
and tMrty four rank and Me, and are uniformed
in gray, trimmed with blaok. Several of tho
offioers wivea accompany the regiment
More Wagons Anived.
Another large lot of ambqlqneas and baggage
wagons arrived last night. The ambuianoes are
very handsome, and look very comfortable.
Navy Yard Matters.
The sohooner Susquehanna arrived last night
,from Baltimore with a large cargo of lumber for
the Government.
.The steamer whioh was seized by the
Government at Alexandria, is lying at the yard,
with the pr’iss oaptnred on the Fotomao.
Arrivals from Pennsylvania.
Willard’s —Jos. Dilworth, J. W- Hal msn, R.
H Hanley, Tbos. Forster, W. M Might, H. J.
Brook*, W. P Sekeel, M T. Dill. Jas Souther,
Hon. L W. flail, R. A. Wilder, John W Ryan
H A Frink, E D Clog, W. R Kelmun, T. P.
Dolson, A P Smith, W. L Smith.
Kirkwood’s. —W. Maris, James Winter, E. M.
Power.
National —F. J. McCaffrey, John Weller.
Brown's.— E J Reed and ladv.
From General Banks’ Column.
Sandy Hook, Md., Aug. 9 —Gen. Stone has
been assigned to a separate gotgujaiid, to be Sta
tioned at the itolnt of Rooks, where It is presumed
tbe rebels intend ultimately to establish a strong
battery, toinleroept tbe transportation of supplies
from Baltimore and the lower Potomao.
Col Hamilton, of tho Third Wisconsin, has boon
appointed to tuo command of tbs Third brigade of
this division, in plaoe of Gen. Stone ’ transferred to
the Point of Rooks.
The report of yesterday stating that two rebel
regiments, with six guns, were approaching from
Leesburg towards the Point of Rooks, is disore
dited. Tbat point ia now guarded by the Twenty -
eighth N.w York, Col. Donnelly, strengthened by
detachments from othor regiments. The sootion
of Virginia opposite Point of-Rocks, through
whioh the enemy mast pasj to attaok ns, is
thoroughly scouted both day and night
The (Jedioal Surveyor's' Department has been
removed from Hagerstown to Frederiok, Md., and
orders have bsen Issued tor the removal of the
general hospital to the B&me plaoe. The latter
will be leeaWd at the eld Hate hsirwk!, built by
the English in 1775, whieh are still ia good condi
tion
Last evening, Major Doubleday’s Bisge battery
was tried in the vicinity of Loudoun Heights.
Shot and sho-1 were thrown entirely over the sum
mil from smooth bore gan*. while the Eagle Rook
flint pinnacle was sae.eeßßiyely struck and shattered
by peionsiion shells of the rifled guni. The esti
mated range of the latter shots was a mile and
thres qaarters, theaeeuracy eliciting bursts of ap
plause from the beholders. *
Good health and discipline pervade all the en
campments.
Col. Mann’s Second Pennsylvania Reserves now
promise! to beoome very rffioient. General satis
faction provalla slno* tho reception of now mus
kets and a better quality of food. Additional
olothiog and shoes are now on the way from Penn
sylvania for this rsg ment
Reeonnoissanoes by the engineer staff are daily
kept np, and weak points are strengthened by ad
ditional foroes. v ' \
The point of Rooks prisoners are still in eus
tody.
Rumors is to the movements of tho enemy in
this vioinity are plentiful, but very unreliable.
Charged with Fitting Ont a Slaver.
Nnw York, Aug 9 —A. S. Bigelow and A. H
Potter, ehipownprs pud outfitter! at Now Bedford
were before the United States Commissioners to
day, charged with titling out tho ship Brutus as a
slaver. About a year ego, it is alleged, tho Bra
tus obtained 540 slaves, of whom 500 survived the
passage, and were sold in Cuba. They were held
in $lO,OOO each for a farther hearing.
John Dowdell, alias Jones, the alleged mate of
the brig Mary Frances, was committed to jail,
oharged with shipping negroes. The Maty
Frances was fitted out in Now York about a year
since, and cleared for Wilmington, N. C., where
she obtained a nominal obarter to the West Indies,
and from thenoe sailed to tho West coast of Afrioa
She sneoeeded In taking on board 817 negroes, and
snbsiqaently landed them in Cuba, after whieh
the brig was burnt and the master and era* dig
parsed to parts unknown. Dowdell was recently
arrested at Chelsea,
Massachusetts Regiment En Route.
New York, Aug. 9.—The Masssohnsetts Four
teenth Jfrgimeat left here at 8 o’clock tkis after
noon fur Philadelphia,
Artillery from Boston.
Boston, Aug. 9—Wine’s Flying Artillery loft
here at two o’otook this morning for New York.
The Europa at Boston.
Boston. AQgnst 9 —The steamer Eisropa arrived
at 5 o’oloek this morning, via Halifax. Her ad
vices have already been pnbl'fhed
The Kangaroo' at Mew York-
-Nnw York. August s —Tbe steamship Komga
too has arrived, but her advioes have been anuei
pated.
A Brave Man Maltreated by the Rebels.
The Government has reoeived information of the
following facts throogh an intercepted letter, writ
ten by a rebel at one of the forts opposite Piokens,
to a friend In one of the Gulf States ;
11 We bad some little excitement at the fort latt
night and this morning, eaused by the arrival
among na of a man from Piokena. It seems that
he was bathing on hia side of the obannel, a mile
and three eighths distant from here, and be swam
beyond hia depth Both wind and tide being
against him. heoame over to ns, and threw himself
upon the mero; of the eemuuder, Major Gregory,
who. we think, treated him very badly.
“He appeared to be a noble fellow. When
asked whether be waa a deserter, he replied, ‘ Ho,
air, lam a gentleman.’ Major Gregory tried to
gat some inlormation from him aa regards the state
of defenoe in whieh Piokens was, bnt he refused to
give any, npon whioh Gregory ordered him to be
gigged— horrible— aid lent to Barrasoas prison.
'Chts may bo the rale of war, hot may Heaven de
liver ns from ever maltreating a helpless foe.
“ The Madison Bides consulted shout the pro
priety of suffering the order to beoarried out, bnt
they were udvißeu by their own officers not to in
terfere ; that if they did they should be punished
for mutiny; besides, they did Bot know the true
real cause of the treatment.
“11 o’olook Jost returned from a small group
of friends who were discussing animatedly the
question whether or not the prisoner waa treated
lastly. They eame to the eonolnsion that he was
not only treated unjustly but orneliy, and they
have determined to report the oommander of the
fort te headquarters. What good it will do wo ean
not tell. But snob sots of nnkindnese should not
be left nnnotloed. I think that General Bragg
will express his indignation at the bad manner in
wMoh the prisoner was treated, and will, if possi
ble, redress the Injury.
11 1 admin the prisoner. He seemed to feel no
fear of foes or death When clothes were given
him he Bald that if he ever lived to get back he
would return their eqntvalent in money. When
told that he wonld be shot If he did not answer the
questions put to him, he told Gregory to shoot if
he ohose; that one death was all a soldier ooplcl
die At one tim* be was highly insnlted at the
treatment, and even prepared to spit npon the In
solent man who dared to try to foroe him to betray
Us friends. Sneh man are rarely found, and when
they are should oommand raapaot even from their
enemiM."
THE CITY.
Execution of Thomas J- Armstrong.
HIS LAS r HOOKS
The Cell and the Scaffold.
Grime la fail of myß’ery, and it, therefore, take*
e strong hold upon the minds of men. Harder
and ioteotion. trial and sentence, imprisonment
nad the foiffjld, are all weird ohapters in its vo
lume ; and th: most tertibio of these are the first
and the last—the orime and the retribution The
people aid familiar with the details of the ofienoe
for wbtoh Thomas J. Armstrong yesterday mom
ing atoned in part by offering np his life. And, as
they already know of the terrible fortitude which
made him famous in the oourt-room and the oell,
there remains but to tell of the same ueflinohing
resolution, when lannahed from the drop with the
noose around his neok.
TUB CHABdCTBJt OT TBB BAB,
as evidenced to us, who have foll»wed him, from
the day of arrest, through all the phases of trial
and confinement, is soaroely less recognisable now
than when, a human riddle, he paced the floor of
his oell in the Nineteenth- ward station-house, eleven
months ago. His faoe is remarkable only for its
look of expression, and an utter absence of that
mobility whieh reveals the emotions within. It
has never grown either pale or flushed; it has
admitted of neither nervous twitohings to indicate
fear, nor 000 l stolidity to mirror reoklessness. N >
man oeuld say, at any time; that the prisoner
assumed bravado; but in momenta when some have
melted to tears, no shadow of tooling has stolen
over his fooo. Ho has been, perhaps from tempera
ment, stolid, changeless, emotionless, expression
less. Not granite oarved into form oonld be less
immovable; and this singular stolidity has been
oharaoteristio ns well of the body as the faoe He
bar not trembled, shrunk, or started. No one has
seen him astonished or abithed And withal, he
has not been of heartless guise, or, as some have
imagined, a sold, etony-oyed personality, over
whioh shadows of smiles never flout. There have
been Indications, bat we oonld not read them; and
obangee, but we oonld not interpret them. Some
times it was hard to tell whether be was serions or
smiling; bn' of his oharaoter one element was
known—that, if the will bore any relevanoy to the
form, he oonld undertake unflinchingly all parts,
and play them to the and.
This may have been his secret; fee if are to
oredit all his statement, he lived in oonsnmmate
hypocrisy, whioh no man deteoted, and died with
the heroism of a martyr, while a lie was dinging
to his lips. Of all men around him, be has been
the least moved, and the manner of his death will
sadly perplex those philosophers who award a
peaceful iseue oaly to the good.
There was no orime of whioh this young man
was not capable. Seduction, theft, murder, false
vows to Hod, and pejoryto man, were some ol
his offenoes. He plotted gnile in the ohuroh, with
the punishments of the damned ringing in his ears
and oatled on the Deity to witness that two inno
sent baln'gs wan gnilty of the atrocious crime
whioh he alone perpetrated.
He seems to have been one of thp.se moral idiots,
of whioh mental philosophers treat, who, born
without consoienoe, never feel oompnnotion, and
know the dividing line between vise and virtue,
only by the oonssquenoes of eaoh.
Socially, Armstrong is said to havo been a plea
sant youth, and In figure he was by no means re
pulsive, being always neatly dressed and oleaniy
He had hlacf; h*! l . rather coarse, hut always well
hmshQd, good teath, and dark whiskers, trimmed
down to a genteel length. His forehead was hoi
low, bnt moderately high, and the oontonr of bis
faoe thin, sharpening toward the ahin. He was
illiterate, and devoid of prndenoe, as his state
meats before and after the trial evidence, and also
his speeches in court and upon the galiows. His
confession was interlarded with oopious slang
phrases, and low, vulgar, wittioisms, and his
speech upon the gallows was wretohedly con
structed.
IH TBB DIBTOBS’ AFARTHCHT
the jury, the reporters, the prison inspectors, and
the deputy sheriffs, mat at nine o’clock
The following named gentlemen composed the
jury, appointed in aooordanoe with layj, to witness
the execution: 4. J. Piper, 4 DuHadaway, A.
d I'Jpuierfelt, Non. Richard Vaux, George Ha
gee, Wilson Jewell, H. D., Reuben Bands, Hon.
William Millward, John Sailor, Benjamin Q.
Brown, Henry Biokley, Robert P. King.
Here there ensued a general discussion of the
prisoner's oharaoter and speculations as to his
demeanor, oonfossion, etc Tbo District Attorney’s
pioture was hung upon the wall, reminding ns J of
the soenes of the trial and leading part takas
by Colonel ip convicting the murderer.
Some forty gentlemen were here convened at ten
o'clock, when they were formed in procession,
headed by the sheriff, and moved arm-in-arm
through the prison yard, in sight of a few per
sona loitering in the street, to the gateway admit
ting to the oonvict’a corridor. Tho procession waj
highly respectable in guise, and taado up of many
of the leading gltfuepraf Bhiiadeiphi*. It looked
like a funeral procession, as it was to be, and the
silenoe of all was unbroken, save by the ring of
feet upon the pavement..
1* wan <l*l.l.
Meantime a fearful performance waa occurring
in tbo prisoner's oell, whioh lay npon the third
tier in the convicts’ oorrldor. Two sisters and a
cousin had remained In the oell of the condemned
man daring the entire night, the remainder of
the fhmily having left him early in the evening.
The soene between the dying man and his relief
tives was agonizing in the extreme, and of its d*>
tails all who are parents and brothers may be in-,
formed. At midnight Armstrong fell asleep, and
he slept soundly until live o’olook, notwithstand
ing a thunder-storm, whioh raged about four
o’olook, and which aroused from their slumbers
many citizens who were to awake Anally to a happy
day and cheerful pursuits. It seemed strange to
those who watohed the prisoner, thus unconscious,
when every breath was hurrying him toward a
terriblo fate, yet ho slept soundly, and the inquiry
of Hamlit oame at once to mind :
“Tos’aep? p erohanoe to dream i * - *
For in that sleep ere tle.ih what dreaqu mar corner l ’
Soon after daylight, the giqtera of Armstrong
took their final leave of the wretched man, and
another dreadful soene was enacted. The plaoe of
these devoted relatives was taken by the fathsr,
and one or two intimato male friends of the con
demned man, and they, in company with the Bov.
Mr. MoAuley and Mr- George H Stuart, remained
with him until the sheriff and his assistant; entered
the oell for the purpose of preparing the oondemc
ed for the last dreadful scene. The parting of the
father from his erring son was a terrible soene.
The old man remained in an adjaoent oell nntil
all was over.
Before the appearance of the sheriff, Mr. MoAu
ley, with the oonseut of the sheriff and Mr Per
kins, took Armstrong out into the corridor, aad
while walking with him implored him to tell the
simple truth. Armstrong mado some revelations
whioh the preaahor afterward deaidod not to revoal
through the press, but to keep until Sunday, whan
they wonld add to the attractiveness ot his pnlplt
for that day. A contemporary says that this oler
gyman is satisfied of the truth of Armstrong’s
statement, whioh implioates Hollingsworth and
Sshindler, and also that the prisoner’s later reve
l ixiona do not differ from hia confession. If snob
be so, few will doubt that the murderer died har
dened in his peijury. Armstrong was pinioned
with a bine oord at eleven o’olook. The arms ware
bent behind the bask and fastened closely together,
the oord passing around each arm just above the
elbow. The hands were thus brongbt even with
the lappels of the ooat, and could not be made to
meet aoross tbo heart, The prisoner was dressed
in blaek frock ooat, black pants, and long boots of
fine oalf-kin. He wore neither hat nor oollar, and
his linen was scrupulously olean. The hands,
thus kept to the front, afforded means of notfoing,
by the motions pt the Augers, any tremulonsnesß
whioh he might exhibit, They were soft and
white, spotted between the thumb and forefinger
with India ink marks. Hii hair was brushed
hack tfooi the MTBUbhu. m'iu mu umonniimn ■>«-
(light figure seemed more than ever remarkable.
is ism ornos.
While the preachers were thus speaking oonso
latlon, the jury and witnesses were oolleoted In the
office, adjoining the prisoner’s oorrldor. A few of
them wore lounging In the arohed oonrtway just
outside, and others walked down the pavement
•long tho oorrldor well, to an open plane between
the stable and wash-house, where the so&fold had
been erected. Fearfully simple seemed all the
preparations. Fearfully oommonplaoe seemed the
demeanor of all who wore looking on at the ar
rangements of tho soaffold. The sky above looked
dull, heavy, and lowering One oolor ourtainoi it
flam pele to pole. Ho sun illumined its pall) hlS&k~
ness. Ho breeze stirred the sombre, dead but
fkoe. Suoh a sky might bave brooded over ohaotio
ereation “ before the morning stars sang together,
and the sons of God shouted for joy.” Buoh a sky
might have bent over plague-stnoken oitios of the
Bast; might have brooded over disastrous battle
fields; might have thrown Its ghastly whiteness
over the path of Cain, the ff rat murderer.
what added gloom to the terrible soene was,
not the frowning wails on eaoh side of the gailowsj
but the startling sight whieh one beheld when the
gray walls were scrutinized. At regular intervals,
long, narrow loopholes answer for windows. At
•aoh barred slit appeared a pale face; tho face of a
prisoner, tried or untried, innooeut or guilty—but
still a prisoner. Such stern frames never, to our
view, surrounded snob pale oonntenanoes. Eager
ness, anxiety, ware tho prevailing expressions, as
far as tho thickly interlaced bars would permit
one to see what look predominated in those pallid
features, those strange eyas.
The office where the jury congregated waa ’a
square apartment, with onriou-.ly vaulted celling,
surrounded with bookcases containing tbs prison
reoords, und opening by an iron harrod window
Upon the long, narrow oorrldor, lined with oell
doors, behind one of whioh the prisoner was oon
fined. The footfalls in this oorridor were few that
morning) the oonviots had suspended work, and
the horn of the loom and shuttle appeared to be
smothered, in view of the fearful procession shortly
to go down .tho walk, one footfall, at least, in whioh
should sorer return. The priseatW oame up t>
the doors, peeping thro the es, with heart
almost stilled and pale ihoas. Sometimes they
oalled aloud to the visitor know whether “ he”
had yet been led out; whether “ be ” would 11 die
game,” and if 11 ha ” had yat 11 blcwad” or con
fessed. All the prison knew of the exeention,
jailor and oonviot, and they felt already that
Heath, like Silenoe, was in the place.
TBB WABBAHT FOB XXaOUTIOX
Was read by Mr Vaux. Bbe.iff Kara standing
b y, and the ju-y drawn np in a semi oirole at a
quarter alter len It was S'gned by the Governor
and Secretary, and specified that the prisoner
Thomas Jriftraon Armstrong, should be hung by
the neok nntil dead
While this was going on, we remarked a picture
over the door of the office, representing a squalid
woman at the door of a prison. Underneath was
the inscription:
“ *t the door of aprisnn see FrienOihip in wait;
Mar the object sons pitt map re
On the outside of the wall was an iron gibbet.
That within seemed to demonstrate a piotnre «f
mercy whioh the gibbet without did not second
The monotony of WAUlng here was rail of terri
ble anticipation, and only those who waited ean
tell <he suspense and fear whioh haunt even the
witness of an exeention. The viotim should have
suffered all the agonies of death, if his fears were
relatively great.
TBB scans WITHOUT TBS PEIgOIt.
The usual morbid ouriosity was displayed out
side the walls of the prison during the morning
At an early hour loungers were teen leaning on
the iron palings whioh surround the prison grass
plot, and their number inoreesed every few
minutes. Between nine and ten the crowd of
‘‘outsiders” numbered several hundred, and
there were ever a thousand persons gathered in the
vioinity by the time the execution took place.
The reporters were assailed with eager question
ing as they passed through the oonoourse. No un
seemly behavior took plaoo, however, and every
thing passed off in quiet and order The H tyor’s
polioe acted well throughout the affair, as usual
Hr. Petkins, the superintendent ot the prison, and
Mr S. S. Hooney, of the Debtors' Apartment, loft
nothing undone, and those who witnessed the dread
scene era deeply indebted to Sheriff Kern, who
managed the entire affair with the utmost kindness
and consideration to all parties oonneoted with the
soon*.
TBB GALLOWS FBHPABHD.
The gallows has bean deseribed. The trap was
sustained by three upright props, and the middle
prop was intended to he the last removed, it up
holding the floor until, at a signal, a oord attached
thereto ahonld be palled. At the jerking of the
oord this prop would at onoe bend in the middle
wed bring thu whole platform down The platfo-m
was simply two horiaontal doors, not unlike cellar
doors, with hinges affixed to the main posts of the
gallows. It fell inwßrdi) each door striking
against pads or cushion! to deaden tho sound.
The rope wss permanently attaohed to the ga'lowfl
beam at half past 10 o’oiook, and an ettaobe of the
sheriff’s office slipped his neok through tho noose
to allow that officer to adjust the knot The rope
was of the thickness of cue’s thumb, closely twisted
and when suspended from the beam felling aliuoit
to the scaffold floor, a distanoe of twelve or fonrteen
feet. The prisoner would thus have a fall of ab. at
four feet, leaving his extremities at rest nearly two
feet from the ground The knot in the noose
looked like a man’s abut fist, where eaoh finger
would represent a aoil of the rope That part of
thq ro£C Intended to slip through the knot was
well greased, and the other end was passed twice
around the beam above. The oord attached to the
drop woe stretched and prepared; and the atti
tude of the man experimenting with the noose
made a little shuddering amusement. The oord
was adjusted within the Btable, where the aotual
hangman was to be ooneealed, and the prepara
tions being now oompleted, the arrival af the vio
tim alone was needed to oonalGde the drama.
THU HAH OH *0 THU GALLOWS
At eleven o’oiook Armstrong walked downstairs,
pinioned, between George H. Stuart, Etq, and
Hr. HoAuiey. These gentlemen were weeping
profusely, and many of the jurymen broke into
tears at the first sight of the prisoner.
The latter attracted ail ayes direotly. His
limbi were aad that doubtful expression,
half serious, half-humorous, before remarked, still
larked ia his ooqntenanoe. He might have been
a trifle paler than usual, bnt not a whit nervous,
agitated, or disordered He looked intelligently
into the faces of the people, and obeyed his spi
ritual advisers implicitly, glancing up continuously
to notice their directions. He wore the gentle
manly garb and manner characteristic of him, but
in his pinioned arms seemed somewhat awkward
£,r,d eonatralned. Hs noddod to one or two ao
quaintanoas, and seemed a little curious as to what
was being done.
At a few minutes after eleven o’oiook the solemn
prooession took up its way for the gallows, ail bare
headed and treading in oouples, the boot-heelg
waking up strange and awful echoes from the stone
wails, oalling out again the convicts, who pushed
their pallid ftqea up to the bars, and gazed at the
qaktd timbers, the small, delicate boy, and the
ssd Tinges of the visitors, like men whose own
bad oareers advised them to look upon the fate of
orime and traoe their destiny or their reformation.
Just as Armstrong reached the gallows, a ory
started from somq ope of the cells, no one knew
where; perhaps Horn the desolate father, who
waited alone for the lifeless body of his boy; but
&ii;wberit shrill, wild, ud fall of mournful mu«
sic. This cry brought the blood to the temples of
many, and as quickly banished it; but the prisoner
went on unmoved, and sprang first np the soaffold
stair, with limbs full of muscle and nerve, pausing
at the tqp agd looking at the long oorri
dor walls, and the upturned faces, as if about to
see them for the last time ere death stamped blind*
nass upon his eyeballs and shut ont the world to
him for ever.
TBB PBAYXR AHD BFBHOB OH THE GALLOWS.
Standing upon this fatal platform, four persons—
the sheriff, the oondemned, Messrs. Btcart and
MoAuley—their positions were dramatic in the
extrema, and their form; loomed out plainly againßt
the pale, elear sky. In the middle, stood the
sheriff hiq faqs full of sadness, reading to the
prisoner the warrant for the execution, and upon
thq left and the right, leaning against the scsfftld
uprights, their faoes buried in their handkerchiefs
and their frames shaking wi'h emotion, stood the
two spiritual advisers. Overhead dangled the
fatal oord, and beneath were the frail supports that
were soon to be removed. The prisoner stood
oaimly, a slight motion of tha throat being the only
peraeptible movement of any kind, nntil the
preaoherstopped forward and said aloud: “Let
ps pray!' 1 Thou Armstrong closed his eyes,
although hia lips did not move, and appeared to
listen attentively during the whole snpplloation,
whioh lasted eight minutes. We print the prayer .-
PRATJSB Or BBV SB. lt’mir.
11 Almighty and everlasting God! Thou who
know-st the end aad the beginning; Iheu who art
acquaint with all our ways; Thou who reignest In
tho heavens above, and in the earth beneath, and
who made and ordered all things, and dost pre
serve all Thy oreatures; we eome, onr God, this
morning, amid this solemn and impressive scene,
to commend this dear young man, now about to be
launohod foto eternity, into Thy oare, and into
Thy keeping- Oh, God! our father, we would
praise Thee, even here, for the hope that he has
fiven tons that Jesus has revealed himselt nnto
-m, and that Jesus is now preoious in this his
final straggle. Thou Saviour of Manassah—thou
Saviour of Magdalena—thou Baviour of the this!
upon the oroes, be near nnto him now, and save
him, oh, Lord! through Jesus Christ. We give
his soul into Tby Keeping now, and ask. according
to Thj blessed word, that Zhou wilt be with him
goto the end. We sotnmond him to Thee who art
able to keep him through thiß trial. M-y God bless
him aad sanctify him. and may this solemu hour be
to all present as a warning from Heaven; may those
who are present be led by this soene to seek Hca
ven through Jeans Christ. Now, Lord, hear onr
prayer: oh save him; save hm ? and bring him
into Thj heavenly praanoe, and we shall praise
the Father, the Son, and IJolj Qaostj world with
out end. Amen.’ 1
When the prayer wasYver, one of the religions
gentlemen made a signal and Armstrong stepped
forward, faoing the spectators, speaking direotly
in a load, elear voioe, as if reciting a speech com
mitted to memory:
“ My friends, I am about to die, and let me say
condition of giving up my Makar, I would not take
it. To the few people here, I wonld advise them
to take warning by my fate. Sabbath-breaking
was the first cause
“ I bid you farewell. To the prison keepers, to
Mr Forklns, to Bhenff Hern, who has been very
kind to me, and to my spiritual adviser, Mr.
MoAuley
u I bid farewall, gentlemen. I bid yea all fare
well ; I now die in paaos with every body. I dlo
in peaoo with all the world.”
Having eoneluded these remarks, Armstrong
stepped book, but seeing an acquaintance at
some distance, he said very loudly, “ Farewe.l,
Keeper.”
tu execution,
The nooso was now slipped over hi* head, he
taking it as quietly as if a playful handkerchief
at blind man’s buff. The knot was slipped around
to tho ear, and the noose msde fast under the
throat, the shirt oollar being meanwhile unbut
toned. All now left the platform but the sheriff,
having first taken the hand of the oondemned
MoAuley kissed him cn the Cheek- The sheriff
now said a word of two In whisper, and piodnoed
from his skirt pocket a white death oap, whioh ha
draw down over the head and face of Armstrong.
As he left the seaffeld the prisoner’s hands we.e
observed to quiver an instant.
Then,there was a pause, intense in its fearful
ness, and all poises were for the instant euspenced
The oonviots at the barred windows looked through
eyas grown glased and fasoiiatcd; somo men
grew faint, and one or two turned their faoes and
wept.
It was but for an Instant, for the sheriff, with
muioles all twitohing, raised hi 9 handkerchief;
there was a poll at the string ; the last remaining
prop foil to tho earth, and the body of the mur
derer eame down with a jerk that the doll sound
Of the scaffold doors bearing against their ouahiona
half deadened. The limbs did not move, the neok
waa Inclined by the weight of the body, and the
shoulders twitched twioe or thrloe. There was no
convulsive kicking er terrible oontortion; no
sound escaped the lad’s lips; his fingers moved
for a moment, and once he lifted his foot
-' Dr. Goddard now passed up, watoh in hand, and
felt tha pulses, maintaining his plaoe until the
body was pronounced dead. It WM (CTentieo
minutes after eleven when the drop fell; soon the
hands turned red, and then purple, so continuing
until the cutting down, when they were quite bine,
the color of death
At two and a half minutes after he fell his pulse
beat one hundred and tbir’y-two times per minute.
Five ml tutes alterwards his pulse beat cm hun
dred and sixty a minute
Seven mli-U'es afterwards his pulse oessed beat
ing, and t .e 0 -nremned had fulfilled the penalty
of the law. The death was oaused by suffcoatlon.
Fifteen minutoß after the drop fell, the rope was
out. and the remains were placed «n a barrow n-ed
lor the purpose They were then wheeled around
’nto a call on the first floor of the convict's depart
ment, where the jury viewed the body No dis
coloration of the Isc a was visible. After viewing
the body, the jury signed the usual certifioate,
testifying to the foot of the execution and its ful
filment in aooordanoe w th the ia ter of the law.
The remains have been placed in a ooffin at the
prison They will be taken by an undertaker, by
d reo-ion of the family, and deposited in a ceme
tery vault. At som« future tia»v they will to In
terred by tbo family of tho oondetnned.
The body was viewed by the father of Arm
strong after tho execution The old man sat beside
It speeohless, and ail tho people came silently
away, leaving him to gaze upon the lifeless form,
Bid rain his tears over the fixed face of bis boy,
A sib of Orawfnrd sought ndmitslot to the scene,
but was vory Dropnrly denied. The crowd outside
was very great when we emerged, and they were
b-gging pieces of the rope whioh some witnesses
secured.
Hearing or tiie Pirates Captured oh the
PcnooNstt PavaeL —Y.).e day li'-on tee pi
rate- nt the sohooner Petril. captured by the St.
Laitirtn.ee. were b-onght from MovamimsJng pri
son to the United States District Court for the pur
pose of having a hearing The prisoners wars
handcuffed in pairs, and drove no from the prison
in two omnibuses There were thirty five In el],
one being left in a siok bed in prison In- be
fore the arrival of the prisoners a large 0 owd con
gregated around tho O'urt, and as soon as the pri
soners were brough- in ibe room wng tepidly filled.
Tee men presented a very Bhabby appearance,
some of them being meanly olad and bare footed.
As scon os they tvee seated the i.ons were taken
from their bauds, and the men were guardeaby
the deputy marshals and a posse of police
United Smtes District Attorney Coffev Stated
that as the charge against the prisone-a was of a
ve-y serions oharaoter. involving Vbeir lives ha
weald not proceed until an opportunity had been
afforded them of proouring oottastl
The names of the pirn es. were then oalled by
UnDed Siatfß Qi mm is. loner HekjSiitt, TbO fol
lowing is a 0 irreot list:
Wm. Perry Richard U Harvey, Oharles Camp
bell, August P-yress-rt, Robert Barrell, Henry
Hti s. Eiward Flynn, ffn Sharkey, Daniel Court
ney. Jonn M Morgan Fiank Alhor, Geo Harkins,
A-e D-lahay, John Cunningham R-h-ird R Jef
frie , William tl Q-aennrst, G-orge 8 Harrison,
John Hark, Hugh Mimagun, Win B ien. Miohoei
Delon, Henry A bon John Mullins, John H.
D-ung 0- H Marriott, Geo, H Ribortsi Thomas
4 Brookhonnd R chard Lewis, B 1 ward Hurphy
John H Biwa-ds, Thos Wood, Austin 0 Williams,'
John B S Tucket, Henry Au'm nns George
Hawdea, John Cronin Tae prisoner John Halims
has a brother who was captured on the prize skip
Rnthantreaa, and whioh case was disposed of on
Toumday
The Cosemlstisher addressed the pri^oaey*, end
a-it they were charged with having msli,imsly
attacked and set upon the frigate Si. L’twreuee
also, with treason against the United Sutras He
wished to know whether they had any counsel to
defend them He was answered in the negative.
The Commissioner then asked whether they heft
an; oounsei they oonld send for Wm Perry, ihe
pirate oaptain. said he would like time granted,
ia order that tho; mi<ht procure counsel
Austin C. Williams, one of the pirate crew,
stated that he did not know any one present, end
would also like tints to - r oam counsel.
The Commisrianer asked what leng’h of time
they wished Perry, who represented the whole
erew, said they would like to procure their ooui,ael
as soon as possible. He thought there might be
some person present who wools volunteer Seve
ral lawyers were spoken to, but none seemed anx
ious to interfere with the oase
The Commissioner, after consultation with the
Distriot AttorLey, stated that this gentleman was
willing to oontinus the oase nntil next Wednesday
afternoon, at three o’oiook; in the meantime they
oonld procure oounsei. Hs further stated that the.
United States Marshal woald endeavor to paooare,
such gentlemen as the prisoners might suggest.
The men ware again baudouff-d and eaoorted
out by a body of polioe The crowd on the otrside
had greatly inoreased by ibis lime, and the pri
soners, as they wore driven off, were groaned and
subjected to all the vile taunts of an exoited mob.
Charged with Robbing the Hail.— For
several months the atientton of S B R.-w. special
agent of the Post Office Department, has been -jj.
reeled to losses of money letters from poir/re in,
New York to vatloas places in New Jersey. These
letters all bed to pass through tha Philadelphia
post-office. Consequently, suspicion GAiUTallv fell
upon me employees of that iffiie
For some time Hr. Row has been putting deco*
letters in the mail, with the ooneent of Mr Wal
bern and Mr. Booth. Eat, nntil yesterday msm
i„g, there has been lb clue obtained to the knave
ry On Thursday afternoon, Mr Row, with the
atsistaeoe of Hr. Ireland, one of the oierks, pre-
? trad a decoy which has done its work snoeess
iLy They directed a letter to an imaginary
Mrs Isaso Green, Atlantic county, N J , contain
ing two one dollar bills, whioh they had taken dne
note of The letter expressed the hope that thn>
money would meet the lady’s present necessities,
aid was then got up in a way that wonld m*he lb
a 'p»ar, even to on experienced cloik, to have
earn* ftom New Ynk.
The letter was stumped with a Hew York stamp,
•he date regularly inserted t»ith_iyro. It was
then placed—as all regularly registered money
1 tters from New York are—in a largo envelops,
on whioh was written “ Atlantis City,” und in one
corner, “ Post Qffl:o business.” Mr. Ireland when
he saw no one was looki g toward bim, thrnst this
dowsast, wfewft sine «aolo»d the bill that aooou
pauisß registered letters, inta th* middle of a pile,
of a hundred or bo of letters from Hew York, wbrnfo
were destined for East Jersey.
He watched for some time to see if any one ex
cept Mr Beed, who distributes ibo mail for Jersey
and E .stern Pennsylvania, approeohed. While he
was looking, ho thinks be saw Mr. Bead take np
that portion of the letters ia which .the one he had
written wib plsatd He also saw him drop several
letters fTotn the pile. This last faot, however, is
not very important, as tbo clerks bare to drop
thus letters whioh do not belong to their d -part
moats The amateur detectives left the > ffioe at
an early hour. Mr. Bead’s hours are from 3 PM.
till 7 A. M
Early yesterday morning Mr. lieland took u*.
the letters which had been prepared for Atlantic,
Citv, and found thus tbo one be bad got tm was,
m-estng He went nut of the office, and awaitedi
Mr Bow in the alley, and communicated the faot
to bim It was then agreed that they should oalh
on Mr Beed and examine him. On entering tba
apartment where the latter was, Mr Riw told
him that as ma-y lectors sent through bis hands
w-re missing R was their painful duty to examine
him He readily assented, and on examination,
the two dollars were found in his watch p ek-t
Reed was arrested and arraigned before U S.
O-.mmiasioner Hesz'ett
Bead’s oonnsci raised soma objections, on the
SOOte of the absence of the envelopes; but the.
o ise was so clear that the District Attorney made,
no effort to protract the hearing; and the Commis
sioner decided that Reed should be held in $2 506
to answer for his appearanoo at the next term of
the contt.
Gen. James’ Rifled Cannon Projectile.
—Yesterday,into the t-ovai ol Pivt L?wo,
who is now engaged preparing a large and oos ly
be.loon, from drab colored silk from Indie, wo
were rbown ouo of the pr j -atiles, or bomb shells,
fired from tided oannons, -.ni whiob aan be drop
ped from a high olevation. and p-oduoe the same
effect as if shot from a oannon I- is divided into
two carts, both lioll- w Tho Uwar part is cylin
drical, and covered wl h rubber upon a framework
of iron; the tipper part is cubical with a brass oap
which Borcwoa on afer the pnjiorile is loaded.
When -be powder in th- c-nsnn ■ tnlndes the gat
fills the 1 jwer p&i tof the prr j•• tile, a'd swells out
<be rubber patob so educ k firs nguny io rb« rifle
b <re, and thus Beenrss accuracy of aim Just be
neath the brass oap on the top ,d aholl w pluoger,
with a n-pple for a percussion nap When tee pro
jcotile Is io morion the peronesim cap is an inch or
more from tha brass top but me moment it strikes
an objeot >he p'usger is driven suddenly forward,
tbe oap exploles, and of oourse fragments of iron '
fly in every diteotion
Three-Months Volunteers. —There having
been muoh muundarst-nding us to whether the re
turned volunteers upon remolistment would re
ceive a bounty, Colonel Harvey, ot tho Washing
ton Light Infantry, on Thursday telegraphed so.
the War Department far definite knowledge The
answer returned was: “ Taree m inths volunteers,
are not entitled to bounty for re-ealisting ”
Col. Chantsv’s Regiment.— Company G,-
Oapta-n Jobn W Moore, ot tno Tniitie.h Regi
ment, (Col Chantry's,) was ■«■<-»»■■» ,lhTiifiti"n
wftsh tfifitoriav. Tynr- 1 ■ ‘ * _ UIIII>IJ
mfonas prosomß a nroly Bcoot* ftra cuafcaiß? OT«r
500 men. Two companies are unitormed, and the
others will be to-day. The regiment will soon be
oomplete.
A Bow. —A drunken man, named Edwards,
msde a- assault on a young man in Garter’s aifoy,
about 6 o’olook yesterday afternoon. A crowd
gathered around, and the cry of “Secessionist!”
was raised, and, but for the interference of tbe
p Hce, the fitbt w>n!d have become general.
H awards was arrested and hold to answer by
Alderman Beider.
Matinbi —This sf -rnoon there will be an exhi
bition of the Kossisn War and aiore.-ptioon, to ac
commodate Ud-ea and fami iea. To judge from
tbe receipts of the last two niph a, better than any
two nigh>s for Bix weeks previous, the house will
bt W«ll filled ~
Fuwub.oalug.
IFor The Press.)
Fhii.adilpuia, Aug. 8,1881
Sir : I beg to refer you to the pivwnbroters'
system, as carried on in this city. The first evil
is the amount ot interest oharged— six per tent,
per month, or seventy two per oent per annum.
Who oan say this iB just er consistent, with the
profit accraing from any ether kind of business?
In other large oitiea. Hew York, Boston, Ac , the
amount of interest oharged is bnt twenty Jive per
cent for the year. If So pledge b« t ken out ut
any period, you pay at that rate. Here you are
onmpelled to renew or redeem every four months.
If a few days of the time should be r. qnired to
get the money, you are onmpelled to pßy far the
whole month. If an tr ioio is pawns l lor $3 50,
when you come to pay .or redeem you God you ara
obliged to pay tbe interest on 33 These things
may seem trifles, but the poor always suffer by
snob people How their wants will he so great
that the imposition will have full sway.
Respectfully, Ac.. Pro 80.-,- Publico.
The Confederate CoaouEss. — Richmond,
July 30 Congress h s passed s i act permDring
soldiers to send letters through tbe malls without
prepaying the postage, the pos-age to be collected
at the office of delivery. The bill oonfers the
eame privilege npon members of Congress.
General Beanregard’s appointment as -Major
General in the Army of the Confederate States,
was unanimously confirmed by C-nsreas, his com
mission to data from lha 2lst of July.
The pnblio action of Oongress to day was mostly
of an unimportant oharaoter. Tbe greater part Of
tha MMion waa in awnt.