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IMILDIVID DAILY (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED).
JOll3l W. 'FORNEY.
OM OIL No. 111 SOUTH FOURTH STREW.
_ THE DAILY PBXS%
711 0 TINer Calye Pap. Vasa. Payable to the denier.
!Med. to Subscribers oqt of the City at Berea DOLLARS
la AMYX, Tnaza DOLLARES AND REFIT Calle Fos Sax
01111' DOLLAR AND SevENTY-Frill CIENTO FOR
roe !forme. invariably in adyancelor the time or-
Mair• itriittsemente inserted at the usual xstee. Big
Mee eoustituta a goners.
WWI WRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
BMW to Subscribers out of IheCitystt !ova Dora.taa
VIII AMU. to advance.
COMMISSION HOUSES.
BERRY"" - '6O CO.,
GENERAL . COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
26 RUE BERGRRE, PARIS
IPLATZDIANN, BERRY, Sc CO.,
LYONS; ST. ETIENNE, AND GRENOBLE
eele-thetani NEW YORK, 155 DUANE STREET
'WEIS! BAGS! BAGSI
NEW AND SECOND lIA.ND„
ERLIKLEBI3, BURLAP. AND GUNNY
BAGS,
. Constantly on hand.
- JOHN T. BAILEY & 'CO.,
No. 113 NORTH FRONT STREET.
dam' WOOL BACKS FOR SALF..
SEWING MACHINES.
LONG -LOOKED FOR
COME AT LAST!
THE PERFECTION OF SEWING. MACECINES.
SAMPLES OF THE CELEBRATED"
FLORENCE SEWING MACHINES
Can be seen at
No. .439 GRESTNUT STREET (seeond door).
Where all potions interested in sewing machines are in
vited to call and examine this wonderful Machine.
It has been the object of the FLORENCE SEWING.
MACHINE COMPANY to supply a machine free from
the objections attached to other first-class machines. and
idler the, patient, untiring labor of y ears and a liberal
expenditure of capital in securing the first mechanical
talent, theirefforts have been crownwlwith success. and
the are now offering to the public the MOST PERFECT
SEWING MeBBINE IN THE WORLD. Among its
many advantages over all other machines. may be mem
tioned :
Ist It makes four different stitches on one and the
mamemachine. each stitch being perfect and alike la.
both sides of the fabric.
2d. Changing from one kind of stitch to, another, as
Well as the length of the stitch, can readily be done while
the machine is in motion.
Reerestitch is perfect in itself, making the seam
secure and uniform, combining elasticity, strength and
beauty.
has
_
4th. .17 h the reversible feed motion, which enables
the operator to run the work to either the right or left,
yr stay any part of the seam, or fasten the ends of seams
without turning the fabric or stopping the machine.
6th.' It is the.most rapid sewer in the world, making
five stitches to es ch revolution, and there is no other
machine which.ill do so large a range of work as the
YOENCE.
eth. It does the heaviest or finest work with equal fa
cility, Without change of tension or breaking of thread.
7th. Itheuis,,fells, binds, gathers, braids, quilts, and
gathers and sews on a rufile at the same time.
Bth. Its simplicity enables the most inexperienced to
operate it. Its motions are all positive, and there are
Ane springs to get ourof order, and it is adapted to
all kinds of cloth-work, from thick to thin, and. is al
most noiseless.
9th. The FLORENCF, SEWING MACHINE is unequal
led in beauty and style, and must be seen to be appro..
elated.
Call and see the FLORENCE. at No. 439 CHESTNUT
Street, no stairs. an it-tL
0 II B TTER'" A"
FAIRLY SEWDIG MACHINE
With all the new improvements, is the best and cheapeit,
and most beautiful Sewtog Machine in the world. No
other SWIM Machine has so mach capacity for a great
range of work, inclndit g the delicate and ingenious pro.
newel! of Hemming. Braiding, Sliding, Embroidering;
'langur. Tucking. Cording, Gathering, dm, eic.
The Branch OEM , bre well supplied with Bilk Twist.
intead, Needles. Oil. ,of the very best quality.
- Send for a pamphlet.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
4581 BROADWAY. Raw Tom
phiuLdephtli voice-
810 CHESTNUT STREET.
•ull-fael6
SEWING MACHINES
THE "SLOAT" MACHINE,
"WITH GLASS PRESSER FOOT,
,NEW STYLE HEMMER. BRAIDER,
and other valuable improvements. '
ALSO, '
S'HE TAGGART FARR MACHINES.
Agency-92g CHESTNUT Street. • mhB-tf
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS.
NpS.• 1 AND 3 N. SIXTH STREET,
pail A.DELPRIA.
JOHN C. A_IIJUIS4ON,
(FORMERLY J. BURR AMORE, )
IMPORTER AND DEALER IN
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS;
VLANUFACJTURER
OF THE IMPROVED
`WRAPPERS.
COLLARS,
BATISFLO'II.3I4 GUARANTIED., mp22•tod4
606 ARCH STREET.
FINE SHIRT AND WRAPPER DEPOT
AN BLEGANT.ASSORTMERT OF
•QICNTS' YDRNISHING GOODS,
AT MODERATE PRICES.
FOUR PREMIUMS AWARDED FOR
SHIRTS, WRAPPFRS, AND STOOKS.
G. A. HOFFMANN,
Successor to W. W. KNIGHT.
SOG. ARCH STREET. 605.
INE SHIRT 11.1ANUFACTORY.
The subscriber would invite attention to his
IMPROVED OUT OF sHms,
which he makes a speci city in his business. ...Moo, con
atm:illy receiving_
NOVELVES' FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEAR.
. J. W. SCOTT,
-"GENTLEMEN:A FUeNISHING STORE, _
No. 814 CELESTNUT STREET,
ja2.o-tf Four doors below the Continental.,
CABIN f?M E,'URNITURE.
CABINET FURNITURE AND BIL
LIABD TABLES.
MOORE & CANNON,
No, 261 SOUTH SECOND STREET,
En connection with their extensive Cabinet business, are
Mow manufacturing a superior article of
BILLIARD TABLES,
and have now on hand fa IMPROVED with the
MOORE & CAME, ON E SH CUSHIONS.
'which are pronounced by all wo have used them to be
!superior to all others.
For the quality and finish of these Tables. the mann
ifacturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout
the Union, who are, land liar with the character of their
'work. seB,6m
PAPER RANGINGS.
PHILADELPHIA
PAPER TEL GrS.
HOWELL & .IOURKE,
I=l
FOURTH AND MARKET 'STREETS,
MANUFACTURERS OF
PAPER fIA.PTCIINGS
AND WINDOW CURTAIN PAPERS.
Offer to the trade a large and elegant amortment of
goods. from the eheapset Brown Stock to the finest
-
.Dee()fattens. -
N. B. CORNER FOURTH & MARKET STREETS.
N. B.—Solid Green, Blue, and Buff WINDOW PA
PERS of everv.grade: selo-tf
.FALL STYLES NOW . READY:—WE
are daily in receipt of New Styles of WALL PAPERS.
Ito which attention is In , lied. We have paid special re
.ggard to designs snitir g Philadelphia taste. Walls deco
:rated by selected woikin n o. and warranted to give setts
-action. ' JOHN H. LONGSTRErK,
eel-wtmet* N. re. Worth THIRD Street.
SILVER-PLATED WARE.
SILVER PLA TED WARE
MANUFACTORY.
`TEA
. BETS,
'CASTORS,
WAITERS,
ICE PITCHERS, &v., &c.
ViTILMR. 6.5 MOSS,
se B.2 ra 2'23 BOOTH FIFTWEITREET.
UItiI3RELLAS.
UMBRELLAS UMBRELLAS!!
WM. A. p FLOWN & CO.,
, • NO. 246 MARKET ST,REET,
PathADELPRIA.
Pill!aufactureris of
SUPERIO UMBRELLAS.
sn22-2m
GAS FIXTURES, &c
Vit7 ARCH STREET
A. VANKIRK it 00.,
SFAS UFACTURERS OF
O.I I,ANDELIE'RS
ANI, Or IFFR
GAS FLXTURES
Also, French Bronze Figures and Ornaments, Porcelain
and Mica Shades, and a variety of
FANCY- GOODS,
'WILOLESALE ANTI RETAIL.
than CO Mid examine goods dels.lir
VOL. 7.-NO. 38.
SILK AND DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
1863. FALL AND WINTER 1863.
. . _
DRY GOODS.
•
RIEGEL, WIEST, & ERVIN
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OP
DRY GOODS;
NO. ei NORTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
We are constantly receiving large lots of all kinds of
fresh and. desirable Goods. Merchants will And it to
their advantage to call and examine our stock before
purchasing elsewhere, as we can offer them inducements
unequalled. by any other establishment in Philadelphia.
se9-2m
CASH HOUSE:.
SHAWLS, BALMORALS,
RIBBONS, KID GLOVES, &c., &O.
B6ght exclusively for caeh, and which will be sold
at a small advance. sal-Sm
THOS• MELLOR &
We invite the attention of the trade to our large kook of
HOSIERY, GLOVES,
SHIRTS, DRAWERS,
GERMANTOWN FANCY WOOLENS,
LINEN CAMBRIC RDEFS.,
4.4 LINENS, AND SHIRT FRONTS.
eel-3m •
TO. WHOLESALE BUYERS.
TO THEIR LARGE AND WELL-SELECTED ASSORT•
KENT OF
FANCY _ DRY GOODS.
This Stock is principally of T. W. R. & CO.'S own IM
PORTATION, and will be offered at the
THE ATTENTION OF
SAXONY WOOT.v7q CO. all-wool Plain Flannels.
TWILLED FLANNELS,
Various makes, in Gray, Soarlet, and Dark Blue.
PRINTED ,SHIRTING FLANNELS.
PLAIN OPERA FLANNELS.
"PREMIERE QUALITY , '
Square and Long Shawls.
WASHINGTON MILLS Long Shawls.
BLACK COTTON WARP CILOTHS,
11, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 oZ.
FANCY CASSIDEERES AND SATINETTS.
BALMORA.L SKIRTS, all grades.
BED BLANKETS, 10.4,11.4, 12-4, 13-4.
COTTON GOODS, DENIMS, TICKS, STRIPES,
SHIRTINGS, &0., from various Mills.
DE COURSEY, HAMILTON• ds
EVANS;
PATTERN SHIRT,
UNDERCLOTHING, Re
BLACK SILKS, • ' • •
• AT VERY LOW PRICES.
• M. L. HALLOWELL &.CO.,
No. 615 CHESTNUT STREET.
606.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN. IN GREAT VARIETY.
M. L. HALLOWELL, dis CO
No. 615 CHESTNUT STREET.
An immense assortment, in French, English, and Saxony
Goods:.
CASH BUYERS . ,
•
AT. WHOLESALE,
Are Invited to examine our
FLANNELS
BLANKETS,
MERINOES,
POPLINS, .
BLACK SILKS,
- • FANCY SILKS,
IRISH LINENS, WHITE GOODS,
DRESS GOODS,
and other articles adapted to the . season.
JAMES R. CAMPBELL ea C 0..,
7'2'7 - •
an2s-2m CHESTNUT STREET.
1863. FALL 1863.
• racy . GOODS. •
HOOD. BONBRIGHT, da CIO_
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS.
No. 435 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
The attention of the TRADE is invited to their large
Stock of
STAPLE AND - FANCY GOODS.
Among which a* choice-brands- of Sheet
ing and 'Shirting Muslins,
Madder Prints, De Laines,
Ginghams, and
SEASONABLE DRESS GOODS.
ALSO,
MEN'S WEAR - •
IN GREAT VARIETY.
GREAT INDUCEMENTS OFFERED TO
CASH BUYERS.
mata-sm
[B63FALL IMPORTATION. 1863
EDMUND YARD cfb 00..
IMPORTERS. AND .1013BERS, SUS AND FANCY
• DRY GOODS,
617 CHESTNUT and 614 JAYNE Street,
Have now opened their Fall importation of Dram Goode,
MERINOS,
COHURGS, -
REPS,
ALPACAS,
DELAINES,
PLAID AND STRIPED POPLINS,
FANCY AND BLACK SILKS.
Also, A large assortment of
SHAWLS,
• BALMORAL SKIRTS
WHITE GOODS
LINEN,
• EMBROIDERIES, &0.,
which the* . offer to the trade at the
LOWEST MATiKET PRICES.
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Medium and Fine, very light and clean.
In store, and daily arriving, conaignments of Tnb and
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M. L, HALLOWELL &
615 CHESTNUT MART.
HAVE NOW IN STORE,
DRESS GOODS,
BLACK AND FANCY SILKS,
IMPORTERS,
• -
Nos. 40 and IX NORTH THIRD STREET
THOMAS W. EVANS & CO.
INVITE THE ATTENTION OF
WHOLESALE BUYERS
FALL AND. WINTER SALES
MOST REASONABLE PRICES.
BUYERS are solicited to cell and examine
818 CHESTNUT STREET,
UP STAIRS.
THE TRADE
Is called to •
OUR STOCK OF
33 LETITIA Street, and
32 South FRONT Street
anl7•rws2m
SHAWLS,
DRESS GOODS.
M. L. HALLOWELL, &• CO.,
No- 615 CHESTNUT STREET.
CLIP OF 1862.
Elee, from new clip
WOOLEN 'YARNS.
18 to 30'cats, line, on hand
COTTON YARNS.
No. to so'a, oftrst-class makes,
In Warp, Bundle, and Cop
N. B. —All umbers and descriptions Procured at once
ox orders
ALEX. WT4.11.4_,,D1N it SONS,
18 North PRO= Btreei
aa3l•inw&ftf
CLOTHING.
EDWARD P. KELLY,
JOHN KELLY:
FORMERLY CHESTNUT, ABOVE SEVENTH,
LATE 102% CHESTNUT STREET•
TAILORS;
MI SOUTH THIRD St., NEkt THE EXOHLNOK
Have just received a large Stock of Choice
FALL AND WINTER GOODS,
AND •
FALL STYLES,
TERMS CASH, at prices much lower than any other
Irst-class establishment. an27-t[
BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50 ,
At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS, &6.60, At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS, 1615.50. At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS. 85.50. At 704 MARKET Street.
BLACK CASS. PANTS S 5 60, At 704 MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN GUNTER'S, No. 704 MARKET Street.
.ORIGG & VAN GUNTER'S, No. 704 MARKET Street.
ffEICd 6r•• VAN GUNTER'S, No, 704• MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN GUNTER'S. No. 704 MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN GUNTER'S. No. '704 MARKET Street.
rnh22.6m
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE.
H. FRA:INTCISCT_TS,
WHOLESALE. DEALER IN
YARNS, BATTS, WADDINSS,
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE,
OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES.
LOOKING GLASSES, CLOCKS,
FANCY BASKETSi ay.
513 MARKET and 510 COMMERCE BM
aul•Sra
FALL' W 1563.
No.
it PECRIN, •
No. 423 MARKET STREET. •
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE,
BROOMS, CEDAR WARE, •
OIL-CLOTH, LOOKING GLASSES,
FANCY BASKETS,
CORDA-G-E, do a_
for
"-HALEL J I MPI S N E O &BOTTHCEVI;kIItreEI4RT."SELF-AD
TER MOST RELIABLE. WRINGER NOW IN USE.
-eel-2m
J. H.:,COYLE & CO.,
Wholesale Dealers la
- YARNS. BATTS.
CARPET CHAIN,
WOODEN WARE.
BRUSHES; tire..
WO MARKET STREET.
PHILADELparA..
CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, Ike.
REMOVAL
J. & E. B. 0 R N
HAVE REMOVED FROM
619 CHESTPTTJT.- STREET,
°melte the State House, to their
-. NEW WAREHOUSE,
804
. CHESTNUT . STREET,:
In the "BUD BUILDING," and hdve now OPell their
FALL STOCK OF
NEW CA.R.PPIMING-S.
904 CHESTNUT STREET.
ee2-2m
GW. BLABON & 00.
• MANUFAC'FITEERS OF
C=OXT-a
No. 124 NORTH. THIRD STREET, PHILADELPHIA,
Offer to the Trade a Poll stock of
FLOOR, TABLE, AND CARRIAGE
OXL 4101-01::01 1 1—ISi,
GREEN-GLAZED OIL CLOTHS AND WINDOW
se2-2ni saLDEs.
Gt,EN Edllo-" MILLS,
GERMANTOWN, PA.
Mc C ' CO.,
MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS, AND DEALERS IL
C ARPETIN S,
OIL CLOTHS', & Q :
WAREHOUSE, 509 CHESTNUT , ST.,
OPPOSITE INDEPENDENCE HALL.
eel -3m
GEORGE, W. HILL,
Manufacturer and Wholesale Dealer in -
C.ARPETINGS; MATTINGS, RUGS.
Also,
COTTON AND WOOLLEN YARNS, r
At very Low Prices.
NO. 126 NORTH THIRD STREET, ABOVE ARCH.
sel.lm* . Philadelphia.
DRUGS.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER& 00..
Northeast Corner ICUP.TH and BACH Streets.
PHILADELPHIA.
.WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS]
IIiPORTIRS MAD. DEALERS
70ERIGN 4ND DOMISTIO
WINDOW AND PLATE GLABEN
mortmAermuta OP
WHITE LEAD AID ZINC "roms. PUTTY; ma.
*GEM 701 THE CELEBRATED
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS-I
Dealer and sonstuners smiled
VUT LOW PRICIER YOB 0.184.
EAINTINGS, ENGRAVINGS,
TAMES B. EARLE & BON,
(*POPPIES AID 111:7137AOTTIEIZI OP
LOOSING GLASSES.'
- MUM 111
DIL PAINTINGS.
INGHATIDGS, .
PORTRAIT.
nortats, and
PHOTOGRAPH =MIL
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
BRTENSPTI LOOKING GLASS WAR/ZOOM AND
GALLERY OF PAINTINGS,
lal4l GILISTIHT sheet Phlladel~hli
P ICK.AXEB,
,
SHINGLING HATCHETS,
BROAD HATCHETS, AXES,
NAIL HAMMERS,
SHOE
.HAMMERS,
RIVETING HAMMERS, and
ENGIITEER HAKDRERSi
NANtrno'ruitzb
C HAMMOND & SONi
528 COMMIIRCB Street. Phils
an2o-1m!
HERMETICALLY, SEALED FRUITS
AND PEGISTABLBS.—
%COO dozen cans fresh Peaches.
2,000 MB do do Pineapples.
•
500 do do do Strawberries.
800 do do do Blackberries.
300 do do. do Whortleberries.
2CO do - do do Cherries. •
4,000 do, do do Tomatoes, &IL aro..
On hand and for sale by
ODES BcWILLI/Mil,
AIM 101 South WAT.IIII Street.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, SEPT. 14, 1863.
CVe Vr"
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1863
Notes On Books and Autnors.
In one of the London papers we find the
following advertisement :
TO LITDRATIY AND OTHER. Irromiroriorre.--Mr.
Thomas Miller will gladly accept engagements, on
moderate terms, to give a series of readings from
his "Gideon Giles," "Godfrey Malvern," " Rural
Sketches," "Our Old Town," Royston Gower,"
"Fair Rosamond," "Poems," and several other of
lhe forty volumes of various works which he has
written. Address Rose Cottage, Cheater Gardens,
Lambeth, S. London. •
'`Miller's story is very singular. He was
horn in Lincolnshire (England) fifty-four.
Years ago, and began life as a farmer's boy,
after which he taught himself basket-making.
He read every line of print that came in
his way, and soon took to writing verses,
so well, too, that Rogers; Campbell, and .
others well qualified to judge, ac,kn9w
ledged their merit. He went to London to
try his fortune as a writer, selling his bas
kets on London Bridge by day and reading
or writing deep into the night. His poetry
was published and purchased, and his lite
rary course was determined on. Rogers
adVancing hini the means, Miller commenced
business, near Newgate prison, as a`Lon
don publisher, but failed, the banker-poet
never asking him -for repayment..: He has
written over forty volumes of history, poe
try, biography, and novels, besides largelY
on rural life and natural history. Besides
the works named by himself, his most suc
cessful conip6sitions are "A. Day in the
Woods" and "Beauties of Ihe Country."
He is a regular contributor to the Illustrated
London News. His best novel is " Gideon
Giles." the scene of which is laid in his
native county, and the real hero of which is
one Ben Brust, a sentimental glutton—one
of the most natural personages in modern
fiction. 'Persons who like to know some
thing 'of the habits of authors are hereby
informed that Thomas Miller is almost as
great a smoker as Alfred Tennyson, and, like
the Laureate,, has •a lively appreciation of
the merits of good malt liquor. He 'is a
very hard-working, self-taught man, some
what proud. of having made his own for
tune, such as it is. He abandoned his trade
of basket-making about twenty-four years
ago. In politics, without having ever joined
the Chartists, Thomas Miller holds the most
advanced liberal opinions, and never hesi
tates to avow his contempt for the gaudy
gew-gaws and cost of Royalty, and his de
cided preference for Republican institutions.
On the American question he is a decidali
Unionist, with a hearty abhorrence of
Slavery.. - .
There is great appreciation and quick
perception of wit and humor in this coun
try, more so than in England, yet our hu
morous writings are generally thereverse of
good. They either owe their jocosity to
bad-spelling or slang. " Artemus Ward,"
and " The Disbanded Volunteer," owe
their popularity chiefly to the painful and
profitless labor with Which they fling the
gauntlet in the face of correct orthography,
and the wit of- " Doesticks," and even of
"Orpheus C. Kerr" (who is the best of the
quartette), is really more of manner than
of*spontaneity. The works which may be'
produced as even passable examples of the
American humorous mind would not re
quire a large shelf if all were collected.
When a volume of genuine humor' comes
before us, we take dt to our heart. Such a
volume, be it known to all mortal's, is
" The Young Parson," recently published
by Smith, English, & Co., in this city. It
relates bow a . young clergyman was
"placed" in his first congregation, in one,
of our .Penn4lvania counties, and while at
recounts his troubles and trials, also §hOws'
his pleasant experiences, the whole> being
relieved' by Several scenes of true pathetic
feeling. The marriage and conversion of
Michael Stoner and Kitty is at once touch
ing and comic, and the episode of Phcebe
Ross, the cripple, is deeply affecting. We
have not the least idea of , the authorship of
"The Young Parson," but the writer may
safely put his name on the title,page, with
the confidence of having written one of the
truest and most amusing books of . the year.
He has shown some want of judgment in
naming his little hero "the Rev. Petit
Meagre," a name that no one ever bore and
too personal in its allusion to the man's
stature.. " Mr. Hugger Mugger" is alsoan
absurd--name. Now and then, We have
over-familiar phrages, such as " Rev. Petit
wilted," but the book is a good book, and
completely sui genejls. It has no sensation
fun, but a current of' quiet humor runs,
through it. - What is more, it will' bear to
read a second time, and that is more
than we can say of ninety-nine out of every
hundred volumes that come before us. Of
course, its author will Write again.
There is now in progress of completion,
by various competent authors, to be super
vised by a competent editor, so as to-pro
duce a harmonious whole, a volume, con
taining personal memoirs of the various
Union generals, living and dead, whether
in the regular army or in the volunteer ser
vice, who have fought in the present civil
war. A more valuable and interesting re
cord of this unhappy, and, on our side, un
provoked contest, can scarcely be produced,
and a great sale may be anticipate& The
book will be published, by Geo. W. Childs,
of this city, and though Mr. Benson J.
Lossing will contribute to it, it will not su
persede or interfere with his illustrated his
tory of the war, also to be published by
Mr. Childs, on which Mr. Lossing's pen
and pencil have been occupied for more than
twelve months.
Lippincott 45.,- Co., of this city, have nearly
completed a large octavo of 700 pages, en
titled "Annals of the Army of the Cum
berland," written and Compiled by an offi
cer, and published in behalf of the Army of
the Cumberland.. The profits of the publi
cation are to be deVoted to the erection of a
Monument on the Battle-field of Stone
River . . The illustrations, which we haye
seen, and can describe as being very 'fine,
include seventy-three portraits, engraved on
steel, numerous wood-cuts of Army Scenes,
and a diagram and map (lithographed in
four colors) of the battlefield 'of Stone
river. The portraits of the following Gene
rals are given : Rosecrans, George H.
Thomas, A. McD. McCook, L. H. Rous
seau, J. S. regley, John MO.: Palmei, P.
H. Sheildan, R. W. Johnson, Jefferson C.
Davis, 11. P. Yen Cleve, J... St. Clair Mor
ton, and Col. W. P. Jones, with portraits,
too, of the leading members of their re
spective staffs. Memoira•of these and other
gallant soldiers are given, and the letter
press will supply accurate and full Annals
of wharthe Army of the Cumberland did—
its battles, skirmishes, and expeditions. In
an appendix will be found the official reports
of Generals Rosec,rans and Bragg on the
Battle of. Stone River. A wholly new fea
ture, under the head of " Army Police Re
cord," is an account of Spies; Smugglers, and
Rebel Emissaries. All that relates to each
dePartment -of. military , administration is
here full and explicit , This book is written
`by John Fitch;srof, Alton, . Indiana; Judge
Advocate in Eteneril Ao§wran§' Flub ar4
"well qualified, from ability and permsl
knoidedge, to write it well.
Mrs. Henry Wood, that most productive
of modern novelists, apparentlY writes with
tines hands. She has been carrying on two
novels, at a time, in two London periodicals,
which, as we learn from a private letter to
Mr. T. B. Peterson, her Americ,an pub
lisher will be the only story she will wa - tv
11-7
this:year. The new tale is called " %he'
Shado-1 of,..Ashleydyst," and the other is
" 'Squire Tievlyn' s Heir." This last, making
'340 pages octavo, which is considerably more
than the usual extent of modern novels—we
recollect that Richardson's " Sir Charles
Grandison" filled eight volumes, and Scott's
." Pev eril of the Peak" and Bulwer's
" Disowned" ran into four—has just been
published by Peterson, who has a ccin
tract, with the author by - virtue of which she
supplies him, and him only, with proof
• sheets of each of her stories (sometimes
even with the manuscript) so far in advance
lof their completion for-readerkin England,
that "Squire Trevlyn's Heir," Tor instance,
'will be published here, in, book form,
weeks before its closing chapters ap
pear in 'England. We have read the ad
:Vance sheets of this tale, and think it one
;•of the best that. Mrs. Wood has written.:
is not a sensation novel like "East
'tlypne," but, rather resembles " Verner's
iPride," or the "Earl's Heirs." There is
*ry little crime in - it—the utmost being a
-case of agricultural arson—but the story de
pends more than usual on the development
of character, as well as the--working-up. of
incidents. In this respect Mrs. Wood has
risen superior to all her previous perform
ances. The wind-up of the plot has the ad
vintage of being wholly unexpectek„But
Mrs. Wood's ideas of English heirship.
would have been improved by having bee . -
submitted to legal correction. Peterson &
Brothers also have in the press a third
novel, by Mrs. Wood, entitled " The Runa
way. Match ;" one of Gustave Aimard's
Meiican. romances, "The' Gold-Seekers ;"
another of his, " The Indian Chief ;" " True
as Steel," by Mrs. Stephens ; and new edi-
tions of Mrs. Hentz's " Ernest Linwood,"
Croly's " Salathiel," Mrs. Marsh's excel
lent novels "The Admiral's Daughter,"
and "The Deformed," and " The Trials of
the Tredgolds,", a new sensation novel by
Dutton Cook. Let no one say, after read
ing this list, that the book trade in this city
has become stagnant.
NEW _YORK CITY.
CorcetpOudenee of The Preee.] -
NEW Yoxx, September 11, 1863
DANGER FROM ANGLO • REBEL RAMS
The construction of rebel iron•clads in British
ports is causing a painful degree of solicitude in the
public mind, and tending to aggravatethe fretful and
restless feeling of suspicion which already exists to
perfide Albion, The English press, recognizing
the fact that the authorities, are winking at these
breaches of neutrality and common international
comity, are calling upon the authorities to interfere,
and preVent the rams from pissing into,rebel hands;
but the answer is simply : 4 . We have no. law which
authorizes such proceeding.” England is forcing a
war upon Japan, because there is no law in the Em-
• ire which prevents the Tycoon to surrender certain
rdurderers of British subjects, who have been de
manded. Here, then, is the rule which she herself is
establishing;.and itWill be well for us to bear the
fact in mind. Because she has no laws which can
protect neutral rights, it does not follow that she
stands justifieb, or that America must suffer insult
and aggression withodt demanding compensation
therefor, and demanding it, if necessary at the
mouths of her cannon. England has always two
shields under which to crouch, Law and No Law ;
and she employs either, just as the occasion seems
to demand.:
In this city, the question has become of the most
vital import. With ocean-going iron-clads in their
possession, each with the most terrible and destruc
tive armament 'which British ingenuity has been
able to suggest, the rebels might sweep into our hat ,
bor, and not only lay the city in ashes, butravage
the entire Atlantic coast at will. Oar own moni
tors have proved that forts alone affordno protection
against iron-clads; and that, unless channel ob
structions axe so arranged as to hold them within
the line of fire, lo port can rely upon fortifications,
no matter what may be the calibre of the guns which
they mount. In view of such facts, much uneasiness
prevails among us. The capture or destruction, or
even a serious menace held out to New York, would
more than compensate the Confederates for the fall
of a score of their microscopic cities, and there can
exist no reasonable doubt of their intention, at least,
to try the experiment, and play a game of hazard
which may result most disastrously for the country.
The work of strengthening our defences„ and
mountinglheaVey-guns, is being pressed with ardor ;
but no feeling of, security can exist until a network
Of obstructions is prepared, which at any moment
may be stretched across the Narrows, so as to bar
effectually the entrance of a hostile fleet, until our
iiime can try their metal, and, by mere weight of mis.
sile, crush in the iron ribs of the assailants. The
harbor possesses great natural resources for defenc,
and it is only requisite for the authorities to avail
theniselves of these, in order to make security a
practical'reality, which may be relied upon impli
citly. Chains, booms, and torpedoes might be so ar
ranged, that any iron-clad, not accustomed to fox
hunting, and taking flve-barred gates at a leap, could
be prevented from access, and perhaps be pounded
to atoms in the attempt. As for the forts literally
within the harbor, but little need be said, for they
are so eligibly situated, that they would inevitably
reduce the city to a pulverized heap, if once opening
fire upon a vessel taking the offensive against it. In
fact, about the only things they could shell without
irretrievably damaging the city they 'were built to
defend, would be the tail of the Great Bear, and a
few of tie minor constellations ; and, even then, the
neighboring Dutchy 1, of New Jersey would suffer
severely. Thus, it will be seen, that we are altoge
ther in a bad way.. -
When the Merrimac made her famous raid in
Hampton Roads, New York was fairly in an agony
of terror. The news reached us on Sunday night,
and not a few of our citizens apprehended that Mon
day might find the city under the guns of the rebel
iron-clad, a.contingency which would have resulted
in destructien, or the payment of an enormous* ran
som as the price of immunity. Our defencelessness
against the tremendous powers of iron-clads is,
therefore, fully appreciated by the people, and it will
be the fault of those having the matter in charge
should an attack find us lacking - the means of 'a
vigorous and successful defence.
CONSCRIPTS AND SUBSTITUTES.
As was well known beforehand, the draft is pro
curing but few men for the army. A few, however,
are daily forthcoming, an may be seen on their way
down town from the 'earl, us offices of the marshals,
walking between files of soldiers, whose fixed bayo
nets render the chances of escape decidedly minute.
As a general thing, those whd have no good relson
to offer for exemption, and who cannot or will not
.provide substitutes, appear to accept their manifest
destiny with good grace, and show no signs of disk.
satisfaction; a fact which does not render Uncle
Samuel any the less vigilant in closing all the ave.
- nues of escape. The great trouble is with the sub
stitutes familiarly known as the " bounty-jumpers.) ,
The pranks of these fellows have been in a measure
suspended since the action of General Meade regard
ing deserters;, still, they bowl and grumble over
their self-assumed hardships;and; whenever a fitting
opportunity is afforded, make off by the 'quantity,
only to offer themselves in some other States where
substitutes' are in demand. :Every dead•wall and
wooden fence throughout the city bears posters an
nouncing ten' dollars reward for the apprehension
of deserters—a very gentle stimulant, which has as
yet failed to nerve the desirable end.
, STUYVESAIIT.
The Hoary Instigators of Treason in
Council at Wheatland—Another Rebel
Haiti InVited.
(Prom an Occasional Correspondent.
LANdASTER, PA., Thursday Sept. 10, 1863.
The citizens of this quiet city have been some 7
what exercised by the " occasion of an event." Hon.
J. S. Brack, ex-Attorney General and ex-Secretary
of IState, is in Close coniultation at Wheatland with
0. P. P. Buchanan, the confidential 'correspondent
-• of Jeff Davis. It is , quite certain that these old
public sinners are in secret conclave over no - small
matter. Justice Viroodward must'be elected Go
verner, or the leaders of Secession in PennsylVania
will lose oast with, and be distrusted arid renounced.
by their friends in Jeff's dominions. These fossilized
functionaries have to such an extent abused the
comildence.of the people that they , can no longer de
ceive them at the polls. A new and desperate
schemethas, therefore, been devised, the ininutire of
which are now being arranged at Wheatland. It is
confidently believed in this city, that the men in
this State, holding " friendly relations "-with the!.
rebels, have determined to invite a raid from Lee's
-
army into Pennsylvania, to take place just before
the election. In that event the loyal men would, of
course, rush to arms, and march to the border, to
defend the lives and property of our citizens, and
the rebel sympathizers and traitors would remain at
home, and vote for Justice Woodward.
That the enemies of the Government are base
enough to employ so vile a Scheme, no one will
doubt, but that the rebels, with the fear of Gettya
burg before-their eyes, will again follow the counsel
and pilotage of their Pennsylvania friends, is by no
means certain: It is to be hoped, however, that
Meade and the authorities at Washington' will so
watch and employ the enemy ai to . defeat the trai
torous schemes of the defunct OVinet ministers, and
bring•to grief the Wheatland plot: •
Is VALLANDIGHAM A TRAITOR I—lt has been
4 - 4 . ed that vallandi.haw , while in> the South, re
e.~helto_llo/4 vA . te:Vy2IC , S ,
PeatedlY exhorted tll2
burg, declaring that the success of his party in
depended altogether on'the ability of the rebel Go
vernment to bailie the Union armies besieging that
place. This report has been indignantly denied by
-
the Copperhead prints , but-the Cldeago Tribune has
obtained important evidence' ln conikmation of the
statements^ The Tribune Bays :
, 'unfortunately for their epithets and for 1,-.oan
dighamle loyalty we have in our possession a letter
written by a rebel' provost marshal attached to
Bragg's army, and a man evidently of unusual in.
telligence,•in which the above fact is clearly, unmis
takably stated. The letter was written to friends
in Western Tennessee, and captured in the posses
sion of a mail carrier' who is now, or was recently
nu, custody at Columbus, Ky. The 'Writer heard
, typ A llandighem make the statement in his presence,
that his -election depended upon rebel succeaa at
Vicksburg. The letter awaits the, pleasure of any,
Copperhead disbeliever who will 411 and see
•
ME SIEGE OP CHARLESTON.
Attempt to Storm Fort . Sumpter.
Our Forces Repulsed and 113 Prisoners
Captured. •
MAJOR ANDERSON'S FLAG CAPTURED.
Moultrieville - .on Fire, and the Magazine of
Fort Moultrie Exploded.
FonTnitss Merinos, Sept. 12.—The "United States
steamer Massachusetts, Captain West, arrived here
this morning from Charleston biir on the evening of
the 9th.
On Tuesday, the Bth, the Weehawken sent a fif
teen•inch shell into one or the magazines of Port
filoutrie, exploding it.
The Ironsides set fire to_ Moultrieville, and half
the town is destroyed.
'The Weehawken grounded near Cummings Point,
but soon floated off having received no damage.
The monitors and Ironsides bombarded the Sul
livan Island forts four hours, -doing extensive da
mage.
At 11 o'clock P. M., of the Sth, a boat expedition
left the squadron to 'storm Fort Sumpter and was re
pulted,witk.,„,loss of a number of killed; wounded,
piisonera.. •'-
The following navy officers were captured on the
lle of Eorfpßititer;:`;LieutenantiE, P. Williams;
Tracy Brower, B. L.
Itleaderre
Wounded=-Enaign .Porter.
The Massachusetts leaves immediately for Phila
delphia.
For:muss Morrnon, Sept. 12.—The Richmond
Enquirer of the 12th, received by flag of truce, con
tains the following despatches : '
Cu - Animerox, Sept. 9.—To General Cooper: Last
night thirty of the enemy's launches attacked Fort
Sumpter. • Preparations had been made for the
event, and at a concerted signal all the batteries
bearing on Fort Sumpter, assisted by one gunboat
ram, were thrown out. The enemy was repulsed,
leaving 113 prisoners, 13 officers included, four boats,
and three colors. ' G. T. BEATIREGARD.
The enemy is silent to-day. General Beauregard
refused to have any communication with the Yankee
flag of truce until an explanation is given of their
fixing on our truce boats.
We took the original flag of Fort Sumpter, which
Major Anderson was compelled to lower, and which
Dahlgren had hoped to replace.
CHARIASTON, Sept. 10.—There was no firing last
night, except from our batteries. The enemy is
working hard on Morris Island. All is quiet this
morning. '
THE CAPTURE OF FORT WAGNER.
TEE WORK Or SUNDAY-04R sArrEits IN DANGER
[Correspondence of the Herald ]
Though Wagner was quiet, those in the trenches
were not wholly free from danger. They were so close
to the fort that our own shells occasionally annoyed
them. At the head of the sap a small American fly
was planted, indicating to the New Ironsides and the
Monitors' the point of our advance, behind which
they were not to fire ; but, the missiles of these vessels
coming now and then in too close proximity, the en
sign was removed ahead about fifty yards, and the
sappers returned to gradually dig their way up to it.
Al night they had dug through the counterscarp, on
the sea front, getting past the guns, ana establish
ing a covered way to a point fronts which an as
saulting column could have leaped, almost at a sin
gle baund, to the parapet, or debouched upon the
beach past the fort, and attacked it in the rear,
without serious exposure.
EXPLOSION OP. TORPEDOES
While our men were working in the trenches yes
terday, other dangers than those above mentioned
threatened them. Though great care was taken to
avoid or remove the torpedoes- which the enemy
had planted before the spot, one or two of these
machines exploded. One soldier of the Engineer re
giment was blown thirty feet into the air, and two
of the 54th Massachusetts regiment were seriously',
if not fatally, injured , by accidentally coming in
contact with these inhuman inventions.
THE EFFECT OS CYTTE SIRE
Meanwhilp the bolts and shells rained in from all
our batteries. Faster than they could be counted
our missiles went tearing against the parapet and
bombproof, sending up such clouds of sand and earth
as.nearly to eclipse our view of the work. All its
sharp points were knocked away. Every outline
had been disturbed. There was no regularity
of - feature about it. The bombproof had been
nearly unroofed, and great masses of sand slid down
like avalanches, falling at the entrances, and shut
ting out from the terrified occupants all light and
ventilation. The traverses which connected this
structure with the parapet of the seaward face were
torn away, and the arches beneath 'them filled up
the' debris. Every one who looked upon the strong
hold yesterday, while our fire was so furiously bat
tering it to ruins, felt that we should,hold it without
difficulty on the morrow.
GENERAL GILMORE ORDERS AN ASSAULT
Last evening an assault was ordered. I give you
here General Gilmore's plan of attack:
SPECIAL CEDES, O. 513
DEPARTMENT OF TEE SOUTH;
HEADQUARTERS IN THE FIELD,
Mortnis ISLAND, S. G., Sept. 6, 1863.
I. Fort Wagner will be assaulted at nine o'clock
A. M. tomorrow, the 7th instant, by troops to be
designated by Brigadier General Terry,. who will
command in person. .
The artillery fire on the work will be kept up until
the troops mount the parapet, and will then cease at
a given signal.
•The assault will be in three columns, as follows:
First—A column of two small regiments of picked
troops will debouch from , the advanced trenches,
mount the parapet of the sea front and the bomb
proof and traverses, spike the guns, and seize and
told the sallyport. •
Second—A column of one brigade, drawn up, right
in front, in the trenches, in rear of the first column,
will debouch upon the beach by regiments, pass the
sea front of the fort, file sharp to the left, and mount
the parapet of the north and west faces, regiment
after regiment, as they gain the requisite distances.
-Third—A column of one brigade, left in front, will
follow behind the second column, and deploy across
the island in rear of Fort Wagner, facing Cummings'
Point, with skirmishers well out in front.
11. The guards of the trenches will be held in re•
serve at their appropriate stations. The balance of
the infantry force of General Terry's command will
be kept under arms, from and after eight o'clock in
the morning, near the Beacon liouse. The batteries
of field artillery will be held ready for action near
the Lookout. By: order of
Brigadier General Q. A. GILMORE,
- • En. W. SairrE, Assistant Adjutant General.
ARRIVAL OF A DESERTER WITH INPORTANT NEWS.
The troops moved from their camps shortly after
ten o'clock, reaching their positions in the trenches
an hour later. They had barely arrived, when a de
seller from the rebel lines came in, bringing the news
that the island-was being evacuated. We had de
pended upon our picket boats, in Vincent's creek,
under lilajor Sanford, to keep us advised of any
movement of this kind on the part of the enemy; but
it appears that the state of the tide would not allow
them to get through until some time after the with
draws' of the rebel garrison had commenced.
Otiß TROOPS IN Tax 'FORT.
As soon as the story of the deserter could be told,
•General Stevenson sent forward a small scouting
party to ascertain its truth. They speedily returned
and corroborated the news, and our forces imme
diately leaped into the fOrt, Captains Walker and
Pratt, in charge of the sappers, planting their flag
upon the parapet. A slow match connecting with
the magazine was discovered and extinguished, and
then commenced
A RACE BETWEEN OUR TROOPS 808 BATTERY
Captain Brayton, of the 3d Rhode Island Artil
lery, wee the first man there. A few men of the
64th Massachusetts were close behind him, and then
came two companies of the 3d New flampshire,Regi
ment, under Captain Randlett.
INSIDE VIEW Or YOST -WAGNER.
.
The scene which presents itself to the eye of a vi
sitor at Fort Wagner this morning, is one of utter
wreck and ruin. The broken-parapets, the dis
mounted guns, the sand piled up before the entrances
of the bombproof, the bolts , and fragments of
ploded shell with.which the terreplein is paved, and,
more than all, the heaps of rebel slain; some lying
in the sun, and others half lniried in the loose sand,
show what a fearful ordeal the-, garrison petaled
through. The stench arising from the decaying aead
siekening and overpowering. Many were buried
at night, just below the surface of the terrapleir, to
be Unearthed and torn to piebes by the missiles
which on the following, day continued to plough
through' the work. Here an arm sticks stiffly out of
the ground, and there a shoeless foot is 'visible, while
In another corner are three bodies, one clad in a
major's uniform, laid carefully aside for burial, but
left In the hurry of departure for us to put away.
WITHIN VIE BOMBPROOF:
Existence must have been terrible while the bom
bardment was going on. Evan now the'odor , of .the
place is almost intolerable. The garrison, which con
-Mated of about fourteen hundred men, was here hud
dled like sheep in a- fold, without sunshine to il
lumine or air to breathe. The ceiling, formed of
huge logs, is so low as scarcely to afford standing
room.. Dead bodies are. scattered' here and there,
contributing their effinvia to the horrid stench
arising from the accumulation of human filth and
nastiness. I could only remain for a moment in
the place. Officers and soldiers who enter it flee
hurriedly sway as from a plague or pestilence. The
only furniture of the room was a table made of
:roughboards. One or two. rough coffins , kverelliere,
whether empty-or not I did not endeavoryto ascer
tain. [A row of shelves on either aide of the
slain
entrance contained a number of shot and shell of
various calibres. The floor was strewn with pa
pers, old rake, pieces of greasy bacon and other filth
which, in ordinary camps, finds its way to the sinks.
Until disinfectants are freely used and the work
thoroughly policed it will be Impossible for our men
to remain there. Already General Terry has or
oered them out of the fort, and forty barrels of
- chloride of lime are on their way up the beach to
be employed in making the atmosphere of the place
in some decree tolerable and wholesome.
THE REBEL BURYING. GROUND.
Beyond Fort Wagner the ground seems to have
been need ac a place of burial for many who fell in,
the defence of the place. There are a number of
graves just in the rear of the banquets. Hera also
are several dead horses and mules, swollen with
noxious gases, and attracting to the spot myriads on
myriads" of flies. A little further on are several
holes dug in the`sand, for shelter to the troops,
those stationed without the fort living very much
like the fiddlers- and aandcrabs with which the
ground is thronged.
THE TELEGRAPH IN OPERATION.
At an early hour this morning the telegraphic
machine, which has been stationed fora month past
in a bombproof in the second parallel, was removed
to ForloWagner, and the line advanced to that point
by Lieutenant Dana, of the Signal Corps. ,The fol
lowing message from l e ieut. Colonel • Mann, of the
nth Illinois Volunteers, was the first transmitted
from the new station : •
- UNITED STATES MILITARY TELEGRAPH,
DEPARTMENT OF THE SMITE,
Fonm WAGNER, September 7-540.4. 1I
To tieneiLl
The general Medi' Of lid trfiliSheil semis his cont.;
"pliments and' congratulations to • the Commanding
Veneral from the bombproof of fallen Fort Wagner.•
His confidence in God and General Gilmore is un
shaken. COLONEL MANN.
DESCRIPTION OF THE CAPTURED STRONGHOLD.
Fort Wagner is an enclosed earthwork, built across
m o nis Island, three-fourths of a mile south of-Cum
mings, rpint, being the place of greatest width north
of the BerieOn 5 0 u
Be—that is, two hundred and se
venty-five
yar d s T r ,:yi high tide to creek or marsh.
One hundred yards to the Outh Of this fort the island
narrows on account of the marsh setting in from the
west side tolwenty yards at high tide, and about one
hundred and fifty yards at IoW Water. These fact!!
make the site of Fort• Wagner one of the strongest
natural positions for defence on Miorris
The length of crest is 760 yards. Except that OC•
- THREE CENTS.
oupled by guns, it is arranged for musketry defence
throughout. Even the rears of the traverses have
banquets. The superior crest of the parapets look
ing to the south is about ten feet above the terre
plein of the work. Except the bombproof, which
occupies the east side of the fort, the 4erreplein is a
free and open space. The armament is, seaward,
two ten.inch columbiads and one rifled gun ; south
face, nine guns, on siege or field carriages ; in south
west salient, next the marsh, one eight-inch siege
mortar. About five field guns were in the work, for
interior defence.
. . .
The right or west half of the face, looking south,
has' no guns, but is well arranged for infantry, de
livering its re upon the Rank of a column assaulting
from the !Muth. The bombproof has at least fifteen
feet of earth and timber on top, and hence cannot
easily be broken through by shells. It has eight
entrances—one on each end and three on each side.
Its rooms connect freely with each other, giving
shelter to 1,500 to 2,600 men ; but it is cramped,' hot,
and uncomfortable.
From the seaward flank toward low water is an
obstacle, consisting of inclined palisading, which
does not extend far below high water mark. To the
rear, of this obstacle is a newly-built light parapet
for musketry, delivering a direct fire on the obstacle,
with a position for a field piece bearing in the same
direction. From the seaward tank, along the sea
and south faces to the marsh, is a belt of ground, in
which are buried a number of torpedoes, with a deli
cate exploding apparatus attached.
The fort has two entrances or aallyports. The
main one, near the northeast corner, is covered over
and protected from the navy's guns by a large tra
verse. The other leads out towards the marsh, near
the southwest corner.
The traverses between the seaward guns extend
back and connect with the bomb-proof, having pass
ages through them and affording communication
between the sea face and bombproof. The south
and a part of . the seaward faces of Fort Wagner,
which can deliver a fire on a force assaulting from
the south, measure about three hundred and sixty
yards, and are so broken and placed as thoroughly
to defend the ground and each other.
KILLED AND WOUNDED OP PENNSYLVANIA - BEOI•
Aaron White, Company E, 62d Pennsylvania Vo
lunteers, both feet.
Andrew Bard, Company H, 52d Pennsylvania Vo
lunteers, leg.
Johnt.O'Brien,.. - Company E, 97th Pennsylvania
Volunteers, , hip.'"
Jot& H. Linn,
~Company E, 85th Pennsylvania.
killed. -
Joseph Neeley, Company E, 85th Pennsylvania,
killed..
William Marquis, Company E, 85th Pennsylvania,
Mortally.
Henry I. Rigden, Company E, 85th Pennsylvania,
leit arm, seriously.
John White, Company E, 85th Pennsylvania, both
thighs, seriously.
Eli F. Huston, Company E, 85th Pennsylvania, left
thigh, slightly. .
William McCown, Company E, 85th Permsylva;
snia, bead and face, slightly.
Panes Hall, Company E, 85th Pennsylvania, side
an&back,
George Fisher, Company F, 85th Pennsylvania,
chest, slightly.-
. . _ .
Corporal Benjamin Dobin, Company B, 85th Penn
sylvania, scalp, slightly.
Lieutenant Colonel H. A. Purviance, head taken
off by a shell.
Lieutenant David Johnson, Company I, 85th
Pennsylvania, breast, slightly.
Sergeant Robert Ross, Company G, 85th Penney!.
vania, left shoulder seriously. ,
Corporal George Groover, Company I, 85th Penn
sylvania, killed.
Corporal George Garber, Company D, 85th Penn-
Sylvania, killed. -
Chas Stull, Company IC, 85thPenneylvania, killed.
George Ballinger, Company I, 85th Pennaylvania,
end, slightly. •
George Chrise, Company I, 85th Pennsylvania,
concussion of brain.
Cef has Hunt, Company . F, Both Pennsylvania,
leg '
slightly.
Company D, 85th Pennsylvania, back
and leg.
Hiram Haner, Company D, Bath Pennsylvania,
back.
George Cook, Company F, 97th Penney
Med.
Peter Stewart, Company E, 91th Pennsylvania,
risht 8 1 13le u r id n e , r.-
J.
Company
E, 97th Pennsylvania, se
verely.
Ontoles .Enix, Company H, 14th Pennsylvania,
face.
J. S. Fryling, Company. A, 104th Pennsylvania,
breast and back.
Pearson A. Horn, Company A, 104th Pennsylva
nia, hand and thigh.
Corporal Wm. Martindale, Company A, 104th
Pennsylvania, back.
Wxn. H. Naylor, Company A, 104th Pennsylvania,
knee and elbow.
John McCall, Company B, .104th Permylvania,
arm and side.
Joshua P. Spering, Company F, 104th Hennsylva
nia, heel.
Henry Butterwiok, Company A, 104th Pennsylva
nia, killed.
Henry Swartley, Company A, 104th Permsylva
nia, shoulders.
Silas Thomas, Company . D, 104th Pennsylvania,
forehead. •
Win. J. Shaddinger, Company A, 10th Pennsyl
vania, killed.
_ . _
John L. Cline, Company G, 85th Pennsylvania,
hand, slightly.
John M. Richards, Company 0, 85th Pennsylva
nia, face, slightly. „ lo g
William Gould, Company C, 85th Pennaylvania,
seriously.
Joseph Woods, Company 0, 95th Pennsylvania,
left arm, seriously.
James C. Miller, Company K, 85th Pennsylvania,
right thigh, slightly.
John Vaux,Company K,Bsth Pennsylvania, chest,
seriously.
WAR MISCELLANY.
HEAVT • GUNS IN FORT DIOULTRIE.—It le posi
tively stated in diplomatic circles that the rebels
have mounted in. Fort Moultrie the 600 and the 80a
pounder Blakely gene which were to be a part . of
the armament of the two rams recently launched by
the Lairds. These guns were already known to
have arrived at Nassau. Doubt is, however, thrown
upon the report that they are at Moultrie, by the
silence of AdmiraleDahlgren.—.K. Y. Tribune.
CAPTURE OE A CELEBRATED CANNON.—An iron
3G-pOunder, which has _a history, was captured at
Vicksburg and has been sent to Washington. It was
cast in France in 1768, and was brought to this
country by Lafayette in 17T7. It did good service in
the revolution, in the second war with England, and
was used in the Texan war by a company of volim
teem from New Orleans, who assisted the Texans in
achieving their independence.
REBEL ROMA.NCE.—The Mobile Evening News has
a correspondent at Shelbyville, Tenn., who writes
of love as well as war. He thinks " romance is not
crushed by war." We hope not. Here is the mat
riage item or items alluded to: a
" One of- the fair belles of St. Louts recently came
through our lines via Richmond, to fulfil an engage
ment with a Confederate officer, the gallant Colo
nel whom she had fascinated during his impri
sonment in St Louis, a few months since. The
Yankees would not permit the marriage, and, at the
request of the Colonel, his affianced, Miss Lizzie
Giles, with that indomitable spirit possessed by
Southern dau . ghters, braved the trials of travel and
of warfare, and has come to wed the gallant soldier
who could not go to wed her.
"The'dashing- and gallant Brig. Gen. Frank C:
Armstrong, who, ever since the opening of this war,
has been playing the deuce with the ladies' hearts,
was married in Columbia, Tenn., on Monday last,
to Maria C. Walker, daughter of Knox Walker, of
Memphis. Miss Walker, like Miss Giles, recently
came through the - enemy's lines for the purpose of
keeping her engagement with her darling Prank."
CUATTANOOGA.,—This city used to contain about
five thousand inhabitants, four or five churches, five
hotels, two printing offices, a bank, a number of fine
residences, Su:. It is in Hamilton county, Tennes
see, just -north of the dividing' line between that
State and Georgia, situate on the left bank of the
Tennessee river, and is the northern terminus of the
Western and Atlantic Railway, the southern termi
nus of which is Atlanta, Ga. It is also the eastern
terminus of the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
ioad, and forms an angular connection with the line
of the railroad from Charleston, S. C., to Memphis,
Tenn. It is 161 miles from Nashville, 432 miles from
Savannah, and 477 miles from Charleston. The city
is situated on a high bluff; overlooking the rushing
waters of the Tennessee river, which at this point,
spreads out to a greater extent than at many others in
the vicinity. Being terminus of two important roads,
and the moat prominent point on another (the
Charleston and Memphis;) it became the most avail
able place where the'rolling ,stock of all could be
repaired and new stock manufactured.- Hence were
established here numerous machine shops, rounde
-1 ries, &a, which, up to the outbreak of the rebellion,
were doing a thriving business and contributing, in
a great measure, to the advancement and prosperi
ty of the place.
The Tennessee river is naVigable for steamboats
from the Muscle Shoals, twenty miles -in extent,
above Florence . , Ala., up to 'Knoxville, Tenn.,
which is a 110 miles by railroad northeast of Chatta
nooga, and, of course, much finther by the windings
of the river. The upper waters of the Tennessee
are extremely beautiful, varied as the landscape is
in wild mountain scenes and pastoral. lands. The
Lookout Mountains, immediately around Chatta
nooga, and in-which so many deserters from the rebel
army are said to have been awaiting Rosecrairs ,
coming, form one of the boldest and most romantic
objects to be seen. -
AN An:ay op VETERAN VICTORS. —A correspond
ent of the St. Louis Republican, who witnessed a re
cent review of the 13th Army Corps, at Carrolton,
Louisiana, by General - Bank' a, give): a graphic de
acription of the scene:
Moving along with that easy, careless, acourate
swing which bespeaks the old campaigner. And the
flags they carried! Terrible is an army with ban
nere.—if those banners are torn by the shot and shell
of a score of battles. Belmont, Donelson, Shiloh,
Arkaneas Poet, Port Gibson, Raymond, Sackson,
Champion Hill, Big Black, Vicksburg, these names
were written in bullet holes on these dear,, seedy old
rage. No bunting gay with new beauty could be so
gorgeous as these to the thoughtful eye.
It was not surprising that. General Banks lifted
' his hat With real reverence when these' historic
colors were dipped to him as they passed. A brave
Man himself, be knows the honor Whieh ill due to,
the emblems of courage.
Geberal Banks, by the - way, is a real soldier in
appearance, with his irmagray hair, his unquailing
eye, his well-knit frame, his bron2ed cheek. As he
galloped past on his beautiful horse, riding with
more grace and skill than most of our major generals
are in the habit of displaying, he created a real im
pression. He is Miles Standish, with a slightly
"genie " air, Puritan by birth, but Cosmopolitan
through culture. .
GENERAL ROSECRANS' REPORT.—The Official re
port of General Roseerane, of the operations of the
Army of the Cumberland, from the day of its ad
vance from Murfreesboro, until the rebel army final
ly retreated from Middle Tennessee, is an interest
ing document, detailing, as it does, with great clear
nees. the plans for the defeat of Bragg at Tullahoma,
and his capture, had he not made, a preeipitate re.
treat. The delay of the advance of Rosecrans' army
during the - spring was mainly owing to the inferior
numbers of his cavalry, and the scarcity of long fo
rage, which wore out horses faster than they, could
be replaced. Although the rebels held the, ground
far into East Tennessee, and had a very strongly en.'
trenched camp, in an easily.defensible pokition, at
Tullahoma, it turns out that they always kept their
main base of supplies at Chattanooga. Gem R, it
appears, anticipated a battle at Tullahoma, and Iris
plans were such as to have rendered a battle very
disastrous to the rebels, had they not made so rapid
A retreat. -
The rebel retreat was followed, but the roads were
well 'nigh impracticable by heavy rain and travel,
and the army, had to wait for supplies to come up
from Murfreesboro, the army of Bragg in the mean
time falling bask into Alabama, and finally into the
116tuitivin ationgliold at chattanOoga, Without giving
lor accepting battle, Thus, ended,"_says General
/3.5 " nine days) campaign, which Urea - 8 the enemy
from two fortified poaitions, and gave us possession
of Middle Tennessee, conducted in one of the most
rains ever known in Tennessee: at
that period of the year, and over a soil that becomes
almost a quicksand." This grand advance, how
-ever, was fraught with sights that rarely greet the
Eastern armies in their advance into the Insurgent
States. At Shelbyville, near the, Alabama line,
General Rosecrans - says, "it was mostly of note
that the waving of flags and the cheers of welcome
frem the inhabitants of this unconquerable stronghold
of loyalty doubtless gave added vigor and energy to
the advance of our troops."
Araimg those mentioned as likely to be appoint
ed military commander "of Texas is General Joseph
Rooker.
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The Murder. of Mr. Ificejby.
To the Editor of The Press:
SIR : In your journal of the 3d inst. rand to whisk
my attention has just been called, X find myself
rather more conspicuously brought to the public
notice by your, to me unknown, correspondent'
from this city, than is in harmony with myletiring
disposition and habits. It is now, however; too
late, and I am individually too unimportant' to'
enter my caveat as to either the form of the narra
tive or the statements of fact therein communiCV.
. .
ted. The purpose of the writer was 1111qUelltiOpaS
bly good, and as such I accept the compliment in.
tended to my early advocacy of the cherished prin
ciples of freedom.
The Alton (III.) riot, to whioh,your correspondent
refers, was undertaken by the cohorts of slavery, in
the name, and at the behests, or that brutalizing in
stitution. That-fiendish demonstration, of the same
class whom the Governor of this State publicly recog
nizes as "my friends,” WAS but the early opening of the
now•enacting drama, which has ripened into fierce
civil war. Lovejoy was the first American martyr to
the promulgation and defence of the grand principles
of FRB'S SPELWII, A FREE BRIM, AND FREE LABOR.
These he believed to be vital to the safety and per
manence of our national institutions, based upon
the idea of civil liberty, and he vigorously pressed
them upon the public attention, as being worthy the
cardinal text of a free republic. He maintained
that they should be incorporated into the entire
warp and woof, becoming in s.egral parts of the very
texture and structure of the political economy of the
nation. And for this, slavery demanded his life. The
forfeit was paid, and the alave-mongers were, for a
time, appeased. The names of his inhuman murderers
are Thomas M. Hope, James R. Jennings, and a
fellow by the name of Jameson. Hope was front
Kentucky, but then a druggist at Alton, and he
was subsequently rewarded for his part in the per
petration of this foul murder by that arch-traitor,
John Tyler, while running the Government ma
chine in behalf of slavery, by the appointment of
marshal for the Southern District of Illinois. Jen
nings was then, and ever since has been, a mere
-adventurer from Virginia, fastening himself upon
whom he could for means to satisfy his miscellaneous
and rapacious appetite among the fancy at New Or
leans and New York, between which cities he has
of late years divided his time until the opening of
the alaveholders , rebellion. Not long since, this
rebel spy was in this city (housed with a friend at
West Chester), but he found it necessary suddenly
to leave for parts unknown, in order to escape the
vigilance of the police, whom he soon learned were
upon his track.
It is trnderstood that Sameson ended his worthless
career in a befitting manner, some years since, in
Texas or Arkansas.
At the period of which I write, but few learned,
intelligent, and morally brave men presented them
selves, poseeseed of that degree of daring which en
abled them to face and brave the then dominant
public sentiment—an obsequious submission to slag
very, with a ready promptness to execute the man
dates of the oligarchy. But the lamented Christian
patriot, Lovejoy, fearlessly bore his testimony in
the cause of universal freedom, and that, too, di
rectly in the face of the enemy of human progress
and public as well as private virtue. The' re
sult is known, and his record is on high;
but the seed which he then and there sowed
has since germinated and shot forth rapidly,
growing into , a tree of magnificentiproportions, un
til it now bears its ripened fruit and overshadows
the whole land. The soil of Illinois drank of his
blood and became a convert to his principles, as
have also the loyal States of the Republic, as ex
emplified through that act of the people which
elected to the Presidency of the United States an
humble, patriotic, honest, and freedom-loving
citi
zen of that State, on the twenty-fourth anniversary
of the murder of Lovejoy! More than poetic justice
do we find in this most noteworthy coincidence—
the triumphant vindication of his principles, through
the anti-slavery sentiment of the people in the per- - --
son of an adopted !lon of Illinois. That act prefi
gured the doom of slavery, and it also became the
tocsin of alarm to the alaveholders ;it was the
sounding of the long roll for the mortal combat upon
which they were determined and prepared, the
stake of which was human bondage on this conti
nent, or the dismemberment of the Union of the
States.
The issue was accepted, and we thenceforth began
to realize the terrible calamity of intestine war,
throughout a land then so fertile and peaceful, and
teeming with the Tithed promise. Yes, alas a war
which has since been waged in all its rigor, with all
its attendant sorrows and desolation—war, with its
heavy burdens of taxation, consuMption, and drafts
of men—war, with its desolated homes, its harvest
fields destroyed by the tramp of the soldiery—war,
with its hospital beds everywhere scattered and sus
taining the patriot soldier in his heroic agonies, and
war darkening households and peopling graves by
thousands throughout the land. And all these hor
rors and calamities are endured in consequence of
the maddening- influences instigated for the defence
and In the name of the infamous crime of slavery.
By the visitation of this 'dread calamity this na-
tion is being tried in a fiery crucible—it is passing
through a moat. terrible ordeal. Its great strength
is being put forth for the establishment of its second
independence, baptized and cemented in blood. Its
terrific threes, by which to relieve itself from the
death-grasp of the desperate and traitorous assas
sins who have it by the throat, is recognized in the
thundering reverberations across the continent of
the cannon in the bombardment of cities andicirts—
by the bloody foot-prints by which armed hosts are
tracked in their march to "victory or death"—by
the bereaved households, and by the gigantic na
tional debt which is daily swelling in its proportions
to become a bequest to succeeding generations for
its final liquidation.
.I am, eir, yours truly,
NEW You.x, Sept. 11 ,1863.
Among the Suffering.
To the Editor of The Press:
SDI: Not on the battle-field, but in Bedford Street;
not among the soldiers,.but their families. • The fol
lowing are life pictures : The missionary found a
woman lying on the pavement, supposed to . be dy
ing ; rented a place for her, gaveeher some medi
cine and nourishing food—for he has to act as
doctor, nurse, and parson—and sent her over to the
Almshouse, as he bad no one to attend to her, and
her husband, returning from the army, called soon
after to take her home.
On another occasion he found a. young babe in a
place in Spofford street, which was blue with the
chill of the night air, and on getting some warm
milk sweetened for it, it gaped its little mouth open,
and stretched its tiny hand forth and screamed for
it at every teaspoonful, until it was gratified, So,
you may judge Iczny near it was to starvation. The
next day the missionary had it taken 'from its
drunken mother, who oared more for rum than her
child, and cleaned out the whole house, by
dispersing one drunken family in the coun
try, another up town, a poor, ruined young
girl to her home ;.and to - an old woman who was left
naked by another borrowing her dress and not re
turning it, he gave his old wrapper, which was the
only thing in the shape of women's clothing he had,
and she made some kind of a garment out of it, and
crept away at night, so she could get better.
We had the pleasure, early in the season, of Wit
nessing the triumphant death of an old woman who
once kept a house of ill.fame, was a terror to the
neighborhood, and had had a man killed in her
house, but was rescued through the instrumentality
of the mission in her seventieth year, and was eight
years a consistent Christian. During the warm
months three were converted and added to the
church. .
We now ask the reader to decide how much he
would give to, save his wiffes or child's life, Or to
rescue such a brand as the old woman spoken of, •
before he , lays aside this paper, and to send the same
to our address. Also, to send all the shoes, clo
thing (old or new) tons, for these people and over
three hundred poor children we have to care for.
You will feel better then, for charity blesses the
giver as well as the receiver ; yea, more, for the-
Saviour says : "It is more blessed I to givethan to
receive." - T am , sir / yours truly, •
.T. H. BECKWITH, Dllesionary.
MISSION HOTSE, Els Bedford street.
PERSONA',
—General.atant has written a neighkorlyietter
to the mother of his friend, Colonel T. Kilby Smith,
in which he says: "I have just returned from a visit
to the northern end of my department, and am happy
to learn that, in my absence, Colonel T. Kilby Smith
has received the appointment of Brigadier General
in the volunteer service. I congratulate you; and
him, sincerely upon this promotion. You will be
lieve me when I say sincerely, becausea was on my
recommendation that he has been promoted. Ido
not. know that Colonel Smith was aware of my
having recommended him for this. promotion ; at all
events, I did not tell him so. Yon will excuse me
for writing a very short letter, and a very uninte
resting one, except for the announcement it makes.
Believe me, moat sincerely the friend of yOurself and'
your son, with whom I have become intimately ac
(painted, and to 'say that acquaintance with him
only ripens friendship."
Captain John Rodgers has been lying very ill
at the naval hospital at Brooklyn. But very few of
his friends were aware of the fact until Thursday,
when:he was pronounced much better. He was
suffering from what was thought to be a boil, but it
proved to be an enormous carbuncle, which nearly
cost this hero his life.
. .
--Parson Brownlow has arrived in Knoxville,
and wit lsoon reestablish the Knoxville Whig, with
its new associate title, The Rebel Ventilator. The
parson says : " I expect to issue the first number in
October,....as it was .in that month, two years ago,
my Paper was`crushed out by the God-forsaken s mob
at Knoxville,. called the Confederate authorities. I
Will commence with this hell-born and hell-bound
lebellion where the traitors forced me to leave off,
and all who wish :the paper would do well to begin
with the first issue, as - I intend that single paper
shall be worth the subscription price to any uncon
ditional Union man." The parson is privileged to
speak with emphasis, and deserves well of his couk
try.
•
Rev. President Sturtevant, of Illinois College,
has returned from Eu.ope, whither he went to pre
sent the anti. shrverY features of the Rebellion tithe
British people. He says the anti-slavery public in
England are. almost altogether on the side-of .the
North; and have exercised a controlling influence
upon public opinion. Re also says that the people
of England do not want a rupture with this Amuntry
—they dread it. The trading community, however,
desire to make money out of our troubles,, while
those opposed to the Democratic institutions rejoice
at our misfortunes, and would like to see us shorn of
our strength.
JAMES MORSS