WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1884
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The Strange Doings at Chicago.
The proceedings in the ghleago Conven
tion prove the radical division in the party
it represents. There is a terrible struggle
among its members, who form two fac
tions, which, whatever 'compromise may
be in the end effected, are now as bitterly
opposed to each other as either is to their
common foe, the Administration: Those
who support MOCIALLAdi have no enemies
more determined than the "Unconditional
Peace men, led by VALLANDIGHANOIARMS
and Lona, and no Union man has ever de-
nounced Oeneral McCLuitau as fiercely as
Nr. IlAnnrs did yesterday. < Mr. HARRIS
called the, probable candidate of his party a
tyrant, a slave, and an assassin, and yet—
And let this be borne in mind as evidence
of the .astonishing lack of principle—ad-
Mitted that he would vote for this assassin,
tyrant, and slave, if the Convention should
ileclare him its candidate. Could the de-
gradation of politics be deeper ? More
than this: the faction of which Mr.. HAnure
is a leader succeeded yesterday , in
„postpon
ing the nomination, in the hope that by
delay it might defeat Mclir,Faaart and elect
SET3IOI7R, and yet—let this not be forgot
ten—it will sustain McOLELLArt if he is
chosen. So furious is the strife between
the rival parties that one delegate knocks
down another, and the whole authority of
the President is exercised to prevent the
Convention from degenerating into a. mob.
Now, let no one infer frtm this that
I %vhen the nomination is made the party will
le divided— This might be expected if the
factions were inspired by devotion to prin
ciple, but theirs are lower inspirations.
Whoever may be chosen the party will as
-a unit sustain. 'Self-preservation will corn
pelt it to unite. But, whether MCOI;ELI4N
is nominated by those who are ostensibly
'for the war, .oi• EETMOVE by those uncon
ditionally for peace, will make little differ
ence in the ignominy of the resulting com
promise. One of the factions must inevi
tably surrender the creed it professes, and
the whole party must be degraded by the
self-evident sacrifice of principle to expedi
ency.
HORATTO SEYMOUR is undoubtedly the
:secret choice of the majority of the dele
gates, but many of his , friends hesitate to
- vote for him, in the feat that he has no
chance of election in November. ildeCtat
lAN, if he is nominated, will be taken up
as •the more popular candidate. There
is no sincerity in the Convention, and
little in the party. Men who care only
for political success control them, and,
were it possible, they would to-day
schange creeds with the National Union
party, because they know it to be more
popular than their own. General Meaux,-
LAN himself submitted to be for years the
:servant of the Administration he now op
poses, and conducted the war on the prin
ciples it laid down, even in accordance
with its anti-slavery policy. Superseded
by Gen GRANT, he is willing to become the
candidate of a party which declares the
whole war a blunder and a crime.
Governor Seymour's Speech.
The speech made by HORLTIO SEYMOUR
in accepting the Presidency of the Chicago
Convention is characteristic of the -man
and his party—not one word in denuncia
tion of the rebellion, but hundreds in ha
tred of the Administration. All the blood
of the war, all the miseries of the country,
are declared by this unscrupulous orator to
be the legitimate results of the convention
which nominated ABRISTrAm LINCOLN.
What I Is the constitutional nomination
and election of a President just cause for
rebellion ? Have we fallen so low as
a nation that our safety depends upon
the perpetual dominion of a single party,
and the submission 'of a majority to a
minority ? Governor &Taman may deny
the democratic principle if he chooses,
and misrepresent facts as he pleases, but he
will never be able to show that the election
Annarram laNcom was not strictly con
stitutional and the work of a majority of
the American people, and afforded no pre
text-.for the war into, which the defeated
politicians of the South immediately
plunged the country.
We are astonished at the audacity of this
man, who holds up as criminals the greater
number of his fellow-countrymen. His ac
cusation is too broad and sweeping to be
credited, save by the more ignorant of his
fellow-partisans. He cannot deny that the
Southern leaders began this war before a
aolitary act or threat endangered the least
-of their rights, or that they resisted
- the lawful decision of the whole coun
try that AnnarrAm LENCOLN should be
its President. He knows—none better—
the history of the insolence of dis
appointed ambition and political re
yenge, and yet dares to accuse the nation
of beginning its own ruin in constitu
tionally exercising its free-will, and ABRA-
Luzcotar of consummating it by re
-fusing to be a party to the dissolution of
the Union. And, with all this bitter enmi
ty to the men who have defended the Union,
tionsmo SP.IIOU3I has not a single word
of blatne for those who clove the continent
asunder to gratify the spite of the vanquish
ed, or realize the dream of despots.
SENt•TOR WADE has been censured by
the conventions of his own county and dis
trict in Ohio for his opposition to the Pre
4a•ident in conjunction with Hnmsv WINTER
- Davis. One of the resolutions declares that
4, The recent attack upon the President by
WADE and DAVIS IS, in our opinion, ill
-timed, ill-tempered, and .111-advised, carry
.,
ing great and undisguised joy to - the rebel
camps in the South and rebel sympathizers
in the North, and productive of 'evil, and
only evil, to the Union cause ; and that we
feel it a duty, no less imperative than. dis
agreable,
_to pronounce upon that disor
ganiiing manifesto our 'Unqualified disap
proval and condemnation." Senator WADE
has been one of the most popular men in -
Ohio, and this resolution has especial Sig
nificance.
HOW to End the War.
The great duty and advantage of making
the coming draft thoroughly fruitful of re
. •
sults is ably illustrated in the following re
'aks of Mr. Swtrixon the correspondent
of the Times now at headquarters of the
Army of the Potomac. They include the
_personal judgment of the Commander-in
chief of the army, and, in this respect es-
Tecially, deserve attention :
"I am persuaded that If our armies did no more
than hole their own in their present positional with
tbe grip they have on the rebel armies the rebel
lion must wear fusee away and die out'from sheer
lack or breath, But the duty is laid upon us, not
leitis In consideration for the South itself than for
the honor and Integrity of the nation, and the ma
terial interests of the world at large, to use swifter
11101121111 for its suppression. We all want peace,
North and South; but the shortest cut to peace
iS through vigorous blows at that alone which
prevents peace—the armed forces still , under con.
trot of the chiefs of the rebellion. Even In point
of time no ambassadors could arrange terms or
peace so .quickly as the mission of a fresh bun
dyed thousand muskets. It is no mere poor judg
ment of mine, but the authoritative utterance of
the bead of all our armies, that it is to the hands of
. the people to end the rebellion at a blow. Lieut.
'Gen. Grant has declared that he had now but a
hundred thousand fresh men he could in fifty days do
-us ad the fighting that need be dune during the war.'
'This. Is no shallow hearsay; in the authentic de.
elsration of the high name given ; and the sentiment
affirmed by ever y military man I have lately met.
Ball that force ad ded
tc Gen. Grant's own Immelli•
ate army would enable him to stretch his line across
to the Danville road, and positively campel the alma
<tonna/at of 'Virginia; the other half would put
Hood's army into the hands of Gen. Sherman. Is
-there Jiving - patriotism enough left In the country
.to evoke the means for so glorious a constilumattord
If there were not, it might well raise the question
whether such a people deserved to be saved:
"This wilt be the last draft. There will be no more
calk, for there will need be no more. The rein
forcements it will give our armies will end the war.
Mils redaction should evoke the heartiest efforts to
sake it productive of the best fruits, which will be
avalked when our people, coming to view It not as
in arbitrary imposition of force, but a solemn call
4 id.iinty, and its elections not as a misfortune to
those on Ark* they may fail, but as a sacred
saying on of hinds , 'reliporia proniptly and person
ally to its demands."
An Unsettled Settlement.
The Danish question has been settled
after a fashion. The Kingdom of Den
mark loseii one-third of its whole ter
ritory and about two-fifths of its entire po
pulation. That is, it loses the Duchies of
Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenbourg, the
population of which is over one million.
The King of Denmark may think him
self fortunate that the whole of his ter
ritory has not been absorbed by the ra
pacity of Prussia and Austria, but will
do well to bear in mind - that there. is
such a thing as `making two bites of
a cherry—the first-partition of Poland
having taken place in 1772, and the second
in 1793. ln one respect he is fortunate—he
is not called upon to pay more than his own
share of the expenses of the war; he is al
lowed to retain his navy ; • the Duchies
which he loses will be chargeable with the
cost of being made independent, and will
be debited with their fair share of the na
tional debt. They start, therefore, if we
may speak figuratively, with a millstone of
indebtedness around their necks. They
will have to pay for their whistle.
The question of sovereignty remains to
be settled, and will probably lead to a mis
understanding which may end in another
war: Prussia, which is very grasping,
wants to. form a Protestant empire in North
Ger Many. Between Prussia and Holstein
lie portions of Meckletnbourg Schwerin,
Mecklembourg Strelitz, and the Kingdom,
of Hanover, and all three are Protestant.
If Prussia could only annex these two
Grand Duchies and the Hanoverian King-
clam, and also the Duchies of Schleswig
and Holstein, she would gain a desirable
addition of territory, and, whichls not less
important, the seaboard which she wants
on the North Sea and the Baltic, with a fair
chance of %becoming a maritime Power.
But there are two claimants for the Duchies
of Schleswigand Holstein, viz: the Duke of
Auguatenbourg and the Duke of Olden
bourg, the latter supported by RUssia. It
will be for the Federal Diet of Germany to
choose between these two claimants. If
the Choice be much longer delayed, Prussia
may. illustrate the fable, by sWalloiving the
oyster herself, and leaving the shells to the
pair .of Duchy-hunters. Do this Prussia
certainly will, if ever she gets a safe
chance.
Snugly nestled at the foot of Holstein,
and between it and Mecklembourg and
Hanover, is the petty Duchy of „Lauen
bourg. It is a miserably small place, with
a population of about 50,000. It is about
the size of Montgomery county
. in this
State.. Small as it is, its geographical
position makes it important, and it was
intended to let it go with Schleswig and
Holstein. .It appears, however, that Prince
FREDERICK Wltzrma of Electoral Hesse
has put in a claim to this Duchy of Tanen
bourg, on the plea that he surrendered all
title to Lauenbourg in favor of his sister,
wife of the present King of. Denmark,
upon.condition of the integrity of Denmark
being respected. This condition having
been violated, his renunciation' is to be
held no longer in force, and he has formally
placed his claim before the German Diet,
which took it into consideration on the 4th
of the,present month. The Prince, born
in November, 1832, is eldest son of the
Elector . of Hesse, a somewhat important
Protestant fraction of the German Con
federation. It is impossible to say what
complications, eventually to disturb the
peace of Eprope, may arise . out of these
rival claims.
NV.ZcSII3INO)rOW.
W.tunitrivaToN, August 30, 1694
'Y OVERLAND MAIL ROUTE
- -
Mr. OTIs, general superintendent of the Oierland
Mail route, has reached Washington, for the pu
ppet) of representing to the of f icials the condition of
affairs on the plains. The Sioux, Cheyennes, Ara
pahoes, and Illowas, are all hoskilp, and, according
to the repirt of friendly Indians, they number from
5,000 tO 8,000 Warriors.
In additionto the. indiscriminate :massacre of the
whites:in the moat shocking manner, they have de
stroyed at least one million dollars , worth of pro--
.perty, including ',emigrant trains, and have taken
'possession of all the ranches between Sulesburg and
Fort. Kearney, a distance of 200 miles, and ISO miles
this way to the Big Sandy. The'wires :to the Fa.-
'el& have been cut, and emigration rendered luso.
Cure, excepting in large numbers. Denver and
Other Bettlemente are at pAssent, curtailed in their
supplies from the States. The Indians say the
country belongs to them, and that they intend to
drive out the whites. This seems to be the only ar
gument for their warfare. As in view of this fast con
ciliation is at present out of theAuestion t and those
who base the best knowledge .of.all the attendant
circumstances are suggesting that General Harney
be placed In command of forces, which can be very
quickly sallied under him, to carry on hostilities
against the Savages.
WOUNDED OFFICERS
The following wounded officers beionginc to Penn..
sylvan'a regiments, arrived here yesterday and to.
day: Colonel Davis, 99th; Captain James O'Reil,
ley, 69th; Lieutenant A. P. McDermott : 69th; MEL
jor Charles Sleolcman, 194th; Lieutenant Bishop,
102 d; Captain Mclntosh, bad; Captain Moßinley,
81st ; Captain James H. Mitchell, 81st,•
THE 7-80 LOAN..
The subscriptions to theseven-thirtyloan reported
at the Treasury Department to day amount to
012,000, and to the ten-forty loan to $231,000.
Instrnetione. to Provost Igarshols in
New 'York.
ALBAarr, August 80.—The following has been pro
mulgated for the guidance of the provost marshals
of this division
Reep volunteering up as much as possible after
the 6th . of September, and let It be known that vo
lunteers will be counted on the present cell up to
the last practicable moment before the drafted men
are accepted and sent to•tbe rendezvous.
FILED. TOWNSEND,
A. A. P. 111. General.
Advices from North Carolina.
WASEINGIOH ,A ugust Bo.—The U. S. steamer
, Tacony his arrived at 'the navy yard from Alba.
marle Sound; N. C. where she has been on duty for
the past sit' months. She brings no special news
from that quarter. The rebel ram Albemarlekeeps
out of sight and out of danger, but our boats are
fully prepared should she Show herself. Some time
since the encounter between the Seamus and the
rebel rem the former has been provided with an iron
prow With.whlch to meet her. Among her officers
is Ensign Somers, who was on the Satellite, in
July, 1862;_when she was captured by the .rebels
near the mouth of the Rappahannock, and who was
badly wounded while resisting the enemy..
Aceitleat to a Bloekade•Rantier.
Iferairkx, August 30.--The bloekadorunner Con
stance, which left here on last Wednesday, sprang
aleak on Sunday, and returned to-night.
The Shelling or Williamsport, Sld.
WiLmAistspou'r, IFid. , August 29.--From twenty
five to thirty houses were amok by shells during the
rebels' late cannonade, anfi . not a resident was in
jured. One soldier received a flesh wound. Forth.
first time they have been defeated in the attempt to
cross the river here.
McClellan's Prospects fai a Nomination
at Chicago.
The Mew Ttitrane of Monday, in an article
noting the pTogress of sentiment among the politi
cians assembled there, thus speaks of hioalellan
and "the price of his stoat:" •
-- • •
I , The Peace men last night claimed povely
that McCiellan is a 'dead cock in the iolt;' that
they have got him by the throat; that he may get
a majority on the first formal but that he
neyer can, get the two-third vote necessary to ti
choice, and that be never 'will be nominated.
Seymour is the rising star. Be foiled the Peace
men once On a Ume when he promised, but sub.
•sequently refused, to put the State of New York In
armed opposition to the Geeeral Government.
They deserted him for Vallandlgham, but since
his arrival in this city they have been again no
qaetting with him, and will no doubt be willing,
upon his again setting hitheelf right with them, to
give tim their support. Falling to elect their fa
vorite, the Policy men will turn to Seymour as their
second choice, and It would not be at all surprising
were the State of New York to get the candidate.
It is in her power to do so, If she manages adroitly,
and who ever scented New York politicians of want
of tact and management 7 The great difficulty with
the MeCiellett.men is that all the big guns in the
Convention are naturally at heart against an up
start politician like him. They will never take a
shoulder-strap man, as long as a civilian, of their
own set, le terhe fore.'
"The Peace Men make a very strong point "on the
Policy Men In this way. They say that it would
never do to nominate a man whose only recommen
dation is that he imbrued his hands in the blood of
his Southern brethren—killed so many thousands of
Democrat& They say that there is tto possible cor
respondence between the proposed platform and the
proposed candidate. If the Democracy really want
peace, say they, let them show the South that they
are sincere, and present a Peace man on a - Peace
platform:,
SPNTINBRTIS OP THE Sovorens.—The Lancaster
Express makes an extract from a late letter of 14.
IL DI. Boring, a woriity officer of the 79th P. V. V.,
to a friend in that city. It eipressis the general
sentiment of the soldiers:
"The result or the late election is a source of
great satisfaction to us, and I assure you that the
old 79th will roll up such a cote for Abe and
Andy as will astonish the Copperheads of Lan
caster. We can't call these men Democrats, for the
reason That they are not Democrats. They aretrai
, tors, too cuwaidly to uphold their cause and Its
principles by coming out boldly Into the field and
shouldering their muskets alongelde of their more
manly brethren—the rebel soldiers. Party strife
m this hour for our country's peril we as sot.
diem despise and abominate, and we regard those
who participate in this, after the Within of the
copperheads, se speculating In the blood of the
country's stay and support., her patriotlo army and
nary. Though we may not fully endorse some of
the reassures of President Lincoln, yet we feel and
krorir that in the general administration of. ids
affairs no man could have done bettor, and we
mean that he shall remain at the helm of bur ship
of stale until we have safely weathered the storm
of rebellion.”
THE WAR,
THE CONTESTS TOR THE POSSESSION or
THE WELDON RAILROAD.
Further Particulars of the Battle of Thursday
BOTH ARMIES WHET UP TO MONDAY
REBEL ADVICES FROM ATLANTA
Another Balding Band Detached from
Gen. !Sherman's Army.
THE REBEL WHEELER ON ANOTHER RAID
HIS OBJECT THE DMItHIIOTION OF GENERAL
SHERMAN'S COMMUNICATIONS.
The Work: to be Complete front Nash
Ville to Atlanta
Early's Army Not Out of the
Shenandoah Valley.
OUR ADVANCE ARRESTED BY A STRONG
REBEL REAR-GUARD.
TUE BEERY REPORTED DONORNTRATINO
AT BLINKER IBM
HEAVY PIOHTENti SOURLY EXPECTED.
THE TALLAHASSEE SPOKEN .AT SEA.
A UNION GUNBOAT BELIEVED TO HAVE
OVERTAKEN HER
General Burnside's Views of the War.
FIFE ARNIM BEFORE PE rzusounct.
/CORN ABOTIT TEM WIRLDoxf RAILROAD BA:TTLS.—
TEM IMPRESSIONS OP Alt Brii WITNESS.
FORTUSSB 1h10241108, AupuSt 28.—The following
additional particulars of the great fight on the
Weldon Railroad are froth an eye-witness:
The fight was commenced on. Thursday by Col.
S. R Spear, 11th Pennsylvania cavalry, by making
a dashing charge on therebel advance. This rebels
In turn charged him. Then both forces drew off
for a final charge. lint no sooner had they made
their movement known than 001. Spear, who was
wailing their advance, gave the order for a Canister
charge, and with a yell both forces met, but oar
troops were too much for the rebels, and, charging
upon their Bank, We broke their lines and captured
three hundred prisoners. •
Our cavalry now fell back to give liancocitis
gune
a chance. On came the enemy, fully confident, am
parently, of capturing Hancock's position, which
lay alobg the railroad, and was occupied by two
divisions of the 25 Corps, with twenty:guns in posi
tion. They came re.pidlyfinward, charging up c lose
to OUT works, but they now met a reception which
proved most bloody to them, and they fell back to
try it again, and again, only to meat the same
bloody welcome. .
Hancock's gallant troops received four successive
charges from the enemy, but each time successfully
repulsed them with fearful slaughter.- Gen: Han
cook now opened his centre with the view of trap
ping his eager foes, but, in his hurry to receive
them properly, was made to bring eight of his guns to
the rear, and they thus accidently fell into their
possession. - Now the rebels came rushing up, sup.
poeing that we were retreating, but they Boon round
their mistake by. discovering Hancock's forces on
their flanks. The entire rebel force now broke and
ran, our troops following them up and slaughtering
them fearfully, and thus ended one of the best ego.
Cuted fights around Petersburg,
With only two divisions, General Hancock not
only held hie position but whipped the rebels badly,
as the number of theirdead lying on the field clear
ly proves. Oar burying parries estimated the
number of their dead at three thousand. Most of
their wounded wore removed, and their loss must
have been very heavy.
We still hold the Weldon railroad. The glenous .
old 2d Corps, and their deshing leader, have won
new and unfading laurels in this engagement. The
rebel loss in killed and wounded on the Weldon
railroad, on Thursday and Friday, was very heavy,
and they were mostly left on the field. The enemy
made three chargeS in force, and received a raking
fire from our batteries, which were behind heavy
earthmoria• It is Supposed they were Ignorant of
the positiOn of the sth Corps, when they made their
. attack on the 2d Corps at Reams' Station.
THU LOSBEe Itr THE ItiiTTLB-BTORIES or BSsti•
Olclol AND DISBI4I3TBILS
WAssitrreerow,, Auguet 80.—A letter from the
Army of the Potothae, dated August 28th; evening,
says : To•day not a gun was fired from daylight to
dark, and'up to this hour, 2 P. M., there have - been
very few reports. It was the most quiet day we
have had for four weeks.
Our loss In Thursday's fight Is ascertained to be'
about two thousand men in the aggregate: and nine
guns—ft:Ur of Brown's Rhode Island, four of Sleep
ers Massachusetts, and one of Mclinight's Battery
of light artillery.
The statement Is made by request, that it was the
107th PenneYlvanis Veteran Regiment Volhnteer
Infantry, instead of the 104th New York, as re.
ported In some of the newspapers, whloh captured
the battle•fiag of the 18th North Carolina, in the
fight of the 19th Instant, and that the party who
made the prize was the coloptearer of the regi
ment, Private Huttensteln, of Company 0.
An' English gentleman, Edwin Waliace, swam
the Appomattox last night, and escaped Into our
lines. lie has resided in Petersburg since the war
began, and represents the prospects of, the rebels as
becoming more gloomy than ever. The leaders are
rendered desperate because of the misdarrlpge of
their scheme to draw Gen. Grant hence, by invading'
Pennsylvania. Mr. Wallace lost his wife and child
In Petersburg a abort time since, they being killed
by the explosion of one of enr shells, which entered
the house where they were.
More deserters also got in last night, and report
that they were paid off and discharged a short time
ego from Col. Crawford's Union 3d Tennessee 100.
dale' regiment, and while on their.way home were
captured, wits seventeen others, by Gen. Weiler's
cavalry, and forced into the rebel ranks, after being
robbed of all their money and clothing. They hate
no idea what became of the of her seventeen men.
They were separated at Lynchburg, whither,lthey
were broughtlfrom the place of their capture in
Irons. they are very indignant at the treatment
they have•received, and are anxious to take the oath
of allegiance.
710 FORTIERB, FIGHTING ITT TO MONDAY LAST.
WASHINGTON, August 30.—The steamer Dictator
arrived this morning from (My Point. She reports
ail quiet sines the fight at Reamle Station, with the
exception of the usual pletet firing and an 000a
sional artillery duel.
On Sunday an attack on our pontoon bridge on
the Appomattox, at Broadway Landing, was an
ticipated. • Two brigades of colored troops and seve
ral batteries ,were despatched to that point on a
double.quick, but no rebels made their appearance.
The Dictator brought up the sth and 6th New
if f r soy regiments, their term of service having ex-
Tired. These men have seen bard service, and are
much reduced In numbers.
FORT B.EBS MON RO&, August %I.—Colonel Shaffer,
of General Butler's staff, 'arrived this morning from
.
James river. He started down on the steamer
"barrio Martin? wideh was run into by a gunboat
when near Wilson's landing, and ran ashore to
prevent her sinking in 'deeper water.
The steamer John A.: Warner, Capt. Cone, from
City Point this morning, repro:lents( all quiet during
yesterday in front: . - -
Major Jobn . E. Mulford, Assistant Agent for
Esehathici, left at one o'clock this P. M. for Aiken's
Landing,. onilag of truce steamer "New York,"
Captain Chisrolm.
The members of the 6th and 6th New Jersey, and
40th New York regiments, whose time has expired,
lea for home this P. M.
THE sHENAEDO&III VALLEY.
TBs Ita,BELs erriLL SN T 8& VALLEY—ssuorisurrui
WITH OUR ADVANCE
BALTrisOBZ, August SO.—The Amman ' has re
ceived the following:
HEADQUAItT3I/6 M DDLBItirraTARY DtVistOst,
August 30,1881,
The position of our army, since my letter of yes'
terday, remains unchanged. There was a. very spi
rited eavalrylight yesterday at Smithfield, or, as it
Is sometimes called, Ediddieway, about seven miles
from Charlestown, which proved that the enemy had
not yet retreated up the valley.
General Custer's brigade of cavalry, with Captain
Ransom's battery of artillery, then moved across
the Opequan, about a mile beyond Smithfield, for
the purpose of making a reconnoissance towards
Bunker's Hill. They bad proceeded about a mile
when they came on the enemy's skirmish line. A
poi lion of Curlier's command were dlamounted and
sent in to engage them— The skirmishing lasted un
til eleven o'clock, when Custer was obliged to retire
across the Opequan, where he was reinforced by
BeCesnola and Gibbs' brigades of cavalry, and the
skirmishing was renewed with increased vigor.
The enemy now sent two brigades of Infantry
SCUM the Opequan, with the view of outflanking
us, and Cutting off our retreat on Smithfield. In
this they wore foiled, for Gen- Merril discovered
their intention, and retired on Smithfield before
they could accomplish their designs.
Heavy skirmishing was kept up all the time we
were retreating, and we inflicted considerable loss
on the enemy, as our men took advantage of every
commanding position, and from behind every corer,
to pick off their advancing line.
In the meantime General Sheridan had Ordered
Ricketts , division of Infantry of the ettt Corps to
proceed towards Smithfield and support the cavalry.
The infantry reached a point about a mile this
side of Smithfield at 5 o'clock P. ill., where they.
formed a junction with the cavalry, who had grades,
ally fallen back to that place, contesting every Inch
of the ground. The two forces neve - united assumed
the offensive, and Gen. Ricketts deployed one bri
gade of his command as skirmishers, and sent theta
In advance of our cavalry. An soon as the enemy
discovered that they had infantry to cOntend with
they rapidly withdrew, crossing the Opequan at
about a o'clock.
Our forces purhed them - very drawly, mid rap
tured some Prisoners. Our whole loss In the affair,
including killed and wounded, will not exceed 100 1
whilst that or the enemy must listve . been =oh
greater,, as ~we " had the advantage of position.
amongst' the killed is Dr. Bailson, medical erect( r
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1864:
on Gem. Torbertis staff. He was riding along the
ekirmish line In company with Gen. Torbert and
Capt. Bailey, when he was shot by one of the rebel
sharpshooters, who was Rome moments before disco•.
vered by Capt. Bailey to be paying partlenlaratten•
Bon to the General and his staff.
The reconnoissance yesterday has developed the
fact, beyond a doubt, that the enemy still has a
heavy force In ourfront, and It is believed that they
are ocnoentrating at Bunker Hill. Clouds of dust
were distinctly seen yesterday arhing from the road
between Bunker Hill and Winchester, supposed to
be the enemy's wagon train going up the valley.
ANOIRKR RAID ruost OWN. 8 11 11RMAIV8 ARMY.
N* YORK, Aug.- 30.—A rebel despatch from At
lanta, dated the Tad • inst., states that the enemy's
scouts reported that 'another Federal raid, seven
thousand strong, with nine cannon, had left Deca
tur, in the direction of Covington, Georgia.
ATTIMPT TO DSSTILOT OZN. COTSDICHT -
• 0 ./iTION - g-ItIOOIL RAID BY TRH OUBRILLAB tufatir,
WASELICE.
NAE.I3I7II.LID, Tenn., August 30 .--GOVernor Jobe•
son has received a despatoh,slgned L. R. N. Patidn,
the Colonel commanding, dated at Gallatin to-day,
stating that news from Lebanon had been received
there up to S'idiMook this morning, when General
Milligan was Tn the hands of the, enemy - under
Wheeler. The college building was surrounded,
with all the troops in it.
The enemy aro supposed to be 1,500 strong, Our
forces aro Scouting all the roads In the direction
which they aro supposed to be moving,
NASEVILLS, August 30.—Greit excitement pre
veils at Nashville to- day, in consequence of a rumor
that an attack Was to be made by General Wheeler's
caveiry force. It is rumored that his force amounts
to 8,000 or 8,000 men, with twelve guns.
When last heard from, they were near McMinn
ville, advancing toward Murfreesboro.
It is posiible that their Intention Is to destroy the
Federal line of communication to the front; and it
Is auppcsed that the first demonstration mill. be
made upon Duck river bridge.
No apprehension need be felt In regard to an at•
tack upon this city.
Reports reached here this morning that the rebel
cavalry force was near Lebanon, 'Tenn., and had
captured some tblrty Federal cavalry; but the
river being too high to ford, it: is presumed that
they hare since. found Wheeler's main body, near
Murfreesboro.
No reports from General Sherman have homy re.
calved.
Five hundred rebel priponere, Inoluding 23 COM
toistloned officers, reaobed here lest night.
The fiver to two feet on he elloel!, 114,4 fawns.
Arrivals of Rebel Prisoners at Point
Lookout—Their Prophecies of Another
Formfd„ble Invasion.
WASAINOTON I August 3o.—Ad vices from Point
Lookout, dated August 28, state that five hundred
arid twenty.eight prisoners arrived on Wednesday,
and on Thursday three hundred and thirty-one
more.
Forty-eight prisoners eame In on Saturday night,
and report that since Grant seized the Weldon road
flour went up to one hundred dollars a barrel in one
day.
They say Longstreet's corps has gone to Early's
support, and that the rebel army will enter the
North in large force a few days previous to Septem
ber 26th, when the draft takes place. The force in
the valley they state to be 60,00. If they succeed
In creating a disturbance,and in stopping the &ail,
they vat nipter MAO& soil.
BOsTow, August 30.—Capt. Peel, of the schooner
Maria L. Davis. arrived litre, reports as follows :
August 25, latitude 84.12, longitude 78.50, passed a
propeller with two masts and two. amoke•atacks,
painted lead color, with a red bottom, showing
American colors, with the mainmast gone about
twenty feet above the deck, and burning soft coal.
She was in light trim, and steering directly for the
Maria L. Davie, when another steamer hove in
Sight and bore for the first steamer, which was
supposed to be the pirate Tallahassee. Capt. Peel
Crowded all Ball and escaped.
&HALIFAX, August 80.—Nothing has been heard
from the pirate Tallahassee since the reported de•
strip:Alen of twenty fishermen off Cape North.
TI4IIILNITANTE, THROWN INTO A PANIC NT
The Memphis Argus has a long account of an ex
citement in that city on the 213 d; growing out of ap
prehensions of a second and Imminent attack by
Forrest. Reports organs were heard in the suburbs
of the city, and immediately there was a general
clearing out of everybody in the vicinity Along
the main street they flew, these frightened men and
women, of all colors and shades of complexion, some
in hacks, others afoot, whither going they could not
themselves say, only answering, when questioned,
"The rebels are coming."
. Quickly as the alarm
was given the call for troops was made by the usual
signal, and forth from stores, counting-houses and
wor,itshops Sped the members of the enrolled militia
to the armories of the several regiments. where
little time was lost by the officers le command (on
the ground. early) in forming their reglinenta., and
moving them to that part of the lines supposed to
be under Eire.
Meanwhile all the stores, banks, and offices were
closed and.preparations made by .public Officers for
insuring the safety of their moneys and papers, and
troops were marched hurriedly forward, to the
outer-ph:kat lines, where alresollyatne - firai. note of
alarm a - judicious disposition of troops had been'
made by the general in command, aided by his
staff. Flags were heisted on many of the hospitals,
and from every one of the Convalescent camps the
available men were turned out, all of thorn shoul
dering muskets with an alacrity not ono -w it tau
than their more fortupa,t_e nn 4 health* eying
coirirsdaS. Eve&Ywrete the SW - 15nd take aof ao
itti
tivity were visible upon the part of our command
ing officers, and nothing was left undone by them
that was deemed necessary by the most Judicious to
secure the safety of the city. The utmost diScipline
was apparent everywhere.
By ten o'clock the streets were empty. ; AB the
available men had In one or other of the'regular' or
Improvised organhationi gone to the i front,"
while the ladies, who had been out shopping, Bed
fast as they could, In carriages, beggies; and carry- , „
ails, to their homes. Math street wore a holiday
look. there blithe but few persons visible. and these
Mostly of the class utterly unfit for =Hanky or mi:
litia service. On Front street and the bluff there
was yet some little excitement. Rumor had spread
it that there was on the Arkansas shore a large
body i f guerillas, who, attracted by the shooting,
were lazily lolling en the bank of the river, in an
ticipation of being sent for by General Forrest,
when he had ' Memphis captured. This idea,
by the time It had reached the fortifications,
had grown to snob proportions as to induce'
a belief in Its reliability by one of the officers
commanding a gun, who determined' to teat Its
accuracy and at the same time see how fast the
guerillas could run by droppidg a shell in that part
of the neighboring State they were supposed to
occupy. Accordingly, three of the screamers were
sent upon the errand, eliciting, however, no re,
sponse, and awaking nothing besides the echoes of
the Wrest beyond. The boats at the levee--many of
them well.known packets-got up steam and pushed
off into the.stream, while all of the gunboats at the
navy yard were "alive" with man put in readiness
for any emergency that the hour might give birth to.
An hour sufficed for the enacting all v e have en
deavored to describe, at the end of which .messen
gers irom the supposed scene of action arrived in
with the gintifying intelligence that no enemy had
made his appearance ; and, what watistill more ea
suring, that none was in sight. The Cease was
found In the fact that a number of negro soldiers
returning from picket duty in the neighborhood of
the Hernando road had fired off the charges in
their muskets, hearing which, and supposing an at
tack, other troops in the vicinity had Bred, a few
straggling to the rear with the intelligence-their
own suspicions worked Into fact-that Forrest was
again moving upon the city with his caralry, this
time greatly augmented.
A cavalry force, however, sent out for the purpose
by Major General Washburne, made a detour four
miles from the picket lines, from the most northern
to the most southern point near the °lcy, at that dis
tance and, save that they came upon a little house
filled 'with eight of the Gonfederate wounded of
Sunday's engagement, reported that not a rebel
soldier Was to be met with or heard.of. The return
of this scouting party and the news they brought
settled the question of an, attack upon the city, and
quieted the fears of the most timid,And by eleven
o'clock the excitement was all but dead, and faces
for two hours rigid in a tension of fear relaxed into
smiles of joy and satisfaction that " lwas as 'twas,"
and no rebels were near. ..
Affairs on the Arkansas-4 Steamer De-
The Memphle Argun of the 24th gays
We learn from the of of the steamer Corti
mercial that a few days alma) the guerillas; on the
banks of the Arkansas, within twenty miles of Pine
Bluff, captured the steamer Miller, and, atter plun
dering, burned-her. It was reported at Duvall's
Bluff; when the Commercial left; that a heavy force
of rebels, under the noted' Gentry's Shelby and
Marmaduke, were making retul_y indeed had com
menced, an attack upon Pine duff, and that rein
forcements had gone iorward to the garrison there
frourtittle Rock. The next snivel from Duvall's
Bluff will likely bring details of the attack, if pro
secuted.
. White river and in the vicinity on either bank
quiet reigns. For weeks .guerillas haviitnot, been
beard of, and communication bktween Little "lock
and Dnvall.s Bluff is uninterrupted.
COPPRILECRADS CAVIGHT.—A. Rochester paper
says: •"A gentleman just returned from Elmira
reports Ha amusing and suggestive incident that
took place In connection with the transfer of rebel
prisoners to 'Elmira. Last Sunday, while a train
filled With the prisoners on the way to Elmira was
stopping a few minutes at Oswego, quite a num
ber—tome eight or ten—sympathizers with treason
in that place managed to get on the cars in
order to communicate with the prisoners, and
distribute among them little presents of tobacco,
Sc., and prove to them that they were not
without friends in the North. The sympathizers
became so absorbed in their Intercourse with their
Southern friends as not to notice the signal for
starting the trait, and before they were aware the
doors were closed and under guard, and the train
In motion. When it arrived in Elmira the Oswego
sympathizerS were marched out with the other
rebels, and, notwithstanding their expostulations,
were compelled to take their quarters at Barracks
No. 3, and they were still there when our informant
left yesterday afternoon. They will doubtless be
released at the proper time."
pug MOSQUITO /level+ Lc:lN.—This Is the topic of
universal comment. Nothing like It has been
known In the experience of the "oldest inhabl
tant.” Like Early's guerillas In Pennsylvania,
thee. stin pests penetrate everywhere, laying
tribute on g al l within their reach, and refusing even
then to. abandon the field, During the last two
nights all sorts of expedients have been resorted to
in order to rid houses and sleeping apartments of
the invaders ; people who have never smoked be
fore have given themselves with heroic reelgne,
lin to the fumigation of their rooms; camphor
has been freely used in washing every exposed
part of the person • while hundreds of kind.
hearted, peaceful hiinsekeepers have. suddenly
become pitiless belligerents, waging a war of
extermination on the whole mosquito family. Last
evening several stores were olosed before seven
o'clock, owing to this extraordinary "raid." This
morning the country poople came to market with
their heads bound up, and flirting twigs of leaves to
drive off the annoying insects, while their horses
were covered with asparagus branches as a pro
tection from the same enemy. The salutation, as
friend meets friend, Is no longer "A pleasant day,
this ;" or, " Glad to see you, old fellow ."
but " Did
you ever see anything equal to these mosquitos'?
blast 'em I" slaps right and lert giving as angry
vehemence to every syllable of the greeting.—
Stwark (N. J.) Advertiser, Aug. 27171..
TEN KITTATINNY IiOUBB, DAIL A.WAlig WATS%
Ger.—The advertisement of this popular house is
deserving of the attention of Invalids and others,
is "the proprietor announces his deterrahmatton,
owing to the great number of his patrour.dlirttlg the
summer months, to keep his house open thkautlance
of the year.
Tun oitizene of the Tenth ward, liable to draft, are
referred to the advertisement of the .Exer.atlve Com-
InittO e of that ward, 'Which informs them how, by
united cotton; they can, 1111 the quota and avoid the
oomiag draft. . -
THE ABBY BEFORE ATLANTA.
OTSxf DESP ATCH.
The Tallahaseee Spoken.
Excitement in Memphis.
EIMOIIB OP A. SZCOND ItATD
stroyed.
THE. CHICARO CONTENTION.
Steend Day—Governor Seymour Dnani..
taourly Elected Permanent President—
Die Speech of Aceeptance—A Settle.
resent of our Difficulties to be Arrived
at by Arbitration—Peace impossible
under the Present Atiministratton—De.
mocrary Only to Preserve the Union—
BePollutions and Nominations—MeCiel.
lan Denounced as a Tyrant by Harris,
of Maryland—lie Is Silenced by a Point
of Order—McClellan Defended by Gen.
Morgen—A Warm Debate and much
Confusion—A Strong Opposition Mani
fested Against McClellan—No Nonplus.
dons, suit an Adjournment until To.
day.
CHICAdo, August ao.—The National Demoeratic
Convention reassembled at ten o'clock this morn
ing.wthe attendance ; both indite and outside of
the team, was even greater than that ofyester
day. 4
immediately after the Convention was .called to
order, end a prayer was offered by Bishop White
house, of Illinois, Mr. , Hugbes, of Pennsylvania,
chairman of the Committee on Organization, re
ported that the committee brut unanimously agreed
upon Horatio Seymour as permanent president of
the Convention.
The announcement was greeted with applause,
and the report aslopted by acolamation.
. The following, is a list of the officers elected by the
Convention by acclamation
President—Boratio Seymour, of New-York.
Vice Presidents— Joseph Chase, of Maine ; J. W.
- Sullivan, of Nevi Hampshire ; E. D. Beach, of alas
chusette • .1):.• Smalley. of Vermont; George
Taylor, of Cionnecticat rAltred Anthony, of Rhode
Island ; Andrew Cobb, of New jersey ; Gideon
J. Tucker, of New York ; Asa Paoker, of Peanut
: wade; J. T. Robineen, of Ohio; S. W. Gibson, of
Indisna; O. B. Plelilin, of Illinois ; John S. Beery,
of Michigan ;,Johte S. Phelps, of Misseurl ; John P.
Peckham,s 01 Minnesota ; William. Patterson, of
'lnset ;J. S. Berry, of California ; J. Stickler, of
Hanes: Wm. Mchytll, of Coregon ; Isaac D.' Jones,
of Maryland ; Dr, John Merritt, of Delaware.
Secretaries—fine front dach State, Including James
D. Biddle, Delaware; Prank M. Hutchinson, Penn
sylvania ; Jetties A.. L. McClure, Indiana.; James
P. Barbour Kenteelly ; E. B. Eshelman, Ohio; and
The rules and regulatione of the last N i ticas s al De-
M sv
ooratie onventionereSadopted.
s The Cominfthee on Credentials reported against
,admitting delegates from tne Territories; Louisiana,
.
or the District of Columbia, and also in favor of ad.
Soittieg both Kentucky delegations*: Thnrepiktwas
adopted.
Mr. Amos Kendall piesented. a communication
stating the action Of the 004.0erTatire CORYcott9nr
It was read aid referred to the COMmit.tee On ROO
lutions,
Governor Seymour, on taking the chair, delivered
the following address:
GENTLE/4EN OP TIM CoNVIO.PrrOir; I cannot
fOreiriet the resolutions and action of this Conven
tion; but I say that every member of it loves the
Union, uesires peace, and will uphold constitutional
treedom. While the resolutions "and aotion'of this,
Convention are of the utmost importance, there are
reasons why the Democratic, party should be restored
,to power, and they are great reasons, The Demo
cratic party will restore the Union, because it loves
peace; it will bring
- back liberty, GS our land, be
cause It loves liberty; it will put down despetism,
becanse it. hates the ignoble tyranny which now de
grades the'Amerlean people. •
Four years ago a Convention met in. thia city,
when our country was peaceful, prosperous and
united. Its delegates did not, mean to destrOnour
-Government, to overwhelm us -with debt, or to'
drench .our land with blood ; but they- were ant.'
mated by intolerance and fanaticism, and blinded
by an ignorance of the spirit of our institutions,
the
character of our people, and, the condition of our
;lend. They thought they might safely indulge their
passione, and they eonaluded to do FO. •They would
not heed thewarnings Of our fathers, and they did
not consider_ that meddling. begets strife. T.heir
pensions have brought out their natural results.
They were impelled to spurn all measures of com
premise. Step by step they have marched• on to
'melte from which at the outset they would have
shrunk -with horror ; and even now, when war has
desolated our land, has laid its heavy bnrthens
upon labor, and when bankrupbsy 'and ruin Over
-Imeg us, they will not • have the Union, restored
except upon conditions unknown to our Uonstitu•
Mile They will not let the shedding of blood cease
even a little time, to see if Christian, charity or
the wisdom of statesmanship may not work out a
method to save our country.
Nay, more than this, they will not listen to a
proposal for.peace which does not offer that which
title Govan:seem has no- right to ask. This Ad
ministration cannot now save the 'Union if it would.
It has, by its proclamations, by vindictive legis
lation, and by Its displays of bate and passion,
placed obstacles in its own pathway which it can
net overcoine. It has hampered Its Own freedom
of action 14 unconstitutionallties. It cannot be
said that the failure of its policy is due to the want
•of courage and eevotion on the pent of our armies.
Never in the history of the, world have soldiers
given up their lives more freely than have those.
of the armies which have battled for the flag of
our Delon in the Southern States. The world wilt
hold that they have done all that armies can do, -
end had = wise statesmanship secured the fruits of
their victories, today there would have been peace
in our land. utwhile our soldiers have desperately
etruggled to carry our banners south, to the Gulled
Mexico, even , now the Government declares In - the
edict of a general that rebellious discontent has
worked northward to the shores of the great lakes.
the guaranteed rights of the people to boar arms
have been trampled under foot up to the very bor
ders of Canada, so that American servitude Is put in
bold contrast with British liberty.
This Administration thus declares to the world
ithat it has no faith in the people of the States whose
.votes• placed it in power. - it also admits by such
an can't that these people have no faith in the Ad
ministration. .While those in -power, without re
morse, sacrifice the blood end treasure of our peo
ple, they will not give up their own passions for
the public goad. This. Union is now held asunder
by military ambition. If our political troubles
could be referred to peace arbitrament,. away
'.firons tits contending armies in the held, our Union
would be restored. the rights of the States would:
be,gueranteed, the sacredness of hornet; and, persons •
be again respected,: and an upright judiciary
would again administer the laws of the land. Let
obt the ruin of our country be charged to our sol
diers. It is not due to their teachings or their fans.
tielens In constant official Intercourse with them,
I have Lever heart) uttered one sentiment of hatred
towards the people of the South. Beyond all other
men, they value the •ble esings of peace and the -vir
tues of mercy, of gentleness, and charity; while
those who stay at. home demand no mercy, or cha
rity, or forgiveness. The bigotry of fanaticism and
the intrigues of place men have made bloody pages
of history of the past three years. It was a soldier
upon whom our Saviour bestowed his only commen
dation when he hung upon the cross, and the Pha
risees mocked his sufferings. It was a. soldier alone
who discovered his divinity when he heard him pour
forth prayers far mercy and forgiveness for the an
thers of his sufferings.
This Administration cannot save this Union, but
we can. Dir. Lincoln views many things above
the 'Union. We put the 'fission first of all. He
thinks a proclamation worth more than peace. We
think the blood of our people more precious than
the edicts of a President.
There are no hindrances in our pathway to Union
and peace. We demand no conditions for the re
storation of the Union. We are shackled with no
hates, no prejudices, no passions. We wish for fra
ternal relationship with the people of the Sonia. We
demand for them what we clemand for ourselves—
full recognition of the rights of the States. We
mean tbat every State on our nation's banner shall
shine with one and the same lustre.
in the coining election men must decide with
which of the two parties into which our people are
divided, they, will act. If they wish for Union they
will act with the party which will hold the Union to
gether.
Tbey will act with that party which does now and
always did love and reverence the Union. If they
wish for peace, they will, act with those who sought
to avert this war, or who now seek to restore good
will and harmers) , among alt sectione of our. country.
If they care for their rights and the sacredness of
their bemes, they will act with those who havestood
up to resist arbitrary arrests, despotic legislation,
arid the overthrow ot the judiciarys
if, upon the other hand, they sr/swilling to con
tinue she present policy of the Government and
condition of affairs; let them act with that organize.
tion which made the present condition of our couta
try. . There .are many good - men who may be led to
do this by their passions and prejudices, and our:
land swarms with place men who will hold upon
wer with deadly grasp.
But, as for us, we are resolved that the party
which has made the history of our country, since its
advent to power, seem like some unnatural and ter.
rible dream, shall be overthrown. Four years ago
it bad its birth upon ibis spot. Let us see that by
our action It shall die here, where it was born.
We desire Union and peaces and the Administrae
tion deny us - Union and peace; for they demand
conditions and exact a price which they well know
will prolong the war, and the war unduly prolonged
becomes disunion. Wise statesmanship can now
bring this war to a close upon the terms solemnly
set Writ by the Government at the outset of the
contest.
We are battling for the rights of those who belong
to all
• political organizations. We mean by these
rights that free speech shall not be impeached, ale
though thatright may be used to denounce us. We
intend that the rights of conscience shall be pro ,
tested, although mistaken views of duty may turn
the temples oh religion into theatres for, partisan
denunciation& -
:We mean that the home rights; the sacredness of
the fireside, shall be respected by, those in antheritys.
no matter what political views may be held by
those WILD Sit beneath their roof trees. When the
Democratic, party shall have gained power we shall
not be leis but more tenacious upon these subjects.
We have forborne much because thotre who are
now -charged with the conduct of,public strains
know but little about the principles of our Gevern-
Ment.
We were unwilling to present an appearance of
factious opposition, but when we shall have gained
power that official who shall violate one prineiple of
la*: one single right of the humblest man in our
land, shell be punished by the fall rigors of the law;
ft matters not whether he sits in, the Presidential
chair or holds an humbler office under our Govern-
Went.
We have had upon this Boor a touching and silent.
cant proof 'of the folly of this ddustnistration, who
have- driven from their Support thoße upon whom
they chiefly leaned at the outset of the rebellion.
Then their hopes, even for their own personal safe
ty, 'were upon noblemen in the border States, who,
under circumstances the mosttrYiug, severed family
relationship and ancient associations to uphold the
Begot' our country. Many of these men are now mem
bers of this Convention, and- they bear impressed
upon their countenances, and manifest in their pre
fence, the high and generous purpose which animates
them. And yet. it Is true—great God ! that it should
be true!—they are stung with a- sense °nth° Injuss
tice and ingratitude of the unworthy men who have
instilled anti rained them and their families, and
trampled on their rights by vindictive legislation,
through the agency of miserable and dishonest
subordinates.
Gentlemen, I do &net our proceedings here will
be marked by harmony, and do earnestly believe we
shall be animated by the greatness of this occasion,
for, in all probability, the future destiny of our eosin•
try hangs upon our action. Let this consideration
inspire us with the spirit of _harmony.
God of our fathers, bless us now, and lift us up '
above all personal consideration , ha' us with a just
idea of time great reeponsibnitiee which rest upon us,
and give again to our land its Union, its peens,. and
its liberty
The speech of Governor Seymour was greeted
with cheers.
Mr. Guthrie, chairman of the Committee on Re
solutions, stated that thrineveral resolutions offered
to the said committee yesterday had been referred
to a sub-committee, and that there was reason to
,believe that they would , be ready to report this
afternoon ; and furthergeire s that there was a fair
prcspect of a harmonious txMclusion.
Alter some debate the Convention took a ree ' 6B ß
till 4 o'clock.
VTRIMOON SZSP lON
The ConVention reassembled at 4 o'arook this
afternoon.
! Mr. Guthrie statedthat the Committee on BeSoln :
tions bad agreed, and were ready to report.
The resolutions were read, as follows :
Resolved; That in the future, as in the past, we
a adhere with unswerving fidelity to the Union,
under the Constitution, as the only solid foundation
of opr strength, security, and happiness as %people,
and Is the framework ot the Government, equally
conducive to the welfare and prosperity of ail the
States, both Northern and Southern.
&lot ve d, That this Convention dots explicitly de•
Clare, as the tense. Of the A. 131011024 People., that
after four Tears of failure to rest.,re the Lielon_by
the experiment of war, c hains er Nab, under Its pin;
of military riecessity, or the war-power higher than
the Conitittition;ile Constitution itself has been
disregarded In every part, public liberty and , pit
vale MM. alike trodden down, and the material
rosperity 01 th e country essentially impaired, that
justice, humanity, liberty, and the public welfare
demand that tdomedlate efforts be made for the
cessation of hostilities, with a view to the ultimate
convention Of all the States, or other peaceable
means to the end that, at the earliest practicable
moment, peace may be restored on the basis of the
Federal union of the States.
Resolved, Tbatthe direct interference of the mili
tary authority of" the United States In the resent
elections held in Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri,
and Delaware, was a shamef ul violation of the Con
stitution, and, a repetition of such acts in the ap
proaohing elections will be held as revolutionary,
and wilt he resisted with all the means and power
under our control.
Resolved, That the aim and object of the Demo
cratic tarty is to preserve the Federal Union
end the rights of the States. unimpaired, and
they-bereby acetate that they consider the Admi
nistrative usurpation of extraordinary and dan
garotte powers, not • granted by the Consti
tution, the subversion of civil by military law
in the States not in insurrection, the arbitrary
military arrest, Imprisonment, trial, and sentence
of American °Mune in States where civil law ex
16(g In full force, the suppression of freedom of
speeob and of the press, the denial of the right of
asylum, the open and avowed disregard of State
rights, the employment of unusual teat oaths, and,
• the interference with and denial of the right of the
people to bear arMs, as calculated to prevent the
restoration of the Union and the perpetuation of
a government deriving its just powers from the con
sent of the governed.
Resolved, That the shameful disregard of the ATl
withistratlon to its duty In respect to our
citizens who tow and long have been prisoners,
and are now in a Suffering condition, deserves the
severest repmbation, on the score alike of public
and count on humanity.
Resolved, That the sympathy of the Democratle
party is heartily and earnestly extended to the
soldiers of our army who are and have been In the
field under the flux of our cquntry, and in the
event of our attaining power tiler will receive all
.care, protection, regard, and k ndness that the
..brave soldiers of our republic have so nobly earned.
Mr. Harris, of Maryland, seconded the nomina
tion of Thomai H. Seymour, and proceeded to eulo-•
gize ills party services and abilities. •
Mr. Harris continued as follows:
One watt nominated here today who is a tyrant.
[Cheers and hisses. ] He It was who first initiated
the policy by which our right!' and liberties were
stricken down. That man is Grge B. McClellan.
[Confusion.] Maryland, which has antlered so much
St the bands of that man, will not submit to his
nomination in silence. Hie offe - Mout ahairhe made
kmown. iThis Convention *4,lnry appointed by
ibey.tertpla to pass upcutthe.merite of the public men
'libelee name would be presented for the support of
; the great.Dernodratic.party. General McClellan, I
repeat, is a. tyrant, [Gnat confusion.] I stand
here to indict him.
A delegate. I call him to order,
Idr, ZiOngi of Ohio, offered lie aA Amnndinent to
'Softie In atter the tirit inSolatiom tho Brat Kentucky
resolution of 1708, drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
Mr. Long submitted that now, of all others, the
resolution affirming State rights ought to be re
adopted and reaffirmed.
The president, under the rules, decided the resells-
Hone must be submitted to the Committee on Reso
lutions.
Mr. S. S. Ooz, of Ohio, moved the. previous ques
tion.
Mr. Long hoped his colleague would withdraiv
his motion, as he desired to move an amendment that
would place this Convention in a position favoring
peace beyord mistakes of any eqtdvocal language.
We should not go for any resolutions that may be
cOnetrued either way by.mon of different views in
the Convention: ".
Mr. Cominefated upon his motion, and the previ
ous. question - being ordered the resolutions were
adopted with but four dissenting voicea.
Ii was then - moved that the Convention-proceed to .
the nomination of a candidate for the Presidency.
Mr. John P. Stockton, of New Jersey, on behalf
of the delegation of that State, nominated General
George B. McClellan.
Mr. S. S. Cox, on, behalf of a portion of Ohio,
seconded tho'nomination.
I Mr. Saulsbury, of Delaware, nominated Governor
Powell, of Kentucky.
Mr. Powell returned thanks to the gentleman,
but he firmly believed the crisis demanded that the
candidate of the party should -come from a non
slaveholding State, and believing 80, he begged the
gentleman, and his colleague from the gallant
State of Delaware. to withdraw his name.
Mr. Stewart; on behalf of the Ohio delegation, no.
urinated Thomas H. Seyinonr.
Mr. Wyckliffe, on behalf of a portion of the del.-
gatlon from Kentucky, nominated Franklin Pierce.
The President said he hoped there was no man
present who would deny the right of free speech.
Certainly, no Democrat would do so. At the same
time,he hoped.no delegate would feel called upon to
pursue a course of remarks so offensive as to Inter.
fern with the harmony of the Convention.
Mr. Harris read MeCiellanikorder of arrest against
the Legislature of Maryland, and proceeded to com
ment upon the same, but the confusion was so groat
that the speaker could not be heard. Ho was un
derstood to say -that all the charges of usurpation
and tyranny that can be brought against Lincoln
and Butler he could make and substantiate against
McClellan. [Hisses, cheers, and cries of " Vote for
Jeff. Davis,"]
-The President wished that the Convention should
come to order. There Is no attack made here but
which can be made elsewhere, and the gentleman
against whom these charges are being made desires
that they. .sh!di be made now and here, so that -he
can meet and explain them. These interrupttnis
do injustice to ourselves, to the speaker, and to the
distinguished gentleman against whom they are
made. Let the gentleman from - Maryland have a
full hearing, and afterward hear the other side from
igentlemen.whp are ready and able to-make a full
'explanation
Mr. Harris proceeded to say that Gen. McClellan
was an assassin of State rights, an usurper of our
liberties, and if nominated be Would. be • beaten
everywhere, as he was at Antietam. He added that
he could not go home and ask the members of the
Legislature of his State to vote for such a man. He
would not himself vote for him. [Hisses.]
Mr. Carrigan, of Pennsylvania, raised a point of
order, that the gentleman having saki that he would
'not vote for McClellan if nominated he had no right
to take part in the proceedings of the Convention.
The president decided that the point was well
taken ; and, amid the wildest confusion, -
Mr. Harris retired from the stand.
Mr. Carrigan said, for many'lears the• relations
between that gentleman and: himself had been of
the most intimate and friendly character, but in
view of the absolute necessity of preserving the mo
rale of the Convention he felt bound to raiee the
point of order.
lie now moved thithe be allowed to proceed in
order.
General Morgan, of Ohio, as a fellow-soldier of
McClellan, could not remain silent while the name
• and fame of that distinguished general were so
shamefully impugned. The charges were untrue.
When the Maryland Legislature was in session at
Annapolis, General Joe- Johnson, of the rebel
army, was at Annapolis, and the conspiracy was
formed, and certain members of the Legislature
were conspirators. They intended that- the State
should secede, and an ordinance of secession- was
framed. Maryland was to be invaded; overwhelmed
by the enemy, and taken out of the Union. What
did General McClellan do l• lie simply took. the
best precentions-in his power to thwart the treasOn
ablesoheme, and had he not so done, he wonld•have
been guilty of the vilest treason. The man who
says that General McClellan is• a . tyrant does not
know him. A thorough soldier, with the• gentle
ness of a woman and the towage of a lion—no more
amiable and kind, generous-hearted gentleman
exists on the face of the earth, and no greater libel
can utter than when such a man is called a. traitor.
[Applause.]
Mr. Eaton, of Connettlent, passed a high eulogy
upon Thomas H. Seymour, but stated that his name
was used here without his wish, and without the ra
gout of the Connecticut delegation.
Mr. Harris, of Maryland, explained that what• he
had said - was that he could ■ot go before the people
of Maryland and ask them or the members of the
Legislature of that State to vote for Gen. McClel
lan. He did not say that he would not vote for him.
He held himself bound to vote-for the candidate of
the Convention.
.The name of Governor Powall was withdrawn.
Mr. Wyokllffe withdrew thename•of Mr. Fierce.
•
Mr. Jones, of 'Maryland, regretted that the gen
tlemen who had taken the stand in defence of Cien.
McClellan' had assumed the , ground he had, and In
timated that the was a collusion between the
members of the Legislature and certain rebel gene
rals. Had ho put iv upon ersditrible evidences, he
(Mr. Jones) might have remained silent, but he
COUld'not permit the Legislature of Maryland to be
an rattly charged.
Gen, Morgan explained that'll° intended• to say
that Gen. McClellan had acted upon testimony
which he regarded as creditable.
Mr. Jones said that so far from beingoreditable,
It has ever been pronounced by this victims of that
action an uttee`falsehood. The Lieslature-had
napower to pass an ordinance of secession. Those
Who Were arrested demanded an Immediate trial,
even. by drumhead court martial; but, instead of
giving them that justice which the law guaranteed
to the
.pooreat among ns, they were . told that they
could have their liberty only by giving their parole.
Some of them, worn out by the fatigues of imprison
ment, did finally give their parole, but others pro.
ferred to yield their Ilvee rather than subiiiit to
the humiliating jest that was required of them.
This day they know not their accusers. Stift he
believed McClellan was too much of a gentleman
and a Christian to act as he did, except upon what
be deemed creditable evidence.
Mr. Holmes, of New Jersey, moved that the. de
bate on the candidates be closed, and moved the
previous question.
liToNeill, of Illinois, on behalf or a portion or
the Illinois delegation, and, as he believed, of a
majority of the delegates of the great- Northwest,
nominated Horatio Seymour. [Prolonged cheers.]
The president said the motion was out of order.
Motions to adjourn were made, but ware declared
out of order.
Mr. Loog, of Ohio, took the stand in opposition to
Aloe:ellen. He said Lincoln had been guilty of in
terfering with the freedom of speech, freedom of
elections, and of arbitrary arrests. In yeas• main,
Lions, Dlr. Long said, you have arraigned him be
fore the people of the country fop• these tyrannies
and usurpations, and yet you propose to alominate
a Mail who has gone even farther than Lincoln i n
the perpetration of similar tyrannical measures
upon the sacred privileges and rights of. the people.
Kemeny' is guilty of the arrest of the Legislature
of a sovereign Stall. Ile has SOSpended the writ
of habeas corpus, and helped to - Witforce - the
odious emancipation proclamation of Lincoln.
The Willing Instrument of a corrupt. an, tyran
nical Administration, aiding , while possessing the
military power, to strip American freemer, of their
dearest liherties, will you so far stratify your
selves 88 . to Blake hire the litilWlthird.-boarcsa of the
Democracy t With all my heart, I. hopinot. Ele
had never done °limner:as, and as between Lincoln
at.d Fremont, and any calling btisel-f even hall n
Deruocrat, he would have a choice, and would he
found voting with his friends, but, he begged the
Convention not to nominate McClellan. Almost
any other man who claims to be a- Demist : at wouja
Satisfy .121 m, and. would lottery the Northwest.
Week as Is yoir fast:oral In many reatieolt, we edit
ItiiiWup and de all in ear power Ili 11111,11ileiri 1t y %M.
•
in ciod's mime don't add:to KS , lissikness by placing
such a man la saireination.
Mr. Oarillgan, ; Of Permiylvtintiii-,follovred, in *n
ewel. to Mr: Hopis, sadTquoted MoOlellan'il
letters to Burnside, to' . giilleci; and Buell, when
these - gentlemen were under to show that he
invariably admonished them that the only object Of
the vriiiVai to preserve the integrity of the Union
and the mejesty of thelaws, and that he invariably
cautioned them to atrictry guard against any in
fringement upon the rights of property and person.
[Great applansek]
The last two:speakers were continually interriPt
ed by motions;to adjourn.
Objections to an adjournment were raised in all
quarters, but as It was rapidly growing dark, and
gas for lighting not having bean introduced into
the wigwam; the opponents of an adjournment,
who were evidently the strongest, had to concede
the point, and the Convention adjourned till to
mlirrow.
BAIIRIB,PITaIL/STlC—lill'xwovicB Dorm A FELLOW
Csitoeoo, August 30 —When Mr. Harris, of
Maryland, was walking towards his seat after being
declared out or order because of his remark Mitt if
McClellan Was nominated he would not support
him, a person, not a delegate, although sitting
within the circle, said to him : " You ought to be
turned'eut of the Convention, you d—d traitor i".•
whereupon Mr., Harris turned round and knocked
him" out of his chair.
This incident contributed much to the general con
fusion which prevailed for several minutes. To
night Harris
,and Long and those who sympathise
with them are making 3strenuous efforts to secure a
one-third vote against Motnellan, but McCiellan , s
friends are sanguine. The conciliatory and pacific
course pursued by Mr. Guthrie In the Committee
on Resolutions seems to meet the warm approval of
the friends of McClellan, and to-night he towers up
a strong candidate for the Vice Presidency.
Priokriess of the Comorenthino
A STOREY SESSION—WAR BETWEEN THE 'PEASE
AND WAR MEN.—VCCLELLAN BITTERLY DENOUTP.
MB BY HARRIS, Or MARYLAND—MB. HARRIS .
RNOONS AN OPPONENT DOWN—ALARM AMONG
TRE M l / 4 E.ELLAN PARTISANS.
(Special Despatch to The Preps.
00110A00, August 80, P. M.
The Peace makers base bad a stormy. session. At
half-past live the excitement became linens% lion.
Mr: Ifartft, of Maryland; &Mitred tkitiiite would
not smart General Meglellan tinder -any eon-
. .
Xr..Carrigan made a point of order thaCthe gen
tleman had no right to be a member 'unless he
agreed to support the decision of the Convention.
Pir. Hartle was, therefore, ruled out of order by th e
Chair. On his way Co his seat he`was denounced in
bitter terms by a member of the New York tielega
nee, whenthe turned "and knocked the kentleman
down, amid extreme sensation on all sides. In a
short while comparative piece was restored, and
the pugilistic Mr. Harris invited to resume his re
marks. The debate promises to be prolonged.
After this harmonious session came the adoption
of some meaningless and cunning resolutions, and
Mr. T. D. Stockton, of New Jersey, made a. melo
dramatic nomination of McClellan. This brought
the Peace men to their feet. Harris, of Maryland,
made a furious onslaught against McClellan, call
ing him a slave of the Administration and a tyrant,
and denouncing his Maryland anemic in bitter
terms. This speech. created great commotion, and
closed amid noisy cheers and hisses. The McClellan
men are alarmed.
At six o'clock harmony it very nearly restored.
Hangs has eipialned his offensive allaskin, and the
names of Pierce and Powell are withdrawn. The
Maryland squabble la reopened with BOMB energy.
The .McClellan men endeavor to press a vote.
McClellan and T. H. Seymour, of Connecticut, are
the only candidates now before the Convention.
At half past six o'clock the Ii cOlellan men, who
have hien endeavoring to force a vote, hare failed.
Hon. Alexanter Long, of Ohio, now makes furi
ous assault on the nomination of Gen. McClellan,
and great efforts are made. by the enemies of this
candidate to compel an adjournment, with the hope
of uniting against him on the nomination of Gov.
Seymour, of New York. - Mr Long's Peace watt
merits have been loudly cheered.
The Vice Presidency - .
Special Despatch to The Prem.]
CHICAGO, August 30.—Tbe enemies of idcaledian
bay° been working with great earnestness and tact
this evening, but, It is thought, without avail. Many
leading Peace men concede General. McClellan's
nomination. The outside sentiment is aggressive;
but the anti-McClellan demonstration of tads' , is
thought to be an exceedingly weiLderlsed show to
secure the Vice Presidency for the Peace faction..!
' The ,Istest.: from oh lease.
TER PROSZBOTS OR GETTERA.L.
()Ewen°, Ang.3o—Evening.—The ftiendsof Gen.
McClellan express the opinion that the debate to
day has not done their candidate any harm, and
they are sangitine of success* at the meeting to.
morrow.
Opinions in Washing-10M
[Special Despatch to The Press.)
WassamaTort, August 30.—The news from Chi
cago of the great struggle in the Convention was un
expected by the members of the Opposition here,
and has alarmed them exceedingly, though they
declare that the difficulty will be settled. They say
that whatever may be the decision of the Curran
tion it will be acquiesced in by all the debarateit,
and that the nomination will be followed by saw
nimity in its support. The Peace men argue that
Gen bicOlelhan's nomination will make no differ
ence to their party, on the ground that while he /con
ducted the war lurdid little injury to the rebellion,
and.was never SUlly.iWtified with the war polio yr
They also assert tha the will 'be controlled by titte.
leading men of the party, and will be punkas good -
a Peace leader as they could harm _ •
The Sew Pennsylvania w e Corps.
HARD.I6BIIBI3, Saignat 30.—Gzuzmimary General
Irwin and Quartermaster General .Reynqids have
just returned from Washington City, whither they
had gone to consult the Secretary of War in re
ference to the equipment, sataistence, arming, and
transporting the Pennsylvania Reserve Gory's, the
organization of which has jest, been authorized by
an act of Asseuddy.,
It is understood that a full arrangement has been
made with the War Department to furnish these
troops with the necesaarysupplies. By this arrange
ment the State will not be compelled to enter the
market as a - competitor with the War Department,
a fact alone whieh will be a great saving to the State .
Government, as the War Department will furnish
all these troops need at the lowest contraot prices
paid for the supplies of the United States army. itt
the same thee it will not be necessary for the State
to disburse any money to the Federal Government,
as there Is now more than a million of dollars due'
from the latter to the former.
The details of. the orgardzation of the entire Re
serve Corps are to be entrusted to Colonel Lemuel
Todd, an otiicer•of great experience, who has been
appointed Inspeator general of the corps. The ne
cessary force, to constitute five regiments, as soon as
recruited, will be rendezvoused at Harrisburg, where
'they will be organized, armed, and equipped, 'and
then ordered to different localities along the bor
der. Their quarters in these localities are to be of the
very beet character ; ooden huts of ample dimen
sions, and smehneccumeodations as soldiers in camp
can erect.
The remaining ten regiments will be filled up and
organized so as to render them ready for use at the
shortest possible notice. For the present it is only necessary to organise five regiments, which
will be mustered into the State service for three
years, to remain during that time on the border of
the State, or to do duty at - such points within o its
limits as the ezigenoy of future danger may render
necessary.
It 18 thenbjeet of Governor Curtin to render this
corps not• only a credit to the military resources of
the reystone State, bet a bulwark of defence against
future invasion. The purpose is to fill up its ranks
with recruits from veteran troops and young men
between theagee of eighteeen and twenty-one. The
end aimed a* in securing the service of such men is
to get a force exempt from future drafts, and thus
leave open to the requisition of the United States
Government the almost inexhaustible military re
sources.of the Commonwealth.
The Irish Judges'.
(From the Edinburgh Daily ReirieW,)
Of thetwelve judges on the Irish bench, Judge
Ball, who has been creating so much amusement on
the 111 - tutster circuit by his petulance and ill-temper,
stands lowest in point of legal ability. If a luckless
policeman should happen to drop do o raton. or make
the slightest noise in court, or a should creak
unpleasantly, or a suitor blow his nose with marked
resonturee, or the crier's wand fall to the ground,
thejudgewakes up. like an angry bluebottle, from
his drowsy quietude ; and abuses everybodyright
and le ft , with a most =judicial vehemence and as
perity. The newspapers are kept alive by the fan,
and - the policemen are in quaking terror oi his lord
ship. Gentlemen in .00urt have been known
to walk out in their stocking soles, with their
hootain their hands; for fear of making their exit
observable to the bench;. The filth is that Judge
Ball Is slightly deaf, ill tempered, and something
more. An anecdote wilt explain what I mean.
When the late Judge Crampton, who was a zealous
total abstainer, as well as a pro-emir ent 0
went on circuit with Judge Ball, it was the
saying: "Brandy and Water are on circuit this
time." Ball's appointment was purely political,
and bad no other recommendation in the world.
There are now eight Roman Catholic judges on the
Irish bencec-of whom .1 edge Ball la one—,and four
Protestant Judges, namely, Christian Lefty,Fitz
'
H
gerald, and ayes It may be interest ing to SootOtt
men to know .something of the men who hold. the
highest judicial places *., s our country. Leroy le, the'
oldest Judge,
and beide a deservedly high place
• among his compeers. Christian is the most
polished and elegatiti speaker of tire tmeive,
and his charges to. ,isaries on circuit •Isre models
of clear, acute, emit forcible exposition.. • The ,
Protestant Fitzgerald (brother of the Bishop of
Billaloa) is the worst speaker on the bench, very
confused in his addresses, and ho has beea,palleti the
"Lack-op Judge, ,, from ' t he frequency vidth which
juries, alter his pirfullog charges, are locked. up for
tte night throtgh disagreemnt. Thcßenaan oa
tholle Fitzgerald is a clever, well-Informed lawyer.
Keegh--ohe of the most recent Romatmedditione to
the - bench—bas note high reputation .ae .a lawyer ;
but he is reported to be an e x cellent - iu4st and he
has not ears:Pled again and again to Jecture priest*
theiand politiclins of the - tritramor.tane, party upon
r tins af iris:4ll3m. He gave gnat okerice to the
Romanist. pallw by telling a Ribbon. murderer. '
whom he. senteaced to death„ tha- ho Should poi
cherish the delusion that any moo. or, priest could
save blascittijax that. was a wOrkthat. &avid only be.
accomplished through the rigliteotrmess of „Teens,
Christ, ileogis le a first-rate onlooker. Piggott is the
mosbcautions and painstaki*lndyteaf them all, hat
he is,very slow, and barrlst att,azsters, an d n i t _
OM would be glad get him altogether.
The Dublin Evening Zercaires moon:mended his
retire:nest se - veral timeamk, Mussy point. 242141111,
ban is a moat pleasant:al.) 1 001 /41113101 , 01:1 MBAS, bile
he is in the habit—l am. adi to say it is entirely
cornfield to hiroself—cif; to say
repres
slam. On the bench. la
the Tel vertall, mum.
Deasy is very madonna_ and dignitied,,and.baa
galsrd a vary MA. 4,repulsillori since hhi accession
to the bench. nothing very z.erna.thablia
about Hughes, Oiarien,, and Hayes ; they are het.
nest, sagacious, and tuAzif.workingjladm - L kcal;
outcry has beizamade in regard -to the_large. pru.
portion of Raman Oalhalki Judges a.the beach,. I
confers that would not surprise roo, in the
state of IriaVpolities, to see the *hole
Dens e =
with Demsoista la a te w years more ; for, Imps ear,
Whig Goxertirotait be expected. to promote to poli
tica.; ences, like the Attorney lieneralship.and So-
Heiler Generalshlp—offices which era the
eteppieg atoms* to the benchthus darer Con-
us
serrative lawyers, who are so bitterlyoppottedto
Whig sdrainhitra ihon Lord Derby appsthite
Roman Catholic, judged, a d d
. 1 4014
w ee
Protestants, lust because the Sgeaghtfl
4 aCraii; UM rccititint& 000:serZell ale
This
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Modal Correspondence of The Press.]
NSW Tolar. , an
)0
TB DEMME &ens.
ThiS 'indent, eminent, and soapiesS n T
of patriots is getting ready to are triacapp,,,
in tbe Park as BOOM as the convention o f
at C'hicago shall telegraph the name of ",1
man." Whether that felicitous individual D%.•
be 111 r McClellan , Horatio Seymour, or
dem of Dials,the• Gotham Democratic
happy as clams over the nomination, ac,i
night of it" as unanimously as pr,Nvd,
characteristic of the ancient and often
Demoomcie that it fervently and kin,lly% k it; •
whatever its, loaders provide for it, and i
orkapization without the slightest seruoe,44-q:
character of its candidates. It 18 all ce ll ,
journalistic and oratorical hair-eplitter;
about "Peace PP Democrats and " Wa r •
ousts ;" but we all know from experience , o
essentlalwhole party politic will vote NI.
lar candidate, be be saint or devil ; a nd
the loyal men of the North ignore asy
the matter, the sooner will they acqu ire t ;
confidence in their own proper strew gu l 411 ' 1
.
how to develop it fully at the polls
branch serlcus division in thevenerablo
as shall break it into two sets of
coming election is only a snare and a dsll2,:i , :_ .
fully laid for the feet of such political 51;
as may be stupid enough to stand in it.
THE APHBErETON TREATY.
As your readers have learned before r; ; ; ;
gveph, the English murderer, Muller L.,
rendered by our courts to the English
hither to apprehend him, and will retort
captors to Et gland on Wedne s day sr s it ,
this week. His 'volunteer counsel,
Shaffer, endeavored to make a point ft tie
• c l a i m i ng that the Ashburton treaty and 411 ,
treaties with Great Britain are virte•d4;„,,,
by the hostile course of that cation
our preterrt war. The Commissioner,
- not accept the ingenious gentleman
Muller must go back to stand his tritlt;, Ir 7
The accused takes his luck very est 4,
confident that he can prove an alibi,
more annoyed by the countrified staring at ,
trig of the mob in the courtroom than
vision of the magistrate. There is some
pcmghh t attempt to rescue him from t i e
p o innMm en . 44 steamer-day, but the oceurrer;
likely. "
preissirrirce ROE TEE DEA trr.
Night before lest there was to have set t
lag of "Minute Men" at Union Square, •
measures for tnducing•the G - overnment to r '
the draft; brit at the appointed hoar. and lent.
there was no assemblage, and the preejout • -
failure. The draft seems inevitable; and
is no epecine evidence at present of a assize
the measure, the authorities will abssiorel7;-•
repetition of the infamous scenes of last Ju:;.
do not have at least Ave thousand aro:v.
within easy call of-the °Ryon draftimr,
DO class of onr pee:Tie who, if left to them , e , „..
wantonly break the peace when no
to them could be even momentarily sectra
by; but these are the days of desperate or:7.
and renegade Southern spies, and there i 3
what use finch scoundrels might make of an;
public excitement. At any rate, it become;;
thoritles to be prepared for any contlnger•
the mere fact of adequate preparation may
riven evil.
Al7Bl - NRES.
Two of ow largest French importing homs
closed up their business, and others are prep.
fulloir AWL. It is a matter Of °hate.) with t , [o:. -1 , --,
cerns either to reduce theikimportatir,ns tot'" '' . Via
Of immediate demand, or to retire altom er :l J
- Jere
trade with the present prottts in their peo•er : 4 to
o]
choosing to do the latter, they leave the u;.. +! bat
ness to be done by less pretentious hou r me
shallow pretence of certain malignant u,ll_; 11:
organs, that these merchants foresee repudni, i pre
its debt b 7 the nation, can be entertained 3,1 Pal
such persons as possess very little couino: .. .P
Repudiation cannot possibly ensue Lan,, the
raiment ph,
raiment haS not sufficient specie to ply ~;
.., Of 1
rest upon that debt; and it is well Stout.,_ ''''' cu l
Government M dm, ~,,at this present moment In
- -?: j a .'";::
of enough gold to pay the interest pl.:, . . 1 . yew
.
twice as large as the one in question. , sisit
' TIER PITLATB FLORIDA. k• . the
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It is supposed that the ship dertroyal ,:: '; '
-- he
ani
by the pirate Florida was the Moho/as Bill; ' ; -- db
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Calcutta for New York. aim
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TES NEW YORE( COLLECTORSE`7 '''' --.. tbi
It kg reported that Simeon Draper h : ~,- : ,tit
pointed collector of this port, is plva - . the
Tierney. The report is unreliable. . , iiII
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ITER DEICE OF GOLO.
Gold was quoted at 2a2 this morning : .... . - ...: 4 14. , ;,,, ill
.
board it rallied to =5. - ,y $5
', di
2113,W YORK CATTLE 3c.taarr.
~:..•g. ve
-
In the Cattle market beef is firmer,: fi e
hinds are rather higher. Sale. 3. at ''%; 2 ' . - :Co
5,700 head. Sheep and lambs are - ' 117 1 4
'Sales et $3.7509 per head. Reeertz. .: , t ' j Ti
unchanged. Sales at 11@12c. .Reeeir. , , i:'-' . 3-; w
]CARNE. re
. Arrived—Brig Allee Lea, from G lac: ~.,r - f -. A `' 64
Chilton!" from Lague.
•
The Peace-Melee Warrior, id
“roujorsaz Paudace,' , audacity alwai,
most intrepid and bn.rly of the Fret. ,, ,.01
ists ; it is the key that unlocks every
club that levels all obstacles. our g.
, Teacia party seem at least to act up
They have been telling us for two t`!7 ' , 4t.
war "was Conceived in sin and In', ';_• • •-•n
iniquity ;"..that it was not only -C.
- waits% but that there was no Ivarran - • -
social and political constitution - •
in-,flagrant violation of tie right, y
and that every man who took part :s 1 -
-the wtdk of a butcher, a tyrant, a fra'
monster. '
Tids was the accusation, and the a u! , '
remit en it Is the putting up of a man
delay who owes every particle of LLF,:is-.
has to his commetion with the war.
lan, whom the Peace men offer to
aimmt wholly unknown before the
obeenni engineer of some Western r
never taken part in politics, ana
settled, political convictions; but
the war broke out he volutiteere.!
and made all the reputation he
sides using his sword in the , war. ii -
his tongue ; he has defended it. atr : r , -vt
it on, and still professes to be wilens z
vigor and directness. For this protL - i.'
arme,,for the tenacity wtth which 111 ,
I major generalship, for his repeated
the war, he is "set forward by the Pea e:
proper candidate for the Chief Ms., -
lare ao helterly opposed to the tear ."
who has no repute except as a tannic,..'
• principal Minden.
, Attain, what loud, clamorous. urtc7.!-.7:
of vituperation these Peace men;huee
project of a draft! It has been - '
variety of pbase, as an anti-demo ,-
can import from the tyrannous '
which no American ought to suba.L:
hYtOelllent of which niteht be nghlr --
arms. Such teachings, indeec,
that mast mean, monstrous, and
which was like to have deluge;
in blood - a year ago. Yet wL) h
a drafti who, among our rallita7
precedence of all others in
Lincoln should resort, to the conscric.:
but: his same George B. McClellan. t •
fugleman of the Pea :
long ago as 1861, when the original
the war was yet . blazing fiercely, '
the army were getting filled by thouE
tears daily, he wrote a most emphatic -
: trident, demanding an- immediate draft.
that measure has since been said to I.
timid as it is, undemocratic and tyres:
repulalve and cruel as it es, the first
came from the present hero of the
Whatever odium attaches to it, justly .
tongs to hits as its author.
In no particular has the existing A := •
incurred more abuse from the Peace :c
what they have called its arbitrary
their denunciations of it as an
epode power, as an invader of the 7
State 6, as utterly regardless of the r';: - .1.*-
as bent upon overthrowing our oft
forms, rest mainly upon there
ceedings. Yet it is another carer
their political audacity that they -
the highest dignity upon the revs
the originator and the execui::: - -
high-handed and enormous "arreei"
made during the war. In the seizure
Mt-ideal, the rights of that
his family, are alone involved :
legislative body ISarized, when thee: _.
tatlvee Of the people are violet:: 1 - ,
!muted to prison,not only are per .
vaded, but the ::
eet sacred rights
body politic are set at naught : the -•''•
free government, on which the
its society rests, IS put aside by
Bid this • was precirely - what Gen. -
when he arrested, without
mere will as a military con: ,n r.
of - Maryland. That assembly had
ebosen, it Was .the organ and 1,
the people, it was engaged in t..e
lawful functions, when Mc C.
etepped in and hurried every r..101:-'
Nor was It ever allowed to sit
dictator. Now sublime. the
men, then, whe,after heaping
stinted abuse upon Mr. Lila :n
arbitrary conduct, choose-foe
one who was the vantages:
orbitant of al/ those agectior.c.L
Evening Post.,
A new OstaTouro.•;—Costa, ii''-''
a Eft" baa bowmen standard w, , i :- - -'' • -
piloted a new,etuired worst called, - ~ '••
has been successfully produced t: •_•: ' _
Festival. The following
_assioect •::
from the London Tiefies,mtu, he resj ..
by our =Meal readers:
The orateddo.will be notked at 'ls i •': :
....
but there can, .be no.lndiseraiats is
rarely has a nere„ work.. at. a reLe: : ' • '
greater emanation; anti than, to o• wz -
and erenthing being, an. r,) serf
One remark was anises:W. that " •
immense s4.vance on ii. M.) , Th: A . ':
up by Mr, Bartholomow (agate -..'...'
Elijah and Elt),,stateis tea:: he Li."
dents in the• 24%, 4th„, eiih, ..ad eth
Second Book of Rim, baginnitie ';..z,. ••':
latton of Elijeli ,, tesheePask i as .411:. t. i' sn',„ '
and the sone of thesp,ropt,ete. 'llief? '
of the mnitipileattirreof the Riejee - : - ....
to the Shunansite.or. anon; the 1: ' '•
of Drannan_,•• his-ainlorien , these , '' .'-
Telma% to Itisonsca L. tie counter 01'."
Inraelv-40c1 ; tha.faikere of tae lei'
r.
the 41 earn- of •Naarnaai, and, the nil -*
at the. suggratina. of the Jewl:::.:'" '
Adabund thahealhig of the 1111:••5:, i ...
lUt Seetild:Dale is the fairs 7 .. ....: •
thwenrecet bliet.eitlld of the Stiese..... "i'-. ~.
asanetus- of. angels, the resti:, : ,.... 4. •
, C * ll,ll bylairda s the relation i. / ....?•; . .
Ine, t he angels sing In hea - rn. 7 - .", -:...,
zinnofi s tanana when ha. , ..E . '"::'
ehe.hathlqr Ili the n
Jordan, .....e :
n ..*.*:.. .
• man, Bad: hsa becoming 0re..0, ~
' ',
i Baal . h glorillitation a? t " 2 . . S . . • '
tire en some fortkiiiir : -.
two elaborate marches, tsp c,. ''
~...- .- .
nttuda„ fugues, and chores, dei•-•• .. ..
a Vintrat, and 801 l for tons'', "''''"
tralto. •
While the orchestration iiii„,:.
bY fanny, imagination. and I: -
pasta for the leading singers 2
. r € . t . .
Vous, as in " Eli," ailherti4
~';''.:l: - .: ,; -
of melodious charm, but tScr`ji:::l ' t
Ws displays of learning in the .1. !. ~&
lurrent- These is nt,i'sine.:l e r ‘. ..,
tesque, ugly or tormenaine. i... t 4 •..... OA
sailing, as it were, 'naiads' , -..„ 3 '1'..rj
FraPhls et esd-painig 03 . 1 , "! Fe; .
leading analete hare ;awn ' ; 4 9
—l"."'!"Peeckiiiill*r.:Prir-rattes.gfurwitthheinc.t'oraih:",:: • : .
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LOM Irb B, e A S u lt ga . E ir t 'o V id . lT.Y.. . 4
itrades lower . Flour dull 2Se
$9.5(); elex/e extra, $9.75: 4 ,4 ,' •
Wheat &gee lower. Corn , 1 4 •:!.
contract was let Tor 10O,0 00 % . .: •
unchanged. Goversasent _,,t...
bushels, delivered her*
amount dellvart! Ist Cain 5'
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