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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1864.
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i stoors north of Penrurylvanis Avenue, Weuhlniton
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In Washington, roe that subscribers are regularly
Served at their residences, and attend to advertising(
Awakening.
• The great politicalissue is now organizejd,
and from two candidates for the highest
office in their gift the American *pie
will be called to choose that man in Nkhose
hands they can best confide the Prfiblems
-of peace and war. There is no otho tang'.
hie issue than that between AintAAAN
tors and General ItIoCLELLas., All other
difference is virtually absorbed. in this one
great question. Between the present time
and November, the nation *must consider
its duty, and resolve its conviction of.
choice. Above all, the earnest friends of
liberty, union, and good government must
be active and earnest.
The issue is one of great moment, and
never has the Republic, atd the party clear
to the heart and life of the Republic, had a
more solemn and engrossing mission. Upon
the side of Ann.,uram lancors are ranged
all who have' earnestly believed, all Who
have nobly suffered, in the cause to which:
the nation pledged its honor and, faith./
.
With it are the prayers and aspirations of
the liberal, the suffering, and the herofc
throughout the world. The tribunal:of.
mankind tests the righteousness of bur
cause, and our soldiers foretell its triumph.
Ou the other hand, we have the represen
tative, of many discontents, many schemes,
but of no intelligible faith or reliable - pur-
Pase—a negative and personal opp Orient;
supported by many who , believe the war a
failure ; by many skeptic of the very cause,
in which General Mcatkr.A.l.l was a lead
er ; by others who are willing •to s • ee the
Union disunited for the sake of peace ; by
others still who bitterly disapprove the
military acts of their candidate; by some
who prefer the rebel: South td the loyal
North ; and others who would restore
the principle of Secession as' a basis of
agreement ; by many who have con
spired to resist the Government—by
all, in fine, who, hate the Administration.
We shall not dispute that Gen. IifcCLELLAN
and the better men of his partydesire the
perpetuity of the Union. This much, at
least, every soldier owes to his honor, and
every popular politician must assert for his
interest. But the nation must test the pur
poses of his supporters by the solvent of
character and the evidence of the record.
He will receive most earnest support from
those who have always ,opposed the war,
and from the hopes and prayers of a failing
rebellion. The issue is joined between the
President and the General whom he re
lieved of command. The latter is living
proof of the courage and. the fidelity of the
former, but, in the hands of the enemies of
the Government, has become the weapon
to assail him. -But there is no such issue
between the President and Gen. GRANT,
and the long line of heroes who are now
before Atlanta and Richmond.
The friends of the Union have a great
wad noble work before them, worthy of
their highest and -broadest energies. The
Union party has achieved - its success be
cause its creed was based upon the intelli
gent moral convictions and the largest and
profoundest interests of the masses of the
people, upon their long-suffering experi
ence of the wrongs committed against the
Union by the treason of the South, and
upon their sympathy with freedom and
progress. Spite of the infamous cause
which produced the war, the Opposition
have not advanced one step beyond the ca
lamitous policy of BUCHANAN and the de
lusion which led them to support a covert
traitor for the Presidency. Their defeat
will be the victory of the national cause ;
for, In such a defeat, the South will be de
prived of that indulgence in the North
which first gave its treason success, and
which would encourage it again to deceive.
In 1860, Mr. Lrucomq, the candidate of
the laboring, native, intelligent masses of
the country, was elevated into power with
a popular 'enthusiasm such as our Presi-
dential elections have ' seldom or never
known. This simple and honest citizen of
the West, the competitor and the friend of
DOI.7OLAS, became the representative man
of the people, the type of their aspirations,
and the pledge of their faith. They had
long wanted an honest and a brave ruler,
and they found him. Years of unparal-
leled trial have tested Mr. LlNcomes ho
nesty and ability, and a Convention of his
fellow-citizens, still more notable for its
high character than the body which first
presented him to the people, have nomi
nated him for re-election. This fact
Rill stand nobly against all oppo
sition. ABRATIAM Lutcorai is the un
doubted choice of the loyal and ear
nest masses of the, people. Though
they have been watching the war with an
interest which has absorbed all other in
terests, they are now aware that the great
battle-field of the Union is ; $t Asir doors.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN will ,be 're-elected the
President of the United States with the
same emphasis of the popular voice as
when Ilret the nation confided its great
true his keeping. The enthusisim 'of
t people only awaits its summons. Let
Vie leaders awake.
The Latest Slander.
"Although no one will, at this day, question our
perfect love for George B. McClellan ; our faith in
hie character; our confidence in his unsullied honor ;
our trust in the greatness of his intellect, and, more
than all, our knowledge of his overilOwing, burning
devotion to that flag to whose'serviee he was given
in early boyhood, and which he has so often borne in
honor and in glory—yet, notwithstanding all this,
we would much prefer to go before the people, not
alone upon the personal qualthiee of our noble can
didate, which, wherever known and understood, will
command snob heartfelt homage, but rather upon
those great principles of public policy announced
at Chicago, of which he is now the recognized expo
nent, and with which no word or act of his MO is in
conflict. But if the friends of Mr. Lincoln (whom
we can and must control) will have it otherwise;
if they will leave the high ground of manly discus
sion in order to mislead the people by wretched
falsehoods, uttered against Democratic candidates,
then, much as we regret the necessity, we will not
expose their calumnies, but we will become aggres
sive, and print the truth about those for whose longer
retention In high places they solicit votes. There
will be blows to give as well as blows to take. -We
shall recoup, not by falsehoed, but by facts capable
-of proof ; facts which, for public honor, had better
be kept buried. We will strip from Abraham Lin
coln the false garb of honesty he has worn so long !
We will, if need be shore up, among other things,
the Infamy—yes, t h at ' s the word, infamy—of the
'White Rouse If necessity requires, we will call
!Senators and tradkopeople, in this city and else
where, to attest the truth of what We say. We have
no heart to expose ITuah public and personal inn
.rarity as, since Mr. Lincoln's advent, has festered
there, because of the disgrace it would bring upon
so Many innocent Peteeill ; but yet this war of ma-
Himont falrehoed and detraction against 'Gen, MO-
Clellan, which the partisans of Mr. Lincoln have
begun, has got to stop. Does the Tribune compre
hend 1 lf not, let the editor take this article to the
White House and ask what it Means."
We ought, perhaps; to apologize to our
readers for transferring the above passage.
to our columns, but as the ; Spartans ,ex
hibitEd to their children drunken slaves,
that they might be disgusted with drunk
enness, we believe that good may be done
by the republication Of Copperhead slan
ders.
No " wretched falsehoods" have been
uttered against the Democratic candidates ;
we appeal to our own columns, to those of
each prominent Union journal of the land,
in proof of this. •• General McCraw...vs has
been treated with all courtesy, but, had he
been grossly abused; it would hardly be
,possible for any abuse to:rival this atrocious
and disgraceful insinuation the World has
made. Is it in this way that the , campaign
is to be conducted by the opponepts of the
Administration ? These antliiMus hints
are contemptible; if the World has facts
` , which prove the infamy of the White
:House, it is bound to publish them or be
silent. We challenge it peremptorily to
snake good its charges, and assure it that
Cie American people despiie nothing so
Pitch as the slan,d ;rer and the bully.
THE reeolutiona of the Chicago Conven
tion, aid the speeches - of its managers, are
not only silent-Zoncerning the policy of the
rebels, - but contain not one word of con
f,lettention of th.c rebellion itself, The
Administration and the Union party are
actually treated as criminals who are re
belling against JEFF Dams ! Who can
have confidence in a party which accuses
its own Government of every base prin
ciple and ruinous act, and virtually
absolves the open enemies of the nation
from any guilt ? For there cannot be two
criminals in such a case. If, as Eforamo
Samstoun says, the Administration is re
sponsible for The war, the rebels are not
responsible, and if he ;believes them inno
cent it is not strange that any word con
deraning the rebellion is carefully ex _
dialed from the platform of the party.
')ur correspondent has clearly stated the
antagonism of the Union soldiers to the
antagonists of the Governnient.
GENERAL GRANT is reported, on good
authority, to have Said, that with one hun
dred.thousand more men he could end the
rebellion this fall. It scarcely needs his
word to obtain credence for this statement.
The rebellion has put forth its full strength ;
its sinews are stretched to their utmost ten
sion ; it could not resist another army.
The man who believes that the re-election
of ABRAHAM LINCOLN is necessary to the
preservation of the Union should remem
ber that GRANT'S success will make that
re-election triumphant. If one hundred
thousand good Union men, now at home,
are with GRANT in November, we shall not
fear any evil from their absence from the
polls. Volunteers are better than voters.
The Late Political Trial in France.
It is peculiar of France at the Present
time that it will neither recognize slavery
in the Southern Confederacy noi tolerate a
political ,association of 'more than twenty
persons. These curious extremes are re,
conciled - not with the morals of the world
so.much as the policy of NAPOLEON. The
trial ri.Paris of GAMIER PAGES, Cartwo'r,
pad eleven more, on the charge of break
ing the law of associations, was concluded
on the 6th of August. These thirteen gen-,
Ilemen made themselves a committee to .
recommend to, the country suitable candi
dates for the French Legislature, but though
they undoubtedly conformed to •the law,
which limits a number in such a case to
twenty, they were convicted and fined five
hundred francs each, on the subterftige that
although but thirteen, they were in conspi
racy with other associations in the depart
/nerds. M. PAO,EB, one of themoit
distinguished statesmen ofFrance, protested
against the outrage of his arrest, the police
having broken the locks s or his desks and
tables, seized his papers, outraged the re
presentatives of the people, who, by the
Constitution, were inviolable, and violated
the secrecy of thehallot by ransacking pa
pers in order to discover which way the
elect Ors had voted. When, in the midst
of his indignant protest, the president of
the court warned him to be more measured
in his language, he' replied, that "he was
ready to give his blood for his princi
ples. He was ,sixty-nine years old.
He had the honor to govern France,
and he, the most moderate of men, who
bad been subjected to the worst treatment,
who had been humiliated by domiciliary
visits•which spread alarm among his family,
how could he help being animated in his
words ?"
The late trial was one of extraordinary
interest. , Though , charged with the same
offence; the thirteen accused were each re
presented by an advocate, the defence in
cluding thirteen of the most distinguished
lawyersof France, JULES FATRE, BERRYER;
Ifnarn, and RUFAURE among the number.
'The latter gentleman is Lattorier, or leader
of the Order of Advocates, whose council
usually attends and assists professionally in
cases where their own members, as in the
present case, are_ brought to trial. The
president of the court, however, ruled-that
this was not a case in which the charaCters
of the accused, as lawyers, were upon trial,
and hence the council of advocates could
not be admitted to the court. M. DITFEURE,
therefore, acted also as •the representative
of his professional order upon this occa
sion. The terms of the law .upon which
the accused were .convicted are as follows :
4 cArt; 1, The terms of the Art. 291 of the Penal
Code are applicable to associations of more than 20
persons, even, should these associations be divided
into sections of a less number, and that they should
not meet every day, or on fixed days. The permis
sion Riven by the Government may at any time be
withdrawn.- Art 2. 'Whoever forms part of an as
sociation not authorized shall be •punislied by im
prisonment of from two months to one year, and a
tine of from 00f. to I,ooof. In ease of a repetition of
the offence the penalties shall be doubled. The in
dividual convicted may in the latter cafe, be placed
under the supervision of the high pollee during* a
time which shall not exceed double the maximum
of the penalty. Art. 483 of the Penal Code may be
applied in every case.""
Applying this law to his argument, the
Imperial advocate, M. MALHER, spoke for
more than four hours, relying for his proof
of the illegal Character of the committee
upon the papers seized by the police agents
at the house of the accused, who, of course,
protested forcibly against this method of.
demonstration. M. Mhrireat was several
times corrected in his history by the coun
sel of the ,accused. On the Second day, .
the celebrated M. JI3IXO PAYEE, counsel
for)L GABIrrEn PAGES, and a leader of the
Legislative Opposition rose to reply.
sketch of bis masterly defence is given in
the Times:
He said that he experienced profound sorrow in re'
plying to the charge made yesterday by the Crown
prosecutor. When he considered' the efforts and.
sacrifices made within the last sixty years, the
tears; the bloodshed, he asked himself whether the
theory of pregress is not a cruel' &Aitken and
whether we are not condemned to turn forever
within the same circle of passions and misfortunes.
He should experience the same relating of sorrow
were he the friend of the Government. He would
ask what it could gain breach a 'contest It
is Invested with immense force ; it meeta no resist
ance ; it disposes of public opinion, and, by means of
an ingenious system;it holds in its hands the.pro
perty a n d liberty of all.' It Is the only one who can say
I have h right to speak. When an election is to take
place it has a legion of functionaries obedient to its
will. It chooses its candidates and facilitates their
success by all the means it alone has at its disposal.
Such is its power, and during a period of public tran
quillity it comes to complain of the resistance
of its adversariee and to demand against them
the application of a law which has existed for
thirty years, and which never has had the meaning
attributed to it which it has at present. DI. Jules
Favre then read a passage from the-works of Napo
leon 111., a passage %which comparing the English
laws with the French, and remarked that InE g land
authority Is never violent, and for that reason do
miciliary visits and the violation of correspondence
are not known In that country. He could not place
his cause under better patronage than that of Prince
Louie- Bonaparte, who wrote those generous words.
It did not become him to inquire how such gene
rous maxims have been forgotten. He coulti•not
believe that it was to arrive at a wretched trial
(Cr an illegal association that this prosecution was
commenced. Quite a different result was expected.
He-would not- describe all the efforts made to
arrive at the figure 20, which did not prevent the
prosecutor stopping at number 18, which is at the
same time the satire and the condemnation of his -
impotent accusation. Id. Jules Paine next exam
ined the legislation existing under preceding Go
vernments with regard to associations, M. Berths
dirclared-tbat the law-was made against' associa
tiohs and not against accidental and temporary
meetings. If the object of the meeting was to exer
cise a constitutional right.,to suppress It would be
to violate the law itself. in order to carry out the
law of 1834, the prosecutor should prove that the
association consisted of 21 persons and he should
produce the 21 before the court. Guizot, being
called upon by a member of the Opposition, declared
not on 4 that he had formed part of an association
which had a complete organization, a treasury and
subscribers, but that he gloried In the objeot of the
-association. He said, moreover, that the Society
Aide-toi was perfectly consistent with the law of
3894, which he proposed. M. Jules Fevre read an
account of an electoral banquet, written by M. de
Lamariine, at the head of which wore min. Abbe,-
Meet, Cambeceras, and even Drouyn de 'Minya,
the present minister or Foreign Affairs. In co:Ma
nion, he said he felt confident, when he saw around
him the defenders of liberty—when he saw Derryer,
who is not only the prince of orators, but who has
been always the passionate lover of liberty."
At. the conclusion of this speech the
veteran BEurtrien, long regarded -as the.
most eminent of FrenCh lawyers, rose on
behalf of the other counsel, and declared,
with true French enthusiasm, " We do not
find in .our minds and hearts," he said,
" anything which can attain the truth, the
nobleness, and the height of reason to
which M. FAYBE has risen." That M.
FAVRE' s speech must have been an eloquent
and overwhelming proof for the cause of his
clients the reader may imagine, though
the thirteen'members of the Opposition
have been convicted of the offences of
4t twenty,r in a judgment WhiCh has out
raged both law and common sense. NA.po-
L'EQN has accepted his and
France is not disturbed. But for the sake
of consistency, IsLaroLso - si shoUld at. once
proceed to try all the associations 'with
•
which. it was alleged the committee were
affiliated. • At the very least considera
tion, it must be allowed seven are *anted
to make up the number twenty.
Charles Sumner is at. the Ocean Howe, New
port. A correepondent says his le a singular heed
to see in that frivolouti throng, strangely in contrast
with the ameoth, meaningless, Inexpressive counte
nances of the Newport type.
Airs. Robert E. Lee, says the Buffalo Con Wier,
Is residing in the village of Niagara, at the Aliol4li
Of the Niagara river. -
LUSE FROM "OCCASIONAL."
WABErrNeTow, D. C., Sept. 1, 1864
The nominations of the Chicago Con
vention for President and Vice President
are strangely and significantly incongruous.
General McClellan is presented as the em
bodiment of military excellence, and
George H. Pendleton as the embodiment
of sympathy with the rebellion. The one
is put forward simply as a military chief
tain, the other simply as an apostle of
peace on any terms. Those of us who
recollect the determined hostility of the
distinguished father of General McClellan
to the Democratic party, and recall the
period - when he was one of the Magnates
of the old Whig organization, will be
somewhat puzzled to know how the
present Democracy can be truly repre
sented in the person of his son, un
less, indeed, it is upon the hypothesis
that the old Whigs of 1840, 1844, and
1848, are now the high priests in what is
called the Democratic party, That Gene
ral McClellan inherited this antagonism to
Democracy from Dr. George McClellan is
only a natural and by no means violent
presumption. It may be contended, how
ever, that his title; to become the leader and
the representative of the present Democra
tic party is in the fact that for many years
he was the prime favorite of Jefferson Da
vis, now the life and soul of the rebellion
against the Government. This title would
seem to be sealed by the circumstance that,
notwithstanding the Union declarations
of the Convention: that placed him
in 'nomination:, the. presiding control
• lers of that " Convention were among
the most active and remorseless enemies
of the policy which would have saved
the country from this • war, had Mr. Bu
chanan not been diiveri from that policy
by these men. You will ohserve, as you
run over the list of the prominentactors in
the Chicago Convention,, that not one man
Closely and conscientrously,identifted with
the Douglas Democrats, who fought Mr.
Buchanan's oppressions and aggressions,
took any part whateirer in its deliberations.
The temporary president was William Big
ler, of Pennsylvania, who, from the first
(notwithstanding his pretence of sympathy
with Governor Walker, when that in
corruptible patriot took issue with the " old
public functionary" on the Kansas ques
tion), was the veriest slave of power, and
the ready and eager echo of every
calumny •hurled against the brave and
independent men who made their stand
against ; the slaveholding tyrants who
sought-to deprive the people of Kansas of
the right to manage their own affairs in
their own way. Then comes the perma
nent chairman of the Convention, that
" smooth and pliant pentodes," Horatio
Seymour, of New York,- who, when the
great commercial metropolis was overrun
with fiends seeking the lives of unoffend
ing citizens, and destroying the property of
men devoted to their cOuntry,,did not hesi
tate to. address . these demons as his
" friends," and who has with Satanic in
dustry devoted himself to embarrassing the
Government in its efforts to raise men to put
down this foul revolt. Like Bigler, Seymour
was the endorser of James Suchandn's
infamies, and the proscriber of all Demo
crats who opposed them. But why, should
I prolong the list ? Why call the attention
of the people of Pennsylvania to the fact
that it was not only Bigler and Bernour
who aided the nomination of McClellan,
and who stood as his sponsors, but that
Vallandigham himself moved to make the
nomination unanimous ; that Governor .
Powell, of Kentucky, (unquestionably the.
most
most daring, if not the most able of all the
men in the Senate of the United States who
sympathized with the public enemy,)
pledged his most earnest - efforts for the
ticket ; that Governor Wickliffe, of the
same _State, whose treasonable utter
ances
even his most intimate friends
have not hesitated to deny, was alike em
phatic on the same side ; and that Harris
of Maryland, who was publicly censured
for his disloyal declarations in the -House of
Representatives, as well at Long of Ohip,
who rivalled Harris in declaring his hosti-
Jitylo the war for the Maintenance of the
Union, are committed to support the nomi- ,
nation of Major General George B. Mc-
Clellan ? These are the high priests who
officiated at the baptism of this new leader
of the Democratic party;"these are the
men who are to conduct, in the event of
his election, the concerns of the Federal
Government, and to' make peace on the
basis of the perpetuity of the Union.
As if to point the moral and adorn the
tale of the Chicago Convention, however,
George H. Pendleton, of Ohio, has been
placed on the same ticket with Major Gene
ral McClellan as their candidate for Vice
President. I desire to speak of these two
men as public characters, and trust they
may be so discussed so far as THE Pause is
concerned. I could 'name, without disre
spect to Mr. Pendleton, fifty young barris
ters, in Philadelphia, who are his superiors.
His nomination, however, was a tribute,
not to his talents, nor to his experience as
a stateiman, nor to his claims upon the
country, but because - he is (after Mr. Val
landigharn, who is his bosom friend, and
with whom he resided in the city of
Washington almost ever since he was first
elected to Congress) the most determined
and bitter enemy of the war in the Nation
al Legislature. I propose, on another oc
casion, and in another place, to. classify
the votes of Mr. Pendleton, and to show
how far, and hOW completely, and, indeed,
how honestly, he has opposed the war, and
almost openly avowed his_ desire that the
slaveholding enemy should triumph. Mr.
Pendleton is a Virginian; now resi
dent in Cincinnati, Ohio, with all
the prejudices of his school. His very
name indicates that he has no more feel
ing in common with those who really
desire to see the Union restored, and peace
secured on the basis Of this restoration,.
than those of his filthily in the Old Domi
nion who are now fighting in the, ranks of
Jefferson Davis against the old flag. Thus
much' for the •Democracy, relatively, of
George B. McClellan and George H. Pen
dleton. As to the. platform of the Con
vention, 'that part of it in which the dele
gates unanimously pledgnd themselves to
the Union is to be received for more
than it is worth, for, this is'a compelled tri
bute of the lea4ers that the
Democratic mama are Sincerely infavor of
the Union. And as audit I'accept it. The
only difficulty here is the apprehension
that this tub is flung to the great public
whale so as to satisfy it and keep it
away from_ the 'deeper feeling and de
signs of those - who' made this concession.
In any case, the rebels themselves will now
perceive that both the great parties—one
with a fierce, and fanatical, and solid feel
thg, that which stands by Mr. Lincoln,
and the other with a very far different in
spiration—are formally committed to the
. maintenance and restoration of the Union.
But General McClellan's election to the
Presidency, after such a canvass as we have
before us, could not secure that restoration
of the . Vnion. Then he would be in power
—then he-would act not upon the pledge to
which I have called your attention, but
upon the instructions and by the directions
of the Men whom I have named, and who
have been from the beginning' of this war
the conscientious and consistent advocates
of peace on any terms, however dishonor
able. OCCASIONAL.
Thi Chicago Wominalion.
(From the Wishington Chronicle of yesterday.)
George B. McClellan, the son of the celebrated Sur
geon, George McClellan, of Philadelphia, was yes
terday nominated for President by the so-called De.
atiocratie party, which held its convention in the city
'of Chicago. There is something in this nomination
which suggests curious and significant reflections.
General McClellan, during the administration of
Franklin Pierce, waa the special favorite of Jett - era=
Davis, who was the Secretary of War under that "dy-.
nasty. By him, In company with Col. Delatield and
Maj. Mordecai, he was sent to Europe dig the;
Ortnean war, for the purpose of acquiring such mar
tary information as might be Important, to this ea..
vernment. The father of attn. BleOlellan.was a vie
lent Henry Clay Whig; in fact one of the most in. •
tolerant of the old Whig partisans who made Phila.
ielphia their headquarters. The son, after a some.
what .aueoessfal service in the Mexican wait, and
after his visit 'to Europe, retained to Philadelphia,
reldanTl 171e.cidiup440p, and beeabse an officer In
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THE PRESS.--PHTLADELPHIA, FRIDAY„ SEPTEMBER -2, 1864.
McClellan never had any politics, so to speak. In.
the Illinois Senatorisl canvass, of MO, he simper
thized with Judge Douglas; but, tithing all the
years between the period while Jefferson Davila
was serving as' Semetary of War under Franklin
Pierce, an.j. the Presidential contest qf UM, hie
beau ideal of a soldier and statesman was Jef
ferson Davis. When the rebellion broke like. a
mighty hurricane upon the country, Governor Den
nison, Of Ohio, offered to Mr. .701cOlellan the com
mand of the forces of that State. Subsequently he
was called to take' - charge of the Federal army in
West Virginia. After the first Bulleßun disaster,
in July of 1861, he was called to take command of
the troops in and around the city of Washington.
Two major generals hitd to be appointed, and Presi
dent Lincoln selected George B. McClellan and
John C. Fremont. A question of rank or prece
dence arose, and, after a decided struggle, Mr. Lin
coln gave the priority to McClellan. He was shortly
after, by the virtual retirement of General Scott,
placed in practical command of the United States
forces. It is unnecessary to recount .his several.
campaigns. These are a part of history. But it
will not be regarded as indecorous or indelicate if
we state ti at, in the midst .01 suspicion and orlti
ohm and open assault, this same General McClel
lan had no firmer or faster friend than Abraham
Lincoln. If there was a victory
,to, applaud, or a
mistake to hide, or a defeat 'to explain, Abraham
Lincoln stood forth as the good angel of George
B. McClellan. Nay, it might be distinctly as.
sorted that the bitterest enemies of Abraham Lin
coln's own party are those who could not induce
him to join in an assault upon the soldier whom
he had first honored with his entireconfidence. The
published correspondence between the President and
Gen. McClellan shays not only how reluctant he was
to yield hissarly preference for General McClellan,
but how desirous to overlook his mistakes. And
now George B. McClellan is the candidate opposed
to Abraham Lincoln, nominated at Chicago, and
selected by a Convention dominated by the South
ern authors of this great rebellion ! The temporary
chairman of the Convention itself was William
Bigler, of Pennsylvania, who sanctioned and Sus
tained all the Leciompton frauds under the Admi
nistration of James Buchanan, and the permanent
president Horatio Seyniour, Governor of New York,
who apologized for the July . riots 0f1863, in the great
city of his own State, where human blood flowed like
water at the bidding of the fiends 'Of anarchy, and
who, from that day to this ; has been striving to pre
cipitate a new carnival of carnage, because of the
demands of the Government for more men to defend
the old flag. The nomination of Gen. McClellan
will be most acceptable in the South among the
enemies of the Republic. It will be perceived that
it has been hailed with equal enthusiasm by Vallan
digham, Belmont, Fernando Wood, Dean Rich
mond, and ail„the opposing elements of peace and'
• war in the so-called Democratic organization. Al
ways a negative man, he will be more negative now,
and until the Presidential election, than ever. In
the South his nomination will be accepted as a. deals.-
ration on the part of the Democratic party hi faior
of the separation of the Union. There is no . escaping`
this issue ; for all thole who are the known champions
of McClellan are the known champions of disunion.
Jefferson Davis understands his pupil well. Educated
.
in bas 60901 ef nelitleat he OA Wt partisans VII !Ail
the action, of the Chicago Convatation with a su
preme satisfaction. And they are right in this ; for
whatever George B. McClellan himself may desire;
the pollee leaders at home, and the traitors at the'
South,
South, will decide adveraely. It must not be 'for
gotten that the action of the Chicago Convention
is as interesting to the rebel leaders as it
Is to us. They will hail the nomination of
General McClellan as theirnomination. Therwill
charge that, because he has quarrelled with, iffx,
Lincoln's Administration, therefore he will agree
with them. They will assert that, as a consequence
of this quarrel, he will be ready dishonorably to
compose our national difficulties, and they will
gladly prefer to forget that Mr. Lincoln has been
at all times ready to offer them franker and fuller
terms of peace than could have proceeded from any
other authority. However General McClellan him
self may feel, he is undoubtedly the apostle of a
degrading peace. He runs upon this issue alone,
and his peace is a peace of separation and
disunion, The soldiers in the field will have to de
cide between a General who retains' his epaulettes
and takes his pay, and a President who has been
his firm friend and theirs from the beginning of the
war. James If. Polk defeated Henry Clay when
the whole Whig party were in favor of the latter.
Franklin Pierce defeated Winfield Scott when more
than the whole Whig party were in favor. of the'
latter. And we have a sublime confidence that the
American people will stand by, support, sustain,
and adhere to, and carry over all obstacles atid
against all appliances Abraham Lincoln, the Union
candidate, into the Presidential chair.
The Vision Forever.
[From the Washington Chronicle of yesterday,
Whatever may be said of that portion of the reso
lutions of the Chicago Convention which criticises
the Federal Administration, every patriot must be
rejoiced to see that important body, representing so
large a portion of the American people, solemnly
declare that the Union must be preserved. Mark the
words in which this determination is expressed :
"We will adhere, with unswerving fidelity, to the
Union -and the Constitullip as the only solid foun
dation of our strength, security, and happiness as a
people, and as the framework of Government
equally conducive to the welfare of-all the States,
both Northern and Southern." This expression is
probably the most significant admonition that could
be presented to the enemies in arms against the
Republic. These enemies have looked to the Demo
cratic party and to the Chicago Convention for en
couragement in their expectations of separation and
disunion. They have been flattered by the idea that
because Mr. Tallandlgham, Mr. Fernando Wood .
and few others, have preached peace digiffiee,
therefore this preaching meant dissolution, or, in
other words, Southern independence. The resole:
tiers of the Chicago Convention have taken this
last prop from under their feet, and they now see
that there is no party so contemptible in the free
States'as that which advocates peace on the basis of
separation, and that all parties in our section are in
favor of the unity of the Republic. So significant
has been the action of the Chicago Convention on
this subject, that when Mr. Long, of Ohio, proposed
to introduce. a qualifying resolution looking to
peace, he was ruled out of order, and the
resolutions, as reported by Mr. Guthrie, were
adopted, as the report says, " with few dis
senting voices." This being the ease, the
query to the patriotic and intelligent mind'
is, which of the two candidates, Abraham Lincoln
or George B. McClellan, can best serve and save
the Gevernment I Suppose* we admit that Genera/
McClellan is the ablest military chieftain in the
world ; the most accomplished statesman ; the most
thorough and experienced philanthropist ; one who
is read in national and international law, and who,
if translated into the Presidency, would be another
Cams ; atill the great fact remains that he is sur
rounded and counselled by men whose dream it is to
restore the Union on the bads of the perpetuity of
slavery, or else to consent to a peace on the basis of
separation. Tin Democratic masses are l 9 faVer
this Union. They may not favor Mr. Lincoln's
Administration. Their ollt political hatreds may
Impel them to accept and ,to echo all the slanders
against him and those who surround him; but,
nevertheless, they look upon the Union as they look
upon their God. It Is to them a secondary religion.
Having faith in a Supreme Being, they have faith
in the perpetuity of the Republic ; and hence it is
that the leaders who went to Chicago on the 29th of
August interpreted the Democratic sentiment by
avowing a determination to sustain the Union.
The only safe road to the salvation of the Union .
in the re election of Abraham Lincoln. He, un
like Gen. McClellan, is surrounded by the true
friends of the Union. That he has committed mis
takes, those who are nearest to him have never de
nied ; indeed, one of his chief difficulties has been to
explain acts done in moments of party pressure.,Bat
he is an experienced President. He has passed
through the terrible ordeal of the last three years,
He understands the situation. He knows the pub
lic men of the country. He knows the prejudices of
the people. Disliked by many of -his own party who
thought him too slow, and by ‘ others who thought he
was too fast, he Is still the captain of the citadel. _ .
Now imagine an exchange whicfi Would Place
George B. McClellan in the positiois ooctipied by-
Abraham Lincoln. It is sufficient to state the pro
position without entering Into or stopping to dis
cuss it. The - friends of General MeClellan—ad
milting him to be as patriotic as he himself claims
to be—are, undoubtedly, the friends ,of 'Slavery.
They have been reared in this scheol. They'have
been so accustomed to attack the Affininistration,
since the. beginning of the war, that they would
scarcely know how to run the Administration ex
cept in opposition to the war. There is not a Sol
dier or a seaman who has covered himself with glory
that they have-not assailed or refused to applaud.
There is not a defeat of the Union army that has
not filled them with joy. There le not a Union vic
tory that has not filled them with sorrow. in -the
midst of this mighty struggle for the preservation
of the oflip fee Goveriiment on the earth, while
foreign nations have looked upon It with satisfac
tion, these friends of General McClellan have
yearned for foreign aid, and have desired foreign
interferedoe. They have labored to depreciate our
national resources. They have even predicted that
our obligations—those obligations which connect
us as well. with the masses of the people as with
those who labor for the country—those evidences
of public credit and indebtedness which per
means all classes, and so attach all classes to
the ocanitry 'ltaelf—should be repudiated; in
other words, that because we were fighting this
battle for the maintenance of the Government,
the money expended in this cause should never
be repaid to those who had loaned it. Their agents'
have been sent to all the nations of the earth for the
purpose of arousing hostility against our country.
And yet, in the face of all these facts, so patent as
to be understood by all the men who have placed
General McClellan in nomination, they have been
constrained to express, in the most emphatic words,
a fervenrdevotion to the Uelon. They could have ,
taken no better way than this to express their pre_
ference for Abraham Lincoln. The leaders, to be
consistent with , themselves, should have announced
a peace platform, a separation platform, a (Minton
platform, a revolutionary platform; but, in their
attempt.to outbid Mr. Lincoln on the score
of Unioism, they only pay a higher tribute to
; for, after all, there is not a seldier In
the ranks, nor a sailor on the seas, who does
not remember Abraham Lincoln, and who does not
remember him to bless him. How many of these
brewed and brave men think of George B. McClel
lan 7 Is there one in a thousand 1 No. We desire
to speak of General McClellan with profound re
spect. Be wears,the uniform and receives the pay
of our country. He was the Spoiled darling ef
Verson Davis, under the Administration of Franklin
Pierce. He came to Washington, and was taken in
to Abraham's bosom. His commands and bls de
mends, almost like those of Monte Cristo, de
e:sifted in the novel of Alexander Dauiasi, were
all responded to. But General McClellan must
not. forget that, with all the public recol
lections of his achievements, he is still the idol of
disunionism. It Is no part of our purpose to identify •
,General • McClellan with disunion, or even with
separation; but it becomes us to any that, standing
'a the relation that he does to a party which," at the
beginning of the , war hated and despised, • and
trampled urin him, because they desired- disunion
'mid separation, he cannot now become,. tes emblini"
or embodiment of national unity. Hence it le, that
while we hail the resolution of the Chicago Con
vention declaratory of devbtion to the Republic, and
of a deteridnation to save the Union, we prefer
Abraham Lincoln, with all his enperienee and with
all his knowledge of the situation, to 4 1/norge B.
McClellan. .
WASKM4GTON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1,1N4.
THE RICHMOND VISIT OP JAQUES AND GIL-
The National Republican of to.daisays : We are
,
authorized and requested to 'announce, notwith
etanding all that has been written and said on the
subject, that neither Mr. Civet - one nor Colonel
:Taqure on the one band, nor Mi. Gezermv on the
other, has ever been or is now authorized to express.
any desires„views, or opinions of the Preiddent of
the United States, either in Canada or Richmond,
on the subject of "negotiations of peace" beyond
what be has plainly and carefully-written over his
own signature. •
'That the mission to Richmond was initiated and
executed by Messrs. G-ustonu and JAQUES on their
own private account ; that they had no authority
whatever to speak direetly 'or indirectly for the
President of the United States, ollicially or unoffi
cially, or for ABRAHAM LireVoLiv, unoiScially or
privately.
If Mr. BENJAMIN'S report of the sayings of Mr.
Ginsiona and Colonel Jagime, while they were at
Richmond, is correct, they assumed a responsibility
not given to them, and made statements wholly un
true.,
Indeed, while on the subject, it is proper to state
that the President, after repeated solioltations,
rented to give GL1.14013.11 and Sew:ries a pass through
our military lines.
lie did not request General Gsoiel. to open a
eorrespondeneewith General •LEE to give them a
safe-eonduot to :Richmond and return. General
GRANT did that upon his own responsibility.
' President LiwooLigoo request wan merely that
General GRANT would pass them through Ms mili
tary lines, and nothing more.
IMPARYTTR,E OP ARMY INSPECTORS.
•
Mr. G-RORGE H. STIIAUT, chairman; STEPHEN
CALDWELL, member of the executive committee,
and Rev. B. D. AyEs, secretary of the United
States Christian Commission, left foi City Point
to-day on a tour of inspection of the army work of
the Commission. The growing' work' of the (lour
mission has led to the erection of a ,large frame
warehouse on Tenth street, which minders the pur
past ofastore•room, with dining and sleeping aceoni
mbdittiOns for a hundred of its delagates.
• LOAN SUBSCRIPTION'S. •
The,subserlptlonS to the seven-thirty loan, as re
ported to the Treasury Department to-day, amount
ed to one million fifty-nine thousand, and to the ten
forty 10 - an five hundred and ninety-five thousand
five hundred dollars.
r&OISrEIC FOR THE SOLDIERS,
Seven Wilton dollars- were furnished today by
,the Treasurer, two millions of which are for the
payment of Gen, GB&NT'S army, three for, SHER
nai,s, one for the troops in Washington, and. the
remainder for similar disbursement elsewhere. Two
milliona were recently sent to New Orleans.-
EXEC LITT.Oc4 OF A DESEETER.
Serer. E. CONLF.Ti of
_the 19th Regiment of Vets*•
ran Reserves, is to be shot to death tomorrow, at
Alexandria, Va., for a violation of the twenty.third
article of war, and for aiding soldiers to desert.
ASSISTANT SOLICITOR. APPOINTED.
SOHII J. Wintri, of 111Inols, has been appointed
Solloitor of the Court of Claims, vice DEOPREasON.
3tISCELL.A,NEOUS
IL G. Oortuww, of Maine, has been found guilty
by a military court of , preceeding to the front and
using a pass belonging to and intended for another.
He was fined two hUndred dollars. The Govern
ment is in need of horses. $175 is paid for cavalry,
and a trifle more for artillery horses. - Seventeen
rebel deserters took the oath of allegiance yester
daj.' Two hesitated, and when told it was not com
pulsory to do so, complied. ,
The National. Finances..:
Tee AMOUNT OP TUB PUBLIC DEBT—STATITS OF
THE NATIONAL LOAILS..-COMIVISSIONS TO SUB.
ectuai2TioN' AGENTS,
-The official statement of the public debt on the
30th of August Shows the amount outstanding to be
$1,878,565,234, and the interest in both coin and law
ful money, $77,447,122, or an inerease'of the public
debt since the 2d of Augustof $53,074,000, and of the
interest, $1,027,000. The debt bearing interest in
minis now $889,809,492, and the debt bearing Into.
rest in lawful money, $4E4;197,000 ; the debt on which
interest has ceased, $357,4701the debt bearing no in
terest, $19,111,267.
The unpaid requisition-s'litre $78,795,000, and the
amount in the treasury, 317,189,518.
It further appears that since the 2d of August the
six per cent. bonds, under the act of July 17th and
August 6th, 1861, exchanged for seven-thirties, have
increased to the extent of fifteen millions
. ; that the
seven thirty three year notes;under the act of July
17th, 1861, have been reduOed about the same
amount, andl i he six per emit. certificates of indebt
edness, nnder the act of March 1E4,1862, increased
nearly twenty:eight minima.
The Secretary of the Treasury has just issued a
circular specifying the commissions which will here
after be allowed on all subscriptions and deposits
obtained on and after this date for three years ,
seven-and-three-tenths Treasury notes, known as
the "ten-forty bonds." On any aggregate of de-
Twits, exclusive of the accrued interest for either of
the said securities of not less than twenty-tive thow
sand dollars, and not amounting to two hundred
4204.4irty thousand dellars,.oneenarter. of one per
cent.; on any aggregate of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars or upwards, and less than one mil
lion dollars, threaeighths of one per cent. ; on one
million dollars and upwards, oniahalf of one per
cent.
Any person is authorized to „act JIS an agent for
obtaining subscriptions, but no notes or bonds will
be issued except upon the certificates, in the form
heretofore prescribed, of the treasurer, assistant
treasurer, designated depositaries, or the proper
officers of a national deposit bank, that the moneys
have been deposited to the credit of the Treasurer
of the United States. All deposits made by sub.
agents Wad be in the name of the principal to en
title the sums so deposited to be included in one
account. Commissions may be allowed •at their
discretien, by banks or other agents obtaining sub
scriptions, to subscribers, not exceeding one-half of
their own commissions.
It is understood that the bonds for the balance
of the six per 'cent. loan of 1861, now offered for
public competition, are all printed and ready for
delivery. ...Persons intending to bid will, therefore,
do well to ;address their proposals directly to the
Treasury Department, Washington, without the
interventicn of third parties.
A New Postal Arrangeosent.
It new plan of distributing mail xiatter is about
.
to be introduced into our postal system. It will re
sult in a decided' gain,to the public, by saving much
of the 'time now. occupied in assorting the. malls
after their arrival at the offices. The distri„butions
now done at leading offices are to be thine flare/titer
ip the oars by clerks detailed for the purpose, so
that the delay hitherto required for the work will be
obviated, and mail matter can be taken at a later
period. Many letters and papers that now miss the
man will then be in good time. Incoming malls
will be already partly distributed on arriving—that
is, matter either for city delivery or for distribution
tit the boxes, or to be given out at the "general de
livery" office, will be classified, and the time usu
ally employed for the purpose saved to tbe
Besides, matter now sent in bulk to central offices
to be assorted and forwarded will not be detained.
Thus various delays will be obviated..
One of the care intended for this purpOie has
been fitted up at the expense of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, after plans by Mr. Zevell,
Third Assistant Postmaster General, and is now
running 4 between Washington and Baltimore, to
wear off its roughness. It is 45 feet 5 inches long in
the clear, 9 feet 4 inches wide, with a height of
7 feet at the Sides, but of 9 feet in the 'centre, the
Car's principle being that of a double-decker."
On either side are words informing the public that
it is .the "through line between New York and
Washington."' There are. also the usual aper
tures through which lettere : may be conve
identiy ilropped in for -mailing. In the inside
are two motes, each containing, two hundred
ttpigeon holes," of rather Urger size than oftll
nary, and forty boxes, each one foot evutre,
So arranged that the matter placed in them-
cannot be jostled out by the motion of the ear.
,There is In front of each case a narrow shelf for the
Accommodation of the clerks, with drawers beneath,
.11.nd hooks for the mail pouches; while on the oppo
site side is a large table for stamping purposes.
Time pre also closets for clothes; sofas, water
aeolers, aiid every convenience for those who shall
travel with the ear. and it is fitted up with the most
approved ventilating windows.
As soon as the train starts the clerks assigned to
-duty in this novel post office will commence the dis
tribution of all matter into boxes for the several lo
calities to which the matter is directed, The way
plaits Will:be made up first, and at each Station mall
matter intended for the particular locality will be
put - off, and matter for other points on the route re
teived. The great advantage of Wls system is that
ICoirespondents can mail their tatters at the last mo
ment, and even when the- car may be Moving off,
set with the assurance that all letters will. reach
;their destination safely and with. unusual despatch
DIANIFBSTO FROM TRAIN.-0II:the last day of
the Chicago Convention Geo. Franois Train and all
hie Territorial delegations were ruled oat. He im
mediately sent the following, which he Galls a maul
tiY the Journal. We copy
__ S7.1107.111&17 ROUSE,
IiZADQIIARTBRI3 OF THE .PIT,
• . ElosiDay, August 29, 11361. '
Outrage on the future ! Young Democrats. take
„notice. Chicago Ignores the. West. Your mows
; tains, gold mountains; two millions square miles
of land all thrown out by the great English Con
vention run by the house of Rothschild. Fifty-four
!delegates slaughtered because they would 'not vote
;for hlcClellan.
i
Dt.&311213 OF TEREITOMICS.
.1..7'.T ai i:13 . 6'Arizoaa. 6
mi sde
I 6 New Mexico - 6
+On 0 6' . 'Dacotah 6
.
Matte. a
on 6lNevada
-- '6
Washibsi
Delegate :'., 61.
Let 'the young .men of the nation—our fault
statesmen—remember' that the packed Convention
of politiolaris at Chicago refused to acknowledge
the Democrats in nine great Territories—yet, if Ne
vada, Nebraska, and Colorado had gone Republi
can this summer, nine Abolition votes might have
beaten the party. •
"Col. 'Philip 'Herbert, of the 7th Texas Ca.
vairy, died at Kingston. La., on the 28th .1;uly, from
the effects of .a wound received at the battle of
Hanafteld, April 8,18f4."
We hind tbia announcement current as an extract
from a rebel paper. He was the member of
Congrfss from California who made himself note.
rions in, the winter or 1.857 by•the murder of-a
waiter, an iiist min; at . a hotel in Washington.
At the:Ontbreak'of the,Srat he seems to have lbled
the rebels, and it wooW.llk Bessie* ha fell. A--Ht'
, -
rote. , '
THE WAR.
CONTINVED VIET wogs PETERSBURG.
Official Report of the Capture of
Fort Morgan.
ODB LOSSES ONLY EIGHT KILLED AND WOODED
The Way Open to within Pive Itiles of thelity
OVERIELA WARFARE REOPENED IN
ABILANSAS.
They Control and Blockade White River.
A Railroad Guard of One Regiment Captued.
WHEELER'S "CAVALRY ACTIVELY AT WORK
TEBBIBLE INDIAN MIMES ON THE PLAINS
Assistance and Officers Afforded Theta by
the Rebels.
DISAFFECTED WHITE MEN ON THE
PLAINS IN THOUSANDS.
Two Thousand Whites Murdered Since the In
eeption of the Troubles.
OFFICIAL GAZETTE
GEN. CANDY'S OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE SURREAT.
DER OF FORT HOROAN—SIX HUNDRED PRISONERS
AND SIXTY GUNS TAKEN—OUR LOSS ONE KILLED .
AND SEVEN WOUNDED.
: WABILINOTON, Sept. 1, 1865-10.40 A. M.
To Major Genera Din . , New-York:
This Department has just received Gen. Canby's
official report of the surrender of Fort Nergan
NEW ORLEANS, Augnst .14.—Fort . Morgan ear-
Tendered at 2 F. X. on the '22d inst.
En. R. S. CAnnr, Major General
NEW Onr..netsuitamt 24.—8 y the surrender of
Fort Morgan we have about 600 prisoners, 60 Ideate
_of artillery, and a large quantity of material.
• In the twelve hours preceding the surrender about
8,000 shell were thrown into the fort. The citadel
and barracks are entirely destroyed, and the works,
generally, much injured: Many of the guns were
Spiked, and carriages burned, and much of the am.
munition destroyed by the rebels. The losses in the
army were one man killed and seven wounded.
E. R. S. 04.11131", Major General.
Nothing has been received to -day from Generals
Grant, Sherman, or Sheridan.
Edwnt M. Sr/apron, Secretary of War.
TINE ARIIT BEFORE PETERSBURG.
RULES " FOB 00ENNSPONDENT8-QUIET IN THE
WASHINGTON, SepteMber I.—A letter from the
Army of the Potomac, dated yesterday, says the
rule requiring correspondents with the armyto pub
lish their full names as signatures to their despatches,
and Which has been neglected by a number of these
gentlemen, is again insisted upon, and those who
omit doing so in future need not hope to remain
here. It is also required that theyshall locates.therst
selves with some particular corps, division, or de
tachment, where they may be"addressed or sent for
at all times. This, however, will not, of course, pre.
vent them from moving about to attend to their bu;
slness duties.
t. Attention is called to the fact that several errors
occurred in a despatch dated - August 21, describing
the battle of the 19th. Two statements are espe
cially the subject of complaint, namely, that "the
2d division of the sth - Corps„broke, and that our
whole line was then forced back." The 2d division,
it Is claimed, did not break, nor did any other, be•
fore a direct assault, and our line was net 'driven
back.
Everything was quiet yesterday and last night
along our lines, and the position of affairs is not
materially altered. Recruits and • convalescents
continue to arrive daily, in increased numbers, and a
greatly improved feeling prevails in the army, both
among the officers and men
Yesterday a very respectabirappeating family of
nrfugees, from the vicinity of Ream , s Station, suc
ceeded in getting within our lines, with a view of
going North,
DEPARTMENT OF THE . GULF.
not STOTRENDRII OP FORT NORGAff
Now Yomr, Sept. 1.--The 'purser of the steamer
Yazoo, which arrived this morning froin New. O—
rleans, reports that our fleet attached Fort Morgan,
on the morning of the WA, and the rebel General
Page surrendered unconditionally, at 2 o'clock P.
112, on the 23d. The fort was much damaged by the
rapid firing of our fleet. The enthusiasm of our
forces was unbounded. The steamships Tennessee
and Blenville were passed in the river bythe Yazoo,
on the 24th, with the prisoners from Fort Morgan on
board.
ARRIVAL OB PARRAGItrre OVHICIIAL DESPATCHES
•AT .NEW YORK—AN ITNFINDBERD REBEL RAX
E 311113
Naw Yon x, Sept. I.—The steamer McClellan,
from New Orleans on the gilth ult. via Mobile Bay
on `the 27th, arrived at this port this'atternoon.. She
*lies Admiral Firragat's official despatches re
garding the'capturs of Fort Morgan 'and the Raga
of' the rebel ram Tennessee, the rebel steamer
Selma, and of Fort Gaines and Morgan.
The rebel ram Nashville was blown up by the
United States gunboat Metacomet, on the night of
the 243 th, just below Mobile. She was 360 feet long,
and was to mount twelve guns.
-Thi gunboat Oneida fished up six torpedoes OA
the'inh, in the channel below the forts.
The ram Tennessee Would soon leave for New
Orleans.
The Selma Is doing duty in the Union cause.
Our forces ashore and on shipboard are in:excel?
lent condition.
The McClellan toiched off Key West, and briiiight
the mails thence.
The fever Igo decreasing at that point.
THE CAPTURE OF FORT MORGAN—DETAILS OF THE
MOVEMENTS OF FARR/113TM AND CARRY—PRE.
LIMINARY OPERATIONS—THE BOMBARDMENT OF
TIM 22D-BUT BLIGHT REBISTANOB OPRECED EY
THE POEM
By the Neit.Orleans steamer, which arrived at
New York yesterday afternoon, we have details Of
the operations, by land and water, against Fort
'Morgan, and its final surrender, with all its garri
son and appurtenances,
0n Stintlay %aerie:nil, the 14th ult., our land
foreel COMpleted their first battery, and at half past
era fired the first experimental shot at the fort.
During the whole week the details from the vessels
were busy erecting batteries and mounting haafy
guns upon them, without, strangely enough, being
interfered with by the fort. From Sunday up to
the day of attack the monitors kept up a steady fire
day arid night, one monitor relieving another at
stated periods. On Sunday their signal flag was shot
away. Two or three men were seen bending an
other one on, but just as they were about to hoist It,
bang came another shell among them, exploding in
the same place, driving them back into their bomb
proofs, so the fort was left without a flag the re
mainder of the day..
Early on the following morning the flagstaff was
shot away close to the ground, and they substituted
for it a little stick anti:a small flag which floated de.
flantly from the water batteries.
On Monday at 10 A. M. Oanbrs troops made a
reconnoissance in force. They advanced up to the
very trench in front of, the fort, and were warmly
received by the garrison with musketry and charges
of grape and canister. This action could be seen
from the decks of the fleet. The rebels must have
been guilty of some very bad .grainery,, since Gene.
ral Canby, whose report we print in our telegraphic
columns, admits no such loss as we would expect to
result from the reception our troops are asserted to
have received.
Troops constantly arrive, and gallon tire. The
Connecticut brought "400,, sailors from New York,
who served admirably to repair our losses and man
the ram Tennessee and the Selma—captures from
the rebels. These vessels did very excellent service
in annoying the garrison, and afterward/ in the at
tack on the: fort. The Tennessee proved as gi3od - as
new after her rudder was repaired, and the rebel
shot fell harmless on her immense sides, failing off
in pieces, leaving but slight dints behind. The fact
that this vessel, adll'aliwas once the pride and boast
of the rebels, should now be a powerful, if not
their most powerful opponent, must have been
particularly galling. Indeed, this was proved
by the particular attention they gave her,
although they Inuit have known as well
as we that it was Bo much powder and shot
wasted. On Saturday, the 13th, a very heavy gun
they possessed rained shot and shell on and about
her, and signal men anxiously watched their effect.
Her guns replied in. rapidly and tellingly knocking
over gun carriages and tearing up parapets, and
she only withdrew when darkness rendered the atm
uncertain. The damage done was nil. A bolt
broken, a flagstaff chopped off, an anchor bent, and
a dingo in the smoke-etack, covered all. She was as
good and as strong as ever. On Tuesday night, tho
Winnebago, one of the monitors on picket, was
struck, and one nr two men killed and one wounded.
Her crew had grown very careless since the passage
of the forts, and actually slept.on deck even in time
of action. This loss will cure them of their te
merity.
meantime, the batteries on shore were rapidly
completing, and the fort was invested on three sides:
The fourth was as good as investell, since the garri
son could not possibly escape through it. Mobile
Point was occupied by our land form's, under Canby,
whose trenches extended across it, and an each side
the point our vessels were stationed.
Early on the morning of the W.d (nionday), the
bombardment was commenced by the whole of the
fleet and some of the blockading vessels. Of it the
correspondence of the New York Poet furnishes the
following account: •
"The tiring from early dawn until six o'clock was
regular and effective, but shortly after that hour It
became rapid and extremely heavy. The Bight from.
Fort Gaines and other points from which the joint
operations of the fleet and. of the land forces
could bo witnessed covered the entire' deld; and .
the appearance of the bombardment Is de* eribed
as one of the most grand and stirring dis plays
of the war. The bursting Of the heavy shells
in the fort or over it was constant, and for four
hours the rebel garrison received In that way an
average of about one shell in each minute of rims,
The monitors fired at close range; their aim was
unusually good, and the explosion of their eleven
Mid fifteen-inch shells could be distinguished
from the bursting of the shells thrown by the ether
guns, which were of smaller calibre . The: Tobol
ram Tennessee assisted is this action, and die good
service. 'The large voisels of the fleet poured in
continuous broadsides, and the rear of the fort was
covered by the lire of the ermy.- The regular dis
charge of canned in the various directions
around the fortification, *the flight of the Shells
and „their
_loud and often :simultaneous explo
slot), satinet be adequately" desoritiod,
• pid -work continued until ta n , aloch, ere I then
sleekt heti f - Ollfff What, MAIO th u;
ttirtg *.ss kePt
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In all this time the rebels, who' were driven from
their guns, did very little Work> A. officer, who
witnessed the whole of the- heavY s bombardniant,
was able to distinguish but fear MOM from Fort
Morgan after the principal work of the, day began
from our batteries. It does not appear the
rebels had any b.opo of being able to resist the at
tack of our forces: ,
On the nest day the surrender took place. The
next move of Farragut, now that tdif work is done In
the harbor, and the rebel power , thoroughly over
come, will be up the river, against the obstructiono
at Dog River bar, five miles below the city of No-,
bile.
Tin NAVAL BIGHT IN NOBILN •Bay—a, col/mar
DBSORIPTION.
A correspondent asserts that there were- sera:aim
portant discrepancies in the accounts °tithe- recent
fight in Mobile Bey, and sets, himself about glr
ing what he claims to be a correct description.
He says that it was not the Hartford but the Brook
lyn that led the can in the run past Fort Morgan,.
and then, in a small compass, gives ita wplcture of
-
the action •
" When the ram Tennessee waadiseovereCcoming
up the bay, under a full head of steam, this-caused
the vessels already at anchor to -prepare in etilok
order. The Monongahela approached the' ram;
with the intention of running, her down, but by
some grand manoeuvre of the ram, the Mononga
hela merely glanced along her side; discharging a
broadside at her, and receiving one in return. The
ram then stood for the Lackawana. Captain B.
Marchand , comaan ding that -vessel, seeing this, ap
proa abed the ram Tennessee, going at the rate of
ten miles per hour, and struck her nearly_
amidships,'stunning both vessels, so that they hung
together for nearly a minute before parting. At
the same time she fired a broadside, penetrating
the Laelmwanals berth-deck, making sad havoc
among her forward powder division, setting fire to
her shell room, though It was extinguished before
it became serious. She then passed along her port
side, the men of serious.- She
keeping cool and
lighting with d esperation, seizing muskets and tiring
them into the ram's ports, so as to prevent them from
loading their_ guns. One of the men seeing nothing
at hand seized a spit-boa and threw it into the-port--
hole, knocking down- the man trying to load, at
the same time saying, ." "Take that, you d—n-:
rebel." And another of the robs, looking out of the
ram's ports at the captain of a broadside gray
said,
." Fire away. you d—n Yankee." No sooner
was it said than the gun was discharged into one
of her ports. She then passed astern of the Lacka•
wana with the intention of raking her fore 'and
aft. For escaping this all honor is due Mr. 'Tames
Fulton, paymaster of the Lackawana, whorwast-at
the time standing on the quarter.deek. He stilted
several muskets and discharged them into the ram's
stern-port, preventing them front loading their
guns. - All were clear now of the ram. Each-vessel
discharged broadside after broadside- against her
until her smokestack flew away. She then laid her
course for Fort Morgan; but, as you are- already
aware, she was doomed , not to reach the- fort that
day. At the time when the Lackawana struck the
ram, Admiral Farra.gat was standing in the mizzen
rigging , of his vessel, saying: "Men, lower the
boats; the, bold Laokawana is ainklO.' 8.1 1 3.0.0,
did not sin V
k, though leaking fast. Her crew were
hard at work all day to keep her from going down
KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE:
MOVEMENTS OF WHEELER.
NASHVILLE, August 31.---The attacking force at.
Lebanon numbered twenty men. General lEilliken
was held for hours, but subsequently released. He
was at Gallatin last night. The accounts are 'con
flicting regarding the number of Wheeler's force.
The highest estimate is six thousand. Wheeler's
main body is In the vicinity of Deckers and Tulla
homa, threatening the railroad bridges at Elk and
Duck rivers. He has undoubtedly dtvided , hie force,
with the ultimate view of crossing into•Sentnek - y.
Last night 250 of Wheelers men drove in Van.
Cleve's scouts at Woodbury. A rebel force was
also seven miles east of Duck river bridge. The
rebel force at Woodbury was under De Brice, whose •
brigade occupied McMinnville on the evening of the
29th. A despatch from the cominandleg.oincer at
Duck river reports that, at 7 o'clock...last night, 2,500
rebels were advancing on the -bridge- by the .7Yino;
chaster and Wartrace roads. A despatch from Tul
lahoma says that 1,600 of Wheeler's men came into
Jester' at 10 o'clock P. AL - yesterday. At noon to
day the wires were down between Smyrna and
Deckers, and there have been no reports since.
There have been no trains running south to-day.
GUZRTLL WARFARE
LomsviLLE, August 31.—Yesterday Lieutenant
Colonel Graham, of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry,
was captured by Captain 'Foreman's guerillas,
when returning .from his home to this city. He
was paroled, and allowed to go to Kreterviile, to
procure the release of two Of Foreman's gang„
fined in all at that place. Three men accompany
ing Graham were also captured. One of them, Mr.:
Samuel A. White, a 'Union mau,iit is presumed they
will shoot. The guerilla Jesse has publicly declared
that he will shoot all the negroes when he captures
them.
ASEAN'S AB:
THE WHITE RIVER, A-LrVB WITH GITERILLAB-CAI ,
TITRE OF AN ILLINOIS IiEGINIINT.
CAIRO, Sept. I.—Accounts from the White river
say the country along there is alive with guerillas,
who fire into all the' boats which pass.
On the 23d, a part of Joe Shelby's - rebel gang at
the forces guarding theratlroad between Da
vall's Bluff and Little Rock, and captured nearly
all of,the 54th maids Regiment,• occupying three
stations. Colonel Mitchell is reported to have been
Shelby's force was threatening Duvall's Bluff and
SL Charles.
The rebel General:Buford Is preparing for another
raid Into West Kentucky. Ms advance guard has
entered dcOracken county.
General RoSeerans has Issued orders to repair the
Charleston and Palton.Railroad, in Missouri.
THE IN'HUM WAR.
THE OUTRAGES ON TEE PLAINS INCEEASING--OUR
I , olcoB INADEQUATE TO PUT AN BED TO TITER
-2,000 PERSONS MASSACRED THUS HATC—TER TER
RITORT, SWARMING WITH REBELS
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Sr. Loma, Sept. I.—Late advloes from Fa
Riley say that the Indian outrages have increased
- 4irthe past ten days. On the 19th - ult. - a train from
Santa Fe to Leavenworth was attacked at Clime.
ran Springs and abandoned. On the 21st two hun
dred Indians attacked several trains, including one
belonging to the Government, sixty miles west of
Fort Leavenworth. 9ne man was kißed and nearly
all the stock captured.
Large bidies of Indians were congregating in the
neighborhood of Port Lyon, and outrages were of
daily occurrence.
A party on coming in sight of thefort were pur
pod by Blajoi Wynkoop, and three or four of them
killed.
Several unprotected settlements between Fort
Lyon and the base of the mountains are now re
ceiving the attentioulot the Indians.
Lieut. Booth, of the nth Kamm Regqient, who
was sent to the relief of thi people in Clay county,
Nebraska, reports having found no Indians on the
road, after a scant of 169 mites. He is now en
camped at Clay Centre, on the Republican fork.
The section of country traversed by the savages
extends from the Platte to the Arkansas rivers a
distance of about 400 miles from east to west. livers,
present force is entirely inadequate for the work be
fore it, and immediate reinforcements are absolute
ly necessary.
Over two thousand poisons have been murdered
on the Platte' route, one hundred on the Arkansas
head watera, at Smoky 11111, &c., and sas worth
of property eaptured or destroyed, besides three thou,
sand horses, live hundred mules, and two thousand
oxen.
Idaho and Montana are said to swarm with dia•
affected men. It is estimated that 20,000 men of this
class have gone there during the past year and a
half.. The Mexicans are very uneasy along the en.
tire mountain range. The rebel Mormon agents-
are said to have been at work among them.
• NEW ORLEANS AND MEXICO.
the New. Ortenni Bardii Ordered to Re
ceive Tree:awry Notlms—Moveineuis or
toe Trench lit Mexico. -
•
New YORK, Sept. L—Advices from New Orleans
say that General }tanks has Issued an order re
quiring the banks of LOXllBialla, as a condltion of
the further transaction of business, Ito receive Trea
sury rotes of the:United States la exchange at par
for their own issues.
By an arrival from Brazos Santiago we hear that
the French and reactionary :forces forces have advanced
from San Luis- Potosi, and now occupy Saltlllo,
only 63 miles from Monterey, the seat of thi Juarez
government. President Jnarez's hardly have
rived in New prleans, and Juarez himself, it is re=
ported, was on a vessel in the river. Maximilian
was conciliating the prominent men of the country.
Re had gone to gnadEiNara, and again urged
Salta Anna, to return. Alnionte had been made
marshal of the palace, and Ramirez appointed a
minister. ITraga's adhesion was- daily expected,
and he pill be received according to his rank as dt.
ilsion general. The French troops . are 'Marching
on New , Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas. ft was
expected that Monterey and Matamoros would soon
be attacked.
Award Of Government Gontragto.,,,,
Biivrimonr, Sept. 1.---,The following gontraote
were awarded by the COmmlesary of Su.baittitioe In
this department today :
2,400 bbls. of mess pork at 145.23015.08.
14,000 bblo. Hoax at $ 12 .60@L1.25.
5,000 bags of Coffee (Rio) at 348 10@50 Vit 100 lbs.
800,0(0 fts. Of pilot broad at $0.97 IR 100 to.
150,000 IC of beans at 4' 3 "04,10.
850,000 Its, brown sugar at $28.50@21.50 X4lOO to.
Frightful Railroad Accident.
Erna, Sept. L—A. shocking accident occurred on
the Phila4elphia and Erie Railroad yesterday morn
ing. An engine and tender left this cityto bring up
an extra train, and when three miles from Union
the locomotive exploded, tearing the whole engine
to pieces, aid demolishing the track for twenty
rods. McConnell, the engineer- '
Kearney, the fire
man Nargo, brakesman, and a stranger ;named
Parker, from Ohatauque county, New York,- were
killed. The last to o had the clothes entirely blown
trouitheir bodies.
Voiriur 'Factlines for ren . fisylvania 81.1.
gAIMISBILIZO, September I.—The soldiers' voting
law, together with each extracta from the Penneyl- -
vania Election Law J ae will be proper for the occa
sion, with tally papers and all the other necessary
blank forms to be used at the next general &eaten
of the soldiers, have been prepared at the office of
the Secretary of the commonwealth, and are noarin
the hands of the State printer, who rvZll goon have
them ready for delivering to the Pennsylvania regi
meats ill service.
Sale of Delaware State Benda
WAL3ITNCITOIS, Sept. I.—One hundred and fifty
thousand donate worth of Delaware State bonds
were sold to-day at only ono-half per oent. above
par. A like quaraley will be sold at 2- Webielt, to
morrow afternoon, which will be the last sale this
week. It le not likely that more than.,85530,000
be sold. The par value is $OBO for eaei Pond of
$l,OOO.
"Sentraalive .
at - .li.existittess; ;
ST. LAMM' Sept. L—The hemp factory, or. C. L..
aieGrew,:atioixi: neon, beirisecl ttibi Morn,,
ing. The loss amounted to S7O,ooit, on which there
wee an inßilninelt Of $35"•
Three hemp wahhouses and two. dwellings ad
joining were also destroyed, with most of their,oo4-
twits. =Tiritot.si loss amounted to 10.00,000. -
Texegraph.
fix. Loots, Sept,l.Tobruseols aetive and Amer...
, t Hemp dull arlit"lovrer. Vex -but unekauged.
:,W.lieat stiff. ands Wadi' higher: , • Corp: digres
alI htip &proved. 'Oats tureldwged. Lsrd '54
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THZ CHICABII MNTINTION.
Committees appointed by the Corm
tion.
CHICAGO, Sept. I.—The following committee -m A
appointed to notify the candidates Of the Cor oam
Convention of their nomination:
Gov, Horatio Seymour. chairman • ; P. E,l cer,
ton, of Indiaosi ;J. At. Doreen, iwnoi s jn ,
Merritt, of Delaware; Blase Lawrence, of Rh o l:
' Island ; Benjamin Start, of Oregon John E. Smith
of Maine; John Calm, of Vermont ;ugh ugh Alcti or r„ ,
of Michigan George H. Cannon, :H
of nlaryia
John Bigler, f California ;• S. 0. Abbott, of 3les 3a ,!
chusetts ; N. T. Bend, of - Missottry . ; C. H. Rein
Minnesota • Gov. Wick li ffe and James Gent le .
of
Kentucky
Kentucky i ' C• Dingus, of lowa ; D. Stiles; Dr ,v
Pennsylvania; Theodore Runyon; of New Jeise 7 .
Alfred E. York; of Connecticnt;4ohn G reen ,
Jr., of New
George W. "Harrington, or New Hampshire ; GD,.:
Shannon, of li.ansae; and X. T. Galloway, of vc,.
contin.
The following gentlemen compose the National 1,
Democratic Committee for the next four years 3
Maine—S. R. Lyman; of Portland:
New Hampshire—Josiah Ilienot,.of (loom!, re
Vermont—H. S. Smith, of g
Massachusetts—F. O. Prince, of Boston. b
Connecticut—Wm. Al. Converse, of Norwich. a
' Rhode Island—Gideon Bradford., of Providence ; 11
New York —August Belmont; of New York C•it7,
New Jersey—W. G. Steele. •
Pennsylvarda—W. A. Galbraith, of Erie;
Delaware—John A. Nicholson.
Maryland—Odin Bowie; of Cori:len:a. 0
Sentuoky—James Guthrie, of 'Louisville, arc. L.
Trimble of Paducah.
• Ohlo 2 Rufns P. Ronny, of Cleveland. g ;
a;
Indiana—W. E. Molack.
Illinotr--Wilber T. Story, of Chic:l,p. 4 .!
Michigan—W. L. Bancroft, of Port Hudson. r.ll
Missoort—Lowis. W. Bogg, of St. Loafs. e r
Minnesota-70m H. Paul, of Milwaukee. 0
lowa—D. 0. Finch, of Des Moines.
Kansas= Isaac E. Eaton, of Leavenworth.
California—Thomas Hughes, of San Franclacc. a
Oregon—Win. Madellan.
The latter Committee organized by the electioz
of August Belmont as Chairman, and F. O. Prince
Secretary.
The following were appointed asr the Executle: ap
Committee, viz : Messrs. Belmont, Prince, o".
braith, Bandy, Story, Parti, and Bogg.
The 'Dem ocratic Platform,
To the .Editor of The Press:
Sin In reading the resolutions- passed by the
Chicago Convention, is It not significant that nc:
one word. Is uttered againit the . po/icy-of the rebels'
All the phraseology Is confined to hatred of the
policy of the Administration, and yet they expect
the soldiers to vote fora 'perty that- Is in direct an.
tagonism to the very cause they are, and have been,
fighting for. now this /pseudo Democracy can a;lc
for ithe soldiers' vote, in the face of their having
voted heavily against allowing them the privilege
of voting at all, can only be accounted for by their
tinealtypiicrisy. Even if George B. Is their caodi.
date, he cannot cover that act,
ma Yours truly,
Important If True.
The Harrinbstrg Telegraph of Monday contains
:the following annwineernent. We give It, but do
not vouch for Its accuracy:
"It is understood to-day that after mature re.
Election Provost Marshal General Fry has con
cluded to reveler a former deoiston in relation to
the $3OO commutation paid by parties who were
drafted during the last conscription. The decision
shortly to be promulgated will exempt all Mote
who commutation of three hundred dollars
for three gears. This is an important decision,
alike just in its character and influential in its
tendencies."
NNW TOEK
Special Correspondence of The Prem.)
NEw Yous., September 1, ISet
THE wizAwinea, tro.
As not very, agreeable change of temperature
-•
causes universal shivering to-day, and substantial
' gentlemen of rhercariatio • tendernplee predict the
speedy inauguration of _one- of those , cold, drizzly
storms, Which' are liable to occur at this transition
time of year. It is rather early for &plait fashions
yet the dresses of some of the fair promenaders on
Broadway to-day have a settled autumnal oharao
ter, not to be mistaken for anyta ng.aummerlsh. is
:,is my masculine impression that the modes for the
new season are not yet. declared ;=and it is -quite
likely that the ladies who are "rushing the
season" this week, on account of a few chilly
days will be majestically charged with flagrant
'provincialism by those dainty journalists, Oa
Fashion Witnesses. By the way, the most cele.
brated of these latter-" Jennie June "—the wife
of a gentleman connected editorially with a pro
minent.dairy paper, and a lady of peculiar Intel
. leotual and medal refinement, is the subject of a
singularly insolent editorial notice in the Here!.
Some paragrapher of the press having- circulated
the story that " Jennie " had sent a copy of a re.
• cent volume of hers to Mrs. President Lincolnaita
• an accompanying note of silly adulation, the au
thoress addressed a note of contradiction to an eve
ning journal of this city, concluding it with a sea
tence savoring more of-feminine spunk under as
imputation of sycophancy, than of any intention on
, therpazt of thesprightly writer to show disrespect
• for 'Mrs. Lincoln. Using this note as-a pretext, tae
Herald very rudely assails " Jennie " for I , scribblin2:
impertinently." of the, President's wife, and talks
great amount of nonsense on the subject.
GOVERNOR SEYMOUR.
As a New Yorker by birth and permanent resa
deuce, your correspondent cannot, without a strong
feeling of humiliation, speak to Philadelphia readers
of that New York Governor now playing so conaplcz•
ously the;paxt of allfieloyal and weak-minded dema
gogue at Chicago-lila speech to the "Gentlemen a:
the Convention "is so evidently the production of an
insignificant mind that not even the more bacilli.
gent men of his own party care to hear Its cheap
-rant and wretched platitudes discussed. While this
prating Governor should be at home, attending so
the urgent duties of the - office to which he wag
Alected, he is wasting the State's time in a poll
" iris - felling show," and perinittikg Dian
Ricbmond and the precious Wood brothers to fight
for future possession of him. The platform instituted
by , the Convention . over which -this individual
nominally presides is generally regarded here
something almost , comical in its meaningless =-
tatty, and is plainly enough the production of
Schemers who haie not the moral courage to make
their real meaning public. That real meaning,
hoWever, is thoroughly comprehended in this city of
Tammany and Mozart, and none are so ignorant a 3
not to know that the - present genuine Democratic
platform, no matter who may be nominated upon
it, is peace at any price. Consequently, those who
have anything like faith in a Democratic triumph
in November are shaping their views, - projects,
Madness, dtc., upon • the certainty of some kind oi
"peace" before the 6th of next March.
A. BREECH MBA.
To take leave of politics, and tern to other sub
jects You must know that efforts are - being mate
to supply this city with a "Morgue," or dead-house
of the Parisian style, wherein the bodies of the
"found dead" may be preserved and exhibited in
ghastly state until identified: The establishment
of such a terrible receptacle may be advisable for
some reasons; but so closely is it associated in ones
mind with the melo-dramatic French views and
treatment of death, that no Americsa can think of
having a "Morgue"ln his own Olty without a sett
satiori-of instinctive repugnance.
MARINE INTELIJOBNCE.
Arrived, ship Alex. Marshall, from Liverpool;
Lovely, from do. ; briga Paul and Marie, from Bor
deaux. •
CHAMSBBSBURGB/SING ItROM ITS ASIIECS.—We
see by the 'Franklin .kepariforythat the people o:
Cliambersbnrg are preparing to rebuild their de
stroyed datellings, though theycan never replace
their old arnes. Since the work of milting the town
is to be all done over again, It is prdposed to beautify
it by inereaking the width of , its streets, making the
houses neat`and uniform, and liningthe streets with
shade trees,: , The project requires money, but we
presume thatmecessamthe people consider they can
obtain, or they would not. discuss • anything whi.eh
could not be performed Without it. The s approyda•
tion made for their benefit by the Legislature,
though apparently large, amounts, it seems, to but
SS3 per head. They will, therefore, receive no aid
from that quarter. All the property destroyed
loss, dead-loss, as it was not insured against war
risks.
LAEGE POSITIVE SALE OF 450 LOTS OF HO:OEM".
GLOVES, SHlEss, Daewirms, fee l THIS I.lAT.—Tae
l ia
early and panic t r attention of dealers is requet
ed to the vain 11, 4 ,0 desirable assortment of dr;
goods, includ.;lolll,dozen cotton and woolen
hosiery "and gloves, shirts and drawers,
travellinz
shirts, skirts, ties, sewing silks, patent thread. •. , .N.
&c., to be peremptorily sold (In continuation) by
catalogue, on four months' credit, commencing thli
(Friday) morning, Septembe'r 2, at 10 o'clock, pre•
cisely, by John B. Myers & Co., auctioneers, Nii.
282 and 284 Market street. '
SALE OF BOOTS AND SIIOICS.-1178 would call the
early attention of buyers to the extensive assort
ment of twelve hundred cases boots, shoes, brogans.
balmerals,rwmy goods, dm., to be sold by catalogue,
for cash, this morning, Friday, September 2, con•
menekig at 10 o'clock precisely, by Philip Ford
Co., auctioneers, at their store, No. 525 Plarke:
street and 622 Commerce street.
Professor Godwin Smith, of Oxford Uuntvor
Eng, England, having, in a recent letter, expressed
his strong sympathy with - the Federal Government
in its efforts to suppress the slaveholders' rebellion
hi this country, a London journal pitches into him
as follews : " There are many, probably, who lie
it hard to conceive what is the course of ren llag
which hoe led Dlr. Godwin Smith, a brilliant writer•
and a, professor of history, to avow his sYlaPat i4
with a cause which the mass of other educated 1. 1 a4 -
lislimen have agreed to trait as unworthy the sial ,
pathy of a gentleman."
INFLOWNCE 04 IRON ON VEGETATION.—A
One discovery bas recently been made regarding
influence of iron on vegetables, lan the chalks'
shores of France and 'England, where there is Ia
absence of iron, vegetation bas a sereand blanched
appearance. This is entirely removed, it appears ,
. by the application of a solution of sulphate 01
Haricot beans watered with this substance acquh e ' l
an additional weight of sixty per cent. hiulberrieg ,
lierke,hes, Nears, Vines, and wheat, derive adran
tagm,from the same treatment. IN the cultivoil9
of clo'ver wondeffel advantages have been• gainst
by the application 'of the suninate of iron on =o il s
in" which that Ingredient is wanting and in case=
where it is desired to produce an early crop Tile
Material is of course cheap and the quantiti 3 l
piled small. Ail the scales falling around E.v
:blacksmith's anvil should be saved Or the lanu.;',
they are worth live cents a quart to.gardeners• " L ;
fruit isSo much benefitted by iron , rust In so. 1: 1,
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the pear.
To 'Prtzsitavit nownits in Poing, ;trio Cotaa
The Ohio Farmer !hes the following directloto 14 4 1
this subject ":Proems a quantity of fine
and wash it until It is entirely ireefrom all dirt,
the wafer comas from it clear.. Then with a rt-'
sieve slit from all the particles, It should thel ri,
silted with a course sieve, taking from it all
Minute particles. The Sand nowbeing Par''''' : " 2
dry, is ready for use . Place it 'in a dish,
'should correspond in depth.with the length las
flower-stems which are, to be lased for drYing;,, or
flowers when picked should be perfectly
exempt from rein on dew. Insert the flowe" -- ;
in the sand to the base of the flowers. Than •/',,
steady hand- sprit - drill-the sand evenly Q" .y-,
flowers until they are completely imbedded , •
them iu a very dry place, either near the ors o'
the mut, end let them remain several doss. ",
Periertill:dry:the sand may be poured or!. /? , 7, 6.
Swami with are most easily
bet,meat varieties will well repay the little tr.,
MIA care required hy. this simple process..,
TEmita is talk ()rumoring a monument to Pa
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