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C4t Vrtss.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.
TO THE FBISIVos OF THE SOEHIESIN
EVERY COUNTY
MYTON STATE CKETRAL COMMITTEE Rooms, No. 11(4
Chestnut Street.—Our friends in every county and die-
Ariel in Pennsylvania should immediately, without' one
.day's delay, send to the State Committee a correct copy
..of their whole ticket, giving plainly the name of each
..candidate for every office. All this must be done to ena
ble the tickets to be prepared to send to the several regi
ments of the State.
County Committees should also prepare and send
with the Commissions their several county tickets, or
scud a special agent with the Commissions to carry
them.
Gen. McClellan Accused of. Insincerity.
It has been matter of public - wonder that
General M.cCormica, With the platform of
the Chicago Convention before ;with
its demand of immediate peace, and its
declaration that the war is a disastrous
failure, which' should be stopped for the
•sake of humanity, liberty, and 'the public
good, could imagine for a moment that he
was nominated to , represent a war policy.
The meaning of that platform was plain to
all, and if it needed any exposition, surely
that Mr. Gummy. framed it, that Mr. VAL
LANDMAN appioired it, that all the uncon
ditional Peace men in the country accepted
it., were facts which aught to have placed
it beyond dispute. That Gen. MCCLELLAN
should affect to misinterpret the policy of
his party was good reason for astonish
ment. In effect his letter of explanation
said simply this
,:. "As you have declared
the war to be a disastrous failure, a curse
to liberty and , humanity, and have de
manded • immediate :peace, I accept , the
platform as an - eipression of your determi
natiorito
,prosepute the war if the enemies
of the country ., refuse to snbmit" His
logic was literally no better than this; . ; and
was based on Soraething more -than mire
equivooation. • -• • • ,
But it is charged no* that General Mc
CLETIAN knew what was to - be the plat
form of his party, .and approved it, two
months before the Convention met The
(N. Y.) Day :News made this assertion
yesterday; and, 'if it is' not shown to be
untrue, it will be hard for General MC
CLELLAN to escape a very embarrassing di
lemma. If he understood the platform,
when it was presented to him two months
ago, he must during that time have led his
party managers to believe he would accept
it, with all its dishonorable conces
sions ; if he did not understand it, he
must be convicted of an ignorance which
is scarcely credible, and certainly must
lessen confidence in his intelligence. It is
it terrible dilemma to meet, but it cannot
be avoided. The .75aily Hews directly ac
cuses the candidate of its party of deceiving
his friends ; and claims that in. approving
the letter and spirit of the platform two
months before it was published, he led
them to believe that he would accept it as
his guide if he should be nominated. The
following remarkable article, quoted from
its columns, must have decisive effect on
the campaign :
"So well settled seemed to bei the policy of the
Democratic party, that, by common consent, and
after a free and open interchange of opinion, those
planks of the Chicago platform relating to peace
were, by common consent, agreed upon more than
two months before the Convention met. Early in
the month of July last—we have It upon the autho
rity of a delegate from Indiana, who was selected
by the delegation from his State to act as one of the
committee to inform the cat Mates of the action of
the Convention—the platform, With its peace planks,
almost word for word as adopted, Was presented to
General McClellan, and was by him approved, both in
its letter and in its spirit.
" What produced the sudden change which led
to its subsequent repudiation it Is for General
McClellan and his friends and not for ns to say.
Without the platform adopted at Chicago he
could not have been nominated. Contrary to the
usual course, it was first agreed to, and the candi
date, not only with the consent of his friends, but '
after their active exertions, was placed upon it.
Between the time of its adoption and the nomina-
lion of the candidate for President one entire
day intervened. The platform was published on
the afternoon of Tuesday in the city—the nomina
tion was made on the following day. It was seen
and read by Gen. McClellan, and he had full time
to telegraph to his friends in Chicago hie repudioe
tion if he could not nor would ribtendoree ..'
did no such thing. Hie confidential friends ap
proved the platform, and they urged his nomination
upon it. Its repudiation was an after-thought,
when he bad secured the tempting prize for which,
despite his assertion to the contrary in his letter, he
had labored long, or else—and we should be sorry to
believe this—it was a settled purpose to deceive, to
secure the suffrages of the delegates, and then to
repudiate the principles which secured his nomina
tion, and thus to deceive men whose only fault was
believing him true to his professions and those of
Ids friends.' ,
•
It is true, as the: Hews asserts, that the
'policy of the Democratic party was tho
roughly known long ago. Byerf uncondi-,
tional Peace man in the Northern States
belongs to that party ; among its . leaders
have long been all the
.-opponents:of the
war, and among the . delegates to its Con
vention were Men Who have declared - it
better to diiide the Union. than to carry on
the war. These men framed.the idifforni,
and placed Grons4 B. McCianza.w upon
it. Two months before theichose him as
their leader, they told him what banner he
would have to carry, and on what side his
sword would have to be unsheathed. They
made known their principles to him, before
choosing him as their candidate, and he
declared those principles to be his own.
Believing this; VALLANDIGHAm moved to
make General MCCLELLAN's nomination
unanimous. -Their indignation is natural
now, When their candidate, after the nomi
nation, coolly publishes a letter which re
pudiates the principles which before his
nomination he endorsed. 14'or , does it mi
tigate his offence that he protests he always
Thought the platform meant war, or that
he affects to believe that he was chosen be
cause of his military record 1
The accusation which the Naos has
made .;General MCCLELLAN must meet.
BeforChe can ask the votes of his country
men he must let them know if it is. true
that he knew of this platform for two
months before his nomination, and con
tinued to approve it in letter and spirit
until his nomination was secured.. He is
openly charged—not by.political opponents,.
but by prominent members of his own
party—with obtaining the . nomination
under false pretence; and we sincerely
trust that he will be able to prove the asser
tion false.
Marlborough and McClellan.
The great blot upon the character
of that eminent soldier, Jourr, Dirk&
of Marlborough, greater even than
his perfidy to King JAMES, or his • du
plicity to King WILLIAM and Queen
ANNE, was his miserly meanness in money
matters. He was accused of having need
lessly prolonged the war in the Low Coun
tries, in which he held the station of ge
neralissimo, with vast emoluments, merely
for the sake of the money he could make.
When he announced his victory at Blen
heim, he wrote to the Queen on a page
•out of his orderly sergeant's note-book,
and to his wife on the back of a tavern
bill—not that paper was scarce, but that
'he was saving. lle was publicly accused
in the House of Lords, of peculation in
the expenditure of the money committed
to his trust as commander-in-chief, and a
-.majority voted that his practices had been
unwarrantable and illegal. It was im
puted to him by Earl PormErr that "he
led his troops to the slaughter, to cause a
great number of officers to be knocked on
the head in a battle, or against stone walls,
in order to fill his pockets by disposing of
their commissions." His avarice was so
notorious that, on one occasion, when the
Earl of. Peterborough, (also a gregt 'sol
dier,) was mistaken by a London mob for
the Duke of Marlborough, then very un
popular, he saved himself from rough
usage, with which he was threatened, by,
•calling out, " Gentlemen, I can • convince
:you, by 'two reasons,. that I am not the
Duke : in the first place, I have only five
guineas mypocket ! • and in the second,
. (throw hi g . 10. purse to the crowd as he
spoke,) they. are heartily at your service."
Contraitepwith MA43FOIIOI7GII'S acquisi
ti vcnes how, proudly stands out the pure
integrity of WASHINGTON
One`of our correspondents suggested-yes
terday that General MoCusiLLAN, having
:solemnly pledged' ;himself restore
cco.uo yin public exPeudiiUrestr
The war must be continued, and, indeed,
is rapidly becoming drawn towards the
great climax of success. An armistice has
been proposed at the moment when all the
resources of the rebels are evidently in a
state of exhaustion, and the result' would
be to grant Rebellion -time to rest, to re
cruit, to invigorate itself, Opportunity to
draw further material aid from abroad by
means of. the British blockade-runners.
There cannot be the shadow of a pretext
for granting a cessation of hostilities. An
armistice would strengthen the foe, would
paralyze our brave soldiers, who are eager
to cud the war in the only way by which
it can be ended—a vigorous opposition to,
the rebels. Moreover, an armistice would'
be utterly useless Mr. JEFFERSON DA
vis has distinctly declared, more than
once, and With the emphasis of- stubborn .
deliberation, that the rebels are resolved to
establish themselves as an independent
sovereignty, and that they will not enter
tain, will not receive any proposition which
does not give full recognition to the inde
pendence of what Lord RUSSELL cautiously
designates " the so-called Southern Confe
deration." He - acts as if his motto was
"war to the knife 1" An armistice would
give, him the breathing time which, pressed ,
as he is by our gallant men and noble com
manders, he so much needs. It would
weaken us proportionably.
As the Union is to be maintained, and
by the strong hand of war, it remains to
be seen whom the country will choose, in
sha utaf:iii-h&irCretkru, ov.;,;!.
of the State during the next four years,
from March, 1865. The action:bf parties'
has narrowed this question very - much,':for.
(counting Mr. FREMONT as a political
cypher) this action has placed two candi
dates in the field. Mr. LINcoLN is deter
mined to stand on the Baltimore platform,
which pledges the country to put down the
rebellion by vigorous measures, and ia . en.
MoCraziam has been placed 4eit the
Chicago platform, the framers of which
uadoubtedltsympathize with the rebellion..
Indeed,' he
,: has candidly admitted, irrthe
only'rihlie speech he made since his nomi
nation, that -"he could scarcely realize the
Position - ivhich he had been placed.'
Perhapihe has' not yet been able to recon
cile the Chicago platform with the particu
hir . opinions and bearinge of its .framers,
who, while they promise 'to prosecute the
war so as to secure a speedy peace, would
doubtleis make such '
..'concession or com
promise '
as woUld effectually prevent the
restoration of the Union. The very Vice-
President whom they would associate with
him has been the steady advocate, in Con
gress, of measures and principles which,
if carried out, would keep us enfeebled by
disunion.
Mr. LlNcour will be re-elected; despite
of the old saying that Republics have gene
rally been ungrateful to the public men who
served them best. He did not seek the
high office to which he was elected in 1860.
He did not take any pains to secure his
renomination: But, after having deiroted
his undivided energies, ever since the re
bellion broke out, to maintain the Union in
its full integrity, and this with an honesty
of purpose and a high administrative ability
. of
even his enemies cannot help . ac
knowledging, the country will not do its
duty unless it endorses his policy by giving
him a re-election by an immense majority;
Touching the " Georgia.”
Not alone the thing said but the person
who says it is to be taken into account.
There has been some discussion in the
English newspapers about the capture
of the Georgia by the Niagara. The
journals which view it legally, which con
sider: it according to decisions of learned
judges, intimate that the fact of a hostile
vesizil being taken out of the war and
transferred to a private party, does not re
lieve it from the consequences it might
have incurred when employed as a bellige
rent agent. Just so, a criminal does not
shift off his responsibility by proceeding to
devote himself to an inoffensive future.
The Gtorgia perpetrated certain offences
against the commerce of the United States,
and for such ill-doing incurred the penalty
of being captured, whenever encountered,
no matter how changed in appearance or
how removed into another line of business,
nor what flag she chose to sail under. This
is the general opinion of the legal English
authorities who have pronounced upon the
question. The Times—which professes
to be merely a general and not
a class journal—has not cared to
say much on the subject ; but what
it has said intimates a doubt whether
the commander of the Niagara may not
have been right. The Shipping Gazette,
which is simply a commercial daily, cona
intelligence from all
municating shipping
th,e ports of England, and generally from
all parts of the maritime world, has ex
pressed itself thus : " The more we' cop-
Bider the circumstances of this affair, and
compare them with the few cases given in
the books at all presenting an analogy, the
more satisfied we are that the seizure of the
Georgia involves a direct violation of
neutral rights, and cannot be supported by
An appeal to international law." It is
right to ask who gives this opinion, in
order to estimate its value. Now the Ship
ping Gazette is a journal whose opinion
never had any influence in England. It is
doubtful whether it has an editor—certain.
ly it rarely.contains an original article of
even slight: value. A man looks into it
to learn all the maritime news that the un
der Writers at. Lloyd's have obtained from
their army of agents. scattered along the
seaboard of the world ; what vessels
have arrived and sailed ; what vessels are
MEM
t,-.
do well to cease drk. or duties
from the performance , 4.. it was
found requisite to "roll , and the
economy of which he spea ight proper
ly be commenced by his own resignation.
Our correspondent inquires : "Is draw
ing $6,000, as pay for doing • nothing,
a specimen of that economy ? $12,000
received and no equivalent rendered in
work of any description." When Gee. FRE
moivr found that hewas likely to be 'nomi
nated for the Presidency little Con
vention at Cleveland, he , iv:signed his mili
tary commission and its emoluments. Ge
neral McCLELLAn has given an acceptance,
(such as it is,) of the nomination at Chi
cago, but has not yet been able to "screw
his courage ,to the sticking point" of re
signation. It would appear that, in one
point, at any rate, he strongly 'resembles
MARLBOROUGH. That a man should hold
on to pay, after he has ceased to earn it,
shows a good deal of the MARLBOROUGH
and none of the Wasnrzonort practice.
The War and the preside nc y.
Among the ancient Romans it was held
as a heavy crime ever to despair of the Re
public: Surely it ought. to be so with our
selves, in a crisis to.which history cannot
present any parallel. We are assailed by
open Rebellion on one hand and by secret
Treason On . the other. The question has
gradually narrowed itself down to a few
plain issues. First, is the Union to be.pre
served ? Second, what will most certainly
preserve it—a war or a peace policy?
Third, what man is best qualified to work
out the policy which will save the integrity
of the nation 2
In the loyal States there is no real ques
tion, in spite of the undergrowl of certain
disaffected persons, that the Union must
be maintained. It is impossible, utterly
Impossible, that the revolted States can be
permitted to indulge in a permanent seces
sion from that Union which made us so
great, so happy, and so commanding; which .
made us powerful among the nations ;mid&
.proved the error of the old-world assertion
that an intelligent, enterprising, and ener=
.
getic people could not thrive under a re
publican form of government. No mere
pride of keeping numerous States in one
grand federation makes us seek to maintain
the Union, but treason is to be punished,
and rebellion is to be put down ; for should
they succeed, Slavery will reappear in its
very worst form in the South, and the retri-
bution which, soon after, would extinguish
it—perhaps by the extermination of the
white oppressors—would be fearful to think
of.
discharging their cargoes, 'are entered, are
loading, are cleared ; what vessels have
been driven back by bad weather or by
.accident; what vessels have been spoken
IkritiVat . sea, and so on. But no one; in
England, looks , into the Shipping Gazette
for any more, . and its opinion for or against
thelegality of seizing the Georgia will' be
wholly disregarded, we might say unno
ticed, in England—particularly as it has
been, from March, 1861, the most bigoted
satellite and supporter (in its own Lilli
putian way) of the pro-slavery Rebellion
in " the so-called Southern Cdnfederacy."
A Question of Dollars and' eenta.
The re-election of President LINCOLN is
absolutely essential to the financial security
and prosperity of the country. The rise
in gold immediately upon receipt of the
intelligence of McCnEmitx's nomination
is one very significant fact in this connec
tion, and a hundred might be had for the
asking. It will not be questioned that all
classes of the community, without distinc
tion of party, have subscribed to the Go
vernMent loans, and there arc many men
who have all their available means invested
in this class of securities. These men, no .
, matter what their politics may be, have a
pecuniary stake in the success of the Union
cause.' The safety of these investments
rests wholly upon the popular confidence
in the ability and dearmination of the Ad
ministration to crush out the rebellion and
`restore . the nation to its original integrity.
The faith of the United States is pledged to
its: creditors, and if the United. States is
suffered' to be broken up into two or more
ponfederacies, what guarantee can they
have that this pledge will be maintained ?
If the Opposition is permitted to obtain
control of the Government, d financial
crisisd the suspension of every form of
business will .be among^,the immediate re
sults. For even should the' party be ho
nestly resolved to submit to lin separation
of the two sections, the'moral effects of an
armistice, and of our being the first to pro
pose an armistice, would be most depressing
at home, if not disastrous abroad'. The
men who have nothing at stake--whci,have
nothing to lose—may prefer 'partisan
cesses to the general welfare ; but.no : man
who has a dollar subscribed to the Govern-,
ment loan, or who has a business that
would be likely to suffer . from financial
revulsion ' can afford to desert the Union
cause in the coming els2tions. Self-inte
rest and patriotism all dictate to such
men the necessity ,of re-electing Mr.
LINCOLN. •
THE Tutu DEMOMACY:—The Boston
.17 °raid one" of the'staunchest and most
influential Demmatic journals in the coml.
try, in the true and literal sense of the
.
term Democratic. In 1860 it 'supported
.
.
Swarm:au A. DOUGLAS . because it'believed
the doctrine he advocated, • and the plat
. form of the party which nominated • hini,
were in accordance with the Constitution,
and . formed a basis upon which all true
Union men could stand, both in the North
and In the . South. 'in its issue of the 12th
instant, the Iterizki squarely and boldly re
.
pudiates botl(the platform and candidate of
the Chicago Conyention. Of DOUGLAS it
SW .:
waallefeated by the action of
certain amen at the South, 'who are now the
leaders of . the rebellion.": And it adds, as
truthfully is forcibly :
; .1 Haying failed to accomplish their designs by the
' fbrSe of arras, and realizing the dangerous position
in which they are placed, they are resorting to po
litical action as the last step to save them from that
condemnation and punishment which they so richly
deserve. Hence we find them active in the free
States among their old coworkers to produce a
revolution at the North, which will enable them to
carry out their original purpose of separation and
independence. Hence we find the agents of Soifer-
son - Davis at Niagara Palls, arranging the platform
and the candidate to be put forward at the Chicago
Convention, by and through which they aro in hopes
to fool and to cheat the free States out of the ad
vantages gained, and which if continued will wipe
the rebel leaders out. So far as the platform, the
speeches, and candidates are concerned, the Con
vention held at Chicago might as well have been
held in Richmond. It was a miserable, fawning,
sycophantic, and degrading surrender to the men
who are in arms against the Government, and who
have done their utmost to destroy American libert • .11
be followed by every Democratic paper iu
the land which honestly and from convic
tion endorsed the opinions of the lamented
Downes, and supported himfor the Presi
dency four years ago.
GENERAL' MCCLELLAN'S CLASSICS.-AS
General McCurrzax's " friends" have
had considerable to say about the classical
Wish of ,his fetter accepting the Chicago
nomination, it is very natural that we
should expect to find, in. so 'finished and
studied a, production, some little attention
paid to the ordinary rules of grammar,
with which every school boy is familiar.
But natural and proper expectations are
sometimes disappointed, and thus in this
case. .We could point to half a dozen in
eleganeies in this classic composition, but
will be content'' , with citing two or three
slip•shod expressions. • What .does the
General mean 'by saying that "The pre
servation of our Unicin was the sole avowed
object for which the war was commenced?"
We had always been under the impres
sion that the destruction of our Union was
the sole avowed object for which the war
was commenced. • Certainly, the rebels did
not deign to give us any better reason for
inaugurating civil war. What does the
General mean by saying : " I (and so forth)
should resume our commanding position
among the nations of the earth ?" Can a
Person resume a position which he never
occupied ? And again, what is the mean
ing of this mysterious phrase, "the opera
tion of a more vigorous nationality ?" Is
it intended by the expression " more vigo
rous nati2nality '' to neutralize the adverse
influenc?of the State rights doctrine enun
ciated in the Chicago platform ? Or is it
merely thrown in for the sake:of rhetoric?
Here is a fine chance for the debating so
cieties.
BIRNEY'S &MANE REGIDTENT.—We un
derstand that General Britzmy has comple
ted the raising of his regiment of Sharp
shooters, .which will join the 10th , Army
Corps. The regiment numbers a thousand
men, who are armed with the Spencer
rifle. General•Briucni has further deter
mined to raise a light brigade, to be com
posed of athletic young men; well armed
and equipped, and accustomed to the sad
dle. It is the intention to use them for
special service, Where rapidity of move
ment is requisite. Wagons are to be dis
pensed with„ the supplies being transported
by pack mules. The troops are to be
mounted, and in case of emergency each
rider can be supported by another en croupe.
One of the regiments, by permission of the
War Department, will be recruited in this
city and State ; and Major JAMES C.
BRTSCOE, formerly of KEARNEY'S Staff; but
later attached to the staff of General Bin
zunr, has been detailed as general recruit
ing officer. The Voltigeur regiment will be
raised in 'Michigan and Indiana. The
dress of the Zouaves will be dark blue,
trimmed with scarlet, loose trousers, and
long jacket. Four of the companies are to
be raised in Philadelphia, three in northern,
and three in western Pennsylvania. The
organization, in appearance, discipline, and
effectiveness, promises to be one of the
most complete ever recruited in our State.
PRILADBLPRIA BOOR TRADE SALE.—The sixty
third half-yearly book sale will commence on Tues
day, 27th September, at Thomas' Salo Rooms,
South Fourth Street. As usual, the trade will have
,the advantage of the hammer being wielded, on that
occasion, by that firstrate literary auctioneer, Mr.
Thomas F. 8011. The catalogue, 188 pages octavo,
contains invoices from the leading publishers in the
United States, among whom we find J. B. Lip
pincott & Co., E. H. Butler & Co., G. W. Childs,
James B. Smith & Co., Willis P. Hazard, Davie,
Porter, & Co., W. S. & Alfred Martlea, °rimy &
Markley, Charles Desilver, Blanchard & Lea,
Lindsay & Blakiston, Miller & Burlock, and Wil
liam W. Harding, of Philadelphia; James G Gre.-
gory, Hurd & Houghton,' G. P. Putnam, W. A.
Townsend, James Miller, JohnHradburn, and Fol.
let, Foster, & Co., of New York ; and Gould 8 Lin
coln, 'Walker, WlF . e, & Co., W. H. Dennet (late Jas.
Munroe & Co.), W. H. Hill, Jr., & Co., T. 0. H. P.
Burnham, Lee & Shepard, Taggard & Thompson,
Roberta Brothers, J. E. Tilton & Co., Graves &
Young, of Boston. On the last day of the sale a
very valuable collection of stereotype and steel
plates, chiefly of standard works, the property of
Henry Carey Baird, will be disposed of, and also a
variety of stationery. The sale promises to be very
brisk.
THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA; 46NESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864
wA.avirri-GyroN.
THE WA RI
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, WK.
TRH NEW LOAN—TIZE PROCEEDS TO BE
PAID TO TRE ARMY.
FAIRS BEFORE PETERSBURG
One-third of the bonds of the recent loan were de•
livered to-day, and immediate delivery will con
Untie to be made as fast as the certificates shall be
presented for that purpose. ails of the Fight on Friday Night.
The Secretary of the Treasury has direoted the .
entire amount realized 'from this loan shall be paid .
to the army. Warrants were issued yesterday for CAPTURED REBEL LIRE STILL HELD.
money to pay the troops in the Northwest, Missouri,
and.lowa.
A CONTRADICTION. F. SEEMS SAID TO BE MINING.
one marke.
ORDERS RESPECTING DESERTERS.
:HE WAR ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
,1
There is official authority for contradicting thel
report that Secretary Fassannun has decided col
place a temporary loan of $50,000,000 in the market.
A military order, which has Just been issued, di
rects that deserters from United States troops ar
riving at Washington, who report themselves as be.
longing to any particular regiment, and are sent to i
it, Mill be permanently assigned to the regiments'
of which they thus report themselves members.
' Deserters now In the prisons of the DistAlet, or who
may hereafter arrive, whose regiments are un
knOwl?, shall be sent immediately to the front, with
iiiStrtictions to the commanding generals of the
army to employ them at work upon the trenches.
ARBIVAL OF REBEL DESERTERS-EFFECT
OF GENERAL GRANT'S ORDER OFFERIN
PROTECTION.
Eight rebel desorters from General Efrra,'s corps
came to Washington to-day on the' mail boat from
City Point.
The order of General GRANT, offering protection
to deserters and promising to furnish them with
employment out of the reach of the rebel authori
ties, has already had the desired effect, anti squads
of them come frequently within our lines.
SALE OF CITIZENS' CLOTHING TO SOLDIERS
PROHIBITED.
The military governor of the district of Washing-
ton has issued an order prohibiting the sale of
clothing to any enlisted man, upon discharge papers
which be may present, until the papers have been
examined and a special permit obtained from the
governor's headquarters. The reason for this order
is that persons engaged in the clothing business
have frequently sold citizens' clothes to enlisted
men who have exhibited certificates of discharge,
which, in most cases, proved to be spurious and .
forged, or belonged to persons other than those pre
senting them. This business has been very brisk in
Washington.
Speech of Hon. Wm. H. Seward.
LINCOLN AND JOHNSON THE CANDIDATES OF THE
UNION-THE SECRETARY'S OPINIONS ON THE
DRAFT.
WasimeoTorr Sept.lB.—Secretary Seward made
Ile following address to the Lincoln and Johrlon
Association, which called upon him this evening:
FELLOW•CITJZIMS I understand that you are
the Lincoln and Johnson Association of the District
Of Columbia. [Cries of "We are."] It is well to in
quire, because itis well that when people meet each
party should know exactly who the other party are.
I will tell you, therefore, who I am. lam a citizen
Who is in favor of the same ticket you, support—
Lincoln and Johnson. lam for them because they
are the candidates of the Union which we are fight-
Mg for. We have found it necessary to fight for
that cause, and when I am obliged to fight for a
cause I am the last man that goes to the poll and
votes against it. •
Fellow-Citizens : In a speech I made at Au
burn, I said there should be no draft, because the
army Is being reinforced by five thousand to ten
thousand volunteers per day. The people of Au
burn understood me, and cleared their district of
the draft by , volunteering. Patriotic men in Phila
delphia write me that they understood me to say
that there will be no draft, and therefore they stop
volunteering. I avail myself, therefore; of this oc
casion to correct their mistake by saying that as
"grace can only show itself by works," so the draft
will Rarely come if we do not volunteer and so pre
vent it. I hope that point is settled now.
.Fellow-Citizens : The Democracy at Chicago, af
ter waiting six weeks to see whether the war for the
Union is to succeed or fail, finally concluded that it
would fail. Therefore they went in for a nomina
tion and platform to make the failure a sure thing
by a cessation of hostilities and an abandonment of
the contest. At Baltimore, on the contrary, we de
termined that there should be no such thing as
failure, and therefore we went in to save the Union,
by battle to the last. Sherman and Farragut have
knocked the bottom out of the Chica.go nominations,
and the elections in Vermont and Maine prove that
the Baltimore nominations are staunch and sound.
The Issue is thus squarely made up ; McClellan
and Disunion, or Lincoln and Union. HaVe you.
any doubt of the result of that Waal [" No ! No 11
Nor do I have any doubt.
Many thanks, my friends, for this'visit. Good
bye.
Political.
THE UNION VICTORY IW MAINE-THE LARGEST
MAJORITY FOR • GOVERNOR EVER . CAST IN THE
NEW Yottr, Sept, 13.—A special despatch to the
Times from Augusta, Maine, says the Republicans
have carried the State by the largest majority ever
cast at a Gubernatorial election in Maine. They
have carried all the -Congressional districts by Im.
mense majorities, and five•siaths of both Ural:Lel:Les
of the Legislature.
A NATIONAL CONVENTION OB PEACE DEMOCRATS.
Nriv YORK, Sept. 18.—The Daily News of to-day
says : "We are happy in being able to state that
preliminary steps aro being taken by the friends of
peace to call a National Convention of the Demo.
oracy to place in nomination candidates for Presi"
dent and Vice President.' ,
UNION CONGRESSIONAL NOTITNATION FOR TER
TWILLPTIL DISTRICT
SCRANTON, Pa., Sept. 13.—W. W. Keteham; of
Wilkesbarre, was to day nominated for Oongress
by the Union party of the Twelll4 district, Dir.
Grow having declined. ' ' "•E •
WEST CHESTER, ept. 13— • . w te In on
Convention of this county Is in session. Thuir far,
Mr. J. N. Broomall has been nominated for Con.
gross, and Dr. Nathan .A. Pennypacker and Wm.
B. Waddell for. the House of Representatives at
Harrisburg. It was also decided to support In the
conference the Montgomery county nominee for
State Senator.
EX.GOTBREOR BIGLER NOMINATED FOR commuss.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 13.—Ex•GoveraOr William Big.
ler has been nominated for -Congress in Clearfield
r •
county.
The Fishing•Creelk Confederaey—Cop•
perheadism in Columbia, Lyeeming,
and Sullivan Counties.
[Correspondence of The Press. J
CJoLumBIA Co., Sept. 12, 1864.
People in our cities live and write about the
war and the Jeff Davis Confederacy, and know
nothing about the events which are taking s place in
the immediate neighborhood; yes, in this very.
State. There has been born to our dear Penn Sylv
ania the changeling " Fishing creek Confederacy."
Pennsylvania is a great State, and has just as great•
a variety of the species of mankind, (I mean Intel
lectual mankind,) as she exhibits .almost all kinds
of surface and soil. There are parts in Pennsylva
nia where the forests and the sculls of human heads
are so thick! that it Is but seldom that the bright
rays of "Sol" can penetrate the one or the rays of
intellect thewether.
Such forests and such sculls you can find, if you
take a trip to the counties watered by the headwa
ters of the West and-North Branches of the Susque
hanna. Up in Columbia, Lycoming, Sullivan, and
other counties, where no railroads disturb the quiet
of the valleys and the mountains; where not even' .
tho tiny telegraph wire spreads the news with the
swiftness of lightning; whore newspapers are scarce
in numbers, small in editions, but still smaller in
quality, and whore the sweeping Democratic ma
jorities are always rolled up, no. matter what's the
question or who's the candidate, there, my dear
Press, will you find the deep, almost impenetrable
forests, and the equally thick human sculls—there
is the birthplace of the changeling " Fishing-creek
Confederacy.
Colum hitt county was always strongly Democratic
and so were the adjoining counties. Of course, there
it was where the Vallandighams, Voorhees, Woods,
and Pendletons could organize their secret lodges -
of the "Sons of Liberty." This was a field where
fools could be found to execute the designs of these
leaders like the scum . of Now York did the dirty
work in 1863. Here you find old men, and men who
learned to write their names and read the Chicago
platforia, and who by virtue of their education aro
the loaders of the masses, who talk treason, who
counsel resistance to the usurpations of the Lincoln
tyranny, who make thelefollowers believe that they
can resist in their mountains and forests any force
that Uncle Sam can send against them. Whisky
flows as freely as the big words of these braggadocios.
The people are made to believe that it only takes
some one to initiate resistance, and that it soon
would be followed all over the country ; for they are
also made to believe that the "Sons of Liberty" are
as numerous as the stars of Heaven and as bold as
lions. The young men up around Fishing Creek bit
the bait and resisted the draft. They were sure
that during their rise, and before the United States
could Send a force strong enough to coerce them,
Lee would have Washington, Valla,ndigham would
marshal his forces in the Northviest, and Wood
would run off with New York. They revolted;.they
would not be drafted and killed In this "nigger
war." Of course, the provost marshals,- tax col
lectors, and Union men had to suffer: The followers
of Jeff Davis In the North had to imitate the exam
ples of his followers South. The mountains echoed
with cheers for Jeti Davis and groans for Lincoln.
Ministers of the Gospel wore dragged from the
pulpit and had to run to save thsir Hies, because
they said they wore preaching the Word of God,
when the ruffians, flushed with whisky, demanded!
to know of them whether they preached " Abolition
or Jeff Davis " Then came General Cadwalader
with a force strong enough to drive the whole crowd
of the " Sons 4 Sons of Liberty," or "Cowboys of '64," out
the country. Our heroes, of course, skedaddled to
the mountains, and their advisers and abettors staid
at home. The "Sons of Liberty," or rather the ,
mudsille of the leaders, declared now, like . the chi.,
valry of the South, that they 'only wanted to be "lot'
alone." But the General could rift see it, no more
than Grant or Sherman can down In Dixie. The
coercion began, some ninety "Let alone" and
"Peace men" of the Vallandigham school were
arrested and sent to "Number Secure," and the
colonels, majors, captains, lieutenants, and privates
of the Fishing-creek Confederacy retreated 'deepar
into the mountains and woods. But even here they
were not secure, they made off in all directions,
looking for protection with their friends in the sur
rounding counties. Most of them started off to the
Canaan of all traitors and cowards, to Canada
where they will try to find enough to do to still their
hunger and warm their shivering limbs during a
Canadian winter.
This to the fruit of Copperhead teachings. Would
men of age, men of influence, take a patriotic
ground, and talk differently, thousands of young
men would not be thrown into the path of shame
and misery. Our young men are not cowards, of
disloyal to the country of their birth, -- but such
teachers are the worst enemies to young and !goo.
rant men, and if other communities take warning
from it, the good will balance the evil that these
men intended to do. Men who talk treason, and
run down every act of the Government, who never .
oan find a word of censure for their Southern
friends or their deeds; men who belittle every Union
victory and. aggrandize every reverse ; men : who
eulogize every Southern general, and try to blacken
the reputation of our noble men who tight, bleed,
and die for the Union, are dangerous to the counter
at large, but more so co those who liston to them.
and are foolish ettougit to follow nap; atlT4O4.
4,turn of General Meade to the Army.
00 Rebels Concentrated at the mouth
of Red River.
HE INDIAN WAR IN THE NORTHWEST.
MPLETE lIIIMET OF OEN. FULLIV EXPEDITION.
Great Battle with the Sioux.
THE ARMY BEFORE PETERSBURG
B NIGHT OP FRIDAY NIGHT—THE CAPTURED
• SKIRMISH LIKE STILL HELD.
WASHINGTON, Sept.ll.—The mail steamer Danl.
ebster, from City Point, reports matters at, the
ont unchanged since Friday night. In the fight
that night we captured ninety prisoners. Our
ss was fifteen killed, wounded, and missing, bi
nding three officers. We still hold the skirmish
.e captured that night, and the enemy has shown
. disposition to attempt to retain its possession.
ght rebel deserters from Hill's corps came up on
e Daniel Webster.
IBK FIRING ON FRIDAY NIGHT-THE REBELS
REPORTED MIRINO-PIOICET I,PFAIRB.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—A correspondent or the
ronicle writes as follows :
• ' BEFORE P.ErEnsnune, Sept. 10-11 P. 11.
Early Friday night the rebels in front of 2d Corps
rengthened their picket line, making it a weak
no of battle. Under cover of night they charged
r skirmish line and were handsomely repulsed,
Ith considerable loss In killed and wounded.
enty or thirty of our men were captured, but the
Sign of the enemy was completely frustrated. We
fined possession of the line theycoveted or wished
occupy in our stead. This skirmish was sufficient
larm the entire line and throw the cannon and
rtars into convulsions. For some hours after the
sidence of this terrific uproar, everything re
ed into the former condition of stillness..
he rebels are said to be brirrowing in the ground.
.Arlsoner, captured a few - days ago, mentioned two
is where they were engaged, night and day, In
rmining our works, and that countermining was
gon at another place. Of course, lam unable
touch for the correctness of his story.. I had for
glen about it. "Fort Hell" Is the euphoniously
stfestive name given a fort near where this attack
u? our pickets was made, and this same fort, with
Weard nickname, was mentioned as being oppo
si 'he rebel Washington battery, from whence the
C
tusrground road is said to emanate. What their
elk was in thus madly endeavoring to capture the
111 of skirmishers in front of the 2d Corps, I am at
a '8 to know. Perhaps it may have been to cover
a* operations bidden under ground. The preys,-
le' opinion is that the earth, in this locality, is
no the proper nature for tunnelling. So the
ie said when we were similarly employed.
H
i li
ever, they lost whore gain was. .expected.
B re day dawned, General Mott advanced his.
!d 'vision of the 2d Corps. There was a fierce
ikimish, and it was over the same ground which
tu. enemy fought for early in the evening. We
4;l{e favored with success. The line was pushed.
tin spite of desperate resistance. - `Over seventy
bets were captured, and their fortified skirmish
i . e.l As usual, the sympathetic artillerists, upon
r ,
ght and left, mingled in the noisy fray, and It was
hour or two before any One could tell what had
anspired.
The rebel batteries above Petersburg continue to
e at the trains passing to and fro between Oily
oint and Gen. Warren's headquarters. To-night
s road has been completed to the Six-mile .eta
on on the Weldon road. But one ravine had to
, e crossed with trestle.workA Lthe bridge over this
non is about throe hundred feet long. For every
ell thrown at passing trains I notice two cast into
etersburg. If the enemy would observe this, and
1
amid be made to understand how foolishly they
itaste powder, no more ammunition would be .ex.
•
p tided in this way.
',All friendly meetings between rival picketS are
aVain stopped. Such intercourse between foes in
variably leads to ultimate misunderstanding. At
riesent sharpshooting Is in active practice, and men .
keep closely covered. Lately, when exchanging
newspapers, copies of President Lincoln's amnesty
proclamation, or Gen. Grant's late order relating to
rebel deserters, have been folded in the papers. One
or two instance have been remarked where great
good resulted, one individual who received the pam
phlet coming with it into our lines, and claiming
the pardon and protection therein freely offered.
One evening a rebel officer came out to trade news
papep with our men. Re noticed the order of
into his lines, because he "was a. Confederate
officer." Why do the rebel officers desire to keep
their men in ignorance of amnesty and away from
the abundance of the North 7 Many of the common.
soldiers are anxious for information _upon these sub.
jectS, but I have never meta rebel officer betraying
alike spirit.
General Meade arrived at his headquarters this
evening, and Is looking much better than whoa he
left for home.
THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI.
A YORCE OR REBELS AT THE MOUTH OP RED RIVER.
Sm. Louis, Sept. 13.—The officers on board of the
despatch boat which arrived at Cairo yesterday re
port that 1,500 rebels are concentrated at the mouth
of Red river.
COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE EXPEDITION OF GENE
RAL BIILLY-RVENTS OF THE MARCH INTO THE
SIOUX CCHINTRY-THE BATTLE AND REPEAT OF
THE SAVAGES-DEATH OP A NEWSPAPER COR
RESPONDENT.
We have already given the particulars of the
march of General Sully from St. Paul to Fort Rice,
on an' expedition against the insurgent savages of
the plains. He left Fort Rice on the 26th of July.
His army and the accompanying trains were cor
rated on the upper waters of the Heart river, Da
cotah Territory. Preparations were completed to
makaa swift raid into the unexplored country sup
posed to be occuplid by the enemy. Subsequent
'events are thus recorded in the special correspond.
ence of the St. Paul Press:
At two o'clock on the morning of the 28th Gen.
Sully started with his whole command, but after
reaching a few miles from camp the scouts away in
the advance sent a messenger with the word that
skirmishes had already taken place between them
and a band of about 40 painted warriors, Thirteen
and a half miles were then marched in the hot sun
thatafternoon, andthe gallant "soldier boys" only
found time to consume their hard bread and cold
water an hour or two after darkness had set in. The
columns kept moving until the path could
longer be discerned, and then, just as the
" boys " bad begun their preparations for a warm
meal, after the hard ride, the General commanding
"ordered the fires to be extinguished. Fears were en
tertained that an attempt at stampeding the ani
mals would be -made by the party attacked and
driven in the afternoon, but fortunately the early
morning-summons to break camp found every mule
and horse in the proper position.
On the 27th we left camp at 2 A. M., marching
twenty-seven miles during the day, and camping
late in the afternoon on a stream set down on the
map as Big Knife river. On Thursday, the 28th,
camp was again broken at 8 o'clock A. M. The
march was continued for sixteen miles, and the im
pression was becoming general among officers and .
men that the Indians would keep out of the way.
This impression seemed to be gaining ground, when,
all at once, the trains began to bustle to the front,
and the troops on either flank spurred their horses
into a rapid gallop. Every movement told the ex
istence of an actual struggle or very exciting rumor
ahead. Soon the word arrived that • a great
camp of Indians—about twelve hundred lodges
—had been discovered about two miles to
the front. Upon reaching the summit of a
very high elevation !.of land, a look to the west
showed a range of high hills stretching out to the
right, and left, dotted with clusters of timber, and
grooved by deep ravines and gullies. In the midst
of this remarkable formation the Indians had se
lected their position, and with excellentjudgment,
if we forget the powers of artillery well manned.
The camp, which was described by the scouts as two
miles distant, proved by subsequent revelations to
be at least five or six miles, and led to difficulties
which even the gallantry of the command could not
remedy in the latter part of the day. As soon as
the foot of the elevation above mentioned was
reached, General Sully threw out the Bth Minne
sota and Bth lowa., and two companies of the 7th
lowa, as a line of - skirmishers, with. Brackett's
Minnesota battalion of cavalry on the right wing,
and the 2d Regiment Minnesota Cavalry on
the left, held in reserve. Captain Jones' 2d Min
nesota Battery, and Captain Pope's battery, under
immediate command of General Sully himself, fol
lowed the -line of skirmishers. After marching&
little over one mile in this order, little clusters of
Indians dotted the bills fronting and flanking the
valley along which the command was marching,
and, as usual, either standing perfectly still or tra
velling with all the force and speed strung in the
sinews of their little ponies. The command moved
steadily on while these exciting circus performances
were being enacted on the hills, until the Bth Min
nesota, from its position in advance, let fly a few
scattering shots as signals that the enemy were
drawing too close to some portions of the line.
A few moments afterward Colonel McLaren,
2d .Minnesota,.Cavalry, was ordered to dis
mount two companies of his regiment, for the
purpose of skirmishing up the hills on the left. In
obedience to this order two companies began climb
ing the hills, where the Indians were concentrating
inlarge numbers: These companies went into the -
-fray in gallant style, and the rapid explosions of the
carbines sent the Indians flying in hot haste out of
their range. Only a short time elapsed after the
firing began, and the enemy found front and flanks
an impregnable wall against their approach, when
they swung around to the rear of the train, and
came charging up like a whirlwind, on the track al.
ready made by our wagons. Bore again, the skilful
dispositions of the general baffled their attempts,
and sent them flying back in more rapid speed than
was shown at their coming. .
The men of lowa and Minnesota joined hands,
and In the square of blazing fire, moved steadily on
until within about a mile and a half of the wooded,
wild encampment of the
.savages. - A section of the
3d Minnesota Battery, under command of Lieut.
Whipple, was ordered to the rear, and soon after'
Major Brackett received the welcome word to'
charge the red skins with his splendid battalion
. of men. They moved around-in line style towards
the a coded ravine where the Indians were con
cealed or gathered in heavy crowds on the open
space alternating between. When a point in
close proximity to the timber had been reached, the
battalion was dismounted, except CompanyC, Cap
tain E. Y. Shelley. This company continued the ,
charge in fine style, way Up on the side hills and by
the timber. In this charge the first man attached
to our expedition was killed—a man who, when liv•
lug was modesty personified and oourage incarnate
--brave George Northrop. orderly sergeant of Com
pany, 0. The news of his death sent a thrill of
deep grief over the entire. Column' , and made his
companions totally unmindful of the danger
surrounding them. At this time our wounded
and dead were brought in, and the two batteries;
which had heretofore only fired occasional shots,
began to play in earnest, and landed the shells
into the- very midst of the timber and savages,
causing the most/hurried flight It has ever been my
.Y °L.
THE INDIAN WAR.
fortune to witness. From this time on our men
drove the savage crowd before them in a race for
life, until the encampment was cleared of its occu
pants of the morning, and until Brackett's men and
four companies of the Bth Minnesota, under Major
Camp, had occupied the last of the defensible VI
MMus chosen by the Indians. They were beaten
thoroughly at all points and not a single nook
was left them in their former camp, when
night approached and crowned a day of complete
victory for the white men. All the property usually
found in an eneampnient of this size was either
thrown down In its old place or pitched into
the heavy under-brush, for concealment. An
immense amount of property in the shape of
furs, robes and poles, camp furniture and food, was
loft to be wholly destroyed by tires. Of course a
battle of this kind has its shade to oast a gloom
over the reasonable and proper impulse to rejoice.
The dead call for mourning, and mangled men
appeal with pale faces for sympathy and help ; and
it must be given, even in the midst of the reviving
event which makes us forget the hardships and pri
vations endured.
When the battle closed the entire command halt
ed near the Indian village. oocupying it partially—
taking its scanty evening ration where the savages
had breakfasted in the morning. After resting that
night the command started in pursuit of the retreat
ing foe, but was unable to proceed only a few miles,
being barred by deep chasms and ravines—and the
command was again headed toward the trains left
in its rear. At this point a halt was ordered near
the Indian village, and CoL McLaren, of the 3d
Cavalry, was ordered out with four companies of his
regiment and two companies of the Dacotah Caval
ry, to destroy the abandoned property. After work.
ing over two hours with this force the Colonel
found it impossible to destroy it all . in one
day, and four companies more were prompt
ly sent him by General' Sully. It took this
force of one regiment until late in the afternoon
before "the baggage" was' finally gathered and
given over to the flames. Between four and five
o'clock in the afternoon the command was given to
resume-the line of march and we continued on t a e
homeward march for the Heart river.
Ourloss, the same letter says, was four killed and
ten wounded. Among the killed, as has been men
tioned in the course of the above narrative, was the
correspondent of The Press, Mr. George Northrop.
He was stricken down while charging with Brack
ett's Legion. Of his adventurous, almost romantic
life, much of it among the Sioux, by whose hands he
fell, many a thrilling episode might be told, as he
was, besides being a correspondent, a daring Union
scout.
THE WEST INDIES ANILMEXICO.
ARRIVAL OP TEE ROANORR-MOVEMENTS OF GUN.
BOATS AT SEA-REPORTED DEFEAT OF JUAIUSTS
NEAR SALTILLO--TKE RUSSIAN FLEET ON THE
PACIFIC-REPORTED DEFEAT OF TEE SPANIARDS
IN ST. DOMINGO.
NNW YORK, Sept. - 13'.—The steamer Roanoke,
from Havana on the Bth instant, has arrived, with
dates from the City of Neale° to the 29th ultimo and
Vera Cruz to the Ist inst.
The purser reports : 11th, at 12.30 P. M., passed
Several bales of cotton . ; 2 P. M. exchanged signals
with steamship Rhade Island, bound south; at 2.15
P. M. made two steamers to the northward, speak
ing each other—appeared to be gunboats—one, a
large side-wheel, going to the eastward; the other,
a small side• wheel, painted white, with two smoke
stacks, appeared to be looking for something. Ex
changed signals with a. small steamer showing U. S.
fla (4e g.
n. Mejia has entered .Victoria City, where he
was joined by some troops from Tampico under
Gen. Dupin.
General Castaguy left Encarnacion on the 13th
for the latter place, and at the latest accounts was
in Vera Cruz. It was reported that hehad defeated
a force of Juarists near Saltillo, but losing among
others his chief of artillery. INfo other particulars
are given.
General Mejia was said to be marching on Mata
moros.
. The Mexican vessels Liberador and Mexicano
were captured by the Diamant of Manzanilla and
sent to Acapulco. They were front Mazatlan.
It 38 reported that the Russian fleet in the Pacific ,
has received orders to rendezvous at Acapulco and
salute the new Mexican flag.
The :Spaniards do not seem to be making any more
headway in San Domingo than the French In Mexico.
They do not hold a point more than ten miles from
the coast, and are suffering fearfully from the rava
ges of sickness.
A small force lately sent out to San Cristobal were
attacked on their return, within a league of the
capital, and Col. Suarez, their commander, was
killed. The forces at Montecristo wore sent to
Puerta Plata, and it is reported that the rebels at.
tacked; defeated, and drove them from fortifications
on which they had been at work six months, cap•
turing six guns. But a Spanish officer says it is
untrue. Re says the Spaniards took one gun. The
rebels hold three forts, and keep up a constant fire
on the Spanish camp. •
• A cargo of slaves was successfully landed near
Remedios last week.
Sickness is decreasing, thenglithe heat centimes
The steamer Havana arrived September 8.
The New Rebel Pirate.
TER CHABB . O7/ TAR STEAMER intAszcoNlA
The Boston Journal says: A correspondent, who
was on board the steamer Franeonia,, on her last
trip from Boston to Halifax communicatesthe fol
lowing particulars of her adventure with a vessel
supposed to be a new rebel privateer, of which men
tion was made by telegraph. Our correspondent
writes from Halifax on the Bth inst. :
I have to communicate the important news of a
new rebel privateer off this coast. She is undoubtedly
one of the new ones, not yet known by any acts, just
out from Wilmington. •
The tide of the Bay of Fundy had sot in so strong
as to cause us to make Seal Island nearer than
usual, and to this fact we probably owe our escape.
From Seal Island we lay a near course to Cape
Sable, running inside Brazil rock. When about off'
the latter place we discovered what we supposed
was a bark bearing down for us, but it soon proved
a steamer, though not under steam, trying to
head us off, but, .from the fact before named,
as we had the inside track, we were not long
in getting inside of the three leagues necessary
for protection. During the chase she showed first
the English ensign, next two others in quick suc
cession. which we could not make out. She chased
us well in to land, and when it was obvious she had
missed her prey she wheeled about directly in the
path she came. She was bark rigged, painted lead
color, one smokestack, and a meaium-size vessel.
Since arriving here I have further proof of her
being a privateer, as the Bermuda steamer arrived
yesterday before us, and it was not her, and there is
no English man-of-iVar.it present known to be in.
. .-Nie,,Sacitlarma3unnatitizera-17.27.51.
'work of destruction: She - had - evidently counted'
on getting between' us and the shore, And
thus having an off-shore chase to her advantage d
but the positions were fortunately reversed, and
we escaped. I think, in common with others, that
she will coal from some - American-vessel coal laden,
bound from Cape . Breton to Bolen or New York,
which she may capture, and then 'be ready for ex
tensive mischief. This is evidently her first appear
ance, though she may have made captures, the
knowledge of which you may have received ere this.
The wind was blowing northeast at the time, and
her mancerivres were such as no merchant vessel
upon any regular course would have pursued. -
The Draft to take plOce Next ltonday.
liannisnlina; Sept. 13.—An official - datatch', re•
calved here today front Provost Marshal General
Fry, fixes next Monday for the draft in Pennsyl
vania. We will have some twenty thousand men
to supply. .
ALnesiv, Sept. 18.—The following telegraphic dr
patch from Washington has been received by (3-ov.
Seymour
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12, 1864.
The draft la ordered to commenoe in Ohio and
other States, whose quota haa not been tilled up, on
Monday, the 19th or September.
The Hartford National Horse Fatr.
HARTFORD, Sept. 13.—The National Horse Fair
at this place has been postponed one day on account
of the weather.
The exhibition will begin on Wednesday morning,
September 14th, and willsoontinue three days.
A very large number of entries have been made,
and a splendid show may be looked for.
Fire 'in Worcester, Wass.
Wonoasrza, Kass., Sept. 13.—The retort house
and coal shed of the Worceiter Gas Company were
burned last night. Twenty-five) thousand dollars'
worth of coal was destroyed.
PERSONAL.—We find the following personal no.
tices in late Richmond papers :
To Lieut. Wm. A. Dawson, 27th Virginia Infantry,
prisoner of war abort Delaware:
Your personal relieved your sisters of much anx
iety. We are all well. Heard from your brother
A. soon after you left ;heis in Arkansas. J. was at
home when last heard from. Your friends all send
love to you. Let us hear from you again soon.
S. S. C.
RICHMOND, Sept. 6, 1864.
To Gustavus Goldsmith Philadelphia:
I saw your communication in this morning's
quirer. Was rejoiced to hear that you were well.
We are all in good health. I scarcely know how to
advise you in regard to the voyage in contempla
tion. Just snit your own inclinations, and act as
yon think.best. Advise us if you leave.
JOSIIPH GOLDSMITH.
RIORMOND 3 Sept. 5, 1804.
M. E. L., Phi ladelph.a, Pa.:
I received your letter of August 20th and 24th.
Keep, lip a good heart; all will be well in a few
days. .You must return to Petersburg. Papa will
see you and' bring you himself. Business good.
Ma rz Golden's letter received, and will be attended
to. Love to all. .Tousr.
Mrs. Hannah Oeliner,
KY Dwelt Wisa: I was much pleased to hoar
from you through the personal column of the New
York News. You will receive letter by neat flag•
oftinee boat. AU are well. A. Oar.snitsc.
New York. News and Philadelphia papers please
CM. •
Public Entertainments.
WALwur-sritmr TITEATER.-Mr. Edwin Booth's
impersonation of Hamlet bae excited so much admi
ration that he has received numerous requests to
repeat his performance of the character. In coin.
pliance with these demands this great tragedy will
be reproduced this evening, Mr. Booth appearing as
the melancholy hero and Mrs. Alexina. Fisher Baker
as the Queen.
Anon-sTsawr THEATRE.—An entertaining bill is
offered for this evening, consisting of the "Soldier's
Daughter,'? in which Mrs. Drew win appear as the
Widow Cheerly, and "Poor Pillicoddy," with Stuart
Robson and Miss Jefferson in the principal cha
racters.
CIIESTNIIT-STREET TRICATRE.- 44 Aladdin 22 will
be performed tonight, with all the scenery, changes,
and emballis.hmentS. An amusing ,coMedietta will
also be given.
Thu Thum! oP ,WONIYEIta, where Blitz, the
Prince of Magic, nightly delights his numeroas
patrons, young and old, Is well deserving of the
favor It receives. This afternoon the Signor has his
usual matinee at half past 2 o'clock. ' •
THE GERMAN OPERA IN NEW Yong.—The Tri
bune of yesterday says Last night the public r al
though hungry after lyrical food, rushed in grand
numbers to the Opera. Excepting some of the empty
boxes of. the stockholders in the .second tier, and
some places at the side of the horse-shoe , in the
gallery, unfit for gods or men, every'.coigne of van
tage' In the vast enclosure had its occupant. We
have never seen a more crowded house; as a whole.
It overflowed. There were over , three thousand
persons present. , •
"Mr. Glover, the manager, may be congratulated
on his success in the most important part of a drat
night. • •
"The opera was Faust.' The oast .was Faust,
T ; e johannsen ; Marguerite, Frederic!.
Mephistopheles, Hermin . ; Valentine, st e t.
necks;
The presence of such an overwhelming orawd was ,
favorable to the electricity required for, enthusiasm,
and there was some liberal Mephisto
pheles. was' wonderfully 'made-up' and , largely de
claiMed by Herman. M. Tarnaro did most oredita
bly on short notice. Mies Frederic! was an liatere.st
lug-looking Marguerite. The others did acoeptably,
and we may take occasion at lei Sure to notice them
More particularly. . .
i! The orchestra was somewhat increased in size and
was kept in order bya master-baton—Mr. Ansohntz.
' , There seems to be no doubt that the opera 60,13011
will be most prosperous, notwithstanding the state
of affairs here which we read of in the Richmond
journals. No one'vrOuld ever suppose that so much
of our territory was belted with huge armies to wit
ness such a vast asSetablaip, bent on eni )1 tug It
self.",
JAlnia B. Far,
P,rovoat Marahal General.
NEW YORK (TM
Special Correspondence of The Prem. .
NEw Yosz, Sept. 13,1864,
A LITTLE JOEL
The political chances "appertaining unto " John
C. Fremont have, strangely enough, been very mile
teriallY diminished by the host joke of Mr. Lincoln.
This joke is just now going the rounds of society,
and its object is never named without the inevitable
laugh succeeding. Mr. Fremont, it is said, wrote
to the President suggesting that both should with
draw themselves from the candidacy, for reasons of
great import. "This," remarked Mr. Lincoln, "re
minds me of a little fable. Some race horses were
in a stable once, in company with a number of fight
ing-seas. The former growing somewhat restive,
one of the latter, hiding his trepidation, said, with
much pompous dignity, We must be careful, gen
tlemen, else we shall be stepping on each other ;"!
therefore the radical candidate is always pointed
out as the fighting-cook who was afraid of stepping
on the race horse. He will not be the first man
whose political opportunities have been annihilated
by a witty saying..
REIGN OE THE HOWDY.
Ruffianism is holding one of its periodical carni
vals in this. city. Between Saturday evening and
Sunday evening the following brutalities were com
mitted: A man named Quinn fired at one Churchill,
with intent to take life. Two men were stabbed in
Liberty street—one dangerously. A soldier was
terribly beaten and robbed in First avenue. A
rowdy picked a gentleman's pocket, and, upon
being pursued by the victim, turned and shot him
in the forehead. A man was shot through the leg
on Cherry street. A man was shockingly stabbed
on Christopher street; his wound is supposed to be
fatal. When to these are added the numerous
little brutalities which form part of each day's un
written history, some idea may be formed of how
crime runs amuck in this "mystic Babylon."
JAMES MACE,
the deaf and dumb poet, has just met with a most
terrible bereavement. His five children were riding
out in the country, when the horses took fright and
ran off. The carriage was overturned and the chil
dren dashed to the ground with terrible vielenee.
One of them, Walter Scott Nack, a little fellow,
aged eight years, was killed. The others sustained.
fearful Injuries which, it is feared may prove fataL
Nack has for the last few years relinquishedlihr
pen, and is engaged in the office of the County
Clerk. He will be remembered, however, as a fa
vorite writer, contemporary with Morris and Willis
in their own poetical days. His last - publication
was a volume of poems, entitled "The Signet
Ring."
DEATH Or PARK BENJAMIN. •
Kr. Park Benjamin died at his house in this city
last night, in the fifty-fifth year of his age, after a
brief illness. He was born in 1899, at Demerara, in,
British Guiana, where his father was a merchant.
He studied two years at Harvard, and was graduate
ed at Trinity.eollege, in Hartford, in 1829 ; began
to practice law in Boston in 1832, and. was .one of the
original editors of the New EnglandsMagar.dne. He
removed to this city in 1837, and was connected at
different times with several journals, the Ameiican
Monthly Magazine, the New Yorker, and the New
World. Later he became known as a lecturer; and
he was, besides this, a frequent contributor, in prose
and verse, to the magazines and other journals of
the day. His mind was active, his conversation'
brilliant, and he wrote with remarkable facility and•
vivacity.
ißv Te - °graph.)
REPORTED WITHDRAWAL 01 . GRIT. IfRNIRONT.
- It is said that General Fremont has planed in
General cluseret , s hands a letter withdrawing his
name from the Presidential canvass, and 'giving as
his reason for so doing the well-known thesis that
any success on his-part would only injure the Union
party, and assist the Democrats. It is supposed
that this letter will appear In the New Nation on Sa
turday nest.
THE GOLD 21.6.11101 T.
Gold opened this morning at 218, and at 12 o'clock
stood at 223.
Since ihe Board gold has advanced to 223 X.
2P. Pd.—The present quotation of gold is 2253
to 225 y,
Gold,closed to-night at 2261.
MARINE.
Arrived—Brig Ann, from Gaboon, Africa.
ST: lOVIS.
ST. Loins, Sept. 13.
LOSS OH' L STEAMER..
The steamer John J. Roe, recently sunk near
New Madrid, was valued at $50,000, and was in
sured for $30,000. Four persons were drowned.
The boat had considerable Government freight
aboard. •
Tit meifxra,s
Tobacco opened heavy and closed better. Hemp
dull at $2.60 for dressed. Flour heavy; double ex
tra has declined 25c. Wheat easier; choice $2O
2.07. Corn steady at $1.48@1.58. Oats firm at ID@
02c. Lard lower ; 22@31320.
The New Jersey Races.
PATERSON, N. 3. 5 , Sept. 13.—The first race today
was for mile heats, two in three. Won by Eagle—
time, 1.54 X, 1.56, 1.58. Patti won the first heat.
Second race, Jersey St. Leger, miles, won by
Kentnclry—time, 4.24 X.
Third race, two-mile heats, won by Aldebaran—
time, 3.543&, 3.52%.
Sounramizus rw 'Saw YOBS. The fact that
large numbers of citizens of Southern States are in
New York, many of whom have added considerably
to the wealth and business of the metropolis, was
noticed some time since in the Empress. Some of
its cotemporaries have also recently discovered
this fact. The refugees, noticing the . kindly- dis
posed feelings of the majority or the citizens toward
the Southern people, the Sun says :
VI number of 'Georgians are holding almost daily
tali actual stale of affairs known in their native
State. They say if the matter was understood in ,
their State Legislature, that body would, with
out hesitation, and almost by a unanimous vote,
surrender the State into the hands of Gene
ral Sherman on the spot ; that the contest
is maintained on their side because they
have been led to believe that the North le
waging a war of subjugation or extermination
against them. They would not fight as they do to
save the institution of slavery, and mush less to
prevent return to a Union where their rights would,
be, as they in the past have been, respected. They
were hurried and throttled out of the 'Union, in the
first place, and the masses of the people; and espe
cially thenon.political, intelligent classes, have con
stantly regretted the aot, and wished continually
and earnestly to return to
'I'ELE.
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POLITICAL.
UNION CAMPAIGN MEETINGS. •
Concert Hall has been leased by the friends of the
Administration, for political purposes, until the ex
piration of the present campaign. Nightly meet
ings will be commenced on the 15th Instant.
THE MASS MEETING OF THE M'CLELLAN.
GUARD.
The MOOlellan Guard, composed of soldiers who
have fought under General McClellan and who
desire to enroll themselves into a campaign club,
held a mass meeting last evening at the Continental
Theatre. •
The stage was occupied by wounded soldiers.
They carried a flag belonging to Company B, of
the 2d Pennsylvania Reserves, and which was
carried/by them through all the battles in which the
regiment was eugaged. Upon the occupation of the
stage by the soldiers they were greeted with much
applause.
Colonel James Page was the first speaker. He
said he addressed them as soldiers. Ho had been a
soldier himself and he knew how they loved their
commander. He would say something about him.
George B. McClellan did not seek the nomination.
He had promised nothing to the politicians, and he
was only put in his present position because he
was a man of the people. It is in the hearts of
the people that the devotion to McClellan could
be round. McOlellan'e motto was, "my coun
try now and forever, let the consequences be
what they may." And what was his 'reward 1
That man • was treated with the basest' ingrati
tude by the men at Washington whom he had
twice saved from destruction. We can't- have
two empires on this continent; and, while We at
tempt to subdue our brethren, we should do all we
could to bring them back We should do all we
could to conciliate them. This could never be done
under this Administration, because they had but one
idea in their heads, and that was nigger nig
ger, nigger. Where is the enthusiasm that led
our soldiers into battle before? It has alrdied out
on account of the unconstitutional acts of this Ad.
ministration. They didn't ask the soldiers to
fight tor the red, white, and blue stripes, but they
did ask them to fight for the black stripe, which
they eared not for. He wanted to see the olive
branch put forward, and followed by the sword if it
did no good; for, if we can't have Union by fair
means, God help us if we must tight it out.
A poem on McClellan, written by a lady of seventy
years, was then read.
Mr. John O'Byrne was next introduced. He said
that the question to be decided by the American
people at the coming election was the most impor
tant that had ever been presented to them. They
were to decide whether, after four years of tyranny.,
and misrule, they were to submit to four more.
They were to' decide whether, after having been
smitten on one cheek, they wereto present the other
for four years more; whether infringements on - the ,
Constitution were to be permitted without brook or
hindrance. The writ of habeas corpus had been . :
suspended, and leaders of the opposition party '
will confront you and say, What evil hash it
wrought? It has done evil to thousands of
widowed mothers, whose sons had gone into the
army without their consent ; and when they
applied for the writ of habeas corpus to get
their sons restored to them, they were told by
the courts that it had been suspended, and when
they went to Washington to get them out of the
army on account of their age, they wore told that
the .oath of the soldier wasconclusive, and if he
swore he was 18 years of age and ho was but ]5 they
could not do anything to help them. The Constitu
tion said that no man should be subjectedto punish
ment without a trial by a jury of his peers, and yet
citizens had been put in fortresses without , a shad.ow
of trial. Lincoln having done these tuiconstitn-
Mimi acts, what might he not do if reelected, and
these acts thereby sanctioned by the AmeriCan peo
ple 1 He could the next day after his election take
every third man of you for the purpose of sending
you on some expedition to Richmond or the moon,
and if you made any remonstrance he could say—
Why,' gentlemen, you have elected me, you have
sanctioned all my past acts, you didn't think it wise
to swap horses while crossing the stream, and you
should abide by your own decisions.
Hon. Richard Val= followed in the seine strain,
and the meeting adjourned.
MILITARY.
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THE DRAFT TO TAKE PLACE NEXT MONDAY.
It is stated, npon authority. that Provost
Marshal Pry has designated next Monday for the
draft in this State.
THE 6TH uicrolf. LEAGUE. REGIMENT.
Ten companies of this regiment, comprising more
than eleven hundred men, are now full. Five more
companies are to be raised, which will make the or
ganization ovr fifteen hundred strong.. The regi- -
ment is commanded by Colonel H. o..Sickel, late.
colonel of the 3d Pennsylvania Reserves, which or
ganization was mustered out of service on the
16th of last June. The following is a list of the staff
officers, and, where the organizations are.comlete,
of the line officers:
. Colonel, H. G. Sickel.
Lieutenant Colonel, John B. Murray.. .
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Major, Edwin A. Glen.
Adjutant, C. I. &semen..
Quartermaster, E F. Brother.
Surgeon; Henry A. Grim..
Assistint Surgeon, John Wards,
Quartermaster's Sergeant,'Geo. W.. Daugherty.
Commissary Sergeant, William E. Howell.
Company A--Captain, John Stanton; first llente->
cant, Theodore R. -Vogel; seoold lieutenant, Ar
thur J. Carver.- - ( -.. • .
Company B—Captain, John lkoNeight ; first lieu
tenant, Edwin:Bailey; second lieutenant, Bartle 0.
Steinmetz.
Company C-Oiptain, George W. Mulfrey ; Pest
lieutenant, Thos; Mitchell; second lieutenant Cur
tin Birch.
Company D—Captein,, Isaac . Schroeder :; . firstlieutenant, Ada*. Faust ; second lieutenant, James
Lotz. •
Company E—capteln, Thomas C. SpaCionan ;
first lieutenant, Amos N. Soltzinger ; second now,
nant, James Orzte.
c ompan y y—captain, Powell Staokhotufe ; grat
lieutenant, William A. Mackin ; second neutenuat,
George C. fisher•
c ompan y a—captain; William P. Guenther ; fl
lieutenant, John B. Sonermlich ;second lieutenant,
Jeremiah C. Ironer.
Company R--Captatrr, Chris. H. Reines ; g rit
Dentenan_, Wffliant Mittman; second lieutenant,
George W. Barnet.
Company I—Captain, jamesP. McDonald ; fist
lientens.nt, C. P. Wampole ; second lieutenant,
Pomeroy.
Company K—Captain, Isaiah W. )]bell ; fi rst
lieutenant, William R. Thatcher ;• second Rents.
nant, George - Janney.
PROMOTION.
Captain Geo. E. Johnson, formerly of the 29tt
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Col: Ichn
Murphy, has been appointed to the rank of Major,
and will leave for Atlanta to-day or tomorrow',
was - taken prisoner in the Shenandoah Valley, a n d
with Col. Murphy, and others, confined at Naha.
bury, N. C. He was also taken prisoner at"Gettys.
burg, but - effected his escape. At the battle ofiting.
gold, In Tennessee, he was wounded. For nom
time past he" has had command of the hospital at
Haddington. Major Johnson has - many irk - US - In
Philadelphia who will be glad to hear of his prumo
tion.
IsTOT ITTYSTEItED OIIT.
The IC6th Regiment .Pennsylvania Volunteers,
which arrived here in August last, and some of the
soldiers belonging to the 28th Regiment Penasyl•
vania Volunteers, who have been at•the Union Re
freshment Saloon nearly seven week, are net yet
mustered out of the service.
ISSUE OF CITY WARRANTS.
Warrants were issued, yesterday morning, for the
payment of the city bounty to sixty-five men, five 3(
whom were substitutes.
FLAG PRESENTATION.
Next Thursday afternoon the Supervisory emu.
mittee will present flags to the 45th and 12312 Unita!
States Colored Troops, which regiments are com
manded respectively by Major Bates and Colonel
James Given. The Bags are decorated with designs
emblematic of the cause offreedom, and were paint
ed by Mr. Etovser, a colored painter.
There are now nearly two thousand troops at the
camp. The Supervisory_ Committee has received
authority from the War Department to organize an
other regiment, to be called the 41st United States
Colored Regiment.
DEATHS
The following deaths of soldiers were reported at
the Medical Director's office, yesterday, from army
hospitals in this department :
Christiaa•street Hospital—John R. Willoughby,
Company H, 37th Wisconsin.
Haddington Hospital—James Boone, Company A,
45th Pennsylvania.
Mower Hospital—James Bird, Company E, 110th
Pennsylvania.
Summit House Hospital—Eltjha Haehn, Company
A. 28th U. S. Colored Troops. • -
THE FILBERIEN.
ASSIST - ANT ENGINEERS.
Th e following assistant engineers of the Fire Da•
pariment were elected on Monday night last, to
serve for two years :
First Division—Terence McCusker.
Second Division. S. Robinson.
Third Division—James Adams.
Fourth Division—Jacob Conover. •
Fifth Division—Hamilton Scott.
The following 'are the companies voting for the
respective candidates:
For MoCusker—Delaware, Franklin, Washing
ton, Weecacoe, Good Will, Hibernia, and Philadel
phia Engine Companies, and the Moyamensing,
America, and Philadelphia Hose Companies.
For Robinson—Empire Hook and . Ladder, Fair
mount, Independence, Reliance, Spring Garden,
Vigilant Friendship, Globe, and Humane , Engine
Companies, Humane, 'United States, Ringgold, and
Wrn. Penn Hose Companies.
For Adams—Decatur Engine and Excelsior and
Rescue Hook and Ladder Companies.
For Conover—Fellowship and Franklin of Ger
mantown, Germantown Hose, Manityank, Mount
Airy, and Washington Engines.
For Scott—Kingsessing, Monroe, and West Pella
delPhia Engines, and Union Hose.
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A BOLD ATTEMPT AT HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
This morning, about half past one o'clock, an un
usual scene for Third street, at least, occurred on
.that respectable thoroughfare, just opposite Dock
street. What few persons' there • were in tho lo
cality at such an hour were startled by a succes
sion of shrill feminine screams, and repeated
frightened cries of " watch, watch," in a strong
German accent. On hurrying to the spot it
was ascertained that a man, while quietly jog
ging along in company with his wife, who bore a
small child in her arms, was met by two men and
an uncertain number of women (perhaps s ic) of un
certain character. One of the- men knocked him
down, inflicting in the act a severe cut over his eye
and while the other was rifling his pockets his femi
nine companion sent up her loud, nervous calls for
help. As soon as the passers-by were observed an.
'preaching the robbers, their feminine contingent
ran, and the victim scampered swiftly up Harmony
street and was lost to view. The woman and child
were left alone in the street, the valiant husband
having abandoned her as soon as he could regain
his feet and UFO them to advantage.
PHILADELPHIA PRESS CLUB.
There will be a meeting of the Club this after.
noon, at half past three o'clock, in the Common
Council chamber.
CITY ITEMS.
WE Ass GLAD TO KNOW that the Sewing Depart
ment of the Wheeler & Wilson Establishment is s 4
well patronized by the ladies of Philadelphia. Stich
specimens of work we have never seen done either
by the hand or by any other sewing machine but the
Wheeler & Wilson. The Wheeler & Wilson Com
pany send out obliging and competent young ladies
by the day or week, with or without machines. TtdS
we consider a great accommodation, to families. A.l
- the Wheeler & Wilson concern is one of
the institutions that reflect credit on our city. Their
elegant salesrooms, No. 704 Chestnut street
unrivalled. The Wheeler & Wilson Se
chine, we all know, is the only one that giv
versal satisfaction. They have been thorong
tried, and those who have them in use would .t .4
without them for ten times their cost. Eve
pine is warranted, and the money return. •
enCipmr - gwaz - nzt" , -"Q—Clo..to 704 QheetnutAtee
examine these wonderful xrukilines. Send for (Arm.
lar and spicimens of work.
TEM Citu,Liwo W 161338 OP SEPTEMBER are cal.
Quieted to remind us that winter garments will soon
be in vogue, and that a change to heavier clothing
is Imperative upon \ all who have a due regard for
their comfort and health. We are glad to be able
to direct our readers to an establishment where the
best-made and most stylish clothing can be had, to
snit all tastes at the most reasonable prices ; we re
fer to the• popular old Clothing House of Messrs.
C. Somers & Son, No. 625 Cheitnut street, under
Jayne's Hall. Their present stock, the materials of
which are mainly of their own importation, is, with
out doubt, the most desirable to select from in
city.
TEA gTOCH OF d - ENTLEMBN'S Fintrinniwo Goo D 3
offered by Mr. George Grant, No., 610 Chestnut
street, is the finest in the city, and his celebrated
"Prize-Medal Shirts," invented by Mr. J. F. Tag
gart, are unsurpassed by any others in the world in
fit, comfort, and durability.
THU GIMATEST FNMALF. BEM:Mr/FIER OF THIS
Amt.—This may sound a little like painting lilies,
or adorning roses ; nevertheless, the fact remains
that one of the most important attributes of female
'evilness is a beautiful head of hair, and another
fact, of scarcely less importance, remains, to wit:
That the most wonderful article ever invented, both
for obtaining and preserving this exquisite feature,
is the celebrated "Lublu's Morning," of lliessra.
Drake & Childs, New York. The article is for sale
everywhere, and is unrivalled in popularity as an
article for the toilet.
SECURE YOUR NROATMES.—The negatives by
Broadbent & Co. and byl,Venderoth & Taylor, taken
between June, 1862, and Juno, 1863, are about to be
effaced. AU persons who desire to purchase any
for preservation are requested to make immediate
application to Wenderoth & Taylor, Nos. 912 and
914 Chestnut street.
ENORMOUS DICTIAIi'D FOR THE "FLORENCE"
SEWING MAcn - rna.—Since the opening of the ele
gant new ware-rooms in this city, at No. 630 Chest
nut Street, by the Florence Sewing Machine Com
pany, for the sale of their celebrated instruments,
the demand for them has been so Much increased
that the company have been obliged to enlarge
their facilities for manufacturing them. They are
now ready, however, to furnish the largest orders
for them. The "Florence" has won for itself the
highest name in the sewing machine category. It
is unquestionably the best in use. Every machine
sold, is warranted to give satisfaction.
A Nate , INVENTION.—We refer our business matt
to an advertisement in another column headed "To
Capitalists." The "Universal Quilter" is an en
_
tirely -new principle In Sewing-Machine develop
ment, and could be made of invaluable service in
every family in embroidering children's garments,
working fancy patterns, coverlets, bed quilts—ln
fact, its range of work is co-extensive with the la
dies' wants ; and in these trying times for patents It
IS well to know that it has been secured against all
',infringement. Aa an investment for an enterprising
,brisiness man of means, we know of none better.
•See advertisement. sel4-wfs3t*
SwannEns from Deafness, Throat Disease% Ca
larrh, Asthma and Impaired Sight ; should not fail
to...read, In this morning's Inquirer, the advertise.
fiike4t of Dr. Von leoaclizisker. It contains name
roni testimonials from responsible citizens, who
have been under his oars.
Ttairrs.—"When. tights were fashionable, a cus
tomer returned a pair of trowsers to his tailor be
cause they were too small for his legs. "But you
told me to make them as tight as your sldn," said
the tailor• "True," said he, "for I can sit down in
my skin, but PH be split if I can in the breeches."
There Is splitting of unmentionables now-a-days,
if they are procured at the Brown Stone Clothing
Hall of Hockhill & Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chest
nut street, above Sixth.
Wa sua by foreign papers that a Doctor Paul Bert
has been grafting animals, that is to say, he has
been putting a chicken's tail to grow on a dog, and
a cat's paw on a monkey's leg. But we have some
monkeys here that are made, a "cat's paw" of,
without the pain of grafting, and some puppies
that show the "white feather" as naturally. sail* it
grew there. Not even a suit of clothing from Chas.
Stokes Bi. Co's " one price," tinder the Continental,
will disguise such characters.
BARG4INB IN CLOTHING,
Bargains in Clothing,
Bargains in Clothing, • ,
Bargains in Clothing,
At Granville Stokes'•Old Stand,
jAt Granville Stokes' Old Stand.
tAt Granath° Stokes' Old. Stand.
At Granville Risk* Old Stand.
No. 609 Chestnut Street.
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No. 609 Chestnut Street. -
No. 609 Chestnut Street.
No. 609 Chestnut Street.
DEAtmEse, Throat DLseasee, Catarrh, tksttur..,
treated by a new and most successful treatment.
Eye.--AllmaliAllas of the eye attended to' by Dr.
Von Dilmicbsisker, Oculist and Aurist. Offioe 1427
Walnut street. •
A.. S. bornut, 30.1 North Broad street, Coal
dealer, would respectfully advise his friends mild
the . publie in general not toNelay in buying tbeir
coal, and run the risk of paying further advances,
but buy at ones of hilsuperior stook of large anti
nuall stove, stove, egg, SEch None to exoel, for
to t ality, durability, cheapness.',
Eta AND EAR most sucoessfislly treated by J.
Isa Oculist and Antlelh•6ll•Plos at, Artiti.
clal eyes Insertad. No.ohargelOniiitalintlon.il24t