DAILY POST. The Union as it was; The Constitution as it Is! air Beading matter on every page. THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 23 A FORWARD MOVEMENT. A dispatch from Washington saga that the pressure for a forward movement of the army against Lee's forces has become quite general; it is .urged with an earnest • nese never before equalled. We entertain no doubt but that the President, who is commander-in-chief of our army, is as solicitous fora forward movement, and a successful one, as any .; one of those who are pressing for it. The 1 War Department and Gen. Halleck are, also, anxious for a forward movement when they are ready for it. General Mc. Clellan, from the alacrity and spirit mani : felted by him, in gathering Pope's scat ! tered and demoralized forces, and saving 1 Maryland and Pennsylvania from rebel 4evastation,:is at least willingto obey the (mar of the government when it is given him to make the advance. .We do not, • therefore, see the necessity of the pressure , brought to bear opon the President, be ; cause there can be no one more anxious for an advance than he is. The experience of the past twelve months demonstrates very conclusively 1 1 that, advancing into an• enemy's country •1 is by no means an easy undertaking.— ; McClellan in his advances seemed to com prehend the magnitude of the , task, and was therefore c.antioris and Stealthy in all his movements. Those who make pres sures and panics about Washington became restless, and demanded a more dashing general, and they obtained him in the per son of Pope. That unfortunate officer an nonnced his intention of starting at once and to - keep advancing, until his victorious j i banner waved upon the walls of van quished Richmond ; but the sequel shows that from the hour he took command, re treat, not advance, was the order of the day. From the commencement of hostili• ties to the present time, those in and about Washington, who manufacture pub : lie opinion, have overrated the ability of our forces, or underrated that of the rebels. We never had sufficient forces to invade and conquer the State of Virginia, 'she having an army of determined men, numbering 200,000 and fighting upon the defensive for tkeir homes, their property and lives. Having the. advantages of pc sition, knowledge cf country and their rear open to retreat, no army can success fully contend against an equal number fighting upon their own soil. And yet, our agitators expect it of our armies.— Where have we out-numbered the rebels "...i in an important engagement, save the tem ___ over so much space as to render our „main divisions no greater than those of the rebels.. How does it happen then that Iwe are all the time complaining of the ;,; want of success to our arms? It is notorious that McClellan, in his 1,, fight before Richmond, had to contend with overwhelming numbers; and it is also known that when afterwards the troops of .''l McClellan, McDowell, Banks and Sigel were united under Pope, they were utter ;lily routed by the rebels and chased clear ; G out of Virginia. Whether this was done 'y superior numbers or superior skill we iknow not, but it is likely that it was pro i*ced by a combination of both. Well, 'how stand matters now on the Potomac? I Pe are informed upon the very highest authority, that Gen. Lee has now under !lie command, at Winchester, fully 150,000 'linen. If this be true the reader will per t eeive that no "pressure" should compel the President to order an advance until he feels himself entirely able to hold every position taken. Move carefully and cau tiously against equal numbers, who have shown themielyes vigilant ,and brave. A defeat for us; at this time, would be a ca lamity indeed; and the President should resist an advance unless he feels himself, able to surely and successfully make i OpßinarioN OF THE POLI TICAL LOG. I," Some time since," says the Herald, "before the October elections developed the real current of public opinion, we an nounced that Wa t d orth would carry this State. But t e ret rns from Pennsylva nia, Ohio a dia a reveal the fact that 1,11 a 'strong conservative tide . has set in, and thiA it is rolling onward with momentous strides, sweeping everything before it. Tlii l s revolution has been'so rapid, so over whelming, that we now correct our 'Poll. tical Log,' and announce that we do not believe that Wadsworth , ean carry this Sap under any circumstances, but that he iTill be defeated by a large majority. Wi4all upon all those journals which pub lished our former 'Log' to give this cor rect4in as much publicity as they did our former statement." Alluding to the great revolution of the I4th inst., the Herald continues : "Per the honor of the country, and for our hopes of its future, all who value free inst4tions will hail with joy this great movthnent of the people. It will enable the resident / who is honest, to carry ou the' conservative policy which he had con templated from the beginning, and to ap ply ;Improper remedy to the evihi we have enumerated. Heretofore he had been in timidated by assaults upon his family. For iiistance, in the proceedings of Hick man'Ea.Congv3psional ce---'.. beenToerced into vario- committee. He had us measures threats of deposition by revolution under and a reigtil of anarchy and terror. But now that It is proven by the elections that the radicals are powerless, and that be s e people to stand by him in defense ha O the Of the ..._.Constitution , he can get kid of his imbecile Uabidet, and appoint another which bas the ability to rule and the will to carry on the government in accordance with the spirit of our institutions. He will be in a position to wage the war with a single view to the restoration of the Union, and to put down the rebellion by force of arms in theihands of white men on the battle field, and not by negro insurrections or by proclamations Justo as ineffectual as the piopei bull-against the comet." The Next Legislature. The Pennsylvania Legislature for the winter of 1862 7 '4 will 84tnd as follows: [Newly elected mewl:len are marked thus *; the rest hold over.] skint ~-District—Philadelphia—Jeremiah NietioWß.; Jacob E Ridgway,* R., vice Pinte, R.; Di. ill. 3 Donove,n, D.; George Connell,* R., re-elected. Second District—Chester and Delaware —Jacob S. Serrell, R. Third Disfrict—Montgomery—John C. Smith, D. Fourth District—Bucks—Wm. Kinsey, D. Fifth District—Lehigh and Northam', ton—Geo. W. Stein, D. Sixth District—Berks—lleister Clymer D. Seventh District—Schuylkill—Bernard Reilly, D. Eighth District—Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Waync—Henry S. Mott, D. Nit VI District—Bradford; Susquehanna, Sullivan Band Wyoming—William J. Tur rell,* R. Tenth District—Luzerne—J. B. Stark,* D.. vice Ketcham, R. Eleventh District—Tioga, Potter, Mc- Kean and Warren—F. Smith,* D. Twelfth District—Clinton, bycoming, Centre and Uniod—Henry Johnson, R. Thirteenth District—Snyder, Northum berland, Montour and Columbia—Frank Bound, R. Fourteenth District—Cumberland, Ju niata, Perry and Mifflin—Geo. H. Bucher,* D. Fifteenth District—Dauphin and Leba non—Amos R. Boughter, R. Sixteenth District—Lancaster—William Hamilton, John A. Heistand, R. Seventeenth District—York—A. Hies tand Gratz, D. Eighteenth District—Adams, Franklin and Fulton—Wm. McSherry, D. Nineteenth District—Somerset, Bed ford and Huntingdon—Alexander Stutz mah, R. Twentieth District—Blair, Cambria and Clearfield—Wm. Wallace.* D. - . Twenty-first District—lndiana and Arm strong—Henry White,* R. Twenty-second District—Westmoreland and Fayette—Smith Fuller, It. Twenty-third District —Washington - and' Greene—Geo. V. Lawrence, R. Twenty-fourth District—Allegheny —J . P. Penney, R.• ' J. L. Graham*, R. Twenty-fifth District—Beaver and But ler—McCandless,* R. • Twenty-sixth District—Lawrence, Mer cer and Venango—Jas. H. Robinson, R. Twenty-seventh District—Crawford and Erie—Morrow B. Lowry, R. Twenty-eighth District—Clarion, Jeffer son, Forest-and Elk—Charles L. Lamber ton, D. RECAPITI'LATION Republicans.. Democrats Republican majority UOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. First District—William Foster, Rep. Second District—Thomas J. Barger Dem. Third District—Samuel Josephs, Dem. Fourth District—Samuel C. Thompson, Dem. Fifth District—Joseph Moore, Rep. Sixth District—Richard Ludlow, Dem. Seventh District—Thomas Cochran, Rep. Eighth District—James N. Kerns, Rep, Ninth District—George A. Quigley, Dem. Tenth District—S. L. Pancoast, Rep. Eleventh District—James W. Hopkins, Dem. Twelfth District—Luke V Sutphin. Rep. Thirteenth District—Francis McManus, Dem. Fourteenth District—Albert R Schofield Dem. Fifteenth District—W F Smith. Rep. Siiteenth District—Edwsrd G Lee, Rep. ley Harvey, Rep. Chester--W Windle, Rep, P F Smi Rep, R L McClellan, Rep. Montgomery—Dr S W Wimley, Dem, H C Hoover, Dem, Joe Rex, Dem. Backe—l. B Lalar, Dem, J S Boileau, Dem. Northampton—D C Neiman, Dem, A C Hess, Dem. Lehigh and Carbon—Samuel Camp, Dem, Thos Craig, jr, I)em. Monroe and Pike—George 13 Rowland, Dem. Wayne—Wm M Nelson, Dena. Lnzerne—S W Trimmer,. Dem, Peter Walsh, Dem, Jacob Robinson, I)em. Stu3quehanna—D D %Varner, ltep. Bradford—Bartholonzew Laporte, Rep, Drummer Lilly, Rep. Wyoming, Sulliran Cumbia and on• tonr—Geo D Jackson, , Deol M Dem, John C Ellis, Dem. Lycoming and Clinton—John B Beck Dem, Amos C Noyes, Dem. Centre—R F Barron, Dem. Mifflin—Holmes McClay, Rep. Union, Snyder and Juniati—S R Hum mel!, Rep, H Ritter, Rep. Northumberland—J W Brown, Dem. Schuylkill—Edward Kerns, Dem, Con rad Graber, Dem, Adam Woolf, Dern. Dauphin—Thos G Fos, Rep, .Jos Free land, Rep. Lebanon—G Dawson Coleman, Rep. Berke—William F Potteiger, Dem, Chas A Kline, Dem, Daniel K Weider, Den,. Lancaster—Benjamin Champney, Rep, H C Lehman, Rep r Nathaniel Mayer, Rep, H B Bowman Rep: York—Jos Dellone, Dem, A C Ramsey, Dem. Cumberland and Perry—J P Rhoads, Dem., John A Magee. Dem. Adams—Henry J Myers, Dem. Franklin and Fulton—Wm Horton, Jonathan Jacoby, Dem. Bedford and Somerset—John Cessna, Dem., Mussellman, Rep. Huntingdon—A W Benedict, Rep. Blair—R A McMurtie, Rep. - Cambria—Cyrus L. Pershing, Dem. Indiana—J W Hustin, Rep. Armstrong and Westmoreland—Jas A McCullough, Dem., Samuel Wakefield, 1 Dem., Richard Graham,' Dem. Fayette—Daniel Kaine,Dem. Greene—Dr. Patton, em. Washington—Wm lopkins, Dem., Wm Glenn, Dem. Allegheny—PC Shannon, A Slack, Wm Hutchman, A H Gross, John Gilfillan, all Rep. .Beaver and Lawrence—Wm Henry, Rep., W White, Rep. W Grant, Rep., H C McCoy, Rep. Mercer and Venango--Jas C Brown, Rep., M C Beebe, Rep. Clarion and Forest—W 'T Alexander, Dem. Jefferson, Clearfield, McKean and Elk —Dr C R Early, Dem., J C Boyer, Dem. Crawford and Warren—H C Johnson, Rep., W D Brown, Rep. Erie--John P Vincent, Rep.,. E W Twitchell, Rep. Potter and Tioga—A J Armatead, Rep., C A Brown, Rep. RECA PIT ULAT I ON Demoorats . Repabheans Democratic majority ON JOINT BALLOT Dem. Rep. 13 Democratic Majority, L Elections yet to be Held. Eleven States will hold their annual elections in November, to wit: Louisiana on the Bd, New York, New Jersey, Mas sachusetts, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Minnesota and Delaware ,on the 4 thi Eii l 4)lar.Y/and on the 6th. • ; S ENATE. After long confinement to my bed in New York, I came to this city, (Washing ton) December 12. Next day I personal ly urged upon the President the same views, viz: strong garrison in the South ern forts—those of Charleston and Pensa cola harbors at once; those on Mobile Bay and the Missisippi below, New Or leans next, tic., fic. I again pointed out the organized companies and the recruits at theprincipal stations available for the purpose. The Secretary did not concurin any of my views, when I begged him .to procure for me an early interview with the President, that I might make one effort more to save the forts and the Union. By appointment the Secretary accom panied me to the President, December 15, when the same topics, secessiondom, &e., were again pretty fully discussed, There . being at the moment [in the opinion of the President] no danger of an early se cession, beyond South Carolina, the Pres ident, in reply to my arguments for im mediately reinforcing Fort Moultrie and C - sending n garrison to Fort Sumter, said : a- "The tithe has not arrived for doing so: o f that he should wait the action of the Con n - vention at South Carolina, in the expec tation - that a commission would be sp it pointed and sent to negotiate with him and Congress respecting the secession of the State and the property of the United v- States held within its limits ; and that if Congress should decide against secession, e d then he would send a reinforcement and ; telegraph the commanding officer 'Major ' r- Anderson) to hold the forts i Moultrie ids aLd Sumter) against attack. ' in And • the Secretary, with animation, ue added: "We have a vessel of war (the Brook ed lyn) held in readiness at Norfolk, and. he ..?r. would then send three hundred men in her in, from Fort Monroe in Charleston." i a To which I replied, first, that so many ee men could nut be withdrawn from that garrison, but could be taken from New of York. Next, that it would then be to() is late, as the South Caroline Commissioners or would have the game in their hands, by ins first using and then cutting, the wires; that :a- as there was not a soldier in Fort Sumter, not any handful of secessionists might seize and occupy it, &c., &c. Here the remark may be permitted, that a° if the Secretary's three hundred men had . --- Correspondeace of the Now York World then, or some time litter, been sent to Forts Moultrie and Sumter, built would liAltl'Elt • S FF.ItItY, October 7. now have been in the possession of the The celebration of the second ann %Tr :lfr-ii couldhave i i tedSt r es'ar b id eftn n' Cr l e , e i r :‘,, i.Y the l7 si: elos' i sary of the John Brown raid is over. :the party has just returned from their via tto cessionists: consequently the neCosa to hero of OakiWattotiiiii. S 01111! fully ac- those forts from the sea would now the I ner same nay titeeetneer Ia ' I. wrotecount of the experiences of the party '•ho the following note: "Li-1 Scott begs the President yesterday occupied and today aband.ned topardon him for pplyin thi the town we will attempt: to give. what he omitted to su say this g, morni in ng s a note, t the Our advance was resisted from the 'u t. interview with whirl ) he was honored by set by the picket-guard of the enemy, w ich the President. they had within a few days past to con "Lone prior to the force bill, t March special pains -to strengthen. Every av il- 2, 18::4,rprici. to the issue of his proeltima able position for the action of artillery 'as don, and in part prior to the passage or improved, and our advance was Ace ily the ordinance of nullification, President hindered as much as possible. Jackson, under the act of March :l. Iso7 l The resistance which was made to tor authorizing the employment of the lona occupation of the town upon the h Its and naval forces. canned reinforemm :.15 lc which skirt it on the north, has been ,1. be sent to Fort !quid trie, and a sloop-of ready described. After a bold resista ce war—the Natchez—with two revenue cut of thirty minutes, the rebels gave way a . d ters, to be sent to Charleston harbor, in , the town was taken by Gen. Hancock. order, Ist, to prevent the seizure of that The people were tilled with conster, a- fort by the nullifiers ; and, 2d, to enforce lion at the unusual booming of cann.n, the execution of the revenue laws. Gen. and the humming of shells through ti e Scott himself arrived at Charleston the air, and the falling of - branches from t,e day atter the passage of the ordinance of trees. Shells, some of them, fell in the ir nullification, and many of the additionzil Streets. Fortunately only one house was companies were then en route for the same struck by them, and that the chimney o destination. Mr. Itiddle's house, a Union man. "President Jackson familiarly said, At Two pieces of artilleryand live thousand the time, that, by the assemblage of' those cavalry were on their way to support the forces, for lawful purposes, he was not enemy, but they failed to arrive 111 time to making war upon Solidi Carolina; but prevent the capture of the town. I that if South Carolina attacked them, it When the town had been taken, tbe would be South CaPolina that made war proper disposition of artillery and infanty upon the United States. was made for its defense. One battery "Gen. S., who received his first in was stationed in the_ identical field i i n structions (oral) from the President, in !which John Brown was hung. The rebel the temporary absence of the Secretary of pickets could be distinctly seen not a half War—Gen. Cass—remembers those ex mite distant, hovering about upon the o - pressions well. posit° hills or peering out from behind th "Saturday night, December 15, Its's)." covering of some friendly haystack. 0 . . DErmi 11E1t, 28.—Again, after Major An whizzing a puff of smoke, a - report and f i derson had gallantly and wisely thrown whizzing showed where they were cm*. his handful of men from Fort Moultrie cealed. into Fort Sumter—learning that, on de lisiToward evening Gen. McClellan and mand of South Carolina, there was great rtaff, who had come out into the towd danger he might he ordered by the Secre after its occupation, returned with the exl tary back to the less tenable work, or out ception of Colonel Strother, "Port Cray of the harber—l wrote this note: on," who remained and spent the nigh "Lieut. Gen. Scott (who has had a bad with Mr. Riddle. night, and can scarcely hold up his head The town of Charlestown looks .nor this morning) begs to express the hope to naked and destitute than ever. The fe the Secretary of War-1. That orders may remaining men between eighteen and for- not be given for the evacuation of' Fort t 4' -five have been recently carried off. Sumter; 2. That one hundred and fitly 1 There still remain, however, those between recruits may be instantly sent from G over thirty-five and forty-five. To this extent nor's Island' to reinforce that garrison, they have not yet attempted to enforce the with ample supplies of annnunition and conscript act in Charlestown. I find the , subsistence, including fresh vegetables, as last remnant which has been spared by the' potatoes, onions, turnips; and, 3. That enforcers of this' conscript law are not so one or two armed vessels be sent to sup warm in their disloyalty as the town in port said fort. general. These are generally cowards "Lieut. Gen. S. avails himself of this and others who have used various devices opportunity also to express the hope that and excuses to evade the difficulties of the the recommendation heretofore made by service and the pressure of public opinion i him to the Secretary of War respeciing which assails in Dixie all4who are not in Forts Jackson, St. - Philip, . Morgan, and the army. To judge the town by these anY Pulaski, ;and particularly in respect to one might think it becoming somewhat loy- Forts Pickens and Mcllea and the Petisa al. I visited the place soon after its first cola Navy Yard, in connection with the occupation by General Banks, and to this last two named works, may be considered time I think the town has remained stead, y the Secretary. lastly devoted to its idols. "Lieut. Gen. S. will further ask the at- The President's emancipation proclama lion appears to have excited no interest or cation of the Secretary to Forts Jefferson, ndlly national— attention among them whatever. They 'Toler, ): f ar grea ter Bing value even to the most ' which are who inform me that many of the negroes in that F ir/ - of latent Points of the Atlantic coast and section have been sent awry:further South "to 'prevent them from running away," he people on the upper waters of the Mis- uri, Mississippi and Ohio rivers than to ty well accustomed to. which they have by this time become pret hpe State of s F i l p o P rida . There is only a fee le company at Key West for the defense ......_ f Fort Taylor, and not a soldier in Fort efferson to resist a handful of fillibusters r a rowboat of pirates: and the Gulf, soon ter the beginning of secession or revolu onary troubles in the adjacent Mutes, will • arm with such nuisances.''t DkomtnEa 30.-1 addressed the Presi -1 nt again as follows: "Lieut. Gen. Scott begs the President i the United States to pardon the irrPgii a 'ty of this communication. It tsara'. is y, the weatheris bad, and General S. is sit well enough to go to church. "But matters of the highest national portance seem to forbid a moment's Flay, and, if misled by zeal, he hopes the P esident'a forgiveness. 'Will the President permit General S , vi lout reference to the War Department, tnd otherwise as secretly as possible, to tend two hundred and fifty recruits from 'ew. York ttarbor to reinforce. Fort Snin• Dr. Kane's Narrative. The copyright of Dr. Kane's work, which Mr. Childs, of Philadelphia, has paid over to the lamented author and his heirs, is s6o,opo—a larger sum than was ever realized on a book by any other au thor in the English language. The near est approach to it was in the case of Lord Macaulay, whose publishers paid him £ll,OOO for his History of England. 67 64 Five dollai' bills, purportinzto be issued by the Clinton Bank of Pennsylvania, are in circulation. The notes are altered from the broken Clinton BAnk of Maryland, are well engraved, and have a railroad train . on upper centre. There is no bank of that name in Pennsylvania.—Harrisburg Union. SUCKING THE TREAISE Some of the Republican papers ar • b coming weak frofti loss of blood, thr.u. the Treasury Department. The exp-ns of the war are eonsidere4iite eao4! l, them, at presenti'.without Pnrchaiiisl m lions of slaves, and afterwards apendin: : ditional millions of dollars to carry on President's idea of colonization. I a of agony, the New York -, Times excl. im "In behalf of a suffering national ea ury, we protest against the further co isi, eration•of schemes fox sending the .ew enfranchised blacks to foreign col. lie Every day we see the engineering pp antes of these gigantic jobs peering hr the Washington dispatches. They ha• been exposed and exploded, and it is ti they were abandoned." CONGRESSIONAL-17th I TRICT. Official returns from this district, posed of Cambria, Blair, Huntingto Mifflin counties, show a handsom: jority for Archibald McAllister, I over S. S. Blair, Rep. The vote w: follows : lifeAll44er, Bla'r. 5,855 1,418 2,10; 2,315 362 a Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, Mifflin, 1,376 1,462 6,338 5. 5,551 McAllister's maj, In the 20th Senatorial District, sisting of Blair, Cambria and Clea Wm. Wallace is also elected over W. Hall, who has represented the d for the past two years. The vote is : lows : Wallace,H 1,386 3, 2,680 1, 2y247 1, Cambria, Clearfield, Wallace's maj., ELK COUNTY The Democrats Of Elk county have ele ted P. W. Hays, Sheriff, and given m jorit/ for the entire Detnoeratic tie• et nearly 3GO. A gain of almost three hu dred over last year. This is nobly ye for Ii little Ehr. Explanations of the Internal enue Law. Commissioner Boutwell has dc that manufacturers of clothing are r: ed to pay duty on the whole value of manufactured by them, and not on t creased value of their goods over the • of the cloth, This principle holds generally with regard to all manufae • The manufacture of "syrups"—le no sarsaparilla, &c., is to be considered as "manufacture," and to be taxed hi: per tentuni .ad valorem. a tl'he basis for calculating the amou license duty that a rectifier of hi l t' subject to is' the number of barrels casks contaibiug not more than 10 ga to each, produced by the process of rect. tion, and not on the quantity of ro I quor used. F roan the Army of the Poto New Fraud Lieut. Gen. Scott 7w ON T R v. 13 a .At other Leiter hniin the Old Hero - , take the follpwing from the Ncttion atlinteiligaPer, of the 21st instant'fur ,. nished to that paper for publicatfon by Geneial Scott himself. It throws colsid erable light on the history of the rebellion in its incipient stages, and . sho W 8 the great anxiety he felt in having the South ern forts made secure against any attack. It will be read, no doubt, with great in terest: GEN. SCOTT'S LETTER Communicated to the National Intel . ligencer for Publication_ _ Squthern Forts—A Summary, &e. October 30, 1860—I emphatically called the attention of the President to the ne cessity of strong garrisons in all the forts a- below the principal commercial cities of the SOutheru States, including, by name, as the forte in Pensacola harbor. October 31, I suggested to the Secretary of War that a circular should be sent at once to such of those forts as had garrisons to he on the alert against surprises and sudden assau:ts.—(See mg "lieu's" since print . ed.) ter, together with some extra muskets or` rifles, ammunition and subsistence? , " hoped a" aloop-of-war and! Aitteoifik befifidered for the _same pur-1 pose fa early 10 to-morrow. "General S.: : aajll., wait upon the Presi-I. dent Many moment lie may be called for."f The. South Carolina Commissioners had already been many days in Washington, i and no'movement: of defense (on the part. of the United - States) was permitted. I will here close my notice of Fort Sum- . ter by quoting, from some of my previous reports: It would have been easy to reinforce this fort down to about the 12th of February., In this long delay Fort Moultrie had been' re-armed and greatly strengthened in every!' way by the rebels. Many powerful new!. land batteries (besides a formidable raft,) have been constructed. Hulks, too, have been sunk in the principal channel so: ad! to render access to Fort Sumter from the! sea impracticable without first carrying all: the lower batteries of the secessiomst4 The difficulty of reinforcing has thus been increased ten or twelve fold. • First : the late President refused to allow any attempt to be made. because he was holding nevi tiations with.the South Carolina Commis-I ; sioners. Afterwards Secretary Holt and mysel endeavored, in vain, to obtain a ship o war for the purpose, and were finally obliged to employ the passenger steamer "Star of the West." that vessel, but for. the hesitation of the master, might, as is generally believed, have delivered at the fort the men and subaisteneCon board! This attempt at succor failing, I next, verbally, submitted to the late Cabinet either that succor be sent by ships of wax, fighting their way by the batteries, (increas-. ing in strength daily,) or that Major An 'derson should be left to ameliorate hie condition by the muzzles of his guns—that. is, enforcing supplies by bombardment ,and bringing to merchant Veasels, help ing himself, (giving orders for payment)! or finally be allowed to evacuate the fort,l! which, in that case would be inevitable. But, before any resolution was taken,f the late Secretary of the Navy 1788 making 4 difficulties about the want of suitable war 'vessels, another Commissioner from South! Carolina arrived, causing further delay.! When this had passed away Secretaries! Holt and Toucey, Capt. Ward, of the! Navy, and myself—with-the knowledge 01 the President (Buchanan), settled upon the employment, under the Captain (who! was eager for the expedition) of three or! four small steamers belonging to the Coast! tiurvey. At that time (late in January), I have! but little doubt Captain Ward would have; .reached Fort Sumter, with all his vessels.l ;But he was kept back by something like al ;truce or armistice, (made here) embracing! Charleston and Pensacola harbors, agreedi upon between the late President and cer-i 'taut principal seceders of South Carolina,! :Florida, Louisiana, &c., and this truce lasted to the end of that Administration.' That plan and all others, without a squadron of war ships and a considerable' ,army—competent to take and hold the many formidable batteries below Fort !Sumter, and before the exhaustion of its subsistence—having been pronounced from the change of circumstances, impractica ble by Major Anderson, Capt. Foster ,f Chief Engineer), and all the other officers iof the fort, as well as by Brigadier General Totten, Chief of the Corps of Engineers; and, concurring in that opinion, I did not hesltate to advise (March 12th) that Major Anderson be instructed to evacuate the fort, so long gallantly held by him and his companions, immediately on procuring 'suitable transportation to take them to New York. His relative weakness had, sleadily increased in the last eighteen days. It was not till January 3d-(when the first Commissioners from South Carolina withdrew) that the permission I had solic ited October 31st, was obtained to ad monish co . mtnauders of the few Southern forts with garrisons to be on the alert EW.L'OT:VeRF 44'N61 thb monished, being already straitly- beleag uered.) January 3d. 'To Lient. Slemmerr-com inanding in Pensacola Harbor: "The General-in -Chief directs that you take measures to do the utmost in your power to prevent the seizure of either of the forts in Pensacola harbor, by surprise or assault, consulting first with the com mander of the navy yard, who will proba bly have received instructions to co-oper ate with you." (This order was signed . hy Aid-de-Camp Lay.) It was just before the surrender of the Pensacola Navy Yard (January 12) that Lieut. Slemmer, calling upon Corn. Arm strong, obtained the aid of some thirty common seamen or laborers (but no ma rines, ) which, added to his -forty-six sol diers, made up his number to seventy-six men, with whom this meritorious officer has since held Fort Pickens, and perform. ed, working night and day; an immense amount of labor in mounting guns, keep ing up a strong guard, &c., &c. ;Early in January I renewed, as has been seen, my solicitations to be allowed to re inforce Port Pickens, but a good deal of time was lost in vascillations. First, the President "thought if no movement 18 made by the United States Fort Mcßae will probtbly not be occupied nor Fort Pickens attacked. In case of movements by the United States, which will doubtless be made known by the wires, there will be corresponding local movements, and the attempt to reinforce will be useless"— (Quotations from a Note made by. Aide de-Uamp Lay, about January 12, of the' Prasident's reply to a message from me.), NoW, it was doubted whether it would be safd to send reinforcementsin an unarmed steamer, and the want, as usual, of a suitable naval vessel—the Brooklyn being long held in a reserve at Norfolk for some purpose unknown to me. Finally, after I had kept a body of three. hundred recruits in New York harbor ready for some time —arid they would have been sufficient to l l reinforce temporarily Fort Pickens and to occupy Fort Mcßae also—the President, I about January 18, permitted that the sloop of war Brooklyn should take a single com pany, ninety men, from Fort Monroe, Hampton Roads, and reinforce Lieuten ant Slemmer, in Fort Pickens but with out a:surplus man for the neighboring fort, Mcßite. The Brooklyn, pith Capt. Vogdes' com pany 'alone, left the Chesapeake for Fort Pickeus about January 22d, and, on the 29th, President Buchanan, having entered 1 1 into a quasi armistice with eertain leading, seceders at Pensacola and elsewhere, caused Secretaries Holt and Toucey to in struct, in a joint note, the commanders of the war vessels of Pensacola and Lient. Slemmer, commanding Fort Pickens, to commit no act of hostility, and not to land Captain Vogdes' company unless that fort should be attacked..,.' [That joint note I never tmwintil March 2.lth, but supposed the armistice was zon sequent upon the meeting of the Peace Convention at Washington, and was un i derstood to terminate with it.] Reering, however, of the most active I preparations for hostilities on the part of seceders at Pensacola, by the erection of new batteries and arming Fort Mcßae— t bat had not a gun mounted when it was seized--during the Peace Convention and since, I brought the subject to the notice' of the new Administration, when'thisnote, I dated March 12th, to Capt: Yogdes was agreed upon, viz: "At the firstfavorable momentiyou will land with your company, reinforce Fort Pickens, and hold the same "' till further orders. This order, in dupli cate, left New York by two naval vessels about the middle of March, as the mail and the wire 4 could not be trusted, and detach ed officers could not be substituted, for two had aln4dy been arrested and paroled by the, authorities of Pensacola, dispatches taken from one of them, and a third, to escape like treatment, forced to turn back when near the city. Thus those authort ti-is have not ceased to make war' upon the United States since th Rs , • m of the Navy Yard, Janu. Respectfully sulonitte;,r-t.l •••• WINFIELD SCOT'ri Headquarters of the Army .-Washington lifarch 30, 1861 i- *The plan invented by General Scott !d stop secession was, like all campaigns*: vised by, him, very able in ita;detaiiind nearly certain of general 'inhume; The Southern States are full of arsenals and forts, commanding theirrivera and strata getic points. • Gen. Scott desired to trans fer the army of the United States to these forts as speedily and as quietly as 'Possible,. The Southern States could not cut off com ritunication between the Government 'and the fortresses without It great fleet, which they cannot , build 'forl — years, or take them by land without one hundred thousand men, tnani littndred millionsOf dollars, several crznpaigns, and many &bloody siege. Had Suitt been able to have got thele forts in the`condition he desired them' to be, the Southern Confederacy would not now eic . : ist.—[Part of the eulogy c pronounced on Secretary Floyd (who .defeated Scott's plans) by the Richmond' Examiner, on Floyd's reception in that City.. lit was-not till January 4, that, by the aid of Secretary Holt, (a strong and loyal .man) I obtained permission to.send succor to the feeble garrison of Fort Tyler, Key West, and at the same time a company— Major Arnold's from Boston—to occupy. Fort Jefferson, Tortugas Island. If this company had been three days later, the fort would have been pre- °coupled by Flor idans. It is known that the rebels had their eyes upon those powerful forts which govern the commerce of the Mexican Gulf, as Gtbralta and Malta govern that of the Mediterranean. With Forts Jefferson and Taylor, the rebels might have purchased an early European recognition. was known at the Navy Department that the BrOoklyn, with Ctipt. Vodges on board, would be obliged in open eett:ta stand' off and an Fort Pickens, and in rough weather might sometimes fifty miles at sea, the fort might have been attacked and ea ' sily carried before the reinforcements could have reached the beach, in open sea, where alone it could land. ' On Wednesday morning, Oct. 22 at 1 o'clock, ISAAC J. WILLIAMS, aged 37 years. The funeral will take place to-morrow at 2 o'clock. from his late residence. Second siree., below Smithfield. The friecds of the family are respectfully invited to attend. OOD CIDER ALL THE YEAR gpilf ROUND. Sulphite of Lime will preserve Ciler for any length of time. ireetions for its ase.—Take one quarter of an ounce for every gallon of Cider. or ten ounces of the Sulphite to every barrel of forty gallons—fast mixing it with some Cider or water. After a few days draw off the Cider carefully into another barrel. For sale in bottles containing a sufficient ivan tits for one barrel of Cider, by SIMON JOHNSTON. oc2o corner Smithfield and Fourth streets. MANHOOD- ROW LOgT! HOW RESTORED! Just published. Envelope. Price • ix Cents. A LECTURE ON THE NATURE, TREAT MENT and Radical Cure of Spermatorrhcea or Seminal Weakness, Involuntary Emmissions, Sexual Debility. and Impedimenta to Marriage generally,_ _Nervousness. Consumption, Epilepsy and Pitts Mental and Physical IncapooltY result ing" from Self-Abuse, kc.—By ROBT. J. CUL VERWELL, M. D„ Author ofthe Greco Bosk.ito "A Boon to Thousands of Bearers." Sent under seal, in a plain envelope, to any ad dress. Postpaid, on receipt of six gents, or twc Postage stamps. by Dr. CH. J. C. RLDIE, 127 Bowery. New York. Post Office Box. CMS au7:3ln-iscdaw BENZINE, BENZINE, BENZINE BENZINE, BENZINE BENZINE, BENZINE BENZINE, BENZINE The best article ever discovered' for removing al kinds of grease spots paint, &c., from silk, ribbor s cloth, 4c., cleans Wci gloves in a few moments without affecting the color, and for cleaning all : .irme'drurefo ernotle - proeurbd ' ' "'' JOSEPH. FLEMING'S. 30SePII PLEIIING S. JOSEPH FLEMING'S. Corner of the Diamond and Market Streets, Corner of - the Diamond and Market Streets, ».-The highest price in cash paid for Beeswax. eels) 'l' It 0 'l' -A 7' -.- COLLINS PARK HE roLLowiilork HORSES ARE entered and will trot for a PURSE OF 00100, N THURSDAY AFTERNOON , OCTOBER 24th, at 2 O'CLOCK. S. Keys enters Br. G Rascal Jack F. Barker enters G......... I F. Laverty enters B. I Red Bill J. Wu tson eaters S.M. -Fumy Forrest 1 c2l:3tAl OPENING OF EW DRESS GOODS WHITE ORR & CO. SUCCESSORS TO OEO. B. WHITE & CO WILL OPEN ON MONDAY NEXT THE 13th, SOME VERY CHOICE STYLES DRESS GOODS, Suitable for the Season. WRITE ORR &, CO., No. 25 Fifth Street BANS OP PITTSBURGH. I October 16th. 1842. AN ELECTION FOR DIRECTORS OF this Bank will be held at the Banking Houie. on Monday. the .17th day of November next, between the holds of 10 o'cloca. a In.. and 2 o'clock. p. in. A. general meeting cf the stock holdbrs will be hela.on the 4th day of November ivat; at 10 o'clock. a. gi oclldwdarwitt JOBNITARPER'ea.thier. NOTICE. 1 TAKE THIS ILETHOD' OF CALLING Al year attention t 6 a msttor that'innoh con cerns your own interest. It is , a matter in which we are all interested to know in what way to spend our money to the best advantage No one has so much that he or she, cares to throw it away in " buying worthless trash; refuse Bootgand tihoss: Roods selected from Manufactu , Tees stock as good for little or nothing, but still worth too much to be thrown away. Such goods find their way into every market and are offered at .a Very low figure. What is their actual worth in comparison to a good, strong, well nfiule, dura ble article, such as are sold at Concert Hall Shoe Store 62 Fifth street? Now, let me try and impress one fact on your mind. At Concert Haft Shoe Store every- pair of Boots or Shoes is war ranted aro, if not proving perfectly satisfactory, fas u r o e.:.k iv- edangeyeeto(hesch•carnitinSTatlialti discount are actually sold at a lower price than fifth qual ity elsewhere, and about half price for the same article in regular Retail Houses, You go to any place outside a regular Shoe House, and when you find. A two or three days, that you have a worthless article, you have no redress; your 1 money is gone, 80 ARE YOUR SHOES, and no. ' chance to repair theta, as they were never made to be repaired ONLY MADE TO SELL, AND NOT TO WEAR. (live us a cell, and be con vinced] that the largest assortment,' greatest variety . best m 4.1 e and cheapest Boots, Ehoes, &0.,. to rbe found in. Pittsburgh, is at I . • CONCERT HALL SHOE STORE , 1 , 62 FIFTH STREET, •r to Express Wee. nearly OPPoeite the e, on Fifth street. ' oclB MESS/ LINTS AND Masussertmurtes BAN'S. I October 13th. 1862., A N . LECTION FOR DIRECFORS OF 11l th . Bank will day old November anking House oil the third . Mo of next, botwebn . he hours of ten mid two: also a general meeting of the stockholders will be held at the same plate, on the first 3 uesday of November nest at o'clock a. , oel4:td W. In 11. DENNY, Cashier. 311 10 T E NEN HAVE ARRIVED hotue, and ;n thiscomme.ion we would WI go to MeTelland's un BuOts and Sbuo. DIED: 0 - ieket Flaska, Pock etFlaaks, icket Flasks, Pock et Flasks, •rket Flasks, Pocket Flasks, II on hand a superior szsortment of Pool Those wishing anything in this line . 11 I and examine my stock before pi lsewhere. JOSEPH FLEMINN„ JOSEPH PLaiti rN (I, JOSEPH FLEMING. er Market street and the Diamond, er Market Wrest and the Diamond, er Market street 'and the Diamond. HAlit I have' Flask& please chasing Theyar East. Yc 022=1 We will sJ h e present take notice. C. HA 74 CrilZtZeB BANK, Pittsburgh, Oct° ber lith, 1862. .1 N ELEOTION FOR 'THIRTEEN DI. xx... REGIONS of this Bank w il l be held at the 1101 0 111 111 Wottse, on Monday, Novemberl7tb, be tween the hors of 10 a. to. and 2 p:M. The reg ular ennui l eetir gof stoelthOders will be herd on Tuesday', l ovember eth. at 11 o'olock, a. to. 0318 . GEO. T. VAN DOREN. Cashier. OATS! OATS!! . OATS!!! . WARMERS ND GRAIN 'DEALERS .R.: take notipe. . 1 QIIASTERNASTRII, IT. S. A . I ii Waa . itrgh, October 14th, 18 1 12.. i ned desires to purchase several la of good, sound. merchantable Icared at the Public Forage MOM; on delivery. Grain sacks will be jilication at this office. A. MONTGOMERY. Major and quartermaster,' U. S. Army. The undel thousind bush Oafs; to be deli payment made furnished on a ,J .OTIC HughMcE latelyFlroy. ex 6 0 1..'wita &trots t death of Ow Lase firtn uel7. Rd TO;DAYIB ADVERTISEMENTO .111 LECTURE AT TILE mow CITY COLLEGE, corner of Penn and Bt. Clair etre". Thursday morning at 11 A.M. INsuRINCE. I. 0. 0. F.—TIIF. INEINBERS OF ilvar ()OMER LODGE, No. at, O. O. F.,'and the Order in general, are invited to meet at Mc- Kee'e !Ball, .itifth Amt . , TO-MORROW. at I o'clock for the purpoie cf attending the Inna t e of P. ,I. J. William[. which will' take place ai -2 o'clock. By i . rder of 0c23 JAMES J. MARTIN, D; D. O. M. MEETING OF THE DEMOCRAT 11.7 10 County Conimittee of Correspondene, will be held at the St. Charles Rotel. in the city n Tittslititith a .'on. Sattirtlak. , .thei,2sth inst., at I o'cloe, a. m. A full attendance of the member is ten ested. , - - - THOMAS FARLEY, i'resident. ! TAM SM. RICHARDS, See'y. .. oen.ltdat s CALL AT Mt ACRE II & GLT [ 1 . and supply yourselves with FAD and WINTER HOSIERY 'ind GLOVE,' BAL.I I ORAL HOSE, for ladies and misses. DDST N RIBBED HOSE, for ladies and ix iSEC Fl'aEi iztir LINED' notE; sor ladies and misse Km, 1 CLOTH SILK and WOOL GLO YR ' GAUNTLETS and MITTENS. ;WOOL HOODS iiim*.Es, *INAS. MUFF ARMLETS, SONTAGS. LEGGINS. GENTLEMEN'S UNDERSHIRTS and DRAV , RGS; . TRATRLING and LINEN SHIRTS. TEG 'COLL ARS. MUFFLERS, GA UNT- T,ETtd and GLOVES, WOOL, ME• :, • , : RINO and COTTON HOSE. And many other articles suitable for the co season at the lowest prices. 1 : ' MACRUM & GLYDE, 7S Market at., between Fourth and Diamond 0023 • rELT.suors FELT SHOES I f FELT STIVES 1 Sure preventative of cold feet, at DIFFENBACIIER'S; 15 Fifth`street near Market NEW PIANOS. 401 NEW. AND SUPERB ROSEWO( 7100rAVE PIANOS, with all the'reeint brorements, and of the moat elegant styles, j receiNtedlrom the old erablished and eelebra. tirm ;of - HALLITBIY DAYIS & C'i., Brts TheO Pianos will be warranted by sha man ut trmern and - the snb3eriber to all purchas Pricei the same as at Bostnn. Fsnale by JOIIN A. MBLLOR, st Wood suns TWO 7-OCT. ROSEWOOD PLAN uirr RECEIVED FROM THE MA - Cr 13FACYORY of HAZELTON BHOTHE. New York. These Pianos are warranted to canaille atm made in this country in every F Ocular, and will be sold at reasonable, on , Everyfinstrumen k of this make will be warren by the subscriber for fa veyeare. - For gale b? JOHN IL MELLOR. off' 3 • 81 Wood arise REAL BARGALNEP- I have now in Store FIVE SX and 7 oct CHIOKERING PIANOS, .in perfect order everytrespect. hating been in -we but a short 4me, which I will sell at about ONE lld the origin' a!' cost. Also on band some good t and-hand pianos of other mailers, from $4O $125.1 For sale by . JOIIN 11. MELLOR. 0e23 1 L Si Wood stree MRLODEONS AND HARMONIUM- w $45. $6O. $75 and $100: $125 and $1 Jtot received a splendid lot of them instnum from Fason St Hamlin's manufactoty, Bos and p chased before any advance in pride. sale b JOHN B. MELLOR. oc9 . - $1 Wood atree 3 7COND HAND 11.1 - ELODOND. . .1? r sale by nun BA 'S AND TENOR DEEMS, jn:t. received by 002:31 iiIUBURBAN RESIDENCE TO Ll viz: My Present dwel ink- hoes!, with appecdagea of large garden, and abundanei f tresq fruit trees and herbage, situate on Cei Avenue, within gunshot of the c'ty line, an, easyaecess by roads and rail ears._ A genteel eareft4 family, willing to take me as a boarder, prefanch Knquire of the subscribe the premises. ALEX BRACRENRIDGE, oel7t3td&eodtf " Center Avenue, Pitt t ml. l -v. , •ating:lZ ~1 7 , cultivation: remainder choice timber. ti soil wHlLwatered,excellent sprior,!: suitable grain or stock 6Cmv lint% Griat Mills withi mile;ood road to liniontewn. Price, 4;7 acre. Lor terms, etc , apply to or address S. CliniBERT 3 SONS. Commercial Tirckers. ocT2 51 Market 11,Tel Drums at . Auction. chN THURSDAY EVENING,'OCI RE% 23d, at Masonic EaII Auction Del 55 Fifth strew., will he sold two Tenor Drums 0c,23 T., A. IIIoCLELLAND, Anctionee Sewing Machines at Auctio rEIHURSDAY EVENING, 23d INS A. at 714 o'dlock, at Masonic- without Nouse, 85 Fifth street, will be sold, serve, five Sewing Machines, three of which in perfect running order. oe2o T. A. IdeCL ELL AND, Auctioneel ET FLASIiS, ! BAGS!! BAGS!!! LIVO Seamless Bage; .000 Gunny Bags ; .000 Bewbay Sacks; 500 Large Ifeavy. Linen . ',GOO Army Oats and Corn Sacks ; 500 Salt Sacks—For sale by PITCIICOCK. hicCREERY & CO, 131 Second Street. 1 W IS THE' TIME to Purchase largely in RY GOODS. advancing in price every day in will not buv them as cheap again fc r IS, CLOAKS AND DRESS GOODS, very huge stock. new style, ESTIC GOODS, large stock DINGMAN'S AND CHECKS FLANNELS, PLAIN AND PLAID 'll many kinds of goods at less than Eastern prices. Wholesale buyers SON LOVE & CO.'S:, arket Street. . —THE PARTNERSHIP -Unit betwoen Owen Mowl-oy and under the firm bf MoET.,ROY.t on the sth our -of October. by :a McElroy. The, businea or tho settled by the serliri o g. pa rifler. 41/4311 MeELROY. J. 11. MELLO J. II MELLO
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