HAILY POST • . . . • The Union as it ffas, the Constitution as it Is Aar-Where there N no law there ls no freedom. FRIDAY MORNING, AUG. 28 Democratic Nominations. FOR GOT ERROR, GUOPARY. W. wooDwARD. FOR SUPREME JUDGE, WALTER IL LOWRIE ErDEMOCRAT' C PR IMA RY MEET INS.—In parsuacce cf the fallowir.g Res olution of the Dem- static County Committee, the Democracy of the several wards, boroughs and townships will meet on the day named to elect delegates to the County Convention : Resolved, That the Democratic citizens of the several wards, boroughs and townships of Alle gheny county are hereby notified to meet at their usual place of boding primary meetings on caturaay, Aug. 29th and elect two delegates from each, who will assemble upon the following Wednesday. 6+30.. 2d, at 10 o'clock a. m , at the court house to nominate a a county ticket. The meetings in t'-e cities and boroughs will be held between the hours of 5 and 7 o'clock p. m.: in the townships between the hours of 3 and 5 o'clock p. m. JAS. M. RICHARD THOMA P S ARLEY, Chairman. S, See. PUBLIC MEETING There will bo a meeting this morning at 11 o'clock, at the Board of Trade Rooms, to afford aid and sympathy to the sufferers of Lawrence, Kansas. The Governor of Kansas and _Mayor of Leavenworth au thorize Messrs. T. and E. Fenton, now in this city, to receive and transmit any funds which may be raised. The horrid butchery which desolated this stricken town must be fresh to all; the widows and orphans plead with all the eloquence of suffering for our aid, which should be rendered Immediately. CROWING DESPERATE It is yet six weeks until the election, and little has been * done, in the usual way, to ascertain public sentiment in re gard to it ; but the signs of the times plainly indicate a most crushing Aboli tion defeat. There is no mistake about it; the Abolitionists feel it in their bones, and are growing desperate in 'consequence of it. They dread the idea of losing power, for fear the conservatives will hang them in pursuance of their own in ventions. But let the poor wretches rest secure; instead of oppressing, we will protect them. Let them say their worst against our policy in conducting public affairs, we will neither counsel nor tolerate their arrest or imprison -nrnat. This is true Democracy : nor wilt- • Justify outrages either upon the citizen-ethe State, in the name of necessity,•t„ oour . ` 4 `'s 4 i any Abolitionist insist ovGrno , r / not the Common or fi.infeZ•L*not suggest either his arrest fore, rest 850u ; A st our opponents, there rule they win j......:•.--Z4e,r•-•------44)11"cr4tie a/44 4 'ary outrage. In view of this tic uo necessity in the Gazette re• sorting to any - .-”olutionary expedients in order to continue a n public swindler," —as it termed Curtin—in the Gubernato rial chair of the State. That paper, yes terday, was savage in its threats against Woodward and Lowrie ; it charges them with disfranchising tae soldiers, fur the benefit of Jeff. Davie, and then gives them the following significant admonition. " We give you notice. however, that we intend to take the opinions of the soldiery, in spite of you, and we shad challenge your right to dis franchise them for your own beneht, and then to sit in judgment upon the question, whether they have the light to say who shall rule ON or them : or in other words, whether you shall impose yourselves upon the people, by deciding who shall vote and who shall not vote. W e know that you are wise men, anti learned men—you beingthe judges—but we cannot quite agree that you shall effect yourselves." The depth and sense of all this twaddle, will be better appreciated when the reader reflects that the decision which pronounc ed the soldiers' votes unconstitutional had the effect pf turning Mr. Ewing, a Demo crat, out of the Sheriff's office of Phila delphia. We appeal to - this decision as a triumphant and overwhelming vindication of the integrity and purity of the Supreme Bench of Pennsylvania. Had they been partisans instead of:patriots, they could easily have retained Mr. Ewing in an office which is so essential to the success of the party to which its occupant belonge. Let the Gazette agitate the decision com plained of, just as long and vehemently as it pleases. THE FALL OF SUMTER The Richmond Examiner, of Monday last, which we received yesterday from Baltimore, contains an editorial upon the condition of things about Charleston, in which it remarks : "-Not a doubt now remains that the tpirit of Charleston is about to be tried in the terrible ordeal of a bombardment. It is well that tie place is prepared. Governor Bonham has lately issued a proclamation, informing the citizens that the plan of the defense admitted that contin gent:T, and recommending all nos-combatants to withdraw. After the confirm. tion there 1, furnished by Gilmore, there is little fear that his advice will not be attended to by families who have not deep cellars and firm nerves. charles ton will be shelled. But that will be but a cir cum. tattoo of minor importance in the successful defense of its fortifications and harbor. If we can retain them and foil the enemy, that glorious victory viii amply compens .te for all the injury which bombs can do to empty houses. The small amount of damage thus effected, even after month's of bombardment, is inconceivable those who have not examined places su treated. The writer has seen several. Most houses were not touched at all; many received trifling inju ries, easily repaired: very few, indeed, were ren dered uninhabitable. Upwards of twenty thou sand shells were lately thrown into Vichelourg, a email place, yet it was not destroyed in whole or in i sit. During the bombardment of Fred ericka:ars, a hundred shot per minute sometimes fell, yet if the inhabitants had returned to that village. the traces of war would have already vanished. One or two batteries only can reach Char eston. and they can do little harm. o throw shells in•o dwelling houses, five miles off. and to clear Charleston harbor, are disilnct enter- Prises." The general reader has been, and doubt less is under the impression, that tha fall of Sumter secured not only the easy cap ture of Charleston, but that of the entire State of South Carolina. The Examiner, however, seems to consider the fai: of the rebel stronghold, and the shelling of- the hotbed of rebellion to be of little conse quence. It endeavors to console its read ere, indeed, by assuring them that the bombardment of Fredickebnrg and Vicks. burg were not so destructive after all.— It the reduction of the formidable forts in the neighborhood of Charleston, and the shelling of the city, result in no more to. wards the success of our cane than the Examiner imagines, our operations there will prove the most expensive and promo • lug undertaking of the- war. _So much importance has been attached to the prob able fall of Sumter, that we have been lead to the conclusion,that the flag dale Union once planted upon ita vanquished walls would be the signal of crushed rebellion. The Examiner, however, considers such an event of but little consequence we shall see. For the Post. GENEROSITY IN SOCIAL DI- VISIONS NU :d BF.R XXXI To His Excellency Abraham Lincoln President of the United States: Stu: The Swiss Confederation has ex isted near six hundred years, not, howev er, without many severe trials, social coin motions and intestine wars ; but it has survived them all. I shall feel myself well rewarded, if you can learn any valua ble lesson from an account of one of these commotions, which occurred as long ago as A. D. 1436. At that time the 1 - nion became a prey to divisions, jealousies and civil war, "the too common lot of the most beau tiful institutions of man, which sooner or later end in becoming the spirit of fool ish passions." Often before had difficul ties and divisions arisen and been settled, and " it was never thought that any hates could grow so violent that all motives of public good and all mediations and arbi• trations would fail to arrest them." But two of the Cantons differed about the rise and government of a large adjoining terri tory, and presently each (Zurich and Switz) insisted on appropriating it to its• self, and undertook to occupy it by force, very much as it was with Kansas here.— Seeing the danger of war, the other can tons, instead of taking a part in the con• test, " displayed great zeal and patience in order to reconcile the parties and make them accept different compromises which they offered them." But they had been heated against each other by va rious acts of illiberal and retaliatory leg islation, and the resentments which these caused rendered fruitless all the efforts at the edict of conciliation or of peace conven tions. The council of Basil, then sitting, tried to reconcile the parties, but could nor. -The edict of the Union was asked to eel aside the hostile legislation, but it could not, for want of constitutional authority. The war between the two canton& be gan, and still, again and again the neutral cantons interfered in vain. " Both sides continued to give marks of contempt. jealousy and hate. All previous reproach es were renewed. The words of peace of the neutrals were rejected, and, what was afflicting to true patriotism, the Zurichers. separated themselves more and more from the others, sought openly the protection of the Emperor, and the aid of neighbor ing provinces," even that of Austria, their common enemy. Then again the neutrals tried for peace, after the war had continued for three years. and again failed. The Sweilzers had some important successes, and then offered peace ; but it was on extravagant and humiliating terms. Arfd now when the Zurichers had called in the Emperor con trary to the Constitution, which required' all differences to be settled by conft‘derate authorities, the other cantons took part against Zurich ; and after that, ill suc cess, famine, pestilence, pillage and con fusion brought Zurich to terms. A truce if,fla_cdncluded, and the matter was aub tam ile'Collgiitittirtstion_of a Convention. could rise on the ruin of another ;vivant% I destroying the principle of the constitu tion, as if such treatment could have any . other effect than to increase the hatred of the suffering party, banish every senti ment of fraternity, alienate it from the confederacy and have it seek elsewhere an avenger to aid it in its despair. — The award of the arbitrators was so severe against the Zurichers, that the peace was very short. It sowed the seeds of a pro found and violent resentment, and of a new and more terrible war which began ' the next year. "We must admit, says the historian, that a people treated with so much rigor by associates, who owed them great res pect, humiliated, dispoiled of part of their territory, which they regarded as fully as sured to them, or of rights dearly acquir ed by their ancestors, must have had a high degree of virtue, if they did not fol low the ordinary law of humanity. They did follow it, and yielding to so severe a trial, seceded," and formed an alliance with the emperor. The ministry who made the treaty "were received in tri umph, at least by those of their party who thought that the hour of their revenge was come. Some true patriots, who had received from their ancesters other prin ciples, groaned in secret, ashamed of the - past and fearful of the future.— But the multitude insulted their tears, wondering that any one could diff r in sentiment from them." The Emperor visited Zurich and received its allegiance, and was received with tempests of joy, the people wearing its old badge of servitude, the peacock's feather of Austria, and ut tering insults and curses against the Sweit zers. For the white cross of the Union they substituted the red cross of Austria, and the black eagle of the empire, and again refused a new effort of the cantons for an equitable peace. Such, then, became the rage of the con• federates that it would have cost thetlife of any one to say a word in favor of Aus tria, or to have worn a peacock's feather. From quiet shepherds they became tigers, sacking houses and churches, pillaging and murdering everywhere, like hating brethren. The war continued till 1446, and many other States became parties to it. The canton of Zurich was almost des troyed. " Bnt time and misfortunes calm the most violent hates, and revive senti ments of moderation and patriotism. The same causes appeased insensibly the sue• picious, proud and irritable spirit of the Swiss and of their neighbors." An arbitor was mutually chosen to set tle the peace, and he decided that Zulich was bound to answer, before the judges appointed by the confederacy, for its alli ance with Austria. This confederate tribunal was appointed, and it decided that the alliance -should be annulled as contrary to the Constitution, that the lands captured from Zurich should be restored. and it reinstated in its equal place in the confederacy, with all its old rights and institutions. It was thus that permanent peace and harmony was restored to the rent and discordant republic, and very soon all past jealousies were forgotten. Very respectfully yours, DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA. City Commissioner.—JoHN KANE, City Tr€12577e74.---JOHN BRODHEAD, Senator,—JOSEPH CALDWELL. LEGISLATURE, Etra—James llicCrossman. Second—Thomas J. Barger. Third—Samuel J. Josephs. Fourth—James C. Whalley: Fifth—Hugh S. Kennedy. Sixth=Rieharti Ludlow. 'Seventh—M. C. Thaekeray. Eighth—James McLaughlin. ''Ninth—George A. Quigley: Tenth—Charles N. Chapman. Eleventh—James Hopkins. Twelfth—Frank McMinn& Fourteenth—A. B. Schofield. Sixteenth—Thomas J. Duffield: THE POLITICAL CAN VASS 114 01110. We assure our friends out of the State, who take such a deep interest in the elec tion of Mr. Vallandigham, the exile of the Lincoln Despotism, that every day adds confidence to the friends of "free speech, a free press, and a tree ballot," that Ohio will do her whole duty on the 13th day of next October. Mark our prediction ! We prefer, however, to work rather than to prophesy. And this seems to be the feeling of every Dem ocrat. They work, work, work, rather than boast. They believe in practical rather than hypothetical performances.— They prefer spreading stern and undying truths rather than such ephemeral pledges as only the most flippant demagogue can make. The great ground swell of popular up rising cannot be mistaken. The people have taken the work of electing Mr. Val landigham into their own bands ; they resolve not to be foiled in their great work; and whenthey resolve they go straight away and do it. They feel that all they hold dear as freemen is at stake—that personal liberty and constitutional free dom are placed in their hands for safe keeping ; and they have sworn on the altar of their country that they will preserve them from harm, so far as Ohio is con cerned. Let other States do as they will ; Ohio wu. u 4: FREE ! —Crisis. Mayor Gpdyke's Veto The mayor's veto of the three million exemption ordinance is a very common- place partisan document, and noticeable only for its violation of the proprieties of official decorum. It may be well enough for the Tribune or Post to claim that the leading Republicans of New York city are more loyal than their fellow-citizens of Democratic faith, but for Mayor Opdyke to say so in a document addressed to a city overwhelmingly Democratic, is an impertinence as well as a falsehood. It is all very well to argue, as the mayor does. that it is right to force poor men into the army while rich men can stay at home, but the poor men do not see it in that light. Says Mr. Opdyke • "The policy of the drafting act was to provide soldiers for the national armies, and not money for the national treasury. Whatever promotes the object is so far lawful, patriotic and hon orable." Now in this the mayor condemns the conscription. It is the volunteering sys tem that supplies men but not money, while the draft so far has supplied little else than money. The few men the draft gets into the ar:ny are volunteer substi tutes. New Jersey has already raised over six thousand of the eight thousand called for by volunteering, while Vermont, whose quota was over rive thousand, will net send a thousand men into the field under the draft at least eb the papers of that State say. If Mayor ()pdyke really wanted to supply the Jovernment with willing soldiers, and plenty of them, he would have joined with the Common Council in asking the administration to leave this city to raise the men in ita own way. Twelve thousand volunteer recruits would be a small matter for the great city ++t- New York : but the bungling draft now meat five the Govern- ANCIENT CONTRACTORS. Some one has made the following ex tract from an oration of Demosthenes: " Behold the despicable creatures. raistd all at once from dirt to or ulenre, Iron. the lowest ob scurity to the highest honors. Have not some of these upstarts built private houses and seats vying with the most sumptuous of our public places. And how Lave their Lrtunes and their power increased, but as the Commonwenth has been ruined and impoverished." How applicable this is to the present time and to the country ! One would think that even in the time of the great Athenian orator, more than twenty two centuries ego, he bad a prophetic view of the shoddy people of our day. " How have their fortunes increased with the ruin and im• poverishment of the Commonwealth!" No doubt the " despicable creatures " as sumed to themselves a peculiar and supe rior "patriotism" while rising "all at once from dirt to opulence.•' Thut is the style now; and we would not be surprised to learn that they applied to those who hon- estly and patriotically seconded the ef fort of the armorer's eloquent son against Phillip some such opprobious epithet as "Copperhead."—..4ge. THE Louisville Journal says that the late election signifies "that, whilst Ken tucky in every legitimate mode will sternly insist upon the Border State policy as il lustrated by her dead Crittenden and by her living Guthrie, she will never seek to remedy the Administration's unjustifiable rejection of that policy by surrendering to the rebellion." The country has not a nobler man or truer patriot than James Guthrie ; nor one who has a cleaner record through all this terrible war. He is a statesman worthy of the old Republi- can school, and stands by his principles with the firmness that sincerity inspires. Of the future, the Journgl thus prophecies "The Border State policy is the cherished policy of the Union party of Kentucky ; and, in the approaching civil struggle of the nation, the Union party of Kentucky, impelled by all the high incentives we have mentioned, will strike gallantly for the triumph of the chief who inscribe%that policy noon his banner. Of this let friend and foe be assured... Border States. There is in England a street show un • known to us here—Punch and Judy. In one of the performances, before the tinkle of the bell has ceased on the ear, the puppets make their appearance.— "What was that I heard ?" says Punch. "A bell," replies Judy. "Nonsense, it was an organ," (striking Judy four or five blows) "what do you say it is now ?" Judy, faintly, "An organ." This con versation comes int ) our mind whenever we hear of the anti-slavery sentiment of the Border States. Those States have as much of volition as a shoddy contractor has of conscience. MORRIS OUR cld Revolutionary Fathers made the following statement of grievances against the British king "He taxed tea. "He had a stamp tax. "He excited the negroes to insurrec tion. "He made the military above the civil powes. •He sent men into banishment and exile without the authority of law. "He raid no respect to our constitution and -laws. "He was a tyrant generally." These grievances read singularly now in view of the action of the present Black Republican •Administration. Ma. EDITOR: The Dispatch cannot see any "evidence of regret" amongst those who '`furnished an admirable pretext" for breaking up the Union by electing Mr. Lincoln, There is nothing astonishing in this, for there is too much wool over their eyes. These original sinners, (Abolition. ists,) are so besotted and perverse in their wickedness, that.nothing short of an in terposition as miraculous and powerful as that which showed Saint Paul the error of his ways would bring them to aclenowl edge their crime against this people. They ratuer feel proud of their work. Like the idiot who has fired a house, they laugh to see the flames of war leap, not having sense enough to appreciate the great des traction they have caused. It also grati• flee their morbid appetite for excitement, and their lust of gain, for as an "attro cions murders," in dull times, increases the sale of their paper, so in a small pro• portion do the accounts of wars and bat tles. We did not mean that such agita• tors and disturbers of the peace ae the Dis patch men felt any regret that their "wail ing and gnashing of teeth" in this world are reserved for "nigger's v•rongs," but if we are to be guided by Holy Writ they will do their share in the next.— ' We alluded to the thousands who were humbugged and lied into voting for Mr. Lincoln, and who, now awakened, curse those who misled them, especially when they see the use the Abolitionists are put ting their victory to inauurating a sys tem of " arbitrary arrests" and military tyranny. Perhaps those men never heard any one say that they would not have voted for their own father, much less Mr. Lincoln, if they had had any idea that such disastrous consequences could follow his election. But they were told the South could not be kicked out of the Union, c. As to the "infamous treach ery of Buchanan and his Cabinet in 1861." the fag end of that Cabinet, Stanton, Holt, Dix and King, who mast have been called into it purposely to carry out this " treach ery," for they had nothing to do with it earlier, seem to be great favorites with these Abolitionists now, for they occupy high seats in their synagogue. How deep dyed Abolitionists like the Dispatch men can glory in a Republican victory, when the great mass of that party repudiate them with score and contempt, and get angry if they are called Abolition, we can't un derstand, except by thinking of the old fable, " How we apples swim I" Important from Charleston—Fort Sumter Demolished—The City Shelled The news which we publish this morn ing from Charleston will fill every loyal breast with rejoicing. Fort Sumter is in ruins and the proud little city itself, which first raised the standard of revolt, is be ing bombarded, and will be laid in ashes unless its defenders eat humble pie and capitulate. The dispatch which brings this wel come information is from the Richmond Sentinel of the 24th, nearly two days later than the accounts previously publish ed. The Richmond Examiner of yester day, however, makes the news doubly sure by recounting the fact that at midnight on Sunday, the firing on the city com menced from our Parrott guns throwing eight inch shells into the streets. The non-combatants immediately commenced to fly in all directions for safety. The facts are therefore reliable, as they come to us through this rebel channel,and reflect the highest credit on the skill, perseverance and energy of the Union commanders .rid,_the spirit and endurance of their men. Sumt;o'7l,l ja 4 r_al A tice r,,,,,r was superb. Out nineteen took effect. Suct h° a t c B cur fi k e r d this is not easily to be matched. Its re sult was to breach and batter in, the east and northwest walla, the principal defen ces, and to dismount all the guns. To wards evening nothing seems to have been I left of Sumter but a shapeless ruin, on which the garrision still maintained itself, in ooedience to orders, but without the power of inflicting lumber annoyance on our troops. It would seem that previous to the botn• bardment General Gillmore sent in a de mand for the surrender of Fort Sumter and Morris Island, with a threat that in case of refusal he would shell Charleston in tour hours from the delivery, of the paper. To this Beauregard with his ac customed evasiveness and braggadocio, returned a reply charging inhumanity and violation of the laws of war against the Union commander, adding that if the of fence were repeated he would employ stringent measures of retaliation. Charges of inhumanity come with a very bad grace from the leaders who endeavored to starve out and destroy the handful of loyal men under Anderson in this same Sumter, and who shelled the town of Carlisle during Len's invasion of Pennsylvania, They are all the more despicable from the tact that for eight or teu days previously the womon and children had been ordered to quit Charleston, in anticipation of the veay event which he thus deprecates. Dis regarding all this, General Gillmore, with commendable consideration sent the t ebel commander notice on Sunday morning that at eleven o'clock on the following day he would open fire on the city, and that in the meantime non-combatants could leave it. Notwithstanding all their big talk, we do not believe that the rebels will push their resistance to the point of the total destruction of the city. They must be as fully convinced as we are that the rebel lion is approaching its close, and they are not suicidal enough to carry out threats that would inflict injury on Southern in• terests alone.—N. Y. Herald. De' The New York Evening Post pays the following neat compliment to Secre taries Stanton and Chase: "There are two things on earth that rest quite entirely on sufferance, tyranny ; and paper money." This, for a "government organ" must be considered slightly revolutionary. A WOMAN has been arrested at . Barce lona for practising magic, and in the very act of making cabalistic conjurations.— In her apartments were found philtres to produce affection, pills to insure long life, powder to produce death, a magical cat, entirely black, with the exception of the required tuft of white at the end of the tail, and a quantity of diabolical em blems. BCE RHAVE'S BITTERS, BCERHAV E'S BITTEBS, BCER HAVE' S BITTERS, The Great Care for Dyapepala. The Great Cure fa. Dyspepsia, The Great Cure for Dyspepsia, belling at Hair Price by SIMON JOHNSTQZI. center Smithfield and Fourth street Burnett's Coeoaine, Only 60 cents. The most complete assortment of pure and genuine Drugs, Mediulnes, Perfumery, Liquors, Soaps, Hair Brushes, &e., &0., to be found in the eity. DRAKE'S PLANTATION BITTERS. Wholesale and Re ail at lowest_pri-es. SIMON JOHNSTON. au22 minter lihpithaidgkasul Fourth eta For the Post TELEGE,,APHIC. ATEST FROM CHARLESTON, FT. SUMTER IN RUINS. AELBSION SIIIALED MTH CEER FIRP Gilmore Demands Imme diate Surrender. Beauregard Protests Against the Greek Fire HARLESTON MUST SOON FALL .ke NEW YORK, August 27.—The steamer Arago, from Charleston bar on the 25th, has arrived. C. C. Fulton sends a dis patch dated " Off Morris Island, on the 24th at noon." Admiral Dahlgren, at midnight on Saturday, with five monitors, bombarded Fort Sumter till tika. o'clock. The fort was struch over 100 times, the balls going through the sea wall. The whole parapet was also knocked away. Fort Sumter fired one gun five times, but Moultrie, Gregg and Beauregard for three hours rained shells on the monitors. They were struck several times, but no harm was done. Fort Sumter is defunct. The last gun was dismounted yesterday. To-day a grand army and naval attack on Forts Wagner and Gregg take place. Now that Sumter is defunct, the rebels will be driven from Morris Island. Gen. Gilmore is determined to have possession to-night. Gen. Gilmore on Thursday notifif.,l Gen. Beanregard that if he did not surrender the forte he would shell the city in 24 hours. No attention was paid to the de demand, and on Friday Gen. Gilmore threw fifteen shells charged with Greek fire into the city. On Saturday afternoon General Bean regard sent down a flag of truce, with an urgent protest denouncing the Greek fire as a most villainous compound, unworthy of civilised nations, and demanding more time. CITI2Eh The English. French and Spanish con suls also denounced the short time given, and claimed more time to remove the sub jects of their respective countries. Gen. Gilmore replied by renewing his demand for surrender. Beanregard asked a truce of forty hours. Gilmore refused time on any terms but an unconditional surrender. At 12 o'clock last night shelling the city with Greek fire was resumed. It is generally thought the stars and stripes will wave over Sumter to-night. There is evidently great trouble in Charleston. It is not believed there are over 200 men in the ruins of Sumter. ter guns are now mounted on Sullivan's Island.— The end is approaching. New YORK, August 27.—The Herald has the following : CHARLESTON, August 22.—From five o'clock, A. xt., until seven r. It. yesterday the enemy's fire on Fort Sumter was very heavy. Nine hundred and twenty-three shots were fired, and seven hundred and four struck the fort of the fort is badly battered. Some guns on the east end and north-east face were disabled. The dag was shot down four times. Five privates and two uegroes were wdunded in Sumter. The enemy's fire on Wagner caused five casualties, including Capt. Robert Pringle killed. Our sharp shooters pre annoying the Yankees con siderably. It is supposed the enemy burst oue of their Parrott guns yesterday, r M. At 11 o'clock last night a communica tion from the enemy, unsigned, was sent to Gen. Beauregard. demanding the sur render of Sumter and Morris Inland bat tery, and with the notification that the city would be shelled in four hours if the de mend was not complied with. General Beauregard was on a reconnoissance, and Gen Jordan returned it for the signature of the writer. About two o'clock this morning the enethy began throwing shells into the city from a battery in the marsh between Mor ris and James Islands, and distant five miles from the city. Twelve eight•inch Parrott shell fell in the city, bat caused no casualties. The transaction is regarded as an outrage on civilized warfare. The shelling had a good effect in hastening the exodus of non-combatants. At daylight this morning the enemy opened fire vigorously on Sumter. The Ironsides has since opened, and Sumter is replying. Fort Wagner is firing brisk• ly on the enemy's advanced works, four hundred and fifty yards from our battery. New Tonic, August 27,—The Times' Washington special says : Mosby's operations in our immediate front are assuming rather gigantic propor tions, since from a band of sixty despera does hie force has grown to eight hundred able bodied guerrillas, who prey upon ev erything that passes between Fairfax and Warrenton. Early this morning with his whole force, he attacked a sutler's train between Centreville and Bull Run, and captured forty-one wagons, with their teams, a number of Government horses and a quantity of other property en its way to the army. LLOYD'S STEEL PLATE Telegraph, Express RAILROAD MA PS United States, CANCOAS AND NEW BRUNSWICK SIZE S FEET BY 6 FEET. Accompanying each main map is an independ eat map of THE EASTERN STATES, In a scale ten times tie large as the main map; SIZE FOUR FEET IN DIMENSIONS. The two maps together show 60.000 Railroad Stations• Sold Only by Subscription. SUBbORIPTION BOOK NOW OPRN. 301111 W. PITTOCK, Sole Agent. &AZ° Oppesite the Postoffiee, TO-DA2'B ADVERTIEMEIINTB A COOK WANTED. NE WHO CAN COME WELL REC Ur 0 h. ENDED to do plain cooking, receive the highest wages. Can hear of a place by ap plying at THIS OFFICE. au27 P ECI ALTI ES AT RANRINS DRUG 4 ..7 store, 63 Market atreet, three doors below 4th street. Rankln•s Spiced Blaoliberry. For Diarrhoea; Dysintery, Cholera Infradum Itanktn's Bxtract Enctitt. For all diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder Radkin's Philocrine. 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Parties also brought out by Sailing Vessel al lowest rates, Apply to D. O'NEIL, Chmnlcle building. 70 Path st.. Pittsburgh. Pa. jytai PITTSBURGH FEMALE COLLEGE, REV. I. C. PERSHING. Prfeldent sH E 9 T SCSTAINED COLLEGE 1N el H Ihe State. Sup , rb Enildinga. to which ex tensive additions are mating• Nineteen Teach ere. Unsure:La ed facilities in the urnana ntal Branches. Forty Dolia•s per term pays for all excensei in the Boarding Deportment except Washina and Foal. The Fall Term will commence on Tues day, September let- Send to President Per for a Catalogue. M. SIMPSON, au25.3w President cf Tmteas, SUMMER DRESS GOODS Selling at ONE HALF PRICE HIIGITS & RAMIE, Corner FiiTh and Market streets. INTERESTING TO THE LADLES! We are selling, at a REDUCED PRICE Cotton Hosiery, Gloves, Lace Mitts, Embroideries', Veils, Sleeves. Waists, a 0., Book Skirts, slightly soiled, hail Dyke. Wo are reoeivlng the latest styles of Head Dresses, Nets, New Fall Dress Trimmings HELMS, BUCKLES, &v. WHOLESALE ROOMS up atairs. MAO RUM ac (CLYDE, No, 78 Market St., auls-dew Between Fourth and Diamond. FOB, SAME. A LOT AND TWO STORY BRICK house, containing FOUR ROOMS AND A CELLAR Tho lot haw a front of 48 feet on Felton street. and rung back 180 feet to Crawford street. For farther particulars apply to EO: ENGLEHING. an.2:awd No, 322 LibertY greet. REMOVAL.. F. BABDEEN ass muarovEn Lfrom Smithlked_ sweak below the Girard tlcnum, to N 0.145 Amb st'reet °Myrna the Court lieww. eppatec- TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS. srEAffsmp GREAT EASTERN, NEW YORK AND LEVERPOOL, HOWLAND & AqINIALL, Agents. THE STEAMSHIP rea t Eastern, WALTER PATON, Commander WILL BE DISPATCHED From NEW YORK on Tuesday, September kb' at S o'clock A, M,, precisely. A hd at intervals thireafter of about six weeks. RATES OF PASSAGE.. - FTEtST CABE , from 495 to slss SECOAD CABIN, state room berth& Fz meats - furnished at separate . 70 Excursion Toikets ; out and back in the let &i 2d Cabins only, a faro and a half. Servants accompanying Passengers. and Chil dren under twelve yc are of age, half hire. Infante tree. THIRD CABIN, intermedistelitate room. passengers found with beds, bedding, table uten -, ils and good substant food —so• STEERAGE, with superior aocomedationa.s3o Prices ofoabin passage from Liverpool at same rates as shove Prices of steerage passage from Llverpotd. $2O. AM flare Payable In Gold, or Ha equiv alent in V. S. Currency. Eagh passenger allowed twenty vibe, feet-o laggage. An experienced Surgeon on board. For passage only !tool- to CRAW. At the Passage Office. 26 Broadway: THOMAS RATTIGAN, No 122 Monongahela HMIS& EIOW LA_ND A ASPINWALL,Agents. 3725:t e 2 E 4 -oath street. New York. UMICKERING SONS, 'MALLET, DAVIS ez CO., P EMERSON, J W VaSE MILLER,OIBSON & Co., GREpE dt. WIND T, J ck C FISCILER, 18 Pianos From the above Factories. from $225 to $5OO. Just received and for sale byßi WCchA.r e C t M i LLO r R. h: an22•d&w CHEAP 110USEN AND -LOTS FOR NU sale in Aflegh any city. 2.6,Robmson et. five rooms. corner lot. $1300; 58 Ann. s, five room and cellar. $700; corner Sheffield atC.:house of 9 rooms, two iota. $2OO, South Canal: street, five r ome, hall and ce $1400; North Cahill street dwelling and large lot, $3500. - • S. CUTHBERT &MONS, 51 Market street. Superior Household Furni ture at Auction. i n i N FRIDAY MORNING , AUGUST N 1.5 28th, at 10 o'clock. at the resldenoe o. IEB " Taira street. will be Bold the entire famishment,- of new and superior Furniture, Carpets. comprsing in pact . Mahogany Flair Seat' RObf,''''' 6 Mahogany Hair Seat Chairs, Mahogany Ralf Seat Arm Rocker, Marble Top Mahogany Piet': Table, w shut Eat hack, Solid Walnut Extent sion Table, Wardrobe, solid Walnut French - and Field Post Reds cads, Walnut Enclosed-- -- Wash tands, epos Cane Seat Chat a, do do'`- 'l Rocker, Ottemans, Gi't and Mahogany %Lute Lee, irg Glasse.. Cha, deliera. (lee Fisturea, Mantle Ornaments, Venitian and Ruff Bsindg,' ''- hlatrasses,Feather Beds and Bedding,Ritchett' Utensils. Large Cooking Stove. Queensware: &a.' Carpets— ncluded in the above sale will be" found one rio i Plush Velvet carpet. Brussels and: Ingrain co, chats her and rug do. Brussels and stair do, Dining Rcom. Hall and Stir Matting.'" Rugs, !ko Special attention is called to this sale, the fur • niture and carpets balm well kept and in- use out a .hort time, T, A. M'CLIELLAND.- Auctioneer NoCOLISTER Bc BA.EB, 108 Wood S‘reet, 4 RE SELLING GET THEIR LARGE A . M. stook of TOBACCO, SNUFF AND BEDARD, at the very lowest Cash Figiires. Cail and examine our atock before pwchazing elnewhere. Staw %MUSSES, TRUSSES. TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES, • A superior article of Trusses. The latest ha provoment. Hard Rubber Trusses, Hard Rubber Trusses, Hard Rubber Trassee, Those wishing a good Truss and at a low przce should call and examine my stook before pur chasing elsewhere. Superior Carbon 011, Burning Fluid. Soda dab and Pot Ash, Perfumery and Patent Medicines of_ all A large and complete assortment of (}pm Wasik and Bard Rubber Syringes. Remembox , the place. At Joseph Fleming's Drng Store, At Joseph Flming's Dru Store. At Joseph Fle e ming's Drug g Store, Corner of the Diamond and Market streets. Corner of the piamond and Market street& an2o A T THE PITTSBURGH D RUG HOUSE: TRUSSES, SUPPORTERS, Shoulder Braces, Elastic Stockings, Ritter's celebrated Radioal Cure Truss, Blades celebrated Radical Cure Truss, Ritter's Patent Infant Trues, Ritter's Patent Drabilloal Truss. Marsh's celebrated Trusser Mara's celebrated Trams. Marsh's Ladles and Gents' Shoulder Bram, Marsh's Youths and Infant's shoulder Bracer Dr. Pitch's Plain Abdominal*Supporters, Dr. Fiteh's Silver Plated Abdominal glup=, Dr- Fitch's Ladies and Gents' Shoulder Ritter& Patent Abdominal Sni)Poitera, Mrs. Betts' Abdom nal supporterp. Marsh's London Abdominal Supporters. •4- , Riggs' Hard Rubber Trbar, French, English and American biasses la groat variety. An experienced Physicean always in attendance. Syringes, Breast Pumvs, Nursing Bottles, Bandages, &c., At the Pittsburgh Drug House, TOR IsENCE & 8V4AR.11,-: Arolltrosants. corner Fourth and Market ate. Pittsburgh. 11112-Iydo GERMAN CATHOLIC 1511 SCHOOL PITTSBURGH, PA., NO. 597 PENN STREET. We highly appr ovstab the German Catholic High School recently dshed in this city. and we core i illy recommend it to the patronagisof YII the Colo! es of our Diocese. "'tM DOBIBNICL: T: Bishop of Pittebnran. /WIRE FIRST SESSION. OF . STITUTION wilt commence on TUESDAY. the Ist of SE.P.CEfdEE 'l. 1863. The stmlies of rh^ 201100 ] era so arranged as to embraee. a, full and. thartmgh course of Greek, Latm, &Oa, Germ anand &Lithe matics. including the branches usually attended to in connection with thesis re. spec!' ve departments. Students who are intend ed for commercial or profesjonal pursuits; are care nay instructed in Book - keeping,A4sreeßtile Arithmetic, and such other b finches . tunay tit them to be useful and intelligerntin the discharge of the various duties of the store, or gountio4r room, or ' any profession. Our coarse of studies embraces also, the sableeta regnired.inlsrepars tion for entering any of our Theological Schools e rSe r il ent , w i l ti pa ng to secure for their sons' ST thor ough instruction, are respeAfally invited to ap. ply to Prat F .A. Riedel, A. _No. 597 Pena street, as soon as convenient , and. if possible. BEFORE THE FIttST DAY 01? SEPTEMBER. Mr. Beldel will be at P.M. daily front 10 to 12 A. M.. and from 3 to 4 P. M. ler further information, cr for a -prospectus cont4inin,e full details. Please call on or address REV. JOSEPH M. RELMPHAEORT. L. Rector of St Philomena'a Climb. or PROF. F. W..®. MEDEA., A. H. P. O. Box 1240, Pittsburgh. Pik. Adawtd 15 but r 6 etro i dtn l a fol ; itale bY . JAMES DOWN; 1,38
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