AMERICAN VOLUNTEER. Itfff I. BRATTON, Editor k Proprietor CARLISLE, PA., AUGUST 8. 1861. OUR FLAG "JFhriver float that standard sheet! Where breathes the foe blit falls befoYe 04? With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet,' And Freedom’s banner waving o'er us I ”, Personal. —We need money badly, and it will be a very great relief to ue if oar friends and patrons will furnish, us with a little oi the .“ needful” without delay. If they cannot pay all, let them at least give us a part of that to which we are justly entitled, in order to relieve us from our embarrassments. We think we have been very indulgent, and there fore hope to. ineel with a ready response to vrbat wo conceive to be a reasonable request. Persons at a distance can remit bymail, at our risk.' Come, friends, give us a lift with- out longer delay. Wo must have money to keep,tho wheels of tho old Volunteer in mo tion-. ' Sick Soldiers.— VVe regret to learn that considerable sickness prevails among the inch Of the 14th and 15th Regiments, now station ed here, waiting to bo paid off. Some fifty dr sixty are how in the different hospitals, rimny of them in a dangerous condition. Our phy sicians'and citizens are doing all in their pow er to make, these, sick soldiers as comfortable os possible.. Funeral op a Soldier.—Samuel Boyer, of Company F., 15th Regiment, (Capt. Walt man,) died suddenly on Saturday. He had been unwell for some days, but was nojarcoh- sidered dangerous by his comrades. On Sun- . day he was buried in the public graveyard, With military honors; lie was quite a yhung jnan.- aad hie homo, we learn, was Mount Joy, .Lancaster county.- The Heat.— -The thermometer for the last fop* days has averaged a tennperaturo 94 de grees- Once or twice- it reached 98 degrees. With such intense heat, every green thing is Buffering for rain. The corn still looks green, but if we have hot rain.very- soon a crop of nubbins will be the consequence. A Fracas.— On Monday afternoon a Quar ter-master. attached to . the 15th Regiment^ , who had abseijtfcd himself from his duties for several days, returned hero-,in tip hp train of cars.. Some pf the men of-his regiment who bad riot received their rations for a day or two, seizedjiim as soon as he got out of the cars, and commenced an assatrlt upon him. One soldier ran at him with a nooded rope, which ho.attempted to 'throw over the Officer? head but was prevented by some of Jhe field officer?, - who- happened to ho present. The Onartermaster finally got off without' much injury. ... ' It is no wonder the. soldiers arc in a.' bad humor. Their treatmet has been shameful. Shameful Treatment.— -The soldiers coffir posing the 14th and 15th Regiments have been encamped here for the last ton days, waiting to be paid "off and dismissed. In the home of common honesty and decency, why i8 t it that these men cannot get their hard earned mon ey ? This shameful treatment of the troops is disgraceful to pur State and an outrage upon the two Regiments. Whose faultis it? . The soldiers are exceedingly anxious to get home, and particularly so since sickness is overta king so many of them. Pennsylvania is the only Statp that treats her soldiers with ne glect. We.repeat, whose fault is it? N. R. —After the above had been put in typo, the paymaster arrived, much to the joy of the soldiers. He reached here on Tuesday. The American Agriculturist.— We have received the August number of this invalua ble wort. The Agricutlurist is, without ex ception, the best agricultural journal ip America. We .are pleased to notice'that it has a large circulation in our community.. Price SI a year for the English or German edition. Address Orange Judd, 41 Park Row N, Y. . Ooi,. Dixon H. Miles, a brigadier on the fieldof battle at Manassas, and who is charged with having been drunk on that day, is a na tive of Maryland.. K7"A General Riot, says- the Harrisburg Patriot and. Union, of Saturday, occured in front of tno. Mayor’s Office, yesterday after noon, which the Chief of Police and his “spe cial" deputies found great difficulty in sup pressing. The riot grew outeof an attempt of a number of. soldiers to take two or three of iheir comrades out of the lock-up in' which they were partially successful, breaking open the front gate aud driving back the officers. A Terrible Weapon.— Capt. Beuter of the G " ards . has exhibited to the editor of Dolta - R B P cc! ™« of ‘ho new iB th6ir ™ ful weapon. It’isLiLM'r'l a m ° Bt fr!sht cavalry or infantry, and can cheaply. It consists of the blade, attached to a stout staff, Bor Vfcot long, with a book. A regiment of the same kind is now forming in'New York. !C7*Good arms are scarce in Richmond. A negro picked up a Colt’s • rifle, belonging to one of our men, on the field of Manassas, and sold it for §lOO cash: So'say the Richmond papers. K/* Watermelons have modiN heir appear ance in'pur market, but at a/ 1 ay high price. GENERAL WOOL.' Gon. Wool stands nt the Tory head of tho American army in military judgement. By universal' consent ho has no' superior as an offloer. But yet, this vetoraneoldier has beeh. ostracized by tho Lincoln administration. Why? Simply because he is a Democrat, and no great, admirer of tho Secretary of War, Simon Cameron. He has thus far been shut up in his quarters at. Troy, New York, not withstanding the people of the Empire State have remonstrated against such treatment 'of a distinguished, soldier, as cruel and dishon orable. A few days after our defeat at Bull Bun, a large committee of theprominen ment of New York proceeded to Washington, and called upon the President, and urged on him the necessity of calling Gen. Wool into the field. After showing the President the im portance of employing the best military tal ent; in the country to lend our armies to vic tory, and reminding him of Gen. Wool’s great tact as a commander, “ old Abe” very quietly, remarked that ho " would take their sugges tions into consideration.” Tho friends of tho President represent, him as a “ooolmon,” and wo think he is. An idiot can remain cool and unconcerned when the house that shelters him is in flames, and Lincoln can maintain the same equanimity when tho eoun jtry is bleeding at.every pore. Whether the people, whose servant the President is, admire such indifference, is questionable. . The Black Republican journals—those fel lows who have been violating the’ Constitu tion all their lives—are much in the habit of giving impudence, and calling better men than themselves secessionists and , traitors. •But, we put it to the “common people," (as “old Abe” .calls his constituents,). if, the treatment of Gen. Wool, because“of his poli tics or some private pique, is not the quint essence of treason. Had Gen. Wool been in command at Bull Bun, the probability is that victory would have crowned the offots of! our troops—nt least they would not have made tho precipitate retreat they did. But, this 1 groat and experienced General, who is not second even to Gen. Scott, is refused a com mand, because ho will not consent to be made a tool of by a weak President and an utterly incompetent Secretary of War. Wo repeat, I that by not, calling Gen. Wop L-into active ser vice, is an incalculable injury to our cause, and those who are instrumental in causing this injury are enemies to their country, and should be treated as such. I An Immense VVaoon-Load Theft. —The ■ Washington correspondent of the New York • -Times says: “ I have heard of-a wagon con tract which it is to bo hoped will heoverhaul ; ed by Van Wyck's committee. , I understand I that a manufacturer in Brooklyn, New York, sent an agent hero some time ago with a pro position to sell several hundred wagons to the Government. He was introduced by a Sena tor to a proper officer in the Wiir Department, from whom he learned that the Government had no need of wagons—that it would rely on steamboats and railroads, and thus dispense 1 with the old fashioned mode? of transporta- I tion. The poor fellow went hdnje with a flea in his ear, and the manufacturer made up his mind to the sad conclusion that he bad on hand a quantity of wares whioli Would have to wait for. a nprket until the revival of busi ness after wnssoon aroused from! his melancholy .mood by the arrival from Washington of contrac tors for the War Department,,who xy'ere ready to purohase'oll his wagons, and a good many more than, he cquld furnish, I understand that these lucky favorites received from the Government thirty dollars per wagon iitmethan the manufacturers offered to sell ihe.ht for.— The parties who are to reap this rich -harvest are well known here.'' , How the Troops ire Pain.—The shm re quired to pay a regiment, officers included, for three months’ service, is not far short of §40,000. The sum to be received by the of ficers of a regiment, for three months’ eervi. ces, is as follows'; i Colonel. 5654; Lieutenant Colonel, 15582; Major. $525; Captain, $385 ; First Lieuten ant, $325 ; Second, Lieutenant, $3lO ; ' Sur geon, $525 ; Adjutant, $3,79; Quartermaster, $403. , This commutes everything into money', in cluding the cost of servants, horses, 'dnd’ra- tiona. Commissioned officers cannot always understand this, and are invariably surprised at finding themselves the recipients of so much more money than they expected. Non-com missioned officers and privates are furniahpd with food and r clothing; Non-com missioned offii icers of the staff are paid §2l per month, :heir food'and clothes. The Orderly of en ph company receives 520 per month, clothing and provisions. The other Sergeants receive §l7 per month, Corporals, §l3, Musicians, 812, arid Privates, $ll. Each man receives bis own money, after having signed duplicate receipts. The companies are mustered in their ohhjr, and called to the s'and alphabetically, 'the commanding officer being always present jto witness the payments. All payments are made in gold and silver. Brigadier Generals.— The following non i nations for Brigadier Generals were sent into Senate on Wednesday—the dates of all the commissions are May 17: Colonel Samuel P. Ilointzelmnn, of the 17th Infantry, who was wounded while gallantly leading his division at Bull Run ; Colonel Andrew Porter, 16th Infantry, the present Provost Marshal of the city, who led one of Col. Hunter's brigades Col. William B. Franklin,2dlnfantry, avory highly esteemed officer,, who commanded Col. IlHintzloman's First Brigade';' Gol. Charles P. Stone, 14th Ihfantry; Lieut. Gol. Thomas W. Sherman, sth Artillery; Joseph Hooker, of California, recommended by the Massachu setts, dejegation ; Ulysses S. Grant, of Illinois, recommended by the Illinois delegation. Cap tain in the regular army ; Frederick W. Lan der, of Virginia, the soldier of the mountains and plains, of whom all men know; Edward D. Baker, of Oregon, at present Senator and Colonel of the California Regiment; E, F. Kelley, of ( Virginia, the brave Colonel who was wounded in the attack upon the rebels at Phil- 3 1 ’ ohn A ' MoClernand, of Illinois. n»em ed bv frQm Slate, recommend- Porfer and V Col »- nointzleman. p and Franklin were recommended by the Pennsylvania delegation. , 3 KT’During a severe storm, near Lancaster Pa., on Thursday bight, a Mr. Land bad two yaiuable horses struck and killed by tbolight [ nin£ while out to pasture. WHERE DOES- THE TIIISJIW LIE I Tho 14th and 18th Regiments of the three months Volunteers arrivodhoro on last Sat urday ftaek, to be' paidand mustered out of tho service. The men, with about eight ex ceptions, wore in good health, cheerful, and anxious to return their friends l and ro-enliat for the war. Those who were siok, wore not dangerously, so. Now tho pic ture presents itself, of no Paymaster ; daily promise's and daily diappointments; the men fretful impatient end sick .'at heart; thirty four of them sick from exposure to the sun and exposure at night,- and imprudence, per haps in eating; and four others dead from the same causes. There is now an almost.univor sal determination not to ro-enlist, and the men are cursing the Government thattroats them so. Our citizens have kindly. supported and fed'them at, their own tables'since their ar rival. Who is to blame for this villainly ? Tho War department has a fearful account to set tle with tho people. - The blood of the men who have died hero lies at tlm door of. some' criminal official. .If they had been paid in proper time and sent.home, they would all probably have been livingaudin good health. Those -who attempt to excuse tho negligence of the Paymasteror tho war department, say tiis captains had not their muster.rolls made out properly. This is too miserable an apoldr gy for any sensible man. It is hot true in the first place; and secondly, if it was true, is tho Paymaster to lid idly by and wait until tho captains try over and over to got their pay rolls right? . Cannot they come on and instruct them how to make them out rightly? It would not take an hour. Tho truth is the volunteers are being robbed and plundered wholesale, and the character of the Govern ment being destroyed. ; ■ Justice. Want to Know. What in . the world has become of the fraud commissioners f. Have they gone to tho Fe geo or Sandwich Islands to hold their ses sions ; or are they playing Rip Van Winkle, ■in the retirement of their homes? What has become of “ Honest Old Jake,” that we hear nothing from him ? How about tho charges made by the Grand Jury of Philadelphia; are , they being investigated, or is the matter to be ’ smoothed over and hushed.up, to save tho im maculate Curtin and his spotless administra tion from the responsibility of defrauding the gallant volunteers of the State out of tens' of thousands, of dollars? How about the blue caps that turned almost £cd after a few-days wear? How about tho paper-soled shoes, the rotten and moth eaten blankets and the mis erable uniforms furnished them ? Who are the guilty parties. . Gentlemen fraud commis sioners, tho generous and indulgent public is about tired waiting, and insists on- hearing from you at-once. ■ " BST'It appears that the crowd of War Con gressman, sensation reporters, contractors and governmental parasites, who went out to wit ness the triumph of the Federal troops, wore, the first to ho seized with and. tp spread the panic.. Fellows who wrote in great capitals “ ON TO RICHMOND I” took, to their heels., Congressmen who,cried:pearo— U4t com -rirjjmi£c=-death to. robwsj'-flod Insane'*with fear, and those who had advised the cold-blood ed execution of prisoners of war passed hood* lessly by ouf'wounded and supplicating sol diers on the roadside. It is a terrible calam ity to have a Government beset, or ah army infested, by such cruel and cowardly crea tures. ' ' A Stddied Insult. l —The message of Abra ham Lincoln, wherein he dcclares.that it yet remains for the people “ to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an elec tion can also suppress a rebellion,” is,adolib erate, studied insult to the Democracy of the entire North. Mr, Lincoln ought to know that the men who carried the election last fall, and thereby inaugurated civil war, are not now in the ranks of the army which has been called out to support the Government. lie ought to know that a very largo propor tion of the army are men who voted against him—who detest his doctrines, and who re gard them as dangerous to the peace of the country, andinimical to American freedom.— They are there not to support a Black Repub lican Administration, blit to maintain and up hold the Govcrnmentundor which they live. How to Manage .Horses.— lt is stated that Mr. Earey, in one of his lectures delivered in Boston, during his late professional tour here, gave the following hints as to the way horses in general should be managed. Mr. Earey’s whole system of horse taming is founded on kindness and firmness, and ho never, resorts to any other moans. The many exhibitions ho gave while here, with his oft-repeated dec larations to' the same effect, established this fact fully and satisfactorily. In the Boston lecture referred to, ho is reported to have thus spoken: “ Ho did not tliink that any horse was na turally vicious, but became so by ill usage and harsh treatment. A man should use nothing in training a horse that ho would not use upon himself. The great trouble is that we expect the horse to'do something that he does notun norstand; whereas the first movement should be to have him understand what is meant, and then ho will readily obey. It is not necessa ry to shout an order or to a noise; the ihorse can hear as well as a man can. Care should bo used in what wo say to a horse, as well as how. it is said. Some men use the Bamo words, no matter what order they wish to give. But there should be a distinct word l£r each command. When a.horse balks, it i 6 not because ho is unwilling to do what ip required of him, but because ho does not know w’.hat is wanted to be done. After he has tried once or twice to pull his load, ho is oon vinced that he cannot da it, and no punish ment will induce him to try again. He should boi allowed to stand quiet a few minutes, and th-?n turned gently to the right or loft, to show I him that ho can move, and he will soon put forth all his strength, if treated kindly.— When a horse is frightened, ho should be led near the object, that ho may become acquain ted pith it, and see that it is.harmless,; but if ho were punished, he would associate the punishment with the object of his fright, and be m-Oro frightened the next time he sow it," | | , Gert, Scott’s Property: —By theOrdinan oe of Virginnia the property of Gep. Scott; in that Slate, was confiscated to the Publio Treas ury. As a contemporary well observes, be fore ttye State can realm# it, General Scott mak* good his title wi(;h his For the Volunteer, Tho returns of. the ‘ - killed and wounded" at the battio of Bull Bun are necessarily im perfect, btftenodgU have been received, to show losses amorig officers, es pecially ‘‘commissioned" ones,, are much larger in proportion to their number, than those among .privates. The. killed are 2 Colonels, I Lieut, Colonfil, 2 Majors, 16 Cap tains, and t Lieutenants; and tho .wounded, 2 Aoting*Mttjor Generals, 8 Colonels, 1 Lieut. Colonel, 3 Majors, !©Captains, and 33 Lieu tenants. Tfio casualties, among captains are particularly aotioablo; ‘ Making every allow ance , for thd"S*ir»-'fcipo3uro of officers on horseback and those on foot pi ftont, or at tho side of-theirOompanies. therci is still no doubt that a large number of the killed and-disa bled on that fijlal day, were singled out a'nd shot by exnert marksmon, who wore' enabled to take- deuberstd-nirn from rifle pitts or be hind trees. -The, distance between the hostile forces was repejatedly small enough to permit the picking offoif with perfect cer tainty hy anyjMrson tnodorafoly ’skilled in the uss <Whatloss was sue-, tained among known; buti asnjany ‘.thousands of tho Uni ted States fonjes; engaged were also armed with rifles, it’miiy,fairly be supposed that the sharp shooters in dur runks used these weap ons with deainy-'tffect upon the wearers of shoulder strapfc and swords wliorcver they could be seen.l 4 /' : • ■ Both tho Geraerifl Government and the sev eral State Qovojiiionts pro making every eff ort to supply, trpdps .with tW6 Minio, Enfield, or other Variety of rifles. New York State distributed among her soldiers about ’B^OOb;rifles, and more are ar riving to order Ingevery steamer. It is hoped that the new, qgpta will 'all,•‘bo armed with these not to bo compelled to I feel their ipferijpdty to troops from tho Now England States,.qpnstantly passing to Wash? ington, all of^wmim.carry' rifles, and (what would be^more serious )to feel tliat they are unequal, on the-battlp field,'to .the. enemy, a, very large proportion'of Whom aro most eff ectively armed. 1 On of last week a num ber of the, friends of Gen; Patterson tendered him the compliment of ajserenado, at his res idence in Philadelphia. lie was addressed in a brief-and jiJ»propridte speech by Benja: min H. Brewsterl Esq., iri which he commen ded Gen. Patterson for saving the troops un der his coilamaria, wbon.an advance upon the enemy would have been attended-’with .the mOst-disastrqn.s reimlts.v The reply of, the General Js'a, sufficient answer to the many complaints about bis dilctory conduct, and, the grave insinqbtiqpaegainst his fidelity to the. cause of Kiri.-Country. Indeed; we have reason to know,;sjthat riot, only the regular aripy officers uad&r hjs coirimand approved'of the . movements df Gob. Patterson, but that Gen. Scott hiniljolf expressed the greatest confidence, iqvvhis discretion and'fidelity a short time previous to the Bull Run engage-, ffient, and after^feso.,Patterson bad moved' his oolumn^e|iriflstojvn,.,, v ', ' ■ foUowinalvas-.tii’c reply of Geri. Patter son;-!;, t- "f jl UV Judebted'fciyou'J Jor. and fur the approbation you have; been pleas ed to bestow, I know that I have endeavor ed to do niy duty}, and I believe I have han dled my column gs well as.any other in the field. I have Jbeon honorably discharged by my superior officeri, and if , he makes no com plaint, and •lft?iho80 who servecKundPr me make none, what right have others or consti tute themselves arid) ilnry atari cliambor decide on my merits as a Sol ? ijiavelhegrcai satisfac tion of blowing thkt all the officers.of ihe'reg-. alar army serving with me approved of the management of ih&anny wider my command. These gentlemhn are competent; judges and their approval ,J value more than the prai ses of all the civilians in the United States. The army standard is the trfte test of the sol dier, and by that test l am willulg to stand or fall. To you, myipllow townsmen, I can but extend mwmpsji g&teful thanks ’for this re newed evidence oflyour friendship and confi- 'f ■ }p ~»•' hero given for Gen. Pat terson, arid the,crowd dispersed. How the Received the News of the Battlp OKSjHjDAV.—Tlio.Rich mond Enquirer.haß of the proceedings of the Rebel Congress in. that city on the 22d instant, on recivingTthe news of the battle at Bull Run. Mr, Mopimiuger, of South Caro lina,. read two despatches front Jeiforson Davis, one to Uia wife and the oth er to adjutant-Geneml Cooper, and then made a litttle speech as follows: “This onriouncerbent;’’ continued Mr. Mommingor, “ informs Congress that the in vader of our Soil hashed) driven back ; that, our alters have been .purified ami our liomos secured from the ruthless hand of an unprin cipled foe. Bnt.'sir. Jt haa boen at a cost that will bring sorrow into myfSim’ilies; wet with burning tears the oh'Otka of many widows and orphans, and intomajiy happy homes bring grief and desolation; and 1 presume, sir. Congress will be little disposed on such an occasion togo on with ithioir usual business. I have, therefore, taken the liberty of offer ing a series of resoldtjone, which ! will sub mit to Congress, and ask their adoption: “ 1. Sesoloal, That Jwo recognize the, hand of-the Most High God; the King of kings and Lord of lords, in thei glorious victory with which he has crowned jour arms at Manassas • and that the_ pooplS jof those Confederate States arc invited; by Appropriate services on the ensuing Sabbathitp offer op their united thanksgivings mid p payers for this mighty do- 1 liveranoo. . • “2. Resolved, That wo deeply deplore the necessity -which has-washed the soil of our country with the blood,of our noble sons, and that we offer to their respective families and friends our warmest dnd most cordial sympa thies, assuring them that the sacrifice' made will bo consecrated in' ihe.hearts of our .peo ple, and will there onahrine thc names of the gallant dead, as the "champions of free and constitutional government. 3. Resolved, Thatwe, approve the prompt and patriotic efforts of fhe Mayor of the city of Richmond, to mate provisions for the wound ed, and that a committee of one member from each state be appointed ‘to co-operate on the plan. I. - ■ ; ‘.‘Resolved, That CopgtesS do notadjourn.” The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and Congress adjourned, 1 “ Supposeyou go to ted-, you cannot rioni always,, and.token, after much loss on both sides, and NO GAIN ON EITIfER, i/ou cease fighting. THE IDENTICAL OLD QDES: TIONS as to terms ofintirCourse ARE AGAIN tIPON YOU.”— Abba tun Lincoln, March 4, 1861. • ' The Deadlyßine. Gefeial FaUcmod. Lincoln’s Administration and Property in Man. Attention is called, to tiie 4th Section of tho Act of Congress passed Inst week.- Tho pro party in man is there recognized. ‘ No one con deny, the fact. The next steep will bo to require Lincoln to issue a Proclamation: declaring all persons held to labor in the Southern States to bo free, as a war measure, and then for Congress to rote to send them arras. Tho fanatics will stop at nothing. New England rules the country now, and Pennsylvania will got a dose of Yankocism which oven jot black re publicans will not bo able to swallow, TIIE CONFISCATING DILL, , Tho, following is p copy of this Act, which has boon passed by Congress; An Act to confiscate property used for in surrectionary purposes. Be it enacted by tiie Sertnte, &0,, That if, during tho present or any future insurrection against the Government of tho United States, after tho Presidcnt.of the United States shall have declared, Jby proclamation, that the laws of tho United States are opposed, end tho, exe cution thereof obstructed by combinations top powerful to ba suppressed by tho ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the pow er vested in the marshals by law, any person or persons. Ills, her, or their agent, attorney, or employee shall purchase or acquire, sell or give, any property of whatsoever kind,of de scription; with intent to use or employ the same, or soflerthe same, to bo used or em ployed, in aiding, abetting, or promoting such insurrection or resistance. to the laws, or any person or persons engaged therein ; or if any perapu or persona, being the owner or owners of any such property, shall knowing ly use or employ, or consent fco/the use or em ployment of the same as aforesaid, all suoh property is hereby declared to bo dawful. subject of prize and' capture wherever found ; and it shall be the duty of the Presi dent of the United States to cause the same to be seized, confiscated, and condemned. Sec. 2. And be it fnrtherenactcd, That such Brizes and captures shall be condemned in the 'istriot and Circuit Court of the United States having jurisdiction of the amount, or I in admiralty in any district in which the .same niay be seized, or into which they may : he taken and proceedings first instituted. I Sec. 3. And be it furtherendteted, That the , Attorney General or any District Attorney of ! the United States in which said property may at the time be, may institute tho proceedings i of condemnation, and in such case they shall ' be wholly for tho benefit of the United States; ! or any person ipay file an information with | suqh Attorney, in which case tho proceedings I shall bo/or the use of such informer and the i United States in equal parts. See, 4. And bo it further enacted, That whenever any person claiming, to be entitled to the service or labor of any other person, under the laws of any State* shall empty such person in aiding or-promotihg any insurrec tion or in resisting the. laws of the United otrtes, or shall permit him to lie so employed, ho shall forfeit all right to such service or la hoiv and the person whose labor or service is thus claimed shall be thenceforth discharged therefrom, any law to tlio contrary hotwith standing. I is said that Charles Sumner, the Sen |*ator from Massachusetts, wrote a letter to the District Attorney at Boston," a few days be fore the defeat of the Federal forces at Bull Run, in which ho stated that he had seen the President, and after, great exertion had ob tained from him a promise that he, the Pres ident, would give positive orders to Lieut. General Soott to make ap* immediate at tack yppu the position of .the rebclforces. 0fr|55,282 has Uj'i.Bwcral churches in Rictiriond for the j&c -of ihcwdShded; - The. Confederate Congress has appropriated $5OOO for the same purpose. IlAVELocKs.—The name of the gallant In dian General is almost universally applied to, the sunshade of our troops. Anybody who will study the Egyptian paintings will sec that shades of the same cutVerc used in jusf the same way by the Egyptian troops before Mosese’s time. The army which was lost in the Red Sea* wore Havelocks. Desertion of the Watering Places. —The war has played havoc with tho fashionable watering places. At Sharon, which was last year so crowded that numbers could not get accommodations, there are not, it is said, as many visitors as would pay the servants’ wages. iNewport, Saratoga, Cape May an Nahant, it is' stated, presented the same dreary aspect, .• „ , Senator Wilson at 801 l Run.—lt is said that while Senator Wilson was making his, masterly retreat in Virginnia, on being repul sed by a teamster, whose’ wagon ho sought to occupy, ho protested, in plaintive accents.' that he was Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts. The response of the teamster was to the point,, ‘ Henry Wilson ho d—d. I have kicked him off the wagon six times already.' The Raleigh Journal notices the arri val of forty prisoners of warm that city, un der a guard commanded by Lieut. To.dd, who is a brother of Mrs. Lincoln 1 ' . Lacb of Etiquette. —lt is stated that the' letter carried by Major Wadsworth with . a flag of truce to theßulißun battle field, was re turned unopened, tho rebels saying that in stead of being addressed to “the Commander of tho forces at Manassas Junction,’’ ns it was,.it;should have been addressed to "the Commander of the forces of tho Confederate Stales at Manassas Junction,” What Davis Sayi. Jeff, -Davis, in bis Message to the Southern Congress, uses the following language: .Whether this, war shall last one, or three, or five years, is a problem they leave to bo solved by the enemy alone. It will last till the enemy shall have withdrawn from their borders; till their political rights, their alters, and their homes arc freed from invasion.— Then, and then only, will they rest from this struggle, to enjoy in peace the blessings which with the favor of Providence, -they • have se cured by the aid of tneir own strong hearts and steady arms. ' ' . A Goon Change. —The Norristown' Regis ter says that amongst the 1000 men who com posed the Regintent from that place, there wore but forty-two republicans.. As these men have now returned, the Register thinks there is a fine chance for the wide awakds— ,tho fellows who carried coal oil lamps last fall —to-shdw their patriotism. Thus far they have been louder in profession than active in deeds. KT'A communication has been presented in the rebel Congress from various railroad companies in the Southern States offering to transport soldiers wounded or on furlough, free of charge. , The, Trae Ddioii Early. "* The Domocratio’yiarty has ever maintained the proud position of being the sincere friend of the JJqion. It has neyor oxprejaed itself as being in favor of “ letting the Onion slide. It possesses the same ardent devotion to the Union to-day that it has ever exhibited, and is ready to pour out its best blood in uphold ing that glorious Union. It does not require it to change its name to.show its principles or mak B known its love for the Onion. It is not now, or never has been, a Onion party for the North, or n Uiiion party for the South, hut for the WUOI.K unios. For the sake of the Union it has joined hands with its political oppo nents, to enable the Government to put down rebellion, that the Union may bo restored; but in doing this it has not agreed to adopt the principles of the Chicago platform by anVj means. The democratic party draws a wide distinction between supporting the Govern ment and sustaining the corruptions of the present Administration, and detests Republic can principles now as cordially? Ss it ever did. It holds that the Chicago platform has broken up the Union and thgl it cannot be restored,pr; maintained-by standing on that rickety con- - coin. Let the Democratic party maintain Us organization every where—stand by the Union —dnndcinn the'abominable doctrine of Seces sion, ntid while upholding the Government in the war, fearlessly - condemn the corruptions pf the present Administration and its attempts to trample bn the Constitution and the rights of tho people.' So s'sys the Valley Spirit, and so say me. ■ . , ■ STANDING COMMITTEE i'EKim The Democratic Standing Committed of Cumberland county met at the public house of Mr. Herman, in Carlisle, on the 3d iriit. After being called to order, J. B. Bratton’ offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: dissolved; That tho members of the Demo cratic party throughout the county, meet at the usual places of holding-thoir respective township, borough and ward elections, on Saturday, the 31 ut day of August, inst., and then and thorocloct two Delegates, to assemble in County Convention, in the Court House, in Carlisle, on Moiiday, September 2, at 11 o’clock, A. M., to form a County Ticket, for the support of the Democratic party at thq elec tion in October next, and to attend to such other business of the party ns may appear to them proper. dissolved, That said election'bo hold be tween tho hours of 2 and (5 o’clock, P. M. on tho above day. A. DEIIUFF, Chairman. J. B. Bratton', ) o •, • L. H. E\v.vi.t, J e f : !' elarles - Tile Pennsylvania Army. • Harrisdcro, An". 2.—Tins entire force of , Reserve Regiments from Pennsylvania is to . bo placed under command of General McCall, 1 by order of General McClellan; Eleven thousand of the Reserves have been sent for ward already, and the only remaining rogi . ment of .infantry will be at tho seat of wav in a few days. The artillery which will bo>,,at tached to this Pennsylvania army will eiim prise forty-eight guns, consisting partially of rifled cannon. The-.guns range from 32- pouudors to 6-ponnders, As soon as .they, arc 1 ready they arc to be sent forward' by batte j ries. Tho first battery goes South on Sun day night, under command of Lieutenant Col onel Campbell, and the other batteries will follow in a short time. The Cavalry ro"i raont is almost ready, and the men aro all Tn camp. As soon' as they are mounted they will bo sent tojoin the main body. . • Tub Attempt .on hie Like or the Kino of Prussia.— A. letter from Baden, dated July 14, says: ' , Tli's. niotniiigj' between. 9 and 10 o’clock, at tlio moment when; this Kingtof'Prussia, nf tpi'his customary wait in tlieXictontimlave noe f was seated hear the stone- fountain,-a student of Leipsip appfoaehed .him, nud. lov eling a pistol,at his breast, pulled the trig ger. The force of the charge happily caused the'bullet to rise, and the ball only tore the dress, and slightly grazed the King’s shoul der. Arrested on the spot by-the promena dors, who heard the report, the assassin was taken before the chief magistrate of the city, and was examined in the presence of his Au gust Highness the Grand Duke of Baden.lt is stated that the etijdont confined himself to the reply, while avowing- his crime, that his only object was to fsee Germany froma prince who was hot sufficiently active in the cause of Gorman unity. The’population of Baden, whore his Majesty is regarded witKrospect and veneration, heard of the event with alior for which will bo. shared, by all the world.— -The report runs -that the Leipsic Student is Hie son of a.Russian consul in a city oh the Black Sea. Others spy that he is of Lithani an origin.” Darkev Celeuration in New York.— The Ne\v York correspondent o^thcP«6ftc Ledger, iii h» letter of the Ist. inst., bays: ' The colored people of this city and vicinity*, accordmg to the usual custom, commemora tea the British emancipation of Blayory in the West Indies with a mammoth pic-nic at Myr tip “ark, Brooklyn, to-day. The weather was abominably hot, but the attendance noverthe less was quite liberal, and included pnany of the fairest daughters of Ethiopia. The oxer: ciscs consisted of. addresses pertinent to the day and the occasion, with singing, dancing,* &c. Many of the white Abolition brethren, were advertised to bo present, but, for some reason, best known to -themselves, they did not make their appearance. In regard to thd war, most of the orators wore pleSed to as sume that the only issue at stake was the ab olition of slavery. Brack’s Regiment.—Col.- Samuel Black’s regiment arrived in this city yester day- at noon, and encamped on the public grounds near the Capitol. It consists of 1048 men, (one company not yet arrived, •) two companies from Jefferson county,' three of from Clarion and five from Allegheny. Some two or three of the companies are uniformed and the entire regiment is composed of most excellent material. Among the officers wo notice John M. Stock, a clerk in the senate in nfth n a ? w g m “ ie oa P a< %of captain of one . if, , °! 1 coant ,Y companies. . r‘,"lack, it will bo-remembered, distin guished himself in Mexico. At the time the present war broke out ho was Governor of hvYfnp'l’ “f 1 ° f Wl “i' oh offioe ho was routed by Lincoln for no other reason than his De mocratic proclivities. Sam had scarcely madfl 6 ? E- ttsl . )ur " ; ,J ? fore applications were madp to him to take charge of a regiment. that Colonel Black is too good a Democrat to hold an offioe—he is just the &*°4wllrt , sth. the . fig,,ting - i/arWs6!<^ Tjie Revenue Act just passed by Congress, levies four cents per pound on corfee, three on cocoa, two on sugar, two on chicory,„twcntv nve cents additional on brandy, tenon wines, and, fifty on other articles. The duty on silk goods is increased ten per cent. Among the provisions regulating, the direct tax, is one im po"m£,n„ rate of three .per cent. on all incomes over $BOO per annum. , Direct taxation is a novelty in this country, but it has long been, both in Franco and England, a principal means of revenue. Our Government is forced .to resort to it temporarily by the imperative necessity, it is under to provide for the.extra ordinary expenses it must incur in suppros “P.? the rebellion, and every loyal citizen will,'tfo doubt, cheerfully submit to the law - ICT'The weather has been exceedingly hot and sultry for the last week or ten days. FROM THE SpUTIIEBJf PiPEBS. THE BUSH OF TROOPS INTO VIRGINIA SINCE THE BATTLE. U . The Augusta (Qa.) Chronicle and Sentinel of'July 26th,‘says :r*-By Sunday, next Beauro gard may have 60,000 under him, and by Sun day.aftcr probably. 80,000. Every train ft-oia the South is bearing its great burden of soldiers to Virginia. Twonty\thousnnd have moved perhaps in tbat,dirbotion within the last six ' or eight days. Lot them all go on—all that can go, and that intend to go at all, just fast as possible. - " A SOUTERN GUESS ABOUT THE FOR WARD MOVEMENT. ‘ The Richmond correspondent of the New Orleans Delta,, writing the day drier the, bat tle, says: ’ • ‘ Anti as for Gen. Scott, though the move ment against Gen. Boaur.ogard/hlay.haye been in ode according to his-order,‘idoabtwhether that order,.was,given in accordance with his deliberate' views of policy. Precipitated into, the measure, ns I believe, by the'clamor'of r the-politicians at Washington, nndiby-ths blood thirsty rage of .the Black .Republican' press, he was quite willing to remain at a dis tance) and'leave the immediate responsibility of failure,.if. the measure should fail, with his subordinate officers, while ready to appropri ate the credit of success to himself, if the measure shotildtsHCoecd. It is not easy to believe that Goa. Scott, if left to pursue'(ns.own plans, would stake the issne of a campaign on a battle fohglit under the circnmstnnccs of tbnt of the 21st. Tiro months ago be committed n mislafce ift halt ing at Alexandria, after crossing the Potomac, instead of poshing forward briskly toward Richmond, But that misthke sprang, from . excess of prndchce, and it is not reasonable to I deduce from such a mistake,another.arising 11-oiH the opposite fault of rasbncsS.And rash . it'cortrtinly was to attack Gen. Beauregard on ground which he himself had selected and elaboratb'iyfortificd. Politic-.ii considerations, must have prevailed over military lions when Geu, Scott consented to the attack, without the support of McClellan from the west, and of Patterson-from the North. .It , was a fatal departure from the anaconda polr icy which ho had previous/;; been ptttsuing. ' Tlic consequence is, the backbond Pi the ser pent is broken. KIUED AND WOUNDED INTUE NORTH CAROLINA i. • RKUIMENT. Richmond, July 25.—The lion. T. L. Cling man, of North Carolina, who has just arrived , from Manassas, rays 10 wore killed, and be tween 40 or 50 were wounded in the North Carolina regiment. The only officer killed was Fisher. After Lieut. Col. Johnson was killed and Col. Wade Hampton was wounded,.‘General Beauregard rode up in person, and led ,the Legion into battle. Each of the companies behaved admirably. Tho Legion lost in killed and wounded, 113. When tho fate of tho battle balanced in tho scale, late In the afternoon,.and some, of Clan.; Johnston’s regiments showed signs of waver ingv .be seized the colors himself and led the advance, thus turning tho tiilo of battle in our favor. Elser’a brigade coining up about this time was mainly instrumental in changing tho fortune of the day. ■ STRENGTH OF THE CONFEDERATE Alt.U V. Tho Montgomery Mail says that the Con federate government has now 250,000 soldiers well drilled aud'armed, and judiciously dis posed for defensive opera ions. Jonco Hoop er, editor of that journal, is Secretary of tho Confederate Congress, and it i& presumed tho information in his paper is derived front offi cial sources.' miscellaneous. Sunday lust was observed in the churches _ , in Memphis, Temp; us a day of thanksgiving " for thpisuccess of the Southern: .armyAn the late battle, j , J- --..t- . V W hlen; AViji. H. Carroll; 5 been obmriiissiohcd by Jkliynr Gdhoral Folk, . to raise organize abrigfido of riflemen.to serve for twelve mouths, or longer,, if ciVouin stances may roqutro, > A bwgo number of ladies in New Orleans, some of the wealthiest in. tlio city—have Joffc for RiUhmcmd. to’ attend the wounded in tho • Into battle. They are accompanied by several surgeons, who offered iJjcir services gratuitous ■y- Isaac.M. Patridgo, editor of the Vicksburg Wftigr has been appointed a Captain of the provisional army of the Confederate States. It is said that the. State of Goorgmlms sent off to tho War oi or 14,000 men, besides a re giment of regulars, and has how 14,000 more organized hud ready for tho cull. Total. .25,000, or nearly double the regular army-'of. the United States. Prisoners of War at Raleigh.— Forty irisoncrs of war from Richmond, arrived at. lalcigh, N. C., on Wcdnesday evening, under strong, guard. Sonia of them are fine lo iking men, and among them is a lieutenant colonel, a captain, and several lieutenants, - They be long to Gen. Butler’s command, and are sent to Raleigh because there was no room for them in Riobhinnd. Their arrival attracted ipiito a crowd, but they were treated with duo Southern civility. Wo- noticed several of. them—all theofficora, we presume—-walking the streets on parole, aim with seeming cheer fulness.—Hahir/li Journal, RESOLUTION OF ,THANKS. !ead Quarters, 14th Reg., P. V, M* > Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 4,1801. J At a. feeding of tlio officers of the ]4th Regiment Leld this day, Col. Jno. W. John ston was Appointed chairman, Lieut. Col. B. McMichsels, Vico President, and Prank B, Shakers, jr., Secretary. The President sta ted that the object of the meeting was, to have Si tome expression of opinion in rogiivd t'p tlio vestment received by tiie regiment at the muds of the citizens of Carlisle, when Adju tant McLean, moved that a committee of live . bo appointed by the chair to draft rosu)ution(L'' ~ expressing the sense of the officers; Tho com mittee on returning, reported the following, which wore adopted; • Whereas, .The'l4th regiment of the Penn sylvania Volunteers, have for sortie time been encamppd near tho town of Carlisle, Pa., pn_d hart received many kindnesses from the citi zens thereof, it is therefore, • Resolved, That wo;, the officers of the 14th regiment, P. V. M., return to tho citizens of Carlisle, Pa., our hoorMolt thanks tor their kindness to ourselves and to r tho men under oiir charge. ' ‘ . Resolved, That wo return our sincere and noble hearted women, who so promptly and disinterestedly came (pnvard to relievo and ot sist our sick and wounded, and who have been ns ministering angels to our travel worn sol diers. : Rzsolved,' That wo shall ever hold.in tbd liveliest remembrance our stay in'the beauti ful town of Carlisle, Pa., os one of tho bright-, est and happiest events of our lives. ' Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet ing ho published in the papers of this to*B and in the Harrisburg papers,’ Adjt. Jos, A. McLean, Oapt, D. A. Griffith, Co. A. " James A. Lowrie, K. “,S, S. Marciiand, F. Surgeon W. O. Nugent. On motion the meeting adjourned, , JOHN W. JOHNSTON, Col. Comd’g 14th Keg., P. V. M„ , President, Frank B. Siiai.telis, jr., Secretary. BZF Vanity Fair gives the following amus ing paradox: “ Old Dog 'Fray’s Ever Faith ful,’’. they say; but the dog who js faithful can never i«-Xrny, ■ : '"
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