the tancaster linteltigencer
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Let it float o'er our father land,
And the guard of Its spotless fame shall be
Columbla's chosen band.
MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC CO
COMMITTEE.
The Democratic County Committee met, pursuant to the
call of the Chairman, at Shober'e Hotel, in this city, on
'Thursday, the lath inet:, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The roll
being called the following members answered to their
names:
Bart, William Pickel; Brecknock, David Bice°lm ; Con
estoga, A. R. Hess; Coloran, A. D. Whiteside; Conoy,
John Filbert; Drumore, John Hastings• ' Donegal East,
Thomas J. Albright; Elizabethtown Bor., J. H. Dietz;
Elizabeth, Joseph 8. Keener; Ephrata, P. Martin Heiler;
Eden, William Dungan; Hetopfleld West, John M. Weller;
Lampeter East, Joel L. Lightner; Lampeter West, Samuel
Long; City, N. W. Ward, Frederick B. Pyfer; N. E. Ward,
H. B. Bwarr; 8. W. Ward, John A. Sheaff ; S. E. Ward,
William M. Gormly; Leacock, Milton R. Sample • Leacock
tipper, Dr. A. S. Bare; Manheim Twp., Benjamin Eby;
Manor, George G. Brush; Marietta, Charles Kelly; Mount
Joy Bor., Henry Shaffner; Paradise, Amos Rocky; Pequea,
Lyman Fulton; Strasburg Twp., Franklin Clark; Balls.
bury, Truman Wallace;Warwick, T. Lichtenthaler ;
Washington Bor., J. IL darles.
On motion it wan
Resolved, That the Chairman of the Democratic County
Committee be authorized to issue a call for a County Con
vention, to be held in the City of Lancaster, on Wednesday,
the 18th of September, 1881, for the purpose of settling a
full County ticket.
In view of thehbove resolution, the Democracy of Lan
caster County are requested to meet in their respective
Wards, Townships and Boroughs on SATURDAY, the 14th
of SEPTEMBER, to elect not more than FIVE nor less
than THREE delegates to meet in Convention at Fulton
Hall, in the City of Lancaster, on WEDNESDAY, the 18th
of SEPTEMBER, at 11 o'clock, A. M., to nominate a ticket
for the following offices:
One Person for President Judge.
" Associate Judge.
" County Treasurer.
" " County Commissioner.
Four Persons for Members of House of Representatives
Two a " Directors of the Poor.
" " Prison Inspectors.
One Person for Auditor.
The Ward and Township Committees will give due notice
of the time and place for holding the delegate elections.
FREDERICK S. PYFER, Chairman.
P. MARTIN Hianza, Secretary
THE DELEGATE ELECTIONS
The elections for delegates to the County
Convention take place on Saturday next, and
we trust they will be largely attended by the
Democracy of the county. The present is an
all-important time in the history of the coun
try, and every man should feel that he has a
duty to perform which cannot be safely dis
pensed with. Now is the time, then, when our
Democratic friendsehould attend theseprimary
meetings, and select their very best and most
reliable men to represent them in the Conven
tion. We hope to see a full delegation from
every township, ward and borough in the
county. Will the 'several committees, whose
duty it is to see to this matter, give it their
prompt attention ?
A FAIR PROPOSITION
Our heretofore amiable neighbor of the
Examiner does not take our flattering notice
of his superior horsemanship at Bull Run very
kindly, but frets and scolds like any old woman
because he thinks we were poking fun at him
on account of his masterly retreat. We are
sorry for this, inasmuch as we have always
considered the aforesaid editor a harmless,
inoffensive kind of man who, aside from
politics and a seat in the State Senate, is
rather clever than otherwise.
But, as we have been slightly mistaken in
the character of our contemporary, and not
wishing to wound his feelings any farther, we
shall cease all allusion to the Bull Run races,
in which he came out foremost, if he will tell
us all about the Bean contract, and what are
his prospects for a handsome profit; and also
inform the public, if he knows, who the seven
teen Senators were in the last Legislature
that, rumor has it, received the nice little
sum of one hundred and seventy thousand dol
lars for valuable services rendered to certain
corporations. Of, course, nobody suspects
him of receiving any part of it, for, like
Ca3sar's wife, he is admitted on all bands, to
be not only pure but above suspicion ; yet it
is supposed by many that, being on the spot,
he knows who did finger the money, and
could, if be would, give the public some
valuable and reliable information on the sub•
ject.
We hope our neighbor will agree to " bury
the hatchet" in the way suggested. Should
he do so, we faithfully promise, on our part,
to say nothing more about the celebrated Bull
Run races at which he figured so conspicu
ously.
REPUBLICAN CO. CONVENTION.
The "Union Republican County Conven
tion "—so called—will meet at Fulton Hall
to-morrow, for the purpose of placing in nom
ination a ticket for the Legislature and County
offices. Quite a number of patriots have sig
nified their willingness to serve their country
in a—civil capacity; but we know of but
very few Wide Awakes who are ready to
shoulder their muskets in defence of the Union.
This latter kind of patriotism devolves mainly
upon the Democrats.
AN EXCELLENT MOVE
_Major General MCCLELLAN has issued an
order for the better observance of the Sabbath,
in his command. He directs that all work
shall be suspended on that day, and that no
unnecessary movements shall be made "unless
in case of attack by the enemy, or some other
extreme military necessity."
WILMINGTON ELECTION
The city municipal election took place on
Tuesday last and resulted in the entire BCC
-0088 of the whole Union ticket. VINCENT C.
Garlii was re-elected Mayor by a majority of
722, out of 1300 votes polled.
B ar Hon. CliaaLas R. BIICKALEW, late
tnited States Minister to the republio of
Equador," in South America, returned home
• on the 29th ult. He is now on a visit to
—Washington. His health, we are glad to learn,
' has greatly improved.
I.Wolf."—We direct attention to the
cud of MI? Newcomer, in another column.—
" 4i tatitir.):o- is one of the very best arranged
ifgocwthe. city of Philadelphia,
,aed the
Eianoommodations ,
are not to' be surpassed any
where. We advise our friends, who may visit
the city, to test the matter for themselves.
LAST WORDS OP MR. DOUGLAS
A personal friend of the late Senator Dona
tes banded to the National Intelligencer for
publication a copy of a letter from -him,
written in the month of May last, but a short
time before his death,_ from which the sub
joined extract will be read with general in
:
"It seems that some of my friends are un—
able to .00mprehend the difference between
arguments used in favor of ati,equitable COM.
promise, with the hope of averting the horrors
of war, and those' urged in support of the
Government and the flag of our country, when
the war is being waged against the United
States with the avowed purpose of producing
a permanent disruption of the Union and a
total destruction of its government.
All hope of compromise with the Cotton
States was abandoned when they assumed
the position that the separation of the Union
was complete and final, and that they would
never consent to a reconstruction in any con
tingency—not even if we would furnish them
with a blank sheet of paper and permit them
to inscribe their own terms.
Still the hope was cherished that reasonable
and satisfactory terms of adjustment could be
agreed upon with Tennessee, North Carolina,
and the border States, and that whatever terms
would prove satisfactory to these loyal States
would create a Union party in the Cotton
States, which would be powerful enough at
the ballot-box to destroy the revolutionary
Government, and bring these States back
into the Union by the voice of their own peo
ple. This hope was cherished by Union men
North and South, and was never abandoned
until war was levied at Charleston and the
authoritative announcement made by the revo
lutionary Government at Montgomery, that
the Secession flag should be planted upon the
walls of the Capitol at Washington, and a
proclamation issued inviting the pirates of the
world to prey upon the commerce of the United
States.
Those startling facts, in connection with
the boastful announcement that the ravages
of war and carnage should be quickly trans
ferred from the Cotton fields of the South to
the wheat fields and corn fields of the North,
furnish conclusive evidence that it was the
fixed purpose of the Secessionists utterly to
destroy the Government of our fathers and
obliterate the United States from the map of
the world.
In view of this state of facts there was but
one path of duty left to patriotic men. It
was not.a party question, nor a question in—
volving partisan policy ; it was a question, of
Government or no Government ; country or
no country ; and hence it became the impera
tive duty of every Union man, every friend
of Constitutional Liberty, to rally to the sup
port of our common country, its Government
and Flag, as the only means of checking the
progress of revolution and of preserving the
Union of States.
I am unable to answer your questions in
respect to the policy of Mr. Lincoln and Cabi
net. lam not in their confidence, as you and
the whole country ought to be aware. I am
neither the supporter of the partisan policy
nor the apologist of the Administration.—
My previous relations to them remain un—
changed ; but I trust that the time will never
come when I shall not be willing to make any
needful sacrifice of personal feeling and party
polidy for the honor and integrity of my
country."
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM
Congress, by a vote nearly unanimous,
passed the following resolution declaring
the origin and object of the war:
" That the present deplorable civil war
has been forced upon the country by the
disunionists of the Southern States, now in
arms against the Constitutional Government,
and in arms around the Capitol ; that in this
National emergency, Congress, banishing all
feeling of mere passion or resentment, will
recollect only its duty to the whole country ;
that this war is not waged on their part in
any spirit of oppression, or for any purpose of
overthrowing or interfering with the rights or
established institutions of those States, but to
defend and maintain the supremacy of the
Constitution, and to preserve the Union, with
all the dignity, equality and rights of the
several States unimpaired; and that as soon
as these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease."
It would be well to ke this resolve before
our eyes when passion struggles for the as—
cendancy, and, smarting under infliction of
terrible injuries, the frequent wish is thrown
out that vengeance should rule the contest.—
This " war is not waged in any spirit of op—
pression." Let us not lose sight of this dec—
laration. made by an almost unanimous Con—
gress.
FORT LAFAYETTE
This place, having been selected by the Gov
ernment for the safe keeping of its political
prisoners, has become quite an important
poet. Heretofore it has been but little known
to the country. There are now about twenty
five or thirty men confined within its walls.
The Fort is built in an isolated position, on
a shoal or small island in the Narrows, about
7 miles below New York and about four hun
dred yards from the shore. Fort Hamilton is
also near it, on the sea shore. The shape of
the fort is quadrangular, with the angles point
ing to the sea and bay and either shore, diai
mond wise. Facing Fort Hamilton are two
tiers of heavy cannon, in bomb proof case—
mates. On this side, which is less protected
than the others, appear to be the barracks for
the troops, and other necessary buildings, the
roofs of which are seen rising above the walls
of the fort. There are consequently no bar
bette guns here. This part of the fort, how
ever, is completely commanded by Fort Ham
ilton, opposite which ig the sally port in one
of the angles.
On the other sides guns are mounted en
barette, in addition to the heavy casemate
guns below. In fact, the entire structure,
whatever may be said of its capacity as a de.
fence against foreign invasion, seems to be
more than sufficiently strong to keep in secu—
rity as many State prisoners as are likely to be
put in it. It would sorely puzzle Jack Shep
pard or Baron Trenck themselves, were these
worthies alive, and confined in Fort Lafayette,
to make their way out:of that stronghold, sur
rounded as they would be by granite walls,
with the sea washing their base on every
aide.
DESERTER'S ROLL.—Governor Curtin, in a
General Order, publishes the names, occupa—
tions and residences of one Lieutenant and
three hundred and eighty-six non commis—
sioned officers and privates of the Second
Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania Reserve
Corps, who refused to take their oaths pre
paratory to entering the service of the United
States. The order dismisses them from the
service of the State, and brands them with
the charge of partaking of her bounty, and
in the moment of her peril deserting her.—
Mustering officers are cautioned against re
enlisting them. The deserters are from Col.
Wm. B. Mann's regiment, and are nearly all
residents of Philadelphia. Several adjoining
counties are represented in the list, but we are
proud to say, none of the recreant hail from
Lancaster. We find, too, in the list, but three
printers.
FRODI WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.
The following order has just been issued by
Lieutenant General Scott :
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
WASHINGTON, September 3, 1861.
The General in-Chief is happy to announce
that the Treasury Department, in order to
meet future payments to the troops, is about
to supply, beside coin, as heretofore, Treasury
notes in fives, tens and twenties—as good as
gold at all the banks, and at the Government
offices throughout the United States, and most
convenient for transmission by mail from the
officers and men to their families at home.—
Good husbands, fathers, sons and brothers
serving under the Stars and Stripes, will thus
soon have the ready and safe means of re—
lieving an immense amount of suffering which
could not be reached with coin. In making
up such packages every officer may be relied
upon, no doubt, for such assistance as may be
needed by hie men.
By command of Lieutenant General SCOTT.
(Signed) E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant. General.
'VERMONT ELECTION.—The Vermont State
..ilection, held last Tuesday, has restilted in the
choice of the Republican candidates by large
majorities. The vote was email .
THE HRRTUCKY LEGISLATURE.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE OF GOV. MAGOFFIN.
FLUNK - FORT, Ry., Sept. 5.
The Senate was organized to-day by the election
of John F. Flake as Speaker and J. IL- Johnson,
Clerk.
Governor Magoffin's message was received and
read. The Governor says:
"Kentucky has the right to ammo a neutral po
sition. She had no agenoy in fostering the sectional
party in the free States, and did not approve of the
separate State action and secession of the Southern
States at the time. Untitrecently Kentucky's
trality has not been seriously aggressed by' either
belligerent power, though lawless raids have been
suffered from both sides, private property has been
seized, commerce interrupted, and our trade de
stroyed.
- These wrongs have been borne with patience,
and reparation obtained when possible. But a mili
tary Federal force has been organized, equipped and
encamped in the central portion of Kentucky, with
out consultation with the State authorities, - but a
short time before the assemblinkof a Legislature
fresh - from our people.
If the people of Kentucky desire more troops,
let them be obtained under the Constitution of. Ke
ntucky. I, therefore, recommend that the law of last
spring be amended, so as to enable the Military
Board to borrow a sufficient BIM of money to pur
chase arms and munitions for our defence."
The Governor infers from the President's corres
pondence that if he thought the people of Kentucky
desired the removal of the Federal forces from the
State the President would comply, and Magoffin
recommends the passage of resolutions requesting the
disbanding or removal of all military bodies not un
der the State authority.
He complains of the continued introduction of
Federal guns, and the distribution thereof to private
citizens. He considers this as a source of irritation
which should be arrested.
He refers to the Legislature a number of eases of
aggressions upon the private rights of citizens of the
State by bodies of the belligerents, .where he had
not the power or right to afford redress.
After discussing the national difficulties he says,
Kentuokians have meant to wait the exhaustion of
all civil remedies before they will reconsider the
question of assuming new external relations ; but I
have never understood that they will tamely submit
to the unconstitutional oppressions of the North.—
They renounce their sympathy with the North, that
they renounce their sympathy with the people of her
aggrieved sister States, nor that they will approve
of a war to subjugate tho South. Still less can
construe any of their votes as meaning that they
will prosecute a coercive war against their Southern
brethren. They meant only that they have still
some hope of the restoration and perpetuation of the
Union, and until that hope is blasted they will not
alter their existing relations.
"Their final decision will be law to me, and I will
execute *very constitutional act of their representa
tives as vigilantly and faithfully as though it origi
nated with myself."
The Governor says that in no word or thought has
he thwarted the lawful purpose of the people of Ken
tucky, and as such instance of his adherence, he
denounced the President's war proclamation of April
15th as illegal, and therefore peremptorily refused
to the demand on Kentucky for troops. Citing the
subsequent acts of the Administration, he says he
cannot give them any sort of sanction.
He protests against the further prosecution of the
war; against Kentucky being made a camping
ground or pathway for the movement of forces by
either belligerents, and recommends the General
Assembly to pass resolutions requiring both belliger
ents to keep off our soil and'respect Kentucky's neu
trality. He concludes as follows: "My respect for
State rights and State sovereignty will make me
bow in respectful submission to the majority of her
people, so long as I am a citizen of Kentucky."
It is understood that Governor Magoflin received
at Frankfort, to-day, a despatch from Gen. Grant,
of Cairo, stating that the Tennessee troops had en
tered Columbus.
Gov. Magoffin immediately telegraphed to Gov.
Harris, protesting against this act, to which Harris
replied, saying that he would request President
Davis to withdraw the troops.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GOY. lIAGOFPIN AND
THE PRESIDENT.
The correspondence between Gov. Magoffin and
President Lincoln, in which the Governor requested,
or rather " urged " the removal of the United States
troops from Kentucky, has been published, as also
the reply of the President, which is as follows :
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.
To his Excellency B. Magoffin, Governor of the State
of Kentucky :
SIR: Your letter of the 15th inst., in which you
"urge the removal from the limits of Kentucky of
the military force now organized and in camp within
that State," is received.
I may not possess full and precisely accurate
knowledge upon this subject; but I believe it is
true that there is a military force in camp within
Kentucky, acting by authority of the United States,
which force is not very large, and is not now being
augmented.
I also believe that some arms have been furnished
to this force by the United States.
I also believe this force consists exclusively of
Kentuckians, having their camp in the immediate
vicinity of their own homes, and not assailing or
menacing any of the good people of Kentucky.
In all I have done in the premises, I have acted
upon the urgent solicitation of many Kentuckians,
and in accordance with what I believed, and still
believe, to be the wish of the majority of all the
Union-loving people of Kentucky.
While I have conversed on this subject with many
eminent men of Kentucky, including a largo
of her members of congress, I do not remember
that any one or them, or any other person except
your Excellency and e bearers of your Excellen
cy's letter, has urged me to remove the military
force from Kentucky, or to disband it. One other
very worthy citizen of Kentucky did solicit me to
have the augmenting of the force suspended for a
time.
Taking all the means within my reach to form a
judgment, I do not believe it is the popular wish of
Kentucky that this forde shall be removed beyond
her limits, and, with this impression, I must re
spectfully decline to so remove it.
I most cordially sympathize with your Excellency
in the wish to preserve the peace of my own native
State, Kentucky; but it is with regret I search, and
cannot find, in your not very short letter, any decla
ration or intimation, that you entertain any desire
for the preservation of the Federal Union.
Your obedient servant, A. LINCOLN.
SCENE OF THE LATE ENGAGEMENT
Hatteras Inlet, the scene of the late engage.
ment, in which Gen. Butler won his victory,
is situated about twelve miles from Cape Hat
teras lighthouse. It is known to the mariner
by a low sand island, which was formerly a
round hammock, covered with trees on the
east side of the entrance. The breakers
seldom extend entirely across the entrance to
the cove or harbor, but at nearly all times
make on each side, and between them lies the
channel. The bar should be approached from
the northward and eastward, and vessels
should keep in four or five fathoms of water
along the breakers until up with the opening.
The least water on the bar is fourteen feet
mean low water, and the rise and fall of the
tide but two feet. Once inside the inlet the
mariner finds good anchorage in a hard sand
bottom, except a fewisticky spots at the head
of the channel. The anchorage affords pro
tection from all winds except those from the
southward and westward.
As an entrance to Pamlico, Albemarle and
Currituck Sounds, the possession of Hatteras
Inlet is of vast importance to the Federal
government. With Ocracoke and Hatteras
Inlets closed, North Carolina may be said to
be completely shut in from the ocean. Priva-
teers can no longer be sent to sea through the
Dismal Swamp Canal and Albemarle Sound,
and all communication between Virginia and
Europe is effectually cut off. Newbern, on
the Neuse river; Washington, on the Pamlico
river ; Elizabeth City, on the Pasquotank, and
a number of other ports on the Roanoke and
Chowan rivers, will also be included in the
blockade. Pamlico Sound (an inland sea, 80
miles long and from ten to twenty five miles
wide, connecting with the Albemarle Sound
on the north and the Pamlico and Neuse rivers
on'the west) can no longer be of any service
to th 6 Confederates of North Carolina, now
that its principal inlet has been closed. Al—
bemarle and Currituck Sounds will also be
effectually closed.
Ocracoke Inlet, which is about twelve miles
southwest of Hatteras Inlet, is defended by a
battery of 32-pounders, six in number. In a
military point of view its possession is equally
as important as that of Hatteras Inlet, as it
affords an easy entrance to Pamlico Sound
and its numerous tributaries. Through this
inlet vessels from Tarborough, Greenville and
Washington, on .the Pamlico river, and
Waynesborough, Goldsborough and Newbern
on the Nense river, have been in the habit of
proceeding to sea.
THE N. Y. TIMES ON MOl3 Lew.—The New
York Times, well-known as one of the most
able and influential Republican papers in the
Union, says :
" We cannot insist too strongly on the abso
lute necessity of branding every man who in—
stigates a mob as an enemy of the public peace,
and the worst foe of our Republican Union.—
We are waging a war for the preservation of
the Constitution : if we succeed, our victory
will be shorn of half its glbry and of all its
value by a resort to measures hostile to the
spiritand letter of the Constitution, and at war
with the existence of any governmen - t under
which freemen can consent to live."
GRAIN IN Cmceco.---The receipts of grain
in Chicago are immense. The Chicago Tri
bune of Saturday week, says :
"The receipts of grain during the present
week have been, almost unparalleled in the
history of the trade. During the past four
days we have received in this city 23, 360 bar
rels of flour, 497,776 bushels of wheat, 892,-
936 bushels of corn, 70,400 bushels oats, 5,-
431 bushels rye, and 1,350 bushels barley—
the. whole equal to 1,585,933 bushels."
REPARATION FOR MOB VIOLENCE.--The
Wayne county (0.) Pedziocrat, in speaking of
the destruction of the Stark county (0.) Dem•
ocrat by mob Violence says : Since the mob,
we understand that the City Council of Can—
ton have appropriated $3,000 to Mr. McGre—
gor for the loss sustained."
MOB LAW.
The Chambersburg Times, in an article of
some length, descants ably upon the spirit of
lawlessness and anarchy which has , recently ,
manifested itself in various .parts of 'the
North, and which ham resulted in . the destruc
tion, (or " gutting," to °Se \ the modern
phrase,) of a number of printing' offices.—
These acts, have in several instan*,„met, if
not the approbationi., at leait. the.. quiet
acquiescence, of men previously occupying a
fair position in their respective communities
—a fact so fraught with danger,that our con
temporary-very pertinently asks—
Where will this end-; whither are we of the
loyal States drifting? If reckless mobs shall
continue with impunity to set aside one law
after another, in view of all the valuable
teachings of history, let us ask-the question,
is there anything before us but -the shoreless
and tempestuous ocean of anarchy? The
lessons of the French Revolution are fraught
with warnings which should not pass unheed
ed. A few bread riots, fostered and encour
aged by skillful leaders, swelled into great,
popular movements which swept over the
whole nation, erecting their
,Bastilea and
planting their guillotines, until the fair rivers
of the republic ran with blood, and then
swept back again over the headless trunks of
those same leaders. Those individuals and
journals who encourage these lawless pro
ceedings, should be reminded by the fate of
Robespierre and his associate panderers to
popular passions, that the mob which cheers
to-day, to morrow mocks at the face of those
who invoked its aid that they might lead the
power. There is no plainer truth under God's
Heaven than that safety to life and property
can only be maintained by sustaining the
fixed and eternal principles of justice and or
ganic law. He who takes the authority of
law upon himself, becomes by that act a
criminal, and should receive the punishment
his crimes deserve ; for the law itself has
provided a way in which offenders shall be
treated, and suffers no one to interfere with
its prerogative.
PARTICULARS OF THE SURRENDER
IN BIESILLA VALLEY.
The Melilla Times has an account of the
surrender of Major Lynde, with nearly 1,000
United States regulars, neat Fort Stanton,
which goes to confirm the previous suspicion
of treachery. They attempted first, with 300
men, to dislodge the rebels from the town of
Meallla, but retreated at the first fire of the
rebels to Fort Fillmore, which they destroyed.
The secession account says :
" The United States troops retreated in the
direction of Fort Stanton, and were seen by
our scouts, immediately after daylight, eight
or ten miles east of Los Cruces, in the moun—
tains. The whole command of Confederate
troops were ordered in pursuit, and 'crowded
on in full chase after the fugitives. The road
lay over the table lands and mountains to a
pass in the Organos chain, by way of San
Augustine Springs, over a route where there
was no water, and the day was excessively
warm. Some six or seven miles on this side
of the San Augustine Springs, stragglers of
the United States infantry were overtaken,
and the way to the Springs had the appear—
ance of a complete rout. Guns and cartridge
boxes were strung along the road. Six miles
of the Springs was a succession of charges ;
men were taken prisoners and disarmed in
squads ; the artillery was captured, and the
greater portion of the infantry were taken
before the main command was reached.
Major Lynde was encamped near the San
Augustine Springs, and has still some four
hundred men with him, who formed in battle
array on the appearance of the Confederate
troops. Advance was made to charge on them
by our troops, and they had reached within
three hundred yards, with eager spirits for
the fray, when a flag of truce was raised by
the United States column, desiring to know on
what conditions our commandet would receive
a surrender. The reply was an unconditional
surrender, the same terms they had endeavored
to dictate to the Confederate forces. This was
sought to be modified by the United States
commander, which request was refused further
than that they would be allowed two hours to
remove their women and children to a place
of safety. The Unifed States commander final
ly agreed to an unconditional surrender.
In brief during this day, eleven companies
of United States regular troops, mounted and
on foot, mustering seven hundred effective
men, surrendered to two hundred and eighty
Confederates four pieces of cannon, arms,
equipments, two hundred cavalry horses,
mules and wagons, and two hundred and sev
enty head of beef cattle.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND TIE FUGITIVE
SLAVE LAW.—Some time since Marshal McDow
ell, (United States Marshal for Kansas,) ad—
dressed a letter to the United States Attorney
General, stating that he did not deem it his
duty to return fugitive slaves to Missouri until
she became thoroughly loyal, and asking for
advice on the subject. The following reply we
find in the Leavenworth Times:
Attorney General's Office, July 23, 1861.
J. L. McDowell, U. S. Marshal, Kansas :
Sir—Your letter of the 11th of July, received
19th, (under frank of Senator Lane, of Kan
sas,) asks advice upon the question whether or
no you should give your official services in the
execution of the fugitive slave law.
It is the President's constitutional duty to
take care that the laws be faithfully executed.'
That means all the laws. He has no right to
execute the lawsl3e likes, and unexecute those
he dislikes; and, of course, you and I, his sub
ordinates, canhave no wider discretion of lati—
tude than he has. Missouri is a State in the
Union. The insurrectionary disorders in Mis•
souri are but individual crimes, and do not
change the legal status of the State, nor change
its rights and obligations as a, member of the
Union.
A refusal by a ministerial officer to execute
any law, which properly belongs to his office, is
official misdemeanor, of which I do not doubt
the President would take notice.
Very respectfully, EDWARD BATES.
CURRENCY IN THE SOUTH.-A correSpon
dent of the Richmond Enquirer says:
Gold and silver are now selling in the South
ern States at from ten to fifteen per cent. for
current bank bills. A sound and uniform
currency is as essential to the health and
vigor of the Confederacy and the government
as healthy red blood is to the power and en
durance of the body. This thing of a depre
ciated currency is just now more to be feared
than all of Lincoln's legions. It is what
ought not to be, and can not be submitted to
by the Southern people. It is intolerable
that the banks should be exempt by law from
the obligation to' redeem their currency in
specie, and at the same time, sell the very
gold and silver with which it ought to be re—
deemed for ten to fifteen per cent. in exchange
for their own bills.
Are these institutions really the friends of
Lincoln? Just as soon as it appears that the
banks are to be allowed to prey upon the
people at this time, when they are loyally and
patriotically pouring into the public treasury
every dollar they can spare, and bravely
looking debt and taxation in the fade, we
shall find an abatement of zeal and discontent
perilous to our great cause. -Whatever circu
lates as money now must circulate at, par,
and if the bills of the suspended banks are
really declining in value, and are, in fact,
worth ten to fifteen per cent. less than gold,
it is time to crush them out. If this evil
should be allowed to progress, we shall soon
have universal bankruptcy. Cast the-money
changers out of our holy temple. Scourge
them away from our patriotic altars.
GENERALS MCCLELLAN AND BEAUREGARD.-
The Providence Press says :
" It is a striking indication of the character
of civil war, that Generals McClellan and
Beauregard, who are about the same age,
were educated together at West Point, served
and were wounded together in Mexico, and
having advanced together from rank to rank,
are now pitted against each other as the load—
ers of the great Northern and Southern ar—
mies. It-is a question for the Christian, phi
losopher to watch the solution of : For what
great purpose is it that God allows this 'ln
flict, and has raised up two such men to be
the leaders of it?"
stir The subscribers or depositors for the
Government loan in New York on Wednesday
numbered over one hundred and twenty ; and
the aggregate-0 their sabseiptious amounted
to over 4179,PD0.' This was Made nyi bf
sums rangingfroni 00'6 $16,006, 'the largest
number of subscribers being for sums below
$ 500.
LOCAL DEPARTMENT.
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE MEETINGB.—The Do.
Moira:7 of the City of Lancaster areieguested to meet at
,their accustomed places of meeting on Baturday next.l4th
Itn4, between the lemma 6% and 8 o'clock. P. M for the
purpoieof electing five-delegates from each Ward, to reps.
sent the city in the County Convention, which meets at
Fulton. Hall on Wednesday, the 18th last, at ll o'clock,
N. W. Ward , —Ehober's Hotel, North Queen !bud.
N. E. Wind—Young's 'Hotel, Eaat Obeat.nut atria.
B. W. Wald—Tltznabiek's Hoist, South Queen Strait.
8.8. Ward—Effinger's Saloon, South Queen street.
BY ORDER OF CITY EXECUTIVE 00541111TEEd.
iNTERESTINC, TO PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS.
—Hon. John Covode, of this State, arrived in Washington
on Friday, and effected an arrangement so as to prevent
any conflict between the Federal and Pennsylvania State
government. Governor Curtin will be instructed to com
mission all regiments now in the field, and those authorised
to be raised In Pennsylvania by the War Department, giv
ing all volunteers the benefit of-the State appropriation
while the United States will clothe and organise them.
This is good news for those who have joined Col. Ham
bright's regiment, and who feared from the recent order
issued at Harrisburg, that they would be deprived of the
benefits accruing to volunteers from the State. Those who
have held back on this account will no doubt now come
forward and speedily fill up the regiment.
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE--SPLENDID
Turrusconat, To vac Gedxster Cot. Ifsicsamirr.—The beau
tiful and deserving compliment of the presentation of a
Sword, Pistols and Accoutrements (being the complete
outfit of the Colonel of a Regiment) to our esteemed fellow
citizen, Cal. HENRY A. ELsmaarerc, was paid on the 4th
inst. The correspondence which follows fully explains the
whole affair:
LANCASTER, Sept. 4,1801.
Comm.: The undersigned, a committee in behalf of
many citizens of Lancaster, take great pleasure In present
ing to you, in their name, the accompanying Sword, Pis
tols, and Accontrementa—making the complete outfit of
an officer of your rank.
In common with this whole community, they confer
equal honor upon themselves as upon you. They feel that
yordare deserving of it. They know that far from cabaling
to gain the commission with which you have been clothed,
you' would have refused it, if you had not looked upon the
acceptation of it as a duty due to your country. Your
whole life has been familiar to them. The boy is said to
be father to the man, and it is with proud eatisfaction that
they view your career, and recognise that In you, the pa
triotic son of a patriotic sire, are nobly united the charac
ter of the soldier and the gentleman. The name of Ram--
bright ie synonomous with soldier, and has ever been
respected and esteemed, worthily enjoying the confidence
of the people of Lancaster county.
Not only on the battle fields of Mexico have you shown
your devotion to your conntifs flag, but when the traitors
DOW in arms against their Government first raised their
parricidal hands, and infamously dared to erase therefrom
a single star of Its glory, you were among the first, with
your gallant company of the "Jackson Rifles" (a company
of men most fitly named), to march to the defence of its
honor. The cry that "the Capital was in danger" was
enough for you. On every occasion you did your duty;
and although during the short period for which you were
called into service, the recreant followers of treason never
afforded you an opportunity of meeting them. in the field,
yet the promptness which you showed contributed to keep
them back within their entrenchments, and saved the line
of the Potomac.
The United States, through the War Department, fully
appreciating your character, first appointed you a Captain
in the regular army, and further, conscious of your merits,
have authorized you to raise and bring into service a regi
ment. We feel that the Administration deserves the credit
of placing "the right man In the right place." Nobly have
you responded to that call, and ore another week rolls
around, you will be found "ready! aye, ready I" for every
call of duty. The question, "whether we have a govern
ment requiring the willing hands and hearts of all her
children I" will be nobly answered by you and the brave
men under your command. We commend you and your
regiment, in unity with all patriotic soldiers, to the protec
tion of the God of our litithers! and trusting that the same
blessing may be vouchsafed upon our arms that He ex
tended over them in the dark days of the Revolution, we
feel confident that victory will again light upon our flag.
Accept then, Colonel, these tokens of the respect enter
tained for you by your fellow-citizens. We need not tell
you to use them nobly. Your name and character are
sufficient guarantees. In after days (and may you have a
length of them) you will leek upon these 'emblems' with
that satisfaction, which the honest and the brave can alone
enjoy.
We have the honor to be, very respectfully, your friends
and fellow.citizens,
LEWIS HALDY,
GEORGE L. BOYLE,
JAMES L. YOUNGMAN,
Committee.
Colonel HENRY A. Mamamar, U. S. Army.
LANCASTER, Sept. 4, 1861.
Omni:Km : It is with the most heartfelt thanks that I
have received through you, as a Committee, the "Sword,
Pistols and Accoutrements" of an "Officer of my Rank,"
so generously presented by many citizens of Lancaster.
I am, as you are aware, a. man of action more than of
words. Your flattering comments therefore upon my past
life and conduct can only incite me to future and better
service in defence of my country's flag. Under the "Con
stitution" which has descended to us from our fathers, and
the "stars and stripes," I was born, and I expect to die.—
So far as my endeavors can assist in perpetuating the
obligations of the one, and in defending the honor of the
other, they will be devoted to that object. These are the
times to try men—for every man must be for his country,
or against it—there can be no middle course. If we are
but true to ourselves, success must crown our banner. I
know no cause but that of my country.
I thank you further for the compliment which you pay
to the brave men who are to serve under my command,
and can only say that I will be true to them, and endeavor
by all means in my power to do them justice, and prove to
them a friend indeed.
Again thanking you, and my fellow-citizens whom you
represent, for these beautiful tokens of their regard, which
I ahall aver treasure,
I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
Your friend and fellow-citizen,
H. A. HAMBRIGIIT.
To Messrs. Lawn HAM); GEORGE L. Bovzz and JA311.E.9 L
YOMMMAN, Committee.
A MURDEROUS AFFAIR.—On Friday last, a
terrible tragedy was enacted on the Susquehanna river,
above Safe Harbor. It app-ars that a family named Neff,
consisting of the father and three sons and a neighbor
named Sides, had a difficulty with a family named Smeltz•
er, residing on the York county shore, about a fish-pot In
the river. On the day above named the Neffs and Sides
armed themselves with guns for the purpose of driving off
the SmeOzer& The latter were in a canoe, when they were
fired upon by the Neffs, and one of them killed instantly,
and the other mortally wounded, who has since died. A
third one in the canoe made his escape. The old man
Neff, with one of his sons and Sides were arrested and
brought to this city on Sunday morning, and committed
to prison by Alderman Van Camp. The other two had
not yet been arrested at the time our paper went to preen
on yesterday afternoon.
DEPARTURE OF TRAINS, AND CLOSING OF THE
Hems AT THE CITY POST OFFICE.—The different Passenger
Trains on the Pennsylvania and branch railroads leave this
city as follows:
..... . ... ....
Fast Lino 2.42 a. in.
Viral:tab Express 10.45 a. in
Lancaster Accommodation 8.40 a. in
Harrisburg Accommodation 3 08 p. in
Mail Train 7.12 p. m
LEAVE WESTWARD.
. . .., ..
Through Express 1.01 a. m
Mail Train 10.49 a. m
Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 1 11.00 a. m
Fast Line 2.10 p. m
Harrisburg Accommodation 6.08 p. m
Lancaster Accommodation 7.44 p. m
Mount Joy Accommodation, No. 2 7.50 p. m.
Emigrant Train 11.65 p. m.
' CLOSING OP MAILS BY RAILROAD.
Eastern Through New York and
Eastern States, at 8 a. m., 6.30 p. m. , and 9 p. m.
Way Mail East—For Philadelphia and intermediate offices,
at 8 a. m.
Western Through Mail—For Harrisburg, Plttabnrg and
Western States, at 10 a. in., and 9 p in.
Way Mall West—For Landisville, Elizabethtown, Mount
• Joy, Middletown, Harrisburg, Lewistown, Huntingdon,
Tyrone, Altoona, Hollidaysburg (and Way Mail between
Altoona and Pittsburg) at 10 a. in.
Southern Mail—For Columbia, York, Baltimore, Washing
ton, D. 0., and other points South, (except the Seceded
States,) at 10 a. m.
Baltimore and Washington, D. 0., 6.30 and 9 p. m.
Pittsburg Through Mail, at 1.30 and 9 p. m.
Columbia, York and Harrisburg, at 10 a. in., and 6% p. M.
For Strasburg, via: Camargo, Quarryville, Martifierville,
and New Providence, at 8 a. in.
ARRIVAL OF MAILS BY SAILLOAD.
Through Mail East 1.00 a. m., 11.00 a. m., and 2.10 p. m
Way Mail East 11.00 a. in.
Through Mall West 242 a. in, 10.45 a. m., and 2.10 p. m.
Way Mall West 8.40 a. in., and 7.12 p. in.
Southern Mail 3.08 p. m.
CLOSING OF MAILS ON THE STAGE ROUTES.
For Reading, via: Neffsville, Litlz, Bothsyllle Ephrata,
Reamstcrwn, Adamstown and Gouglersville, daily, at 8
a. m.
For East Hempfield, Manheim and White Oak, daily, at
B a. m.
For Millersville and Slackwater, daily, at 1 p. m.
For Safe Harbor, daily, at 1 p. in.
For Hinkletown, via: Landis Valley, Oregon, West Earl,
and Farmereville, daily, at 2 p. m.
For Paradise, via: Greenland and Sondersbnrg, daily, at
2 p.m,
For Litiz, via: Neffsville, daily, at 2 p. m.
For Strasburg, Via: Fertility and Wheatland Mills, daily, at
2 p. tn.
For Lampeter, daily, at 2 p. m.
For Phmoixville, via: New Holland, Blue Ball, Goodville,
Chnrchtown, Morgantown, Honeybrook, Chester Springs,
and Hlniberton, daily, at 1 p. m.
For Port Depoolt,Md., via: Willow Street, Smithy!lle, Buck,
Chesnut Level, Green, Pleasant Grove, Bock Springs, Md.,
and Rowlandsville,l4ld., Tri-weekly, Monday, Wednes
day and Friday, at 6 a. m.
For Colebrook, via: Swarr's Mill, Old Line, Sporting Hill
and Mastersonville, Semi-weekly, Wednesday and Fri
day, at 6 a. m.
For Vogausville and Terre Hill, daily, at 8 a. m.
For Liberty Square, via: Conestoga, Marticville, Coleman
villa, Mount Nebo, Bethesda and Rawlinsville, Semi
weekly, Wednesday and Saturday, at 1 p. m.
Office hours, from 7a. in. to Bp. o. On Sunday, from 8
to 9 a. m.
Postage to California, Oregon and Washington Tarrito.
ries,lo cents.
Letters, alleged to be valuable, will be registered, and a
receipt given therefor, on application and payment of the
registration fee of five cents, in addition to the regular
postage.
All letters are required to be pre-paid with stamps before
they can be mailed.
Joint J. COCHRAN, Postmaster
ger A new species of Rye, indigenous to
California, and remarkable for the largeness,
plumpness and beauty of its grain, has been
exhibited in Washington. Mr. Isaac Newton,
the newly appointed Superintendent of the
Agricultural Bureau,. connected with the De
partixtent of the Interior, has received a small
supply of the grain, and will distribute it
among the farmers in different parts of the
country. Its yield is said to be very great,
reaching even, on poor land, fifty bushels to
the acre.
This will be glorious news for the lovers of
" Old Rye," and if there be no mistake in it,
the material for making whisky will become
so cheap, that in a little time there will be no
excuse for the use of strychnine, nor for im
bibing Jersey lightning, but all the lovers of
spiritual potations may luxuriate in California
Rye."
far The Dealers in naval stores at the East are
apprehensive that the Hatteras victory will cause a
decline in prices. It is supposed that the North
Carolina porta may be opened under loyal auspices.
The Boston Traveller says : "If the ports of North
Carolina are now thrown open—we mean those porta
which we can undoubtedly seise and hold—not only
spirits of turpentine, but rosin, tar, yellow pine (now
in great demand,) and even cotton, will find their
way into our ports.' During the past Year, strange
as it may seem to those who have thought North
Carolina exclusively a naval stores' State, we received
'in Heston alone six thousand live hundred and thirty
five babe of cotton from the single pert' of Wilming=
ton, N.. 0., all the product of the . State. Our recent
luia certainly (nested Considerable sensation
among the holders of naval gorse in this
and Lae had the tendency to unsettle prices.
NEW TORE DEMOCRATIC COMPILE
TION.
Synecuar., N. Y. Sept 5.
On the assembling of the Convention this
morning, a motion was Made' to re consider
the vote admitting both the Mozart and Tam
many delegations.. A hot debate ensued.—
The Convention refused ; to hear Mr. McMaa
tors, of the .Freentas's Journal, and a vote was
ordered on the main question.
. [SECOND DISPATCH.]
Silt - &CM, Sept. s—Noon.
The majority report, admitting on 'Pl.:4.e
Tammany delegation, has been passed, thus
excluding the Mozart or peace wing of the
party. This action has created tremendous
excitement.
By a vote of 114 against 87, the Convention
re considered the vote of yesterday, admitting
both the New-York city delegations. The
question now recurs in adopting the majority
report, admitting the Tammany delegates only.
There is much excitement both inside and
outside of the Convenbon.
[TRIED DISPATCH.I
SYRACUSE, Sept. 5-9 p. m.
• The Committee on Resolutions reported a
series, in effect as follows : .
Resolved let. That the watohWord which
should animate the Democracy in the defence
of our imperiled country is the sentiment of
Jackson, that the Union must be preserved.
2nd. That the claim to relinquish the State
allegiance is unwarranted by the Constitution,
and at war with it in letter and spirit, and
incompatible with good Government, and the
Democracy have ever maintained, as they still
do, that secession is revolution.
3rd. That the seizure of the forts and the
property of the Government, followed by the
authorization of privateering, precipitated the
country into war.
4th. That it is the duty of the Government
to prosecute this war with all its power, and
resources, and the duty of the people to rally
to its support until the struggle ends with the
triumph of the Constitution and the laws, and
the restoration of the Union.
sth. That we hold next in guilt to the fac—
tion in arms the Northern agitators.
6th. That it was the duty of Congress to
have encouraged the loyal citizens of the South
by ample guarantees of their rights, and by
just and honorable concessions, and we believe
it to be the duty of the Government, while
putting down the rebellion, to offer the loyal
people of the dis9ffected States the remedy
which the Constitution itself provides, viz : a
convention of all the States for the revision
and amendment of that instrument.
7th. That the Democracy of this State regard
any attempt to pervert this conflict into a war
for tee emancipation of slaves as fatal to all
hopes for the restoration of the Union.
Bth. That we protest against the doctrine
that any power, except the representatives of
the people, can suspend the writ of habeas
corpus, and protest against the passport sys—
tem—against the' Government establishing a
State police--akainst the assumption of the
Government to repress the discussion of its
policy by a free press--by the refusal to afford
it the proper mail facilities, and finally protest
against the President's doctrine that the States
derive their authority from the Federal Gov—
ernment.
The last resolution concludes as follows
That a Democratic victory in this State will
be hardly less auspicious to the cause of the
Union that the triumph of the Federal arms
in the field ; and, therefore, we hold those who
are trying to create dissensions in the ranks
of the Democracy as not only treacherous to
its principles, but disloyal to their country,
EXCHANGE OP PRISONERS
The Government has done nothing as yet looking
toward a recognition of belligerent rights of the reb
els in the exohange of prisoners with them. VATTEL,
in his " Law of Nations," (Bk. 3, ohap. 18,) says :
A civil war produces in the nation two independent
parties considering each other as enemies and ac
knowledging no common judge; therefore of necessity
these two parties must, at least for a time, be con•
sidered as forming two separate bodies, two distinct
people. Though one of them may be in the wrong,
who ehalljudge them; who shall pronounce on which
side the right or the wrong lies • on earth they have
no common superior. Things being thus situated, it
is very evident that the common laws of war, those
maxims of humanity, moderation, and probity before
enumerated, are, in civil wars, to be observed on both
sides. Should one party assume the right to hang
up his prisoners as rebels, the other will make re
prisals, and the war will eoome oriel and horrible.
Troops have often refused to serve in a war where
in they were exposed to cruel reprisals. Officers
who have the highest sense of honor, though ready
to shed their blood in the field of battle, have not
thought it any part of their duty to run the hazard
of an ignominious death. Therefore war is to he
carried on between them in the same manner as be
tween two different nations, and they are to leave
open the same means for preventing enormous vio
lence and restoring peace.
A speedy and public recognition of the above wise
and well-settled doctrine as to all the prisoners now
or hereafter to come into our possession, by capture
upon the land or water, is indispensable for obtain
ing adequate enlistment for both services, for, as the
matter now stands, our Government avows its inten
tion to hang the officers and crew of the Savann ah,
and of other privateers, and official notification has
been given to President LINCOLN and General Sco TT
that retaliation will surely follow. Thus, the "haz,
and of an ignominous death," to encounter which
forms no part of the duty of officers, sailors, or sol
diers, must be assumed by them in addition -to the
perils of battle.—N. Y. World.
!MILITARY EXPENDITURES OF THE
We are informed that an account made up
at the Auditor General's Office of the moneys
actually settled for military expenses, at that
office up to and including the 31st day of Au
gust., ult., amounts to the sum of $1,515,716,-
40. This includes all expenditures actually
made, whether on Auditor General or Gover
nor's warrant, since the commencement of the
rebellion, for enrolling, subsisting„ clothing,
supplying, arming, equipping, paying and
transporting troops,, and all incidental expen
ses connected therewith. The amount of
outstanding unsettled accounts is not actually
known. It is not believed that it can exceed
—nor thought that it can reach $100,000.
Some of the moneys included in the first
stated aggregate are probably in the hands of
the heads of the several military departments,
not yet disbursed, and may be in part refun 7
ded to the treasury.
We think that this statement will effect
every person with surprise at the relative
smallness of the amount expended. More than
40,000 troops have been transported, subsist
ed, nearly all clothed, and many of them
have received two month's pay, or more, from
the State. Certainly, considering all that
has been done—the many and loud clamors
that have been raised about improper expen
ditures, frauds and impositions, and the great
number of men that hacip be provided with
every requisite for the war, there is very good
evidence of care, economy and prudence in the
disbursement to be found in the above state
ment. We believe it will compare favorably
with the accounts of any other State, as it
has surprised many who were more or less
connected or conversant with the business,
for the amount is, so far at least, 25 per cent.
below their estimates.-Harrisburg Telegraph.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
FORTRESS Moisuax, Sept. 3, vie Baltimore, Sept.
4.—The gunboat R. B. Forbes got off Cape Charles
the night before lait, with three feet of water in her
hold, and proceeded to Washington this morning for
repairs. She would have gone to pieces had not the
weather been unusually mild. -.
-
The contraband slaves now at Old Point number
eighteen hundred, including women and children.
A flag of trace has just come in from Norfolk with
the crews of the bailees Rowena and Glen, schooner
Mary Alice and brig Joseph, all captured by the
privateer Dixie, with the exception of the Joseph,
which was taken by, the privateer Savannah.
The captain and mates of the Glen were retained
as prisoners at Richmond. The captain of the Mary
Ahoe is almost direct from Charleston. He reports
that the force there does not exceed four thousand
men, and that they apprehend an attack from the
recent naval expedition.
Con4ressman Ely is still at Richmond, and has to
take his turn in cooking and carrying water for the
prisoners.
Colonel Comma was lately put in irons several
hours for refusing to answer his name at the roll eat.
Butter at Richmond is worth 50 cents, ham 30
cents, and coffee 45 Dente per pound.
FORTRESS MONROE, Sept. 5.
The Monticello and Harriet Lane arrived from
Hatteras Inlet this morning, report most gratifying
intelligence.
The Confederates have abandoned their strongly
fortified forts at Ocracoke Inlet.
Multitudes of North Carolinians have demonstra
ted their loyalty to the Government by coining to
Hatteras Inlet to take the oath of allegiance.
Col Hawkins sends word that he tuiministered the
oath to between two and three hundred persons in a
single day. •
The steamer Pawnee still lies in the Inlet and the
Susquehanna on the outside.
The Susquehanna ran down to.Ooiacoke Inlet and
found the fortifications there coMpletely deserted.--,
The Confederates had Carried away the , guns, and
the white flag was every where exhibited. -
NEW NATIONAL LOAN. - -DtlbBoTipfiollB fOT
11. S. Treasury 'slates, bearing 7 310 per cent.
intermit, will be received at ' the Banking
House'of REED. McGasliti 8c Co., in . this city.
tel. The SteamehitirNorthern Light arrived
at New York on Monday evening-from Aepin•
wall, ; with the California mails and $750,000
in treasure.
TILE RATIONAL LOAN.
AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE.
WaShja.artM, bopt. 1.
The following pat:static appeoi tut we national
Loan boa just bum' binned by Dunaway Caton w toe
coatus tne lALUGaI. OL4Les:
:r the People of the [Tutted Statee
"I.ll:uur Nauu..ai litrvcrualeut, cuutpe/iod by a
guilty conspiracy culminating ui a 0414641indd 1.41111/ ,
notion, is engaged in a war tor security and liberty,/
for/the supremacy of the law, for the defence of the
U .14 and for the maintenance or_popular
inatitn
ohe. For the means to dark) , the necessary ex
penses of the wax, yobr Congress Itaa t .direoted that
an appeal bp made to you, by ope nin g a subscrip
tion w a National Loan of one hundred and dity
millions of dollars.
" Already the enlightened and patriotic) capitalists
of the great cities of New York, Philadelphia and
Boston, have manifested their olear sense both of
duty and interest, by a subscription of $50,000,000.
Congress, under which this subscription was re
ceived, wisely provides, however, that the advan
tages, as well as the patriotic satisfaction of a parti
cipation in this loan, shall be offered not to the
capitalists of the great cities only, bat to the people
of the whole country. In order to secure a simian
tial reward for their public spirit to those whose
patriotism prompts. them in this hour of trial to
place at the disposal of Government, Congress has
directed that an interest of 7 3-10 per contain be
paid on the several amounts subscribed, an interest
not liable to State taxation, but constituting for sub
scribers a revenue not only certain in receipt, but
greater in amount than can be expected from any
ordinary investment.
" And in order to afford all citizens equal oppor
tunities of participation in these advantages, Con
gress has further directed that subscriptions be re
ceived for same as small as $5O as well as for large
amounts, and that shoald the subscriptions exceed
the whole sum desired, the smaller be preferred in
its distribution. hach subscriber, on payment of
his subscription, will, be entitled to receive Treasury
notes, equal in amount, in such denoulinaLons as he
may prefer, whether of $5O, $lOO, $l,OOO or $5,000.
The interest at 7 3-10 per ..annum will be, on the
notes of $5O one cent, on $/60 two cents, on $5OO ten
cents, on $l,OOO twenty cents, and on $5,000 sue dol
lar for each day. All treasury notes issued will bear
date on the 19th of August, 1861, and will bear
interest from that date. Hach note will have coupons
attached, expressing the several amounts of semi
annual interest, which coupons may be detached
from the notes, and presented for payment separate
ly. Each subscriber may pay the whole amount
subscribed at the time of subscription, or, if he pre
fers to do so, may pay one-tenth at that time and
one-third every twentieth day thereafter. At each
payment the accrued interest on the amount from.
the 19th of August to the date of payment must also
be paid, and the amounts of interest thus paid will
be reimbursed in the payment of the first coupon.
"In order to secure beyond peradventure the
punctual payment of the interest and the gradual
reduction of the principal, Congress has provided by
law for an annual revenue amply sufficient riot only
fur these purposes, but for the prompt payment of
all demands on account of extraordinary expendi
tures. It will be seen at a glance that not only is
the whole property of the country pledged for the
interest and final reimbursement of the loan, but
that an adequate and specific proportion of the
annual production is set apart by taxation for the
redemption of this pledge. Prompt payment beyond
a contingency is thus secured.
"Nor can this taxation be thought great when
compared with the magnitude of the objects of the
contest, or with the amount of property and produc
tion. The objects are Union, permanent peace and
security at home, and respect abroad, which are im
perilled by this unprovoked rebellion. The intelli
gence of the people will comprehend at once their
magnitude. They rise above property. They belong
to no Administration. They concern the whole
country during all time, under every Administration,
and in every relation, foreign or domestic.
" And the means for the attainment of these great
objects can be readily supplied from the property
productions of the country. The real and personal
values in the United Suites reach the vast aggregate
of $16,000,000,000, and in the States now loyal to
the Union this aggregate is $11,000,000,000. The
yearly surplus earnings of the loyal people are
estimated by intelligent persons conversant with such
investigations at more than $400,000,000, while the
well considered judgment of military men of the
highest rank and repute, warrants the confident
expectation that if the war is prosecuted with energy,
courage and skill, it may be brought to a termina
tion before the close of next spring, in which event
the cost beyond the revenue will hardly exceed the
amount of the $250,000,000 loan authorized by Con
gress; and with a due economy in all branches of
the public service, not more than the total expendi
tures of Great Britain or France in years of peace.
" And it is not unreasonable to hope that the
auspicious result of peace may be hastened by the
reflection of the citizens of the States in insurrection;
that they will review their action, weigh their own
welfare, consider the disposition of the people of the
whole country to recognize all their constitutional
rights, and to allow them their full share in the
benefits of the common Uovernment, and renew their
allegiance to the Union, which, in an evil hour, they
have been tempted to throw off. Will they not reflect
that the war into which the Uovernment has been
constrained is not a war for their subjugation, but a
war for national existence, and that an auspicious
result to the Union will benefit as largely the States
in insurrection as the States which have remained
loyal ? However this may be the duty of the
National Government, as the constitutionally consti
tuted agent of the people, admits of no question.
The war made necessary by the insurrection, and
reluctantly accepted by the Government, must be
prosecuted with all possible vigor until the restora
tion of the just authority of the Union shall insure
permanent peace.
" The same good Providence which conducted onr
fathers through the difficulties and dangers whiuh
beset the formation of the Union, has graciously
strengthened our hands for the work of its preserva
tion. The crops of the year are ample; the gran
aries and barns are everywhere full. The capital
ists of the country come cheerfully forward to sustain
the credit of the Government. Already, and even.
in advance of this appeal, men of all occupations
eeek to share the honors and advantages of the loan.
Never, except because of the temporary depression
caused by the rebellion and the derangement of
business occasioned by it, were the people• of the
United States in a better condition to sustain a great
contest than now.
" Under these favoring circumstances, and for these
grand objects, I shall, in pursuance of the act of
Congress, cause books of subscription to be opened
as speedily as practicable in the several cities and
principal towns of the United States, in order that
all citizens who desire to subscribe to the loan may
have the opportunity of doing so. Meanwhile, those
who prefer that course can remit any sum which
they may wish to invest in the loan to the Treasury
of the United States at Washington, or to either of
the Assistant Treasurers at Bono u, New York, Phila
delphia or St. Louis, or to the Depository at-Cincin
nati, where certificates will entitle the holders to
Treasury notes on the terms already stated: The
patriotism of the people, it is not to be doubted, will
promptly respond to the liberal wisdom of thOir
representatives
(Signed)
,4 B. P. Caesis,
"Secretary of the Treasury."
CASE OF THE BRITISH SHIP ALLI.
ANCE.-RT.TNNING THE BLOCKADE.
Our telegraphic despatches announce, by the way
of Richmond and Louisville, that the British ship
Alliance hes successfully ran the blockade at Beau
fort, North Carolina.
If the statement is to be relied upon—and we see
no reason'to doubt it—then the enemy have been
supplied with a large and valuable assortment of
contraband goods, consisting of tin plate, sheet iron,
block tin, pig lead, ko., purchased in the City of
Boston, conveyed to St. John, N. 8., by our regular
steam packets between the two ports, and put on
board the Alliance, which was known to be in charge
of two of the most noted secessionists of South Caro
line—one of them a former owner beforo the bogus
transfer was made of her register to British owners,
and the other a well known pilot of Charleston, who
was known to be entirely familiar with every mile
of the southern coast. In permitting the escape of
this vessel we think it can be proven that the Gov
ernment has been grossly negligent of its duties, for
we have it on entirely reliable authority that for
several days prior to her departare from St. John
abundant facts and testimonials of her true charac
ter were furnished to the Marshal of this district, but
that the Federal Government would not give the
necessary orderi for her detention until it was .too
late.
The Alliance originally attempted to enter the
harbor of Charleston with a cargo of coal. She was
stopped by the blockading fleet, and ordered to New
York, and the proper indorsement made upon her
papers_ to that effect. Instead of proceeding to New
York, however, she went to St. John, New Bruns
wick, where she discharged her cargo without selling
it, and also discharged her crew. Here she lay for
several weeks, in charge of her Charleston captain,
wearing the British flag at her mainmast, and the
secession flag at her fore, until at length she Was
joined by the Charleston pilot before referred to.
Then the contraband articles were taken on board,
and she sailed in three or four days after with a new
crow, and with a clearance for some port in the West
Indies, while there was not a merchant in St. John
who did not know her real purpose and destination.
The United States Government had all the facts in
its possession above narrated, and -that, too, upon
one day certainly when two revenue - cutters, either
one of which could have taken the vesselimmedi
ately outside of the harbor of St. John, were lying
idly at anchor in the stream—Boston journal.
PROM. THE SEAT OP WAR.
A dispatch from Poolesville, Md., states
that on Friday last a force of 1,000 Mississipi
plans reached the vicinity of Fairfax Court
House, with sixty pieces of artillery. The
rebel force opposite Washington is estimated,
in the same report, at 125,000, with. large
daily reinforcements.
The ball has at last fairly opened in Ben.
tacky. Gen. Grant, in anticipation of a like
act on the part of the rebels, has taken posses
sion of Paducah. He took possession of the
telegraph, railroad, and marine hospital; and
found a large amount of rations waiting the
arrival of the confederates, who were hourly
expected with a force of 3,800. men..
The rebels are strengthening their positions
in front of- the federal lines, and are said to
be receiving larger reinforcements every day.
These facts, with the completeness 'of Gen.
McClellan's arrangements, indicate the near
approach of a second great battle. The goVern
ment is still without any confirmation of -,the
report of Davis's death, and the rumor is be
lieved to be a canard.
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CONFISCATION OF „ A
.EANBOAT I AT PITTS.
nuita.—Under the confiscation - at ' Golleikor
Bachelor, of Pittsburg, seized a new steamer
in course of construction, and -placed her in
possession of. the officers of the gesierninent
to be disposed of for its, benefit. The _boat
belongs te.the'Hon. John Bell, of , lloningesee,
and ii , ,: f itt - iiboat $ll,OOO. .4. - op/y'sißme
$5,000 Wive - teen - paid on her, the Go vernment
will be benefited by the seizure only to that
amount.