LITEST FROM THE MR. Rebel Movements in Missouri. I FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA. Skiriubli Near Bailey's Cross Roails. BATTLE AT CROSS LANES, VA. Hatteras Inlet Fortifications Cap tured by the Naval Fleet. General Fremont's Proclamation. Palmyra, Mo., Taken Possession of by the Rebels. _ i SHARP SKIRMISH NEAR BAILEY'S CROSS ROADS. WASHINGTON, August 30,18G1. Geoeral McClellan received intelligence this morning that a sharp skirmish took place this uioiuing on the other side of the river,, near Bailey's Cros3 Roads, between a body of about two hundred rebels and the picket guard of General Richardson's brigade. The evident intention of the rebel skirmishers was to sur prise the TTuiou pickets, and eh her take them prisoners, kill them, or drive them in*; but our j boys, although less in number, charged hand- | somely upon the rebels, and killed some, took some prisouers, and stampeded the rest. This ; daring move on the part of the rebels is taken | as evidence of a determination by them to j bring on a general engagement. General j AlcClellau is ready for them. THE POSITION or THE HOSTILE AMIES. The relative positions of the two armies re mained up to-night the same as yesterday.— The rebels are throwing up immense earth works on both sides of Munsou's Hill, ou the Leesburg turnpike, one mile from Bailey's Cross Roads. The bili referred to is of cleared land, and the enemy make no secret of their 1 movements. Tiieir cavalry, of which they ! have several.hundred i ear that locality, ma- j nocuvre over the hills, and sometimes venture j in small detachments to within half a mile or ; so of the Union pickets. For this presumption j several of them were shot to-day. The tem porary rebel rifle cannon battery alluded to iu my despatch of yesterday—located at the south side of Munsoa's Hdl, and used tocover their working parties—was kept in play at intervals to-day. At one time, when one of the Union pickets killed one of the rebeis who had the temerity to expose himself on the turnpike, the rebeis got terribly wroth, and opened their battery with great vigor upon the empty build,tigs at Bailey's Cross Roads, in which they supposed our troops were shelter ed The rebels are throwing up works at a place • about three miles from Bull's Crossing. The extent of these works 1 am not able to state, but it is suid the rebel soldiery are iu consid erable force at that point. During the entire day brisk skirmishing has | been kept up between the pickets of the two j armies, but with no definite result. The Union officer captured by the rebels on Sunday last, near Bailey's Cross Roads, was Captain Fish, of the New York Thirty-second j regiment, and not the Thirty-first regiment, as ! previously reported. Private Lorenzo Cronk, of Company D, of I the New York Thirty-eighth regiment, who was reported as among the list of the captur ed uear Bailey's Cross Roads on Tuesday last returned to camp the following day, having escaped rora his captors and concealed him self m a tree until an opportunity offered for him to return to his own camp. Sergeant Fairfield and privates Van Dusen and Tyler, of the sumo regiment, arc still iu the hands of the enemy . THE DESIGNS 07 THE REBELS. Under the whip and spur of necessity to do 60i4ethio(f, the rebels are pushing forward, erecting defensive works immediately in our front, banging away with their artillery at all the houses within our lines that are iu reach of their missiles, merely for the purpose of dis tracting atteutiou from the movement of a heavy column towards the Upper Potomac, with a view of crossing over into Maryland ut some point just below the Point of Rocks They expect to find fewer of our troops in that direetiou than at any other locatiou, and to be enabled to throw into Maryland a suffi cieut force to form a nucleus for its secession ists, aud inaugurate a civil war there. It is estimated, by men entitled to know, that there are seventy five thousand of the rebel army between Harper's Ferry and Edward's Ferry, awaiting an opportunity to force a crossing into Marylaud, and willing to tuke the chances there of an insurrection of the malcontents, that will enable them to transfer the conflict to that State, and 10 place Washington betweeu two rebel armies. BATTLE AT CROSS LANES. CINCINNATI, August 28,18R1. The following are all the particulars we can learn of the battle which took pfiice at Cross Laues, near Summerville, Ya., on Monday,the 2Gth instant : - It appears to have been a bloody affair. The Seveuth Ohio Regiment, commanded by Colonel Tyler, was surrounded while at breaktast, and attacked ou both flauks and in front simultaneously. Our men were immediately formed in line of battle, aud fought bravely, while they saw but little ebauce of success, the enemy proving too powerful. Colonel Tyler sent a messenger forward to f 3 baggage train which was coming up, and arned it back, when three miles from the sceue of couflict, tow ards Guuley, which place it reached iu safety. Companies R, C, and I suffered most severe ly. They particularly were in the hottest of the light, aud finally fought their way through tearful odds, aud making dreadful havoc in the enemy's ranks. The rebel force consisted of 3,000 infantry, 400 cavalry, and 10 guns. The Federal forces were scattered after cut ting their way through, but they scon formed again and fired, but received no reply. The enemy did not pursue. Our loss has not yet been definitely ascer tained. Not over two hundred are missing out of the who were engaged. The rebel loss was fearful. Lieutenant Colonel Creighton captured the enemy's colors and two prisoners. PALMYRA MO , TAKEN POSSESSION OF BY THE REBELS yciNtY, 111., August 29, 1 SO 1. Lieutenant PinLley, of Captain liaison's company, of the Sixteenth regiment of Volun teers, came to this city last evening. He states that a large body of rebels, variously cstima- ' ted at from two thousand live hundred to three thousand, under the notorious Martin Green, took possession of Palmyra, Mo., yesterday morning. There were no United States troops there to defend it, and ot course no resistance was made. Some five hundred of the rebels were in the town, and the balance encamped on the outskirts. A train of cars, containing a large quantity of muskets for the troops at St. Joseph, which left Hannibal yesterday, was fired into near Palmyra and was forced to return. Nodamage fortunately, was done. ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL LARS IN GOLD SEIZED BY THE REBELS. PAYETTE, Mo., August 29,1861. Apprehensions being felt that the branch of the State Bank at this place would berobbed, the cashier yesterday sent the specie, amount ing to about SIOO,OOO, to Allen depot, on the North Missouri Railroad, for transportation to St. Louis. On reaching Allen the money was seized by a party of twenty rebels, led by Captaju Poiudexter, and carried off. Whether it will be recovered is not now kuowu—some saying that Captain Poindexter has been in duced to return it to the bank, while others assert that he will attempt to cross the Mis souri river and carry it to Geueral Price's army in the northwest. HATTERAS INLET FORTIFICATIONS CAPTURED. FORTRESS MONROE. Saturday, Aug. 31, IS6I. The expedition which left Hampton Roads for the coast of North Carolina on Monday last has resulted iu one of the most splendid achievements on record ascounected with the navy in particular. Some deiay attended the concentration of ali the ships and steamers, but on Weduesday morning the Minnesota, the Wabash, the Cumberland, the Susquehanna, the Pawnee, the Harriet Lane, the Mouticelio, beside a number of tugs and the transport steamers Adelaide and Peabody, had arrived of liat teras Inlet. The fleet was in command of Flag Officer Stringbam, and the land forces were command ed by Maj Gen. Butier. Within the last three months the Rebels have erected two forts to guard the mouth of the Hatteras Inlet., and under the protection which they afforded Pamlico, Albemarle Sounds aud the connecting sounds had become the rendezvous of privateers. Through this direct connection with the Chesapeake, Albemarle, Norfolk, and Yirgiuia communicated with the sea. The bombardment was commenced at a dis tance of about two and a half miles by the Minnesota ou Wednesday at 11 a. in, and she was soon joined by the entire fleet. The fire was incessant, the forts responded but seldom, and it soon became evideut that their guns could not reach the ships, though the Rebels might long hold out, protected as they were by their works. When the bombardment opened, the land ing of troops from the tranqiorts, by launches aud small-boats, commenced, under cover of the guns of the Harriet Lane aud Mouticelio It was more than an hour before the first boat reached the beach. By this time the wind had come up so that the surf ran List), and though tiie greatest efforts were made, onlv about three hundred of the forces were lauded. Every boat was either broken up or beach ed, and notwithstanding nearly one thousand men had been placed on schooners, it was con sidered too dangerous to attempt to land them,, and they were returned to transports. Those who reached the shore were thoroughly wet. j Meanwhile the bombardment went on with ; out cessation. When this had continued about three hours, the flag of Fort Clark came down, and the rebels retreated to Fort liutterasja large work below. Soon after our forces on shore occupied the abandoned fort and waved the Stars and Stripes from the ramparts. 'i he Mouticelio had proceeded ahead of the iuud force to protect them, and had reach ed the Inlet, when a 1 irge fort, of an octagon j shape, to the rear and right of the small bat | tery, mounting ten 32s aud four 8 inch guns, which had till then been silent, opened 011 her with eight guns, at short range. At the same ■ instant she got aground and stuck fast, the : enemy pouring in a fire, hot and heavy, which ; the Mouticelio replied to with shell sharply.— For tilty minutes she held her own, aud final ly getting off the ground she came out,having been shot through and though by seven 8-inch shells, one going below the water line. She fired 05 shells in fifty minutes, and partially silenced the battery. She withdrew at dusk for repairs, with one or two men slightly bruised, but none killed or wounded. Ou Thursday morning the fleet took their positions at about the same range, and at 8 o'clock the Susquehanna opeued the ball, and , in a few minutes the entire fleet concentrated its fire ou Fort Hatteras. Our forces on shore were now in Fort Clark, ! spectators of the scene. Fort Hatteras did not return the fire for nearly half an hour, aud j its shots all fell short. The bombardment was continued without intermission, when, at half-past eleven, our shells began to range on tho magazine—a white flag was displayed on the fort—our men at Fort Clark, with loud shouts, started on a double quick, and were uiet ou the beach by a flag of truce. Capt. Nixou of the Coast Guard repaired to the fort, aud was met by the commanding officer, who proved to be Commodore Samuel Barron, late of the navy. lie proposed to capitulate by allowing the gurrisou to stack arms and retire, and the officers to retain their | sidearms. These terms General Butler, who had entered the inlet on the steamer Fanny, instantly rejected, and demanded an uncondi tional surrender. These terms, after a Council of War, were accepted. . By the surrender we came in possession of ! one thousand stand of arms, thirty-five heavy guns, ammunition for the same,a large amount of hospital and other stores, two schooners— one loaded with tobacco and the other with provisions ; one brig loaded with cotton, two light-boats, two surf-boats, Ac. The enemy's loss they allow to he eight killed and thirty live wounded. Eleven of the ' latter were left at the bospitaljat Annapolis We took forty live officers prisoners, manv of high rank, and several others, late army and navy officers, and six hundred and sixty five non commissioned officers and privates. Not a inau was hurt on our sid9. PROCLAMATION BY GEN FREMONT. " HEADUCAKTLKS OF THE WESTERN DEPARTMENT, ) V ST. LOUIS, AUG. 31, LSTIL. ) "Circumstances, iu my judgment of suffi eient urgency,render it necessary that the Com manding General of this Department should assume the aduiistrative powers of the State. Its-disorganized condition, the helplessness of the civil authority, the total insecurity of life, and the devastation of property by bands of murderers and marauders who mfeet nearly every county in the State and avail themselves of the public misfortunes and the vicinity of a hostile force to gratify private and neighbor hood vengeance, and who find an enemy wher ever they find plunder,finally demand the sever est measures to repress the daily increasing crimes arid outrages which are driving off the inhabitants and ruiuing the Stat?. In this condition the public safety and the success of our arms require unity of purpo-e, without let or hindrance, to the prompt administration of affairs. • "In order, therefore, to suppress disorders, to maintain as far as now practicable the pub lie peace, and to give security and protection to the persons and property of loyal citizens, I do hereby extend, and declare established, martial law throughout the State of Missouri. The lines.of tha army of occupation in this State are for the present declared to extend 1 from Leavenworth byway of the posts of Jefferson City, Kolla, and Iroiitou, to Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi River. " All persons who shall be taken with arms Ui their hands within these lines shall be tried by aourt-murtial, and, if found guilty, will be; shot. The property, real and personal, pf all persons in the State of Missouri who shall take! up arms against the United States, and who ' shall be directly proven to have taken active pert with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use ; and their slaves, if auy they have, are hereby declared free. " All persons who shall be proven to have destroyed, after the publication of this order, t railroad tracks, bridges or telegraphs, shall i suffer the extreme penalty of the law. "All persons engaged in treasonable corre spondence. iu giving or procuring aid to the enemies of the United States, iu disturbing the public tranquility, by creating and circu lating false reports or incendiary documents, are in their own interest warned that they are exposing themselves. " All persons who have been led away from ; their allegiance are required to return to their homes forthwith ; any such absence without sufficient cause will bo held to be presumptive evidence against them. " The object of this declaration is to place in the bauds of the military authorities the power to give instantaneous effect to existing laws, and to supply such deficiencies as the gouditions of war demand. But it is not in tended to suspend the ordinary tribunals of the country where :he law will lie administered by the civil officers in the usual manner, ami with their customary authority while the same can be peaceably exercised. " The Commanding General will labor vigi lantly for the public welfare, and in his efforts for their safety, hopes to obtain not only the acquiescence, but the active support of the peo ple of the country. "J. C. FREMONT. " Major-General Commanding." HAUL OF COUNTERFEIT MONEY. —Sometime within a month or two past, a horse was sto len from a Mr. Van Deusen, keeper of a pub lic house at Horseheads, by a man whose name is supposed to be Brown. The horse was sold to Joseph Phillips, of Potter Co., Pa, who has a farm about four miles from Ulysstis vil lage. Van Deusen advertised a reward for the horse and thief, and the Sheriff of Potter Co., finding the horse in the possession of Phillips took it away. Phillips meeting Brown some time afterward demanded the return of the money he had paid on the horse,w hich demand Brown failing to comply with, Phillips took him iu custody last week and proceeded with him to Elrnira to claim the reward of £25 of fered for his apprehension. At Elmira Brown charged Phillips with having induced him to steal the horse, and farther asserted that Phil lips was a dealer in counterfeit money—that he then hud bogus coin in his pocket, and had several hundred dollars more hid iri a grnnery upon his farm iu Potter Co. Phillips was searched and two bogus $5 pieces found in bis possession. Both men were then locked up to await an investigation of the matter. The af fair was placed in the hands ot Deputy Mar shal ELMORE, of Elmira, who proceeded to trace it out. He came to this place on Fri day last, engaged the services of officer JOHN I \\ OOLSEY, and tiie two started for the home of ' Phillips. Arrived there they found no one upon the premises but Mrs. Phillips, a woman apparently fifty years of age She evidently knew nothing of the whereabouts of her hus band, and was surprised when told that he had 'got into trouble" at Elmira. He had told I her when leaving home that he was going to Andover. The officers asked for Mr. Phillips' money, which,they said they had been sent for, but Mrs P. knew nothing about it. fche said | her husband had lately sold a lot of young • cattle but she had no knowledge of the dispo i sition of the proceeds. On searching the grain ' ary officer WOOLSEY found a shot bag conceal ed in a barrel of grain, which on examination proved to contain $804,50 in counterfeit $5, $2,50 and $1 pieces, including thirty five dol lars in counterfeit bank notes. With this booty the officers departed. Part of the coin the $5 pieces is a very good imitation except being too light ; it is new and might deceive people who did not notice its weight. The remainder of the coin was poor and had evi dently been manufactured some time. The Phillips farm consists of one hundred , and sixty acres, clear of incumbrance, with • good buildings, and well stocked witli horses cattle, etc. If Mr. Phillips is guilty of this grave charge, and appcarauces are against him , there can no reason for snch a course except innate dishonesty. It may be that he is more I sinned against than sinning, but this point a trial will alone determine.— Jlornellsville Jour nal 2blh inst. Igg"*' The Harrisburg Ttlegraph says that among other Uuionists driven out of Texas, is Gen. DAVID R. PORTER, formerly Governor of Pennsylvania, who has returned to Harris burg, and is probably dying from slow disease and his sense of the couutry's condition.— Tweuty years ago, few men swayed more in fluence than Gov. Porter. •^rabto|ifpork. E. O. (JOQDRICU, EDITOR. TOWANDA : Thursday Morning, September 6, 1861. Republican County Nominations I FOK rRKSiDF.NT jrw.f, ULYSSES MERCUR, OF TOWANDA Bono J FOK ASSOCIATE VOLNEY M. LONG, OF TROY BORO. 7 FOR KEFRSSEXYATIVKS, HENRY W. TRACY, OF STANDING STONE, j CHESTER T. BLISS, OF LEROY. FOR TREASURER, FRANCIS WATTS, OF NORTH TOWAXDA. ! FOK COMMISSIONER, ISAAC LYONS, OF ORWELL. FOR A EDITOR, ROBERT Y. MASON, of Atloru. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION. The Republican County Convention held on Monday evening last, was fully attended, and the proceedings harmonious. The unanimity with which the candidates uomiuated were se lected, iu a great measure removes the feelings of disappointment which are generally produced by closer contests. The candidates, from first to last, are good men, irreproachable char acter and unquestioned capacity to properly discharge the duties of the offices for which they have been named by the partiality of their fellow citizeus, and will of course be tiiuuiph- . antly elected. As the Secretaries of the Convention have neglected to furnish us with the proceedings, we are unal !e to lay them before our readers this week. The candidates and Convention shall have a hearing hereafter. MT" We notice by a lute number of the Sullivan Co. Lkmoerut, that the democracy of that county held its Convention ut Laporte, on the 27th ult , and placed in nomination the following county ticket :—For Associate Judges, JAMES DEEGAN, RICHARD BEDFOLD ; Treasurer, W ALTER SPENCER ; Commissioner HENRY WILLIAMS ; Auditor, LEWIS MARTIN. 'lhc Republican Standing Comayttee met at Laporte, on the 24ih ult., and fixed upon the 16th of September for the holding of their Convention. A Committee of three was ap pointed to confer with a ,-imilar Committee from the Democratic party ( if such a Com mittee should be appointed ) to ascertain " whether it is practicable to form a ticket which will receive the unanimous support of the people of the county, at the coming elec tion ; and that if such a Union ticket is form it should be understood that neither party ,-urrcnders its distinctive principles or its or ganization, but as a present arrungment. which the times pecularly demand.'' This arranguient will not probably be af- I fected, as we have been informed by a promi nent member of the democratic party of that county, the democracy would enter into no alliance with the Republicans, and that their party lines would be drawn tighter than ev er, at the coming election. We have not seen the resolutions adopted at their Conven tion, consequently do not know the course they have adopted, but persume they have resolved to play " it alone," as they have nominated a radical democratic ticket. BsaF* The Atlantic Monthly, for September is a remarkably good number, as will be seen by the following table of coutents : " The Shakespear Mystery," by Richard Grant White ; " The Bath," a poem, by Bayard Taylor ; " Taceharissa Melassys," by Theodore Winthrop ; " My Odd Adventure with Junius Brutus Booth," anonymous ; " My Out-docr Study," by T. W. Higginson; " A Sermon in a Stone," anonymous poem ; The Tenth Chapter of Mrs. Stowe's " Agnes'' of Sorrento," '• The Acqurium," anonymous; "The Young R'pealer," by Harriet Marli neau ; " Bread and the Newspaper," by Oliver Wendal Holmes ; " Under the Cloud and Through the Sea," au anonymous poem ; " Journal of a Privateersman," anonymous ; " The Advantages of Defeat," by C. G Nortor ; " Ode to Happiness," by James Russell Lowell ; " Au Obituary to Elizabeth Barrett Browning," anonymous ; and the usual Reviews and Literary notices, including articles upon Alexander Smith's new poem, " Edwin of Deira," and Dickens' " Great Expectations." During the last three months this Magazines has published a series of the most brilliant papers that have ever enriched the pages of any periodical, British or Ame rican. The ablest living writers are enrolled iu its corps of contributors. BaT" Ellis B. Sclinabel, notorious in this his native and the other States of the north and east, as a foul mouthed advocate of the very foulest of northern dongh-faceism, has been arrested by the United States Marshal of Connecticut, and imprisoned at Fort Lafayette. He was for a long time one of the pets of the Buchanan administration, and was sustained on a sinecure office by Buchanan, purposely to abuse every man who differed with him, and assist in hurrying forward the very trouble in which we are uow involved. So far as his arrest is concerned, that should have been done long since, because if the charge of trea son against him should prove false, he is guil ty of sufficient other enormities to send him l< the penitentiary for a fw years at least. * j BY TELEGRAPH, ver the Towauda Telegraph Line. JEFF. DAVIS DEAD ! WASHINGTON, KEP. 2, ISOL. A. Despatch received to-day from Richmond, (via Louisville,) announces the death of JEFF. | DAVIS. This accounts for the desplay of Flag* i at half ma>t from the Rebel ramparts, to day. This is reliable. THE NEWS. In another column will be found news rcla ting to the successful operations on the North 1 j Carolina Coast, of the expedition which was , sent out from Fortress M nroe, on Monday the 2wh nit. The result tan be stated in a very few words, and it is not often in warfare that so important an exploit has been soquick ly and quietly accomplished ; by it we have ; come into possession of two forts, twenty-five cannon, 1,000 stand of arms and more than TOO prisoners, among whome are several ofll | eers of note, and, as it is reported, one of Jiff Davis's Cabinet officers, thought this point is not fully confirmed. It appears from the j j papers captured at tfie forts that the United States Government had in its service, as Con j sul t Rio Janero, a traitor of the blackest 1 i dye. His name is Robert G. Scott, jr., aj Georgian by birth, and anointed from Vir ginia. lie hud furnished to the Rebels a complete list of vessels loaning in the port of Rio , Janeiro, and destined for Northern j This information was turned by the Rebel pi rater to good account, for the record of their j ope at ions shows that that they have captured several of the vessels thus made known to them. The advaueed posts of the army of the Po tomac, under Gen. Richardson, had a brilliant skirmish early Thursday morning with the pickets of the enemy, near Bailey's Cross Roads. The rebels were two hundred strong, and the Union forces, though greatly infeiior in numbers, completely defeated them, killing i a large number and taking several prisoners j I The impression prevails that ihe enemy in tended there ami then to provoke a battle, but ior this time, at least, the attempt failed (though it was probably only a feint) as their pickets were driven back gallantly by our forces. The rebels have erected a battery near Munson's Hill, and are playing away with rifled cannon on the buildings at Bailey's Cross Iloaw's. It is thought, however, that this great activity on the part of the enemy is only a fciut to withdraw attention from a movement of a large portion of their forces towards the Upper Potomac, where they in lend to make a crossing into Maryland, at s une place near Point of Rocks, ami, tru-ting to the insurrectionary spirit of (he State, make a stand there, where provisions are plenty, and thus place Washington between two rebel armies. It appears evident that they cannot i longer maintain themselves in their position for want of supplies, ami it is confidently be lieved in Washington that a great battle must of necessity take place withiu a few j days. There is no doubt that the army of General Roscucrane, in Western Virginia, is in a COB. - stant state of activity, it is said that he is surrounded by a staff of excellent officers, an element which, in addition to his own known coolness, sagacity and military skill, renders his position io the face of the armies of Gin erals Lee,Floyd and W.se,secure from surprise or defeat. A large body of the rebels, eight thousand strong, under Gen. Lee, are report j ed to be encamped within five or six miles of | the encampment of Col. Reynolds, one of Gen Rosencrans' ablest officers, who is in ! command of a large body of his army. The action in which Col. Tyler was engaged at | Crow- Lane, near Snmuiersville, appears to have been but a skirmish, in which sixteen of Col. Tyler's men were killed and forty ! wounded, but it was a brilliant and success ful affair withal. Despatches from Qnincy, 111., inform us of the march of a body of rebels, numbering some three thousand under General MUt tin Green, upon the town of Palmyra, Missouri, on Wednesday morning, and inasmuch as there | were no Union troops stationed there, they took quiet possession of the place. It appears that a train of cars on the Hannibal and St. , Joseph railroad, carrying a quantity of rons i kets for the troops statioued at St. Josephs, while approaching Palmyra on the same day, 1 was fired into by the rebels, and immediately : retored without damage to Hannibal. ENGLAND AND JF.FF. DAVIS' REBELLION.— Advices from our Minister in Loudon, indicate a certain if not speedy recognition of the Con federate States as independent Power by the British Government. But there is nothing iu this to surprise or discourage. The tendencies of the British Government have not heen a secret. The success or fail ! tire of Jeff Davis rebellion depends on its power at home, and not on the favor with which it may be regarded abroad. A recognition by Great Britain would doubt less give it a certain degree of moral support, ' but would neither feed nor clothe its armies. Wait a little, and we may have news to send ? abroad that will neutralize the influences of I j that one which the Br tish Ministry arc now disposed to act. We expect no favor from | ! Europe and have sought none. 1 l THE DEPARTMENT OF SAN FRANCISCO.— The official news from the department of the Paci- I fic received by the last mail, records the COII j eentration in the city of Sati Francisco of • i over 1,500 regulars. The forts in the harbor ; are strongly garrisoned, and there is quite a olrong forofc at Beniiia barracks. Daniel S. Dickenson, and theWar^ We &xl the following in the IW Democrat, Mr. Dickenson's home let. We ure for maintaining U,,.'"- ment and the Union ami the long us there is a loyal citizen Northo "s" 80 to battle with rebellion, or a dollar t,"r' ' nll> | the sinews of war. ,ir uiih 2d. We are opposed to the war an.l , ' therefore crash, by the whole power or°o 4 ! nation, its authors who commenced it by bery and treason, and by coimouatlinJ ! Sumter. ° or * 3d. We are in favor of pen,,, an(J ffj fore seek it in tlie only direction which w i give honorable and enduring peace —i, T ting down armed rebellion, so that'the P loving citizens of the South can support Constitution and the Union of their f a -i without a revolver to their eurs or a boT* kuite to their throats to drive them into " bc-llion. r * 4th. We are opposed to taxation, and would therefore, make the war as short possible, by exerting the whole force of the nation's energies, so as at the earliest an ment to quell rebellion effectually, and L'-' petual war aud perpetual taxation hereafter sth. We are opposed to all paliatinn* a . f j propositions of peace or compromise, until r' e liellion is silenced, and its flag,steeped in thef treason, piracy, arson, -rebellion and murder is torn down and destroyed, and until the stars ami stripes float over every Slate capital and every fortress in the Union. % tith. When the roar of the rebel artilierr is silenced and the supremacy of the Con-tit J tion is acknowledged, we are as we have a ;. awys been, for guarding with sedulous care every right which it guarantees to every sec tiou of the Union, aud for strengthening the ties of brotherhood,sundered by a set ofgrac*. less political robbers, —acting against the will of tlie masses of the Southern people. The article in the Democrat concludes u follows : " We would suggest that mass meetings b called to be held m every county in the State and that all those that are in favor of the principals and policy indicated by Mr. Crit tenden in his resolution which passed the House of Representatives with only two dis senting votes be requested to assemble in their respective counties and appoint the nsual num ber of delegates to attend a Union Convention to be held at the place to be designated." HEARTRENDING OCCURRENCE, — The DARATG& done by the great freshet of the 12thin.it has also been attended by loss of life, this house of Janes M-Curdy situated at th J p'.inl where Rough Run empties into Buffi I creek was car* • d off. The h >ue was near i: ?! county line between Armstrong ami rbii 1 county. The family occupying rhe hw cons,s|ob of six persons, the father and /or children and the mother, who was an invalid. The father found the water rising far ing the night, and after placing his wife and children in the upper story, he left thi house to go for a-si tance to Winfi-H Furnace, about a mile distant. In cro<slnj the run he lost his footing, and was burnt down the stream some distance to a fence on which betook refuge. This was soon washed away, and he was again at the mercy of the current, lie had not been carried far before he was lodged against a tree, to which he clung with all the dt speration of a drowning man. After a time his strength returned as to admit of his climbing the tree, and there he lemainvd until {daylight, when lie was ta ken from Ins perilous position, only to tara that his entire family had perished in ?!t I flood. It is supjiosed that the house s' -ij the rise of the water around it until an -.J nii'inr current from some mill-dams a! uJ which had been carried away, swept ngau.l it and bore it on its crest. A mile below, tl house was seen floating along with candles s it, the children were heard caving, and errr thing apparently in as perfect o-der as t l # evening before when the inmates retired fo bed. In going over Rvlston's datn, a snort distance below where it was seen, the h>oe went to pieces, and the inmates were drowned. The bodies of the four children were recov.evd and buried at the Clearfield church on i'hnrs ilay. It- was a sickening sight— hurting foot little coffins in one grave The bale <>f rlw mother has not yet been recovered— BtUl:r Ilerahl. JEFFERSON DAVIS ON TREASON. — JEFF Havis, m the summer of 184t>, in Faneuil Hall, tho< pronounced an anathema upon traitors at: treason in language to be remembered. He was then hitching the abolitionists who -*orf to maintain the Constitution, with just sacs mental reservations as lie seems to have iwi making when betook the oath in the Sennit " Among culprits, there is none raoreodoti to my mind than a public officer whotaketu oath to support the Constitution—thecE(F ; between the States binding each other fori* common defense and general welfare of i* other—yet retains to himself a mental resem tion that he will war upon the priucipiw b has sworn to maintain, and opon the proper? rights, the protection of which are part of® ! compact of the Union. [Applause.] " It is a crime too low to be named befo* this assembly. It is one which no man * self-respect would ever commit. To swear tit he will support the Constitution—to take * office which belongs iu many of its relntioa*- all the States, and to u<e it as a means of ay ring a portion of the Slates of which be' thus the representative, is treason to tw r tiling honorable in man. It is the base cowardly attack of hint wlo gains the dencc of another in order that he tuay -*■'• him." DRAFTING SOI.DIFRS —Some idle rumvrsU gained currency in this city that the <" ir -[ was aoont resorting to drafting men to" j army, and in order to check the story r ■ 1 it reached the country, and scne some " ; dies in pantaloons into " conniption ti'*- 1 say at once there is no truth whatever 1 ] J report. Pennsylvania to-dav is e-uninj the work manfully, nnd those who 1 nessed the ontpooring of her sons du, u- : last twenty-four hoars in this cii.v ' will agree with us that the day b'f ' r is still distant. We could raise at 000 more without any such resorts.— bu-rg Patriot and Union m \ * SUPERVISION OF LETTERS n>ith. , j; i ulation has been established by w,l '.i ' (Jl g terssent from the rebel States n,l |' ! lK ( iued by an ageut appointed for ?l " J..,*.- before they can be sent out of th'>t^ j With the stringent regulations noa - I both scctious, written eommuni'-'* " almost entirely cut oft'
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