She Vittsburnit O'nutte. 1 4. 19EPT. 6, 1664 mom tilON NO ONO. von remount ;- -- 118,HAHAVLINCOLN, of Honda 'noe, woe nunnsies JOHNSON. of Tennessee. • , mizolt couzrry TIOSET. • • - •0 0 1 • Durreurrr : 'MU K. WooBILLeD, Pittsburgh. • CORGIMUI.-TD DISTRICT : TOOWSS WILLIAMS, Alleabrzer „ , XIIR/Poi J. SUWON, Lower et. Q. ;o P. atm, 04. JR.JL OOLVILLS, OUT. - ALTasst a taxa. AwsiLcay• ' -- - MLI9II anwincrE, -2,, , - , WWWIO/ 1 T. MEM& lief forth:. 41/WXInWILD. PILLOW, Indians. PIROTII01101 11 T: ni.ooß It: VALVE, Goy. • • 001:011T11: y tL CLAWSON, OW. SAL DAVID, Soiletley. General Sherman's Official. Report. -;•"; teeterday brought us Gene* HitEDILLYS • '-dll4llreport of the capture of Atlanta and ' , defeat ort Moen. The eighths' took place on Thursday of last week, out. • the fern/adore of Atlanta. It to have been severe, butaot of that des leSure the importance of the issue led A;:filte country to expect. We captured on the Spjdtsa:gnne and fifteen hundred prisoners. left their dead in our hands and • slimy wounded. Finding himself defeated and ,'r army cutin two, HOOD evacuated Atlanta 'ran Thertailiznight, drat destroying seven lem Slionuitirte end eighty-one oars loaded with ; eilimedsition; email arms and dorm. Be also laftlourteen Pieces of artillery, mostly unin. • 1. Suriii, and 4, large number of fire Irma. Gen -. .til. F,:ersto,ousz, whose corps entered the city on ~ - gridity atoning, telegraphs that deserters are ,;, l aenatisitly coming Into our lines. completely outgeneralcd. Has , • •- , :falt thinly savored every railroad cow. 7••xituribiedhilr with Atlanta except the Macon 8 , 9:111001, on the 20th of August., with twenty days' retina, cut loose from ' his • oink comosruslostions and placed his army pcnth of-the city on the Macon road. Roca, Itnowlag thal,•if be lest that road, he lost ev. - • Arli e :l24loz by no other route could he ob. supplies, had previously posted his army for ire defense. The result is given above. nisriiiication must be great, but that of JUL Dsva matte tenfold greater. With the characteristic impatience of our people, the questionle already asked—What Mill flumuus do next? Think a little, reader, before pots ask that question often. The ar my sf ,fleaersll3l*lxA2l-Itoods rat. It has -been centtnmtfly it work, marching and fighting, since the sth day of May, just four mumilus, and a glorious record it has made for itself. There IS no brighter chapter in the his tory of any war of any. age. From Chloy . honk to Atlanta t The world knows no each aohle of Military genius and soldierly' valor as that which those two words read. , the heroes rest. The nation owes them that and more. They have taken Atlanta The President has very properly appointed • Zell Sunday to, be observed tthrougheut the --United States as a day of thankegivlng for .4 the glorious 'victory achieved by General fineeffan and his brava army. Be has also • publieirreturned the thanks of the nation to General Sissies and his army, and Admiral issitecar and his hearts of ark, for their achievements at Atlanta and Mobile. Orders have also been issued requiring an. 'Mond salutes to be fired'at every arsenal and dairy yard in the Gaited States, in honor of this awe glorious amnia Soldiers-in Gabel Prisons• petition. is being circulated and, we anderstanik namerotuffy signed in this oily and Allegheny , preying the President to use everfluniorable effort to secure the deliver ance of the thirty thourand Union prisoners equislarti,,centineff that loathsome cattle-pen it Aadamoriville, Georgia. We quote I couple --tit paragraphs from that petition "A hundred ou:wend cad and broken hearts , are eating—gla outliorernment 'saltless in this - anatter 'l' (With the sin of the Rebel aortas -.,...ansurtutitheryou nor we have anything to do.) 'ls there any ineuperable difficulty In the way of their liberation T and if so, what it It r They know ha!disputes is to numbers have arisen ; they believe that the Rebel authorities have Ili de unreasonable demands they are, not Igoe , , lant: of the Tanta of those authorities to ex :chugs colored men ; hat do any or all of than ` -,- ;counter% an upology that would stand the test at th e bar of either God or man for the °oaths- MOW of a little of things so horrible as that which new exists? The stern soldier and the matechitingotatismari, may soy Yee ; bet the agonized souls of parents and friends, and great heart of the nation, say No.' Aoy nonoesslon short of dishonor, any sacrifice short of national min, ought to be made rather than lore than noble men In the condition they are .-_-..: , ..5k-Peopfe, In theta ralamiteas dame, think In ----,',4ll4teit and -profoundly; and they reason and aiatetferdiktiiiloginatly.,:An.d'severeiy. They are ---net - Mid - to. the-feet that men , in high Omar *km - rerniiiiritTitere fade and obstinacy for honor salarffrnillear; andtbroonelosion to which many them - hhisi arrived, that cams nosh mistake his Siatitilittlien ills roan the exchange of - -- Astitimars; is net ealealated to strengthen the thrsentment tattle terrible hour of triaL They a.Athink too of the"awtal cry at agony whieh is perpetually-ascending to Heaven from that slaughter-pen at dudersonailla—whether tared in prayer. the language of Belch and Mopes or in groaning' which cannot be uttered, or to : 't e n and blasgismy, the ont-bursting of load despah—end ark themselves hether that my is catimdated to bring down 'Awn our Ocreinment the favor er the wrath of Bed?" It's netts our readers are aware, our hal?.. it to instruct the Govorxmat in its duties, but WWI be permitted to add our earnest - Jaye that, If it be possible, the prayer of the --Tatßth, aura may belied- li the Babel des potism at Richmond will agree to an exchange trittoneh, ham for inert in Rod's name let 5.. the exchange be pado at once. Let all other ~.—.‘qutathuaretualn to be =Wed hereafter. We "can afford to let - -theta be held In. abeyance now, for the end of the Rebellion le neer at hand,' when every knotty question will be cat with the sward of GIIA.HT and the Union- "". •• -The -Dratt aria its Postponement. The draft is not to be obasubmrd by the tloieznmrnt It could not do so without lay tho charge of-cowardice and ,:inslitoillty. It could not abandon the draft 'Willful doing greattnjustice to those districts which tate labored so diligently and patriot. tcelly to their quotas, while other districts ‘liste done nothing. it would do injustice to - • -the Our, too, by not !Ungainly the number of a — snits nettled to 1111 up cur 61111i011 to Qs stand ard required by General GRANT to subduaithe _Rebellion. Secretary Braaros says that two ' *twine' thousand melt,' tare :volunteered underlie last call of the President, but, after tislng fon till naval.enlistments and other ;Credits, at least - another hundred thousand • mast he famished.: These mist and will be •ebtained by draft, toiteu those districts which Vire not yet lilted their quotas at once bestir ,thtritelifer, tii'eorepy_ with the just - demands - ; 3 g the Goyennuent. VA thedintliiotuall7 ... - • ardereitin.any given district, It is understood that the oppottunity tem It q u otaqowith vol. Mitiertpl4ll, 81111. tented* Unti hat time ;4.1 Gimes:anent Will oorthnue p y the . 2!1 Ono hundred . delimit' toiolunteins Vriiiieyeartf Every Rebid . ; therefore, Which •11114.117-sslslies to mold tie drag will Epp no *mike and no expend:llin of FLOM to fill. . . itaknota Witliyoltinteens. • Andlet the Work oft at once, for the data grate! new .770/brited 'Ansel the cater s of 'thinks. ho foog continued. Mb. • - • - -01 May expfna tlltb the 2 .1, • C=:=D • ~ . i '• ' aw' Yogi, eitaverghwiiiknoWit . rulad 'bi.: the Denummey. When :the news Mime, a 1 few days ego, that the Chicago Convention I had nominated a candidate on a platform which wield humiliate the nation at the feet o f the Betel leaders, the City Hall and other pn No buildings were atoned with Saga. W e a the news of fineamter's simian!' cap. of Atlanta tilled all hearts with joy on Ba y last, and when from every house top on Broadway the Blare and stripes were joyfully waving their congratulations on the • gleidatm victory, tAe . poles on the 01W hall wars standing insultingly bars. This outrage watt committed by Democrats—by the men who support INTCenenas, whose hopes of traceess noteriovely depend upon the defeat of the Upion armies between now and November. Ills New York admirers did not hesitate to show their mortification upon receiving the news of Bananas's splendid victory. What la the use in the Democratic party asserting any longer that their sympathies are with the !Dion and not with hurl. Davin 7 Nobody Ibelieves them. Their sympathies are just the other way. And they can't help letting the est out of the bag upon every occasion that TOZAIONABLE speeches were not only lit tered in the Chicago Convention, but there were proved traitors holding seats In that body. aIIJAXI3 HARM, of Maryland, was there, -4tio said, in a speech in Congress last spring, that "the South could never be conquered, and he grayed God Almighty it never condi be." Worse even than this minion of Jeer. DAVIS, w as WASELTHOTOIS BRADLEY, of Harrodsburg, KenWelty, who fought three years is the Rebel army, and then went from Kentucky as a dela. gate to Chicago. The - people are asked to support a ticket presented by a Convention in which men who fought against the flag, and n6en who sympathise with those who are seeking to destroy the Government, were delegates ! But the men who love the Union are not blind. They will rally round the flag which is held aloft by the brave at. mice of GIUNT and 1311EILMAN, and they will trample in the dust the white rag which pro claims 'submission to traitors, sad which is upheld by such Democrats as lanais and BRADIST. Tux Pluabargh Pow will have it that General•lit CLILL.III4 woo instructed to arrest the Maryland Leghhum° but in the same breath claims credit for h is "vigilanoe" in detecting the dark conspiracy, and running, like a faithful messenger, to "his own Gov. ernment" with the Information. All of which shows nice discrimination in the Put. Bat, more wonderful still, it goes on to say that I the arrest of the Legislature was "right in every particular ' " and "all parties connected with it are to be applauded." if se—and we agree with the Port for once—why In the name of common Isonzo has it made such s faze . in attempting to shift the responsibility for that onset from the shoulders ot Rain- SAM upon those of Mr. 1.13001,11? Gen. Sherman's Plan tor • nceaaationnt There is an impression that General Sher man's defeat of Hood's army and capture of Atlanta was not reckoned upon by the sages of Chicago as amongst those "immediate ef forts" which. they "explicitly deolared" ought to be made for • "cessation of hostilities." Gen. Sherman, we fear, acted in this matter with his usual headstrong impulsiveness, without consultation with either Jeff. Davis or Vallandigham. &oh dation ea Sherman, Grant end Farragut are den garotte men,but one comfort remains—whatever they take away from the enemies of- the Veen between now and next 4th of March, they will be made to give np then, if--es our friends of the opposi tion assure us will be the case—the Chicago candidate end platform are, eueecedtd In the approaching election. Lest Mr. Davis should Ices his temper, it might be well for the Chicago Convention to bold a special meeting and pare a resolution assuring him that all such things as Far:apnea capture of !Stabile Bay and-Sherman's poaaession of At lanta are mere temporary matters, which will be rectified as soon es the Chicago Conven tion's policy goes into effect—wheneverthst event may happen. No amount of argument Could show so clearly the absurdity and the wickedness of the Chicago platform, as Sherman's capture of Attune& The poll-Wane who rule the op pveition gravely demanded • cessation of hos. Witte, at the easy moment that one of our great snake was marching to victory; they declare the ecuntry humbled, weakened, una ble to continue the war at the preoire time when our soldiers are demonstrating their superiority over theorem! iu a pitched battle in the open field. They sue the nation's bit ter enemy for a trine, and their bumble plea reaches Richmond on the same day with the news that the of the two great rebel armies her been defeated and is flying, and one of the two great centres of rebellion has fallen into our hands. When Mr. Jefferson Davis held in one bend the Chicago Convention's enivelleg eeeond resolution, and in the other Hood's dispatch ennonneing his defeat and the lose of Atlanta, be meet have been the wont przz'ed cf men had he not known, •of old time and by previous experience, that the politicians who met et Chicago, and those esitecielly who managed the Convention, do net represent the epitit of the nation, and do misrepresent its wishes, its strength, and its determination. It apparel. from the scanty news we have of Gemmel Sherman's last movement, that he gathered hie mein force to 'the south of At. tante, open the Macon Renewed, the only line of communication remaining 'to Hood. The lotteee necessities forced him to come . out from Atlanta and give battle to his opponent; and the result of this no doubt desperate con test was the defeat of Used, whose army was cut in two. Meantime General Slocum ap petite to have taken possession of Atlanta, when liced'e army marched out; and thus muted for Sherman's protection the strong works in which Hood had Wafer some weeks. Several circumetar_oes combine to make this capture of Atlanta of extraordinary im portance. It is generally known that the people of Georgia have been alarmed and die satisficd with the p r rog resf loa t h e t w e i — n t t h h e South ; they de bulk of them, probably, would gladly lay down arms and return to poses under the cafe shelter of the Union. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette wrote from before Atlanta on the 24th of August: "We ,have received the melt substantial proofs, that in the very army which seems so obstinately to confront us, there is • wide spread and growing diesetisfacitdon with the rebellion and the rebel government, which confines itself no longer to thoughts and Words, but takes the form of plums and sig nificant deeds." He adds: "Let me not be misunderstood. We shall bava battles still to fight;. The leaders of the rebellion Will struggle fiercely as long as they can put a legion in the field. Enough pill cling obstinately to the felling 'Confederacy' to make it neceettary to dash their power to pieces by the weight of battalions and artil key. But if we continue the pressure a little longer—if we sternly and firmly fill up and puoh ton our columns, three-fourths of the strength of the rebellion will melt away and disappear in a manner of which some of us little dream." There is no longer reason to doubt that a large part of those states ettll controlled by the rebel leaders is ready to o return to peace and Onion at the first Opprtunity. It has already been pribliehei, that a Georgian rived in in Washington eon= ten days ago, to consult with the authorities and make sr rengements for the resumption by Georgia of her proper place in the Union. We have reason to believe that this gentleman repre sents certain of the leading men of the state —among them Alexander H. Stephens. Gov ernor Brown and Robert Toombs; and h is also asserted that these leaders, speaking for their teople, declare themselves ready and anxions to cut off from. Jeff. Davis, and to h oist the flag of the Union. The events of the lest few dap will con firm them in thin resoletion, and will brin a ver to their tide many who wavered and were in doubt. The optima of Adults after all Hood's busts that he would hold it, will