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FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1861.
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F,**dom'» *oil beneath »ur teat,
And Freedent’* banner »treamlng e’er as!
j T jg well that we should look this crisis
fall in the face—that we should lookbeyond
the mere present into the rapidly-coming
future. We see in-the North an apparent
unanimity of hut it is not in the
nature of things for society to be of one mind,
ior men will think and act and declare: their
opinions, and in doing so there must be
division and difference. When the earthquake
at Fort Sumpter rocked the Republic to its
centre, parties and opinions were swallowed
np in the convulsion, and the nation was for
war from a sense of self-preservation. For
three months that opinion has prevailed, and
devotion to the Union and to a war for the
maintenance of the Union has been the high
est test of loyalty known to our people. But,
gradually as this contest shapes itself we find
on the part of certain trading leaders evidence
after evidence of a desire to terminate it by
a humiliating acknowledgment of the Southern
Confederacy, and a cowardly acqniescenco in
a dishonorable peace. _
When the present Congress assembled,
there seemed to be but one voice among its
members, and that voice was fer a vigorous
prosecution of the war, and the most sum
mary punishment oi rebellion. At no time
since this nation cauie into the family of na
tions did our Legislature show sneh an un
selfish devotion to the people’s will, and such
an honest, healthy, unanimous, and patriotic
spirit. Party lines were either washed away
or so feeble that the traces of them could
scarcely be distinguished. In the organiza
tion of both branches every party sentiment
was recognized by a magnanimous majority,
and men of all opinions were welcomed into
the fraternity of Union feeling. In every heart
the honor of onr nation seemed to be a con
trolling and uncontrollable sentiment, and
America presented a spectacle of enthusiastic
patriotism, which finds no parallel in the sub
llmest examples of antiquity.
But still, in that very Congress, there were
a few disaffected men, some of whom consi
dered the Republic dead, and wished to drape
the body In crape, while ethers were content
to go in half-mourning. There were such men
as BimsETi and Mat, in the House ; Bb.eokis
eidoe, Bataed, Polk, and Powell, in the
Senate. While in full communion with these,
who might have excused themselves on ac
count of their section—if, indeed, there can
be an excase to cover sympathy with treason
—were snob Northern men as Yallahdighah,
of Ohio, Wood, of New York, Johhsoh, of
Northampton, and Anooha, of Berks, in this
State. From the beginning of the session,
they have been stumbling-blocks in the path
of judicious legislation. They opposed every
appropriation, and sneered at every expres
sion of unselfish loyalty. The haughty Sena
tor from Kentucky menaced the Senate, Bur
kett kept up a constant fire Of objections and
points of order, Yallakdigham gave ns rhe
toric and declamation, and Mr. Mat revelled
in the counsels which had been inspired by a
recent visit to Richmond. A united front, on
the part of the patriotic members, neutralized
their opposition, and thus far the session has
been one of comparative harmony .
The latest demonstration which savors of
disaffection may be found in the preamble
and resolutions lately offered in the House of
Representatives by Mr. Cos, of Ohio. The
substance of Mr. Cos’s proposition was that
a commission, composed of several very emi
nent statesmen, be authorized to act as com
missioners of peace, and that the accom
plishment ol their mission be extended so far
as the proposition of_ air amendment in «>»
'fne'preamble sets forth this
sage maxim, that «it is the part of rational
beingß to terminate their difficulties by rational
means a truism which Mr. Cox‘will not
find disputed in the present Congress. In
support of his proposition, Mr. Cos rallied
quite a respectable vote, among whom we are
pained to see such men as Mr. "Richardson,
of Illinois.
We would not notice this proposition of
Mr. Cox except in connection with the signs
which we see in the Northern States. It is
only a test, as it were, to try the temper ot the
people, to prepare them for a more open advo
cacy Of peace, and, if possible, to demoralize
the public sentiment which sustains the war
measures oi the Administration. It is only
part of that policy of commercial patriotism
which wa see advocated by the Journal of
Commerce, the New York Day B 'ok, the Hon.
Bbnjahin Wood’s newspaper, The News, and
the Albany Mias and Argus. These men
look upon the Onion as a mere matter of busi
ness. It is net as half important, in their
minds, as the state of the Liverpaol cotton
market, the variations in stocks, er the action
of the Georgia Legislators on the question of
legalizing lotteries. There is no patriotism at
all in the matter, and those who igitate are the
men who have either no future in a regene
rated Republic, or whose pecuniary interests
may suffer by the imposition of direct taxes,
or an increase in the tariff and revenne duties.
Mr. Cox and his friends ask ior peace. Let
Us see precisely what they mean. There can
only be peace on one condition, and that is the
recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
That is the ultimatum of the South, and the
North can have no voice beyond it, Peace
means a divided Union, .and when Northern
wen clamor for peace they clamor for a divided
Union, Peace means the secession of Mary
land, the partition of Kentucky, Tennessee, 5
and Missouri, and the abandonment of the
Southern coast defences, for the Disunion
leaders oi these States would most assuredly
rush them out oi the Union the moment -the s
restraint of Federal bayonets was removed.
Peace means the evacuation of the capital,
f&r Mr. Stephens has declared that it belongs
to the South by a “ reversionary right,” and
its surrender will be one of the hard
conditions, one of the “ rational means ” by
which Mr. Cox proposes to “terminate the
difficulties” of “rational beings.” Peace
means that the Mississippi shall be controlled
by the insurgent Government, and 'that our
path to the El Dorado shall be blocked by its
territory. Peace means the humiliation of
the North and the exaltation of the South.
For we have been told over and over again,
by these, very men of the South, that there
never can be a reconstruction of the Union in
which the “ will of the majority ” will be per
mitted to govern. And we are bound to take
them at their word. -
These men think that peace at any price
wonld restore enfeebled manufactures, give
life to onr dying commerce, and immediately
re-open those channels of trade which are
now closed by the existence of waT. Bnt
even argning the question from this point,
could any hope be more delusive ? War has
only temporarily shopped -trade. Peace, on
the conditions of the South, would utterly
ruin It j for that peace would open all the
Southern ports to free trade, and be followed
by a tarifl hostile to Northern interests and
eventually fatal to our commerce and manu-
The Mississippi would be com
manded by hostile cannon, and the great ar
® would no longer carry its
ttfc-b the extremities of the nation.
The inevitable complications which the ex
istence Of two Confederacies would foster
could only result in a scries ot bitter quarrels
and the next century wonld be a period of
constant and debilitating war, from which we
only could be delivered by a usurping Cxiaix
or another Napoleox.
We are for peace, but it is a peace which
must embrace the whole Union. It will not
do lor Mr. Cox to foist upon us such proposi
tions as these. If tolerated to day, they will
be followed by propositions more offensive to.
morrow, and step by step we will find these
men leading public sentiment into a degrading
and disgraceful position of, submission to the
rebels. The descent Into treason is as easy as
the descent which: has become classic and
“nmverbial and there is no easier way of start- | WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE] \
STon the road than by a peace proposition i -
lko that ol Mr. Cox. Whoever falters now «
Lot with ns. Whoever looks back upon the
plains of Sodom must meet the fate of their
apostacy. Let as imitate the South, at least
in boldness. Their nltimatnm is a recognition
of their treason, ours must be the utter exter
mination of their treason. We have appealed
to the sword as the dread arbiter, and that ap
peal cannot be dismissed by the opposition of
mercenary merchants or the intrigues of ex
piring politicians.
The Southern Accounts of the Late
Battle.
The masses of the South were never par
ticularly well informed of the condition of
public affairs. The whole number of news
papers published there is very small com
pared with the redundant journalism of the
North. Their average circulation is very li
mited, and only a very few of them display
any enterprise in furnishing lull, late, and re
liable accounts of important events. The
blockade has diminished their supplies of
printing paper to such an extent that many
establishments have succumbed to the double
pressure occasioned by its increased price,
and the lobs of a large portion of patronage
by the derangement of business; and if the
war is protracted for a long period, nearly all
of them will be obliged to suspend operations.
But when we read some of their descriptions
of the late battle, it is doubtful whether those
who believe such absurd and ridicnleuß ac
counts are not in reality in a state of more
deplorable ignorance than those who were
never unfortunate enough td rely upon a
Secession newspaper for information. The
Northern papers have teemed with the
fullest descriptions that could be ob
tained of the great struggle of the 21st
ultimo. The worst features of our misfor
tune were not only not concealed, but grossly
exaggerated. The heroism and temporary
triumphs of our brave soldiers, instead of
being boasted of and gloried over, were suffer
ed to p&bs almost unnoticed, because they
could not contend successfully against enor
mous odds. The number of our men killed,
wounded, and taken prisoners, was greatly
over-estimated, and the loss of the enemy re
ported to be much less than it really was. All
this is in strange contrast with the reports of
the Southern press, which are utterly desti-
tute of candor and truthfulness, and are more
like FixsTArr’s descriptions ot his valorous
achievements than veritable accounts.
Thus the correspondent of the Louisville
Courier, writing from the battle-field on Mon
day, the 22d ult., begins by saying that “ the
true chivalry of the South, relying upon the
justice of their cause, though comparatively
weak in numbers, have gained a victory that,
in completeness, has never been paralleled in
history since the American continent first
dawned upon the eyes of the longing dis
coverer.” It is now a well-known fact that
the insurgents had a force at and near Manas
sas at least twice, it not three times, as great
as that which Gen. MoDowem: commanded,
and that a large portion of the troops of the
latter were not concerned in the action at all;
yet the Courier thinks the “ chivalry,” when
thus situated, at a place they had strongly forti
fied, were “ comparatively weak in numbers!”
During the last three centuries there have
been some very decided victories, in which
an attacking party has not merely been're
pulsed from a stronghold it had not men
enough to capture, lor immense armies have
been destroyed, the principal portion being
killed and wounded, and all of the uninjured
survivors captured. But the Courier thinks
none of these victories will favorably com
pare with that achieved by the insurgents at
Manassas, and that Saratoga, Yorktown, New
Urleans, Marengo, Austerlitz, and Waterloo,
were far less “complete” than a battle in
which onr loss in killed and wounded was de-
cidedly less than that of the enemy, and the
number of prisoners taken by us nearly equal
to the number we lost !
The war correspondent of the Courier pro
ceeds to say that the battle opened with the
« Federals advancing with an immense column,
64,000 strong, under General McDowell.”
How little truth there is in this statement will
easily be understood when it is remembered
that his whole army only numbered 33,000,
and oi these 8,000 constituted the reserve at
Centreville, 2,000 were left to guard the
camps, and 6,000 were two miles off at Black
burn’s Ford; so that there is an exaggeration
Af jnet iii.oo So ono 111 this statement, the
number of our soldiers who made the advance
alluded to being 18,000 instead ot 64,000.
This misrepresentation however, is fol-
lowed by another still more glaring, for we
are told that “McDowell, with the aid of
Patterson’s division of twenty thousand, had
very nearly outflanked the insurgents, and were
just in the act of possessing themselves of the
railway to Richmond, when, providentially,
Gen. Johnston reappeared, and made one
other desperate struggle to obtain the vantage
ground.’’/ Thus, a division of 20,000, many
miles away, is added to a previous overesti
mate of 36.00Q_men to account for the achieve
ments of 18,000 of our troops!
Mr. Russell says he found many of the
Southern troops -with whom he mingled “ halt
simple and half savage,” and it is impossible
to peruse the Secession journals without feel
ing that their editors realize this fact, and
cater to the tastes of readers of that descrip
cion. They surely would not attempt to palm
off upon intelligent men their ridiculous false
hoods, nor adopt the sanguinary and ferocious
style which generally distinguishes them, if
they did not believe that many of their patrons
were « half savage.”
We deeply regret to perceive that Mr. Thnrlow
Weed deems if necessary, at the present moment,
ous oriais, when the very existence of the nation
hangs trembling in the balanoa, to attack one of the
members of the Cabinet, as especially responsible
for tb« deplorable oatsstrophe of Bull Run. Is it
not possible for us all to lay aside personal ani
mosities and partisan quarrels in this moment of
fate, and to forget everything else in a supreme,
unquestioning, hearty effort to secure the Republic
from the perils that menace it with destruction ?
- For the sake of everything that is dear to the pa
triot, let us forget things past, and prove that now
at least our duty to our oonntry is superior to every
other consideration !—New Yori: Tribune,
We recognize in the above that spirit of
candor and fairness which has generally
characterized Mr. Gxeeley, and which has
induced ns to feel for him a sincere respect,
notwithstanding difference in political opi
nions. We believe Mr. Gkeeley is sincere
in his appeal, and sincerely we endorse
it. In acknowledging the error ot.his
past course, and in giving the influence
of his great newspaper to the support of
the Administration, he has exhibited the
highest qualities ot patriotism. Next to
defending a good position, nothing is more
magnanimous than to abandon a bad one with
grace; and both of these qualities the editor
pf the Tribune has exhibited. Above all
things, let there be union among the friends
of the. Union in this hour of peril. The coun
try needs'the services of her children, and
they should not waste their energies upon
personal animosities and partisan quarrels.
Let ns, with the Tribune, “ forget things
past, and prove that now at least onr duty to
ohr; country is superior to every considera
tion.”'-' *
The Letters to the Volunteers.
Several communications have been sent to
ns from returned volunteers, complaining that
their letters and'papers have not reached
them. More especially does this affect the
First Artillery Regiment, nnder Colonel Pat
tebsoh. For the last four or five weeks they
have been on the “ march,” remaining but
a short time at any one pomt, and as their let
ters were generally addressed to them at
Washington, they are probably there at pre
sent. It iB to be hoped that as the men are
about to be “ mustered out of service,” and
most of them intend to re-enhst, their letters
will be immediately sent to the captains of the
different companies, to which they were ori
ginally addressed, in Philadelphia. Many of
the letters may be ot a business character,
requiring immediate attention.
The becext appoixthext of Colonel
Thomas A. Scott, the efficient vice presi
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
as Assistant Secretary of War, was a very
judicions one. Few men in cur country pos
sess greater' business qualifications, and since
the commencement of hostilities he has de
voted all his energies to the superintendence
of the railroad .arrangements connected with
the transportation of the army, and has
rendered the services of the utmost
importance.
The appointment of Captain Fox, as Assist
ant Secretary of the Navy, is also deservedly
commended by many of onr cotemporaries.
Washisqtob, August 1,1861.
There are numerous rumors in circulation here
to the effect that the money-changers of New York
are in a conspiracy to ruin the Government, unloss
they' are permitted to remain in the temple and
ply their unholy oalling. There is a oonstant gos
sip abont combinations against Mr. Chase, and pri
vate caucuses, in whioh resolutions are passed to
take no more loans, &a. Some of our more timid
friends look anxious and sorrowfnl over these state
ments, as if they felt that the Republic depended
on Wall street, and the safety of the nation was
wrapped up in the fate of the Stock Exchange.
I must confess that, to my mind, they are very
amnsing as illustrative of that impndent spirit of
superciliousness and condescension whioh these
New York gamblers and speculators display. To
read some of tbeir journals one would think that
New York was the nation, and that the brokers of
New York were the executive, legislative, and ju
dicial officers of the nation. They seek to exercise
a tyranny whioh cannot but bo of the most fearful
character. They have no sympathy with us
beyond a mere desire to make money. 1 believe
they are still covertly in sympathy with the South.
So long as intercourse was open, they furnished
the South with provisions, clothing, money, pow
der, and munitions of war. So long os Georgia
bought their muskets. South Carolina their cannon,
and Virginia their dry goods, they were most
anxious for peace, they denounced Mr Lincoln,
called peace meetings, instituted the moßt offensive
and humiliating measures of compromise, and en
deavored to sow sedition among the people North
and South. But when the war progressed, they
instantly raised the cry of patriotism, started
Union Defense Committees, and undertook to carry
on the war as they carried on a trade in muskets
with Georgia. You will remember with what a
high hand they attempted to carry their measures.
What magnificent sohemes they were, to besure!
Mr. Lincoln was to be superseded, General Scott
to be retired, the Cabinet to be dismissed, and the
army sent home, while Mr. George Law opened
communications with Washington, and his bom.
mitteo took the affairs of the whole nation in their
hands. ...
These are the men,,then, be it remembered,
who now talk of conspiring against the Adminis
tration, and secretly plot against.the Treasury De
partment. Bor my part, I hearjily wish that these
New York money-changers, 'the. Union Defence
Committee and all, including their colleague and
defender, the-editor of the Herald, would meet
to morrow and: pass a resolution declaring that
they would not pay another dollar into the Trea
sury. It would be a blessing to the country and
a benefit to the Administration, for on the yeomen,
the mechanics and the farmers of the country,
this Administration must depend for the lives to be
sacrificed and the money to be spent The people
must fight this fight, for the people have Ml to lose
and all jo gain. Thoy are the trunk and tho roots
of the Government, from which the sap and life is
drained, while these elegant and solfisk mil
lionaires like those of New York are the mere
boughs, who might with service he lopped off from
the tree as cumbersome and barren.
Washington is onoe more an orderly and quiet
oity. The vigor of Gen. MoCiellan may bo seen in
the deßerted Avenue, and the absence of soldiers
from the grog-shops, the publio bnildings, and the
places of public resort. The General thinks the
soldier’s place is the camp, and there he intendß
he shall be. JBlis wise and firm discipline is sensi
bly felt, and it cannot but produce the moat grati
fying results in the efficiency of our army. There
is more scorooy attending our military movements
than has hitherto been customary, and the opinion
is beginning to prevail that when a military move
ment is determined upon, there is no necessity for
its being immediately communioated to General
Beauregard. - J. R. Y
LATE S T NE W $
By Telegraph to The Press.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Despatches to “The Press.’ 1
WABMHBTOH, August 1, 1861.
The Slaves at Alexandria—An Import-
ant Order.
The Secretary of War yesterday directed Col.;
Franklin, who is in command at Alexandria, to
liberate all the slaves in prison at that pest, and
to employ them in assisting to construct fortifica
tions, paying them for their work as day laborers.
He also directed that other slaves escaping to our
army shall be disposed of In a similar manner.
The New Assistant Secretaries.
Universal satisfaction Is expressed with the ap
pointment of Col. Tbps. A. Scott, of your State,
as Assistant Secretary of War, and Captain Fox
as Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Discord —Resignations.
The Garibaldi Guard—true patriots, every one
of them—-have trouble, growing out of the hetero
geneous materials of which it is oomposed. The
regiment embraces sixtf en different nationalities,,
and, of oourse, as many different languages. The
result is a want of harmony. The colonel, believed
to bo a worthy officer, is" unpopular with some of
the officers. The result is the resignation of about
a dozen officers, who have returned to Now York.
Army Buzzards.
There is a little legion of speculators on the heels
of the army here and around the Departments,
whose object is speculation, ostensibly so confessed,
but evidently with the initial s omittod whenever
ana wherever opportunity presents Itself.
Military Brill by Trumpet.
General McClellan, after consultation, has or
dered brigadier generals to have a weekly “ divi
sion drill by trumpet.” The necessity for this was
severely felt on the battle-field, Jaly 2 1st, and the
object now is to bo prepared to meet the emorgenoy
in the future. New, the men do not know a single
command by trumpet.
The Pensacola.
The command of the now wa? steamship Pensa
cola, has been assigned to Captain Morris, of New
York. The steamer cannot be ready in two weeks,
as reported in the New York papers, nor in less
than six weeks, if more hands are not put on. In
the rigging department, where, as the master-rig
ger sayß, fifty men might ho employed, there are
only twelve at work, and, without help, they can.
not get through in less than thirty five days,,
Showers.
Our citizens were aroused at five this morning
by the booming of heavy artillery, not by Bbau
seqaes, as many at first supposed, hnt from the
jjonds. This was followed by splendid shower.*—
a God-send to wash' our filthy streets, purify the
air, and save ns from pestilenoo.
Released on Parole.
As I informed yon yesterday, Gen. Scott will
not recognize the Southern Confederacy by ex
changing prisoners. He will release on parole, of
honor.
All the Confederate troops, sixty in number, re
cently taken prisoner in Western Virginia, and
oonveyed to Grafton, have been released on their
parole. Those recently under Coi. Peokah, also
taken prisoners, have likewise been released.
Fred Lander.
Col. Feed Laxdbb has boon mads brigadier ge
neral, as yon have already reported. The appoint
ment is one of the most popular, and probably one
■of the most judicious on -the list ofaew appoint
ments and promotions.
I. I. Stevens.
Ex-Gov. Stbybhs, of Washington Territory, is
worthy of more than the appoiatment he has re
ceived of colonel. Ho will probably be among the
earliest promotions. He has the command, how
ever, of a noble regiment (Seventy-ninth High
landers) who will yet distinguish themselves as
they have already done at 801 l Run, where they
lost their gallant colonel.
Diminished Patent Bnainees-
Owing to the falling off in the business at the
Patent Office, the reserved surplus fund of former
years has been materially diminished by drafts to
meet current expenses. In view of this deorease
of business, a number of removals were made
from thiß office yesterday, including Messrs, Rise,
Puck, and Clash, examiners, at $2,500 per year
each (Mr. Xawbbhce, of the same grade, having
previously resigned); Messrs Hebbert, TolLj
and Jerks, seoond-olass examiners, at $l,BOO
each, and Messrs. Shaep, Halstead, and Hol
mead, third-olass examiners, at $1,600 each
Spectators on Battle-Fields-
Hitherto General McClbllah arrested busy
news mongers when found on the battle field. In
the future ho will equip and arm idle spectators
found present at a battle, and place them in the
front ranks, in the hottest part of the fight.
Tight Rope Periormance
Prof. Sweet, of the Second Rhode Island Regi
ment, walked aoross tho Avenue yesterday at an
elevation of one hundred feet His rope was sus
pended from the top of the Rational Hotel to the
top of the Clarendon, on the opposite side Be
returned, and midway amused the spectators with
a variety of daring feats.
Sunday Battles with Hungry Men..
The sensation inoreases -with tho lapse of time
and opportunities for reflection on the Sunday fight
with hungry men, who had not been permitted to
rest after a march of twenty-fire miles under a hot
sun. -Bnt.it is folly to criminate and reoriminate.
The evil has been done To provide against its re
currence, the commanding officer was removed—
sacrificed might be a more suitable word, in view
of to a ' ffiaious iaterferenoe of orasy politicians--
and the pr mises are that there will be no more
Sundry battles,vnor hungry soldiers on the battle
field, when these things ban be avoided.
Worthy of Imitation.
The First Minnesota Regiment, Col Gobkae, is
reported not to have had an officer absent during
the night sinae its arrival here, a month ’OT six
weeks Whoe To this is largely attributed it* el '
oeilent diaoipliue, and the attachment of the men
to their officers.
THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 2,186 L
The following orders have just been pronuj.
gated:
Searches of houses for arm; traitors or spies, >„{]
the arrest of offenders in snob matters, shall o»ly
be made in any department by tho special antio
rity of the commander thereof, except in extreme
oases admitting of no delay. j
By oommand of Lieut. Gen. Scott. ;
B. D.. Townsend,
Assistant Adjutant Geaorai. t
Headquarters op the Army, 1 5
Washington, July 31,1861. j 1
General Orders, Ho. 13.—It' has been the
prayer of every patriot that the tramp and din
of oivil war might at least spare the preoinotp
within which repose the saored remains of the
Bather of his Country; but this Hope is disan.
pointed. Mount Vernon, so feoently oonseorats’d
anew to the immortal Washington by the ladies
of America, has already been overrun by bands of
the rebels, who, having trampled nnder foot the
Constitution of the United States, the ark of our
freedom and prosperity, are prepared to trample
on the ashes of him to whom we ore all mainly in.
debted for those mighty blessings.
Should tho operations of war take the United
States troops in that direction, the General
Chief does not donbt that each and every man will
approach with due reverence, and leave uninjured
not only the tomb, but also the house, and groves
and walks, which wore so loved by the best and
greatest of men. Winfield Scott.
By command. E. D. Townsend,
Assistant Ad utant General'
Official .Report of the Battle.
The brigade reports come in slowly, and it will
bo some days yet before Gen: McDowell will be'
enabled to complete his general report. It la
earnestly inquired for here, as the publio mind is
in suspenso in regard to some important points not
yet explained.
Yesterday was pay-day in the departments, A
number of the sons of Virginia, in addition to
those half doson reported, two days ago, threw up
their places and left the city. By recent apt'of
their Own State, they were compelled to withdraws
from Unole Sam’s service,, or bo disowned in’
Virginia. “ Tho way of transgressors is hard.” ; !
I informed yon yesterday that all good Union
men were obliged to fly for their liberty from Fair
fax oonnty, Va. On my way to the battle-field, a
few hours before the engagement on the 21st July:
I oalled.with some friends at the house of Hwt. C*
H. Urron, a mile this side of Balls Churoh, Ho
was in Congress attending to his duties, but we
were received' aiid hospitably entertained by bis
wifel Since oar defeat they have been among the’
sufferers, having to fly before the approaching
enemy. On Tuesday a party of thirty rebel o&v
airy went to the premises and stripped the house
of furniture, &0., carrying it off, together with
three slaves, the property of Mr. Upton's son in
law, Mr. Thkookmoetoh, a clerk in the Patent
Office, The party was headed by a brother of the
latter gentleman (a member of the Seoession troop),
who professed to claim the property as his own.
Two of the negroes subsequently escaped, and
brought information of the faot to Mr. Upton’s
temporary residence, in Georgetown.
The workman arreated at tbs Arsenal, on suspi
cion of disaffection, have been examined and re
leased. It looks like child’s play to arrest a whole
flock on evidence lodged, and not find a solitary
black sheep, on careful examination.
Not Quite as Good as Gold.
The Beoretary of the Treasury proposed yester
day to pay cff the clerks in the Departments with
Unole Sam’s hew issue of paper. The Interior De
partment refused, others Informed the Hen. Secre
tary Chase that they could discover no law to
compel them to receive anything short of specie.
The result was the supplying of the: paymasters
with paper and specie. Those who preferredrMr
"Chase's very handsome treasury bills to the yel
low dust received them, while those whose ohoice
waß specie reoeivod their pay in gold.
U. S. Regulars on the Move
The Third Regiment United States Infantry
came over to-day, from Virginia, and took quar
ters in the pity. Their destination is not made
publio. .
Over $lOO 000 haa been paid out to the troops
within two or throe days. The privates have all
left the city, and the oamps were never under bet
ter discipline than at present.
The Pennsylvania Reserve.
- The large number of regiments recently arrived
from Pennsylvania is a stirring tribute to the patri
otism of that State. They were visited yesterday af
ternoon at their encampments by a party of influ
ential citizens from your State, and their fine con
dition was the general theme of remark, reflecting,
as it does, credit alike upon officers and men.
Our Royal Visitor.
. Prince Napm-bow: oomes "withont the Princess
CioTHiwoß, to the great disappointment of our ton
who were on tip toe to see the latest Parisian
fashions- ' : >
Joseph W.Gregq, a privateinthe Col. Wood
New York Fourteenth Regiment, was arrested in
Virginia, by order of General Mansfield, for
shooting a private in a New. Jersey regiment, a
short time ago. He was examined before Justice
Donn, and about twenty witnesses testified that
Gregg was treated in a brutal manner'by tie
New Jersey man, and was justified in shooting
him. He was honorably acquitted.
John C. Underwood, of Virginia, has been
nominated and oonfinnad as Fifth Auditor of the
Treasury
Lawrence H. Breed, of Louisiana, assistant
messenger in the offioo of the Secretary of the
Senate, was removed yesterday.
Army Appointment.
William H, Powell, D C., a member of the
Washington Zouaves, has been appointed a second
nontenant in the regular army.
It is said that the new brigadier ghneralswil!
he seieoted by the President only as their services
may be aotnslly needed,’
A misapprehension exists as to the practice and
powers of the select committee, of which Mr.
Potter is chairman, to examine into the loyalty
of the Government employees, They have in no
instance directed the arrest of any one. In the
oases where the evidence is satisfactory to them,
they report the faot to the proper authority, and
\here the functions of the committee end.
Official Despatch from General Rosen
NO FIGHT, BUT 1 WISE RETREAT.
THE REBELS DISBANDING.
Washington, August I.—The War Department
has received the following, direot from General
Rosenoranz; by telegraph, dated to-day :
“General Cox reached Gauley Bridge on the
29th ult. General Wise fled without fighting, de
stroying the bridge to prevent pursuit. We have
captured a thousand muskets and several kegs of
common powder.
“ Many -inhabitants of that section, who have
heretofore been, strong Secessionists, denounce
General Wise for his wanton destruction of pro
pertv, and are abandoning him and his eanse.
His Westorn troops are rapidly disbanding. The
valley of the Kanawha Ib now free from the 'rebel
foroes.”
Fobtbebs Moxboe, July 31, via Baltimore,—
Lieut. Crosby left the fortress yesterday, on an
expedition with 300 men and several pieoesof
artillery, on beard the propellers Cadwalader,
Fanny, and Adriatic Their destination was up
the bay, bat they have not yet been heard from.
Prof. La Mountain made an ascension this morn
ing. He attained an elevation of one thousand
fast, tnl was able to observe a circuit of 30 miles
id diameter, making some useful observations as
to the position of the enemy. No traces of the
rebels are seen in the vicinity of Hampton, which
is a perfect picture of a deserted village. John
Tyler’s house is occupied by a large number of
contraband negroes.
Eleven Vessels Ashore near Cape
Henry.;.
PIRATICAL RAVAGES OX AMERICAS COMMERCE
New Yobk, Aug. I.—The surveying schooner
Vixen, arrived from the capes of Virginia, re
ports eleven vessels ashore between Cape Henry
and a ppiht ten miles south. Five of them were
ships, and all of them more or lobs stripped of
rigging. They appeared to have gone on recently,
and can only be attributed to the piratioal cruisers
now devastating Ameriosn oommeroe. '
More Fnormons Stories from the South
Louisville, Aug. I.—A despatoh from Nash
ville to the Courier sbjb McCulloch, of the rebel
forces, has defeated Seneral Siegel, in Southern
Missouri, killing 9 000 and losing 600 men. The
report is not believed at the Conner office. - : :
The Riohmand Enquirer, of the 29th ult, says
a Tenney Ivania regiment has been captured by the -
Coofedemtes.
Mr V. K Stephenson, in a o&rd to the Nashville
Union of-this morning, says Judge Catron will
not undertake to' hold the Federal Court at Naih
ville again, iso matter what may ooour.
{Accident to a Fall River St tamer.
Boavox. August 1 1 The steamer Metropolis,
from Fall River for New York, was disabled soon
after leaving Newport, last night, by an accident
to her: machinery She was met by the steamer
Bay State, which had the Eighth Massachusetts
Regiment aboard, and was towed back to Fall
River The aocident involved no danger what
ever to the passengers.
Army Orders.
Headquarters op tbh Army, <
Washington, July 30, 1861. ;
GENERAL ORDERS NO. 12.
Secession Clerks.
Seceslii Robbery.
A Fizzle.
The Troops.
Acquitted.
Fifth Auditor.
Removed.
Miscellaneous
From Fortress Monroe.
FROM HARPER’S FERRY.
Movements of Gen- Batiks’ Column.
Bandy Rook, August I.—No important move
ments have been made yet. An additional foree
has been sent up the river to guard tho ford at
Harper’s Berry. Scouting parties, out on Tues
day night, reported considerable bodies of rebel
foragers within six miles of the forry, whioh
gives rise to a suspicion that a muoh larger body
is nearer us than Leesburg. Some think that
General Johnston’s army is on the more north
ward.
Three brigades of the Shenandoah column have
already been formed. The first is to bo com
manded by Oolonel Geo. H. Thomas, tho second by
Colonel J. J. Absrorombia, and the third by Colo
nel Cbas, J. Stone. Other brigades are now
forming.
The Massachusetts Thirtieth Regiment is at
Hagerstown, and is expeoted here to night.
The Fifth Conneotiout arrived this morning.
Muoh defection exists in Colonel Mann's Regi
ment of Pennsylvania Reserves. A large num
ber were missing at the roll-call yesterday
morning, and yesterday about three hundred of
them refused to be sworn in. The men assign
•various o-.usos for this. Borne say that they are
'hot armed as promised by the Btato authorities,
and that they have a scarcity of food, from the
want-of experience by. their commissary; but
the real oauße is believed to be tbe want of aonfl
denoe in their officers, added to the aspirations of
subordinate officers for higher grades. Colonel
Porter, of the staff, at the instance, it is presumed,
of the commanding general, addressed them last
night in a patriotic strain, but the disaffection ap
parently still exists. This is the only known in
stance of any disaffection in the army. The health
of the oolumn is good.
Scouts frequently bring in evidences of Secession
combinations in this section of Maryland, as well
as friquent- communications with the rebels in
Virginia. Stringent measures have been insti
tuted to stop such correspondence, if it really ex
ists,,also to break up the organisation. Nothing
is positively known outßide of the staff of the
enemy’s movements., „
Sandy Hook, Md., July 81.—The' headquarters
of G«n. Banks’ division is at Pleasant Valloy, be
tween the mountain known as the Maryland
Heights,'abutting opposite Harpor’s ferry, and a
spur of the Blue Ridge, terminating on the Poto
mao at the village, of Knoxville on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. , Pleasant Valley is a table:
land j&atcßU, some 260 feet above the Potomac,
overlooking Harper’s Berry, Sandy Hook,.and
Knoxville, and commanding the country roads
running from the former place towards Hagers
town and Froderiok. The climate is salubrious
and healthy, as evidenced by the almost untenant-'
ed hospitals. The location is unassailable, except
from the opposite Virginia heights, whioh would
really oommand that position, but for the existence
of obstacles almost insuperable to the erection of
any rebel battery there.
The number of troops is daily augmented by the
arrival of new and weH-disoipHned regiments, and
in the meantime the commanding general and staff
are busily engaged in ' Organising the army into
brigades and divisions. With the exception of
occasional music by some of the regimental bands,
and the rumbling of the heavily-laden army trains,
the oamps are as quiet as a country village on a
rainy sabbath, few incidents transpire worthy o*
notice.
Reconnoitring parties and saouts are on the
alert at all hours, and it Is impossible for the ene
my to arrive in any force near enough to threaten
usj without timely notice being given.-
The commissariat and quartermaster’s deport
ments are efficiently offioered, and' aotive prepara
tions are progressing for futureoperations.
Captain McMullln’s Rangers, whose term does
uot expire till the 13th of August, are quartered
near the headquarters, and appear to stand in
high favor with the new oommander and his staff
Col. Cleary’s splendidly-equipped regiment are in
the' vicinity with Col. Mann’s regiment. The
United States cavalry and-the Philadelphia City
Troop are located in a delightful grove. The mem-
hers of the City Troop are all well, and in excel
lent spirits. They expect to return home on the
13ih of August. Some of them will re-enlist, and
others have been tendered commissions in the re
gular army.."
- The Rhode Island Artillery, wbioh participated
in the Bull Run battle, arrived here this morning
with a full battory. They oooupy a position near
the headquarters.
The point formerly oooupied by the Kentucky
rifle regiment, on the Maryland Heights, opposite
Harper’irFerry, is how garrisoned by our troops
The works commenced by the rebels are now,
being completed, and its approaches are well forti
fied. A oob work pyramidal observatory, about
fifty feet high, has been erected on the pinnaole
surmounted by the stars and stripes.
There are but few of three-months men new left
in this oolnmn, bnt troops for the war continue to
arrive in large numbers.
There is no regular post office at Bandy Hook.
Letters addressed to the officers and men of the
regiments now stationed here wquld resoh them
with a 'greater certainty by firing sent to Knox
ville, two miles below U 3
; The,rumors of the approach of the rebel General
Johnson towards Leosburg have induced Gen, Banks
to keep up a sharp lookout in that direction. From
indications it is presumed that his force is not of
the extraordinary dimensions at first reported
Although it is presumable that the rebel piokets
range the bills opposite this, position, they have
no,t yet made their presenee manifest.
The* Volunteer Refreshment Committees-—:
Our citizens may not be aware of the fact that these
committees have provided refreshments for all the
volunteers passing through the city era route to the,
seat of war, and also those returning, which
amount up to this time to ninety thousand,- ail of
which have arrived weary-and hungry, and been
suppiied by these committees with refreshments.
The gentlemen forming the two committees find it
heoesßary to appeal to the liberality of the bommu
nity for contributions, to enable them to continue
their laudable undertaking, the expenses of which
are very large; Donations will he received by.
Wm M. Cooper, Otsego street, below Washington
avenue, or A. Barrows, Swanson street and .Wash
ington avenue. ~i
Richmond, Va., Items..
The Richmond Dispatch of the 25th uli. con
tains the following items:
The Central oars yesterday brought down, be
sides a number of passengers, Ac., twenty-seven
of the Georgia soldiers who were released by Gan.
McClellan. . Col. John Fegram was carried to
Washington and ordered to beoonfihed in Fortress
Monroe by General Soott. He is now there. There
are at Biauntcu 150 more of the Rich Mountain
prisoners, awaiting to come down. One hundred
hogshead of bacon taken from the Abolition forces
last Sunday were marked ‘'Richmond, Virginia,’'
and some of the packages had “ Capitol Square”
written on them. Two trains arrived, the second
bringing the wounded. A third was expected last
night with Yankee prisoners to the number of five
or six hundred. The prison depot is already full.
Among the lot brought here, on Tuesday night,
were sixty-five Yankee officers, including Corcoran,
who commanded the Sixty-ninth New York Regi
ment, which was somewhat demoralized Sunday
by the “ rebels.”
The forces lately under General Garnett in
Western Virginia made a safe retreat from Car
raok’s Ford to Moortfield, Where they were rein
forced by four or five thousand men.
The bodies of Colonels Bartow, Johnson, and
General 800 were yesterday escorted from the
Capitol' to the Petersburg depot by. the State
Guard, aoeompanied by Governor Letoher and
other gentlemen.
The Unquirer says : : : , : :
Lieutenant Dickinson, of New Orleans, now in
this city, and who was shot in the thigh with a
Mule ball, in the battle on Bunday, say s that he
waa a member of Major Wheat’s battalion, and out
of four hundred which constituted that command,
there were not more than one hundred that
escaped death and wounds. Major Wheat was
shot through the body, and was surviving on Wed
nesday, although his case is exceedingly critical.
Lieutenant Dickinson also says that the Catahoula
(Louisiana) Guerillas, Captain Bahoup, fought
witridesperation. and he thinks his command were
nearly all killed add wounded. The captain,
although for a long time in the hottest of the fight,
escaped unhurt. He also says the Tiger Rifles, of
Louisiana, in a perfect shower of bullets, threw
down their rifles and charged upon the enemy’s
lines with their knives, putting them to flight,:
News from Governor Jackson’s Army,;
(From the St. Louis remoorat, July 30.1
We had a visit, yesterday morning, from a sol
dier lately attached to Jack ton’s grand army of
emigration, whioh he left some days ago. This
gentleman is a native of Missouri, is a former in
times of peace, but was impressed into the “ ae
oosh” service by order of the former Governor of
the State. He was with them at Lexington, and
accompanied them in their kegira to the South
east.; It was, ho says, the most rapid exodus, and
many a pig and ohioken, ox and horse, owes his
safety to their want of time to steal him; Our in
formant was not present at tho battle of Carthage,
in oonsequanco of his friends having no confidence
in his loyalty. He distinctly heard the firing, and
assisted in the running afterwards, until they were
safe in the extreme southeastcorner of Maodoaald
county, vfhon he left Jaokßon and his oohoria.
He s»y« they have a large force, scattered
through me different oamps in that neighborhood;
has heard it estimated at 18.000 men. The rebels
are poorly armed, and badly i quipped generally.
Tbeir food oonsistg altogether in what they steal.-
Tho soldiers receive daily half rations of bread and
double rations of frosh beef The farming Cattle
in the vieinity are universally seized It Is hot
the intention of Jackson to attaok Lyon until some
other movement is made. Ben MeCnlloeh had left
to join Bowen, as had most of their boat aimed
troops—at least it was bo reported in his oainp He
parsed over the field of the late battle at Carthage,
and states the stenoh to be intolerable from the de
oemnosition of horse flesh which fell on that day.
There is no order or discipline iujthe rebel army.
Gen, lUins is generally drnuk, and Jaekaou is in'
constant fear of being, taken. The Cherokee In
dians are frequent visitors to their camp, but will
not take any ~part against the Government of the
Uoiled States, Many are anxiously awaiting the
arrival of Uncle Sam’s boys to take leave of the
rebels, having been impressed into the service.
Most of them deoiare they will not go out of; Mis
souri to. servo the , Southorn.; Confederacy, Alto,
gether, onr informant is satisfied that the rebels
are in a bad fix; and if aid is not soon obtained :
they will disband from necessity. f
ggp We are indebted fa Adams’ Express'for
copies of late Memphis and New Orleans news-i
papers.
TIIBTHPMTH CONGRESS.
EXTRA session.
Washikotoe, August 1> I®®! -
SENATE.
Mr Grimes , of low*, gave notice that h« should
introduce a bill deoUring unconstitutional thoa °*
mfkioe » retrocession of a part of the District of
Pnlnmhia to the State of Virginia.
° On motion of Mr- Wilsol, of Massachusetts,
’from the Committee on Military Affairs, the bill
fSriie or«aS»tionef the volunteer militia was
Sfstßoned M the first Monday in December next.
SATWiSBUBT, of Delaware, moved to take
r«Bolntion of inquiry m reference to send
to the State of Delaware. He said that
Delaware was as loyal as any State in the Union,
bn personlhad att/mpted/mak. it appear that
there were disloyal men there. The motion was
dl £f w.fso* introduced a bill making appro
priations towards making fortifications. /The bill
provides *lOO 000 the purpose, and also prohi
hits fiomrinz in the army. Passed.
The MU to promote the efficiency of the volun
teer forces of the United States was taken up and
passed. 0 j jj e w Hampshire, offered a joint
resolution, authorising the examination by a board
of naval officers of the James projectile for rifled
cannon. Referred to the Committee on,Naval
A H?I M ’CBAiri)X.BB; of Michigan, from the Com
mittee on Commerce, reported a bill reducing the
consular fees on vessels running to or between
f °Tho D binto punish fraud on' the part of officers
making contracts for the Government, returned
from the House with amendments, was taken up.
Mr Witsss moved a reconsideration of the vote
bv which the former amendments of the House
were agreed to He said that he thought the bill
was calculated to do injury to the Government,
and to hamper its operations. ...
After some discussion, the motion was with
drawn and tile bill passed.
Mr Wilson, of Massachusetts, made a report
from the committee of conference on the bill for
the better organisation oT the army.
Attar some disoussion, the report was agreed to.
Bo the biU was passed. ,
The bill for the suppression of insurrection was
tS Mr. Cowax, of Pennsylvania, moved to postpone
its oonaderation-till December. ___ „ ~
Mr. Bayabp, of Delaware, thought that was the
best disposition that could be made of the bill. It
was unoonstitutlohal. . _
Mr Habeib, of New York, also spoke m favor
of a poatponemeht*' s ’®* thought tho bill was too
important to be matured this session in the temper
of the Senate and temperature of the place _
He was inclined to think that the necessities of
tbeoaso gavo military oommandera all the power
'they needed.
Mr. Bnowmita, of Illinois, argued in favor of the
present consideration'of the bill.
Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, said he should
vote for a postponement. Ho was glad to see tbe
Senate at last pause before even a single
bill. He wished this hill was published in every
newspaper in the country, believing that it would
meet with universal condemnation. He thought
-the tendency of this bill was to abolish all State
Government and to destroy the last vestige of po
litical and personal liberty.
Mr. Trumbull, of Illinois, contended that some
bill of this kind was necessary from the exigencies
of the times. The Constitution wsb in danger. We
have voted men and money to carry on the war to
savo the Constitution, and now oan we justify our
selves without maturing a bill so mnon needed ?
If we postpone the bill we will allow the Consti
tution to be violated every day, and leave the mi
litary to do as they please without restriction.
By common consent, Mr. Fessbudex, of Maine,
was allowed to make a report from the committee
of conference on the loan bill.
The report was agreed to, and the bill stands
passed.
The consideration of the insurrection bill was
then resumed.
Mr- Collaheb, of Vermont, contended that aB
we were in a state of war, the President and Go
vernment were invested with certain powers under
the laws of war. And if the Senate intended by
this bill to authorize all acts that were necessary,
then this bill waß only a beginning of numerous
acts that would be squally necessary. He thought
this subjeot should not be legislated about by
Congress.
. Mr- Trumbull replied, contending that tho
power was vested in Congress to act on such mea
sures, and had been exercised many times.
Mr. Breckinridge said the drama was begin
ning to open. Tho Senators who urged this .war
have commenced to quarrel among themselves.
Tbe Senate has already passed a general confisca
tion bill, and also a general emancipation bill.
Tbe police commissioners of Baltimore have been
arrested without any law, and carried eff to an
unknown plaoe, and the President refuses to tell
the House what they weire arrested for and what
has been dei e with them. Yet you oall this
liberty and law!
The Senator from Illinois (Mr. Browning) had
said that he (Mr. Breokfnridge) had assailed the
President with severity if net malignity. In the
midst of these events he oauld not cherish per
sonal animosity, and towards the President he
•never entertained such a spirit. Qn the contrary,
he thought more highly of him than did maDy of
bis counsellors. He believed him: to be an honest
man, trampling the Constitution: under foot with
good, motives, but from evil counsels.
But the proceedings of Congress have far eclipsed
anything the President has dose, and the Presi
dent's acts sink into nothingness before tbe abso
lute outrages of personal liberty perpetrated by
Congress Itis evident that the Constitution is
to bo laid aside, and he wanted the country to
know the faot. Gentlemen, w* are on the wrong
taok, and the paople are beginning to see It.
Nothing but ruin to the North and the South
will follow, this war. let Congress,pause, and re
spond to the uprising all over the country for
peace. War is final dissolution:' If we go on
twelve months longer, weiwillhave three Confede
-raoies Instead .of two. lift 'kuew r: 2xe wue- uttering
sentiments' which nearly all sneered at, but he
was witling to abide by the final judgment of his
tory. ' .
t Mr. Baker, of Oregon, asked what parts of the
bill were unconstitutional.
Mr. Breckinridge said all its provisions were
so atrocious ihat he could not particularize.
. Mr. Baker referred to the first section, and said
it was not unconstitutional for the President to
declare a military district in a state of insurrec
tion. _ . ■ ;
Mr. Breckinbidgb said the President had no
authority to declare a State in insurreetion.
Mr. Baker contended that the President had
the right to. declare a district in insurrection,
whether it composed a State or two States. When
the civil power is overthrown, the President most
oall on the military to preserve the Government
The only thing the President can do is to ad
vance armies, and put down rebellion. The
Senator from Kentucky stands up bravely to
speak sentiments which he holds, bnt what are
they hut oomfort and spirit to the enemy?
What are they but brilliant words—polished
treason in the very Capitol. What would the
Senator have us do ? Would he yield to treason ?
There was nothing left for us but to go forward.
What would have been thought of a'Roman sena
tor who declared for poaee when Carthage was
advancing on Rome ? A Senator near me says he
would have been hnrled from tbe Tarpeian rook.
The North and Bast will never falter, bnt give all
their blood and treasure to support the Govern
ment. He foretold a brilliant future for the
Republic.
Mr. Breckinridge said he should detain the
Senate but a moment longer. The Senator from
Oregon seemed to forget that the Government was
one of delegated powers. He has asked what
would I have him do. I would have him
stop this war, because I believe that constitu
tional liberty will find in it its grave: I would
prefer to sec the States reunited on the principles
of our fathers ; and if I could so reunite them,
I would consider the saarifiee of my life asnothing.
The Senator says I am speaking brilliant treason.
I was not aware of it I believed that I was
speaking for; the good of my country. He was
speaking by tile indulgence of no man, but by the
guarantee of tbe Constitution. The, Senator
asks what weuld have been done to a Roman
Senator bad be done oertain things, and another
Senator (whose courage has been overrated)
says ho would' have been hurled from
the Tarpeian rook. If we ever have a Tarpeian
reck and a victim, he (Mr. Breckinridge) wanted
it to be a man who, according to the measure of
intellect, had been the ehief author of our public
misfortune. He, and men like him, had brought
the country to its present, oondition. He replied
with the indignation he ought to feel at such an in
sult on the floor, of the Senate. The opinions he
entertained were his own, and honestly entertain
ed, and he believed they were the opinions of his
State; and he repeated, that if his State decided
to go into the war, he would no longer represent
her in the Senate.
Mr. Baker Bald he would leave him to settle
that question with Ms State.
Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, said the Senator
from Kentucky seems to forget that one of the
powers of the Constitution is that guarantying a
republican form of government to every State.
When South Carolina sets up a military despotism,
the Government is bound to; aid loyal citizens in
establishing a free Government. He declared that
this was not* war of subjugation at aU, and can
tended that Virginia was showing the true mode
of reconstruction of ihe'-Government.
He wanted to haviTaliipettifogging on oonßtitn
tional points stopped when armed rebels are threat
ening the capital.
The motion to postpone was lost by the following
vote: ■ - ■ "
__ Yeas —Messrs. Bayard Breokinridge, Bright,
Coliamer, Cowan, Doolittle, Harris, Hbwe. John
son of Maryland, Kennedy . Latham. Polk Powell
Rice, Sauls bury, and Thomson—l 6 ’ ’
Nats— Messrs. Anthony, Baker, Bigham,
Browning, Carlile, Chandler, Clark, Dixon; Fes
senden. Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Harlan John
son of Tennessee, King, Lane of Indiana, Lane of
Kansas, McDougall, Morrill, Sherman, Bumner,
Ten Evok, Trumbull; Wade, Wilkinson, Wilmot
and Wilson—2B , l
After further discussion the Senate went into
executive session, and subsequently adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. Sedgwick, of New York, from the Commit
tee on Naval Affairs, reported a bill authorizing
additional enlistments in the navy for three years
or during the war, so as to place u in complete
efficiency lor aotive service. r
; Stbvbxs. of Pennsylvania, from the Commit
we of Ways and Means, reported a bill wMeh war
passed, appropriating SWO 000 for field fortifioa
tions for tbe defenoe.or Washington
Mr, Stbvxxs, from the committee of oonferenoe
on the supplemental loan biU, made a report ex
plaining that the disagreements of the two Souses
have been compromised by striking out nine per
oentum in certain oases, and substituting six ner
centum *
Also, modifying the Sob-Treasury act.'so that
instead of. gold and silver being immediately paid
into the treasury f “°™Wired, the moniy de
nved from the loan may remain in solvent banks
until it shall be drawn out, in pnrauanee of law
Mr ; F - A - Cokkdixg, of New York, inquired
whether the eommittee retained : the duties’ from
tea, coffee, BD K“'“ a tfttlge for the loan.
Mr. teTßvaxs said the .Senate /would not oossent
to that, and rather than W tlw Mu the fl J
OMamntee agreed to abandon that elapse
The report was then adopted by a vote of 83
Sjjj[&il38 r 3t.
Mr Eliot, of Massachusetts fj om theCnrrm,i*‘».
on Commerce, reported a bill to s“ * 4dT, nart
the operation of the aot of Matoh, 1815 relhtiog to
rerenae oattere and BWRiaejn fe _ ‘i
Secretary of the Treasury to apply so much of the
appropriation for the colleotionof the revonue to
the oharter or pnrohase of vessels for revenue
vice as may be necessary.. Passed. “ ,
The Senate bill authorizing the" amviiniw.—.*
aid* de-oampin addition tol^M‘hi
law, by the President, on “ho rMonmlS.i!?
either of the Lieutenant Genera] ornf
Generals,; was passed. orof,he Major
The Speaker appointed as a committee on the
part of the House, to examine and report as to the
compensation of all officers of the Ooyerntnen ,
with a view to retrenchment, Mesßra. Morrill, or
Vermont, Olin, and Allen
The bill passed appropriating $3OO 000 for the
purchase of ordnance for the nse of the navy;
$l2 000 for the completion of the Charlestown
(Mass ) marine barracks; $3O 000 for the pnrehase
of the right to mannfaotnre and nse Caustin’s
night signals. The 'Secretary of the Navy is
authorised to change the name of snoh vessels as
he mav purohase for the navy
n Mr f'EHTOK, of New York, offered the following:
w; Ureas, It is currently reported that theforoes
now in rebellion against the Government hayocer
tain prisoners in their possession, and among them
Alfred Ely, one of the members of this Honse .
That the President be requested to
the’ Houae_ with any infor-tion he may
have in bis possession on the snbjaot. ,
Mi Br.Ain. of Missouri, rising to a persoaM«
flga“ns I t°him and n his r toother, the Postmaster
take oare cf himself. Although differing from
Gen. Soott with reference to the oonduot of the
war, their personal relations were of the kindest
Character He (Mr. Blair) showed that it was
charged by Mr Weed that he, as of
the MUitary Committee, had
reported by Senator Wilson for the increase oi
the army. That the oharge was entirely untrue,
the records show. ,
He had seen himself gsretted, and the endeavor
made to cast an imputation upon him, because no,
with others, had demanded a vigorous prosecution
of the war, and the attempt was also made to ren
der them responsible for the disasterat BulfHnn.
This came with an ill grace from Thnrlow weea,
who was here with the members of a committee,
urging a vigorous prosecution of the war, and «-
daring that ha and the gentlemen accompanying
him represented the entire people of New York,
and came hither to invigorate and infoßetheCom
manding General. It was safe for him [Blalrjro
make a stump speech, as was charged, when oar
Weed himself, who was a compromise man, came
here to urge a vigorous prosecution of the war
Mr. Blair'then referred te Mr. Richardson’s repe
tition of the conversation between General Bcott
and the President relative to the battle, and in
volving the responsibility of the fight-
Mr Righakdso!*, of Ulinoia. remarked that he
had endeavored to reportthe conversation honestly,
and if anything then escaped his memory, the
members of the House who were, present on that
occasion ought to have corrected him. :
Mr. Wabbbbrkh, of Illinois, one. of the gentle
men alluded to, said that he did not understand,
his colleague as Baying that General Soott impuTed;
that he had been foroed by the President to fight
the battle ■ : v .. .
Mr. Richardson said ho did not think that ms
language had been fairly construed, if it was sup
posed that he had said or intimated that General
Scott implied that the President had foroed him
into the movement.
Mr. Blair said he had alluded to this matter for
a double: purpose. He understood that General
Soott did in that conversation exonerate toe Pre
sident from having any part in forcing him to the
battle.
Mr Riohaedsok repeated that he did not un
derstand Gen. Soott as implying that the President
forced him to fight that battle.
Mr. Bdaie replied that this was the very essence
of the matter. The President should retain the
confidence of the people of the oountry, but this he
oouid not do so long as It is held out that the Pre
sident forced Gen. bcott tb fight the battle against
his wilt. But, as the President did not take the
responsibility of forcing a battle before the troops
were ready, he will still retain, as he deserves, the
confidence of the people. .
Mr Blair then referred to a recent article in
the New York Times, which essayed to give Ge
neral Scott’s plan of the campaign. Although he
did not profess to haying military knowledge, he
oonld see that such a plan contained the seeds of
fatal disasters to the oountry. It was such a plan
as the rebels would desire, and he did not believe
that it was General Soott’a plan.
Mr. Richaedboh, in further explanation, said
that it was, the other day, no part of his purpose
to make any assault on the President.
Mr Blair reminded the gentleman that he said
President Lincoln was an honest man, if let alone,
but that ho waß surrounded by wily politicians,
agaißSt whom he (Mr. Richardson) feared that the
President had not the courage or the will to stand.
Mr. Richardson replied that his remarks on
that occasion were not as well expressed as they
ought to have been If this meaning was under
stood beoauso his language was unhappy, he re
gretted It. . .
The House then adjourned.
Col: Miles’ Defence.
Col. Miles, who commanded the reserves, at the
late battle, being accused of drunkenness and
other conduct unbecoming a soldier, has published
the following oard, in the Washington Star, of last
evening:
S Alexahdbia, Va , July 31,1861:
Editor of the Stab—Dear Sib : Will yon
please give place in your columns to a short reply
from an old soldier, in correction of Col. Richard
son'S report, as published in this morning’s Sun.
Perhaps no one has ever before been hunted with
more assiduous, malioions vituperation and false
hood, sinoe the battle of 801 l Bun, than myself
My name, lam told, has been a byword in the
streets of Washington and its bar-roems for every
thing derogatory to my character It was stated
I had deserted to the enemy; I was a traitor, be
ing from Maryland, asy mpathiser; gave the order
to retreat; was in arrest, and now, by Col. Etch
ardson’s report, drank.
I shall not copy Biohardson’s report, but correct
the errors ho has committed, leaving to his future
days a remorse he may feel at the irreparable in
jury he has inflicted on an old brother cfficer.
The order for retreat from Blaokhurn’s Cord, as
communicated by my staff officer, emanated from
Gen MsDowel!, .who directed two of my brigades
to march oh the Wairenton xosd as far as the
bridge on ..Cub creek. 1 sent, my adjutant gene
ral,Captain Vincent,' to bring up Davies’ and
Biahardson’s brigades, while I gave the order to
Blanket's brigade at Centreville to proceed down
the Warrenton road. I accompanied these troops
a part of the way, endeavoring to oolleot and halt
the routed soldiers. I returned to Centreville
heights as Col. Biohardaon, with, his brigade,: was
coming into line of battle, facing Blackburn’S:
Ford. His position was well chosen, and £ turned
my attention to the placing of Davies’ brigade and
the batteries. A part of Davieß’ command'was
placed ineohellen of regiments, behind fences, in
support of Biohardaon; another portion in reserve,
in support of Hunt’s gnd Titball’s batteries. .
After completing these arrangements I.returned
to Blenker’s brigade, now sear a mile from Oen
treville heights, took a regiment to cover Green’s
battery, and then returned to the heights.: When
I arrived there, just before dusk, I found all my
previous arrangements of defence had been
changed nor could I ascertain who had ordered
it, for Hen McDowell was not on the field. Col.
Biohardaon wa tho first person I spoke to after
passing Capt. Fry; he was leading- his regiment
Into line of battle on the orest of the hill, and di
reotly in the way of the batteries in rear. It was
here the conversation between the Colonel ; and
myself took place which he alludes to in his re
port. General McDowell just afterwards came
onto the field, and I appealed earnestly to him to
permit me to command my division, and protested
against the faulty disposition of the troops to re
sist an attack He replied by taking command
himself and relieving me
Colonel Biohardaon states a conversation with
Lieutenant Colonel Stevens, of his Command. I
never saw Colonel Stevens to my knowledge! • X
never gave him. or any one, the order to deploy his
oolnmn: the order must have emanated from some
one else, and hence my misfortune; for ffihis im
pression that I was drunk, those not immediately
connected with me rang it ever the field, without in
quiry or investigation. This is all that is proper for
me to say at this time, as I have oalled for a court to
investigate the whole transaction. Those who
have read Biohardson’s report will confer a favor
to compare this statement with it ; the discrepan
cies are glaring, the errors by deductions apparent.
L. S. Miles,
. Colonel Second Infantry. ■
D’Afcy McGee on American Allaire ■
While the ministerial supporters and organs of
Canada are sneering at all the efforts being made
by the United States Government, the Opposition,
while not ovinoing any particular partiality, are
nevertheless disposed to. be oandid in considering
American affairs., D’Aroy McGee, a few days
since, made a general speech at a .fete in Chantc
gnay, and thus alluded to tho United States
I repeat here, at thiß earliest opportunity I have
had, what! said in my plaoe in the last Parlia
ment, that all thir wretobed small talk about thu
failure of the repuhlioan experiment in the United
States ought to be frowned down wherever itVp
pears by the Canedian public Xam not a Ropch
lioan in politics; long before these recent troubles
lame to a head in the American Union, I had
ceased .to dogmatiro upon any abstract seheme of
government; but I have no hesitation in dtotaling
my own beliet—a belief founded upon evidence
accumulated through Several years of observe-
Hon—that the American system, so far from having
proved a failure, as tyrants and toad-eaters ail
over the tyorld would wish it to bt—that that sys
tem will emerge from this its first great domestic
trial, purified, consolidated, disciplined for great
er usefulness and greater achievements than ever
before [Cheers ]
.It is, then, it seems to me, the duty of Canadian
statesmen to look through thoteorporary to the
lasting relation we are to sustain to our next
neighborto suppress and disoountenanoe all un
generous exultation at the trials and tribulations
whioh they are now undergoing; to show them,
on the contrary, in this the day of their adversity
that, while preferring, on rational grounds, the
system of constitutional monaioty for ourselves and
our children —while preferring to lodge within the
prtcinots of the Constitution elaborated through
agBB by the highest wisdom of the British Islands,
wo, oan at the same time be just, nay. generous, to
the_ merits of the kindred system founded by
tteir fathers in the defensive and justifiable wars
?Ll h '‘L R ?r lut,o » If we are freemen, so are
public Calamities which befall one
free people oan never be matter of exultation to
another so long as the world is half darkened by
despotism as it is. *
th? w/vftSi 0 !? 1 6x Feriment were indeed to fail,
tbe nope kindled on the altars, of the East—the
®° f ? re fdom-would at last be q aenoh-
T , ,“e th S f u r West If American
a„e w ?,™ t P ! fall . “ 0 t their fathers alone,
™ Sli-^ thß .Ujostrious company of freedom’s
mariyre wonld have lived ana bled in vain. Xa
vain Roman virtue resisted Romes ambition- in
vato had Christian chivalry fended off the oimite”
4nd the superstition of the Mussulman ; in vain
hnen* h!L 8 T, r drawn, and Bannock
burn been fought, and Switzerland boon treed.
“ What time the hardy peasant sate
Uxi Urrs rock in olo&e
And winged tfc« arrow, sar* as fale.
That ascertained the rights of man **
American liberty is the product
of the highest political intelligence of modem
working m the freest field, oast adrift ft™
** “^^ofafrrbitra^
nlMe- if thktf 1°- a l . Olrona,Bt6 h'!eB of time aid
f fitmiv beHkvi i b f r »ifi ho, ' ! ? - bo destin " l to fall—as
ear v dav th. ih^ 11 no *t in day, nor at an
and alt rii« n^viH h i® Wo,ld ,“ n!lt *he shook,
be ofothad ?!,^ ! ® d p . M,S ° f the »”* might well
, h . , uruouruiDg, if they only understood
the value of what they had lost; [Cheers ]
®s*viHB ov thb Mbdicau Boakd.—By re
ferenoe to an advertisement, published in another
co nmn, it will be seen that a modioal board for
the examination of candidates for the post of sur
geons in the next ten regiments to be sent from
ttis State, will oonvene at Harrisburg, in the
ilonse .of Representatives, on Tuesday next, at 0
o clook A. .M , Applicants are now subjected to a
rigid- examination by tho surgeon general, Henry
H., Smith, M. D , of this city, and afterwards ap
pointed by Gtov. Curtin to positions in the various
regiments.
Meeting of Citizens at the Merchant."
Exchange- 8
In pursuance of a published call, a masting of
oitiions, without distinction of party, was hold u
noon yesterday, in room No. 30, of the Merchani a >
Bxohange, to devise some means for altering th
present mode of making nominations of candidate
for offioo. The room was filled principally wi[]i
business men who have heretofore syaipathijM
with the Douglas and Bepubllaan organization.*
On motion of Edward C. Knight, the meet!#,
was oalled to order by nominating William Welsh
Erq., for chairman, which was unanimously
to
Upon taking the ohair, Mr. Welsh said he hy
no knowledge of the meeting until he saw th« n
Hoe published in the papers, and, from the print
*bll, it appeared to be a meeting of citizens
were opposed to the system of partisan nomination 8
heretofore pursued, and in favor of electing oan '
bio and honest men to office. ra ‘
On motion of Charles Gibbons, Esq., the meet'
then organised by the election of the followin*
officers: *
President—William Welsh.
Vice Presidents—John C. Davis, 8. H, Perkhw
H J. Williams, Benjamin Gerhard. ’
Secretaries—Fred, Fraley, John B. Kennedy
- The President stated that the necessity for snot
a meeting was apparent to every gentleman p r 9
sent. On account of political matters they had
reached a point verging on destruction, a „
formation was loudly called for, and hebelU 7 .j
that the gentlemen whose names were appended
to the call for the meeting thonght that the point
at whieh they were to make the first reformation
was that of nomination, and see if they oonldnot
correct the present mode of selecting officers
There is virtue enough in the community to cor
root all the evils that now exist. He was glad to
understand that this work of reformation was
to begin at home; that they felt that they
had aU been wrong in neglecting the primary
meetings, at which partisans were selected
for nomination. They all knew that a
very small portion of the voters wore re
presented in nominating conventions, and can
didates were presented to them for their choice"
when,' really, they had no ohoiee. Pennsylranli
had suffered, perhaps, more in reputation recently
than any other State, and its citizens were hang,
ing their-heads because of the corruptions that
had sprung up in their midst. Upon visiting
Washington, a few weeks since, he had been in
formed that, unless a oheck eonld bo put to this
thing, our Government would come to destruction
and concluded by referring to the recent alleged
frauds perpetrated relative to the ohartering of
steamers, in order to show that the system of cor
ruption was not confined to this State alone.
Mr: E: Spenoer Miller then presented a series ot
resolutions, prefacing them with a few remarks.
He desired to be brief, os this was a time for action
and not for speech. He said the resolutions first
oommenoed with one of a Union oharaoter He
need not say a word aB to that. (Applause ] The
second suggested the idea that party issues, how
ever important they may have been in the rast,
-were now, he would not say immaterial, b a t
subordinate—subordinate first to the Union and
our strugglo, and secondly to the higher duty ol
having honest men in office. The third resolution
struck at 1 the mode of filling offiaea. The fourth
resolution suggested what be was sure they would
feel had given a oharaoter to the meeting, and he
would dwell upon it more than he had intended to.
because he had just heard that the partisans
who were nettled at their movement, were al.
ready beginning to slander them, and say that it
was nothing more than a movement of certain
men who had the names of persons to fill the Court
house Bow out and dried. He denied having any
thing to do with such ah arrangement. The
movement was merely intended to present good
and honest men for office, no names having yet
been mentioned. He referred to the slander al
luded to in order, to show how far the system of
corruptionhad been carried on in onreity. The
fifth resolution presented the mode in which they
intended to enoounter this odious system, and he
had ns doubt the difficulty could be remedied by
its adoption.
Mr. Miller whs here interrupted by a motion to
adjourn to a larger hall, as the room was densely
packed, and it was stated a number of people had
been unable to gain admittance. He refused to
yield the floor, however, and said he did not want
an adjournment, or any movement of that kind, to
break the current of right feeling that there ex
isted. He then read the following resolutions:
BESOLUTIOHS.
Resolved, That no reverses shake our deter
mination:'to: support the Federal Government ai
any sacrifice, in its refusal to treat with traitors,
and in its efforts to crush a wioked and causeless
rebellion, and sustain by force the dignity and in
tegrity of the Union. ~
Resolved, That to weaken, and divide this sup-
port by reviving party issues, which are now
subordinate, is as dangerous as to obstruct the G
overnment by direct opposition; that-if will suggest
differences where nene exist that are now praotioal
or substantial, and will keep alive feeling that
wopld otherwise be forgotten in the deep sympa
tMOß'bf odr struggle for tab Union.
Resolved, That'it is a time of all others when
the citizen should respect the right and discharge
the duty of electing honest, loyal, and capable
men to office, and should resist the corrnpt in
trigues whioh have heretofore used popular names
and devices to deceive the people, snd managed to
make them believe that oandidateg bought and
sold in party conventions are their candidates -
Resolved, That eyerygood citizen should now,
if never before,' remember that he owes a duty to
the Government which protects him and his
property, and that no one selected by the people
to fill a station of public trnsf of responsibility has
the right to refuse it without some reason, founded
in manifest necessity. -
Resolved, That a committee shallbe appointed
by the officers of this meeting, whioh shall consist
of two persona from each ward, who, after obtain
ing in such manner as they may deem best the
views of the oitizens of the respective localities
from whioh they are chosen as to the choice of
candidates, shall make nominations for all the
offices which are to he filled in October next, and
taka eneh measures as may be proper in their
judgment to carry into effect the objests of this
meeting.
' The reading of the resolutions elicited a great
deal of applause, and they were unanimonely
adopted. The oommittee (referred to consists of
the chairman, the vice presidents, one from each
Senatorial district, and the secretaries.
On motion of Daniel Dougherty, E q , the meet
ing then adjourned; to meet at the call of the com
mittee.
: Teh Minutes with the Pathastee.— The
rare ceremony, in these parts, of paying off ths
returned soldiers of the Twenty third (Colonel
Dare’s) regiment occurred yesterday morning at
Twelfth and Girard streeto. Paymaster David
Taggert and an assistant occupied a room in the
United States building at tho northeast corner;
and between them reposed the specie—in all
J 41,009, in gold, silver, and copper coin. The
coin had been brought to the place in bags, emp
tied upon the table, and arranged in piles; the
gold In pioees of the denominations of twenty,
ten', BDd five dollars; the silver In halves and
quarters, and the residue consisted of nickel pen
nies—the whole fresh from the mint, and so lus
trous that the eyes of the soldiers outside were
peering continually and wistfully at it through
the open sash. : .
Four loaded revolvers lay adjoining the paymas
ter, himself stalwart and muEonlar beyond fear o f
attack, and a (quad of polioemen at the gate pre
served order, and passed in the soldiers as their
names were called. At the window stood the
oorporal of each company, holding the roll, and
Mr. Tsggert held the regimental rcll, from which
be read the names in order. They were repeated
by the corporal; at the same time the assistant
paymaster oonnting out the pay, and the paymas
ter with his own hands placed the specie In the
- hands of eaeh volunteer.
, 'The assistant paymaster astonished ns by the
readiness and promptitude with whioh he selected
Hie money. -Accurate in every ease to a penny,
and never faltering at the seleotion of the precise
dfilarjvhe evidently understood his business, and
had fuH'cohtrol ef bis wits.
The soldiers wore very diversified faces as they
received {heir oath. Seme were touohed almost
to tears, others pocketed their gold with
very grnff’faaes, and an air which seemed to indi
cate'a recklessness as to whether the hire wss
forthcoming or not. There were some that
pounaed upon it as missrß with avarice brimming
at their eyes, and others that looked wondrous!?
pleased, but consoiouß of their inability to lay by
a dime, with the thirst to expend already hot upon
them.
To all, Mr. Taggart addressed some short ad
visory words: snd;the men looked upon him as a
benefactor. /We append a short list of the tf&cers’
salaries:
Colonel Hare, for three months’ pay, $393 39
subsistence,, $244 80; forage. $93 32; clothing,
$lB 83 Total, $748.84.
tieutanant Colonel Birney, for three months’
pav, $339 99; subsistence, 212 10; forage, S 80;
Clothing, $l6: 80. Total, $648 69.
. Qaartermaßter Palmer, three mouths and a
■wo«k’spay, $236 66; subsistence,slsl 50; forage,
$53 38; clothing, $8 30. Total, $449 79
Burgeon,, three months’ pay, $309 72; fnbstst
enoe, $lB3 60; forego, $BO 79;,clothing, $l6 76.
Total, $590 87.
Captain, one month’s pay, $B2; subsistence,
$65.10 ; forage, $2B; dotting. $2 50. Total,sl77 60.
Assistant Burgeon, three months’ pay, $144 >
subsistence; $108; forage, $3119; slothing, $5 91
Total, $289 46
Bach full private received, for three months’
serrloe, $3B 18 The labor of paying off the 800
men: comm- noed at 104 o’clock and occupied three
and a-half hours. Col Pstterscn’s regiment will
be paid on Saturday. ■
A Bistuessiso Cask. —An unknown white
woman was found on a lot at Twenty 6r=tsnd
Race streets, about 8 ..’olock oo Wednesday eve
ning. She whs taken io the Ninth ward station
house, where she stated that she was su*j-ct to the
heart disease, and that she resided in acouitin
Eighth street, Sear Arch. She would not tell her
name. . Yesterday morning, when the cell was
i^ he iPM iy’og dead upon the cot. She was
J«mi old, and* was dressed iB a plftiG-
Rook and redfiannel unde.-olothing
FtJBXiTtJBx, die. —Birch & Sou, SU
vnestnut street, will sell this day, at 10 o’clock,
household furniture, piano-forte, gas chandelier*
BiMOrs, re&igeratoiifbagatelle table, to.