Jim. SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1861. Wsritsr fi>*> that standard ■hast! Where WMtliti that** bat tall* bsfsie a*T With Freedem’s sell b*n*atb anr l«*t, and tratltn'a kamtt streaming •’« **l Fob BAbb. —The doable-cylinder Taylor presß on which this paper ha* ba«n printed for the put nine month!. It la in azaellont condition, having boon mad* to oxdor a year ago, and will bo gold at a bargain. For terms apply at this office, or ad dress Jons W. Forney, 417 Oheatnnt street, Phi laielphia. Thb action of tho New York and Ohio State Democratic Conventions virtually set tles the political position of the loyal States. The Republican organizations of these States tendered to the Conventions representing the Democratic party, a compromise in the shape of a Union ticket. They presented as a mu tual platform this simple principle Loyalty to ihe Union,—confidence in the Adminis tration,—and an unqualified support of its war measures. In both States they controlled s majority of the votes; in both Stateß it was in their power, under ordinary events, to maintain possession of the Government, and to place their friendß in nearly every department of government. And yet, anx ious to conciliate the Democratic sentiment, and to recognize the devotion and solf-sacrl flee of the Democratic masses, they gene rously tendered them one-half oi the offices to be filled. Nothing could have been fairer. The platiorm was one which no patriot conld have refused to occupy; the interests at stake were those involved in the destiny of our beloved country, and certainly no citizen was anxious to revive the platforms of Cin cinnati, Chicago, or Baltimore, or to discos* any abstruse or obsolete principle therein declared, when hiß only duty was one to his country. What do we care about Popular Sovereignty or Congressional Intervention, when the National Sovereignty is threatened, and the peace of the country destroyed by the intervention of the sword ? So far as the mere personnel of the positions are concerned, there are able and honest men enough in both parties to execute thoir duties properly. There are men who would have gladly ac cepted the united suffrages of both parties. The proposition was a feasible one, and it would have been accepted by the masses of the country with enthusiasm. Why, then, has it been rejected l The New York Democratic Convention, in declining to unite, Sty that it is « due to the Federal Government to hold out terms of peace and accommodation to dissevered States, assuring them of all their rights under the Constitution.” The Ohio Convention, among other things, recommends a National Convention lor restoring and preserving the Union, and condemns the President's “late attempt to suspend the writ ol habeas corpus These two propositions embiace the whole platform of the Northern Peace Party, and on these propositions the Democratic organi. zations of the North have placed themselves and gone before the country. And yet they mean nothing more than a divided North now, and a divided Union in a year or two to come. These gentlemen forget that for the North to “ hold out terms oi accommodation to dissevered States,” is to accept the cup of humiliation and disgrace. What terms can he offered 7 What compromise can be made 7 Why did not these Conventions, in laying down their platiorm, go more into details? Has the South not oeen “ assnred of all their rights under the Constitution?” In fact, what has the Government been doing for the past year but giving these very as snrances 7 The Republican leaders have covered themselves all over with such pledges. Hr. Sewabd in his Senatorial speech—Mr. Camehon repeatedly as Senator —and in fact, every representative Republi can, without even excepting such radical men as Hr. Lovejot in the House, or Hr. Suunek in the Senate, joined in the declarations of the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of War. The President in his fnangnral gave the South the most abundant assurances of hiß kindness to the South, and his respect for their righto. The first duty the Administra tion assumed was an attempt to negotiate «terms of accommodation,” and they were carried forward with earnestness and good faith by the President and his Cabinet, nntil the unprovoked assault upon Fort Sumpter assured the nation that the only “ terms of accommodation” the South entertained were the cannon of Fort Moultrie and Morris Island. In a spirit of haughty disdain they told the North that the only terms they could accept would he a complete surrender on the part of the North, the evacuation of the capi tal, the disgrace and annihilation of the Re public. Are these the “ terms of accommodation ” which the New York Democracy proposes 7 There can be none other. The South is in earnest, and they have proved their earnest ness at Charleston and Manassas. We may assnre them of every possible right the Con stitution bestows, and they wonld most cer tainly hold the bearer of the “ assurances " a prisoner of war, and go on building their en trenchments within a morning’s maroh of Washington City- Their ultimatum is a com plete and final separation, and in view of this there can be “no terms of' accommodation ” which will not assume the accomplishment of a separation as a part of the treaty. Is that the meaning of the Democratic Convention oi New York? The proposition of the Ohio Convention is equally wicked, for it not only endorses the « accommodation ” scheme of New York, bat makes an issue directly on the Administration, and insists that the Demo cracy of that State shall condemn the Presi dent’s “ late attempt to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.” If the Democracy of Ohio condemns one act of the Administration, they must condemn every act. If it was wrong for the Presi dent to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, it was wrong for him toattempt a rein forcement of Fort Sumpter; to reinforce Fort Pickens; to callout the three-months volunteers; to open the road to Washing ton; to eccnpy Alexandria; to erect for tifications on Arlington Heights; to block ade the Southern ports; to arrest the Balti more Commissioners; and drive traitors from the capital. Every one of these measures was undertaken fur the public good. They were necessary as means of national self defence. If one is to be censured, all are to be censured; and ii the Ohio Democratic Con vention insists that the President is to be con demned ter suspending the habeas corpus, they must also condemn him for not abandoning Washington, and permitting Jefferson Davis to carry out his boast that he wonld dine in the White House on the Fourth of July. A National Convention is an insult to the North— and even if the North demeaned itself into making the proffer, what States wonld be re presented 7 Who would Sonth Carolina, or Yugiuia, or Alabama send? Where would this Convention sit T Wonld it be ia Rich mond, under the traitors’ flag, or in Philadel phia, under the stars and stripes 7 What can they do *• towards restoring and preserving the Union?” What propositions can they make that the Administration has not already made 7 For the Administration has gone as tar as national honor will permit, and no Na tional Convention can go farther. Tie truth is that the Democratic organiza tions, both in New York and Ohio, are con trolled by the meanest of the old Breckinridge cabal. They were principals in the treason against the Democratic party,—they were in atru nental in accomplishing its division and the defeat oi Douglas, and now, in building up these infamous platforms, they are the accessories oi Mr. Davis, Vallahdigham m> ant Disunion; Bkn Wood means Disunion, and Bmght, of Indiana, whose every vote this session was cast with that of Bbiokinridoe and Bayard, and who enjoys the notoriety ot having been the only Northern Senator who consistently voted against the conntiy, means Disunion also. These are the min who oon trol the organizations of Ohio, New York, and other Northern States, and, after eudea voring to embarrass and ruin the Administra tion in Congress, they go home to demoralia the people and build up a party against it on the site of the old Democratic party. The old Democratic temple is deserted—ils great men have passed away—its principles have been trampled in the dust— Jefferson and Jackson have been taken trora their niches, to be replaced by Oalhoun and Davis —its glory, grandeur, and sacredness have departed with the principles which made it glorious, grand, and sacred, and as the money-changers and thieves plundered and defiled the temples in the olden time, so is our Democratic edifice being plundered and defiled to-day. The pure Democracy you will find on the field, laying down their lives; at tho Treasnry-box, paying in their hard-earned gold, and laboring with enthusiasm in the cause of their country wherever their country calls. And the old shrine, with its conspirators and peace hawkers, must be thoroughly purified before they can ever again kneel before it- Affaire m Tennessee We are indebted to Adams’ Express Com pany for copies of late numbers of Memphis papers, which contain some interesting infor matron in regard to the state of affairs in that Secession region. The feeling of rejoicing caused by the re sult Of the battle near Manassas has not yet subsided, and the disposition to exaggerate the losses suffered by our troops, the bravery of the insurgent soldiers, and the valor and skill of their generals, is still very strong. The editors are bad enough, but tho clergy men appear to be still worse. The former use the most extravagant phrases of our language in describing the genius of Beau regard, Johnston, and Davis ; but the Reverend Richard Hires, who delivered a thanksgiving sermon in honor of tho vic tory, which is published in the Avalanche, as sured his hearers the insurgents had taken at Manassas from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000 of property, lulled and wounded from 10,00 Q to 20,000 of our men, and captured 1,200 pri soners, while their own loss was but about 400 killed Mid 1,200 wounded! The principal portion of his sermon consists of a philippic against the people of the North, which has rarely been equalled in bitterness. The election that has recently boon held clearly shows that there is a strong UnioD feeling existing in Tennessee, although its friends are in a minority. The contest tor the office of Governor was between Ishah G. Har ris, the present Incumbent, and Major Wm. H. Pole, the brother of President Pone. The people voted for and against a permanent Constitution, which is, if adopted, (theoreti cally,) to unite Tennessee permanentljmwith the Southern Confederacy. Tho returns, as far as heard from, are considered by the Se- GGBBiOU papers to indicate tho election of Harris and the triumph of the permanent Constitution. They are as follows: For Againit Counties- Con. Con. Harris- Folic, •nde ton, p'rt a VB ~ B-dtO'd, o'>t »0 ■ - - Bloun 1 -. part. M 171 *3 « hraolej, put.. M 7 - Ml W navids n.part - Fajstts, whole— .186 S 6 IJ3S 144 C sens-part.. - MS frrvn-«r rVt- 378 171 » 146 H'lu'ltoa, part—. ■ - m *S Hawk us. P‘'t......... - f. 9 Mtnerson part— - a iW.-OU.part -• y 5J2 gs Jaffa won.DHXt. ».»•—«— 4H 376 328 139 K.ol.wMo 904 2,696 733 2,670 Lawrssos. part. —— •- •- "j" llz Mo Minn, part—- 1,047 #l2 20 SSB.’S?—— 179 193 )s5 19i Bhe“y,p"t 4,308 14 3 836 786 Sullivan, part. is* - JJ£ J Washington, ptrt— 231 171) 337 170 ') he fi-.-irea of ihe tabuler statement will foot up: For f o.iotitution, 9,671 i asaisat. 4,7i5; Barm, 11,121; folk, 6,679. The Memphis papers express perfect con fidenee in tho ability of their generals to cap ture Washington in their own good time, bnt advise patience; and meanwhile they urge that complete preparations be made for the campaign on the Mississippi. They boast that they will capture Cairo, drive onr army from Missouri, and, if an attempt is made to assail them at Memphis, easily repulse it. The following paragraph from the Argu* briefly expresses its (real or pretended) sen timents : “ Fremont and Siegel, MeCnllooh and Fit low, are about drawing near to eaoh other. A collision is imminent, and somebody must be Whipped MoCuUoob oau’t be, and Pillow wouldn’t bo if he eould, under whieh eireum stances we think it likely that the reputed skill of Siegel and the geological lore of Fremont will fell to solidify tbs fabric of Federal power in Mis souri We are in weokly anticipation of a 1 tog battle,’ and wonder maoh how the Teuton win stand the bowie When the small vermin shall have been combed oat of Missouri, we may antiei pate a swarm of water rata down the Mississippi, And we trust ail our traos will be duly set ” The habits and condition of a large portion of the Southern troops may be inferred from the following extract from the Avalanche of the sth Inst., which describes a drunken riot among them, in which thirteen men were killed, and several fatally injured, as follows; “ From a gentleman who arrived from Grand Junction yesterday morning we learn the following in regard to the riot: Two or three oompeniea of Lomnana volunteers, under command of Oolonel Bonlakowski. arrived at Grand Junotion about 12 o’olook on Friday. By some accident they got hold of a barrel of whisky, and a nnmber of them soon became intoxioated and commenced fighting inn png themselves It was found imqosßible to koop thorn quiet, and Colonel Sonlekowsai, in at tempting to feature order, was compelled to fire upon them The rioters broke open the Percy Hotel, and completely demolished everything that stood in their way. We are informed that several of the wounded will probably die of their injuries Nine were killed on the spot, and four have ainoo died.” The Southern journals boast that a number of negroes have entered their ranks who are extremely anxious to kill « Yankees,” and the Avalanche copies, as an evidence of this statement, from the N. O. Crescent, the fol lowing article: “ Tom, the slave of our eitizan, J ames H Phelps, raised in his family, took a fancy to go soldiering His muter willingly gratified him, and Tom was engaged by Captain Konnlz. of the De Soto Rifles, to attend him through the war. There are hun dreds of other slaves li/be Tom gone to Hull the Yanhees. Tom's highest ambition appears to be to kill a Yankee. He writes to his mother, who is owned in the family of Mt. Phelps, the letter below Tom has travelled for two or three years past ia the lower Mississippi trade, and pioked up some writing material. We hope he will be grati fied in hunting up end obtaining a Yankee’s sealp.” There seems to be-a general understanding now that it is best for the planters to keep their cotton upon their own plantations until the blockade is broken np, and they are ad vised to do so to prevent it from falling into the hands of our Government, as well as to «keep the Nertb from obtaining a single bale.” It is a common thing for Southern mer chants to advertise that they are willing to take the <( Treasury notes and bonds of the Confederate States,” in payment of claims due them. The following card appears in the Avalanche, signed by forty-two firms of Charleston, S. C.: A Oaud. —We, the undersigned merchants of Charleston, have received communications from many of oar friends in the interior stating that Treasury Notes aed Bonds of the Confbde bate Btatbs would bo tendered to them* in pay ment of dobts, and that thoir oolfretione would be stimulated were it generally known that these se entities conld be freely used by the merchants. In order that all of our customers may be ad vised os to our course, we have deemed it proper to issue forthwith a general notice that we will cheerfully receive the aforesaid Treasury Notes and Bonds for oil claims due us. Chaelnston, July 20, 1861. They are evidently preparing to make Trea sury notes and bonds the principal currency of the Southern States. The Murderous Affray in London. The mystery attending the extraordinary and fatal enoounter between Major Murray and Mr. Roberta, in London, waß solved at the coroner’s inquest- The evideneo of a lady living under M jar Murray’s protection shews that Roberts sought to gain her affeotions, and, falling, at tempted the life of Murray. The jury returned a verdict of justifiable homioido. Dickens’ “ Great Expectations ” —Petersons have brought out, complete in one volume, their lino- edition of this work, the most artiitiosl, in many respeots, of Diokons’ stories. Good print, good paper, neat binding, and MoLansn’s 34 ori ginal illustrations well “ brought up,” make this a very superior edition. It forms Vol. XXX. of the best reprint of “ Box ” Bulwbb’s •' Strabos Stort ’’—The oonthraa tion ot this tale, mil of interest, 1b is the new somber of Harper’3 Weekly, {For August 17zh : ) 'wbioh ire have reeoived from Ur. Callender, Third street. From' General Banks’s Army. Bahdy Book, Aug 8 —Yesterday the wife and daughter of John Sunder, one of the rebel prison ers here, were escorted to headquarters for an in terview with General Backs, lhey represent that the prisoner is a quiet, domeatio man, bat was foroed from his bed bv rebel eoonts, reoently cap tured at the Point of Bocks. General Banks told them that if the evidence corroborated their statement he would be re leased, but the; had searoely departed before other parties made a contrary statement. To day, others from Maryland appeared on the same prisoner’s behalf, bnt General Banka awaits far ther evidence. Two spans of the bridge at Harper’s Ferry are completed, and the work Is rapidly progressing. Then It a rumor in some of the camps that Gen. Johnson is approaching the river opposite Point of Books, rads is doubtful; WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE- Letter from “ occasional.” [Correspondence of The Prau.l Washington, August 1). A theory has been started wiihin the lest two days aooredited to fits Soott, that the ioroes of the traitors in Virginia are being organised into three or iour divisions, eaoh of whioh ie to be di rected to a particular point, so as to formaaoni olasJ and simultaneous attack on the oily «f Washington Thus we are to be assailed from tho Maryland Side and the Virgiuia side. A feint will to, made upon Arlington Heights, so as to occupy onr troops there entrenohed, wMi« th * enemy rashes in upon ni from the other side of George town, and from the borders of Maryland on the north. The aeereoy of the Confederates renders it extremely diffioult to anticipate their movements, it is certain that oomo weight is attached to this theory in high qaarters. Fortunately, however, the retioenoe of Hen McClellan is aulte equal to that of his former friend, Beauregard, and hiß vl gilnnoe oouid not be excelled Be is rapidly moulding onr volunteers into well-trained and hardy soldlerß. He is weeding ont incompetent offioers, and by his own example filling the rank and file with the noblest emulation It is astonish ing howsoon we beoome aocustomed to that we oan not ohaagedo suit ourselves, Already newspaper reporters boast, not what they have sent, but whAt they have refused to seud to their employers, and the people, hungry as they are for news, are ready to lose their patienoe when they enoounter a para graph giving information of the operations of onr army. I have repeatedly spoken in this oorrespondonoe of the number of spies that infest this oity in ihe interest of the Southern traitors. Their namo is legion. Artful, scoret, and aetive, they deceive onr best friends by pretending to favor the Union, and assist onr worst enemies by seising upon every opportunity to wound it. Ready to take any favor or patronage that may be offered to them by the Administration, they do not hesitate to employ the very influence thus acquired to break that Ad ministration down. The most malignant and misohievous of these spies are females. Some of them are ladies of high position, too, who, shield ing themselves behind the so-called weakness of their sex, rejeot the disguises assumed by their husbands, fathers, and brothers, and proolaim their sympathy with treason and their earnest hope that the eauae of our oonntry may be defeated. In the magnificent saloons and around the luxurious ta bles of these people, sentiments are uttsrefi and plans perfected of the most atrocious character. Midnight meetings, after the fashion of the cele brated Know-nothing lodges, ape regularly held. What is most disgusting in this whole affair is the fact that nearly ell those engaged in this oonspi raoy are people who have prospered upon the money they hive eoined from the jibs they have reoeived from the Federal Government. There has been too mueb lenieney for this soandalons, flagrant, end notorious Ingratitude, and a growing feeling will demand the punishment of all the men engaged in this bad business, or else their prompt expulsion, with their fsihilieJ, from this community. After all, however we may seold political lead ers, It is a good thing to hold out to our pnblio men the alia ring halt of being President of the (jotted States Beyond the approval of his own aonseienoe, what more honorable and fitting re ward could a euoeesafqj patriot in the Cabinet or in the field desire 1 I am siek of the talk of mere partisans of the dangers of a standing army and a military dictatorship, and I am in tensely so when I remember how my eountry has suffered coder the ruiflons rale of oorrupt civilians. I would rathpr sep this Republic main tained by arms, its majestic edifice cemented by the blood of traitors, and Us threshold whitened With their bones, than witness Its rapid deoay un der the eenupting infiaenoe of treason. Three yonng. generals—and a noble triumvirate they are —now lead the three grand divisions of the Ame rican army: George B. MoClellanon the Poto mao, Nathaniel P. Banks on the Shenandoah, and John C. F, emont on the Mississippi Some of onr prophets are busy in easting their Presidential horoscope; and why not? What brighter guer don oouid be held forth to contending warriors than the Presidential prize? They are all pa triotlo men—conscientious in the belief that they are fighting a battle in the result of whioh civiliza tion now, and posterity hereafter, must feel an indescribable interest. Jt will assuredly not para lyse their energies to feel that hp who wins in this great race may attain the right to administer the laws of a great people. Occasional Public Amusements. We an promised a few perfotmanees at Walnut, street Thoutre —the first to be given this evening. Among the oompany are the highly respectable names of Mrs. Dnffield and Mrs. Helen Muzzy, Mr. Edwin Adams, Mr. L. R Bhewell, Mr Vicing Bowers, borides Mr. and Miss Rose Wood and Mad’lie Thereto, in “ a patriotic pas de trois, prepared expressly for the oooaiisn ” This eve ning’s dramatic performances will consist of the play of “Damon and Pythias,” in whioh (drat time in this pity) Mr. Sbewell will play Demon to Mrs. Soffield’a' Herigxone and Mr . Adams’ Pythias ; and a new one-act throe, “ Too' Much for Good Nature,” in which Mrs. Helen Mnzzy (after eevea years’ absence from the Philadelphia stage), Mr. Edwin Adams, and Mr. Vinlng Bowers teke the leading parts. We sineerely hope that the oompany, who are under the joint management of Messrs. Bowers and Adams, may have sueh, orowded housos daring the three nights they an nounoo as to induoe them to play on to, at least the dose of next week. McDoaoups’s Olympic! Theatre. —This pretty Uttle boudoir Theatre will open for a summer sea son this evening, with a new company, now pieoes, and old favorites. Mr. MoDcnongh has scoured the services of the gay and brilliant Annie Lons dale as his ohief aide-de camp, who will appear in a series of her own manußoript pieoes and oom:dy revival of the Dejazot school, hitherto unknown is our oity. This evening she ap pears in a now three aot comedy, entitled “Tho Pet of the Pnblie,” written by Edward Stirling, of London, of whioh she L the original heroine. She also delivers a patriotic war address, written for the oacasion, and appears in her inimitable im personation of Nan, in “ The Good for Nothing,” of whioh she was the original in this oountry, L and in whieh ail her imitators have failed in ap preaching her. All our volunteers owe Annie Lonsdale a debt of gratitude. She it was who inaugurated the Lone Mothor and Widow’s Relief Fond during their absenoe, and those who have returned should weloome this lady as she deserves- Mr. MoDonough appears in a favorite rile the same evening. Important from Fortress Monroe. Fobtsbss Monboe, August B. —The village of Hampton has boon burnt by General Magruder, in bis advanoe with the rebel forces. Boouta and fugitives yesterday morning brought word of the approach of a large Confederate foroo from Yorktown. . „ „ . These rnmors were confirmed at 5 P. M. by an intelligent deserter from the Beoessioaists, named K A. Mabew, a native of Maine, bnt a resident of Georgia until impressed into the service, who fur nished an account of tho expedition. Mr. Mahow has been stationed at Ycrktowu ainoo the Ist of June. On Friday last Colonel, now General, Magruder left Yorktown with a Lroe of 7,000 men, including two handrad cavalry and eight pieoec of artillery, viz: throe Parrot guns, four howitzers, and on* riflod cannon. A part of the troops wore from WlllUmsbnrg. On Monday night they onoamped at Great Bethel, which had been completely deserted Oa Tuesday night they advanoad towards Hamp ton, and at noon yesterday took up a position on Book river, some three miles from the town, where Mahcw managed to escape through a cornfield, end by swimming a oouplo or streams reaohed tho For tress. He says tbs object of the expedition was to draw out onr forces to attack Camp Hamilton, nasr Newport News, if praotiesble, and at least to do stroy Hampton so a* to prevent us from using it for winter quarters General Butler at ones repaired to this pud of Hampton bridge, where he remained until eleven o’clock. Col. Weber created a barricade near the Hamp ton side of the bridge, and placed a strong guard at various points on this side of tho creek. A few minutes past midnight Gen. Magrader, with about five hundred Confederates, some of them belonging to Hampton, entered the town, and immediately fired the buildings with torches. The greater part of the five hnndred houses were built of wood, and as no rain has fallen lately, the strong south wind coon produced u terrible oonflegraflea. . , . Tnere were perhaps twenty white people and double that number of negroee remaining in tbe town, from inability to remove, some of whose houses were fired without waking tho Inmates The rebels gave Carey Jones and hie wife, both of them aged and infirm, but 15 minntes to remove a few articles ot furniture to tbe garden. Several of the whites, and also of tbo negroes wera hurried away to bo pressed info tbo Ooufedo rata serrioa. Wm Soofiold, a morohant, took re fuge in our camp above tbe town. Two negroee were drowned while attempting to arose the oreek. A company of the rebels attempted to foree tbe passege of the bridge, but were repulsed, with a loss of three killed and six wounded. Tho firo raged ell night. 4 , . The greater part of the Confederates withdrew towards morning, and at noon to day, when I vi sited the place, but seven or eight baildings were left standing. The destruotion of the town was a wanton act of eruelty to the resident Unionists, and moreover entirely useless, as General Butler intends to win ter his army beyond Hampton. An attempt will be made to fasten tbe act upon the General, bat after ten o’olnok on Wednesday night thera was not a Federal soldier in Hampton .. A flag of trnoe Justin from Norfolk with Miss Mayo, a nieoe of General Scott, oh her way from Biobmond to New York, states that tbe rebels at tribute tbe aet to Gen. Butler Gen Magruder hae encamped near New Market bridge. He will hardly venture to attack New port News. Mr. Mayhew states that there have been abont 7,000 robols etatioued at Yorktowu. Some ten days ago a battalion e-me down to the outskirts of Hampton, and eanied away 180 nagroes. Provisions are abundant at Yorktowß, and most of tbe regimen's are reoeivlng new uniforms for the winter campaign. Another Pirate Steamer Escaped from New Orleans. Bostok, Aug 9 —A letter from a Boston mer chant, dated at New Orleans on the 31st nit., states tint the pirate steamer Mcßat ran the blockade on the 30th. THE I’HESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURUAV, AUGUST 10, 1861. LATEST NEWS By Telegraph to The Press. Speoial Deipatohe* to “ The Preu.’ There are few men living who oonld exert a greater infiaenoe for good from this date hence titan John 0. Breckinridge. If he had the patriotism of an hottest man —nay, even if he had a spark of that element left, he would return to his State, whioh has now, by the voioe of the peo ple, dtolared for the Union, and throw his in fluence with those who are straggling tonpbeld the Union and the Constitution against the elements of Seoession. Even if the last spark of patriotism had been extinguished in his breast, the very fact of me Union vote, given so decidedly on Monday, would, if he pretends to tho olaims of common honesty, induce Mm, as the people’s representa tive, to oarry out their views by throwing his influenoo in favor of the Union, or resign the position he holds. An adherenoe to Mb past professions demands this, at least, at hiw hands, for he haa always deolared in Congress that be wonld be guided by the voioe and the wishes of his constituents. Bat the ooarse pursued by Mr. Bbeckinbidgs In the last Congress leaves little hope for anything from that man but a stndied de feat of the friends of the Union. He openly and boldly abused the President for an honest effort to save the Union, hecanse there was no specific law for BOID6 of tl&O spoolfio BtOpß tftfeOß tO arrest the progress of treason. Where do we find Senator Breckinridge after the close of tho Senate ? Not hurrying home to help his con stituents to oarry out their wishes as they expressed them in the vote on Monday. Do we see him re maining here, and by his voioe and pen oalling to the people to sustain the Union? (and what an infiaenoe he might yield! !) No, no, we find him in Baltimore supping with traitors. We hear him on the baloony of the Eutaw House, in that oity, inflaming the minds of disafooted citizens against the Union, the Administration, and the citizens of the North! I have hoped and prayed, and ffatohed for months to see that man throw himself, body and soul, in for Ms oonntry ; bnt he is lost— lost to the Union, to the prinoiples of patriotism 1 Mid to a 6odm of honesty to his constitnonts. From tb« seeond in power in the nation, he has fallen, jjueifer like, to the low level of a traitor, affording a terrible pioture of the reaulte of politi cal dishonesty. The appeal from the Sonth to he let alone Ji changed to a proposition for peace, not yet official ly made, bat mooted in inflaential oiroles Feeoe see say; peso* we all desire; bnt not snob a peace ae will acknowledge this Union broken Into frag ments, and Government, law, and order tram pled under foot by tyrants and traitors. Oar present straggle is a test question. If our Govern ment Is worthy Of being perpetuated, Its subjects demand that it put down Insurrection. If it is worthy of being recognized by other nations, those nations olaim that It must exercise a power (qi> 1 to any emergenoy to which it may be called, one of whioh is the suppression of rebellion. If these attributes are wanting, then it mast fall, and re pabltoaniam most be swept away as one of the fol lies oi ipan This, then, is the question now to he deoided: Shall wo sne for peace on the basis pro posed by Jeff Davis, and pat the continent henosforth under the rale of tyrants, or shall we have one more strong pull, and a long toll (if it must be), and a PU£L ALTOGETHER to redeem sustain, and perpetuate a Government whose strength is vested in ran People ? General Johnston acknowledges eighteen hnn drad sick In the hospitals at Winoheßter, when he gathered Ms forces to proeeed to Manass&B Juno tion. Thera were at that time twelve hundred dekin the Culpeper Court House hospitals, while the siek and wounded received at the hospitals at ChailottesviUe, sihoo the battle, nnmber over a thousand, and every farm house in and around Centrevill# and Manassas Junction is oonverted into a hrspital, and filled with the siek and wounded. Poor fellows! Second sober thought oomeß to the siok-bed when it finds no entrance into masked batteries. Hospitals oontain many vivid pictures of the horrors of war, and Bbaure sard has, it appears, large oolleetioss of these jast now for contemplation—the fruits of his labors as the willing war servant of Jeff Davlß A Co,, under whose auspices these Death's portrait galle ries have been supplied. Misrepresentations. Jeff Davis will not permit the few Southern papers that still exist to report anything concern ing his army, bnt they have fail license to mis represent the Northern army, Ac The privilege is evidently enjoyed by press and peeple The pyramid of falsehood is growing rapidly, and every new edition of their publications adds a new layer to the s upendons structure. As specimens, the Riohmond Whig and Enquirer may be quoted. “ Following up the retreating forces of the Yan kees, onr troops found two of onr Sou‘hern videttes deed, and suspended by ropes from trees on the roadside.” “ Our gallant and victorious army captured a large nnmber of boxes, A?, belQSgiGg to Gan. Booty, And other ( grand army’ officers, and all marked as destined to ‘ Richmond.’ Many of the boxes were filled with sanoes, sardines, pre served meats, peach preserves, olives, As.” “I have a man from Manassas, who saw them (30 000 handcuff.), and the ropes, with nooses, to hang > traitors.’ ” «Who ever before dreamed pf a regiment, with nothing bnt bowie knives, charging another regiment armed with the best gone and bayonets, and literally outting them to pieoes? The regiment thns assaulted, whioh had fought bravely enough with bullets, quailed nnder the operation of this dreadful weapon, and shouted murder.” “When the news of the oaptnre of Sherman's battery reaohed Washington, General Soott privately ordered six cannon to be taken from the navy yard, and sent to Washington, with the announcement that it was Sherman’s battery ntnrhed from the field safe.” [Not a single gun of Sherman’s battery was lost J These newspaper misrepresentations are bad enough, bnt they will not do a tithe of the evil that is paused by misrepresentations from the pulpit, and in letters by clergymen, published in the papers and in pamphlet fonn, and eiretdatad broadoast over the Booth. The Epiaoopal bishop of Tennessee in his letter addressed to the Secre tary of State, bnt written for Southern circulation, pronounces the Northern array a horde of liber tines, iwd its advanos markgd by the rain gf wives and daughters. These charges, thorougMy false ae their authors know them to be, are made for effect upon the pnblie mind, and being prononneed nnder the assumed sanctity of a bishop’s lips, they are be lieved throughont the Sonth. The result we may all easily oonoeive. If Gcu. McDowell’s official report of the Bill Run affair is true, and wo oannot doubt it, tho psrt played by the Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment is not, I regret to say, oreditabla to their professed patriotism. The report made by the General sayi : “ Oo the eve of the battle the Fourth Pennsyln nia Regiment of Volunteers, and the battery if volnntaex arcillary of tho New York Eighth Mil da, whose term of servioa expired, insisted on thdr disshsrge. I wrote to the regimen , expressing* nquest for them to remain a short time, and ttje Hon Secretary of War, who was at the time on toe ? pound, tried to 1> duos the battery to remain St east five days. Bat In vain Th*y insisted to their discharge that night, ft was granted, a *i the next morning, when the army moved fbrwart Into battle, tuese troops moved to the roar of tit enemy’s oannon ” 1 If these men went forward without giving no tieo that they would not take any part in an an gagement—thus oausing full dependence to u plaoed upon them, and, afterwards, at the hour dr need, refused to taka a position in the army, thej oannot avoid the oensure of the public. Their ad| vance was assuranoe; their refusal, on thj ground, to do duty, deoeivod tho gestrtl anj weakened his forces The well directed efforts 4 that regiment might have turned the results ii that day’s experienee in our favor- ! The Increased Pay. You will peroeive that Congress, before its ad journment, passed a bill increasing the pay of tfe volunteers now in the service of thoir oountrj. This measure, so eminently jast, meets the appro bation of all classes—for it is only fair that th(y who fight onr battles should be paid for doing a. I am glad to say that much of the oredit for tljs mea-ure is due to ALEXAensu Cummings, Esq ,of theNewYoik World, your latefellotr-oitizeu I The Prisoners at Richmond, j A letter was reoeived to-day from Lieutenant Parks, of the First Michigan Regiment, datjd Riohmond, July 29, in whioh he says that be|}a a prisoner with hundreds of others in that oiff. More than thirty officers are with Mm. He bis the names of 56 of Ms regiment held there, aid these ho heUtTOi are all- Captain Lieutenant Maubb, Lieutenant Warn an, and perhaps others, are still at Manassas among Ihe wounded. Only three of his company were with Mm— namely, George Phillips, Mubbay Bakxr, and George Bakeb. A Skirmish with the Rebel Pickets, A company sent ont last night by Col Mo- Cunw to relieve bis pickets beyond Alexandria, fell in with a body of rebels, when she;a between them were briskly ezebanged, killing two man, but on whioh side tbe Colonel did not state when he to-day mentioned the occurrence to several friends in Washington. Beinforcements were sant to our pickets, when the enemy fled. Our troops on the Virginia aide are more vigi lant than heretofore against any possible surprise. Ex-Minister Faulkner. Bi- Minister Faulkbrb, lately returned from France, paid a visit to the Secretary of State .to day. Prinoe NAPOL*on,‘who left here yesterday to visit beyond onr lines in the direotion of Bull Bun, bad not returned this morning no be intended- The supposition is that tha Confederates have invited him to extend his journey. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington. Angus* 9,1861 The Fntnre of lfrechin idge Peace, Peace.” Sick and Sorrowing. Discreditable. Prince Napoleon. Appointments ol llngadier Generals. The President to day made the following addi tional appointments of brigadier generals for the volunteers, all of them, Professor Miteboll ex oepted, being from the list recommended by the New York Congressional delegation: Colonels Bleaker and Slocum, of the volunteers M»jor Wadsworth, aid to General MoDowell Colonel John A Peek, ex m»jor of the regular army, who distinguished himself during the Mexi can war. Jehu H Mariindala, a graduate of West Point : Ormsby M Mitchell, professur of astronomy, of Cincinnati, graduate of West Point, and ex-army offioor. Consular Appointments. The following oousnlar appolutmests have re oently been made, and some of them have been confirmed by the Senate, and others made since the adjournment oi Congress: John T. Nealy, of Kansas, oonanl to Kingston, Jamaica. G. Hogg, to Trinidad. M Jackson, of Wisconsin, to Halifax, T. 8 King, of Rhode Island, to Oporto. J. G Bowman,-of Indiana, to Metausas. David H Wheeler, of lowa, to Genoa. Linge Monte, of Massachusetts, to Palermo. - Charles W. Goddard, of Maine, to Constan tinople. Arthur Faison, to Oape Haytlen. William L. Baker, of Maryland, to Guaymas. L. Pieros, of Texas, to Matamoros. James H Armsby, of New York, to Naples, viee M. Hammett, who has held that olfioe for fifty-two years The Vanderbilt Steamships. The naval constructor charged with that particu lar duty, reportß tbat he bas twioe rxsmiued Com Vanderbilt's steamers, snd considers them unfit for the serrloe required, namely—for blockading purposes, and the Navy Department, in view of the foots presented, oonours with him In the •pinion. Visiting the Capitol. Company P, the crack company of Oolonel Bakeu’s California Regiment, visited the Capitol, by invitation, this morning. Capt Wittington. Oapt. Wittington, of tho Michigan First, re ported killed at 801 l Ron, is alive, and at Rioh mond. His wife had a letter from him yesterday. Capt. Rickets. Oapt. Etfxm was wounded, and ia a prisoner at Richmond- Mrs R is with him, and he is doing wsll. Dr. Lewis, of the Seoond Wisconsin Regiment, a prisoner, is Ms physiolan LI eat. Dempsey. Lieut. Dbhpsey, of the New York Seoond, re ported killed, is in a hospital, near Manassas, and doing well. More Troops Arrived. , The Nineteenth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, Colonel Mbrioith, arrived last night They master eleven hundred meu, and are uniformed with gray jaokets and pants, with s handsome gray felt hat trimmed with red tape The Sixth Wisoonsin Regiment, Colonel Cutler, arrived last evening. They nnmber one thousand and tMrty four rank and Me, and are uniformed in gray, trimmed with blaok. Several of tho offioers wivea accompany the regiment More Wagons Anived. Another large lot of ambqlqneas and baggage wagons arrived last night. The ambuianoes are very handsome, and look very comfortable. Navy Yard Matters. The sohooner Susquehanna arrived last night ,from Baltimore with a large cargo of lumber for the Government. .The steamer whioh was seized by the Government at Alexandria, is lying at the yard, with the pr’iss oaptnred on the Fotomao. Arrivals from Pennsylvania. Willard’s —Jos. Dilworth, J. W- Hal msn, R. H Hanley, Tbos. Forster, W. M Might, H. J. Brook*, W. P Sekeel, M T. Dill. Jas Souther, Hon. L W. flail, R. A. Wilder, John W Ryan H A Frink, E D Clog, W. R Kelmun, T. P. Dolson, A P Smith, W. L Smith. Kirkwood’s. —W. Maris, James Winter, E. M. Power. National —F. J. McCaffrey, John Weller. Brown's.— E J Reed and ladv. From General Banks’ Column. Sandy Hook, Md., Aug. 9 —Gen. Stone has been assigned to a separate gotgujaiid, to be Sta tioned at the itolnt of Rooks, where It is presumed tbe rebels intend ultimately to establish a strong battery, toinleroept tbe transportation of supplies from Baltimore and the lower Potomao. Col Hamilton, of tho Third Wisconsin, has boon appointed to tuo command of tbs Third brigade of this division, in plaoe of Gen. Stone ’ transferred to the Point of Rooks. The report of yesterday stating that two rebel regiments, with six guns, were approaching from Leesburg towards the Point of Rooks, is disore dited. Tbat point ia now guarded by the Twenty - eighth N.w York, Col. Donnelly, strengthened by detachments from othor regiments. The sootion of Virginia opposite Point of-Rocks, through whioh the enemy mast pasj to attaok ns, is thoroughly scouted both day and night The (Jedioal Surveyor's' Department has been removed from Hagerstown to Frederiok, Md., and orders have bsen Issued tor the removal of the general hospital to the B&me plaoe. The latter will be leeaWd at the eld Hate hsirwk!, built by the English in 1775, whieh are still ia good condi tion Last evening, Major Doubleday’s Bisge battery was tried in the vicinity of Loudoun Heights. Shot and sho-1 were thrown entirely over the sum mil from smooth bore gan*. while the Eagle Rook flint pinnacle was sae.eeßßiyely struck and shattered by peionsiion shells of the rifled guni. The esti mated range of the latter shots was a mile and thres qaarters, theaeeuracy eliciting bursts of ap plause from the beholders. * Good health and discipline pervade all the en campments. Col. Mann’s Second Pennsylvania Reserves now promise! to beoome very rffioient. General satis faction provalla slno* tho reception of now mus kets and a better quality of food. Additional olothiog and shoes are now on the way from Penn sylvania for this rsg ment Reeonnoissanoes by the engineer staff are daily kept np, and weak points are strengthened by ad ditional foroes. v ' \ The point of Rooks prisoners are still in eus tody. Rumors is to the movements of tho enemy in this vioinity are plentiful, but very unreliable. Charged with Fitting Ont a Slaver. Nnw York, Aug 9 —A. S. Bigelow and A. H Potter, ehipownprs pud outfitter! at Now Bedford were before the United States Commissioners to day, charged with titling out tho ship Brutus as a slaver. About a year ego, it is alleged, tho Bra tus obtained 540 slaves, of whom 500 survived the passage, and were sold in Cuba. They were held in $lO,OOO each for a farther hearing. John Dowdell, alias Jones, the alleged mate of the brig Mary Frances, was committed to jail, oharged with shipping negroes. The Maty Frances was fitted out in Now York about a year since, and cleared for Wilmington, N. C., where she obtained a nominal obarter to the West Indies, and from thenoe sailed to tho West coast of Afrioa She sneoeeded In taking on board 817 negroes, and snbsiqaently landed them in Cuba, after whieh the brig was burnt and the master and era* dig parsed to parts unknown. Dowdell was recently arrested at Chelsea, Massachusetts Regiment En Route. New York, Aug. 9.—The Masssohnsetts Four teenth Jfrgimeat left here at 8 o’clock tkis after noon fur Philadelphia, Artillery from Boston. Boston, Aug. 9—Wine’s Flying Artillery loft here at two o’otook this morning for New York. The Europa at Boston. Boston. AQgnst 9 —The steamer Eisropa arrived at 5 o’oloek this morning, via Halifax. Her ad vices have already been pnbl'fhed The Kangaroo' at Mew York- -Nnw York. August s —Tbe steamship Komga too has arrived, but her advioes have been anuei pated. A Brave Man Maltreated by the Rebels. The Government has reoeived information of the following facts throogh an intercepted letter, writ ten by a rebel at one of the forts opposite Piokens, to a friend In one of the Gulf States ; 11 We bad some little excitement at the fort latt night and this morning, eaused by the arrival among na of a man from Piokena. It seems that he was bathing on hia side of the obannel, a mile and three eighths distant from here, and be swam beyond hia depth Both wind and tide being against him. heoame over to ns, and threw himself upon the mero; of the eemuuder, Major Gregory, who. we think, treated him very badly. “He appeared to be a noble fellow. When asked whether be waa a deserter, he replied, ‘ Ho, air, lam a gentleman.’ Major Gregory tried to gat some inlormation from him aa regards the state of defenoe in whieh Piokens was, bnt he refused to give any, npon whioh Gregory ordered him to be gigged— horrible— aid lent to Barrasoas prison. 'Chts may bo the rale of war, hot may Heaven de liver ns from ever maltreating a helpless foe. “ The Madison Bides consulted shout the pro priety of suffering the order to beoarried out, bnt they were udvißeu by their own officers not to in terfere ; that if they did they should be punished for mutiny; besides, they did Bot know the true real cause of the treatment. “11 o’olook Jost returned from a small group of friends who were discussing animatedly the question whether or not the prisoner waa treated lastly. They eame to the eonolnsion that he was not only treated unjustly but orneliy, and they have determined to report the oommander of the fort te headquarters. What good it will do wo ean not tell. But snob sots of nnkindnese should not be left nnnotloed. I think that General Bragg will express his indignation at the bad manner in wMoh the prisoner was treated, and will, if possi ble, redress the Injury. 11 1 admin the prisoner. He seemed to feel no fear of foes or death When clothes were given him he Bald that if he ever lived to get back he would return their eqntvalent in money. When told that he wonld be shot If he did not answer the questions put to him, he told Gregory to shoot if he ohose; that one death was all a soldier ooplcl die At one tim* be was highly insnlted at the treatment, and even prepared to spit npon the In solent man who dared to try to foroe him to betray Us friends. Sneh man are rarely found, and when they are should oommand raapaot even from their enemiM." THE CITY. Execution of Thomas J- Armstrong. HIS LAS r HOOKS The Cell and the Scaffold. Grime la fail of myß’ery, and it, therefore, take* e strong hold upon the minds of men. Harder and ioteotion. trial and sentence, imprisonment nad the foiffjld, are all weird ohapters in its vo lume ; and th: most tertibio of these are the first and the last—the orime and the retribution The people aid familiar with the details of the ofienoe for wbtoh Thomas J. Armstrong yesterday mom ing atoned in part by offering np his life. And, as they already know of the terrible fortitude which made him famous in the oourt-room and the oell, there remains but to tell of the same ueflinohing resolution, when lannahed from the drop with the noose around his neok. TUB CHABdCTBJt OT TBB BAB, as evidenced to us, who have foll»wed him, from the day of arrest, through all the phases of trial and confinement, is soaroely less recognisable now than when, a human riddle, he paced the floor of his oell in the Nineteenth- ward station-house, eleven months ago. His faoe is remarkable only for its look of expression, and an utter absence of that mobility whieh reveals the emotions within. It has never grown either pale or flushed; it has admitted of neither nervous twitohings to indicate fear, nor 000 l stolidity to mirror reoklessness. N > man oeuld say, at any time; that the prisoner assumed bravado; but in momenta when some have melted to tears, no shadow of tooling has stolen over his fooo. Ho has been, perhaps from tempera ment, stolid, changeless, emotionless, expression less. Not granite oarved into form oonld be less immovable; and this singular stolidity has been oharaoteristio ns well of the body as the faoe He bar not trembled, shrunk, or started. No one has seen him astonished or abithed And withal, he has not been of heartless guise, or, as some have imagined, a sold, etony-oyed personality, over whioh shadows of smiles never flout. There have been Indications, bat we oonld not read them; and obangee, but we oonld not interpret them. Some times it was hard to tell whether be was serions or smiling; bn' of his oharaoter one element was known—that, if the will bore any relevanoy to the form, he oonld undertake unflinchingly all parts, and play them to the and. This may have been his secret; fee if are to oredit all his statement, he lived in oonsnmmate hypocrisy, whioh no man deteoted, and died with the heroism of a martyr, while a lie was dinging to his lips. Of all men around him, be has been the least moved, and the manner of his death will sadly perplex those philosophers who award a peaceful iseue oaly to the good. There was no orime of whioh this young man was not capable. Seduction, theft, murder, false vows to Hod, and pejoryto man, were some ol his offenoes. He plotted gnile in the ohuroh, with the punishments of the damned ringing in his ears and oatled on the Deity to witness that two inno sent baln'gs wan gnilty of the atrocious crime whioh he alone perpetrated. He seems to have been one of thp.se moral idiots, of whioh mental philosophers treat, who, born without consoienoe, never feel oompnnotion, and know the dividing line between vise and virtue, only by the oonssquenoes of eaoh. Socially, Armstrong is said to havo been a plea sant youth, and In figure he was by no means re pulsive, being always neatly dressed and oleaniy He had hlacf; h*! l . rather coarse, hut always well hmshQd, good teath, and dark whiskers, trimmed down to a genteel length. His forehead was hoi low, bnt moderately high, and the oontonr of bis faoe thin, sharpening toward the ahin. He was illiterate, and devoid of prndenoe, as his state meats before and after the trial evidence, and also his speeches in court and upon the galiows. His confession was interlarded with oopious slang phrases, and low, vulgar, wittioisms, and his speech upon the gallows was wretohedly con structed. IH TBB DIBTOBS’ AFARTHCHT the jury, the reporters, the prison inspectors, and the deputy sheriffs, mat at nine o’clock The following named gentlemen composed the jury, appointed in aooordanoe with layj, to witness the execution: 4. J. Piper, 4 DuHadaway, A. d I'Jpuierfelt, Non. Richard Vaux, George Ha gee, Wilson Jewell, H. D., Reuben Bands, Hon. William Millward, John Sailor, Benjamin Q. Brown, Henry Biokley, Robert P. King. Here there ensued a general discussion of the prisoner's oharaoter and speculations as to his demeanor, oonfossion, etc Tbo District Attorney’s pioture was hung upon the wall, reminding ns J of the soenes of the trial and leading part takas by Colonel ip convicting the murderer. Some forty gentlemen were here convened at ten o'clock, when they were formed in procession, headed by the sheriff, and moved arm-in-arm through the prison yard, in sight of a few per sona loitering in the street, to the gateway admit ting to the oonvict’a corridor. Tho procession waj highly respectable in guise, and taado up of many of the leading gltfuepraf Bhiiadeiphi*. It looked like a funeral procession, as it was to be, and the silenoe of all was unbroken, save by the ring of feet upon the pavement.. 1* wan <l*l.l. Meantime a fearful performance waa occurring in tbo prisoner's oell, whioh lay npon the third tier in the convicts’ oorrldor. Two sisters and a cousin had remained In the oell of the condemned man daring the entire night, the remainder of the fhmily having left him early in the evening. The soene between the dying man and his relief tives was agonizing in the extreme, and of its d*> tails all who are parents and brothers may be in-, formed. At midnight Armstrong fell asleep, and he slept soundly until live o’olook, notwithstand ing a thunder-storm, whioh raged about four o’olook, and which aroused from their slumbers many citizens who were to awake Anally to a happy day and cheerful pursuits. It seemed strange to those who watohed the prisoner, thus unconscious, when every breath was hurrying him toward a terriblo fate, yet ho slept soundly, and the inquiry of Hamlit oame at once to mind : “Tos’aep? p erohanoe to dream i * - * For in that sleep ere tle.ih what dreaqu mar corner l ’ Soon after daylight, the giqtera of Armstrong took their final leave of the wretched man, and another dreadful soene was enacted. The plaoe of these devoted relatives was taken by the fathsr, and one or two intimato male friends of the con demned man, and they, in company with the Bov. Mr. MoAuley and Mr- George H Stuart, remained with him until the sheriff and his assistant; entered the oell for the purpose of preparing the oondemc ed for the last dreadful scene. The parting of the father from his erring son was a terrible soene. The old man remained in an adjaoent oell nntil all was over. Before the appearance of the sheriff, Mr. MoAu ley, with the oonseut of the sheriff and Mr Per kins, took Armstrong out into the corridor, aad while walking with him implored him to tell the simple truth. Armstrong mado some revelations whioh the preaahor afterward deaidod not to revoal through the press, but to keep until Sunday, whan they wonld add to the attractiveness ot his pnlplt for that day. A contemporary says that this oler gyman is satisfied of the truth of Armstrong’s statement, whioh implioates Hollingsworth and Sshindler, and also that the prisoner’s later reve l ixiona do not differ from hia confession. If snob be so, few will doubt that the murderer died har dened in his peijury. Armstrong was pinioned with a bine oord at eleven o’olook. The arms ware bent behind the bask and fastened closely together, the oord passing around each arm just above the elbow. The hands were thus brongbt even with the lappels of the ooat, and could not be made to meet aoross tbo heart, The prisoner was dressed in blaek frock ooat, black pants, and long boots of fine oalf-kin. He wore neither hat nor oollar, and his linen was scrupulously olean. The hands, thus kept to the front, afforded means of notfoing, by the motions pt the Augers, any tremulonsnesß whioh he might exhibit, They were soft and white, spotted between the thumb and forefinger with India ink marks. Hii hair was brushed hack tfooi the MTBUbhu. m'iu mu umonniimn ■>«- (light figure seemed more than ever remarkable. is ism ornos. While the preachers were thus speaking oonso latlon, the jury and witnesses were oolleoted In the office, adjoining the prisoner’s oorrldor. A few of them wore lounging In the arohed oonrtway just outside, and others walked down the pavement •long tho oorrldor well, to an open plane between the stable and wash-house, where the so&fold had been erected. Fearfully simple seemed all the preparations. Fearfully oommonplaoe seemed the demeanor of all who wore looking on at the ar rangements of tho soaffold. The sky above looked dull, heavy, and lowering One oolor ourtainoi it flam pele to pole. Ho sun illumined its pall) hlS&k~ ness. Ho breeze stirred the sombre, dead but fkoe. Suoh a sky might bave brooded over ohaotio ereation “ before the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy.” Buoh a sky might have bent over plague-stnoken oitios of the Bast; might have brooded over disastrous battle fields; might have thrown Its ghastly whiteness over the path of Cain, the ff rat murderer. what added gloom to the terrible soene was, not the frowning wails on eaoh side of the gailowsj but the startling sight whieh one beheld when the gray walls were scrutinized. At regular intervals, long, narrow loopholes answer for windows. At •aoh barred slit appeared a pale face; tho face of a prisoner, tried or untried, innooeut or guilty—but still a prisoner. Such stern frames never, to our view, surrounded snob pale oonntenanoes. Eager ness, anxiety, ware tho prevailing expressions, as far as tho thickly interlaced bars would permit one to see what look predominated in those pallid features, those strange eyas. The office where the jury congregated waa ’a square apartment, with onriou-.ly vaulted celling, surrounded with bookcases containing tbs prison reoords, und opening by an iron harrod window Upon the long, narrow oorrldor, lined with oell doors, behind one of whioh the prisoner was oon fined. The footfalls in this oorridor were few that morning) the oonviots had suspended work, and the horn of the loom and shuttle appeared to be smothered, in view of the fearful procession shortly to go down .tho walk, one footfall, at least, in whioh should sorer return. The priseatW oame up t> the doors, peeping thro the es, with heart almost stilled and pale ihoas. Sometimes they oalled aloud to the visitor know whether “ he” had yet been led out; whether “ be ” would 11 die game,” and if 11 ha ” had yat 11 blcwad” or con fessed. All the prison knew of the exeention, jailor and oonviot, and they felt already that Heath, like Silenoe, was in the place. TBB WABBAHT FOB XXaOUTIOX Was read by Mr Vaux. Bbe.iff Kara standing b y, and the ju-y drawn np in a semi oirole at a quarter alter len It was S'gned by the Governor and Secretary, and specified that the prisoner Thomas Jriftraon Armstrong, should be hung by the neok nntil dead While this was going on, we remarked a picture over the door of the office, representing a squalid woman at the door of a prison. Underneath was the inscription: “ *t the door of aprisnn see FrienOihip in wait; Mar the object sons pitt map re On the outside of the wall was an iron gibbet. That within seemed to demonstrate a piotnre «f mercy whioh the gibbet without did not second The monotony of WAUlng here was rail of terri ble anticipation, and only those who waited ean tell <he suspense and fear whioh haunt even the witness of an exeention. The viotim should have suffered all the agonies of death, if his fears were relatively great. TBB scans WITHOUT TBS PEIgOIt. The usual morbid ouriosity was displayed out side the walls of the prison during the morning At an early hour loungers were teen leaning on the iron palings whioh surround the prison grass plot, and their number inoreesed every few minutes. Between nine and ten the crowd of ‘‘outsiders” numbered several hundred, and there were ever a thousand persons gathered in the vioinity by the time the execution took place. The reporters were assailed with eager question ing as they passed through the oonoourse. No un seemly behavior took plaoo, however, and every thing passed off in quiet and order The H tyor’s polioe acted well throughout the affair, as usual Hr. Petkins, the superintendent ot the prison, and Mr S. S. Hooney, of the Debtors' Apartment, loft nothing undone, and those who witnessed the dread scene era deeply indebted to Sheriff Kern, who managed the entire affair with the utmost kindness and consideration to all parties oonneoted with the soon*. TBB GALLOWS FBHPABHD. The gallows has bean deseribed. The trap was sustained by three upright props, and the middle prop was intended to he the last removed, it up holding the floor until, at a signal, a oord attached thereto ahonld be palled. At the jerking of the oord this prop would at onoe bend in the middle wed bring thu whole platform down The platfo-m was simply two horiaontal doors, not unlike cellar doors, with hinges affixed to the main posts of the gallows. It fell inwßrdi) each door striking against pads or cushion! to deaden tho sound. The rope wss permanently attaohed to the ga'lowfl beam at half past 10 o’oiook, and an ettaobe of the sheriff’s office slipped his neok through tho noose to allow that officer to adjust the knot The rope was of the thickness of cue’s thumb, closely twisted and when suspended from the beam felling aliuoit to the scaffold floor, a distanoe of twelve or fonrteen feet. The prisoner would thus have a fall of ab. at four feet, leaving his extremities at rest nearly two feet from the ground The knot in the noose looked like a man’s abut fist, where eaoh finger would represent a aoil of the rope That part of thq ro£C Intended to slip through the knot was well greased, and the other end was passed twice around the beam above. The oord attached to the drop woe stretched and prepared; and the atti tude of the man experimenting with the noose made a little shuddering amusement. The oord was adjusted within the Btable, where the aotual hangman was to be ooneealed, and the prepara tions being now oompleted, the arrival af the vio tim alone was needed to oonalGde the drama. THU HAH OH *0 THU GALLOWS At eleven o’oiook Armstrong walked downstairs, pinioned, between George H. Stuart, Etq, and Hr. HoAuiey. These gentlemen were weeping profusely, and many of the jurymen broke into tears at the first sight of the prisoner. The latter attracted ail ayes direotly. His limbi were aad that doubtful expression, half serious, half-humorous, before remarked, still larked ia his ooqntenanoe. He might have been a trifle paler than usual, bnt not a whit nervous, agitated, or disordered He looked intelligently into the faces of the people, and obeyed his spi ritual advisers implicitly, glancing up continuously to notice their directions. He wore the gentle manly garb and manner characteristic of him, but in his pinioned arms seemed somewhat awkward £,r,d eonatralned. Hs noddod to one or two ao quaintanoas, and seemed a little curious as to what was being done. At a few minutes after eleven o’oiook the solemn prooession took up its way for the gallows, ail bare headed and treading in oouples, the boot-heelg waking up strange and awful echoes from the stone wails, oalling out again the convicts, who pushed their pallid ftqea up to the bars, and gazed at the qaktd timbers, the small, delicate boy, and the ssd Tinges of the visitors, like men whose own bad oareers advised them to look upon the fate of orime and traoe their destiny or their reformation. Just as Armstrong reached the gallows, a ory started from somq ope of the cells, no one knew where; perhaps Horn the desolate father, who waited alone for the lifeless body of his boy; but ⅈwberit shrill, wild, ud fall of mournful mu« sic. This cry brought the blood to the temples of many, and as quickly banished it; but the prisoner went on unmoved, and sprang first np the soaffold stair, with limbs full of muscle and nerve, pausing at the tqp agd looking at the long oorri dor walls, and the upturned faces, as if about to see them for the last time ere death stamped blind* nass upon his eyeballs and shut ont the world to him for ever. TBB PBAYXR AHD BFBHOB OH THE GALLOWS. Standing upon this fatal platform, four persons— the sheriff, the oondemned, Messrs. Btcart and MoAuley—their positions were dramatic in the extrema, and their form; loomed out plainly againßt the pale, elear sky. In the middle, stood the sheriff hiq faqs full of sadness, reading to the prisoner the warrant for the execution, and upon thq left and the right, leaning against the scsfftld uprights, their faoes buried in their handkerchiefs and their frames shaking wi'h emotion, stood the two spiritual advisers. Overhead dangled the fatal oord, and beneath were the frail supports that were soon to be removed. The prisoner stood oaimly, a slight motion of tha throat being the only peraeptible movement of any kind, nntil the preaoherstopped forward and said aloud: “Let ps pray!' 1 Thou Armstrong closed his eyes, although hia lips did not move, and appeared to listen attentively during the whole snpplloation, whioh lasted eight minutes. We print the prayer .- PRATJSB Or BBV SB. lt’mir. 11 Almighty and everlasting God! Thou who know-st the end aad the beginning; Iheu who art acquaint with all our ways; Thou who reignest In tho heavens above, and in the earth beneath, and who made and ordered all things, and dost pre serve all Thy oreatures; we eome, onr God, this morning, amid this solemn and impressive scene, to commend this dear young man, now about to be launohod foto eternity, into Thy oare, and into Thy keeping- Oh, God! our father, we would praise Thee, even here, for the hope that he has fiven tons that Jesus has revealed himselt nnto -m, and that Jesus is now preoious in this his final straggle. Thou Saviour of Manassah—thou Saviour of Magdalena—thou Baviour of the this! upon the oroes, be near nnto him now, and save him, oh, Lord! through Jesus Christ. We give his soul into Tby Keeping now, and ask. according to Thj blessed word, that Zhou wilt be with him goto the end. We sotnmond him to Thee who art able to keep him through thiß trial. M-y God bless him aad sanctify him. and may this solemu hour be to all present as a warning from Heaven; may those who are present be led by this soene to seek Hca ven through Jeans Christ. Now, Lord, hear onr prayer: oh save him; save hm ? and bring him into Thj heavenly praanoe, and we shall praise the Father, the Son, and IJolj Qaostj world with out end. Amen.’ 1 When the prayer wasYver, one of the religions gentlemen made a signal and Armstrong stepped forward, faoing the spectators, speaking direotly in a load, elear voioe, as if reciting a speech com mitted to memory: “ My friends, I am about to die, and let me say condition of giving up my Makar, I would not take it. To the few people here, I wonld advise them to take warning by my fate. Sabbath-breaking was the first cause “ I bid you farewell. To the prison keepers, to Mr Forklns, to Bhenff Hern, who has been very kind to me, and to my spiritual adviser, Mr. MoAuley u I bid farewall, gentlemen. I bid yea all fare well ; I now die in paaos with every body. I dlo in peaoo with all the world.” Having eoneluded these remarks, Armstrong stepped book, but seeing an acquaintance at some distance, he said very loudly, “ Farewe.l, Keeper.” tu execution, The nooso was now slipped over hi* head, he taking it as quietly as if a playful handkerchief at blind man’s buff. The knot was slipped around to tho ear, and the noose msde fast under the throat, the shirt oollar being meanwhile unbut toned. All now left the platform but the sheriff, having first taken the hand of the oondemned MoAuley kissed him cn the Cheek- The sheriff now said a word of two In whisper, and piodnoed from his skirt pocket a white death oap, whioh ha draw down over the head and face of Armstrong. As he left the seaffeld the prisoner’s hands we.e observed to quiver an instant. Then,there was a pause, intense in its fearful ness, and all poises were for the instant euspenced The oonviots at the barred windows looked through eyas grown glased and fasoiiatcd; somo men grew faint, and one or two turned their faoes and wept. It was but for an Instant, for the sheriff, with muioles all twitohing, raised hi 9 handkerchief; there was a poll at the string ; the last remaining prop foil to tho earth, and the body of the mur derer eame down with a jerk that the doll sound Of the scaffold doors bearing against their ouahiona half deadened. The limbs did not move, the neok waa Inclined by the weight of the body, and the shoulders twitched twioe or thrloe. There was no convulsive kicking er terrible oontortion; no sound escaped the lad’s lips; his fingers moved for a moment, and once he lifted his foot -' Dr. Goddard now passed up, watoh in hand, and felt tha pulses, maintaining his plaoe until the body was pronounced dead. It WM (CTentieo minutes after eleven when the drop fell; soon the hands turned red, and then purple, so continuing until the cutting down, when they were quite bine, the color of death At two and a half minutes after he fell his pulse beat one hundred and tbir’y-two times per minute. Five ml tutes alterwards his pulse beat cm hun dred and sixty a minute Seven mli-U'es afterwards his pulse oessed beat ing, and t .e 0 -nremned had fulfilled the penalty of the law. The death was oaused by suffcoatlon. Fifteen minutoß after the drop fell, the rope was out. and the remains were placed «n a barrow n-ed lor the purpose They were then wheeled around ’nto a call on the first floor of the convict's depart ment, where the jury viewed the body No dis coloration of the Isc a was visible. After viewing the body, the jury signed the usual certifioate, testifying to the foot of the execution and its ful filment in aooordanoe w th the ia ter of the law. The remains have been placed in a ooffin at the prison They will be taken by an undertaker, by d reo-ion of the family, and deposited in a ceme tery vault. At som« future tia»v they will to In terred by tbo family of tho oondetnned. The body was viewed by the father of Arm strong after tho execution The old man sat beside It speeohless, and ail tho people came silently away, leaving him to gaze upon the lifeless form, Bid rain his tears over the fixed face of bis boy, A sib of Orawfnrd sought ndmitslot to the scene, but was vory Dropnrly denied. The crowd outside was very great when we emerged, and they were b-gging pieces of the rope whioh some witnesses secured. Hearing or tiie Pirates Captured oh the PcnooNstt PavaeL —Y.).e day li'-on tee pi rate- nt the sohooner Petril. captured by the St. Laitirtn.ee. were b-onght from MovamimsJng pri son to the United States District Court for the pur pose of having a hearing The prisoners wars handcuffed in pairs, and drove no from the prison in two omnibuses There were thirty five In el], one being left in a siok bed in prison In- be fore the arrival of the prisoners a large 0 owd con gregated around tho O'urt, and as soon as the pri soners were brough- in ibe room wng tepidly filled. Tee men presented a very Bhabby appearance, some of them being meanly olad and bare footed. As scon os they tvee seated the i.ons were taken from their bauds, and the men were guardeaby the deputy marshals and a posse of police United Smtes District Attorney Coffev Stated that as the charge against the prisone-a was of a ve-y serions oharaoter. involving Vbeir lives ha weald not proceed until an opportunity had been afforded them of proouring oottastl The names of the pirn es. were then oalled by UnDed Siatfß Qi mm is. loner HekjSiitt, TbO fol lowing is a 0 irreot list: Wm. Perry Richard U Harvey, Oharles Camp bell, August P-yress-rt, Robert Barrell, Henry Hti s. Eiward Flynn, ffn Sharkey, Daniel Court ney. Jonn M Morgan Fiank Alhor, Geo Harkins, A-e D-lahay, John Cunningham R-h-ird R Jef frie , William tl Q-aennrst, G-orge 8 Harrison, John Hark, Hugh Mimagun, Win B ien. Miohoei Delon, Henry A bon John Mullins, John H. D-ung 0- H Marriott, Geo, H Ribortsi Thomas 4 Brookhonnd R chard Lewis, B 1 ward Hurphy John H Biwa-ds, Thos Wood, Austin 0 Williams,' John B S Tucket, Henry Au'm nns George Hawdea, John Cronin Tae prisoner John Halims has a brother who was captured on the prize skip Rnthantreaa, and whioh case was disposed of on Toumday The Cosemlstisher addressed the pri^oaey*, end a-it they were charged with having msli,imsly attacked and set upon the frigate Si. L’twreuee also, with treason against the United Sutras He wished to know whether they had any counsel to defend them He was answered in the negative. The Commissioner then asked whether they heft an; oounsei they oonld send for Wm Perry, ihe pirate oaptain. said he would like time granted, ia order that tho; mi<ht procure counsel Austin C. Williams, one of the pirate crew, stated that he did not know any one present, end would also like tints to - r oam counsel. The Commisrianer asked what leng’h of time they wished Perry, who represented the whole erew, said they would like to procure their ooui,ael as soon as possible. He thought there might be some person present who wools volunteer Seve ral lawyers were spoken to, but none seemed anx ious to interfere with the oase The Commissioner, after consultation with the Distriot AttorLey, stated that this gentleman was willing to oontinus the oase nntil next Wednesday afternoon, at three o’oiook; in the meantime they oonld procure oounsei. Hs further stated that the. United States Marshal woald endeavor to paooare, such gentlemen as the prisoners might suggest. The men ware again baudouff-d and eaoorted out by a body of polioe The crowd on the otrside had greatly inoreased by ibis lime, and the pri soners, as they wore driven off, were groaned and subjected to all the vile taunts of an exoited mob. Charged with Robbing the Hail.— For several months the atientton of S B R.-w. special agent of the Post Office Department, has been -jj. reeled to losses of money letters from poir/re in, New York to vatloas places in New Jersey. These letters all bed to pass through tha Philadelphia post-office. Consequently, suspicion GAiUTallv fell upon me employees of that iffiie For some time Hr. Row has been putting deco* letters in the mail, with the ooneent of Mr Wal bern and Mr. Booth. Eat, nntil yesterday msm i„g, there has been lb clue obtained to the knave ry On Thursday afternoon, Mr Row, with the atsistaeoe of Hr. Ireland, one of the oierks, pre- ? trad a decoy which has done its work snoeess iLy They directed a letter to an imaginary Mrs Isaso Green, Atlantic county, N J , contain ing two one dollar bills, whioh they had taken dne note of The letter expressed the hope that thn> money would meet the lady’s present necessities, aid was then got up in a way that wonld m*he lb a 'p»ar, even to on experienced cloik, to have earn* ftom New Ynk. The letter was stumped with a Hew York stamp, •he date regularly inserted t»ith_iyro. It was then placed—as all regularly registered money 1 tters from New York are—in a largo envelops, on whioh was written “ Atlantis City,” und in one corner, “ Post Qffl:o business.” Mr. Ireland when he saw no one was looki g toward bim, thrnst this dowsast, wfewft sine «aolo»d the bill that aooou pauisß registered letters, inta th* middle of a pile, of a hundred or bo of letters from Hew York, wbrnfo were destined for East Jersey. He watched for some time to see if any one ex cept Mr Beed, who distributes ibo mail for Jersey and E .stern Pennsylvania, approeohed. While he was looking, ho thinks be saw Mr. Bead take np that portion of the letters ia which .the one he had written wib plsatd He also saw him drop several letters fTotn the pile. This last faot, however, is not very important, as tbo clerks bare to drop thus letters whioh do not belong to their d -part moats The amateur detectives left the > ffioe at an early hour. Mr. Bead’s hours are from 3 PM. till 7 A. M Early yesterday morning Mr. lieland took u*. the letters which had been prepared for Atlantic, Citv, and found thus tbo one be bad got tm was, m-estng He went nut of the office, and awaitedi Mr Bow in the alley, and communicated the faot to bim It was then agreed that they should oalh on Mr Beed and examine him. On entering tba apartment where the latter was, Mr Riw told him that as ma-y lectors sent through bis hands w-re missing R was their painful duty to examine him He readily assented, and on examination, the two dollars were found in his watch p ek-t Reed was arrested and arraigned before U S. O-.mmiasioner Hesz'ett Bead’s oonnsci raised soma objections, on the SOOte of the absence of the envelopes; but the. o ise was so clear that the District Attorney made, no effort to protract the hearing; and the Commis sioner decided that Reed should be held in $2 506 to answer for his appearanoo at the next term of the contt. Gen. James’ Rifled Cannon Projectile. —Yesterday,into the t-ovai ol Pivt L?wo, who is now engaged preparing a large and oos ly be.loon, from drab colored silk from Indie, wo were rbown ouo of the pr j -atiles, or bomb shells, fired from tided oannons, -.ni whiob aan be drop ped from a high olevation. and p-oduoe the same effect as if shot from a oannon I- is divided into two carts, both lioll- w Tho Uwar part is cylin drical, and covered wl h rubber upon a framework of iron; the tipper part is cubical with a brass oap which Borcwoa on afer the pnjiorile is loaded. When -be powder in th- c-nsnn ■ tnlndes the gat fills the 1 jwer p&i tof the prr j•• tile, a'd swells out <be rubber patob so educ k firs nguny io rb« rifle b <re, and thus Beenrss accuracy of aim Just be neath the brass oap on the top ,d aholl w pluoger, with a n-pple for a percussion nap When tee pro jcotile Is io morion the peronesim cap is an inch or more from tha brass top but me moment it strikes an objeot >he p'usger is driven suddenly forward, tbe oap exploles, and of oourse fragments of iron ' fly in every diteotion Three-Months Volunteers. —There having been muoh muundarst-nding us to whether the re turned volunteers upon remolistment would re ceive a bounty, Colonel Harvey, ot tho Washing ton Light Infantry, on Thursday telegraphed so. the War Department far definite knowledge The answer returned was: “ Taree m inths volunteers, are not entitled to bounty for re-ealisting ” Col. Chantsv’s Regiment.— Company G,- Oapta-n Jobn W Moore, ot tno Tniitie.h Regi ment, (Col Chantry's,) was ■«■<-»»■■» ,lhTiifiti"n wftsh tfifitoriav. Tynr- 1 ■ ‘ * _ UIIII>IJ mfonas prosomß a nroly Bcoot* ftra cuafcaiß? OT«r 500 men. Two companies are unitormed, and the others will be to-day. The regiment will soon be oomplete. A Bow. —A drunken man, named Edwards, msde a- assault on a young man in Garter’s aifoy, about 6 o’olook yesterday afternoon. A crowd gathered around, and the cry of “Secessionist!” was raised, and, but for the interference of tbe p Hce, the fitbt w>n!d have become general. H awards was arrested and hold to answer by Alderman Beider. Matinbi —This sf -rnoon there will be an exhi bition of the Kossisn War and aiore.-ptioon, to ac commodate Ud-ea and fami iea. To judge from tbe receipts of the last two niph a, better than any two nigh>s for Bix weeks previous, the house will bt W«ll filled ~ Fuwub.oalug. IFor The Press.) Fhii.adilpuia, Aug. 8,1881 Sir : I beg to refer you to the pivwnbroters' system, as carried on in this city. The first evil is the amount ot interest oharged— six per tent, per month, or seventy two per oent per annum. Who oan say this iB just er consistent, with the profit accraing from any ether kind of business? In other large oitiea. Hew York, Boston, Ac , the amount of interest oharged is bnt twenty Jive per cent for the year. If So pledge b« t ken out ut any period, you pay at that rate. Here you are onmpelled to renew or redeem every four months. If a few days of the time should be r. qnired to get the money, you are onmpelled to pßy far the whole month. If an tr ioio is pawns l lor $3 50, when you come to pay .or redeem you God you ara obliged to pay tbe interest on 33 These things may seem trifles, but the poor always suffer by snob people How their wants will he so great that the imposition will have full sway. Respectfully, Ac.. Pro 80.-,- Publico. The Confederate CoaouEss. — Richmond, July 30 Congress h s passed s i act permDring soldiers to send letters through tbe malls without prepaying the postage, the pos-age to be collected at the office of delivery. The bill oonfers the eame privilege npon members of Congress. General Beanregard’s appointment as -Major General in the Army of the Confederate States, was unanimously confirmed by C-nsreas, his com mission to data from lha 2lst of July. The pnblio action of Oongress to day was mostly of an unimportant oharaoter. Tbe greater part Of tha MMion waa in awnt.
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