MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1861. rmm lMtt that ttaslud eneet! Wknt toMtkii tlta Jaa bat lalli before U*T With rraadam’a rail beneath anr iaat, And Fraadam’t banner atraaratni e’er we s lon Sam.—Tha double-oylinder Taylor preßS on whioh this paper has' bean printed for the paat nine month*. It ta in exoellent eondition, having been made to order a year ago, and trill be sold at a bargain. For terms apply at this office, or ad dress Johs W. Fotunv, 417 Chestnut street, Phi ladelphia. . The Pirates of the Petrel. The CM6 of the pirates rescued from the wrack of the privateer Petrel is attracting considerable attention, and their approaching trial, at which they will he arraigned for two Crimea that are punishable with death, piracy and treason, will donbtlcßS form an interesting and memorable epoch in the annals of the Criminal jurisprudence of out eity. The cir. camstances attending and preceding their cap ture fixed their guilt so clearly upon them that we do not wonder no lawyer was ready to volunteer to act as their counsel at the recent heating before the Commissioner, but they will doubtless be properly provided with legal advisers, either by their own exertions or by the appointment ot the court. , we have recently learned some additional particulars in reference to their fatal encoun ter with the Sf. Lawrence that differ slightly from accounts heretofore published. It seems the pirates were not ignorant of the true cha racter < f our noble vessel-of-war, but they im agined they could without danger approach to within a short distance of her, and then, by the supposed superior sailing qualities of the Petrel , make their escape. The St. Lawrence at first manifested a disposition to bear away from the Petrel, but she presently commenced chasing her, and this was continued for about our hours, the former doing her best during period to lessen and the latter to increase the distance between them. The result was that toey at last were but about fire hundred yards from each other, when the St. Lawrence fired a shot across the bow of the Petrel to bring her to. This was answered by three shots directly at the St. Lawrence, which were apparently particularly aimed at a portion ot the deck where the officers were standing. Two of the three shots struck the vessel or its rig ging, bnt without doing serions damage. The St. Lawrence fired in snccession eleven guns without damaging the Petrel, bnt the tnrellib shot took effect, and that vessel almost imme diately sunk. Most of the crew begged piteously to be rescued, and a number of them have liace manifested a penitent spirit, and been profuse in their expressions of deep Tegret for their connection with the expedition. We nnder stand that Borne ot them have given a graphic statement of the condition ot affairs in the Sonth, and particularly in Charleston. The news of the battle at Manassas had been re ceived at that place betore their departure, and the losses of the insurgent army had been so heavy, and the desire for a « mortality list’ 1 express- d at the time of the capture ot Fort Sumpter, had been so folly gratified by the fearful havoc among the South Carolina regi ments, that there was no disposition to rejoice over the result, and the prevailing feeling was one of deep sadness. The pirates say, too, that the condition of affairs there is very depressing, both in a business and military point of view. Nearly all kinds of trade and employment being sus pended, and the planters being nnable to dis pose of their crops, great want and misery pre vail, and the mass of the white population are extremely destitute. In.their military opera tions, too, they are much embarrassed by tbe want of a sufficient number of men and of munitions of war. Powder, gnns, and cannon are becoming very scarce, and their facilities for manufacturing new supplies are necessarily very limited. One of the most intelligent men rescned from the Petrel says that it is acknowledged now that they will soon be compelled to en tirely abandon their privateering scheme. They have but very few vessels they can fit out, and all their attempts to do so are very much crippled by the want of proper machine ry; and even when they get to sea and are successful, they can expect to reap but little profit, because all foreign ports are closed against them, and when they attempt to send their prizes heme, there is a strong probabili ty that they will be captured by the cruisers of our Government. He Bays the crew of the Jeff. Davis intended, after capturing a few more prizes, and sending them home as best they conld, to run their ship ashore somewhere on the ceast of British America, and endeavor to reach the Sonth overland. He thinks tbe Sumpter returned to Berwick bay, near New Orleans, with the arms from the Bamberg, and it is doubtful whether she will again venture upon the ocean. Few are aware of the extraordinary activity now being displayed by the Navy Depart ment, and of the rapidity with which new ves-. sels are being constructed. We will shortly have not only our own old navy vigorously at work, bat many merchant vessels chartered or bought and fitted for the service, and some forty or fifty new ships of varions sizes and descriptions, cruising along onr sea-coast. AU this, it is trne, requires some time—more than the impatient spirit of the hour, burning with indignation at the audacity of the trai tors, is disposed to grant—but still less than many seem to fear. Within sixty days, we think, not enly every port, but every inlet and harbor along onr widely extended coast, will be hezmeticully sealed. Ik nothing is the difference between the Northern and Southern newspapers more de cided than in the eagerness with which the former spread before the public all the intel ligence they can glean of the movements of our troops, and the care with which the latter su§press all the, information that they think conld in the slightest degree be serviceable to oar army. It is a common thing lor the latter to boast of their secrecy, and to notify loyal commanders that they will famish no trainable military news, as well as to impress upon their cotemporaries the importance of concealing their transactions. They imitate the diplo matist who said that the use of language was to conceal oar by publishing news papers which seek rather to mystify and enshroud In ignorance the minds of their readers than to enlighten them. It is cer tainly not to be expected that the loyal press of onr country will imitate them in this respect, bat we are glad to observe an in creasing disposition to show greater regard for the military necessities of the Government than has been heretofore displayed, and to cease acflog as efficient spies for the enemy and Marplots of the best combinations onr generals can devise. It is not difficult to nn. derstand that in many operations secrecy will prove in war, as in other important affairs, the goal of saccess. Any combatant whose plans and movements are all known in advance by bis antagonist will find it extremely difficult to neutralize snch a terrible disadvantage, even with a superior iorce. The lives of whole re giments' of men may sometimes be sacrificed by premature exposure ol their position. It is no doubt because experience has repeatedly shown the fatal effects of an enemy gaining knowledge which should be strictly concealed bom him that the doom of a detected spy is by the militaiy code declared to be death, and that the same pnnißbmant is meted ont to those who, without being specially em ploy'd to seek information, engage in trea sonable correspondence with the enemy. Yet, it would be idle to enforce snch strin gent rales while the correspondents of the journals of Baltimore continue to freely visit onr camps and, departments, and after each day gleaning more news than a dozen ordinary spies, hare their whole budget printed the following morning, and then promptly send off hundreds of their papers to the camp of the insurgents. It is evident that the reform which has been commenced should, and we believe it will, be completed as soon as possible, and the foes of the Union will then find it very difficult, if not impossible, to obtain any valuable and reliable informa tion of the movements ef onr army. Perhaps the best commentary upon the Peafce party and its pretensions will be found in this paragraph from the B<imojp Sun of a recent date: « The Southern-rights men are aboutto enter earnestly npon the fall ostnpalgn; their eanens held to night In the Senate Chamber waß attended by every member of that party Their platform Will be comprised In the simple word Pkacb, and their solicitations will he addressed to mm of all parties desiring a discontinuance of the war , and preferring a peaceful solution of the pending troubles . Tne Stats Convention, nnder the an spicea of this party, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the State offices, which will be va cated in the fall, will be held in Baltimore on Tuesday, September 10th.” This presents to us a new phase in this « Peace party ” arrangement. In tbe North, there is a cry for peace, because they assert that the commercial and manufacturing inter ests of the North are suffering. In the Bor der States, there is a cry for peace, because peace meanß a “ recognition of Southern rights,” which is to say, a recognition of a Southern Oonlederaoy. In the North, the friends of peace are principally the men who broke up the Democratic party, and seduced Mr. Bseckikridgb into being their candidate and victim. They are the men who were clamorous for the most offensive COmpro. misos; who sought to drag the North through the mire of degradation; who endeavored to have slavery made as inalienable a right as life, liberty, and the pnrsnit of happiness. They are the men whose interests are with the Sonth, who hold the unpaid bills and the pro tested notes of Southern repndiators. They are the politicians who have been damned by the voice of an indignant people, and who have no inture, except in the establishment oi a Peace party. Bnt tbe Border State branch of this peace copartnership are a little bolder and more ex plicit in their declarations. They are " Sonth era-rights men,” —«iheir platform will be com prised in tbe simple word Peace,” —and their « solicitations will be addressed to men of all parties.” They have changed their tone since the days of April. Then it was war, and the State of Maryland rang with their impreca tions on the Federal Government. Such ora tori as R. M. MoLaee volunteered to dye the Susqnebanna with blood if a Northern soldier dared to cross it tor the rescue of tbe capital. Such newspapers as the Baltimore Satt'recom mended forcible resistance to any attempt at passing troops through Baltimore. Snch offi cials as Georoe P. Kane turned the police into a Secession battalion, and his police office into an arsenal for JsrF. Davis. The men who advocate peace in August organized as sassination and anarchy in April. They pro pose “a peaceful solution ot onr pending tronbles ” now; then they endeavored to solve those troubles by massacreing the unarmed soldiers of Pennsylvania on her highways. They tender us the hand of peace, but the band is covered with blood. A Peace party in the North is nothing more than the reserve forces of Mr. Jefferson Davis. Both aTe animated by the same pur. pose. Mr. Davis wishes the North humlh atod; so does the peace party. Mr. Davis wishes the Union dissolved; so does the Pactee party, Mr. Davis wants Northern bacon and Northern arms; the Peace party have both to dispose of at reasonable terms. Mr. Davis wishes to ruin the Administra tion; tbe Peace party is laboring to tbe same end. The only difference seems to be that Davis has armed his Virginia “ Peace par ty,” and stationed it at Manassas, nnder the commaod ot Beauregard and Joheston, two veiy distinguished members, while his «Peace party” in the North is commanded by Bseckmbidoe, Bayard, Vazlandigham, and Wood. The whole six of them are very faithlul officers, and Hr. Davis is as effi ciently represented by his Northern ser vants as be is by his Southern. If these men in the North can show ns, by illustration or argument, that the North can possibly enter into an honorable peace, we shall willingly entertain tbe proposition. Bnt wo all know that peace means disunion, and a dishonorable separation; and in the face of this conviction, we see those who profess to be patriots earnestly laboring to build up a party which seeks to accomplish this infamy. And so considering it, we take it to he the clearest duty ot every one loving his country to oppose the organization of such a parly by every means in his power. Peace will come again, but it will not come from those of Maryland, who have yet to re move from tbe name of Baltimore the dark and bloody stain of assassination. It will not come from the Senator of Kentucky, who was the instrument ef the ruin of the great Na tional Democratic party. It will not come from lottery sellers and specnlators in New York, nor from the discarded minions of a dis graced Administration. Can any good come from these men 1 We do not think so. With the dreadful experience ot the past fonr years wo cannot trust them, nor can we, without caution and suspicion, entertain any proposi tion they may make. We think we speak tbe voice of the great mass of tbe people in ex pressing this conviction, and in saying that no party organization will be tolerated in the North which does not recognize as the funda mental principle of Us existence the mainte nance of the Constitution and the integrity of the Federal Union. Kentucky Arming for the Union. The following extract from a letter to a mercantile honsß in tbis city, dated Danville, Ky., August 7,1861, shows that that State is rapidly preparing to do her fall duty to the Union -. “ I presume that you are satisfied that Ken tuoky will remain loyal to the Union We are now raising volunteers for Uocle Sam. and there is a very large encampment at Hoskins, Cross Roads, seven %nd a half miles from this place. Captain Fry has been made oolonel of one regi ment, Judge B runlet is oolonel of the seoond regi ment, and Woodruff ieoolencl of a oavalry regiment which oame from Crab Orchard. Five hundred of them parsed through this place yester day, and the remaining five hundred are to oome through here to morrow on their way to damp Roberson, at the Cross Roads ” How to Stop all the Fixate Rat-holes, Across all the inlets from Currituck to Savan nah, sink old hulks of brigs or schooners, laden with stones. As most of these inlets are shal low, and not very wide, a few snch old vessels sunk « stem and stern” would effectually close them against ingress or egreßS, and give the Southern pirates some trouble to << raise the blockade,” even after the war was over. Our rapidly increasing navy will take care of tbe principal harbors, tbe whole Southern coast will be cheaply and thoroughly blockaded, and onr valuable commerce will be saved its pro gent heavy losses* Pbinoe Napoleon.—On Saturday evening, Prinoe Napoleon, accompanied by his snite, arrived in onr oity via the Philadelphia, Wil mington, and Baltimore Railroad, and repaired to his former quarters at the La Pierre Honse, where he remained until yesterday morning, when he proceeded at 11 o’clock, by special train, to New York. An Illnstnous Volunteer The 'Washington correspondent of tbe New York Tribune says, in yesterday’s issue of that journal, that General Gaeibalm has tendered hiß services to the Federal Govern, ment m ihe present war, and that they have been accepted, and the rank of Major General offered to him. The correspondence in which the offer was made and accepted took place between the American coubul at Genoa and Secretary Sbwabd. This intelligence will cause a thrill of exultation throughout oil country, and the consciousness that the gal lant soldier, whose heroism overthrew the petty despots of bis native land, and nnited its detached kingdoms into one great nation, is about to aid in achieving a similar object for the welfare of his adopted errantry, will have a very inspiring effect upon onr troops. Excursion to Atlantic City —The excursion of the Young Men’s Christian Association to At lantia City on the Bth lost was the source of so mnoh pleasure te those who partioipated In it, that at the rrquest of many friends they have deter mined to make a second exoanion on the 37th last. The particulars will bo found in our adver tising columns To Gnoonns.—N. P. Panooast, auctioneer, will sell, on Tuesday morning, August 13, by order of the sheriff, at the northeast e-irner of Eleventh and Spring Garden streets, a large stock of gee, foeih groceries, teas; ooffee, epic -a, w nes, liquors, Ac. A litter from an editor in Florida states that tbe Hebei Congress at Riebmond has resolved unanimously that no artioles of Southern growth shall be shipped from Southern ports to any foreign country that haa not recognised the independence of the Confederate States. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON- [From our Special Correspondent. 1 Wasbinotoh, Angnst 11,1801, It ia plainly to he seen that a new order of things exists in Washington. The olty is as dull as sum mer generally makes it, very few soldiers are visi ble, and were it not for an oeossionat cavalry sqnad dashing up the Avenue at full speed, or the patrol which is constantly traversing the olty in search of delinquent soldiers or negligent offioors, Washing ton wonld have as psaoeable an appearanoe as your staid, respectable, and light-angled metropolis. Chestnut street never looked more sleepy on a Sabbath than did the Avenue, as I passed along towards the Capitol this morning A solitary am balance and a oonple of dragoons served only to break the stillness whioh reigned everywhere. I missed the church-bells, however, with their sweet and reverent melody, and whioh give suot a charm to your Sabbath days in Philadelphia. Washing ton is by no means a religious plaeo, and but few ohuroh-goers oould he seen, although the hour was the hour of- worship. Congress having adjourned, serviees are no longer held in the House, and it wonld be impossible to oonosive anything more solitary and deserted than the Capitol building, with its m-jestio but inoomplete proportions. It is a bad argument whioh will not stand fifteen years. Fifteen years ago the oountry was about entering into a war with Hsxioe. It was a war undertaken by a Demooratio Administration, and, like the wars we have hitherto had, a mare party measure. The only iasuo was the development of a favorite idea of Mr. Oamouh ; and whatever may have been the Immediate onuses whioh led to the inauguration ot hostilities, the practical results were the annexation of Texas, and the possession of a large tract of Moxiosn territory. It gave Texas to slavery, and opened to the Sonth an im mense region of oonntry. The war was as much an Administration measure as the tariff of 1846; and the Demooratio party of the Notth, without having a single interest to servo by a lontoat with Mexico, and only fooling -hat the national honor was at stake, went into it with enthusiasm, and clamored loudly against the Whig leaders, like Mr. Corwin, who denonnoed it. Their arguments were earnestly defended. “ Indemnity for the paet and security for the future” was their motto. The Mexicans were assassins, incendiaries, ban dits, and' false to every sentiment of international faith. Beery Demooratio newspaper was filled with inveotives upon tbe base men who bad en deavored to stay the national feeling, or to embar r iss the operations of the Administration of Mr. Polk. Tbe Whig members of Ccngress who re fosed to vote supplies, and among them was Mr. Lioooin, now President of the United States, were held up to the execration ot the country. The oountry took up the looting, and, ns an offering to appease tbe martial spirit of the nation, the Whig party ssorifioed its great leader, Clay, and placed in the Presidential chair a soldier, whose only olsim to that office were the laurels of Buena Vista. Fifteen years have passed away sines that war oame upon the oountry. Oar national henor was defended; the weak republic was further weakened The possession of This waa assured, almost an empire wae added te our territory, and under tho administration of a Whig President, the Southern Demooratio leaders eommenoed to in t-igua for the possession of tbe immense territory obtained from Mezioo as a further extension of their slaveholding baiidom Many of the men in the North who now elamor for peace were sqiong the most ardent advocates for war. And y»t, How strangely Inconsistent their arguments sound ! If we fought for nation*! honor then, wo fight for national honor now If we went into a war to ex’end the territory of the Republio In 1847, we go into a war in 1861 to retain the Yery territory we then purohased with onr blood. If the Mexi cans were assassins, bandits, and false to national ■resties, the insurgent* are equally as bad,—for, iu tbe oourso of their rebellion, they have de pleted a treasury, robbed the Northern arsenal*, demoralized an army, driven peaoeable eitisens from their hbmea, desolated whole towns and dis trusts, exeou-ed good men for opinion’s sake, and violated every oath whioh an honorable man oould assume. The Mexican guerilla war was no less di-graeafal than the Southern mode of warfare, and we doubt Whether in the whole oourso of the contest the Mexioan soldiers were guilty of Bhoot ing a pioket, or of imprisoning an Amerioan elti s*n who went among them on an errand of mercy. If it was unpatriotic to oppose a war with Mexico, on the grounds whioh led to that war, how muoh more unpatriotic it is to oppose a war ’with the rebels whose success oan only bo achieved by the degradation and downfall of the Republio. Perhaps the best illustration of the lenienoyof the Federal Government is the faotthat Mr Breck inridge did not find himself a prisoner In Fort MoHenry within twenty four hours after his recent speeoh in Baltimore. It seems to me to be of little use for a Govertment to oeonpy a olty like Baiti. more, when a Senator of that Government is per mitted to denounce it to an assembly of sympa thizers, who alternately shout for Beauregard and Davis. The oonrtly Kentuokisn lost his temper, and soeldcd like a virago. The recent defeat in Kentucky must have soured him, and we oannot wonder he lost his Senatorial complacency when reflecting that he had been damned beyond all hope of political salvation. How difficult it ii to reoognize the dignified debater of the Senate fn the raving deolaimer at the Eutew House! Imagine John C Breckinridge telling a Baltimore meet ing they wore “ degrading fetters,” and that they were “ poor fellows ” and “ miserable wretohes,” and yon will see how rapidly Seoessioniam has transformed tho Senator into the demagogue. The whole tone of his speech waa of tho most (noon diary character, and it is a wonder how it oould ever have been tolerated Imagine a Jaoobite nobleman in a publio-house at Liverpool telling a orowd of sympathizers during the reign of William, that he was a tyrant, a diotater, a mili tary usurper, snd that his rule “outstripped every thing in the shape of usurpation of whioh tho world has ever beard.” How long do you think It would have been permitted? And yet, Mr. Breckinridge is allowed to go home to his State of Kentnoky to preach tho very treason which was biased in Baltimore. But, if Mr. Breckinridge deserves censure, what shaU we say of Vallandighiiffl, of Ohio, and Voor. hoes, of Indiana, the Senator’s companions at Baltimore? Tbe newspaper says that loud cries were made for Vallandigham, but ha refuted to respond. We are onrious to know here how this Representative will be rcooived in his loyal distriot of Ohio- Be has been decidedly more offensive than any of tho Congressional traitors He was a volunteer in the defenoo oi the Biaunionists. He forced himself upon them, and went ont of his way whenever opportnnity offered, to do their most unwelcome tasks. Representing a loyal distriot, in a great and loyal State, he has boon endeavor ing to bring upon his State dishonor and infamy. In the case of Breckinridge we can see nreoUely how be beoame a friend of tho Disnnlonists We oan see how bis vanity was flattered by the empty honor of a nomination, and how a false sense of honor would oompol him to follow the fortunes of those who had been bis friends as a Presidential candidate But Vallandigham has no suoh exonse. He was not purchased, beoause the Davis people did not think he was worth pur ohairing.- He seems to bo one of thoao morbid men in whom tho desire for notorioty has become a dis ease, and who would rather fire the Ephesian Dome and be immortalised as an aspiring incen diary, than sleep beneath it with tbe mutable honors of a patriotio and honorable life Mr. Vt>l. Lndigham will find an ample fluid for his peonliar and disgraceful sentiments as leader of the Ohio police party After tho resolutions passed by the Demooratio Convention of that State, he is j q ,t the man to be its obampion. His record is plain and unmistakable, and this is mors than oan be said of many of those more oowardly politicians who, whtln professing to be for war, seek to build np a treasonable pnblio sentiment in tbe North. A oalsmity baa fallen pppp Washington more terrible than any possible invasion Our lee sap ply has given out, and there is deep grief in the o ipital. But little ice oan be had for lova and 1 ,ts for money, and we are in a season of sultry weather. The ice question is the question now,— and inatesd of discussing the advance of Beaure gard, we dliouss the approeeh of the next las oargo The lovers of juleps and punches, and other stiange spirituous oontrivanoos are in sor row, and refuse to be comforted ; while those whose eduoation in the contrivances, has like my own been sadly and irretrievably negleoted, spoon late upon tbe unwholesome ohareoter of tepid water and drink—lemonade. I saw an is* eart yesterday It was the last of its tribe, and its passage up the Avenue wae a triumphal procession. The driver in bis red shirt was almost worshipped i and his iron apparatus was more venerated than I the trident of Neptune in the olden time If the good people of the North wish to save the oapital let them send ns a oargo of Joe Oh for an hoar of Nova Znnbla, and how delightful It must be on Greenland's toy mountains! J. R. X. McDonough's Olympic Tbbatbh —The sum mer season oommenoed on Saturday evening, under the most flattering auspioes, the house being well filled by cn audience remarkable for its inttlli genoo and gentility. The star of the occasion, the brilliant AOmedy astress, Mis* A unto L nedalv, had an enthusiastic reoeplion, and achieved a well merited triumph in the newcomio drama of “ The Pet of the Pnblio,” provoking profuse merriment throughout, and being reoalled on the fall of the curtain. (She was ably supported by Mrs. Plaoe, Mesdameß E Wilton, Menrio, Mr. S Hemplo, Ac ) Bet delivery ef the patriotio war address oreated quite a furore, and so well was the national an them sung that it elloited a unanimous enoore. The excellence of Mr McDonough s personations of Mtohael in “The Adopted Child” (oneof his specialties) is too well known to need comment “ The Good-for-nothing,” with Miss Lonsdale, the groat original “Nan” in this country, oonolndod the performance In this part she is inimitable. The same bill will be repeated this evening, it be ing the benefit of Company 0, of Colonel Conroy’s regiment. The Hon. John J. Crittenden arrived at his home In Frankfort from Washington on Wed nesday. THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY,? AUGUST 12, 1861. LATEST NEWS By Telegraph to The Frees. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to "The Press Oar City Surrounded by Troops. The judioious distribution of the largo number of troops arriving, and a ohange in the encamp ments of soma of those previously here, has en abled Gen. McClellan to surround the olty. Ha has also deployed his troops along the river, from Georgetown to Harper’s Ferry. The Prlnoe took hie leave of the President and Mends yesterday, and proceeded to New York- He was silent here in reference to the enemy, aahe was, no doubt, silent with regard to our affairs when at Manassas. Prince Napoleon’s Visit to Manassas. The Prinoe and suite arrived in this oity at a late hour on Friday night, from his visit to Ma nassas. Col. Fbaeklie famished the party ea Thursday with four United States horses, to ac company them. The Prinoe on the first day dined with the rebel Colonel Stbwabt, at Fairfax, who for a ohange of horses four captured by the rebels at Bull Run. Reaching Manassas late that night, he was received by General Johestoe, who sent for General BaamisaAßD, who arrived early in the morning The conversation botwoou the Prinoe and General Beauregard was In Frenoh—the latter interpreting remarks made by other persons. The Prince was very hospitably entertained, and was oheered by all the troops he passed. Shortly after five, the Prinoe, in oompany with Genarals Bbaurebard and Johbstow, sauntered ontand examined all the fortifications around Mt naßsas Gen Biaurboabd endeavored to induce the Prinoe to visit Rlohmond, so that he oould set our Congress now in session, and oompare then with the legislators in Washington ” The Prinoe had to deoline. time not permitting him to prolong his stay. On his return Washington, ha was met at Fairfax by the rebel Col. Stbwasv, who remarked to him, “I hope yoqr country will not interfare in this contest, for, if we have no outride interference we will be able to take oareofour selves ” The Prinoe did not oommlt himself in reply. The rebels profess to have eighty thousand troops at Manassas, with powerful reinforoemente near at hand The Maryland regiment is oamped three miles this side of Fairfax Court House. and their picketi extend a mile further. The regiment is very poorly elothed. uanbaldi offered his Services. It is currently reported here that Gen. Gabi- BalUI has offered his servioes to this Government through the American Consnt at Genoa. The offer, It is said, is accepted, and the rank of as jer general ia tendered to Italy’s Washington. 1 oannot traoe the rumor to any reliable source, al though yon remember the New York Evening Post gave onsrenoy to the same report about two weeks ago. Senators Baker and Lane. Preferring the forum to the field, these gentle men will deoline the tender made by the Pros! dent of generalships, and oontlnue in the Benato. Letter from Harry Magraw. A letter dated July 25, waa received last eve ning by Mr. Preset, of Willard’s Hotel, front Harry S. Maobaw, a prisoner at Richmond. The writer states that the prisoners are in oharge of Mr. Toed, brother of Mrs Libcolh. and that they aTe properly oared for, but have little pros pect of being released. There were sixty-fire secession prisoners and five “ contrabands ” oonfined in the old Capitol j til yesterday. Five of the prisoners are slightly siok, and nnder oare of a phyaieian. Tho dealers sm without a ponnd of this essen tial element in onr summer oomfort. Cargoes are hourly expeoted. Several deaths have oooorred by attempts among the soldiers to swim the Potomao. A day since a fellow sank midway from exhaustion, and was resoned only by tha greatest exertions of a miller who saw him go down, and rushed to his aid. The ohjeot of his Visit was to “ have his watoh re paired ” That of many others has been to purchase a drink. The oity markets oontinne to be well supplied. Largo and voiy fine poaohes are selling at f 1 per peck. The Body of Col. Cameron. A rumor reached the oity last evening that Mr. Caxbboh’s remains had been brought in It was ineorreot. A correspondence on tha subject was yesterday plaoed in the hands of the Secretary of War, and it is understood that all obstaoles hither, to in the way to prevent tho relatives from obtain ing tho body have been removed, and that' tha remains of tho gallant Colonel are now at their disposal. Completion of the Capitol. A strong foroe of workmen is ordered, by the President, to be put npon the Capitol building, and oontinned until it is oompleted. The Duel ot the Telegraph. The story telegraphed to the New York papers, that Provost Marshal Porter was challenged by an offioer with whom he bad a difficulty, and that ha deolined the ohallenge on the ground that he “ wonld net fight a volunteer,” is utterly without foundation. About sixty beautiful horsoß arrived from Balti more yesterday morning, and as many more la the evening, for the Government, and were driven to the training field near the Observatory. Thirty Regiments from Ohio.' The Wat PepAitneat hat accepted thirty regi. meats from Ohio, and they will probably all be mustered into servioe in three weeks. The regi ments from Ohio are composed of exoellent material. The President’s Family. Mrs. Lieoole and family will go North in tha. morning. She will sojiurn at Long Branch, N J. Private Secretary Nioolay left here Friday, on a two weeks’ vaoation, and is at Newport. The President does not propose to leave the oity during the season. Secretary Cameroe returned from Pennsylvania yesterday. Postmaster Blatr went out with his family yes terday, in the afternoon, to tho suburban rcsidenoe of his father, to spend tho Sabbath in quiet seolH slon. Secretary Chase is among tho bankers in New Fork, his plaee being filled during his absence by Hr. Harbiegtoe. The Secretary ef the Interior is away on a short visit to his home In Indiana, and to the Springs in Saratoga, the duties of the offljo being discharged by his son, who is his private secretary. Messrs. Boon, Habringtor, and Smith, Jb , respectively represented the Secretaries of War, Treasury, and Interior Departments, during the absence < t those members of the Cabinet, even to attending the President’s Cabinet cessions. “Shoddy” & Co. Looked After. If any tffisar in Ihe employment of the Govern ment fails to expose promptly, and to the fullest extent, attempted or aooompliahed frauds in Go vernment contracts, when it is proved they had been ditooverid by, or known to him, the party will be dealt with as snmmarlly as if a wilful attempt had been meat by Him to oonooal the orimo. The committee will be daily in session with detective machinery in operation that wil* roaoh to the remotest seotions of the country. Jeff. Davis and General McClellan. Jbff Davis, when Beoratary of War, sent Sen McClellan to the Crimea to study military tie tios. The pupil proposes now to show his patron how well he applied himself to his lessons on that occasion. The Mayor of Buffalo, and a number of members Of th« Union Defense Committee, arrived In the elty yesterday. They visited Col. Rosans’ Buffalo regiment over the river, and were emhnsiasHeally received. The Mayor announoed that another Buf falo regiment was organised and ready for the field. The Confederate Government has provided for Virginia by displacing Mr. Toombs from the. post tion of Secretary oi State, and appointing R M T. Hubtbb. the recent Senator from that State Mr. Toombs, however, is not to be extinguished, or on laying down the dlplomatlo pen, he takes up the sword and goes into thefleld is a brigadier general. By an arrangement peculiar to the Con federacy, the brigadier retains his seat in Congress. This arrargement illnstigtes the old Southorn principle of giving (he largest cumber of plaoes to the smallest number of plaoe holders. decrct Secession Paper. There is a rabid Secession paper, oalled TA« South, published privately in Baltimore. It is filled with misrepresentations and falsehoods o6n eeroing our army and Administration. Another eavalry regiment is about to arrive. This regiment is being recruited in Buffalo, New York, and will be commanded by J. C Lamom. Our eavalry arm tf the service has been negleoted, and a number of regiments will tend largely to the cffiolenoy of tho Briny. Discharge of Rebel Prizes. The Spanish minister announced to the Secretary of State, yesterday, that the seven American ves sels captured by the Confederate privateer Sumy. ter and carried into the port of Cienfoegos, as prises, have been discharged by orders from his Gvrerament. Washikmoe, August It, 1861 Prince Napoleon. Tbe Old Capitol Jail, Without Ice. Heaths from Drowning. Our Markets. Arrival of Horses. The Cabinet. The Mayor of Buffalo. Toombs in the Field. Cavalry Regiment. Major General Wool. . It is now almost oertain that Gsneral Wool hot been ordored to Fortress Monroe to take command there, How long the latter offioer will remain Is not known. Appointment. Niwiaw W. Xdwabds, a brother-in law of Presi dent Lieoole, has been appointed on the staff of General HoClereaed, with the rank of oaptain, and to aot as oommissaiy of the brigade. Increased Pay of Regular and Volun- teer Privates. The following is the aot to inoreaso the pay ot the privates in the regular army, and of the vo lunteers in the servioe of the United States, and for other purposes: Be It enaeied. Jce., That the pay of tha privates In tho regular army and volunteers in the servioe of the United States be thirteen dollars per month for three years from and after the passage of thiß aot, and until otherwise fixed by law. Sbo 2 That the provisions of the aet entitled “ Aa Aet for the Relief of the Ohio and other Volunteers,” approved July 24th, 1861, be. and the aame are hereby, extended to all volunteers mustered into tbs servioo of the United States., whether for one, two, or three yoare, or for and during tha war. Sxo. 3 That all the acts, proclamations, and orders of the President ef the United States, after the 4th of March, 1861, reßpeotieg the army and navy of tha United States, and oaUing ont or rela ting to the militia or volnntoere from the Statee, are hereby approved, and in all respeets legalized and made valid, to the aame Intent, and with the same effeot, as If they had been issued and done under tbe previous express authority and dirsotion of the Congress of the United States. Mlscellaneona Surgeon General Wood has taken measures for carrying into effest the late act of Congress, for adding to the medical staff of the army a oorps of oadets, whose duty it shall be to aot as dressers in the general hospital, and as ambnlanoe attendants oo the field, with the same rank and pay as West Point military oadets. When the applications are favorably considered, the eandidates will he ex amined before a board, and from among those ap proved by it the selection will be made. The Preiidenthas recognized Frederick Kuhrb as Consul for the Grand Duchy of Meoklenbnrg- Schwerin, to reside in New Yoik Brokers are pnrohaslng the two years 8 ’per centum Treasury notes at from 95.956. The prion for 850 notes is batter than for othor denominations. Decision ef the Government Regarding “ Contrabands.” . IRBTBUOTIOSS TO HERBAL BUTLER.' Washibgtoe, August 11 —The following letter has just been despatched to General Butler by the Secretary of War: WMBITOTOH, August 8,1881. GbkebAl : The important question of the proper disposition to be made of fugitives from service in States in insurrection against the Federal Govern ment, to whioh you have again direoted my atten tion in your letter of July 30th, has reoelved my most attentive consideration. It is the desire of the President that all existing righ's in all the States be fully respeoted ano maintained. The war now proseentod on the part of the Fedoral Government is a war for the Union and for the preservation of all tha constitutional rights of States and the oUilons of the States in the Union. Henoo no question can arise as to fu gitives from service within the States and Terri tories in whioh the authority of the Union is fully acknowledged. The ordinary forme of judieial proceedings, whioh must be respeoted by military and civil authorities alike, will raffioo for the enforcement of legal olaime. Bat in States wholly or partially under insurrectionary control, where the laws of the United States are so far opposed and resisted that 'they cannot be tffootualiy enforoed, it is ebvion* thst the rights dependent on the execution of these laws must temporarily fail, and it is equally obvi ous that the rights dependent on the Ibwb of the States within whioh military operations are con ducted must bo neeessaitiy sn'mrdingte to the military exigencies oreated by the inßnrreotion, ii not wholly forfeited by the treasonable conduet ot the parties owning them. Te this general rale, the rights to servioes oan form no exoeptlon, and the act of Congress, ap proved August 6 th, 1861, deolares that if porsons held to aervioe shall be empl yed in hostility to the United States, the rights to their servioes shall be forfeited, and snob persons shall be discharged therefrom. It follows, ef necessity, that no olaim oan bo recognized by the military authorities of the Union to the services of snob persons when fugitives. A more diffionlt question is presented in res pent to persons esoaping from the servios of loyal masters. It is qnite apparent that the laws of the State nnder whioh only the servioes of suoh fugitives oan ba claimed must neels be wholly or a’most wholly suspended as to remedies by the insurrection snd military measures necessitated by it, and it H equally apparent that the substitu tion of military for judicial measures for the en forcement of inch claims must bo attended by great lnoonvenienoes, embarrassments, and injuries. Un der these elrauma’anooi, it seems quite oiear that the substantial rights oi loyal masters will be best proteoted by reoeiving snob fugitives, as well as fugitives from disloyal masters. Into the service of the United States, and employing them under raoh organizations, and in suoh occupations, as oireum stanoes may suggest or require. Oi oourso a re cord should .be kept showing the name and de scription or the fugitive, the name and the cha racter (as loyal or disloyal) of the master, and suoh facts as may ba necessary to a oorreot understanding of the circumstances of each oase. After tranquillity shall have bean restored upon the return of peaoe, Congress will doubtless properly provide for all the persons thus reoeived Into the service ef the Union, and for a just com pensation to the loyal masters. In this way only, it wonld seem, oan the duty and safety of the Go vernment and the just rights of all be fully recon ciled end harmonized. Yon will therefore consider yonraelf Instructed to govern yonr future action in reepeot to fugitive* from servioe by the principles herein stated, .and will report from time to time, and at least twice In eaoh month, your aotion in the premises, to this Department. Yon will, however, neither authorize nor permit any interference by the troops under yonr com mand with the servants of peaceful oitteeus in the house or field; nor will you in any way encourage suoh servants to leave the lawful servioe of their masters; nor will you, except iu oases where the publio safety may seem to rrqalre it, prevent the voluntary return ef any fngitive to tha servioe from whioh he may have esoaped. I am, General, very respeotfuliy, your obedient servant, Simoh Caxbboe, Secretary of War. To Major General B F. Butler, commanding the Department of Virginia, Fortress Monroe. From Gen- Banks’ Command. Saedy Hook, Aug. 10— Capt. Charles H. T. Oollis, of the Z .naves D’Afrique, of Philadelphia, is here with the tender of hie oompany, whioh i( composed entirely, it is said, of soldiers who served in the Crimean war. He states that his proposition was well received by Gen Banks, who promised him a letter to the Beoretary of War requesting his acoeptance of tbe oompany aa an indepepdent corps. Mr. Coggshall, agent ef the State of Penußyl- Tania, baa arrived here with supplies of overooata, ahoea, ia , for Colonel Mann’a Pennsylvania Re aerre Regiment. Captain Robert Williams, Aaalatant Adjutant General, haa returned from Washington and re* lamed fata position on the staff. Celonel Qeerjf, Of the Twenty-eighth Pvnnsyl vanla Regiment, baa been noticed that one or more companies have been sworn in as additions to bis regiment, already numbering 1,040 mon, bnt it is to be inereased to 1550 This regiment, with its experienoed and able ocmmanders, promises to bo out of the moat effloient of this aolnmn. The lien* tenant oolonel is Gabriel do K irponay, the greater part of whose astive life has been spent in camp a id on tho battlo-Celds of Europe and Amerfea. Col. Mnrpby’s Twenty ninth Pennsylvania Regi ment was inspeoted this morning, by Gen. Fite John Porter, inspeotor general of Ranks’ division Gen. Ports* has net yat bsan assigned t* any separate command Interesting from Louisville. xovehbhts op thi bsbsls in Tennessee—re POBTBD IHODBSIOBS IB TO XBBTUCKr VO STBAL BAO.-m arm bxvkhotxs. Lodisvill*, Ky., August 10 —No trains have bees allowed to run eastward of the Tennessee river from Memphis for the past two days. It is supposed that the rolling stoek is engaged in the transportation of troops to Onion City, Penn. The National Union newspaper, of Winchester, Kentuoky, yesterday issued an extra, saying that information had been received there that batween two and three hundred Disunion troops have eome Into Kentucky, throngh Cumberland Gap, and are marohing pn BarboutsviUe. It was supposed their Intention was to seise 50 000 lbs. of baeon now stored there, and to rob the bank at that place It is also feared that they intend to prooeed from thenoe to Richmond, Kentuoky. The Un onists in the vicinity of Barbon* grille had sent runners to Owsly, Jnokson, Estellcy, and other oountios, whore the Union men were rapidly gathering, with rifles and shot guns. The extra says the above information is reliable, bnt we have no means ef verifying it hen. Important from Richmond. tan nnocitana Ann Tan nnsnisa ootbrmhhht Ricbhohd, Aug. 9, via How Orleans, Aug. 19 —• The papers of thsbment. He Is supposed to have a large number of bank note plates on hand, audit is said he issued tbe ten dollar counterfeit bills on tbe Knndoqt Bank, which so olosoiy resembled the genuine that they were received at tbe b9i k’ Letter from tbe Hon. Alfred Ely. [From the Rochester (N. Y.) Express, of Fndaj.] We have been shown a letter written by Mr. Ely, at Richmond on the 29 b of Jnly. addressed to his wife in this oity It oame by way of Louis ville, through Adams’ Express Company, and reached here this morning, having been ten days in coming through It appears from tills letter ■hat Mr E ! y bad previously written to his wife, as be u’es the expression, “I repeat asauranses of my safety and good health ” The letter Is in Mr. biy’s peenliar handwriting, whiah bears its usual marks of strength. The arrival of Mr. Huaon, a prisoner, is mentioned in this letter. Letter from Colonel Corcoran. (From the N Y. Herald of jes ardor.] SIS IMPRISOBKBBT AT RICHMOND —THB STOBT OF 818 OAPTDBB—HOW THB SIXTT BIRTH BBBAVXD IB BATTLH—THB OTHER PRISOBBBS AT HIGH XOBD—TBBIB IRRAIKBHT BT THB BBBBLB. BTC Mrs. Coroonn, wife of the commandant of the flixry-Din h Regiment, has reoeived the follonliig letter from her husband, now a prisoner at Rlju mond: RiCHXrBO, Va , July 29,1861. Mr DbAH With: I wrote a letter to Captain Kirkar a few says sinoe, acquainting him of my being in olose confinement here, also Cap iat u Molvor and Lientonant Connolly, with about thirty seven other offioers, and six hundred non o cmnisiloned offioers and privates from various re gimenta. Among them are Sergeants Mnrpby and Donohue and thirty five private, of my regi ment. We are all In good health I was vtry ill for the first two days after my arrest, but feel quite well at present. lam deeply ■ ffiioted at the loss of aoting Lieutenant Colonel Haggerty, who was among the first that foil on the battle-field, and several of my brave soldiers It Is, however, oonsoling that they attended to their religious duties for that day, I have bad mary narrow hair breadth escapes, but God, in his infi nite meroy, has been pleased to preserve me I am uneasy to know the fate of many officers and members Whom I had not seen in line im mediately after the battle, among whom are Captains Thomas Francis Meagher and Kava nagh, and aoting Adjutant, (late Contain) John A Nugent. Ay regiment dame tff the field in admirable order, and was on the road to Centreville, when I halted to rest and await oidars for future aotion, knowing that our artillery woold need proteotion in returning Twe regiments, that had not been in line, and were retreating in disor der, being on my fltnk, and when the cavalry were seen advancing towards ns these regiments broke precipitately through my lines, throwing us into disorder, causing a general flight, I di'm.nnied and orossed a rail /once, over wbioh They had gone, and got th* color beaTer to halt, u< iling on the men to rally around the flag Just at tb s moment a diioharge of carbines from the pur suing csvaliy and from onr arttitiry diowced my voiae aod destroyed all my tffirts to muster tie men I bad only nine men who beard me and baited, and these, with the two officers and myself, wore immediately surrounded md taken to Manassata We left there on tbe f, II- wing morning, and arrived here on Tuesday night. Lieutenants Baglny and Gannon, with two colo nels, one lieutenant oolonel and other offioers and privates, arrived here this morning Gome of onr wounded have also been brought bare, but I have notfyet learned their names Give my love to your aunt and William, Captain Kirker and friends. You affectionate husband, KIOBABb GOBOOHAB. THE CITY. CobOMBL William s. Mann ’a Regiment Mr Joseph D Galloway, of Company I, Second Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, Bas published an aoconnt of the breaking up of that organisation, which is meant to ba a defence of those soldiers who refused to take the oath of allegiance at Bandy Hook, Md The first eanse of dissatisfaction was at Easton, where the men were ordered out one morning, some two months ago, for the parpese, os tensibly, of receiving a flag, the presentation oere monies to have been performed in front of the oolonel’B house. They were requested, in order to present an uniform appearanoe, to wear no coats, but to attire themselves in woollen shirts Direotly afier receiving the flag they were marched to the oars of the North Pennsylvania Railroad, and, Without nny previous Intimation on the subject, taken toEsflton, not one of them having hid an oppirtnnity of informing their friends or relatives of their departure They wore at Easton several days without other olothing than that in which they left camp Their uniforms, blankets, Ac , were delivered piecemeal some not for six weeks after leaving Eaßton When tnoy did reoeive a month’s pay it was in country bank notes, on which they had tosubmlttoaßhave They got no arms nntil they got to Sandy liwk Ur. ttalloway says: Wa staid at Sandy Hook for three days, .in misery, with scarcely enough palatable food to keep us from ootual starvation Not realising, at the end of three days, any of the promises made ns. many began to loave for home, as we all had a perfect right to do, there being no authority for takiog us out of tho Btate in the manner in whiob they aid. The Colonel, Hading the regiment war about being broken up, endeavored to sdmisistoi a temporary oath, aa it were, and bat few signified their willingness to take it. The party who bad been deputed to administer the oath remarked that, were he the Colonel, he would have the met tiod to a tree and lashed. They did not receive that kindly suggestion aa passively as was expected, bat gave that gentle man (?) a few minutes to quit that particular spot, wtfion be did in very good time Those declining to bind themselves to snoh a rot'en organization w ®J® stripped of their elothing and sent home, whiah wee tho final and olosing aot of injustice. The clothing belonging to the men Individually and to nono olse, together with a month’s pay, was all they received for about four moa’hs’ ser vioe, dating from the time of their enlistment This was but one of the petty aots of tyranny o : whioh wo wore viotims Tae regiment was com posed of tho bone and sinew of the oily, and wouic have done themselves and their State credit on the battle-field. They will yet do so under officers or pable to oommand tnem. TUe regiment is non broken up. if we exoept a handful of men who bare been frightened inro remaining Tho roturnod men of Colonel Mann’s regiment will hold a meeting, at Seventh and OaUownitl streets, to morrow . Arrival ov th* Fotjrtbmtii andFivtxenth Massachosbtts KasiuaßTs —On Saturday morn e regiments whioh bail from “ the land of steady habits,’* this fine body of men is thoroughly equipped. They left tor Baitimoie about daylight. . Soon after the Fourteenth oame the Fifteenth regiment, from the seme State This regiment also numbers 1,046 men. It was aooompenied by a band of eigmeen pieces. The regiment has 13(1 horses, a number of baggage wagons, and all necessary means for aatiTa service. They have the Springfield mnskot, Tho uniform consists of dark bine jacket, with light-blue pants, and army regn lation hats. The following is a list of the offioera: Colonel, Charles Deven, Jr ; lieutenant oolonel, George H. Ward; mt-j’jr, J. W. Kimball; surgeon, Joseph N Bales; adjutant, H. Hicks; oaptains, Watson,Sim mons. Jsstyn, Bartlett, Rookwood, Sloan, Shadley, and Freeland. Both the regiments end all the tounsteTß oon neotea with thorifwere furnished with breakfast by the Union and Ooopor Shop Refreshment Commit tees. The ladies were kept np the greater part of the night in waiting for tneir arrival. This regiment did not leave till near ten o’elook on Saturday morning, as considerable time waß occupied in stowing away tba horses and baggage wagons on the tmoks and baggage oars. ARjtrut of a Light Abtiliiby Cowart. —At an early hour yesterday morning the «oo„ni oompany Massachusetts Light Artillery, known as Cape Nirnms’ Battery, of Boston, arrived at Wash- Ington-stroat wharf The oorps were recruited by Major Cobb about three months sinoe, and have been in camp at Qainoy about one month, where the men improved tnemselves in drill They seem to have been all picked; their average height is five feet ten inches, and tboir average weight about one hnndred and seventy ponnds. Borne of the men tower sereral inohes above six feet; and all of them oombine the formidable physique with the athletio constitution which makes ihe artillerist the most dangerous foe on the battle-field. The uniform is similar to that of other artillery oom panics. 9 heir battery consists of six 0 pounder gnns, rifled, with oaissons; four baggage wagons, an im proved medical ambulance, two forges, and uaga sines and one hnndred and forty twe fine hones, narohased in Vermont The corps include one hundred and fifty six men. One of the rati ears, laden with the tents and oamp utensils of tho corps, broke down near Charlestown, in eonseqnenea of tho hind axle breaking. The freight was thrown a distanoe of several feet eu tbe read, and was afterwards placed is another car Reception or the Independent Rangers abd thb Fibst Citt Tboop—tho Independent Rangers, Captain MoMullin, are expected to ar rive in this oity to morn v. Preparations are being made to giro them a fitting reoeption. There will be a fine military display upon tho arrival of the Rangers in the oity. Throo oom panies of the Boott Legion, three companies from Colonel Morehead’e regiment, and also a number of companies of tho National Guards, will be in the line. A band of musie, consisting of forty one pieceß, has been engaged for the oooasion Repre sentatives from a number of fi e companies will form the aivio part of the escort, and General Pat terson haa signified his intention to participate, and head the column over the route to be da signaled. The First City Troop will roaoh home with the Rangers, and the escort to this oorps will j tin with that to the Rangerß. A oompany of troop of the Home Guards will turn out to welcome tbe oavalry, and tbe whole affair will be creditable alike to the oity, and the two oompanies intended to be honored. It is proposed to send a oom mittee to meet the party at Wvmington. and if possible bring them to the oity in a steamboat. A meeting of a joint oommlttce of the friends of both oompanies il to bo held this morning, ac ton o’clock Thoofs at Suffolk Park.— Colonel D. H. Williams’ regiment, ot-mpts-.d of Putsoutg and Philadelphia oompanies, is encamped fcv.'e. Two mote oompanies, fatty equipped wi l arrive here to-day from Pittsburg ihe field offioers were ap pointed with the sanotion of the War Department, being men of great expetieuco A battery of six rifled oonnen has been presented to -he Teg meat, sad will be commanded by the Jtinrg M Artillery, of Roadie*. The officers contract for all the elothlng for ihe regiment, and have tho very best that can be had The uniform is gtay, and ihe offioers wear the same as the men for field servioe. Persona wiahing to join this regiment bad better do to at onaa. os it is fast filling up None bnt good and strong men are reoeived; those who have been in servioe preferred- Tbe oamp is called Camp Scitsinger, in honor of J J Beit singer, who has been instrumental in getting up the regiment Thb Printhbs’ Union At tbe annual ■lection for officers of this aoeiely held on Satur day evenii g, the follow,ng parsons were eleoted for the ensuloa year: President —Wb B Eckert. Vice President—John F Kelvy. Recording Secretary—Joseph M Wolff Finaneial reo rotary—B H. Taylor. Treasurer —John (ioodrioh Trustees—John Dunn, M. H DiGroote, John F. Kelvy Business Committee —John T. Evans. Henry J Hampton, John J Caldwell, N. B. Hales, James MoOann, Wm Edwards. N J. Seddlnger. Funeral or Yodn* Armstrong.—The body of this unfortunate young man was buried, at the Maobanios’ Cemetery, on Sfi.urday morning at 11 o'olook There were no persons present on tbe oeoasiou exeept tbe immediate relatives and Rev. Mr MaAnley. The hearse, and the four oarriagas wbioh bore the friends of the deceased, were not driven to the door until the funeral was ready to start, and a crowd was avoided in this way. The oi,]y ceremony at the cemetery was a short prayer by Rev. Mr. MoAuley. Disgraceful How.—A disgraceful affair took plsoo on Friday afternoon, at tho tavern uf Mr. Alexander, eorner of Sixteenth and Lombard streets Throe men. named Wm. Edwards, George Long, and Wm Dyer, wore taken into onstody, on the charge!of making assaults and inoiting to riot, breaking the fixtures of the tavern, and mlsbe bavior generally. Upon a hearing of tha case beforo Alderman Patohell, the men were held in $1 000 bail each to answer at court Philadelphia Hat Market.— Th§ sales of hay at the Farmers’ Hay Market daring the past week amounted to 250 loads. The prioos realised were from 50 to 65 cents for the new orop, and from 75.r0 80 eents per ewt. for the old 8-xty loads of straw were disposed of at from 50 to 60 oents per hundred weight. Drownbd Yesterday -morning, a lad named John Carroll, aged 10 yrara, w,s drowned In the Delaware, at the first wharf above Market street. The body was’ recovered and taken to the residence of his parents, No. 54 North Sooond street The eorener was notified. Railway Accident. — John Marlborough fell from a ear, at Twenty eeoond and Walnut streets, on Saturday evening- The vohiele ran over him and injured him very severely. Guard Descent on the Fanct.—For soma time oast frequent complaints have been mode to the Mayor of disorderly heu’es in tho neighbor hood of Front and Willow streets. It was deter mined that a stop should be put to the nniaanae, and accordingly, about ten o’clock lost even ng, a part of tho Reserve Corps of Police, under lient. Dave Henderson, proceeds! to the spot, and sur rounded the indicated houses while in fall blast. Oae bouse was in New Market stieot, above Wil low. another one in New Market street, btlow Nobis, and the othsr in Noble street, jest below Second An entrance was quiokly effected, and a large nnne ber of arrestß were made The inmate! of the honse were in every variety of dress, end great was their consternation at the oonrse affairs bad taken. The whole party, numbering twonty- Ight persons, were brought to tbeCentral S'-ation and locked np, where the female portion of th« “ take’’ made night hideous with their monrnhsl cries and lamentations. Accident. —John Carr, aged nine years, fell into a ouiveit on Columbia avenue, below Second street, yesterday afternoon, and f Motored his atm. He was taken to tbe Episoopa! Hospital. Chohman’s Mounted Rule Rangers. —It will be seen from tne 10l owing despatch, receiv'd on Saturdayi by Col Cbormau, that this regiment has been accepted as M-unted Rifle Rangers; Washington, August 10,1861. Col. E. G. Chorkin: You were accepted by telegraph 8B Mounted Rifle Rangers. J LasiiEir, Jr , Chief Clerk. Put On the Dry Dock.— The U. S. steamer Flag was put on tne dry dook on Saturday, tc be ooppered_ The ways for tne launching ot the sloop of war Tuscarora are being laid, and the vessel will be lnnoohed in a wor k or two. The Soott Legion Kt.oi-aE.N-r expect to commence reornitiug for the new regiment, which has been aooepted, on to-morrow (Tuesday) morn ing To be*Mustered In.—Company I, of Colo nel Birney’a Zouave regimen , will be mustered into service this morning Cameron Dragoons.—Company G, Captain Hennessey, was mustered into sarvioe, on Saturday, by Captain MoAnhur, of ibe U 8, Army. THE BATTLE OF BULL RUN. Official Beport of Col. Heintzelman. Huadquautibs Third Div , Dbf’t N E Va ( Washington Ju ;31 1861. t To Capt J B Fry Assistant Anjatant General; Sib : In obeuionoe to lnairuo.i ns reoeived on ’he 20th inst , tbe division under my command was noder arms, in light m-rening order, with two days’ oooked rations i-i their havarsioss, and oom -a.nccd the m-rob at ba t past two A M on tne 21st, the brigade of Colonel Franklin leading, fol lowed by those if uoionela Wiioox and Howard. A'. Centreville we fonud ihe road filled with troops, ued were detained three bonra to a low -he diyi «i»ns oi General Tyler und Colonel Hnnier ie pass. 1 followed with my division immediately in the rear ot >he latter. .Between two and three miles beyond Centreville we left the Warrenton turnpike, turning ino a country road on the right Caprain Wright ac companied the head of Colonel Banter's ooinmn, with diroo ions to stop at a r-«ii woiob turned in to the left to a ford across Bull Run, about, half w«y between the point where we turned off from the turnpike asd Sudley’s Springs at wmoh latter - oint Colonel Hunter's division waß te cross No sunn road was round to tx st, and abont eleyen A. M i we found ourselves at null o>’s Springs about •aa miles from Centreville, wi-h one brigade of Colonel Humor’s divis'on still on onr side of the -uu. B r.f ore Teaching this point the battle had oommenoed. We oould see the smoke ri-ing on oar ett from two points, a mile or more apart Two clouds of dnst were seen, showing the aavanee of .roops from the direction ot Manassas At Sndtey’s Sp-lugs, while wailing tbe passage of the troops of be division in onr iront, I ordered forward tho first brigade to fill tzoir canteens. B-.fire this was accomplished the leading regi ments of Colonel Hunter’s division became en gaged General McDowell, who, accompanied by ais staff, had passed us a short time before, sent back Oaptain Wright, of tbe engineers, and Major MoDowril, one of his aids, with orders to send tor ward two regiments to prevent the enemy from outflanking them. Captain Wright led forward tae Minnesota regiment to the left of the road, whioh crossed the ran at tbia point Major MoDowell led the Eleventh Massaconsetts up the road. I accompanied this regiment, leaving orders for the remainder to follow wi-h the exoeption of Arnold’s baVery, which, supported by the First Miebigan, wbb posted a littl-a below the crossing of tbe run as a reserve. At a iittla more than a mile from tbe ford we oame npon the battle- field. Atokan’i battery was posted on a hill to the right of Hunter’s division, and to the right of the road. After firing some twenty minotes at a battery of the enemy, plaeed just beyond the crest of a bill, on their entrance left, the distance being considered too great, it was moved forward to wiihm abont 1,000 feet of the enemy’s battery. Here the battery was exposed to a heavy fire of musketry, which soon disabled it. Franklin’s brigade was posted on ihe right of a woods, near tho contra of our line and on ground rising towardß the enemy’s position. In the meantime I sent orders for the Zouaves to move forward to Bnpport Riekett’s battery on tho right. As soon as they oame np, I led them forward against an Alabama regiment, partly ooa aealed in a clump of Bmali pines in an old field. At the first firo, thoy broke, and the greater por tion of tbelu fid to rear, beeping up a desultory firing over tbe heads of their comrades in front; at the same time the; weto charged by a company of Beoesalon oavalry on their rear, who came by a road through two strips of woods on onr extreme right The fire of the Zouaves kiiled four and wounded one dispersing them. The disaomfituro of this oavalry was completed by a fire from Capt. Collum’s company of United states oavalry, whioh killed and wounded several men Col Farnham, with some of his uffiaers and men, behaved gal lantly ; but the regiment of Zouaves, as a regi ment, did not appear again on the field Many of tbe men joined other regiments, and did good ser vioe as skirmishers I then led up the Minnesota regiment, which was also repulsed, but retired in tolerably good order. It did good service in the woods on our left flank, and was among the last to retire, going off the field with the Third Untied States lafamry. Next was led forward the First Michigan, woioh was also repulsed, and retired iu considerable oon f ision. They were rallied and helped to hold the woods on onr right. The Brooklyn Fourteenth then appeared on tbe ground, coming forward in gallant style. I led them forward to the left, where the Alabama regiment had been posted in the early part of the aotion, bat had now disap peared, but soon oame in sight of tbe line of the oniiny drawn up beyond tho clump of trees. Soon after the firing oummenoed the rvaimvnt broke and ran. I considered it u-eleas to attempt to rally them The want of discipline in these regi ments was so great that the m >st> of the mtfi w mid ran from titty to seven sand rod yards to the ratr and oontinned to fire—fortunately for the brave ones—very high in the air, and compelling cb-isa In front to retre »t During this time Biokott'fl battery had bofln taken and retaken three times by us, Ut was fi iully Jo it, m st of tbe horssn having been killed, Otptain Riakett beiog wounded, and First Lieut. D Ramsay killed Lieutenant Kirby behaved very gallantly, and snoooedod in carrying off one oaisson. Before this time heavy reinforcements of the enemy were distinctly seen approaching by twe roans extenaieg and miifl.r.ltmg ns on Use right Col brigade oame on tho field at th s time, having been detached by tbe general as a reserve at ibe point when we left the tntnpiko. It took post on a hill on onr right and rear, and for some time gHllautly held the enemy in obeok. I had one regiment of cavalry attached to my division! whioa was idned dnriog the engagement by .ha oavairy of Col Siantoa’s division Major Paldior, who aommandsd them, was anxious to engage tha *n*my. The gronad being unfavorable, I ordered them book oat of range of S o Finding It impossible to r4iy any of tho regiments, wa commenced our retreat about half past four P M. Taers was a fino position a short distanoe in tha roar, where I hoped to m ke a stand with a scotion of Arnold’s battery and the United States oavalry, If 1 oould raly a few regiments of infantry. In this l utterly failed, and we continued our retreat oo the road we had advanoed on In the morning. I sent forward my stiff offioers to rally some troops beyond the Kan. bnt not a company would f >rm. I stopped bsek a tew moments at tho hos pital to see what arrangements eonld be made to Sava the wounded The few umbulanoes that were there were filled and started to the rear. The obureh, whiah was used as a hospital, with tbe wounded aod some of the surgeons, soon after fell into the hands of the aeoession oavalry, that fol lowed ns closely A oompany of oavalry crossed tha rear and st it -d an ambulance fml of wounded. Captain Arnold gave them a o«uplo of rounds of “oahlSUi” fro in MS Section of artillery, which scut them soampenng away, and kept them at a respectable distance during the remainder of our retreat At this point most of the stragglers were in advanoe ot ns Having every reason to feer a vigorous pursuit from too enemy’s fresh troops, I was desirous of forming a strong rear guard, bnt nalther toe efforts of the officers of the regular army, nor the ooolness of the regular croons with me, could Induoe them to form a single oompany. We relied entirely for our proteotion on oneeeo’ion of artillery and a fen oompanies of oavalry Most of the road was favorable for infantry, but unto- TOiabifi for oavalry and artillary. About dusk, use approached the Warren ton turnpike, we heard a firing pf rlfl-d cannon Oh onr right, and learned that the enemy had established a battery enfilading the road Captain Arnold, with his section oi artillery, attempted to run tha gauntlet and reaobed tha bridge over Oub ran, about two mileß from Centreville, bnt found it ob structed with broken vehieles, and was compelled to abandon his pieoefl, as they ware under the fire of these rifled cannon. The oavalry tuned te th* left, and after passing through a strip of woods and some fields, struck a road whioh led them to some camps oeoupled by our troops in tbe morning, through whioh we regained the turnpike At about eight P. M , we reached the camps we bad oooupied in the morning. Had a brigade from the reserve advanoed a short distanoe beyond Centreville, near one-third of the artillery lost might have bean saved, as it was abandoned at or near this erossing. Scab a rop? X never witnessed before. No ifforM oould induce a single regiment to form after tiw retreat had eommeneed- Our artillery was served admirab’y and did much execution Borne of the volunteer regiments behaved very well, and mnoh exouse osn be made for those who Had, as few of the enemy could at any timo be eeen. Raw troops oannot be expected to stand long agaiDac an unseen enemy. I baye boon unable to obtain any report from tha Zon> aces, at Colonel Farnham is Stul in the hospital. Bipoe the retreat more than threo-fonrths of tho Zouave* have disappeared. I beg leave to express my obligations to the officers of my staff, viz: Capt H 8. W right, Lieut. E B. W. Bnyder, Lieut F N. Farqohar, ot the Engineers; Capt. Ohauncey MeKeever, assistant adjutant general: Lieut J. J. Sweet, of the Sooond Cavalry, and iiient J. D, Fairbanks, of the First Miobigan, for the able and fearless per formanse of thur dnties, and to reoummend them to vonr favorable consideration Very reapeotfully, B P. Hsintzblhae. Cel. of the 17th Infantry, commanding let Div. Important from Bout hern Kansas Lbavbhwobth, Aug. 9 —We have Ifi'flljgtßOe tri m douihoru Kansas that great eiaitement pro Tailed there, owing to the aotions of half-breed Oberokees and white outlaws from Arkansas and Mbscuri, bonded by Jehu Matthews, a loader from the Osage country It is reported that men have been killed, aad sixty families driven from the Cherokee nrntral land, who have taken refuge in Humboldt, Kansas Tha outlaws threaten an at taok upon the plaoo A message has arrived hero requesting aislstanoe bom the Government. ■