SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1861. fiimi flail mat standard »fi««. Where breathe* the tee bnt tails b*i*sj e*’f With Treedem’e aoll fceneath ear leei. fTNd9m , i francar itrianlng sai Fob Bau. —Th* double-cylinder Taylor press on which this paper has been printed for the past nine months. It uin excellent condition, haring been made to order a year ago, and will be sold at a bargain. For terms apply at this offioe, or ad dress don If. FonjniT) 41T Ohestnmt stmt, Phi ladelphia. The Enemies of the Union in the Loyal States. When the men who advocated John C. Breckinridge and Jo. Lass in the free States, one year ago, were reminded that they were identified with a movement looking to the overthrow of the Union, they denied the assertion with every appearance of honest indignation. They claimed that the nomina tion of Breckinridge was as regular as that of Douglas, and, when they iabricated the fhsion ticket in this State, they solicited votes for that precious compound on the ground that Breckinridge was as good a Union man as Douglas, and had no sympathy with the ene mies oi that Union. Having studied the whole soope of the grand conspiracy which began with Lecompton, in 1857, nnder the disastrous Administration of Jakes Buchanan, wo re peatedly admonished onr readers that the slaveholding aristocracy had no other design in pntting Breckinridge lorward as their can didate bnt to assume possession of the Go vernment, either by a fraudulent sale of elec toral votes after the Presidential election, or by a forcible attack upon the Government in the event of the triumph of Abraham Lin coln. Every subsequent stop taken by the men who forced Breckinridge upon the track in 1860 has only served to ftaifli this prophecy. When Davis and his banditti withdrew from Coßgreßß, and proceeded to make warlike preparations, by means of the stolen treasnres, and anas, and property of the United States, a general bnrst oi indignation from all parties in the North and Northwest rebuked the treason. Gradually, however, the leaders of the Breckinridge movement in the free States, in 1860, have abandoned opposition to the Southern conspirators, and are now busily en gaged in giving them aid and comfort. When Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, who sup. ported Breckinridge last year, saw that the latter was a willing tool in the hands of the enemies of the country, he manfully con fessed the mortification of his disappointment, and planted himself boldly on the side of the Constitution, resolved to stand or tall with it. Not so with the Breckinridge leaders in this and other States. In proportion as the South ern traitors have increased in their outrages npon the flag; in proportion as they have heaped new insults npon the Government; in- proportion as they have exhibited their determination to excel in every manner of barbarity npon onr people—these leaders seem to have renewed their hostility to the war, and their determination to disgrace the cause i in which the whole civilized world is so profoundly interested. They iorget how the people of the loyal States sank ail party considerations in the dread hour when Sump ter fell. They forget how these people com pelled these same Breckinridge leaders to fly ,heforp their awakened wrath, to bang out the banners which had been insulted by the rebels in Charleston harbor, and even to retake the oath to that Constitution which they had dis honored and discarded. During that memo* rable crisis the American masses did not think of Ur. Lincoln as a Republican President. They looked npon him as the embodiment of the national sentiment, and demanded that he should at once proceed, without waiting for Congress to assemble, to put the army and the navy on such a footing as would avenge and wipe out the ignominy heaped upon onr sa cred canse. In fact, it was the feeling that grew up when Sumpter fell that inspired Mr. Lincoln to that vigorous policy which has called so splendid an army into the field, and which has only recently been almost unanimously sustained by the representatives of all parties tn the Congress of the United States. The Breckinridge leaders, however, blind now, as they were blind in 1860 to their own Crimes, ignore this great fact, and are again preparing for themselves the very fate (hat overtook them when faction was hnshed, and they were hnnted through onr streets by an indignant and maddened populace. At a mo ment when the despotic Powers of the earth threaten to take rides with the Southern Con federacy,—-at a moment when the European journals are rejoicing over the reverse which befell our army in the buttle of Manassas, — and at a moment when hundreds and thousands are mourning over the loss of the cherished ones who have fonght, bled, and died for tbe flag,—these desperate men, living in the very heart of the loyal States, do not hesitate to throw off the thin cloak with which they have lately attempted to conceal their disaffection, and to give enconragement to the common enemy. They baye no word of condemnation of the traitors in aims—no censure of pro ceedings, which have induced the whole civil ized world to heap execrations npon the canse of the rebels. Their mission is to embarrass the Administration, to cavil at the exercise of the authority that has delivered the capital from capture and the Constitution itselt from annihilation, and by endeavoring to revive the miserable party prejudices of by gone con flicts, to shield themselves under the name of “ Democracy,” and so to seduce to their piratical standard these whom they misled, nearly a year ago, into the support of John C. Breckinridge. The masses of the Democratic party in the free States are as loyal to-day as they have ever been; and even in the South, when the first impulse of passion has snbsided, and they begin to feel the sharp pangs of the oppression that is driving them to bloody battle-fields, in order to secure the phantom of a so-called in dependent Government, the people will con template the acts of their leaders with the deepest detestation. The Democracy has always beer, the party of the country. It has been the war party—the party «that has car ried the flag, and marched to the music of the Union.” Such citizens can hare no sym pathy with the intrigues and treasons of the Breckinridge leaders, especially when they are convinced, as now they mnst be con vinced, that these leaders are resolved to gratify the hopes of Davis and the Southern conspirators, and, if possible, to hurl our free institutions into the abyss of anarchy and despair. We have only to examine a few of the pre texts of the Disunionists in our midst to ex pose their culpable designs. They denounce the President as conducting a war of subjuga tion upon the South in the tace ot the unani mous declaration to the, contrary of all his friends in both branches of Oongresß. They declare that the irrepressible conflict led to hostilities, when history, with her inexorable pen, has already affixed that stigma upon the rebels themselves. They labor to bring the country into discredit and to embarrass the operations of the army, on the plea that the Democrats have no sympathy in that cause ; when they know that a large majority of the soldiers under our flag is composed ol Demo cratic citizens. They declaim against tho suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, after having justified martial law in the case ot Gen. Jackson at New Orleans—a precedent which hr. Lincoln and his Administration have wisely and faithfully followed. They falsely denounce corruption in the army con tracts, after having sustained corruptions, frauds, and peculation nnder Mr. Buchanan’s Administration —such as have had no parallel in any Government on the face of the earth. Is it possible that men so debased, so aban doned and so treasonable, can be sustained by any portion of the American people ? And while these vultures are hoping, strug gling, to feed upon wbat they regard the perish lug body of the Republic, the friends of the Administration magnanimously come forward mil offer to surrender their organization and divide the offices to be voted for at the ensuing election, and to sink every other consideration in order that | a solid and unanimous support may he 1 secured to the Government. This has been done in the great Republican States of Ohio, and New York, as well as in Maine, lowa, ar.fl, other States. i And how do the Breckinridge leader® rc spond to these propositions 1 Claiming to own and to control the organization of the Demo, cratic party, they refuse them with ineffable scorn, and coolly proceed to put in nomiua. tion their creatures, on the basis of reviving obsolete issues and inexorable hostility to the Administration and the waj:. Of course, tl ey do not expect to elect any of these creatures. They know that the ballot-box will be a thou sand times more fatal to them than it was ia 1860. In vain are they referred to the splen did verdict of the people ot Kentucky, a slave State, in support of the Administration. They are inspired by a different motive, when they seek to erect their piratical standard in the free States. Utterly unable to achieve a victory in a single election district, their mis sion now is to divide our people, and, by di viding them, to assist the Southern traitors , and to give encouragement to our foreign foes, who are only waiting to see the Government of the United States fall to pieces, in order that they may gloat over its ruins. A few evidences of the temper of these Breckinridge men will suffice to show that the language we have used is not too strong. In Connecticut, W. W. Eaton, who was the Breckinridge candidate for United States Senator betore tbo last Legislature, used the following language at a recent meeting in Bloomfield, in that State: 11 1 was told that this meeting would be broken up. Mark tbe prediction—within thirty days ten thousand men will be in council in Hartford ocuniy co demand that a stop shall be put to this damna ble, unnatural war. The mnn who does not con sider it such is not lit to live.” And the Bridgeport Farmer ,. of the same State and politics, on the 19th of July, spoke as follows: “The rebel soldiery, as yon term them, Mr. (ivnrier, are not fighting for money. Like onr Revolutionary fathers, they are fighting for their just rights. “ In the revolution of 1776 the forces of King George were the ones who fonght for money. In the revolution of 1861 tbe mess op thb dbbpgt Lincoln abb the ones wno are righting nor konev. Hen who fonght fer their constitutional rights in 1776 did cot want to be hired to do it. Neither do the men who are fighting for their oon stitutiona! rights in 1861.” In the State of Maine so iniamons has the language of the Breckinridge organs become that the popnlace have gutted the printing office of one of their leading papers—follow lag the example set by tbe returned soldiers who visited tbe same vengeance npon a simi. lar jonrnal at Concord, New Hampshire. In Now York, the Brooklyn Eagle, the Bay- Book, the News, and the Albany Argus $ Atlas unblushingly insist that peace shall be made with the men who are destroying onr commerce, and are arresting and maltreating unoffending Northern men and women. At the late meeting of the Breckinridge men in Berks county, in this State, the vote of their Representative, Ancona, for Yallan digiiam for Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives oi the United States, was unani mously endorsed, and we perceive that indus trious preparations are being made to drive the organization of the Democratic party in this State upon the platform of peaco with the rebels, or a recognition of the Southern Con federacy. In no single instance has any newspaper that supported Stephen A. Douolas for the Presidency in 1860, been fonnd in co-opera tion with these internal traitors, and we think it may be triumphantly asserted that tbe great bulk of the voters who sustained Breck inridge in the free States last year, will, when the fitting opportunity comes, be ionnd ar dently on tbe side of the Government. The Breckinridgo leaders alone aspire to the dis grace of complicity with treason. What may be done in the city of Philadel phia, a very short time will decide. This city, more than any other part of the State, may he called the nest and the refage of some of the chief agents of the disruption of the Democratic party last year. They have not publicly shown their hands, but we under stand that they ate secretly and silently in dustrious in carrying out the programme then commenced. Not one of the prominent men of that cabal entertains the slightest sympathy with the Government and the war. Resting in the belief that their movements are un known and unobserved, they are holding fre quent meetings, and preparing to take advan tage of any accident that may befall tbe Go vernment or the army, in order to make good the covenant they entered into when they broke down the candidate of the Democratic party to gratify the Southern Disunionists. True Democrats, in snch an exigency, can take but one course. To use the language of Douglas, in his last speech at Chicago: “ The conspiracy to break up the Union is a tact now known to all. Armies sto being raised and war levied to accomplish it. There can he hat two sides to the controversy. Evert man must be on the side op the United States or against it. There can be no neu trals in this war. There can be none but pa triots and traitors.” ThejfEntente Conliale. The close alliance between France and England, which indeed made Napoleon Em peror of the French, appears likely to be broken, as it has already been weakened, by the positive declaration of the British Go vernment, through the lips of Lord John Bussell, that an attempt to annex the island of Sardinia to France would at once dissolve the alliance of France and England. Since then, Napoleon’s Paris ionmals have ener getically ridiculed and abused Lord John, and Napoleon himself has been endeavoring to get upon very friendly terms with Prussia, Austria, and Bussia—not wholly without suc cess, it wonld appear, as the King of Prussia is'going to attend a review, by Napoleon, of French troops' in the camp of Chalons. There is terrible significance in the fact that the French navy is being enormously in creased. In a recent debate, in the British House of Commons, when a vote of $1,260,- 000 towards the expense of building iron cased ships was proposed, Mr. W. S. Lind, sat (who visited Philadelphia last year) declared that he knew, from the recent visit of a friend to the principal dock yards in France, that Napoleon was doing nothing in the way of augmenting his ma rine. Lord Palmerston answered that, to his own certain knowledge, the French Go vernment had six mail-clad vessels of large dimensions afloat, and that, as far back as last December, the Emperor had the keels of ten others laid down, all of which, without any extraordinary exertion, could be completed in eighteen months or two years. Besides, the French have eleven floating batteries, some of which are powerful sea-going vessels. Lord Clarence Paget, Secretary to the Admiralty, went beyond this, and gave the names ot the sixteen mail-clad steamers built or building in France, and the places where they were. Mr. Lindsay was so much struck by these details that he declared it to be alarming, if correct— which he did not doubt—and said that he, for one, would vote $2-5,000,060 to place England in a corresponding naval condition, for France had no right to hold such a number of war ships, and, with such a force, could not be honest in her professions of amity to England. Even Mr. Cobden, tho apostle of peace, lately declared that he would vote a hundred mil-- lions sterling for the building of ships-of-wor, rather than allow the French to maintain a navy even equal to that ot England. The return game, as a set-off to Waterloo, has never been played by France and England, and it looks as if Napoleon was preparing for it. Tub importance of providing woollen socks for the soldiers is not under-estimated by Gov. Mooes, ot Alabama, who makes it tiie subject of a proclamation, urging that each lady should knit one pair for the Confederate army. This is an excellent idea, and we hope to see it improved upon by the loyal ladies ot tho North. Our young misses, fresh from school, can leave their tambour and crochet .work for a season, arm themselves with knitting needles, and work assiduously for our braye soltiefs, who will be exposed to the rigor ef the fast-approaching winter. It is a social employment, does not interrupt conversation, and can be carried about, “up stairs and down stairs,” and taken up whenever convenient. We shall expect to see ail onr wives, sisters, and sweethearts busily engaged daring the autumn, and as they busily ply the sharp steel points each will prove a conductor to carry tho electric current of patriotism throughout the length and breadth of tbe Union. They have done much in the cause of philanthropy and patriotism, but this preparation of woollen socks will be their crowning feat. The President’s Proclamation. It will be seen that the President has issued ' a Proclamation forbidding all commercial in tercourse with the disloyal portion ot tbe Union. The strict enforcement ot his direc tions will do much to embarrass the insur gents. Notwithstanding all the precautions which have heretofore been observed, large supplies of important and indispensable arti cles have been furnished to them, particularly by the overland route through Kentucky. They have thns obtained provisions, salt, linseed oil, and probably powder, percussion caps, and many other things which they need. A blockade by sea will do them comparatively little harm if a land blockade is not also en forced. The discussions in some of the jour nals published in the cities on the Ohio river are calculated to produce the impression that, heretofore, the efforts to check the export of produce to the South have resulted rather in increaslDg'the trade of one town on the north bank of that river, and diminishing that of another, than in actually cutting off the sup plies of the insurgents. The correspondent oi the London Times, while travelling throngh the South, witnessed many proofs of the se. rlous inconveniences that would result from a strict blockado, and it can be easily imagined how much a people who have never been ac customed to produce, on a largo scale, any thing but raw agricultural materials, and who have little genius for manufactures, must suf fer when their present stock of Imported articles is exhausted, if they are entirely pre vented from renewing it. A very interesting question connected with onr blockade by sea will probably soon be ear nestly disenssed. The general principle that foreign nations are not bound to respect a block ade which is not enforced by an adequate naval force is undoubtedly correct. But this prin ciple applies properly to two distinct nations at war with each other, and not to the ports of a portion of a country that is in a state oi rebellion. The latter can only be properly opened to foreign countries by appropriate legislation, and the same power which opens can legally close them. It was the action of onr National Government that made New Or leans, Mobile, Savannah, Charleston, etc., ports of entry, and when it deprives them of the character conferred by such legislation the vessels of foreign nations have no right to enter there for commercial purposes. While a rigorous blockade is being instituted npon onr coast, therefore, (which will soon he greatly strengthened,) British and French vessels will have no right to enter onr ports even it at some points it should not be tho roughly effective, because our Government can at will legally deprive them of that privilege. Our fleet ernising on the coast may in reality partake rather of the character of a squadron engaged in enforcing our revenue laws, in seeking to prevent the egress ot piratical expeditions from re bellious cities, and in capturing piratical vessels, and in aiding the Government to sup press insurrection, than of a blockading squad ron guarding the coast of an independent and hostile nation. Fair Promises. Sir Robert Feel, who has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, went through the form of re-election in his own borough of Tamworth. He proclaimed himself one of the independent politicians who, he was glad to say, were not bound, body and soul, absolutely to any individual, and declared that he would go to Ireland free from any strong political bias or party prejudice. He was, and as his constituents knew, ever had been, an advocalh of toleration and thorough emancipation on the score of religious opinion, and it was not his view of the interests of the Proteßtant faith to rest it upon any system of disabilities or po litical exclusions. He hod, in fact, always been of opinion thatthe best course to pursue was to smooth over, by a liberal system of equality, those differences which existed among men on religions snbjects. These are manly sentiments, and, it acted npon, will make Peel extremely popular in Ireland. They are in marked contrast with the bigotry and intolerance of Lord John Russell, who, when Prime Minister, in 1850, needlessly and voluntarily wrote and published a letter to the Bishop of Durham, in which he described the religious rites of the Roman Catholic Church as «the mumniorlss £>f superstition.” Yet, Lord John then, and since, has Claimed -- a great friend of civil and religions liberty, and the hitter opponent of intolerance and persecution! The appointment of Sir Ro bert Peel has been approvingly deceived in Ireland. The new Secretary promises libe rally, it must be confessed. There is one good thing in this njpn. Not an inch of “red tape ” enters into his com position, whereas that Btacl£-up Treasury Secretary, Frederick Peel, Sir Robert’s younger brother, is “red tape” from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot. It is amusing to see how the Ministerial journals, which are bound to discover wisdom and patriotism in every movement of Pal merston, are endeavoring to justify his put ting such an unbridled colt as Sir Robert Peel into official harness. The London Daily Telegraph, of the 29th ult., seriously says of Sir Robert: '' It osn soaroely be naaessary that, as Falstaff promised to do, ha should 1 pnrga, leave «ff sack, and live cleanly like a gentleman.’ Re osn hardly have any more wild oats to sow. His name is associated with no groat publio scandal, with no disreputable transactions. Re is not going to fight any more duels, we hope He is too wiso to make any more allusions to the legs or the ooular obli quity of the Prince de Ligne. Us has reoanted bis foolish errors aoneerning the volunteers. He has, we trust, given np raoing; arid Lola Mentez is dead. He oannot surely hope to embro'l Eng land and France any further with reference to the annexation of Nine and Savoy. The paper duty Is doomed, and cot ell the Tamworlh tenantry, with their Lord at their head, oan bring it to life again. _ Lord 'Palmerston has evinced a most Christian feeling of. forgiveness; has ove. locked the adverse vote, and requited evil with good. iZLsy we not, then, be warranted in hoping that the time has arrived for Sir Robert Peel to settle his reputation on a euro and solid basis, and that ire shall speedily hear the last of his being erratic, and eccentric, and shifty, and oaprioious—an un doubtedly olever, but very unsafe politician.” It then gives him credit for being hospitable, and a good fellow— which, the Telegraph says, go a gmftmf. in Ireland. Finally, it adds, “his errors have been mere show of youth and hot blood, of exuberant spirits and uncontrolled will. He has been a gay and Toving bachelor of a poli tician ; but he is wedded to office now, and ha? a comfortable establishment on the other side of St. George’s Channel. A reformed rake, they say, makes the best husband, and Sir Robert may prove, perchance, in politics, the truth of the proverb.?’ Snrely, this is a very left-handed, if not even an Irish way, of backing a friend ? The k-efobt forwarded from Richmond, via New Orleans, of an engagement at Leesbnrg, disastrous to the Federal forces, is no doubt “ a weak invention of the enemy.” If anything of the kind had actually occurred, we should have received direct information of it through loyal sources. It is so common a practice tor the insurgent leaders to endeavor to rouse the drooping Bpirits of their troops by false ac counts of imaginary victories, and all their descriptions of actual occurrences are so shamefully distorted, that no reliance can bB placed upon tbeir representations. While we publish the telegraphic statement of an alleged encounter at Leesburg, therefore, we caution our readers against regarding it as anything more than an ingenious canard. We hail the noble example of the people of Chester, at their county meeting, on Wed nesday last, when the Republicans and Dou glas Democracy met in council, and resolved to stand by the country to the bitter end. This is the true spirit. Let it be imitated and emulated everywhere else. The proceedings, which appear In another. column, deserve an attentive pernsal. Tub Montour Democrat, a Republican pa per published at Danville, in this State, reflects the right spirit in the two following paragraphs: “Hon H B. Wright our Representative in Congress, hss fully m«t the expectations of his friends He has nobiy and a lly sustained the war policy, and won the oonfidenco and respect of eveiy patriot in tbe land Ho was ore of tho ablest and most influential mem bora ot the House, nlwaye faithfully and efficiently battling for the Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws Thus far he is entitled to the plaudit of * wed dene, good and faithful servant 1 of a free people ” “President Judge — l: is now pretty well settled that Judge Maynard, of Williamsport, will be the Union oan id >te for President Judge in this district Though not of the sums political party as ourself, yet, pi.sieesitjj th. entire oonfidenoe of on ■ friends, we shall give him an earnest support Hr, ii for the Union, and that is the only political qualification we require of a President Judge ” Another Gnnboat. Nbw York, August 16— t he steamer Jacob Bell was purchased by the Government to-day, and will be converted into a gunboat. THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1861. The flag of Treason has been flagrantly unfurled in Chester county by the Breckin ridge leaders, most of them the discharged lazzaroni of tbe infamous Administration of James Buchanan. They hold a meeting on Tuesday, In West Chester, in which they de nounced the war, and almost openly justified the Southern traitors. A lawyer, named J. H. Brinton, who haß been applauding slavery ior many years, ruled the assemblage with all the brutality and insolence of a South ern overseer, and one of the fonlest ca lumniators of Douolas, a creature named Monaghan, rivalled him in falsehood and filth. We are proud to see that our old friend, Jos. Hemphill, Esq., who co-ope rated with the Administration party of Bc chanan last year, refused to sanction these infamous proceedings. He was, however de nied a hearing by the infuriated around him. This shameless is advocated and set forth called The Jeffersonian, conduotfetf^^^^^H lishman named Hodgson, whose printing?? flee was with difficulty protected from destruc tion by the troops lately qnartered near West Chester. These bold and open traitors would rejoice to sec the army of Beauregard enter ing Pennsylvania. How long shall such agents and emissaries of the enemies of our flag be tole rated in our midst ? WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. Letter from “ Occasional ” ICorrmponaenoo of The Prom.] It ia arid that our new Seo rotary of the Trea sury, Mr. Chace, since his return from New York, frankly aoknowledgea an agreeable disappoint ment at the readineaa of the people of the loyal States to famish all the means neoessary ier the purpose of vigorously prosecuting the war to a triumphant oonolnsion. Mr. Chase, when a mem ber of the Demooratio party, belonged to the atraightest, strlotost economists—in foot, a mem ber of the Silas Wright and Miohael Hoffman sohool—a resolute opponent of extravagant expen ditures ; and whan he passed over into the Repnh liean party, being a man of earnest oonviotione, eonld not separate himself from his early Demo oratio teachings. His administration of the d3tate Government of Ohio was distinguished i for frugality and eoonomy; and although a man of most comprehensive intellect, when he became Secretary of the Treasnry, he was natu rally startled at the expenditures neoessary to a vigorous prosecution of the war. When ho saw the Legislature of Pennsylvania spontaneously autho rizing a loan of $3 000.000, the Legislature of New York a loan of S 3 500,000, New Jersey pledging herself for $1,000,000, and every New England and Northwestern State, Ms own, Ohio, included, vo- I innleoring loans in the same proportion, h« was filled with apprehension lest the necessary taxa tion, to pay off these loans, notwithstanding tho Government of the United States was in honor bound to repay them in time, might paralyze all his efforts to obtain sufficient funds to oondnot the war. Sat when he was thrown among the New York capitalists, and discovered that they folly appreciate the whole theory of tho controversy; and that if we had no Government we wonld have no oapitriißts, no enterprise, and no prosperity, I have no doubt he felt disposed to throw off his doubts, and to become as bold and daring as his great predecessor, Hubert J. Walkor, himself. It is fortnnate for the oonntry that wo have a Secretary who, in each ah emergeney, will be able to resist the various schemes to plunder the treasury. Gratifying as it may be to see the loyal States doming forward with their volunteers and their treasure, Mr. Chase is precisely the man to proteat the Government against plunderers. His past experience must teach him that, no matter how freely the Amerloan people may give, they will watoh, with jealous eyes, every dollar that is expended, and will demand, at the hands of their pnblio servants, a rigid aoacunt of their steward ship. It is but just to add that, in regard to the appropriations of money for the purpose of main taining the war, General Cameron heartily oon ours with Secretary Chase. Bat if Mr. Chase was surprised at the readiness of the New York banks and capitalists in coming forward in response to the oall of the Government, what mnst be the astonishment of the English financiers when they see the moneyed institutions of tho thru great cities of the North proffering $150,000,000 in less than threo months to the support of the cause of free dom on these shores! They expressed groat sur prise at the fact that Secretary Chase was able to raise $5 000,000 in forty minutes, on the New York Exchange, two months ago. The Lon don Times has lately anticipated a total failure on the part of the Government in its efforts to raise funds, admonishing its own people that nothing could be raised in that quarter, and that any investment in American securities wonld beunsuoQesSfpl. When we reflsot that the great issue* in this straggle may undermine and finally destroy oldest Governments in 'Europe, should they plaee them»]7?s in hostility to the United States, may not the London itself be ocmpelled shortly to advise the money lenders of England to invest their funds in the only stable Government on the face of the earth ? At last the polioy of withholding from the pub lic press the secrets of the operations of the Ameri can army is beginning to berospected; at last even the New York correspondents are being penetrated with patriotio motives. The absenoe of sensation paragraphs and startling despatches may indues our people, who have been accustomed to the flash .fabrications of tho New York papers, to suppose that there is iuuJSj'etwo or inertness in this quar ter. The reverse Is the fact. cover hso been so much quiet and order in Washington, and so much industry and energy on the part of the young commander-in-chief of the American forces. Glad to hear what all men have to say—ready to reeeive statesmen, editors, and politioians, he is earefnl to avoid committing himself to a revelation of a single one of his plans. You will observe that nothing has been printed, either as to his pur poses or his opinions. His headquarters, at the residenoo of Commodore Wilks, corner of Sixteenth and H streets, is thronged with visitors, and, although always busy, he is always ready to receive information—no matter by whom present ed. His confidential aids are regular officers, trained in many a hard oamprign, and be has at his Bido, in his father-in-law, Colonel R. B. Maroy, U. 8. A., a safe', experienced, and prudent conn aellor. Every assailable point near the city has been carefully guarded, with a silence and a ra pidity that have infused confidence into all daises. The life of Gen MoClellan has been a doable life. He has been an officer of the army, and the head of two great railroads, and thus he is equally a soldier and a statesman He is enough of a martinet to insist upon disoipiine among hie men, and sufficiently a politician to un derstand the prejudices and interests of tho people by whom he is surrounded. Hence there is no doubt that, while taking care to protect the capital, he will exercise a sleepless vigilance over the traitors who nestle in onr midst. The ar rest of Faulkner was undoubtedly one of his eng gostions, and any movements upon the dissffected population hereabouts will not only receive his sanction, but be pushed forward with unrelenting vigor It is worth recording that Gonoral Mo. Olellan knows Davis, Beauregard, Lee, and John son intimately! He knows their prejudices, their habits, their theories, and their abilities, and is therefore their master, because, occupying a posi tion which will compel them to advance upon him, he will be enabled to wait until they have been exhausted by thoir own factions and by the effi oienoy of tho blockade, It is doe to General McClellan to add that no one pays more deference to the opinions of the veteran Lieutenant General than he does He visits him daily. Occasional Waleut-strbet Theater —This evening, Messrs. Edwin Adams and Vining Bowers will oondude their brief bnt mooessfnl Besson at this theatre, and take a joint benefit. They present an attractive bill It la but fair io add that they bare derivod considerable strongth from Mr. Sheweil, and we may add that Mrs. Adams has made a hit in her personation of Irish characters. Mr. Edwin Adame, though he has been but a sin gle season in this city, has made himself a great favorite He resembles E. L. Davenport In many points, but especially in never orer acting, and in the capacity for playing almost any )i D eof charac ters Mr Vining Bowers has matured, at this theatre, into something far above his established line of low eornedy—in which, at first, we think there was a tendtnoy to exaggeration, which has gradually subsided He plays rooeutrio oomedy with great skill, as witness his landlord of a lodg ing house in the “ Babas of the Wood,” and surely Ms Asa Trenchard is as good, to say tbe least of it, as Mr J- 8 Claiko’s rendition of the same part. Wo heartily wish that the benefidanss of this eve ning may have a crowded house Our two oity theaties—the Walnut-strut and the Arob —both now under petticoat government, will open for the fall season in a fortnight or three weeks Reported. Engagement at Fort Fillmore. New Orleans, August 16 —Tbe extra Houston (Texas) Telegraph, of the 10th, reports that a fight took place on the 25th ultimo, between Col Bay lon’s command and the Federal troops, at Fort Fillmore, resulting in the defeat of tho latter, with thirty killed and wounded Two lieutenants were killed. The Southerners escaped unhurt. The Federule are represented to have fled, and were pursued and the whole command taken prisoners—five hundred in number The mail to Tuoson was cleaned oat b<- nin Ana ohes, and all handß killed Boston, August 16 —The British steamer East ern State from Yarmouth, N. s , arrived to day with 492 barrels of spirits of turpentine and 431 bales of North Carolinaoot'on, which it is pre sumed escaped the blookade It is said the owner of the turpentine will dear $17,000. Washinoton, Aug. 16, 1861. Public Amusements. Running-the Blockade. LATEST NEWS By Telegraph to The Press. FROM WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to "The Drew.” Washington, August 16,1861. According to the official report, there are in the general hospital at Washington, 88 Blok and wounded soldiers; in Georgetown, 291; in Alexan dria, 95. The mortality among suoh patients is remarkably email. Measures have been adopted fox a careful mili tary guardianship throughout the entire line of the Uhesapoako and Ohio Canal Many coal and other boats are now on the way to Washington. The President has appointed Richard Wallach, Joseph A. Brown, and Zsna G. Robbins of Wash ington, William H. Tenney of Georgetown, and Sayles J. Bowen of Washington county, as Commis sioners of Polloe, under the reeent act of Con gress. This morning many rumors prevailed to the effeot that a battle had ooonrred at A-quia Creek early in the day. An officer just from that vi cinity stated at the Navy Department this aftor noen that the rebels there had fired several shot at tbe Pawnee, probably from a rifled cannon, which she had returned. The forces were too far apart to infliot damage. This is all there Is in the Story. A oourt-martial has been ordered to try the leaders in the revolt oonnooted with the Highland Regiment. A better feeling than recently now exists among the great body of thorn, who are pleasantly encamped. Information obtained at the propor department warrants the statement that the authority confer red on Colonel Schimmblfpsnsino, of Philadel phia, Is not revoked, as recently stated, button the oontrary, the Government is anxious to secure the services and aotive co operation of military offioors of high professional distinction. The President has made the following appoint ments : Wm. H. Wallace, of Washington Territory, has been appointed Governor of that Territory. Leander J. 8. Turney, of Illinois, Secretary of Washington Torritory, A. 8. Paddock, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of Nebraska Territory. - Wu Walton Murphy, of Michigan, Consul for the Landgraviate of Hesse Hamburg, the Duchy of Nassau, the Grand Dnohy of Hesse Darmßtadt, etc. Samuel Whiting, of Now Jersey, Consul at Nassau. The Future of Slavery. Recent aots of Congress, the correspondence between General Butler and the War Depart' ment, and the “order” of the provoßt marshal of this city forbidding colored people to go North without freedom papers, have renewed the In quiry as to the probable future of slavery. I must eonfess to a remarkable change of sentiment on this snhjeet. Our most conservative men, who have hitherto believed that onr difficulties would all be settled without affeotingthe institution of slavery, are now freely expressing their solemn conviction that slavery will be swept from the conntry, not as one of the primary objoota, but as one of the inevitable consequences of the war. Already aronnd Fortress Monroe the slaves are all freed by their owners seoeding from their own estates, and leaving their slaves to take care of themselves. As the Union Bimy advances the slave power will dissolve before it as snow before a meridian sun. It is thought that Congress was right in de claring that “ It is no part of the duty of our army offioers to oaptnre fugitive slaves,” and that, there fore, it was wrong of the provost marshal of this city to issne his railroad order, forbidding colored people to go North by rail without freedom papers or passes. Gan. McDowell's orders to the army upon its advance to Manassas had tho earns savor of slave oatohing and slave-holding, icr the benefit of slave owners. The Secretary of War's instructions to Gen. Butler have a better justice and more sen sible tenor. He Bays “ keep them; open an ac count of work, and board and keep, per contra, and the Government will settle with their claim ants fit hereafter may seem right.” That is the true policy. Jeff. Davis has just as good a claim open ns, for the arrest and detention of fugitive white anbj tots of his dominion as of the blacks. If it happens that neither of these is willing to owe allegia&oe to “ Seeesh,” it is not easy to conceive why one and not the other should be blockaded by our army or our police. We must abandon this daintiness on the negro question. It is simply non sense. The sentiment of tho North rejsots it. The Secessionist* among the masters are not entitled to the servioe'aaaumsd, and the Unionists wiiyjot be strengthened or inspirited by it. Let the fugitive-slave law seoede with Its author (Mason), and let ns have no mors fooling with “vested rights” in man-flesh. Let the marshal attend to the spies In Washington, and quit searching Sambo’s pookets for his right to his heels. The London Spectator, commenting upon the Congressional resolve alluded to, says : “The hand moves slowly npoE the dial, but. tt moves.” Tho common sense and iho cciroience of the world are waiting to heat us strike the time. Whatever we shall do hereafter, one thing seems clear—that while we neither hang the enemy’s pirates nor imprison their spies, we might excuse ourselves from the business of oatohing their negroes. Reporting Military Matters. I notioe that, oontrary to the expressed wishes Of Gon. McClellan, military matters sro yet published in some of the papers—sent forward, in ”me cases, through the associated press agency. The icpofts o! troubles in the Highland, and one or two oihet regiments, are cases iu pcirt These things ought to have no publicity. In this case, too, thoeause of the tronble is notoorreailj S!6t«d. It grew out of a report, industriously circulated among the troops here, by the enemies of the Union, that Congress did not sanction tbo Presi dent’s acts, and that, therefore, three-years troops conld not be held. Tbe troops did not wait to in form themselves that the report was false, and be gan to manifest insubordination, whioh, however, was Boon brought to a termination. A New Hodge. Jeff. Davis is working up the Secession mate rial in Maryland to the best possible advantage. The Seoessionists of that State are instructed to bold out the olive branch and proclaim tbeiqseives a peace party. It is done to cover up their ulte rior purposes, and the motivo is too transparent to avoid deteotion thronghont the State. Onr Imprisoned Soldiers. The lists of names of prisoners provided by the returned surgeons embraoe those only who are at Riohmond and a very few at Manassas. There are others wounded and in hospitals at Culpeper Court House, Centrevillo, Fairfax Ccurt Bouse, and in the farm-houses around these places. The Elopement. The elopement, on Thursday, of one of onr mer chants with tbo wife of a prominent citizen (both loaving consorts and families) oontinnes to he the theme of conversation in the gossiping circles. They have gone either to Europe or to California. Mr. 8., it is said, has for some time—perhaps two yoars— been in the habit of putting away his money, as he sold his goods, in bis trunK, and making entries on his bank-book as if he had de posited it in bank. The money whioh this book shows as having been deposited amounts to some thirty-eight thousand dollars, but, on inquiry at the bank where he pretended to keep his account, no trace of his having deposited any money, for some two years, was found. It is supposed thatfee carried away with him at least thirty thousand doilais. Shooting the Pickets The pickets of the opposing armies along the lines from Alexandria to Georgetown are near to eaoh other, and oontinue to have frequent skirmishes, when one or mcTe are shot. This practice is a barbarous one. There is no reason why the pickets may sot meet and join in friendly conversation, on matters outside of military movements. The Soldiers’ Savings. The mdney sent home by the soldiers forms a very large sum in the aggregate. Oar troops are proverbial for their habits of economy, and it is gratifying to know that they are sending Iheir earnings home do their families or plaoing it on de posit in bank for future use. Miss Dix. Miss Dix is recovering rapidly from her sick ness, brought on by ovor oxettlnia after the battle of Bull Ann Kindness to the Wounded Soldiers. The siok and wcunded sola iers in the hospitals at Georgetown havo been generously provided by tbe ladies of tbat oity with jellies and other deli cacies. Even bouquets from tbeir gardens have been liberally provided, and sent to their rooms. It is pleasant to know ’bat our men on tbeir siok beds are the objeots of oare, not by the nurses alone, but by the ladies generally. Released Nine of the prisoners oaptured reoently in boats down the Potomae have been released, by order of the Attorney General Navy Yard matters. The gunboat Resolute, Oapt. Budd, ceme up this morning with the bodies ol thru men, who Wotc killed yesterday. The following is the ac count, as reported hy her: ggYesterday, about one o’olook, as they were oral, sing along the Virginia shore, they espied a boat,' wi'h two barr-ls in it, lying on ihc beach As uiual they cent « boot and six men ashore to de stroy it Jn«t ns they readied tbe sbore, a volley of n u.-ketry w-3 Used n: them front ibe woods, killing thee and badly woqr.dlug one They all d-oppei into tho bottom ot the boat, when six more sso'e were fired at ihc bout, doing no da mage One of tbe men, wbo was not hurt, suo eeoded in getting out o( tbe bout, and pulled her off from the shore as far as he eould wade, when he again got into the boat, and pulled to the Reso lute. A number of shell and canister were thrown at the rebels from the Resolute, one of whioh burst in a rquad of twelve, and killed several of them. The; were seen to aarry off several bodies. The boat was evidently planed oo the shore as a deooy. The names of the killed are as follows ' John Fuller, mastor’s-maio; has a wife and ohild living in New York. Thcmas Tally, seaman. George Seymour, seaman; wife died abont two months ago, but has a child living in New York. The wounded man is Earnebt Walters, of Now York ; he reoeived a ball in his head, and will not rooover. He was taken to the Naval Hospital, at the Insane Asylum, opposite the navy yard. The bodies of tho killed wore put in walnut coffins, enclosed in pine boxes, and will be placed in a tomb to await tho orders of their relatives. One of the men reoeived nine shots In his body, another was strnok by seven, and twelve balls entered the boat. The men were unarmed, and oould havo boon taken prisonors by the rebels, but it was evident that they do not desire any prisoners on their hands, preferring to kill them all. The Resolute is now coaling, and will resume her plaoe on the river in a day or two. The steamer Mt Vernon went down to Alexan dria this morning with stores. The steamer Baltimore has not yet returned from Fortress Monroo, but is cxpsotcd hourly. The steamer Philadelphia is lying at the wharf Arrival ot Wagons A large number of wagons arrived for tho Go vernment last night, also twelve guu-oarriagei for heavy field artillery directed to the arsenal. New Store House. A large building is being ereoted on tho line of the railroad, a short distanoe from the depot, for a Government store house. A tnrnont has been made so that tho oars can ran np siosa to tha building and unload. It oan bo approached from all directions by wagons, and will be a great oonvenienoe to tbe railroad managers, as tho depot and yard are crowded with stores, whioh arrive faster than oan be oarrled away. The Harrison wuards. The Harrison Guards, of Philadelphia, a com pany organized at tho beginning of this strife, and attaohed to Col. Max Einstein’s German regi ment, have been detaohed from that regiment, and are now serving as an independent company In this city. They are placed as a guard over tha Washington Arsenal, the hospital, and the prison occupied by the prisoners of war. Capt. Spasms, and Lieutenants Habrington and Joan M. Car bon, stilt romain with the oompany, and havo their quarters at the arsenal. They were detached from Colonel Einstein's regiment by order of General Mansfield, on aooonnt of some disagree ment between them and the members of the other oompsnieß. This disagreement arose from the faot that while they were Amerlsan and English nationality, tho field officers and the other compa nies were almost exclusively German, and it was considered to be for the best interests of the ser vice for them to be separated from Colonel Eih stein’s oommand and piaood in speoial duty. It is thought they will be retained here as an inde pendent company during the war. The National War Loan. Score-ary Chase has returned to this city, and met with many congratulations on the sueaess of his financial arrangements in New York. Tho pledge of tho banks of New York, Boston, and Philadel phia, to take $50,000,000 of the $150,000,000 of the 7 310 ths treasury notes at par, with their reserva tion of ths right to take the remainder, if not ab sorbed by ths other subscriptions, is regarded as securing tho taking of the entire loan, and as marking at onoo the patriotism of tho eminent par ties who thus advanoe to the aid of tho Govern ment, and thoir confidence in its power and sta bility. Opportunity will at onoo bo given to tho people all over the oonntry to snbsoribe to tho loan, and, Indeed, subscriptions may now be made with the assistant treasurers of the United States, either at Boston, Philadelphia, or Now York. Under this loan, every fifty-dcllar note will bear an inte rest of a cent a day, and the larger notes at the same rates. Books of subscription will soon be opened in all tho principal oitivs and towns. Secession Account of the late Battle in Missouri. McCulloch Claims a Victory. A PANIC AMO KG THE MIBBOUBI BEBELS Reported Capture of Siegel’s Command by Gen. Hardee. Memphis, Tenn , August 16—Despatches from Little Book, Arkansas, dated to-day, contain the following intelligence: Advices from Fort Smith to the 14th fully ocn firm the victory of MoCullooh. Tbe fight cocurred on Saturday, eight miles sonth of Springfield. The enemy took the Confederate pickets pri ■WEnid surprised the main body. A bloody encounter ensued, with great lots D< f boro sides. Five regiments of the Missourians (rebels) were panto stricken, thrown into disorder . and fled. Gen. Prioe made two Ineffectual attempts to rally them. The Louisiana regiment gallantlv suffered muoh. Gen. Prioe led the Third and Fifth Arkansas with splendid courage. McCulloch in a lottor of the 10th says : “ The viotory is ours. The battle lasted 6} hours - Our loss is great. Gen. Lyon is among the dead. Wa took six pieces of artillery from Siegel, destroyed his command, and took many prisoners and small arms “The Confederate loss is from 200 to’3oo killed and 400 to 500 wounded. Siegel’s forces were pursued to Springfield. It was thought that MoCulloch would then attack him.” A captain oanght General Siegel, hot he was rescued. Ho shot at and, it is believed, wounded Hull. Colonel "BwwSSys, of tho Federal army, was killed. The enemy’s (Union)ls. from 2 000 to 3 000! Fayetteville, Ark., August I?—Mcpuiioch sent his forces after Siegel’s oommand, aiovui twenty miles from Springfield. General Hardee met and oaptnred the whole Federal foroes, and is now bringing them baek! FROM THE SOUTH. The Rebels Reported to be in Pursuit of a Por tion of Gen. Banks’ Division Richmond, via New Orleans, Aug. 16 —Gen. Brans, with the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Mis siesippi Regiments, the Eighth Virginia, and Rioh mond Howitzers, passed Lessbnrg on Tuesday morning, in porsnit of 1,700 of Banks’ Division, who have been depredating on this side of the Pe tomao The enemy will probably be oaptnred, as the riTor ia swollen, and their escape to the other side is thus prevented. From Sandy Hook, Md. Baltimobb, Aug. 14.—A letter from Sandy Hook to day says that a gentleman from Martins burg, yesterday, reports small parties of irregular Secession cavalry scouting in that section of the oountry and daily firing upon our piokets and Union fugitives, as well as paying frequent visits to the town. Yesterday a party approached within two miles of Harper’s Perry, and fired upon our piokets and retreated. Last night, it is reported, a party of 130 rebel cavalry captured three men of our 2d cavalry who were stationed on picket, just outside of Har per’s Ferry. The oamp remains very quiet. All the troops appear to have perfeot confidence In General Banks and his staff, as well as in the brigade effieers. Parties from Winohestor report, that only 4,000 militia are in rendezvous there for the purpose of being drilled and disciplined. The same authority states that there are two regiments of regulars at liovettsvllle, only about eight miles distant From Fortress Monroe Fobtbess Monroe, Aug. 16.—The steamers Adelaide and George Peabody have arrived at Old Point from Baltimore, and will shortly leave on an important expedition. The rumored presence of a privateer in the Chesapeake was caused by ace of our vessels be longing to Lieutenant Crosby’s expedition to the eastern shore. General Butler is so well satisfied with the re sults of La Mottntain’s reoonnoisaances that the latter has gone North for a balloon of a much larger sire. The report that the rebels beyond Fox Hill have oonneefed a wire with the telegraph line from Old Point to Newport News, and thus obiain our de spatches, is entirely without foundation The line is now being put in working order, communication having been interrupted since the evaouatiou of Hamilton. The United States frigate Cumberland has ar rived from Boston, and will soon sail southward Tbo gun-boat Penguin is up from the ocaßt of North Carolina She obliged one venel, attempt ing to run the blockade, to beaoh herself. The crew escaped. From Boston. Boston, August 16.—Hewitt and Walsh were both bound over for trial by the United States Commissioner to-day, for inciting desertion among our troops. One steam gunboat and five sailing vessels will goon leave to join the bloekading fleet. Charles Center was to day arrested fer robbing letters The United Staten Steamer Keystone State. Nbw York, August 16 —The steamer Keystone State arrived at Kingston Iho latter part of July, and sailed, August 1, on a oruise for the rebel pirate Sumpter The Pennsylvania Army Ftaude. iIABBISBUJia, August 16 —The testimony and report of the aommußionars appointed by G vernor Curtin, to investigate the army frauds, is now in the hande of the State printer, and will soon be madepublio. A Reconnoitring Party at Ac quia Creek Fired Upon. Washington, Ang. 16 —Yesterday afternoon, the steamer Resolute was ordered from Acquia Creek to Matthias Point, for the purpose of recon noitring. Boeing a botteau filled with baritls on Ehoro, just below the point, a boat wbj sent from the Resolute, with six men, to bring off the ba teau. Boon as tho beat touched the beach, a valley of musket balls was opened upon them by a Secession form concealed in tbe woods, killing three of the men—namely, John James Fuller, of Brooklyn, master's mate; George Soymour. cap tain of tho gun, of New York, and Thomas Tolly, of Boston. Ernest Walter, a nativo of England, was wounded In the head, it is feared fatally. Another volley was fired by the rebels as thoy moved their position. Tho Resolute was abont Seven hundred yards from the shore, and fired In the midst of tho rebels one shot of emitter, and nine of shrapnel. The beat was towod from the shore by one of the crow, named Sanderson, who slipped into the water for that purpose, and oon oealed himself from the ensmy. The Resolute reached the navy yard last night, bringing hither the dead and the wounded man, who has been sent to the hospital. As the woods skirting the several more im portant crossings of the Potomac afford fine am buscades -or tho enemy, thpeo who ore best ac quainted with tho geography of tha river are urging tha application of fire as an effectual means of destroying the present assailing advantages of the Disunionists, as well as other measures for ao oomplishing that purpose. Southern Reports of an Imaginary Battle. Richmond, Va , Aug. 15, via New Orleans -In the absenoe of real battles, tbe publio mind is aon iiderably exeroised about troubles or fights at Acquia Crook, and a battle said to have oome off at Leesburg, on Wednesday morning, in whioh 300 Fedorals were killed and wounded, and 1,400 prisoners taken. Neither report has been con firmed, but they furnish abundant food for talk. Congress has transacted nothing tor tbe publio eye. Lateb. —The reported battle near Leesburg, gradually assumes an air of plausibility. It ap pears that 1,700 Federate forded the Potomao, near or opposite Leesburg, but during ths night the river rose and the Confederate foroes surrounded them. The Federate lost In killed abont 300, and 1,400 woro taken prisoners. The Confederate loss was email. Paasengors from Manassas, this afternoon, report that this news was current and generally credited. Some passengers say that a large number of wagons had been sent up to eonvey down the property oaptnred. From Alexandria. Alexahdbia, Aug. 16 —The trial by court mar tial of Colonel MoCnnn, of the Thirty-seventh New York Regiment, for oondnot unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, commen4e<i~lnfs morning. The charge.wm.preferred by the lieutenant of the provost marsEwPs guard at Washington General Keyes presides over the court. In consequence of tho lnoroasod shipment'; of stock over tho Philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal timore Railroad, tho oars belonging to that oom pany and in use here by tha Government have been returned. Lieat. Gibson, aid to Gen. Franklin, while out with a scouting party to-day, and when about a mile beyond Baylie’s Cross Reads, was fired upon by a mas eoneaaled is the woods, the ball passing through his oap. From Louisville. HOH. MB. NELSON RELEASED. Louisville, Aug. 10—Passengers from Ten nessee report that Representative Nelson has been reloasod, and Brownlow is still unmolested. Tire Louisville Journal says: “ Men, professing to be Unionists, ship goods marked for Union men at Cairo and other places, whioh are pnt off at Smith land and Paducah, and then shipped up the Ten nessee river for the railroad crossing there.” The Riohmond Enquirer says the pledges of rice, ootton, moaey, grain, Ac., oannot fall short of from twenty to thirty million of dollars. Reported Capture of a Philadelphia New Yoke, Aug 16. —1 t is reported here that the bark Rowena, from Rio, with a oargo of oof fee, bolonging to Dallett & Brothers, of Phila delphia, has been oaptnred by a priv&teer-off Charleston. Proclamation Toy tbe President. B I THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, On tho 18th day of April, the Presi dent of tho United States, in view of an Icsm-rso tion against the laws, Constitution, and Govern ment of the United States, whioh had broken out within the States of Sonth Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and in pareuaneo of tbe provisions of tbe aoc en titled an act to provide for oallingforth tho militia to exeoute ths laws of the Union, suppress insur rection, and repel invasions, and to repeal the sot now in foroo for that purpose, approved Feb. 28, 1795, did oall forth tbe militia to suppress said in suneotion and cause the laws of the Union to he duly exeoute i, and the insurgents have failed to disperse by the time directed by the President; gpd whereas, enoh insurrection has since broken oat and yet exists within the States of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas; and whereas the insurgents in ail the Bald States olaim to act under authority thereof, and such olaim is-not dis claimed or repudiated by the person exeroisiog tho functions of Government in snoh State or States, or in the part or parts thereof! in whiah snoh combi nations exist, nor has each insurrection been snp pressed by eaid States : Now. therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, in pursuance of tho aot of Congress, approved July 13th, 1861, do hereby do olaro that the inhabitants of the said States of Georgia, Sonth Carolina, Tonnesseo, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Florida, except tho inhabitants of that part of the State of Virginia lying west of tho Alleghany mruntains, and of snoh other parts of that State and the other States, hereinbefore named, as may maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may bo. from time to timo. occu pied and controlled by tho foroes of the United States engaged in the dispersion of said insurgents as are In a state of insurrection against tha United States, and that all commercial intercourse betwoen the same and the inhabitanta thereof, with the ex cept>u~ afcrartiii, and tha citizens of other States and other parti fff ibe United States, is unlawful and will remain nnlawiu! Until ssjh insurrection shall cease, or has been suppressed; that all goods and chattels, wares, and merchandise, coming from any of tbe said States, with the exceptions aforesaid, into other parts of the United States, without the speoial lioense and permission of tif President, through the Secretary of the Treasury, or proceeding to any of the said States, with tbe exceptions aforesaid, by land or water, together with the vessel or vohiolo conveying tho same, or oonveying perrons to and from tho eaid State?, with the said exceptions, will bo forfeited to tbe United States; and that from and after fifteen days from the issning of this proclamation, all sblpo and vessels belonging, in whole or in part, to any citizen or inhabitant of any of the said States, with the said exceptions, found at sea or in any port of the United States, will be forfeited to the United States Ap<l I hereby ©rjoin upon all District Attorneys. Marshals, and officers of the revenue and of the military and naval forces of the United States, to be vigilant in iho execution of .'bo said sot, and in the enforcement of the penalties and forfeitures imposed or declared by it, leaving any party who may think himself aggrieved thereby to his an plication to the Secretary of the Treasury for the remission of any penalty or forfeiture, which the said Secretary is authorised by law to grant, if, in his judgment, the special circumstances of any OSSO shall require such remission. lu witness whereof, X have hereunto set my hand, and ooused the seal of the United States jo ba affixed Dene in the city of Washington, this the 16th day of August, in the y;ar of our Loid one. thou B ind eight hundred and Bixty one, and of the In dependence of the United States of America the eighty sixth. Abraham Lino-lb. By the President Wm H. Seward. Order of Gen- McClellan RESTRICTION OF PASSES. Washington, Aug. 18 Mtjor Gen. McClellan has just leaned the following order: Headquarters Division of tbb Potomac, j Washington, Aug. 16,1861. j Ghnbbal Obdbbs, No 4 All passes, safe conduots, and permits, hereto fore given to enter or go through the lines of the United States Army, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, are to be deemed revoked, and all snch passes will emanate only from the War Depart ment, the hoadquartors of the United States Army, or of this division, or from the Provost Marshal at Washington Similar passes will be required to arosa the river by bridge er beat into Virginia. A strict military surveillance will be exercised within the lints of the army on the northern side r.f rha P'fomao, and upon ail the avenues of every kind by land and water leading to and from the city of Wash iogton, as well over persons holding passes as all others Passes will not be required at or within the lines of the army north of the Poiomso. bnt disloyal or suspected parties will be liable to arrest and detention until diiobargod by oomprtest autho rity. and contraband articles will be seised. Officers and soldiers of the army will obtain passes ss heretofore ordered. All complaints of improper seiznres or seßrohes made, or purporting to be made, under military authority, will be received by the proper brigade commanders or provost marshal, who will at onoe investigate the same, and, in eaoh instance, make report to headquarters. By command of Major General MsCliuas, S Williams, Assistant Adjutant General. This general order does not contemplate re quiring passes for oidinmy railroad travel to and from Washington, or ts enter the lines of the army on this side of the river frim Maryland. Gen. Sieget’s Command. St Louia, August 16 —A messenger from Gen. Siegel, who arrived early this morning, reports that General Siegel was fifteen miles this side of Lebanon, and expected to reaah Rolls to-day He had not been melested on the route. General Ljon was buried on Colonel Phelp’s farm, near Springfield It was reported that the rebels hod entered Springfield and were enosmped in and around that oity A messenger also states that the whole num ber of killed, wounded, and missing, on the Fede ral side does not exceed 400, and ’hat Ben MsCulloob, and a number of the rebel offioers, were kilted The New l. nil boats. Naw Yobs, Aug. 16 -w-Tho first of the new gunboats will be launched tomorrow- Anoiher will be launched next wetk, and four others in fifteen days. Important from Washington and Vicinity. [From tho Washington Star of last ovoniug J ANOTHEB ENGAGEMENT AT MATTHIAS POINT —AH OPPICER AND TWO MEN KILLED—ANOTHEB FA- TALLV WOUNDED Capt Budd gives the following official report of the Matthias Point affair: U. S Steamer Resolute, Aug. Iff, 1861. Sir: In obedienon to your ordors I proceeded down the river to make an examination of Mat thias Point and the immediate vicinity. NotL'ing iedioating a hostile movement could be ditoovere'd at or about tbe Point Hearing that a schooner was ashore at lower Cedar Pc’nt, I thought it ad visable to go down to her, and got her off If pos sible. A boat was seen oo tho Virginia shore a short distance this side of Persimmon Point; and I despatched an officer and five men in a boat, for tbe purpose of capturing her They had just reached her, aui vrere in -he act of making fast to her, when s volloy of musketry was fired from the adjoining buihos, not more than five or six yards distant, instantly killing throe of the boat’s orew and wounding another. Immadiatciy opened fire, throwing shell into the cover that sheltered tha enrmy. After four or five rounds they were driven out, running In parties of threo and four in diffarent directions, some of them running out into some dwelling houses on the right. The survivors of tha boat’s crew succeeded in getting her cff from the shore while I was firing. The Reliance ooming np at ibis raomrnt, commenced throwing shell ot tho flying enemy, and n’so sent a boat tc assist in get ting my beat off Nothing was left behind My boat is completely riddled, particularly in the after part. The attacking party numbered abont thirty Lieut. Mygatt remained with his vessel in tbe vioicitv until I oould report to you. The following perrons were killed and wonndod: Killed.— John Fuller, master’s mate; Georg* Seymour and Thornes Tully, seamen. WvDNBED —Ernest Walton, seaman. Tbe men that escaped state that the boat on the ghora had two o»ska in bar We ware unable to secure her. Very respectfully, Wm Biido, Commanding Resolute. To Capt. Craven. Commanding Potomao Flotilla. Last Tuesday the George Page , at Acquia Creek, went into commission and hoisted her pennant and Confederate flag. She is understood to be oased with railroad iron, and to oarry six guns; but ber structure is so light that they would speedily rack her to pieoes. The only danger an ticipated from her is that, under cover of their batteries, she may oome out, and with a large body of mea, which she oan easily oarry, over power some of our gun-boats Qualifications foe Officers.—The board re cently appointed for the examination of volunteer mod army efiioers have resolved upon a standard of qualifications as f .Hows : “ Field officers must understand all that is re quired of oompany officers, and also bo abla to answer questions regarding evolutions of lino, proper eonjnnctnre, the elements of military en gineering, the oiroumstances nedor whioh the use of field artillery is proper, and other snoh col lateral interrogations as the board of examiners think proper to propsso. 11 Company officers must answer oral!; and cor rectly all questions on tbe manner of instructing recruits, the use of the manual of arme, tho school of tbe soldiers, the position of commissioned and non-commissioned effioers is Una and battalion movements.” It has been suggested to us that whatever ex smioation is made under this regulation should ho CR’ered upon at once in tbe csee of the DLtriot Regiment now forming, as when the officers have once saoosssfally pasced the ordeal, men will en list under them with oonfilenos. Deserters Caught —Thi3 morning half a dozen of the N. Y. 79 h worn taken in theset of at tempting to desert in disguise. I; seems to be un derstood that severe punishment will sntely be mated out to some of the recusant of that regi ment by way of the so much needed example. Not So —We sro able to contradict- positively the silly story of ths New York newspapers,. al leging that Mr. W. W. Corooras, of this oity, has loaned money to the Southern Confederacy He has dona nothing of ths sort, nor has he had any transaction with them, pecuniary or otherwise, of any description whatever. The Secession Journal? in New York. PRESENTMENT of the journal of commerce, NEWS, DAY-B9OE, FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, AND BROOKLYN EAGLE, BY THS UNITED STATES GRAND JURY. [From tho New York Post of jesterday.l In the United States Circuit Court, of this oity, the Grand Jury this morning made the following important presentment: To the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York : The Grand Inquest cf tho United States of America, for the Southern district of New York, bog leave to present the following fiots to the oourt, and stk its 2dvioe thereon: 11 There are certain nowspapsta within this dis trict which sre in the frequent practice of onoou raging the rebels now in arms against tho Federal Government by expressing sympathy and agree ment with them, the duty of acceding to thoir de mands, and dissatisfaction with the employment of force to overcome them. These papers are the Now York daily and weakly Journal of Com merce, tha dallv and weekly News, the daily and weekly Day Book, the Freeman’s Journal, all published in the city of New York, and the daily and weekly Eaglo, published in the oity of Brook lyn. The first named of these has just published a list of newspapers in the free States opposed to What it calls * the prese,nt unholy war’ —a war in dofenos of our country and its institutions and our most sacred rights, and oarried on solely tor tha restoration of the authority of the Government. “The Grand Jury are aware that free govern, ments allow liberty of speech and of tha pres! to their utmost limit, but there is. nevertheless, a limit. If a person in a fortress or an army were to preaoh to the soldiers submission to the enemy, he would be treated as an offender Would ha be mcro culpable than the citizen who, in the midst of the most formidable conspiracy and rebellion, tails tho conspirators and rebels that they are right, enccnrage3 them to persevere in resistanee, and condemns the effort of loyal oi'izeus to over come and punish them as an 'unholy war?' If the utterance of snob language in the streets, or through ths prsss, is not a prime, then there is a great defect in our laws, or they were not made tor such an emergency. “The conduct of these disloyal presses is, of course, condemned and abhotrei by all loyal men; but the Grand Jar; will he glad to learn from tbe court that it is also subject to iadiotment and condign punishment “ All whioh presented “ Charles Gould, Foreman ” Signed by all the Grani Jurors. Tha judge said he would tarn qvs; the present ment to Judge Wilssn, at the October term. An Important Capture. ARREST OF A REBEL AGENT ON BOARD THE PERSIA— SEIZURE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS INTENDED FOR THE REBELS. [From the New York Post of last evening.) Last Tuesday afternoon the Surveyor of the Port, with officers Isaacs and Bunn, boarded the steamer Persia at Quarantine On the way up to the oity intelligence was commnnioated to the Surveyor to the effect that one of the passengers on board, named Thomas S Seniil, was n violeut Secession ist, and had stated tn another passenger that he was returning from Europe with the proceeds of a loan whioh he had negotiated in Europe for the Southern Confederacy. On the arrivaLcf the steimer at Jersey Oity, of ficers Isaacs and Bunn made a thorough a-aroh of the person and baggage of the passenger designa ted, £=3 raooesded in finding £4O 000 in Bank of England notes, and a large number of letters and other important papers, the cos'ents of whioh leave no doubt that the Information given to the surveyor was correct. Surveyor Andrews at once communicated with Secretary Chase, wbo was in the oity, and the Se oretary commended the proceedings already taken, and advised tho arrest of Eerrill The matter wav also communicated to the Federal Government. a‘, Washington. Meanwhile the money, amounting to £40,000, and the letters were taken to the surveyor’s office. The loiters have b.-en read, and are discovered to bo strongly Secession in tone, and some of them suggest plans for breaking the blockade, gad sup plying the Liverpool market with cotton. TQAc- , despatches leave do doubt as to the obaracter ofy, the bearer, and render it probable that the £40,0001 wis a loan to the 11 Confederate States,” as he re- . presented. Several passengers by the Persia bavo volun tarily come forward and have made affidavits re specting the seocssicn talk of Serrlll on board the ship. This morn (fig tbs United States district attorney put a warrant for Serrill’s arrest in the hands of ; an officer Mr Serrlll is a New Orleans man, who has been for years ongaged in the cotton bnßiness He is about fifty years of age, snd is represented to be wealthy. Some of the affidavits of passengers, made this morning, state positively that Serrill said that the money in his possession was “ a loan for the Con federate States ” At a quarter past one o’clock Mr. Serrill oalled upon Surveyor Andtews, by appointment, and had a brief interview with him He was than intro duced to a deputy of the United States Marshal, who arrested him and took him to the marshal’s offioe. The vigilance of the surveyor of the port in Onuaing this important seizure and arrest, and his general watchfulness over the oharacter of pns<en gers arriving by tbe steamers, oannot ba too highly commended The £4O 000 and the letters taken from Serrlll have been handed by the collector to tbe United States Distriot Attorney, together with the sur veyor’s statement respecting tbe seizure. More Piivateer*. Boston, August 10 —The whaler Jeremiah Sioift, arrived st Now Bedford, la<t from Per nombuco, reports tbe British brig Alliance there. The oaptaiD of ibe Alliance saw three privateer siosmers in lat. 747 north, long. 22 48 west. The British mail steamer Tyne also reported see ing a privateer steamer between Rio and Pernam buco The Privateer -left. Davis. NBW York, Aug 16 —The privateer Jrff, Pa vis arrived at ban Jusn, Porto Itioo, on tbe 26th ot Jniy, for provisions and water. Martial law has been proclaimed in Venezuela. Chased by a Pirate. New York, August 16 —Tho bark St. James, arrived from Rio, was chased, July 12, off Cape St. Rrque, by a full-rigged brig, but escaped by outsailing her. She war supposed to be a pri vateer. Nahbow Escape The front wheel of a carriage o.me off on Thursday afternoon, while the vehicle was being drlyen through tha nop- r end of Germantown The horses ran 'ff and the oar rloge, as well as some others with whiah it wai brought in contact, w■« much broken. The driver of tho vehicle, and the ooeupsnts, Mrs. George W. Carpenter, Jr , and child, were throws out, nut efonped any i> jury. Had the acoident OOCUrrod a few moments later, they would moat probably have been killed, by falling against a heavy eurb stone. Scpposbb Suicide.— Yesterday morning, about half past one o’otoek, an unknown white woman was found upon the sidewalk, at Sixth and Powell streets, by Officer Jones, of the Fifth ward. She was Insensible, having it is supposed, taken a do-e of psison. Tbe officer procured a earriage, and sb he was oonvey ing the woman to the station house she expired. The ooroner was erst for to bold an inqutst. 'The deceased was about forty years of age. She wore a blaok Bilk dress, wits flounces, and blaok gaiters. Omission.—The name of Mr. Charles F- Taggart was accidentally omitted in our lift of the gallant City Troop, just returned from the war. Msmtuema—a—|E
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