g t ress. 41 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8,.1861.` EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH av STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS...-." The conspiracy to break up the Union is a fact now known to all. Armies are being raised, and war levied to accomplish it. There can be but two sides to the controversy. Every man must be on the side of the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war. There can be none bat patriots and traitors." FOR SALE.—The double-cylinder "Tercoa" PRESS on which this paper has been printed for the last nine months. It is in excellent condition, having been made to order a year ago, and will be sold at a bargain. For terms apply at this office, or address Joint W. FORNEY. 417 Chestnut street, l'hiladelDhin. FEW weans are necessary to direct atten tion to the election of to-day. The interest in the result is completely subordinated by that which is excited by the greater issues involved in the war. If the true friends of the Government and the Union Could be nited, the Drcekinridge Democratic ticket would be swept out of existence; but, un fortunately, there is no such union, and the engineers of the Democratic organization are accordingly in high hopes of triumph. There is not one of the men who met at National Hall of the Nth of January, after the Ancrican flog had been fired upon at Charleston, and there proclaimed the monstrous doctrine of seces sion, who is not at work for the ticket headed by Robert Ewing, and who will not, in the event of its election, claim that event either as an open declaration against the Government, or in favor of peace. The course for loyal Democrats, in ouch an emergency, is plain, and that is to vote either for the Citizens' Union, or for the People's ticket. Thousands of these men are utterly disgusted with the corrupt practices of the Democratic organization in Philadelphia, and we trust they wilt take care not to be driven into any endorsement of that organiza tion to-day. Vigllance—Extmordanary! In last 'Tuesday's Lancaster I»telligencer— that journal of blessed memory—at the top of one of the principal advertising columns, appears the following notice : sto REWARD.—Was stolen front the carriage -house MI of the subscriber, at Wheatland, on the night of Saturday, September 28th, a set of SILVER-PLATED DOUBLE CARRIAGE HARNESS, as good as new, with the letter B marked upon sevoral of tile pieces. - Z ., ' reward 'will be paid for the return of the Harness, and an addl. Bonet $25 for the street of the thief, on conviction. JAMES BUCHANAN. If it be any comfort to our whilom friend, the retired Sage of Wheatland, we offer hint our hearty condolence over his misfortune, and trust his et silver-plated double carriage har ness, as good as new, with the letter B marked upon several of the pieces," may be speedily restored to him, and the impudent depredator safely lodged in the Lancaster prison. Both are consummations " devoutly to be wished," and all lovers of law and order will please take note of the strong incentive held out to effect them. For the accomplish ment of either of these desirable results twenty five dollars is the reward, and for both the mu nificent aunt of fifty dollars. With no desire to add to the distress of the distinguished "O. P. F.," now that his har ness is missing, we yet cannot repress the re gret that he did not exhibit similar vigilance, or at least something that approximated to it, when in the discharge of the responsible trust of the Presidency of the United States. The harness, it seems, was stolen on Saturday night. On Sunday it is already missed. On Monday there is an advertisement in the bad /igen ter office, gazetting the loss to the world, and offering the money aforesaid for its re covery, and, by Tuesday, the same has been heralded far and near ! The entire business, therefore—theft, discovery, advertisement, and eirculation—occupied but three days' time, which displays a degree of vi gilance not often exhibited by much younger people. What a misfortune is it, that a proximate vigilance was not exhibited when JOILV FLOYD was stcaiins the - AIWA Of the National Treasury by millions, and misapply ing the nation's entire military resources, in order to inaugurate a bloody civil war ! When he left the War Department, only a few weeks before the expiration of the four years' term, thin saute J. 8., in a published letter, compli- mented him on the satisfactory manner in which he had discharged his public duties; so that, it would seem, he had not even then discovered the terrible stealing propensities of this arch thief and traitor! COBB and Tuccurkson were in the same category, and yet the head of the Government did not discover their rascality until they had left, if he has even made the discovery now Oh ! the difference between the meum et Crum—the mine and thine—and how utterly oblivious some are of the one, whilst they are intensely 'solicitous about the other ! Hero is the latest instance: It took the Sage of Wheatland four long and wearisome years to discover that the traitor FLOYD was plundering the nation; but when some petty thief, Under cover of the night, breaks into his own private carriage-house and purloins his "silver-plated double carriage harness," he knows all about it next morning, (Sunday though it is,) and, by the :seat day, has succeeded in inviting "the whole world and the rest of Mankind " to as sist in the recovery of the harness and the punishment of the thief! Are we not war ranted, therefore, in characterizing this latter as an exhibition of vigilance—in every way ex traordinary ? Thomas Francis Meagher. The Washington Sunday Chronicle has the following: cc We have heard the rumor that Tuomai FRANGIS MEAGHER, who distinguished himself in the battle of Bull Run, and who is now engaged in raising an Irish brigade in New York, will be tendered the position of brigadier general, recently offered to Hon. JAMES SHIELDS, and declined by him on ac count of his health. The selection would be a most Capital one." The only objection to Colonel MEAGHER'S promotion that could be raised would be—by himself. With a modesty which stands out in fine relief, in these days of unbounded pretence, MEAGHER has hitherto declined promotion, At this moment, so de. servedly great is his popularity in New York, the lucrative office of County Clerk is ready for his acceptance, for every candidate would withdraw in his favor. But he prefers de voting his energy, his influence, his eloquence, and his loyalty to advance the great cause of the Union, and in this great contest the name Of THOMAS FRAI CIS MEAGHER is a more power ful auxiliary to our side than a brigade could be. MEAGHER'S abnegation of self, all through this struggle, is honorable to human nature. Would that it had more numerous imitators. THE Richmond Enquirer announces the ar rival, in Richmond, of Sir JAMES FERGUSON KNIGHT, M. P., England, adding that Sir JAMES brings letters to President Davis from Hon. A. DVDLEY MANN, now in Europe." The slight objection to this ac fashionable intelli gence" is that there is only one person named KNietir in the British Parliament, (namely 111 r. FREDERICK WINN KNIGHT, who represents West Worcestershire,) and that the only Kan air in Great Britain with a title is Sir AnuoLo JAMES KNIGHT, of Nottingham, who is M. P., but not IC P. The Richmond En quirer Mill please try again. THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH from the New York Tribune, of yesterday, shows that Re publicans like Mr: GREELEY are not afraid to trust Union Democrats in the Legislature of New York, in the present crisis. We should like to see their example followed in Pennsyl vania : ‘. The nomination of many Democrats on Union tickets for both Senate and Assembly, in strongly Republican counties, assure a much stronger Demo cratic representation in our next than in our two last Legislatures. Most of the Democrats, as of the Republicans, so nominated, are men of decided ability and integrity. We trust that the nomina tions hereafter to be made of Union Oandidatei, lel:tether of Republican or Democratic antecedents, mill be diatingulehed alike for probity and talent. If corrupt or otherwise unfit men should in any ease be nominated, do not hesitate to apply the effectual remedy." WE REGRET that some of-theefriends of Colonel Oranntrog, late proprietor of the Events g Bulletin, should have misconstrued the notice in THE PRESS of 'yesterday, com plimentary to the present editor and manager of that enterprising journal, into a reflection upon that gentleman. This was so far from our intention that it gives us pleasure to say that, while Colonel Cummins was connected with the Bulletin, it was one of the most pa triotic and progressive of all oar newspapers. Cotton-want in England. The European Times, a reliable English pa per published in England, gives some inter esting facts, in its issue of the 21st tilt., of the cotton-want in Lancashire. The sales of cotton at Liverpool, during the week, bad been 143,250 bales, or one-sixth of the entire stock on band, at prices higher than had been cur rent for the last twenty-five years, and the im pression prevailed that, if our war continued, cotton, which was purchasable a year ago at 13 cents, must advance to 25 cents a pound; for the stocks on hand are not equal to the re quirements of the manufacturers to the close of the year. It is added cc about 2,000 bales of American cotton have this Week been ship• ped to . New York and Boston. There need not, therefore, be any surprise at the alarm that has been created, and at the fears now entertained as to our supply of cotton for the immediate future; inasmuch as the stock of cotton in Liverpool to-day is only 481,230 bales American, and of all kinds 818,200 bales, against 759,680 American, and a total of 953,270 bales at the same time last year. After this period last year 300,000 Ame rican and 420,000 bales of all kinds were received, and, notwithstanding all this large supply from numerous ex porter'', a demand of 080,000 American and of all kinds of 820,000 reduced the stock on the 31st December, 1860, to 380,000 American and of all kinds to 545,000 bales. There is now no American cotton at sea for this coun try, and only 180,000 bales Surat ; so that, adding these to present stocks, and supposing our own spinners to take one-third lesi from now to the close of the year, and exporters 150,000 bales more than last year, there would be an almost entire exhaustion of the stocks here MI the 31st of December next. It will, therefore, be at once apparent how essential to the prosperity of the manufacturers of this country is an early settlement of this unfor tunate civil war now raging in America." This closing remark is very true, but we beg to remind John Bull, whose Lancashire ope ratives are almost in a state of rebellion be cause they hare been reduced to work half time at half wages, that the way to obtain this cc early settlement" of our civil war, was not by supporting and sympathizing with the Southern traitors. W. R. Russell, LL.D., &c. In another column will be found a view of the writings and action of Mr. W. H. RUSSELL, special letter-writer to the Times. It forms part of the New York correspondence of ;the London Daily Telegraph, and pretty accurately ex - presses the American estimate of Mr. Rus sELL's abilities and character. The allusion to his very natural aptitude for getting out of harm's Way, when danger is near, must be taken as the "unkindest cut of all." ARRA. ELLA CinnoLL, a Maryland lady of distinguished ability, concludes an article in which she discusses the constitutional power of the President to make arrests and to sus pend the writ of habeas corpus, as follows : The President, so far from violating, is heroi cally defending the rights of Americans in ar resting criminals who are engaged in secret or covert war upon this Government. "Instead of handing them over to the comas for trial, condemnation, and execution, as he has the clear right to do, and as every other Go vernment but ours upon earth unquestionably mould, he only holds them es captives to prevent them from destroying the blood-bought rights which every citizen who remembers he is a man, and was born of a woman, should fly to rescue and defend !" A REPORT of the eloquent lecture of Colonel TR0311.4 FRANCIS MEAMR, on the American Union, delivered last night at Concert Hall, in this city, will be found in our columns this morning. Important from the South. Mr_ Robert Morgan, of Cincinnati, has just re turned to that city from a visit to the South. He represents that the slaves are deeply interested in the struggle now going on between the two sec tions, but that their sympathies are wholly and en tirely with the South. There are no entrenchments orbatteries at Mein• phis, but a short distance back of the city there is a camp of instruction, containing five or six regi ments. Buckner's rashness is roundly denounced, and the stoppage of supplies from the North, whioh they attribute mainly to his course, is regarded as more disastrous than the loss of a battle. Coffee in Memphis is sixty cents a pound, and tea two dol lars. Boots, which formerly sold for five dollars, now readily command fifteen dollars, and nearly everything is in the same proportion. Gold is at a premium of sixteen per cent., and scarce at that. It is said in_Southern Kentucky that Zollicoffer has twenty-five thousand men, and it is confidently predicted that he will winter his forces in Cincin nati. Buckner still has ten thousand men at Bowling Green, in addition to seven thousand at Hopkinsville. CONBTRUCITON OF A TAPER MILL IN UTAH BY A PHILADELPHIA. M_ANtrFACTITIMR.-By late ad vices from Utah Territory, we learn that a mill for the manufacture of all kinds of paper, either for writing, printing, or wrapping purposes, as also ma toxin' for the making of binders' boards, band boxes, etc., has been erected at Deseret city. The mill is the first and only one of the kind which has been erected in that region of country, or in fact between the borders of civilization and the Pacific coast. It is of the utmost value to the people of the Ter ritory, as, on account of its situation, they will be enabled to . procure an article of dailyconsumption for which there is a large and increasing demand, without being obliged to pay extravagant prices as heretofore. The cost for transportation of paper of all descriptions across the plains, from St. Louis to Deseret city, is from 20 to 25 cents per pound; and it wll thus be seen that a considerable savinrwill be made by this enterprise. The machinery of the mill is of Philadelphia manufacture, having been made and shipped from the factory of Nelson Gavit, North Broad street. It consists of two pulp engines for grinding the rags, and a cylinder machine capable of turning out every quality of paper, with machine presses, belting, and necessary appurtenance& It has a capacity to turn out 1,000 pounds of printing pa per in twelve hours. The mill has been erected on the bank of an inexhaustible stream of fresh water, which einpties into the Salt Lake, fifteen miles below the mill site. The mill is situated within the confines of Deseret city. Attached to it is a boiler, by which steam can be generated for bleaching purposes. The boiler, engine, and mill machinery were all manufactured in Philadelphia, and transported 1,400 miles across the plains by ox teams. Ninety days were occupied in the trans portation, although the p . ony express goes over the same distance and route in twenty-six days. The, distance - from Philadelphia to Lawrence, Kansas, 'was travelled by railroad, the machinery being shipped. in fragments and jointed on arrival' at Salt Lake: As the . total weight amounted to thidy tons, or 60,000 p o und ' s,. the undertaking may Abe regarded as- extremely venturous and enterprising. The coat of manufacture alone was $5,624; adding to this the expense of shipment and the setting up of sills and foundations in its erection, the total expense was $16,000. The frame mill house or structure wee put together in Salt Lake City, a part of the material being purchased in St. Louis. Notwithstanding the coat of the concern, the mill is by no means a large one. It was escorted to Deseret by Mr. Howard, an attaché of the Phi ladelphia manufactory, who employed Mor mon mechanics to do the work of the enterprise, he directing and overseeing the mat ter. Mr. Howard lately forwarded a copy of the Deseret News, printed upon paper manu factured in the Philadelphia mill. The paper is a fine quarto, printed in brevier, minion, and nonpa reil type, and comparing favorably. with .Bastern publications. The new mill is said to work ad mirably, and, en the occasion of lie first operation, the followers of Joe Smith surrounded the place, regarding its movements with intense satisfaction: The nominal owners of, the concern are Messrs. Hooper, the Representative of Utah in Congress, and Gen. Eldridge, both of whom are of tho Mor mon persuasion. The population of Desert being about 20,000, and constantly increasing, the now mill will doubtless prove amply remilierative. Be sides, the population of Salt Lake Valley, more than 90,000 in number, will be interested in the News, and the fame of our Philadelphia firm will, therefore, become known throughout the far South west. A new paper mill is about to be erected at Chester, Pa., by the same firm. WE sincerelyregret to learn of the death, at Har risburg, on Sunday last, of Mr. Robert J. Ross, for merly banker in this city. He was a gentleman of great usefulness and liberality, and his loss will be seriously deplored by his numerous friends through out the Commonwealth. LARGE. POSITIVE SALE OF BOOTS, BROES, BRO GANS, TRAVELLING.BAGS, &C.—The early atten tion of purchasers is requested to the large assort ment of boots, shoes, brogans, canvas shoes, de., besides a full line of travelling-bags, embracing a general assortment of desirable seasonable goods, to be peremptorily sold, by catalogue, for cash, commencing this morning, at 10 o'clock, by Myers, Claghorn, it Co., auctioneers, NOS, 232 and 234 Market street. SALE OF FERNITURE:—This morning, T. Birch, & Son will sell 'a large stock of household fujnil_ ture, °meta, piano feria; engravings, thotographs, &0., at the auction store,: No. 914 Chestnut street. Goon FOB-BUT/&B:--The Butler Herald'saye "Our county has, we believe, at least seven hun dred men now in the field, including those attached to companies from other counties. This would be her full proportion of an army of four hundred thousand men, but she can and will still do better." NOTIVITHRTANDINC the large unmoor oz men cant have already left this city and county for the war -amounting to nearly or quite two tholisand —rep crafting is going on as vigorously as ever, and with 00ZIOldOrilble OUCCoBll.—Reading Journal. LETTER FROM eg OCCASIONAL." WASH IN GTON , October 7, 1861 With a good field glass in your hand, from the dome of the Capitol you will enjoy a most exhilarating prospect. 1 have frequently de scribed the splendid basin in which Washing ton is situated—the rampart of hills that seem to surround it, the river purstfing its tranquil course, the luxuriant foliage in sutumer, and the palatial edifices which adorn the city itself, and crown the adjacent eminences. In peace ful times there could be no more inspiring view ; but now, g; when trenchant war chan nels our fields, and bruises our tlowrets with the armed hoofs of hostile paces," a new an d an exciting interest is added to the scene. October is just beginning to hang her splendid robes upon the neighboring heights, and soon the gaudy tresses in which she adorns the dying season will outdazzle the gay uniforms an d the bright colors of the two hundred regi• inents that cluster hereaway in fort and in camp. But that which will most attract your atten tion is the marvellous change that has beon wrought in this landscape since the genius of General McClellan took possession of our military department. You will see that whole acres of Uwe have been levelled and cleared by the vigorous axe of the pioneers, so as to give a broad, uninterrupted sweep to the guns that have been mounted upon numbers of newly-erected fortifications. Away off in the distance a dense column of smoke is rising, giving proof that our soldiers are engaged in destroying the thick brush and tangled under growth. Munson's Hill looks like a military hive, swarming with busy troops, while, in the remoter distance, long and lumbering trains are carrying forward provisions, ammunition, and arms. Every scene is an assurance of ef fective preparation. If you change your po• sition, and look to the Maryland side, you will see enough to convince you that the same un sleeping intellect that is pushing our fortifica tions and our fighting men forward, even into the bowels of Virginia, is actively at work there. But you will ask, why is not something done ? Why does not General McClellan ad vance ? I might reply by asking why does not the enemy attack ? It is not for him to ad vance, especially in view of the fact that he can afford to stand where he is, or so to move as to press his adversary back, so that when the wager of battle is offered by the latter it may be accepted with due courtesy and promptitude. I know that our people are longing for a victory—nervous at delay—and apt to break out into petulant complaints, be cause a blow has not sooner been struck; but they ought to recollect that it is better not to be too precipitate, and that our youthful gene ral, while fully sympathizing with all their hopes, has pledged himself against another retreat, and is so engaged in seasoning his forces as that when the blow is given, it will fall like an avalanche, crushing out treason even in this stronghold. A theory has lately been started, to the effect that the enemy is by no means so anxious for a battle in Virginia as he has pro fessed to be ; that he is looking now to Mis souri and Kentucky, and may suddenly turn his back upon McClellan and throw into these two States the troops he has been feeding with promises of an attack upon Washington. The fact is, he must fight somewhere—either in Virginia, or along the farthest banks of Ohio—or starve. It is contended, on the one hand, that if Virginia is abandoned to the Federal troops they will find nothing but desolated fields and deserted homesteads; but those who argue in this wise should recollect that if Eastern Virginia is occupied by the Federal army there is a practical end to the rebellion in this quarter, and that the Old Dominion will be as thoroughly held in the iron vice of the Government as Maryland is to-day. A word about General McClellan. No man could be more industrious, and no man more patriotic. If he has been flattered heretofore, he is abundantly criticised now. He is watched, not only by the rebels, but by the politicians of his own section—the men who swarm around him with gratuitous advice every hour of the day. When everybody has his own notion of the war, and his own idea bow it ought to be managed, and when every movement is eagerly scanned by thousands of sensitive men and women all over the loyal States, it is easy to see that Gen. McClellan has no ge primrose path of dalliance" to walk in. Of course he realizes all these things, and is, therefore, in no mood to risk equally his country and himself by hasty action. I am told that he answered an impetuous partisan the other day, who was anxious to know when a fight would take place : ci I cannot tell my self. I can only say, that, when it does come, I am ready." Davy Crocket expressed it in another way: cc Be sure you're right, then go ahead." OCCASIONA.L. ruene Amusements. WALNUT-STREET TIIRATRE.—The new play produced here last night has afforded Matilda Heron a fair oppor tunity of exhibiting her versatility of talent. She took the leading rule in "The Belle of the Season," and cer tainly achieved a triumph. In this drama, however, the author has done little for the actress in one respect—she had not a single striking situation at the end of any one act. The merit of her performance lay in the fine skill and high feeling with which she represented the struggle between love and pride: In some of her soliloquies— which are too long and too frequent—Miss Heron was a little too intense, perhaps. This is the only fault we have to find. The play itself is a curious nib:tura of comedy, melo-drama, farce, and sensation. The first act, which was much too long, concluded with a sort of rough-and tumble dance, to the air of "Dixie" Mr. Adams, ms the hero (Edwin Hanitoil), played with marked ability, but was a little too demonstrative in the fourth act. Miss Gray, as Lis sister, was occasionally stilted in her declamation. Little Miss Jefferson made a great deal of a small part, and Miss Henrarde was lady-like as the well-educated danghter of a milliner. Miss E.. Wood played the milli ner's part very well. Mr. Bascomb and Mr. Wright also played their parts as if they understood them. Of Nr. Young, who represented the villain of the piece, we would say that when he is a little easier, a little less la bored in his part, it will stand next Mr. Adams' in the play, The dialogue, which occasionally is very pointed, and very well•written in serious parts, would bear a lit tle cutting, but the play is a success. The now scenery includes a beautiful view of Niagara, from the ball-room ofthe hotel, and a handsome furniture scene, whichls the interior of a fashionable Fifth..avenue mansion, is very asset and attractive. The time of the play is the present, and the scene is in New York. The " Belle of the Season" bids fair to be attractive as long as ever Miss Heron chooses to play it here. It was written ex pressly for her, and, as usually happens in her plays, the leading actor has a first-rate part to pity. There is seareelrway other ".star" in existence wrio Would have the generosity and good nature thus to allow &nether performer to share the action and applause. Mho Heron and Mr. Adams were called out during the performance and at its close. The new play will be repeated this evening, followed by a new farce, called "The Model Husband." Another new comedietta, "The Pretty. Housebreaker," is underlined for Thursday, and a new comedy and a new play are also in preparation. REUCKEROTII'S hfCSlcse MATINEII.—The second of these entertainments will be given to-morrow afternoon, at Musical Fund Hall. As before, Madame Johannsen will sing. Mr. Henekeroth will perform on the violin, and a large orchestra of thirty will gire the instrumental effeciA. THK Clacts.—The opening performances, yesterday evening, were well attended, despite the wet weather. The Circus is located in Twelfth, below Spruce. COD. J. M. McCA,WrER'S ReelMnifT.—We under stand that the Rev. J. M. McCarter, of Lebanon, who recently resigned his pastorship for the purpose of raising a regiment of infantry, has, in the short time of fourteen days, enrolled eight hundred men, and expects to complete his regiment in a few days. James W. Johnston, brother of Ex-Governor Wm. F. Johnston, and colonel of the late Fourteenth Pennsylvania regiment, ander whom Mr. McCarter nerved as chaplain, will occupy the post of lieuten ant colonel in the new regiment of Lelbanon infantry. This place he accepted out of compliment to Mr. McCarter, having repeatedly been offered a coloneldy by Governor Curtin, which he declined to accept.— The Mariettian, Marietta Pa. TYRON't AND CLEATIFIXLD RAILROAD.—Thio road isprogressing rapidly towards completion as far as Phillipsburg. The rails have been laid fora distance of seven miles. An " iron horse" is busily engaged in hauling, out the rails, and the men are at work putting down the ties and rails as fast as possible. It is stated to us that the road will be ready for use, as far as Pittsburg, some time in November or December. We hope this may be the case, as it will facilitate trade and travel be tween this place and the Bast.—Clearfield Jour nal. TESTED.—The large rifled steel gun lately made for Binger do Nimick was tested a few days since. Two rounds were tired with very satisfactory effect, but the third, a double proof charge, burst the breech plug band, disabling the pn, The ball was driven completely through an eighteen-inch tree, and buried itself in a bank beyond, a distance of some four. feet. The breech yoke, which gave way, will be replaeed, when the gun will be ready for service.—Piitsbure Peat. DIOCESAN VISITATION.—During the lest visit of Bishop Donne°, of the Catholic Church, to Biownsville, he. administered the . sacrament of confirmation to thirty-for persons, large number of-whoze were adults, end four of whom were eon verte to the faith. On the next day he confirmed ; in St. John's Churoh, at I.Tniontown, twenty-four persons. NEW BRIDGE OVER THE SCRUYLKILL.—A new brid *over the Schuylkill is being construotednt w . The work on the structure's progress_ in pi . y, and the boroughs of Norristown and B . 11, competed; - LI a few weeks the .wlli owsWortmd .Tee D ter, • Bounty have nomi natedeaudidate ' ,k'tt'lrranal4 lo their • • • statue. THE PRESS.-PITILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1861. LATEST NEWS PROM WASHINGTON. The Rebels Gradually Retiring. Narrow Escape of Col. Sherman. FREMONT NOT TO BE RECALLED. COL. EINSTEIN MUSTERED OUT OF TER lan GENERAL SHERMAN TO COMMAND IN KENTUCKY, Special. Despatches to 46 The Press." The President is greatly importuned by the friends and foes of Major General FRBMONT, It is certain that he has committed some grave mistakes. General McCLELLAN has been repeat edly consulted in regard to this vexed question. It is absurd to suppose that whatever disposition it Will have anything to do with the question of slavery, as involved in the procla mation of FREMONT, modified by President LIN COLN. At present, it seems to be understood that he will have an opportunity to test hts courage and his prudence by driving the traitors from Missouri. Many of the best friends of General FREMONT re gard his case as an exceedingly difficult one to defend. Every facility has been afforded to the proper officers to record the vote to-morrow, as given in the several Pennsylvania brigades and regiments. Your correspondents propose to furnish complete returns, by telegraph, for publication in Wednes day's Press. New Colonel of Thirtyseventh New York. The appointment of Captain HATMAN to be co lonel of the New York Thirty-seventh has inspirit ed the regiment. Col. H. has beon seventeen years in the regular service, and is said to be peculiarly fitted for his new position. Another Dishonest Regimental Post- A captain's wife received a letter from her hus band in the army here, containing $2O instead of $5O enclosed by the husband. The regimental postmaster, learning that he was suspected, de camped on Saturday with the mail for the tegi ment, and has not since been heard from. Running the Blockade. The success of the British steamer Bermuda in running the blockade, at Savannah, loaded with arms for the rebels, is to be made the subject of in vestigation. It is estimated that on the first of December the war debt will be three hundred millions. At the present rate of expenditure, it will reach seven hundred millions at the end of the first year of the war. All the side doors to the numerous cigar st - oii3s in the city were closed yesterday, by order of the metropolitan police. The dealers themselves ap proved of the movement, each admitting that he kept open only because others did so, but personally preferred not to sell on the Sabbath. There are twenty-nine forts and three batteries in the vicinity of Washington, all of recent Cal. struotiorli Our soldiers have not been idle, Others are now in course of construction. An application, by influential parties in Illinoa, has been made to send all the Western troops nov here (about thirty regiments) on to Missouri. The matter is to receive consideration. Our army hero far exceeds in numbers the most liberal estimate of its strength I have yet heard made. Regimental Quartermasters in Trouble.l Numerous complaints and charges have been preferred against certain regimental quartermas ters for malfeasance in office. The matter will forthwith be investigated, and the parties, if fount guilty, punished. General Maros denies the statement that any di cer of the regular army is connected with the re ceutly discovered pcculations. Supply of Forage. The Government has already procured a large quantity of forage at about ten per centumless that is paid by private individuals in Washington. Promotion of Gen. McDowell. Brigadier Gen. Mei/own:a, is to be made aMajor General of - volunteers. The Rebel Pickets. The rebel pickets are advanced only to the hill a mile beyond Falls Church during the day, and re tire further back from the hill at night. The Disloyal Indians. Those tribes who take up arms against the Go vernment will cancel their claims, by the acs to Grovernment annuities, and an order hes already gone forth to recall $30,000 on deposit in St. Lillis, as a part of an annuity to the Cherokees. The Confederate Army Retirmg. Reports from our advanced lines indicate a gradual retiring of the rebel forces toward Manlius, Junction. The barbarous practice of picket-firing has nearilr ceased on both sides. General Wool. It is aaeertained from an official source that (Fi. neral WOOL has; as yet, received no instructioa. His proceeding to Missouri is, therefore, a matte of uncertainty. Colonel EINSTEIN, of Philadelphia, who Nets under suspension for two months, has been mil tered out of the service. *here was no Court if Inquiry in the case. His iegiment has dwindlid down to half its original number. t i Utah Supenntendent of Indian Mal . Ex-Governor JAMES DIYANT: DOTY has been - pointed Superintendent of Indian Affairs for U Senator Sherman's Brigade. Senator SHERMAN is raising a brigade in Ohioto be ready in thirty days, consisting of one reginnnt of artillery, one of cavalry, and one of infantr,l Fresh evidences of mismanagement in Missmri have been received from different reliable -sourms. General Strong. General STRONG left for New York to-dayien route to Missouri, where he him the supervisio of all army contracts. Secretary Chase and General Fremost. From evidence before him, Secretary OUSE pronounces the continuance of General FREINNT in command a great public evil. General Srtrinna, 'United States Treastrer, Colonel HARRY LONNWORTN, of Pennsylvinia, Colonel Sitanstax, and a number of ladies, r . ent out to Falls Church yesterday. Advancing past the village ; half a mile to our outer pietets, general SPINNER and the ladies halted.. Coionel SHERMAN went on till he was salutedve a volley of musket bullets, some of which w t tizsed peat the horse's head, while others. struck the ground at his feet. The Colonel beat a suddm re treat, but not before he discovered a vorylaige oven built in a field by the enemy, wide% Wiwi ted, frons its site and superior structure, =inten tion to remain there some considerable tine. It bad not been used. GEN, ANDERSON SUPERSEDED BY GEN. SiERNIAN. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 7.—The Journal of tomorrow will announce that Gen. W. F. Sherman hia super seded Gen. Anderson as the head of the dot:gent of Cumberland, the hero of Sumpter re gon account of ill health, which renders him Emble to attend to the laborious duties. ' CAIRO, October 7.—The gunboats Tyler and Lexington proceeded down, the river to-day and fell in with the rebel boat Jeff. Davis. They chased her to within two miles of Columhu, when the batteries on the Kentucky shore Toiled on them, The rebels had some twenty gunsonclud ing several rifled cannon. The engagement lasted an hour. No damage was done to our boats. The loss sustained by the rebels has not been ascer tained. PaißliToadt, N. Y., Oct. 7,—A large Union meet lag was hold to-day ow the old battle ground 9A Bemis' Heights. Over 5,000 people wort present. Patriotic addresses were made by the Hot'. Lyman Trans& and others. Much enthusiasm luta mani fested. 'Railroad Accident., Crwennwrt, Oct. 7.—An engine andthree dare of a freight train, on the Ohio and Blisandppi Rail road, broke through a tresele.work, near Coohran Station, on Sunday morning. The engineer and fireman were killed. ' l ' wit. The h nag CIATINNAT/, - Harrison, Hall, .11. Co., was entirely destroyed by fire on Satrixday • night. The loss- amounted to '525,000, on which there is an insurance of $20,000; Recruiting in . Canada for the' fruited TORONTO, C. W., Gabber 7.--Colona Rankin, a member of the Canadian Ptuliameit, who was lately authorised to raise a regiment Of lancers by the United States Government, was arrested here yesterday for violation of the neutrality laws. - New York Bank Statement. NEW Ironer, Oat. 7.—The bank ntatement for the week ending Saturday, shores Au increase of loans .02,417,162 do do specie 1,63G,344 do do emendation...". 215,276 • do do deposits ........ 441,0ii,841 BY TELEGRAPH. WAsitittarort, October 7, net The Case of Major General Fremont Voting in the Camps. master. The War Debt. Stringent Police Orders Our Defences. Western Troops in Washington Picket Firing. Colonel Einstein. Mismanagement in Missouri. A Narrow Escape. FROG HENTIICAT. FROM CAIRO. Another Gunboat Engagement an the Mississippi. Union Meeting at Saratoga Fire nt Cinainnatt. SOUTHERN ITEMS OF NEWS. Louismus, Oct. 7.—A fire took place at Mom. phis, Tenn., on the 29th ult., destroying $30,000 worth of property, situated at the corner of Wash ington street and Centre alley. The fire extended to the front row of buildings. The Memphis Ara/erne!e has absorbed the But. fain newspaper of that city. A Memphis paper of the 30th says Thirty cases of Enfield muskets, being a part of the 50,000 which name into a Southern port some time sines, arrived at Memphis, and are on their way to Ca lumbus, Ky. The city of Memphis was literally alive with soldiers on the 29th. The Southern Commercial CPUTUntiOn will AS" suable at Moon ' Chorea, on the 14th of October. The University of Mississippi is about to be closed for want of patronage. Jacob Thompson has been nominated for Gover nor of Mississippi. The Pocahontas (Ark.) Advertiser says F. C. Hindman (formerly a member of the Federal Con gress) has obtained 2,000 more men from the State of Arkansas for Gen. Hardee's command. Ex-Governor E. Louis Lowe, of Maryland, has escaped to Richmond. Isaac Davenport, of Richmond, and a member of the firm of 3. tt G. B. Davenport, gave a check for $lO,OOO, being the amount due their Northern cre ditors, to the oommiseioner for the reception of stoh some of revenue. The Northern Bank of Alabama has suspended specie payments, at the instance of Gov. Moore. The merchants of Nashville have agreed to re ceive Confederate treasury notes at par for debts and goods. Gen. Hardee's command has fallen back to Pit man's Ferry, on the Arkansas line. J. H. B. Tones, formerly editor of a Philadelphia paper, is a Secretary in the War Department at Richmond. Governor Moore, of Louisiana, has ordered the State authorities to secure all the pork now in the hands of New Orleans speculators, who had ad vanced the price to $5O per bbl. It is estimated that the ( 6 Yankee property 13 in the State of Virginia, which has been placed under the ban of the Sequestration Act amounts to $30,- 000,000 M. T. Wicks, chairman of the Military Com mittee of Memphis, says it is desirable that no more cotton nor tobacco be shipped there until further orders, and if planters don't stop shipping, the military authorities will send the cotton back into the country at the owners' expense. The Fort Smith (Ark.) Herald says the Cherokee Indians will furnish three regiments, the Creeks two regiments, and the Seminoles a battalion. The Mobile (Ala.) papers say the defences south of that city are vigorously going on. The municipal authorities of Mobile are issuing shinplasters in small amounts. The rebel soldiers, especially those attached to the department in Western Virginia, are suffering greatly for the want of tobacco. A vessel, with a cargo of 1,000 bushels of salt, 'from Laguayra, had its cargo taken from the Bra zos river to Richmond: A prize schooner was captured near Galveston, Texas, recently, with 20E1 UM of coffee and 160,000 cigars. The Nashville (Tenn.) papers of the 2d instant say the heavy rains have carried away the bridges on the East Tennessee Railroad, and delayed trains from Richmond for three days. The Dowling Green (Ky.) correspondent of the Nash - vine Union and American says: "General Buckner is advancing towards the Ohio river, driving the Homo Guards before him." The Richmond Dispatch, says Arnold Harris has been unconditionally released. The Confederate Government has authorized General Winder to arrest all Yankees who may venture there in concern for their former rights of property in the South. The arrival of James Ferguson. member of Par liament, and Hon. William Burke, of England, is reported. at Nashville on the 30th September. They were en route for Richmond. The Latest from Missouri. ST. Loris, Oct. 7.—Gen. Harney, and two or three other distinguished military officers, left this evening, at seven o'clock, on a special train on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. Their 05stMatlon is unknown. LATER FROM EUROPE. The Steamer Bavaria off Cape Race. Sr. JOHNS, N. F., Oct. 7.—The steamship Bavaria passed Cape Bace at 10 o'clock on Saturday night, when Liverpool advices to the 251 h ult. were obtained by the news yacht of the Associated Press. The atetunahin Asiaa, arrived at Liverpool At the 23d And the North American reached Londonderry on the 23d. The ship Siviftsure has arrived with #205,000 in gold from Australia. GREAT BRITAIN The passport system has been abolished for. British tem - titers in the rietherhuhhh The London Titnes , city article of the 25th ult. says that great excitement prevails in the foreign mar ket, in consequence of the distinct repetition of the an nouncement that France and Spain will forthwith inter vene in Mexican affairs. Mexican stock advanced more than 2 per cent., and is quoted 25%. The downward ten dency in the English funds continued, and Consols are quoted at 933,; et 933( for money and 93% for account. Virginia Ss, Illinois Central, and Erie Railroad had ad vanced. FRANOE The Hinge of Pcnmarl: and Holland are to Veit the Emperor Napoleon at Compeign on the 6th of October, at the same time with the King of Prussia. The Pays says that the news of the landing of the Borghese in Calabria is received. The vintage near Lyons is excellent. The Paris Bourse closed firm. Rentes 691.40 c. Saxony done not object to the commercial treaty with France, but agrees perfectly with Prussia on this subject. The French Minister at Berne has handed another note to the Federal Council in referring to the Ville de Grand affair, wherein France adhered to the statement contained in the previous note, the accuracy of which is contested by the Federal Council. TURKEY The vanguard of the Turkish army has fallen back upon Trobizone and klopuck, which was caused by a bold movement of the insurgsmts. Omar Pasha is concentrating his forces at Trebrone. The bladimir of Montenegro has called out the con. tingents, and awaits the Turkish army on the ?denten°. griu territory. ITALY. It is rumored that General Fatal aucceeda Cialdiui at Mole& The Opinions deems it likely that a new law on the internal administration will shortly be published abolish ing the office of Lieutenant General. The Opinions anticipates Bridseconi'a recall in conse quence of the receipt of an official intimation from him of the fresh refusal of Spain to deliver up the archives of the Neapolitan consulate. A sbip laden with arms, believed to be destined to fit wit on expedition in Umbria against the 'Papal provinces, has been seized. GREECE The miscreant who attempted to assassinate the. Queen of Greece was a young st tdent, named "Melons. The weapon used was et revolver. Heliad uo.accomplices. AUSTRIA Rumors brevail of an Austrian ministerial crisis, and the resignation of the Chancellor. A Conference is to be held at Cettegne on the subject of thu FilifilKllsioll of the blockade of Dagnsa. The Prue. elan and French consuls will take part. An attempt was made at Kanagavra, on the sth of July, by assassins, to murder the inmates of the British lega tion. Two were wounded, but all the rest escaped. All was quiet at the latest dates—July 21st. Foreign Commercial Intelligence: (By the steamer Bavaria.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET-52Fr. 25.—The sales of Monday , and Tuesday amounted to 55,000 bales, including 33,000 bales to speculators and for export. The nutrket has been excited, and prices are ger,d higher since Friday, and at the dose prices still tend upward. STAIN OF. TIIADEThe Melees frcim Manchester report a slight 'advance in all descriptions of goods, but the sales are small. LIVERPOOL BREADSTUFFS MARKET. —Bread. stuffs are tending downwanl, and all descriptions are lower. Messrs. Wakefield, sash, & Co., and Richard. son; Spence, & Co., report Flour dull and declined 6d; gales of American 28630 e. 'Wheat flat, and 202 d lower. Bed 'Western les Wails Uhl red Southern /21re12s 3d ; white Western 12se12s 6d ; white Southern 13e. Corn is easier ,• mixed 30s Ode3os 9d; yellow 30s 9d031d ; white Ssat37s. LIVEIi POOL PROVISIONS MARKET.—T he Provi sions market continues dull. Beef dull. Pork quiet. Bacon dull. Lard quiet but steady. Tallow heavy at 47s fid. Cheese declined 364 d. IaTEBPOOI4 ritonuoN DIARKXT:— Eipirita of Turpentine dull and unchanged. Rosin tending down ward i common 12s. Sugar firmer. El le advancing for Carolina. Ashes firm at 32e Cal for Pots, end 33e for Pearls. LONDON MONEY 'MARKET, Sept. 21—Consols dined yesterday at 981(093% for money. Anal of Captain Michael Berry, of the Marion." BE IS SENT TO FORT LAFAYETTE [Nrom the New York Express of last evening.] The well-known Captain Michael Berry, late of the steamers Marion and Columbia, both former ly running on the Charleston line, has bean arrest ed and sent to Fort Lafayette. The search for him was commenced some time since, but proved una vailing until the present. At one period the chase was given up, as the authorities supposed the bird had flown, but on the 24th of September, informa tion was received by Superintendent Kennedy that be was in New York. Detectives were immediately put on his track, and this morning, Officer Raynor, of the Brooklyn force, found him concealed at a house in this city. The detective who captured him accompanied the captain to quarters at the Government Hotel, down the bay. The charge against Captain Berry involves his conduct in showing a readiness to acknowledge the independence of the C. S. A. in sailing his vessel under the Palmetto flag, while' using a United States register ; the avowal of his allegiance to the South by receiving tokens of gratitude from the people of Charleston for running up their flag in the place of that under which he legally sailed; his f'requently expressing sympathy with the rebels, and a strong presumption that be has con stantly been engaged in their service. These chatges are the substance of the indictment made against him by the War Department. Captain Berry's movements have been charac terized by the utmost secrecy, and it is believed that he has done as much as any man to furaishthe Jeff. Davis usurpation with accurate accounts of the movements of our offiaers and, the designs of the Government. The authorities believe they have got , rid of an exceedingly dangerous customer. The captain will be o bliged to clear up a very bad record beforehe will be released. reOVEMENTS OF COL. LEBEDIEFE.--00/calol bttieff, the RIINIII\O commissioned 'to shyly ttke 'detail if American administration,, with the view of adopting what is excellent, hes left Washington on a tour of obitervation through the Northern States. THERE are now in course of manufacture in New York city gun carriages, caissons, battery wagons, and forges for over 200 guns for the use of the army. Fox MURDERING her employer, Mr. Titus Foote, of Watertown, Ct.,lest spring, Hannah S. Donovan has been convic ted, and seutenoed to the State prison for life. THE CITY. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING McDosocao's OLYMPIC—Race street, below Third.— "The Laughing Hyena," etc. ARCEI-STREBT TaZATRE—Arch• street, ahoy* Sixth.— “Jefuniette j or, Le Cretin de la Montagne.” WALNUT•bTRISK7 Iti6A7lll?-Vllllll and Walnut "Belle of the Semmo i " A Kochi Humbotol." WHEATLEY'S CONTINENTAL THEATRE—WaInut Street, abovo Eighth.—" The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island," and w The Dramatiet." ASSEMBLY BUILDINGS—Corner of Tenth and Chostnut etreete.—Waugh's Italia and Stereoscopic Viewe of the War. GARDNER & LEMMING'S MANIMoTII Ciscus.—Twelfth street, below Spruce.—Sports of the Arena. ORATION OF THOMAS FRANCIS MEAGHER. "THE AMERICAN UNION." FINE SCENE AT CONCERT HALL. The gifted Irish orator and soldier, Thomas Fran cis Meagher, delivered an oration, at Concert last evening. His name has been, since 1848, a fa vorite one with his countrymen, and, of late, their devotion has amounted almost to reverence, owing to his gallant action upon the subject of the rebel lion, and his readiness to follow, as well as lead, the standard of the loyal Irish Americans. At the bat tle of Bull Run he vindicated the spirit that ea. mated himself and kindred patriots in the Irish revolt, and the prisoners at Richmond, the wound ed and surviving in New York, have alike uttered his name with gratitude and pride. As an ora tor Mr. Meagher has been one of the first of the time, and his splendid elocution, always on the side of the Government and its army, has set the tears flowing from the eyes of thousands and mustered a brigade into the service of the Union. The address of last evening was delivered on Sunday night for the first time at the New York Academy of Music, before one of the largest audiences that ever crowded within its walls. The hall, last evening, was likewise filled to re pletion. The orator and the subject were both popular, the latter being, "The Irish Soldier, his History and Present Duty ; his Obligations to this Republic ; the National Cause ; the Memories of the National Flag and its Promised Glory; the Triumph of the National Arms Assured ; the New World against the Old." The appearance of Mr. Meagher, as ho walked upon the stage, was the signal for an outburst of enthusiasm such as only an Irish assemblage can ex hibit. Men and women made applauses that seemed to have no end, and when he had commenced the noise was still prolonged, repeated at short inter- call during the night, and constituting one of the most splendid and merited ovations that a speaker ever received in this city. The French flag and a banner of the Hibernia Engine Company adorned the centre of the stage, and two American flags were hung upon the flanks. Stacks of muskets were arranged on each side of the spanker, and he appeared at eight o'clock, ac companied by the officers of Colonel Dunn's Irish Regiment. which is to be attached to Meagher's New York Brigade. These exhibitions evoked loud and prolonged cheering. The distinguished lecturer was then introduced by Major Gen. Patterson in the following words FELLOW-CITIZENS ; I have the honor and the pleasure of introducing to you, to-night, a true Irishman and loyal American, honored alike by the land of his birth and that of his adoption, Col. Thomas Francis Meagher, of the Irish Brigade. Col. Meagher then stepped forward as if about to speak, but the reiterated Aeon of the enthusi astic audience prevented him from making any re marks for some time. When quiet was restored, he said : You have done right, fellow-citizens of Philadelphia, in giving those cheers for General Patterson, [applause,] for I know that through him interested and prejudiced parties have endeavored to strike at the military repute lien of the Irish rove j and venally anti eacreilly do I know that, were it not for his own inviolable patriotism, which prefers private or public obloquy to anything which would detract front the credit or the strength of the Republic, that he has in his possession documents evhich would attest the efficacy of his military service. [Deafening applause.] When this war is over, as assuredly it will be over, Piet that to the credit and the supremacy of the Suited States, Genet al Patterson, at that time, will be able to do what now, from motives of the purest though sacrificial patriotism, he declines to co. And until then, in the spirit of a loyal and devoted citizen, he prefers to incur suspicion rather than that the Republic should take the slightest detriment. In his presence, however, and de riving some inspiration from what he has done in Mexi can fields:, it is not exaggerative in me to say and to re mind you that there arc few battleslielas in Europe on which the Irish soldier has not left his footprint. Of the most brilliant and instructive histories of the Old World, they are few, indeed, from which his reputation, amid the shocks and lightnings of some stormy epoch, does not radiate. The shamrock and the lilies were planted on the banners of France in the grandest days of its regal glory. Above the roar of the legions headed by king Louie, the Irish hurrah was heard at the gates of Earner, when Lexemburg drew his lines; about them; and before that fierce shout, those great defences, es teemed, at the time, the must formidable in Flanders, quivered and gave way. [Cheers.] Montcashel, one of the uriuceliest of the Irish military entice, saturated the marshEe of Stafford° with his bleed. Tlte regiments of Burke and Dilloh were seen in theie ehirte, at break of dilY, lit the streets and on the ram parts of Cremona, sweeping as in a whirlwind the curs siers of Prince Eugenie before then,. And Blenheim, where Marlborough was victorious and Tallard reeled, the dragoons commanded by Clare the younger, riding off with two standards they had wrested fromithe sturdi est of the triumphant foe, gave joy to France even in her defeat, whilst they admonished England, even in the face of one of her greatest successes, that if Ireland Wile weak at home she was strong abroad. [Furore and cheers.] In bpain, the cry of Feac-an-bealac is still echoed from the Sierras ; and with the death of the hero of Co runna, and all that is most pathetic and terrible in the ward which freed the land of the Cid from the Napoleonic yoke, the charge of the Connaught Rangers is still and shall long be remembered. [Cheersel Later yet, in that desperate strife for the crown of Ferdinand and Isabella, which deluged the olive groves and vineyards of Castile with blood, did not the young arm of Ireland deal ire im petuous blows, and make itself severely felt': [Cheers.] Two and forty years ago, the squares and thorough fares of Dublin were thronged with soldiers in uniforms of green and gold, and in the popular speeches, as well as in the animate d conversations of the coffee-room, the exchange, the theatre, the four court, the houses of the fashionable and the titled, the prevailing theme was the uprising of the Spanish Colonies of South America, Alt along the Andes, the denerelante of the conquerors of Peru and Mexico, inflamed with a purer passim. than that which imperilled their progenitors, had sprung up to disenthral their inheritances in the new world front the domination of the old; and deriving a fresh glory from the contest of which they were the scene, those im perial mountains seemed to lift themselves nearer to the min, and grow loftier and sublimer as they overlooked the war for liberty. Throughout that war did the genes roue manhood of Ireland precipitate itself, and many an Irish name is pronounced this day in the Republics of Chili, Bolivia, and 'Venezuela. The question is foreign to the important considerations of the hour, and the -vital interests and exigencies of the noble country in which we live, and through which we breathe, and have our consequence, and by whose ores dentiale we are American citizens. [Cheered Enough for me to say that, whilst in other lands, in other gene rations, under other circumstances, the Irish soldier has fought most manfully, here at last—here on this conti nent—here at tbeee very doors he has presented to him and invoking the service of his trenchant sword, a cause, the justice, the righteousness. the sanctity, and the grandeur of which can neither be exaggerated nor im peached. (Cheers.] - Hn the illustrious shadow of the flag which for eo many prosperous years ' it is unnecessary to remind you of the cause in which, appealing to my countrymen especially, I invoke their gallantry this night. Why should I dis cuss the character of the cause in which the Irish sol dier Is now summoned in this city and throughout this continent to draw his swonl I Each and all of you well know, the world knowe, that the Executive of the United States, legitimately and constitutionally elected, legiti mately and conetitutienally authorized and empowered, legitimately; and constitutionally declared and inausura ietl, legitimately and constitutionally accepted and in stalled to exercise the functions of the Chief Magistracy of the Federal Union, and in that capacity to order and controlthe army and navy of the United States, subject only to the will and ordinances of the National Congress, and in that same high capacity to regulate the general political action of the American peo ple, you all know, the world knows, that the authority of this Executive has been violently questioned, and in that contradiction and defiance of its admitted legitimacy, it has been insolently an I murderously assailed. [Cheers.] Who, I ask, is the confessed and glaring criminal in this crisial point to the Southerner arms. 'There is an acknowledged enemy of the 'National Executive, national flag, the ground. wits and example, emend advice, and an estima ble legacy of George Washington, lapplaused—the confessed and implacable enemy of the will and decrees, the regenerating power and final judgment of the American people. There he stands, torch and knife in hotel, crabbing the ballot-box under his rebellious heel, icheers,] flinging to the wind and flame its un impeached decisions, utterly regardless of the flag which has been his father l a glory, and iti every clime has been his own best protector. There lie stands, with a wicked ness worse than that of him who fired the shrine of Ilphe sus, threatening with annihilation that great fabric, the scale and elevation of which are worthy of the conti nent in the bosom of which its founders have been int periehably laid. But wherefore this violence 1 Why this insubordina tion Why this malevolence! Why this sacrilege In direct terms, why this resistants to this Executive, the authenticity and validity- of which cannot be denied, and the legitimacy of which, on the fourth of March last, in the presence of the representatives of the peopto was solemnly declared by John C. Breckinridge, President of the Senate, who has since become the most persistent, as he is the most unscrupulous and most elo quent, aesaulter of the National Government I put it to the citizen of South Carolina; I put it to the citizen of Georgia ,• I put it to the citizen of Texas-and Loui siana LI put it to every citizen who this day ap pears in arms against the Government of the United States, and who, abjuring this authority, invades the national domain, appropriates the national revenue, seizes the national forts and fillips, and in every way, by fraud and force, endeavors' to submerge the national power put it to every such delinquent, Why this invasion '1 What excuses, what justification have you had What wrong has been done you 1 What right provided and guarantied by the Federal Constitu tion has been annulled ! The fact is, the South, instead of having been the oppressed, has een the dictatorial section of the Union. [Applause.] Has been so for half a century and more. Instead of being the aggrieved, she has rather been the aggressive party in this struggle. The South, in fine, had come to regard the Presidential chair as one of her " peculiar institutions." ([Cheers and laugh ter.] So prolonged was her occupation of it, and so confirmed was her experience of the importance and luxuries it conferred, that in this very circumstance we find the cause and explanation of the revolt of which the South hes been guilty. Accustomed fur so many years to the rich fruits of the Presidency, naturally disposed, and politically trained to dictate, the domineering Southern politician could not reconcile himself to the decision of the popular will fairly elicited, transferred the Executive to other hands. Hence lie takes to arms, and for the ballot-box lie substitutes the sword, striking at the Go vernment of the nation, and through that Government aiming it deadly blew at the final judgment and authority of the people. Hence the Southerner ceases to become an American, and becomes a Mexican, [applause,] introdneing into the political controverriew of the na tion perfidy and apostacy, the rapine and the bloodshed, which prevail in that Republic. Renee, he devotes himself, might and main, to the die- Membernient of the CetertienWeitith which has Well lilt protection and his glory; and proceeding to construct a separate dominion for himself, emulates the revolt as he covets the destiny of Lucifer, whose - defiant aspiration was, that he might rule in hell, pheers,] rule in hell, ra ther than series in heaven ! R e arc reminded, however, by the apologists of the Rebellion, that the Presidential chair is occupied at present by a citizen whose sentiments and antecedents are peculiarly obnoxious to the people of the South, and that in the election of Abraham Lin coln there was, to say the tenet rof it, a sufficient maul. .festation of indifference. to the. interests and prejudicee of its people, to exasperate and goad them. For the .ef me, I cannot seek! [Laughter and applause.] 11: What a cltizen has politically been previews to his in stallation in the Presidential chair, the party hebelonged to, the application or drift of the opinions and theories he propounded on the stump. in the caucus, in the coal hole of some wretched old wigwam, or on the floor of a popu lar Convention—the policy which as a member of Con• press, an editor, a candidate for the police, or an alileeman—llaughter]—he was pledged to support—finch considerations should be discarded, the moment the citi zen in question has, on the ohms of the National Capitol, taken the oath preecribed for the chief magistrate of the Republic. Hence, he should be judged, not by whet he bee been, but by what he is ; and it is in that great Capi tol, three apologists of the South may point fo the Chi cago platform, as indeed they persist in doing whenever you have the misfortune to fall in with them, and which they do for the reason that their diluted treason—thanks to your amiability—will plow with impunity. These apolo gists may point to the Chicago platform and trample it underfoot, with all the fervor of uncompromising Demucrnts ; may insist that in the main plank of it there was on ample justification, as there was an irresistible provocation, for that very perfidy, that outrage, and that onslaught against the tedious' authority which wo are assembled here, this night, not merely to deprecate, but, to come extent, to take effective measures signally and thoroughly to chastise. [Tremendous cheering.] Let' the seedy politicians of the North, whose eltrivelled souls have been mortgaged to the proprietors of the rice swamps, [laughter], the Huger estates, the rattle-snake nests, and the cotton indite of the South—let these attorneys and colleagues of the South be take themselves to some other N-lommit in dance or extenuation of their Patrons th.. that which the ob- WON platforms of the Republica n s can furnish. I care not what the construction or materials Of that platform may have been. Had it been a platform constructed by the light of the dark-lantern of Know-Nothingigm—a lantern which has been extinguished, [prolonged ap plause and cries,] and the bull's-eye of which is irre trievably cracked, [laughter] as tire brain of its author always wae—frenewed lan g hte9—had it been a platfor m comitructtel is , the light of this lantern—find Abraham Lincoln been elected by its lalliienca, tinder my obligation to the Constitution and Government of the United States, I should have recognized him as the impersonation of a popular will, and as such, would have acknowledged his authority. [Cheers.] Sub mission to the popular will, regularly expressed and re gularly enforced, alone insures the life, the progress, the stability, the valid character and potency of the Repub lic, which derives its functions and prerogatives from the consent anti confidence of the people, and from such con sent and confidence alone. Then, When we go behind this legal declaration of the people; and search into the musty archive, of a party for something to vindicate or excuse our insurrection against the people, we level to the ground the only barrier that Mande in a Democratic Republic between a just and salutary nub mission and the stormiest confusion. [Applause.] Re ject the - ballot-box, refuse to recognize the decisions of WWl' it is the incorruptible depository, and you cut the Republic adrift from the sole anchorage at which she can ride with safety, bidding defiance to the livalrieg, the in trigues, and the passions, whether of capidlty or ambition, that fret themselves against the ship of State, and even in the most tranquil hour will sway her to and fro. For my part, I firmly believe that the moment Abraham Lin coln, on the 4th of March last, took the oath administered to him by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and thereby pledged himself, with a sacred emphasis, to sup port the laws and. Constitution of the United States— doing so with an appeal to God himself to be the witness of the fidelity with which the obligation should be ob errvett—l finnly believe that, at that very moment, the platform on which he had been presented for election sunk and vanished from iris view, [great cheering,] and that the Chief Magistrate of the United States, no longer the candidate of a party, but the Executive of a nation, beheld before him, from the sublime elevation on which he stood, nothing less than the vast and marvellous dominion which, in its integrity, for the Amo icon people he had been sworn to conserve. The South ern politicians, however, with an impetuosity character istic of the tropical regions in which they reside, refused, so far as they were concerned, to give Abraham Lincoln the slightest chance of making good his oath, and de monstrating in his administration of the national attain, the sincerity of his inoffensive and intrepid nature. Not a day !—reputable to the chivalry of these politicians as this indulgence would have been—to sal , nothing of its Obvious justice, common decency, and civility. Not a day would these Hotepurs of the South allow the Presi dent of the United States to disprove the slituderons assertions of the mendicants whom his election had left baffled, penniless anti naked, on the world. Enough for them that John C. Breckinridge and his mutinous conven tion at Baltimore had been defeated. Enough for them that the gaunt statesman of Illinois presented a certifi cate of honesty from the people instead of an embossed diploma of gentility from their base-born and nigger nenrkhed plantations of the South Enough for theta that lie should have been elected ! The Southern politician must retain hie official power and have Iris pa tronage, his golden loaves and silver fishes, his best OMITS and coneulshipe, contracts for feeding armies and shoddy uniforms, of which Penneylvania knows nothing? [laughter tad cheers,] for Pennsylvania knows that tr where ignorance is bliss 'twere folly to be wise. [Con tinued laughter,' He must have also his Congressional prinking, beef for an turtny, ;advent; end perches, line those of Fort Snelling and Willard's Point, in which to revel and luxuriate. Habituated to this lucrative and delicious kind of life—of which they know nothing at all at Harrisburg, [tong-continued laugh ter ;] for it is a pampered and most abstemious lo cality. Were the excitement of it withdrawn, the col- Inp-e would be gum to kill then, [Renewed laughter.] Bence, the Aouthern politicians havine to- evacuate Washington for a season, a Secretary of War and At torney General and all the other exhausting receivers of the Republic, extemporised on the devotion of John B. Floyd, and the cold terries of James Buchanan. Might we net, if so disposed, remind the South that many of her speakers and writers have been just as abusive of the North as a certain sect of speakers and writers at the North have been abusive of the South We have had our keen-witted, etre:la-armed, brave hearted mechanics reviled for the inanstry, which, bringing bread, happiness, and education to their little households, has had the recognition of the princely com mercials of the world—whilst it has hail the recognition of Him who ordained that man ehould live by the sweat of his brow, and whose companionship, when on this mirth, was not with the drones and chivalry of J11110:1, bat with the poor and butuble—thetoiling shepherds, not carpenters, and fishermen. [Applause.] But such retaliations are worse than 'ageless. They detract from the credit of the party who give way to them, and, intensifying as they do the mutual antago nism, they degrade tiro character and life that is common to them both. I reiterate the assertion I have made, that for this vi rulent insurrection of the South] there is not one sub fftantial pretext, and, haying done title, I shall not, by any such reflections aft the immaculate Abolitionists in dulge in, endeavolto increase the opprobrium which the South in the criminality of her revolt has everlastingly incurred. What though Massachusetts, interpreted by such gen tlemen as Simmer and Lloyd Garrison, may have frequent ly vexed theSouthi.hat though Stephen A. Douglas declared the National Territories to be neutral so Dr as slavery was concerned, until the people shall have deci ded to be doomed to helotism or consecrated to free labor; what though the Young Democracy of the West and the freemen of the JD aiit affirmed the doctrine with ex ulting chorus; what though these events have corns to pass, the nation, through the action of a succession of chief Magistrates—through the patriotism of a succes sion of Concresses—the ndellty of the nattonat officorti, milifary and civic, and the instinctive concurrence of the entire people, has been scrupulously and unremittingly faithful to the South. So said the Emperor of Russia in thatnolde letter the other day, which assures us of the intelligent sympathies of a Power that proved itself a match for the combined armies of France and England—[applause]—and which at this day, as reformer and civtifiger, far outstrips the crowned authorities of. Europe, as an innovator in human regeneration. Satisfactory as all this may be, however, I am not done, as yet, with the apologists of the South, nor are they yet done with me. [Applause.] Some of my enthusiastic political friends have been attempting "to run me for a county clerkship or sheriffelty. I shall not condescend to mingle, or in the slightest degree interest myself in polities until this war is over—[loud applause]—and not for the proudest and highest position not for the Presidency itself, if to that I could be entitled, would I abdicate my connection with the Irish Drigade, [Loud applause.] You hear, or have lately heard, the loudest impreca tions against the war which the Federal Government has been compelled to declare against the insurrectionists of the South. You have heard shrieks such as bleeding Kansas never gave. You have heard shrieks over the damage of commerce, the depreciation of real estate and house rents, and the lack of custom in the grog-shops, anti also shrieks about the wholesale disappearance of Democratic votes,fapplanse,] which last fatality hat left many a politician shivering and helpless upon the world. [Applause.] By some with an affected hatred of strife, and an squally affected love of peace; by some, with a mean, small eye to business in politics, and by some with a studied perfidy, striving to withdraw the Ito. pular heart from the. National Government by fraudu lent appeals to the spirit of humanity and the ties of brotherhood; by a few who earnestly desire, as we all do fervently, the cessation of hostilities, and a return to that beautiful and prosperous serenity, which a short time since made this United States the virtuous envy of surrounding nations—who strangely miscon ceive the riotous temper and ruinous determination of the South, if they imagine that those legions now swarm ing Virginia will accept alts' Proposition of peace which does not include the relinquishment of the North of all the nationnl property from the Potomac to the Mexican waters —by various parties have these denunciations of the war been uttered. I ant here to-night, under the presidency of an Irish soldier—[tremendous applause, and cheers for Gen. Patterson]—within these walls, in the presence of this inspiringmultitude, to evoke front the Democracy of this city a declaration which shall servo to silence these denunciations, anal assure the Government at Washing ton that at all events they shall have the Irish arm and the !Irish heart in this struggle. [Tremendons ap plause.] Mr. Meagher, in explaining his position, told an anec dote of a gentleman whom he encountered ou the eve ning of the advance to Manassas, whilst the Sixty-ninth regiment was sweeping through to the village of Falls. Church. The gentleman was an Abolitionist, foppishly attired, and had an eye-glass screwed into his left eye. Darting his glass at the colonel, ho inquired, "What men are thew 'I" ‘, Well, sir," replied - Meagher, those are 1,000 Tip perary men, square-toed, unwashed, unterrifled, invetee rate, Jackson Democrats, to a man." [Loud applausel War, indeed, is a fearful visitation to a nation, and were I insensible to the calamities which follow in its train, I should be unworthy of the kindly and intpressi his with which, through good report and ill, what. ever its fortunes may be, it is my proudest boast to be identified. [lmmense cheers.] Where is the marrewless saint, the Illy-livered knave, the mailer in diluted Scripture, in poisonous' whisky, in Georgia lotteries, in aldermanic jobs, and all the sweets and rottenness of apolitical career which covets no dan ger however honorable, but halts at no swindle however foul or stupendous -where is the poor driveller—where the Pernicious rogue, who, in such a crisis as the present, will disturb the public ear with his importunities for peace ? Away with him to Hell Gate or Jericho, if you find him such a nuisance. [Laughter and applause.] Jacksonian Democrat as I am, no one will charge me with political envy or hostility when I atteert that the Northern conspirators in league with the Southern repudiators of the lifttionstlflovernntent are men of thoDemocratie party. In support and illustration of this assertion, I point to the offices of the Touriial of Commerce, the Day . Book, and other newspapers. I say nothing of the Freeman's Ap peal, which met such an unpropitious response, the ami able and devout editor having been gratifyingly leaded with enperfliions manacles anti consigned to an aniumue eolititde within the wills of Fort Lafayette. EL/mot-cr.] still I believe the author of that infelicitous appeal to be a man thoroughly and implacably sincere, and in no degree infected with the roguery and profligacy which has vitia ted, enfeebled, putrifled the heart and broken the back bone of the Democracy of this State. [Laughter and applause.] In this crisis of the destinies of the American Commonwealth, I have, as a faithful citizen, much to do —much to suffer—and much and exultingly to incur. (Bravos.] I am equal to the exaction of the sacrifice. If this great Republic, so noble, so generous, so truthful, la not to Le upheld, then, say I, there is no hope for manhood and humanity elsewhere; least of all is there hope for Ireland, which has had from this Republic, in the direst extremities of the Irish race, the promptest, staunchest, and moot plenteous succor. ..I, too," said Meagher, am a Jackson Democrat— nothing elest'l [Overwhelming applause.] Then, speaking of the efforts or some I rish Democrats to prevent enlistment, Mr. Meagher said, is it necessary for me to argue with these ungrammatical and unman nerly chisels, and set myself decisively anti defiantly against tbent '1 Is it necessary for me, in order to frus trate-and confound these Northern scavengers of the South and counteract their endeavors to pervert and alienate the manhood of the Irish people In this city— is it necessary for toe to appeal to the gratitude, the good sense, the pride, or the resentments of my man. trymen 1 Is it necessary for me to remind them that, when driven from their own land, broken lu fortune and broken in heart, they came here, and with a thou sand welcomes found thousands of freemen to give them encouraging cud sustaining hands? Is it necessary for me to remind my countrymen that while the Brazils, - Buenos Ayres:, Now Granada, and other fertile and fa. Tering eons are epee to them,, So great Inducements arc held out to them, here, and here alone, can the Irish race, ceasing to be a race of emigrants and exiles, and be coming citizens, reconstruct itself as a political power, and retrieve, in some measure, its historic reputa tion? Is it necessary for rue to remind my countrymen that while at home no Irishman, however chivalrous and courageous, are speak in public the name of Robert Emmet, commending It to the grateful woratip and bene diction of the country, here in America his last speech is to be found in the elocutionary books of the public schools, so that the American boy may be inflamed with patriotism by the recitation of his words anti the contem plation of his death Is it necessary for me to point to the stores and houses you have retired and multiplied in this and other cities, to the canals and railroads you have constructed, to the fields Jon have cultivated, to the forests you. nitre leveled-..is it necessary for mo to point to these achievements and ask my coun trymen if they will permit the notion to be humbled and dishonored where such prodigious industry on their . part has been - expended, and 'such enduring works have been accomplished? Last of all, is it necessary for me to appeal to the resentments .f ply countrymen, the bitter memories of the past, and .' , eirunquenchithie detestation anti hatred of .lingland Is it necessary for me to remind my countrymen that , England iawith the South; and that every blow dealt -against the insurrectionists is a blow dealt against the ancient oppressor, plunderer, and calumniator of the Irish race 'I Arguments and appeals are unneces sary, I feel persuaded, and all the more so since the fol lowing letter comprehends and refutes every obiection Which has an Mot origin and an Irish intlueve. The letter referred to was then read. It was IS violent assault upon Mr.lleaglier, who WAS :said to have been bought over by the Administration. Said the speaker: A reVolutionist in Ireland, T ao a conservative in America. And, what I say of myself, the same do I as sert, not only of my own countrymen, but of the Ger. mans, the French, and other Europeans. Itedroietionista in the Old World, they are conservatives in Ilse New. And why? Because here the prayers and dreams of the revolutionist have been realized, and ho finite those avenues to fortune, renown, social happiness, and poli tical power thrown wide open to him, which in the Old World were beset with so many impediments or were inexorably closed—Om angel of Liberty standing at the gates of the., allonoes, not as the angel stood ut the getee of Paradise, with a sword of Name to deter and repel, but inviting all who approach to enter and min' the adrau- Jambe, the unforbitlden fruits, and liberal splendors, which pervade the great domain. You all remember that in the American Revolution, whilst there woe one gallant Fitzgerald riding as his aid-de-camp beside George Washington, there was ano ther fighting against him, and his name was Lord Ed ward, the noblest of the Geraldines. Ascertain tho right cause, the just cause, the cause of law ; ascertain that cause, and having found it, cling to it, stand by it, strike for it, and die for it. [Screams of delight--throe cheers.] Striho Writs though your brother strike Unititit yeti— die for it, though one-half your people curse you whilst the other givo to your memories their grateful tears and benedictions, [cheers.] Nor should you do otherwise than scout this other cant which the dispensers of bad whisky, from behind their ricketty counters in some cutthroat dens, administer gratuitously by the gallon, the world de priving these gentlemen of their best customers and victims lon bumpter belongs to the American citizens, [cheers,] and the American citizens shall have it. (Yells, "Ay! ay t"3 Fort Pulaski belongs to the American citizens, and we shall have it. The Mint and Custom house of New Orleans belong to us. The. Mississippi. lbe highway of t h e nation, is ours, and, for 3,000 miles and more, there shall be but one flag upon its waters, and but one Government known. The doings of the Sixty-ninth have had competitors io the Twenty-fourth of Pennsylvania. [Cheers.] They have been published to the credit of the Irish TACO, and they hut prefigure what the lath briiiinto rrfll chorfunr undergo and exultingly accomptivb, Mr. Meagher then rebuked Gov. Curtin for interfering with Col. Dorm's regiment. Ile afterwards explained and exculpated Gov. Curtin. I believe sincerely that the Irish regiment, the officers of which appear to-night on this platform, will be with the brigade and will participate in its dangers and its honors. In coneluPion let me assure you, In all sinceri ty, that I shall accompany it even though it he in the humble:it copacity, in any capacity where my ear. ViCl‘A eau be most tiepin!. I shall accompany the Irish brigade with a glad heart, into that field white I trust it shall achieve for the old country, as well an for the new, a reputation in the great contest in which this country is imperilled, and that it shall entitle the defenders of Lexington to rank with Mulligan and his aids, ((applause,] the staunchest defenders of the Ameri can 'Union and the supremacy of the National Magis tracy. [Great cheering.] TIIE ELEcnoNi-The election for a part of the Row officers and for members of the Legislature will be held to-day. But little excitement attends the occa sion, although partisan struggle has been somewhat bit ter in the MC of City Treasurer, Sheriff, and Associate Judge. The result will be announced today at the end of each hour from every pull in the city, in accordance with the requirement of the new election law. Circulars from the different candidates were distributed yesterday throughout the city, soliciting votes. The deputies of the sheriff of the several counties in the State, who have visited the military camps near Washington city, will receiVe every facility in obtaining returns of the elections In the several State regiments. Politicians, however, intent upon sttbserving partisan interests, will be vigorously kept out of the lines. The soldiers that vote will thus be enabled to express their preferences without influences being brought to bear upon them. SERENADE TO A LOYAL TENNESSEAN.—Last evening., a serenade WaS given, at the Continental Hotels to Mr. William M. Carter, of Centro county, Teithemee, a loyal Southerner, formerly A. elayeholdec and property owner, who It In the North, devoting his time and labor to the advancement of the Union came in his State. Mr. Carter arrived in this city yesterday afternoon, from Washington. He left Knoxville on the 14th of July last. Through his agency the Government supplied Ten mw,ses with $200,000 and 20,000 stand of arms. Re leaves direct fur Washington, and from thence to Ida native State. Loo two IJvvGivrs in the army, in Kentucky. at Cann/ JOU Robinson. 111 r, Carter is a Preabyteriait clergyman, a graduate of Princeton College, and is about 45 years of age. Long before the hour arrived for the serenade to take place, an immense crowd assembled in front of the hotel, liergileld's Band, which had been engaged for the oc casion, was to have been at the hotel at 10 o'clock, Thu hour of 11 arrived, and the crowd becoming impatient, loud cries were made for Carter, who soon appeared on the balcony, and was introduced. After a few prelimi nary remarks, he said that, although he had come from a State which professes no longer to be a member of these tinited States, yet he had repudiatal the action of that State. (Loud applause.] Ile did not come to speak or his private troubles, as, in his opinion they were less than nothing when compared with the great public trouble whieb list bOt'll forctil by traitors on our coon. try, The cloud of sorrow which rested on his own brow was not to he compared with that dark cloud which this night overshadowed the Onion. It was hard to realize that, in a portion of our once happy country, there exist ed tonight as complete and perfect a despotism over the action and words of American people as ever ruled over unharmy Austria or Italy. He knew that the truth of *hat lie said could not be realized. We cannot think that Americans have ever been coinyielled to bow to such a despotism. They could not love the old stars and stripes as he had, as our eyes had never seen it trod upon and insulted. We could not feel as he did in standing under that Hag, as it had always been over us for protection, and he had lived under the flag of treason, which he abhorred. [Loud iiPlialind Wt Clad not appreciate free speech at in Ilia State it was only honorable to curse the Union. He would impress upon their minds one great fact. Re had never been a politician, and he hoped it would not be ta ken as offensive, on his part, if he said that in view of their election to-morrow, they cease to be politicians and become patriots. [Cheers.] [At this point the band arrived upon the ground and struck up the 0 Star Spangled Banner."] lifter the band had ceased the speaker continued: My home is in a country (if a home I have on earth) the majority of whose people through me extend to you the hand of fellowship. [lmmenee cheering.] He stood to night as a Southern man and stave-holder, and said: the question of slavery, except in one aspect, had.nothing to do with our prpoeut troubles. That aspect is that ex treme Southern men feel that the limo etar come whoa the people of the slave-holding states themselves will in terfere with that institution. This has been used as a pretext to accomplish the overthrow of the Government. That is the whole secret. During the whole existence of this country, it has been controlled by extreme Southern men, and when Abraham Lincoln was elected President they knew they had lost the control of this Government forvver, [Loud end long continued cheering.] They knew the great. Northwest Lail tilled up, and henceforth the 4, tertudeills" of society would rule the nation. (Renewed cheering.) For the truth of this lie would refer to James Bucha nan, whose name he was sorry to mention in sight of Independence Ilan. Ito was glad, however, he had left no children to inherit his peculiar qualities. [Laughter and applause.] But what is the matter with our countryl The secret of it all is the ion of political power. These men have ruled the nation for year'', and whee they lost the control of it, they felt they could not endure tlio MO! tHicailOH. That is the secret of our t r c l; l4 c , and that is the reason you have some traitors in Philadelphia. The same cause that produced treason at the South will do the same in the North. At a few minutes past 12 o'clock the elpeaker con chided amidst the most uproarious applause. After the performance of one or two patriotic airs, the crowd dis persed. Mr. Carter will leave for Washington to-day. THE CORN EXCHANGE.—The Corn Exchange Association is now one of the institutions of Philadelphia. Commencing in 1854 with thirty-two members, it has in creased to a total of three hundred and one members. The; rooms, at the corner, of Second and Gold streets. are open daily for the transaction of business, between the hours of 10 and 11% o'clock A. M. Ir. the 13111.11:l belt are ranged a large number of tables, upon which the members deposit for exhibition and sale their samples of rye, flour, wheat, corn, barley, malt, etc. On Saturday last, the transactions in flour and wheat alone comprised 5,000 bble. of the former, and 17,000 bushels of the latter. At the close of the slay, a record of the sales and prices is made up by Mr. Stephen N. Winslow, and read from a stand in the middle of the room, so that the raembsra may have a full opportunity of being a postedo as to the extent of the day's operations. Besides those dealing in breadstuffs, other branches of business are represented at these daily matinees—such as whisky, fish, and provision trades. The officers of the association are: President, A. J. Derbyshire; rice president, Archibald Getty; secretary, George Caokman i treasurer, Samuel L. Ward; direc tors, Charles Knecht, Josiah Bryan, C. H. Cummings, Thomas Allman, Joseph Showell, D. It. Wetzlar, Menry Witmer, Nathan Brooke. The association is in Possession of a valuable and handsome library, comprising works on history, biogra phy, science, etc., some of which are of rare antiquity. The books hare been catalogued, classified, and num bered. The first class is comprised of books of reference, which are not to be removed from the library. The se cond class is made up of miscellaneous books, and mem bers have the opportunity of taking them to their homes —a large number of whOnt avail themselves of this pd. vilege, The Corn Exchange Association may be said to repre sent, as it certainly embraces iu its constituency, the leadingmercantile and commercial interests of our city, and, In this aspect, its importance and influence cannot well be overrated. AccmEwm.—Yesterdsy, aroung man maned Edward Faulkner, was seriously injured by being jammed between two freight care in West Philadelphia. Ho was taken to the hospital. A man whose name we could not ascertain had one of his legs mangled in a shocking manner, yesterday after noon, by being run over by a Nifteenth-street passim.. ger railway car. He was conveyed to the hospital. Yesterday afternoon, a lad named GP6bli, Aged flea years, Nl:as serlowly injured by falling from a beard' pile at the North Pennsylvania Railroad depot. ' He was taken home. Tat noun MARKET.—In September, 1796, flour eold in this city at q. 12 per barrel, and' in Seldom her, 18,51, at $3.96 per barrel—theca heina the emstiwaits and minimmil rates of the market for sixty-one years past. In September, 1861, the aecrage price obtained was $5.12. THE BOARD OF CONTROL held an unimport ant meeting yesterday. We have no space for a report. LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COuitt--TUdgea Grier and Cadwalader.—This court assembled yesterday morning, and owing to the large amount of business on hand there was a crowded room. Members of the bar were out in force, and nume rous persons were attracted to the court room by the rumor that the pirate cases would be called for trial. A jury for the Circuit Court was also present. Judge Grier, at the opening of the oourt, de cided the case of Girard et al. vs. The City of Phi ladelphia_, in which the heirs had tabled the point that by the act of Consolidation the corporation mentioned by Stephen Girard no longer existed. The court decided in favor of the City of Phila delphia. Judge Grier inquired if the business in which the United States was interested was ready for trial. Mr. Ashton, assistant District Attorney, replied that, before the close of the week, he thought the cases against the pirates would be ready for trial. Messrs. Wm. B. Reed and Biddle, counsel for Win. 11. Hodgson, proprietor of the lefirsonian newspaper, called the attention of the court to the information filed against the Jeffersonian, by 'which the paper was ottani. They were anxious to have the case alspo.ea of at an early day, The seizure was made under the late act of Congress, declaring property used for the purpose of aiding the present insurrection as lawful subject of prise and oapture. Mr. Biddle read the information, which set forth that on the 16th August the President of the United States issued his proclamation declaring the ex istence of the insurrection ; that on the 30th of Au gust, and "on many days and months" prior, the said Jefersorrian was used with intent to aid, abet, and assist the insurrection. The answer to this raises the question of the constitutionality of the act of ConFreta, and it is also objected to that the in formation was vogue and Indefinite. Judge Grier said it seemed to him that no charge was set out. Mr. Reed replied that neither.he nor hie client had the remotest idea what the charge - was: • Mr. Ashton finally proposed to amend the in formation, and the ease was get down for 'Veinal day. 21,„ Gime of the CArittacare Observer, vrilich Amide in the same position as the Jeffersonzah, Will be taken up at the same time. • U. S. CIRCUIT COURT—Judge Grier.—ln the case of the New York Wire-Railing Company vs. Henry L. Cake lc Co. argued on Saturday, as injunction was granted restraining defendants from selling or transferring any machines or imple• manta which they allege they boughtof Bears en. kiss, and use in menufaotuting wire grating's, Ao., and ordered defendants to Me their answer to the bill within ten days Lenard Myers for Sairitilfsi Furman Shop ford efeadents.
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