THE PRESS. puBLERED DAILY, (SUNDAYS LICONYTED4 BY JOHN W. FORNEY, OFFICE No. 417 QRESTNUT STRUM. DAILY PRESS, TWInAII CENTS PER Walla, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to Subscribers out of the City at SLR COLLARS Pim Amara)+, roan Dota.slo3 roa EMIT 2303/1101 TIMIS DOLLARS FOR Su litortette—invariaby to minute for the time ordered. THE TRIWEEKLY PRESS, Mailed to Subscribers out or the City at Tama* Dot, UM Pas Alarm, in advance COMMISSION HOUSES. WILLIAMS' FLANNELS ANGOLA, MERINO, SAXONY, Zro firABIOITS WIDTHS AND QUALITIES. For sale by WELLING, COFFIN ,W,Co. aux.fmw3. WELLING, COFFIN, & CO., No. 116 CHESTNUT annum. -Offer, br the Package, the following Makes and Deacrip. lions of Geode: PRINTS. DUNNELL NM CO. - GREENE MFG. CO BLEACHED COTTONS. Bay Mill, Lonsdale, hope, Blackstone, Greene Mfg. 00., 'Gad Bank, Mariposa, Jamestown, Slatonwille, Belvidere. / Centredsle, BROWN COTTONS. Fredonia, Ohio, Groton, Silver Spring, Glenville, Eagle, Lfechanics' and Farmers' Union, &c. CORSET JEANS.—Glasgow, 'Manchester. DENIMS AND STRIPES.—Grafton, Jewett City, Madison, Siateraville, Agawam, Kenton°, Chootavh CATtiIDN FLANNELS.--Slateraville, Agawam, Shep. yard's. filtiESlAS.—Smith's, Lonsdale, Diamond UM WOOLENS. ALIMIET BLUE CLOTHS AND HSHSEYS. BROAD CLOTHS.—DoWinleria, Pomeroeery anthems Company. CASSIMERES AND DOESKlNS.—Greenfteld, Gay's, Stearns'. SATINETS.—Base 'River, Crystal Springs, Conyers vine, Hope, Staffordrille, Converse and Hyde, Con verse Brothers, Bridgewater. iflannels, Lingeys,Kentucky Jean% Nankeen% Tie Mao, Colored Cambries, Printed Cloakings, &o. anfifsnwara FROTELINGHAM & WELLS, 34 SOUTH FRONT AND 35 LETITIA STREET, OFFER FOR SALE .GOWN AND BLEACHED SEMETINGS, SHIRTINGS, DRILLS, JEANS, SILECIAS, CANTON FLANNELS, FROM THS !MASSACHUSETTS, GREAT PALLB .LACORIA,, EVERETT, LOW ELL, aswica, HAMPDEN, LIKEWISE, A FULL ASSORTMENT OF I`3RAWLS, BEAVER CLOTHS, TRICOTS, CASSIMERES, FLANNELS, TWEEDS, BLANKETS, AND ARMY GOODS, FROM THE WASHINGTON (Lers BAY si..erg,) BIN OMB MILLS. oel-3m 48111PLEY, HAZARD, & IHUTCHINSON, No. 11l CHUM= STREET, OOMMISSION M BOHANTS ron Tay semi or PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. tre28402 IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS. FALL SEASON. 1861. W S. STEWART & CO. Importers and Jobbers of SILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS, NO. 303 MARKET STREET. .BROWN AND BLACK REPELLANTS. BROIVN AliD SLACK, (VERY DESIRABLE,) ALSO, OTHER CLOTHS, FOR CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS. A LALGE INVOICE of the above Goode just re. ceived. ocs-tf CLOTHS AND CASSIHERES. NET CASH CLOTH STORE.— _ ELLIS 8c I-lARROP,, NO. 225 MARKET STREET, UP STAIRS. A new and desirable Tall Stock of Cloths, Cessirneres, "Feelings, &c., sold low for cash, in lengths to alit pur chasers. ael6-1m CLOAKS AND MANTILLAS. ENGLISH WATER-PROOF CLOAKS. (AQUASCUTUM.) BLACK-MIXED CLOAKS, GRA.Y.MTTED CLOAKS, BROWN-MIXED CLOAKS, CLARET-MIXED CLOAKS, OPENING :EVERY MORNING J. W. PROCTOR eic Co., 708 CHESTNUT STREET LOOKING GLASSES. IMMENSE REDUCTION nt LOOKING GLASSES. OIL . PAINTrtiGI3, ENGBAVINGt3, .riaTirßE AND PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES. JAMS S. EARLE & SON, 816 OHRSTEIIT STREET. -Announce the reduction of 2S per cent. in the prices of ell Manufactured Stock of Looking Glasses ; also, in riSnitnavings, Picture and Photograph Frames, Oil Paint ings. Tile largest and most elegant assortment in the • eountrY. A rare opportunity is now offered to make pug abases in this line For Cash, at remarkably Low Prices EARLE'S GALLERIES. ; r ats 816 CHESTNUT street. CABINET FURNITURE. CIABINET FURNITURE AND ILIBIL LIARD TABLES. MOORE & CAMPION, No. 281 South SECOND Street, Connection with their exteiudve Cabinet Huainan are sew manufacturing a impeder article of BUZZARD TABLES, And have now on hand a full supply, finished with the SWORE & CAMPION'S IMPROVED CUSHIONS, which are pronounced, by a who have used them, to be puperior to ell others. For the Quality and finish of these Tables the manu facturers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the Hnion who are funnier with the character of their work. 11121-61 n HARDWARE. HARDWARE. MOORE, JIMMY, & CO Have now on hand, and are constantly receiving, a large assortment of HARDWARE, CUTLERY, GUNS, ac., to whiclvthey invite the attention of purchasers for cash or abort credit No. 427 MARKET Street, and oeB-2m No. 416 COMMERCE Street, PJiUada HARDWARE AND CUTLERY, cheap for Cash and short Credit, by MOOSE HEMET, 427 SUBSET Street, Philadelphia. NAM t NAILS ! - NAILS !—Har— riaburig Watt Depot ? WO COMMERCE SZ. Tl4O best Nails manufactured for 82.66 cash. All sizes. • 8e23-1M W. W. KNIGHT & SON & CO. BUSINESS NOTICES. TORN WELSH, Practical SLATE Elf BOMBE, THIBM_ Street and MaglitaßTOWN Smol t M prepared tO not on any amount of worm. itio mots ELOVERATE TEM. gaszents tek snake every Building perfectly Water-tight. w Orders promptly attended to, EVANS & WATSON'S menterins ELM& STORE, 16 SOUTH TOUR.TH STREET, PIIILADELPIIIA, PA. A large variety et Y1614E007 SATES always on hand. (lOTTON BAIL DUCK and CAN VAS, of all numbers and brands. Raven's Dock Awning Twills, of all descriptions, for Tents, Awnings, Trunks, and Wagon Covers. Also, Paper Manufacturers' Drier Felts, from Ito $ feet wide. WOWED& Belting, Ban Twine, ltc. MIK W. EVIORMAN CO., say4-if i 9 J ON JONAS Alley. LYMAN, DWIGHT, CABOT, CHICOPEE, end BARTLET MILLS • 1 iftetz _ T • - • e„,,h. • • .7' - wati .11:1'. 7.4•1 t, • - - - - • _ • [ re . • ~• 4,0 • VOL. 5. - NO. 58. MILLINERY GOODS. MRS. H. WRIGHT, 41 4 1 - No. 137 PINE. STREET, WILL OPRIC FASHIONABLE MILLINERY, ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10Tu, 1861 ocB-3t* SOMETHING NEW AT KENNEDY'S FRENCH FLOWER AND FEATHER EMPORIUM, No. T 29 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW EIGHTH 0c5.3m MILLINERY OPENING. CITY BONNET STORE," NO. 725 CHESTNUT STREET OPENING DAY, Thursday, October 3, 1861. LINCOLN, WOOD, Sr, NICHOLS, NO. 725 CHESTNUT STREET ABILINERY AND • • „, STRAW GOODS. ROSENHEIM, BROOKS, 8c C 0.,. 431 MARKET STREET, z,, Invite the attention of MERCHANTS AND MILLINERS rF To their wel-assorted stock of RIBBONS, BONNET SILKS, VELVETS, FLOWERS, STRAW GOODS, and every other article in their line. A superior brand of BLACK VELVET RIBBONS sel3-2m Always on hand. INERY GOODS, of the latest Milt's and fashions, now open at my store, and will be sold cheaper than anywhere, for cash. Milliners and Merchants are invited to call and examine before pur chasing elsewhere. BEEN/Mat aelt-lm No. THIRD btreeti above Market. N. B.—Six per cent. discount deducted for cash. MISSES 0' BRYA N, 914 CHESTNUT, will open PARIS MILLINERY for the Fell on THURSDAY, October 3. oc2-12t* CARPETINGS. NEW CARPETING. JAMES H. ORNE, Chestnut st., below 7th, SOUTH SIDE. Now opening from the New York Auction Room, • large lot of CROSSLEY'S ENGLISH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, which will be sold from 80 CTS. TO $1 PER YARD. Also, a complete assortment of allthermietiss of CAB. PETING, of OtTIC OWN ratrOATAT/Olfs COM , prising CROSSLEY'S WILTON ft VELVET CARPETING TEMPLETON'S AXMINSTER do. HENDERSON'S DAMASK AND - TWILLED VENETIANS Also, a large variety of ENGLISH BRUSSELS, im— ported under the old duty, which will be - soll at low prices. Included in our stock win be found a complete assort ment of INGRAIN AND TRNEE-PLY CARPETING. OIL CLOTH FROM 1 TO 8 YARDS WIDE. JAMES H. ORNE. 626 CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW SEVENTH ocs-Im FOURTH -STREET CARPET STORE, No. 47, ABOVE CHESTNUT, I am now offering my stock of ENGLISH CARPETINGS, EMBRACING EVERY VARIETY AND STYLE. Imported expressly for City Retail Sales, at Prices LESS THAN PRESENT COST OF IMPORTATION. J. T. DELACROIX. sel9-2m G LEN ECHO MILLS, GERMANTOWN, PA. McCALLUM & MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS, AND DEALERS. 509 CHESTNUT STREET, CARPETINGS ) OIL CLOTHS, &O. We have now on hand an extensive stock of Carpet- Inge of our own and other makes, to which we call the attention of cash and short time buyers. sell-2m NEW Q ARP ETING - 8. J. F. & E. B. ORNE, No. 519 CHESTNUT STREET—OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE, Are now opening, from Custom Roue Stores, their PALL IMPORTATIONS NEW CARPETINGS 1,000 pieces J. CROSSLEY & SONS' TAPESTRY CARPETS, from 87-1 OTS. TO $1 PER YD 5.4 TAPESTRY VELVET; FRENCH AUBUSSON; FINE AXHINSTER; ROYAL WILTON,* EXTRA ENGLISH - BRIISSELS; HENDERSON de CO.'s YENITIAN; ENGLISH INGRAIN CARPETS; ALL OF NEW CHOICE STYLES. Mfg HATING BEEN INVOICED BEFORE THE LATE ADVANCE IN THE TARIFF, Will be sold at MODERATE PRICES. ,n29-2m CHEAP CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, AND WINDOW SHADES.—V. E. ARCEIAM BAULT, N. E. corner ELEVENTH and MARKET Streets, will open, from auction, this morning, Ingrain Climate, wool filling ' 25, 31, and. 37 cents Ingrain Car pets, all wool, 37", 45, 60, and 62 cents; Entry and Stair Carpets, 12, 18, 25, 31, 37, 50, and 62 cents; Hemp, Yarn, and Rag Carpets, 18, 25, 31, and 37 mite; Floor Oil Clothe, al, 37, 45, and 50 cents; Gilt-Bordered Win dow Shades, 50, 62, 75, and 87 cents; Green and Buff Window Holland, &c. Cheap Dry Goods and Carpet Store, N. E. corner ELEVENTH and MARKET oc3-12t1 WINES AND LIQUORS. CLARET.-100 Casks Claret ex-slap David, from Bordeaux, for vale in bonded ward house by JATfRETCHE do CABSTAIRS, 202 and 204 South FRONT Street. ocl-tf PORT WINE.---111 Quarters and 43 octaves DeMuller Port, for lode from Cott= MmHg Mores by JAIIRETCRE & CARSTAIRB, 202 and 204 South FRONT Street. ocl-tf PIIRE PORT WINE. DUQUE DO PORTO WINE, BOTTLED IN PORTUGAL IN 1820. Phyeicians and invalids in want of a reliable article of pure Port Wine can be supplied by inquiring for the above wine at CANTWELL & KEFFER'S, Southeaet corner GERMANTOWN Avenue and MASTER Street. HENNEBSY, VINE-YARD PRO twisters, Bisqult, Tricoche & Co., Marett, Pinet, and other approved brands of COGNAC! BRANDY, for sale, in bond and from store, by CANTWELL & REMISE, southeast corner GERMANTOWN Avenue and MASTER Street. STUART'S PAISLEY MALT WHIS ICY. Buchanan's Coal IlaWbisky, Old Tom Gin, Old London Gin, London Cordial Gin, Bohlen'SGin, In bond and store. ' • CANTWELL & KEEFER, ' • Southeast corner QBZWANTOWN Avenue and lILLSTSIt Street. 70UAVE CHAMPAGNE.—A new brand—ari excellent article. rmported and for sale at a price to suit the times, by CANTWELL & KBE FEB, southeast corner of GERMANTOWN Avenue and MASTER Street. RUDESITEIMER-BERG, LAUBEN- FirmER T and HOCKIIRIMIM WINE, in 041103 Of one dozen bottles each; warranted pure. Imported and for sale low lir CANTWELL at KEENER, south east corner GEBBIAITTOW.N Avenue and MASTER Street. "ZIMMERMAN'S DRY CATAWBA WlNE.—This approved brand of Cincinnati wine, the best article out for U cobblers." for sale pure, bot tled awl in cadet, by CANTWELL & KEEFER, eolith. out corner GERMANTOWN avenue and MASTER street. ee24-6ce DRY-GOODS JOBBERS. 1861. F G 1861. 0 E FALL 0 D I - 1 S. RIEGEL, BAIRD, & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, NO. 47 NORTH THIRD snrcr, PHILADELPHIA. Prompt-paying merchants are respectfully invited to examine our large and carefully-se lected stock of desirable goods, which will be sold at prices to suit the times. JAMES, KENT, SANTEE, & Go., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS' OF DRY GOODS, Nos. 230 and 241. North THIRD Street, above Race, Have now open their usual LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK. OF FORE/GIN AND DOMESTIC GOODS, Among which will be found a general assortment of PIILLADELPHIA-MADE GOODS. Wir CASH BUYERS SPECIALLY INVITED. eel7-2m THOMAS MELLOR & CO., • Noe. 40 and 42 NORTH THIRD Street, HOSIERY HOUSE, LINEN IMPORTERS and SHIRT-FRONT MANUFACTURERS Importations direct from the Manufactories. sell-2m 1861. TO CASH BUYERS. 1861 . H C. LAUGHLIN 8e Co.. No. 803 MARKET STREET, Are receiving daily, Gera the PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK AUCTIONS, a general assortment of MERCHANDISE, bought for CASH. CASH BUYERS are especially invited to call and ex amine our Stock. say-tf 1861. FA LL 0-00D5.1861 . FRESH ASSORTMENT. DALE, ROSS. & CO.. 521 MARKET STREET, Have received, and are now opening, a fresh stock of FALL & WINTER GOODS which will be mold low for CASH and on short credits. Kr Buyers are respectfully invited to call and ex.. amine our stock. au3l-2m MILITARY. GOODS. BLUE CLOTHS, BLUE BEAVERS, BLUE TRICOTS, . BLUE -CASSIMERES, BLUE FLANNELS. MORRIS, CLOTHIER, & LEWIS, s'y B uth ANCOND Strcat, od-fitt FAST SIDE. ARMY WOOLLENS. FELLING, COFFIN, & Co., 116 CHESTNUT STREET, Are prepared to deliver on contract 3-4 and 6-4 Dark and Sky Blue CLOTHS AND KERSEYS. be6.am INDIGO BLUE EERSEYS. INDIGO BLUE CLOTHS,' And every variety of Goods adapted to Military Clothing for eats et the lowest prices. REGIMENTS EQUIPPED AT SHORT NOTICE. BENJ. L. BERRY, CLOTH HOUSE, 60 SOUTH SECOND STREET. ocb• Int ARMY FLANNELS. WELLING, COFFIN, Sr, CO., JIG CHESTNUT STREET, Are prepared to make contracts, for immediate delivery, of WHITE DOMET FLANNELS, AND ALL WOOL INDIGO BLUE FLANNELS, of Government standard. oc4•tf ANDREWS' ORIGINAL CAMP, OR TRAVELLING BED TRUNK. (rum applied for). . Tomsk by W. A. ANDMWS, 0r2.1m ' No. 612 CHESTNUT Street. ARMY OR NAVY BLUE SATINETS. 5,000 or 8000 Yards Indigo Mo Satinet, such as h axed in the United States Serb For sale by FROTHINGHAM & WELLS, 30 LBTITIA Street, and atl4-2m 4frlit, 34 irsorrr Street. CCbTTON _DUCK, SUITABLE FOR TENTS, YOB SALE BY my22-iftf FROTHINGRAM a WELLS. AWNINGS. AWNINGS ! AWNINGS ! JOSEPH H. FOSTER. 443 NORTH THIRD STREET. At the old-establiehed Stand can be obtained, at the aborted notice, AWNINGS FLAGS, TENTS, SAILS, If•Ht!;;7 ;SACKING -BOTTOMS, WAttON•COVEItS,' BAGS, &e. AWNINQS of every description, plain and fancy, of the beet quality. oc4-6t CHINA AND QUEENSWARE. FALL, BOYD. & STROUD. No. 32 NORTH 'FOURTH STREET, HAVE NOW THEIR USUAL LARGE STOOK ON RAND, To Whi ♦ ch they invite the attention of OA9II BUYERS. SYRUP MOLASSES OF FINEST QUALITY, strictly Choice Porto Rico Molasses, Muscovado and Sugar House Molasses, Prime and Roasting Rio, White and Green Laguayra, Maracaibo, and St. Domingo Coffee. Best Lump and Southern Tobacco, F,racive and Detersive Soaps. Also, Refined Cubs and Porto Rico Sugar, in gore awl for sole byPHILIP REILLY et CO. _ _ . QC -13t* VQ. 7 lic.rth WAZZA §triet. ' • ' 4.14, , OCTOBER 8, 1861. t ;11 rns. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1861. The following copy of a letter addressed to the President of the United States by Colonel E. F. Beale, present surveyor general of Cali fornia, so well known in Pennsylvania and Virginia, will be read with pleasure, alike for its noble spirit and cheering example. In a letter to a personal friend, which came by the same mail, Colonel Beale says as nothing could be more delightful or agreeable to me than the office I hold, at least in California; neverthe less, I feel that if my services are required this is no time to withhold them from my country. I have been looking forward with the keenest delight to two or three years of rest after so many long ones of hardship, but I will cheerfully put off my time of rest still longer, or find eternal rest in an honorable grave, under the old flag. I conscientiously believe that the fate of the commons of the world depends upon the issue of the struggle ; , and I am willing, if need be, to devote my - life , to the great cause of the people :" SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 24,1861. A short time ago you did me the honor to appoint me to a most important and responsible position, for which I beg you to accept my grateful acknOwledg inent. Under any ether condition of public affitirth , lon have left me nothing to desire; but to the flag under which I have received honorable wounds— under which my father and grandfather fought for the honor and glory of the country—l think I owe something more, in this hour of trial, than a mere performance of duty in a positionof ease and quiet. To the Government, I owe early education and support; for I entered its service almost a child, and I feel towards it a filial affection and gratitude. All that I have, even my life, I owe to it, and it is a debt I am willing gratefully and cheerfully to discharge. From fourteen to twenty-five, my life was passed at sea, and for the past fifteen years principally on the great plains and in the Rocky Mountains. I served during the Mexican war, and at its close resigned, and have been engaged in many expedi tions of some importance since. I know that lam resolute, patient, and active, and if I had not cou rage Pay lova of country would supply the want of it in such a time as this. Devoted to my country, and owing it everything I have in the world, I write to offer my services to you in any capacity you may wish to use them until the present rebellion is crushed out of the land. You cannot add to the distinction you have al ready conferred on me by any appointment, for there is none within your gift more distinguished or more honorable, nor do I desire any change ex cept that I may more efficiently serve the United States. In a word ; I wish. simply to offer my life for the flag. 'With great respect, your obedient serv't. C. F. BEALE. His Excellency the President of the United States. LETTER MON WASHINGTON. [From our Special Correspondent.] WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 1861. I sometimes wonder whether we ever have a Sab bath in Washington. I hardly think so. Perhaps it is because people don't pray in war times ; or, perhaps, in the awful presence of universal death we can hardly think of the future, of the life to come, which is the idea of all religion, I can hardly conceive anything more inviting than a ramble on Sunday afternoon, and the last has been very au tumnal and yet very genial. There was Octobor in the morning air, in the heavy skies, and the dreari ness that seemed to hang over everything—a sad ness, but still very attractive and inviting; a so lemn thing, which it was no joy to think about, and yet cherished for its very gloem. All this wore away with the day, and, with eke shadowy hours of the afternoon, we had summer again. The Avenue was very busy, and more sol diers tramped its horribly-paved street than we have been - accustomed to see—erowoa -Wen in fresh uniforms, with a deal blue and fresh red, which had yet to seethe camp wear and tear. They were strangers, and, in their anxiety to enjoy the capital sights, had escaped from the discipline the ranks, and were rambling 'among the public buildings, through the grounds, and curiously prowling about the Capitol pillars, the monument, and that unique and attractive combination of sober stone, the Smithsonian. The patrol-guard was their evil genius. It followed them wherever they went, hovered over them wherever they stepped, and ar rested them whenever within bayonet range. I saw them go to the guard-house by dozens, and many who set out to see the beauties of the metro polis passed their sight-seeing hours in the narrow walls of the military prison. Washington is the city of promenading. If you want to visit a friend, you'll be as apt to see him on the Avenue as at home—for I am sometimes in I doubt whether, after all, this Avenue is not the home of most of our inhabitants. It is a kind of mutual admiration arrangement. People all go out to see and be seen. If you see a pretty face once, you'll see it a dozen times, passing and repassing. Gay officers in full dress, with a heavy sash and clank ing sabres, who go jaunting along, half walking, half creeping, a hesitating, rollicking manner, constantly attitudinizing, and wearing that anxious, seemingly careless and indifferent expression which people always wear when they want people to notice them, when they think everybody is noticing them, and when they wish it to appear as if they were indifferent to any attention or observation whatever. These fellows have it all their own way. There is no chance for broadcloth. If yea are a civilian and have any respect for your feel ings, keep away from Washington. I know some handsome young men, whecamo here with a repu tation which would have taxed the narrative powers of Leporello—only to find that the charms of their manner had departed, and the mute eloquence of the uniform had revolutionized the capital. As for myself, I don't know what the country is coming to, and I am afraid I shall have to join the army in despair. This war has its romance sometimes, and when I say romance, I mean its heart-scenes. An inci dent occurs to me, of which I have been thinking a great deal lately. It was some three or four weeks ago, and on just such a Sunday evening as any poet or preacher could wish, and with a friend I was strolling up a suburban avenue, chatting about matters forgotten. We passed an encamp ment, alive with soldiers, and garrisoned by the inevitable sentinels. The soldiers were in huts, and not In tents, and behind one of the huts a num ber of them had gathered to observe the day_ They were singing some hymn, which I don't re member, something very simple and expressive, and which I had often heard before, telling shoat Canaan, and happiness, and the promised land. I shall never forget the impression it gave me, for I surely felt that in the heavy, rough voices of the soldiers, their strange earnestness, their utter dis regard of the melody or the meter, and the re verence they seemed to feel for the teachings and consolations of the simple rhyme, there was more real religion and solemnity than ever burst from the organ's pipes through the lopg-drawn aisle and fretted vault The hotels are a Washington institution. Here you see life. If you are a Kosmos, like Walt Whitman, you can gratify your spirit of observa tion and. inquiry. Everybody seems to have drop ped in to hear the news; everybody has a rumor; and everybody confidentially assures you that he has just had it from "high authority." Small politicians, large politicians, generals, colonels, captains, lieutenants, contractors, correspondents, pickpockets, office-seekers, hackmen, waiters, boot blacks, detective policemen, cabinet ministers, quiet lookers-on—a perfect tide of the odds and ends of humanity; the greatest and the smallest always rushing and rolling, always on the flow and know ing no ebb. The office-hunters are in abundance— impudent, suspicious, talkative fellows, who seem to be engaged in a general cross-examination of eve rybody they meet; who study the bill-of-fare as if it was a badly-written commission; quarrel with the waiters about the age of the beefsteak, and titiestiorn in the loudest possible terms, the integ rity of the mashed potatoes, or the reality of the Verzenay. They are a jealous, strange, queer race. No one dislikes an office-seeker more than an office-seeker; and no one denounces the practice of hunting positions more loudly than the very men who come on that self-same errand. They have got the nicest possible way of presenting their case. I have known some hundreds of them, and not guy has ever naked an office. If a ilepUblieall, be wants his services to be repaid, and the integ rity of the party maintained ; if a Douglas man, he merely wants to be recognized ; a follower of Bell and Everett simply asks an encouragement; while the Breokinridge man modestly begs the op portunity of showing his loyalty in one of the de partments, or as a commissary, sutler, or quarter master. They all have their elaims upon Mr. Lin coln; or, as one of them quaintly expressed him self aomo days ago, " I am willing enough to sup port the Government if the Government will only support me." Since Mr. Lincoln has come into office we learn how Mr. Buchanan signally failed in his effort to punish the Douglas Democracy who held office un der him. Perhaps you think that J. B, took or the heads of all of those who sustained the lamented= statesman. You are all mistaken. Buchanan was mistaken, the country was mistaken, the decapi tated Democracy was miataken. They were all Douglas men, every one of them. They held office under Buchanan, to be sure, but still they were Douglas men. They joined in the work of pro scription, they supported Lecompton, they removed the price of treason to the Demooratio party; but they were all Douglas men still. They write their Donglasism in the longest and most elaborate sen tences on petitions asking to be retained in office, and they plead their devotion to him as an argu ment for their recognition. Everybody thought them false, but everybody was mistaken, for now we find they were true. If Douglas bad only had as many friends in his life as he has now asking of lee in his name, he would have been elected Presi dent last November by an overwhelming majo rity. J. R. Y. 1861. A Patriotic Letter. THE REBELLION. Interesting News from all Parts of the South. AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI. THE PROSPECTS OF A BATTLE. TEE WAR IN KENTUCKY. PLANS OF THE REBELS The British Steamer Bermuda. JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE ALIVE AND IN VIRGINIA. Latest from Fortress Monroe. Miscellaneous War News. &c. &c. &c. SOUTHERN NEWS. [From the Richmond Examiner of Friday, Oct. 5.] lion. John C. Breckinridge in Virginia. LYNCHBURG, Oct. 4.—lion. John C. Breckinridge and other Kentuckians were at Abingdon yester day. It is understood that Mr. Breckinridge will resign has scat In the United "States Senate, issue an address to the people of Kentucky, and actively engage in the war. It is believed that he will be in Richmond in a few days. Federal Vessels off New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Oet. 4.—The sloop-of-war Vin cennes, a large propeller, the steamer Water Wit c k, another sloop-of-war, a schooner, and a pilot boat are now at Head Passes. Goy. Brown, of Georgia, Re-elected. AUGUSTA, Oct. 4.—Joseph E. Brown has been elected Governor of Georgia by a majority of be tween five and ten thousand. . Yankee Prlsoners at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4.—The prisoners arrived this evening, and were marched to prison under an escort. SMes of Cotton at New Orleans. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 4.—Cotton sales of the week 415 bales. Low middling to middling, 81aSle. Stock 11,500 bales. Whisk.y, 75a80e. The Potomac Lute—Crossing of the Ene my at Occoquan. Information was obtained yesterday, through officiardeskttches, that the enemy had crossed the Potomac, in considerable force, in the neightrir hood of Occoquan. The object of their crossing is understood to be to essay tho capture of some of our river batteries, although circumstances, which it would not he proper now to mention, indicate that the invading form), said to be ten thousand strong, are not advised of the locality of our works on the Potomac. Before the day closes it is probable that the enemy will be attacked. Movementt of John C. Breekinridge and Gov. Navalin. The telegraph brings us the gratifying intelli gence that Vice President Breckinridge and Go vernor. Magothn have retreated to Owen county, and have there made a stand, assisted by the mili tary experience of Colonel Humphrey Marshall. Owen was the banner county for Mr. Breckinridge in the late Presidential election, giving him some twelYe Or Kurteen hundred majority, and is to. day almost unanimous for Seessnon. It was the county Which gave the mammoth barbecue on the sth of last month to Clement Vallandigham, where there were ten thousand people. Owen has a strong military position between the Kentucky and Licking rivers, in a high rolling country, forty Miles below Cincinnati, separated from the Ohio river by the Bagle and Ten Mile creeks, and distant ten miles frona,the river. These streams have abrupt bluff banks, sometimes rising to the height of three hundred feet, and are passa ble at very few places. Owen is also surrounded by the strong Secession and populous counties of Scott, Harrison, Grant, Pendleton, Boone, Gallatin, Carroll, and Henry, 12111.1[1.0 .. co ispruation of aovonty-five thousand, cape le of furnishing ten thousand volun teers. Besides this, it is in the heart of central Kentucky, and accessible to the chivalric young pen of tlatmountabratopea l and of the eastern and nortLern pg*Ft of the State. We can safely, th ere. fore, rely on Magofftn and Breckinridge, assisted by such aids as Colonel Marshall and Colonel George W. Johnston, nephew of "Old Tecumseh," main taining their position until Generals Johnston and Buckner shall arrive before Louisville, on their way to Cincinnati. Shipment of Cotton to New Orleans to be Stopped. We learn that petitions are being circulated in New OlieflDS praying the Governor to take instant and effective measures to arrest the shipinent of cot ton from the.plantations to the city. The stock now on hand in the city is reported to be 10,883 bales— a small beginning, but dangerous as a beginning of a violation of a public policy and duty. Northern Expedition Against Pensacola. A gentleman, arrived South from New York, states that the Lincoln , eovermnent have fitted out vessels for an expedition against Fernandina, Pen sacola, and a port en the coast of Georgia. The vessels are to carry 20,000 men. Bacon and Leather not to be Exported from North Carolina. We referred, some time ago, to'the proclamation of the Governor of North Carolina, prohibiting the deportation from the State by dealers of the articles of bacon and leather. We learn that, in pursuance of this proclamation, a large quantity of bacon and leather, en route for Virginia, the property of spe culators, was seized at the depot of the North Caro lina Railroad, in Raleigh. Another quantity of bacon, bought on speculation, and destined for a point out of the State, has been seized at High Point. These are measures of severity, although it is high time to resist and punish the multitude of speculations, intent on taking selfish advantage of the necessities of the country. Sequestration of Yankee Property. Active measures are said to be in progress in New Orleans for the expropriation of Yankee property, under the provisions of the sequestration act. Mr. William B. Astor and George Opdyke, of New York, are said to be largely interested -In the real estate of New Orleans. The former has also been dis covered to be the owner of six hundred shares'of the stook of the Bank of Louisiana, worth, in ordi nary timer, $l5O per share_ A close end searching scrutiny will be necessary to discover the sleeping and silent partners of many of our South4rn arms. Soldiers Arrived. Two companies arrived yesterday from Texas, having started a month since—the Anis, from Wash ington county, Captain Robinson, 100 strong, and Polk County Yankee Hunters, Capt. J. R'. Turner, 100 men. They are the last two companies of the two regiments called for by the President's procla mation. A Richmond Union Man. A lady, who recently returned from Richmond Virginia, relates this incident : Col. Payne, United States army, and for many long Teen tt friend of Glen. 'Scott, had excited a reluctant admiration there on account of his perse vering and immovable determination not to desert the stars and striPes. No bribes ' or threats, or liattery!could shake him; he had the Napoleonic temperament, " like a block of marble, over which the thunder-shaft'lided along, leaving no impres sion." Jefferson Davis, and all the distinguished men of his kingdom, visited the old stAXI, and sought to reason .him out of his fealty, but in vein j and even a lady, to whom he was once engaged, was commissioned to weep over him, but the old man's heart replied, if his lips did not, «I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more." Finally, the dog showed his teeth ; property be longing to him, to the amount of $50,000 or so, was threatened. " Let it go," said the aged soldier. At latest observations this planet, overawing the night of Secession, was not in obscuration. State of Affairs at the South. The Louisville Journal, of Saturday, says : We learn from a gentleman who left New Orleans about ten days since that, fearing an at tack, great efforts are being made to plane that city in a condition to resist any force that may be brought against it. One hundred sixty-four-pound Cannon arrived a few days before he left the eity, and were being mounted in various localities. lie represents the finances of the city in a deplorable condition, Confederate scrip, city scrip, and scrip of small merchants forming the circulating medium. The banks having suspended specie payment, gold could not be obtained for Jess than 14 per cent. premium. The troops in and around the city did not number over 800. Great reliance is placed upon the citizens in ease of invasion, but our in formant is of the opinion that a largo majority would rejoice at theprospeet of being placed again under the protection of the stars and stripes. Large numbers of troops are coming from Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas into Tennessee and Ken tucky. They are poorly clad and mostly unarmed. The poor men of the South have nothing to do, and are compelled to join the army to obtain food. He was told by came of the Confederate army that there were 40,000 troops at Columbus, u and that their design was to take Paducah. From what he saw of the troops in Tennessee and Ken tucky, he was of the opinion that every able-bodied loyal man in Kentucky would be required, as well as all that could be obtained from the Bord.er States, to check the progress of Buckner Ss Co. The subjoined Southern extracts we gather AVM different sources: Military Hospitals at Richmond. The Enquirer has an interesting artiole on tike military hospitals in Riehmond, where only male nurses are employed. Five hundred prisoners have been treated at the hospital on Maine street, inder,cliarge of Dr. Higginbotham, from June 28 to September 27. Of these, three hundred wounded experienced a mortality of .096, and two hundred sick, not wounded, lost a per centage of .06, the two categories together .082; being forty-one deaths, of. which. were from sickness, with out wounds. Here,Dr. Higginbotham has en foreed personal cle anliness and discipline. It is the only one of the large hospitals of its class which, has been furnished with bath tube. The sick prisoners, when refractory, are compelled to make use of them, and such as engender vermin aro made decent in spite of themselves. One of their own number is made to keep watch over each bath tub, to prevent the rest from abusing it. Tbe Byrd Island Hospital. at Gilham'S factory, which - , as well as the almshouse, is beautifully situated, airy and capacious, states on its books a mortality of only three per cent., or 15 deaths to 600 patients between August 15 and September 20, or rather to 400 patients, as about 100 'were sent away during their illness—increasing the per cent age of deaths to .0375. The Almshouse Hospital book has 240 entries for the month of August, and 39 deaths recorded— making a per tentage of .0946, on 373, the whole number of patients treated. By reports rendered to Surgeon General Moore, however, the aggregate of Confederate soldiers treated in August was 269, and that of Federal prisoners 271 7 -together 540 which, after substruction of those sent away to other hospitals, Ac., leaves still nearly 500, and re duces the percentage of mortality to .078. Bellevue, Dr. James Bolton's hospital, treated, from May 4 to September 25, 127 soldiers ; had re turned 78 to duty, retained 37, and had buried 12. The Medical College Hospital, the property of a corporation which boards a large number of Con federate patients, shows entries for the months of July, August, and September of 456, and deaths 38, or .078 per cent. The actual number of pa tients at one time lately was 100. The relative mortality is due, in part, to the number of almost dying men brought in from the camp-ground of the Tenth Louisiana Regiment. This is only. a. par ticular instance of a neglect excessively frequent, and to which thousands of precious lives. hare-been sacrificed. The average mortality of the large hospitals cited is more than double that of the ladies' private hospitals. The illness of an officer in charge at the St. Charles Hospital has rendered it too difficult to ob tain statistics of that institution—a noble charity of the city of Richmond, managed by an association of gentlemen, and which has extended itsprotection to from :10 to 450 soldiers at once, withut:tholnak.— - Wide montbs. North Carolina Green Tea. The Washington (N. C.) Di:Tarok announces that Mr. Selby Spencer, of Hyde county, has suc ceeded in raising ten or twelve bushels of grew tea—the veritable China tea—on his premises the " fresent year. The seed were obtained years ago rom an English captain, and the Dispatch thiniEd that Mr. Spender's empeklment demonstrates that it can be successfully raised in North Carolina. it is said to make a beverage nearly equal to the China tea. Winter Clothing for Soldiers. . Georgia (says the Enquirer) has set a noble ex ample in providing for the winter clothing and com fort of her soldiers. at an expense of about $200,- 000. She has 30,000 in the field-20,000 being in Virginia. Some of the Georgia ladies also have most generously proposed that, if the soldiers will send a part, or the whole, of their commutation money to their sewing associations, they will pur chase cloth and make up the clothes without charge. This expedient will at least avoid the skinning of our soldiers by the tradesmen. The Preachers' Regiment. A regiment of troops, from the southern part of tbe State, passed up last Sunday, en route for the seat of war, and should properly be styled the Preachers' Regiment. The Colonel, Bradley, from Pine Bluff, is a Methodist minister, and besides him, there are no less than eight preachers in the regiment—ono of whom is over seventy years of age.—Helena (Ark.) Shield. Oh no, Mr. Shield, Col. Bradley's Regiment is not entitled to the name of the "Prowlers' R4l - Col. McCarver's Regiumnt, stew organizing at this place, has forty-two preachers mit now, and will' have over fifty when organized. Hence we claim the title for Col. McCarver.—.Pocahontas (Ark.) Herald. A Federal Prisoner Shot. Wm. C. Buck, a prisoner of war, a corporal in the tenth company of the Seventy-ninth New York Regiment, was shot on Saturda , by a Confederate sentinel, for turbulence and disobedience of orders. The prisoner was, contrary to orders, loaning out of a window, and when told to withdraw himself, cursed and abused the sentinel outrageously, and dared him to shoot, which, in obedience to the orders he had received from his superiors, he pro ceeded to do. Buck was buried the same day. • Secession Brutality. A Hatteras inlet correspondont of the New Tyrk, Tri&arc NIB When the news came that Fort Hatteras was taken by the United States, a serious turn was given to the popular mind, and some were in favor of having the State, by its legislature, resolve itself back into the Union. Hereupon sides were taken and blows were struck. The Secessionists had all the arms, and they, of course, had the upper hand. One man declared "lie was a Union man, and not ashamed to confess it." At this expression he was taken into a shop, his nose put znto d vice, and screwed nearly out of his head ; and the lips which uttered the sentiment were treated in the same way, and both nearly pulled out of their face. A lady just frop Washington, N. C., tells me that aborit the same time a company of men were assembled in a store and extolling the Secession flag, when an old Revolution soldier (the only one known to be living in North Carolina) interfered, and asked the Secessionists if they knew how much the old stars and stripes cost? He said he did, for he fought under them, and saw them when first raised, and that he would never recognize another." "At" this he was taken, his head half shaved; a plds ter put on, and the plaster covered with tar, and the tar unlit feathers, and then he was hurled into the street ! Who would think that a soldier of Washington would ever be subjected' to such treatment in the land where Washington himself was once almost worshipped as if he were a god ? How long will Americans %now such things to be These are but samples of a series of barbarous acts, which, to mention them separately, would fill a dozen pages, and only make one's blood curdle in his veins to think of them. The Tennessee Forces. About the middle of August, a statement, pre pared by the Governor of Tennessee, in response to a resolution of the Confederate Congress calling for detailed information as to the number of troops raised by the several States, appeared in one of the dailies of Nashville. According to it Tennessee had, at that time, 34 regiments of infantry, 10 companies of cavalry, and 6 batteries in the field. A list of the companies composing this force, pub lished at the same time, showed, however, that they averaged only about 70 rank and. Me. Al lovniag them 75, we have only : regiments of infantry, (10 companies of 75 men each,).. 25,500 10 companies of cavalry 750 6 companies of artillery 500 Total 26,800 Making the usual allowance for losses by sick ness, discharge, desertion, .ke., it may be safely as sumed that the Tennessee forces in the Confederate service doll not exceed 25,000 in 'number. The Northern estimate of 35,000 was doubtlessly based upon an allowance of 1,00 men for each regiment serving. Of the above infantry, cavalry, and artillery force, eleven regiments of infantry only are in Vir ginia—three with Gen. Lee's army, under command of Brigadier General Sam B. Anderston, and eight under Beauregard and Johnston. Of the rest, four regiments of infantry, and some cavalry and artil lery, are said to be with General Zollicoffer—all the rest under Polk and Pillow. Tha entire number has hen raised in Western and Middle Tennessee, with the exception of one regiment lately mounted in the Eastern part of the State. AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI. Gen. Price and the Prospects of a Battle The Missouri Democrat of October 5 says The intelligence from Lexington is very im portant, inasmuch as it shows conclusively that the rebel army have been frightened, either by the demonstrations of Gen. Sturgis on the north and west, or the threatening position of Gen. Fremont's forces at Sedalia. He has evacuated Lexington to take a stronger position at Baker's or he has no intention of stopping at that point, and is Currying off it, the seativirest, hoping to pare Gen. Fremont's lines and escape into the open country below. His friends in this city who, a week ago, expressed so much con fidence in his allay to overt7zrow Gen. Fremont, take Jefferson City, and eventually besiege St. Lewis, are now claiming for him the brilliant strategy of an escape by the western border from the lines of . Gen. Fremo2zesforces, which. are rapidly closing upon him. Badly frightened as he is, and desperately attempting, as he maybe, to avoid the constriction of the great Fremont boa, we do not think he will bo able to escape the de struction coming upon him. We shall undoubtedly soon hear of feints in the direotion of Boonville, and Sedalia, and Kansas City, but the wary eye of our commanding general will rest steadily and coolly upon him, putting the proper appreciation on every false movement, and rapidly closing up the lines from the South. He cannot get into Northern Missouri, for, according to the reports received yesterday, his two ferryboats and the steamer Clara Belle have fallen into the hands of Gen. Sturgis. Gen. Price must give battle soon, or avoid it in the only way left him, and that is by disbanding his army and leaving his equipments, stores, and f,WIS to the undisputed possession of the Federal Zorn& The same paper gives the following important statement of the condition of affairs at Lexington : Report of Captain Neet, an Escaped Prisoner. We had an interview yesterday with Captain Neet, of Company K, Fourteenth Missouri Volun teers, under Colonel White. The captain was one of the prisoners surrendered by Colonel Mulligan, and was lucky enough to make his escape from the hands of the rebels on Monday last. lie gives us some highly important information, which we pro ceed to detail. Captain Neet is an old resident of Lafayette county, and knows the locality of Lex ington perfectly, was one of the Home Guards when his company joined the command of Colonel White, and seems to be a very intelligent and re liable man. Re says he was relieved from captivity on Thurs day of last week on parole, and had proceeded across the river, on his way to the Hannibal and St. Jo Railroad, when he was seized by order of General Price, taken back to Lexington and oom mitted to jail. From his jail quarters he could observe, to some extent, the movements of the rebels, and what he could not see he gathered from his Guards and erten conversations with Major Sevier t the provost marshal under the rebel reign at Lexington. He says that all day last Saturday Gen. Harris' division of about 6,000 men were crossing the river to the north, or rather northwest, on the two ferry boats and the small steamer Clara Belle. The des tination of this expedition he could not in any way ascertain. On tl.turday night, about twelve o'clock, ho was awakened from his sleep by a brisk ean nonackng from the direction taken by Harris' forces, the sound coming to his ears verydistinctly o and giving him the impression that the scene of the firing was not far from the river bank. This can nonading continued, he thinks, about half an hour. About daylight again the cannonading was resumed, and seemed to be nearer. The rattling of musketry was also beard, and the whole light, as it seemed to be, was kept up vigorously until about ten o'clock on Sunday morning. Shortly afterwards it became very apparent that Harris' force was retreating across the river, as he saw men running along the streets as wet as though they had been swimming the river, and he heard some of them saying that Harris' baggage train had been captured by #s"twrgtS 14 , 1174 an army of 7,000 men, and that Harris men were coming across the river. Capt. Nest says he heard Major Sevier telling the game thing to acute of the officers. lie conic% not TWO CENTS. learn any particulars of the fight, only that one of the ferry boats, the haw Ilrinker—formerly need at Brunswick—was sunk. On the same afternoon ("gunday) Me whole rebel army commenced moll 'tug out of Lexington taking the direction, as far as he could learn , of the Missionary road, iced- Lug to the southwest. He' could see the columns moving very plainly from hie place of conSnement. Thie movement continued all Sunday night and all day Monday up to the time he was taken out of jail, which was between Z and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Os t. Neat says he was released by the Provost Marshal, Mujor Sevier, and taken immediately be fore Gen. Price, where witnesses were produced against him on a charge of having robbed some of the storehouses of Lexington while on duty as a Home Guard. The examination was hasty, and was brought Olin abrupt close by Gen: wh• said that the _proof was not sufficient to hold him ae a prisoner in Jail, and so released him, as befere, om parole, directing him to report himself again. to.hitir at 5 o'clock that afternoon, when other witnesses would be produced. The limit& of hie freedom were, all that part of Lexington south. of Main street. Between three and five &Clock Capt. Nect con cluded to try an escape, and accordingly, in the midst of the confusion, stole out of town and' hid himself in a cornfield, bordering on , the Indepen dence road. Aboqtt five o'clock ke saur Geweral Price and staff; and his rear guard, pass along by his hiding place, and he heard from the loud' talk of the troops that they were going to Baker's Hill, about eight miles from, town, where they, intended -Z4 Memeelves meet the at• en dam wtt t . Irrrrediktrie Mill, Capt. Neat says, is the highest emtnenalt• that part of the country, and is welt adapted• for a plan of defence. lie says he cannot say posi— tively that this was the design of Mice. He only heard it talked about among the troops. an Monday night, Capt. Neat made his way to: FreeliciM Dutch settlement twenty.fotte miles N. Here he was joined by Major Recker, who had ilk* escaped, and the next day they both; struck acrost_the country fbr Sedalia, which place they reached in — fkretY• Major Sevier told , Capt. Neat, on Fridaylast, that on that day 60 , 111,4 lamed 46 1 000. rations. Capt. Neat thinks the rebel avaux, will reach 501000: They are badly clothed, but the lUajciudtz of them , well armed. About four o'clock on Monday evening he CUI. White's physician, Dr. Cooley, who• told , him• that the colonel was better.. The captain says the Federal army at and near Sedalia is a very formidable body of. men, and are exceedingly anxious to give the rebels fight, fearing they will scatter and run before they are reached. AFFAIRS IN KENTUCKY,. The Plans of the Rebels. A special despatch to. the Louisville Journal, liked October 3, says: he enemy have certainly given up all idea of an offensive movement in this direction, and have turned their attention exclusively to the country between Bowling Green and the Ohiwriver. The object is plainly to overrun all of Southern Kentucky, reduce or coerce the people into be coming partners of their treason, and m effect con vert that whole section of the State into rebel terri— tory. Shameful and disgraoefulas the fact is, it is useless to deny that hundreds, who have hitherto called themselves Union uien and voted the Union ticket, are now flocking to the rebel standard with stolen arms in their handl. At present it appears, not impossible that Buckner will succeed in his de sign of erecting the counties south of Green river into a stronghold of rebellion, whence he can deal destruction to the loyal portions of the State. At all events he can very well afford a "masterly i n -. activity," for every day's delay spreads the virus of treason more and more through the counties ex.- posed to hi: d strengthens his position. He has left but a small force at Green-river bridge, and these, it is said, are busily engaged , in. deepening the channel and obstructing the fads, 50 as to prevent the passage of our troops. They have also drawn a number of bolts and screws from the bridge, weakening, though not destroying it. Buckner, in parson, at the head of his best troops, is scouring t h e country, occupying i . the most ntt portant places, reducing. the principal towns to rebel sway, and preparing the way for the formal annexa tion of Southern Kentucky to the Confederate. States. Ezther a togas revolution .will be gotten up and a division of the State attempted, or else Gov. Magoffin and the Secession 'members of the Legislature will go down there and call' themselves the Government. The latter plan will be adopted if, through apostaey or cowardice, ,a majority of the Legislature.slaould sneak away from. Frankfort. Felix K. Zolheolfer. The Louisville Journal says: This Congressman general is becoming quite a atetrmctire, a real - " bun-burner," tbroat•eutter, and marauder-general. He will soon have same opportunity to fight ~s quare up." He has been isybawking " around in John Brown style, run ning off negroes and overrunning peaceful, unarmed. neighborhoods. This is bad conduct for an editor. He was but seventeen years of age in 1829, when, after two months' service setting type, he took upon himself the management of a newspaper in Darts, Tennessee. In 1834 he edited and published the Columbian. Olkserver, In 1835-7 he was State printer. In 1942 ho pilited the Nos/milk Banner. On three occasions, from 1843 to 1847, he was elect ed State Controller. In 1849 he was in the State Senate. In 1850 he was contractor for building the suspension bridge at Nashville. In 1851-2 he again edited the Banner, since which time he has been in Congress. The Capture of the gt Bull Pups coffer's Position_ A correspondent of the Cincinnati Times, wri ting from Lexington, Kentucky, under date of Oc tober 4, says You have, probably, heretofore heard of the c 4 Bull Pups,' , a sweet Secession company of cut throats, who have been lately ravaging the coun try, about the head of front navigation on the Cumberland river, This appropriately-named COM pany was commanded by one Chrieman t who once ran a pretty good race for Congress, coming within half a dozen votes of beating .Anderson, the little Representative from that district. It seems that Colonel Haskins, the other day, concluded that the pups would better have their eyes opened; and so he made a descent upon their encampment, and, as report says, killed seven pupa, li r pu n d o d a b out twiee that number and took the balance prleonop th including their wounded leader, *ho is said to have been severely operated upon by a bullet in the shoulder. After capturing the clan, however, the question arose, as usual, what to do with so many pups; and, as with the boys and their captive rattlesnake in Western Virginia, the conclusion was to swear them, and let them go. Of course, you will soon hear of the accession of a litter of about one hua dred pups, with their eyes open to the camp of Simon 001ii'llr Buckner, the traitor. Col. Haskins is mid to have otossed the line, and opened a recruiting station in Tennessee. A good time is coming in that State, as well as Kentucky. Zollicoffer is believed to have retreated toward his original position at Cumberland Gap. The re ports lately circulated of the immense numbers under his command this side of the Gap must have been greatly exaggerated. His best 09MMUnieatien with any railroad a some sixty miles from the Ten nessee line, down the valley of Clinch river to Knoxville. This road is rough, and it would require an im mense train to supply an army of 20,000 men by that route. The extravagant reports, lately in cir culation, have,probably been put out by the inva ders themselves, to operate as a diversion in favor of Buckner. A few thousand men can keep Zo coffer in oheck, though a larger force, by penetra ting into Eastern Tennessee, could raise the loyal men of the mountains, put arms in their hands, and obtain possession and control of the railroad com munication through that section, thus sending the Confederates around through North and South Ca rolina, with their supplies for the rebel army in Virginia. By pushing as far South as Chattanooga, through a loyal country all the way, the Nashville and Chattanooga, and Memphis and Charleston Railroads would also be eat off, makin4 their coin munication east and west extremely difficult and tedious. Interesting from Fortress Monroe FORTRESS Momeox, Oet. 7, via Baltimore.—The steamer Express met this morning by agreement the rebel steamer Northumberland, with a flag of truce, 12 miles above Newport News, and brought down fifttneven wounded prisoners released at Richmond- They were captured at Bull Run, They report that there are about 5,000 troops in Richmond, and that the rebel army on the Potomac is supposed to number 150,000. The apprehensions of attacks on the seaboard cause the greatest anxiety. Powerful batteries have been erected along the James river, in anticipation of an advance of the Federal army in that direction. The armament has been removed from the rebel steamer Jamestown. The prisoners did not see the steamer Yodtown, having probably passed her during the night. The troops at Richmond were composed of North Carolinians and Georgians. Governor Brown ' of Georgia, has recalled five regiments to defend that State. The rebel troops were suffering greatly from the want of medicines, clothing, and certain kinds of food. The articles cut off by the blockade were bringing fabulous prices. The wounded prisoners were released for the rea son that their wants could not be supplied. They have been obliged to sleep on the floor during their imprisonment. General Beauregard was at Manassas, and Jeff, Davis returned from Manassas to Richmond C.ll Sa turday last, in feeble health. Speculation is rife as to his successor . Seventeen of the released prisoners, who are una ble to go home, have been sent to the Old Point Hospital; the others go North to-night. Mr. Ely has been declared a prisoner of war by the rebel Congress, and is still confined in Rich mond. Commodore oaoldobonmigh wont to Washington yesterday on the steamer Philadelphia, and is ex pected to return to Old Point to-morrow. Brigadier General Williams arrived at Old Point this morning, and will proeeed to Hatteras Inlet by the first boat, to assume the command. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. The British Steamer Bermuda. , A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. Tri bune says: Direct communication with a Connec ticut graduate, escaped from school-teaching in Georgia, near Savannidi, has supplied me with new and very important information respecting the British steamer Bermuda. She is an iron-clad vessel of about 1,500 tons burden. Her master's name is Peck. She sailed from Liverpool on the 18th of August, and arrived at Savannah on the 16th of September, being 29 days on the panne, touching at Falmouth and Madeira for coal. Her cargo consisted of 18 rifled cannon, 32s and 425, and two 168-pound Lancaster guns, with all the ne cessary carriages and equipments, powder, ahot, and Shell, all ready for immediate Wt. Also, 6,500 Enfield rifles, between 200.000 and 300,- 000 cartridges for the same, 6,000 pairs of army &gee, 20,000 blankets / 180 Pergola pf THE WEEkLY PRESS. Two Wustrar PII9B will be sent to subscribers 151 mall (per 9aWl= in advance,) at .1112.0. Three Clooloor 6.00 Five U 0.00 1%0 ft /0.00 Twenty 44 44 " (to one addreee) 20.0. Twenty Cortes, or over, (to edema of each aubacriber,) each LAO For a Club or Twenty-one or wror, we will Pond en extra Copy to the getter-up of the Club. sir Postmasters stv requested to 'Kt Cr Arltal SOf ofine Mun.? Psimas. gimpo vigrer, large quantity of morphine, quirdoe, and othm medicine stores, and very many other articles of teOre than money value to the rebel army. .He's cargo cost at Liverpool $1,000,00C, cash. ear erMamciff. was two 12-pounder rifled guns, one on eteli- side, MC is now filtang out for active SertWer, and if to be employed *ft emitsing for resuming California steamers. Commodore 2'otteirsoilleonmand ker. My infor mant states positivei9‘ that &e mote of the Bermu da informed him that , two' lucre iron -clad steam frigates are expected from England on Me Bouthern coast by Me I.6leof6Yetober. The Ber muda is owned in England: Ifer cargo was owned in South Carolina. Whill•alio wartoading end at the time she cleared, it wavo ti pp iTo d L e Li verpool to be a supply ship for th.Y royal navy, although Downing street knew muohhetter. aim cleared for a West India port. Tampering with Ilie,'lndittinp. A letter bearing date September 18 - has been re ceived by the President from the chiefs, head men, and the warriors of the Creeks;-setting forth that emissaries from the rebel Government have been among them telling them that their "Great Fa ther at Waebington had turned against them, and intended ta Wife them front their hoinee.and de prive them of their property and GM they can hope' for nothing from him." Theer•eultsstrries further say that all the friends of thelidians have joined , the new Government, which it desirous to enter into treaties with their tribe, and; to do fiat' morelbr them than the old has done,•and! urge them to fight fbr it. The chiefs doubted4the•trotis of these statements, and wont V? have ai Mile MA dwarf* 664 inverktendent, but found thkt they had left their stations. (The old officers- had 'to reabti tAlpi.s.tui_ the now ones had not b.adithne lievo that their Great Fatiier"thie tod.sonot o b e . them, and a very few, in consequence, had phone the rebel In their trouble the Indians called a Connell or Creeks, cborolcees, Eeneeag, Kickapoot, wares,. and other tribes and bands of Comanches., Seminoles, and others... The Council, after a long dissuasion,voted to remain loyal, and, if possible, neutral. he Chiefs then went among their peo ple and. attemptcsi to counteract the influence of the rebel emissaries, who.yet remain there makixrg trouble, while the Government has no official re presentative among them. The Chiefs now ask their Great Father to scud. somebody to meet all the tribes in Council. .2410...tAc.tro•ga-to, an old; Creek chieftain, who , remained loyilie - to -ernment during the Creek , war in Alabama in 1838, a ent a similar letter, dated August 15, in which he sett the aid of the. President to defend the IndiansfroAtheir Southerly white enemies. The Choctaws did not attend the Counel other tribes referred to and it is thought ths have joined the Confederates. As many of the Indians own daTell, appeals WIT • doubtless been made to these tribes to throw off their allegiance on the ground that the Government would emancipate them. To , guard against the effects of such appeals, the Commissioner of Indian. Affairs in May. last addressed aletter to the several Chiefs, declaring that the Government would not interfere with their institutions: Breekutridge AlAve and- in; The Wheeling (Va) Intelltgencer says: John C. Breckinridge, tbe ungrateful and unprincipled political demagogue, who so long wore an outward semblance of Unionism to disguise his real inten tions of self-aggrandizement bysup porting the rebel lion, has recently been very busyin endeavoring to create Secession sentiment and secure rebel troops. The Cincinnati papers of: gaturarl lo cate him on Thursday last in Greenup, the ex treme northeastern county of Kentucky. Now we have it from reliable authority that within the last two weeks Breckinridge has travelled consi derably more than two hundred miles by carriage road, spent three days- at one point recruiting, spoken at several other places, and was the middle of last week at Tazewell C. IL, Tazewell county, Va. The location where the rumor in the Cincin nati papers " killed" him, 14 nearly two hundred mild from Tazewell, and he could not have reached_ it his camp" in the few hours that intervened be tween his speech at Tazewell and the time when he is reported to have been shot. The route over which Mr. B.: travelled, as above stated, was as follows From Owingsville, in Bath county, ria.West Li berty, in Morgan county, to Prestonburg, Floyd county, Ky. At. this latter place he made gt speech. and rallied some three hundred recruits: Thence to Piketon, in Pike county (where he staid three, days), and then across the Cumberland mountains, at Dogwood Gap, into Virginia, throughlkobanan, Russell, and Tazewell counties,. to.Tazewell C. H., Where he remained. On this route there are excellent turnpikes. There is also a superior turnpike from: Pfketon weak through Pike county to the Cumberland mountains, along the base of the mountains to Whitt:A:ours in Ditcher county, and eastward tlwee g l. the Pvend or oounding tap into Win. county, Va., thence south to Estellville in Scott county, and northeast to Abingdon, Washington county, on the Tenneseee and• Virginia: Railroad. Tazewell:and Abingdon are also connected:by good turnpikes. Thus, the whole of Southern and• Western Ken tucky- and of Southwestern Virginia would be con trollable by possession of these gaps,. with sufficient forces to diverge expeditions therefrom. There is also. another bnyortentr route connecting East Kentucky and East Tem:mon o th r u tig t, gum beeland Gap, where the boundaries of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee converge. Ammunition and provisionscan be and are readily transported over all these routes. Hence, these three gaps should, by all means, be in the possession of Union forces. This accomplished, and the jpint movement of the rebels of outhwasturri kirginia i 11/astern Ken tneky,and Northeastern Tennessee could, be broke* np. Then Reynolds could manage the rebels of Western Virginia, and Rosecrans could. march over into North Vaseline, and meet an expedition front Hatteras Inlet. That would secure North Caro lina, and materially aid to shorten the contest us Virginia, which would break the back bone of the rebellion. From Cumberland County [Correspondence of The Prem.] CARLISLE, Pa„ Oct. 5, 1851. We have not much that is new transpi ring ; if we except the efforts that are making to raise men for the war, which is prosecuted with vigor, both by the State and the United States service, The United States recruits for the mounted service are all ordered to the Carlisle Barracks, now in command of Capt. Hastings, and after being thoroughly drilled, are organized into detachments, and despatch ed to the seat of war, or wherever their ser vices may be required. This county has fur nished seven companies of volunteers, a large number of teamsters, and other employees, and still ge the work goes bravely on." FC't same time peat a number of the young men of our town have been instructed in the Carbine and sabre exercise, by Serg. James Magee, at present attached to the cavalry depot at the Carlisle Barracks. On the evening of the 3d inst., after the usual exercises were concluded, a meeting was organized, by calling Lieut.H. Duffield to the chair, and after aomo preliminary remarks, Mr. Samuel K. Humrich, on behalf of the class, presented the Sergeant with a fine gold fob chain, as a testimonial of the valuable services rendered the Govern ment by the destruction of the armory and arsenal at Harper's Ferry, by the command under Captain Jones, (with whom Sergeant Magee acted,> and thanking him for the valu. able instruction he had imparted to them. In reply, the Sergeant gave a detailed account of the destruction of the buildings, the trying position the men were placed in at the Ferry, and the efforts that were made to overcome the loyalty of those in charge of that post, saying that they had , c but done their flinty," In firing the buildings Magee played a con spicuous and hazardous part, and brought up the rear, in the retreat to Hagerstown, in such admirable manner as to receive the written commendation of his commanding officer. Nothing is said in the way of politics, and we shall not have, from present indications, a political meeting in this county during the campaign. Our crops have been good and harvested in the best order, Which, with the pleasant weather we have had thus far, is ripening the corn (some of which was planted quite late) as fast as the husbandman could desire. Our County Fair commences on the 9th inst., lasting through the week, with every prospect of a creditable exhibition. Yours, Traitors in Southern Illmois—Th e H. G C. in Egypt. (From the Du Quoin (III.) Mining Journal, Sept, 25.] We have it from a reliable source that the Knights of the Golden Circle have organised lodges in the counties of Jefferson and Franklin. This is a society a Southern 9Zieirl — a regular Secession affair from beginning to end. Some two months ago a UM from the South travelled through different counties in this portion of the State, or ganizing lodges of the K. G. C., and to-day we believe that there are at least thirty of them in full blast. At Spring Garden, Jefferson county, there is a lode, the members of which make no secret of its existence, and in that place and in the im mediate neighborhood a military company was raised to serve in the army of the Southern Con federacy. The members of this company travelled only at night after they left their homes until they reached Paducah ; but their movements were ob served. Many persona also left Williamson county for the purpose of going into the rebel army. We fully believe that the initiatory steps of the present rebellioa were taken in the lodges of the K, (I. That the members are enemies of the Union there is no doubt, and that there is a determination among them to set at naught the laws of the land and overthrow the Government we full3r believe. These lodges are becoming more powerful every day, and their advantages for mischief are almost incalculable. Is it not time that some steps were taken to avert the further spread 'of the doctrines Of the K. G. U., and to euppress all lodges known to exist in.the Northern States? Let the authori ties turn their attention to the Knights of the Golden Circle. Here they will have a fine field in which to display their patriotism. MARINE" COURT MARTI-AL.-4W following named officers have been ordered by the Secretary of the Navy In the osse of Corporal Win. Toombs, of the United States Marine Corps, charged . with seditious conduct in attempting to bribe privates of the said corps, to wit—in the liberation of Seces sion State prisoners on their way from Annapolis to Fort Lafayette President of court, Major William B. Slack ; First Lieutenant James Forney, Second Lieutenant Hole, Second Lieutenant Barna, Second Lieutenant Brown. Judge advocate, Geo. M. Weston. Counsel for the prisoner, Mr. Stevens.—Grash ogron Sunday Chronicle.
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