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r« f,I ' lß fy JOHN w. FORNEY.
«.,1U SOUTH FOURTH STREET.
* RESS *
r , «is P*» WB * K < pafBbla *° ttB °“‘ rißr '
80r ibers out of the OltyatSix DouM
,iirf w foßg potnaas roa Btant MoKib*.
it V** 9 *'.» »oR S'* MosTaa— Invariably In *J*
WEEKLY PRESS,
gabecribera on* of the flttr ** Taas* Dot
#,U'i in adv«noe. , T ’
in - «»_** 1
notices.
. ' the IMVAJUi
AjlfißionO, ANDTBKBBAVJa. ,
Tllf' appointed to procure Funds
Bounty to all who may fofo onr B al_
REGIMENTS IN TUB FIELD,
Skill*!’'VTtnw.oitl*ene to be alive to. the present
yi needed, The wasted rente
Sji »** M “ .Mlmente— the heroes of Dranesvllle,
S' :ri, s£ (r Oaks, of the Ohiokahomlny, Malvern
Tails for succor as she never called before.
nartowW * , an[ ( we uinst be eanal to It.; Sene*
tVfrfAii'J!? of Divisions, and the Commander, ln-
X that one reoruit for a regiment lathe
W, ‘"ial lils country, at the present time, several
# i "lone They urge, and ; the War De
craanii., j n( (g ntttnßOU j reinforcement of the
fossil WB'" ‘ oW before the enemy to their original
rel 1 * Onr fathers, onr brothers, and
uftoffll Wt;
ilk-l 10 ."'lk. Prorainm anil bounty, anch as never
are ready for dlstrlbntion, but
(foie » f,!! lu i o ,E OF COUNTRY -
. so the Flag that has waved In glory from
it 4 A’' o,,i, lMnt boor, are the InoenUjres that are relied
f,6 to the r”
1, „« *ND BOUNTY ARBi GIVEN FREELY
RgMU> !l In part, the citizen for the immediate
c f n leaving bie business, hi» family,
,rriBc« t j,|, country’s oall, in -this her hour of:
Wi I,! L w ««ictonsness of having done their dnty, and
■ld. T ,l;antrs’s pralte rewarded the American pa
nefoJationt-tMr deacendaota ef tbis day
lots o i wj Vj 0 tbo Bacr ift C6B and*devotion or their
number **«» r
tfl 1 - naiFllHO HA.S BEBN ORDBBIBDo
a, one more men we to be pat Into the held, In order
-6W Tifi rebellion against the best Government
at to man may be speedily crashed and ex
roeeb 00r ,brave Generals must have 100,000
mon new—at once. The tone patriot has yet
* of hastening, voluntarily, to his country’s
J '" a [Xg enrolled in the battle.stained regiments of
lo their aid without delay, let us do it,
1 * bright our olty’a glory, and :do ;our beet for
!, uwtd country, - -
W ori,!r IIEX/TeDER’HENRY; Chairman, -
THOM4B WEBSTAR, Vice Chairman.
I.ORIN BLODG HT,' Secretary.
,«rd of OFFICERS DETAILED FOB BE-
ChrlTlNO SERYIUS. LOCATION OF BENPSZ-
Sfili Thomas J. Town. Lieutenant Patriot Egan, '
Ssrfi'ssK*..-,™,.
u'eTtenaet John S, BUM, nontenant Georga W. Tom-
Regiment, corner Sixth and Carpenter, and
Obtain PHriSroough, Lieutenant John ouriey,2d
cTpWu Matthew Beiily, l»th Regiment, 1219 Market
Captain Wm. Wilson, Stet Regiment, 1118 Market
fhluiu 3tboh, 81« l Regiment.
LiMtensnt Thomas K Boggs, 23d Begiment,northeast
,rar Sixth and Chestnut, third story,
hleoieuaet George W. Wilson, 81st Regiment, No. 8
isth fifth street. -
Wigiam B. Duncan,- 61st Regiment.
tieuteMUt Samuel Larkin, Lieutenant John Stanton,
Beeervts-
I'estfntot Charles Been, Lieutenant Edward Bough,
n, Biciment, 63* North Third street, ::
l,i,«tecaut Jame»'B.'Hadley, 23th Regiment, 419 Oal-
H. Winter, 76th Regiment, 488
ifiii Third etreet, , , t „ ;
Captain William Jstho, Lieutenant Waiter S. Briggs,
LitaiSt William Leiford, 28th Begiment, 7J.8 Market
Umitensnt John Boche, 13th Cavalry, 101 South Sixth
Ltaitoosnt Danietß, Mean?, 13th Cavalry, 44 South
TVEib Greet
bieotwisiit J, A. Gregory, Slat Regiment, 624 Chestnut
Cwisra H. A. Sheeii, of Pennsylvania Reserves, 620
wtaiit street. _ „ ,
LifOttoant Col. E. H. Flood, Major James Brady,
SPeuoayirauia Artillery. . ;
Lirateuaat Doolel F. Lino, 68th Begiment.
tirateDact Joseph M abbey, 112th. „ „
CivUin John S. Davis, 80tb Begiment, N. W. corner
rtt sdJ Chestnut streets.
Captain Jehn T. Parang, 90th Begiment, Armory of
itfeoai Guanis, Bace street bel .w.Sixth. - •
Bo,iies a private from each company of each regi
,,, au2o-10t
HEADQUARTERS FENNSYIiVAHIA
S JUbITIA,
BDBQKOS GESEBAL’3 offiok, .
Bakiisbubo, August 16,1862,
[ATE MSDIOAIi BOABU Off PKKNSYLVAHIA.
lbs elate llfcdlcal 'Board will .meet in the Hall of the
Eeptoaentallves, Harrisburg, on THURSDAY,
;viul»r 11, 1862, and sit one da;, tor the examination
cii,dilutes for the poet of Asaiatant Burgeon In Fenn
lt,wi» Regiments. " ’ :.
Culmstea will register their name) at the Hall at 8
M„ ar-d none bat those present punctually at 9 A.M..
I) 1* examined-
"itif.'iii if Pennsylvania, of good health, and capable
sniYe lervteo iff'tlio field, can alone be reoehred.
B) order of . A. ■G. OUKTIK,
Governor of Pennsylvania.
HENBY H. SMITH,
Snrgeon General of Pennsylvania..
t ill' BOIXTY-FXJND COMMISSION.
—The following, named Regiments have been so
<<l bj the Governor ot Ponnajivania as part of the
Xsirooi Philadelphia: ...
Btrimeat 146, 001. Darts,
BfcimoUM, Col. Adams,
Btpuenil.43, OoL Wietur.
120, Col. Bchrelbor.
iideikm Troop,
US Ot
JOHN 0. KNOX, Chairman.
SOTICE.—THE SUBSCRIBERS TO
3 TEE CITIZENS 1 BOUNTY FUND, to aid Be
iltlog,»re hereby notified that the Treasurer of the
lid, SISJLETON A. MESOEB, Ben., wiilreceive
i emoimti of their subscriptions, doily, at the Farm*
i ml Meshanlce' Bank, end furnish them with printed
teipta for the game; nr tbetr eubsoriptiona may be paid
liit rainier of the Committee to wham they subscribed,
i the Trtaanrer'i receipt will be pent to ’ the don'Or,
by ordar el the Committee. - . • .
hw-tf THOdiB WKBSTEB, Ghatrman.
OCR COUNTRY! TO ARMS!!—THK
3 OOMJUTTKK appointed to reoeive Subscriptions
HU of the OITIZUNs BUON l'T FUiJD, for pro
tug tbe proportion of Philadelphia's quota ot men to
reeae ihe irmj ot the Republic, sit dally at
INDBPBNDB HUB BALL,
I Prom 10 a M.to 4 P. H.
By of (be (fcmtnittco.
l&m TflQ&Ufl WEBSTEB, Chairman,
RECRUITS for PHILADELPHIA
J EEGIMENTs in thb FIELD TUB -DIS
MISS AQENCY OF THE CITIZENS’ BOUNTY
« D account* to all Becroitlng Officers 'for Phils
fhl* BfgimeDta in the fi-ld, mat they alt, DAILY,
**» 8 A. Jl. and 12 M , at th.ir Office, in front of
IABMEBS AND MRO HAN 103 • BANE, and are
tarrf to par
so I'rftnlom to each Becntlt* and ■ - :
(’>o £OOOll to each Beornit,- npon -compliance' with
iwua they hare adopted. Information in detail
to on application to tne undersigned. Bocrnttlng
seers win pieaae proaent their credentials for enliaticg.
MICHAEL F. BAKER,
GKOBOB WHITNEY,
SINOLRTON A. MEBOEB.
CITY BOUNTY FUND.
. TO IHK VotiUM i'JDEBS• ,
It« „ Mebj ' S l ™! that the Oo amission appoint*
mi , 8 “*yot| under mu Ordinance entitledAn
, to ?' lt6 2“ »M»»ri»ttan*o aid the enllst
“woved JulrMth, 1832, wilibe
« ..Office, Ho. 412 PStJNB Btreet, DAItY,
5" l!l8 ho “« of 12 o’clock M. aod 3 o’olook P. M„
exce Ptod,) for the purpose of receiving appli
bium .'™’ a ? d granting certlttoates to, the Volunteers
MM to receive Spunty Money from the City of Phi./
aw^ r >a!d ordinance and the supplements
bfc m^ rthB F*f eßt * aPPMeadons wilibe received
«Tni whohaT9 bueß enlisted in. the . Oily of
raoslphla, on acconnt or Its quota, under,the call of
,'?” raor ; and have been mustered for service In tlis
Iff IT*** f" tte *»“•/ to tbs recruits for the Old
j lbß tu ud raised by private: jrab
-IJMO, Bud Which payment, by a Supplementary. Or
aPjr®y®d Angnit 4th, 1832, eiclades such re
“whom participating In the Olty Bonnty Fund. - J ‘
? a °ma payable to all who havo thus volunteered In
of Philadelphia, and have been so mastered into
'“>» Companies and Begiments raised (whether roal-
M the city or elsewhere) since the call of the 'Pro
-Ist 300,000 additional: volunteers, or who shall
uuler volunteer, andbe so mastered under said oall,
«follows:
[Oontha reernita..,.. i L.. .#2O 00
or the war. 80 00
E? “°»«y l» Payable ene-half arhon the Company to
mo the claimant belongs la fall, and the captain thereof
~"A , re 4 Into eervice, and the remainder when the Be.
ni u completed, and the commanding officer thereof
'bate been mnitered into the aerviee.
U l 1Il t ™wp® b r e<inl r ed for the certlgcate for the firat
f‘ s i™Py of the muter roll of :the company, duly
•“ * the United States mutering officer.
i„.L , tor f evidence that the applicant was en
‘ 11 ™ 6 city of Philadelphia for &e pnrpoeee afore.
«? 8 taetal'ment, ifmwt'be ehown that
i r,«^ an . Bt l * » member ofthe company,-and that
kmfi!®* s®. w bleh the company haa Been attache d
(tbs an tonne of application will be furnished
' ™«e of the oommleaton, 412 Prone street. .
»hn.a, i, JOHN 0. KNox,onairman.
WWolphia, ingut 11,1882. anl2-12t,
Tk I nSL CODI *' rRY ’ ! 10 ARMS!-PA.
.izvwu??,*,? 01tll6n * who desire,to subscribe to the
pffin ® O ®«TT rUMD, to aid the reoruiting ot
Qttota of the' • President's call for' three
men > are respectfnllyinformed that
* M , *** will alt dally to receive .aabßorSpUone from
Hcri»H^ two P ‘ M > ISDEPMDEKOE HALL.
>l*om1 0M may Ufeewise be lent to either of the tut-
H ENBf, itayor’t oMoel
»Attbla QXBBOH9, SKlsonth Third
'fiAULEu B. FBKJSMAN,. Secretary, 601 Bansom
'*sl*B KcCLiNTOOK, City Treaaurer, Girard
SOOBB ’ Bta,B -*»•»*«» 864 North
f 1? Tr * a * urer of Fond,
»' l ll 4, North Delaware avenue.
I. EOfS a J B ® ont B Delaware avenue,
lndependence Hall.
I w^rJLBOBIH, 168 Dock street. *
*s*B? OBl atreet
ttOßn* «?■ BAKHB, Independence HaU.
office of A. Whitney A Bone.
nV,5 AIIK * 821 H " -kBt * treefc
fQH*? » Board or Trade Boom*.
IOBK 5* Indepaodetfee HalL
lAm*9k^?SP h . offloe of Sorth American.
LS“ KEN - 410 Walnut «**<>«»• r t
will be appointed teprocure eub
-1 <hortv . 6Vtry w " 4 ,n tte city, due ttotloe of? which
0»i!!Ll,!iS?l!-5uL l,!i S? l! -5 u be »o*a<>wledged dally la Ota
is:asr“-'
TfIOMASWEBSTHB,. Chairman. .
STATIONERY & FANCY GOODS.
* QUARLES
»AHOT GOODS
So. lost WALNUT BTb4*T,
sww-aumimit ■■ ■..
PHHiADIIiFHIA.
ttWWBATura oiu,
Ii u S®BR” oil mmm.
lil-jr"*"' "EIGHT, SMITH, & niABSAIiX,,
* OfflM 6U MARKET Btmk.
.fi; i hiK;'' ' "** ■"' I '■'’■ ' ■
YOU 6.-NO; 20.
Soldiers Can Save Money,
-Soldiers can savo money,
Soldiers can save money;
Soldiers can save money,
By buying their uniforms ready made. 1 ’
By buying their uniforms'!eady made.
By buying tholr uniforms ready made. : . ,
By buying their uniforms ready made.
By buying thelr.nniforma'ready made.
By buying thelr’uniforms ready made.
By buying their uniforms ready made.
Medical Cadets, please remember this.
Surgeons and Doctors, please remember this.
Colonels and Captains, please remembtr this.
First and r eeond Lieutenants, please remember this.:
Oak Hall is the place, corner Sixth and Market streets.
Oak Hall is the place, corner Sixth and Market streets.
Oak Hall isttae place, corner Sixth and Market streets. r
Oak Hall Is the place, coiner Sixth and Market streets.
A full assortment of Uniform Coats, Pants, Vests, and
Blouses, United to all branches of the setvlce,-andalso'a
fine stock of civiUans’ clothing, constantly on hand, made
of good material, in good style, and bygood hands, for
sale at the lowest kind of pric- s. * '
WANAMAKEB & BROWN,
S.E. corner SIXTH and MARKET Streets.
SEABATHING.
JSIWSHSB® FO B, THE SEA.
BIO BE ! SUMMER A*.
BANGEMENT.-vOAMDHN AND ATLANTIO BALL
BOAD. ■" •-
Three trains dtdlv to Atiantlo City and return, (Bun
days excepted). Trains loa've VINR-Street Ferry K
follows: . . .V _
MaU Train (Mis •ae • e «*#••••••»•« s •«»**«•• • »T«80 A>» H
Express Train 4,00 P. ■
Freight ami Acc0mm0dati0n................ 8.00 F. H
1 - - RETURNING:
Leaves, Atiantlo Mail Train.. 4 40 P. M
« “ ' Express Train .......618 A. XL
« “ Freight and A coommcdation.B.lB A; 5A
FARE Sl.BO. Round-trip Tickets, good only /or »
day and train on which they are issued, $2.60. Excar
sion Tickets, good for three dayß, $3. Hotels are nos
open. JOHN G. BRYANT,
leU-tf Agent
STTWMPIR «BBOnxa.:-r- -
TTNITBD STATES HOTEL
*ls»' ’ ATLANTIC CITY, Aooust 18,1882.
Desirable Rooms can now be had at this popular first
class Hotel, as there are a number of departures daily. ..
' JA.MES K. BO BISON,
H. A. B. BROWN,
an!B-12t* Snperintendcnts.
SEA BATHING.—A FAVORITE
HOME.
THE “ WHITEHOUBE,”
MASSACHUSETTS Avenue, ATLANTIO CITY, N. J.
This popular house is open. Its situation Is quite near
the beach: has good rooms, all opening upon the ocean,
and furnished with spring mattresses. Its reputation is
well established as a first-class home. Plentiful table.
Every attention given to guests, and terms moderate.
WM. WBITKHOO3E, Proprietor.
IFF" No Bar at the “ Whltehonse.” anB-lm
fIENTRAL HOUSE, ATLANTIO
\J CITY, New Jersey.
M. LAWLOR, Proprietor.
The above new house is now open for Boarders. Booms
equal to any on the beaoh, well-ventilated, high ceilings,
Ao. Servants attentive and polite. Approximate to the
Bathing grounds. an6-lm*
OTAR HOTEL,
U (Nearly opposite the United Btates Hotel,)
ATRANTIO CITY, N. J.
SAMUEL ABAMB, Proprietor.
Pinner................ 60 cents.
Also, Carriages to Hire.
IW Boarders accommodated on the most reasonable
terms. ■ ; ; - " je23-3m
FOBSST Guava HOUSE
SOHOOLEY’B MOUNTAIN SPRINGS, NEW
JERSEY.—The above popular Hotel is now ready for
the SUMMER SEASON, having been thoroughly set In
order for the accommodation of visitors to Schooler’s
Mountain Springs.
The FOREST GBOYE is a most capacious House, de
lightfully located, with wide-spreading lawns, and com
manding a view of scenery unsurpassed hi attraction and
beauty; and offers to visitors a quiet retreat from the
turmoil and bustle < city life. ,
Having no exorbitant rent to pay, the proprietor of the
FOREST GROVE HOH9B will accommodate families
and visitors at as low a rate as a strict regard to the re
epectobility of the House will afford. The moderate
charges of this House, as compared with the neighboring
boarding houses, Is a feature which must commend itself
to the attention of families who do not desire to pay ex
travagantly for a lew weeks’ recreation. TERMS
SEVEN DORRABB PER WEEK. . .
Visitors to the FOREST GBOYE HOUSE will enjoy
pure air, pleasant drives, finest Bconery, and the purest of
chalybeate waters, whilst its accessibility to the cities
renders it among the moat desirable of Inland’reaorts.
- All communications addressed to the undersigned will
meet with prompt attention. ■
jy26-smith ' P. MATHEWS, Proprietor.
HOTELS.
TRYING HOUSE,
X NEW YORK,
BROADWAY AND TWELFTH BTBEBT,
KUHI ON TWELFTH BTSBST,
Condoctod on the
: EUROPEAN PLAN.
Thia house ii . now open for the accommodation ot
Families and transient Guest,.
* GKO..W. HUNT, 1
Late of the Brevoort Hoose, > Proprietors.
OHAS. W. NABH, )
- ' : ■ i-'r , . iylT-thstngm
pO WEES’ HOTEL,
Hob. IT and 19 PARK BOW,
(orroßira raa abiox boubi,)
HEW YORK.
TERMS 81.60 PER DAT.
This popular Hotel has lately been, thoroughly react
rated and refurniahed, and now possesses all the regal
dies of a : *'
ITBBT-OLABS HOTEL.
The patronage of Philadelphians and the travellin*
pnbUo, desiring the beet accomodations and moderate
charge*, 1» respectfully solicited.
IsH-Sm i w. H. L. POWERS, Proprietor.
A CARD.—THE UNDERSIGNED,
XJI. late of the GIRARD HOUSE, Philadelphia, her*
leased, for a term of pears, WILLARD’S HOTEL, In
Washington. They take this occasion to return to their
old friends and cmtomsrs many thanks for past favors,
and beg to assure them that they will, be most happy to
lee them lb their new Quarters. ,
i SYKES, OHADWIOK, & 00.
WasnaoroN, July lfl. 1861. au2S-ly
DRUGS AND CHEMICALS.
JJOBERT SHOEMAKER
■ i ■ GO,, -
Northeast Corner FOURTH and RACE Streets,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMPORTERS AND DEALERS
:nr ■■■
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS,
MANDPAOTUBKaS OT
WHITE HEAD AND ZINC FAINTS, PUTTY, 40.
"] ' AOBBTB FO»,TBa CBLBBBATKD
FRENCH ZINC PAINTS.
Dealers and consumers supplied at
VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASK
mh29-tsel ~ .... ~v
LOOKING GLASSES.
JAMES S. EARLE & SON,
MANUFACTURERS AND IMPORTERS
or
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS,
FINE M.NGRATI NOB,
PICTURE AND PORTS AIT FRAMES,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES,- '
PHOTOGRAPH, ALBUMS,’
OAHTEB-DE-YIBITE PORTRAITS.
EARXJE’S GALLERIES.
818 CHESTNUT STREET,
Jali* : . WULAWWSPHU^.V,
SEWING MACHINES.
WHKEIiER &
SEWING MACHINEB,
628 CHESTNUT BTBEET,
JeXB-8m FHILADIIiPHU. ;
WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
AMERiCAH WATCHES,
' GOLD AND SILVER OASES
JOS. EL WATSON,
JyBl-6m ' Ho. 326 OHBBTNCT street.
WATCHES, JEWELRY, &e.
X FRESH’ASSORTMENT, at LESS
JLJL THAU rOBMBB PBIOBB.
TABB ft BBOTHXB,
Importers, 834 OHHBTHTIT Btreet, below Fourth.
mh3o-tf ■ T ■
QAUT IO N .
Ow wen-earned revoMion of
FAIRBANKS’ BCJALJEB
He* InSnoed the maker* of Imverfeot balaaoee to othr
aMm a* “FAIEBABKB* 80AW®," and jrarehaeet*
B* T ® thereby, in many faetaneee, been (objected to fraud
»nd Importtton. TAIBBAHKB’ BOAUW nremanofae
tnred only by the origin.! inventor*, B. AT. TAM
BAKHSAW-i “t an adapted to eyerybranoh of the
boatoe**, wherea eorreot and durable Bcalae iaraqulrad.
: FAIRBANKS * EWING,
General Afent*,
«waui-ta HABOBIO HAIIII, Tit OBHBTHPT BT
INACTION. —Having, seen a spurious
V article ot OB branded '• J. tatonr.’Vwe oaotion the
labile against pnrehartng the *ame,a* the genuine j,
Latour Oil can beprocarod enirftßM'n*.^-•
JABBUTOHBAOATBBGHB,
mylß-tf >O3 and 30* Booth TBOHt Street.
A NTI-FRICTION METAL,
A So perlor aoallty,
• - Tor tale by . i
, ... JAMBS, YOOOM.Ja.,
CITT BBABS TOUUDBY, DBXNK SB’S AIIIIHT,
Between Front and Seoond, Baoe and Aroh »ta.
nnS-Sto*..
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1862.
‘‘The City Article”—lts History and
Mystery. ■
' What is called “ the oity article,” of the
London Tima, usually occupying about a
column and a half each number of that
able and -mischievous journal, is more power
ful in its effect upon European commerce and
personal credit than the leading articles them
selves, written as ' they are with consummate
skill, craft, and motive purpose. In this coun
try, except by. bankers, money-dealers/and
great commercialists, the influence of this
“ city article”, is scarcely appreciated. Across
the water, it is the part of the Times, first read
and most carefully studied by commercial
men, and by politicians. Its statements have
great influence upon monetary transactions all
over Europe, but its insinuations are still more
powerful—for good and for evil. In that co
lumn political purposes are insinuated, sug
gestions of future legislation are safely made,
(when the writer knows that they have already
been decided on,) and personal solvency is
often whispered away in a few lines.
. Without going to the.length of saying that
■ this department of The Times is venal, we may
sateiy scwe tK»t^Mo-understood to_ be under_
the especial influence of those great money
lords, the Rothschilds. Now andrthen the
•interests of ' the great house of Earing are at. -
'tended to in thissaid “ city article,” but only
-when they do not run counter to those of the
Rothschild family. It ,has been whispered,
too, (and generally believed,) that, on occa
sion, Mr. George Peabody has been well served
by the moneyescribo, whose dictum in that
article is so sovereign and effective. We
mean Mr. Peabody, the" London-American
banker, who, Mr. Train has publicly said, made
upwards of three hundred thousand pounds
last Christmas by operating with Bothschiid
and Baring on the suppressed Seward-Clay de
spatch, which intimated most unequivocally
that the American Government did not con
sider Mason and Slidell worth quarrelling
about. Of'that gain, has been be
stowed as public charity to London, but Mr.,
Peabody has not yet, to our knowledge, con
tributed a dollar to his own country during
her present distractions and necessities. -.
The Times “ city article” has been an insti
tution during the last forty years. It grew
into importance in the hands of the late Mr.
Alsager, who, having been unsuccessful in his
mercantile career, became one of the writing
staff of The Times, and soon was commission
ed to devote himself exclusively to the pro
duction of a record of the dally monetary and
commercial business of London. Originally,
nothing but the prices and fluctuations of pub
lic securities were chronicled, but Mr. Alsager
added facts and comments, carefully collected
and judiciously made, which enabled him to
wield great power among the monetary classes
of the British empire. At first his salary was
small, but it soon rose, we have heard, to as
much as $5,000 a year, with a handsome office
in ComhiJl, near the Royal Exchange and Bank
of England; a competent staff of clerks and
messengers) a table liberally supplied with
luncheon for himself and friends at the ante
prandial hour of 2 P. M.; and a well-filled
cellar of .wine and other liquid refreshments,
which are recorded as making glad the heart
■-'ofman. V
Mr. Alsager, who failed in business with- '
out a blot on his ’scutcheon, or the loss
of any friend'among the magnates of “ the
city,” was a gentleman of good family,—his
brother, Captain Alsager, having been M. P.
for East-Surrey during several years. Well
educated, too, and familiar with tha principles
of political economy, Mr. Alsager was' pre
cisely the man for I’he Times, and, on more
occasions than one, was consulted by . the di
rectors of the Bank ot England, in the dark
hours of monetary gloom and financial diffi
culty. On the establishment of the Court of
Bankruptcy, in London, he received a lucra
tive appointment therein from the hands of'
Lord Brougham,' then Chancellor, and always
his warn friend. This doubled his income
and did not much increase his work. For
many years, Mr. Alsager’s money articles
wore above suspicion—though he was on inti
mate terms with the late Nathan Meyer
Rothschild, who died in 1836, .and certainly
was the ablest of that remarkable family of
money-makers.: Unfortunately, in his later
years, when past the age of sixty, Mr. Alsager
• was affected with the mania of speculating on
the; Stock Exchange, and rushed so wildly
into it that, in a short time, despite his large
income, (latterly about $12,000 a year,) the ,
became involved in pecuniary difficulties,
and, it was said, was helped out of them,
more than once, by his friends the Roths
childs, : At’all events, such a belief grew into
the public mind, and it was a somewhat sus
picious | coincidence that, from that time, the
Rothschild, influence was /elf in The Times’
city article. In' 1845, when railway specu
lation was rife in England, Mr. Alsager went
into it, in the ; vain hope of recovering
what be had lost by gambling on the Stock
Exchange. Then, on the 14th October,' a
curious - circumstance occurred :—The Times,
in its= « city - article,” supported the •lead
ing railway projects of the time, (those in
which Mr. Alsager held scrip, which he
hoped to sell at heavy premium's,)' and
a memorable editorial,, on the same day,
denounced tbe.'.’R'allway ; mania; as even more
absurd than the South Sea bubble over a cen
tury back—pointing .out the significant fact
that the capital required to execute* the pro-.
posed, lines exceeded $3,000,000,000, a sum
which England,’how'eyer rich, never
hope to realize for such purposes. That timd
]y. warning, though it caused a Panic which
Tery nearly drove England into bankruptcy,
greatly The Times. It
also made Mr. Alsager aware of the impossi
bility: of his continuing to write any more—
when his cherished opinions were treated? with j
so .much and Such marked disrespect;' ’He re
signed his engagement on The Times, and was ■
pensioned off with his foil salary. 'Not .long',
did. he receive it, however. • The breaking of
the Railway bubble . utterly ruined >im, and
his friends heard, with more regret ■ than
prise, that * i—n —w>r- nurt-Wnn form!,
"bafla’by his own hand.
Mr. Alsager was succeeded, on The.Timesy
by. Mr. Sampson, who continues to' write the'
“city article” Wi this day; Mr, Sampsonhad
considerable experience in banking, but is by
bo means, such an able man as bis predecessor.
He is reported, also, to have no great desire to
overwork himself. His chief assistant, who
indeed inay be considered the working-man,
is Mr. D. Morier Evansj-an ex-journalist, with
a decided taste for statistics, which he has
practically applied to the production of several
works connected with- commercial matters.'
Since Mr. Alsager’s time, the Rothschild in
fluence has been undeniably perceptible in the
“city articles” of The Times— :a fact sometimes
attributed to Mr. Sampson’s intimacy, with
Baron Lionel Rothschild, M. ; P. for Lon
don,’ but, perhaps more correctly, to a pre
sumed proprietory interest which that monied
gentleman is believed to hold ■in The Times
itself. • - • 'v.
‘ Even since the commencement of those dif
ficulties which treasonable secession caused in
the United States, the London Times has not
hesitated to exhibit the most vehement, vio
lent, ahdnnprincipled partisanship against the
Union, and for the Rebellion. For many
months it was asserted in its “city article?’ that
Mr. Chase, our financial -minister, had endeav
ored to; raise a loan in the Londonthpney mar
ket, ’and 'was unable to. accomplish his purpose.
As it happened, Mr;. Chase made no ‘ such
endeavor. He never attempted to borrow
mdney in Europe for the war, and, indeed,
one of the most remarkable incidents in . the
history of nations is the fact that, expensive
as the war has been, the means of carrying it
on have been wholly supplied from the in-
dustry and by the patriotism, of _pnr own • citi
- zen*. It was.necessary to borrow for
war is extremely costly, but- the means have
■bden supplied at home, ivlthoat'’ going 'to
. Europe. Had we done so, enabling Roths
PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1862.
child, Baring, and Peabody to make money
out of us, jit all probability The Times would
have treated us differently. Its enmity or its
alliance should be equally valueless,
Let us add that, according to a sensible old
proverb, people who Kve in glass houses
should avoid throwing stones. For example,
before The Times indulged in an undergrowl at
the prices of American securities, itshouldhave
looked back and seen, whether, repeatedly in
the monetary history of England; a much more
gloomy aspect' of affairs was not observable.’
For example, the par price of stock on the
Bank of England has varied from £299 pej
share, in 1825, to £ll5, in 1797, and is now
qnotedat £237 to £239. Again, the par price
of consols is £lOO. The last selling price is
at £94. In 1852,ttye price ran up to £101155.,
but, in the year 1798, under the fear of inva
sion by France; the fact of a rebellion in Ire
land, and the misfortune of suspension of cash
payments by the Bank of England, tlio price,
tumbled down to £47 ss. The difference be
tween £47 and £lOl omit the odd shil
ling), is a trifle greater, we submit, than even
between 65 and par in H. S. had
tho reduced price been . fairly caused, ia
stcad of being the result of jobbing by the
London money-lords. The same trickery
which could hear them down to 65, could bull
them up to 100, if required, at forty-eight
hours’ notice. Fluctuations in tho prices of
shares are common in all countries. In Fran
cis’ “History of the Bank of England,”
-fbronshtidiiwnj:*nm-i844-f.n-.iHill^:bjiJ v iSmith
Homans, the able editor of,the ,3ank,er’s Ma-
New York, so as- immensely to en
hanco’its value,) we find a casejnpo.int. ,Mr.
Homans says,* in his continuation, p. 451,
“ Tbe, par value of the shares in the Bank of
France, is 1,000 francs. These have sold of
-late years from .2,425-to 4,o7s‘per share, equi--
valent to about 200 per cent, advance.” He
* shows some of these fluctuations. For ex
ample, in 1849, just after the revolution, tho
price,: which* had- just been 35230; sank down
to 2,soo—was 2,425 in 1860 ; 2,650 in ,1851; •
rose to 3,108-in 1852, after Napoleon had
assumed the Government with a strong Hand,
and, in 1856; after the Russian war, was at the
inairimum of 4,075. We repeat,, the fluctua
tions in the prices of consols, hank stock, and
securities for .loans, are frequent and inevitable
everywhere.
- Our purpose in writing these lines, irrespec
tive of a desire to initiato»bur readers into the
history and mystery of The Times' “ city
article,” has been to warn tho public .against
placing the slightest dependence' upon any
statement respecting American-finance which
they may find in that most unscrupulous jour
nal. It is indeniably in the interest of: the
enemies of our Union, and- among these
enemies the .-Rothschilds and their clients,
must be counted. There is no truth in their
organ, and our people should know it, and not
get irigktehecl, like some gentlemen in Third
street and in Wall street, at itsthunder. The
fact is, Rothschild iB very angry, that he has
not got us under his thumb, in money matters.
No sovereign- can carry on a war.in Europe
without getting money from Rothschild, Bar
ing, and that particular clique of money-lords.
Nearly^.foity 7 years ago; Byron,.who knew a
thing or two',.declared'.tliat these men hold the
balance of the world; and
“ Are tlie true lords of Europe, Every loan
Is mot a merely speculative hit, .
But seatß.a nation or upsets a throne:”
We alone, among the nations, have dared
to battle against Rebellion and for the'Bight,
without consulting, any European money,
grubs,—we have presumed to raise a vast but
necessary loan among our own people, and
this is' wbat the money lords, be they Jew. Or;
Gentile, will not easily or speedily forgive.
Herein is the key to the hostility, open and
covert, of the London Times. We ought to
care as little for it as we did eighty-six yoars
ago, when the Declaration of Independence
was signed in Philadelphia, for the insane
raying of George the Third ortho concentrated
hatred ot .Lord Horth andihis official satellites.
♦ History of the Bank of England, Us Timas and
Traditions, from 1684-to 1844. >By John Francis. Firs-
American edition, with notes, additions, and -an apnea,
dix, including statistics of the Bank to the close, of the
year 1861. By J. Smith Homans. Bvo., pp.' 4T6. New
Fork: Published at the office of the Bankers’ Magazine.
Among the Pines.*
A remarkable book, in whioh the more striking
phases of Sooth Carolina life are literally photo
grapheds The time of its .incidents is the Christ,
mas of 1860^—on the eve of secession. Tho leading
characters are a South Carolina planter and his
octoroon mistress, certain of his riayes,, a, villainous
Yankee overseer; a small planter and his wife,
named Barnes,'who nse their slaves well and profit
by it; a superior negro, called Scipio, and one
Andy Johnson, a planterwith a heart in his bosom,
who nets manfully in the- narrative and winds up
the etory with a characteristic letter, to whioh there
is only tbe objection that it exbibits a good deal of
the had spelling which has spoiled our literature of
late years. Mr. Kirke,; author of this book, has
lived long in the South and does not abuse it, but
he exhibits life in South Carolina as he knew it,
and we :can believe, what we have heard, that
many of the characters here exhibited- are real—
that some of them still live., . 11 Among the Pines”
has' been compared with 11 Uncle Tom’s Cabin,”
: but i 3 of a higher quality, beoauae Mrs. Stowe’s
romance is a fancy-sketch—powerfully melo
dramatic, but .improbable—whereas • Mr. Kirke
writes from .actual knowledge of the looality and
its people. The difference between the two stories
is simply the differenoo between Truth and Fiction.
Mr. Kirke’s “Scipio” is a more natural oharac
terthan 11 Uncle Tom,” who must have been very
much of a bore in any household, with his over
done religious pretenoe. The- pursuit of ' Moye
after he murdered Sam—the negro’s funeral, with
the bfaok preacher’s sermon—the -scene at the
railway station, where honest Andy Johnson first
appears—the incidents at the'barbeoue—and the
burial of Julie; the slave, are scenes -ih “Among
the Pines ” wbichwould do oredit to'any, writer,
which Mrs. ,Stowe .-oould not even have imagined;
for they are out of the traok of womanly fancy or
experience. In short, the book is instinct* with
life, quick with acUon, faithful E.“oSaraoter. Al
ready, over nineteen/ thousand oqpies’ have been
.sold, which is a great, deal for.a book by,a new
author. . . .
• ♦“Among the. Fines; or, South in Secession-time,”,
By Edmund Kirke.: l v01.,12 mo.j pp. 310. Naw York :
J. B. Gilmore.
. War. Literature.
Mr. .George W.. Childs, .the well-known publisher
of Fhiladelplua, is about to add another volume to
his interesUng series ' of works growing out of the
experiences of the.wmr. He will publish- the volume
which General Cobcoban isprqparing, relating hta
itieraniraaventures-aiffbfig'fho rebels; and a-more
interesting work oan scarcely be imagined. Mr.
Childs has already.published “ Prison Life in Rich
mond,”
prisoners; (Parson Browniew’s hook; and he hiss
now in course of preparation ll Lossing’s Illustrated
History of the Rebellion. ”~IV? Y. Evening Post.
What the Crisis Demands of Loyal Men.
■ToitJie Editor of The Press :
Sir : Does the great Democratic party, with its
glorious traditions and, its former splendid achieve
ments, belong body and soul.to the great Mogul of
Schuylkill oqunty, Mr. F. W. Hughes, chairman
of;the Democratic State Central Committee? He
aertainly supposes so, judging from .the lordly man
ner of hia recent edicts, which will stand as monu
ments of his assumption, folly, and egotism.
: Hhat mean he and his assooiatos by 11 the Con
stitution as it is and the Hnion as it was?” The
stirring times in which we live demand a more loyal
comnientary than they are grilling to give this text.
Glorious defenders of the Constitution (1), they are
willing that the oountry should perish rather than
their friends: at the South should be pressed too
closely to the wall; more than half traitors now,
they want but the opportunity to-beoome as muoh
so as their brother! rebels at the South. ,
In the history of nationß; exigencies arise oblite
rating ali; paity lines; Mid the rapid march of
events, oalling forth new ideas, demand a line of
policy differing from that whioh preceded them,,
and a sacrifice of fonner predileottons and shnti-'
ments for the common good, liet tho tr ue and loyal
men of tho North stand shoulder- to shoulder, foot
to foot, and let their, battle-ory to 'the
knife.” This 'gloriduß-old Hnidh; bequeathed by
the men of the Revolution, baptized in the fire and
blood; of that struggle, Must .ahd shall.be pre
served,” regardless of all human oohditions and
cohtingenbies. . ' ’ : ;
» . : A Fokheb Bbeokinbidub Dbuocrat.
An Excellent Suggestion.
To the Editor of The Press :
~ IPstuhykwßih, August 22,1862.
Sir : Allow me to suggest, through your co
lumns, the propriety of-the . “ Breokinridgerß”
?,(under their tjhiefVJniOuj, State, F. W. HughejiJ,.at
tending ; their, ■meeting' tb-night, alone, ell good
% dtizem avoiding, Tor onee, the saor'ed preoiuctSjOf
Independence Hall.
Tours, Dbtrai,A.s.
A Spirited Letter from Colonel Mulligan.
HbadQwktbrs New Obese, VA., Angnst 12,1862.
Camp Cohmiskt, Irish Bbiqade,Bth Army Oobps.
My Dbab Father Bvsse : By the Ohloago papers of
to-day; I notice your promotion to'the colonelcy of tho
“Dunne Region.”' I bid yon welcome to the new voca
tion. I hall your conversion Hom the breviary to tho
bayonet; from the Canon law to the law of oanhonß;
from “taking heaven by violence ” to taking towns by
Btorin. It is meet and just . Your biography will
need a stirring chapter. Your history is too full of
this “vale of tearsthis martyrdom of parishes; this
lean look of. Rent; how splendidly will a' chapter read
with the caption, » Arma VirumqueCano.” ’
I need not ten you, Father Dunne, howlntimately in
all ecclesiastical history St. Peter l and saltpetre are
blended, shedding initre upon many a mitre.. The real
orthodoxy of the time is'not “Gahan’s Sermons,”, but
Hardee’s Tactics. Men are eavod now-a-days by the
doctrines of-St. James, “by firo,”~and are brought to
that state of grace by the “ apsstolic blows and knocks”
of Hndibras. To be a print according to the Order of.
Melcbitedeck is a grest thing,bnt to be a colonel accord
ing to the act of Congress is, speaking mildly, “ bully."
Bnt, joking aside, I have only a moment before going
on dress parade. I. seriously hope your good and patri
otic efforts to rouse our countrymen to their dnty may be
crowned with immediate success. ■ Dettroy this Govern
ment, and what safety remains for'our homes;. what
honors in onr history 2 In the psst is the memory of
grcatneis; in the future; anarchy,’ self-contempt, and
foreign ecotn. —Bather dare all «ow, prnerve the Go
vernment, vindicate Rb strength, and tbe republic passed
through this crisis, will stand with such assured dignity
and firmness, through all- the coming centuries; that no
foe without, no Judas within, shall ever dare raise an
armed hand against her. AndTilatory shall, place some
of this,grand, balance to the aocount of you and your
Region.
. How littlo, dear father, did we dream in our student
days, as we sat tipder your pretessorsbip in the dear old
-balls of St Mary, that these things should come upon us.
Then .we read of revolutions, now we fight them. I
think of those times often amid the duties’ of camps- and
the labors and dangers of the march, with a relish that
lightens the toil ’ Good’bye. Success to the “Dunne
t Region.” The Irish brigade of Mulligan from the fields
-of Yirglnis, bidB it God speod. I recognize among the
officers many of my friends; give them my best regards.
' Your pupil and friend,
‘ JAB. A.MURRIGAN.
To Very Rev, D. Buxkk, Chicago.
- Magoffin’s Letter of Resignation.
Exhoutivb Department,
August 16; 1862.
To the Senate and House of Representatives : ’ -
Having felt for a long time, that there did not exist
betweentoyself and a large majority of tbe Rogislature
that unanimity of’sentiment and opiftion as to the true
policy ef the State, so important in tho present- crisis, I
have relt it to be my duty to aid, by every means in my
power, to promote domesticharmony, and to endeavor to
prevent the most , dreadful of all, calamities, intestine
strife and civil war among the people of Kentucky, and
at tbe Same, time to protect,' as far as possible, the' rights’
and libeities of the minority, who differ io their political
.views from the majority of the .Regislatnre. Knowing
that in my poeition as Governor I was unable either to
avert orto.'control any attempted usurpation of unau
thorized 'authority, I expressed v my willingness, gome
days ago. when written toby a distinguished: member of
ihe dominant party, to resign my.preseet position, if
eisnrancee,would be given that ell effortsjwould be made.
to Secure to the people the great ends I so much’desired,
aid e gentleman selected to fill my position whose record'
and history, would afford a guarantee that, these object j
wcnld be effected, or, so far as practicable, be secured.
The action of the Regislature to day in the selection of
the distinguished Senator -from Scott county has given
me a satisfactory assurance ’ that all will bo done to pro
tect and secure tie minority in tbsirrightsunderthe Coc
atitution, ;snd to all the people of Kentucky their righta of
life, liberty’ and property, to protect which governments
were instituted among men. Feeling assured, from that *
act, and the individual assurances of many of the dis
tinguished members of the dominant party in the Regis
latuio, that, the ends Iso earnestly seek to attain will be
carried cut,-1 hereby resign mf position as Governor of
Kentucky, to take effect on Monday ’ next, Augußt the
18tb. at 10 o’clock A. M., and.l now tender to my dis
tinguished and very able successor my best wishes for
the success of his administration, in the hope he will be
-more anccessfnl than I have been, in protecting all classes
of tbe citizens of,my native, and still dearly beloved-
State in their rights-under the Ooßstitntion and laws;
to which I have faithfully endeavored to adhere,’and in
promciting tbe general wolfare . ■ ' :
Beßpecuully, yonr obe. ient servant,, -
B. MAGOFFIN.
How to'Finish the Canal at,Vicksburg.
A COMMUNICATION FROM JOHN BAN7AKD, BSQ
Gestlbsiex : ; The rebels are laughing over the failure
of our engineers in the.cutting of the canal through, the
bend at Vicktbnrg, but if onr force Had contlnaed their
labor a iittle.wbile longer, tberebels would have “laughed
the other tide of their .months,’’ for the canal would have
opened the channel of the river as intended. • , .
Having seen just such failures, beforehand, supposing
our, be batjk«ia ,, in jusUiuch an under
taking, I; early, in the <wsr, when Ganeral Fremont was
placed in command of the -WesternDepartment; and
. when tbe robfcU commenced fortifying these positions,
sugrrsted, ina communication to the General, how
■nearly all the places fortified, could be turned or passed,
as haa beendone at No. 11, sending him the oharts made'
from my own survey of the river. I particularly de
scribed tbe .geological. formation of .the. Mississippi bot-.-
tema, and directed how to avoid the very snag (to nse a
ilisaisi ippi pbiaae) upon which those having the work in
charge struck. afterwards volunteered my services on
the corps employed on this work. Genera! Fremont was
removed, and, as .there was some trouble in Ms depart
< menM tid not enter the Service.' .
-Here is the difficulty, and if those having ths superln
tendance of the cutting will profit by my hints, they can
have the old. Father of Waters running .through the,
canal in a very few days. Let them cut through that
argUlasceous stratum {which I know they came to, al
though it has not been eo Stated,} until they'coihie to the
substratum of sand, and when the river commences to flow
through the cut—never mind how narrow it is,- so long
. as itt is in the] sandr-the:snpertgtratum of• clay will
give, way or cave in, and in a short time will carry
the superincumbent aUuvenm with it. If this is
done, do power on earth can stop tbe river open
ing tbe ebannel across the ben*’, as intended. Twice I
have set'll Buch.nndertaking foiled oy this same cause—at
the “ Horaerfitroe Bend” and at “ Borkon’s.Bend.” The
former was cut through by Oapt. Shreives just as onr
engineers have done. He. encountered this argitlasceous
stratum when he found it hard digging, and. he abandoned
the undertaking, supposing the river would wash through
at the next rise. But hfiwas deceived; as it was some
nine or ten years, if I remember right, before the river
went through the cut he made. It is now the main chan
nel of the river. ' ■ - '
This stratum of clay varies in thickness. In some
places Lhave seen it only a foot through; then, again, in
some localities it is not found at all,’all being allnvenm to
the sub-stratum-of sand. I should judge the average
thickness of tbe belt to hr uot 6vor four feet. At any
rate cut it, and the river goes through.'
Yours respectfully, JOHN* BANVABj)
A Rebel Account of the Battle ofOxark—
CopyoraGaerillaGommission.
' Camp SPBtsoFixi.D, Mo., August 2,■ 188^.—On ths.
morning of .the 31st of July, while camped at,the month ■
of Long creek?dtf'White' river; I learned that: Colonel
Biehardsbn, with his command of Gamble militia,
amounting to Borne three or four hundred, was enoamped
at Ozark, Missouri; a distance of fifty miles. I imme
diately determined te surprise him if .possible, so I took
up line of march for that point, traTelling .ailday, and
the following night up to -twelve o’clock, s when ! l caused
a halt at a distance of two miles-and a half from Ozark.
Itben-went forward to reconnoitre, their .position, bdt
found that I condd'nbt approach hear'enough'to see their’
camp without alarming their pickets. I then returned to
camp and paraded all my armed men, and found that I
had but fifty- five men that were armed with arms suitable
to engage the enemy with.-. Leaving, my pack mules and
unarmedmen at that point I moved on,' intending to
take a position near their campyand-remahr*until the
break of day before, making the attack; but when within
a quarter of a mile of their camp we ran upon their
pickets. I ordered my advanced guard to charge upon
them, which they did with'spirit. ‘ I followed up closely,
Intending not ,to giye.them time to.form, bnt on arriving,
in Bight of their ramp.l found that they had been advised
of our approach,’ aitd were prepared, to defend themselves,
having all their tents lighted up I instantly formed 1 thy
men and ordered a,, charge. The enemy was' formed in
- front‘of the court house and posted; in several adjoining
1 buildings. We charged upon those to the street, tramp-,
fog them down and scattering them,.in ail directions
We then charged upon those m the court hous? and
drove them out, they taking shelter, in the-adjoining
brush. Learning, that a large (body* of the'enemy was
forming in the streer below, I—ordered Captain 1
Peabody to.attack them, which he did with great ferocity,
driving them back, they taking shelter in the houßea and
stables, keeping np a continual tire upon us. I then
. drew eff my men, and formed them to line of battle on
* the enemy’s camp ground, expecting: them, to oome out
of the houses and give irs fair fight; but we soon found
tbatit was Impossible to draw them out, and as they. Had
eightmen to our on’e,'XooD'cluded that 'it would : nofc be
prudent to attempt to drive them out or theihouses.-
It was! impossible for me to learn the. number killed
and wouaded.of the enemy, it being dark, and many of
them to houses. Our men saw three'killed and ton
wounded. <1 put their loss at ton killed and twenty
.wounded: We had but two men slightly .wounded.
My officers and,, men.fenght well. Captain Peabody,
'. Lieutenants Biser and; Miller, and Captain Gibbs, are
among those that distinguished themselves,
-' I am, General; very respectfully, your otPt Berv’t,
BOBT. B. L AWTHEB,
- ' , Colonel M0.P.8. -
, , The P. B, of whom Lawther signs himself colonel, are
the, Partisan-Bangers; permission toraisewhich band of
guerillas is given from Blchmond to the rebel commia
rioncopieiLbelow.- ~ ■ S .
War Defaetmskt, Biohmond, May.29,-1862.
Major Robert R.'Lawthir, pr cent:
, Sis:-llpßn ! 'tbe jfecoihmondation of Major Generals
Pride and Van Dons you are authorized to raise a regi
ment of partisan rangers, to he.enlisted and mustered into
service for the war, and to he composed of companies of
Infantry and of, cavalry, as, may be, found practicable,
each company to be fully organized as reauired for other
. companies of like arm. The men are entitled to bounty,
•but must.furnish their own-arms and-eduiuu-mw-ao. IW
as poeslble, and the mountedimes.thetr own horses. ■: > -
Yon,will be commissioned with proper rank as soon as
the corps is completed,.whether ‘regiment 'or battalion..
The other officers mnst-be elected. Report for duty to
the General Commanding the Department in which, the
men are enlisted. GEOBGE W-BANDOLPH,
Secretary of War.
Progressofßecroiting;
soon FOB LANCASTER,
Mr. Charles Flagg, of Lancaster, haa proved Ms pa
triotism by sending, six of- his, BOHB; (his whole - tamily)
to fight for the Union and .the .Ooestitotlon, viz: Henry
G. Flagg,'73d Pennsylvania, Pope’s Armj ; OHarlea S.;
Flagg; Jr., Ist- Pennsylvania l cavalry; Geni Bayard;
William E. Flagg, 79th Pennsylvania.; Oob Hambright
George D. -Flagg, in the volnnteer'marine servioe; Ed.
ward- F. Flagg, 6th Pennsylvania cavalry; James D.
Flagg, 122 d Pennsylvania, Col. Franklin. All honor to
the parents who thus sent forth their sons to battle for
their country and tho right
NEW JERSEY ITEMS.
A mass war-meeting was held at Beverly on the 2d
lnrt,, at which’sBB7 was subscribed,'and it was an-'
nounced that tweety-five men had volunteered for the
army. : • ,
, , Volunteering In Piinceton is going on very favorably.
Capt W. T. ecuddtr is raising a company of volunteers
for the nine-months service, and already has about
twenty-five names enrolled. 1
MASSACHUSETTS.
During.the week ending August 18, thirty-six towns
in Mamacbusetts their quota .as being, full,
amounting to the aggregate to 671 men. ' Warren has
raised her full quota for both the three years, and nine-’
months Berrice. • - Nearly 800 men were In Oamp Briggs,
Plttßfield, on Thursday last, for the 37th Regiment. . .
, Bfx regtaenta are now forming at different oaihia In
Massachnsetts, as .follows: 88th, 88th, 39th? 40th at
-Lynnfield ; theB6th at Worcester, and the'37th ; at Pitts-'
field. (’There, are besides: three, companies Of the >32d at
Lynnfleld. ,The 36th, Colonel Wilde, le full, and will pro
bably leave on Thoreday.. The 38th wMch is commanded
by Colonel Ingraham; of'New Bedford,’'and the S9th
are nearly full.- Tbe Sflth and 87 th have about 800 men :
each. . - .-!■-( - 1-1
Connecticut.-
-At a town meeting in Windsor, - a vote was pawed
toper e bounty of Sl£o to each volunteer from that town,
' requlredto make up her Quota under both falls. Marl
borough, met, in town meeting, end voted'a bounty, of
8100 to each recruit from that town. At a town meeting
: held In wetberefleia they voted to pay $lB5 bounty ioany,
one who would enlist from that town, and an additional,,
enm of 820 if the Quota of tbe town Bhonid be filled up.
'iAitowh meeting was heldJn. Canton which voted 8130
extra bounty to volunteers enough to fill her nine-months
anola; aid alee made provielon to take care of their
families.
' SHOES.—The total, shipments of boots and Shoos by.
rail and sea from Boston during the past week (according
to' the Shoe and ’ Leather Reporter) have been 9,181
cases, of which 8,973 were sentto New York<aud Penn
sylvania, 1,738 to the Border Slav 9 Btatoe, S,StS to the
.Western States, 22 cases to HayU.,Be»ides the above
there were 98 cases sent to Ne w Orleans,
FROM THE ARMY ;OF VIRGINIA.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT REPORTS.
Q-en. Pope Fallen . Back Fifteen
Miles!
mcffllioi or CfIiPEPER.
Whole Rebel’ Army ' Advancing.
Oar Army Morins' Toward? kttpAn Creek.
JACKSON’S ARMY I’OOIOOO.
/ ■ .
WASHINGTON THREATENED.
A G-reat Battle- Itm.min.-ent.
In yeeterday’s'.PMM we prepared'-our readers for the
reception of startling news of rocent'important move
ment* of onr grand armies in Virginia! Altlioughlu
possession of several letters from ony special .correspon •
dents, givingfull details of the stirring eventa-atdtffferent
points, we refrained from publishing theirstatements; in
foil, under advices that such a course would bedettl-v
mental to the interests of this country. We find-to-day
that much of the news already in onr possession has
been published under various ingenious disguises in' the
sensational press of the commercial metropolis; and there
- Ican be no harm in our printing to-day somo extracts,-
; embodying the speculations of army correspondents of'
several leading journals, and also some editorial com
ments thereon. Below will be found a complete epitome
of thereal and speculative facts alludod to:
The Situation in Virginia.
[From the New York World ]
Washikoton, August 20.—At this day and hour a well
grounded anxiety exists behind l the scenes, ’concerning'
the possibilities of the week te come. If by the time this
letter, published in your columns, shall have been read in
Dixie, the impending dangers have not injured us, they
, can never return again. So it is Bate to tell their nature
;. Taking the' advantage of McOlellan’a movement, of’the
roundabout route by which he is going to support Pope,:
of their own inner and direct lines of transit, the rebels
are rapidly throwing* their whole strength against the
Army of Virginia, They are'apparentiy making a giant,
effort to conQuer our defensive force, and thereby capture
before .the bulk of: McClellan’s army can
avail for the rescue. I have only to tell you that your
surmises are already sustained by the latest military
news. Generals Leo and.'Jackson have , been ’ shrewd
enough to see,their aavantage, and are, te all appear
ances, profiting by it-
Dastnight, then, and to-day, we have a litUe panlo on
hand, and a'muchmbre sensible one,than the last. Gen.
Pope has found the enemy’s numbers' suddenly aug
mented to -one .hundred thousand men, or upward.
Moreover, they are moving from GordoasviUe in force
toward Fredericksburg, perhaps intending -to' push
through the weak places of our left. This has forced
Pope either to give battle on the spot dr to at once draw
in hiß lines. The former alternative can only be the last
extremity of evil, consequently be is falling rapidly back;
has, Idm informed, evacuated the Culpeper region, bag
and baggage; has drawn in bis lines at least fifteen
miles, edging a little toward. Acquia .creek, in order to be
within easier concentrating reach of such portions of
McClellan’s army as have there.landed.
O for a magic carpet, large enough to hold titty thou
sand men, and bear them in an eye’s wink from York
town to the north fork of the Bappahannock! As It fa,
the country knows that acertain portion of McGlellan’e
army hat reached the important point,: and of course the'
* remainder is hurrying forward through such magnificent
means of 'water transportation as the world never before
has seen collected. "
Bnt ihe enemy is not only pushing one column toward
Fredeiicksbnrg. Another body, how large I don’t pro
tend to know, presses steadily agatottons on the old
Gorddhavllle ronte. jWe have got our. hands full for the
next week. They can safely spare every gray.coat from
Bicbmosd. . "Who knows that 25,000 other men are not ,
at this moment marching down, the Shenandoah valley 1
If that were the case, we should be in trouble. A mis
conception has always obtained,at,the.North relative to ,
the method of entering the vattey. No one has ever
imagined that a rebel force could get in there, save by
the conventional Sionewall route, via, the’Vivgtaia, Cen
tra! Bailrosd, Staunton, Ac ’ Bear to mind for a moment
that another railroad, parallel with the one. just named,
runs from Richmond west to Lynchburg, eto,, on a line
south of the James fiver. We‘know that; some time
since, the enemy threw a portion of his Bichmondiarmy
south of the river—to attack Suffolk it was said. Sup
poie that force to have moved along the Sbuthaide BaU
road, to have entered the valley at Salem, thence jeoretly :
to have marched down to Staunton, and.now ready to co
operate In the joint movement by a dash for Harper’s
Ferry and upper Maryland.•, If the.enemy in Virginia
had been as numerous as some have claimed, he would
assuredly have availed himself of this advantage. Fortu
nately,,we have no newß to conflim such fears.
Meantime the rebels, always coguizaut qr any separa
tion of our iotas, and swift to use their knowledge,
.seem to have permitted McClellan to move quietly off,
attack Pope’s in force.
Tbey-‘ bave made two grand mistakes, which we believe
will prove fatal to their scheme. 'First, they do not
know how long ago McClellan’s evacuation, commenced,
aed hence have not calculated on finding any of his army
to their new path.- Beoond, they have underrated our
meanß of transportation—have made a great blunder in
supposing that one fourth the time will be needed for
bringing the aimy of the Potomac tip the river which was ■
consumed in originally moving it down.
So that I cannot deem Washington in any danger. Yet
there is every probability that within five days the blood-,
lest, most hotly contested battle of the war will be fought.
: near the noith fork of the Bappahanhock. Not Si Gene
ral Halieck can avoid it;; Bnt the enemy, if determined
to attack: chr advantageous positions, can unquestiona
bly bring on theflght. He will toi unquestiohahly be re
pelitd until, by new rrriviila, vre are sc, strengthened as.
-tease himnp. His fbreed marches, indeed—invplving
the carrying of cooked rations, the Hauling of arHliery by'
halt -Blarved hoises, etc.—will have,rendered it necessary
for him to succeed in the first attack, or not at all-. Au
resit, we are alb holding our breaths. I say nothing of '
the new levhß arriving. Snch talk is contraband.* But
of conrse men who do not know how to load a musket
can beof Tittle immediate nse. General Halieck has the
confidence of everybody. The last month’s operations
have thown a masterhaud at the helm.' We are to day
going throngh the swiftest, most dangerous portion of the
“rapids ’’ A week more, and the future is secure; the
, old ship will cleave the open sea.
[FtomtheN. Y. Tribune.] b
’ • Hkadquabtkrs Abut of Yirouca, •; .
Cedar Modstair, August 18,1862.
Again on.the match, and that march a retreat The
camp which only yesterday was pitched at the' foot of the
mountain, now memorable,forever, dissolved this after*
noon into thin air, and headquarters are here without a
campbnt.here only for '■ an hour—or throe hours, it,
matters not. A hurried order came to be ready to . start
at once, and before two hours had passed tents .aud log
gege—allot headquarters but its .personnel—were moving
to the rear We understand it 'is whispered that, the
whole army of Virginia is to retreat, and presently it bet
gtos to be added that the .whole army of Bichmond is on
the advance; that the rebels threaten .to tnrn our left ,
flank—in a word,’ are marching straight for Fredericks- ;
' bnrg, for Washington, for the North. Perhaps; but bo-;
fore tbe north, before Washington, before Fredericks
bnrg is reached,’ the hardest, fiercest, most detcriiiinod,
and desperate battles of tbe war are. to be fought. This
army Is not running away, nor is General Pops out
generaled yet by Stonewall Jackson, *
T hreatened on the left flank—threatened by an army
qthat counts’its hundreds of thousands of maddened and
r desperate troops—tlifi army?of "Virginia retreats indeed, 1 '
but it retreats to fight. By daylight,,it. must, cross the
Bappahannock, but when once on the northern bank of
that river, tt.BO'lqpgar!i^eglSAbit'b«^Mrto'’wii>i»,mrc, < •>
The battles of this war are only about to begin.;. , ■
Was it wholly unexpected ? By no means. It was
believed to be poseible—probable. ■ The newspapers have:
besitatedito publish that McGlellan.was abandoning the
Peninsula, but no one- doubted that tho'rebels watched
every step of bis retreating force. Thor paw that their ,
hour to strike was come. While Pope had flung himself
with chivalrous audacity oh their front toTHetract attcn
tion from McClellan—while .that General was striving to
put bis* forces . where, they might onco more assume the
. offensive, changing his whole plan of-campaign, In order
to commence another—while t Bichmond, ceased .to be
threatened from the 'James, and its whole' army was libe
rated to etrike—what better hour, could the'rebel chiefs' —:
able generals as they are—desire l. They saw their op
’ portnnily, and they hesitated ho more now than ever be
fore to strike where and whefi the blow would fall surest
. end heaviest. .. . , .: r
'McOlclleni'-wesnppose and hope, is safe. Anotherday'
-’will ehow how muoh it has cost to Bave him. Troops are -
ihntryihgto meet us , Our,march- is for, tho Bappahan-, .
nock, and if,'beyond the Bappahahnock safelyi'we'meet
the men who,maioh ,to; j»to this army turns, in
its fodtstopefind aw.aifs the shock, .. ' . .
• Stgel'marches'attwelve^to-night.- The dead whosleep"
around: ns on'this; desperate field, with their facoß to the,
South, torn uneasily to fills, backward tread, and you.
may almosth'e'ariri thlsdarkhhlng twilight thevoicethat
asks if all bave died in vain. ,No, never toyain* Heroic-,
deaihs are 'the Tfispirafioh 'fflf'the' livlpgV Nffbattle'lß"
: wholly-lost that is bravely fohght.’’ Mveryrlife'that-iwas::
poured' out .under, the sbadowof .OedarKMountato-waa
given in nob! e purpose; given 'to 'save’ 1 those othor lives
which had hot yet;been:ffiang awayjim the :ratal Benin. ,
sula.lt ie time to hear fromMcOiellanelsewhere,from.
- him or bis army withent him; -Wo ma;- hear to-morrow
the tread of friendly, feet beyond the'Bappahannook; .we>
may hear the march of hostile armies before-we reach it
•" GM.FEFRR OoiJRT Houss, Angust 19—6-A.'-M. ‘
Poporetained hie headquarters atOedarMoun-,
-tol»mi-»i4ni fl hia staffand rode
■to Cu’peper. re selling it at 2v f : Not an ’inch or raad that
WBB Dot fllled with .wagons, most of them halting.' Be
fore tbe start, the last had passed- headquarters, but only ‘
to crowd together l ih*cdhfUßion in-the darknoss, and
blindly grrope their way, .over, new-made roads in the
field*.!. Bivouac fires were burning everywhere;-.’the
nightjWas clear, the starlight brilliant; and not long after
.12 the moon came.np; but there is a blending,of. light
"and shade on countless strange scenes which- makes'
everything-Indistinct and mysterious; makes ifeasy-to
lose one’s way,, and almost impossible to find it,. So the
.endless trains made’little progress in the rear,'and only '
.gave promise of a. worse condition in front' The' Gene
ral took charge ia and his energetic efforts soon
started the loitering wagons? and, as ho overtook succos
- slve trains, put every one,quickly-in motion.
- There | are no troops on tbe road at first. They have
hardly begun to Imove ; ‘could -hardly move If-'they tried: --
It is just possible for tbe General’s cavalcade, .winding its
way in and out of the' labyrinth of. trains, and riding alt
most wholly out' of the roadf to makeiia war-slowly for
ward. A regiment cannot march, as a regiment tIU the,
roads are clear; nor heed the iroops move farohthe road
’ till the trains are>weU on iheir way... The trains ate to be :
-brought’eff,if’it costs a fight beforg we reach the river.,;..
- • lhe retreat of our army, and the advaaca’of fhe rebels
In everwbelming force, Ore no ,longer secrets; i Beside the
.reportß of scents and reconnoissahces. we have the evi,
deuce of as officer who was inßicbinond only last Friday,
and Mb evidence iB that inlßichmond'there are only three
thousand troops; that the whole-rebel, force, from one,,
hundred and fifty to nne hundred and sevshty-five thou- 8
sand strong, is marching on Washington, is within twen
ty miles or less of Gen. Pope, and hopes to flank and de
stroy bis army. Long before this-can bs read at the
North if will be known in every village that Washington
i is again threatened by the advance of a rebel army, and
that its fate’ls a questiondf dSys. ’lf JtcOlellah h'ai sent
forward hts troops for once rapidly fifths North hu sent
them, if they meet us on the Bappahannock, if we can
’ gather three-fourths of therebel strength, then safety and
victory. : Bufif nol?
Arriving at Culpeper Gen. .Pope found its streets
crowded wope than tho roads, and almost the whole
transportation of the army in dangor-of being choked
and delayed until it could only be savod by fire. The ,
first: trouble was in front. ’ Biding’out* he’ started the
- leading trains, atsirted every.one as he returned;ordered ;
all hesitating of Injured .wagons into the fields, cleared
the whole road, and returned to town. Taking his sta
tion on the Cohrt House corherfwhere tlie trains were
to divide, he spent the. reßt ofqthe night with;his staff, {
bringing ordey-out ..of? coafnelon,urging forward every,
train,! addressing? drivers, wag6ti-maete'rs, ‘ qnarter
masters; add every one else with a certain discretion or
force of , speech whicli nobody conld mistaka er disobey.
By six o’clock nearly all the immense trains of the army
were through the town. .. ' ' -
I have only a moment for these hurried-lines, which I
hope to send by,ap early train tide morning. It wasex
. peoted thatthe army 'would cross the Bappabannockby
' 10 o’clock. bnt the passage of the trains waesomuchde-.,
layed that it will not be attempted. The corps of, Banks ,
•is here, anid McDowell is coming np. Both w&l wait the'
arrival ol Bigel, who covers the retreat, and will.not bei
hurried.' Ae,l,write, these masses of troops arepouring
in swift bnt'.opderly marches along, thehamijf roadi 'and,,
' ovorthe field*,towirdthetowh—therearalroadylistsn
, ing;for tha sound of following cannon., Alllday long the
inarch will continno,. Bigal .is not expeotod.tiU. noon,
amV whatever happen* not a regiment leayee tiU the tear ,
TWO CENTS.
comes up. It is a wond<stfulrotroat,for, in spite of de
lam; there Is'no panic among tie traina, and though the
troops,are moving to tie rear they march'Mir to battle;
The sunlight streams out brigbily,thoair is'cool, tie dap
ie all that can be wished if it Is only long' enough. Ho
battle to-day, if any mease can avoid' It j. : perhaps hone
to-morrow, bnt onthe’ Bappaiahhocfc, before tie week
closes, comes the deadliest straggle of the war. :
EDITORFAb COMMENTS OK THE ABOVE- HEWB,
[From the Hew York World.]
The reheat of General Pope will bring untold-horrors
upon one'class of unfortunate people ; we allude to those
who were either persuaded, frightened, or forced into
taking the oath of allegiance te tbe-United States. The
rebels will, of course, wreak all their vengeance aeon
these weak brethren. It ought, however, to be a lesson
to our generals never to exact an oath of this kind, ud» ’
til there Is ho longer any danger of a recovery of the
territory by the rebel troops. Treatment of this
kind only serves to make the' rale of onr. Government
contemptible, as well as detestable, in all'the disputed
territory.
Wabhinotok Despatch —Bumors wore current in
the city yesterday, to the effect that the army of Virgi
nia was retreating—that General Fope,'having disco
vered* the approach of General Jackson witha force of
120,000 men; when the latter waawithin enly eightmiles
of Ms outposts, in' obedience to ihstroctions; retreated
at once. It Is a noticeable fact, in this connection,; that
the latest despatches received from the army were dated'
on Monday last. , V,
. [From the Hew York Tribune.]
-We received on Wednesday evening the intelligence of
the movements, of, the Army of Virginia, which we did
not then think proper, but which to-day wears at liberty
to: make public. The letter of our correspondent, who
sends, nothing, for publication except by permission of.
General Pope, fully explains the retrograde movement.of
the ermy. At Cedar Mountain it was Jackson’s purpose
to break through Pope’s lines, but-he was foiled by the
disposition which Pope had made of his forces, and by
the bravery of .Banks and his command. Beaten back
with heavy loss; he now attempts to throw himself be
tween McClellan's army—which be has permitted to leave
. the Janies river unmolested that he might concentrate his,
whole force at this new pointof attack—and Gen. Pope’s
army, with the hope; perhaps! 'of ; annihilating each in*
turn. Bet he haa to deal with ail adversary as quick
and as fertile in resources as himself. Pope, by a well
conducted retreat, is still keeping in Jackson’s front,
and does hot mean to permit him to turn his flank; He
moves steadily forward with his face to : his foe, ready,
always, we may be confident, for an attack if Jackson
ventures! or has already ventured’to mako one; Every
hour that the two armies continue in these relative posi
tions rendera Jackson’s hndertahing the more hazardous
" and increases Pope’s chance of successful resistance; for
every step taken , brings them nearer to Burnside with
his command; and such portions of the Army of the Po
tomac as may have already reached Fredorickßburg. Wo
may expect to bear, any hour, of a bloody battle, but we
confidently hope to announce another victory.
[From the Hew Tork Times.]
. The city was profoundly agitated josterday by rumors
of disaster tbieatening the army in. Virginia. The Go
vernment, controlling the telegraph, prevented the’presß
from receiving any news through that medium, but did
not prevent* private parties from obtaining, by the help of
cipher, fhll intelligence of all that was beenrring;* These
reports; passing from month to month, and exaggerated
at every transmission, created a serious panic, which the
; absence of any different intelligence from the lines served
to augment. Against these evils, the product of official
errors, we are unable to guard the public, as we are also
unable to lay before it that correct intelligence which
would allay apprehension. We can only say that up to
the moment the paper goes to press there-has, been ho
encounter between the Union and rebel forces in Vir
ginia, and that Washington is not in danger;
FROM THE SOUTHWEST.
Movemeitt%of Col. Coffee—He is Reported
Crossing tbe Osage. • - ,
[From tho Springfield (Mo.) Journal, August 12 ]
Last week an expedition numbering, we believe, jtbout
301 men, (including two companies of raw militia) under
command of Major Montgomery, of the 6th: Missouri
cavalry; started in pursuit of Colonel Coffee, who was
known to have entered the State, and to be going north
ward. .. :■
On Wednesday Major Montgomery came up with and
annihilated a email portion of the rebel band near Mon
tovallo, Vernon county The rebels nnmberod thirty
fire, formed on a high point of land, and when they saw
oiif forces coming, mlßtook them for their own mßn—the
two compares of State militia not being in uniform. ..
When within about forty yards of them Major Mont
gomery ordered his men to Are upon them, which Wag
done, resulting in the killing ol from thirteen to seven
teen rebels, and the capture of abonf the game number— l
among the latter, one captain and ‘one sergeant, .It is
said that out of the whole company not more than four
or five escaped. •"
Hot one ofour men was hurt by the Are of the Secesh,
but one of Captain Coleman’s men (militia) had bis
shonlder broken from the fall of bis horse. A' ball grazed
Major Montgomery's -shoulder, cutting his coat, but
doing no damage.
Wo gather the abovo particulars from a member of one
oi tho companies engaged. . The prisoners taken.in the
fight, together with a few others captured on the route,
arrived in thin place on Friday last.
The two companies of State militia returned here on
Saturday morning. They report that Colonel Coffee,
with his command, when last heard from, had crossed the
Osage river, and was encamped two miles north of the
river and about ten miles above Osceola, near the town
of Taberrille. They left Montgomery at Stockton, Cedar
county. He is still in pursuit of Coffee, and, with the
reinforcements Which he will undoubtedly receive, iB in
a fair way to capture the whole pack.
Where is he going 1 is a question more easily asked
than answered. It is certainly a daring and bold move
ment, but if he sueceer s In getting back, to Arkansas
somebody will be to blame, that's all.
■ , ItP.IIF.L BOUT NEAR FORSVTIIE.
I t having been ascertained that there was a considera
ble rebel-camp near, Forsythe, it was determined to
break it up. : Accordingly a detachment of men from the
post,at Ozark were placed under the command of Gapt.
Hi rob, of the 14th M, S. M., who immediately started on,
the expedition, and some time before "day on Monday ‘
morning, the 4th;inßtV cmne upon the camp three miles
this tide of Forsythe. , ; . ... ;
Hot suspecting danger, the rebels were all fast asleep,
and were taken completely by. surprise.- The. camp was.
charged, and the rebels took to their heels like a flock of
•frightened' sheep, some'with their shirt-tails streaming
out behind, and .others in their drawers, leaving tents,
clothing, ihorees. and rigging, aims, and a great deal of
• important correspondence behind. A few were killed and
'a few taken prisoners., :
Major Clifford, who, it will be recollected, came np with
afleg of truce from Mcßride, a short time since, loßt his
coat and pants, taking to the brush on double-quick time,
in'his shirt tail. '' ... '.
Alter destroying the camp, and burning what they
could not bring away with them, the “ boys” returned
to Ozark with their booty, highly elated at the success of
the expedition.
The Battle of Bone Jack.
[From the St, Louis Bepubllcan, 20th.]
Op to the hour of going to press this morning we have
received nothing of, an ofliciat character from headquar
terain regard to the fight on Friday beyond Sadalia, in
wbicha Bisall forco of the State troops were overpowered
and captured by a large band of ‘rebels. By passengers,
: however, on the Faciflo'Baiiroad we bavevariout rumors,
seme of which locate the fight at Lone Jack, a small placo
on the eastern border of J ackson county, fifteen or twenty
miles southwest of Lexington. Here, it is said, a force
of State troops belonging to the regiments of Cols. Phil
lips and Crittenden, and numbering abont eight hundred
men, were surprised by a* rebel force comprising the re
spective gangs of Qaantcll, Hays, Hughes, ;and other
guerilla chiefs, all under the command of Col. Coffee, and
nnmherihg'about three thousand men.
Though theßtate troops were: unprepared for tho con
flict, they made a most gallant and .desperate resistance.
They had twe pieces of artillery, for the possession of
which there, ensued- a most: bloody i struggle,, in, which
Major -Foster of. the State troops, a most gallantand
meritorious offleer, was mortally wounded. Tho artil
lery, finally, fell into the hands ofthe guerillas; bnt the
‘two pieces were spiked before their captnre, and will not
prove very .valuable prizes 1» tro rebels. •'
' The result was the defeatof.tbe htate troops,-with a
-loss of- abant two hundred in killed, wounded, and miss
ing,,: These are substantially the reports' brought by
passengers on the Pacific Bajiroad. - From headquarters
we gain nothing more definite than that they are mainly,
.correct. . ’ O' .; ,i ,
./' In regard to the thonsand-and-one rumors prevalent in.
the city yesterday, we ltarn from official sources some
facts which will tend to stay the ;pQblict excitement.
The report that the Hallcck Guards, of this city, were in
the fight, is totally' untrue. They had not, up to yester
day morning, been in any engagement at,all. The gnu
boat Warner was not captured by rebels, Lexington is
not in possession of-the guerillas. On the contrary,
General Ben Loan, from 1 St. Joseph, has arrived there
with large reinforcements, and is expected to hold the
place against all odds. . v >v; . .
Sedalia, although threatened by the rebel gang, ia in
good hands,'mid will be retained by the State forces.
The rebels have probably ran tbelongth of their rope, 1
and, if we mistake, not the signs of the t mes, willina
- few days be as thoroughly l cleaned out of Jacksonj John
son, Lafayette, and surrounding counties, as they have,
been in Northeast Missouri.
> AdditionalfroinEurope.
LORIiPALMERSTOH’S BHEFFIELD SPBECHr—EKNH-W,-
' ; M> BECLAEATIOK, . i; .
On the eyening'.of *the s Bili of'JJngugt,"’thV. Mayor of
Shtflleld gave asnmptnous banquet; in the Cotter’s Ball,
to the membersofthe Oorporationand several distin
* gnished strangers. ’ Among 'the gueata were Lord- Pat
: meraton, andtthe Borough'members,.Mr..Boebucfc, and
Mr. Hadfleld. . . • ;
'' After the uauanoyal toasts, the Mayor proposed “ The
Health of Lord Palmerston,’’.which waa receired-with
niuckenibusiasm. * . . ■. . - ..
' liord Palmerston, in responding, said he felf deeply the
kind manifestations ufiwelcomejwhich he had met-with,
on entering the town. In any case.it would have been
moat gratifying to him to experience such ■ a testi
mony of goodwill and approvatfrom such a community,
, but that testimony was doubly'valuable when he saw on
-each ride ofhim proofs of tho Booed judgment and dlfl- ‘
. crimination of, the people, of Sheffield in the .persons of
their" fioebuckand' Mr. Hadfleld.'
. [Cheers. J Hothing could be more interesting to those
who were charged with the condnct ofpublio affairs than
: to: visit these great seals of industry, to see in the first place
the men who, by their energy,, intelligence, and; integrity
bad.amasaed large fortunes, which exposed them not to the
jealousy of the envy of tlieir neighbors, bntf won forthem
i their.; universal approbation • and; .respect ::,tof see, also,
others who were Btill struggling in the same, honorable
pursuits, end who were destined, perhaps, someday to '■
overtake; those who had.gone before them,{..and not less
gratifying was it to see those steady and honest working*
classes, the strength and stamina .’of the country.
[Cheers.] O'Ur maiuifactnringand commercial prosperity
' was the ,• result of oim'freA institutions, and "if had of ’
late, also, been peculiarly increased by theipractioal ap
, plication ot the principles of fre,e.trade..# While,
however, they 1 surveyed with pride and gratification'the
productive industry of the kingdom, tho wealth which it
created, and the. spirit of ; enterprise, and intelligence
which’everywhere appeared; on’the other hand, they
: could,not but feel deeply,grieved af the. sufferings uuhap
. »i}y inflicted upon a portion of the industrial classes
by causes beyond our control. ; j Hear, hear.] 1 Yet,
greatly as.theycommiierutedtliat distress; greatly as
they- admired the manly fordtude with whioh it had been
endured; anxioua as they must all be to relieve it, he
; was persuaded, that the good sense of .the people of Eng
land, and the’ proper fee.ings.of the sufferers themselves,
Wmuat acknowledge that! he Government were wise in not
endeavoring .to aim at the relief or that distress by mea
sures of war, which, so far from mitigating, would only
have aggravated the evil. The Government have
before thought it their fluty to advise their, sovereign,
to preserve a strict ami rigid'neutrality fn ttat niosf
wihafpjt >;■ now ragatgk in \ Morth,i America.
[Cheers ] It was, indeed painful to witness the loss
’of life, the wasting of treasure, and other sad ooh
cbmitania; of that; unfortunate; contest;, but; f greatly,
i as, they ’ might lament to see their brethren on the
.other, eide of the Atlantic suffering ’ mubh wretchedness,'
greatly as,.we might oureelyes fedl, the evils consequent
upon it, he was convinced that the course we, had piir
. sued ®ot iJke only ct&rsTybhich'became ihis 'c6mtrg, :
and thatit had. received, and mould, continue to receive
the approval and sanction of thel British people.
[Cheers.] - Ail would hope'that those 6vilß>miiat have an
end: all must hope that better feelings,and .more chari
table sentiments mlgbt'makeway onthedther side of the
Atlantic, and although hltherto thereihad appeared no
relenting of the animosittesof, the contending parties, w*
1 might devoutly pray that peace'would at length arise out
•of; this afflicting war, and .tbat -another yearmight not
.‘see the continuance of that effoalon .of blood which now.
deingtd the American Boil [hood cheers •]
THE battles befobb bichhond . ■ ’ ’ f
To the Xdilor ofthe London Times; . .
But: The following is r correct lißt.of mUltary supplies
- end prisoners taken in tboßichmond:
SO large irons;-200 spiked guns (destroyed); I,TOO* mules,
2,600 horses,.62,OSO.atand of »W;.56,000,000,,w0rth ,of,
•'T&iicne storeg, tbfc liftllooDj witu &ll its t&cklOj % niijoi
MSttfUs; 6 bHg«M3ier general*; 13 ooldneUy ISO commie
srcuha'offlcewi 11,000,prie0nera.,,,.,; ~ ~ „
.- ’Tbia statement is taken from aprivate tetter of a Con
federate officer,' written to a friend in this city.
I am, sir, yours, :&c., CQK FEDERATE.
■ rants, August B.’
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FROM HAVANA AND MEXICO.
Failure of Diplomacy with Juarez—(laptaro
of Two American Vessels, by the Frenoh—
Skedaddle to Havana—The Slave Traffe-i'
• Departure ol Blockade-Runners. ,
*' _i- ' YbbaCbuz, AugtiitL,
- Three days ago ! Iforwarded youaletter bya sailing- -
, vessel, bound direot for Hew York; in which, I gave you*
tbe effect of the news of the failure of the Engilshand'
American treaties upon tho Juarez party. Fromlatot*
advice* received from the’capital, I am still more per-,
snaded 'that the news of these* diplomatic failures'wiH
have a disheartening effect upon the Liberals there. anA:
.for a time be a' fatal blow to the influence of GeneralDo-'
blade, and entirely annihilate the importance or ttveHon;
Thomas Corwin: and Sir Charles'Wyke. , The tending’:
of these changes will be to give the French Hie* mastery
again In the diplomatic field, even with the Juarez party.' ’
who act more from fear than sympathy in tbo present'
crlsiß. -The late news trill mnch affect the hew elections'
for deputies, and it ieems clear that Doblado mast give ’.'
way to some one else;' General Oomohlort is being looked’'
to as a leader i and It seems very-probable he will arrive
at that point very Boon. Shenld_ a war Congress be
elected, some other person will'have tbe reins of tha
Government: but as this- party would soon give :way,
-Comonfort will stand the best chance of becoming' tha
leader ol a moderate party. He has so farnplayed I his
game cßrefnUy, Witti the view, no donbt, of gettlng.baok
tato the Preßidential chalr. Tha French occupation,
however, is likely,to interfere with his plans, unless -he
favor their projects of pacifying the country—a thing h»
is very aptto do. Tf,.- •
In the letter sent three days ago, I informed you that ■
the blockade of Tampico had resulted in the takingof
two Mexican vessels, now lying In this port to be ad
judged - that the news from France had caused great ac
tivity,here ib the preparations for the * new troops;’ that
the guerillas have become mere bands.of robbers, con
demned, by the liberal General Have; a party of them
at Medellin had .been.Burprised, and two of the prisoners
,have f been hanged in the alameda of this place [ also that
ihe work on tfaeirailroad has been' recommenced,-with*
every prospect ofits now going forward, without inter
ruption : andtbat a largo convoy of empty wagons had.
arrived from Orizaba to take provisions tothatpiao*.
where a scarcity still prevails. Since thatdßtethe Frepch
have captured two more (American) vessels at Tempioe,
BO that we have four now In port, ;
The extraordinary from the capital arrived yesterday,
and brings dates to tbe 28th nit. The Mexican Journals
speak lond for war. The affair at Puebla grows greater
and greater in importance every day in the eyes of tha
Mexicans, and they are to-day, in their own conception,
ihe greatest warriors in Christendom. They will n»
doubt make s Btand either at Puebla or tho capttaL
From Havana. * .
; Havana. August 16—A great deal of amusement, and
at the same time disgust, is entertained for the great
number of ‘‘able-bodied;.citizens of!the United States’'’
liable to draft, who reached here by the Columbia,:i»
order to avoid serving : their country in time of need.
Had these cowardly fellows only thought for a moment
they would easby have seenthat their chauces'were a
thouEand times better in the Steteßof saving their worth
less, lives than by emigrating to Havana at this sickly '
season, when“ Yellow Jack”, stalks abroadinhis very
worst form, only,looking,,for 'such subjects as theyare:
and the sincere, though perhsps'uncharitable, wish of
the loyal natives of this place is that he may hot bs long
in pointing them out as his victims.- Seriously, the sea
son in Havana has hardly ever been so siokly, and fugi
tives will find in Yellow Jack a'wbrse: enemy to oontend
with than even Jeff Davis.
’ The slave-trade, atraDge to aay, -ia by nomsunadul,
notwithstanding the great number of vigilant orniaers
around here. * A fn!l and ; lively cargo of nogroea wer*
lauded within .twenty-five' miles of Havana, some tour
hundred in number, from a-bark commanded by an
American. Theie- is no doubt as to the truth of this, M
I have tbe, news from one ef the owners ot the oargo of
slaves, who is; of conrto, quite j'nbilant over-his'snocess.
Heaaya that they-.passed within five miiee of-the Monk
night ’before last,.,and .they landed within twenty miiee
. the next morning at daylight, all safe. - :
' The rebel steamer. Matagorda leaves Havana for aoms
rebel port to- morrow, and in two'or three days the-Basic
and Galifornia leave here, all with valuable rcdscollaheous
cargoea, for the same praiseworthy (?) objeot—namely,
aiding and abetting treason of the most damuablekhid that
ever blotted civilization. They will, It is sail by PArtiee
‘‘ who know,” make for either Mobile, Ala, or Oharlea
ton, 8. 0 , most likriy tbe farmer port, as tho Cuba,’which
sailed .from here some time since, ran in all rightr Arras,
aimmnnltlon;*Bnd medicines,' form tbebtdk of the-cargo.
■ They will make fine prizes for whoever may catch them.
STATIONS OF OUB MEN-OF-WAB.—At Port
MaytU— United States Steamers Henry Andrewß, Valpa
raiso, Planter, flag-ship Wabash, linen Vermont, steam
gunboat Keystone ’ State, steam gunboat Alabama;
sloop-of war Dale. . .... :
At Stono Inlet— Steam gunboat Pawnee, steam game
boat Ottawa,steamer Ellen. •
At Charleston —Steamer James Adger, steamer Au
gusta, 6team gunboat Marblehead, steamer Bienville,
Bteamer Flag, ■ corvette Vaudalla, gnnboat Paui Jones,
barks Fernandiha and Onward, schooner-Blunt, steam
gunboat Huron. -o
At Warsaw Irilet —QunboatSabego, grmboat Seneca.
'-■'At St. Nimo»’s-2.Steamer Florida,-steamer Madgie,
steamer Patrooh, steamer J. P.Hale, steamer Western
World.'
At St. Jcfin’s—Steamer Uneas, steamer F. B. Hale.
A t Ossabavj —Steam gunboat Uhadilta, steam gunboat
Pembina
At Femandina —Dawn, Sumpter. •
At Mosquito Island —Steamer South Carolina..
The officers and crews of all these vessels are wall.
• THE BOUNTIES IH BHODE ISLAND —Governor
Sprague has called a special session of tbe Bhode Island
Legislature, to meet at Providence on Tuesday next, to
take into consideration tie difficulties jin which the sys
tem of bounties has involved recruiting In that State, and
to provide a remedy.,
Weekly Review of the Philadelphia Markets.
Philadelphia, August 22,1862.
- i There is not much 'demand for any of the leafing ary
tides, and prices are without any material change. Quer
citron Bark comes forward slowly, and Ist No. 1 is sell
ing at $3250 ton. Bread staffs are unchanged. Fionrj
Wheat, and Corn, the receipts are light. Candles—Thee*
i* very little doing. Coal ia in fair dema4|p Coffee,
Sngar, afid Molaseeß, there is no change. Cotton- is un
settled, and rather lower. Drags and Dyes, very littte
doing. Fruit, there Is rather more doing. Fish are
quiet, and pricee'the same as last quoted. -In Freights ’
there is very llttle doing. The/Item? market continue*
: very firm. Naval Stores are very HcorceaQdhigh.. Oils,
there lis no change. Provisions, the demand -is -rathe?
better. Bics is unchanged. Sait ia firmly held.
The‘Flour market is very quiet; the only sales re
ported are 4*5,000 bbls for export at ,$5- for superil ns,
*6 50 for Western extra; ,600 bills Lancaster oo.‘ extra
family sold at $6.75, and fancy brands at fromilSS,fioteT: 1
V bbl for fancy brands, according to quality. The re
'taflers and bakers are buy ing moderately within tho rang*
of #5 for superfine up, to $650*7 #'"bM for fanoy
hiands ; ISO bbls fine sold at S&SOty-'Ml.' Kta Flow
is selling in-a small way: at $3 6003 75 Oern. i
Meal is dull; small sales are making at s3.l2jf *3 25 V
bbl for Pennsylvania Meal.
WHEAT I .—There is a good demand . for prime dry lot*
at full rates; sales comprise : about 45,OOObus.good and:
prime Western and Pennsylvania red at fi1.2901.31qff
bus ; Southern 1 do at" 813301.35, and white at'front'
$1.35*1.60 bns; a choice.lot of -Kentucky sold at
. 31.52. By e, there is rather more coming in: sales roaoh
abont 3,000 bus at 80cforold Penna, and 75c busfoe
new. Corn is not so activesales of 30,000 bnuatB4a
for prime Penna, yellow afloat, and-630 in store;.somu
Inferior sold at 60c. Oats-are steady, and about 25,0 M
bus sold at3B*4oc for new Delaware,'and 52c Vbns for
old Petma. . I . : •' in .
- PBOVISION s—There has been very littlo doing this
week, end -very few changes to notice;-Bales of 600' bbte'
Western and city-packed Mess Pork at $11.50*12. City*
packed Mess Beefisells:in lots, for isbips*' stores, »t#l*;
*l5, and country at $l6;, cash. Bacon—There is a good ,
'demand for Hams; sales at 7% *8 V o for plain, and Bet
10X cfor canvassed. Sides are nominal at 6060, Shoulders
at 4*4tec,.cash and short time. . Green Meats—There is -,
very little stock here; sales of 100 tes Hams, in pickle, at
606X0. Sides sesXc, and Shoulders at 3>ja4a
Lard—The receipts are light, and holders tirm in their
: views; salfßofiOO bbls - and tes at oj(c, and 400,kegs at
9jf cash and 60 days. Butter continues'veity duß;
sales of 200 pkgs solid-packed-at and roll.u
10ral2c; 50 kegs Western Beservo daily sold at l4Ec.
Cheese—Friars are firm at the advance noted last.week -
saies of Hew York at 8% itOc; Eggs-are selling at Beos
y dozen, c 1 .
i. METALS.—There ia a very firm feeling in the market,
for Pig Irdn,* and a steady inquiry /sales of 500 tona’Hd. •
1 Anthracite at 524) 4’months, and No. 2 523. ThAlast
Bale of . Scotch’Pig was at ®26 ton, but thmre ia very
lilUe offering In Bleoms no change. The rolling miO* ’
throughout the country are generally well supplied with : -
orders for merchant and railroad bars. Lead—There is .
very'little stock, here, and holders are very firm at
cash ier Galena. Copper remains without .change, and '
the.sales of both English Sheathing and Yellow Metal ara
unimportant.. - '
CANDLES are steady, with limited sales of ail de
scriptions. Adamantine range from 15jf to I7 r c, 4
months. 1 ' • '• 1" ' • . •' •' IJ. ■'
COAL.—There is no falling off, in the activity.,-noted
for some time pgst, ahd.a' large fleet of vessels has heeu
loading at Bichmond for the supply of the Government 1
flotilla The shipments Eastward are limited, owing to
the scarcity of suitable vessels and the high rates Of
-/freight. ’■■■• v-' /..■ .
COFFEE.—The market is dull, there being verylitUe
inquiry, and prices are,unchanged. Bales of.2oo,bags, ,
including Bio,at 21022 c. and Lagnayra at 23 0, cash.
COTTON—Tho market continues nearly bare of sup- '
piles,, although the/demand, is extremely 1 limited and
prices are rather lower.. Sales of 150 bales Uplands,.at.
46045 c, cash, for low grade" to good middling quality."' 1
, DBUGS - AND DYES.—There: is very little idoing;,
among the sales.we notice Soda ABh at . Orange
Shellac at SOeSOc;' Camphor at $1.30, and Quicksilver
at 60e, cash. - '■ , v " ■
FISH are hat little inquired, after; sales of old, No. 1
Mackerel, in atorej at SSu>B.2s, new do $lO 25; No 2at
*6,50,-, new dp at 1 ®7:77e8.25, and 3g at $6.25 'bbl.
Codfish sells slowly at $3.50.-, Herring range from $1.50
toj£2 50, asin quality. , ■
FBUIT.—A cargo of Orangeß and Lemons has mostly
- been disposefl ot from tho wharf at’s3.7s box, as'fa
. quality . 1 About 1,000 boxea French Lemons sold 1 at:Site
j 5. In ,other foreign fruit there ia very little doing. Green
Fruit is arriving freely; sales of Apples at 8L7502 V
>bbl, ..For Dried Apples and - Peaches prices are nomiffsL' -
Green. Peaches are arriving freely, and soil atsoc®s2 Iff :
basset, as in quality.
FBEIGHTS to Liverpool are firmer,'and‘there‘are
more offering;'. We quote Flour at 8s 640359d [ Grata
- at!2j£Bl3d, and heavy goods, at 350375. The .last en
gagemtnt to Ireland with Grain was 12kd busheL
To New Orleans we quote at '250 i? foot, #1.25 V bbl,-
and.sB V ton. To Boston the: rates are firm.at 250 for 1 .
Fleur, 6c for Grain, 6c for.measurement goods, and. 52.76
for Pt* Iron. '
,GINSENG.—A sale of 6,000 lbs clarified on terms not
made pnbllo, , ■
■ GUANO Is held firmly at the late advance; sales of
/Peruvian at *72e»75 ton for large and smalllote.
HOPS are held firmly, but thedemand jslimited; sales
of first-sort Eastern and,Western at,18«22c fo,„ ,
, : LUM 888.-r-There is' a 5 fair * business "doing' for the
season, but prices 1 are unchanged;- the'receipts have -
failen off. .One cargo > Southern Yellow Pine Sap Boards
sold at $l4 V M.' .
' MOLASSES —Tbe market continues very quiet:
Clayed Cuba selling .slowly at27ffiSoc,' and Muscovado at
. 29035 c gallon, usual tonus, . , . ’
•NAVAL BTOBES—The market is bareof suppHesdf
»il kinds ; small saies Of Bortn are making atsl4»JB fop
No.. 2, ' T»r is scarcOf and* Piteh isr beld at <
Spiri ts Turpentine meets a limited inquiry; sales in . lots, ,
at 82 35 V gallon. ' ‘ . ' ...' . ’‘'
OILS Prices of 1 Fish Oils are firmer, with * steady
dtmafd. sLinseed Oil is In, moderate, reqneMatj 00a
v eight, avd 921»03c measnrej Lard OH ranges from TS
to SOc for No. l winter, and 700730 for summer. The ;
rrceipts of Petroleum from the West are targe;, sales'of
etude at llo!4c exclusive of packages, and refined at 20.
'io34c Rtlfon* : ~^ v " ■■■ * '
’ PLABTEB—The last sale of .BOftwas made at S2TS ;
ajv.ton. ' *
BICE —There is very little Carolina here.; 100 bags
per Kangaroo' sold 'af’®o.37 caulfr?' i i
.SALT —There have been no further arrivals or sales of
Liverpool; one cargo Turk’s Island sold at about 31c
, ibusfcel ~' r; - "■ -/ 'i-"-- ' : -
.SEEDS—Thereqtipts of Oloverseed ; axo.light Small
ialeirare makingats4.7sasl2jt- New .Timothy .is ar- ,
: rivir g, more freely, And' soiling at si:7s: Flaxssed ia
.wqyttKf 1 Ma/MP *. 7-tv- -G
' fcUG'Aß.—There is (i firmer feeling in; the market, but ,
• not much doing' Small sales, of Cuba at, 808X0, and
New.'OrieanVat on time. 1,000- bags Pernambuoo
ib. • ■ • .. -iiTiAJiui
. -SEIBITS.e-Thero is . very .little doipg.in.Bjandy.e*.
Gjh 'N lE, Bum is selling at, 45«'47c., WWsky is uttp .
<lunged, Ohio bbls aellingtat 320; Pennsylvania, 30*
Sic. ; ,hbas.29®SOo, ; jii /;; ■
TALLOW/ft. unchangteb^ Me* oL ** .
r IK AS are'beld. firmlyv but tbe sales of both Blaoha .
Bnd Gre«ESs,are,Hßiit«i'. ;
' TOBACCO.—There Is very little Kentucky. leaT here,
and lbe stock br-inannfectured is exhausted; prioes are
till teiiolii’g usward.,-; " ‘ ’■ ~
' WOOL.—The .activity .we haTenottred.forAome tima
Bs*t still 'continues, and some holdow.have pnt up theic
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