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VOL 6.-NO. 52.
DRYrGOODS. JOBBERS.
TAN CAMP BUM ' Wl4. WNSLNT KURTZ.
„
Bt . S & KURTZ,
(Successors to T.. W. Baker ft CO.)
FORMIIRLT BUNN, amount., a co.
No. ]37 NORTH THIRD STREET,
PHILADELEMIA,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
BLACK AND FANCY SILKS,
FRENCH, ENGLISH, AND
AMERICAN
DRESS GOODS,
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES, AND VESTINGS,
LINENS AND WHITE GOODS,
LACES AND. EMBROIDERIES,
RIBBONS, TRIMMINGS,
. HOSIERY, GLOVES, NOTIONS, &a.
SHAWLS.
A complete assortment of
WOOL LONG AND SQUARE SHAWLS
Of the following welL•known makes:
MIDDLESEX, WASHINGTON, WATERVLIET,
FELON DALE, &V.
ALSO,
BROGUE, LONG AND SQUARE;
STELLA AND THIBET, LONG AND SQUARE,
To which we , invite the attention of CASH and SHORT
TIME BUYERS. ee22-mwelm
M L. HALLO WELL itid
A.m./
No. 615 CHESTNUT STREET,
(JAYISIVE3 MARBLE BLOM)
Rave jtlet opened an
ENTIRE NEW STOOK
OF
FANCY SILKS, from Auction,
DRESS GOODS in great variety,
SHAWLS, GLOVES,
RIBBONS, TRIMMINGS, &e., &e.,
Which have been
PURCHASED EXCLUSIVELY FOR (ASH,
And Rill be eold at
CHEAP PRICES.
The attention of city and country buyers le invited.,
ee29 tf
1862. .F ALL 1862.
•
RIEGEL, WIEST, & ERVIN,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
or
CRY GOODS,
INO. 47 NORTH THIRD STRUT,
PRILA.DIILPHIL.
Merchants visiting this city to purchase Dar
GOODS will find our Stock large
and admirably assorted, and at
Low FIGURES. In certain classes
of Goods we offer inducements to
purchasers unequalled by any other house in
Philadelphia.. sel6-2m
LININGS, &c.
75,000 yards Linen Linings,
425,000; yards Drillings,
25,C00 yards Ducks,
25,000 yards Silesias and Cottons,
Travelling Rugs, common to superfine,
Sealskins, Beavers, Pilots, &c.
WRAY & GILLILAN,
oell-wfixt•Ot OUBSTkiIIT Street.
THOS. MELLOR &I 00.,
ENGLISH AND GERMAN IMPORTERS,
40 AND 42 NORTH THIRD STREET.
HOSIERY) GLOVES.
Shirts and Drawers, 4-4 Linens.
Fanoy Woolens, Linen C. Hdkfs.
Manufacturers of Shirt Fronts.
eell.Bm
vTIALL.
1862.
JAMES. KENT. SANTEE.
fffit CO,
IMPORTERS AND JOBREItIi
dos
DRY` GOODS,
Non. ii 39 and U4l N. TRIED sranzT, ABOVE
RAOE, PHILADELPHIA,
Nave now open their rumal
LARGE' AND COMPLETE .BTOCIE
011 ,
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC' DRY GOODS,
Among which will be toned a more than usually at
tractive variety or
LADIES' DRESS GOODS
Also, a Ira assortment of
MERRIMAOR AND 000111&00 PRINTS,
and
PHILADELPHIA-MADE GOODS.
DT - Cash buyers specially invited.
an2B-2m
If A L L .
1862. 1862.
ITOHNES. BERRY. ifa Co..
(13neeereore to Abbott, Johns, & C 0,,)
OUT lIAREET, AND 024 COMMERCE ETZBETE,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
s ri
Lao .•
FANCY DRY GOODS,
Rare now owed an entirely
NEW AND ATTRACTIVE STOOK, If
INGLISR, FRENCII, GERMAN, ANI)
AMERICAN•
DRESS GOODS.
Also, a tall Allsortmont In
WILEVE GOODS,BIBBONS,GLOVES,
SHAWLS,
Which they offer at the very 'bow.* Market Priem, and
eolloit the attention of the Trade. anl6-11in
Alua,,EariLmpßE,, 4 09,
gm 617 ORUTNUT and 614 JAYN.II WOO%
IlaVe now open their ,
' -
FALL IMPORTATION
or SILK An TAROT
imps GOODS' SHAWLS WHITE
GOODS,
41IaNe, EIVIBROIDPIES 7
BOUGHT IN EUROPE
ONE OF THE
To Odd tb'e attention of - the trade isepiwitmlariy
in
tfted. anll-3ni
RETAIL DRY GOODS.
FIRST OPENING.
THOS. W. EVANS & 00.
WILL HAVE THEIR
FIRST OPENING
OF
PARIS CLOAKS
ON
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Ist.
818 and 820 CHESTNUT STREiT.
Be2f-at
10 - 13t ' be r A eputation T of b B ein fil g E t E he E p il lace B bi til b l ny h t a h l e
cheapest ELUBLINEI AND CANTON. FL A.1.111N GS !
First rate Bleached at 12K—this kind is very , scarce;
wider do., at 14; Tull % wide, ; finer do., at 16 ; - nuite
heavy at 163( ; full yard-wide fun at 16K ;'X wide
Wamsuttas, 18j(; 0 cases Willianiavnice and Waimea
tas of the beat Quality; best'Pillow Casing at 2004
wide do., 22; 2 oases best Utica Sheeting, 23( wide, the
most 'desirable in the market; good Unbleaohed at 123 ;
very fine do. at 14; very, heavy at'lB and 20, as well as
many prices not mentioned ; one case Sheeting, 2,1 i wide;
one do., 2) wide—these aro the heaviest that corn e,•
Unbleached Canton Flannel at 22; better do., at 2s; and
very heavy at 28 ; good Bleached at 26—these are all less
than presentjwholestde prices, as they are constantly going
up. GRAN VIL LE B. RAINES,
1018 rdelalliFT Street, above Tenth.
N. B.—l have one bale of the beet 25 cent albwo
Bed Flannel In the city. ae29-8t
1024 CHESTNUT STREET.
E. M. NEEDLES.
LACES
WHITE GOODS,
LINENS,
EMBROIDERIES.
A frill assortment of the above on hand at LOW
I PRIOES, to which additions are made of all
NOVELTIES;
se2s. tf
1024 CHESTNUT STREET.
IDWIN HALL & BRO., 2,6 SOUTH
SECOND Street, will open, this morning--
Beautiful Shades of Poplins.
Plain and Fancy Sae.
Bich Printed Cashmeres and Iteps.
Fine Quality . French rderinoea.
A great variety of new styles of Dress Goods.
N. 8,...._N0w Goods opening daily. -- ae25.4f
IALL CLOAKS AND SHAWLS.
New Fall Cloaks opened daily.
Winter Cloaks in preparation.
Striped Broche Shawls, $B.
Fall and Winter Woollen Shawls..
Balmoral and Hoop Skirts.
BOYS' OLO runia.
Fine Ready-made Clothing for boys.
Suits made to order.
CLOTHS, CASSIMERIES, PESTINGS.
Just opened, several large lots Oassimeres.
Boys' wear of every grade and style.
11,000 yards Black and Fancy Casedmeres, Ma. to $2.
0.4 Blue Flannels; Black, Blue, and Brown Cloths.
L adios' Cloaking Clotho for Fall and Winter.
DRESS GOODS.
Rep. Poplins, French Merinoes, Delalnos, &o.
Black Dress Staffs at reasmsahle rates.
ARMY BL A.NRETS.
COOPER & CUNARD,
se2o S. E. tor. NINTH and MARKET Streets.
(ODDS FOR AUTUMN.
Attumn Silks, dark colored Checks.
Black, Plain, and Figured Silks.
New designs Fancy De fairies.
Rich De Dairies of lower grades.
Foil Au Nerds and Long Champs.
Handsome and new Plaid ClashmereS.
Plaid Valenclas and Worsted.
Poplins and Figured Drogaeta.
French Ohiritzes of new styles
New assortments of French Merinos;
Stella Shawls and Striped Brooke.
Fancy Shirting Flannels.
Embroidered Table (lovers. • -o:
SHARPLESS BROTHERS,
CHESTNUT and RIGHTB. Btreet4.
TSTEEL & SON
No. ?IS North TENTH St., above Coates,
`Rave now open a choice assortment of
NEW FAL& AND wris,TEß,
f - DRESS GOODS.
Rich Fanoy Silks.' , •
New Shades Plain Silks.
Figured Black Silks.
Plain Black Silks at Low Prison.
Bich Figured and Plaid French Repti.
Plain French Reps, all shades.
Plain French liferinoes, all shade&
PLAIN"ALPACAS,
in Black, Brown, Mode, Blue, and Scarlet.
Poil De Okevres, Poplins, Detainee,
And every variety of New and Choice seasonable Drone
Goods. Also, a large assortment of
BLACK STILL ft SHAWLS,
LONG AND SQUARE WOOLEN SHAWLS,
poll-ti AT LAST YEAR'S PRICES.
NEW GOO 1),5.--.MOUBLIN DE
!eines ; new styles neat Plaid Glace Poplins; Plain
Reps, Blue, Green, and Brown; 'Figured' Oashineres ;
beautiful neat Figured Rep Poplins; Bine and Belied- -
no Belgium,; new Calicoes, cboioe patterns r neat Plaid
Flannel for Gents' Shirts, very, desirable and scarce;
also a nice assortment of Oessimeres for Hen and Boys, at
JOHN H. STOKES',
702 ARCH Street.
9 CASES SOLID FIO'D SILKS--
Figured,
Fetid Blue Figured,
Solid Green Figured. '
BYRE & IsKRDELL,
FOURTR and &ROIL'
VINE BLUE AND BROWN MERI,-
.1!
Humboldt Purple Blerinoei,
'New Shade Mao Itterimes,
Light and Dark'Brown Mariam.
EYES & LANDMAN,
FOU&TH and KAMM
QIIAWLS FOR. PENNSYLVANIA
NJ TRADE—
Fall Line of Black Shawls,
Full Line of Black Sidles,
Full Line of Woollen Shawls.
BYRN & L ANDBLL,
FOURTH and AROH.
SILK AND DRESS GOODS.
ALL STOCK
F
BILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS.
A. W. LITTLE & C0.,. '
ae2G•2m Nos 325 MARKET ST.
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
GEORGE GRANT,
NANUFACTIMEN Or AND DEALND,
GENTS' . FURNISHING GOODS,
No. 610 OEIRSTNUT STUMM
eelB4m
VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber would invite attention to hie
IMPROVED OUT OF SWATS,
Which he makes sopecialty in his boldness. Also, cOn•
stoutly receiving
NOVELTIES FOB GENTLEMEN'S Vitali% •
3. W. SCOTT,
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE,
No. 814 CHESTNUT STRESZ..
jag-tf Four doors below the Oontinentid.
LOOKING GLASSES.
6N.EB B. B ART 1 is BON,
itANIIPAOTUREBB AND IMPORTRIGI
LOOKING GLASSES,
OIL PAINTINGS,
WINN INGItA.V/N00 1
M : .
PIOTURR AND PORTRAIT rtyarme,
PHOTOGRAPH FRAHM%
PHOTOGRAPH ALaphits,
OARTHS-DEOIIBIII PORTRAITS,
EA)EtLE'S GALLERIES.
ems CHESTNUT BMW,
tali PIILADALPHL4. •
STATIONERY , St -FANCY,GOODS.
ARTINt'k (11JAYLES' . :
ALL : STATIONERY, TOY, AND FANCY :GOODS:
!Te XPOR
No. - 1036 WALNUT STREET,
BELOW ELEVIIITEi
; • :- • PHILADELPHIA.
el -fpl7
SEWINI MACHINES.
THE wudicox & GIBBS
•
' FAMILY
''
SEWING MACHINES
have Wm greatly Improved, making it''
ENTIRELY NOISELESS,
and with,. Self-adjusting limners, are
,now ready for
"de by
If AIRBANES dc RWING, t
ae27..tf . - 715 CHESTNUT Street.
WHEELER iSc WfLSON.
SEW iNO MACHINES;
628 CHEST NU T ST REET
self4m Prmi&DELpitte.
T7QUEURS.-7-50 oases assorted ,%
•
quenrs,Mmet received per ship Vandalic , fromßor.
Unix, "and for esie by
JATIRETORE & LdNERGNE,
ile4 202 & 204 Routh FRONT Fixed;
PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1862.
NOTICES.
ay ., MILITIA DRAFTT
THE UNDERSIGNED, COMMISSIONERS appoint.
ed by the Governor of Pennsylvania to superintend the
Drafting of Militia, will, in pursuance of the directione
contained in the Governor's Proclamation, sit in their
respective Districts, on TUESDAY and FRIDAY, the
3d and 3d October, 1862, from 10 A. M., to I.P. M., and
from 2 P. M. to 5 P. M., at the places respectively stated
below, to hear claims of exemption on the part of those
citizens who, at their former sittings, were absent from
horde IN THE MILITARY SERYION OF THE CON.-
NONWEALTH.
TIIO/%44 DALLAS,
Commlntoner for Fit* and Fourth Warder
Booth Broad street, between Stdroen and Fitzwater
streets.
EDWARD G. WEBB,
Commissioner for Second and Third Wards
West side of Illoyamensing avenue, second home below
Marriott street.
BENJ. GERHARD,
Commissioner for Fifth and Sixth Wards,
Northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut streets.
SAMUEL BELL I Ja.,
Commissioner for Seventh and Eighth'Wards,
No. 268 South Sixteenth street. •
JOS. B. TOWNSEND,
Commissioner for Ninth and Tenth Wards,
No. 108 North Tenth street.
LUDLAM MATTHEWS,
Oormaissioner for Eleventh and Sixteenth Wards,
at A. Lukens', Third, above Willow.
CONRAD S. GROVE,
Commissioner for Twelfth and Thirteenth Wards,
Washington Hall, corner Eighth and Spring Garden
streets.
THOMAS W. PRICE,
Commissioner for Fourteenth and Fifteenth Wards,
Northeast corner Broad and Spring Garden Streets.
Commiudoner for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Wards,
No. 1347 North Proat street.
SAMUEL LLOYD,
Commissioner tor Nineteenth and Twentieth Wards,
Bali of Cohockeink Hose Oorapany, Germantown road,
opposite Norris street.
BENS. H. MEARS,
Corandooloner for Twenty. fast and T wenty•aecond
Main street, two doors above Armatt street Ger-
mantown.
AMOS A GREGO,
Cornissioner for Twenty-third and Twenty-ttith Wards.
Walton's liotet, Frankford.
WK. STOKES,
Counuissoner far Twenty-fourth Ward, '
Commissioners' Hall, corner of Market and Thir
%SO. 4t - seventh streets.
prifor NATIONAL UNION NOMINATIONS,
Lka NO PARTY BUT OUR COUNTRY."
- STATE OFFICERS.
Auditor enteral.
THOMAS E. COCHRAN. .
Surveyor Goneral.
WILLI I AM noss.
CONGRESS.
first District—
Second District—OElAßLES O'NEILL.
Third District—LEONAßD MYERS.
Fourth District—WlLLlAM D. KELLEY
Fifth Diatriot—R. RUSSELL THAYER.
SENATOR.
Second District—JAMß E: RIDGWAY.
Fourth District—GEOßGE 002.11MLL.
ASSEMBLY.
First District—WM. FOSTER.
Second Distriot—MOßTON A. EVERLY.
Third District—THONAS..TOVILLS.
Fourth District—SAMDELV. SEA.
Fifth District JOSEPH MOORE.
Sixth District—CHAßLlS M. OLINGAN.
Seventh District—THOMAS 000FIRAN.
Eighth District—JAMES N. KERNS.
Ninth District—JOHN A. BURTON.
Tenth District—S. S. PANCOA.ST.
Eleventh District—FßANKLlN D. STERNER.
'Twelfth District—LUßE , V. - 811TPHIN.
Thirteenth District—JANES HOLGATE.
Fourteenth District—ALEXANDER OUNMENCIL
Fffteonth District—WlLLlAM F. SMITH.
Sixteenth District—EDWAßD G. LEE.
Seventeenth District—CHAßLES F. ABBOTT.
• 00UNTY OFFIOBBIS.
District Attorney.
WILLIAM B. MANN.
Prothonotary of Court of Common Pleas.
FREDERICK G. WOLBEBT.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor.
ALEXANDER HENBY
City Solicitor.
F. CARROLL BREWSTER.
City Controller.
JOSEPH B. LYNDALL.
Recetver of Taros.
JAMES 0. RELOH.
City Commissioner.
JOHN GIVEN. selate
IIarOFFICE OF THE PHILADEL.
PRA, GERMANTOWN, AND NORRIS.'
TOWN RAILROAD COMPANY.—Pwrts IZELPHIA
September 16, 1.862.—The Board of Managers, at tbef;
meeting of the 11th inst., declared a dividend on the
Capital Stock of THREE PER GENT., payable on and
after the let day of GOTORER next.
Transfers of Stock will not be made for ten dart - aftei
the 20th Met.. W. IL WILSON,
eel7-sefrmtool Treasurer.
AT A MEETING OF THE CITIZENS'
- — BOUNTY FUND • COMMTTIOZ, held the 17th
day of September, the following preamble and . resolit-
Bone were adopted:
Whereas, It is necessary to take further action in
order that soldiers may be raised, and the draft in the
city avoided : Be it
Resolved, That this Committee will agree to pay, in
cash, to each non-commissioned officer and private, in
each of the first ten companies of infantry, for three
years or the war, to be hereafter organized and raised in
this city, with the sanction of the proper authorities, or
Bach portion thereof of each of said Companies as may be
received by the Governor as a part of the quota of Phi
ladelphia, the sum of Fifty Dollars, en said Company of
ninety-eight men, exclusive of Captain and Lieutenants,
being mustered into the service, and fallowing terms
oomalled with :
The necessary evidence required will be a certified
copy of the muster roll, or a copy thereof with the origi
nal for examination; also, a' certificate of the proper
authority at Harrisburg, that all the members of said
Companies, or the part thereof, entitled to receive,
are
credited' o the. Philadtiphia quota; and provided fur
ther, the recruits relinquish any claim to any and all
other bounties except such as may be paid by the United
Stateit
Resolved, A. sum equal to Five Dollars for each tmoh
man be paid to the Captain thereof, to remunerate him
for expellees incurred in raising his Company; to be paid
him on complying with preceding relniremente.
THOMA,B WEBSTSR, Vice ,Chalrman.
LORIN BLODOET, &oratory. aelS-12t
• LAW DEPARTMENT, UNIVERSITY
'kg OF PENNSYLVANIA.—A Tenn will com.
mence on WEDNESDAY, October let. The Introdno.
tory Lecture will be delivered by Professor E. SPEN
CER MILLER, in the nerve! Lecture Room, at 8 o'clock
P. M. of that day. sepii-tool
TrOFFICE OF THE FRANKLIN FIRE
112817BANUE COMPANY.
PHILADELPHIA, Bept. 24, 1862.
An election for TEN DIRECTORS for the ensuing
year, will be held, agreeably to charter, 4t a general
meeting. of the Stockholders for that porpose , at the
Office of th e Company, No. 436 and 437 CHESTNUT
Street, on 'MONDAY, October flth, 1802, at 10 o'clook A.
M. J. W. MaALLISTBP.,
5e2.6.10t Secretary pro tem.
rirrNOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.—AT A
meeting of the CITIZENS' BOUNTY TURD
COMMITTER, hold on TUESDAY, the Nth instant,
the following resolution was unanimously adopted :
Resohtd, That the names of the various organized
companies of Homo Guards, Reserves, and all other local
military bodies, be published, with the names of their
officers and the location of their armories, so that the
dem= may have an opportunity to enrol their names,
and that they be earnestly exhorted to do so.
JOHN D. WATSON was appointed an agent to carry
this resolution into egect. Captains ' Lieutenants, and
other officers of companies for city se rvice are requested
to send their names, locations, etc , to the Hai of the
Board of Trade, or to the office of the North American
and United Stater Gazette.
CITY .AUDIOBIES
Jayne Rifles, No. 623 Oheetnut street.
Gymnast Zonaves, No. 37 south Third street.
Philadelphia Grays, No. 510 Market street.
City Guards, northwest corner Sixth and Chestnut ate.
Niagara State Guard. No. 240 Monroe street.
Kearney Guards, Tenth and South streets.
Drill Corps, Broad, below Walnut, Natatorium.
Revenue Guards, 11. S. Custom House.
Corn Exchange Guard, Second and Gold streets.
Washington Grays, Franklin - Hall, Sixth street, below
Arch.
National Guards, Race street, below Sixth.
Ellsworth Zonaves, Captain —, E. E. corner of
Eighth and Callowhill streets.
Ist Artillery Home Guards, Co. A, 1733 Market at.
Oadwalader Troop, No. 620 Chestnut et,
State Guard, No. 1733 Market at,
Reystonellatiery, No. 808 Filbert at.
Independent Buoktail Rifles, N. W. corner of Eleventh
and Oxford eta
New Company, No. 1.54 S Germantown avenue.
Bletnmer Guards, Front and fdaster sta.
State Fenciblee, No. 505 Chestnut at.
Reserve Brigade, let Regiment—Company A, Market
street, above Eighth, south side.
Company B, S. E corner Eighteenth and Market ate.
Company 0, Market street, above Eighth. '
Company D, N. B. cor Eighteenth and Chestnut/sta.
Company E, 9. E. cor. Eighth and Callowhill streets.
Company F, N. E. cor. Second and Race streets,
Company 0, Chestnut street, above Eighth, south side.
• Company H, Third and Willow streets.,
Company I, Broad street, above Pine.
Company K, Eighth and Callowhill streets.
second Regiment—Regimental Armory, 5 0 5 Chestnut
street.
Company A, Captain Z. B. Davis.
do. B, do. W. M. Main.
do. 0, do. J. Andenreid.
• do. Z, do. Geo. W. Grice.
- do. D, do. Charles Page.
do. F. do. Charles Connelly.
do. 0, do.
Third Regiment—Company A 7 -Lient. Cobb, Filbert
and Thirteenth streets.
Company ll—Lieut. Brown, Twenty-second and Spring
Garden streets.
Company o—Liout. ROM an Saunders, West Philadel
phia Institute.
Company E--Lient. Slider, Reed street, below Fourth.
Company F—Lieut. Baker, Diligent Engine, Tenth
. and Filbert streets.
Company o—Lieut. Mille, Locust at., above Eighth.
Company H—Captain Driver, Commissioners' Hail,
West Philadelphia.
Fourth Rogiment---Col. Yeaton.
Keystone Guard, Capt. Reynolds, Filbert street, above .
Eighth.
Home Guard Infantry, First Regiment, Company A,
Saranac Ball, Eighth and Callowhill etreets.
Company B, - Spring Garden Hall, Thirteenth and .
Spring Garden streets.. ,
Company 0, N. W. warner. Thirteenth street and Gi
rand avenue.
Company D, B. W. corner Sixth street and Girard
avenue.
Company E, N. K. corner Third and Willow ;Arendt.
company te, Spring. Garden Hall.
Compani H, Nos: 110 and 112 Pegg street.
Company I, Keneington-Water Works. • t
Company K, Spring Garden• Hall. . •
Second 'Regiment, armory, Broad and Race streets.
Company B, Captain Barents.. . .• - •
Company 0, Captain Wilson.
Company Di, Marion Grays, Captain Grant.
Company F, Captain Kern.
Company G. CaptaireFlynn.•
Company R, Captain Smith.
Third Regiment—Company A, Captain Wynn, Ele
venth and Anita streets.
Company C, Captain W. Cochran, 330 Walnut street.
Company E, Captain,J. L. Wilson, Southwark Hall,'
.t
,Second street, above Christian. , • - '
Company. 0, •Lientenant Monsely, commanding, Front ,
and Naater.atreets. - . _sr
By order of the Ottlzene Bounty Fund Committee,
ee2o-10t JOHN D. WATSON, Agent;
JAKEI3 }snLL,
,lortss.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1862.
MAJOR G - E.NERAL HALLECK.
A Sketch of His Habits, and Turn of Thought—
What lie is. and , what He aims to be.
Perhaps about >xo ipap Whe ties, electipied a posi
tion So prominent is there such general public igno
- as in maid to Major General Halleck, at pre
sent oommanding-in-chief the armies of the United
States. This, as a matter of course, is mainly,Gon.
Halleck's fault; our ago and the condition of the
country being such that every man possessing sta
tion, and believing himself to piasess abilities, can
become as widely known as he pleases, provided only
that he will abstain from acts calculated to give the
publics a false impression Of him; og to 400 up then
great fountains of intelligent crifloism and apprecia
tion,—the daily and weekly jburnals. Into' both
these errors, perhaps unadvisedly, in the hurry and
overwhelming press of business, and perhaps una
voidably, owing to the peculiar exigencies of the
times and the public service, Gen. Halleck has
fallen; arid both. he and ~ the entire country are
suffering from the •effects. of the misapprehenaions
thus engendered. It is proposed, therefore, to now
briefly give a jester idea both of the man and of the.
general, the opportunities of the writer for forining
an estimate being better than the average, and rise
moving him as far from a captions spirit on the ones
hand, as from any tendency to flatter or oonoiliafe'
favor on the other.'
General Halleck, then, be it known; is a man
about Ave feet eight inches high, stillin the prime
of life, largo headed, slightly -corpulent, swarthy
of complexion, with glittering blaok eyes, iron
gray hair, curling round the base of the brain, a
forehead very capacious and slightly bald, a mouth
in which firmness is somewhat tinctured with vo
lriptuousneM, a square, decisive contour of face,
and dark iron-gray whiskers running around the
face and under the chin. On the whole, he has a
striking need, and one equal in appearance, at
least, to the high importance of his position. Add
to the foregoing that his voice is clear and loud,
with a sharp ring in it whenever displeased ; and
that, au contratre, when pleassel or amused, his
voice has a very cheery laugh •in it, and his black
eyes twinkle, as if with genuine enjoyment. Look
- leg . at him altogether, we Mt Welt appreciate the
sentiment which made the soldiers in the Depart
went of the West christen him " Old Brains,"
their confidence in his abilities as a planner and or
ganizer being unlimited, while, at the same time,
of personal . popularity or enthusiastic and demon
strative affection he had but little, seeming perfectly
indifferent to the subject.
Of General Halleck's mental constitution, it is, of
course, more difficult to speak; but there are cer
tain-prominent trait - se-which, oven in the course of
only casual opportunities for observing 'him, must
_strike all analytical minds forcibly. He is a man
of rare firmness and 'immobility, who sets one ob
ject before him and steers straight for that point,
utterly regardless of what impediments may lie in
his way, and frequently giving needleis offence to
those who, unconsciously, would either detain
him for a moment or divert his riveted attention
one hair's breadth to the right or left. 'This immo
bility—thin-insensibility to external influences—is
surely an excellent quality on which to build up
the character of a general-in-chief; although it
-must, at the same time be conceded, that in such a
war as this we are now waging, and with a million
of volunteers in the 'service, certain concessions to
'public opinion, as expressed through the press and
otherwise, are due, wherever such concession s
would not interfere with the good of the public
service, and are asked in a manner deserving to
. secure attention.
That General Halleck has deeply and thoroughly
studied the science of war is made clear by his
many works on the subject, which are received as
standard expositions of the military art in all its
higher branches; both here and in Europe. Long
previous to the breaking out of the rebellion he
had been designated by General Scott as the fittest
man in the country for supreme command, General
McClellan being the second choice, and receiving
his appointment as general-in- chief because General.
Halleck was then in California, and it was at the
time considered doubtful whether he would resign ;
an immensely lucrative law practice, which had:
already made him a millionaire, for the less lucra
tive and more stormy career of a return to the .
Military profession. Halleck, however; did not
'hesitate a moment ; he answered the first summons
: ,61 his country in (person; and, finding that the
_ierieraloY-in-chief i for which he had been designed,
leas,alreasly oecupiPd, he cheerfully, and without a
murmur; accepted the less conspicuoul command of
the Department of the Missouri.
In this position his history is familiar to the
country, and forms the most cheerful page in the
progress, thus far, of our war. Doggedly and
laboriously, with keen forethoughtland foresight, he
applied himself to the task of ridding the State of
Missend of rebels, and in this task he rapidly suc
ceeded. Foregoing all the pomp of war, and that,
more immediately brilliant reputation which en
sues from successful• operations in the field, he con
fined himself to his bureau from an early hour
'each morning until late each night, immersed in
plans, papers, and maps, literally "organizing
victory," as was said of Carnet, and giving credit
with lavish generosity of compliment to each sub
ordinate-general
. who Was successful in carrying out
. any portion of his plan of, the campaign of the Mis
sissiippi. There was nothing kept back ; no trace of
envy, or even just self-assertion in his bulletins. Each
- general received all the praise he could be ooe
sidered to deserve, and each was thrust before the
public in turn without the least reference on Gen.
-Halleck's part to his own share in their victories.
It thus came to pass that, while the operations,
which resulted in the capture of Farts Henry and
Doneleon, Bowling Green, Columbus, Nashville,
*-New Madrid; Memphis, Pittsburg Landing, and-
'Corinth,, filled all men's minds and months, the
- last man, almost, to be thought of in connection
with these events was the general who had planned
and laboriously contrived the machinery for the
,Whole--" Old Brains," as the Soldiers used to call
, him, when, with strict. republican and almost Qua
ker-like simplicity, he cantered along their lines
and mapped out those parallels • and-Approaches
which eventually drove the enemy out of their
strong works and naturally powerful position at
Corinth. We heard of Smith, of Grant, of W. T.
Sherman, of Me,Clernand, of Buell ; but of Hallock
—nothing.
Indeed, the simplicity of Halleck's habits and
tastes, his associations and turn of mind, and his
indifference to praise or blame, may appear carried
to a fault by those who study deeper than the stir
- face the origin, aspects, and motives of the war.
His contempt for the system of newspaper lauda
tion, otherwise called " puffing," resorted to (it has
been charged) by other officers of less calibre, has,
it would seem, tempted him to pay much less than
"due respect to the really important services ren
dered by the press—and yet to be renderedin the
conduct of our struggle for ariunited nationality.
We know that the -nowepapers have greatly mis
conceived his orders. excluding all non-military
rvisitors from the lines of the army,-while engaged
in the seige of Corinth., That order was intended
to exclude, and did exclude, many thousand per
sons of all occupations and objects ; but the news
, paper reporters, feeling it most keenly, or at least
having the readiest means of expressing their
*chagrin,• seemed to take it as if levelled oxen
, sively against themselves, while in fact it was
mainly and almost exclusively intended
te operate against the abominable class, of
"camp-followers," who are the curse, and .the
scourge, of. every army.. General Hallook, how
ever, gave no explanation—mado no modification
of the order. 'lt was with this as with "General
Order No. 3" of the West—it had to stand or fall
on its own merits. It is not that Hallock does not
read the newspapers—for he studies public opinion
most attentively through these channels—but that
his immobility, or Teutonic , phlegm, if you, will,
was partly aroused by attacks, which he knew to be
unjust,-, upon him for a necessary measure ; and
partly that, in the delicate operations of besieging
regularly a place of such strength as Corinth, it
was all-in-all important that the enemy should
know as little as possible of what was going on.
If; however . , we venture to think, any correspond
atihi had quietly remained after the issuing of the
order, and the' exclusion of those camp-followers
against whom it was really aimed, and had taken
care that their letters contained nothing damaging
to„ the public service, nothing of benefit to, eke'
enemy, it is not likely that they would ever have
been disturbed. Indeed, one of the most metal
and reliable special correspondents. of The Bears
did remain unmolested, and entered Corinth with
the army.
That General Halleck covets power, and has a •
strang ambition'to make a name is this war, which
Well live in history, none who 'kis.* anything of
himmin question. As rich as he wants to be—al-_
moit z as any man could wish to be—he #otild seem
to have no craving for political distinotion ; nor is
therein his course anything to indicate that, he
erqiiints out of one eye at the Presidential campaign
two years from now, while giving more particular
'attention to the military campaigns on hand. But
that his is a mind anxious for power in a legitimate
.... .wii;-tinxiouis to be recognized' as one worthy to•
present exalted position, and to go down to
Afitory 88 the master-spirit of our second national
I • struggle for lifee-all who study his character,
Ability to comprehend its aims and modes of reach- - .
will'atonee admit. Both as a means of
power and for the sake of the country he is, of
course, eager for success, and is anxiously looking
in all directions for generals who can secure it, to
whom he can with confidence entrust the execu
tion of his plans. And on-this point, in conclusion,
a few remarks may be made
Conservative in all his habits of thought, and
eager to surround himself with generals Who can
secure victories, General Haßeck naturally turns,
as his first alternative, to those of our own country
who have been educated to the profession of arms,
who have received a West Point education. But,
aware from his'thorough and long study of mili
tary science, that the general, like the poet,
"must be bern and not made," and that oven if
each graduate of West Point were a genius and a
here, there still Wetti4 not be Otigl4o of t'lln/ to'
- .
dicer a fifth of the forces al, present called ont—
more than a million of men—General Haßeck is
now carefully making examination; with a view to
select those volunteer officers of native and foreign
birth who possess qualities calculated to insure
the successes 'which are the first indispensable,
while at the same time they will fairly repro;
ncuo the various' elism.oritS of our volunteer sys
tem in the inilitarY
hiatirehy Of th,o country. To
build loftily the base must be broati the Oak
shoots heavenward, its roots must strike out through
the ciroumjacent soil in all directions, thus giving
to the towering top that stability which is needed
in time of storm and peril. It is, of course, obvious
that amongst the million men forming our volunteer
army, there must be a dozen or score fitted by na
ture for any position in military life, when time
and experience in the field shall bave developed
their natural capacities; and it is amongst these
General Halleck has to look for those able and re
liable officers, who are to be among his assistan's
i in the great work of subjugating the rebellion:
amongst his marshals in council, and the props of
that position which he hopes to attain in the grati
tude, esteem, and affections of the American peo
ple. His great trouble, in this respect, at present,
is that most, if not all, of our volunteer generals
were appointed from political motives, and it is as
yet bard to discover amongst them those particular
ones by nature qualified for their positions; but the
moment such men are found, their services will be
appreciated and appropriated, and full acknow
ledgment given for such natural qualities of com
mand as they may possess. Of course,'lt is but,na
turd, and entirely just, that when in pursuit of ac
complished military attainments, a general should
lock first to those of military education.
Of Gen. Halleck's course as General-in-Chief, all
that we have seen augurs moat favorably. Hs is
. rapidly concentrating into effective armies, upon
the strategic points of the West and Southwest, the
-scattered brigades and divisions of our forces; and
that, by his energy in removing the Army of the
Potomac from Harrison's Landing, into a position
In which that gallant body of men so largely con
tributed to save the National,capital from capture
by the rebels, is already matter of history. He
is doing well, and will do yet better, rapidly, we
snake no doubt,•the moment the new levies, called
for ',by the President, on his recommendation, are
ready to take the field. lie concerns himself in no
manner with the civil administration of affairs, and
his opinions on such subjeots as " proclamations,"
suspensions of the writ of habeas corpus, and so
forth, are never asked, and consequently are never
given. He is in favor of an energetic prosecution
of the war, and will do his part faithfully towards
that end.
If we needed a watch mended, it is to a watch
maker and not to a blacksmith that application
would be made. But it being proved that-watch
makers are not sufficiently numerous to mend all
the watches needing care, resort must next be had
to those who have a natural talent for the business,
and have qualified themselves by extemporized
study for its duties. It was. Napoleon's great
strength with his army that often, and for his best
generals, he reached down into the ranks, not
neglecting his old and 'skilled associates of the
school of Brienne, by any means, but finding them
insufficiently numerous to officer his vast hosts, for
one reason, and knowing, also, that one worthy re
presentative man picked out and exalted secures
the affections, the hopes, and the confidence of all
that man's cfinstitnent class. In fact, Napoleon
understood, and we believe General Ilelleok un
derstands, the old motto, that, when a tree seeks
to grow high, it shoots out its roots on all sides,
and takes firm hold of the ground which is to re
pose under the shadow of its protection, while also
contributing to support the broad boughs and flut
tering shadows of the leafy top.
FROM THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY.
[lhccial Oorreepondence or The Press.]
CIIAMDRESBURG i r Sept.
THE DANGER NOT TET PASSED
Tho threat of the rebel General Jackson to make a
special 'visit to our valley ore he goes into winter queer*.
tvs seems to keep some of our excitable citizens in a
fever, and they are very dim about bringing back their
valuables, which t , Stonewall , ' caused them so UnC01 : 0-
moniously to remove. At the time of the threatened
raid, many persons on w our border') sold their stock for
a mete nothing, as they were about to (sive in a hurry
and couldn't take it with them. One man, now that
affairs are wearing a brighter aspect, Is bewailing his
hard lot for having sold a fine Durham , heifer for Se,
and a lot of fat porkers at $2 per head, in order to keep
themlrom being made into rations for the gaunt soldiers
in Jackson's army. Another says, "What a fool I
was for leaving my farm, and leaving in such a
blasted hurry l I might have known the re'reis were
afraid to come into this valley. Now these cussed
militia have done gone and torn down all my
fe-nces, roseted all my corn, eaten up all my poultry, and
played the devil generally.' What a foot I was to
leave ! 191 bet old Stonewall may march up to our very
dodr, next time, and I won't go an inch for him, I'll be
darned if Ido " There's pluck] for you—so it is. After
the danger is passed men will t. blow." But lem of the
opinion the dangerp be apprehended on our herder le not
yet passed. We are far from being "out of the woods."
Om valley may yet have to pees through the ordeeliof a.
rebel invasion. People may hoot at this, and say that
your correspondent is trying to alarm them unneeesea&
rliy ; but it is not so; I have no desire to alarm, but to put
all on their guard, so as to be prepared if danger should
threaten us. The main part of our army is far below
Williamsport; few troops are in Williamsport, and none
at all above it. A thousand rebel cavalry could, at this
time, now that Governor Cortin has ordered home all the
State troops, make a raid into Pennsylvania by way of
Hancock, Mercersbarg, and Greencaotle, and return with
impunity, if not with something more valuable, before
troops could be rahmdto check their progress. We know,
to our cost, the celerity of rebel movements, and now, be.
fore danger knocks at our doors, we should prepare for
it. I conversed with seversi officere to•day, from Wil
liamsport, Md., and it be their opinion that at no tone
during the war did we have greater need of troops on
the border than at this time. The enemy, in point of
numbers, are equal, it not superior to us, and as Mc
•Olellan is about crossing, to meet this determined and
powerful army, would it not bo good policy at least, to
keep some of the militia here as a reserve, in case the
army under Little Mac should meet with a reverse; so
we could extend him a helping hand, and not add to the
general panto and confusion, by crying, Bend us some
soldiers for our borders 1 We know not, to a certainty,
that we are going to march into Virginia victoriously,
and surely it would bo a wise move to prepare for any
emergency that might feasibly arise.
THE .BEBBIA CONCENTRATING ADOVE WILLIAMS
PORT.•
I very much fear that, on account of.our recent victo
ries in Maryland, we are being lulled into what may be a
Patel state of quietude and inaction. We have, without
doubt, in our very midst spies who acquaint the enemy of
our, every movement, and they are doubtless ore this cog.
nizant that the militia is being all sent home. One of the
officers—a gentleman of knowii veracity—lnformed me
that large bodies of rebel infantry and cavalry are being
marched up the Potomac, on the opposite ekore, and
from the deserter .who furnished him with the " news "
he learned that it was the design and intention of the
enemy to recross Into Maryland.
TER SICK AND WOUNDED.
Our town at this time is full of sick and wounded sol
diers, and atilt there are more to come. In the four hos
'vitals we' have in the neighborhood - of six hundred.
They BO all made as comfortable as pprisible, and have
the beet of medical care, coupled with the matronly at
tention of our g ood town 'mothers.. The young ladles, too,
are kind, and flit like "ministering angels" from one
place to another, In order to be of assistance to the
afflicted. Bless their& ar, kind hearts, and may those
who have no eg Johnny off to the wars " get one when
our brave volunteers return 4, covered with' glom"
TIIE GALLANT GENERAL CRAW FORD
General Crawford, who was severely wounded in the
thigh in the late battle of Antletam,'is now at his father's
house a few miles from town, confined to his bed. It will
be remembered that the General led into action the only
regiments of new troops from Pennsylvania that were
engaged, and the manner in which he handled them will
forever reflect credit upon hie skill as a commander. Too
much cannot be said of the new levy engaged in this
fight, and a short and true statement here will not be . out
of place.
ouR NEW TROOPS AT ANTIETAM.
The regiments engaged, of the now troops, wore as fol
lows : The 124th, under Colonel Hawley; the 125th
Colonel Higgins; 128th, Colonel Croasdale. Those were
under the Command of General Crawford, and in person.
be led them into action. They were opposed to theivete-.
ran soldient of Lorigetreet's corps, .and, about eight
o'clock, when Hooker's division was falling back, Gene
ral;Orawford pushed forward and. saved them, byithe
determined and unflinching bravery of the men under
him, from utter destruction. After the death of General
Itlanetield, - his command devolved upon General Craw
ford, and he sustained the fall force of the onemy'e fire
noon his =miler nearly five.honrs.: Tho men oompo.sing
the new regiments were mostly business mon, men of
character,' and General Crawford feels very proud of.
theMy for the - bravery they showed on the field. The
mortality in his command was eons!, if not superior,
to, any engaged, as he lost about forty..tive per centum.
Many of theta men, hut a few weeks since, left fine and
lucrative trades, and' places of burinees, and now hun—
dreds of them are gone never to return.
The heads of many a family, iheAoya of many fire
' sides, have Nursed away mid the did and smoke of battle;
end on the field of carnage, far from home, now lie msny
whO loft their families in the prinse,of life, and who wore
the only-comfort of aged- ones. History!. must - oartainly
place the men who fought at the battle of Bharpsburg,
under General Crawford, in a prominent place, or justice
will - not Wive been done Warm If not for the sake of the .
living, at:least for the sake of the many hundreds froin
the-124tb; 1251 h, and 128th, who yielded up their lives,
TWO CENTS.
martini on tho altar of Liberty, on the gory banks of the
Antietam, all honor to Orawford'e command
CAPTAIN PALKILE, OP THE • ANDERSON TROOP.
Before you receive this you will, no doubt, have heart
of Captain Palmer's being taken by the rebels as a sPY.
This is greatly to be deplored, as the Captain was the
übravest of the brave, and foremost in danger." He
was commander of the Anderson Troop, and it will be re
membered that while the rebels occupied Hagerstown, ha
kept the locomotive "running the road" all night, in
order to convey the idea that heavy bodies of soldiers were
being thrown into this part of the valley. And the ruse ono •
ceeded ; for It no doubt deterred the enemy from making
a raid into Chamboraburg, at a time when we were ut
terly unprepared for theni• II they murder the Captain—
wbich (}oo rapt they may not—a thousand rebels put to
a 1'a . . 1 .1 Cannot atone for his, We hope the Captain may
return to the brave boys under his command, who now
are anxiously awaiting the hour to avenge his capture.
There seems to be some great movement of our troops to
day in the direction of Wifillamsport. lam of the opinion
that McClellan will anticipate any movement they may
make in attempting to cross. General •Orawforti'm 'com
mand now occupies Harper's Ferry, and the old striper;
and stars again Boat on the heights so lately polluted by
the stars and bars. May the time eoon come when this
unhallowed rebplliOlit shall have been pu! down. and the
white.winged dove of peace soar Unmolested over the
beautiful fold! of the time-honored Btar•spsogled Bonner'.
B. R. S.
The Battle of Antietam.
•
NEAR
SEARPSDURG, MD., Sept. 20;1562.
To the Editor of The Prus
SiR : Knowing that your love to the old Kopitona Is
only second to your devotion to the Union, I wee some
what astobialied at reading in your generally norreot re•
ports from your motels], the following :
"The talented General Hicklea unfortunatelits not
present, being absent at New 'Vork on business connected
with his troops, but Generals Patterson and Grover were
able to lead the men." * * * t; For the time the
guns were in our possession, but unheeding this, and
listening only for the shouts from Hooker and Grover,
and invigorated by the cairn courage of Patieraon, they
threw themsolvee," &c. &c.
I am aware of the difficulty of any one correspondent
giving accurate details of a battle BO extended as that of
" the field of Antietam," but, at least, some respect for
truth might prevail, when according the credit of deeds
that never die" to men not within fifty miles of the con
tested point, and depriving others of nearer kith and kin,
who risked their lives 'to achieve what is BO graphically
Pictured by the correspondent afore aid, of due honor
and achieved fame. The facts are simply these : Hooker's
corps and Hooker's division are two separate institutions,
General Hooker—' fighting Joe"—being no w in com
mand of General McDowell's late corps, composed of
Ring's division, Riokett's division, and the Pennsylvania
Remy/es, then under command of Brigadier General G.
R. Meade, of Philadelphia—whilst Hooker's division is
commatded by Brigadier General Grover, and is now
lying quietly within easy distance of Alexandria, at least
fifty miles from the field of battle. As for the "cairn
courage of Patterson," that is easily accounted for, he
being at that momentin the city of Philadelphia. To
the none of Pennsylvania, both officers and privates, is
due much of the stubborn fighting of . Wednesday morn.
ing, and that, too, after a most sanguinary struggle of
the preceding even ing.:
I am, air, very truly, yours,
AN OFFICER PRESENT.
THE RICHMOND PRISONS.
Suffering of Union Prisoners—The Nine Days ,
March to Richmond—Nett:tin.; but Green
Corn to Eat.
Mr. James Bell, of the Interior Department, one of
the volunteer nurses recently captured at Bull Bun, was
among those released from the Richmond prisons on
Wednesday last and arrived in Washington on Friday.
- Be.haa furnished the following to the Star:
The citizen prisoners of Washington just released with
Pope's officers, were captured about 12 o'clock on Bun
day, August 30, some three miles southwest of Bull Bun
bridge. Belying upon the truthfulness of Pope's des
patch, they pushed on, thinking the battle-field in our
possession till the first they knew the rebel cavalry lurk
ing in the bushes had them surrounded. They were
marched off through the battle-field for five miles to
Gainesville, where they were quartered in a wheat field,
adjacent to some 1,600 11. B. Soldier prisoners. They were
kept at ibis place until Wednesday morning, when an or
der came to march for Fairfax Court House, to be sent
beyond the rebel lines. They had nothing to eat from
Sunday morning till Wednesday at 3 o'clock, when they
• were marched into a cornfield and told to help them
selves, raw or roasted. On the afternoon of Thursday
they were ordered to march in the direction of Blg Falls'
of Potomac, being promised safe conduct across to Mary
land.
The whole rebel army accompanied them daring the
afternoon and night,' till towards morning, 'when they
were stopped within five miles of Great Bails. here the
rebel General Ripley made them a speech, saying that
they were enemies of the South • that if they were not
for the South they were against it; that their object in
going to the battle-field was to gloat over a supposed
Confederate reverse, and that ho should send them to
Richmond, &c. They were placed in sixteen wagons,
and conveyed over the rough and rocky road back to
Gainesville. On the road the guards shot a hog, which
was cut np and divided among the prisoners. They
passed through the battle-field, on the way back to
Gainesville, by a different route to the two first. They
saw large piles of rails and wood, seemingly recently
hauled for the intention of burning the now black and
putrid bodies. '
On Eatnreday night they slept at Warrenton, proceed
ing the next day to White Sulphur, and sleeping on Sun
day night to the woods near the Rappahannock. They
were permitted to rest an hour at Culpeper, then took
the track of the Genteel Virginia Railroad for the Rapi
dan. When about five miles cn the way. met Jeff Davis
and J. P. Benjamin on a band car, on the way for Cal
peper.
They were conveyed in the care from Rapidan to Gor
donsville, where marital law prevailed, and hence neither
water nor food was allowed them. The treatment at this
place was most brutal. For three mortal boors 'they,
with Pope's officers and some two hundred soldier pri •
Boners, were compelled to stand in the het sun, and sub
mit to the humiliation of having their persons searched
for money, while all manner of coarse and abusive
epithets were freely applied from the haughty, pompous,
swaggering mayor, down to the dirty caravel known as
Confederate soldiers.
From Gordonsville they reached Bichtnond at night
fall at the end of the ninth day, and during that time
ate nothing but green corn, when • they could got it,
except the two rations named, and slept without any
covering but their clothes, on the bare ground, during
the entire jaunt. They were confined in a room of the
Libby prison, which bad been used only a week before
as a negro hospital. en the Beer the filth had collected
nearly an inch in thickness. The place was entirely
destitute of any article of furniture whatever—nothing
bat the floor, the bare walls, and the furnace-like tin•
roof. They endured confinement la this place for seven
teen days. The food furnished them was not only bmf
dint, but unfit for any animal but a hog to eat. The
consequence was, that they were good customers of the
prison sutler, who condescended to sell them a few hug.
ries at the following exorbitant prices, via: Irish pota
toes, $8 per bushel; tomatoes, sB'; butter, SLSO per
pound; molasses, $6 per gallon; sugar. 86 cents per
pound; coffee, made of crushed crackers parehed, 75
cents per pcnnd ; bacon, none to be had, although $1 per
pound was offered.
General Sigel Asks to be Relieved
The Washington correspondent of the New York
bunt rays :
General Eigel has asked to be relieved of his command.
Ilia letter to the President gives the following reasons for
the course which be has found it necessary to pursue ;,
1. Because he was placed under the command of a
junior 'officer without the knowledge of the'Presidetit,
although the President alone has the authority to place
a junior over a senior of the same grade.
2. Because his command has gradually been reduced ;
Brat by th e removal from it of two divisions, (Cox's and
Cook's,) and then of two brigades, Platt's and Milroy's.)
3 Because even the regiments raised , expresely for
him (except one) have not been assigned to him, nor
have others been given him in their places.
4. Because of the grossly abusive manner in which.
Gen. Balleck has treated him personally and officially.
5. Because his little command has been placed in an
exceedingly exposed position, and ordered to perform ,
tasks that are impossible for it, and that require a large
command. •
6. Because he cannot procure horses or equipage for
his artillery and cavalry, and hence those arms of the
service are comparatively useless to him.
7. Because all bis requests and requisitions are ne
glected or refused, on account of which his troops aro
discouraged and comparatively inefficient, and many
have not been paid for six months.
Because he cannot expect fair treatment, and be-
cause his troops, for whom he is deeply concerned, are
made the innocent sufferers on his account. Ile is per
suaded that they would fare better under another com
mander. .
The statement that regiments raised expresely for Gen.
Sigel bad not been given to him is confirmed by the testi.
moray of the Governors of six States—Governors Yates,
Tod, Nair, Kirkwood, Andrew, and Sprague—who are
anxious to know why this is so and aro urging tbo an •
thorities to carry out the promise which they made at Oho
time the permission to raise regiments in each of their
States for Gtneral Sigel was given.
The Shooting of. Gen. Nelson—Origin of
the Difficulty.
The following paragraph, which we find in the In
dianapolis Journal:, undoubtedly explains the cause of
the difficulty which bad this lamentable termination,
The 'Journal details the Incident in explanation of the
statement that Gen Davis had been relieved of his com
mend. It says
General Davie reported to General Neleon that ho had
the brigade .assigned to la's command, the citizens of
Louisville, ready for service, and desired to know ff ho
could get arms for them. "How many men have your
asked General Nelson. "About twenty-five hundred."
"About twenty-five hundred About twenty-five bun
drea fen a regular officer, and report about the num
ber of men in your command ! Don't yon know, sir,
you should give the exact number ,‘ Ent, General,"
replied Davis, 64 I didn't expect to get the guns now
only wanted to learn If I could got them. and where, and
having learned that, I would ascertain the exact number
needed, and then draw them." "About twenty-five hun
dred I" persisted Nelson. "I suspend you from your
command, and order you to ropart to General Wright, :
and I've a d—d mind to send you out of the city with
a provost guard."
General Davie, as we learn from Cincinnati, went
in inctilotrly to that city to rout to General Wright,
but, 'failing to find him there, returned to Louisville.
Ibe homicide must have been committed almost imme
diately after hie return to that city.
Affairs at Fort• Lafayette.
In aocordance with an order - received by Marshal
Murray, from Adjutant General Townsend, Detective
Devoe on Saturday transferred Judge B. D. Garmioliasi
from Fort Lafayette to Fort Delaware. Judge C. is a
Marylander, and , was taken Item the bench while his
court was in session, romo two months since. No reason
is nsingned for the transfer -
Within a few days the Baltimore Secessionists who
ei mpathized with the few prisoners marched to Fort La.
fey 'ette. have been informed of the sort of bravado with
which th platter endure their conti nem eu t,an d hi response,
have furnished them with an abundant supply of clothing,
of nil kinds, and also a liberal rometubiancer in the shape
of 'United States Treasury notes.
- - - -
The fort tow presents all.the characteristic featursa of
a New :York Hotel. including silk hats, gold-beaded
cents, and cigars. Indeed, the %Confederacy would find
it advantageous to the appearance or its soldiers to send
the ail to the fort to be clothed..:
The general impression among the prisoners 111 that
they are all soon to lie 'paroled, with the exception of
florae, the theriff arrested with him, and the 6 . French
Led y ," Thoinas."—Erocrting Fort.
THR HARPER'S FERRY PRISONERS —The whole
of t h e ti e t on troops'captured and paroled at the Barrett
der -of. Harper's Ferry have boon ordered to Camp
Douglas, Chicago, except the Maryland Brigade. They
will be placed in, command of Colonel . Daniel Oameroe,
'slices name is already registered at the Tremont. The
60th Ohio Regionentrof Volunteers and Phillips' ()Wage
Battery arrived • yesterday morning, • and "Cameron's
Scotch Regiment (the 60th) -will -probably arrive this
morning.
The 87th and 32d Ohio. the 80th, 1151 h, end 125th New.
Yoi Verniont VOlitotiere, the I2th New , York
State Militia; and an Indiana battery, telltale° be quickly
Some of.theca will probably arrive hero to-day.
/1 would seem Co be the design ,of the Government to
t neplo - y these troops in the . Departnient,of the Northwest.
They can be used egeinst the Indians; and an 'garrison
troops. In' those' Ste tea,' wi bout oft !agent Ant of the ex
change agreecnents.--rOhfoogo 27tit.
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LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
The Emancipation Proclamation in Richmond
—The Rebel Army on the. Upper Potomac— -
The Capture' of IV/unfordville.
'We have received a copy of the Blotanoad Dispatch
of the 27th nit., from which we compile the following
items of interesting news:
About two weeks ago five men were arrested from a
boat in Mobile Bay, on suspicion that they were making •
an attempt to escape to New Orleans. They were sub
acenently sent to prison in Mobile, and upon searching
them there were found upon them charts and plans of
the defences of. Mobile. One of them—Dr. Marius Louis ,
Rosavalley, of New Orleans, where he bad a wife and
children—has been banged , but whether by military or
civil authority is not ascertained.
The same paper also states that a Yankee cavalry force
visited Warrenton Junction on Thursday last, where a
number of wounded were left after the battle of Manas
sas. It conjectures that the Yankees intend to make a
raid on that place to take prisoners those who from their
Wounds are unable to defend themselves.
The Dispatch also contains an item from a Texas pa. ,
per, dated September 3, which says that General Sam
llouston is alive and well, and living on his old home
stead.
The Dispatch advises the appointment of a reliablii`
brigade in the service to prevent straggling from the re
bel army..s._
The Richmond Examiner of September 27 says that'
the public highways In the valley of Virginia, from Wm.:
cheater to taunton, tire crowded with atiffering and
wounded soldiers, poor fellows, who were in the terrible
fights of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, and especially
in the terrible fight of Wednesday of last weelt. They.
left the battle-field for home or the hospital, and were.
too weak to proceed, and had no money to mower° Moir.
passage, It is exceedingly painful and sorrowful to see
these poor, ragged, toll-worn," battle-ecerred heroes
trudging wearily and languidly along. Let them be
looted after at once.
The Examiner also regrets that the debate, in Conne
greets on the conscription bill should be oharacterizedt
with so much temper and conducted in such a way as to.
inflame the public mind. /t complains particularly of
the speech of Mr. Conrad, of Louisiana, on this anbiect,
and adds "that the word States' means much more than
is implied in Mr. Conrad's ,limited lexicon. States are
political orgenizationthey are sovereignties."
TEE PRESIDENT'S EMANCIPATION' PROCLAMATION. :
'The Richmond Dispatch of the 27th nit publishes a
deapatch dated Petersburg the 2elh, a copy of which is.
here subjoined:
Northern dates to the 23d inst. have been received. -
Lincohrhas jesued a proclamation declaring the slava/
of rebel masters free from and after the let of January;
next.
[From the Richmond Dispatcb, September 27
The Federal invaeloie especially in its relations to ne
groes, has thus far been a John Brown raid on a grant
scale. Wherever the Federal armies have advanced the
negroes have been swept off as clean as the Eastern lo
custs sweep a field of grain. Not one green .or black'
thing is left in the line of the Yankee march, nor in the,
whole country for many miles around. The Piedmont;
the upper valley, the Peninsula, the country watered by
the Rappahannock and the Potomac, have been stripped
of their negro imputation. This war has assumed the
character of a grand negro-hunting expedition. Of vic
tories the Yaekree have gained few—negroes many:
What - becomes of the game it is impossible to say, nor is
that a matter of much conmguence. The toss, however,
of so valuable an element of strength and prosperity is
a matter of such moment 'that the Legislature of the
State ought at once to take measures for the preven
tion of similar' calamities in the future, This Cant
only be done by a law providing for the removal of no
groee from all threatened dish jets to the interior. It will
not do to leave this to the discretion or judgment of the
master. 'ln some oases they are too indolent to take the
proper precautions foi the security of their property; in
others they are deluded by implicit confidence in the
fidelity of their servants; and, notwithstanding the Berm
zience which the war has furnished, that the neighbor.
hoed of a Yankee army creates as complete a stampede
among negroes as the approach of a locomotive among
cattle. there are thousands of masters who continue to
believe that their servants will not run under similar
temptations, and foolishly to expose them to temptation,
It is clear, therefore, that there is no security for the ne
gro property of the State, unless the Legislature makes
the removal of the negroes from districts exposed to in
vasion compulsory. We trust that the necessary action
will be taken promptly, for the State has already suffered
enormous tosses from 11:Incense, which, by precantionarY
legislation, might all have been prevented.
'mire trier, TEE WAR END
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 27 ]
This is a question oftener asked than answered. We
have been asked the question repeatedly; bat if any one
should ask us n When wilt thoworld end 7" we should be
just as able to give an opinion. Our conviction is that a
good many people will come to on end before the world
dose, and that in like manner the war will finish off a
good many before it is fitisbed itself Thie is a sombre
view of the future, but we wish we could see lily streaks
of light to indicate the dawn of day.
The only way that the war can end it by the erhaur.
tient. of the North or the extermination of the South.
'The North has determined to subjugate or annihilate us.
It gives us only this alternative The Union or death."
That, in sum and substance, Is all that ita moot conser
vative politicians propose. It is in vain that some of
them deny the cinel determination that we have -indi
cated. Is there one of them, conservative Republican oe
conservative Democrat, who will Proclaim that he prefers
the sacrifice of "the Union " to the extermination of the
Southl The Union- to the god of all parties alike, ex
cept the ultra Abolitionists, who, strange to say, era the
only men in the North willing to " let it elide." . The
war has been carried en from the beginning , by
the conservative classes, and scarcely an Abolitionist
is to be found in. He stemies. If the ."Union
sentiment"which so pervades the North wore genu
ine patriotism, we might have some hope of its'
abatement. or, if it were mere fanatisiem, the grab of
passion might bowl used out; but it ia the practical, sub
stantial greed of gold, which will never let go Its grip, as
long as life remains. The North is fighting not only for
the Southern trade and commerce, but to make the South
pay the enormous debt accumulated in this war. liotonly
thin, but it is fighting for its very being. The ides is com
mon that it is the South alone which is contending for
national existence. But. if the North ultimately fails
in this war,she will fillets fast and as far es Lucifer in his
descent !Tom Heaven. The brightest jewels of her crown
wrested from her grasp, the chief sources of her revenue
withdrawn; and a national debt half as large as that of
England plied upon her shoulders; her cities solitary, her
harbors deserted, her manufactories silent, her military
capacities •so paralyzed that she can neither command
respect abroad nor insure good order in her own incon
gruous population, composed of a seething mass of thill
ignorant, depraved, and fanatical of all nations, she will
cling to "the Union," and to the war, by which only she
hopes to preserve it, as the shipwrecked mariner clings
to the last plank that lies between him and the fathoralemt
depths of eternity. We must bear these facts In minA
when we are tempted by the syren songs of hope to look
for a speedy peace, and to relax the exertions which
alone can save our throats from the throttle of a powerful
nation; engaged in a fearful and final straggle far life
or death. -We wish we could descry a brighter pros
pect, but we see no reason for such predictions.. The
unmanly expectation of foreign intervention, which
so long deluded our people, has long ago proved me
idle dream. Europe not only refuses to intervene,
but rejoices in her heart over the American troll
bles, because they are exhausting and rendering -im
potent for injury to despotic Governmentiethat conti
nent whose free institutions have always kept her in a
nightmare of alarm. England, the chief instrument in
the disruption of the old republic, preserves rigid neu
trality—that Is, she furnishes the North material and
the South moral aid T she permits the North to purchase
materials and munitions of war, which the South, br
reason of the blockade, is only partially able to do ; and
she praises the South for its military prowess and pa
triotic devotion. She puts weapons in the bands of the
Northern combatants, and she pats the Southern com
batant on the bead, and cries "Brave boy, pitch into
him." We are beginning to understand all this, and to
dismiss from our minds the monstrous delusion of foreign
intervention.
If, however, the war gives no signs of coming to a
speedy end, we believe by proper action on the part of
Congress the honor of our flag will continue to be sus
tained, the public security increased, and the capacity of
the enemy for mischief and annoyance greatly diminish
ed. In the meantime we must seek to be patient, and, if
possible, content in a condition from which mankind ham
never been exempt, and which Providence seem beat for
our trial and discipline. In the spirit of the man who.
when be broke his leg, thanked Heaven it was not his
neck, we may console ourselves with reflecting that there
are national and individual calamities greater and more
irreparable than those of war, and be thankful we have
escaped them. •
TER ARMY OP GEN. LEE.
[From the Richmond Diepateh, Sept. 27.]
During the day yesterday we heard of no new deve
lopments in the movement' of our forces on the Poto
mac. In its present position, we understand, the army
is improving in the condition of the men, and accts
ntulatine, by daily accessions of stragglers and con
scripts. Whatever may be the intended future opera
tions of Gen. Lee, he 14 certainly most successful in keep
log them concealed from the public. No material injury
can result to the public from this reticence. What is
concealed from our people finds little chance of making its
way to the enemy. There is a general confidence felt apd
expressed in the management of military affairs, and
whatever movement Is made will have tee sanction and
support of the people.
Our latest accounts concur in the report that the Yan
kees have not attempted to reerose the Potomac since
they were so mercilessly slaughtered by General Jack
son at Sbepherdetown on Saturday. Oar pickets. as late
as Tuesday. extended to the neighborhood of Harper's
Ferry. It le not probable that they will attempt to erase
again for the present.
Winchester is represented as being rapidly disgorged
of the stragglers who have made the town a kind of ren•
&svelte since our army first entered Marylatd.
ARRIVAL OP RIME PRISONERS AT RIEMEORD.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept 27.]
During Thursday night sixty-seven Yankee prisoners
arrived from Gordonsville. Since the battle of Cedar Run
they have been at the Piedmont Hotel Hotpital, at Cul
peper Court •House. Included in the above lot were
several army surgeons and nurses, also the following
commissioned cheers—viz: Lieutenant Colonel B. .F.
Brown, 2Stlt New Yoth ; Captains Q A. Luckenback,
46th Penne3lvania ; J. H. Chapman, bth Connecticut;
B. F. Clayton, 102 d New York; First Lieutenant W.
P. Warren, 28th New York, . and Second Lieutenant
Thcmal Matthews, 46th Pennsylvania. Col. Brown was
accompanied by hls.wlfe. The whole party wilt be sent
home In a few days.
Twenty• One Yankee prisoners, captured in North Ca
rolina, [we' a received at the. Libby prison pest erdai
Five of them were captured near Newborn, and wore
seat forward by Col. Bradford, commanding the post. at
Goldsborough, N. O. They belonged to the United States
Maiine artillery ecirps, and gave the names of James
Harrell, John Groves, H. B. Lloyd, James Roach, end
Emits Lewis.
ME CAPTURE OF MENFORDVILLE, KT.—REREL.
OFFICIAL REPORT.
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. fe7.]
Official contliumtion of the reported surrender of some
five ttonesnd• men' et Muofordvele, Hy.; was yesterday
roceivt d at .the office of the Adjutant General. We append
a copy *of the, despatch received yesterday from Knox
ville, Tenn. '
dated September fib :
To General S. Cooper; Adjutant General C S.:
A courier from General Bragg'- boadquarere, eight
miles west of Mussiordillie, on the night or the 18th inst.,
COlArthil the report that Bragg captured about Ave thou-
Nand men. at In tsfordville, on the 17th inst. 'Out less
about fifty killed and wounded. The same , courier re
ports that up to .the 12th instant about twenty ; three
thousand KentucX - ians hail joined General Smith.; and
they were Mil coming. The Borne Guard waadolirering
np teeir guns as rapidly as they could be received.
sAntunr, JONES, Major General.
TEE RATIONS DRAWN BY THE RE
SELS.—A member of. the Zd Pennsylvan:v.,oavalry bits
sent us two leaves torn from a record book. Inscribed
"Captain B. Smith, A. 0. Subsistence, 49th Regiment
Virgin's Volunteers," , which is instructive as ehowbag
Low much truth there iB in the statement that the rebels
are bell starved:
' • . . .'l Front Jana
Articles drawn. • 18th to 30th.
Fresh Meer ' " 416 pounds.
Bacon 2 612 do.
Flour' 4 ." . " ' 20 do. 5 ? 5142 pon*a.
44 bawes.
Bard Bread ' - :....11220 do. .. • .41248 Ponlmig.
Beata 4 bushels ...... 40, bapzele.
Peas 203 pounds. "
Bice ' 121 do. - 448 . pounda.
Coffee. ... .22.. dd.
Empty
Candles .. .. . 18 I.dd.
Vinegar ~..9 gallows .74 gallons.
soap . - 8 pounds.
halt 162 do 6 bushels,
Molasses TX gallons 12 gallons.
Whisks " ' 16 do. .... 65,1 t do.
The preponderance of the whisky over the soak is took
significant to need comment.
A SHORT IYHRAT 0302.—8 y a comparison of th s
receipts of wheat In Chicago during the past twenty two
days, compared witli'the.receipta during the correspond.
Ing.periOd ha 1861, it is found that there is a falling off,
this year, during the period named, of over ons 7ltinio4
buebels; and this, too, when prices have ruled from.ma
to twenty-fire cents per bushel higher than in 7861
The reports which we have from time to time publish:Nl
of a Abort wheat croy, seem ; therefore, to be fail,' vortflalt
From July
.Ist to 31st.