%\% 'jfytt&i. WEDNESDAY, JULY 33, 1863. jyg- We can take no notice of anonymous commu nications. We (lo not return rejected manuscripts. jfer Voluntary correspondence solicited from all parts of the world, and especially from our different military and naval departments. When used, it will be paid for. ' THE SITUATION. General Lee seems to keep his winding way down tlie Shenandoah Valley. Whether he has halted at Culpeporor Gordonsville, wo cannot say; but there arc ruinorp that he has reached the end of his race, anti is preparing to await an attack; .'front' 'General Aleadk in some position on the Rappahan nock, and if possible, near his camping ground of Fredericksburg. Of course, the last battle, with its unfortunate end, iu the escape of Lee, necessitates anew'campaign,- and wc have nothing to do but to await the : devedopment of General Meade's plan. AVe do not anticipate much delay from the major generivls in developing their campaigns, as we have ho doubt that as-soon as Lee un masks his plan of operations, wc shall be prepared to meet him with the whole force of the Republic. At this time the future, operations of the army are unknown, and a conjecture would be foolish. Wo prefer to watch and wait. ‘ In all the recent events the War Depart ment has justified the confidence the people reposed in its ability. The victories of Jiffy were something more than co-incidental, they were co-opera tive, and the attack upon Charleston was justly delayed until triumphs in other parts of the great field added to the probabilities of success. Charleston cannot he reinforced unless the enemy abandons oilier defensive positions of similar import ance. At no time in the past three months could the reduction of Sumpter and Moultrie have been attempted so well., This is the very hour of. victory, and ave-.have little doubt that the siege will bo successful. General Gilmore proved liis skill at Pulaslri. With his James and Parrott rifled guns, at the distance'of sixteen' hundred and seventy yards, lie bored great holes in the avails of a fortress pronounced impregnable.- With as much skill and energy as he then possessed, with • larger experience and greater force, he now attempts a task more difficult. But as he breached the walls of Pulaski, we believe that he -will make Sumpter untenable. Thus far he has shown no anxiety, no haste ; by this time Port Wagner is undoubtedly reduced, and the approaches to Sumpter are in his pos session! We have no reason to doubt that this second attempt to capture Charleston will succeed ; we need only say, by way of caution, that it may fail. The first attempt was by the navy alone: Now mightier en gines than the monitors are upraised against it. The engineer is irresistible.. Charleston confesses the danger. The monitors have thus far silently watched the progress of the army upon Morris Island, but when their revolv-J ing turrets turn upon the enemy their black port-holes, it will"not be Ineffectual.ffire' that issues from the monster, ships. Sumpter -will have work enough; Moultrie will give her mightier sister feeble assistance. Ad-, miral Dahlgren will speak at the proper time, and we have no grounds to fear that the Charleston delenccs can resist the great combined attack. Charleston must share the fate oi Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The city in which thirty years ago the de struction of the Repiiblic was planned must yield to the power of the Republic. Thus it is,that “the whirligig of time brings about its revenges.” When Charleston fails, what is left to fall but Richmond ? Iu the West the only disaster is the appa rent difficulty of overtaking the__retrcating_ ... «H«d movements. of the rebel gen'eral, the war has been trans ferred to Georgia. Suck strategy, for stra- tegy «*“««, a. iravsftw wwuv for military suicide. The advance of the Army of the Cumberland is at Rome, Geor gia; the enemy at. Atlanta;, if Rose crans overtakes Bn Ac a another de- cisive victory is certain. In any event the army of .General Brags has no longer military existence, for the only possible use which can now be made of it is to reinforce, with its demoralized troops, the defeated' army of Johnston. From the Southwest we may look for nothing less than victory upon victory. Any important defeat of the Federal armies is impossible. The triumphs there have been sudden and overwhelming, but it must be remembered that the Govern ment has for months been working for the great success achieved in a few days. Tile Rebel Conscription. Jefferson' Davis, by the authority of an act of the rebel Congress, has called into the military service of the Confederacy all white-men between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, not legally .exempt, residing in the Southern States. These men are or dered to forthwith repair to the conscript camps, on pain of punishment as deserters. By .this proclamation the entire able-bodied population of the rebel States is converted into an army, and the whole South trans formed into a camp. The terms of the or der are. peremptory; it states that “ the necessities of the public defence require that every man capable . of hearing: arms,-between the ages aforesaid, should drrrltt ram four funrr in. hiocig> fence of his country, and in driving haalt the invaders now within -the limits of the -Confederacy.' ’ The order, and the reason for the order, are full of important sugges tions, and of these not the least interesting is the difference between the Federal draft and the rebel conscription. If the - call by our Government for a small part of the able-, bodied population is, sufficient cause for a riot, surely this wholesale conscription in ■ the South is reason for a counter revolution. In the. North, every man has an equal chance of escaping from the draft ; in the South, aUj hut the few who are by infirmity or other disabilities exempt, are forced into the ranks of the army. What hardships does the Federal draft inflict upon the people, which can he for a moment compared with the miseries the South must endure when this order is enforced ? Yet the rioters in New "I ork, with . astonishing effrontery or igno rance, cheered Jefferson Davis. In thus applhuding they ...condemned themselves. Those means for recruiting an army, which the United States uses only in the most moderate degree, the rebel Government employs to a terrible degree. With far more kindness and justice -to the people than our’State militia laws em body, tie .national,-act exempts all poor men who have widowed mothers, aged and infirm parents, motherless infant Children, fill MiiaslflßS VaUllM feS-itkAii de pendent on their labor f 94 SlljjpUrll, TUB provisions of this act deal with all possible tenderness with the people. Is anything like this evident in the provisions of the re bel conscription, or in-this emphatic or der of tlie rebel Government ? Every man is at qnce swept away into the camps of the rebellion ; not one can escape, tbe all-embra cing summons.-; ' By thisfesrful conscription we may mea sure the importance of our recent victories. Ghaut, and Meade, and Banks must have, indeed, struck mighty blows, when the mon ster answers with this cry of pain. - Ordi nary victories do mot have such extraordi nary results. :: Itrs not by an army that .Tev i'ehson Da vis hopes to resist us, but by a people. It is only by the aid of every man- in the slave States, who is ca llable of bearing 1 arms, that oar trium phant armies can possibly be driven back. Is it, then, easy to over-estimate the value of the capture of Vicksburg or of Port. Hud son ? Of the bloudless triumph over the fugitive armies of Bragg ? Can we rejoice too much in those magnificent battles in which the Army of the Potomac hurled back the veteran soldiers,♦the best and bravest soldiers of the South? When we read in Southern journals, and in Northern newspapers which echo Southern boasts, that these victories are but superficial suc cesses, which have no permanent elicct on the war, we can answer them by the words of the rebel leader. Would superficial suc cesses have such profound results ? Would .victories without -permanent effect force a ' conscription of every fighting man the enemy can control ? - .. .TeefEkson Davis has issued from Rich mond a proclamation of despair. He has confessed, in the hearing of the world, the desperate condition of his failing cause. He lias confessed the overwhelming might of the United States. Not to meet the three hundred thousand men our Government has called to arms, does lie summon the entire fighting population of the South, but to meet' our armies already in the field,' the “ in vaders--now within the limits of the Con federacy.” What could he do were he answered by a- similar measure ? With but a .part; of its power, the' Govern ment lias forced the rebellion to use its whole strength. Army after army has failed the rebellion ; city after city ; State following. State, have been wrested from its hold, and, lastly, we have- torn from it the great river of the West. Driven, to the last extremity, the rebellion has called out its reserve. “ The only salvation of the Southern Confederacy,” says the Richmond Enquirer, “is in calling out a leyyc-n on am, and the application of martial law to the whole country as in a state of siege.” If this he the only hope, and,-that ■it is the President of the Confederacy him self confesses, then there is wo hope worthy of the name. Per it is absolutely impossi ble that this measure can be enforced; by conscription the rebel Government has al ready exhausted the South, and, though it may order the creation of armies, it cannot create them. Glendqswer may summon spirits from the vasty deep, but will they come ? -No country has ever placed its entire fighting population in the field, and grant ing the spirit and resolution of the rebels to be all their fondest friend would.wish, they cannot accomplish impossibilities. Nor will time he granted them to achieve even the little which might be possible had they a few months to, organize the few men who have tines far taken no. active part in the war. Had Jefferson Davis announced in plain words that the rebellion is now concentrating all its energies for the death struggle, he could have said lit tle more than this proclamation reveals to the world. The great and decisive victory is near. As the terrible riots in New York are now mere matters of yester day, soon to be remembered as men remem ber an ugly dream, so this greater riot will meet as inglorious a fate. One cause created the riot and the rebellion, and each was equally an enemy to Freedom and Law ; the Power which crushed the lesser foe is able to subdue the greater, and the con quest will be lasting proof of the invincibili ty of the American Republic. . Mr. James T. Brady, of New York, knows more of the intricacies of law than of the principles of Goyernment. He promises to pay the exemption money for four good drafted citizens who are so placed that they cannot leave their families. This is a noble, generous offer, which Mr. Brady is not the man to make without fully intending to re alize. 'Unfortunately, the concluding sen tence of his letter is calculated to throw a.’ doubt upon the legality of the cijjiscriptiou ' itself. He promises in it to do all in his power to have the conscription aet tested before the judiciary as a constitutional question. We . deny that a good citizen is justified, in a crisis like that through which we are how passing, in assisting to throw legal obstruc tions-sn-;.iie_.wayj)f the national defence. Mr. Brady, we t:mst, : tiness of examining an act of Congress, as he would examine a bill of indictment in a court of law, in liopes of detecting a flaw in it. Mr. Brady, of the li'gtits hf i,w -profession, ' very well knows that, in cases of riot or revolt, the common law gives, the sheriff: of a county the.-uuquestion ablc light to impress'- every able-bodied *;- - *- —;i, -, it tel " calling - onf the pessc —■ to aid him. in sup pressing the tumult, and in maintaining order. Wet, while Mr. Brady would stand up against taking this ancient privilege and power ftom an inferior officer, he would challenge the right of the superior officer to exercise it, even with the authority of Con gress. In fine, what he would preserve to the sheriff of a county he would not permit to the President of the United States ! Sure ly, he has not nqw to learn that extraordi nary evils sometimes. require extraordinary remedies. When the very existence of this country,, as a nation,, is at stake,.are we to waste time in discussing points of law ? ' The rebels In North Carolina seem'to be in sore distress. The -reactionary move ment, as it may be called, is passing beyond the control of those who. are 'charged with the management of the Confederate affairs. Governor Vance, who seems to be a pecu liar being—a kind of Mosaic Governor talking for secession and laboring against, it, has called a meeting of the Legislature' to discuss some local matter, but virtually with the idea of reopening.negotiations with the view, of returning North Carolina to the Union. This State has been one of Mr. Davis’ most deplorable failures. Heart and soul for the Union, it was whirled into se cession by treason and crime. .We shall gladly welcome the old North State into the family of loyal States. ; A few days since the Southern journals told us that the South was a unit, and Mr. Vallandigham tells us that every man, woman, andchild he had met in the Sou^h iJiuruirdo ueuiii uj iduffion uilli Uih niiiVinT A Mobile newspaper, however, tells us that there are “ timid men ” in the South, and that “the timid men must not be allowed to fetter the,wheels of the revolution.” We prefer the Mobile editor to the Representa tive from Ohio, and send these “timid men” words of comfort and encouragement. Pa tience, friends, patience a little longer. The good time is coming, and is very near at hand. The New York World wishes the United States to receive Mr. Stephens “upon terms of equality,” and considers it “sim ply common sense to treat the rebel govern ment as a power. ” The United 1 States pre fers to treat it as a weakness. - The World thinks “the war should bn conducted upon precisely the same basis as a war against England or France. ” The Government be lieves that respect is due to its foreign equals, and is indisposed to make international war fare oiit of. the struggle to,subdue a gigantic riot. The TVflj'fcZ affirms -that “more flies can be caugbt with a drop of honey than witlTa gallon of vinegar.!’ The Govern ment is not attemiJting to catch flies. The World declares that “our rulers have never missed no occasion to make the prolonga tion of the war indefinite:;” The Goyern ,mcnt is indebted to the bad grammar of the World for the only loyal sentiment in its 'sahinuui TIIE JOtylftTMll Of speaking of the conscription, says “ Some errors which have been made are manifest. „ The draft ought uot.lo have been commenced by tbe United States authorities consulta tion with the State authorities.” This is a very proper point; hut what'will the, Journal of Gommeree say when it learns that Gov. Seymour was notified that there would he a draft weeks before it was ordered ? The blame is with the Governor, of New York, and not with the Administration. Jen verson Davis has ordered out every white man under forty-five within the limits of the Confederacy, to serve in the rebel array. This looks like war. We wonder if Mr. Davis intends to wait for a decision of : the courts before lie compels the conscripts to .take up arms’; - . . Eitoji the far South comb signs, of alle giance to the old flag. The. victories of -.Grakjl; and Meade . have carried terror to . those .who are rebels because of interest or passion. “There have been some signs of this white;feather fluttering, during the- few past gloomy, days. Let us warn them that it is base to. feel, and dangerous to he pre mature in the utterance of, such sentiments. ” To us these arc joyous words, Tor they tell us that the blood of loyalty is again gushing through the veins of the South. The city of/ Mobile, in which these words w'ere written, was warmly attached to Douglas, and at tachment to Douglas means loyalty- and patriotism.- Tiie New York 1 Yorld-, not satisfied with the recent riots in that city, now openly preaches revolution, and makes the follow ing suggestions to its friends, as the way iu which it may be accomplished : If the federal Government directs its o flic era to dieobey the process of the courts of New York, and eniorces their disobedience, it simply makes war upon the State of New Y ork. IVlud the Slate of New iork will do in such a contingency; how il will m»cl revolution, it is unnecessary now lo say. . Whatever it does, whether iu the way of resistance or remon atrance, wiil be done calmly, coolly, with the dignity befitting the Empire State, and with the power which its contributions of millions of treasure and two hundred regiments to the war hat'e not im paired.” Now, if ever, is the golden hour of the Republic. If we would reach peace, it must be by a miglitv, violent, and overwhelming blow. The,rebellion is reeling., See the cries of despair that come from every South ern journal.. Crush treason at home,Amite the North in one mighty army, arid then advance along the lines. Victory is as sure as sunlight after the dawn. " ■ Tiie London Times, which seems to pos sess a degree of inspiration, and has made a number of prophecies in this war, has fa vored liswith another. .Writing-in the early part of July', it- says : “We may expect in a week or two to hear of President Davis being in Washington. ” It is only j ust to say that its last prophecy is as remarkable as any that have preceded it. ' ‘ • The organ of the rioters has at last found an excuse for’the atrocities of the thieves, murderers, anjjjricendiariesof New York. It seems from this ,journal that the ruffians of that city were a -m-ost sadly abused people, and that the radicals were to blame.: 11 The radicals will have the goodness to uailer stand that whatever resistance has been or may be offered by Irish lor by any other citizens of the United States to the ‘ acts of our rulershas been challenged by.the haughty and defiant denial of these fundamental principles on the part of the Ad ministration and the party for which they speak.” The rebels are summoning up their ener gies for a fierce , and final struggle. This last call of Jefferson Davis meads imme diate, unrelenting, and despairing -war. Friends, shall wc be laggard ? Let us place our three hundred..-thousand men in the field, and throw them on the. foe before the new levy is taken into the field. There is a moral in every public event, and a lesson to be learned even from a riot.— World, When we interpret this profoundly origi nal oracle by the aid of the disloyal senti ments which surround it, wc feel able to announce truths j equally evident. Every moral of the World is indeed a public event, and a riot is to be‘learned in every one of its lessons. * \ LETTER FROM “OCCASIONAL.” Washington, July 21, 1863. When Napoleon, after he had entered Moscow, rose from a troubled sleep to look out, with a pale face and a convulsive’s tart, upon a burning city, he is reported to have exclaimed : “The Scythians—they destroy themselves !” But these people put the. brand to their-own homes to save them from the invader, and were justified by the usages of war and the instincts of self preservation; How'diflerent with a portion of the population in New York! They, not only fly at the throat of their own Bene factor, their own Government, who is at once their almoner and their defender, but glory in their baseness, and defy the re morseful future in which their, names will stand perpetually first in the calendar of the _ ctucrcix-ts«r«i.'—JllStOX’y of this hell-broth it is well to go back a little. It was not, as you know, a sudden rising; and its dreadful though brief success is best ex perienced in this, that no patriotic men believed that the crime it has con summated, however threatened, was ever sincerely intended; It was so with the Rebellion. Tl struck at a good Government' orqvivk vthvt swvivivu iJhnvT the thoib seteni because it was so wholly unexpected. For with us our Union was next to our God; and we so revered it that we did not con ceive that, however vehement the oath to destroy it-, no man would "dare to execute such an oath. Hence our idolatrous faith in our Union was the weakness over which Rebellion prevailed ■ for a time.. The son: who -strikes and stabs the father, or, as “in our case, the mother, no matter how infamous, is one of those fear fully novel characters that history is not stained with many such examples. But a wretch like this, fratricide and matricide both in one ; is an individual illustration of lhat indescribable infamy called the Rebel lion against the American Union. From that source pf all evil has proceeded ever}- manner of shame and ignominy. In itself ihfamouS; its offspring is even worse. Caliban was less the son of Sycorax, bestiality and incest less the children of slavery, than was the New York mob The product of the Rebellion. It was hatched arid nursedUy the-authors and apologists of the Rebellion. The first always relied upon the elements just concentrated into war upon life and liberty, as certain to help their ultimate atrocities; and. the second have exerted themselves for many yearsrio make this expectation good. The ingredients that entered into this infernal mixture were many and diverse. The earliest was Calhounism, that found in Fer nando Wood and others ready devotees. Under the guise of Free Trade to please the merchants, and hatred of Abolition and the negro to irritate a portion of the irilSbSSSl filti igm, mi MQTDiiiiQßisprogTßSßßfl ttaffiiraiily. NSW York has always bccu a rendezvous for the slave-nabobs! V It was in New York that the hundreds of thousands so terribly earned by the sweat, and blood, and crime, of their own slaves, were easily and annually expended. As a specimen of the oriental extravagance of a class made rich and cruel by slavery, I will mention that I have seen within two years a single din ner set ('not of silver} ordered for and paid by a pious Alabama lady, who revelled in the splendid fruits of her own plan- - tation, that cost six thousand dollars. Everything that, could: be bought was had by/ these excellent people ; and of course these streams of slave-earned gold going outto inspire the merchants, touched those who took their cue from those who paid them. They returned harvests in the r way of Democratic majorities, com menced with Democratic Presidents and de corated with. Democratic Congressmen; and >the investment, which looked so expensive, was, after ail, the profoundest economy. Then came the newspapers catering to their appetites all the time. Next the pulpit, which, at least, (with such'exceptions as proved'that the abuses I refer to only served to make the opposition to them so extreme as mot to be immediately effective,} became a mere sounding board, to echo to the slave lies once a month rained down 7 on the ne- VfifiV VVViVHIdHHVtvVIVHi?! Svvivtf) Willi Its Domboys and'Garlters, and imsm and pretension, threw its tribute into the caul dron. Commerce, withtheaffiuentyisions of a boundless trade, and money, witli its-ten thousand ramifications, added-thrift voices to the chorus, until, at. last, to he for the South was the elixir that kept life and health among the good people of the city of New York. Occasional. The Rebel l.osses in Grant’s Campaign. Cincikkati, duly 21.—The Gazette’s Yieksburg I correspondent says, that during the campaign, of sixty-four days, ending with the capture' of Ticks burg, the rebels lost, in killed, wounded, and prison ers, 43,700 men, about 71,000 stand of arms, including 50,000 Enfield rifles, ia their original packages, which were intended for the rebel army across the Mississippi, and 230 pieces of artillery. ; / the State Teachers? Associ a tio>* will meet at Heading on the 4th; sth, and oth clays ol August; -\ ’• ~■. ■ THE PRESS.—PHILADELPHIA, WiDNESDAY. JULY 22, 1863. Washixoton, July 21, 1863. Eight at Charleston. A telegram received from Portree* Monroe this afternoon, briefly mentions that the light was re sumed at Charleston on Friday, and that the con test was remarkably sliArp, both sides firing in all directions. The prospect appeared to be the ulti mate fall of Port Wagner. Official Despatch front Admiral Porter. The Secretary of the Navy, to-night, received the following: -• '•U. S. Mississippi Squadhox, Ft.Ah.shir. Black hawk, Off Vicksburg, July 10, 1863, Via Cairo, July 21. lion. Gideon Welles: Sir: Hearing that General Johnston was fortifying Yazoo City with heavy guns, and gathering troops there for. the purpose of gathering supplies for his army from the Yazoo country, and also that the remainder of the enemy’s best transports were there, showing a possibility of his attempting to escape, Major General Grant and myself determined to send a naval and-military ex pedition up there to capture them. The Biron de Kalb, New National, Kenwood, and Signal, were despatched, under command of Lieut. Commanding John G. Walker, with a force of troopsj numbering 6,000 men under Major General Frank? J. Herron. Fuelling up to the city, the Baron De Kalb engaged ‘ the batteries, which were all prepared to receive her, and after-finding out their strength, dropped back to notify Gen. Herron, who immediately land ed bismen, and the army and navy made a com bined attach on the enemy’s works. The rebels soon fled, leaving everything in- bur possession, and and set-fire to four of their finestateamera that ran oiHhe Mississippi in times past. The army pursued the enemy, and captured their rear guard, of 260 men, and at last accounts were taking more prisoners. Six heavy guns , and one vessel, formerly a gunboat, fell into our hands, and all tlio munitions of war. Unfortunately, while the Baron .De Kalb was moving slowly along, she ran fouli of a torpedo, which exploded and sunk her. m There was no sign of anything of the kind to be seen. While she was going down, another exploded under her stem. The water is rising fast in the Yazoo, and we can do nothing more tlyin get the guns out of her, and then tow her into deepwater, where she will lie undis turbed until we are able to raise her. The officers and men lost everything;* I have the bmot to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, DAVID D. PORTER, Acting Rear Admiral, Commanding Mississippi Squadron. The Naval Pursuit ol' lKorgau,' The following whs received this evening: U. S. Steamer Moore, Above Buffington, . Ohio River, July 19, :18G3,- lion. Gideon. Secretary of ike Navy: } After chaßing : Morgan nearly 600 miles, lat last met him on the river at this point, and engaged and drove him back, capturing two of his pieces of artil lery. He abandoned the rest to Gen. Judah. . The enemy broke in confusion from the banks, and left his wagon train, many horses and Bmall arms/in my possession. . Since writing the above I followed further up the river, and met another portion ofr'MoßOAN’s force fording about nineteen, miles above. -I shelled ,and drove most of them back, killed several, and wound* ed twenty-five or thirty, and captured twenty more hprses. I have but two men wounded, slightly. Our shell and shrapnel created great confusion in the rebel ranks, killing and wounding many. LEROY FITCH, Lieut. Commander. Surgeons Wanted. The Government is in want of acting assistant surgeons in the navy. Gentlemen wishing to enter this branch of the service must be over thirty years 1 of age, must present good, testimonials as to cha racter, etc., and willing to undergo an examination ab t 6 physical and professional qualifications. Naval, No new orders have recently been issued interfe ring with the respective duties of Admirals Farra gut and Porter. The former was long ago as signed to the command of . the Western: blockading squadron, and the latter to .the command on the Mississippi. Therefore, the rumor from New Or leans is merely a reference to an old fact. The rebel Petersburg Express, of_the 18th, pays & compliment to the United States; Navy by saying, among other things, that our ships, in fact, have alone, in repeated instances, saved our army from annihilation. Commander Corbin has been ordered to the Naval Academy as commandant of the midshipmen. Capt. Melancthon Sarmi iB ordered to the com mand of the iron* clad steamer Onondaga. Lieutenant Commander C. H. Greene 1b detached from the ordered to the command of the Vincennes. Appointment* "War. M. Briggs has been appointed secretary of Legation to Brazil. Thc Keliels Reported Cheeked at Banker The Inquirer. has the following.special despatch:' Hagerstown, July. 21.— The whole rebel army is reported as being checked at Bunker Hill by the Union troops, who have got in their rear. General Averill is reported as feeling the enemy strongly on their western line of retreat for two aayßpast. ; - • • - It is believed that Generals Ewell and' Hood are in strong force and Hedges-’ ville. The former is thirteen miles from- Vrilliama port, and,t.bye their families, if I were richer I would do more. I will also do all in my power to have the right to draft tested before the judiciary as a constitutional question. But I beg and implore the brave but misled men, who are willing to tight for their principles, not to let them aeU'es be‘used by political sneaks, who don’t care how many houses are burned, ( orlives are sacrificed, if their own schemes can be promoted consistently -with their personal safety. L _ JAMES T. BRADY. ADDRESS BY, THE.RT. REV. BISHOP TIMON, OF BUFFALO. Dearly Beloved : In the name of the God of charity, and through that charity which He, who calledus to be your bishop, has given us for you; through that charity of Christ, in us, however un worthy, through which we would cheerfully give our lile, if necessary, for each and every one ofyou, we beg of you, for Christ’s sake, and for the sake of all that you love in heaven and on earth, to abstain from all resistance to law, from all riot, from all tu multuous gatherings, from all violence. In New York many misguided men, Yet very few, we believe, of practical Catholics, have shed blood in the late riot; and “ the voice of their brother’s blood cried to ike Lord from the earth.” Some of the riot ers have fallen, many more will, we fear, suffer much, many will, perhaps," be ruined; all will find the painful sting of a guilty conscience during the rest of life, 1 and on their deathbed (if, indeed, rioters who aid in murder could die otherwise than as it is written: “He that shall kill by the sword, must be killed by the sword,” Apoc. xiiL, 10,) they will, either, through God's mercy sincerely repent for their participation in the riot, or be/lost forever. Dearly beloved, listen to the advice of a father who . dearly loves you ; submit to law, and God will pro tectyou. Should there be a draft, fewer will be draft ed than would probably t>e‘killed in an unholy strug gle against law. Andii any ofyou be drafted, we will try to protect and aid; friends will protect and aid ; God will protect, aid,and:bießB,in more ways than we know or. dare name. Withdraw yourselves, then, we beg and exhort, from all who would excite to as sociations against the laws of the land, or to vio lence and mob law. For God’B sake; for the sake of your dear families ; for the Bake of your fathers and mothers, whether still pilgrims on earth, or mingling with “the blessed crowd of witnesses,” who from heaven watch over your conduct on earth, we exhort to Irnsl in God , and not to lend yourselves to any exciter tdmob violence, which so often leads to murder. If y the advice of your Father in Christ, we confidently assure you that “ Whoso ever shall follow this rale, peace shall be upon him , and mercy t . and upon the Israel of God.”—Gal. vi. ' We require that this letter be read in every church oii the Sunday after its reception. Given at St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Buffalo, on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, A. D. MDCCOLXIII. f JOHN, Bishop of Buffalo. RELIEF TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF NEW YORK. On Monday afternoon a large number of the mer chants of New York held a meeting to raiße money for those colored persons who have been driven from their homes by the mob, and the families of those who have been lulled. Mr. Jonathan Sturgea presided, and spoke as fol lows: “T have been forty-nine years a merchant in my present location. During, this period I have seen a noble race of merchants pass away. I can not help calling to mind the , many acts of charity which they performed during their lives. I hardly need to name them 3 you all know them. You all know how they sent relief to Southern cities when they were desolated by fire or pestilence; how they sent shiploads of food to the starving people of Ire land. This laßt act of brotherly love we had the privilege of isniiating during the past winter 3 and as often as occasion requiies, I trust we shall be quick to continue these acts of humanity, thus showing.that the race of. New York merchants is not deteriorating. “We are now called upon to sympathize with a different class of our fellow-men. Those who'know the colored people of this city can testify to their being a peaceable, industrious people, having their own churches, Sunday schools, aod charitable socie ties 3 and that, as a class, they seldom depend upon charity ; they not only labor to support themselves, but to aid those who need aid. : This is their general character, and it ie our duty to sec that they are protected in their lawful labors,*to save themselves Irom becoming dependent on the charity o f the city, Ye have not come together to devise means for their relief because they are colored people, but be cause they are, as a class, persecuted and in distress at the present moment. - . “It is not necessary for- our present; purposes to inquire'Who the men are who have, persecuted, robbed, and murdered them. We know they are bad men,-who have not done as they would be done’ by. Let us not’!follow their, example; let us be quick -to-relieve those who are now in trouble, and should we ever find those who have persecuted the negro in like trouble, let us be quick to relieve them' alao, : ahd thus obey the : injunction of our Divine Master,-‘bless those who persecute you.’” The following donations were received for the re lief’of the colored sufferers: • George Griswold & Co., $250; Captain Nye, $5O; Sturges, 33ennett. &. Co., Exchange, SBOOJ Young, Schultz, & Co., $2OO ; Weston & Wall, $3OO 3 S. Wiiiets, $2OO ; M. C. Monroe & Bro.y $lOO j D. G-. Bacon, $2OO ; Win. H. Fogg, $200; R. p. Buck, f 2o ®! S: I-- f-fj: yriBWOWj Ht H, JiMMlffltl 2joo y TT. aioO j ■>» • ] 164! Sk ermati, Hallman, s*. 00., $200: Scanlon, sihel (]6b, fc 06., $lOO • J. D. McKenzie, sifl6; Hugii N. Camp, $100; Skeel &.Reynolds, $lOO 3’ Noah & Svve zey, $100; B. C. White, $lOO 5 Beebe ficßro., $200: Ockerhausen Bros., $lOO 3 Dow, Youngs &. Co . $lOQ.‘; Beaid & Cummings, $lOO 3 Reeve, Chase & Banks, $100; Hugh Allen. $200: John Otendorf, $25; Booth &c Edgar, $200; Sheffield &. Co., $5O 3 Collection in Fourth avenue Presbyterian church, $206 85; Col lins, Raynor & Co., $100; Richard Warren, $5O; H. K. -Bull, $400; Danton, Smith & Oo.‘, $100; T. B. Minturn,' $100; Slow & Ferris, $5O 3 : Wylie 6c Kne vels, $100; Allen &. Hoag, $lOO. Total $5,131.55. ' Thurlow Weed has since added $5OO to this fund. It was voted to request Gen. Dix to give notice to the colored people to return to their usual employ ments, with the assurance that they Bhall be pro perly protected. "• A.LETTER PROS! THCBLOW WEBD, Albany, Saturday, July 18, 1863. . My Dhar Sir : I concur with you in believing that “there are apt anireg - you? JtC avert the wrath of Heaven,” if immediate relief and futuie protection be not extended to your u colored citizens.” The page that records their wrongs du ring the “ three days” of misrule in New York, will be the blackestin its history. Thatthe wretch es should have deliberately marked, for lapiae and murder, a class at once the least offending and most defenceless, is a fact and a feature in crime at which . civilization and humanity revolt And shudder ! I thank you for.so eloquently and promptly call-, attention to the lamentable condition of these greatly-wronged people. - That the appeal Will be »b promptly responded to l do not doubt. ,For the persecution of the negro there iB divided responsibility.^"'TiTs of Irishmen to Afri cans is unworthy of indn themseivo.? seek aod find, in America, an asylum frotil Oppression. Yet this hostility would not culminate in murder and arson but for the stimulants supplied by fanatics. Journalists persistently inflame and exaspe rate the ignorant and lawless against the negro, are: morally resi>onsible for these outrages. ' But what caies "Wendell Phillips how many negroeß are mur dered, if their blood furnishes ; material . agita tion? ' . < There is abundant occasion for the public abhor rence of mob violence. But when all the circum stances have been reviewed, the popular condemna tion of those who, while the nation is struggling for existence, thrust the unoffending negro forward as a target for infuriated mobs, will become general and emphatic. Ultra Abolitionists were hailed in ; South Carolina as the “best friends ” of secession.' Practically, they are the worst enemies of the colored man. But for;the “malign influence” of these, howling demagogues ih Congress, and with the President, rebellion would not, in the begin- BUI; lilts iiiiMsa snoß foimlflafila BMissiUafiiu Bor ib 112 DroiTGii would inn Tronn naua naan ?r tj‘9 w> wumwit cnppißfli - Presuming- that steps will be taken for the relief of the colored people whose dwellings were robbed, and who were driven, from their employment, I en close my check for five hundred dollars, as a 'contri bution to the object, relying upon you to give it the' proper direction. ~Yery truly, yours, THURLOW WEED. H. J. Raymond, Esq. Tile lixemption Clause—Gov. Seymour’s Record. The New York Tribune says .* u Tha unthinking multitude who, last week, ravaged this city with pillage, conflagration, and murder, have, perhaps, been misled by men who know that neither the draft nor the clause in question is open to any reason able objection. They have used the; $3OO provi- : ' Bion to inflame the poor against . the rich, not because they -thought it unjußt, blit that they might excite an insurrection to further their own political--and- ambition,** Horatio Sey mour, and Horatio have resorted . to this pretext in the hope that they might pre vent any reinforcements of the armies of the Union,' ; knowing that a Government without soldiers in a time of war has no alternative but to make peace peace, however disgraceful or however disastrous, they care not, so long as it restored themselves and their Southern allies .to power—peace, though it might be by the sacrifice of the brave men who, without waiting to be : drafted, have volunteered to defend their country in the field. And here is proof. .On the sth of May last, only two months and]a|half .ago, the Legislature passed an act to amend “an act s (which is in effect a draft for a possible contingen cy) for the enrolment of .the militia, the organization and discipline of the National Guard of the State of-New York, and for the public defence,” and the 6th article of these amendments is as follows : Sec. 6. Addot tho end of section 300 of this act as.fol lows: Any person so drafted who may-be a member of any religious denomination 'whatever, or from scruples of conscience may be averse to bearing arms, shall be excused front said draft on payment to thß clerk of the county dv whom such, draft is maderur. sorby THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS, to be by said county cieik paid ;to the Controller of the State* to' be applied to the pur poses mentioned in this act. •••-.■ «v And to this act Horatio Seymour gave his appro val, and affixed his name as Governor of the S tate J Tfitiijjass ft* isnsaa sstfi » Ss-ssiSthaSiMi yf the fcSTfVS« ymum rnn ,j5O pisoncre. whom hs eapti«ea aear Abington. He repAtted io General Burnside thai ear Jy last week, while out on, a reconnoiasanee with his battalion, he got within the enemy’s lines, and came near.beiDg taken prisoner with hia whole com mand. Finding the situation Ti#‘was in, he.save. battle, and, after a skirmish, in which he-killed thirty of the enemy, he took the balance prisoners. One of hia companies was armed with axes, which the'boys, used and did good execution. Major lirown paroled the men, but finding afterward that the rebel officer in' command had sent off informa tion to hiß superior officers, telling them thatif they hurried upfchev- could capture Major Brown's force, he immediately gathered up his prisoners again and eompelled.them tov Soot it 75*mile3 in the following 24 h ours, bringing the whole party into camp.—Cin eiimali €«tizelte y 20/ft. : DESPERADOES IN MISSOURI.—A short time since, the editor of-the Gallatin (Daviesß county) People's' Press published the following: “ There is great excitement and alarm felt in Worth county, Missouri, at this time. Men are dragged from their beds at aU houre of the night, and snot.' In some instances these deeperadoes stand over the doomed man, and make Mm dig his grave, then kill him and throw him into it.. These deeds:of violence and murder sxe said to be perpetrated by a band known as ; RedT«eg9.’ We-call upon all good citizens to raeeto Lt that theaes'Mwlere?* and extermihated at once.” ' Personal# William Charles Macready, the eminent actor, whose death is announced in our European news, was born in London, in 1793. At the age of seven teen, his father becoming embarrassed in business, he appeared on the stage first, as Romeo, in 1810. Hia first appearance in London was at Covent Carden, in September, 1816, when he played Orestes in Phillips’ tragedy of “The Distressed Mother.” Hazlitt, who .witnessed this performance, pronounced Macready “by far the best actor who had come out ia his remembrance, with the exception, of Mr. Kean,” Kemble and Kean were then upon the London stage 3 but the genius of Macready soon carried him forward until he came to rank among the very best of English tragedians. Some of his moat successful personations, aside from, the Shakapeari&n plays, were Yirginius, Caius Gracchus, and William Tell in Sheridan Knowles’ dramas; Mclantius iu “The Bridal;” Bob Hoy, Gambler , Werner, Pierre, lUchclicu, etc. As a delineator of Shakspearian heroes, he attempted a wide range of characters, but was most successful as Othello, Macbeth, Coriotanus, Hamlet, and J.cor.les. Mr. Macready’s genius wasnot so impulsive as earnestly studious; elaborate, and intellectual. Many fine plays were brought out_un.der his auspi ces, and hia efforts to elevate and the theatre will be remembered gratefully by true friends of the stage. In 1818 Mr. Macready made his third And last visit to this country, during which occurred the notorious theatrical riot atAe-v tor Place. Oneof the best acts of his life was the founding and endowment of a noble school in Eng land for the education of the poor. ' JobnT. Sullivan, the retired banker, who died lately in Washington at the 'age of 81, will be re membered, especially among all public men. who have sojourned in Washington in the last twenty five years.' Mr. Sullivan was by birth an Irish man: he came early to this country,'and engaged in business in Philadelphia, where.he became a di rector in the United States Bank, and distinguished himself by the decided position he took against Mr. Biddle’s financial policy. Among those present his funeral: were members-of the Cabinet,- headTof bureaus, and a large number of the eldest and best citizens of Washington—-jrko-pait-uearers' were jr«a fe cT,w i yne, .T6sei>h Holt, Amo» JCciidaii t -Ouion‘el “' William W. Seaton, Colonel John. E. Graham, Major : Thomas L. Smith, Professor Bachc, and General Cadwallader. Brigadier General Peter J. Osterhaus, reported killed before Jackson, Tenet., was-a native of Prus sia, but previous to the present rebellion was but little known except among his more intimate friends, although he had the reputation of having been a good military officer in Europe. At the breaking out of the war he was a resident of Mis • souri, and spent day and night in drilling the hand ful of men who formed the nucleus of that baud who, on the memorable 10th of May, took captive the boastful Minute Men of St. Louis. He fought with distinction under Lyon and Sigel, and at the great battle of Pea Badge, on March 7th; 1862, he commanded Sigel’s .first-division. Shortly after wards he was appointed brigadier general. In a majority of the important battles of the South western campaign he has borne an honorable part. During all the contests near Vicksburg, in which he participated, he was . noted for acts of unsurpassed personal courage and bravery, joined-to the coolness and sagacity of the veteran. Commander Abner Dead, mortally wounded while commanding the United .States steam-sloop Monocg&hela, at the batteries above Donaldaon ville, on the Mississippi, on the 7fch instant, was a native or Ohio, and about forty-two years of age at the time of hia death. He belonged to a family of brothers distinguished for talent and professional acquirements. He was a brother of,the late Judge Bead, of the Ohio Supreme Bench; of Dr. Ezra Bead, who is one of the most distinguished medical writers and practitioners of the West; of Daniel Read, LL. D , the well-known professor in the State universities of Ohio and Indiana, and now of the State University of Wisconsin, at Madison, and of the late Amasa Bead, who died in the midst of a dis tinguished career as a lawver, at Baton Bouge, La. An autograph letter of Jefferson Davis, dated West Point, January 12, 1825, and addressed to Ms brother, Joseph E. Davis, of Natchez, has-bsen published. He writes with contempt of Yankees : “ The Yankee part of the corps find theiivpay en tirely sufficient, some even more; but these are not such as I formed an acquaintance with on my ar rival, it having originated in the introductory let ters I biought on with me; nor are they such asso ciates as I would at present select. Enough of this]; as you have never been connected with them, you cannot know how pitiful they generally are.” Sir Euwin Landseer is sixfcy-one years old. One-third of that number of years, the London Athenaim reminds that eminent artist and British public, has passed since'he received the commission to execute the famous African lions that will some day astonish us in Trafalgar Square. No man ha? even yet seen the models for them, nor anything more solid than a drawing on paper ; andrifc is re ported that the sculptor’s visitß to the Zoological Gardens,-where he has dissected several lions, are incessant, and so alarming to those brutes that each one turns tail when the growl is paßt that he has arrived. The Oshkosh (Wis ,)*Jsorlhii'c&tern. remarks a curious circumstance relative to Jefferson Davis; “We hare .been informed, on reliable authority, that there is a child of Jefferson Davis, the Presi dent of the Confederacy, being educated among the Stocltbridge Indians, at their settlement in Shawnee county. /Davia, it is well’ known, was stationed at Fort Winnebago Borne years ago, and there formed the acquaintance of the mother of the child, a Menomonee squaw/ 5 Dr. J. King, of Cincinnati, proposes that in each of our Northern States a central'location he selected for the erection of a large marble cenotaph, consisting of halls, rooms, etc., upon the walls of which shall be engraved the names, etc., of all tha soldiers of the State who have fallen in the present war, both those of native dnd foreign birth. The particular plan of the cencrtaph in each State to be designed by some good architect. • - —By order of the Secretary of War, a general court-martial is appointed to meet in Washington for the trial of numerous important cases—both ci vil and military. The following general officers w* vmvfjrtTv f 'uvs'vv? uiii' 10-ftJor G-eneral 35- A- Brigadier GeaerCljS G-. W. Morrell, J. J. Abercrombie, J.P.,Hatch, and S. A. Meredith. Major T. Gaines, of the Twenty second Army Corps,lb appointed judge advocate. —Mrs. George Dee, fhe well-known authoress, has given a thousand dollars to the New England Hos pital for Women and Children. By a vote of the directors the money will be invested, and the income applied to the support of-a bed for poor patients, to be called the Lee bed. Gen. Halleck had urged an attack upon Lee before Mb escape, and is credited with a Napoleonic advice. While Lee was escaping, Gen. Meade tele graphed to Gen, Halleck the divided opinion of Ms council of war. The following is the substance of Gen. Halieck’s reply : “It is.proverbial that coun cils of war never fight. A-ttack the enemy at once, and hold your council of war afterward. 55 —Both sons of Hon. Edward Everett (one of whom , has just graduated, at Cambridge, England) have been drafted in Boston. Both have made up their minds to serve in person, instead of procuring a substitute or paying the §3OO. Mr. Everett him self, it is said, declares that if he is drafted he will follow their example. Her. Dr, Bacon, of New Haven, has in prepara tion a life of the ifite Admiral Foote, which will be published early in the fall. This life is to be pub lished with the authority of the Admiral s ** family, all of his.. papers having been put at the disposal of Dr. Bacon for this purpoae. —Hon. Cuthbert Bullitt, collector of the port of New Orleans, raised in front of hisreoideace, on St. Charles street, in that city, on the Fourth,.the iden tical flag which was left flying during the attempt to illuminate the city in honor of the secession, of Lou isiana, in January, 1861. The Louisville Democrat, referring to the rebel General Morgan, says; “ We stated a few days ago that John Morgan had climbed the North pole and greased it under him. It is now generally supposed that he has pulled the pole up after him. 55 . : . We see it stated that after Vicksburg surren dered one of the rebel officers, (Gen. Lee,.of South Carolina,) in order to display his spirit, opened a vein in his arm and wrote his parole with Mood. The resignation of General Wadsworth has been formally tendered, but the Government is ua "gf ilhglo' T. nno-p-i * ittUKPEJ? and XiYNCK LiVfl*-Two or three days ago we gave an account of. the murder of an . old man named Jacob Kloppinger, in Monroe coun ; ty, Illinois, on the Fourth the discovery of his body on the folio wing Sundaj-, greatly muti lated and disfigured, about two miles from Iris resi dence. Two horses had been Btolenfrom him on the first of the month, and on the 4th, failing to find them up to that time, he declared his intention to come to St. Louis, and £ee if they had beensedd here, A neighbor, John Green, told 1 the deceased that he would find his horses for' a, dollar, and they went out together for that purpose, -and then it was the murder was committed. The whole country became greatly excited. Green and two others were 1 arrested and committed to jail :in "Waterloo. Facts were • ascertained which determined the people to puv lynch law in force. Accordingly, a crowd, composed mainly of Ameri-. cans, to the number of two hundred,, swembied fci Waterloo oh "Wednesday, organized, and made their "demand known to the jailor. He refused to open the jail door, and they.-proceeded at once to break it open. They got possession of the accused persons, took them out in a wagon, and, it is said, in a very orderly manner, hung them. One or the prisoners, before his death, made confession of his guilt, and implicated some twenty-two - others, giving, their. names and localities, and it is probable-that, if caught,, they.will be treated in like maimer.. They compose a regular band of home thieves, and, it is alleged, are all discharged soldiers. In this case they added murder to robbery, and it is no doubt a part of their system.— St. Louis Re-jntblita-Ji, IS Ik, . 3IOBGAN.—After all, the RT-organ raid .was a marvel in its kind. The freebooter enters Indiana, twenty miles below Louisville, robs and plunders in ihe most liberal manner and without restraint, marches without hindrance into- Ohio, makes the average circuit of about fifteen arouad the sixth city in point of population in the United States, is closely pursued byafbreeof 15,000 men, breakfasts, dines, and supß at leisure at such'points oil his march as suits him, and passes away like a . meteor in the direction of the east, becoming lost in the distance. Wehave come to the conclusion that John is a trump. He travels in Btate,.in- a* fine carriage, in the lieart of a country three-fourths of whose in posed io. him .'and BOtne who pretend lo iaror hC oaupfi; yet, so far as we are able to learn, he tosato them all alike. He partake* of the repast fur nished unwillingly by the former, but freelyby the latter, having done which visits their stables, selects their 1 best hpra.es,. and bidding them “farewell, 55 enters his carriage and goes his way. ' "We have heard it stated that one well-known peace Democrat, with whom he supped, was lepaid by the loss of a valuable hccae-woith several thou sand dollars. : HOOKER -A- personal friend’and fellow-soldier Of Gen. Hooker writeß home: : “I give you my word that the stories about hiedrunkenneeß are utterly false. So far from being drunk at-Chancellorville, the fact is that when hs-vras made insensible by the concussion of a cannon-shot against a coiamn upon which he was leaning,, and spirits wets* wanted for; his use by the surgeon, not a drop. couhJ> be found afc his quarters, and it was iong before it could be ob tained.-’ •' - THF MOB.—A soldier returning to his regiment, which is under Meade, on the Potomac, said yester day: “This mob must be pulldown 5 the conscrip tion must be enforced. Here l ath returning foe eighteen months to my regiment, after a spell of sickness. My regiment ia not half full; it ought to be filled up, and that at onoe. These men who make a riot, would cut the throat? uf tho aoldrsia in the field” HUMOUS OF THE ©RAFT.—At the drawls® for the draft in New Haven, Conn., on Saturday last, the greatest good humor prevailed. 76? names were drawn, including the mayor of the city, Con gressman English, the whole Bbardof Enrolment, seven post-office officials, nearly half the city police, ®“P lo yees from the Courier newspaper, and a plentiful representation from the ofher local jour nals, The lucky winners of prizes take the matter pleasantly, mount a red ribbon in their button holes, and afffect to look down on those who drew blanks. A scarlet ribbon, with the word ♦’con script” embroidered on it, is much coveted, and the wearers are regarded'with envy. Very -few Irishmen have been drawn, though their names were inscribed in the wheel of fortune in the usual proportion. THE CITY. [>OB ADDITIONAL OITT NEWS BSB POUBTH PASS’.) Laying of a Corker-stone. — Tester day afternoon the corner-stone of the stone chapel for the First Congregational Church, was laid*, at the corner of Frankford road and Montgomery avenue. The exercises were opened by singing ther hymn commencing: .. * * Happy the'church, thou sacred blnce. The scat of thy Creator’s grace. ,r After which,-Rev. Mr. Cathcart made an impress sive prayer. A. portion of Scripture was then read by .Lev. Mr. Seigfried. The choir sung in excellent style the anthem: f •' The earth isThe Ford’s, and the fullness thereof.” Dr. Ritter, from the Broadway Congregational Church, New York, delivered a few excellent and well-pointed remarks, referring to the early fathers of Congregationalism 1 in Con tinental Europe, and to the rapid advancement of Congregational principles in this country. The choir sang u I have set watchmen upon thy walls,” &c M after which Rev. Mr. Cathcart, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, delivered an eloquent and patriotic address, which entranced his hearerß ami f&rilled the patriotic blood in every loyal heart. i£t the close of his remarks, the choir sang the beautiful anthem commencing “Be jovful in God,” f*c. Rev. Mr. Seigfried was then introduced, and, in his usual eloquent style, commanded the attention of his hearers for a short period. At the conclusion of his addreßß, the pastor, Rev. T>. X.. Gear, addressed the as semblage, and, inhisquaintijjsfijiU** manner, spoke ' ... .mtl progress of fche'church. _ jganization, and or the munificence of certain gentlemen through whose instrumentality the ground ha«l been purchased.