THE PUBLISIOD DAILY (SUNDAYS NICOVINDI. BY JOHN W. FORNEY. OFFICE. No. 111 EOLITH FOURTH STREW? TUE DAILY rtuess, .PIPTICEN GREYS PER WEEK, payable to the SWIM Nailed to Sabecrlbere bat of the City at Bitylie DOLLARS' TER ANatra, Thome DOLLAIte AND rfrrir (7Es^es eon. SIX lifonthe, Or i n DOLLAR AND Severn-Plea MINTS ifOlt Taxer Norrsts Invaziabl7 in advance for the time or dered. 1/// - Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. Viz ;Lines sonstitute a gunfire. THAI TRI-WICICKLY mess, Malted to subscribers oat of the City at. Yon DojLAla Ve Larch. to advance.' BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, COMPLETE STiEiA.IVX-powmxt PA IN TIN G OFFICE. Confidently relying upon the patronage of a generous n d appreciative public, we have, at great expense, 'procured all the necessary Tres, MACHINERY, new %Passau, etc., to organize a COMPLETE PRINTING OFFICE, Valli famished with all the facilities for executing every description of Printing, from the SMALLEST OARDS LARGEST POSTERS, Cheaply, Expedltiausly, ANO IN A SUPERIOR STYLE Orders ere respectfully solicited for Printing IlkoollB. rkkalitETS. BILLS ADS. CERTIFICATES. TAGS, ENVELOPES. HANDBILLS, CSIROULA.I3.f3, NOTION, MANIFESTS, BILLS OF CARING, LETTER HEADINGS. NOTE HEADINGS, Lod even , other description of PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL PRINTING, Which Professional, Artistic, Mercantile. or Mechanical paroling may require. 'We possess superior facilities for printing large Pos. tors for THEATRES. CONCERTS, OPERAS. PUBLIC tiIEETINGB, and. RECRUITING OFFICES. IN BLACK OR FANCY COLORS, AND FOR ILLIHITRATING THEM WITH "BEAUTIFIIL AND ORIGINAL DESIGNS. I We alao desire to call special attention to the fact, that in consequence of the want generally felt for con venient ADDRESS LABELS. •We have made arrangements for coating them on the fleverse with a Mucilage similar to that used on Postage Stamps, which is the most adhesive pieparation ever discovered. All difficulty about fastening them to pack ages is thus avoided, as the gummed side need o n ly ise moistened to insure its firm adhesion, ADDRESS JABELS of this description are in almost universal use among the merchants of England, and those who have used them in this city estimate highly their use 'fulness in avoiding trouble and delay, in the prepa ration of packages for delivery. whether they are forwarded by distant points or supplied to the local • trade. Give them a trial. MP All ordere, by. City Post or Mail, will receive Prompt attention. RING-WALT iNc BROWN,— STEAM POWER PRINTERS, Noe. 111 and 113 13013TH "FOURTH 6TR.33% SEWING MACHINES. SINGER & CO.'S " IMITITIare A." FAMILY SEWING MACHINE. With all the new improvements— Hemmer, Braider. Binder, Feller, Tacker, Corder, Gatherer, , ke., is the CHEAPEST AND BEST of all maehinee for FAMILY SEWING AND LIMIT MANUFACTURING PURPOSES. Send fora pamphlet and a copy of Singer dr Co. 'it ressette." I. M. SINGER di: 00., 10.5-3 m No. 810 CHESTNUT Street, PhUadelalit. SEWING MACHINES. THE "eLOAT" MACHINE. •WITH GLASS PRESSER SOOT, JEW STYLE EISHILES. SHALIDEL Had other valuable irusrevements. ALSO. THE TAGGART dt FARR MAURINE& Ateriev--4118EOHESTIGIT Street intiS4l GAS FIXTURES, 4kc 017 ARCH STREET. o. A. VANKIRK & , ateroymyrmuma CHANDELIERB AND OTT= GAB FIXTUREB.::' also,Prensh Bronse Manses and Ornankents.BorselnlN AMA XII Shades, and a variety of FANCY GOODS WHOLMSALI &IV FAITAIIi. _Plans* Inn and inciathis Ecoods FURNITURE, &c. 10A LTARMIr RNITURE AND BIL IS/WORE d CA.MPIONi 1161 South SECOND Street. AS eonneetion with their extensive Cabinet business, I{ri •IloW manufacturing Wariperior Article of BILLIARD Iltd od A full T sup A p ßL n E i Ss U ORS w CMON'S IMPROVED CU e H I w N h , the -Which are pronounced by all who have used them to be impeder to AN others. For the quality and finish of , these Tables, the mann patnrers refer to their numerous patrons throughout the , Onion. who are familiar with the character of their O' Wort/ robe-sat PAINTINGS, ,ENGRAVINGS, JAMES S. EARLE & SON, IMPOETEEB •AD MAAIIPACTIIICEEN 07 LOOKING GLASSES. OIL rinrrixas. Giu.viaros, PORTRAIT, PICTURE, and PHOTOGRAPH FRAMES, PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. EXTENSIVE LOOKING . GLASS WAREROOMS AND GALLERY OF PA.INTINGS, 111-0 111111 OHISTNIIT Street. Phila.ialphim.. DRUGS. ROBERT SEIOEDILAKER & 00... Northeast Corner POITRTH and BAGS Streets. PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGIST% IMPORTERS AND DEALERS I'OREIGE AID DOMESTIO WINDOW AND PLATE GLAIR% NAIfiTFACTUILEIRB OF WHIM LEAD AND ZINO PAINTS, rum. dra AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED FRENCH• ZINO PAINTBA Dealer and sonsumers supplied at MY LOW PRIORS FOB OA la* Am D11.&178, FROGRAJOSES, PAPER BOOKS, POSTERS, LARGE SHOW-CARDS, BL &DIX% CHECKS, LABELS. PITILADRLPFITA . , _ . . . • .... . . . .• . ~ „_ i. ~ ..,..,„,. ~. r. ~ . . _......„,...„..,,,,..„ _.„....„... . ~ ~, ,_ .N., t, ~ . • . • .. I r -.f..- rt - A.• , ...., ~. ••,. ,I r / , .....„0- . 5, ...,,...;,..-.... - -.•..---..:. .' ' '!....-....":............' • A 1 1 10 _,_-.--. Il .......- , .1 . lii**.d‘ \ ___. , ~..,. /1 .._. ~ ._ r 0............ '' \ ' ‘---..- ,....2: - :- . „ . -- - til t,ba..... ,' • -(.:1 111 . 1 - 1 - -- I , L'' ' ' V ' " I . - t slif ilk •,,-Ifir * ' - .\ - . -I T. -_,_-:-_ • - "- '' '' a ampw. y4E),...milioi , -=-=- , "ii ii d , ,, ,',./ _ . , .. d -..... . ,-,,". - ---r - - "•::" -1' " NI '• , ' 'll'' " ... .-...- _ `. •,, . , z ' .- - amp ma1..;4."- - _.,: ' . - - ' ' . . . , ..„......, • 1 11 • wi l l d r,,,......._... - . -....--- ._.._,.. _, • . „ -.--- -......-'--- _ . ... -- ...410 .....-- ''''''"-..., •, .., -- .-;:f - - , ..a,..- -- - - r . ' • • Arli. we" VOL. 7.-NO. 3. COMMISSION HOUSES. JOHN T. BAILEY & 00. BAGB AND BAGGING isvmax azscourveN, NO. 113 NORTH FRONT STREET, WOOL BAGS FOB SALL lOUs WALN, LEAMING, & No. 30 South FRONT Street. . No. 31. LETITIA Street, Offer 'for sale by the package the following goods, viz Saco Prink, new dark styles. York Co 's Cotton adee and Nankin& l3oett Mills Cottons, H. 0. S W., 7.1', 4-4 and 6-4. Indian Head Shootings and Shirting& Tremont Mills, Globe, Oxford, and Baltic. Bedford Manchang cheetings and Shirtings. Drills, Brown. Bleached, and Bine. Printed Clotkings and Sleeve Linings, Vest Paddings and Cambrics, Cotton and Wool Kersey& Canton Flannels. o.'b and 10-4 Bed Quilts. IRXEMPTION BLANE S, DESCRIPTIVE LISTS, MUSTER ROLLS, PAY ROLLS. And a variety of other Military Blanks, for sale by KING at BAIRD, jy3l-9t 607 SANSOM Street CLOTHING. JOHN KELLY, JR., 'I'AULOR; HAS ERMOTID reom 1021 OHIBI7OI STUNK IiDWARD P. KELLY'S, 142 South THIRD Btrestl Where he presents to former patrons mad the imblin the advantages of n STOOK OF GOODS, actual if not en. perior.to any in the city—the skill and= taste of himself and EDWARD P. KELLY, the two beat Tailors of the ay—at prices mush lower than any other tret-shum esta blishment of the city. BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50, . At 104 MARKET %rest. BLACK CASS. PANTS. $5.50. At 704 MARKET Street. BLACK CABB. PANTS, $5.50. At 704 MARKET Street. GLACE CASS. PANTS, $5.50.. At 701 MARKET Street. BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5 50, At 704 MARKET Street. GRIGG & VAN GIINTEN'S. N 6.704 MARKET Street. GEIOG & VAN GIINTEN'S, No. 704 M A.RE ET Street. GRIGG & VAN GIINTEN'S, N 0.704 SI ARKRT Street. GIGO° & VAN. -GUNTENIL N 0.704 MARKET Street. GRIGG & VAN GIINTEN'S, N 0.704 MARKET Street. ARMY GOODS. 1776. 1863. 3E' `LA Cr SIII SILK FLAGS !I BUNTING FLAG - G! 13URGEES. PENANTS. UNION JACKS. STREAMERS UNICINIaI: BED, WHITE, AND BLUE. EVANS eg4 BB ikUra S. 1717-tf No. *lB ARCH STREET. Philadelphia. ARMY HATS, ARMY HATS. ADOLPH & SEEN, No. 62i North SECOND Street, Philadelphia, Manufacturers of all kinks of FELT HATS, have on hand a large assortment of all the various and most approved styles of A R_11 . :5( H. A Orders by mail from antlers 'Or jobbers, - 1411.1 Ibis promptly filled at the lowest rates. ie.9o-8m GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS. GEORGE GRANT. No. 610 CHESTNUT STREET. Has now. read/ - . A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOOK GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS, Of hie own Importation and manufacture. His celebrated "PRIZE MEDAL SHIRTS," Manufactured under the superintendence of JOHN F. TAGGERT, (Formerly of Oldenberg & Taggart.) ire the most perfect-fitting Shirts of the age. 4er Orders promptly attended to. fyg-theta-BM OLD ESTABLISHED SHIRT, STOCK, AND COLLAR EMPORIUM. NO. it NORTH FOURTH STREET CHARLES L. ORUM do CO. ,Are prepared to execute all orders for their celebrated make of Shirta, on short notice, in the most satisfactory manner. These Shirts are cut by measurement, on eel. snails principles, and INUTPBI3I3 any other Shirt for neat• nestiof/It on the Breast, comfort in the Neck, and ease on the Shots/der. aplS-stuth6m NOB. I. AND 3 N. SIXTH STREET, prriT.ADELFHIA. JOIN O. IRRIS0111; (IPOSIOIALT 1. ittirat IMPORTER AND DEALER IN 'GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, ALSO M&PMFADTITEER OF THE IMPROVED • PATTERN SHIRT. WILITEREI. DOLLARS. UNDERCLOTHING... SATISFACTION GUARANTIED. my22-tos4- F INE SHIRT MANUFACTORY. The anbecriber would invite attention to hit IMPROVED CUT OF SHIRTS, Which he makes a. specialty in his bneineas. Alto, 4011 Madly receivint. NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WEki. J. W. SCOTT GENTLEMEN'S FITRNISHING ' STORE, - . No. bl 4 CHESTNUT STREET, taNi-G Fon? floor, hainor tbo (InntinAntsl WATCHES" AND JEWELRY. WATCHES, /OFT REOZTVID PER STEAMER straorA. GOLD WATCHES, LADEN' SIZES, OF NEW EMU. FILVILit AIIOREB AND CYLINDEES: filler AISOBES AND PLATED ANOREB ADD OTLIEDEDV /for Sala at Low Rates to the Trade, by D. T. P . RATT, SOT CHESTNUT STREET. IaFINK WATCH REPAIRING attended to. by the most experienced workmen. Ind 'yarn wateh warranted for one year. G. ItUEU3H4L. SS North SIXTH Stray J. 0. FULLER, Importer and Wholesale Dealer in FINE WATCHES AND JEWELRY, 110. 71.1 CHESTNUT Street, (Up-stairs, opposite Kumla Temple,) Nam now open a LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCK, NIMBRACIIM. t Gra v olitits, ° M.D 7 llloT' F L ,S. HIM B LB B r AND FINE JEWELRY . OF EVERT DESCRIPTION. ity27-tat23 G: RUSSELL, FINE AMERICAN and bp_ported WATCHES, Fine Jewelry. Silver an lilted Ware. ago • _ _ -- 3027 22 North SIXTH Str:et 0. FULLER'S FINE 'GOLD PEN% THE BEST PEN =IN USE, TOE SALE IA ALL BIM. mym-sx; FINE GILT COMBS 11l lIVIERT VARISTY. IMITATIONS OP PEARL AND °ORAL. J. 0_ FULLER: No. iris our.STriur shoot inl2-Bis vuLcANrrs RINGS. - - A fall aaortment. all sizes said stiles. J. 0.. FULLER, No. TIN GRESTSRIT Street. si77l-33s I MUSICAL BOXES. DT SHELL AND ROSEWOOD OASES, iqaying from to 11 tame r choice omen and Anted. men Melodies. FARR BROTHER, Importers, swi 314 CHESTNUT Street. belew Werth. A MERICAN R o'o FIN G SLATE S, •L-L- FULLY EQUAL TO THE BEST WELSH SLATES • T. THOMAS. /626-4uo • *IT WALDRIT &reek SUMMER RESORTS. OOLUMBEA HOUSE, CAPE ISLAND, N, J GOOD ROOMS TO BE HAD POPULAR HOTEL. APPLY TO OR ADDRESS &u3-6t BELLEVUE HOUSE. NEWPORT, R. L, is NOW ,OPEN FOR THE SEASON This house has been very mu ph improved. and le now In tine order. Every exertion will be need to make this 1925 12t The Leading and° Favorite House Of this delightful wAgring place. iyl4.lm PUTNAM & FLETCHER. RUMMER RESORT FOR. PHILLDEL PHT ANS. • THE WADAWANTMR HOUSE, STONINGTON, CONNECTICUT, Is now open as IL - FTRET-CLASS HOTEL. The WADAWARUCK is delightfally located in a sgillare of two acres, with beautiful grounds, walks, &c. Its rooms are spacious, promenades tine, piazza extend. lug around the entire building. Bounty communication with the celebrated Watch Rill Beach. the finest bathing In the world. Communication with New York several times daily Address C. B. ROGERS. jy24 VPHIIA.TA- MOUNTAIN SPRINGS. -I " This beautiful resort, situated in thecantre of the "Garden Spot of Pennsylvania', ' is now open for the accommodation of visitors, and will coniinne until the 20th o; October. • The invigorating pure. mountain air, . the quickly acting properties of its waters upon the se .cretions of the liver, and its magnificent scenery. un equalled in the United States, justly entitles it to praise above all ethers, The commodious buildings, extended lawns and delightful walks through the mountain from which flows numerous springs supplying the plunge, douche, a/Amer and hot baths at all times Excursion Tickets thMegh the season will be issued at the office of the Pennsylvania Central Railroad. Eleventh and Mar ket streets. Cars leave at 730 Ic. M. and arrive at the Springs in;the afternoon. $2 per day; over two weeks or the season, MO per week. Children and servants half price. For farther particulars, address the proprietor, U. S. NEworqd ER, "Ephrata Mountain Springs." Lan caster county, Pennsylvania. . dy2.3-lm StA BATHING. - - NATIONAL HALL, CAPE•ISL AND, CAPS MAY, W. J. This well-known Hotel la now open for the reception of its numerous guests: Terms $lO per week. Children ender 12 years or age and servants half price. Superior accommodations and ample room tor 200 persons. 300 421 . , AARON.° ARRETSON. Proprietor. REDLOE'S HOTEL, ATLANTIC CITY, N J.—At the terminus. of the railroad, cm the left, beyond the depot. This House is now open for Boarder* and Transient Visitors, and offers accommodations canal to any Hotel in Atlantic City, Charges moderate. Uhl!, Iren and servants, half price. in*- Parties should keep their seats until the cars sr rive in front of the Hotel. isle-7m LIGHT HOUSE COITA GE, . ATLANTIC, CITY.. This well known House is now open for the reception of guests Inralids can be accommodated with`rooms on the first floor, fronting the ocean. Splendid drinking water 00 the premises.:Magnificent bathing opposite the house. No bar. JONAH WOOTTON, 3e19. Proprietor. IMF HOUSE; ATLANTIC CITY, New JereiaT, WILL BE OPENED 0*,..1171iR A good Band of Music has been engaged.- - Those who wish to engage Rooms will please address H. S. BINSON, Surf House Atlantic City, N. CHESTER :COUNTY HOUSE.-THIS private Boarding Bonse; corner of YORE and TA avenne:Atlantic City, convenient to the beach, with a beautiful view of , the Ocean. is now open for boarders, and will continue open all the year round. Prices moderate. iel9-2m • J. REIM. Proprietor, . UNITED STA.IES HOTEL, LORI; BRANCH, N. J.. IS now open for the reception of visitors. Can be reached by - Raritan and Delaware Bay Railroad from toot of VINE Street at 7.30 A.3f. _ le6-2m* . B. A. SHOEMAKER. 6 6 THE ALHAMBRA " ATLANTIC - A- On, N. J a tplendid new house, southwest corner of ATLANTIC -and MASSACHUSETI'S Avenues, Is now 013011 for visitors. The rooms and table of "The Alhambra" are unsurpassed by any on the Island. There Is a spacious Ice Cream and Refreshment Saloon attached to the house. Terms moderate. - C. DUBOIS & S. J. YOUNG; jy2O-lm - . - Proprietors. CRESSON,SPRINGS.-THIS E LIGHTFISTAIIMMER RESORT, immediately on the Rue of the Central P. R. 8.. located on the summit of the Allegheny Mountains. 2,300-feet above the level of the sea, will be, open for thareception of visitors on the toth day of Jnne, 1863. and w,lll be kept open, until the . - . The water and at this point possess superior attrat.' lions. The made in the laboratory of Professors- Booth, Garrett, and C 8.121134, of Phusielphia, show the existence of valuable mineral elements, the waters 0! some of the springs being of the iron or chalybeate class, mad others containing saline or aperient salts. Pars mountain water abounds; and the guests will also be supplied with mineral waters from other springs. such* Mae Lick,- Bedford..and Saratoga Waters. - - Ample facilities for bathing have been- prOvided, new plunge and douch baths erected, and Hot and Cold-Baths -- - tan at all times be obtained. - . . . The grounds: walks, Sm., have been highly improved, and are of a varied and picturesque character. There is at Cresson Springs a Telegraph Office and twc daily, mails from Philadelphia and Pittsburg and inter mediate points. Excursion Tickets can be obtained at the Office of the Pennsylvania Eailroad Company, corner of ELEV.EXTB and MARKET Streets.. For further information apply to GEO. W. "ELLIN, Je6-Em Cresson Springs. Cambria Co.. Pl. SHARON FEMALE. SEMIN A.RY &-/ For the ensuing school-year. will open for reception of Pupils on the 21st of NINTH MONTH (SEPTEMBER) next For ,Circulare containing terms. &c.. address, JOSIAH WILSON. jy2S-Im. DA.P.BY, Pa: VILLAGE GREEN SEMINARY-A SELECT BOARDING SCHOOL, NEAR MEDIA, PA.—Thorough course in Mathematics, Classics, Eng lish Branches, Natural Sciences, &c. Military Tactics taught. Classes in Book-keeping. Surveying. and Civil Engineering. Pnpile taken of all ages. School opens beptrmber Ist. Boarding, per week, $2.25. Thition,per quari,r, $6. For catalosnes. or information, address Rev. J. HERVEY BARTON, jy24.3m VILLAGE GREEN, Pa. PHILADELPHIA COLLEGIATE IN MITTS for Young Ladies, 1530 ARCH Street. EST. CHARLES A- S 4ITH, D. D., Principal. The nint,l3 Academic Year will begin on MONDAY, September 14th. For circulars. and other information, address Box 1,611 P 0 • je2X3m* BRISTOL BOARDING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, will re-open on the 7th of Ninth month. For Circulars, apply to RUTH ANNA PEIRCE, Bristol, B elcs co.. Pa. jel7.Bm* MISS MARY E. THROPP WILL BE her Ens Halt and French Boardini and Dal School for Young Ladiee, at 1841 CHESTNUT Street, on the 14th of September. For circulars, until Septem. her Ist, apply at the Sunday-school Times, 148 South FOURTH street, Phila., or address Miss Thropp at Val. ley Forge. Penna. _ rosls-4m• N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAN THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF PENNSYLVA.- InA" intend to apply to the Legislature of Pennsylva nia, at their next session, for a renewal of their charter. Said Bank is located in the city of Philadelphia, with ern. authorized capital of one million of dollars—a re newal of which will be asked for, with the usual bank ing privileges. By order of the Bnard. June 29, IM3. 3e30-taxn VXECUTORS' SALE OF COAL ••••• LAND. =-A valuable tract of Coal Land, containing about SSO acres, situate in OLT TH township, Schuylkill county, Fa„ known as the " Catherine Barger " tract. Bounded by the -'alley - Furnace lands, and the Big Creek lands. - • On the lands adjoining and contiguous to this tract are several first-e7ass Collieries, which mine annually from 20,000 to 125.000 tons of superior White Ash Coal. This tract has been shafted in two or three places, and the veins of coal proven on the same. The title is per fect. For frirther particulars and terms address -the nn dersigned, No: 228 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia. HENRY D. litoc , RE, or GEORGE P MCLEAN, Executors of the estate of - JOHN McCANLES, de ceased. DISOOVERY I ipplicable to the useful Arts. A - new. think. Its Oombinatlon.l Boot and Shoe manufacturers." Amebas. ramilles. Ii Is:a Mani& **mamba. rnalL !N•iathalt J. F. CAKE. PROPRIETOR EDUCATION. LEGAL. S. C. PALMER. Cashier CEMENT. DREFUL AND TAMEABLE DISCOVERY! Trl/LTON'S INSOLUBLE CEMENT I Is of more general practical utility than any invention now before the public It has been thoroughly test ed dnring the last two years by practical, men, and pronounced by • all to be SUPERIOR TO ANY Adhesive Preparation known. HILTON'S INSOLUBLE CEMENT Is a new thing. and the result of years of study; its combination is on SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES, And under no circumstances or change of temperature, will it be come corrupt or emit any offensive BOOT AND SHOE Manufacturers. Ming Mae will find it the best article known for Cementing the Channels, as it works without delay. is not affected by any change of temperature. JEWELERS . Will And it sufficiently adhesive for their use, as has been proved. IT IS ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO LEATHER, And we claim as an especial merit, that it sticks Patches and Linings to Boots and,Shoes sufficiently strong without stitching. IT IS THE ONLY LIQUID CEMENT Extant. that is a sure thing for mending FURNITURE, CROCKERY. TOYS BUNS, E, IVORY. And articles of Household use• REMEMBER, Hilton's Insoluble Cement Is in a liquid form, and as easll7 applied as paste. lILLTON'S INSOLUBLE CEMENT Is insoluble in water or oil. HILTON'S INSOLUBLE CEMENT Adheres coify substances. Bnpmlted in Family or Mantifactn• rers Packages from 2 ounces to 100 lILTON BROS. & Co., Proprietors. ,PROVIDISNOS. B. I, Agents In Philadelphia— LALNIit & ALSAINAT/S. PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1863, (t. e titt 4)11♦ TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1863 Personal. Rebeljournals attribute the loss of the battle Of Gettysburg to the timidity and hesitation of Major- General Anderson, on the first day, when the rebels were successful in the attack upon General Rey nolds,. who was killed, and his corps, the advance of General Meade's army, driven back with the loss of three or four thousand prisoners. It is stated that on this opportunity, had Anderson, as he might ••• easily have done, taken possession of the mountain range upon which the subsequent battles r were fought by the enemy, there can be no doubt that the whole Yankee army would have been destroyed. As it was, the delay of Anderson prevented Heth and 'Fender from taking possession of this important position, and permitted it to fall -into the enemy's= hands. I have no hebitation in saying that this fatal blunder was fraught with the most disastrous cense• quences to our. arms. I learn that all the brigadier commanders in Anderson's division were anxiousto advance, but the major general would not consent --Some interesting particulars of the death of Commander Abner Read are furnished, in corro: spondenee from New Orleans. His wounds were very severe, and he suffered terribly until death re-, lieved him, but he never complained. About half. an hour before.he died he remarked to the doctor;' that he thought his time was short, that all hope of , recovery ,had passed. " Yes," .replied the doctor "you cannot _recover, Captain Read, and you have• but little time to `After this was said he had about half an hour of comparative freedom from pan., when he remarked to the doctor, ." Well, doc tor, I do not know that there is any use holding on any longer; I guess I will shove off; , and with almost the same breath he expired. His last words were in all respects characteristic of the man. He was one of, the most gallant spirits of the many in our naval service, and his death is universally la. mented. The editor of the Scranton (Pa.) Republican says: "We saw a curions embellishment the other , day, a flve.dollar bill on the Pottsville Bank, which contains in one corner a vignette of James Bu- . chanan. Some loyal person had bunged his eyes with red ink, drawn a gallows above his head, from Which a rope was suspended, that went round his neck, and then branded his forehead with the word 'Judas.' This 'is but one of hundreds. The bank has had to call in all its issues with that portrait on it, so unmistakable are the manifestations of pope. Tar indignation against the man who might, had he had the will or the pluck, have nipped this rebellion in the bud, as Jackson did before him." The Duke of Ham 4 lton, one of the leading men and models of the English aristocracy, says a Paris correspondent, died at the Hotel Bristol on Wed nesday morning. The papers state that his death was caused by "cerebral congestion." This was undoubtedly the fact; but the papers do not state how the "cerebral congestion" which caused the sudden and untimely death of the model aristocrat was brought on. On Friday evening last the Duke, with a friend, dined, we ,may presume copiously and freely, with a friend at the Matson Doree. After this they visited that favorite resort of model ails. toerats, the Jardin Mabille, and returned at a late hour, in company with some "fair but frail" com panions, to the Matson Doree, where they supped and remained till seven o'clock on Saturday morn ing. In coming out the Duke of Hamilton, over come with wine, fell from the top to the bottom of the stairs, was taken up and carried to his hotel, and never spoke afterwards. The mother of the Duchess of Hamilton was the daughter of Queen Hortense, and the Duchess is an intimate personal friend of the Empress. The Empress, upon hearing of the accident, immediately went to the Hotel Dilate', and persuaded the Duchess, with her chil dren, to accompany her to St. Cloud, where she has since remained. The Duke of Hamilton was in his fifty,third year. He was related to the Emperor by marriage, and is, of course, imperially mourned for. —The Richmond Eriquirer, of the 20th ult., pub lishes the following : " "A few days since General Mincher was placed in possession of several letters written by Mrs. Patterson Allan (formerly a resi dent of this city) to persona in the North. One of them was addressed to Rev. Morgan Dix,' the father of General Dix, of the Federal army; the other to Mrs. Allan's sister, in oincinnati. In the latter letter she says that General Stoneman is a white gloved general,' and dealt too easilywith the , rebels. She says he should hare burned the resi dence and devastated the farm of the Seocetaii of War, Hon. Samosa?. Seddon, which is in..Gooch land county. Mr. Allan removed • his family froth. this city to his farm on the James river canal, near Cedar Point, in Goochland county, In November last, where Mrs. Allan has since resided, making oo 'oasionsl visits, however. to this city." —General Hooker, according to a Western paper, shortly after the battle of Gettysburg, said to the President that be hadn't character enough to be able to afford to draw a major general's pay and do noth ing, and was desirous to hear whether the Govern• ment was likely to have anything for him to do. He would like to know it, as otherwise he could have no excuse for remaining in the service. The Presi dentreplied that he could not spare him, and would soon have work for him. To a renewed application for work, made since Hookeris return from Harris burg, the President replied that by next Saturday he hoped to tell him what he had to do. -- Grant is a workingman. Years ago he married in St. Louis, resigned his situation in the army, turned farmer, and drove his team into St. Louis with wood. In his recent march, in May, he was three - days on foot, with his rations and baggage, leading his men, not being willing to delay until his horses should come up. ' Repute from rebel sources some days ago as serted positively the death of the brave General Os terhaus. There is no foundation for the story. Ge neral Osterhaus, at latest accounts, was in excel lent health, and will, no doubt, do much good service against the rebellion yet. —From yallandighana's headquarters, at Niagara, a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes : "This Clifton House is not so much the headquar ters of the Southern rebels, who are too lazy or too cowardly to stay at home and fight the 'Lincoln vandals,' as it was the last and the previous years. The Metcalfe, Marshalls, Sanderees, are no more seen here. Their absence is satisfactory to the land , . lords, who suffered in pocket by their presence, as they drove all respectable Americans away; and satisfactory to their patrons of the English and Provisional persuasion, who began to regard the cowards with contempt. Yet there are a few of the kind here now, and, of course, they cordially pa tronize and sympathize with Yallandigham and his followers. Their regrets over Federal successes are mutual and outspoken. One of Yallandlgham's particular friends, with whom he ia frequently in close conference, formerly a resident of New Or leans, which city he left when Butler entered it, approached me to-day—l was reading the Chicago Times, a stray copy of which I got from a Ohicagoian —and, supposing me to be one of their kind, remarked that' things looked damned bad for us down South.' I asked him wherein 1 He replied that ' Grant and liosecrane were playing the devil with our folks.' ' That is so, and I thank God for it P responded this correspondent. This seemed to startle the despond ing Southern chap, and he asked me if L' was not a Southerner.' Not if I know who my father was,' I replied. belong to the glorious little State of Rhode Island, and believe in Burnside! the man Who issued Order No. 38, and gave it a practical ap plication.' " Edmund Yates, who once had a difficulty with Thackeray, describes the perpetual "life" of the Prince and Princess of Wales : "They dine everywhere, lunch everywhere, dance everywhere, drive everywhere, levee constantly, drawing-room perpetually t -theatre and opera never ending, preside at everything, open everything, lay foundation of everything, receive presents from every county, • deputations headed by municipal bodies ; are always receiving freedoms in gold.boxes (maker's name conspicuously brought forward by newspaper reporter, and maker always said to have excelled himself,') are always addressed I and al ways ' reply '—one of them. in the silvery' accents which he inherits, &c. ; are mobbed daily and night, ly ; crowds round Apsley House to see two young people in a carriage, crowds round an artist's door to see one young person descend from carriage to'enter studio to have portrait taken; rampagious yelling crowds round Grand Stands at races ; more ramps- Mous yelling and infinitely worse-behaved crowds of TJniversity-educated young gentlemen at commemo ration, every tradesman expressing in heraldic de vice and foreign motto his business connection with alphabetic royalty; newspaper 'liners' babbling in grandiloquent but unmeaning language -about Al phabetical Royalty, which, if it have feelings such as are given to the common herd, must hate and loathe -and despise the trucklings and shufflings and kotoo ings of human nature generally, must long to get away where it can wear a shooting-coat and a yacht ing-Jacket and a slouch hat, where it cannot be ad dressed or invited, dined or drank, where there is nothing to open,, and where there is perpetual free dom—not presented in a box." —The Horne Journal's reminiscence of Eugene Sue is interesting "This French author was.the finest specimen of a fat exquisite that we ever saw. (We has the pleasure of seeing him In Paris in 1832 ) He moat suacessfuity ignored bis own obesity—behaving always as if he were slender and graceful. In A. volume of Re collections' which ' Captain Grow' has just brought out, he thus describes our old friend t Eugene Sue was the very reverse of Balzac, both in appearance and manner. Nothing could have been more correct and unscrupulously neat than his dress, which was rather dandified, but in good taste, according to the notions of twenty or thirty years ago. He wore always a very broad-brimmed hat, of glossy newness, and remarkably tight, light-colored trousers, which, by-the-bye, were not'particularly becoming to a man built in a stout mould. lie was remarkable for the beauty of his horses ; his, cab was one of the best appointed in Paris ; his house in the Rue de la Pepinere (now an asylum) was a perfect bonbonniere, and hie dinners were renowned for their excellence. He was supposed (and to my knowledge with considerable reason) to lead a very Sardanapalian life. Strange stories are told of his °matte in Sologne, where he was waited on by a number of beautiful women, of all countries, and of all shades of color.' " ---A reporter• of the Cincinnati Commercial some days ago, visited the captured officers of John Dior gan,s-gang, now imprisoned in that city, and thue records what he saw: ":We found Colonel Basil Duke's name headed the - list, but from his appearance we should not have taken him.to be the head and front of the gang—a position that is now generally conceded to him more than to Morgan. lie is a small man, not over thirty years old, we judge; weight about one hundred and thirty pounds, spare of flesh, features'angular, hair and eyes nearly , if not quite black; the latter spark.' ling and penetrating, and the former standing out from the head something like porcupine quills, Al together, he called to mind our picture of a Spanish bandit on a small scale ; nevertheless, he has a plea sant voice and a gracious smile in his conversation, which is free and 'cordial. But• there is nothing commanding in his appearance, his manner, or his words, and it is not strange that Morgan is the ac knowledged leader of the horde, even though Duke may be the most quick-witted. ' , "'Dick Morgan :is thirty•two years old, heaVy set, inclined to be fleshy.; round, plump'facdi bluish eyes, phlegmatic temperament, and not talka tive. He yields to Duke the privilege of carrying ea a conversation," CHARLESTON. Progress of Gilmore's Operations. Him YORK, August 3,—The steamer Fulton, from Port Royal, with dates to the 31st ult., arrived during the night. Her officers report the siege of Fort Wagner still progressing. General Gilmore has mounted a number of 200. pound siege guns within one Mile of Fort Sumpter. He is confident of re ducing both Sumpter and Fort Wagner in a short time. The Beaufort New South says ' : "Just as we go to press it is reported that General Roaeorans is within thirty miles of Savannah. We see no. reason why the report may not be true." [This is, of course, absurd. Rosecrans was in Nashville a few days ago, and none of Ms troops had advanced even as far as Chattanooga —Eurvon.] NEW YORK. August 3.—A private letter received in this city,.dated July 25, says : "I went yesterday to Block Inland, and made a reconnoissance from the tallest tree there. Block Island is between James Island and Morris Island, distant about a thousand yards. I saw they were erecting a Bee of batteries and building rifle pits al most the entire distance from Fort Johnson to Se cessionville along the river. I could look over into Charleston, and see what waa going on there quite plainly." AFFAIRS ON MORRIS ISLAND. Under date of, August 1, the correspondent of the ',Tribune writes from Morrislsland : I venture to say that thlitroops in thli department 'have performed more severe labor, under greater ,difficulties, since Gen. Gilmore assumed command, .than those of any other department in the country. ,Of the kind and amount of ,labor, it would not be 'proper for me, at this stage, to speak. But results -within a few weeks will show for themselves, and ,then we may enter upon details without the least fear of jeopardizing the success of the campaign. -For public encouragement, it will not be 'improper to "1-say that the position we now hold upon this island has been made so strong by skilful engineering that no force the rebels can possibly bring against it can weaken, impair, or by prolonged and obstinate fight ing drive us from. Fifty thousand men might possi '.bly overwhelm us, if they coukUnd room to stand lapon ; but the strip of territroow held by the rebels on the island is so contracted that not one. tenth of that number could be concentrated upon it, and not one-twentieth could be massed for an assault upon the only natural line of approach still left to them. While standing upon the defensive, therefore, our_ position may be deemed impregnable. When readr again to assume the offensive nothing wilil - be able to resist us, and the fall of offensive; Sumpter, and Charleston, in turn, may be, as I have in another letter remarked, considered simply questions of tine. But if we are actiVe, and are working by day and night with almost superhuman energy, the rebels in full sight, under the blaze of the same hot slid, and beneath the light of the came night moon, . are throwing up entrenchment after entrenchment r e upon James Island, strengthening the rge wall of Port Sumpter and the small tanks ort Gregg, and in every conceivable way endea ng to make their own position impregnable. Capt. Paine of the New York volunteer engineers made, alone, a night reconnoissance of the works upon James Island, and reports embrasures for twelve guns already erected, with one gun mounted. This one gun has already been brought to bear upon our batteries on the left, but has, thus far, inflicted ntifurther injury than the frightening of several hOr,es engaged in. drawing ammunition. It should beunderetood, however; that all this ceasiess activi ty.'on both sides is under Bre more or less hot and dangerous. Yesterday a putTof smoke rose from the one gun on Janus Island, the soldiers at work in'bur own battery on the left ran to their sand-hole to . dodge the shot, but unfortunately it struck direct-. ly - behind the embankment and covered the whole party five feet deep in the sand. They were all dug out in a few momenta, uninjured, so far as their bones were concerned, but considerably in want of breath and fresh air. "This shot from the rebel gun having proved so good a one, one of our own artillerists; seeing a sol dier standing upon the earthwork of the same rebel battery, wheeled up a small Wiard gun into posi tion, took aim, and in an instant sent his body ily ingtwenty feet into the air. Better tiring could not have been made by the most practical sharpshooter. SEYENTY•SIXTH PENNSYLVANIA RECI.I , A Herald correspondent writes: - "Any statements in correspondence from here derogatory to`the character of the 76th Pennsylvania, either for courage or discipline, are wholly un• unfounded. There is not a braver or better' dis ciplined regiinent on the island.' If my account of their conduct in the tight of July llth has been con strued into a direct or implied charge of cowardice or demoralization, I whirr to correct the impression. Time has shown that there was not a straggler from theleth on that morning. Col. Strawbridge is still quite, ill. I write this paragraph in strict justice to gallant officers and •brave men, concerning whom unjust reports may have been spread." • ---- • . THE COLORED SOLDIERS-INDIVIDUAL GALLANTRY. SergeantlVlajor Lewis H. Douglas, a son of Fred. Douglas, by both white and negro troops, Is said to have displayed great courage , and calmness, was one of the first to mount the parapet, and with his pow erful voice shouted : "Come on, boys, and fight for. God- and Gov. Andrew," and with this battle-cry led them into the fort. - - But above all, the color.beater deserves more than passing notice. SergeantJno.Wall, of Co. G, car ried the flag in the first battalion, and when near the forthe4ell into a deep ditch, and called upon his guard to help him out. They could not stop for that, but Sergeant William H. Carney, of Company 0, caught the colors, carried them forward, and was the first man to plant the stare and stripes upon Fort Wagner. As lie saw , the men falling back, himself seven sly wounded in the breast, he brought the. colors off, creeping on his knees, pressing his wound with one hand, and with the other holding up the emblem of freedom. The moment -be was seen crawling into the hospital with the flag still in his possession, his wounded companions, both black and white, rose from the straw upon which they were lying, and cheered him until exhausted they could shout no longer. In response to this reception the brave and wounded standard-bearer said: "Boys, I but did my duty; the dear old flag never touched the ground." THE CAPTIVES OF THE 64TH MASSACHU SETTS REGIMENT. [Correspondence of the Evening Pest.] FORT ROYAL, August 1,1863.—8 y a cartel recently made with the rebels, by a Stag of truce, before Charleston, the wounded prisoners captured on either side in the assault on Fort Wagner, on July 18th, were to be restored to their respective armies. No distinction was, of course, made, or could be rightfully or honorably made, as to the State in• which they wgre enlisted, their nativity, or the race whose blood, pure or commingled, may flow in their veins. A. soldier from Massachusetts is as sacred in perm:in and rights as one from Ohio, Connecticut, or any other State. Yet no officer, commissioned or non-commiesioned, or a private, of the 54th Massa chusette, is to be found among the wounded prison ers, numbering one hundred or more, .whom the rebels have returned to us, and it is among the chances of war that several of them were captured. They led the charge, and by their hand the flag of the Union waved on the parapet of Fort Wagner. The officers of --the regiment were among the bravest South of the land. The gallant colonel who fell at their head has left a name that after ages will not willingly let die. He was a private in the New York 7th militia, whose march for the defence of Washington has been commemorated by the la mented Winthrop. Afterwards he was a captain in the 2d Maesachusetta Volunteers. On the retreat of Banks up the Shenandoah he.was struck by a bullet, which, but for his watch, would have proved fatal. The non-commissioned officers and privates, all in a degree more or less of African descent, bad Saxon blood flowing in their veins in large proportion; their manly iorms were not often those of men who, from childhood had bent beneath the lash. One third or one-half of them were free born or free by even slave law, while the greater portion of the rest had won their freedom by heroic escapes, and forti fied that title by long years of prescriptive enjoy meat, some under the, protection of the British Queen. Nor were those who, during the war, had abandoned their mestere, or been abandoned by them, unshielded by the sacred character of pri soners of war; that protects all but deserters and breakers of paroles ; and it is distinctly declared by writers on the law of nations that persons escaping hem captivity, and retaken, or even recaptured in war, are not held to merit punishment, for they only obeyed their love of liberty." ( Wolsey, §128.) They were all, officers and men, soldiers of Mas eachusette, a dear old State, all crowned with Revo lutionary memories, and first to send her regiments to protect the capital at the opening of the war. The Governor of the Commonwealth, on presenting the State and national colors to the 54th Regiment, in May last, said to 'them in his address, that his own reputation would be more identified with their '-fortunes than with those of any regiment which his State had sent to the war. Many of them are well educated, and in the hospitals they have delighted to read the best books of our literature. They had been less than two months in actual service when they bad already written their history in imperishable -lines. On July 16th they repulsed the enemy on James Island, losing fifty men, and won there the praise of Gen. Terry, the commanding general. On the 18th, Brigadier General Strong, one of the brav est generals in the service, otiose them, even when worn and weary with marches and wiled for the day, to lead on that evening the stormingcol wan on Fort Wagner. How well they did, fresh levies as 'they were, and ill-conditioned at the time, assigned to a work from which veterans might bepardoned for shrinking, let their wounded general answer. In a message which Gen. Strong commissioned a friend to send to Governor- Andrew, said : "No regi ment ever moved more gallantly into battle. No thing but the fall of their colonel prevented their taking the fort. With their enthusiasm they de served a better fate." Nearly one hundred and, fifty of those wounded in the assault are in the Beaufort hospitals, where, it is worth while to record, they are skilfully and ten derly cared for. Not more than six hundred now remain of this regiment, Which . two months ago mustered its full complement. The corpses of the gallant dead, and the mutilated forms of the gallant survivors cry out for justice to their wounded com rades, still in the enemy's hands, if not, alas ! already butchered by our neglect or hesitation. No injus tice must be done to Massachusetts or to her soldiers. We can make no discrimination against her or them, and we cannot allow the enemyto make any. Unless wounded prisoners of, her 64th are not forthwith de livered, let rebel ur broilers of rank be instantly shot. The retribution would be at once effectual and his toric. Report say■ there are eighteen negro prisoners in Ohmlesion but there is no means of verifying the statement. EXCHANGE OF WOUNDED PRISONERS ON MORRIS ISLAND. The Fort Royal New South gives some interesting particulars of the agreement for the exchange of wounded prisoners after the attack upon Fort Wag ner. It says : "As mentioned last week, Lieutenant Colonel Rail and Surgeon John J. Craven, with a flag of truce, had previously made arrangements for a mu tual exchange of wounded prisoners, to be paroled for regular exchange. In accordance with this agreement, thirty-nine of the rebel wounded in our hands were placed on tbe Coamopolitan, of which Surgeon R. E. Bonticou has charge, and with them Surgeon John J. Craven, chief medical officer, started for Charleston harbor at 2 o'clock on Friday morning. THE COLORED SOLDIERS. - . While the exchange was making, Lieutenant Colonel Hall remarked to Colonel Anderson that he noticed no colored wounded on board. 'No,' said the Colonel„ 'there are none.'Why is that in quired Colonel That is matter,' responded the Colonel, 'for after consideration.' .'.Did you not regard the univalent made for the exchange of all wounded prisoners as applying to the colored-sot= dices?' asked Col. Hall. Colonel Anderson respond ed negatively. I did,' replied Colonel Hall, and I insist that there was no exception made in the agree ment.' In the meantime, however, one of the rebel wounded had objected to being delivered up, saying he preferred to remain with us.. Some one erased his name fromthe °Medallist. Col. Anderson insisted on the man being delivered up, but Col. Hall positively declined, although.the rebel colonel Unstated he was an enlisted man, and subject to the agreement for exchange. Colonel Hall replied that our colored troops were enlisted men, under the protection of ouryagi entitled to be delivered up by the terms of agreement. Colonel Anderson asked him to put his objections' in regard to the non-delivery of colored troops in• writing. Colonel Hall said he„had -no objections, and requested Colonel Anderson to put in writing his claim in regard to the wounded rebel. The latter doctalliog i ()Woad Holl refule4 to put his objootios4 in writing, and so the matter waif dropped by both partica. THE IPORM OF PAILOLF "The form of paroling the prisoneter was gone through with by Colonel - Anderson and' 7Rajor J. Motte Middleton, aid-decamp to General' Ripley, on the part of the enemy ; and Lieutenant Colonel James F. Hall, Pitivost Marshal General; on our part, The form of parole, the signatures - and the witnessing, was as follows : " I, the undersigned, prisoner of war, captured near Charleston, hereby give my parole of honor not to bear arms against the Confederate States, or to perform any military or garrison duty whatever, until regularly exchanged, and further,. that I will not divulge anything relative to the position or con dition of any of the forces of the Confederate States. '"'This day, 24th of July, 1863. "'(Witness,) EDWARD 0 ANDERSON; " Colonel Artillery O. S. A.: " ' Major J. MOTTE MIDDLETON ' A. D.C. " Paroled this 24th of July, A. D. 1863. "'By command of Gen. Q. A. GILMORE, " 'Commanding Department of the South. "" JAMBS F. Ram., lieutenant colonel and Provost Marshal General.'" GEN. GILMORE. Of. General Gilmore, the Free South. days: Eve rybody knows he took Fort Pulaski, but not every body knows in the face of what obstacles he suc ceeded. Pulaski V7lO deemed impregnable, and the proposed attempt to reduce it by land batteries on Tybee island was scouted by the highest engineer ing authority in America. Gen. Wright, then coin in ending a brigade at Port Royal, for three years chief of the Engineer Bureau in Washington, after a very careful survey and reconnoissance, pro nounced positively against the ellbrt. "There Is not old iron enough in America to take that fort," said the general. It was the strongest but two in the United States. Russell, of the London ThriCB, went over it carefully, and sent home long accounts and plans, pronouncing it a model of engineering strength. Gen. R. E. Leewrote,to Col. Olmstead, its commandant: "The enemy may fill your fort with shot and shell; but they cannot breach its walls. I expect you to defend it to the last." And, to crown all, Gen Totten, then and now at the head of the Engineer Corps, when the project of reducing Pu laski was suggested to him, declared, "You might as well undertake to bombard the Rocky Mountains from Tybee as Fort Pulaski." It was in the face of such opinions as this that. General, then Cap- tain Gilmore, resolved to take this fort, and took it. The credit is due to him solely. In eighteen and a half hours of cannonading—thirty from the time the first gun was tired—Pulaski surrendered, - and from that moment General Gilmore has been the beat bated officer in the Engineer Corps. Success in de fiance of opinion and tradition is seldom forgiven. When the corps was recently reorganized, Gen. Gil more was kept still a captain in the engineer ser vice, and his remarkable ability and success have been in no way recognized or rewarded in connec tion with his position in the regular, army. INCIDENTS OP THE WAR. Twit Mamoru:me Irmy.—Below will be found a ebrorological statement of the successes achieved by the. Union forces during the month of July. This does not include" minor skirmishes, in which our troops were successful; neither does it include the captures by our blockading squadrons: July 3(l—Meade's victory over Lee at Gettysburg, with rebel loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners, of 35,000. July 4th—Capture of Vicksburg by Grant, with 31,000 prisoners, and over 200 heavy guns. July 4th—Gen. Prentiss fights the rebels at He lena, Ark., and defeats them with a loss of 2,700 in killed, wounded, and prisoners. July 4th—Rosecrans compels Bragg to evacuate Tullahoma. Rebel loss in the series of engage• meats over 4,000. July 61h—Gen. Buford whips Stuart, .and captures NT prisoners and two guns. - July Bth—Banks captures Port Hudson, with 6,000 prisoners. July Bth—General Pleasanton defeats the rebel cavalry, near Funkstown, capturing 600 prisoners. July 9th—Buford and Kilpatrick engage the enemy near Boonsboro, and defeat them, taking a number of prisoners. July 10th—Attack on the approaches to Charles ton commenced, and the batteries on the lower end of Morris Island captured by our forces. July lath—Yazoo City captured by our gunboats, and several hundred prisoners, six heavy guns, and a gunboat taken. July 14th—Battle of Falling Waters ; 1,609 rebels and several guns captured. July 14th—Fort Powhatan, on James river taken by Admiral Lee. July 16th—Our forces, under Gen. Sherman, oc cupy Jackson, Miss., capturing a large amount of stores, railroad rolling stock, &c., and driving the rebel Johnson into Central Mississippi. July 16t1F—Gen. Blunt obtains a victory over the rebels at Elk Creek, Ark., killing 60 rebels, capturing 100 prisoners and two guns. July 11th [or about that time]—An expedition up the Bed river captures two steamers, several trans ports, 16.000 Enfield [rifles, and a large amount of ammunition. July 17th—An expedition sent by Gen. Grant to Natchez captures 6,000 head of cattle, 2,000,000 rounds of ammunition, and several pieces of artillery. July 18th—The guerilla Morgan "cornered" at. Buffington, Ohio, and 1,000 of hie men captured. July 19th-300-of Morgan's guerillas bagged near Buffington. July 19th—Col. Hatch attacks the rebels at Jack son, Tenn., and captures two companies and an ar tillery train, • July 20111-1,600 of Morgan's men, including Basil' Duke, captured at George's Creek. July 22d—Expedition from Newbern attack Tor boro, N. C., 100 prisoners captured and an iron-clad and two gunboats destroyed. July 22d—Brashear City, La.,-surrendered to our forces, under Col. Johnson. July 24th-Col: Tolland captures' Withesville, and captures 126 prisoners. July 26th—Ifforgan bagged at Salinville; aieo 200 of hie men. July 28th—Our troops, under Colonel Hatch, en counter the rebels at Lexington, Tenn., routing them, and captuling a colonel, two lieutenants, twenty.five privates, and two pieces of artillery. July 29th—Gan. Pegram is engaged by- our forces at Paris, Ky., and repulsed with serious loss in kill ed, wounded, and prisoners. July 30th—Col. Sanders attacks the rebels (2,000 strong) at Winchester, Ky., and routes them with considerable loss. July alat—Our forces attack the enemy at Lan caster, Ky., kill and wound twenty, and take 100 prisoners. - - Thus we have ant aggregate of twenty-eight suc cessful engagements against the rebels within the compass or a single month. Over eighty thousand of the enemy were killed, wounded, or taken pri soners, and no less than three hundred pieces of heavy artillery and a hundred thousand stands of small arms taken. A pretty good Suly , s work COLONEL Morinow's REOOLLEOTIONE.—CoIone Morrow, the brave leader of the famous 24th Michi gan, lately made a long war speech to his fellow citizens of Detroit. Among other things he told them the following : One of the rebel officers, captured by us, after-N. wards met me in Gettysburg, where I was a prisoner. A man came up to me in the street and said, "Colo nel, how do you do? You don't know me and think I don't know you. (I had cut off my straps to pre vent my being recognized as a colonel.) Come and take a drink."- Of course, I drank with him, and then asked who he was. He took me one aide from the rebel officers and said, "Your regiment captured me at Fitz Hugh's Landing, d—n you!" Said I, "Glad of it. Didn't they treat Ton well?" "Bully," was his reply. "Then treat me the same." "W e will ; where are your straps?" "I have lost them for the time being." "All right, I shan't say a word." He kept his promise, and when I left the rebels they took me for a surgeon. Twenty-four hours alter crossing at Fitz Hugh's landing we 'recrossed and went to Clhancellorville. There we were stationed at a separate space, and guarded two roads, a position of honor, given, as 'I was assured by Gen. Hooker, as a compliment to the regiment. We were unsuccessful at Chancellorville, but through no fault of Gen. Hooker's, It would have been a glorious victory, had it not been for the defection of an army carps, and this was due to the bad conduct of its officers, and not to any lack of courage among the, men. The 11th Corps occu pied a position directly in front of the enemy, and was, nevertbeless, allowed by its officers to lay down its arms and make coffee. It was then attacked by the rebels with those unearthly shouts of theirs. The rebels beat any people out shout ing. One-half the battles in that neighborhood were fought by power of the lungs rather than the bayce net. The lungs of the rebels are not so strong as ours, but they have a boy-like scream, which is much shriller. (Colonel Morrow then related an amusing anecdote of the counter-cheering of-the, rebels and the 24th at Fitz Hugh's. Landing.) Gen. Booker, at- Chancellorville, exhibited splendid ge neralship. I.was told by a prisoner, a rebel colonel— a fact never before printed, - I" believe—that General Hooker aucceeded in transporting 30,000 men across the Rappahannock and. Rapidan, and right into the ' centre of the rebel position, without their obtaining the least knowledge of it. In fact, General Hooker succeeded in dividing the rebel armk, - cutting off Stuart from Lee, and.obliging the former to cut. his way through in order to reach headquarters. How ever, we lost the battle, and fell back into our old camp. At Gettysburg, with my assistant surgeon, Dr. Collar, indefatigable in season and out of season, I visited the hospitals and the battle-field—the latter at 12 o'clock in the night on-the 3d, determining the names of those that had fallen. In a barn, among 200 others, I found "a little Irish boy from this city, Patrick. Cleary, a bright boy, and a brave little fel low. I said to him, "Patrick, how do you feel 1" He said, "Pretty well, "tut the doctor says I can't live." I looked at his wounded leg and saw that mortification had set in. I said, "I don't know ; the doctor is the best judge. If he says you, can't live, you had better prepare to die." -Said he,"Colonel,' if you'll have the leg taken off Pll b with the regiment in a week." / told him that was impossible. lie then said, "Colonel, ain't you proud of the 24th? Won't the people of Wayne county be proud 1" God bless that boy. He is dead now. [A voice, "He is alive yet."] I am glad to hear it. Be is a credit to his native and adopted country. The hist thing the boys think of is what those at home think of them. They feel proud of themselves, and they want you -to feel proud too. Write them cheering letters. Encourage your soldiers. Bid them .God speed- Tell them they, are fighting in a just and holy cause, as they certainly are. MURDER. OF SURRENDERED UNIONMex.—Our correspondent, "A. 8.. N.," in his account , of the Morgan raid and chase, refers to a report that on the march from Lebanon to Springfield, Kentucky, More grin's men brutally murdered a number of Federal prisoners, after they had fallen- in the road from fatigue and sunstroke, and suggests that the affair should be investigated before Morgan's officers. or men are loosed from our hands. The Louisville Journal - of 'the 27th has full con firmation of- the murder of surrendered Union men by Morgan's fellow-scoundrels. -They belonged, to the 9th Kentucky Cavalry. Their captors demanded their pocket-books and their guns, and afterwards deliberately shot them with their own weapons. Some of the mounted rebels leaned from their horses, placed their carbines to the very heeds of the poor fellows, and thus butchered them. TheJournat says : "As these facts can be proved beyond all coati o. versy, we cannot see why some of the scoundrels of Morgan should not suffer by way of retaliation." The Vicksbitro- Canapaimn. In the course of a full repirt, Admiral Portersays . "I have endeavored to dojustice to all who were immediately engaged in the struggle for the mastery of the Mississippi. To the the army we do owe im mediate thanks for the capture of Vicksburg, but the army was much facilitated by the navy, which. was ready at all times to co-operate. This has been no small undertaking. The late investment and cap lure of Vicksburg will be characterized as one of the greatest military achievements ever known. The concep tion of the-idea originated with General. Grant, who adopted a course in which great labor was performed, great battles were fought, and great risks were run. A. single mistake would h.ave involved us in difficulty; but so well were all the plans matured, so, well were all the movements timed, and so rapid were all the evolutions performed that no mistake has occurred from the passage of the fleet by Vicksburg, and the passage of the army across the river, up to the pre, sent time. So confident was lof the ability of Gen. Grant to carry out his plans, when he explained thou to me, that I never hesitated to change my position from above to below Vicksburg The work was hard, the fighting severe, but the 1;lows struck were constant. _ _ ' , ln forty days after our army landed, a rebel army of sixty thousand men had been captured, killed, and wounded, or scattered to their homes, perfectly de moralized, while our loss has been only about live thousand killed, wounded, and prisoners, and the temporary loss of one .gunboat. The fortifications and defences of the city exceed anything that has been built in modern times, and are doubly unas sailable from their immense height above the bed of the river." THREE CENTS. STATES IN REBELLION.. r The' Seeession Conspire. Cy .- A letter, dated' Nashville, June 26th, to'lliirioe Maynard, that well-known loyalist, has juat been giien to the public Its facts are important . HEAR SIB: I talc's pleasure in complying - with your request to give- the substance and, as near Ise possible, the language - of. Mr. of Louisiana ) in a conversation whbilroctairred between him' alid myself about three weeks before the last Pres!: dentlal election. I met with Mr. —'off the cam some miles beyond Jonesboro, Tenn., in OCtober; 1860. He was then returning to his home in Louisi ana, from the city of Washington. By accident, I took a seatrimmediately behind the one occupied by Mr. —,'wheelie at once turned round, and began to make inquiries respecting the prospects of the different candidates for obtaining the electoral vote of Tennessee. He expressed great pleasure when I assured him that Breckinridge could not possibly obtain the electoral vote of this State ; and his reasons for it I will give you as near as may be in his own words. "I am glad," says he, "that Mr. Bell will get the vote of Tennessee, al though I cannot vote for him. lam a Douglas De mocrat, and I am hastening home to see what can be done to prevent my State from casting its electoral vote for Breck.inridge. I have been in Washington wince the first day of July, and I tell you now, sir, there is at this moment on foot at Washington the most damnable conspiracy to break up this Go vernment that was ever known in any civilized country. I do not speak from hearsay, sir, for, I have been in their- caucuses almost nightly for the last three imonths, and I know the programme from Ato Z. And it is this : If they can by any means (which is utterly impossible) secure a ma jority of the electoral votes for Breckinridge, then the scheme is, as Boon as he is inaugurated and put in possession , of all the resources of the Govern ment, to divide thecountry along Mason and Dixon's line, the Ohio river, and 265. 30' north to the Pacific Ocean. In other words, they intend to cut loose from all theiree States, and to build up a greatelave Con federacy in the South. and to accomplish this pur pose they will use all the resources of the Govern ment proper. But should they fail in this, (as they assuredly will,) the plan is for South Carolina to secedefirst—the other cotton States are to follow (I think he mentioned the order in which...they were "to go out," but I am not, positive ;) the Border States are to be persuaded or forced to join them in their unholy cause, and then we are to have such a civil war as this world has never witnessed." He added : "I had hoped, until a month- or six weeks ago, that Mr. Breckinridge was ignorant of all this matter;. but I have had evidence, as clear as the noonday sun, that he is as deeply implicated as Yancey himself; and more than that, Mr. Buchanan is into their scheme up to the eyes." I have given the above statement in almost the identical language used by Mr. The whole af fair was of so startling a nature that it made a deep impression upon my mind, and none of the facts have slipped my memory.' In regard to a conversation which passed between a rebel moldier and myself, subsequent to the battle of Stone's river, I can only say that he was advo cating the propriety of raising the Nati:flag, and de claring that he did not intend to take any more pri sonete. I• replied to him that war was horrible enough under any circumstances, but, if waged on the principle he advocated, the Southern people would be regarded as worse than savages. To this he replied by quoting Bishop Polk, as endorsing his views, saying, "Gen. Polk told the boys, if they found any trouble with the prisoners, he (the Gene ral) would not be angry if they did not bring, them in." Whether he professed that he heard this from Gen. Polk, or heard it from others, I do not re in ember. I have written this in great haste, but feel sure that the facts are correctly stated. I hope it will prove satisfactory to you. Your friend, truly, ALFRED ROSS. A. , ,YANKEE SPELLING 8008. We have received from the . publishers, Messrs. Toon S. Co., of Atlanta, Georgia, a spelling book, which we regret to be compelled to denounce as un worthy of public favor. It is, as the author, Mr. Fleming,admits, a revised edition of Webster's Spelling Book—in other words, it is a. Yankee school book. It is the duty of the Southern press to unite in putting it dowL. "Mr. Fleming tells us in his preface that no better spelling book than Dr. Webster's has ever been pre sented to the American people, ample proof of which he finds in the Yankee test of the unparalleled ex tent of its circulation.' He goes on to add that ' his (Webster's) dictionary may be found in almost every family, occupying, as it deservedly does, a pre-emi nence over all others.' This statement discloses an amount of ignorance on the part of the author which should deter him from rehashing any more Yankee school books for Southern use. Webster Is not the standard of the best Southern scholars ; but Johnson ' Walker, and Richardson. Webster's or thography is the detestatfbn of every cultivated Southern gentleman, and this orthography, Mr.• Fleming tells us, he has invariably retained. - ()entre he spells center theatre, 'theater,' and, doubt less, ton 'tun.' The retention of these execrable Yankee innovations is enough of itself to damn the book and drive it out of circulation. "Mr. Fleming says further, that in very few in stances Webster's pronunciation has been rejected. The flat or Italian sound of a, as heard in the word father, should not be heard in the words grass, mass, glass, bass, &c. The fiat sound of the letter ain these instances is a New England provincialism. Here, again, Mr. Fleming displays gross ignorance. To this day, the flat, or, as we should say, the third • sound of a in grass, mass, glass, etc., is used by the educated and well-bred classes in England, and by those on this continent . who have, preserved the English language in its greatest purity—the-tide- - water Virginians. We dislike extremely to speak harshly of literary labor ,of any kind. But ..Kr. Fleming has labored very little in reproducing this bit of Yankee clap-. trap, and he Is poisoning the very fountain-head of Southern literature. Hid book should suppressed at once, for it Is to all intents and purposes a Yanked spelling• book, slightly and easily altered by the in-. troduction of Bible readinp, on the subject of sla• very. We do not dwell uron numerous typographi cal errors, because they can be corrected in subie 'quent editions, if any should be called for, which we trust will not be the case. "We must get rid of Yankee orthography , and pronunciation at all hazards. If we begin by ' centre 'center,' we shall end by pronouncing dew' 'doo,' and cow' keow.' - In truth, it would be well us to have an entirely new-language, "Inknown and unpronounceable in Yankee land: We must have new coins, new weights, new mea sures, as unlike Yankee coins, weights, etc., as pos sible. We must be a distinct people in everything, or else we will never be independent. At all events, we must not be duped with a Yankee spelling book, such as Mr. Fleming and Messrs. Toon kflo. are at tempting to palm upon us." ON THE RIOT IN NEW YORIC; The Mobile Tribune, speaking of the New. York riots, remarks: " These riots are the result of- the doctrine taught by the Democratic partv,.which in New York city has strength enough to defythe Government." The Mobile News is very thankful for files of•the Caucasian, News, and Metropolitanßecord, Copperhead papers published in New York, and.says : "We have read the editorials, and ran over the reprint in these journals with pleasure and surprise. They are as earnest and eloquent in the advocacy of peace, and as unsparing in their "hostility to and de nunciation of the Abolition a war. against the sove reign States of the South, as the most extreme Southerner could desire." FLORIDA, The Schools of Fernandina. From correspondence dated July 21, of the Wis-- ccnsin Stale Journal, we extract : The colored schools, which have been in successful operation here for the past eight months, closed.on Wednesday for a vacation of two months. The progress made by the pupils more than equals the expectations of the most sanguine friends of the race. The children have evinced: an aptitude to learn and a capacity fully equal to white children at the North, and in all the better characteristics- they are in no way behind them. *. * *- None who have witnessed the grateful expressions of fathers and mothers, and the daily tributes of flowers, and other evidences of affection of the children for their teachers ' will ever question the natural suscepti bility of this people to cultivation and a prompt re sponse to the ordinary appliances which make man- , kind respectable. Corporeal punishment has been so rare that I question whether, durine the entire term, among three hundred children, there have been more than half a dozen cases; and I have never seen uneducated children anywhere exhibit more sensibility to the dishonor of a banishment from. school, or. other similar infliction, than these chil dren of slavery. Some of the girls and boys had committed pieces,. which were properly spoken ; and one little ebony, only eight years old, showed extraordinary aptness at declamation in a little piece he hadlearned ;true, he was in rags, and his skin was coal-black, but & more intelligent and happy face I never saw. If permitted, that boy will yet shame many a "pale face" by his superior intellectual power. At the close of the exercises, a little book or primer was presented to each scholar as a preaent for their attendance and good conduct ; and it was pleasing to see with what eagerness and. satisfaction each-re ceived this first testimonial of scholarship. Nearly three hundred presents were distributed, which were furnished principally through the liberality of Hon. Joseidi Hoxie, of New York, who had visited the schools a few months since, and whose judicious selections wereuniversally commended and his gene rosity fully appreciated. These- children will never forget this occasion. Among the songs by the - school, interspersed throughout the exercises—and every child sings in these schools—was the following, which, aside from: its intrinsic merit and affecting pathos, was par ticularly interesting from the fact that just before. the rebellion, a congregation of slaves a tending a public baptism, on Sunday, at Savannah, were ar rested, imprisoned, and punished with thirty-nine lathes each for singing the song of spiritual free dom—now a crime since slavery had become a "divine institution :'' "My mother! bow long! Mothers! howlong ! mothers! bow long! Will sinners suffer here ? Csionts—lt won't be long! It won't be long! It won't be That sinners That sinners 'ill suffer here! " We'll walk de golden streets ! We'll walk de golden streets ! we'll walk de golden streets! Wbere pleasures never die ! Cnonus—lt won't be long! &c. My brother! do sing ! my brother h do sing! my bro ther ! do sing! De praises ob de Lord! Cnoftus—lt won't be long! dm. " soon be free! we'll soon be freO we'll soon be De Lord will callus borne ! • Croomrs—My brother !do sing! my .brother! do sing! my brother ! do sing! De praises ob de Lord!" And these verses, so expressive and pathetic, are added to almostindefinitely in the same style by the interested singers. Now wherethis and the hundred kindred songs sung by the slaves came from, or who amidst the darkness of slavery inditethlthem, I can. not of course say, but it is easy to determine the source of the inspiration. In patient faith and en during hope these " Songs of Zion" have been sung by generations of these bondrnen, as the only relief for bleeding hearts and lacerated bodies, and now God comes in judgment to requite the nation for the wrongs inflicted upon His oppressed and suffering poor. EMANCIPATED SLAVE WOMAN PURCHASING A Another interesting and significant event. con nected with ,the people here occaured on Monday. The women called a meeting at the church, to con sider the propriety of presenting Col. Littlefield , s regiment, now enlisting here, a stand of colors. Like the great dinner and celebration on the Fourth, all was arranged by the colored women, and $6O was contributed on the spot, by these poorfugitives, from the hard earnings of their brief freedom—contributed to purchase an American flag to be borne by their colored brethren—the flag which had been to them till now the emblem of oppression ! They oher• ish no feelings of malignity for the wrongs Which have' been inflicted, but hail the new era of freedom with joy, and rally to the country's standard with pride and satisfaction, now that the country is prepared to respect their hu manity and protect their rights. Among the contri butors was one slave woman, who has five sons and a husband in the army, while she remains at home to care for younger children. Ned Simone, an old negro belonging- to the Dun-. genneee state of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, on Cum berland island, and who was left by the rebel inhe /Ito; Nightingale, on his evacuation of the place VIEtIMF3St lIPUBLISHED WZEKLY.) VEN WAR' Parma will be seat to embecribere be. mall (per annum in advance) at • 181 Three copies 5 08 !Fre copies " 8 OW Tent W 4 • . " Larger Clubs than Ten will he charged at the eager rate, 1111.50 per copy. The money mutt airoave acconttann the order. and fri no truaanons. can Owe terra be deßZeteektrens. they afford mem Little snore than the coat of the Payer- Bar Postmasters are requested to act an Agouti for' TE'S WAX Pages. .189• To the getter-ni of the Club of ten or twenty, nit: 'atm copy of the Paper aril] be given. . died here last week, at the house of the lady teach: ere of the schools, who hate kindly cared for hira skme tbeir arrival here. Ned was over one hundred years old, and remembered General Washington and was one of the number who assisted in carrying him through the streets of Savannah on his hilt visit to that place. Old Ned took a lively inter - main the /Mini of' the nation, and rejoiced in the orosyect of the freedom of his race. Se was deeply iuterested in the cause of education, arid, though partially blind with age, he desired, himself, ' to learn to read. On being asked why he wished to learn, when he could not expect to live much longer, he replied, "as the tree falls, so it will lay ;" his attainments OZf earth would contribute to'higher at tainments on high ; and the ladies yielded to his re quest, and during the last months of his' life he, with much labor and eCort, acquired a . knowledge o,fhis letters and s7ilables, ,Poor old Ned f dater a long life of unrequited toil' and slavery, lie has "gone where the goad negroesgal , where no elite driver will ever follow ; where he can sing' "de praises ob de Lord " in freedom and safety. TEIAS AND Palle% DAMlignite from Blatant °roe, s the Ifew'Orleses Era; contains the following: hliramon is the ion of FOrt Brown , of late: He hag attbropted to tamper crith . the authorities here, but haa-ntterly failed. Theraay that Mexico wants none orthe services of men who lierve adregdy be trayed the nation. The people are erweatially loyal and patrlotio. The Texas people are desired:trot playing into the bands of the French. They are up foranything that will embarrais the United States-, and flatter Faro peen monarchy. They are playing the pert of ad venturers to the fullest extent. A great many Texas Rangers are coming here,' as they have been coming for the last eighteen months. Some are- deserters, some subject to con scription in the rebel service, but most of the 5.1100 or 6,000 - who have passed through this place Were compelled to leave the State to save their lives, because our "Mistaken Southern Brethren"'ius pected- them of being in heart, and in fact; "citizens of the United States." Many who were skulking from hill to hill, and forest to forest, in Northern. Texas, seeking to get out of the country, and only desirous of being "let alone," have been trailed-by assassins and murdered outright. ,I 'do not doubt that 2,600 murders have been committed within two years in Texas, evecy one of which has been for "suspected sympathies" for the old flag; but the new arrivals are all radicals—all intend revenge. Sixteen men from near Austin, only a week ago, arrived here. and two of them (one -a nephew of Gen. Hamilton) is on the way to New Orleans. There are hundreds of as good men in Texas as there are out of it. The Germans, and thousands cif Americans in Texas are loyal; Texas would be loyal if the reign of terror was at an end. The Boston Journal of Saturday evening says: "Mr. George Baker, a refugee from Texas, ar rived in this city last evening, having crossed into Mexico he 2241 June, and left Matamoros - on the 4th o ily. - Be resided in Washington county, about sixteen miles from Houston. We learn from him that Magruder was busily at work-con scripting all the men between the ages of six teen and sixty, and a great many were fleeing to Mexico to escape the conscription. There were some seven hundred of these refugees. at Mats moros when he was there. Mr. Baker was exempted from the conscription on account of his trade, that of a blacksmith. He confirms previous state ments, that there is an extensive loyal - - feeling in Texas. which would soon develop if the Govern ment-would but protect it; Moo rhe had seen sold in LSbreveaport fora two hundred dollars -a barrel, and coffee forty dollars a pound; - cotton cloth at twenty, dollars - a yard. =There were large quantities of cotton there, which in many, places was stacked in contiguous piles of six or seven him dred bales, ready for the torch if it should be-in danger of falling into the hands of the 'Yankees: There is very little cotton growing, but immense quantities of corn. Great quantitiesof cotton are taken to Brownsville, and sent across the -river to Mexico, and thence shipped to Havana and other ports. He had seen six or seven hundred teams loaded with cotton, moving at one time toward the river.: "At Houston he saw the men belonging to the Harriet Lane who were held as prisoners of war. The officers of the Harriet Lane had been sent to the penitentiary at Huntsville, and a late number of the Brownsville Flag stated that two of them bad been selected by lot to be hanged in retaliation. for General Rosecrans having hung two Oontedei.• rate officers. He states that the people distrust the Confederate money, and take it with the greatest reluctance." The Losses .at Gettysburg. The following, says the Worid, is an extract from a- private letter written by Dr. Gordon Winslow, who -has been connected with the Sanitary COM. mission since it was organized. The statements therein contained are very important, and, coming from the - source that they do, must be deemed more reliable than any yet received in relation to the battle of Gettysburg: GETTYSBURG, -July 27. DEAR —: You have ere this 'learned that I ant again in the field with the Sanitary Commission. It - is a field with which I am familiar, I believe, in all its parts. Few, however, know or imagine the value of its operations except those who see the absolute no ceseities not to say luxuries supplied to oureick and wounded eoldiera. The wagons and agents of-the - Sanitary Commission were on the field, in the very midst of battle, long before any other supplies were within reach.- -- In fact, two wagons, with the drivers - and-agents, fell into the hands of the enemy, and are • not yet released, so far as we know. The rebels, how ever, have uniformly been treated with so much kind- ness and-consideration by the commission, that it le - presumed they will not long retain those of their agents who were taken without arms, and while die.. pensing mercies to the wounded, both friend and foe., . My Son work was tomisit all the rebel hospitals, ob— tain the number of wounded, attendants, physicians, ete., etc. In hoipitals exclusively devoted to there I found some s even thousand, and in other portions of the field, where they were mingled with Union men, , about the same number. In all, the wounded On our side amounts to (14,2001 fourteen thousand two hun dred, and on the rebel side to about 16 -to 18,080.- The killed were nearly equally divided, amounting to about ten thousand, making an aggregate of killed and wounded forty thousand and two hundred. Quite - a little-army. It has been our work to take care, as - far as possible, of this army of wounded men, or rather to- supply -material for others to do it. All . the hospitals make their requisitions regularly, and freely for all imaginable necessities. We have, for the last two weeks, hien sending off by rail some six or eight hundred•daily, all of whom we feed- at - the d6pot, and have large tanks of water placed in the cars, a surgeon and attendants with stimulants, and anodynes, & - c., An We have a large ddpOt at the railroad station, with tents to accommodate some three or four hundred, which have been full nearly all the time, day and night, though regularly shipped twice a-day—as soon as one crowd left another came, . all waiting, as at the- pool, for their chance for heal in g meats and drinks, and-for conveyance to some distant hospital. I have had the charge of all the departments for some two weeks ; it gives ma full - employment.-We are now erecting tents at the general hospital for- our. stores, and probably, in a week or two, shall find it unnecessary to remain longer in the city. The battle field is very exten sive and is visited by thousands. 1 expect to be or dered to the front before long, perhaps in a week or two. Your, affectionately, GORDON" WINSLOW The Draft. The Boston Journal states: Thirty substitutes es-, caped from the Grapevine Point camp at New Haven, . on Wednesday, but twenty-one were onicklyrecap 7 tined, and will be tried for desertion. One was shot - while attempting: to escape in a boat, and fell into • the water and sank. Another of the runaways -re ceived two wounds (in the leg and •arm), and his', death was considered probable. Parties were sent - out to search for the missing ones. The examination of drafted men of the Ninth dis trict has been progressing for the past week - at Greenfield, With the utmost exertions on the part of the surgeon, but about ninety can be examined per day. Of these, about eighty per cent. are ex-- ernpted for cause. Very few pay the $3OO, and for the most part substitutes are furnished, at prices varying from $275 to $350. The postmaster of Pawtucket, R. - T., who was. drafted, was, as we learn, from the Gazette, pro-, Pounced exempt on making the following state ments :- • - . 1. Be was-an only son, the support of a widow. 2. He had never been able to carry any more than one day's rations. 3. The Government usually rejected a man who did not measure thirty inches around the cheat, or who weighed more-than half a ton. 4: Long marches have a tendency to create exces sive thirst, which, when not speedily relieved, causes unpleasant sensations. _ 5. A perfect abhorrence of POwder (whether in the form of fireworks or otherwise) since July 40.863. his certificate of exemption was signed by all the • officers as good during the war, or for life. In the First district, out .of 119 conscripts ex amined yesterday at New- Bedford, 71 received ex-. emption papers, 2T furnished substitutes, 8-coin-- muted, and rapeseed. In the Fifth district, at - Salem, the examination, began with the conscripts from- Amesbury end Beverly, and up to Friday night about 350 had been, discharged, thirty had. furnished substitutes, nine• teen had paid the commutation money, and about aeventy-fiv e had been accepted- as recruits_ GOv. SEYMOUR ON CONSOEiPTION.—it is some what curious, particularly in the Ugh tof recent events, that Gov. Seymour very actually, fore shadowed the essential principles of the present con scription law, months before it was adopted:in the following words: " Not only the organic law of our - State but justice demands that every man, who enjoys - the protection of society should be prepared to defend it. llecent legislation 'on this subject has departed wide ly.from this principle; no conditions have been pre scribed upon which those who have scruples of con science should be excused from. bearing - arms. Ex, emptions have been multiplied until large classes are not only relieved from military duty but also from, giving any equivalent for such relief. They include numer ous officials and other classes who have no claims to exemption beyond those which belong to every citi zen engaged in useful pursuits." WHAT WE NT.3,D.—Our Government should . not permit the slightest avoidable delay in making a. general draft We need more men. We need a force. of 300,000 fresh men—one-half to be sent to the rein forcement of our armies in the field, and the other half to be stationed as a reserve force along the Po tomac, the Ohio, and the Mississippi, to be used in case of necessity. In less-than a year from this time the term of service of two-thirds of, the troops we have in the field will expire. These troops were enlisted for. three years. The greater proportion of them went into service in May and June, 1£361., and their " time will be out" in May or June, 1565. It is easy to. boys or persuade ourselves that by that time the war will be ended by the utter defeat of the rebel lion. But this hope may turn out to be a dangerous delusion.—St. Louis. Union. A TORNADO.—The Poughkeepsie Eagle,ol Am gret let; describes the visit of a tornado : Aout six, o'clock Thursday evening information reached us. that a severe tornado had visited the country about three miles north of Poughkeepsie. The tint ap. pearance of the result of the hurricane is visible on the north side of Budd's Hill, on the Van. Valken burg property. At this point the tornado seemed to have made its first appearance, coming from a south-. westerly direction. Here there are two or three_ apple trees torn up by their roots and carried some distance from their base. Proceeding down the hill through the hollow, covering in width about three. or four hundred feet of the country thereabouts, the tornado etruck down a field of twelve acres of corn, belonging to Mr. Allen, completely , deitroying it. The roaring sound accompanying it was terrific. Mr. Jordan stated that it sounded as though a hundred railroad cars were passing. Nearly one hundred trees have been blown down and torn up by the roots. The corn in the track of the. whirlwind has been entirely dentroyed. One tree was broken in two in the centre, and the top, or bulky part blown nearly seventy feet. The scene is truly terrible. The devastation in the track of the whirl wind cannot be described. BEGGING- THE INVADER.—The Dem.dcrat says that thevebel troops have been driven beYond the borders of Kentucky, Ay, but they have al ready come back• again, encouraged and invited by the disloyal course of the Democrat and its friends. d_nd why should they not feel impelled to come back when they see the organs and the candidates of perhaps formidable party in our State 'denounciag, the war for the restoration of.the 'Unto:inns a " John. Brown raid," and advising that not another Mitrt nor another dollar be given for resits teace to rebo, invasion t—Louisville Tournaf.