vt Vrtss. AIIGI7ST 12. 1863 The War in Virginia. It is, perhaps, too much to expect that in these torrid days the armies of Virginia can .engage in .an active campaign. Our news from the seat of war, by, way of the South ern journals, tells us that MEADE and LEE are on the, banks of the Rapidan, and, we„ Sltoutcl judge, more particularly engaged In attending to the discipline of their respective armies than preparing for hos tilities. General IifInADE is' now busy with the Orange and Alexandria Rdl road, and is endeavoring to prevent the rebels along the line of the road from inju ring his supply trains and the means of transportation. He has accordingly issued e very just and stringent order, the etlect of which will be to compel the people of that :region to keep the peace and respect the sanc tity of the Government arrangements. Gen. LEE, on the other hand, is`very much con cerned about the condition of his army, and is imploring the straaglers to return once more to the service of the Confederacy. The re cent skirmish at Brandy station shows that the rebels have gone aS far as they care to go, and that having arrived at their old camping grounds, they are wilting to wait, and, if possible, decoy Gen. ME➢ADE into re peating the mistakes of Frlderieksburg and Chancellorville. It is a matter of doubt to us whether the new campaign will exhibit, the-features of any that have gone before. It would certainly-he folly for Nl.gaim to make a blind dash upon Richmond, especially as he knows that LEE is now in the midst of his own works, surrounded by his own people and, so far as such a thing can be possible to one belligerent power, master of the situa tion. We anticipate other movements upon Richmond than this of General MEADE , as we know that our forces are in possession of the Peninsula, and that General FOSTER IS strong enough to make an aggressive movement whenever he feels disposed to open the campaign. There is a rumor that LEE has been strengthened by the addition of General POLE'S division from the ariny of the West. This indicates an abandon Ment of the position so long held by BRAGG, and a surrender of East Tennessee. Time is what the rebels most desire, and time seems to be the necessity of the Unipn army. Each army wants men, and the next campaign really depends upon the capacity of the South to furnish a larger number of men, in a given space of time, than can be furnished by the North. With this theory, of course, the action of the Governor of New York, and those of his friends, is of more consequence to Gen. Luc than any other movement now in progress on the continent. The duty of the Administration is, then, to enforce the conscription, rein force Gen. MEADE, and strengthen all our =Mies, so that, when the great fithtcomes, as it must come soon, Victory will be the certain result. The Canvass for Goveinor. Two months have now passed since we arraigned Mr. Justice WOODWARD as a sym pathizer- with Secession, and_ printed the evidence; of his sympathy from his own published words. When we did so, it was not without a hope that he would have it in his-pewer to explain or modify his record— that an error orthe types might have cre ated the false:impression—or that, like other men, his opinions had been changed by the subsequent peril of the country. We know how unjust would he to try-every loyal Irian by the test we apply to Mr. Justice "Viroonwinn. There are many statesmen 'who are now warm and valiant in the cause - , of the country, whose opinions, two years ago; were very much like those uttered by the Democratic candidate for Govehaor in Independence Square. To place, them in that position now would be unjust and cruel. They were Democrats in days of peace,. and they followed the theory and traditions of the Democraticparty in an advocacy of Southern rights. We re- member the proclaimed opinions of Mr. Diemasow, of New York; General BUTLER, of Massachusetts, Governor JOHNSON, of Tennessee, and thousands of others who agreed with them. They were Derriocrats. Their Democracy was of the extreme South ern school. They sustained BRECKINRIDa-E and LANE. They were the champions of Southern rights. They permitted their chamiiionshiP to make them the enemies of Northern. institutions. When the rebellion, however, showed to what fearful results their principles were leading, they abandon ed them and surrendered their devotion to party to a feeling of devotion to their coun try. - Although we differed from these men in former days, warning them, and, as the present time shows, justly warning them of the danger they were incurring in the fool ish iloctrines they preached, their loyalty afterwards was a proper atonement. The past is forgotten, and we honor them as men whom the nation should delight to honor. How is it with Mr. Justice WOOO - WAnn ? Is there any way by which we can apply to him the criticism we apply to Mr. Dica-fx sox . or General Bur - Lan ? We should be happy to do so. We should be happy to print any word, or sentence, or de claration, public or . private, that he has made, since December ) 1860, showing a re: pentgnee for words then spoken, and a de- Sire to see the cause of the Union triumph. ,We „even extend the offer, and say that 'We shall print any declaration he may 'wish to make now, and be governed by its character in our course towards him 'during this campaign. Let us see the nature of the platform so shamelessly adopted. As we have before said, the occa sion:of his speech was an assembly of citi zens to renew their professions of devotion to the Union, and to ,secure peace and liar -mony. The country regarded - that meeting with anxiety and pride, for 'it was a meeting of the most eminent citizens of Philadelphia, without regard to. their party proclivities. Loyal men i who desired to see - the Govern ment sustained, and, at the same time, looked, upon war as a calamity so appalling thatitny sacrifice should be made to avoid it, looked to this meeting for comfort, and conciliation. Disloyal men in the South, iabOring in a fiendish manner to overthrow the Government, curiously 'obsarved that Meeting in Philadelphia; and meetings of the same:nature in other cities, to see what was the real strength and purpose of the Northern sentiment, and how far they might venture to go in their designaupon the national liberty. We.know how 'loyal men felt when this speech of Judge WOODWARD was.made. Wei can imagine the joy and consolation of; the'traitors when they found a Northern ju riot. base enough to declare before a Northern audience : It seems to me that there must be a time when slaveholders may - fall-=back on their natural. rights, and employ, in de-' fence . of their 'slave property, whatever: means .of protection they possess or can command.". "Let us proceed with our re bellion," they might justly have said ; " lei us build batteries around the Union forts, call conventions, secede, rob arsenals, or ganize armies, and plunge this republic into the:throes of, war. Are we not encouraged by a Northern jurist, and is it not fair to presume that when a judge of the Supreme Couit 'of Pennsylvania openly advises us to - war . we may look to the peopleof that State for support ?" They did look to us for slip port—they still look to us for support; and in endeavoring to elect -Mr. Justice WOOD-.- IvApD-Governor of Pennsylvania the Demo cratic party is- endeavoring ..to - redeem the hopes its leadere'so boldly excited. The-danger of placing such a man in the IGubeinatolial chair is too great to be ne ,fleeted. See what Governor SZYMOUP. has 'done in NeW York; read his, inSolent lettere -to the President, and. see what he is now :attempting :to , do. New York, the only state in the North; with r the exception of New Jersey, under the.control of - a Demo cratic Governer, is the only 'State :where armed insurrection ,has defied the authori ties of the land. Shall . Pennsylvania be submitted to such a humiliationl Shall this great State be burdened by a Governor who' would look upon a mob like that which re cently disgraced New York as a mob of friends and partisans ? Shall we have men in. Ppwer here who would glory in insulting and denouncing the E'resi dent of the United States, and whose machinations seem to indicate a new con spiracy in . the Middle and Western States to obtain possession of the machinery of Pennsylvania and Ohio State GoVernments and raise-the standard of rebellion? There is great danger that such a calamity may en sue. Imagine YALLANDronekruGovernor of Ohio and WoonwAnn Governor of. Penn sylvania, and see how easy it would be for these two Executives, with PARKER in New Jersey and SEsmoun in New York; as allies, tnseriously embarrass the Government—to defeat, perhaps, its efforts to save the Union, to plunge the Middle States into another war. Friends, this is not the least danger to be feared from the election of Mr. Justice WOODWARD. We know where his heart is—that it is against the country, and that if we give his hand power it will be against the GoVernment. In opposition to such a man, the ffiends of the Union have given us ANDREW G. ConTrzr, our pre sent Governor, and a statesman and patriot with every claim upon the people for their suffrages. He has shown us three years of earnest patriotism and practical states , main:hip that he understands the duties of his high station. How can the people hesi . tate ? On one side we see a sympathizer with treason--- - - - so avowed—and in alliance with men like licone,s, REED, INGERSOLL, and the rest, whose triumph would be full of danger to the Administration. On the other Side we have a true patriot, a model Go vernor, and one of the Union's most effi cient and worthy friends. The-choice is easily made, and Pennsylvania, by a majo rity of many thousands, will make tikat choice in October. North Carolina. In the rebellion are two classes of men— leaders. and followers ; the desperate and the calm, the cautious and the rash. We must not suppose that the'speeches and pro clamations of the conspirators at Richmond perfectly represent the spirit of the Southern people, for these are the work of the men who know that the failure of the rebellion is their personal ruin. Nor must we believe that the desperate fighting of the rebel army fully expresses the feeling of the no‘-corn batants, for the bravery of a soldier, whose passions are excited by battle, is very dif ferent from the courage of a people, which a long war has made thoughtful. To know the true spirit of the Southern people, we must not ask JEFFERSON DAVIS to define it ; we must go fronerhe rebel Government for correct information, and, so far as it is possibleefobtairt the unbiased sentiment of the masses. We shall then find that the opinions and feelings of the citizens of the South are not now what they wer‘at the beginning of the war; that the most intelli gent classes begin to condemn the rebellion as a blunder, or at least to lament it as a failure. Two years of war have taught stern les sons, and have strange results. The abo lition of slavery in Missouri, in Western 'Virginia, and the certainty of its speedy ex tinction in other 'border States, indicates that we have not merely achieved a phy sical, but a moral victory. In Tennessee, the anti-slavery feeling is growing ; in Ma ryland, the theory of gradualabolition is already popular. This is one proof of the strange changes of the Southern people, and a proof of the increasing weakness of the re bellion; for it was begun for the sake of sla very, and has thus far been fought only to the injury , of slavery. Wherever we find a State or a. part of a State willing 'to yield the pecu liar institution, there we may be sure the spi ritzof the people is for peace and Union. These signs are multiplying, and, without referring further to States now under our military power, we can find them numerous in North Carolina—a State which has suffered little from the war, compared with. Virginia and the other great battle States near the border. In North Carolina, the desire - for peace, the belief in the uselessness of war, finds expression in the numerous refugees :who constantly seek the North, in the popular dissatisfaction with the measures of the Richmond Gcivernment, and the tone of, its most intelligent journalism.. Recently, we published an editorial from. the: Raleigh Standard, in which submission was openly spoken of, . and JEFFERSON Davis de nounced as unworthy of trust. It has been folloWed by another article, equally remark able, which is so earnest in its statements, so calm in its reasoning, that evidently it is not so much intended to act upon the people, as it is itself the embodiment of popular opinion. We may be sure that no journal, in the South would dare to oppose the tyranny of Rich mond, unless it was, sustained by the people it addressed. the Standard replies to a contemporary, which fears that the continuance of the war will destroy slavery, and While apparently desirous - thatslavery should be preserved by peace, does not be lieve that peace can now be obtained upon any terms the South may choose to propose. Yet, it is anxious for peace even at a great sacrifice, for it argues conclusively that a long war will end in the complete conquest of the South and the entire emancipation of the slaves. Unlike several of our Northern journals, the Standard considers it a great crime to conceal the truth. It announces that it will, therefore, tell the truth, no matter what may be the consequence, and begins by this confession: " From the beginning of the war until the present, the enemy has slowly but surely gained upon un ; and but for the extraordinary endurance and cou rage of our troops,hitliag would now be floating at the capital of every State. We have lost illissouri, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Mississippi Valley, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and con siderable portions of other States. Vicksburg has fallen, as we feared many months ago it would. Port Hudson has fallen; Charleston, Mobil?, and Savan nah will probably go next. Gen. Lee is attempting to retire from Maryland with his spoils, but no substantial victory has crowned his arms. We are weaker to. day than when he crossed the Potomac into Maryland. Our recruits in the way of con scripts will scarcely keep our regiments fall, and we cannot hope to add materially to our forces. Our fighting population is pretty well exhausted. Every body knows this; the North knows this, and so does Europe. On the contrary, our enemies, flushed with triumph, have a large army in the field, and their Pre Orient has just called for three hundred thousand more. He will get them. The movement on Penn nylyania by Gen. "Lee, and the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson, have hushed all clamors for, peace in the North, and have banded the people there as one man for the prosecution of the war. We have nothing to hope for from foreign• nations; and just as our cause is, we see no indications that Provi dence is about to interpose in our behalf. The war, then; will go on. One side or the other must con quer. Will five millions of whites conquer twenty millions of the same race' Will they conquer a peace on the very soil of these twenty millionst Not in any event, if these twenty millions possess ordi nary manhood, and will fight." Thus it is that-an independent Southern I newspaper dares to tell the truth to the Con federacy. We have . heard of Federal ex aggerations, especially from English jour nals, and by them the sunbursts of victory have been depreciated as gleams of success; but does any Northern statementV the war, and the condition of the 2dtitli, 'Claim greater triumph for the Union than this arti cle confesses ? The most enthusiastic loyalist could ' say no - more in his joy, than this rebel journal admits in its regret Rebel journal, we say, for - the' Stanclgo.d is naturally sorry that the South, has been so badly beaten, and advocates subthission to the , Union, because of an in tellectual conviction of its. necessity, and ad vantage. Were, it possible for the States in rebellion to obtain their independence, no doubt the Standaiq would speak in different tones. But it knows.too well the emptiness of that delusion, and is anxious that North Carolina' should return to its olden honor able place in the RepUblic, rather than find certain ruin in seeking to realize a, dreem. Nor do we believe that higher. motives are wanting 'for throughout . the ,argument is t. visible, a struggle between the ;pride of sec tionality, and the returning love fora nobler nationality. To us however, the most important fea tire of this able essay is its fr`arik confession that the South has beep. beaten, and that in" a prolonged war it will simply `! rush on to Its doom." ' We are satioied that the people of the South are rapidly becoming - convinced of these truths, and that it - will not be long before the people themselves will demand the cessation of hostilities repudiate the liichmond usurpation, and submit to their legitimate GovernMent. "DIE World asks permission . . to borrow " the striking phrase - of a Hebrew prophet." It had better borrow.the Hebrew irophet's principles.' Invitation too Riot. "Mr. Lincoln is politically blind if he does not perceive that this question is fast passing beyond Me domain of argionent. Mare Democrats will be left in Veto York than he can take away vihseripts to . the war.; and it behooves him to consider whe.h...r (cur armies in the South will be really strengthened by . I , Prry Cu - cling 'Which will create a necessity for large armies in crow loyal State." . It is perhaps unnecessary to state that this paragraph is quoted from the ,World, for none other than an apostate Republican , journal could be so rabidly wicked.' It.is. plain that the World is endeavoring to atone for the little'good it did during the brief pe -riod of - its loyalty, by an excess of evil. it is making up for lost time rapidly. Thero is no reason why it should despair of reaching the last degree of degradation and disloyalty. A few more invitations to riot, just Ertrifle of justification of rebellion, a little more abuse of loyal men, and it will be as perfect a specimen of cowardly trea ' son as a connoisseur in depravity could wish. All that it, lacks is courage to do What it desires, and that, under Governor SRYIVIOURie protection, it is rapidly ac quiring. TBE Dum - Inn of ArnOxica.n citizens will not only be taught by Mr. JAMES E. Mun noon, at the Academy of Music on Thurs day night, but will be practised by all who attend his patriotic address on that subject. his address is to be detivered for the benefit of. sick and wounded soldiers ; and their families, and if there/be any duty which we should delight to perform, it is this. dlr. illicrunocll is not only fitted by unquestioned loyalty to speak upon a subject so important as that he has chosen, but by the fine intel . ligence, beautiful ,elocution, and rarely equalled powers of natural oratory, which have given him such high reputation as a Shaksi)earian actot The address will nuti to bis celebrity, And, we doubt not, will be Of real benefit to the noble charity for which it is delivered. . TIIE FACT that the rebellion is weaker ilow than at any pitiriotis time of the war, is, in the argument of intelligent nien, rea son why the nation should increase its strength. <The illogical opponents of the conscription declare that the weakness of the South makes the draft unnecessary. In other words, they wish to, equalize the con-- test as much as possible. They propose to prolong the war indefinitely ; the Govern= meat, by overwhelming power, proposes to end it at once. ' WE ARE not desirous of instructing Gov. SEirmoua in arithmetic, but we must say that he does three bail sums at once. His little calculation in simple addition not only multiplies the number of rioters but sub tracts soldiers from the army. ED TOR lAL LETTER. [Frain the Washington Chronicle.) PHII;ADIMPRLA ilugust 6, 1.863 In the dark and disastrous days, through which Mir country has passed, many whose faith in God had never failed them before, wavered and doubted. Theattachment of the American people to - the American Union is something akin to idolatry. It is inborn and inherited. It has been nursed and.. nourished front the beginning of the nation and from the commencement of every individual American life. It has been prayed, preached, writ ten, and sung'into our very souls, until at last it has become a part of every true man's religion. And observe that none assisted this feeling (so near to our ' reverence for the Deity himself) more than the Southern statesmen, poets, and clergy—always ex centiag that cold and satanic Machiavelli, John C. Calhoun. Hence, as defeat after defedt of - so good a cause came like stormy clouds; blacken ing and blotting out the sun/or the stars, faith in God began Jo falter end to fade in more than one heart. Some looked to Atheism as a refuge ; others sat in blank amazement and despair at what they regarded as-the deserted and hopeless condition of the Republic ; and many declared that the experi ment of self-government, was a farce from the first, -and was destined to expire, by an inversion of dra matic ideas..in a dreadful tragedy. Let me, however, defend this mistaken and perverted feeling. It re suited not because the Providence that rules all was an unreal idea, but from finite, limited, imperfect human - capacities. :When the Ides of July came with victory on their wings, there was a triuniph as well for God as for country. We measure the triumphs of July by commercial and political standards; by the rescue of States and parties; by the salvatiOnsof property and of individual life. But. God's victory in that month was greater than all the other :victories ; for it was His. Never before have His presence and His prescience been so felt, and never have they so confounded unbelievers and doubters. And never, let us in grateful pride admit, has He so smitten the foes of humanity and freed ora as when He appeared as the Great Captain of din armies and fleets in the month of July, 1863. Days, weeks, and months of agony had passed; but the relief and the deliverance compensated for all ; and though I believe we are about to be called on to endure more agony in the coming days, we must never again doubt "the Divinity that shapes our ends, roughhew them as we may." - The -President's proclamation of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving, was responded to in this spirit to day. Those of my readers in Washington who have never visited Philadelphia should have enjoyed my experience this morning and afternoon. The draft bad just been concluded, lowbroWed Riot had slunk to his den, and red-handed Murder was appalled be fore the patriotism of the people and the stern array of a resolute Government. This city is to-day a pic ture of the prosperity of labor in a free country. No where on God's earth it the:workingman so well cared for as in Philadelphia. If he is industrious and frugal he can enjoy life to the full. We have few of those municipal sores which disfigure New York, where often twenty families are crowded into - a single difelling. An honest laboring man, who ' cares to look after himself and family, can rent a house in Philadelphia, with bath and gas, at a cost of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum. And to go over the city and see, as I did to• day, the coin fort of such people, their cleanliness, their sweet children, the father and the mother sitting at the doorodeps, and the abounding wholesomeness of every court and corner, were to me a luxury not to • be enhanced by the loud.voiced thanksgiving or praise. The churches were vocal with patriotic gratitude. The stores. were closed. There were no drunken men on the streets. , The Union League was magnificent in banners and eloquent of music. Chestnut street was filled with well-dressed mecha-. ' Dies, 'with their wives and children. Even the hos pitals wore the appearance of health under the:old flag, bright, beautiful, and new, as it was. There were prayer in -the churches, thanksgiving in the households, and praise everywhere. And you may be sure that the clergy did not fail to take advantage of the day set apart by President Lincoln. I wish Mr. Lincoln himself could take a few hours to read what these peaceful men'of God said to-day in Philadelphia and elsewhere. They actually revelled in snultation over a nation's victory. After all, this is a war not of man, but of God. It is a contest for Him and His chosen children. And if His servants do not now rejoice, when can they rejoice? Dark days are ahead; darker, possibly, than any we have known ; and now is the time to harden and prepare us—now, when we realize our power in the midst of our victories. If, at, such a time, the clergy did not speak out, and Notind tile praises of a - just and . a retributive God, our fate would indeed be disconsolate and dismal. And well haite the hiyal clergymen of Phi ladelphia discharged their obligations! They ap preciated the full gospel of the war. Curious it was to observe - bow the heretofore "conservative', clergy rushed forth to denounce ellivery, and de; mend its extermination. The old radical Abolition ists were left in the shade by those who now see that the cause of the war must be destroyed before - the war is ended. This was the tent of all whO spoke o-day. Their sermons will 'doubtless be printed to-morrow. Now tell me, readers of the Sun day Morning Chronicle, is this seed to be need-. lessly sown On ungrateful soil? Can it be that there shall be a disloyal party in 'a great com munity, when th; whole • Church .Catholic is in tensely patriotic and right? When front nearly , every pulpit we hear the voice of reproach and rebuke of Secret Traitors, can traitors be strong enough to weaken the arm of the Government? More than two years ago, over the signature of "Oe cPO4Pah" I PICOMO t 1.44 the t!e3e, would come when slavery Slid the seceded Solith Woilld quail and yield before the tremendous and irresistible argu ments of, the church and the friends of freedom. I then thought the, time for the realization of the prophecy would come' in a few months. lam con tent to wait, now that the Christian Church is in the field, armed, equipped, and eager for the fray. Be foie that power nothing human can stand, and, least • of all, human slavery. A anal word about the prejudice against negroes. Of all knoyan prejudices, this is the meanest scut the worst. I insist that it has no basis, except in. igno rance. Amalgamation never belonged to the reform that contemplated the elevation and improvement of the colored man. A better, a purer, and a higber philosophy prevails. This black race is here. How shall we use it? The simple question is, whether "the rebels shall use this race to feed their armies, or whether the Federal Government shall employ it to defeat the rebel armies? That is all of it. And when I see or hear of an Irishman (for, to the dis credit of the Irish, it must- be said that too often they are foremost in attacking and insulting colored men), or in. American,.assaulting the poor negro, I feel like asking, shall We feed him without making him fight? Sometimes, as I pass along the streets of this most beautiful of cities, and see the frequent manifestations of hatred of the negro on the part of those who - have no cause to hate him, I feel impelled to, ask whether the black race may not be turned to a good purpose, and whether those who 'insult and assail them . know what they are doing? re Prejudice is an unreasoning, and immorseless despot ; but Prejudice is more frequently dethroned than any other tyrant And I predict that the time is coming, and -it may- dawn in your day- and mine, when the colored people will be found among the most devCited defenders of the American Union. The war, like a thunder-storm, clears away many clouds ; the prejudice against the colored people is one of them. Let us, then, thank }leaven that if the rebellion has been ,a sore trial to our beloved, country, it has cleansed us from many sins and induced us to look forward to a brighter because a better future. W F • • Cell. Sickles at Saratoga Springs. SARATOGA SPRISs'OS, August 11.-6 Fen. Sinldea and his staff artived here this evening. THE PR ESB.-PIIII4A DELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGJJST 12, 1863. It is known that Mr. LAIRD, British shipwright, who has been so conspicuous in building Pirati cal vessels for the rebels, has endeavored, in his recent speech in Parliament, to.exCuse or pal• Bate his professional enterprise in that direction, by chat - ging that during the Crimean war, a ves sel-of-war, called, the ,America, was built in this county for the Russians, and that she sailed for the Russian possessions on the Pacific, un der the .command of the late Captain HuDsolr, of the United States navy. This statement,-in whole or in part, being. deemed incredible,:inquiry has been made in the proper quarters, and it is ascer tained that the Executive Government,' for the time being, has no knowledge, official or un official, that a vessel of that name, for that ,purpose, or with that destination, was in pro gress in this country. There is no complaint upon the subject on file in any Department, front any diplomatic or consular officer of England, France, or other enemy of Russia. Such a vessel may have been ,built for our own citizens, to be sold to the Russians at their then recent settlement on the Amoor river, to be used as a tugboat, and a Captain HUDSON, but not of the United States navy, may have been employed to navigatd her thither; but not, however, with` - any expectation that the vessel would engage in- hostilities against the Allies, or that he would command her upon such an occasion. In point of fact, she did not clear from New York until some time after Sebastopol was taken, and the Crimean war was substantially at an end. Although she sailed in an unarmed condition, - it seems that, On arriving at Rio de Janeiro, the British and French naval commanders in that quarter indulged suspicions as to her neutral cha raster. The following extract from a despatch of the United States minister there furnishes the re sult of the inquiry upon that subject: Colonel Biaos, the chief. quartermaster of this department, leaves in a day; or" two, for Fortress Monroe, where he will establish his headquarters. WA~HIN(~TON. ~ Sreclal Despatches to The. Press. WASHINGTON, August 11, 1863, The New York Draft— 4.nother- Letter from the President to Gov. Seymour. Ex nocrTivis IVl&trAiorr, WASHINGTON, AUZIlat 11, 1863. To 1)..a Excellency floret) Seymour, Governor of New Yours of the Bth, with Judge Advoaate General Waterbury', report, was received today. &siting you to 'remember that I consider time as heing very irrino:l ant, both to the general o muse - of the country and tothe soldiers ' , heath in the field, I beg to re-' mind you that I waited, at your reqWest ; from the ?tit to fie 6th inst., to receive your Communication datedthe sd. In view of its great length, and the known time' and apparent mire taken in its prepare- ' tine, I slid not doubt that it contained your full case as you deWre present it. It contained figures for twelve districts, omitting the - other nineteen, as I eupposed because you found nothing to complain of as to them. I 'answered aconrdingly. In doing so I laid down the principle to which I propose adhering, which is to proceed with the draft, at the same time employing infallible Merino to avniftany great wrong. With the commu nication received to. flay, you send figures for twenty- eight districts, including the twelve sent before; and still omitting three, for which I suppose the enrol-, meats are not yet receivel. In looking over the fuller list of twenty-eight -districts, I find that the quotas for sixteen of them are above 2.000 and below 2,700, while of the rest six are above 2,700, and six are below 2,000. Applying the princi ple to these new facts , the Fifth and Seventh die tricta mast be added to the four in- which the quotas have already been reduced to 2,200 for the first draft, and with these four otlers must be added to those to be enrolled. The correct case will then stand: The. quotas of the - Second;-Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and. Eighth districts, fixed at 2,200 for the first draft. The Provost Marshal General informs me that the drawing is already completed in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eightecnth, Twenty-second, Twenty fourth, Twentraixth, Twenty. seventh, Twenty-. eighth; Twentrnintb, and Thirtieth districts. In: the °the t e f - - - ...:.;., t . ' "0" ~,tree outstanding, the draw ing will be made upon the quotas as now fixed. After the first draft, the- Second, Fourth; Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Twenty.first, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-ninth, and Thin trfirst will he re-enrolled for the purpose and in the manner stated in my letter of the 7th inst. The same principle will be applied bathe now outstand ing districts when they shall Come in. No part of former letter is repudiated by reason of not being restated in this. or for any other cause. Your obedient servant ; - LINOVT , Ns Refutation of the Assertions of Air. Laird. in the British Parliament. MR. TROUSDALE TO MR. MARCT. trothict—No. 98. LEGATION OF TOE 'UNITED STATES, Rio DE JANEIRO, Feb. 13, 1866 On the 4th of the'present month, the United States steamer America,' commanded by.. Captain Wm. IL HUDSON, arrived at this port. The English and. French here charged that this vessel was intended to aid the Russians in the Pacific, and that she had on board a large supply of equipments of a WEI*93 nature, which were buried under a quantity of coal contained in the vessel. They insisted on the right of search to satisfy themselves on this subject. The evidence on which their allegation was founded was the staterdtmt to that effect of- an English seaman whom the captain hiLd shipped, in this port. This seaman..bad displeased the eap taim and had been dismissed in about two hours after be bad gone aboard. Captairy HUDSON as!. serted that the charges were false, and at the same time stated that no search should be----made by Englishmen or Frenchmen on board his vessel. It was thought by. Commodore SALTER, and Capt. HT/neon - , that the captain might reduce his denial to writing, and swear to the ' same. This _was ao• cordingly done.' The affidavit quieted the excite ment, and the America has proceeded on her journey to the PfiCifle. I send - ,you a copy of the affidavit, mai ked.L : . AvPIDAVIT oP CAPTATN HIIDSOR, ON THE STEAMER e=! I, Captain War. H. HIIDSONi solemnly swear there are no other arms or munitions of war on board the' steamer America, under my command, than the fol lowing, viz : One rifle, one-.double-barreled shot gun, one Coit's revolvers, ene pair of pocket pistols, a ten-pound keg of powder, and a bag of No. 6 robin shot; and I further swear .that the manifest which has been exhibited is correct. Ilio DE JANEIRO, Feb..ll; 1856. Wsr. TnousoALE, certify-that: the foregoing affidavit .of.W.u. H. HUDSON was duly sworn to be fore me at the time it bears;date, in testimony of which I have signed my name to the same, and cause the seal of the Legation of the U. S. to be thereto affixed. Done at Rio de Janeiro, in the empire of Brazilfon. the.day above stated. [Seal.] - " W. TROUSDALE, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. S. to Brazil. The Hon. G. B. SEDGWIOR, late chairman of the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives, has written the following letter FISTIFAVENUE HOTEL, N. Y., August 9,1863. Win. Taxan, Esq., Chief Clerk Naval Department: 'DEAR SIR : I was sorry not to be able to see you again ill Washington. I wanted to say that I had a full recollection of all that matter of .I.thup's build ing ships for us. It may have passed from Mr. Wera.ms , memory. At the special session of July, 1861, Mr. J. Howann, of New York, came to see me, as chairman of the - Committee on Naval Affairs, and produced sundry -drawings, specifications, esti, mates, etc., from - the LAIRDS, saying that he came_ at their instance, to make these ,proposals to the' Navy Department. I told him to go to the Secre tary o' he Navy, which he did, and he-told me that Mr. WRLLES declined entering into any negotiation about it. Mr. HOWARD was not very well pleased with the result. I saw him several times. I pre sume. it is correspondence with him.which . Lrann hes published, although I have not seen it. • The truth is, he was an_ agent of LAIRD'S, and not, in any sense, of the Navy-Department. If not LAIRD'S agent, he was a mere volunteer,'perhaps, expecting a commission from LAIRD, but he was furnished by him, in advance, with plans, estirnates, &c., &c. I am, very truly,-yours, It may ,be added that one of LAIRD'S agents stated that Par. LAIRD was anxious to do something to give slavery a death-blow. - The Indians. Cornmissioner pqrat has gone to Kama 'to make preliminary arrangements tor the removal of the Indians from that state, , - • The Volunteer Navy. Persons desirous of entering the different grades of assistant engineers in the volunteer navy of the United States are authorized to present themselves to the chief engineers of the Brooklyn, Charlestown, ann .Philadelphia navy yardefor examination. If their professional and physical qualifications are found satisfactory, and letters establishing good moral character are presented, they will be recom mended to the Department for acting appointments, according to the wants of the service. Unfounded Rumor. It is unaccountable how a rumor could prevail iii - , trew York , as is ascertained by a pOsitive despatch, that President LINCOLN died at $ o'clock this morn ing. is well and attended the Cabinet meeting to•day, as usual. North Carolina. The steamer Pesonic arrived from Beaufort to day.. The following is from our correspondent: Nawnsarr, August O.—The Unionists in Eastern North Carolina are to hold, hi a few days; a' great mass convention, for the purpose of invoking the Government to send a sufficient 'force into this de partment to occupy Raleigh,Wilmington, and Wel don, in order ter force the rebel army to abandon Virginia, and thus restore these two great sister States to the Union at once. The appointment of Colonel lan, of tbe 27th Massachusetts, as provost marshal, and Captain CHARLES D. SANFORD, of the same regiment as provost marshal of Newbern, gives universal faction. , Naval Order. Lieutenant Commander °MLITT hag been ordered to command the Unadffla. ' The War in Kentucky. CINCINNATI, August 11.—Aapecial despatch from Lexington to the Commercial says :' "Reports from the front-indicate that silts quiet on the border. . • . • "The.refugees from 'Dist Tennessen report that Forrest's mounted forge was to rendezvous at Kings ton or Conoco - Ed. "A rebel brigade, under Arsintrong, had arrived at the former place. " General Burnside arrived at Lexington yester day. The movement of troops, in/ that direction ie very active.r. Natioiial Sa•libith COu'vention. SAIIATOGAt August 11 —The National, Sabbath Convention met here to.lay, most of the loyal States being represented. The lion., W. W. lintvorth, of; Connecticut, was chosen permanent_ presiiient, Protestor Philip Schaff, of Pennsylvania, read an essay on the Americnn Sabbath. The Convention will adjourn on Thursday. All is quiet on the Rappahannock. There is nothing remarkable about the stream. It is very narrow, not half as wide as our own Sehuylkill. have watched it as it rushed madly and turbulently past my feet, and quietly wondered why this north branch of the river was not styled in the common Vireinia vernacular, a run, which it resembles more * than a river. At Rappahannock station our men have completed 'a splendid railroad bridge and .the clue pass over daily. General Meade and staff' rode out to General Newton's headquarters yesterday, and, although the heat of the sun was almost in- Aolerable, inetiected the fortificalinns along that sec tion of our front. It is a very' fortunate thing that the At my of the Potomac is not called on to march` a great deal diming this intensely warm season ; fortunately, they hadmild, cool weather when they rambled through Maryland, and into Pennsylvania. Last night, the enemy did not appear in much force almig cur front. Their vedettes and pickets were drawn in to a considerable extent. .0f 'course, they mean the Riipidan shall be their line of defence, nod it le, undoubtedly, an excellent choice, for there is nothing of military strength in their - position of the last two or three days. The country hereabouts is desolate, scarcely anything to be eeen hut till chim neys, blackened and charred with the same fire which consumed the mansion. The water is by no means of an excellent quality ; occasionally you dis cover a spring which sends forth pure . water, but much oftener it Is of a muddy hue and unpalatable. Of course, it Is not my husineee to say how soon we shall start to diaturb their repose. That they will be hunted up and paid the balance due them on their raid into Pennsylvania, Is as sure as their re. treat was hasty. Our soldiers have recovered their exhausted strength. and can he depended on in any emergency. Every day brines in squads of cavalry, who have been to the dismounted camp hi Wash ington, and returned with new hems; much to the envy of those who think tteir horses inferior. And rebel soldiers find their way-into our lines, for scarcely a day passes hut I see one or two squads .* :eceliting great attention from a small guard. The Majority of these men show great disinclination for fighting—they are Perfectly satisfied with what they. have done, and have made up their, minds to one thing—they have folightfor nothing; thdf °Weds.. rady is not what they expected it to be. About a mile from• here, on the hard, dry road leading to Warrenton Junction, a large and:noisy concourse, assembled to witness a mule 'ran. For the past two days extensive preparations have been making to have the affair go off with great eclat, and the originators of the novel race , were so pleased with their success that they will have another trial of speed as Penn as poselble. re Birkenhead a - donkey race is so common that people prefer the en , joytnent and fun to be found at, such ;Armee to that of the Derby. But there every man rides his neigh bor's donkey; the donkey which reaches the goal last winning the cap. Of course, every man urges the braying creature he rides to its full speed, deter s mined his neighbor's animal shall not come in last while he as driver. Eleven mules were entered. If their owners had to ride them I a m Bur e there would have teen no race, but there were contrabands eager enough for the fun. The purse of fifty-five dollars was ready, and the running began. Many of the racers were very small, and when their black riders_ opened their mouths to smile, I think the picture was very grotesque. Three races for fifty-five dol lars !--the course being five hundred yards long. Some refused to go, and, planting their feet firmly in front of them, looked with the most provoking indifference on the whole scene. The majority began to bray with frightful distinct ness, and several of the sable jockeys were unac countably thrown on the ground, the little creatures looking down on them with a ludicrous twinkle in their eyes. Bets were freely made, but the winning mule was one who had scarcely a patron—an animal that few deigned to look at, he was so hideous. A most remarkable occurrence (one at least which caused great merriment), was the coining in of the last contestant, Everything had been amicably set tled, the puree handed to the winner, when a large gray mule trotted quietly up to the judges, as if he was the most sagacious, if not the swiftest, mule. Large numbers of contrabands have left the va rious camps to enlist. Every day some officer loses hie servant in this manner. The prospect of being in a regiment, which is so favorably mentioned lathe newspapers as the 54th Massachusetts, is very en ticing. Two or three cooks get together over the camp-fire, one says he will go if the other does, and, next morning after such conversation, you eenerally find two contrabands on their way to Washington to join some regiment. If wemmploy them terfight our battles, we should protect them. It is very unfair to allow them to be hung like dogs after they had fought like men, without making scarcely a remon strance. How astonishing is the antipathy the Vir ginians have to our using negroesi as soldiers I No thing seems to enrage them so much. At first they thought by frightening them, as the ROMMIB did the elephants used by. Pyrrhus, that they would be ' , greater enemies to their employers than those they were to attack. The Romans did throw confusion into the Grecian phalanx by driving their huge ani -11111113 through them ; but the theta have thus far failed to frighten the colored soldiers in the least, much less to confuse them so that they would fire into our troops. Their Unaccountable bravery is a source of great annoyance to their former masters, who imseined the treatment they had-administered to them for such a long time had entirely crushed out every semblance of 'Courage. The natives begin to see the bad effects of the gue. rilla mode of warfare. The course we have adopted is severe on the evil and the good. But when' every man who is to be seen is taken prisoner, certainly some of the midnight' brigands will fall into the'net . I have seen about one hundred of these disconsolate. looking creatures, many of whom , bitterly denounce the actions of those neighbors, which cause them to suffer in company. They will all have an opportu nity to take the oath of allegiance ; if they refuse, an invitation to go over the lines will be extended HUDSON,: [Special Correspondence of The Press-3 MILL DA_GE 3 MiSS, July '26, 1863. When the 9th Army Corps entered actively on the 'campaign in Mississippi, the let division of the 16th Army Corps, under command of Brigadier General William S. Smith, was temporarily attached to it, constituting its 3d division, very nearly as large as our other two divisions together. We were the left wing of the army, in Its advance to Jackson, the whole under the command of Major General Sher man. On our return . to this place, this division was returned to , its corps. The following is General Smith's teply to General Parke's order of transfer lIKADQUAATEItS ISTDiv., 16TH ARMY CORPS, JACKSON, Miss., July 20, 1863, .hdaj. Gen. J. G. Parke, Commanding 9th Arn4 Corps Sin Your ordei transferring our division to the 15th Army Corps is just received. Permit me, in behalf of. the division 1 command, to tender to you our thanks for Your uniform kindness to us, and for the interest - you have manifested in our welfare during our temporary assignment to' duty with your corps. ram happy to assure you that the opportunity afforded us to witness the conduct of the Eastern troops of yout command 'has convinced us that they possess valor and discipline which we may well emulate. Longer association:. would, .we doubt not, have matured and . strength.med the friendship so auspi ciously . begnm Our best wishes for your welfare ante - omen will constantly attend.you. - Very respectfully, your most obedient servant, W.IrD .S. SMITH, Brigadier General Commanding Ist Division. Thus part theme who have been made Acquainted by contact, and the narrowness of local prejudice is thus swept away. The Western troops have grown into a habit of thinking that they are the only troops that .can do any fighting, and if they were 4raniferred to the East, Lee would be conquered and iliiihmond taken long ere this. They point, and :with: reason, to the long, continued, steady, add ana -1 Ftoenful- progress of their army and generale. They see, BOwever, only what is within the bound of their - own hellion, the swamps they have waded, the heat and cold they hail* endured, the untold adeeries and privationii to which they have been -subjected. But -they mutt climb the slope of the A;ialitelitan Ange,"and look beyond, to see the deep rivers,lhe swamps; the fortifications, the peculiar conforenatb3n .of the valleys of Virginia, where an army cannot 'move twenty miles from its base on the Potomac without uncovering its flank and exposing its rear— where Richmond is a centre and holds all the inter nal lines, and its assault must' be made on external lines, a difficulty all such generale as Napoleon and Wellington have' said is next to &IL linpoesibllity, a difficulty they never have experienced in the West; and,- moreover, upon - the well-drilled and valorous army of the rebels, .such as they have never seen, upon 'such generale as. Lee and Jackson, beside whom, Bragg, Van Dorn, Kirby Smith, and Yoe Johnston, can- never be - placed. And further, - they forget that many ofthe very best Of the Esstern army 'are of Western regiments--Wisconsin, Michi gan, --Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, have regiments there that' none can -hope to- excel. We admit the un doubted bravery of .the Western troops, that they have the great seal set upon their courage and-endu ranee, success. But no one who has been ill a battle on the Potomac; no one who has seen the discipline of the Eastern army, and how it has subserved it in lilts trials ; no one who has known its wonderful .4ced health and cleanliness, its adehirable hospitals, the efficiency of its quartermaster's and commisoary. departments, will ever wish to exchange its: glory and name, - its comfort and regard• for a man's well being, for the Army of -the West. . In one of my letters before this I dwelt upon the hardships of campaigning in Middle Mississippi. Itwas to, let those who take their ease,know, that it was not a Mere. pleaaure excursion, although they reed 'that an army of 40,000 was driven from the Big-Black, forty miles beyond, behind its entrench-, ments, and from behind, its formidable entrench ments in so many days. Since writing it I saw some extracts from rebel papers, intimating how our army would melt away beneath their sun and on their soil, a soil they had been bred and born upon. General Breckinridge arrived at the Big Black with reinforcements.on, the 2d or 3d of July, and on, the morning of. the 4th three brigades had already crossed to attack no, when they heard of the fail of Vieks . nd,retreated. They took- itquite leisurely, as, although the most of the' left were at the Big Black, the right just started from Vicksburg that morning. I conversed with many of the rebel moi diem!, who laid that, although they did not go fast, C. B. SEDGWICK ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, [Special Correspondence of The Press.) TIRADQUARTRRS ARMY OP ytIE POTOMAC, VI ROTATA, AICTUat 8, 1883 I have conversed with an old lady full of rich re membrances of the past. She has alwaSii regretted being unable to attend Gen. Washington's funeral, but her father would not allow her to go. because of the inclemency of the weather. Two things` will trouble her till she sinks into the grave. The first was the injury done her large farm by the railrcrads -- - -the second, the destruotion inflicted on her pre petty by our soldiers. When Stoneman made his raid through the place, two officers searched the house. One of them inquired if she would take the .oath. The oldlady, not knowing what it was, in dignantly refused, and meekly folding her arms over her breast, and quietly closing her eyes, told them to shoot, for she was ready. Great was her astonishment to - find the Yanks did riot - murder old women. When the ears first came through her farm some young ladies were stopping at her house, and the Old woman laughingly telle how one of the girls from the interior raised her hands and exclaimed, "Poor things ! how they blow." B. THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST. the heat of the sun and the want of water almost destroyed them ; that they bad never suffered so much, nor ever wished to endure the tortures they had then to undergo. This was upon their own "soil, beneath their own sun, and they were born and bred here! Ilia now over twenty days since Vicksburg sur rendered, and Gen. Grant has been industriously at work endeavoring to redeem it to order and to clean it up. You can see the marks of sanitary hands, hut withal it is a most forlorn and •desolate-looking place. A friend remarked the other day, as we were picking our way along its streets, that a man ought to he A goat to get along hero. The streets are full of holes ; pools of water have FL clark-greea scum on them'; rubbish of all sorts strew the streets. At the interseolion of each street leading from the wharf with the first street parellel to the river, are breast works thrown up of heavy earthwork, no doubt to prevent pudden assault from the river. The bluffs here appear to have been very high, and the streets out and graded through them, leaving to many places the squares a high hank of earth, rising perpendicular from the street fifty to sixty feet high ; and in one instance in particular, near the court house, there is a house swap up there, with fence, and trees, and shrubbery—a precarious looking eyrie, especially during the siege, as the house ap peared to he well riddled. On &level with the etre*, into these sand squares are dog caves—caves of refuge—nicely shaped, lined with old tents, and some were carpeted ; the dents arched in Gothic and other fanciful styles—eVen in their misery not forgetting their ideas of beauty. But ail over the city you see marks of War—not so much in the im mediate contusion of shell and shot as in the air of misery and desolatenese, the broken-down leek, and worst, in the maimed and sickly, the immense hos pital arrangements. There is no doubt of its Capa bility for defence. The rebel Government must have had their hands too full, or they were culpably neg ligent to their interests, by not having it properly provisioned and garrisoned, no that it conli have been held until relieved. The theory 'of war is that a besieged piece must fall in time unless relieved, hut the force must be large and well sustained. Per- Ilene the dread of yellow fever, in despite of their boosted acclimation, may, have operated- more strongly on the rebels than any other reason, as it does not appear that the last doe. or oat was reached. Certainly, the coaditi.e.y or the city when taken would favor Filth a supposition. There is a very observable difference between the Workmanship upon fhe rebel *Orkii Sad linen Pure, Perhaps they are as iliroug, and answer the puroose, are placed with as great 'engineering skill, but they have not that neatness, that air of finish about them, which ours have. ' But we long to 'return to that , gond old State of Kentucky; and be with and under the man with whom we started in out war upon the rebellion, and with whom all our glory and hopes and names are all associated. Death has made the only changes in our band.' Our generals and officers are alt the same with whom we started. 'Mare' have been no trans !ere, as I can now recall, as thern have been in other corps. Yet, as we bO, bey drop Mit one by pne ; it does not avail that we lope one mine, if it be 425 fate. Captain Alexander, a young, handsome, brave, m 0 capable officer 6i the 9th New Hampshire, is among those we lost at Jackson—a man 'ery much he' loved for his fine qualities. While posting outposts on our extreme left, one night, the line was very crooked, and he wandered outside of one of hie own poets, on his return, was tired at by them, and shot through the hip. He lingered until brought to NCH dale. where he died during the night. Informed of there being no hope, he bore it bravely, as he lived, Buffered the moat extreme torture on the way here, enduring it with wonderful patience. Oh, when will the last blast be blown, and the gale sink to rest, that there be no more bleeding hearts, and the sickening fear of those at home be changed to as sured strength by the safe return of those they love! L. THE EKDEDITTON INTO AKKANSAS-AFFAIRS AT VICKSBURG-DESTRUCTION OF REBEL PROPERTY. CAIRO, August 11.—Gunboats are being , prepared to eo•Operste with GED. Steele's expedition into An• kansas. Vicksburg is being put in a complete sanitary con dition. Rations are still issued daily to upwards of 15;000 inhabitants. is reported that the guerilla Richardson has re turned to West Tennessee, with requirements to carry out the rebel conscription. It is said he has been instructed to conscript all the light colored men between 18 and 45, to serve for three years as sol diers, and at the expiration of that time they are to be manumitted, but are to receive no pay for ser vices. . The reconnoissance under Major Warden, of General Ransom's staff; to Woodville, seventy miles from Natchez, destroyed five locomotives, forty-three platform and twelve passenger cars'; burned a rebel-cotton factory at Woodville, and also cotton and manufactured goods to the amount of $200,000. Cairo is thronged with twenty-day furloughed men from below on their way home. Twenty deeertere delivered themeelvea up, atter hearing a speech from General Logan, at Marion, a day or two since. Deserters are being captured daily in the southern counties of; Illinois, and forwarded to their reg,i- FORTRESS MONROE. FORTRESS Morfrtoii, Aug - ustlo.—The steamer City of AlbanY arrived -yesterday from Beaufort. On her outer trip:she encountered a heavy storm. and, re ceiving some damage, will be hauled off for repairs. The gunboat Iroquois left Beaufort on Friday last to resume her station on the blockade off Wil l:Oberon. All the rebel officers and surgeons confined as pri soners of war in Fort Norfolk—up - wards of one hun dred and twenty five—are being transferred to Fort McHenry, by the steamer George Washington, in charge'of Major Mulford. "The steamer Nelly Peutz arrived this morning from Stono Inlet. Captain Phillips reports that he left there last Friday, at which time the siege was progressing favorably, and the officers and men were in fine spirits. No news of importance to report. From Memphis. l'ilempurs, August 9,—A. company of citizen scouts, numbering about sixty, organized in Northern Ala bama, in June last, to resist the rebel conscription, have thus far evaded.every effort to capture them. They report to Gen. Dodge, at Corinth, that their number Is Increasing daily. They have either cap tured or driven out every officer sent into that sec. tion to enforce the conscription. Letters from privates in Bragg's army report him falling beck to Atlanta, A. considerable number of rebel deserters, who bad retained their arms, are in the mountains . near Pikeville, Ala., and are organizing with the citizens to resist the conscription. The efforta to execute the conscription in West Tennessee are pretty effectually broken up by the vigilance of General Hurlbut's army. The Pirate Georgia. NEw YORK, August 11.--The bark Lord Balt!- more, from Rio Janeiro, reports the bark Good Hope, from Boston for the Cape of Good Hope. was captured by the privateer Georgia, on the 13th of June, in latitude 22° 49' longitude 42°.09', and burned the next day. The crew and passengers were trans ferred to the bark J. W. Seaver, from Boston for the Amoy, river, and landed at Rio Janeiro. The pirates bonded the Seaver for $15,000: Bounties for Volunteers in Chicago. CHICiGO, August 11.. The Common Council last night passed, unanimously, an ordinance providing for an appropriation for bounties for volunteers to act as substitutes for drafted men who are unable to leave their homes or to raise the three•hundred dollar exemption fee. The lowa Excitement Subsided. MUSCATINE, lowa., August 11.—The latest ad vices report that the excitement in Keokuk county has subsided. T.Tpon the arrival of the military from Davenport, the insurgents dispersed. The Unionists prominent fn , sheeting Polley were arrested, told bound over. Some arrests of insurgents had been made, and others will be. Most of the military have returned. One company from this place re mains with the sheriff's posse. CINCINNATI, August 11.—A special despatch from Columbus to the commercial, says : "Governor Tod will leave for Washington to-day. An important meeting of distinguished, personages will come , off in that city within the next ten days, at which grave questions bearing on the present az pest of the rebeindn will be discussed: 11 The draft will not take place till the Governor returne.,i: The Draft in New York. NEW Yonx, August IL—The draft is nearly com pleted in the western part of the State. ' A revision of the enrolment lists , has been ordered inthe first nine districts, comprising New York , county. Long Island, Westchester county, and Sta ten Island. The draft therein will take place in about two weeks. Arrest or a. Colonel. NEN.: Yon's, Auitist it-Colonel De Forrest,'of the Harris Cavalry, is under arrest, charged with having defrauded the Government to the amount of $50,000. ' . Arrival of the thina--,The. Polish and Mexican Questions. NEW Yourr, August 11.—The steamer China has arrived. Her advices have been mainly anticipated by the despatch from Cape Race. Marshal Foley, it Is stated by La France, will leave Mexico, September 145th, giving up the command to Gen. Bazaine. . The same paper states that r the negotiations be. Breen the Three. Powers for a common reply - to Russia, are on the point of a successful termination. La France does not-despair of Russia proving con ciliatory. Should she, however, be otherwise dis posed, the consequence would be a general war, placing in question all the interests Of Europe. The National Finances. Say Cooke, subscription agent, reports the sale of $620,C00 five twenties yesterday. Deliveries of bonds are being made to the 29th of. July. These sales are enormous, when the dullness of the season is con sidered, scarcely one4hird of the business commu nity remaining in the city to attend to business or the investment of money., Blarkets by Tele,..rapll. BALTIMORE, - Allgllat 11. , --Flour heavy; sales of 1000. barrels at 416 Tor Ohio extra. Wheat firm. Corn declining and scarce. Whisky , firm at 48c. Ship News. New YORK, August 11.—Arrived. ship„Arkwrieht, horn Liverpool ; bark Abraham Baker , from Vera Cruz; bark Ilva, from Maracaibo; brig Louise, from- Swansea ;'brig Elizabeth, from Rio ; brig Anna D. Joidan; from Matamoros ; brig S. M. Merritt, froth Sagua: SIGHTS AFOOT.—T. Br Peterson & Brother, of this 'sit y 3 'announce the third edition of Wilkie 001- line"' Sights Afoot" as being ready. It was pub lished only two weeks since, end for the reading }ohne to exhaust two large editions in that time shows that it is unusually popular summer reading. NEW YORK CITY; (Correopondonoe of The Press.) New Yon w; &uglier 10, 1803. The increase of crime, in this city, is neetaneholy to Contemplate. It seems as though the lawleseepirit which the Copperhead politicians have aroused were slowly culminating, rather than abating, since the fearful punishment which it lately attracted at the hands of the police and military. &leader on-reorder, horrible in detail, fills its appropriate space la our newspapers, and, although in nearly , every ease the aaseemin is promptly apprehended, this pitiless Incarnation runs a muck, maiming and- slaying - on every hand. Daring no longer to satisfy their butelkerly proclivities upon the negroee or the citi zens in our streets, the rioters are now turning their knives and bludgeons mind their own wives, and Upon each other. Accdrding to present indications, Hangman's Day, will be of weekly recurrence. The "Condemned Cells" are slowly tilling with wretches doomed to the rope; wretches- who, de pending, perhaps, upon political affinity with their comrades upon the bench, have hoped for escape from the condign penalty of the law. No man who properly appreciates the malign influences con stantly invoked in this city can ever desire the abo lition of capital punishment. Our prisons cannot hold a man who votes for the nominees, of the rab ble, or could not until purer men were eldvated to controlling offices, and the unscrupulous, unedu . cated beings, who until recently have had the sway, expelled. To doom one of the affiliating criminals to imprisonment for life would be a farce; the prison walls could not hold him. Up to within a very few years, we constantly heard complaints from the police that it was useless to arrest a "rough," for he was inevitably teleased by the justices, at the re quest of some alderman or political magnate. And the recent clecieion of the Supreme Court, on the question of the bogus writs:of Jtudge McCune, is all that has prevented the rioters from snapping their fingers under the very nose of Sustize. Thank Heaven ! there is some purity resident on the bench, and the scoundrels are learning the feet through the medium of a most unpleasant lesson. Recorder, Hoffman is putting the screws firmly upon the in surrectionary spirit of New York, and before long the "condemned cells" will receive an instalment of wretches whose comrades are now declaring them martyrs to a sacred cause, - and whose example the Copperhead press to tte patrons tq emulate THE GEMST, far-famed in the theatrical circles of London, was produced at Wallach's Theatre, on Thursday even• ing last, and proved a most welcome guest. The general idea that this patent phantom is simply the wretched old thing of white drapery, thrown out trom the surface of a convex mirror, is erroneous. The illusion is produced by means of costly appara tus, and the employment of mirrors and gases ; the phantom is not shown against any screen or palpa ble substance, but (though this is stated somewhat conjecturally) against a dense gas, which obstructs the reflection that otherwise would natural y cross the stage and fall only upon some tangible substance. A brief description of that portion of the scene in which the illusion is produced wilt convey the beat idea of this really astounding effect The body of the theatre is enveloped in dusk, the lights all being ;l awn , As the curtain rises, the stage is discovered nearly as dar i, , illumined only by the light of two tapers on a table at right, and a faint glare from at ; the left showing no the "wings," also the rig...; lamps, Across the centre of the sta-,, is arranged a dark framework, extending from "wing'' to "Wing , " and rising to the "flies." This framework may be .best understood by comparing it to a window-sash capable of containing six panes, supposing the four sides- of the stage to stand in place of the outside frame in which the panes are all held. The half of the stage behind this framework is raised about-three feet, the whole being covered with a dark covering of baize. On this raised por tion, extending entirely across from "wing" to " wing," the business of the scene takes place. Here it is that a doctor beholds the spectral shapes of an old man and his ward, whose, deaths he hae corn, passed. At the centre of the dais or raised portion stands a large chair. The first, gland at the scene reveals a few indistinct lines (they may be'called such) faintly shadowed near this chair:; but whether they are Intended to give an inkling of the illusions which are to follow, or are certain reflections neces sarily there, can only be conjectured. It should be borne in mind that the ghosts ate the reflections of living forms. and not of pasteboard mummies. At the proper time, the first phantom appears. It is simply the murdered woman, robbed of all substance and materiality, standing near the chair, - with a strong light reflected upon her, which renders dis tinct even the folds of the veil which she afterwards lifts from her face. Imagine the actress herself standing before a tall mirror with a powerful glare thrown upon her face and figure. Her rellec tiorris in the glass. Now withdraw both actress and mirror (suppositiously), leaving the reflection upon the empty air; give this a littie indistinctness, a faint blending of all the lines save those which de fine her figure against the da'rkness ; endow this re flection with the powers of motion to some degree, and you have exactly the ghost of Prof. Pepper's invention. You do not lose the contours more than you do in stereoscopic pictures, and the_ illusion is perfectly opaque. You cannot' see the background through it, as in pictures of ghosts made up for ste reoscopes. In truth, it is a genuine ghost, artifi cially produced—a woman without humanity or sub stance--an etherializationef a woman. The second ghost is that of the old man: He sits in the chair. Through an awkward mistake on the first night of its production, the capabilities of the appara tus were disclose& This second ghost seated himeelf in his chair be.fore"the proper time. To remedy his :error, he slipped off to his knees, and went out, so to speak, in ad indescribable manner, blending himself, as it were, with the dark tints of the baize upon the floor. The disappearance is ge nerally instantaneous, yet it causes no diminution of light upon the scene. The spectral figures vanish with the speed of thought, yet how it is hard to conceive, and still harder to describe: perhaps, to say, blown out like candles, will best answer the purpose. As might have been surmised, New York is in a fever of enthusiasm, and the Patent Ghost is dis cussed everywhere, and furnishes a base for witty allusions in society. The season at Wallack s s will be necessarily of short duration, and at its conclu sion his Ghostship will probably take up hisrquar ters-in a; double sense at Laura eerte's now de serted theatre, after which Philadelphia• and the other leading cities may expect an experience in ghostly visitation. STU'S( VESANr. SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican relates the following horrible affair): On the 4th inat, eighteeli negro soldiers, fully armed, came from the camp on Island No. 10 to Compromise, Tennessee, and went to, the house of_ Mr. Beckham, on the river, and murdered him, aged forty years, his old father, (Major Benjamin Beckham, aged eighty,) and four chil dren of Mr. F. Beckham, Laura, aged 14 ; Kate, aged 10 ; 'Caroline. '7, and Richard, 2 years. They brat caught Mr. F. Beckham and his aged father, tied them, marched them Ito the edge of the bank of the river, shot and stabbenhem, and threw their bodies into the water. They then threw little Dick into the river, tied the two youngest girls together, and threw them in, then forced the oldest girl and beat her over the head with their muskets until she sank down. The bodies of old Major Beckham-and the youngest child have been recovered. Many of our passengers and myself went to the house and saw them. 'Fortunately, two of the family of children were off at school, and the mother and one child, four years old, went up tO Owensboro, Kentucky, with us on our last trip.] All the rest were murdered. Twelve of the negroes were caught by our cavalry, and are -now confined at Island No. 10. Six are yet at large. The immediate motive for the deed was thought to be the tact that Mrs. Beckham took up the river with her a . negro girl as nurse whose mother had run off; and was at-Island No. 10. The negroea had before endeavored to steal the girl away, but Mr. Beckham drove them off• with arms. rrx-i3r. The Thermometer. . AUGUST 11, 1862. 1 AUGUST 11, 186 x. 6 A. 11.....12 M. 6 A. 7.! P. 21, 74 87.. 90 86 . . . .98M 94 ESE.. SW SW. bEVEIT TIMES HEATED.—Mtakspeare says something about "meat filling knaves, and wine heating fools." This weather beats everything, and heats everybody. Sol Meet omnes, and all corres pondingly suffer. The human hash that walks the streets is a aeriocomico Incitement to mirth and melancholy. Soda-water, that pharmaceutical nec tar, water ice, that icialed ambrosia; sherrY-cobbler, that beau ideal of a fancy drink, were yesterday imbibed in such quantities as must severely have taxed the human receptacles and passages with which they made acquaintance. The fruit-men and candy.women played into each otter's hands, and exerted , their most subtle arts to induce news boys, and other children of a larger growth, first to become as thirsty as possible, and then to become as hungry. Cocoanut cakes and sugar candy pyramids were intermingled with geometric grace, and penny , a•piece peaches were delicately brushedi and rebrushed ai though their skins were so many velvet coat collars. Everybody was in a state of growl, and the temperature of mind and body kept pace with each other. The few argu ments ventured upon by the most truculent were broken off in the middle, and the premises, like spiral staircases turned upside down, led to nothing. Dogs snoozed in doorways, looking as though they had just concluded a bargain with the hydrophobia and were sleeping over, it. Even at the Tenny lonian hour, "when cats run home ' and light is come," the atmosphere seemed to be simmering, and the locusts .were kicking up their customary row like so many telegraphing apparatus. Every thing that was white presented a pop-corn appear ance, and things generally seemed &ling their best to attain to white heat. Every baby looked as pur ple as though it had just been, born, and eVerymo ther was suggestive of a red spermacettcandle sput tering in the socket, and at the very last gasp. Street-corners were redolent of,the perfume exuded from restaurants. Fish, flesh, and foul;•compound ed en- alliterative odor and reminded one of the splay shores of Araby.thir blest, being only "a thou sand times more exquisitely sweet" Yesterday was, indeed, a fiery trial, and even Shadrack, Ilde echack, and Abednego, would have longed for some one to exclaim to them, in the words of the poet : "Through the furnace, unflinching, thy steps I'll purßue, • With a sun.umbrella, or perish there, too !" IJEATIIS kleD EFFECTS FROM THE HEAT.— At 4 o'clock . yesterday morning a newspaper carrier named Peter B. Betaken ' residing at 1144 South Filth street. fell at Eighth and Noble streets from the heat. He died at 9 o'clock. A storekeeper named Casey, residing at Eighth and Christian, died early yesterday morning from the excessive heat of the day before. An undertaker named-Bauer fell on Iklarket street,. above Fifth, early yesterday afternoon, and died while being canted home. A man named Frelin, who resided at 1109 Ciltve street, died yesterday afternoon from sunstroke. Mr. Adams, who lived in Brinkly place, Cherry street, below Seventh, died from the heat. A soldier, who had been out in the sun, was taken suddenly sick. He was carried into the military hOspitsl, at Biond and Cherry streets, where he soon •died. An unknown man died at 107 North Sixth street. The Coroner was called to- the following-named places, to hold inquests on -persons who died from the heat : Pennsylvania avenue, below Coates street; No. 70 Bedford street; Pennsylvania Hospital, three caws; No. 308 leeminger street; No. 517 North Twenty-fifth street; No. 504 North Sixth a treet ; also, at Tvc enty-second and Cuthbert streets—making, in all, sixteen cases yeeterday. , About ten o'clock on Monday evening a ,man named 'Robert Searles, aged 50 years, was found dead in one of the cells of the station house of the Tenth district. He was addicted tointemperance in strong drink and being `overcome. by the excessive heat, Samutl R. Long was found, about half past three o'clock on Alonday afternoon, in a dying condition on Front street, below Brown, and taken to the station house of the Seventh district, soon after which he died. His body wee taken in chars* by friends. Patrick Shields, a soldier, who had been dis charged from the army, was found 011 the sidewalk at Crown and ()alio retail streets, in a dying condi tion, about 2 o'clock on [Woodsy afternoon. He was conveyed to the Almshouse, and when het heard from it was thought that he would not re- Cover. THE MECHANICAL BRICIGIANER. —We paid a phort visit yesterday to the brick-making yard of Mr. F. a Clark. near the Nicetown station on the Germantown Railroad, for the purpose of witnessing the operation of a machine which we may style the mechanical brickmaker. There are only three of tliese:machines in operation in the country. The word wonderful, as applied to the labonsaving qualities of this apparatus, would scarcely convey an adequate ilea of it. In the MCI.. lion where the brick maker is located there. it a large belt of clay, from four to five feet in thickness, km * which the machine will make three thousand bricks per hour, the men and boys not being required to work longer than ten hours per day to produce thirty thnueand bricks. . . The entire apparatus, including a forty.horse power steam engine, covers a apace of nearly one hundred feet in length. The machinery. by means of Wheels, belts, pule Dee ropes. &c., is made to draw the virgin clay from the pit, on a narrow Teemed leading to the hopper. into which the mass is emptied by a mss. A half a ton of clay thus disposed of in the reeeetae cle. is drawn down by an endless screw, after which it is subjected to a number of revolving knives and water. The clay is thus exceedingly well tempered, and it is forced to the mime hole, thrnueh which it escapes. This aperture moulds the brick, so far as refers to breadth and thickness. The clay now makes its appearanee like a lone, square bar. As it comes out it is pushed on a long hand that paeses over or revolves — upon friction rollers horizoetally arranged. Thus it ie carried I. the net ter, a distance, perhaps, of twenty feet creel the temperer. The cutter consists of a very share. thin blade fastened on a large wheel. Every revolution this makes, the knife cleaves through the bar of clay, end thee lops off - a brick. This wheel revolves about flity times in-esch minute. It can he made to go much faster if necessary: The brick thus out off is continued on the belt as afpresaid, and. before it is ready to be carried away by the boy. it goes under a, dusting box. This dust is very fine, and is ob tfilDfd from iron ore. It not only prevents the clay sticking to the carriers' hands, as dry emir keeps the &Nigh clear froin the bakers' hands, but owing to itP nature, it causes the brick to burn cherry red. The machine, it may be said, can do the work of ten or twelve Sets of employ eea. who work in the old style by hare. The clay is se rbesemeeee and evenly, mixed, that an expert bricklayer can chip off a - corner, and preserve a sharp point or edge with the most perfect ease or precision. The brick can he split with the trowel crosswise. length Wise, or edgewiee just as easily. This briekmaker care produce 20,0001 - wicks every ten hours--or the emir /none number of nine million three hundred then send per year, leaving out Sundays. and allowing three holidays, Fourth of July. Christmas, end Theneseivine day. It is Messrs. Chambers & eon's patent, but we learn that no person can be allowed to use it in the same vicinity. Mr. Clark has the patent right to the use of this machine in the entire State of California, to whisk great country a number of the brickrnakers will probably be sent before the lapse of any great length of time. This valuable triemnh of geninw and enterprise has only been in operation ationt tee eays, since which time it has moulded an acre of cley into well end Smoothly made bricks. As it seems to he a fact that nearly all the human brisk makers brave either joineiethe army or been drafted, such a machine. the operation of which we have at tempted to make known, levee:lea the more velum,. hie indeed, as the prospect of continued house•build ing-was never better than at the present time. INTERFSTING.—The following brief epis tle posaessee local interest, and it le, therefore, cheerfully submitted to the people in this column : U. S. ARMY G - ItNREAL 110TPTTAL, ANNAPOLIS, Ind. !} 8.17 g, 4, 1863. Miss E. H. Hoven. B;eivi a -tv of the Woman's Con. tritruting Aid Society. Philadelphia : MADAM : Your note of 'yesterday has jilat 1!.661 ;7:penned. Your articles all arrived in good order, and hav6 been of greatbenent to the suffering men around ug. Our hospital buildings are all Belled with sick and wounded men, and we bare some four hundred in tents,. We received two hundred paroled prisoner', from Richmond yesterday. They were in a most deplorable condition. The demand for hospital stores is stilt very greet. Whatlve are most in need of is gond stimulants-- brandy, port and sherry wises. Shirts, wrappers, and towels are also' much needed. Partly worn thin coats and pantaloons would be needed.,' great service to the men who are able to walk around. and could be given without much sacrifice to The donors. May God bless your noble efforts in behalf of our country's brave defenders. Your obedient servant, H. C. WENRIES, ... Chaplain U. S. A. 'FUNERAL OF .A VI , ELL-RNOWN CITTZEIf. The funeral of Mr. Isaac. Powell, a well-known citizen, formerly proprietor of Jones' Hotel. in Chestnut street, wilLtalle place from the'residence of his hrotherAmlave, Dr...T. E. Hoskins, East Go shen, Chester county, at 11 A. M., on Thursdati. Friends who desire to attend the funeral from the city may take the 7.50 A. Pd. train for Cheynev's Shops, on the West Chester road, via Media. Itir. Powell died suddenly. in his 49th year, while on a visit to the country. His death has caused sincere regret among a wide circle of friends and quaintances. IDENTIFIED. —The Coroner, yesterday morning, held inquests on the nodies of two men who were drowned in the Schuylkill on Saturday night. They were recognized- as William Wilson and John Andrews, one of them being . a drummer in the regiment of Colonel Smell. The unfortunate men proceeded in a iinv-bnat on Saturday night no the Schuylkill as far as the Falls. The frail craft was overturned. and the parties were drowned. Both.of them resided in the city of Philadelphia. AN ESCORT OP VETERANS.—Yesterday Lieut. Chancellor, who was wounded at Gettysburg, was buried at St. Peter's Church. The escort was composed of nowcommieeioned veterans, represent ing the flower of the Army of the Potomac, under charge of Lieut. Dorr, of .the lat Army Corps, now here on detached service. These war-worn and sun-burned men were the occasion of much notice as they marched to the church-yard. It is seldom circumstances admit of such a tribute to bravery. THE DRAFTED —Another squad of seve ral hundred drafted men will leatm the city to-day, under the comm and of Major Sellers, of the 90th Re• glment, P. V. There are a number of officers in the city awaiting anxiously for enough to ful up the quota of their rngimenta, DAY OF EXECUTION POSTPONED.—Pat rich Farrigan, condemned to be hung next Friday. has been respited until the 18th of next month. This, act of Executive clemency was extended at the re quest of the clergyman attending the doomed man. CLOSED.—The City Controller's office will be closed until the 24fli inst. FINANCIAL - AND • COMMERCIAL, THE MONEY MARKET. PHILADELPHIA, A.uguat 11, 1862. Notwithstanding the excessive heat business to-day was moderately. brisk. Money is still very plenty, and easily obtained at small interest. There is no news of any import fo communicate. Gold was rather dull - as it has been for some time past. Speculators do not wish to touch it, being afraid that news from Charleston and Mobile might turn it entirely to, their disadvantage. Messrs. Jay Cooke & Co. are still kept very busy with the subscriptions, which might be said are showering upon them. It is astonishing •that at times when we have been defeated, or when our feelings have been clouded by gloom, our people have come forward to show their patriotism and confidence in greater numbers than when our Cause, seemed hopefuL In the Stock market, considering that but one board was held, business was moderately brisk. United States sez. curities were firm at yesterday's prices ; State and city securities were also firm as yesterday. Cam den and Au boy bonds were active, the sales amount ing to 22 , 500 at 'lOB ; North Pennsylvania scrip was also active, the sales amounting to 21,246 at 87X; Reading Railroad was firm, though inactive, closing I:LSSM ; the Wyoming and Susquehanna Canal, and Catawissa preferred remained unchanged; Philadel phia and Erie lisdlroad advanced X, closing at 25 ; Long Island Railroad Chised at 39, same as yester day. 'ln bank stocks and passenger railroads noth ing was done, the prices remaining the same as yes terday. Drexel & Co. quote Government securities, ace., ai follows:' - - - United States Bonds.lBBl —lO5 tIIIM - X Certificates of Indebtedness..new PP U 010136 Certificates of Indebtedness. 9WO 933354 tinitetStates 7 3-10 Notes. 654(d. 61‘. Quartermasters' Vouchers •• 99 09934. Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness ... Gold Sterling. Exchange 39 0 40 Paris Exchange -• .4 5 10)01 10-1(0 Messrs. M. Schultz & Co., No. 16 South Third street, quote foreign exchange per steamer Scotia, from New York, as follows London, 60 days' sight IRO L-f1q01.99M Do. 3 days 139# 1403' a Paris, 60 days' sight 4flo erl3. Do. 3 days 1 , 07,X flO. Antwerp. 60 days' sight 400 115 Bremen. 60 days' sight99l4(&lool‘ - Hamburg. 60 days sight 46 oi, 4614 Cologne. 60 days' sight 9"' 93 -Leipsis, 60 days'sight 4234 @ 93 Berlin, 60 days' sight 9234(d< 93 Amsterdam. 60 days 'sight 52 0 5234 Frankfort. 60 days' sight 52340 - Market inactive. The New York Post of to-day says : - , The loan market is stagnant this morning, and the terms on call are more favorable to .the borrower. The current rates are 505 X, but very few lenders think of asking more than 5. The stock exchange ls active. and notwithstanding so large a number of= the wealthiest operators have temporarily retired from its precincts, the number of bul ers is greater than ever, for the ease with which money can be borrowed to carry stocks offers a temptation to a multitude of business men whose com mercial operations are suspended to enter on the ex citing but dubious course of speculating in stocks. Governments are quiet; border State' bonds irre gular ; bank shares firm ; railroad bonds strong, and railroad shares buoyant. Before the first session gold was selling at 126 Q(0 126 y ; Erieat 106 ; Illinms•Central at 121.. W, ; Michr g!inSouthern 92M; Rock Island at 106, and Prai rie du Chien at 18gM. • The appended table exhibits the chief movements of the market compared with the latest prices of yesterday evening: Tu Mon. Ad.'s', Des. U. S.6s, 1851, reg......».-.104X 104 X , Q. 8.6., c0n.......».106 106 - IY. S. seven-thirtles• 2..'106.3i 106% MB. 1 year Card! gold-101 X 101 U. 8. 1 vr. Cert. carr'ncy 993( 999( .. American 1263 Idris preferred x_ • 10334 3 % ..Hudson 149 148 . • Harlem preferred. Reading 116 X 116 6 Ruch. Central.---....«. 116 1:534 Cleveland&roledo 11434 113 X Chicago & Rock Islanii,los% 105 X . - Prairie du Chien SIX 7834 3 .. Chica_go & liorthwest'n. 33 32K 34 • • Fort WavneJ....... , 76:4 76X Alton & Te• -, Haute. P - rf. SO 93 The New York Herald says': The following statement of the New York Central comes from a reliable source: Balance to credit income Efrit. 30. 1.362 . n 690.295 Gross earnings to Sept. 30, 1363,partly_ estimated $11,000,0:0 - Expenses. 60 per cent $6,600.000 Interest, &i: 1,195.160 Dividend, 7 per cent 1,680 000 -- 9,475,160 - Surplus 1,524,840 Total surplus Sept. 30. 1363 $4,21.5,13S The question arises whether the company should use this money in paying off $.1,000,000 of seven per cent bonds, maturing next year, issuing stock—at' a dividend—to represent them, or whether the bonds should be paid off by a new issue of five per cent forty years -bonds, which would sell. at. par, and should give the stockholders an extra 8 or 10 per cent. cash dividend out of this surplus. The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Was in. town thiSmornirig. Re says that the Sub-Treasury balance at this point will be greatly reduced this week. One draft for a million, to pay for commis sary stores, freight, &0., was advised this morning. The business' at the b . üb•Treasury was as fellow. to. day : , M. $3:336.5 46 For euetomQ %A 040 00 Payments 3,132.603 57 Balance 26..05,19 1 3 76 • The estimated earnings of the Olevelstutarat Pitta burg Ballroad for July were as follows Freight: nwsee gem: Express Total 1180. 618 gamo tine last ism' 121).
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