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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).