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PANTS, $6.50, At 704 MARKET Street, BLACK CASS, PANTS, $5.50, At 704 - MARKET Street. BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5 60, At 704 MARKET Street. GRIGG & VAN BUNTEN'S, N 0.704 MARKET Street. GRIOO & VAN BUNTEN'S. N 0.704 MARE ET Street. GRIGG & VAN OTINTEN'S, N 0.704 MARKET Street. BRIG() & VAN BUNTEN'S, N 0.704 MARKET Street. EIRIGG & VAN GIINTEWS, N 0.704 MARKET Street. mbS2-6m ARMY GOODS. 1776. 1863. A G S T. SILK FLAGS!! BUNTING FLA.(1111 BURG-EES. PENANTS.• UNION JACKS. STREAMERS: IBIETNUCINGT, BED, WHITE, AND BLUE. EVANS tit "HASSAI.,I4 MILITARY FURNISHERS. 1717-tf lte. 41S ARCH STRUT. Philadelphia. ARMY HATS, ARMY HATS. ADOLPH Jo lIEENi N 0.63 North SECOND Street, Philadelphia, blanufaetorors of all kinds of _ FELT HATS, have on hand a large'e.aeortine at of all the various and most approTed styles of ARMY HATS. Orders by mall from antlers or lobbora, will ba promptly filled at tbw loweA rates. legt-ft GENTS FURNISHING GOOD& NOS. 1 AND 3 N. SIXTH STREET, pnTr. &DELPHI& .10111 i U. IREISONii tromminLy r. amix xooss,l IMPORTER, AND DEALER ink - GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, ALSO, MENIIPAOTURER OP THE IMPROVED PATTERN SHIRT. WRAPPERS. DOLLARS. • UNDERCLOTHING. &s. EATIBT.LaTION GUARANTIED. • m722•t0i4 GEORGE GRANT, No. 610 CHESTNUT STREET, Hat now ready A LARGE AND COMPLETE STOCE..... GENTS' FURNISHING- GOODS, Of his own importation and manufacture.• His celebrated " PRIZE MEDAL SHIRTS," Manufactured under the saperintendence of JOHN F. TAGGERT, (Formerly of Oldenburg Taggert,) •re the most perfect-fitting Shirts of the age. REF' Orders promptly attended to. iy9-thstn-6m OLD ESTABLISHED SHIRT, STOOK, AND COLLAR EMPORIUM WO. 148 NORTH FOURTH STREET CHARLES L. OICUNL Jo CO.. ire prepared to execute all orders tor their celebrated make of Shirts. on short notice, in the most satisfactory manner. These Shirts are cut by mesenrement, on sci entific principles, and surpass any other Shirt for neat ness of fit on the Breast, comfort in the Neck, and ease on the Shoulder. aplB-stnthlint VINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY. The subscriber would invite attention to his • IMPROVED OUT OF SHIRTS. Which he makes a specialty in Ms business. Also, son stently receiving. NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WERE. J. W. SCOTT GENTIJMEIPS FURNISHING ' STOES. Mo. El 4 CHESTNUT STREET.. Jais-tf Four doors below the Continent's'. WATCHES AND JEWELRY. IEI _WATCHES, JUST EBONIVED FEi r STBAIM. SITEOn. GOLD WATCHES, LADIES' tam OF NEW STELE& MIXER Juromis AND OELINDRES. GILT ANORES AND (MINIMS. rLATED ANCREEI MKD OTLIADESS2 Yoe We at Low Rates to the Trade,-by D. T. PRATTi SWF CHESTNUT STEEN?. ;AA FINE WATCH REPAIRING :.WV" attended to, by the most experienced workmen. and every watch Warranted for one year. EL RIISIMII. AA Drorth SIXTH Streak l b 3. 0. 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WILLIAM H. - YEA.TON & 00, No. 21)1 South FRONT Street, Agents for the sale of the ORIGINAL IiEIDSIECR Jc CO. CHAMPAGNIL Offer that desirable Wine to the trade. Alto, 1.000 eases line and medium grades BORDEAUX CLARETS. 100 cases ``Brandenberg Freres " COGNAC BBAMDT, Vintage 1548, bottled in France. 60 eases finest Tuscan Oil, in flasks. 2 dozen in sass ea bbli. finest. quality Monongahela Whisky. 60 bbls Jersey Apple Brandy. ;00.000 Havana Cigars, extra tine. Mott & abandon Grand Yin Imperial, " Green Seal" Champagne. Together with r a due sasort Port. dm. M A CKEREL, HERRING, SHAD, ka 8,580 bail Mass. Noe. 1,8, and 8 Mackerel, late caught Pat fish, In assorted packages. 2, 0000b1s. New Eastport, Fortune Bay, and Halifax Herring, 2,600 boxes Lubec. Scaled, and No. IHerrlng. 150 bbls. new Mess Shad. 250 boxes Herkimer County Cheese, &e. In store and for sale by MURPHY & ROOM& lal4-tf No. 144 North WHARVES. COTTON SAIL DUCK AND CANVAS of all numbers and brands. PraVell'S Duck Awning Twills, of all desoriplions.for Tents, Awnings, Trunk, and Wagon Covers. Also, Paper Manufacturers' Drier Pelts, from 1 to 6 feet wide. Tarpaulin . Bolting, Sall Twine, ho. JOHN W. EV O 9 E M ON N S Aloloy AMERICAN ROOFING SLATES, 4-2- FULLY EQUAL TO THE BEST WELSH SLATES. • T. THOMAS, 1117 WALNUT Straf.t $27.5 TO $325 WILL GET, AN ELE- PraLNO. warranted 7 r - e octave rosewood , over. strung Y2b-aw tf Y a r liNTß and CSSBTvI7T. c i tr e • THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1803 Boston, it must be confessed, has a creditable pre eminence in handsomely printed, richly illustrated, and neatly-bound books. Ticknor & Fields, Little, Brown &Co., and Taggard and Thompson, and a long list of other publishers, have acquired this renown for the City of Notions. J. E. Tilton & Co. have just brought out a volume that does credit to Bos ton. It is of 12mo size, containing 411 pages, with numerous illustrations by John Andrew and A. C.- Warren, finely engraved on wood, is printed at the Riverside press on tine tinted paper, and is superbly bound in green cloth, with golden ornaments. It was eminently fitting that a volume, particularly in tended for the fairer portion of humanity, should be got up in this superior style. It is entitled "Flowers for the Parlor and Garden, and its author is Edward Sprague Rand, Jun., allowed to be the beet, because the most practical- floriculturist in New England, where the love of flowers pervades all classes. Mr. Rand instructs his readers on every thing about the cultivation, of flowers—from the humble pot of mig,- nionette on a cottage'veindow-sill to the rarest and costliest plant that ever constituted the pride of , a millionaire's conservatory. He even shows how, by. theme of the Wardian cases, every one may have a green.house, at scarcely any cost, in his own parlor. Not only ground-culture, but balcony and window gardening, hanging baskets, outdoor gardening, with a little of horticulture, and water plants, are discussed and made plain in this book. The en gravings, chiefly headpieces to the twenty-six chap ters, are "beautiful exceedingly" in drawing and cutting. "The Drummer Boy ; a Story of Burnside's Expe dition," by the author of "Father Brighthopes, is Messrs. Tilton'a latestjuvenile book. It is s com panion to " The Printer 130 y," of which Benjamin Franklin is the hero, and "The Bobbin Boy," which related the early history of that good citizen and brave soldier, Generat;Banks. This story of the Drummer Boy is founded on fact, we are aSsured, and the details of the Burnside Expedition have never before been placed before the world in so clear a manner. A continuation, relating the hero's career as an officer, is promised. The engravings are good. " Faith," a lithograph of Palmer's beautiful sculp tore, has also been published by Messrs. Tilton, whose books and engravings msy be procured here from J. B. Lippincott & Co., and all booksellers. The superb edition of the. Works of Francis Ba con, the founder of Inductive Philosophy, by Brown & Taggard, (now Taggard & Thompson), the Boston publishers, is now nearly completed. Volumes VI and VII, have just been issued, and will be supplied to subscribers here by Mr. James Buck, 134 Car penter street. Notwithstanding the war, the_ eat). scribers have not fallen off. Indeed, this American edition not only equals, but far surpasses, the Lon don edition, and is also considerably cheaper. Print ed on the Riverside press, on the finest tinted paper, it is worthy of - a. place on every thinking man's book shelf. These volumes contain phildsophical works designed for parts of Bacon's great production, the " Instauratio Magna," but superseded or abandon.: ed. They are prefaced and annotated by Messrs. Ellis and Spedding. two of the learned editors.of Bacon. --The publication is nearly completed. It will close, we believe, with the new Life of Francis Bacon, prepared expressly for the fast complete edi tion of his'works, which-is as superior to Mr.' W. Hepworth Dixon's one added apology, as Bacon is superior to even Dixon's estimate of Dixon. It speaks well for our intellectual culture, when such a publication as this can be called for and atipplied here. One of the most extensively circulated works of a cyclopa‘diac character is the well-known "Diction ary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines," first pub lished in 1639, by the late Dr. Andrew Ure, one of the best practical chemists of England. Several editions have appeared, in this country as well as abroad. The latest was by Mr. Robert Hunt, whose researches in physics and light have placed him among the first practical philosophers of his coun try. Ile holds the responsible office of Keeper of Mining Records the Museum of Practical Geolo gy, London, and was every way qualified to edit Ure's Dictionary in. a manner worthy of such a work. He has been assisted by a large and able corps of contributors—men of science, of letters, and of art, as well as by operative men - whose lives have been devoted to study and practical operation of knowledge. The additions made to the latest English edition of Ure have been collected by Messrs. Appleton into a volume of nearly 1,100 pages imperial Svo, illustrated by '7OO engravings on wood, which brings the information down to the present time, and completes Use's Dictionary, at small cost to the possessor of an earlier edition, by thus supplying a supplement to it. Here are the latest results of research and experience. It is, in fact, a fourth volume of the Dictionary already pub. lished here in three volumes, of 3,212 pages and with -2,300 engravings, and thus made, as the American Publishers justifiably state, " the ,completest reper tory of arts, manufactures, and mines which has yet beep nublished. ,, To the articles of importance the authors' initials are alibied, which is an excel lent system. This Supplement to Ure's Dictionary, and other works published by Messrs, Appleton, can be obtained at W. F. Hazard's book.store, Chestnut street. "The Light and Dark of the Rebellion," a small volume of 303 pages, 12m0., just published by George W. Childs, 628 Chestnut street, has not an author's name on the title-page, but we learn, from references in its own pages, that it was written by C. Edwards Lester. More than a quarter of a century ago, this author produced a startling work, long since out of print, called "The Glory and the Shame of Eng land," which exhibited our kinsmen across the water (" a little more of kin and of kind," as Hamlet says) in their social, political, and literary relations. Ano. ther of his popular bookais " The Napoleon Dynasy," which is eloquent and earnest to a degree; and gives the very best account of the new French dynasty yet published in this country. Earnest and eloquent, also, is this new book which Mr. Lester gives to the public. It is deficient in arrangement, presenting rather a succession of various pictures of the war than a connected whole, but it is graphic, forcible, and truthfully loyal. Above all, justice is here ddne to the rank and file of the army—the real heroes of the war. Their own stories, related to the author in hospital and in camp, are very interesting, and show a dignity of patriot heroism which no other country can match. Mr. Lester treats, at more or less lepgth, of the leadieg personages in the Government and in the war, and does justice to the character, conduct, and principle of Mr. Lincoln. Re treats, too, of the future of the Union, and whoever takes the book in hand will be interested and instructed. There are palpable proofs here of rapid carelessness of com position : In page 19, a man is mentioned as looking "like an Apollino ;" farther on we are told of in valids "Couching down as family relations :" Then, there is the vulgarism of "fed from soup-kettles— and pretty poor soup at that." - We could give many more instances. The second editiOn must be " re. vised and corrected." There is no excuse for such a practised writer as Mr. Edwards. - The noble army of martyrs who disburse money in the shape of taxes oughtto know why and where fore they do so. To enable them to have this know ledge, Mr. Charles P. Estde, late Deputy Commis sioner of Internal Revenue, has compiled an Bvo volume of 355 pages, containing the Excise Tax Law, approved July 1, 1862; with all the subsequent amendments, and a full Analytical Index, which re moves the labor of reference. It contains marginal references throughout, instructions, blank forms, decisions, and regulations of the Commissioner. AU classes are affected by the new taxation, and this book tells every thing about it. It is on sale hereby T. B. Pugh, corner of Sixth and Chestnut streets. The Sanitary Committee have authorized the compilation and publication (by Ticknor & Fields) of a smallvolume entitled . 4 Hospital Transports ; a Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1662." It is a narrative of great human interest, and no history of . the war can be truly written without reference to its revelations. Au)nIOAN. CANALs.--Since the introduction of railroads, canals have sunk in importance, and in many cases have been abandoned, yet they have been of great service in developing the 'resources of our eeuntry, especially of the West. The first great canal, and the one which has proved the most useful, is the Erie and Hudson River Canal, built largely through the efforts of DeWitt Clinton, and opened in 1825. By this the whole lake region of the West could send its produce to the Eastern market at a. comparatively cheap rate and receive in exchange manufactures and groceries, and the effect was won derful. 'Farmers forsook the barren lands of New England and migrated where the same labor would yield a manifold return, and villages sprung up as if by magic along the canal, and on the lakes and streams from which it could be reached. Soon other canals were constructed, ot which the principal are the Pennsylvania and Ohio the Ohio River and Lakes, Miami, Indiana and Illinois Canals, all giving a total of 1.724 miles, at a cost of $43,000,000. Marl other canals tributary to these have been built, and many for the transportation of coal, so that be fore the general use of railroads. canals were running through the most import sections of the West, and connecting them with the East. Before the Erie canal was opened, transportation from Buffalo to New York was $lOO a ton ' • it is now from $3 to $7. Of late railroads, with their greater speed, have taken much of the freight formerly carried on canals, and the tendency is to a preference for this method of transportation. However great was the utility of canals formerly, their day has passed. Constructed mostly by State governments, the Erie is nearly the only one that has proved remunera tive ; and in genera/ they have been a bill of ex pense. The great oanal of Pennsylvania was sold some time since to "a railroad company. At the re cent convention at Chicago it was proposed to en large the Illinois Canal, at an expense of $13,500,- 000, and the Erie at a 'further cost of $3,500,000, so that ships could pass to the ocean. Before the war such a proposition would have been deemed vision ary; yet, however questionable its expediency, it would not be a matter of surprise if the scheme suc ceeded. • adeira, Sherry, fe2447 AN ATTEMPT TO MIIRDEIL—The Springfield (Ohio) Republic says, that on the Sunday previous, the Rev. Capt. J. J. Geer, of the Methodist Church, preached in the edge of . Delaware county. Rutter nuts had threatened him with violenoe if he preached there. A number or Copperheads with their but ternut emblems attended the' meeting, and when church was out, Capt. Geer met one of the wearers, and asked him why he wore such badge. Without reply another Copperhead struck the Captain with a knife, hitting him in the face, cutting it badly within an inch of his eye. Captain Geer knocked Plat assassin down, and was Punishing him when another butternut stabbed the. Captain. That blow, aimed at the heart, struck the arm, inflicting a gash to the bone. The Captain ; bleeding as he was, fas tened his first man, and be was taken to jail. The other murderer was caught the next day. Notices of New Boolts. PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1863. ARMY OE THE POTOMAC, General Meade and Lee's Escape—A Defence of General Meade—Extract of a Private . Letter front a Prominent officer In the Army of the Potomac. After the battle of Gettysburg, when Lee re treated through the mountain passes, Meadeai army was greatly exhausted by three days' fighting, and its previous forced marches, and was also greatly reduced in numbers, having lost nearly twenty thousand men, killed, wounded, and missing, saying nothing of stragglers. Directly to pursue Lee 'through the mountains, in narrow passes, would have enabled him, with a strong rear guard, to have Yield Meade in check till he could have reassembled hie army in the Oumberlaud Valley, and then thrown his masses on the heads of his columns when he forced his way through, or he could have detained Meade so long in the mountains that he could easily have gotten away with the main portion of his army, if he so desired. - It was plain that if Lee chose to run away no one in pursuit' could stop him, and that the only chance was to endeavor to intercept him at Hagerstown, providing he was not retiring as fast as he might have done. The rise in the Potomac favored Meade, who was able to concentrate his army in Lee's vicini ty before he had crossed. But Lee was found in a very strong position, with all his artillery placed, and with his whole army behibd breastworks ' ready to defend or oppose our advance. The great difficulty was that,' owing to the characterof the country, it was impossi .ble to Teconnoitre Lee's position, and ascertain what chances of success our attack would have. Had it been practicable to See exactly where Lee was, and ler the General-ire Chief to have formed a positive judgment on the subject of the probability of success in an , attack, General Meade might have sought no advice, or at least might have given it less im portance.- But in the absence of such precise in formation, his duty required that before he incurred the hazards of a blind attack lie should submit the question to those who had to execute the work-if (welded upon. After consultation, the corps com manders decided that the risks incurred would not justify an attack being made until there was' some reasonable degree or probability apparent that: it would succeed. They based their judgment, on tba consequences to the canse and 00iltatry - in case Our fumy should be repulsed and eventually defeated, thus losing all the advantages gained at Gettysburg, and placing Lee completely in mastery of the situa tion. The country, they thought,.depended, at this jOncture, on the existence of the Army of the Poto mac. The reports of the demoralization of the enemy were known to he exaggerated, and the desperate ness of his condition; if defeated, would tend to make the battle desperate beyond comparison. General DI eade acted as a prudent man would have done. The question was, shrinlil he order a blind attack when ignorant of all essential matters, having, therefore, no clear view that success was probable against a splendidly-posted, desperate, and powerful enemy, when his five corps commanders advised against it, and when to' be defeated was to lose all the benefit of the past victories, and to place the North and Washington again at the command of Lee and his army? Had he- seen his own way reasonably clear to victory, he should have discard ed advice, and overruled his subordinates. But no general.in-chief would have a right to imperil so much when his mind-was not clear that he would win. The next day after the council was spent in making examinations of the enemy's position. They all resulted in showing him in great force, and very strongly posted. But having acquired this fuller, though rot complete knowledge, General Meade, stronger by delay, determined on attack the day alter. That night Gen. Lee escaped, to the surprise of all i a surprise which has had its counterpart more than once during this war. Such was the surprise of Lee him elf when Burnside escaped at Fredericks bui g, and Hooker at Onancellorville ; of Halleck, when Beauregard got away at Corinth. On one important fact the public are greatly mis informed. It is generally eupposed that Gen. Lee's army was Crossing during the day which succeeded the council of war, eo that only a part of it lay op posed to Meade for some , hours. Such is not the caem Not a man in Lee's array .left his lines tilt after dark. fad Meade attacked test day, he Ivould have found Lee's whole army in. force, ready to receive The great question for military men when this war began was, which of our inexperienced officers ie capable of handling on the field a hundred thou sand men? _McDowell, though,with Scott's assist ance, failed. - So did Pope. So, till Antietam, did McClellan himself. So did Hooker at Chancellor. vile. So did Burnside. Many insist that the bat tle best fought on our side since the War began was Gettysburg. To Meade's skilful handling Hof-his foices on that field, even more than his prompt and jueleteue choice of the ground, they, think our splen did success there due. And the progress of the army since hae displayedthe ablest military skill. What mistakes have occurred I What brigades of ours have been trapped? Everywhere are to be seen unmista kable signs of a sleepless energy and a skilful hand. The enemy has been everywhere foiled, harassed, defeated. True, he has escaped, but his escape was unavoidable. When has not an army with its rear open been able to get away from an enemy? Think of the Peninsula army and its vaunted seven days' retreat. Think of the first and second Bull Run. Think of Fredericksburg, ilhancellorville,iespecial ly the latter, where our army was three miles from river, did not start till after midnight, and yet by 7 A. lii., the whole army, seventy thousand strong, with two hundred pieces of artillery, was across without losing a mau or a horse. This re treat, we believe, was covered by General Meade and the sth Corps. Think of Corinth, where Beau regard clipped off betweerinight and morning. Then there was Jackson the other day, where Johnston escaped Sherman; and Tullahoma, where Bragg escaped RosecrEins, and got-off-it is hardly known where. The war is full of such instances. The Po tomac is too long a line to cover, else, perhaps, a force on the south might have interrupted Lee. But Meade, compelled on one side to cover Washington and Pennsylvania, could not cross and Lee's retreat,- off retreat Lee was too strong. Some who blamed the escape of Lee from Anne tans regard the conduct of matters on this lard-occa sion as; equally dilatory. -But were not tee eases entirely dissimilar? The question at Antietam was pursuit at once—the day after the battle—by a re serve amounting to one fifth the routed enemy, which had scarcely been at all engaged, and when the position of the enemy was thoroughly, known. With Meade it was attack of a rested enemy, very strongly posted in a manner unknown and impossi ble then to understand. In the one case there was every apparent probability of success. theottier, there was no such probability appaient first case subordinate commanders blamed, in the second they approved the delay. The question at Antietam had its true parallel at Gettysburg. Then pursuit was instantly made by cavalry and in fantry. So, too, when the Potomac was crossed at Antietam, we suffered severely from mismanagement in the late pursuit instituted, and then spent weeks in the mountains while the President was continu ally urging an advance. Meade. manoeuvring with great rapidity, endangered Lee's tine of retreat, and compelled him to quit the Shenandoah Valley, suf fering no lose, but inflicting much. Without decry lug McOlerlan's management, >it is certain that Meade's tactics have excelled in promptness, deci sion and energy, if not skill. Under no leader have our troops marched EIS raid dy and as far. Yet their condition is described - an excellent. We shall be nearer eventual success when the peo ple, stilling an anxiety for the end of our troubles, which hall crazes them, - shall hold commanders re sponsible not for actual but comparative success. Accident may give triumph to the poorest plaits, and the moat contemptibly unskilful leader. The ablest general and the most splendid strategy may, through circumstances, be prevented from'attaining all that he desires. If he does all he can, and espe cially if with skill adequate to the situation, he shows that hie sole motive is sense of duty,-all good men should yield him their hearty praise and co operation. • It seems to us that in General Meade more deside rata, combine than in any former leader of the Army of the Potomac. Of mature age, and with a previ ous experience which all others lacked; a thoroughly educated solcier, a man of lofty character, loyal to the core, yet unknown to party cliques, embarrassed by no military jealousies, prompt, active, untiring, yet discreet, displaying skill as a Held officer hither to unprecedented, a soldier, and only a soldier, and exhibiting in his despatches and official conduct a modesty and a sense of duty as rare as commenda ble, we cannot help hoping much from him, and are willing to trust much to him ; especially as there looks out from all his conduct one quality in which he stands alone, a bumble recognition that victory is of-the Lord, ard that to. Rim belongs its glory. CHARLESTON. Progress of the Siege Engagement be tween the .New Ironsides and Battery Wegner. COotretpondeace of the Herald.) MOIMIS ISLAND, S. C, August 5. CAPTURE OP A CELEBRATED SCOUT Captain Paine last night, with his detachment of men, pulled In a boat up to the point on this island, near the mouth of Lighthouse creek, and within easy range of Forts Johnson, Sumpter, and Wag ner. The rebels had here attempted, when we first effected a landing on Morris Island, to erect a bat tery, but had been quickly driven out of their posi tion by our batteries. The rebel .steamer destroyed by Lieutenant Myrick's light battery of the 3d Ar tillery was lying at a small temporary dock when disabled. On this dock, then, Captain Paine took his position, leaving his men in the boat at the end of the wharf, and placed his picket boat in charge of a detachment of the 97th Pennsylvania Vo lunteers, in a position where good watch could be kept on all then avenues of approach. Captain Paine had not been long in his position before he was suddenly made aware of the presence of the foe by heating a sharp and peremptory, summons from up the wharf to aurrender. Captain Paine started up and said, "What is that 7" to gain time and get to his boat. The demand was instantly re. pealed, accompanied by an oath. And quicker than thought a rebel company came charging down the wharf after Captain Paine, who succeeded in reach ing his boat in time to escape a volley of musketry lent after him. His men arose in the boat and poured a sharp and effective volley into the ad vancing rebels, which caused them to fallback. The check was but fora moment, and before Cap. tain Paine's little band could load their pieces again the rebels were on them from all sides. i Some scat tering shots were fired into the boat, and it is re-. ported that Captain Paine was seen to fall ; but this is not quite certain, as those in the picket-boat could hardly distinguish persons, at that hour in the night, from where they laid. No alternative existing be tween a surrender and the slaughter of all his men, Captain Paine chose the former, and the rebels soon had n possessio of our men and boat. Durir g the affair the party in the picket boat, who had beard the entire conversation and saw the at tach, fired a volley into the rebels, and elicited one in return, which instantly killed two men of the 97th Pennsylvania. As the rebels numbered sixty or seventy, a continuance of the unequal. struggip was very properly.regarded as being little len than madness, and thereupon the picketboat quickly re tired and escaped capture. Joseph Russel and'Jo seph L. Eyre, Company D, 97th Pennsylvania, were the killed in the picket. boat. A SHARP DAY'S WORK ON SIINDAY. On Sunday morning last the Ottawa, Lieutenant Commanding Whiting, and one monitor, took their position off Fort Wagner, to indulge in a little shell practice and keep the gunners in the work' in a quiescent state, so that our men in the advanced trenches should not be annoyed by their fire. The prectice from the Ottawa's 100. pounder Parrott was exec edingly fine. Nearly every shot -was plunged into the rebel work, and the garrison were kept in their bomb. proofs. Fort Sumpter attempted, with her large tilled gun, to drive the impertinent annoy ance away, but without avail. The'rebel shots tell in the water all about the Ottawa, but did not, in a single i= stance, strike her. The latter paid no attention to the wrathful salutations of Sumpter, nor to Moul trie, that essayed to put the plucky little Ottawa to flight.- Withtheutmost coolness and precision bolt aft er bolt was, pitched into Wagner, until it seemed to have been covered with smoke and duet. Fort Wag. ner occasionally responded with her 10 inch eolum hied, but was able to aceomplish nothing. Finally a shot from the Ottawa either dismounted a gun or blew up a small service magazine in Wagner, and woke up the garrison._ In their rage they sprang to their guns, opened fire upon our works and upon the Ottawa, and for, a couple of hours the fire was more intense and rapid than ever before proceeded horn that work. Our batteries instantly responded with the greatest rapidity. The rebel works On James Island caught up the deafening refrain, and bellowed' forth their noisy salutations, while Sump ter, Moultrie, and Johnson, joined in the infernal chorus. The fire was unexampled in rapidity and generally in accuracy.. Wagner was covered with bursting shell and enveloped in smoke and duet but the rebels stood by their wins with the greatest steadiness. Our trenches were gleaming with the fitful fires of exploding shell, and the air, impreg nated with sulphurous fumes, was alive with the whistle of solid shot, the hum of shell, the shriek of rifle projectiles, and all that variety of strange sounds that proceeds from a hundred flying missiles. The work in our trenches was necessarily slackened, as the men found it essential to safety to take to cover very frequently. THE NEW lEONSIDES GOES INTO ACTION. This thundering cannonade had continued an hour or more, when the New Ironsides hoisted anchor and moved majestically to her old position off Wag ner, where she again anchored and brought her port broadsides to bear on the rebel work. In a moment she fired a shot from her rifle gun forward, and, get ting the range, she let fly a broadside at the fort from her two-hundred-pound rifles and ten•inch guns. lier tire thus opened, she continued with steadiness and accuracy. The effect of her fire was soon manifest. The rebel guns, one after another, became silenced, and finally only an occasional shot from the ten-inch columbitul, at the noblisfrlgate, indicated the fact that the fort was still occupied. Sumpter fired some spiteful shots at the IrOnsides, but did not strike her. The rebel fire from Wagner being subdued, the Ironsides ceased shelling, and at about noon all was again silent, save an occasional shell from Johnson, which did no damage. We suf fered no casualties during the day. It is not known, of course, that the enemy lost any ; but it is not im probable that they, did from the Ironsides' fire. CAPTITREO CORRESPONDENCE OF :ME . PERSON DANIS. Letters Cron Buchanan and iteauregard. Moro tho Indiaoapolto Journal. I We alluded, the other day, to certain letters found by our troops" among the private 'papers of Self Davis, at Jackson, Mississippi, which had come into our possession, and promised-to publish such portions of them as were likely to be of any general interest or historic value. Below we give a letter of James Buchanan, and the concluding portion of one from Beeuregard, being the only two of any im portance. Mr. Buithansn's letter shows, first, that his idea' of political sagacity was, ,ELI 3 his whole conduct eince.ehan proved, te find just what the slaveholders wanted. acid 11;6 idea of statetmanship- wee .t 0 give It to them ; second, that as early as 1850, the leading men of the South, and their trusted tor:debt the North, were looking for a way out of the non-intervention policy which Webster's speech against the Wilmot Proviso and " re-enacting the, ordinances of God" had made popular at the South; and . third, that the progress of Southern impudence from demanding non-inter vention by Congress with slavery in the Terri tories,-to the extension of the Missouri Compro mise, which- Mr. Buchanan says is so much higher ground for-the South than Webster's non-interven tion plan, that he dare not publish a letter advo cating it, tor fear of being considered more South ern than the South itaelf ; and from that point to the Beeckinridge and Bred Scott doctrine, that slavery could not be prohibited in any Territory, either by Congress or the inhabitants, was steady, advancing it Northern civility gave it strength, on the lower groUnd, to that above. How Mr. Buchanan gave the whole influence of his name anti office to the most ultra p/o-slavery policy, we all know ; and this letter will show that be did it- after declaring so lemnly and emphatically that hie " committal to the Missouri Ciempromise should stand." That the. South, in seeking to escape the non-intervention po licy into which Webster's eloquence had coaxed it, was not. looking for its rights, for any ascer tained and defined constitutional power, is proved by Mr. Buchanan's doleful remark that "it it now too late to change front,, with any hope of success, but you may Tellvai with honor, upon the principle that you can carry") Our slaves to California, and hold them under the Constitution, and refer the question .to the Supreme Court." There is a good deal of sig nificance in, this little sentence. It is a revelation from the very heart of the slavery propaganda. It tells that the slave party had committed itself to an ineffective policy. one which would not give them what they w.antert, and that though they demanded it as their constitutional right, as a security against unconstitutional encroachments, and the Union, would be curse and an oppression to them if they didn't get it; they were ready to throw it away the moment they saw another policy within reach that promised more. " You can't change front now," says Mr. Buchanan ; that is, "you Can't now reban don your nonintervention policy, and take the high er ground which I have taken; but you may re treat with - honor ; that is, you may save appear ances, and not show how inconsistent and silly you have been, by taking your slaves to California, and meting the matter with the Supreme Court." What is all WelAn assertion of a constitutional right, a claim - ofjuit powers and privileges, the deprivation of which' would be degrading and ruin us? No. It is the manceuvring ana dodging of political swindlers for a stronger position. Mr. Buchanan lets us see that the South has not marked out its rights, and ate adilY dens ended them, but has shuffled and equivo bated front one claim to another, just as it saw ser vility or manliness enough in the North to concede or defeat ita claims. It is a shameful picture of South ern-trickery and tergiversation that Mr. Buchanan paints for us. Instead of a manly, high-toned reso- - lute demand of rights, its policy has been depicted by its most faithful tool ae the very essence of mean, paltry scheming for points of advantage. Mr.-Bu chanan is sorry Tor his own sake, as well as that of the slave party, that it has placed itself in a posi tion where 'it can't:" change front," and can only "retreat with honor." We are not sorry to see the confession. The base, dishonorable 'policy of the South is go clearly admitted here that it should shame into silence all 'eulogists oflSouthern honor and manliness. The infinite servility of the wretch who could write,-'I am committed to the. Missouri Compromise, and that committal shall stand," 'and afterwards, by bribery and menace, atternot to fOroe the adoption of the Lecompton Conistitutione we need not say 'anything about. .The letter is pub liahed just as written. The italics are Mr. Bu chanan's. i e , The letter of Beauregard relates mainly to the po licy of sending two small armies by' different routes - . to Utah to' put down the Mormon rebellion, and ex- , hibits a good deal more of the pedantry of hte pro 'feesion, and a good deal lees of the /Lenity he has been Credited withethart so formala document might have bein expected to do. The 'conclusion of it al ludes to the lack of protection of the people of Tex as, and the partiality shown to New England, which he illustrates in the following silly, superlatively silly, remarks "Are not the lives of Texan farm ers ae worthy of-the 4ender care and protection of Congress, as those of New England Abolition, freedom-shrieking,- nutmeg pedlersl Only sup pose that :one. of the latter should be murdered by an Judean . 61 , a pirate, on their barren, rocky, shoreta - Whata hub-bub and fues'evoiald it not create 'frorn one end of the Union to-the other? Even. Southerners would join in the hue and - cry our land and naval forces, including the Gulf squa dron; would be ordered out forthwith to avenge the nigger stealer's death." Is not this the babble of an angry boy? Who ever heard 'a men utter, such peevish nonsense in any mood? It is puerile, and the puerility of a spoiled child, at that. It gives us a very poor opinion of Beauregard's brains and cha racter. He is evidently a weak in an,though,no doubt, an accomplished engineer. It is no wonder Jef Davis, who is an able man, rated him low, and kept him down. Following this bit of nonsense ie his profession of faith on the Union question, which concludes the letter. It is dated February 13, 1858, at New Orleans. [Private and. Confidential.] 'WHEATLAND, March 16, 1810. Mr DEAR SIR : I was in townthis afternoon, and, receiving your letter there, I gave it a hasty an swer, provoked thereto by the conduct of Cameron. So far from having, in, any degree, recoiled from the Missouri Compromise, I have prepared a letter to bustain it, written with all the little ability of which lam master. You may ask why it has not been published? The answer is very easy. From a careful examination of the proceedings in Con. gress, it is clear that non-intervention is all that will be required by the South. Webster's speech ill to be the base of the compromise—it is lauded to the echo by distinguished Southern men ; and what is it? Non intervention, and non-intervention simply because the Wilmot Proviso is not requtred to prevent the curse of slavery from being inflicted on the Territories. Under these circumstances it would be madness in me to publish my letter, and take higher ground for the South than they have taken for themselves. This Would be to out Herod Herod, and to be more South. ern than the South. It could do no good, but might do much mischief. The - truth is, the South have got themselves into a condition on this questioh, from which, it appears to me now, they cannot extricate themselves. My proposition of the Missouri Compromise was at once abandoned bv them, and the cry was -non-interven tion. They fought the battle at the last Presidential election with this device upon their banners. The Democracy of Pennsylvania are now everywhere ral lying to non-intervention. They suppose in doing this they are standing by the South in the manner most acceptable to their Southern brethren. Our Democratic journals'are praising the speech of Web ster, because all the appearances are that it is satis factory to the South. It is now too late to change tient with any hope of success. You may retreat with honor upon the principle that you can carry your slaves to California, and hold them there under the Constitution, and refer the question to the Su preme Court of the United States. lam sorry, both for your sakes and my own, that such is the condi tion in which you are placed. say for my own sake, because I can never yield the position which I have deliberatelytaken in favor of the Missouri Compromise, and I shall be assailed by, fanatics and Freesoilere as long as I live for hav ing gone further in .support of the rights of the South than Southern Senators and Representatives. Tam committed for the Blissouri Compromise, and that committal shall stand. • Should there be any, unexpected change in the as pect of affairs at Washington, which would hold out the hope that the publication of my Missouri Com. promise letter:would do any good, it shall yet be published. I was about to write more, but this letter is long enough. It may be, and doubtless was, the fact that, in 1819 or IMO, my name was placed on a committee: which repelled the resolutions to which the scamp, Gen. Cameron, refers. I was then a young man, had a great veneration for the chairman of the committee as my legal preceptor, and probably was under the influence of the excitement then universal in Penn. sylvania. I fist `went to Congress in December, 182 i, and; throughout my whole public career, have been uniform in maintaining the just constitutional lights of the South. I have made more speeches on the subject, both on the floor of the Senate and at home, than probably any other man now living. One of them I now enclose to you, marked, which fell into my hands last evening while Imo] looking for other matters. ..... I wish you would read my speech through on the veto power. It is the only one I ever made which fully pleases myself. - .. From your friend, very respectfully, JAIVIE,S BUCHANAN. To Hon. JEFFERSON DAN IS. P. S,—Why did not the'Southern gentlemen agree upon a common basis of settlement 1 Please to let inchear from you coon. lam invited. very especially to a wedding 3n Washington, and possibly I may be there for one day on the 9th of April. Would to Heaven that Gen. Taylor might, come out in favor of the Missouri Compromise. I should glory in sus taining him. • [Extract ofletter from Peauregarsi lam no disunion man. I have livedion.' enough at the North to be able to appreciate fully the good qualities, energy, commercial aptitude, and shrewd ness of its inhabitants., But I, for one, will never submit tamely in any community, whatever may be its advantages, to be snubbed and robbed of my just rights, even at the risk of losing in the contest all that I.may be possessed of. We have, in my hum ble opinion, no concessions to make to them ;'for to us the question of slavery is one of life or death ; to them it is one of fancy and of political capital. The more we yield to their unjust demands the more exaoting they will beoome ; for as their preponder ance in our national council increases ours dimi nishes, until at last they shallhavebecome so strong that they will not even deign to ask, but willZ order forthwith the execution'of a measure which will bring death and desolation to our homes. But this is a question so, familiar to your high intelligence end;patriotism. that I will pursue it no further. loping that "all will end well that is well," I re main; dear sir, Very respectfully, your obedient servant, G. T. BEADREGARD. General Jam? Devis,.Uniterl States Senator, Wash ington, D. G.. Anary Movnurwrs.—The "changes of base" of the "Army of the Potomac" and of. the rebel "Army" of Virginia," during the past two years, remind one of the Southern, campaign of ri9l, as described in a song which was popular at the close of the Revolu tionary war; "Cornwallis led a country dance. The like was never seen. sir; Much retrograde, and much advance, And all with General Greene, sir. They rambled up and rambled down. Jolaed hands, and off they ran, sir; Our General Greene to old Charlestown, and. the Earl MWilmington, sir." EUROPE. The American Topic—An Irish View of the [From the Dublin Freeman's Journal. July 28.) Bad General. Lee been victorious at Gettysburg, the cause of the North would have been seriously Imperilled. The riots in New York, following so rapidly the fit of enthusiasm on hie defeat, show that the Government, if the issue had been adverse, would have experienced the greatest difficulty in re cruiting the army. Hail the conscription followed defeat, we may infer the extent of the allure when it is suspended, amid bloodshed and devastation, after the announcement of "a mightie victory." The Mends of the Government in New York repre sented the danger of enforcing the conscription. It was felt to be a law of exemption for the rich. What would three hundred dollars be to the purify citizen who made millions by the war? The. suns is equiva lent to about sixty pounds, allowing for deprecia lion. In France, at the present moment, the price of a substitute is eighty pounds. A man drawn in the ballot, by paying that num, is provided with a substitute by the Government. In America the exemption money should be at least double that of the French. The people disliked the system from the beginning, and threatened to resist the law should the authorities attempt to enforce it. The law was practically an exemption law for the rich, and so the poor and industrious, on whom the bur den of the conscription must fail, felt it. To quell Popular fury -the Municipal Council of New York proposed to about half a million sterling to pay the exemption money for the relief of poor men from the draft. Such a policy is more liberal than judicious. It would be found impracticable to administer such a measure of relief with any ap proach to fairness. The draft required for the city is 20,000 men, and to exempt the whole would require more than a million sterling. Probably two-thirds of the draft would be unable to pay, and to exempt that proportion would require double the sum the council proposes to appropriate. Who could decide what poor conscripts must go to the war, and what poor conscripts must stay at home 7 The decision of such cases would breed new disorders, and compli cate rather than solve the difficulty. When the Muni cipal Council propose to allocate such an immense sum, we may form some idea of the wealth of the city and the insufficiency of the exemption. We do not, of course, palliate in the slightest degree the horrors-which filled New York for three days, and the savage excesses Which aceompanied the triumph ant prOgress or an 'infuriated blob. We only !inlet out the instigating causes of the outbreak, and the warnings which had been frequently conveyed to the Government that a law, avowedly partial, would be resisted by the classes on whom its operation would tall with crushing effect. We do not happen to know the contribution of New York to the Federal armies. We have heard it stated at 120,000 since the beginning of the war, but, assuming it to have been only 80,000, the number is still enormous. After the greater portion hail been used up, and the city filled with cripples, including many thou sands cf Irishmen, President Lincoln orders a fresh levy of 20,000, which must be contributed by that class which has no means of relief from the inexorable draft. The. New York mob inflicted great injury on the Nen thern cause, and greater on themselves. What their lee dere should have done was to watch the working of the law, and when they had detected manifest proofs of injustice, to invoke the interposition of Government. Instead, they disgraced republicanism and popular liberty by wicked excesses. The move ment soon degenerated into a cry for blood, plunder, and arson. Houses were first rifled and then fired ; unhappy negroes murdered, and the colonel of a New York regiment strung on a lamp poet because he did his duty. In the worst days or the French revolution, or the no-popery riots in England, no thing occurred exceeding - or equalling in brutality the scenes in New York for three days. The mob completely overpowered the mi itary, and yet we are told not fewer than five thousand troops were posted at the most advantageous points. If, instead of being quartered at these military foci, they were divided into movable columns, and operated in con verging lines, they would have crushed the insur rection in a few hours. Nothing is so cowardly as a nob when it encounters a resistance it despairs to overcome, while nothing is more ferocious when it is unobstructed in its headlong - course. It has been the boast of the Union—and hitherto the boast was well justi fed—th alike governingprinciple of American citizens was liberty regulated by law. The tyranny of a mob strikes at the root of this great principle, and brings the country many shades nearer to despotism, while at the same time if throws it back into half barbarism. Good citizens of -every class should combine to put down this stain on free institutions. At the same time let justice be done the classes who are unfairly affected by the con scription. There can be little doubt that the law is unjust 111 its operation. The proof is the exemption money. A further grievance is alleged by the poorer elassee—that the ballot is so managed as to evolve from the box a ridiculously small quota of the well - to-do classes. We should say this complaint is un founded, for no cout se would be more certain to de feat the objects of the law than to tamper with the ballot box. If a greater number of the working classes were drawn on the first day than appeared to have been justified by the relative numbers of poor and rich, the inequality might be corrected in the progress of the draft. In other parts of the Union no objections were offered to the draft. In Boston there was a slight murmur, while in Phila delphia, Trenton, and other places it progressed satisfactorily. The Suspension of. the draft for a few days was made on the representation of the Go• vernor of New York. When troops arrive on suffi cient numbers to overawe the mob the draft will be returned, and another chapter in the history of the conscription will commence. It should be borne in mind that the, riots in New York were not caused by the working classes. In every great city there is a product of ignorance and violence which takes the field of disorder in the hope of pro fiting by the social anarchy it creates. This element is-to be distinguished from the peaceable class, who took no part in the tumult. Many of these contri buted their sons to the war, and on themselves—the fathers of unprovided familiee—the draft will now :be enforced. In the previous calls, men volunteered on the assurance that their families should not be allowed to suffer in their absence. Public and pri vate munificence came in aid of the Government, and, by making voluntary enlistment honorable to the soldier and- safe for his family, raised up those vast armies that have surprised Europe. These facts should not be forgotten in raising the new levies, The same people must be drawn from now, having the same family ties and necessities. If the North would have earnest and efficient soldiers, it must sympathize in the demands they are called on to en• Cure. Nothing so powerfully relieves the military service of its hardships as' the knowledge that the country the soldier fights for cares for the family he has left helpless at home.- Unlike the constitution of European armies, forty per cent. of the army of the North is cemposed of married men: The next accounts, we hope, will bring more satisfactory in fen mation. .poiciamsnor arronEs , SPEECH IN NEW YORK (From the London Times, August 1 3 It is really worth while to study the speech of Archbishop Hughes to the rioters of New York, if only to learn how little Irish character is modified by residence in America. When, an archbishop comes foiwat d in the capacity of the MI pietate gravis to still the passions of an angry mob, we must not look for logic or even> for any very high flight of common sense but we may assume that he will use the gravest arguments: that are likely to tell upon his audience, We should naturally expect a forci ble and serious appeal to the motives of patriotism, of humanity, and of religion, and a careful abstinence from every topic calculated to awaken dangerous prejudices and fierce antipathies. A bishop is a peacemaker by profession, and, though our Own spiritual peers have not always been the most backward to draw. the sword in a national quar rel, we cannot fancy them flattering an Eng lish crowd into obedience to the law by vulgar ti rides against Prance or America. They would be re strained from doing so by a sense of their own dignity; but they would also feel the hopelessness of carry ing their hearers with them. Englishmen in a state of excitement cannot, indeed, argue, but they know what argument is, and they will not cheer clap-trap, if it be not only incoherent but irrelevant. Irish men, if we may judge by what their demagogues, both lay and spiritual, address to them by way of. paternal warning, prefer this kind of oratory to the semblance of reasoning, and are most easily dis suaded from committing crimes in one quarter by receiving a plenary indulgence for their future grati fication of their vengeance in another. At all events, hatred of England was the key-note of Arch bishop Hughes' specific harangue, the report of which sounds too familiar to a Saxon ear for us to doubt that it was pitched in the strain which an Irish populace loves best, whether at home or abroad, and delivered with a rich alilesian brogue. The riots having been occasioned by the threat• ened conscription in New York, the Archbishop commences by expressing his confidence that "if the city were invaded by a British or any other foreign Power," his flock would show their military prow ess without- compulsion. The forcible enlistment of citizens having been resisted as illegal and op pressive, the Archbishop reminds them that it is nothing to the oppression endured by the subjects of Great Britain. ," When I cast my eyes back to the land of my nativity, and when I think of its oppree sion, when I see the 'fertile west and south of Ire land depopulated, and cattle browsing on the ruins of the cottages of the noble people that ondb lived there, I thank God than am among friends, and bad an opportunity to come to a country where at least no such wretched tyranny is practised." The President having been accused of usurping uncon stitutional powers over the persons of naturalized Americans, the Archbishop consoles the latter by assuring them—not that the same thing is done by Russia in Poland, bug that in England, where it is not done, and never has been done, there would be no remedy for it but a sanguinary revolution if it were done. It is the privilege of Americana "to make a revolution quietly every four years:;" but in •England, where, " though they call themselves cousin tul ional," the spirit of European despotism rules su preme, no such happy provision for internal order ex ists, and the people mug needs revolt ifthey happened to have any grievance to revolt about. The wrong complained of being `that persons are arbitrarily seized and hurried off into the ranks of the army, without distinction of race or creed, to fight for a cause with which they do not sympathize, the Arch bishop soothes the victim ofthissystem with the statement that "not a single statute has been en acted against you, either as Irish or as Catholics." Blood having been shed and houses burned down in the streets of New York by Irishmen, whom the Archbishop mildly rebukes, he finds comfort in, the thought that "Ireland never committed, by her own sons or on her own .soil, until she was oppressed, a single act of cruelty." Innocent negroes having been persecuted and even burned to death by furions ruffians strongly suspected to be of Irish extraction, the Az chbishop solemnly testifies that "the_ soil of Ireland was never crimsoned or moistened by a sin gle drop of martyr's blood"—a fact which we always, thought had been quoted as a reproach against the primitive Irish Church. Lastly, the Irish of all classes having always evinced a truant disposition and a preference for a moregenial climate than their own, the Archbishop dwells indignantly on the cruelty of "John Bull in replacing a noble popula tion by a tet of hie fat bullocks." Such is the climax of an oration which defies ana lysis, and rivals in, obscurity the responses of the Delphian oracle, or the utterances of a Maori chief. Not only is there not a word of religious exhorta tion, but there is nothing whatever to show whether the apeaker considers the armed opponents of the conscription to be in the right or in the wrong. Per haps, if he was of the former opinion, it was as well to be silent, but this reticence - fatally weakens the persuasive force of such an appeal. The original in vitation, which brought together this concourse of 5,000 persons, was addressed "tormen who are now called in many of the papers rioters;" but the Archbishop throughout refuses to treat them as such, or to discuss the causes of the disturbance. He does not even tell them that they are bound to submit if their names should be drawn; on the contrary, be rather leaves it to be supposed that they would be justified in defending their own houses against the ollicets of the provost marshal. The utmost that he enjoins upon them is not to carry on offensive operations against law and order, and this -advice he enforces by an appeal to their fears rather than to their conscience. " Withdraw from crowds * * because, if you do not, the military force.will be let loose upon you, and you know what that means." "Keep out of the crowd, in which im mortal souls are launched into eternity without a moment's notice." This is the ultimo ratio adduced by the Archbishop, and we must do him thejustice to say that it is a much stronger argument than some of those which we have cited. We all remember the endearing terms in which Cardinal Wiseman be sought the "lambs," as he called them, who had made a Donnybrook of Hyde Park not to forfeit their reputation for gentleness by knocking downer stabbing their neighbors. Archbishop Hughes makes a liberal use of similar language, but he discreetly follows it by, pointed allusions toy the physical cs ueing u m e e n n e e a s t i o t t s c d a e l f l y . Wahnataiusththooriuty.B7,,hhtheh askhas, shkas "of resisting when you are confronted with a stronger powert" There is sense in this queation, but it remains to he proved whether the people of New York will not find a practical , ens wer to it. It is scarcely credible that if Governoreysiou.r , s fawn. THREE CENTS. pretation of the Constitution is accepted by the State lawyers, while the able-bodied population is banded together against conscription, the attempt will be made to enforce it by the aid of the Federal troops. It is these grievous acts, which touch not only the pockets but the persons of citizens, and which can not afterwards be repaired, that provoke the most violent and inveterate resistance. When a man has been impressed against his will, and has lost his life on the held of battle or in a military hospital, he cannot obtain redress by voting for a Democratic candidate at the next Presidential election. The only peaceable remedy, therefore, which the Arch bishop of New York can propose to the Irish Catho lics is ludicrously inadequate. and they cannot be expected to wait patiently for the ballot-box to come round, when they may not be alive to use it for pur poses of retribution. We are not surprised that af ter offering this suggestion to men infuriated by sup posed injustice, immediately affecting their lives and liberties, the Archbishop should hare paused, as if struck by a smomentary flash of self-consciousness, and added, apOlogetieaLly, " Perhaps you will think that this is blarney.. THOMAS CARLYLE Ow THE AMERICAN wAr. EFrom the London Star. august 1.7 " The American Iliad in a Nutshell," is the title of Mr. Thomas Carlyle`e latest publication. In the pages—rather in a small portion of one page—of Macmillan's Magazine, the author or the " Latter- Day Pamphlets" has settled the American question at last. Dixil—the oracle has rspoken ;-and there le an end of the matter. Nobody can fail to be curious about the view which a man whom hie admirers exalt into a preacher and prophet takes of one of the greatest Questions debated with pen or sword during modern ages. Mr. Carlyle's "Iliad "is in the eclogue form. Peter, of the North, accuses Paul, of the South, of biting his servants "for life, not by the month or year as I do." Paul rejoins, " The risk is my own—l am willing to take the risk. Hire you your servants by the - month or the day, and get straight to heaven—leave me to my own method." But Peter nays, "No, I won't ; I will beat your brains out first." And, concludes Mr. Carlyle, with graceful pleasantry, "he is trying dreadfully ever since, but cannot yet manage it." That is all ; there is what Mr. Carlyle calls "Bias Americana in Nuce." Is it not profound, comprehensive, philosophic, and, withal, droll) Was it not considerate and charits lac of a great writer to concoct this charming scrap of combined wit and wisdom, to write it down, polish it, make a fair copy, send it to a magazine, correct the proof, and then permit the world to read and be in structedl One great merit there is in Mr, Carlyle's oracular utterance, and for this we thank him. It recognizes the fact that the contest is about slavery, and about nothing else. It encourages none of the miserable pretences about tariffs and trade with which South ern champions in England—not in America—used to strive to delude the English public. Mr. Carlyle de scribes the struggle as one originated by Quixotic Peter of the North to prevent Paul of the South from enjoying in peace his peculiar institution. And therein lies the secret of Mr. Carlyle's contempt for the North. With Thomas Carlyle's general creed, as well as with his special views on the negro ques tion, we are all acquainted. Sympathy with the weak appears to him simply ludicrous "and deepica ble. The only right he cares to recognize is that of the strong man to exercise his strength in any way he likes. Ile exults when Cromwell shoots down out of hand a 'hopper who offers a word of remonstrance; he smiles grimly at the barbarous freaks of Trade -lick William of Prussia; he chuckles in telling that Peter the Great committed a raps; he is grimly humorous when describing how the j eunesse dor& of Paris publicly "instigated," as he says, whole batches of women. mats feeble sympathy with weak ness from such a mats I "His eyes drop millstones when fools' eyes drop tears." The public in general have grown of late to recognize this sort of thing as a kind of mannerism, or eccentricity, or affecta tion, and to be amused without being angered by it; just as they put up with Mr. Ruekiu's politico-eco nomies, or Thackeray's egotisms, or Dickens' pecu liar phraseology and whimsical conceits. As regards the special slavery queation,too, we are all prepared for the Carlylean views. We knew long ago what the writer had to say about " Quashie," and the discipline proper for that humble and weakly brother. In his life of Sterling, Mr. Carlyle speaks with good-humored pity of the weakness of his hero, who positively, would have been for consulting the negroes themselves as to `whether they liked to be slaves or not ; and the biographer is mush amused at the notion of a ra tional Englishman thinking that it mattered in the least what the slavesthemselves might, happen to feel about their lot. Therefore, we can easily un derstand that any effort directed toward emancipa tion of slaves must appear to Mr. Carlyle profouadly liciculous and despicable. A mighty war for the sake of conquest and the annexation of territory, , such as Frederick the Great would have made— that, of course, would be eublime and glorious. But war to set some millions of negroes free is a style of undertaking which the true philosopher, raised above paltry prOjudice and feeble sympathy, must look down upon with lofty scorn. It would be idle to dispute the political correctness of Mr. Carlyle's illustration. It would be a waste of time to show that not Peter of the North, out Paul of the South, commenced the beating out of brains ; and that Paul only did BO because Peter had chosen a President who hired his servants by the week or month, and not tor life. as Paul always did. We are not inclined, moreover, 'to labor too hard for the purpose of demonstrating how Mr. Carlyle's little allegory fails in ite application. Let it be that Peter of the North went to war right away to pre vent Paul from perpetuating and extending slavery,; let us ignore, if Mr. Carlyle chooses, the constitu tional question altogether, and the not unimportant fact that Paul happened to be the aggressor. The main point for us is. that the writer, who perhaps counts the greatest 'number of vociferous and rap turous followers in the present day, admits that the Northeins are fighting to put down slavery, and the Southerna to maintain it. Let Ilir. Carlyle call slavery hiring for life ; it does not matter about phrases when we all mean the same thing. Except for the sake of the writer's own reputation, we are glad that he has published his "American Iliad." It may help to demonstrate the true character of the struggle which some people even still would endeavor to hide or misinterpret, and it will make no new converts to slavery. For Mr. Carly le has chosen to pen these few lines in plain bare English ; and has therefore, disarmed himself. He has shorn himself of his strength like j Samson. He overpowers our senses and our udg ment while lie uses his Teutonic terminology—his big, resonant words—his bewildering, grandiose, mysterious phrases. Any extravagances of opinion may be palmed off upon us while we- are wildly striving to understand all about the Mudgods and the Thor-hammers, and the Star.fire, and the Reali ties and the Simulacra, and the Vastnesses, Eterni ties, Silences, and all the rest of the extraordinary noun•substaiitivv which Mr. Carlyle showers upon his awe-stricken readers. But when he writes in plain English, we" can all understand his doctrine, and take it for what it is worth. Contentedly, then. we learn from the "Mae Ame ricana," that IVIr. Carlyle thinks negro slavery:a perfectly convenient and unobjectionable form of servitude '• that he considers Paul of the South as quite justified in retaining it at all cost; that he either knows nothing or cares nothing about the preliminary history or the political aspects of the present struggle;_:.that he only sees in. it a slave emancipator at war with a slaveholder, and that, therefore, all his sympathies go earnestly with the latter. Such being IVir. Clar/yle's views, we should prefer, for the bake of one mho, with all his faults, is a great writer and a man of genius, that he had enveloped them in that silence which he so often commends. But as he has chosen to give them to the•world, and in a style which shows that he thinks be is delivering an oracle, we can only express our gratification that he too acknowledges the Ameri can war to be a struggle for and against slavery. NE "JO -X. I C ''Q. The French in Merizo—Prochunatiou of General Forcy —Reorganization of the Government. ECorrespondence of the London Times.] Naxlno, June 25,—An excellent proclamation has been issued by General Forey. I send you a trans lation of some of the most remarkable paragraphs. After alluding to the unjust proportions giveato the &flair of the sth of Alay, 1862, and to the ample satis faction which the military honor of France had re ceived by the taking of Puebla and the defeat of Juarez's forces in every encounter, he says "The solution of the political question, Mexicans, will depend upon you. • Be united in sentiments of fraternity and real patriotism; let all honest people, and those calling themselves Moderados, unite and form themselves Into one party, that of order; seek not the victory of one party over another—it is an object little worthy of you. Act upon higher princi ples ; abandon those denominations of Liberals, of fleactionists, which only engender hatred, per petuate a spirit of vengeance, and excite all the worst passions of the human heart. Above all, be Mexicans, and form yourselves into a united nation, strong, and consequently great, because you have all the elements requisite for greatness. It is for this we come to your assistance, and together we shall succeed in creating a durable state of things, if, understanding the interests of your country, you rerolutely second the intentions of the Emperor. " Thus, for the future, no forced contribution or requisition will ever be exacted, and no outrage will be committed without its authors being punished. The property and persons of citizens will be placed under the safeguard of the law. "Those who have acquired national property in a regular manner, and in conformity with the law, will not be interfered with, but remain in possession of that property. Fraudulent sale alone will be the subject of .revision. "The press will be regulated according to the sys tem adopted in France. "The army will be recruited in such a manner as to put a stop to that odious system, of taking men by force, dragging from their families Indians and laborers, that important class of the 'population with which they the ranks of•the army, and which &Muds the sad spectacle of soldiers without patriotism, always ready to desert or leave one chief for another. Taxes will be levied, as in all civilized countries, In such a manner as to affect citizens ac cording to their means, and every endeavor will be made to do away with certain duties, vexatious rather than useful, and which principally affect that agricultural produce the least Able to bear it. The Catholic religion will be protected, and the bishops will be called to their several dioceses. I may add that the Emperor will view - with pleasure the esta blishment of freedom of religious worship, that great principle of modern society, if it be possible. "Energetic measures will be taken to put down brigandage,- the curse of Mexico, which has para lyzed all commerce and every useful And public en terprise. " The courts of justice will be so organized' as to secure the proper administration of justice, no longer the price of the highest bidder., "Such are the leading principles upon which the future Government will be based. They are those acknowledged by European nations; they are those which the new Government in Mexico will endea vor to follow with, perseverance and energy, if it wishes to take its place among civilized nations. "The second part of the duty imposed on me I can only accomplish by the aid and assistance of all good Mexicans. " I invoke the support of all classes. I demand of all parties to lay down their arms, and to employ henceforth'all their strength, not in destroying, but in constructing. I proclaim oblivion of the past, and a complete amnesty for all those who will rally in good faith round the Government which the nation, by its own free will, shall impose upon itself. "But I declare enemies of their country all those who are deaf to my entreaties, and I will pursue them wherever they may take refuge." I need not say that this proclamation has been bailed with enthusiasm by all the respectable and. right•thinking portion of the community, and it only remains for the Mexicans to avail themselves of the opportunity afforded them. Many of the extreme reactionary party, who expected the restitution of all the Church property, and the re-establishment of the hierarchy in all its ancient splendor, are natu rally disappointed. With this exception, -I have little doubt ; that the manifesto will be well received throughou i he length and breadth of the Republic, and carry , 'll it much weight. The conduct of the French troops has been admirable. lam not aware of ,;a s i ng l e com plaint having been preferred against them. All are loud in their praise. In the city of Mexico there is now almuch order and security as in London, Paris, or any other European capital. Revolvers are laid aside, and people can walk about after dark without the feir of being assassinated. The change is truly marvelous. The Frenoh Gene ral is beset by persons from all parts of the country, requesting that small bodies of French troops may be sent for their protection. To comply with all these requests is impossible, but the Generaldoes his beat to satisfy every one. Nnw Yam:, August 12.—A man-of war is reported to be outside. Slie to probably the Brooklyn, which is hourly expected from the Gulf. The sloop of-war Vandalia, for Portsmouth, and the steam corvette Connecticut, on a cruise for pi rates, and the ship Kitatiny, for the blockade aor vicei sailed from this port loot raght, 3E 0 .71.1i2M. (PUBLISHED WEEKLY.) The WAR Panes will be tient to subscribers by mail (per annum in advance) at 11% 50 Throe conies 5 00 Five copies El 00 Ten copies " 15 00 Larger Clubs than Ten wilt be charged at the same rate, .411.50 per copy. The money/ must atteres accompany the order. and in no instance can thase terms be devizasei from, ae thee , afford vent /Wit more than the cost of the paper. Sae- Poßtmastere are requested to act as Agents for THE WAR PRP.9B. .03Y- To the getter-up of the Club of ten or twenty. ea extra copy of the Paper will be given. PERSON&I. Gen. Blair, in his recent speech at St. Louis, spoke with great earnestness of the honor due to Gen. Grant, for the conduct and triumph of_the Vicksburg campaign : "When any ambitious and vainglorious chief tain comes back and attempts to claim for himself the great deeds which have immortalized, and ought to immortalize, Gen. Grant, the whole army of Grant, the whole army engaged in that expedition, will repel -they idea ; and we will proclaim every where, that the leading spirit, the great chief and lender of the expedition was General Grant. There are few persona who were not present through this whole campaign, that can tell you of the sufferinge which were endured, the privations which were un dergone by the soldiery of Grant's army. For months and months we sought to penetrate and break through the enemy's lines; through bayous, through in accessible and almoit im passable morassea we sought to meet the loe front to front, in the face of his great and formidable works;'we sought to turn his flanks; we sought in every way, months and months, and during the inclemency of a climates which few hare experienced, and we have left the bones of our comrades in those marshes and swami's ; we sought in every way to carry out whet we knew to be the wishes of the people of the West—to free this great Mississippi river. But it appeared that everything was against us. Steele's Bayou was im passable ; the Yazoo Cut-off turned out a delusion ; the canal we attempted to dig across the peninsula in front of 'Vicksburg was a failure ; again and again we failed ; - again and again we were repulsed in our attempts to force the line of the enemy. But the indomitable courage of General Grant was never quenched, and he threw himself and army bodily across the Blississippi, and we fought the enemy hand to hand, they outnumbering us, but beating them in every battle, until we invested - Vicksburg, with more men in it than the brave army which set down before it. Gentlemen, I tell you, what the facts of history will verify hereafter, that we killed, wounded, and captured more men than we crossed the aliesiscippi with. [Renewed applause.] We took 900 field and siege pieces, 40,000 stand of Bmall arms— snore arms than we had men to bear if we had laid down our own. We killed, wounded, and captured more men than Grant croseed the Mississippi with, and that is an achievement for which no part of an cient or modern history can show a parallel." —Mr. A.lonckton Milnes, the parliamentarian, poet, and litterateur, has been elevated to the Bri tish peerage by the title of Baron Houghton. Com menting upon this fact, the London Time* says: ".The popular textbooks of our constitution in form us that the grand prize of hereditary nobility ie reserved for the greatest ornaments of the House of Commons, the heads of the legal profession, and officer a who have earned it by eminent achievements by land er sea. Practically, we know that it is not so, and ihat individuals who have none of these titles in a transcendent degree sometimes find their way into the Upper House, and, what is more, prove very useful members of it. Here ' as elsewhere, it is Es combination of qualities which is in request, and the fortunate possessor of this combination not only wins favor and success, but frequently justifies This is exactly. Mr. Monckton Writhes' case. To a high social position and sufficient wealth he unites an honorable - literary reputation, a long political experience, and a .good deal of that pres tige which is the joint result of recognized ability -and character. In what may be called the second ary questions of politics, and in the semi-poli tical questions which are better discussed outside the House of Commons than within its walls, he has taken a very active and influential part. Until lately there were few persons in Parliament who felt so warm an interest in continental politics, or who had anything like the same acquaintance with them, and very few indeed who had thought and written so much about such matters as national education, sanitary reform, and the treatment of criminals. These merits and accomplishments are not the elements of Parliamentary fame, but they are of great value in themselves, and certainly con tribute to adorn a seat in the House of Lords. Mr. Salines does not belong to the highest rack of poets, or statesmen, or philanthropists. or economists, but he is enrolled as a working meinber in all of these classes, and has done a greater amount of good ser vice for the public than many more conspicuous men. To this, rather than to any claims upon the gratitude of the liberal party, we must attribute the choice of the Premier. It has no political signifi cance whatever. Mr. Monckton tempera. meat is not that of a partisan, and his seat has been too secure to make it necessary for him to profess uncompromised adhesion to any political leader." —The Marquis of Normanby's demise is noted at length in the English papers. In the following the Times recounts the most interesting portion of his political career : " The Whigs were stranded in 1841, and Lord Normanby was unemployed till, in 1846, Lord John Russell came into power. Then he was appointed ambassador to Paris in which post he re mained till the spring of 1852. It was a most event ful period ; it was the period of the Spanish mar riages, of the French Revolution, of the coup d'e tat. In the affair of the Spanish marriages - England was outwitted. We need . hardly now ask who was to blame. We are only reminded that in the cross-fire of recrimination which that business called forth, M. Guizot an one occasion contested the accuracy of Lord Normanby's report of a conversation, and said of our A.mbassador 'l7 est bon enfant, mail it /re comprend pas noire longue.' Of the events of the re volution Lord Normanoy afterwards gave some ac count in two volumes, which, though diffuse in style, are not u_ninteresting. With regard to the coup d'elat he has stated that Lord Palmerston's ap proval of that act led to an eternal severance between himself and his - diplomatic chief. Ex actly two months after the event, Lord Nor mariby ceased to represent our Government in Paris. 11l health was said to be the reason bf his giving up the post, and ill health may well have been coin cident with differences of opinion. Lord htormanby was not again employed till 1854, when he was ap— pointed by Lord Aberdeen - to the Legation at Flo rence, where he remained till, the return of the To ries to power, and the accession of Lord IVlalmes. bury to the Foreign Office. Lord Malmesbury would not wait for the slow action of the post; he recalled Lord Normanby from Tuscany by tele graph ; yet when he returned to this country he took his seat beside Lord Malmesbury and steadily op posed his old friends who had gone through fire and water to support him. Just before the downfall of Lord Palmerston's feet administration Lord Cla rendon had to defend him against charges-based on his notoriously Austrian tendencies while at Flo. rence. It must have been a hard task for Lord Cla rendon to defend the Tuscan minister, but he did de fend him, and he had his reward ; for that minister's first act, after his return to England, was to oppose his late chief, who had stood by him manfully. It is not pleasant to record such things, and we know of nothing to excuse it. The paralysis which had for years partially disabled him has7now suddenly carried him away, and we will think of, him, not as he appeared at the last, but as he was in his prime." Leutze the artist had a grand welcome and re ception. at Dusseldorf, on the 10th of Tune last, on his return from America. About one hundred and fifty artiste and lovers of art assembled at the " Mahlkasten," juste outside of the Hof-G-arten. This is the clulahouse of the painters, and with its gardens is their property. Leutze was received with music, and when he came within reach of the assembled company, there was a general rush to shake his bands, kiss his cheeks, and hug him. The old fellows were much affected at the scene, and were heartily glad to see their old companion once more. The guest made a short and feeling address, whereupon all went in to . aupper. Here, two of the artiste had arrayed themselves, one as a negro, the other as an Indian ; and these brought in the flint dishes, and handed them to Leutze. Andreae Achenbach sat at Leutzels right, and his old friend Tryt at his left. After dinner the calumet of peace was passed around ; there was speaking and drink ing of healths, with songs afterwards in the illunde nated garden. -The occasion appears to have been a very pleasant and right merry one, and is -said' to have been the happiest festival ever given by the society of artists. Leutze returns in °deicer, with his family, to this country. The Vienna journals relate the following anec dote of the Emperor of Austria: "One day last week, when Francis Soseph was hunting at Reiche nau, he met a poor girl, who was evidently in deep distress, and, in answer to his Majesty's inquiries, she told him that she had just met a man who had shamefully ill•treated and robbed her of four florins, the value or some cherries, she had been selling in the neiehboring town. !The Emperor, after obtain ing a description of the robber, and learning the direction he had taken, rode off in pursuit, but was unable to find him. His Majesty then returned, and made the poor girl a present equal to the loss she had suffered. Inconsequence of orders given to the gendarmery, the man was arrested two days after wards, and recognized`as an old offender' —lThe trial of Lieut. Col. Hasbrouck Davis, of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, upon, charges growing out of the cavalry,operations between the Rappahannock and Richmond, is now in progress at Washington. What the specific charges are has not transpired ; but it is reported that when Colonel Davis was pro ceeding under orders to a certain point, he met a river in his course, which could not be forded. The men and hortes had to cross on flatboats, and be fore the crossing was wholly accomplished a part of the command proceeded on its way, leaving the other part on the opposite side of the stream with out any float-boats. The men thus detached lost their way, and after several days , wanderings and hunger made their way to Fortress Monroe. The correspondent of an English paper expresses his belief that the Col. O'Brien who was lately banged to a lamp-post in New York, cut down be fore he was dead, and then brutally murdered by the mob, was the Cola M. D. T. O'Brien who had been a resident in Sheffield for some time, and who was Well known to many of the leading families in that quarter under the name of Thompson, his mother's maiden name. The Colonel had formerly seen some service in the Crimea, and had been in. Italy with Garibaldi. In December he sailed for New York, was 'appointed major, and was slightly wounded in the ba#lc of Froderielcnburg. Grand. Nation is Possessed of a few eccentric patriots. `During-the recent elections one such wished to be returned as " the humane candidate," being posiessed of a plan for making elcaybody happy. 1.1 e: had :photographs of his benevo ent vi sage posted everywhere. rAnother was the " Super natural " candidate. He could do anything! A third had discovered a method of securing a pension to everybody on attaining a certain age, and the best of it was, it would n't cost anybody anything. The peatest philosopher of all this crowd was one who promised to have a law passed to force (if necessary!) maids to marri—also, young men to marry before they got old. Strange to say, votes were recorded for each of these. So says the French papers. —Fearful excitement reigns in the British Admi ralty. The trouble is that Prince Alfred, being now a lieutenant in the Royal Navy, will have to be made a captain some day, and none of the "Lords of the Admiralty " know how, soon, according ta.rule, it can be done, without " shaking the foundations, and all the rest of it, you know." Mr. CAL P.) Berkeley says it can be done in eight yeass ; Lord Clarence Paget saya it will take nine, and.--an ago nized world waits to hear what this crisis-portends. -- Gen. Buford, writes an army correspondent, has. obtained a leave of absence from his command for ten days, and goes to his home in Kentucky. The. grim messenger of death has laid a heavy hand.upon. his family. _ Since the Ist inst. a daughter, a sister, and a sisterin•law have died from typhoid fever, and his wife is now very low with the same disease. The whole country will sympathize With the Gene ., ral in this, the hour of his affliction. The R. Hon., Sir Oresswell Creswell, Sudge Ordinary of the Court of Probate, divorce and raatri monist causes, died at his residence in London, on Wednesday, theaith ult. - Before Lord Lyndhurst was rich he was a very Red Republican. He gave as a toast at a Midland Circuit dinner of the Bar: " May the head of the last of the kings be emboweled in th,e last of the priests." This story Prone The -Dia (110/404).
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