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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1868
UNION STATE COMMITTEE
ROOMS, COMWIDINVEALTH BUIL4INGi,
A.p.Rl/St 30,1963
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au2( l -3t WAYNE McVE AGEE, Chairman.
Pre,sitient
~;Those who suppose that our Democratic
.ffiends have neglected their duty to the
country will find an assurance that such is
not the case, in the announcement that the
Democratic National Committee are about
to hold. a meeting and to arrange a Conven
tion to nominate a candidate for the Presi
dency: This, at least, shows that the De
mocratic leaders have a _ higher opinion of
the purpose and promises of the Administra
tion than it has been their custom to pro
fess. They have told us so frequently that
the country is going to the end ; that it
has become so shameless and demoralized
by the tyrannies of Mr. Liwoorx ; that, in
fact, it is no longer a country, that this
practical tribute to its existence is a grati
fying evidence that they no longer. believe
'what it has been their custom to believe.
When the Democracy deign to allow us
President, it shows that, notwithstanding
all that has been done to weaken and destroy
the country, there is still some honor to be
gained and some money to be made in serv
ing it.; and that, although they would have
been willing to have had Mr. JEFFERSON
DAVIS as the President of a reconstructed
Union, and have done, all in their power
to strengthen and advance his pretensions,
there is still good enough in the old Repub
lic to make the loaves and fishes and baked.
nilits a matter of serious attention. We
_have a theory, that this idea of the Demo
cratic Committee must be attributed to Gene
ral MEADE and General GRANT. These;
distinguished gentlemen have done much
to cause a change of heart among many
wayward and perverse . people in Vir
ginia and the Southwest, not to .speak
of those who do us the honor to dis
cuss American matters in the cabinets
and journals of Europe. It is not at all un
likely that they have caused a similar change
of heart among those known as the leaders
of the Democratic party. Now, if these
leaders have been consistent in any one de
claration, it is, that however much they
might be anxious to earn pleasant incomes
from the national revenue, their contempt
for the Yankees and, Yankee institutions
was so great that they could not be
bought to take part in such a Yankee
contrivance as the Federal GOVern
ment. It would have been different, of
course, if General LEE had succeeded in
throwing his lines as far North as New
Yolk,-and made Pennsylvania a member of
the Confederacy. There would have been
some comfort in holding office under such
circumstances: Mr. PEED might have gone
back to police and criminal business with
the enthusiasm and zeal that is:so peculiar
to his character. The briefless barristers
who conceal their disgust at the absence of
Southern society, in club haunts and retired
places, might have obtained some visible
means of support. Colonel CHARLES J.
BIDDLE, the hero of Langley, and the
glorious leader of a hundred dress pa
rades, might have been elevated and dis
tinguished by the grateful rebels he was so
careful not to injure. All these hopes have
passed away, and we find the hungry De
niocracy, "Tray, Blanche, Sweetheart,"
every grade and degree, quietly flocking back
to the Yankee Union, and preparing to enjoy
the comforts of a Government they were at
so much pains to destroy.
Democracy must look to its laurels.
Another " conservative party " is in the
field, and intends to monopolize " the ba
lance of power" in the next Presidential
election—that is, in case said balance is in
'cautiously left lying around loose, to be
picked up and carried off by the larcenious
conservatives in question. A secret con
ference of gentlemen very ambitious to save
the country, and with no appreciable ambi
tion whatever that can be construed-into a
selfish zeal • for their_ individual aggrandize
ment, has been held at Rochester. In order
that the country might be saved beyond a
doubt, the thirty gentlemen of the conven
tion met together and talked in the most
patriotic vein for three or four hours. This
is an extremely gratifying incident. It
is an oasis in the desert, to which Ame
rican politics, in their present aspect,
may be compared. In fact, such is
the weight of gratitude we feel towards
the thirty gentlemen of the caucus,
for having, by a few hours' genial converse,
effected what several years of fierce war
have failed to accomplish, that we, think
each and every one of them is entitled to be
called an oasis of himself. With these thirty
oases in all the fresh bloom of verdancy as a
nucleus, around which the conservative
growth of the country may gather, who
shall estimate the gorgeous consequences
that must ensue ? What plant the oases
propose to place in nomination for the
Presidential bed of thorns is not stated by
the intelligent reporters. In an extremely
_mild way, we would venture to suggest to
their distinguished consideration that bloom
ing specimen of conservative statesmanship,
JEFFERSON DAVIS, or that magnificent ex
otic, Mr. Cotrim GIIROWSICI, or that sprig
of Democracy, Mr. CLEMENT L. VALLAN-
Diethur, whose bloom is perennial, but
whose career as a martyr has been prema
turely nipped in the bud. If none of these
specimens of floriculture are sufficiently
fragrant or imposing, we have others in our
conservative conservatory, and in the hot
beds of Secession innumerable others are
doubtless flourishing, if they have not long
since run to seed. We make these sugges
tions in a spirit of botanicaLphilanthropy,
and trust the oases may receive them in a
meek and grateful spirit. Nor can we Delp
congratulating the citizens of IhielieSter,
that: their thrifty city has once again been
made "the cynosure of neighboring,eyes,"
by an event scarcely less worthy of histori
cal distinction than were the famous " Ro
chester knockings" in days lang sync.
We feel that it is impertinent to pursue
this subject, and shall say no more. We are
afraid that it is not in the nature of the lean
Democracy and hungry Conservatives to
appreciate the good advice we are impatient
to give them. If they will make Presidents,
however, let us look quietly on, and' wish
them good words, pleasant meetings, and all
the comforts of the, season. Although we
give them JEFFERSON DAVIS, we are afraid
on reflection, that the modesty of_that gen
tleman sadly interferes with his availability,
and he will probably be in,Nassau, or Mexi
co, or Cuba, or the Old Capitol Prison, be
fore many weeks are over.. The Count
GOROWSEI would beafar more agreeable
man, for there is no dangef of his being
Summarily hanged on this side of the
Russian dominions. FERNANDO WOOD .
is now in Canada with the view: of
41 restoring his 'health," and so on; or
'we might bring him on the stage. He
has had so much experience with "po
licies" and " - tickets," that it is difficult
to resist his claims. We do not men
tion any of the generals in-this connection,
as we feel rather delicate about referring to
theSe chieftains in a civil sense, but 11 we
'might be permitted to bring one man for
ward, it would be Mr. FITZ JOHN PORTER.
Still, he is but a plain "Mr.," and not a
statesman—and, of course, we must have a
.statesman. WI - mum CORNELL JEWETT
-certainly deserves some recognition. He is
by far the most brilliant of them all hi the way
of boots, and cravats, andraiment, and as he
is - now moving in the best society of royal
footinen and porters in Europe; and, holding
an unlimited correspondence with royalty,
he would bring to 'his high place a degree
of refinement and elegance that has been
sadly missed in Washington since the Yan
kees have gone there. After all, JEWETT
le the man l He is " conservative ;" he is
" Democratic ;" he dresses in gorgeous
array ; he is by no means vulgar ; he is a
statesman, like Gonowsia ; • a diplomatist,
Eke REED; a combination of all qualities
that could possibly be 'deiired. Give Ll 3
JEWETT, the Democracy will get sleek again;
and the Union will be respectable and safe.
The Rebel Loan.
The foitunes, or rather the misfortunes; of
the reberloan in Europe, remind us of the old
nursery song, "Here we go up, up, up, and
here we go down, down, downy." A very
good song it is, and we shOuld like very much
to hear Mr. McRAE sing it. Mr. McRAE is the
agent in London for the loan, and is about
this time in a feverish state of mind, for the
holders of bonds haVe already begun: to
write him letters.. .It were an interest
ing sum in the Rule of Three, if Mc-
RAE receives one letter when the loan is
quoted at thirty-five, how many will he
receive when it is only quoted as an in
stance of gigantic swindling—as we now
quote the South Sea scheme ? He is doomed
to an extensive correspondence, and the
British Government should pension him for
increasing the postal revenues. But his
future correspondents will not write as
mildly as Mr. ScrewAtvez, one of the
holders of the loan, "Whose letter we , pub
fish to-day, and we trust ',Punch" has
not omitted to - reprint. Mr. SCHWARTZ
'thinks the present position of the. loan
is such as to give anxiety, but at the
same time :has not lost the confidence
he always had, and, does not doubt that
the engagements of the Confederate Govern.
merit will be faithfully fulfilled. Of such con
fidence as this martyrs are made ; by such a
spirit foolish damsels are betrayed, and
many a SCHWARTZ lies ,gotte to the "
nition bow-wows." Upon what grounds
it is based the letter proceeds to show,. for
MI. SCHWARTZ asks several important
4uestions, which ilkorate his sagacity.
The trustful 'and innocent SonwAitrz ac
tually wants to know if these is. cotton
enough in the Confederate States , to meet
the liabilities .on the loan; if there is,
where it is, and if the Northern ar
mies can get if the cotton being
in existencestincltiafe, Mr. SCHWARTZ can
get his sharM . asking for it. People
with mean ideas of business may wonder
why Mr, ScrewAyrz did not 'ask these ques
tions before he invested his money, but of
course no chivalrous gentleman would •sh
insult the South. Such mean-spirited trades
men should remember this is a question of
honor between slaveholders and speculators,
and besides, has not Mr. )SLIDELL proved
to- general dissatisfaction that it was not
JEFF. DAVIS who was the Great -Repudia
tor, but his brother ?
McRAE, however, responds that the
rebel Government has cotton.wherewith to
pay its debts ;. that the Northern armies
cannot get it, and that Mr. ScnwAnTz's
little lot is waiting ior him somewhere in
the interior, in Alabama. All that he has
to do is to go and take it. But that is the
trouble. Faith will move mountains, but
even such monstrous credulity as that. Mr.
SpnwAnTz possesses has never.been known
to move cotton bales from the interior of
Alabama to Liverpool. Of such faith as his
the motive power is small,'and we really think
a mountain of it would be-needed to remove
a mustard seed. HoW, then, with a cotton
bale ? For all such purpose the experienne
of the; Southern planter has been that negroes
are better than. religion.' -
Cotton has . been used in many curious
ways. Military men, it is said; are kre
quently indebted to it for that swelling of
the breast which is supposed to indicate,
martial' ardor, and a, desire to die for one's
country. It has now the honor to pad n
hollow-ribbed rebellion and enable it to pre
sent a good figure abroad:
French Outrages lu Mexico.
The friends of liberty and students of the
history of the past fifteen years were not
surprised to hear of the tyrannies by which
Gen. FOREY is endeavoring to break the
spirit of the Mexicans and preparing them
for the rule of a foreign monarch. He has
decreed the confiscation of the property of
the patriotic citizens of Mexico, and now
enforces it with his army. It is stated
upon authority, at I,he least as good as the
bulletins of this French General, that "the
triumvirate Government was daily imprison
ing and shooting persons (Mexicans) refusing
to take the oath - of allegiance to the Ern : .
pire." It is also affirmed that Mexicans
" had been publicly flogged for refusing
quarters to French officers. One Meilcan
lady, named Rum°, received two: hundred
lashes for refusing to-receive French officers
into her house. Her husband offered to pay
as a fine his weight in silver, but FOREY in
sisted on making an example of her."
At these reports the New York World,
always eager to accept and exaggerate any
statement of outrages committed by " Abo
lition officers," and especially by negro
trolips, laughs in its incredulity. American
officers, in its opinion, are capable of any
villainy, but it refuses to believe that a
French general can disgrace his uniform by
whipping women. Yet, it gaie full credit
to the slanderous story that a woman was
whipped in Wheeling, Va., and denounced
the Government for the supposed outrage.
For ouvselves, remembering FOREY'S past,
we are not surprised at his present. This is
the man who became the tool of despotism
in 1851, and on the 2d of December broke
up with military force the French Assembly,
and arrested and imprisoned the representa
tives of the people.' If he disgraced his
uniform then, can the World wonder that
he disgraceS it now ?
IN DECEMBER, 1860, Mr. Justice WOOD
WARD, who now aspires to be Governor of
Pennsylvania, uttered these words`: "It
seems to me that there must be a time when
slaveholdere may fall back on their natural
rights, and employ, in defence of their slave
property, whatever means of protection: they*
posseSs or- can command." One month,
afterward, ALExAwnEn. H. STEPHENS, now
Vice President of the rebel Government, ut
tered. these words before a Georgia State
Convention
"What right has the North assailed? - What in
terest of the South has been invaded? What jus
tice has been - denied? and what claim; founded in
justice and right, has been withheld?' Can either of
you to-day name - one Governmental act of wrong,
deliberately and purposely done by the Government
at Washington, of which the ,South has aright to
complain? .1 challenge the answer." •
The Northern justice counselling rebel
lion—the Southern fire-eater counselling
submission to the law—could anything more
clearly indicate who are the true authors of
all, the calamities that have come upon our
people ? •
FEW days ago, ALEXANDER CRAN, a
Democratic judge of 17aylte county, in
this State, was arrested upon the charge of
having enticed a soldier to desert from the
14th Cavalry regiment., ,Dadge CRAT will
no ddubt be intensely indignant at this
"arbitrary arrest," and regard it as only
another proof of the oft-repeated assertion,
that the Administration no longer respects
"the dignity of the bench," 'nor the civil
courts of law. We commend to Mr. ORAN'S
distinguished consideration, two brief sen
tences from the letter written in. June last
by President LuToomt to the VALLANDIG
HAM sympathizers of Albany: "-Must I;"
said the President, " shoot the simple
minded soldier-boy who deserts, while I
must not touch a hair of the wily agitator
who induces him to desert? I think that,
in such a ease,.to silence the agitator and
save the boy.,is not only constitutional, but
withal a great mercy."
THE Toronto Globe must be an intensely
sarcastic newspaper. It comes out with the
editorial statement that D'Ancy MdGEE ob
tained his information concerning the in
tended invasion of Canada by one hundred
thousand Northern troops, from CLEMENT
L. VALLANDIGRAM !
.31T. VALLANDIG
HAM was merely speaking figuratively. He
was merely foreshadowing in a general way
the advent of: those one hundred thousand.
Ohio Militia-men, who are going to Canada
to escort him home to the gubernatorial
chair, under the ;valiant leadership of Lieu- -
tenant Governor Punli ! Mr. Puun-has ,
given his promise that he intends to shout
" VALLANDIGHAM TALLANDIGHAM ! ! 'VAL
LANDIGHAM ! ! I t ' from the steps of the State
Capitol, and that after this imposing cere
mony; the militia will take
.up their march.
But surely the Ohio Democracy will not
haie`the ingratitude to invade a British pro
vince in this • style, alter the substantial aid
Great Britain has furnished to their South
ern; allicsl • - - •
Courcesion of4yefeatL
"The cause of the Southern Confederacy
is past help, past hope. It is not.because
this is the assertion of an impartial European
paper,
.that we hold it ithportarit, nor even
because it is confessed by rebel journals, but
that We knew it to be true. Wliat We have
done is decisive, and the results 'of our
victories arc not cloudy apparitions of the
future ; they are weighty facts of the present.
You can measure them by miles, add them
-up in figures, appraise their monetary value.
Just as a merchant at the end of the year
counts up his profits: and holds them in his
hand,- so can the Government estimate and
grasp the tangible results of the great vic
tories. With a lion leap our armies have
literally sprung upon the rebellion and.
wrested whole States from its clutch. The
proud river of the West has been re-won,
and restored, to commerce and to peace.
The enemy has been driven to that last
extremity of suffering, which is the next
degree to he unbeitinble, and now simply
waits, like the criminal at the bar, for his
final sentence and punishment. - The South
crouches. It trembles. Expecting a blow
it cannot avert, which it feels it cannot bear,
it utters that wild Cry of anguish, hatred,
and defianeei which the trapped wolf utters
when it-sees the hunter, coming through the
woods. It is said that on the battle-field the
front of a great_ army presents. to the quick
eye of the - soldier, faint, indescribable signs
which are like the expression on a hiunan
face,. and indicate as surely feeling and pur
pose: Suck signs, though not faintly mark- .
ed, are now written on the face of the rebel-:
lion, and they expreSs the confusion_ and
desperation of a cause that is past help, pait
We know our victory, and our foe con
fesses his defeat ; not formally, it is true,
but virtually. The South Made no attempt
to relieve the siege of its most valuable for.
tress; it abandons thousands of miles of its
own territory to our . - power ; It burns vast
stores of cotton to prevent them from
seizure ; its - government declares that no
thinghut the instant arming of every man
under its control can- save- it; its journals
unite in painting the .danger of subjuga
tion, and quarrel about the means of de
fending it ; its armies are disbanding and
retreating, and its people refuse to renew a
struggle which they learned to believe is
useless. If this is not the, confession of
defeat, it certainly is its attitude.
"We look for the worst from. Charles
ton," says the Chattanooga Rebel, a fero
clans journal which, until lately, has been
busily engaged in whipping five Yankees
with one rebel—on paper—and now proba
bly preparing to emigrate to Atlanta, in
view of ROSECRANS' advance. "Alas ! for
my country," exclaims the Savannah Re
publican, angry that submission is advocated
in North Carolina, and that North Carolina
tolerates such sentiments. "The army has
not been increased, and we are today de
fenceless," complains the Montgomery Ad-
Terti,ser. Jour: MITCICELL, of the Richmond
EnqUirer, consoles his readers by the glow
ing pictures of the guerilla warfare which
will follow the ",disintegration" of the
rebel armies. JEFFERSON DAVIS summons
out the boys and old men to defend the
cause which has wasted the strong life of
his country. From all parts of the South
come like groans and rejoicings, counsel
ings to be brave, and warnings to beware.
We listen, and interpret them well by the
decigive events of the memorable month of
July. "The cause of the Southern Con
federacy is past help, past hope."
NORTH CAROLINA, - a slave State, and a
member of the so-called Southern Confede
racy, is anxious , to uphold the cause of the
Union. Shall it be said that Pennsylvania,
a free State, is willing to oppose the cause
of the Union ?
There cannot be such a thing as qualified
loyalty in such momentous times as these,
even if such a thing can exist at all. The
man who is but half-loyal is wholly traitor
ous. Loyalty is.a thing of the heart, not of
the, head. It is not a patron of argument,
nor a peddler of sophistries, but an unerring
instinct, that guides men like a higher sort
of reason, and cannot lead: 'them from the
line of truth.
TIM NEW YORK Evpress, quoting the
prices of a recent negro sale in Georgia,
says "the value of negro property seems to
keep up, notwithstanding the disposition of
the chattels to make off to Massa LINEIJAI
whenever and wherever the opportunity oc
curs." If this supposition is based on the
fact that the highest price paid for one negro
was $2,525, it should be remembered that the
value of Confederate currency should also
be considered. A gentleman lately engaged
in business in the South informs us that he
frequently made one thousand dollars a
week in fair transactions. But a barrel — of
flour would cost him two hundred dollars
and to get a man to bring it to:his. house he
would pay one hundred. What, then, are
slaves worth when you measure the value of
Confederate notes by that of standard cur
rency ?
A WASHINGTON special despatch to the.
New YOrk Tribune states that LEE will
make another attempt to invade the North
and capture Washington. The despatch
says : "This time General LEE will avoid
Pennsylvania, upon which the Richrnonders
look as a Northern State hostile in prin.-
ciples and feelings to the South, while
blaryland, they hold, belongs to the South."
If General LEE desires still further assu
rance of the loyalty of our people ; if the
reception he met with on two previous
occasions did not open his eyes; and if the
readines.s with Whioll we have submitted to
the conscription act failed to convince him
thoroughly that we are still true to the
Union, he will be furnished with satisfactory
and overwhelming data upon this most in
teresting question; by the October election&
But it seems he has anticipated the result of
that election, since he has wisely determined
to avoid our State. If he could possibly get
to New York, he would doubtless make the
visit with unfeigned satisfaction, and very
Probably would be tendered a serenade on
the evening of his arrival. He will not find
so much comfort in "My Maryland." .
As IT is a cardinal principle of the rebel
Government that the States are sovereign
and cannot be coerced, of course no excep
tion can be takeff by JEFFERSON Davis and
his Cabinet ministers to the significant
change of sentiment which has taken place
in North Carolina, and which points, not
only to the withdrawal of the State from the
Confederacy, but to the speedy downfall of
the latter. Undeniably North Carolina has
the right to "secede" from the new Go
vernment ; for it was upon this doctrine
that that Government was established, Mid
it is for this doctrine that its conscript armies
are at this moment contending. When the
news from North'Carolina reaches Europe,
the Confederate loan will probably experi
ence another shock, from which the most
strenuous exertions of the Times will be
unable to rally it.
THE DRAMATIC SEASON AT THE ACADEMY
OF MIISIC.—The success which haS attended
the delineations of Mr. EDWIN Boom, as
well as the intrinsic merit of them, has in.-
vested with a certain prestige the season
which is to be Inaugurated this evening at
the Academy of Music. We are assured
that every adjunct and auxiliary connected
with 'those plays of SRAKSPEARE, COL
MAN, and BuLwER, which are to be present
ed, will have the advantage of being faith
fully delineated. The present enterprise is
commenced underthe auspices of Mr. J. S. ,
CLAREE,...who,jf his managerial tact renders
himself and the public the profitable and plea
sant service which his talents have already
done, will feel reason to congratulate himself,
aswell as"to experience congratulation from'
that public. " Richelieu". will be produced
this evening. The occasion is that of Mr.
Boom's first appearance in this city for
three years. The support that is Promised
him is, as a generality, very fair. The good
faith of the parties more immediately. inter
ested is sufficient to persuade the public to
look for a season of, tmcominon attraction ;
more than sufficient to furnish a great temp ,
Cation to the public to render that attraction
telling and remunerative, -
THE PRESS.- - PHILA_DELPHIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1863;
IT TS A FAVonym 3DE . 4,among disloyal
men that "the DemObiatie party is the
pasty : of the country," To show how
utterly absurd and TallaCious such a notion
is, we have but to revert to the indisputable
fact that if the Southern Democracy were
disarmed to-day there would be an end of
the war, and peace would be restored to the
country ; while if it had not been furnished
with arms stolen from Government arsenals
by: Northern Democrats and instigated to
rebel by such leaders of the Northern De
mocracy as Mr. Justice WOODWARD, there
would have been no 'war at all, and the
country would have continued on fts career
of prosperity and happinesi, There was a
time when the Democratic party was the
party of the country, but it was before that
party fell into the ways of degeneracy and
abased itself to worship the idol of slavery.
A COTEMPORARY makes note of the singu
lar fact, that during, the Mexicah war, when
the party to which Mr. Justice WoonwArto
belongs controlled the executive and judi
cial powers of our State, no attempt was
made to declare the soldiers' vote ille
gal. Yet, Mr. Justice WOODWARD, who
last fall disfranchised the brave men who
chanced to be beyond the borders of their
native State, perilling their lives for its de
fence, now asks those who have returned to
give him their votes ! Will the soldiers
do it ?
IT RAS been contended in all the Opposi=
ton newspapers thatmore Democrats than
Republicans have been drafted. If,this is
true, it is unfortunate for the conscript De
mocracy, for the Government regards them
as soldiers, and being soldiers; they will, of
course, be disfranchised by their own party
idol, Mr. Justice WOODWARD. That, he
lacks the inclination to do it is disproved
by his record, and whether he - remains upon
the bench, or takes the Gubernatorial chair,
he will not lack-the power.
Tnn PEOPLE of Pennsylvania are not
wil
]mg to array themselves against the National
Government. The fact is shown most
clearly in the gracious manner in which they
have submitted to the enforcement of the
draft; and it will be shown still more unmis
takably at the polls in October next. New
York chose such a man as SF:YAM:UR for her
Governor, as any State capable of resisting
the draft'by mob violence might have done.
But Pennsylvania was too loyal to resist the
conscription ; and she will be too loyal to
elect the prototype of , SEYMOUR, to her Gu
bernatorial chair.
IT HAS been constantly charged by the
enemies of the Government in the North
that it is waging war for the purpose of sub
jugating the Southern people ; whereas, the
truth has been, that wherever the Union
armies have obtained the most signal suc
cesses—in Louisiana, in Kentucky, in Ten
nessee, in Western Virginia, and now in
North Carolin—the Southern people
. have
bailed the Union flag as a glad assurance
that the day of their subjugation was at an
end. Which shall we believe, the reckless
assertions of the Northern . traitors or the
unanimous utterance of the Southern loyal
ists ? •
ANY MAN' who dares to peril his life in .the
defence of his Government, is considered by
Judge WooDwAnD and the party which he
re.presents to be unworthy of having a voice
in the control of that Government. The
moment a man shoulders his musket; no
matter whether it be in defence of the
National Capital, or in defence of his 'own
home from invasion, that moment, contends
Mr. Justice WOODWARD, he becomes, to all
intents and purposes, a foreigner. Under
the old- Democratic regime the Southern
slaves were represented in Congress; under
the new regime, which the Democrats hope
to establish, our armies of Northern freemen
are to be debarred the privilege.
WASHINGTON, A.UgLle 241866.
Virginia Attairs—Gov. Pierpont at Alex-,
Governor FIERPOSZT is here making arrangements
for putting the Government of the State of Virginia
into operation, the seat of Government to ,be at
Alexandria. With this view, the firef:Legislature
will be convened in extra session probablyirCSep
tember, when that body will elect a Treasurer and
Auditor, for without them no salaries can be Raid
nor the taxes collected in the several counties de
posited. By the creation of the State of West-
Virginia the sum of $lOO,OOO was left to the
credit of the remaining portions of, the Old Do
minion. The new term of Governor PIMEPONTwiII
commence in January next, the election( having
taken place on the 28th of last May in. those parts of
Eastern Virginia free from Confederate control.
Thus, there are three Governors in what:was former
ly known as one State, including the rebel function
ary at Richmond.
The TrAde of the Mississippi.
The Treasury. Department has heard nothing of
the courier reported to Lave been sent by General
GRANT, nor of any modification of hie views in
respect to trade.
The Supply of Papers to the Army. -
The following order has just been issued from the
headquarters of the Army of the Potomac :
"Grammar ORDER, No. 80.—First. For the pur
pose of giving full freedom of choice to.this army.in
the selection of newspapers, it is ordered that any,
officer or enlisted man wishing to purchase any-daily
journal not now furnished by the agent appointed
under the provisions of the'circular of June 2, may
give notice thereof to the provost marshal of the
command to which he belongs, who shall forward
the same through the provost marshal of his corps
to the Provost Marshal General, who shall instruct
said agents to furnish the same without dele`y, and a
neglect on his part to comply with anal instructions
shall be held sufficient cause for vacating his ap
pointment.
Second. It appearing that in several instances
the payment of the sick and wounded of this army
has been delayed by reason of their descriptive lists
having been signed by non-commissioned officers
temporarily commanding companies, it is ordered
that whenever from any cause the signature of a
commissioned officer of the company cannot be ob
tained, the said lists shall he signed by a field offi
cer, or by the adjutant of the regiment to which
such company belongs.
Third. The reports called for by paragraph 5,
General Orders No. 62, of June 12th, 1863, from
these headquarters, from captains of companies,
will be made monthly, and will state in addition to
the name and rank of every officer having a soldier
in his service, and the , name and regiment of the
soldier eo employed, and .the length of time such
service has been rendered.
Fourth. No non-commissioned officer or private
can give his parole, except througn an officer ; and
no officer, for himself or his command, can, under
any oircumstancee, give a military parole not to
serve until exchanged, except when, delivered to an
officer of the United States, duly "authorlied to re
ceive him, at one of the points agreed 'upon by the
Government for the exchangeof prisoners of war, or
at some other point agreed upon by the commander
of an army to which he belongs. All other paroles
are null and void. Any officer or soldier of this
army giving them will be returned to duty without
exchange, and will be punished for disobedience of
orders.
By command of Major General MEADE
S. WILLTAms, Analetant Adjutant General.
[Ppecial Despatch to The Press.]
WASHINGTON, August 21.—Hon. JOHN N. GOOD.
WIN, Chief Justice of Arizona Territory, was to
day appointed Governor, vice Hon. JOHN A. GIM
LET, deceased.
FORTRESS 1510 E -ROE, August 20.—The flag-of-truce
steamer New York, Capt. Chisholm, left last eve.
rang for City Point with 300 rebel prisoners from
Chester, Pa., in charge of Major John E. Mulford.
Acting Brigadier General B. P. Onderdonk, lst
New York Mounted Rifles, and two companies of
the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry, have just returned
to Portsmouth, Va., from• a long raid into North
Carolina. They passed -through Edenton, N. 0.,
and opened communication with Capt. Roberts, in
command at South Mills. Thence they proceeded
to Pasquotank and Hertford, and while about half
way between the two places, were attaoked by the
guerillas, and in the skirmish lost two mounted rifle
men. They killed thirty guerillas and drove several
into the Dismal Swamp, who were drowned ; cap
tureeninety horses, thirty mules, some cattle, &c.
It was a very successful raid.
Two refugees arrived in Norfolk today from Rich
mond, who were born in Canada.
They report that the rebel Government is terribly
frightened about Charleston, and say if it is taken
all is lost. A guard is kept about the residence of
Jeff Davis night and day, to prevent him from
running away from Richmond. .
There are a very few troops in or about Richmond,
and only one brigade between there . ald Peteisburg.
Omorstruerr, August 4.—The Gazelle has received
privaie advises from the Army of the Cumberland
up to the 17th instant, which: state that a movement
was.in progress, and the , public may soon look for
important news from East Tennessee.
CHICAGO, August 21.—The Republican State CM.
vention of Minnesota met'here yesterday, and nomi
nated Col. Stephen A. Miller for Governor and C.
L. Sherwood for Lieutenant Governor. For the
other State officers the present inclimbents were no•
min ated.
btaw YORK, August 9.l.—The steamship Kangaroo
has arrived from Liverpool. Her advioe3 hal - e, been
anticipated: - • '
WASI3IN - 4G-7001V.
Special Despatches to The Press.
andria.
Arizona Territor3r:
Fortress Monroe.
Army of the Cumberland.
Minnesota Polities.
Arrival of the Kangaroo.
THE SIEGE OF CHARLESTON.
A. REBEL ACCOUNT OF TILE BOMBARDMENT
OF FORT SUMPTER,
The Fort MT ing Only at Long Intervals.
Governor Bonham Urging the Removal of Non
`. Combatants,
NORFOLK', August 21,—The Richmond Whig of to
day, received here, has the following :
CHARLESTON, August 20,—The enemy's opera
tions, during the last twenty-four hours, have been
mostly confined to a steady and continuous bom
bardment of Fort Sumpter, from their Parrott guns
on Morris Island. The fire begins to tell on Fort
Sumpter, which replies only at long intervals. The
defence of the harbor does not depend mainly upon
Sumpter, even if that foitress should be battered
down.
Governor Bonham has issued ..a proclamation
urging the removal of all non-combatants from
Charleston as soon as possible. The 5200. pound Par
rott guns of the enemy are too much for the walls
of Sumpter, and the fort only replies at intervals.
It has been determined to defend the city, street by
street, and house by house, as long as a foot of earth
is left.
THE _WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST.
More Cavalry Raids in Mississippi.
A Train Captured and a Railroad Bioken,
ANOTHER RAID GOING SOUTHWARD
JACkeorr, August 18.—The Federal cavalry from
City have reached Duvout station, on the
Mississippi Railroad, where they captured a train
and cut the telegraph wires. A serious destruction
of the railroad southward is apprehended.
The Yankees are carrying two engines and trains
northward from Baden, and a heavy raid is coming
southward from the Charleston road.
GENERAL GRANT'S ARMY.
CHICAGO, August 21.—A special despatch from
Memphis says the 17th Army Corps is now stationed
at 'Vicksburg. A species of intermittent fever is
prevalent among the soldiers there, and those taken
'sick are promptly remoi-ed to the hospitals here.
Very few troops are quartered in - Vicksburg—only
enough to do police duty—the rest are encamped on
the heights back of the city.
General Sherman's corps is still encamped near
the Big Black, on Bear and Clear creeks. This
corps has had the hardest service of the campaign,
yet they enjoy better health than any other.
The 13th Army Corps, under General Ord, has
moved to Natchez for sanitary reasons. They will
remain there for the present.
Admiral Porter's fleet is scattered along the-Mis
sissippi river, from New Orleans to Cairo. The in
termediate distances between the points where the
gunboats are stationed are patroled - by light
draught boats. There is no special news from
below.
r.A.dvices from Stock's Arkansas expedition are
looked for soon from Helena.
VIE WAR BN ARKANSAS.
%he Rebel Forces Concentrating under
Gen. Kirby Smith— Tile People Starving.
111na[rais, August 21.—A.dvices from Arkansas
say that all the rebel forces in that State are con
centrated at Almeda, five miles below Little Rock.
Kirby Smith had arrived and taken command. The
troops were erecting fortifications.
The people in the White•river country are in a
starving condition, and there is a strong disposition
throughout the State to accept peace on any terms.
W. H. Lee, a friend and classmate of the editor of
the INlletin, just from Georgia, says nothing can
equal the abject starving people of the Southern
States, and the prevailing unmitigated despotism.
The people are ripe for a movement toy overthrow
their rulers, and such action cannot much longer be
delayed.
KANSAS INVADED.
The Bitrning of Lawrenee—S 1,000,000 Loss
—Proclamation of the Mayor of Leaven-
CIETEB
LEAVEICWORTg, August 21.—About 6 o'clock, last
evening, the guerilla chief Quantrell;with" a"force
about 800 strong, crossed from Missouri into Kansas,
near the town of Gardner, 60 miles below here, and
immediately started for Lawrence. Arriving before
that town at 4 o'clock, this morning, he posted a
guard around the city, so that the people could no
. escape, and, with the remainder of his force, coin
menced pillaging- the stores, shooting citizens, and
firing, houses.
IgrA gentleman who managed to escape, and secreted
himself in a corn. field near the town, reports that
he swam the river at eighfo'clock, and on reaching
the bluff this side, had a plain view of the town,
which was then - a sheet of flames. From what he
saw, he thinks that -the loss would reach two mil
-lions, and by this time much more, as the rebels
seemed determined to destroy everything that would
burn. We cannot learn that any resistance Was
made,- the citizens being taken completely by sur
prise, the first alarm being the crackling of the
flames and the shouts of the rebels.
James H. Lane was in the city, and it is feared
that he has fallen into thehands of the guerillas, as
'it was almost impossible to escape through their
lines.;
A large number of Union troops havebeen sent
in pursuit of the rebels, but with what success we
.have not 'yet leained.
Mayor Anthony, of this city, has issued a proclama
tion, statingthat the people of Leavenworth need not
apprehend any trouble, but requests every able ho-
died citizen to provide himself with the best arms he
can, and hold himself in readiness to aid his friends
in any part of the State at a moment's notice. lie
censures the General commanding the district,
who, be says, with 5,000 troops under his command,
haa allowed a few hundred guerillas to get fffty miles
into the interior, burn a city-i-deetroy two millions'
worth of property, and intimates that the citizens
must depend upon themselves for the defence of the
city and State.
The Capture of the Prisoners lEscapeil from
Fort Warren.
PORTLAND, August 21.—The cutter J. C. Dobbin
arrived here this morning with escaped prisoners
from Fort Warren, and the yacht which they stole.
They state that only two of them escaped, and
neither belonged to the , Tacony's crew. One of
them is Lieutenant Alexanderjeomn'tander of the
ram Fingal.
The other prisoner proves to be James Thurston,
2d lieutenant of the Atlanta, alias the Fingal, which
was captured at Savannah. The prisoners state
that they escaped by crawling over the ramparts of
Fort Warren while the sentries were on duty.
They swam, with the assistance of a target, three
quarters of a mile to the island opposite Fort War
ren, where they seized a little fishing yacht.
Lieutenant Reed, of the Tacony, attempted to es
cape, but was detected by a sentry stumbling upon
him while he was crawling down; after the alarm
bad been given.
They landed only at Hampton Beach, and were
captured yesterday morning, at it o'clock, east of
Boon Island. They made no resistance. They say
they would have escaped by putting out to sea if
they had been supplied. with food and clothing.
Captaip Webster, 'of the cutter Dobbin, boarded
every vessel he met until he captured the prisoners.
They had some two or three hundred dollars in
:Confederate money, with some greenbacks. They
are .now secure in jail' here. Their boat was a
miserable one, and totally unfit for the contemplated
trip•
The yacht Sparkle, having aboard Deputy Colleo•
tor Bird and a volunteer crew, lifis'not yet returned.
She is armed with'a swivel gun and muskets taken
from the pirate Tacony.
Front San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.— . A telegram has
been received from General Halleck, ordering a sue
pension of the proposed harbor defences, directing
the adoption of another plan. Instead of erecting
works on Yerba, and Buena Islands, and Rinoon
Point, two large batteries, of ten guns each, are to
be constructed on Angel Island, and a heavy bat
tery on San Jose or Block Point. The works are
.to be commenced as soon as the heavy timber re
quirea can be obtained.
News from the Oregon and Idaho mines has been
received to the end of July. Three-fourths of the
people at Boise river must leave soon for lack of
water.
The bare on the Upper Columbia river, extending
200 miles, are-found to turn out richly ; $300,000 in
gold reached Victoria from Caraboo by one arrival
lately, and $200,000 morels on the way. There are
not many claims there, but' those discovered are ex
ceedingly rich.
The S token mines in British Columbia are a failure
Important Arrest in Massachusetts—Paper
ManufaCtured for Rebel Notes.
BOSTON, August .2.l.—George W. Linn,. Prentiss
C. Baird, and Wm. Brown, all residents of Lee,
Mass., were brought before United States Commis
sioner Hallett today, on the charge of giving aid and
comfort to the rebels by manufacturing bank-note
paper, having the-mark "C. S. in the centre of
the bills. ' A nolle prosequi was entered in the case
of Baird that he . inight appear as a witness. Linn
was held in $3,000 to appear at the September term
of the Court. Brown, who worked for Linn, was
held In VA°.
The Storm at Boston.
BOSTON. August 21:—Quite a . severe hurricane,
accompanied by hail, rain, thunder, and lightning.
passed over this city about six o'clock last evening,
doing considerable damage in . East Boston. Five
large sheds in MoKay's ehip•yard, which had just
been completed, were blown 'down.
A had been laid, and most of the iron frames
were up, in one shed, for the iron-clad monitor
Sequando. The latter were blown down, and one
fell on a new steam mill shop, crushing in the roof
and destroying some fifty feet of the building.
Another shed, belonging to the Atlantic Iron
Works, was also crushed by the force of the wind.
The total loss probably reached $12,000. The work
men in the above places had just left when the
hurricane came up.
The wind blew with such force as to tear tn. large
trees, and knock down a number of chimneys, eta.
Wounded Rebel Generals at Baltimore.
BALTIMORE, August 21.—The rebel Major General
Trimble, Brigadier General Kemper, with three
other rebel officers, arrived here today from the
Gettysburg hospitals, and were placed in the hospital
in this city.
AU the rebel officers now 'here that are able to
travel will be sent tomorrow to Johnston's Island.
The Kentucky Election.
OINCITiNATI 3 Angina el.—Returns from all but
nine counties. in Kentucky give. Brnmtette over
60,000 - •
Political Affairs in Illinois.
ST. Lours, August 21.—The Democrat's special
despatch from Spfinglteld, Illinois, says that Presi
dent Lincoln has signified his purpose to attend the
Union mass meeting to be held in that city on the
3d of September; but should the public business
prevent, he will address the people in a letter. The
most extensive preparations are making to render
this meeting the largest ever held In - the West.
Gen. Logan addressed a large meeting in Salem,
Illinois, on Tuesday. Judge O'Muleveney was pre
sent, and Gen. Logan denounced him as one of the
lenders of the band of traitors which was plotting to
overthrow the Government. O'Muleveney left the
crowd without a reply,
The Diplomatic . Tour.
ITHACA, N. Y., August 21.—Mr. Seward and the
foreign ministers arrived here to-day, and went
south at 4 o'clock P. M.
Marine Intelligence.
ARRIVAL OF THE PRIZE STEAMER KATE
Naw Youx, August 21.—The -steamer Newbern
arrived h ere this morning with the prize steamer
Rate in tow. The latter was captured by the gun
boat Mount Vernon, some time ago.
BURNING OF A STEAMER
NIAGARA, C. 'W., August 21.—The steamer Zim
merman of Toronto, on the Lewistown route, WAS
destroyed by fire at the dock last night. The
second mate and watchman were burned to death.
TICE ST./CA:IIER GOLDEN CITY
NEw Yonn:, August 21.—The steamer Golden City,
hound hence for Havana, — having sailed on the
14th, returned this morning to repair a defective
boiler.
TIER ARABIA OUTWARD ROUND
HALFOAX, August 21.—The steamship Arabia ar•
rived and sailed again for Liverpool at 2 o'clock thbl
morning:
AItRIVIED.
Nam , Yortr., Auktrat 21.—Arrived, bark Benefao
tress, from Vfosung.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 19.—Sailed; ships Mer
chant, for Callao, and the Stars and Stripes, Al.
honi, Carolina, and Friend. for Puget Sound.
Arrived, ship Bunker Hif!, from New York.
Markets by Telegraph.
BALTIMONE,
.August 21.—Flour quiet ; Howard
street (super) selisrat g6@6.25. Wheat dull ; - sales
of 6.000 bushels at $1.60 for new Kentucky white,
and 2,000 bushels of Kentucky red at $1.29. Corn is
very dull. Whisky firm at 42@48g.
Oir:orrmaTr, August 21.—Flour dull. Red Wheat
96 ; white Wheat
,$1.10(u71.15. Whisky steady.
Hogs and provisions unchanged. Mess Pork sB'6)
10 for new ; old $11.60012.50. Gold is quoted at
5.13@:11 premium.
Elicursion of Dipiomati4s.
{From the "Utica Herald, 206.7
The local sensation yesterday was the presence in
our city; fora couple of hours, of Secretary Seward
and the foreign diplomats, with their attachda. The
party numbered sixteen.-
They arrived on the 2 90 train from the East, and
remained until the departure of the Blaek.river
train, on which they embarked for Trenton Fall.
After dining at Bagg'e Hotel, the moot of the party
got into emriageo, and were treated to a drive to the
State Asylum and about the city.
- -A .crowd of curious persons hovered about the
hotel and d6pbt to see the notables up to the time of
their departure, and were particularly eager in their
inquiries after Lord Lyons and Count Diercier. The
former appeared to be a good national specimen—
hale and solid, with a plump face and physique, and
the former not remarkably expressive. M. Mercier
is evidently one of the Frenchiest of Frenchmen—
'enthusiastic, polite, talkative, demonstrative, quick
tempered. He is tall, dark-eyed, dark-whiskered,
and accompanies his broken English with a good
many gestures. He made a number of graceful bows
to the crowd as the Black River train moved off,
and was the only one of the party who did so.
There were two ladles of the party, one of them
Secretary Seward , s daughter.
A Challenge to Mr. Pugh.
[From the Cincinnati Gazette.]
To the Hon. Geo. E. Pugh:
Sin: In your speech published in the Cincinnati
Gazette of the 18th instant you make the statement
that in your opinion one regiment of good Democrats
could put to flight all of the colored troops that have
been enlisted by the President of the United States.
In order to test your sincerity, I make to you this
proposition, presuming you to be one of the good
Democrats referred to ; My mother was an African
woman, my father a white man—one of the first
families of the South. I am, therefore, of that class
of persons to whom you refer, so far as lineage is
concerned ;-furthermore, I am less in stature, and of
lees weight than yourself, being somewhat older. I
propose, therefore, in order to test the question of
prowess, to tight you, in any manner, and with any
weapons, and at any time which will suit your con
venience, in order to set at rest and finally dispose of
this much-agitated question.
I remain respectfully yours,
JEFFERSON Y. TOOMBS,
- Cincinnati P. 0.
NEW YORK CITY.
(Correspondence of The Press.
NEW Yowl', August 20, 1863.
SLEEPING ON ARMS
The draft was yesterday inaugurated peaceably;
and, for the time, the fever of apprehension is cooled—
and cooled only, not overcome. The district chosen
was the Sixth, which includes a Quiet, respectable
portion of the city ; inhabited to a great extent by
well•to-do mechanics, and merchants , clerks. „Here,
therefore, exist but few of the elements of discord
and violence; and, for this reason, the quiet and
submissive feeling evident here, affords no parallel
by which to measure the results of the draft in other
and more riotous portions of the city. The quiet
and good feeling of yesterday affords no
,predicate
for the quiet and good feeling of tomorrow.
But had any riotous demonstrations occurred,
there was ample force to `crush them at once. In
half an hour from the time that the great bell of the
City Hall, with its ominous ten strokes, should
sound the alarm, the - infected districts would have
been girdled with fire and steel:'and full batteries
served by regulars would have swept the avenues
with grape and shrapnel. The laboring portion of
thecornmunity, and no less the bullies and va
gabonds of the corners, seemed to understand
this fully. The policemen paced their regular
beats with n assurance which spoke plainly
enough of the tremendous supporting forces on
which they could rely. And yet, understanding all
these facts, the fever of apprehension among the
people could not be mistaken ; it revealed itself in
every word and action. Every one seemed Antici
-patipg the ten awful booms upon the bell, which
was to summon alike troops and citizens to arms.
It is hard for an old citizen of New York to realize
such a state of things 1.. a :state normal to the city of
IVlexico, butiurely not to the metropolis 6f America.
It seems as though war itself had been brought to
our gates ; as though an invading army were already
menacing our firesides; for New York must yet, for
weeks, literally sleep upon its arms. At any mo
ment the Copperhead butchers may start. out from
their dens, with torch and axe, and rope, and render
night hideous with flames and blood; and at any
moment, the good and law-abiding citizens may be
called upon to seize their arms and march against
barricades in the streets.
THE PURLIEUS AND THE SANS CULOTTES.
When drafting shall commence in the purlieus,
among the huts and hovels, and in the narrow,
tumble-down streets of the pure and unadulterated
Democracy, the city will become as one vast nerve,
sensitive to every sound, and every trample upon
the pavement. Of these localities but little can be
hoped. Even yesterday, the ouurfers were fierce in
their denunciations of the dealt, swearing again to
raise their blood-stained standard, and inaugurate a
crusade against law and order, more widespread
and more pitiless than the first. Such men possess
but little of the rational; they cannot cOmprehend
the intangible; a mathematical certainty that a
howitzer will sweep them down in swarthes they
cannot comprehend, until they find themselves man
gled and dying upon the pavements. This qUality is
what we have to fear. Could they comprehend the
vast, potential powers of tiventy•five thousand
drilled troops, they would slink back to their dens
in horror and amazement; and for lack of that com
prehension, they pretend , to despise the forces of the
Government, and talk of annihilating them by one
desperate effort, and swreeping the city with incen
diary flames, unless—What? This we do not know.
What they, demand, Seymour and the treasona
ble fraternity alone can tell. That the draft shall
be suspended! No! What have pillage, and
highway-robbery, and arson, and the slaughter of
negroes, man, woman,. and child; and the butchery
of white men—what have these to do with the
draft? What have the cries of "Three cheers for
Jeff Davis," of " Burn the heretics," - of " Kill the
d—d niggers," of "-Kidl the `d—d _Abolitionists—
what have these to do with the draft But the
draft furnishes a pretext in a measure ; yet it is only
so ostensibly. - Could the conppirators have let of a
rocket, or have tolled a bell, which could have been
seen or heard generally, they would never have
used the draft as a signal for their rising. And 'a
signal it was in the main, and nothing more. It is
well to understand thoroughly the causes, of this
rising ; and what it is that prompts the chiffonier of
the Five Points, and the bully of the corners ; the
drunken, loathsome wretch reeking with the filth
of his hovel, and the furies, stockingless and sho&
less, with bleared eyes and unkempt locks ; and the
boy of from ten to twenty, who can swear like the
" army in Flanders," and who carries a butcher
knife in his zagged shirt—it is well enough to under
stand why all these should strive for the bays of the
martyr, and devote themselves to - death for political
object& And yet, in order to gain this understand
ing, one must go into an examination of what these
beings really are, and how their ideas are found.
THE MOB CHILDREN
Reviewing the recent riots, humanitarians will
be apt to ask how it is that Christian men can cheer
on the soldiery that slew even children without com
punction. The answer would best be conveyed by a
walk through the localities where thele children
roll in street and gutter, ands ;glance into the hard
and hideous maturity of their faces, a moment's
listening to the language they employ, and the songs
they sing. From these he may comprehend how
" innocent children" joined the mobs ;'how "inno
cent children" mutilated, and burned, and danced
about the body of the negro Franklin, whose last
words, as the howling wretches dragged him from
his sick bed to their shambles, were (as almost sug
gestive of his fate), " Mother, they can destroy the
body, put they can't harm the soul." And, from the
children, he may judge the parents. This seems as
an inversion of the general rule ; but the children of
the auvri erg, the men of the mobs, are not as other
children. Ask one of the old detectives, one of these
men who, for years, have moved through their
haunts of sin and degradation, noting everything
while being themselves unnoted ;. ask him in what
the hideous maturity of these children consists. He
would point out to you that ragged mob girl of
twelve—yes, eight years,as a fille do joie,- as a Camille,
with an Armand of-ten. . He would rehearse crimes
to stagger the belief; horrible, unnameable crimes.
He would speak of these, mob-children who drink
with their mob-mistresses, and' join in carousals as
vile as these- to be seen and heard in the dens and
dance•houses of the points; ` he would point out
items in the lives of the mobmen and mob-women
until you should shrink back from the horrible apo
calypse. Now, with such men, such women, and
such children, what -is to be expected! They fur
nished the nuclei of the mobs; they were, and are,
the beings with whom the Copperheads deal, and
on 'whom they rely for support. These men elevated
the Woods and Brookses ; they love McCann and
the Copperhead aldermen. Can it be presumed that
these beings, when they rise and raven for slaughter
and arson, are enthused by any fine-drawn theories
of despotism andjustice Are these the beings who
understand the technicalities of the Constitution,
and are willing to lay down - their lives upon the
pavemints for an abstract thiory of What the Con
stitutiorL allows or forbids?
NO DRAFT—ISO LAM.
Having demanded "No Draft," what is to be the
next demand? . Universal license ! the extermina
tion of negroes the abolition of Protestantism!
proscription, moral and political ! the ostracism of
knife. and bludgeon ! and the autocracy of their
chosen leaders ! This is what they aim at—power !
—power supreme and irresponsible. It is not strange
that New York is the chosen arena where the mob
ocracy chooses to measure . weapons with the Go•
vernment no stranger than that Rome was the
scene of those eabils and strifes whiCh controlled
the fate of the empire.
PARIS IN NEW YORK. •
New York is what Paris was. The vile' political
elements brought from all parts of the world are
here forever churning together and forming new
combinations. The whole comprehensive aim of its
politics is change, overthrow, destruction of what is,
and elevation of what is to be. Here lies the bauble,
power ; and the hideous fever of ambition is ever
growing and ever infecting, and, under its influenn,
men grasp for the bauble in frenzy, overreach each
other or sink, and: scruple not to employ the knives
and the bludgeons of the mob.I3ICII to gain their
ends.
When the draft shall commence in the mob die
tricte—the districts which elected the Woods and
their disciples—the final test will be had, and the
question settled forever. STUYVESANT.
Publications Received.
From J. B. Lrerrstcovr & Co., Market street:
Dr. Robert Bartholomew's "Manual of Instruc
tions-for Enlisting and Discharging Soldiers: with
special references to the. Medical Examination of
Recruits, and the Detection of disqualifying and
feigned diseases.” This Volume is well-timed, and
has been adopted by Surgeon General Hammond for
issue to medical officers of the army. At this mo
ment, when thousands of conscripts are passing
medical examination, its value must be very great.
Appended to it is a glossary of technical terms and
also a good index.
From CrEO. W. CHILDS, Chestnut street :
Peterson's Familiar Science ; or, The Scientific
Explanation of Common Things. Edited by Itlbert
E. Peterson. This is a revised and enlarged edition
of a book first published twelve years ago, of which
120,000 copies have been sold. The advanced state
of knowledge made such an edition necessary, and
there is appended to it an additional chapter, occu
pying 150 pages, of Scientific Amusements for Young
People, by Prof. J. H. Pepper, of London, whose
curious optical delusion, "the Ghost,” is crowding
three theatres in New York at present. The book
is neatly half bound.
From Loma A. GODEY, Chestnut Street:
Goday's Lady's 'Book for September.—The frontis
piece here, entitled "A Happy Family, ,, represent
ing children at play, is finely designed and well en
graved. The fashion illustrations are numerous
and good. The literature is of average merit—but
a new tale, by Marion Harland, will be published
in the October and Nbvember numbers.
From Y. R PETERSON & Bans., Chestnut street
The Atlantic Monthly for- September.—This is
scarcely up to the mark. The best papers are
" The Tertiary Age," by Professor Agassiz, and
" Interesting Manuscripts of Edmund Burke," by
Senator Sumner. The article on Thomas de Quin
cey is an eulogium rather then a criticism, but the
personal details with which it concludes are in
teresting. We are sorry, to see such a paper as
" Who is Roebuck v , in a high.toned periodical as
the. Atlantic Monthly hitherto has been. "It would
read coarsely in a newspaper.
LONG BRANCH.—The railroad to this celebrated
resort has doubled its popularity with Philadel
phians, and many of our best families are now - there.
Long Branch has decided attractions; the bathing
is safe and near thehotels, the beach is crowned with
a noble bluff; and the place itself is fashionable and
popular. The Pavilion Hotel, admirably kept by
Mr. S. C. Morris; is one of the best at the Branch,
and is situated at a point where a grand prospect
and cool breezes are enjoyed. The Pavilion boasts
all the accommodations of a first.class hotel, an ex
cellent table, commodious rooms, a fine stable, bil
liard rooms, bowling alleys, boats, &c., with prices
ranging from six to eighteen dollars per week. The
bathing immediately in front of the Pavilion is not
excelled for safety and convenience anywhere along
the beach. Carriages at, the depot convey passen
gers directly to the hotel.
IMPROVED YINEGAR.—When Columbus showed
the Spaniards how to make an egg stand on the
table, every one then said that nothing was easier.
Perhaps BQ—but he was the first who did. In like
manner, now that vinegar of the beat and purest
quality is made out of Indian corn, by Deroming &
Co., at their West-End Vinegar Establishment (S.
W. corner of Twentieth and Market streets), we
shall have a good many persons wondering that no
other manufacturers had not previously Mt upon
the idea. It is at least as good as the best cider
vinegar, is better adapted for pickling fruits, oysters,
&c., than white-wine vinegar, and is very much
cheaper than either. 'Atable-spoonful of thiscrine
gar, with a little sugar in a tumbler of cold water,
makes an agreeable and pleasant drink for children
or adults in this hot season.
A PORTRAIT OP GRANT.—lames Challen & SOIL,
of this city, (in 'connection with J. H. Bufford, of
Boston), have just published a faithful and excellent
picture of the hero of the Mississippi:` This portrait
differs widely from the one heretofore in print, and
certainly gives a much finer and more individual and
impressive character.
STOCKS AND 'REAL ESTATE, TUESDAY NEXT.—
„Peremptory sale] by order of Orphana' Court, exe
cutors, and others. See Thomas & Sons' advertise._
merits and pamphlet catalogue, issued to-day.
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TEE DRAFT.—In the First district, yes
terday, seven substitutes were mustered into the
service, and five paid the commutation fee of $3OO.
Twenty-seven were ordered to report for duty, and
twenty delinquents were reminded of their allegi
ance to Uncle Sam. A guard was sent out early in
the morning, in search of twenty conscripts who
had not reported for duty, or urged any claims for
exemption at the headquarter& The guard met
with no opposition in the discharge of their duty.
Satisfactory evidence was furnished that the men
did not attempt purposely to evade the draft, but
were detained, through sickness or absence, from re
porting in person. Many of the parties are confined
within doors on account of illness, and others stated
their readiness to appear when further delay would
not be tole' ated. It is not known officially that any
of the conscripts have fled to other parts, though,
before the boards of enrolment close their labors,
many such cases will no doubt come to light. Escape
is not eo easily effected as some might imagine. A
large detective force is engaged in this, as in other
cities, to hunt up deserters, and the precautionary
measures to elude their watch must be of the best
restaged character. The elatma for exemption on
account of alienage are "Very numerous, especially in
the First district. Capt. Leeman, finding these cases
were becoming so varied and intricate, finally deter
mined to refer them to Washington. The Depart
=tent will be obliged to make a number of decisions
to cover peculiar eases. In the Fourth district, yes
terday, a young man presented himself for exemp
tion, That he should claim alienage no one ofjudg
ment would`suspect, and it, would be the last plea
the Board of Enrolment would haver considered
themselves likely to hear in his case. He was gen
teelly dressed, and had the look of a Philadelphian
all over, with rather a Yankee tone of voice, and, in
a general sense, was a good specimen of Young Ame
rice.
He announced himself as being twenty-five years
of age. " When did you come to this country?"
asked the provost marshal. "In about 1840," said
the youth., " Then you could have been only two
or three years old." The conscript appeared sur
prised ; but, recovering himself, said, with firmness,
that be was then about that age. In explanation,
he said his parents were English, and that he him
self always considered himself an Englishman. -He
Visa armed with a certificate from the British. Oon
sulate. That any person living for twenty-three
years under so good - a Government as ours, and from
his infancy enjoying its protection, should now
claim allegiance to a foreign Power—and one espe
cially, that is to say the least, no friend of the
United States at the present time—is humiliating in
the extreme. The claim was made with unblushing
face, and the provost marshal felt, no doubt, the
shame that it was designed to perpetrate upon the
American name. The case was referred to Wash
ington for examination. We are reminded by one
of the foreign consuls resident in this city th'
when the First Napoleon ordered a draft in France
so many claims were made on account, of alienage
that hardly one.tenth of the quota required could be
obtained. He then issued a proclamation that all
citizens who were residents of France, and enjoying
the privileges of that residence for a year past, were
held to be liable to military duty. Had President
Lincoln required that, after a certain period, all
foreigners would either have to leave the country or
be liable to military duty, there would not now be
so many exemptions under the operations of the
conscription act. The law is itself complained of
universally as affording too many loop-holes for the
drafted to escape. The daily reports at the offices
of the provost marshals show an average of about
fifteen persons placed to the credit of the army.
Another draft, if it take place in this city, as there ,
-is good reason to suppose it will, will be attended
with an equally slim result, unless there is some
revision of the rules by which so many manage to
go scot free.
LOCALLY INTEREsTING.—The readers of
The Press will probably remember that William A.
Porter, Esq., was invited by Mr. Charles Ingersoll
to address a meeting at the Democratic Central
Club rooms one evening several months since. Mr.
P. accepted the invitation, and, coming fresh from
the yeomanry of Waynesburg, Green county, Pa.,
was honest in his expressions. He was not aware,
at the time, that, like Eye, he was being beguiled
by a serpent of dishonorable peace. ,Mr. P. spoke
out the sentiments of a true Democrat. He speedily
found, that he stirred up a nest of vipers. They
hissed and writhed, but to him their fangs were
poisonless. He was, however, surprised, and, with
as much gtace as he could, consistently with the
dignity of a true Democrat, retired perfectly dis.
gusted with the crowd in the "Democratic Central
Club room." For making a patriotic, loyal speech,
he insured his ejection from the room. The mem
bers of the Union League of this city, as a memento
of the occasion, and in some measure to atone for
the insult and maintain the loyal character of Phi
ladelphia, recently presented to him a splendid
American flag. The receipt of this emblem of civil
and religious liberty, and free speech, denied him as
above stated, was acknowledged as follows :
WA-rivaanunn, Greene county, Pa., July 31.
tinion' League of Philadelphia:
GEN7LEII
IVN : I have received the •flag you sent
me. With all my heart, ',accept it as a tribute to
my patriotism. ICI caw beast of nothing• else on
earth, I can at least claim that, no mam, can excel
me in devotion to my country and mghduntry's
cause. It is not for me,who received the protection
_of my Government, to hesitate in, diity.;!toissk is it
right or wrong in ita-policy to stay the. red Aide of
revolution and rebellion. - _ -
od knows that the sun has looked down long
enough upon the uncoffined dead, and upon our he
roic soldiers still fighting upon the battle•fleld, to
cause every patriot from his heart of hearts to swear
by the Eternal' , that the Union soldiers' fame
shall be vindicated by an honorable peace, or the
last Northern patriot sink with them into a common
grave.
I accept your ilag. Its memories are many, and
sacred to the American heart. Its history shall be
my motto. I will hold it as one of my household
deities, with the fond hope that when life's closing
scene shall come to me I shall hare the consolation
in my last moments of lookirr , upon it as the em
blem of an unbroken Union, and the pride of a free
and happy people. Respectfullryours,
- WM. A. PORPER.
THE NEW ARCH-BTREET `THEATRE..—The
new Arch-street Theatre Ze now sufficiently approxi.
mated completion to warrant the interest felt 6y the
theatre-going class in its construction. In not a few
respects the new building promises to be an improve
meat on the old. .The front will present a handsome
and not unimposing appearance. The modes of
entrance and exit are extensive and safe, and of such
a specimen as can be put to the best use in the short
est possible time. The present appearance of the
interior is somewhat disordered and fragmentary.
The vestibule intervening between the doors of en
trance and the parquet circle (which, by-the-by,
will not be thus distinguished, but included in the
generic ,name parquet) is spacious and airy.. It
Is severe feet six inches deep, and thirty-six feet six
inches wide. Three stairways open from it. Two
are upon the east side, and one on> the west.
Of the two eastern ones, the one encountered
immediately upon entering, and occupying the
location occupied in the old building by a ticket.
office, leads to the family circle, by which is meant
the second and highest tier. The drat tier will be
the balcony, and will be reached by the two other
staircases occupying opposite locations, one at the
east, the other at the west side. The arrangement
for seats throughout, from the parquet with its sur
rounding circle to balcony and family circle, seems,
from what at present may be seen and judged, to be
fair and advantageous. From all parts of the house
a comprehensive view of all parts may be obtained.
Considerable attention has been paid likewise to
standing and promenade room, and it is not impro
bable that these arrangements will be more comfort
able and commodious than they generally are. The
number of orchestra seats is one hundred and thirty
nine ; in the parquet one hundred and eighty-eight ;
in the parquet-circle, still preserving this convenient
distinction, three bundred and eight; in the balcony
three hundred; in the family circle four hundred and
seventy-one. The upper and lower proscenium boxes,
of which there are four, are calculated to accommo
date fi ve apiece. In the sitting accommodations
the average size of the human body will be taken
into account, and the velvet exclusiveness of the
fashion set by our Academy will be preserved.
Strength and stability, as well as beauty of con
struction, are not, we know, always united. There
is not reason, however, to suppose that such is the
case in this Einstance. The good-looks and dura
bility of the stage are something noticeable. It is
constructed out of Carolina boards, and is laid down
with much skill, the under-stage work being already
completed. The width of the stage, between the
goxes, is thirty-six feet; the whole width sixty-six
feet six inches; the depth sixty-six feet; and the
height, to the crown of the arch, thirty feet six
inches. The auditorium will be lit by nineteen
chandeliers, which will effectively illumine the
chaste, yet not extravagant nor gaudy dome. A new
drop-curtainis now in process of painting. The sub
ject is a fancy sketch—an Italian view. The open
ing of the new building will probably be inaugurated
by Mrs. John Drew, this night two weeks. The the
atrical and theatre-going public will probably be en
lightened with respect to further details within an
expedient time, and by the proper parties.
'' CRITTENDEN'S PHILADELPHIA COMMER
crAL COL LEGE.—This long-established and well.
known institution continues its career of well-me
rited prosperity. Its last catalogue contains the
names of four hundred and twenty-six students, the
moat of whom arc from this city, while the interior
of our State and adjoining States are well repro
sented. One of the secrete of its success is the
superiority of its course of instruction and the the.-
roughness with which it is impartad. There are no
classes ; each student is taught separately, thus re
eeiving the full benefit of private tuition. In the
book-keeping department each student is required,
under the direction of skilful and attentive teachers,
to write out and close up several sets of books, in
cluding a variety of laborsaving forms, adapted
especially for wholesale or retail, jobbing, importing,
manufacturing, commission, and company specu
lating busdness. He is also instructed how to keep
books for foreign and domestic shipping business,
joint-stock companies, and banking business, &c.
Tbe branch styled commercial calculations includes
equations, or averaging accounts, interest, discounts,
exchanges, arbitrations of exchange, &c. Each stu
dent is also exercised in making out, in proper form,
the various accounts current, account sales, bills of
exchange, invoices, drafts, promissory notes, &c.,
necessary-for business. Special attention is given
to writing, which is taught by one of the most com
petent of penmen. • The time usually required to
complete the course is from eight to twelve weeks.
One of the advantages of this institution is, that it
gives in a short time, and at comparatively small
expense, the knowledge which years of toil only
could of wise gain. It merits the attention of all
who mff Irish to become accomplished and success
full business men.
-
- HOSPITAL ITMS.—James Sullivan, awed.
37 years, had his left arm fractured at the City Gas
Works, yesterday afternoon. He was engaged at a
windlass, in raising coal. The, crank flew around
suddenly, and broke his arm.
Thomas Singer, aged 15 years, was admitted into
the hospital yesterday afternoon. He and a brother
were on a visit to Andalusia. Bucks county, where
they intended to sojourn for a while. Yesterday
morning they Were out on a gunning expedition.
While Thomas was in the act.of crossing a ditch or
a fence the gun went off, and the load tore his arm
shockingly—so much' so that the mangled limb had
to be amputated, below the elbow.
Richard Johnson, the engineer who met with an
accident at Rowland's mill, as stated yesterday in
The Press, was in a very low condition last evening,
at the hospital. Some doubt was entertained as to
his recovery.
Frederick. Sanhood, employed as a driver on the
Second and Third-streets Passenger Railroad, was
kicked by one of the horses he was driving, about
seven o'clock yesterday morning. The accident
happenedfnear Second and Marion streets. The un
fortunate-man was one of the oldest driVers on the
road. He was admitted into the hospital. It was
found that his arm was badly broken, near the
elbow. 'The physicians think that it will not be
necessary to amputate his arm.
•
THAT ROlClDE.—Coroner Conrad held an
inquest yesterday morning on the body of the woman
who died on the evening previous, from the effects
of laudanum. The facts as developed entirely obli
terate the romance of the stories in severalof the
papers yesterday. It seems, on last Saturday nights
she and her husband had a quarrel, both of them
being more or less under the influence of liquor. He
was also afflicted with the dropsy. He was found
dead in hed, and a story was circulated that he had
died from the effects of the treatment received at the
hands of the wife. She was taken into custody. On
Monday morning last the Coroner's Physician made
a post mortem examination of the remains of the
deceased, and on the evening of that-day the jury
heard all the witnesses, after which they rendered
a verdict attributing death to natural consequences.
The woman w'as discharged. She committed suicide
by taking laudanum on - Thursday afternoon. She
had attempted to commit suicide by laudanum seve
ral months since. The story of her husband having
died from wounds
received in battle was all fancy.
We have avoided publishing the names of the par
ties, and have only - said this much to place the sub
ject its truelight before the community, and to re
press any feeling of ampathir that may have been
awakened by our notice yesterday of the death of
the miserable woman, '
HOME AGAIN —The second .regiment,
raised for the "emergency," _under the auspices of
the Union League, it is expected will arrive in
Philadelphia this afternoon, between three and four
o'clock. A delegation will proceed to West Phila
delphia to receive and escort them through a num
ber of the principal streets of the city.
The Merchants' Regiment, the 44th P. M., have
arrived at Harrisburg, and are expected to arrive
this afternoon. We do not know that any particu
lar arrangements have been made to give them a
military reception. All the recently returned regi
menta, companies, battalions ' batteries, & c., have
been mustered out of service. The did militia, under
General Patterson, simply exists in the imagination,
and therefore it is a very difficult thing to get up a
creditable reception.
REMARKABLE SALES OP FIVE-TWENTIES.
—The subscription agent reports the sale of $859,450
five•twenties on Friday by the various agencies.
Deliveries of bonds are heing made to July LI. The
formation of Nationale Banks is absorbing large
amounts of five.twenties, which will give greater
stability and permanence to the local currency than
has been heretofore enjoyed in commercial circles.
TEE EXPRESS TRAIN FOR ATLANTIC CITY
TO-DAT.—Our readers will be glad to learn that the
Camden and Atlantic Railroad Company have made
arrangements for the sale of tickets for the express
train this afternoon three hours before the starting
time, so as to prevent confusion at the office. This
will be quite an accommodation, and our citizens
will appreciate it.
DEATHS AT TIM ARMY HOSPITALS.—The
following deaths at the army hospitals are reported
up to yesterday
CHEBtEIt—I. Whittle, Co. B, 14th South Carolina ;
George W. Boman, Co.,F, Tennessee; BT. L. Goode,
Co. G, 16th North Cabolina ; W. Rice, Co. A, 62d
North Carolina. -
SATTERLEE—Henry A. Fellows ' Co. C, 12th New
Hampshire; Charles A. Tohnson, Co. E, 19th Bias-
Sachusetts ; Theodore Rieger, Co. D, 119th New
York CAlignßius Hendrick. Co. C, 140th New York;
John beo. Kuhn, (16. G, "btu Pennsylvania ; Quein
Chubb, 24th Paiehigan,
Itlownit—Thoutas Lambert, 00. 0,22 d Penna.
SUMMIT Bousn—lll. A. - Haggle, Co. F, 2d Pennsyl
vania; George Chamberlain, Co. D, 1-13 d Pennsyl
vania.
BROAD Arm Crip.ervr—Hiram C. Webber, Co. G,
3cl Maine.
Meer:ELLA - x—H. Grothen . , K, 6th U. S. A. ; D. L.
Keene, 0, 140th Pennglvama ; Bernhard White, F,
37th New York.
PROFESSIONAL THIEVES SHOT AND
DR OWNED .—One of the detective police last eve
ning received information that nineteen professional
thieves, belonging to Philadelphia,' New York,
Boston, and Baltimore, all of. whom had entered
the army as substitutes, attempted to escapefrom
the rendezvous on the Potomac river on Wednes
day or Thursday. They were mostly shot and the
remainder drowned. Thus, "at one fellftwoop,"
fell nineteen individuals, among whoin was the
celebrated "Cockney Jack." of Philadelphia, one
of the most adroit professional thieves that ever
operated. •
ANOTHER SUICIDE.—The body of a wo
man, supposed to be thirty-five years old, was found
in the dock near Vine-street wharf on the Delaware
yesterday morning. A black mantilla trimmed with
white lace, a second mourning bonnet, and a black
silk veil, were found on the wharf, indicating that
some female had drovrned herself. The Coroner held
an inquest. There was nothing about the person to
lead at once to identity. rThe body was removed to
the green house to await recognition.
INTERESTING.—It Will be a matter of in
tercet to be reminded that the rails are laid, and
cars of. the Cape May and Millville Railroad Com
pany will run through at 9 A. M. and 4 P. M. to-day,
Saturday, August 29. For particulars see advertise
ment.
IDENTIFIED.—The man who died in a cell
at the Ninth ward station. house, on Thursday night,
Was identified last evening. He was named Tames
Boyd, aged fifty.seven years, and resided on Dugan
street.
THE, POLA.IOEI.
[Before Mr. Alderman Massey.]
Alleged Robbery.
Mary Donee, aged twenty years, and Mary Mor
ton, aged seventeen years, were arraigned yesterday
on the charge of robbing the house of Mr. Spence, lo
cated at the corner of Seventeenth and Green streets.
One of the defendants was employed in the family
of Mr. S. since the month of May last, and various
articles of clothing were missed from time to time.
Officers Lawrence and Preston also succeeded in
recovering about $lBO, also stolen. Some of the
money was found under a brick in the yard. - There
is some circumstantial evidence implicating the
other defendant. The parties were committed to
await a further hearing.
(Before Mr. Alderman White.]
A More of the Drugging Case.
A young man, giving the name of Charles Young
kiwi, was arrested in Easton and brought to this
city, yesterday, by the constable of that place, bn
the charge of being implicated in the drugging and
robbery for which- Clara King was arrested. The
evidence -is slightly circumstantial. According' to
that of _John Relshner and Henry G. Geulringer, it
seems the young man had plenty of money shortly
after the robbed man had left the room down stairs.
This young man and Clara were traced to a house in
Daponeeau street, and this -is all that is known
about him. None of the stolen property was re-
covered. The defendant was committed, in default
Or $2,000, to await a further hearing to take Place on
the 24th instant, at 11 o'clock A. M.
[Before Ur. Alderman McMullin.]
bubstitute Bustness.
A. man, calling himself Johnson, was committed
by Alderman McMullin, yesterday, on the charge of
obtainin. , §§6o under the following circumstances:
Re agreed to furnish a substitute for a drafted man
for thia sum. He did so, but the man would not
pass inspection. Johnson still claimed the money
on the ground that. he had furnished •a. substitute.
The drallmfman - contended that the contra;ct'could
not be considered good unless the substitute was se
depted. The magistrate considered it a case that
ought to go to court, and, therefore, held the d„es.
fendant to answer. . .