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lIY JOHDI^W. 'FORNEY.
ornak, No. 111 SOUTH .FOURTH STREET
TILE DAILY PRESS,
FIFTEEN CENTS rsa 'WEEK, payable to , the carrier.
Dialled to Subearibera out of the City at SEVEN DOLLARS
PER ANNUM. THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR SIX>
MONTH& ONE DOLLAR AND SEVENTY-FIVE CRETE '
THREE MONTHS, invariably in advance for the time . or-
- - -
sir Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. Six
lino constitute a square.
Irma witi-wzmarrar PRtStii,
Mailed to Sobstribers out of the Oily at Foua DOLLARS
Pax Awirtrx, in advance.
DRY-GOODS JOBBERs.
1863. L L 1863 .
DRY GOODS.
IHOOD, BONBRIGHT, &
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN .
FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
DRY GOODS.
No. 435 MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
The attention of the TRADE is invited to their large
ditock of
STAPLE AND FANCY GOODS.
Among which are choice brands of Sheet
ing and Shirting Muslin%
Madder Prints, De Laines,
Ginghams, and
ISEASONABLE DRESS GOODS.
ALSO,
- MEN'S WEAR
IN GREAT VARIETY.
GREA.TINDUCEMENTS OFFERED TO
CASH BUYERS. ---
an2o-2m
186 3 FALL IMPORTATION. 1863
EDMUND • YARD & CO..
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS; SILKS AND FANCY
DRY GOODS,
017 OHESTNIIT and 614 JAYNE Street,
Have now opened their Fell importation. of Drees Goods,
viz:
!MERINOS,
COBURGS,
REPS,
ALPACAS,_
DEL AINES,
PLAID AND STRIPED POPLINS
FANCY AND BLACK SILKS.
Also, A large assortment of
SHAWLS,
BALMORAL SKIRTS,
WHITE GOODS,
LINENS,
EMBROIDERIES, ho.,
which they offer to the trade at the
LOWEST MARKET PRICES.
ault-tf
COMMISSION MOUSES.
THE ATTENTION OF THE TRADE
--• IS CALLED TO 013 R STOCK OF
SAXONY WOOLEN CO. all.wool Plain Flannels.
TWILLED FLANNELS,
Various makes, in Gray, Scarlet, and Dark Blue.
PRINTED SHIRTING - FLANNELS.
PLAIN OPERA. FLANNELS.
4 ' PREMIERE QUALITY"
Square and Long Shawls.
WASHINGTON MILLS Long Shawls.
:BLACK COTTON WARP CLOTHS,
16, 16, 17, 18, 13, 20, 21, 22 oz.
'FANCY CASSIDIERES AND SATINETTS.
BALMORAL SKIRTS, all grades.
BED BLANKETS,IO.4, 11.4, 12-4, 13-4.
COTTON GOODS, DENIMS, TICKS, STRIPES,
SEIRTINGS, &0., from various ly Us.
COURSEY, HAMILTON Be,
EVANS,
33 LETITIA Street, and
3d South FRONT Street.
anl7-mwem
BAGS BAGS 1 BAGS 1
,NEW AND SECOND HAND,
SEAMLESS, BURLAP, AND OUNNIC
BAGS,
Constantly on band,
JOHN T. BAILEY & co..
No. 113 NORTH FRONT STRUT.'
AS' WOOL SACKS FOR SALE.
SEWING MACHINES.
OUR LETTER- "A"
-FAMILY SEWING MACHINE,
With all the new improvements, is the best and cheapest.
and most beautiful Sewing Machine in the world. No
othiir Sewing Machine has so much capacity for a great
range of work, including the delicate and ingenious pra
Gems of Hemming, Braiding. Binding, Embroidering,
Felling, Tacking, Cording, Gathering. &c.;
The Branch Oficee are well supplied with Silk Twist,
Firmed. Needles. Oil, lie., of, the very best Quality.
ifi- Send for a pamphlet. -
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
• 458 BROADWAY, NEW YORIL
Philadelphia Office
-810 CHESTNUT STREET
,aaII-teel6
SEWING MACHINES.
THE " BLOAT" MACHINE, -
'ith GLASS PRESSER FOOT,
NAW-STYLE HBIIbIER. BRAIDER,
And other valuable improvements.
ALSO,
THE TAGGART & FARR MACHINES,
Agency-92S CHESTNUT Street. mhB•tt
CLOTHING.
JOHN KELLY, JR.,
TAILOR; .
MU MOVED PROM Ice OH/IEIMM STREWS
EDWARD P. KELLY'S,
1411 South THIRD Rtrookt
Where he presents to former patrons and the labile
the &dem/terse of A.STTOOK OF GOODS. ennal If not
%odor, to any to the sity—the skill and taste of himself
and EDWAItD P. KELLY, the two best Tailors of the
city—at prices mneh lower than any other erst-slip sets•
ibllihmant of the ette: sel-tf
BLACK CASS. PANTS, $5.50,
At 761 MARKBT etreet.
ASLACK CASS. PANTS, 16.50, At 704 MARKET Street.
1 5
SLACK' CASE . PANTS, .60, At 704' MARKET Street.
FBLACK CASS. PANTS, .60, At 704 MARKET Street.
3LACK .CASS. PANT__,S .80, At 704 MARKET Street.
GRIGG & VAN CUNT N'S„ N 0.704 MARKET Street,
.BBIGG & VAN GUNTEN'S. N 0.764 HARR sT Street.
GRIGG & VAN GUNTEN'S, N0.7C4 PI ARKET Street.
tERIGG & GIINTENS, N 0.704 MARKET Street.
tORIOG & VAX OUNTBN'S, N 0.704 MARKET Street.
mh22-6m
GAS FIXTURES, &c
411."-: STREET.
C. A. VANICIBR c% 00Z
ionfrAcrmitazig 071
ORA NDE LIEBE%
AND OVUM,
OAS _ FIXTURES.
AWN Frei& Bronn rime* and Ornaminta.Poreelala
oat Mlei kikadas, and a Tantati of
FANCY 13.00D81
11110141 SALZ AND XINTAINA.
Maps salt sal ninths roodr.
W 0 0 L.
100,000pound/I light selected Ohio Fleeos.
Fall Blood.
WOOLEN YARNS.
30,000 pounds, 20 to 30 ants. line.
Well-known makes.
COTTON YARN_
40,000 pounds Nos. 6to 20's.
In Warp, Sandie and dor)
IL B. All ember' and descriptions procured at oafs
on orders
ALEX. WHILLDIN era SONS,
lel9.l4nagurtr
ICK-AXES,
SHINGLING HATCHETS,
BROAD HATCHETS, AXES,
WAIL HAMMERS,
SHOE-HAMMERS,
RIVETING HAMMERS, and
ENGINEER HAR(MERS,
MLNUF4CTURBD AND FOR BALE BY
O. HAMMOND Ss SONi
5!B CIOMBIERCE Street. Phila.
anl7-Un•:
101-f-m P. SCHULER'S SUPERIOR
• 'rend overdraw" eanare PIANOS fro
inward Tor sale by the maker 901 111.9.101T in k' $lllll
joe.age 13. seek
VOL. 7.-NO. 20.
T H E
TO CONTINUE MY AGENCY
AWL muettl further notice, I shall soatlauss
S HARVEY THOMAS,
• STOCK AND BILL BROKER,
No. 312 WALNUT Street.
Stocks'and Loans bought and nu on Commission at
the BOARD OF BROKERS.
Subscriptions to the 5-20 year sin per cent. LOAN still
received at par. - -
No charge for Commission,
COLLECTION OF 11. S. CERTIFI
CATES OP INDEXTED R ESS. —The ADAMS' EX
PRESS COMPANY are now prepared to sollect at the
Treasury Departraent, Washington. with despatch , and
at reasonable rates. the One Year Certificates of In
debtedness of the United States now dne or shortly ma-
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g.
ms made known and receipts [brim at the oaks.
No. 1510 ausstrur Street. myd-tf
NOS. 1. AND 8 N. SIXTH STREET,
GENTLEMENB FURNISHING GOOD%
BULIII37.II.OTUREE
WIAPPIEN:
FINE SHIRT MANUFACTORY.
The subscriber would invite attention to his
IMPROVED CUT OF SHIRTS,
Which he makes a specialty in his business. Abe). son•
gantlf receivins.
NOVELTIES FOR GENTLEMEN'S WELL.
J. W. SCOTT,-
GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING STORE.
No. 514 CHESTNUT STREET,
Jib -ti Four doors below the Continental.
ROBERT SHOEMAKER 00.,
Of first-class make*.
19 North FRONT Stmt.
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FINANCIAE.
lIEORETARY OY THE TREASURY
AIITRORIOD 113
FORA BRIEF PERIOD.
to receive Subseriptlcouto the
5-20
LOAN T IPAIii
AT MT OFFICE.
MID. AT THE DIFFIREEIT SUB-AGENCIES
Whroughout the Moral StateN.
JAY COOKE,
SUBSORIPTIOX AORNT.
Ito. 114 South Third Street,
GENT'S FURNISHING GOODS.
PaLLADELPHIA.
JOIN 1:1. MESON'
DORMILY Z. )U MOOR%)
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or THE IMPROVED
PATTERN EMT;
COLLAR&
EATIMOTION GIIABANTIED. ar,211-bosi
DRUGS.
Korthesst Comer FOURTH sad BAOB Streets.
PHILADBLPHIA.
WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS,
IMFOETIES ►.ND DDALEBS
• TOREIGN AND DOMESTIC
WINDOW AND PLATE GLASS,
NANITFACTIMERS OP
WHITE LEAD ADD ZINC 'wins. PUTTY, &o
AGENTS 701 TEM OHLBBRATED
FRENCH. ZINO PAINTS-I
Beeler end sonsumers supplied at
VERY LOW PRIME POE 0.1,
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CM=3MU=l=l=
JAMES: S. EARLE & BON,
IMPOZTREB AND MANIITIOTTIMIIII OP
LOOKING GLASSES. •
)IL PAINTINGS.
=GRATINGS.
PORTRAIT,
PIOTHER, And
PHOTOGRAPH mum
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
=lmam LOOR/NG %LASS wißEßoome Ain)
GALLERY OF PAINTINGS,
f&l•tf OHRSTNIIT Street. Philadelphia.
UMBRELLAS.
A r, UMBRELLAS! UMBRELLA.SII
WM. A. DROWN do CO.,
NO. 246 MARKET STREET,
PHILADELPHIA.
Manufacturers of
SUPERIOR UMBRELLAS.
'WATCHES AND JEWELRY.
and Imported . WATCHES , Fine Jewelry, Elva
astad. Ware. &a:
3y28-6m
an - FINE WATCH REPAIRING'
attended to. by the most experienced workmen.
every Watch warranted for one year.
G. III7SSELL,
22` North SIXTH Street;
MUSICAL BOXES.
EN SHELL AND ROSEWOOD ARSES,
&yip/ horn 1 to 12 times,: sboloeSVers And Amer'.
mn melodies. YARIt & .13 R 0 T H Importers.
sp4 Ol3lBl' Itrr Street. below Fourth.
REMOVALS.
'REMOVAL.'
A. H. Fir.A.NCISCUS,
• wHOLESALS. DEAL= IN
YABNS, BATTS, WADDINOS,
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE,
OIL CLOTHS, WINDOW SHARES.
LOOKING GLASSES, CLOCKS,
FANCY BASSETS, &C.;
REMOVED
From 3E3 MARKET and 5 North FIFTH Streets
TO
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513 MARKET and 510 COMMERCE Sta.
and Sm
•
EMOVAL.—JOHN C. BAKER,
Wh o lesale Druggist, has removed to 713 BARNET
Street. Particular attention is asked to JOHN C.
BAKER & CO.'S COD-LEVER OIL. Raving increased
facilities in this new establishment for manufacturing
and bottling, and the avails of fifteen years' experience
in the business, this brand of Oil has advantages over
all others, and recommends itself. Constant supplies
are obtained from the fisheries, fresh, pure, and sweet.
and receive the most careful personal attention of the
original proprietor, The increasing demand and wide
spread market for it make its figures low. and afford
great advantages for those buying in . large quan
tities. au4-dtf
BI( G ITN REMO VE D.--PHILIP
A.' WILSON & CO., Manufacturers and Importers of
Guns. Pistols. Rifles, Fishing Tackle, ao., have re
moved to 409 CHRSTNIIT.I3treet, where their customers
and friends will be supplied with -everything in the
sporting llne . 393Cqm
TO FAMILIES RESIDING IN TEE
A- RURAL DISTRICTS.
we are prepared, as heretofore, to supply Ramillse at
their Country Residence' with
EVERY DRSOREPTIOR OF
FINE GROCERIES, TEAS, &O.
ALBERT C. ROBERTS,
COMM =MTH AID
Etlt t)t,tss.
The Massacre at Lawrence—Oue Hundred
and Eigh ty Killed, and Wounded—Two
Banks Banned, and the Tons' Destroyed—
' General Lane lu-Pursult of , quantrell.
LICA,vENWORTEri August 22.—prom citizens of
Lawrence, who have arrived here for supplies and
medicines, I have , gathered the following particu
lars regarding the burning of that city by Quantrell's
The list of killed and wounded numbers above 180,
a majority of whom %were killed instantly. The
names cannot all be given now. The houses that
remain standing are filled with killed and wounded
of all classes.From . the ruins of the burned houses
the charred remains of other victims are being
taken. But one hotel is standing, Quantrell having
spared it in consequence of his having made his
home there some years since without expense ; its
proprietor, however, was shot.
Among the most prominent citizens, the following
are known to have been killed :
Gen. G. W. Collimore, the mayor of the city, and
hie son ; J. G. Low, Isaiah Trask, S. P. Thorp, Dr.
Griswold, James Eldridge, James . Pervine, 001,
Stone, two brothers named Gill, A. W. Griswold,
Frederick Kimball, Thomas Murphy, John Spear,
thige brothers named Dix. Addi.on wangn, Dorman
-arson; George Burt, Judge Carbenter, Rev., Mr.
Snyder, August Ellie, Lemuel Tillman, Divight
Coleman, Lewis Swan, It. Loomis ' John Crane,
Levi Yates, two brothers named Runge, John
Evans, G. ; W. Bell, and Messrs. Keith, Brown, Dale,
Frick, Palmer, Sargent, Delinski, Alboca, Powers,
and Brant.
The abate named were kilned instantly ; most of
them in their houses, with their wives and children
clinging to them, wldle the murderers placed pistols
to their bodies and shot them.
The following•named persona were mortally
wounded:
James Eldridge, Mr. Baker, of the firm of Eiden
hour & Baker ; Mr. Williamson, George Holt, John
Hanson, and 7 . .. S. R. Lykens.
PHILADELPHIA:
In one case the guerillas drove twelve men into a
house and shot them, and then burned the buildings.
The fiends stood on the banks of the river and fired
into the people, killing and wounding scores.
'Twenty-five negro recruits were shot. The banditti
took all the money they could find in the houses or
pockets of citizens, and stole all the ladies' jewelry.
even to the rings on their fingers.
Jim Lane escaped on horseback, , and rallying
about two hundred men with arms, followed and
overtook Quantrell twelve miles south of Lawrence,
when a fight occurred, the result of which is un
known. Quantrell is now retreating towards Mis
souri, burning everything on his route. It is not
expected that he will be intercepted by our forces,
and he will probably get away without loss. No
resistance was made at Lawrence, the people being
shot down as they ran through the streets in their
night-clothes. Their bodies were thrown into wells
and cisterns.
The citizens have been expecting such a raid in
consequence of the threats which Quantrell had
made, and they had organized military companies
for their defence, a part of whom had been under
arms constantly ; but, from the assurances made
that Quantrell would not invade Kansas, their or
ganizations were abandoned, and the guerillas found
that town entirely defenceless.
A large train left here to-day with supplies of
clothing, provisions, &c., for the sufferers, and the
citizens of Leavenworth have opened their doors to
all who choose to come. Many of the sufferers have
availed themselves of these hospitalities, and will
be well cared for. -
The feeling among the citizens here is very bitter
against the commander of this department and die
trict for being so wholly unprepared to meet such an
emergency. The Commanding general was absent
from headquarters, and did not know of the in
vasion until the destruction of LaWrence was com
plete. Everything was then done to move the
troops to intercept and capture Quantrell, but it was
too late: -
Our State authorities have now taken the matter
in their own hands. Colonel'Jennison has been re
instated in command of a new Kansas 'regiment,
and is about to start down the border with sufficient
troops to overcome any force the enemy can bring
against him; and-if he is not interfered with by-the
commanding officer, raids into Kansas will end with
the present one.
UNDIROLOTHIAO.
The loss at Lawrence was not less than $2,000,000,
and will fall heavily on New York and Leavenworth
merchants.
Two banks. were robbed of every dollar, and the
third escaped only because the heat was so great
that the rebels could not get the vault open..
D'Arey McGee, Vallandighant, and the Ap.
web-eluded Luvasion.
In the Canadian Parliament, on - the 20th Met., a
long debate took, place on the providing for the
defence of the colonies, We quote from the Toronto
Mr. McGee proceeded to address the Houst on.the
question of detence. He commenced, alluding to an
editorial which appeared in the Toronto Globe, which
compromised a stranger now enjoying our hospi
tality, and who, was, finding in Canada a secure re
fuge as an exile from his native land. A few days
since he (Mr. McGee) published in a Montreal paper
a letter which he was glad to see was attracting
much attention throughout the country. From the
letter the Globe quotes the following paragraph
"I am no alarmist; neither can I shut my eyes to
the signs of the times. - At Rouse's Point, forty-five
miles from this populous city, the heart of Canada,
our neighbors have hurried to completion an fn
ramie fortress—East Montgomery. The statesmen
of Canada ought to go to Quebec via Rouse's Point.
•They will Bee there a place of arms, destined to play
no feeble part in the contemplated subjugation of
their country. They will see, if they are permitted
to enter, magazines capable of containing supplies
for an army of a hundred thousandmen, and barrack
accommodation for a permanent garrison of
thousand. I speak upon no newspaper authority,'.
upon no doubtful information, when I say that the
plan contemplated at Washington for the invasion
of Canada, is to march one hundred thousand men
up to the - district of Montreal—'to cut the connec
tion between Upper and Lower Oanada'—to abstain
religiously from mtermeddling in our local affairs,
but to force a separation of the provinces by the
mere force of an army occupation, interposing its
military barrier to their intercourse. What would
follow such separation, rest assured, has not es
caped their calculations."
The Globe then went on to suggest that his (Mr.
McGee's) information must have been received from
Mr. Vallandigham. He was glad to have
-the oppor
tunity of referring to the matter in the presence of a
gentleman who could exercise the power of correct-
Mg the misrepreaentation of ghe Globe. It had been
the good fortune of this country to be the secure
haven of exiles from North and South, and what
ever might be our private sympathies, and his ( Mr.
McGee's) had always been with the North, the
legitimate Government at Washington, whatever
'stretches of authority or abuses it might be guilty
of, all *agreed that those who sought should find an
asylum here. and that in Canada at least they should
not be hunted down. [Hear, hear.] He repeated it
was unfair and derogatory toi the character of the
country that one of its -leading journals should in
sect
articles about Mr. Vallandigham which might
be quoted against him in his native country, in or
apparently, to damage him thereby, holdinghim
as an enemy to his countrymen. He (Mr. McGee)
bad no conversation with Mr. Vallandigliam on the
subject. He went on to say that the fasts mentioned
by him in the letter respecting the designs of high
authorities in Washington were known to one of
the present advisers of his Excellency before they
came to his (Mr. McGee's) knoWledge. [Hear, hear.]
Mr. Sancileld'Macdonald said if any of his col
leaguell had a knowledge of such facts they concealed
them from him. > He had heard a' statement that
Upper Canada might be cut off by a large army at
-Montreal, but never heard it Officially.
Mr. John A. Macdonald. Officially ! Why, they
would not give you official information that* they
were going to invade the country. ILaughter.]
Mr. Sandfield Macdonald asked the name of the
member of the Aministration who' knew the facts.
Mr. McGee said his informant was Mr. Holton,
before he entered theministry, and he (Mr. McGee)
at the time communicated it to the Premier.
Mr. Sandfield Macdonald said he had never heard
Mr. McGee and Mr. Holton informed him that
Theodore Hart, a well-known citizen of Montreal,
and one of Mr. Holton's principal supporters, while
in Washington had obtained an introduction to
Moses Grinnell and Seward, and. Seward said to
him that the. States would not make the mistake of
1812, by attacking a long line of frontier in Canada,
but in ease of war would at once march a hundred
-or a hundred and twenty thousand men to Montreal,
cut Canada in two, and remain there and wait the
course of events. He went on to say the extensive
works at Rouse's Point- indicated an' intention to
carry out this threat. He- spoke of the danger of
war between the States and England, which might
almost at any moment be brought about by reckless
politicians, in order to advance some political end.
' He was no- alarmist, but thought the probability of
war should be regarded seriously, and that we should
act on the motto, "Forewarned, forearmed." He
referred to what England had already done and was
willing to do in our- defence, if we showed a prOper
spirit ourselves.
Mr. Holton said what Mr. Seward had said to Mr.
Hart was early last year, and had no significance.
It was simply an observation as to what might be
done should war unfortunately occur, but •did not
indicate a desire to produce 'war. The member for
-West Montreal, when he seized upon this, must
have wanted sensation matter to keep himself before
the country. -
Mr. McGee contended that the remarks of Mr.
Seward were not without significance, or unworthy
the attention of the country. .
Mr. Brown'ridiculed the statement as after-dinner,
talk, totally unworthy themotice of the House. It
was not likely that. Mr. Seward -would tell Cana
diana if he seriously contemplated an invasion.'
Mr. John A.,M acdonald Baked what was meant by,
the formidable works undertaken by the Americans
at _Route's Point, Fort Niagara, and Mackinaw.
Surely not to protect the frontier against invasion
from Canada. He deprecated the treatment of this
subject in a spirit of levity or unworthiness, and
hoped such:was not the spirit of the militia bill to
be introduced by the ministry—that was that the
ministry should not think we had done enough, and
should. now rest on our oars.
Mr. Sandtleld Macdonald could state that twenty
five thousand volunteers were organized, and had
made good progress. He would - state what he pro
posed to do at the proper time. - -
A9l North SIXTH Street.
MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1863.
THE WAR IN MASA&
CILNAD&.
EMANCIPATION.—We are permitted to mane the
following extract from a letter of the Hon. Robert
J. Walker (now in England) to a friend in this city.
We ate glad to know that there is not the slightest
reason to believe that President Lincoln has any
thought of recalling the emancipation proclarns
tion, or that he will be a party to the re-enslave-
Ment of the freedmen, made free by the proclama-
• "Since the victory at Gettysburg, end the fall of
Vicksburg and Port Hudson, suggestions appear
that President Lincoln should recall the . emancipa,
tion proclamation. This would ruin the cause here:.
The proclamation was legal, and as such it did'
cipate the slaves, and they are now free. How can
Mr. Lincoln roenalave them? The past is irrevoca
ble even by Almighty power. Beside, it would be a
breach of faith to the slaves, and 'in view of their
heroic conduct in battle, equally 'unwise and unjust"
Chroqicle.
PHILADELPHIA,. MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1863.
THE STATES IN REBELLION.
Fears of the Fall of Fort Sumpter—Rebel
Opinions of the Siege of Charleston—The
Rebel Army in Virginia—A Singular Story
of Fort Delaware.
Our special correspondents have furnished Us'
with Richmond papers of August 19th, 20th, and
21st, from which we.make the following" important
extracts :
THE SITUATION Or FORT SUMPTER—A CHAPTER
ON 'FORTIFICATIONS.
Mem the. Richmond Examiner, August 21.]
We have not heard, either directly or indirectly, that
Sumpter has fallen, been destroyed, or evacuated; but,
from the despatch which is published this .morning, it is
reasonable to be supposed that it has been much injured,
•and , may become untenable. The event has proven
what was hitherto theory, that the heavy ord
nance now used will do considerable injury to
• fortifications constructed of any known materials
other than earth, even at the distance of three
thousand yards. Wagner,. exposed during forty
days to the whole artillery of - the enemy; at only
eight hundred paces, still holds its '.01 , 612, and -if in.
danger only from the cannonade would evidently
last forever ; while Sumpter, which receives the shot
of a single battery, at the immense distance stated,
with occasional assistance from scary monitors, suf
fers -severely, 'and probably would ' have already
crumbled but for the sand bags-with which- its walls
have been strengthened. Sumptees walls are brick •
-and concrete, sixteen feet thick.; Wagner is a simple
earthwork with a bomb proof. -
-
To thegeneral public of this continent the fact has
the air of novelty ; but the events of the Crimean
War have caused it to be quite familiarly known in
Europe. The Czar Nicholas fancied that he had'
discovered the means of rendering - walls able to re
sist cannon shot by, building them with blocks of
solid granite enormous in magnitude. Yet the fire
of a fleet pounded them to fragments at Sveaborg
and Bomersund. Sebastopol 'was*" the labor of - an
agein. piled, stones :"_but its siege _would hot have
lasted ten days had• not the engineer • Totleben con
ettucte4, in the brief interval between the battle
of Alma and the investment, "a - series of earthworks
which exhausted the whole force of England and of
France, cost ten months , siege, and the lives of a
hundred thousand men. A stream of cannon balls
will destroy anything in the nature of stone, if long
enough continued -; but fired into a bank of earth,
they render it only a little better protection to those'
behind it than it was before. Such-.works can only
be taken as the earthworks of Sebastopol were
finally taken—by approaching the-trenches till they
nearly touch the batteries, and then rushing in with
an overwhelming assault.
But Sumpter and Wagner have no necessary con
nection with the ultimate result at Charleston.
That city is on the land, and until a fleet can clear
the harbor, no effectual operations can be com
,menoed against it. Even - if it should do so, we
learn through the highest engineering authority of
this country that Beauregard can maintain himself
against any force that • has been; or is likely , to be,
sent against him. If- Morris Island should fall en
tirely into the possession of the enemy, he may shut
up Charleston as a port of entry, but it will not ena
ble him to take the city while its defenders are de
termined to fight it out. .
CHARLESTON.
[From the Richmond Dispatch.
The object of general interest and attention now_
is Charleston. The enemy has a particular hatred
for that city, and would enjoy a sweet revenge in its
capture. He is concentrating all the strength of en
ginery, naval and land, which it is in his power to
bring to bear upon its defences. The weight of metal
that will be employed before the decision of the ques
tion whether Charleston shall be taken or not, will
exceed that concentrated in any of the sieges of
this war, so notable for the magnitude of the means
employed in them. The enemy is never so completely
at home as he is in such attacks. Let him but undertake
an enterprise where- his- machinery and the spade are
chiefly available, and he proceeds upon it with a per
severance and enemy that have never been suipassed. So,
in the essay, to break through the defences of
Charleston and reedit the heart of that city, he is
engaged in the employment that suits hint best of
all, if any that is warlike can be said to suit him at
all. The bombardment of the place will perhaps
exceed anything in history of the kind. But there
are defending Charleston as brave men as ever walked
the earth, men who love their country, and consider
it glorious to die .for it. They are commanded
by an officer who is one of the beat military engi
neers of his day, and who has earned a brilliant
fame in this war. If taken at all, the place will not
be reached until all that man can do has been done
to defend it, and we are gratified to learn from the
Charleston Mercury that it has been - determined to
defend the city "street by Street, house by house,
as long as there is a foot of earth left to stand
upon." This is in accordance with the expressed
wish of the Convention of South Carolina in 1861,
when an attack was anticipated. But Charleston
has not fallen, and, there is good reason to be not
only hopeful but cheerful about its fate. It will be
settled, soon, and, we hope, by the signal repulse of
the enemy.
THE ARMY. OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
[From the Richmond Whig, August 19.1
The situation of General Lee's army is unchanged
but the force of the enemy that occupied a position
on this aide of the Rappahannock has all fallen back
across the river. This would seem to indicate that
Meade has no intention of giving battle at present.
Indeed, it is believed that his army is badly demora
lized, and in no condition for offensive operations.
The telegraph informs us that ten from each compa
ny have gone North to gather up conscripts. Our
picket lines now extend to the Rappahannock. The
Central train, last evening, brought down sixteen
Yankee prisoners, including one officer, captured
in Culpeper county.
From Fredericksburg we learn by telegraph that
a small force of the enemy is still around the place,
and that their pickets will remain at Falmouth per
manently. Falmouth is in Stafford county on the
north side of the river. We doubt if there is any of
the enemy on this side. With the exception of
some picket firing, the place has resumed its wonted
THE Hormone OF FORT DELAWARE-THE BLACK
HOLE OF CALCUTTA OUTDONE.
The followingaceountof the treatment of Prisoners ,
at Fort Delaware, alleged to have been received from
an escaped rebel, will surprise none morel pcehaps;
than the prisoners them Selves :
CFrom the Richmond Di.patch.l
Our informant was transferred from Fort Lafayette
to Fort Delaware, from which place he succeeded in
making his escape. His account of the treatment of
our prisoners there possesses even more interest
than what he has already narrated. At the time of
his leaving Fort Delaware, some two weeks , ago, it
was estimated that there were confined - there about
eight thousand prisoners. This large number, with
the exception of about one thousand taken in the
battle of Champion Hill, are all prisoners taken
from General Lee's army, principally at the battles
of Gettysburg and in lus campaign in Maryland and
Pennsylvania.,
The treatment of our prisoners beggars all deserip
tion. Fort Delaware is said to present within its
walls all the horrors of the Hole of Calcutta. >The
sufferings of- our men was so great, and the treat
ment so excessively cruel, that disease had broken
out among them and was sweeping them off by hun
dreds. The hospitals were crowded, and the mor
tality, our informant thinks, could not, be less than
twenty-five a day. Yet this did not seem enough to
assuage the malignity and vindictiveness _of the
Yankees, and so far from exciting their pity, it
„seemed but to incite them to fresh deeds of inhu-
The way our dead are buried at Fort Dela
ware tells of itself of the devilish spirit that reigns
there. They are taken out to the Government farm,
on, the Jersey coast, near by the fort, and shoved,
not buried, under the ground, in a hole dug six feet
by six! ' • • .
The disease that is committing such fearful rav
ages among our prisoners at Fort DelatiTare is 'a
dysentery, of a malignant type, superinduced by the
dirty, miserable water, and the half putrified meat
that is dealt out to our men. It is no exaggera
tion to say that the accounts we get of the fare of
our men in Fort Delaware exceed anything we
have heard of during the war. The quantity of
bread allowed to each man is bat six crackers a
day ! The meat is the toughest, poorest kind of
beef, such as is bought up by the shoddy contract
ors; and is often so offensive from the warm
weather, that it cannot be brought within six inches
-
'of themouth. Worse than all, the water used is
nothing but the pumpings from the bay, and when
the wind blows from the sea it is made so bad that
it is but little better than the runnings of a sewer.
The fare of our men is so bad that it is a practice of
the prison to offer, as an inducement, threelsteals
of soft bread and a bit of tobacco to any of our men
who will assist in the work and drudgery of the
prison and yard. So great had become the torture
of the life in Fort Delaware that some of our men;
rather than endure it longer had taken the oath of
allegiance, and been set at liberty, though without
a friend or dollar in the world. Our informant,
Who is a South Carolinian himself, tells us that he
saw a man from his own State, who owned slaves,
and of whose fealty' nd devotion to our cause there
could be no doubt, take the oath of allegiance rather
than "die by inches,"na he expressed it, "in Fort
Delaware."
THE PETIT MEANNESSES PRACTISED UPON OUR PRI;
BONERS AT FORT DELAWARE.
We have told us a number of petit meannesses
practised upon our prisoners at Fort Delaware.
The principal one is the system the officers have of
overhauling the effects of each prisoner, and help
ing- themselves to such of their things as they like.
The ease of our informant will better serve as an
illustration. On passing through Philadelphia, on
his way from Fort Lafayette to .Fort Delaware, our
informant took advantage of the opportunity to
supply himself with a number of little things, and,
in anticipation of the horrors cif Fort Delaware, pro
vided himself with a change of linen, socks, and the
like. On arriving at Fort Delaware, he soon found
a Yankee diving his hand into .his haversack and
helping himself, very coolly and complacently, to
his effects, even to a little bit of cake which he had
purchased by the wayside • When detected in his
roguery, the fellow laughed, and very quietly said,
ah, you d—d rebel I" Shame, as well as humanity,
seems to have been , buried at Fort Delaware.
ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE BY SOME OP - OUR PRISONERS
--THE TREACHERY OF ONE OF OUR OWN MEN.
The treatment at Fort Delaware had set the heads
of many of our prisoners, at work in inventing
means of escape from its torture and cruelty. The
officers had so increased their vigilance, however,
that the attempt, in most • instances, was frustra
ted. Before our informant succeeded in getting out
from the walls an attempt at escape was made by a;
party of our prisoners, which came very near result
ing in the most serious consequences. About
three weeks ago; about nightfall, while 'a num
ber of our prisoners ' were in the necessary,
which is constructed just on the edge of the bay,
some of them while ' the guard was watching out
side,ssuccceded in letting themselves over the rail
ing _into the water; a distance of some ten feet.
The water here is shoal, and can be waded at low.
tide, but no sooner were they down in the water
than one of our own prisoners ran, out and treache
rously gave word to the guard that "some of the
prisoners were making their escape." The guard
immediately gave the alarm, and rushed to the
water's edge, the whole thing being done so quickly
that the men had not time to get but a few paces
from the . shore. They were Bred upon by . the
sentry, and the cry soon rang out "don't shoot—
you have killed me." Notwithstanding, the guard
continued to fire, until one poor fellow named
Wilson, belonging, our informant thinks, to a Geor
gia regiment, fell dead, pierced by a ball. The
others made to the shore, eluding the vigilance and
arrest by the guard by running, under cover of the
night, into the crowd, where they were lost in pur
suit, but two or three succeeding in makidg their es-
Cape. As soon as the treachery of this man,, who so
basely betrayed our.nren , became known, the ven
geance of our prisoners was so aroused that they
threatened to hang him, and from fear of some per
sonal violence being visited upon him, General
Scholl', who is in command, was compelled to se
crete him, and send him beyond the reach of 'bur -
men. The greatest feeling was excited, and when
the corpse of poor Wilson W3B brought in the fury
of our men was so fired that they had to place it out
out of sight, lest it would lead to a general revolt
'of the prisoners. • •
HOW THE. "REBELS" ARE CLASSED. AT FORT 'DE-
LAWARE. .
There is a little sheet published at Delaware City
called the Delaware Inquirer, edited by one Captain
Montgomery, on duty at Fort Delaware. The chief
delight of this fellow ill to abuse and vilify the pri
soners at Fort Delaware in his dirty sheet. He Ms•
tinguishes•the prisoners in Fort Delaware by three
distinct classes. The, first class be designates as the
real,. genuine rebel, who is described as a "nasty,
dirty beast, whose shirt can only be compared to that
of , a hod-carrier with "a good layer of briolcdust on
it, and who lies about all day gambling for Confede.
rate money."
This picture presents the real, unadulterated, ge
nuine rebel. The second chum of rebels are. "the
Butternuts, who are too proud, and consider them:
selves aboVe _drudgery." The third Olaas Of 'rebels
are a different breed altogether, and are made up of
the Yankees confined in Fort Delaware for military
offences. This class hi regarded as even worse than
the Southern rebel, and pass everywhere about the'
fort as " Company Q'." . They are made up princt ,
pally of Northern garroters and pickpockets, and
are men who cannot be brought under subordina
tion. This completes the " pictfire:gallery" of Fort
Delaware, as classified and reflected through a Yen- -
kee camera.
THE PRESIDENT, GEN. LEE, AND . THE. NEWSPA.PICRS.
[Froth the Richmond he dies")
The President tells us he wants more men. In his
agony for more men he appeals to the /tidies for help,
and grants a general amnesty to all deserters—ad
vertising the said amnesty for twenty consecutive
days. in every newspaper in' the Confederacy, at a
cost of thousands of dollars.
. .
General Lee appears to be of the same mind with
the President. He, too wants more men. He calls
upon all his officers and men to join their respective
regiments without a moment's delay, and even ap-•
peals to the people of' the , several Stites to send
forth every man, capable of 'bearing arm's:
One would suppose that two such high authorities
would be apt to know what they are talking about.
But the newspapers, including the President's own
dear • organss are diligently, engaged day after day
in assuring us that the Yankee draft is a dead fail
ure; the Yankee armies wasting away by disease,
desertions, and expiring enlistments ; that Lee's
army is numerically greater than Meade's, and that
Lincoln is on his last lege, in a military point, of
view.
Which are we to believe—the President and Gen.
Lee,•or the newspapersi We can't believe both, for
if the newspapers are to be heeded there' is no need
for another man in our armies. All we have to do
fe to:etand perfect!) , still and see Lincoln's • legions
vanish into thin air. Then we will march to Boo
ton-without the slightest inconvenience or inter
ruption. And we will be able to do that next fail.
This is no time to tilde with the people. They are
not arrant fools. ' Their spiritseare not to be kept up
by conflicting statements. They know that the new
conscription of men up,to forty-five; and the call of
the President and the appeal of General Lee,"do not
tally with the sanguine articles of the newspapers.
What they want is not delusive hopes, but the assu
rance that the President intends to act with wisdom
and energy.
We do want more men. Ttie Yankees are trying
to play another trick on us. Just before the battle
of Chancellorville they assured us that Hooker's,
armywas only 70,000 strong, and just before Grant
captured Grand Gu/f they assured us that there
would be no more general engagements during the
war. Meltable gentlemen, who had been through
the Northwest, brought news that peace and an alli
ance with the Confederacy were positively deter
mined
They are trying to fool us again. Reliable gentle
men, "just returned from Washington, ,, arrive
almost daily within our lines, to assure us that
Meade is "receiving no reinforcements, except a
few negro regiments, ,, etc., etc. < We have had
enough of this stuff to satisfy even the Adminis
tration. This is the calm before the storm. That
storm will not wait - for the dog days to expire.
Meade is constantly being reinforced, and so is
Rosemans, and the first thing we know Lee will be
attacked on both flanks, East Tennessee invaded by
forty thousand men; and Mobile invested by way of
Pascagoula. The /house must be set in order, and
kept so, for the storm will soon burst in all its fury.
THE VOLIINTBER NAVY
When afloat, there is little or no danger of these
vessels being captured or interrupted, if wisely
managed, and the cruising grounds be away from
our coast, and out of the usual traok of Yankee war
steamers. Of the feathered bipeds that cause such
perturbation in the fowl yard, not one in a thousand
is destroyed by the unfeathered biped's gun ; for
he I* keeps his weather eye open,” swoops to his
prey, and is off like a shooting star. So with
our sea-hawks and eagles> in the illimitable
wastes of ocean. Always on the watch, and swoop
ing to their prey, and swift as the wind, they may
roam for years without molestation, and sweep the
enemy's commerce from the seas as with a besom of
destruction. Even the conspicuous Alabama and
Florida, observed of all the world, and the special
objects of Mr. Doodle's rage, and of pursuit by his
misers, have never yet been overtaken or met
against their will. How much more will privateers
of all rigs and sizes escape, cruising out:of range of
the enemy's war steamers, never seeking, but avoid
ing fights, and baying the heels of a race horse 1
Our Government and citizens should use every
exertion in this behalf ; and even if we lose all the
land except enough to afford sovereignty a resting
place, these ships ought still to be put to sea; for
they may, and probably will, largely contribute to
our salvation.
If we put forth all our efforts—the endeavors of
patriots—whenever we can help the cause, we will
prevail, and the signs are all in our favor. A united
and deterfnined people, in such a country, and fight
ing for'such a cause, can never be subdued. More
over, God fights for us ; time fights for ue ; the ele
ments fight for .us; circumstances fight for us; the
moral sense of the world is a host in our favor.
COLONEL ESTV.A.N
[From the l liichmond Whig.]
Mani of our readers will recollect a European ad
venturer who figured fur some time in :Richmond,
calling himself " Colonel Estvan," He at one time
taught„the science of fencing here ; also at the Uni
versity of Virginia. He afterwards attached him
self to General Wise, and got on his staff; hence his
assumption - of the title of Colonel. It seems that
this man, having been found out in his practices,
and compelled to leave the South, has come out with
a book entitled "War Pictures from the South," by
B. Estvan, colonel of cavalry in the Confederate
army, London, in which book, as we learn from the
London Index, he abuses the South beyond measure
and without stint; represents Mr. Davis and the
leaders of the South as engaged in a foul and
treacherous conspiracy against an excellent, just,
and equitable Government, and he held these views
even while tendering his services to the Confede
rates.
The Index says :
"His (Estvan's) sketches of the Confederates, from
first to last, betray a rancor that is perfectly inex
plicable by;anything that is publicly known of his
history. If he had been publicly drummed out of
their service for cowardice, or detected in a treason
able correspondence, and forced to fly for his life, he
could not`revile them with .more unscrupulous and
unsparing bitterness. He paints them as mere brag
gars and boasters, apt it talking; hut by no means
renty-:to: Make good their. boasts when it came to
This man Estvan is now, as we learn, at Frank
ford.on-the-Main ; what his ostensible business or
position may be we do not know, but about his real
positior—that of a recruiting agent in the interest
and pay of Abe Lincoln, there would seem to be no
doubt. Such are the agents the Federal Govern
ment employs, and upon their recruiting, even more
than upon the draft, does that Gmernrcent rely to
fill its depleted ranks.
AN ISSUE
As the issue presented in ,the following, from the
Sentinel; of Monday, invoices a historic point of some
Interest, we transfer it to our columns, and will let
the reader know what comes of it;
THE CHARLESTON MERCURY VS. THE PRESIDENT.
No charge has been more persistently,'and at the
same time more unjultly,macie against the President,
than that he prevented an advance by our armies af
ter the first battle of Manassas. The charge has
been denied and abundantly disproved. We
thought that no one would have the hardihood to
repeat it, but we find we were mistaken. In a late
number, the Charleston Mercury says :
" Our readers are perfectly aware that when Presi
dentjDavis, after the first battle of Manassas, refused
to concentrate troops and advance on the enemy as
the commanders desired and advised (a fact atiroitly
denied then, but now indisputable from proofs in our
possession), we lost all confidence in him as a states
man or a strategist." • -
The italics are our own. We again deny this
charge as utterly untrue upon proofs in our posses
sion. which are "indisputable," and we call upon
the Mercury to make good its assertion by producing
the indisputable "proofs?' it claims to possess,
pledging ourselves to, meet its statement without
delay. -
ORDER FOR SIIRLOITGRS
HEADQUARTERS. ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA,
August 16, 1863.
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 84.—1 n order to allow Se
many of our brave soldiers to visit their families and
friends as can be done consistently with the good of
the service, and at -.the the same time give some reward
for meritorious conduct, a system of furloughs is
hereby instituted in this army..
These furloughs will be granted, in the eclat in
stance, at the rate of two for every one hundred men
present for duty ; subsequently, at the rate- of one
for every one hundred men present for duty.
This system will be continued as long as the exi
gencies of the service will permit. Should the effect
not be found prejudicial, commanders of regiments
and battalions will forward on each occasion; the
most urgent and meritorious cases from those recom
mended by the company officers, for the approval of
their superior commander.
The time will be regulated according to the follow
ing table:
t Virginia, 16 days North Carolina, 18days ; South
Carolina, 20 days ; Georgiag and Tennessee, 24 days ;
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana,
Furloughs will be granted equally to soldiers from
States and districts with which communication is
cutoff, but in no case will' these furloughs carry
permission to go within the enemy's lines or pass
through them. The time for such eases will be
regulated by the number of days allowed for the
State in the above list which they intend to visit.
The men furloughed will be authorized to bring,
back stragglers and recruits who may come in their
By command of General R., E. Lee.
. W. H. TAYLOR, A. A. G.
[From various Richmond papers.]
IMPORTANT, IF TRUE.
A Yankee deserter, who entered the Confederate
picket lines below Kinston, N. C., on Wednesday
last, states that the Yankees have been receiving
large - reinforcements of cavalry and infantry at
Newbern ' and that the whole force has moved out
to Deep Gully, twelve miles distant. He further
states that they were making preparations for a raid
on Raleigh. It is quite likely that this fellow was
sent purposely to deceive our forces. Beware of
Yankee deserters. s. They are not to be trusted.
If it be true that the Yankees are making large
hospital accommodations at the navy yard, and that
their, vessels are congregating in the harbor of
Pensacola in'considerable numbers, the indications
are that they contemplate moving from that, point,
directly or indirectly, against Mobile. This would
be an important movement, and one which will
be likely, to receive the prompt attention of our,
0 RNE3I,AL HOOD
We are enabled to state, upon the best authority,
that the report .so extensively ventilated by the
press, that Gen. Hood was to be appointed a lieu•.
tenant general, and placed in command of all the ca.
vslry of the Army of Northern Virginia, is without
foundation in fact.
REBELANA
The following paragraphs are from the Chatta
nooga Bebe/ :
General S. P. Myrick, of Baldwin county, Ga.;
writes to the Macon Telegraph that the whole of his
crops of wheat and born have been set aside for the
army and the families of soldiers. Such an example
is a Myriok•le in these days of money. getting.
We verily believe there are some men in this ion
federacy who, if they had tails, would tuck them
between their legs every time they heard that the
Yankees were advancing. •
We are not positively certain that all our generals
favor the use of " hand grenades," but we know'of
one or two that constantly keep a green aid or two
at hand.
The army of Roseorans is like a blind beggar-,led
by a dog.
PERSONAL.
It. Is reported
.that Hon. A. O. P. Nicholson and
other preminent citizens of Columbia, Tennessee,.
have been imprisoned by the Yankees.
Hon. James B. Clay is now at Niagara Falls, on"
the Canada aide, and As said to be in the last stages
of consumption.
General Bragg .has been seriously ill, but is now
reported convalescent.
General William Brent has resumed his 'cold
posi
tion of adjutant general of Bragg's army.
Matters at Natchez, Miss.
THE REBELS TRYING TO, OEMS TfrE MISSISSIPPI
A letter from Natchez, Miss., 'to the St. Lous fie.
pub/icon, says : • .
" General Ransom is still in command liere.• The
rebel General Logan has about twelve hundred
cavalry.some twentymiles east of-us , with which
he hangs around and tries to out off stragglers and
foraging parties. General Ransom and General Lee
are oo•operating now to get in and save for Uncle
Sam a large quantity of cotton marked 0. S. A. ,
which has been discovered' just thin ado of Lpgaa's
pickets. Logan wishes to burn it, but is afraid he
will merely burn lila own &Igen!. It is likely that
thousand bales' will be secured for us.
The rebels still attempt to cross the Mississippi'
in flatboats and gaffe. It its said that Wirt Adams,
with a battalion of cavalry, succeeded in getting
over from the west silo to. Rodney in this way, some
nights since. His men were in small boats'and the
horses swam. Joe Johnston's troops are still near
Meridian, bilt it is likely that the Alabama or Tom
bigbee river will be his line."
NEW YORK CITY.
Correeimideece of The Preen.]
Nxw Yortir, August 21; 1863.
The draft yesterday " gobb'ed up" two members
of the press—W. IL Fry, musical critic of the Tri
bune, and some unknown being named Abrahams,
who is connected with that valuable - epitome of de
cency, the Express. On Wednesday; Mr: Remack,
of the Abend- Zeitung, and one Fillet, of the News,
likewise suffered the extreme penalty' of the law.
As the Express and News are opposed, upon principle,
to the $3OO clause, poor Abraham's and Fillet will, of
course, refuse to avail themselves of it, and, with
grim composure, will march off * to take part in this
"unholy war," which is all the fault of the demd
Abolitionists. So goes the draft ; and yet there is no
disturbance, though' threats are plentifully bandied
among the Great - Unwashed. The weather- of the
past few days has been delightfully cool, compared
with that of the "heated term )) through which we
have just simmered ; and, as a consequence, Fishion,
in her newest bonnet, with all the modern improve•
ments according to Le Follet, has resumed her prome
nada, and a tine opportunity is afforded the pert.
patella for viewing the city in the peculiar phase of
METROPOLITAN OUT•DOOR LIFE.
The promenades of pretty women, and the sagging
saunter of lazy swells, are not indigenous to New
York. Broadway and Fifth avenue find their paral
leli in all the large cities of the North. But the
IoW latitudes of this city present some phases not
elsewhere to be beheld within the comprehensive
boundaries now presided over by , the Honest Old
Abe. Let your peripatetic saunter into . Chatham
street, and along the west aide of the Bowery—the
former especially—and he will find himself in the
true out-of-door localities peculiar to this city, and
where the true bourgeoisie appertaining thereto most
do congregate.
En route Vje fall into the furious counter-currents
/of Nassau street, the literary centre of New :York.
Through this narrow conduit flows the tide of hu
manity, which is presently to disseminate itself here
and - there in Wall and 'the contiguous streets,
and to be lost in the little coves and in
lets—the banks, the stock . exchange, the
law offices. The first intimation you have of
its literary life is gleaned from the appearance of its
numerous book stalls. Book stalls they are, sui
gentriS, yet occupying, in- some cases, vast stores of
boundless capacity. The "stalls"proper—that is,
those little semi-parachute affairs affixed to the dead
walls of buildings, where some quiet old Diogenes
sits dozing over metaphysics, with perhaps two
hundred musty and well.thumbed volumes at his
back, content with selling a couple of dollars' worth
per day—these exist in Centre, and some of the nar
row, alley.like streets which are contiguous. The
stalls of Nassau street, then, are peculiar. In them
you find thousands of volumes, spurious and legiti
mate editions of rare books,Eind nearly all the modern
books at first or second hand. I conceive that a stall
is not a stall unless one can blow from the cover of
every book which he rabies a proper cloud of dust—
not the dust of ages, perhaps, but still, duet
enough to satisfy the cravings of the biblio
maniac for tangible evidences of antiquity. Here
and there a cobweb may be introduced with good
effect, and if a fossil spider or so may be found be.
tween the dark, rusty leaves of a volume, ao much
the better. Viewed from this test-point, the stalls
of Nassau street are illegitimate. There are no dim
cathedral lights, no eddies of dust, no rustle and
crush, and perception of suffocating particles, such
as arise from a dead mummy when disturbed.
Diogenes does not reign here—Dlogenes with dull,
sleepy eyes, and an air of general stupefaction, who,
in the stalls of London and Paris, mumbles out the
price of his books between disconnected quotations
from Latin fathers and the metaphysical philoso
phies of Groosties and Gymnosophists. We are
sadly modern here, and you buy the "Holy War,"
or:" Bayle," or " Count Cagliostro" of some spruce,
wretchedly-modern young man, who knows no more
of the Latin fathers than of the notched noses of
Abon Simbal. This fact, of course, skimi the cream
from book hunting, for wherein lies the pleasure of
buying old books of a modern who cleans his nails
and does not wear rimy spectacles. '
Now as you saunter up this street, you elbow the
bedouins and the representative men.of the papers.
Here treads the unkemPt Bohemian on his way to
Dlataran's, where he will dine cheaply and smoke
the concentrated barbarity of tobacco, which his
impecuniosity will permit. In the evening he will
slink into the cool cellars of Pfaff, to discuss Jingoistic
philosophy with the Queen of Bohemia, over lager
and pipes. Hugoistic philosophy is not fragrant ;
vast theoretical egotism redolent of French purity
and morality, and nothing more. But it affords
your Bohemian his consolation in connection with
the bad beer which he drinks. The Bohemia of New
York'is not, however, the Bohemia of Paris; it has
none of the tawdy ornament which renders the other
glittering and seductive. It is all hard reality ;'ail
snags. and stumps, without any high water or quiet
pools where the vagabond philosopher may sail at
ease. "Clean shirt day" brings him no invita
tion to the saloons of fashion ; no Apician dinner
ever offers its incense to his wit or intellectual
prowess. -
Leaving Nassau behind, you strike into Chatham,
and hire you reach one of the specialties of New
York—to it what Holywell street is to London, and
wkich contains in its lower portion something akin
to the once famous Apra - Kin Dvor, - of St. Peters
burg, the old-clothes booths of the city. No sooner,
do you set foot within its -limits than you nudge
Judeanism in all its lusty vigor. From every door
way it pleads with and beseeches you to buy its
hideous garments, at an insignificant price; it col
lars you, and drags you into the unseductive pre-.
sence of all that is seedy and unreliable in the
tailoring line. The Roman nose, the think, pouchy
lips, and the burning, chemical eyes, are all lending
themselves to the task of charming you ; of draw
ing you bodily into those little tumble-down booths
where old fashions sit enthroned, and where the
cast-off raiment of past generations longs to em
brace you. From early dawn until lath at night
these gaping booths, windowless and doorlese,
and scarcely larger than cells, invite you. From
them issues a ceaseless clamor and cry that is
apt to bring to mind the sonorous invitations of the
old-time " 3 prentices of Chepe :" "Came and buy;
gallants, come and buy." In fact, the old-clothes
mart is a relic of past ageST which has escaped mo
dem innovation. Your " Old Olo , " knows nothing
more of the potency of advertising than does the
somnolent merchant who sits cross-legged in the
bazaars of Old Stamboul. The peculiarities of his
wares must become known only through the medium
of powerful lungs and a sonorous intonation. So
here stand thesegray old fellows, with their appeal=
ing voices, in the sunny Weather, hailing the passers
by, enticing the agreeable, and seizing upon the
hesitating. It is not alone from the stereotyped
clothes collector, the shabby, ambling Jew or Jewess,
with bundle anidbasket, and the well-known cry of
"Any old clo , to sell 1" that these bright-eyed mer
chants procure their wares. There is an under-cur
rent, unseen by. the uninitiated, which sweeps
in the finest of modern fashions fresh from the
shears of the aristocratic tailor. The well-dressed
gambler, and — the man of the town, yesterday ,
lounging in the - marble lobby of the Si. Ni
cholas in all the glory of broad cloth, and to-day
slinking by on the shady aide of a back street, seedy
and degenerate, know , well enough how the Israelites
can sell fashionable garments, as well as antedi
luvian raiment, for a song, and can discuss the.re
lative positions of pawner and . pawnee as well as
the lawyers. In fact, in this Old Jewry . , .you can
pawn everything, you can buy anything capable of
being pawhed. Go there, at any time of day or
evening, and you will meet the bouigeoisie in force,
and thence, crowding the west side of the Bowery,
engaged in chaffering and buying, or in looking on.
Here, too, come the mob-men to buy or to pawn;
here , come the mob-children to, beg or to steal.
Right and left, the organs grind merrily froin the
door's of anatomical museums, of itinerant dancers
and jugglers, and bear wards. Here crowd the per
ambulating beer-stands, the apple girls, the strolling.
musicians, the men with air-guns, and the ring ,
games, and the vendors of patent blacking, corn
salves, tooth-ache drops, and all kinds of; lotions,.
soaps, and specifics.' Such are some of the hete
rogeneoue Alements which go to individualize this
portion of...the low latitudes of New York, and ren
der it, in some degree at least, a Epecialty.
A COUNT BY DOURLF:ENTRy.
Up and down Nassau St., to andfrom the poet office, ;
day by day, in rain or sunshine, stalks the Marquis
de Bilboa—Count of --- the Hesperides, perhaps!:
The Count is a man of education and - high:breeding,
and, a couple of years ago, he comminicated,tothe
Tribune his genealogy and'a list of his titles. In
Bober verity, he it a nobleman, but a nobleman run
to seed. Up and down he stalks with all the dignity,
of birth and position, with half a •dozen pieces of
tinsel pendant from his rags—the poor, fellow palls
them his orders—and his clothing in tatters. His
hat is of a pecuhar shape, twisted up at the sides in
a half-jockeyish - way. Altogether the poor,. crazy
Count . presents a figure never to be forgotten, and .
the, citizens have learned to look on him kindly, al
though his intense . dignity and severe adherence to
,the very minutiae of punctilio are apt to.provoke a
smile at times. Notwithstanding his diurnal visits to
the post office, I am fearful that the Count - gains his
livelihood as a cleilinzier, as well as by the donations
of charitably-inclined citizens. These latter Cannot
be unfrequent, for his genuineness has already been
proved, and, as , a consequence, the charitable are
ready to lend him a helping hand. Shortly after the'
publication of, his genealogy, the Count's double ap
peared upon the scene of action; a red-faced, vaga:
bond-looking Irishman, who, as far' as habilidents
went, was a ° perfect eOpy Of his prototype, not ex
cepting even, the peculiar curve of the chapeau,'. And
who hoped to divert these eleemoßynary gifts into
`hie own pocket. The effect was ludicrous in the ex
tram. A block behind the genuine stalked the
spurious, imitating hie bearing and dignity with an
awkward truthfulness;which appealed strongly to
the risible nerves. This shadowy serablance WAS
kept up for many months, when suddenly the spud
ous Count disappeared, and has not since been heard
of in character. Still the great genuine,wanders up
and down in his lonelOme, melanohdly way; now'
and then 1, bonnetted” by mischievous boYs at their
own imminent peril, 'but generally treated with
kindness and charity. The little Old gentleman' is
to a' degree 11076 COMPOI 03A WPM the 'symbolical red
`noseof Utiochuil. STUYVESANT.
THREE CENIS,
POLITICAL
. 4 -It is stated, on the beat of authority, that the vete;
ran and venerable American Democrat and states-
Man, Lewis Cass, has openly declared his abhorrence
of the course at present pursued by many of his past'
partisan assOciates,'and that he now bravely pro
claims the sublime necessity of every man at once
ranging himself on the side of the Government, as
it is represented by the ?rational' Adminietration of
Abraham Lincoln. General Caew has . long viewed
with disgust the course pursued by the Buchanan
clique in Pennsylvania, the Vallandigham combine,
Lion in Ohio and the Seymour conspiracy in Hew
York. In fact, he never frilly affiliated' With these
men when the Democratic party was in.the pride of
its harmony and power. Lewis Case always re
garded Janie's Buchanan as an unsafe American
statesman, and accepted position during linchanan , a
Administration, not that he had any respect for or
confidence in the man clothed with executire - power,
but that he was convinced he could assist in guard
ing the interests of his country, and. that he•knew*
he would be serving the aspirations and claims of
his own immediate personal partisan friends. It
will be remembered thaVGen. Cass left Buchanan
after he had wasted'all argument and entreaty to
prevent him from' allowing the conspirators to pos
sess themselves of all the resources of the Govern
writ. Even then he warned the country of what
has already transpired. He announced, by his re
signation, that conspiracy was at work in the Admit nistration of the imbecile Buchanan; and now, be
fore or just at the close of the war, Lewis Cass comes
out boldly to warn his countrymen against the dan
gers to be apprehended from power again being vest
ed in the hands of the old Democratio leaders.—Har
risburg Telegraph.
This constant outcry against Governor Curtin
for his zealous support of the Gevernment has more
meaning la it than most people can at first discover.
The soldiers in the field support the Government,
and for this they were disfranchised by the action of
a Democratic Supreme Court. The civil authorities
at the head of the State of Pennsylvania, who have
been faithfully supporting' that same Government,
are now threatened with defeat by the same in
fluences which disfranchised the soldiers. This is a
point in this outcry against Governor Curtin which
we want the people of Pennsylvania to remember.
—The Westmoreland Argus, an enemy of the Ad
ministration and of the war,"says : We believe
that both GoVernor 'Divan and Judge Agnew are
respectable and intelligent gentlemen, and our op.
position to them, which will certainly be as vigorous
as we have the power to make it, will be purely po•
unless hereafter evidence should be pre
serried which would prove personal unfitness, as
distinguished from political heresy or malfeasance."
Such candor as this in a Democratic organ inmost
extraordinary.
i The Lebanon AdvertiSer says : "The only thing
that the opposition have thus far been able to say
against Judge Woodward is, that, being the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, he has not resigned
his position on the Sumenie Bench." Perhaps the
Advertiser forgets that Judge Wood Ward was the au•
thor of the decision that soldiers have no right to
vote ; and the author of the resolution excluding
foreigners from the elective franchise until they had
been twenty-one years in the United States ; and
the author of the infamous doctrine, which all loyal
Democrats have repudiated, that secession is right,
and that the South is right in rebelling against this
Government. The Advertiser seems to be oblivious
of these amiable little traits in the political charac
ter of Mr. Justice Woodward.
The Strougsburg Jeffersonian, is pleased with the
nominations of Curtin and Agnew, and thinks the
ticket strong enough to command success. Of Judge
Agnew it says: "He is one of the best lawyers in
the State, and has served for several years, and is
still serving, as president judge of the judicial dis
trict composed of Beaver, Butler, and Lawrence
counties. A. better selection could not have been
made."
The Bedford Argus utters the following trench
ant truth: "Let the people of Pennsylvania elect
George W. Woodward to be Governor Of this great
Commonwealth and we would soon seethe same
disgraceful scenes enacted that have disgraced the
city of New York. His principles, and those of the
miserable crew who nominated him, art - the same
as those of Wood and Seymour.”
It is now rumored in Ohio that a proposal is to
be made to Vallandigham by his political friends,
requiring a pledge that, in case of hie election, he
will co-operate fully with the National Govern
ment in the support of its war measures, and that
he is to have the choice of signing it or giving place
to some man who will make that pledge. As if
Vallandigham would feel bound by any pledge of
loyalty, after having repeatedly set such pledges at
defiance ! Evidently, if any such pledge is given, it
will be given not to •be obeyed, but to deceive the
people.
—Hon. George W. Woodward, Democratic candi
date for Governor, will be at Lancaster, at the great
mass Convention to be held there on the 17th of
September, the anniversay of the adoption of the
Constitution. It is strange that the enunciator of
the doctrine that the States may;secede at will, and
overturn the outlines of the Constitution, should
feel such a sudden reverence for that • immortal
document, as to assist in the'anniversary of its adop
tion.
—The Albany Journal says of the next Congress
Not only will_there_be_sm overwhelming majority
in favor of a vigorous prosecutiiiii - ortliewaiTtm
that majority will unite in the election of a firm
friCnd of the Administration as Speaker, and will
be found working together during the session."
PERSONAL
Sir Edwin Landseer is sixty-one years old.
One-third of that number of years, the London
Aihenmuni reminds that eminent artist and the Brit
ish public, has passed since he received the commis
sion to execute the famous African lions that will
some day astonielius inTrafalgar'Square. No-man
has ever yet seen the models for them, nor anything .
more solid than a drawing on paper, anddt is report
ed that the sculptor's visit to the Zoological Gar
dens, where he has dissected several lions, are inces
sant, and so alarining to thone-brutes that each-one
turns tail when .the growl is passed that he has
arrived.
Among the celebrities drawn during the draft in
New York,. were the Hon. -Townsend - Harris, late
American Minister to the court of Japan; John B.
Holmes, one of the excise commissioners; John
Morrissey, the well known pugllist, who is made up
of capital fighting material; William H. Fry, an
editor of the Tribune Michael B. -Abrahams a re
porter on the Express; J. Retnaok; an editor of the
Abend Zeit' ung,. and John Clancy, the editor of the
Leader, a weekly paper published in that
—The New York correspondent of the London,
Times was wellisketched, about three years since, in
an article in Russell's Magazine, written by W. J.
Grayson, of South Carolina. It criticised his travels
in America, and set him down as one of those Bri
tish travellers Whose arrogance is insufferable. " He.
is never wrong, no matter how contradictory his
opinions. At one time he advocates restriction, at
another free trade ; one year he makes slaves for the
whole world; the next, he would abolish slavery in
all places." How, eompletely has Dr. Mackay veri
fled this portrayal of his inconsistent character, for
from the expositor of the evils of• slavery, we find
him changed into its apologist, and the champion of
those who seek to make the "peculiar institution"
the cornerstone of a new political edifice.
—General Prank. Blair is in -Washington,' on a
visit to his father: His conversational sketches of
United States Grant, and of eulogy , of his military
and personal qualities, greatly, ponfirm the popular
impression that this soldier -is one of the greatest
:products of the war.
General Hooker, with•a patriotic concession of
his pride to his sense of duty as a soldiers offers to
accept any respectable command where he can meet
the enemies of his country. He will probably re
sume active service in the field about the Ist of
September. He may have a separate command ; if
not, he will command a corps in the Army of the
Potomac.
General Seines Wadsworth, of New York, will
probably be detached from his division in the Army
of the Potomac, and assigned to duty in a field where
the first fruits of hie command will be an immense
and speedy addition of black troops to the national
army.
General Hancock is now at Norristown, Penn
sylvania, recovering slowly from the wound he re
ceived at Gettysburg. The General daily expects to
be able to be removed to West Point, St. Louie.
His wound was more severe than was at first
thought. He was struck in the leg by two pieces of
lead and a nail.
Brigadier General Duffle and staff have left.
:Washington for Western Virginia, where, it is said,
General Duffle will have an important cavalry com
mand.
Colonel T. W. Higginson left Worcester, Mass.,
on Sattuday, to rejoin his regiment near Charles
ton, S. O. '
Major General-Butler and family, with friends,
started in a private carriage from Lowell on Mon
day, for the White Mountains, with-the. intention
about ten of being , absent about ten days.
• REBEL' PRAISE OP THE SANITARY COMMIS
SION.—From the commencement of the rebellion the
Sanitary Commission has had agents on every bat
tleAleld, in every camp, and e v eryhospital,torescu e
the unfortunate sufferer from the miseries of neglect
and untimely death. This is felt and appreciated
by the Confederate as well as. Union soldiers. At
the battle of Gettysburg two of. the agents of the _
Sanitary Commission were captured, and are now
in Libby Prison, Itiohmond. The moment this , was
known to, the :rebel surgeons in our hospitals, they
then re lease.
united in a petition to General Lee for therelease.
This petition is worth recording, and ift as fOIIOWS
". The undersigned, surgeons. of, the Confederate
army, now in charge of the severahospitals within
the - Union lines at and about Gettysburg, beg leave
to testify to our Generabia-Chief in favor of the
- United States Sanitary, Cmmission, as a. most
praiseworthy and charitable o institution. Through
its kind provisions our -hoapitals,nra supplied- Wirth -
many comforts which are of `inestimable value to
Four wounded and suffering MOTU :While the prompt;
nessmith which their agents follow on the heelsof
battle enables them to dispense an' immense amount
of relief to the unforturni.te sick and wounded soldieri
on either side, it also necessarily exposes them te
any reverse of fortune which may oblige them to
ask protection from- the successful-party. Thus,
during the late battle at Gettysburg, four :of the
agents of the Sanitary Commission fell into our
hands, and, as we learn; are now held as prisoners'
Of war. We respectfully submit that, as these r A iert
were taken without arms, 'and while in the er41 03 ,
of their charitable office as almoners of the Sanitary
Commission to the wounded soldiers of eater party, ,
they be released from restraint and permitted to re
turn to their work of benevolence and ' rood ; will to
The above was signed by some twelve of the ohief
surgeons of the Confederate army, anilllirected to
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FINANCIAL AND CONI7IIVIICIAL,
THE MONEY MART.
PHILADELPHIA; Azguat 22 1863
The ntl mber of new national banks lowerganired
and organizing sufficiently attests the - wiadom o
Secretary Chase in framing the proof:dem of hie
national' banking bill. Perhaps nothiztreciuld
devised that so completely give uea'uniform
currency, andeertitinly nothing could be PftipOsed in
the way of banking that will work so harMaylously
and safely to the interest of both Govern6ent and
the institutions themselves, and to the Ea tunlctio,z '
of the people. While the bill was yet before - Con
grew!, it was fiercely assailed by interested merabeisf' .
of the press and dLeir bind followers, who combined
to make a hue and cry against it, notwithstanding::
which the bill passed, and Mr. Chase began. his -
labor of details. The formation of national banker "
has been chiefly confined- to the influence of the
smaller class 'of capitalists, but now the " big guns"
are taking hold, and we may look for great as.well- .
as popular results. The West, which stood greatly
in need of banking capital, is seeking a motte. -
tary relief in its provisions, which State laws se- -
dowdy impeded. Ohio, especially, has long been
suffering from an extreme severity of State regula
none, which's° bind and hamper a bank that it be
comes really - a mere institution of public accommo
dation, and as a consequence banks are organizing
all over the . State. A long.continued ease in the
money market ought to induce operators to accele
rate the making of new banks, for against 4@5 per
cent which they receive they can pocket 6 per cent.
in gold in the first place, and receive 90 per cent. of
their capital invested to loan at 4@5 afterwards.
The five-twenty loan would seem to be created to
assist the workings of the bill, pr the bill was framed
to give circulation to the loan ; in either case the
result is equally satisfactory. The conversions at
the office of Jay Cooke, Esq., amounted to $872,100.
Gold opened weak at 124 y and continued so until
the close when 124 Was the best bid got with the
market still weak. Government securities show
signs of advancing, as they are in demand at a frac
tion higher than yesterday,
The 'stock market was dull but steady. Seven
thirties sold at INK ; State and city loans were
active ; Pennsylvania Rgilroad sold at 65y, an ad-
Vance of y ; Reading was steady at 60 ; Little Schuyl
kill closed at 47y ; Philadelphia and Erie at 27 ;
NOrth Pennsylvania at 193 , 6 ; Reading sixes, 1886, at
120; Susquehanna Canal bonds at 65 ; Mortis Canal
first mortgage at 110; Union Canal shares sold at 2;
the preferred at 4y; Delaware Division at 42% ;
Tenth and Eleventh.street - Railway at 42; Spruce
and Pine at 15y. There was but one session of the
Board; stocka closing dull.
Drexel & CO. quote:
United Statesßonds, 1881
U. S. new - Certificates of Indebtedness . 993 99.1‘
41. S. Old Certificates of Indebted nese 101X,g11013i
United States 7 3-10 Notes (October) it;oofariLA3C
Quartermasters' Vouchers 99 ig, 99;‘,
Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness 36O3idis
:Gold_ -
....._ —__. _
terling Exchange
Jay Cooke & Co. quote Government securities, &c.,
as follows :
united States 6s,
United States 7 3-10 Notea.. . . ... .....
Certificates of Indebtedness, ..... ...101 (4131.1 i
Certificates of Indebtedness. new 99%0 99X
Quartermasters' Vouchers. ..... 99 00 99K
Demand Notes 123140124%;
(Cold • .1233 - 815474
The following is the amount of coal transported
over the Schuylkill Canal, during the week ending
Augurt 20, 1863:
Schuylkill Haven.
" Port C1int0n......
Total for week • ••
Previously this year.
To same time last year
Amount of coal transported on the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, during the week ending
Thursday, August 20, 1863 :
Port Carb0n.......
Fr S in patsyille
Schuylkill Haven. :.. .. ..
..
.
'Auburn_: ...... ...
Port Clinton.
Dauphin
•• Harrisburg and P
Total Anthracite coal for the Week 62,379 n
From Itarriaburg,totalßituteinetts coalfor w'k • 5,483 15
Total of all-kinds for the week
Previously this year
TotaL • •-•••—
To the same time last year
The following abstract of company reports shows
the coal tonnage for the week and season, as com.
pared with the corresponding time last year:
Last
"Companies. Week Sea=on. Season Inc'se Dec . o
Reading R.... 66,224 2,04 , 697 1 463,356 573,841 .
Schny'lNay.. 18.375 42-,712 514,555 .121.811
Lehigh Bay.. 14.530 361,173 216,156 144,917
Lehigh Val— 22.656 319,569 517,067 302.503 -
Del. & Lack.. 25.573 733,065 669,035 64,470 ......-
Del. &Bud.-- 27,742 411,355 231.336 .130.219
Penns, Coal.. 2.3,972 321,770 231,093 87,617 • • ••••-
Shatookin..••• 7,300 157,319 138.971 15.576
Broad T0p.... 9 133 197,427 192.365 2.124
Lyken's Val.. 4,4.34 63,3114 95,500 .. ... 31.125
Trevorion.••• 650 37,157 40,750 3,593
T0ta1....... 220,94015,566,133,4,343,642 1:379,1:157,591
'ost
The New York Evening Pot
The accumulation of capit
increasing ease in the money
rule at 5@6 fp cent., with a k
actions at the lower rate. T 1
_mantises disposition than ex.:-
amon the
against certain speculative stocks.
The stock exchange is not very animated today,
and the desire to realize has caused the sellers to out
number the buyers. Prices are consequently some
what lower.
Before the Board, gold was selling at 124..X.e1i-IX.;
Erie at 119M@121 ; Erie preferred at 109Xg110 ;
Harlem at 173@1'74; Rock Island at 11394V113%;.
Cumberland at 28%@30 ; Reading at 120-; Illinois
Central at 125%@1.263 ; Fort Wayne at .91, and
Michigan Southern at 10634.
The-appended table exhibit' the chief-movements
of the market compared with the latect-pricee of
yesterday evening:
5at...811. Adv. Dee.'
U. 8.6s:1881, reg 106 ..
0.8161,1681. 107
11 S. seven-thirties-- 197 107
U. S. 1 -year Certif gold-101X 10131 • •
U.S. I yr. Cert. curr'ncy 9936 9934
American gold 12531 .. 34
Tennessee 85...... 6631 6634 ..
. Missouri ---.. 7034 71 ..
Pacific Hall. —231 210 1
N.Y. Central -- -093% 13034 3-4.
Erie ... 1
118% 3.4 --
Erie preferred —...10934 log .
Hudson River— 148
Harlem— .... 170 2,X. • ..
Harlem preferred-...».--155 363 2
Reading..• 119120 .. 1
Mich, Centre1........—.117fi 119 - 131
Mich. Southern• .----.108% 107% % -
Mich. Sc. Etter 137% 8X
Illinois Can scrip 126% 125 1X
Cleveland&Pittsbrux...lo234 101 X X
Galena .1113 112 X
Cleveland&Yoledo '2l 12231 ..
Chicago & Bock isiand.no 1143 4 .. 4%
Fort 91 91 ..
Alton & Terre Mute. 62 62 ..
Cant0n......... ... ... 82% lc • -
Chicago orthwest'zi. .8136 3.531 .. 1
Prairie an Chien... • .. 77% 82 - • 434
Philada. Stock Exch
'Reported by S. B. SLAT/ELIO
FIRST
50 Penna It 65X
16 do .... 65k
800 Reading 613.'56 19.0
460 IT 57-30 Tress bits —106%
50 Dela Div Canal. b 5 1231
350.13eading R 60
100 d 0...... b3II 603
100 do b 5 60
150 Union Canal pref.. 4%
100 Lit Schny .b3O 48
50 do . • . 47%
57 Pbila & Erie R. . 27
100 do 27%
Philadelphia Markets.
AUGUST 22—Evening
The 'demand for Flour is limited both for ship
ment and home use, and the market continues very
dull. About 600 bbls fair Ohio family at $6.75, And
600 bbls good fresh ground do at OM tEs , bbl.. The
retailers and bakers are buying moderately, at from.
'55;123;@5.573.‘ for superfine ; $5.14(36.6234 for extra ;
$6.76@6.60 for extras family, and $7(837,50 q bbl for
fancy brands, as to quality. Rye flour is selling at
$4.50635 bbl Corn meal is scarce at $1 for Penn-
Sylvania, and $4.20 fi bbl for Brandywine.
GRAIN.—The offerings of Wheat are light, and
the demand moderate. 3,600 bus sold at 130@1310 for
new. red, 134@137c for fair to prime Western and
Pennsylvania ditto, and i45(0160c wY bus for common
to prime white. Rye is selling at 1050 for old Penn
sylvania, and 90c w bus for new Delaware. Corn
continues scarce, and in demand at 90c,for prime
yellow, and 7Se bus for Western mixed. Oats are
firm ; about 4,000 bus sold at 56c for new Delaware,
and 70c, weight, for old Pennsylvania.
BARK.—Quercitron is in demand at s3olp ton for
first No. 1.
COTTON.—The tram:oldie= are limited, but hold
ers are firm in their views ; small lots of middlhiga
are reported at 68e
GROCERIES.—There is very little doing but
prices remain about the same as last quoted. Coffee
is scarce at 27@28c iff lb for Rio.
PROVISIONS.—There isnaore doing., Sales com
prise about 1,500 bbls Mess Pork to the Govern..
ment, on private terms ; 500 bbls Alburger's Judie.
Beef oil private terms; 100 toxes Hams in salt at
8c ;• 10,000 its Shoulders at 60, and 200. casks sugar
cured Hams on privde terms. Lard is held at flo
10 It for barrels and tierces, which is an advance.
WHISKY. is held firmly; small sales of Penn
sylvania and Ohio barrels are making ;at, 473‘e,
hhds 46y.,c, and drudge at 46erqe ,
The following are the receipts of - Fleur. and Grain
at this port to•day
Nap York Markets, August
Asians are unchanged, with 'sales of 26..bblsat $7-
for Pots, and $9 for Pearls.
BrinszsTurse.—The market for State and West
ern Flour is dull and heavy for,. old, and steady for
fresh-ground State.
The sales are 0,600 bbls, at $3.90422-1.6e , f0r super
fine State ; $4.6504.95 for extra State;., $3.90@4.60
for (superfine Michigan, Indiana, lowa, Ohio, &C.;
r s u 4 n o d @ h s o o fo p r O ehxitor a a dos 505. u 5 din n s d h . ppdie brands of
brands at
$ 5 . 55 gr- „
Southern Flour is dull and, common grades are
lower ; sales of '7OO bbls - at, $5.24§6,391f0r superfine
Baltimore, and $6.35@9.f0r extra do.
Canadian Flour is heavy, and lower for common
; qualities ; sales 500 blihrat $4.751 4.95 common,
and ss@7 for good to choice extra.
- Rye Muria inactive at - 05305,10 for the range of
fine and superfine. -
'Coin Meal la very quiet.
We quote Jersey_ at $3.90.4. : Brandywine $4.35; O&.
loric $4.20 ;.Puncheon $91159. -
Wheat is dull s heavy, and: orie cent lower on corn,
\mon grades, while prime parcels, are scarce and Erin.
The salsa are 36,000. bushels at 77c@iti.a• for
Chicago spring ; 8901051.1.7 for Milwaukee' Club ;
$1,18@1:23 for amber lowa ;-$1 . f4@1.22 for winter
red Western ; $1..23@e1.28 for amber Michigan.
R.pe is dull at 80@9ec for Western and State.
Barley is nominal.
' Oats are' quiet at 40@500 for Canada,. s'?.@blic for
Western, and 55@6140.10r State.
Corn is .lit@ge better, with limited supply and
moderate demand ; sales 30,000 bushels at 70c for
shipping, and 69@6930 for Eardern. •
Hay.--Old is in, small.supply end firm at 95c@$t
for ahipping, and $1.3501.4a for retail lots. New is
arriving and selling at 9904i1.91.
Tam. ow—We noticesalea 035 bbla prime Western.
atlOyic. • •
WM49E—We PAM 1 1 %1 0 1.0 tett Oiga. at 6.,
io63ipto7
.Tons. Cwt.
6,443 00
1 691 CO
1,573 00
671 06
10,378 00
406 83 00
416,712 07
514, 5b3 11
Tone. Cwt.
28,156 17
2,171 OS
.. 5,635 tit
10.613 GO
1.190 1Z
68,29 A 16
--.1,974.462 IT
2,012,679 14
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. Philadelphia Exchange.
OARD.
55 Phil& & Erie 65 26.7ei
50 do b 3027
500 City 6s.new 1063‘
100 Union Canal..ssvrn 2
71g Penns. 1 19
100 do 56019#
400 do . . .. . . 1,73)10K
100 do..
170 Spruce & Pine 10... 15%
1000 Susq Canal Ms... 65
1510th & llth. —2dy , 42
1000 Morris Caul let na..,110
..1.„900 bble.
:1 . 1.4,900 bus..
.:5,300 bus.
bus.