Vtess. MONDAY, AUGUST 24 1868 irr'UNION STATE GORMITTEE ROVMS, COMMONWEALTH BUILDING 3, PITTLADF.LPILIA. /moist 20, 1863 Tile Editors of Union Somnals throughout the State -will confer arfayor upon the tate Central Committee, and terre the Union cause, by sending their papers, until after the October Election, to " UNION STATE COMMITTEE, TLiladelphia. "g autto.3t WAYNE MoVEAGII, Chairman. Our Local Elections. The various party organizations of the city are completing their arrangements for the October elections, and in a few days we may expect-to have all the tickets before the people. The Democrats hold their-conven tion to-morrow, the Union party on ThurS day. Both parties will nominate candidates for State and county officers during this week. The local officers required are a Pro thionotary of the District Court, ReCbrder of Deeds, Clerk of the Court of .Quarter Ses sions, City Treasurer, City Commissioner, and Coroner. The State officers are one senator from the First senatorial district, and seventeen delegates to the House of Representatives. The interest attaching to these nominations is purely personal, and we find no excitement beyond the wards and precincts in which-the respective candi- dates live. There is much noise, and clamor, and drinking at the inns, as well as occa sional exhibitions of partisanship and feel ing in the police reports. We are sorry to see this, for it indicates a spirit of indiffer ence among those who should take more interest in our elections, and leads us .to fear that Philadelphia is again to be surrendered lo the hands of those who have no claim to . represent it in any way. For many years past, with few exceptions, our local offices' have been in the hands -of needy and greedy men—adventurers and partisans, and gentlemen, who, - having no visible means of support, ',threw them selves upon the bounty of the people. There seems to be a difficulty, almost insurmounta- - ble in obtaining the services - of honorable and good men ' for local and legislative oilices. A. respectable citizen regards an offer to run for the Legislature as an affrent,. and we - find respectable members of the State Legislature, when they return from Harrisburg, filled with a sense of loathing. There is no good reason why this should be so. In former clays we were represented by -mu ablest men, and a representative posi tion at Harrisburg was regarded as an honer almost as great as a representative position at Washington. The fault is with the peo ple—with what might be called, without using the word in an invidious sense, :the gentlemen of the community. They have a hesitation about taking any part in political affairs. They avoid the precinct-house and the bar-room as abominations; and regard a primary election as something in the nature of a prize-fight, and not to be visited at the risk of losing their good name. So they stay at home, and keep their linen - pure, while the rude, bold,. and - unscrupulous few who drink and swear, and use loud words, manage the ballots; arrange the tickets, and get the wires arranged for the day of elec- As we have said, there is no good reason - why this should be so. The citizen has certain duties to perform, some of which are pleasant, and others Unpleasant. To 'reject the one. and accept the other is. cowardice. 'The citizen has no right to select the obliga tions he owes to _the State, and if by re maining at home on the day of the election he permits - the - Country to becorne a play thing, or a '''''''''''' - the hands of bad men, he shareS arid intensifies the guilt. This Is a tune in which the State demands the ser vices of her and best men. We do not care so much about the city and county, cffices, although our remarks will strictly apply to them. At Harrisburg, howeVer, .we, must have a delegation of able and lonest men. We make; this a condition above any party feeling, for we should pre fer a delegation of good men of the Demo cratic party to . a delegation:of bad men of 'the :Union party. The Union party can make no excuse for nominating an inferior man to office. If such a man is beaten,,,we shall rejoice, for no party can ever be strong and just until it - is purified and chastened as with fire. In nominating .our best men should -be selected. The Conven tiori in every district should meet, and, laying aside all personal hope or preference, quietly take the.best citizen in their -neigh borhood and place him in nomination. Let Um go before the people, ; find whether he desires the trust or not, let it - be forced upon him. No citizen, howeVerl reluctant he might be to leave home and business for the cares of public life, would fail to answer such a call. Philadelphia has been so long disgraced by the character of her delegation in the Legislature, that? , she is falling from the position she should properly hold in the councils of the State. Rather than - submit to the ballot with the knowledge that we were to have a delegation like that of last year, we should be willing' to take the con= seription.wheels and draw out seventeen names, with the assurance that the delega tion would be improved. In The interior counties good men are selected, and we ac cordingly find the interests of the interior constantly defended and protected. Phila delphia, with her wealth, her power, her majesty, and her great population, lies ne glected and forlorn, while her delegates are adding to the clamor of a neighboring bar room, or counting the gains of the last job. It is about time that all this was at an end. The people must put a stop to it. Speaking for ourselves, our course is plain. Whatever our influence may be, we are against any man who comes forward and pretends to be a candidata of the people for such an office as a representative to Harris burg without possessing the proper qualifi cations. Such a man may be a "supporter -of the Administration," but we do not in tend to accept that distination as the shield of bad men, or an apology for thieves and jobbers. - The Administration'of Mr. LIN COLN does not ask their support, and to use the sacred name of the Government in such a manner is only to invite severer condem nation. If the conventions of the TJnion party act with prudence and fidelity all will be well. If they give us good men the peo ple will elect them. If they give us bad men their candidates will be defeated, and deservedly defeated. Pennsylvania's Danger. The re-election of Governor CURTIN is demanded by every consideration of grati tude ; it is demanded by every consideration of self-interest;:it is denianded by every consideration of loyalty. When the rebel army, flushed with victory, attempted to penetrate our State & he rolled back the tide of invasion.• SudE a man as SEYMOUR, in such a time of danger, instead of calling out the citizens en masse, would have writ ten letters to the President upon the defects of the State militia laws ; with:expressions •of feigned regret concerning the inefficiency of the Army of the Potomac. 'Governor 'CURTIN saw thaehe had a higher duty to, perform, and he performed it. He saved• - the State, and in saving the State very pro bably saved the nation. But he did consider his duty at an end when he equip -ped the troops and sent them to the battle- Acid. He followed them ; saw that all their wants were properly provided :for; • cared for them when sick or wounded ; and buried those of them who died as soldiers die. Would Mr. Justice WOODWARD do any of these things? Would he befriend the - soldier ? Would he in the time of peril come to the rescue of a na 7 tion whosedissolution he admitted in Oceo ber 1860, within sight of Independence Hall, to be right and proper ? If he would not, then he is not a safe man to be entinst ed with the administration of the affairs pi- a great and loyal State like Pennsylvania. Every vote cast for such a man.is a blow at the life of the nation. Every such vote will tend to lengthen the -war ; it will tend to in crease the weight of taxation ; it will tend to increase the necessity of another con scription ; it will tend to exalt rebel credit abroad, and depreciate our own credit at home ; it will tend to diminish the chances of re-union, and will postpone the day of peace indefinitely. Unless we wish to see these things come to pass—unless we wish to mock the memory of our heroic dead,-- and put a gross insult on the intelligence of our people, tberefore, we must not suffer such a dangerous man as Mr. Justice WOODWAED to gain the mastery in this State ; for if Pennsylvania is suffered to turn against the Union, the Union must fall. The danger is not an imaginary one. The party which Mr. Justice WOODWARD represents is still the, 'party of Humins and INGEP4SOLt and BRED and BUCHANAN ; and if this -6arty is suffered to triumph, the theory of Mr.- FnAlwis W. ISfuoreEs,. that the interests of :Pennsylvania should incline her to unite her destinies-with the. Southern Confederacy, would speedily assume the shape of a real and tangible danger.,.. Yet this is the party which audaciously puts forward the claim of conservatism party whick has never aimed to conserve anything but the institu tion of slaveryt To secure the defeat. of this party all fair and honorable means must be employed. It is our duty,- not as Penn sylvanians merely, hut as citizens of the United States, to see that it is defeated ; and for our own - credit-now, if not for our own safety hereafter, we-must make the defeat an ovettlehning. one. - The CoinMinns or Restoration. The New 3' ork World thinks that the Main subjects concerning, which the North and South must come to an understanding, in arranging terms of peace, are : Firstly, the right of secession ; secondly, the pro- - tection of slavery ; thirdly, the payment of the Southern War .debt. As the " right of secession" is something which has never existed except in the columns of the World and its colaborers, and never can exist while the Union remains to us, we fail to see the necessity of including it among the subjects of stipulations. Negotiations for the pro tection of slavery might, perhaps, be admis sible ; but it so happens that President LIN COLN not many months ago issued a procla mation in which' the following sentence happened to occur: "I order and declare that all persons held as slaves in the said designated. States and part of States are, and hereafter shall be, free." Hence, as slavery no longer exists, and can never more exist in the rebellious States, the neces • sity of arranging terms for its ",protection" is not quite •so clear' an could be desired. The question as to who shall pay the South ern war-debt is. one on which the World has "not bestowed sufficient reflection to 'have a very definite opinion." But it seems to have arrived at this opinion very easily: "If distributed, and assumed by the several rebel-States, it will make the pressure of State taxation so heavy as to seriously im pair their ability to pay their proportion of Federal taxes." That is to say, the World is generous enough to furnish a m ijor and minor premise, and leaves its readers to fur nish their own conclusion. In syllogistic shape its argument would read somewhat thus: The Southern war-debt must be paid either by the North or the South ; the South cannot pay the war-debt, therefore—here the World comes to shalt. Its reference is'plain enough; but it does not dare to express it in plain English. To escape thellilemma it resorts to the following sentence, which means pretty much the same, whether read, upside down, backward, or straight forward: - "Whether the exchange of Con federate scrip, at its, market value, for. Uni ted States bonds, would not, by its teu . deney to produce good feeling, save an equivalent expensein - maintaining troops in the South, is a question on which it is pre mature to hazard any opinion." But if Confederate - scrip is to-day quoted at tweu ty-four per cent. discount in the friendly market of London, what will beats market value when the Confederacy comes to ex plode completely, and the terms or peace come to be considered ? By , what system of computation =Limy idea of its value be arrived at? What method of calculus will be competent to its infiniteismal worth ? Why, even now, it has fallen so many' degrees beibw par, that weak-eyed men have to use a vernier to read the quo tation§ ; and, a few weeks hence, when the fate of SuMpter. reaches . English ears, the - last . resort will be the magnify 'ng-glass. But why need the World con cern itself about the payment of the South ami-a.att 'Statesmanship; Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS, does not allow the subject to annoy him.' In - very many cases it is quite as convenient to repudiate a; debt as to pay it, and - Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS is versed in -all the inysteries of repudiation. True, he borrowed money from_ simple minded En glishmen on the faith of the Confederate Governthent, but England does not recognize the existence'of.any - such Go vernment;:and such of her subjects as have been foolish enough to scramble for the privilege of exchanging their golden guineas for Mr. Div.'s' neatly-lithographed promises to pay, can keep the pretty bits of parchment for their autograph-albums, and charge to account of profit and loss. Well Informed Journalism. The N 6208 of the World, a London weekly newspaper of large circulation but moderate ability, shows its profound knowledge 'of European and American -.politics, by two editorial paragraphs. The`first talks of dis sension in the French cabinet—of M. ram), Finance Minister, trying to displace M. DROUYIT L'Hurs, because the latter is in clined to war policy on the Polish question, which M. FOUL]) thinks would cost too much money, and intimates that the Due de IVIOR NY, ' disposed to a pacific treatment of the question, (his wife being a Russian,) likely to come into power. The writer evi dently does not recollect that NAPOLEON'S Ministry is a nominal though costly affair. It-is what lie thinks that must guide the ic tion of France, and not the opinion of any or all of his cabinet. The American news is news indeed ! It is to the effect that the Conscription havirig been declared ,unconstitutional by an eini neht judge in New York, (McCraw we presume !) Mr. LrNcoriN had definitiVe}37 re nounced all intention of carrying it, out, which "fact is to be attributed to the , pro gress of pacific ideas in the North. ".f!' The fact that the Conscription has been carried out, after all, will probably not be announc ed by the London editor to his readers. By the way, we notice that even "„Manhattan,." the New York correspondent of the _London Morning Herald, does justice to the firmness. of Mr, LINCOLN at the period of the New York riots; and says that he "exhibited the grandeur of power and the majesty of lofty determination." PENNSYLVANIA has never held so mo mentous an election as that which talces place within her borders in October next - . The issue is not a local, but a national one. Heretofore, we have gone to the polls as Pennsylvanians. Now, we must go to the polls simply as American citizens. Hereto fore, we have merely had to choose between the success or failure of this or that political party. Now, we must choose between the life or death of the nation. Heretofore, in very many cases, our elections have re corded the triumph of men. The electien we are now about to hold must record the triumph of a principle—the perpetuity of the American Republic—or it will probably be the-last election that will ever be held within the limits of our State. Tim flush of summer is over, the days are becoming shorter,,and the sojourners at the sea-side are returning home with crisp and salty faces. We may look for paler moons, heavy skies, falling leaves, and colder weather. Business will ,revive, and the sluggish current of these dusty months will leap with new and healthy life. The Quaker City, nolv,so solemn and demure, will come forth in laces and finery, and all;the splendor of a fall and winter season. Ir WAS the area : of fifteen square miles, in,which. New York city is included, thitt by ifs vote overcame the vote of the entire State for NKADSWORTH and elected BEY- MOUR. It is a very significant fact that, nowhere else in the entire Union, save within this area of fifteen square miles, has there been any organized or serious resist ance to the COMeriPtiQA America in Europe. Most of the English journals, though compelled to write about American sub jects, are in the, most innocent ignorance of what they discuss. They take their tone from The Times, which is inspired by Messrs. Rommel - Inm and a few other capi talists, whose golden harvest is in war, and who will lend money, "for a con-si-de-ra tion," to any Power that can pay handsome ly for its use. Now and then they get bit. Spain has long since ceased to pay the inte rest on the greater part of its national debt ; and, once upon .a time, when Signor MIT RITZ was Ambassador. to England, a threat was made by Lord PALMERSTOIsT that Cuba would be seized as an equivalent for money due to English capitalists. Greece is too poor to pay. Mexico is terribly behind-hand in her payments—hence the pretence of NA POLEON'S invasion, which has ended in establishing an Austrian prince on the throne of Montezuma, with, we presume, Sonora cut off; as the French slice of the melon. The Timis has never been very cordial in support of the Confederate Loan, the great est monetary delusion of modern times. Such a lukewarm treatment of this affair has surprised many, but those who were behind the curtain knew that,. from the first, the ROTIISCIIILDS, With "their correspondents and friends throughout Europe, declined having any thing to'do with that loan. It is equally well known, and especially by official per sons in Washington, that the great Eu ropean money-lenders would very joyfully have undertaken to lend even $500,000,000 at 4 per cent. to the United States. It is notorious that intimation to' this effect was communicated; if not formally to the Trea sury at Washington, at least to persons in that metropolis who were known to possess the confidence of the Administration. The Treasury resolved to call upon the patriotism and resources of the great American people, and what has the result been? All the ex penses of the war were lent to the nation by .the people.. Not a shilling borrowed from any foreign usurer, but all lent freely by the wealthy and industrial classes, who have flourished under the Constitution and the Laws the due observance of which made us free and kept us ttnited, Our inevitable debt is due from ourselves to ourselves, and the fact that the average subscription to whatis called "the.Five-Twenty Loan" amounts to about $1,000,000 a- day speaks, trumpet tongued, for the reliance of the people on the early, final, and satisfactory close of. the great contest which Treason began in this country. While the RoTnscumns, , and all of that class of European Shylocks, would gladly take up an Union loan at four per cent., which is one per cent. more than John Bull pays on his $4,000,000,000 of national debt, they have kept aloof from that - bubble, the Confederate loan, on which there is promised the yearly interest of seven per cent. Is it that the money-lords refuse to gain the higper profit ? No such thing ; only that; shrewd politicians as they are, they do not see any prospect of getting their money back If they lent money to us, there was the security of our luxuriant soil, our fructifying climate, our immense produce, our universal commerce, our in ventive genius, our increasing manufactures, our great stability, our unimpeached -na tional credit, our unstained national honor. These make a great security to all creditors. On the other hand, "the so-called Southern Confederation," which is hourly becoming disintegrated, and, indeed, !never had any positive stability, has for its leader that same JEFFERSON Davis Who (as the ROTES CHILD and Co. must well remember) was the parent, proposer, and champion of Re pudiation in Mississippi. If A ask B to' lend himfifty dollars, it is a poor recommenda tion towards obtaining the cash that had previously borrowed twenty-five dollars from the same B, and when asked to repay it had shirked out of it by affirming that he had employed the money in a speculation which had failed—of which speculation B had never even heard the name. Besides, What was the security ?—a certain, or un certain, quantity of cotton, variously esti mated at from 350,000 to 500,000 bales, said to be stored in Georgia, Alabama, East Mississippi, &rthwest Louisiana, and Texas, which. cotton "will 'be delivered to any holder of the bonds on demand." For any practical purpOse, this stock of cotton might as well be stored in the middle of Central Africa, as far as the foreign bond holders' power of- getting it into the mar kets and mills of Europe is concerned. The Confederates'can say " There's your cotton —far away from any seaport. Take it away how you can, when you can, and if you can." More than this, recent instructions from Richmond are to the effect that according as the rebels are dislodged they must burn all the cotton within reach, ere they re treat, to prevent it falling into the hands of the Unionists. That is—"not to put too fine a point upon it," as Mr. Snagsby would say the cotton, which is the only security offered to the holders of Confederate bonds, (we do not mean their favorite shaelcles,) is to be burned, as far as practicable, by order. of the Rebel Government, which received the money from the loan. The Times ll ,wi chuckle, no doubt, over such a result which the sagacity of the RoTrtscarms es caped. - While, however, that journal has not written up the cotton-loan, it, has steadily pursued a course of misrepresentation on . Northern policy and action which, it cannot be doubted, has materially influenced public opinion against us. -It represented the fall of Vicksburg as the turning point of the Rebellion, prophesied that General GRANT never would or could win entrance into that great fortress, doubted the fact of its cap ture, and then, when further denial was useless, ridiculed the idea of any one's thinking that it was of the slightest im portance to the ultimate issue, whether Vicksburg was held by the rebels or the Unionist% So, it denied LEE'S defeat at - Gettysburg, and when that fact was not Jonger to be denied, said that LEE'S policy was to be beaten by MEADE, and that he had carried out that strategy with, great skill. 80, forgetting how much worse were the "No Popery" London riots of 1780, it represented the - New York riots as a suc cessful revolt against the 'Union Govern ment, and announced that the mob had gained its end by forcing the President* totally to abandon_ all intention of proceed with the draftin New York. Row it will get out of the fact that, after all, the draft has taken placeoemains to be seen. The Daily News and the Morning Star, London daily papers that have fairly treated the American question, have increasing cir - ,culation and influence, and have done much for the cause of Freedom. Many of the London weekly journals are equally fair. Even thee= Saturday Review, owned by'that Mr. BERESFORD HOPE, who - is trying to raise $lO,OOO to purchase a 'bronze statue of STONEWALL JACKSON, to be presented to Virginia—even that crotchety, but well- Written journal, at last confesses that the rebels are almost " played out." As rats desert an undermined house or a leaky ship, so do some newspapers desert a cause the moment that its defeat becomes assured. In a few weeks, no doubt, many more of the English journals will desert the pro-Slavery, South, and side with the Union'. THE PLATFORM of, the Democracy is thus succinctly set forth in a communication to the " Lounger's" column of Harper's Weekly "First. _Resolved, That we are in favor of the war. " Second. Resolved, That we are opposed to all measures for carrying it on." These resolutions are so comprehensive, and so truly indicative of the, principles of the enemies'of the Union, that they may hereafter be used at Demooratie meetings, and conventions, as a convenient substitute for the specimens of wretched grammar usually employed. • THE indications of a latent Union - feeling in the South are multiplying. A Macon newspaper says : "To-qay, and in . the heart, of Georgia, mey be found men ready. to discuss a reconstruction of these dis severed Unions." Of, cow*, there are such men, and when RosEcnAus pushes his column; into Georgia, we sbull see greater evideaceg of a §irailar feeling. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1863. JAMES PEACOCK, Esq. , formerly a promi nent journalist of this city and State, died in this city yeSterday afternoon, in the 78th year of his age. He was at one time part proprietor of the Evening. - Bulletin, The Sun, and *eat' s Saturday Gazette, and had, also been editor of a prominent - paper in Harrisburg. His son, GrusoK PEA.cocK, Esq., is the present editor of the .pu/tetin, his father.; having yielded . ' his position there to him.. Mr. JAMES 'PEA COCK was born in Paxton, near Harrisburg, in 1788, his parents being of Scotch-Irish ancestry. He learned the printing business about 1803, in Lewistown, ,Pa., and subse quently practised his profession at Lancas ter, and in the office of the late JOHN Brio's, in this city. In 1811 he established The Pennsylvania Republican at Harrisburg, and he edited it with great ability for a number of years. In, 1822 he was appointed -post master of. Harrisburg, and he held that posi tion during the administrations of Presidents MCNROB, ADAMS, JACKSON, VAN 'BIIREN, HARRISON, TYLER, and POLK. About 1847, Mr. PRA COCK transferred his interests to Philadelphia, and became interested in the papers enumerated at the head of , this sketch. He subsequently attended to the various Interests with which he was con nected with an energy scarcely to be-calcu lated upon from one of his years, .and not long since he retired from active life. - His decease, from softening of the brain, mu quite sudden, though his mind was clear. - to the last, and he died in the faith of the Pro testant Episcopal Church, of which he, had been an earnest and devout member for half a century. He will leave behind him the memory of -a thorough gentleman ; a true patriot, and a sincere Christian, and his death will deeply grieve a wide circle of warm friends. , Special Despatches to The Press. WASHINGTON, August 23, 1863. The Treasury. The Treasury Department is issuing the third series of the five-twenty coupon bonds, each series being one hundred millions in amount. The new bonds have additional protections and guards against counterfeiting. Upon the face of the bonds the de nomination appears in a gilt device underneath the e.ngraving, which cannot be removed and cannot be copied by-photography or any other known process, and the backs of the coupons are so printed that the coupons for one period cannot by alteration of date be substituted for another period without detection. The bonds are considered as even safer from imita tion than the former issues and are produced at far lees expense. ISAAC NOWTON, Commissioner. of Agriculture, in the monthly report for August of the condition of the crops says : "The wheat crop just harvested is most excellent, both in amount and quality, and the corn crop promises to bee full one, although in some localities in the West, where the drought of June has extended into July, it may not be so good. The Marsden wheat has entirely failed to sustain-its character in this country. It is an English variety of great excellence there, and hence it wasilesirable to test it here. It is presumed that the failure is owing to the difference of climate and time of sowing." Gov. PIERPOICT is here making arrangements for putting the Government of• the State of Virginia into operation, the seat to be at Alexandria. With this view, the first Legislature will be convened in extra session, probably in September, when they will elect a Treasurer and Auditor, for without them no salaries can be paid, nor the taxes collected in the several counties deposited. By the creation of the State of Western Virginia the sum of $lOO,OOO was left to : the credit of the remaining portion of the Old Dorninion. The new term of Gov. PIERPONT will commence in January next, the electiOn having taken place on the 28th of last May in those parts of Eastern Virginia free -from rebel control. Thus there are three Governors in what was formerly known as one State, including thq,mbel functionary in Richmond. The marshal for the District of Columbia adver tises the public sale of the life estate of sixteen own ers or numerous pieces or parcels of ground, with the improvements in this city, under the confiscation act. Captains FRENCH, FORREST, and IVEAFFITT'S eatatea are included. ' Naval. Capt. JAMES ALDER has been detached from the command of the 'Richmond, and ordered to command the steamer Port Jackson, vice Captain HENRY WALICSE, detached at his own request. Deserters and Prisoners, Seven hundred deserters have, within the last two days, been sent hence to join their respective regi ments. Three hundred prisoners - of war were, yesterday sent from Old Capitol to Point Lookout, Md. Severe Punishment of Deserting Sub— The following general order has been promulgated from the Army of the PotomaC." The practice of desertion by substitutes under the draft has become so prevaient that hereafter the: extrenie.penalty of martial law.will be awarded to such delinquents as may be recaptured, and extraordinary efforts will be made to effect :that object. The evidence in the fol lowing caseitends to show that the sentenced offered tlemselves ai substitutes for the purpose of obtain ing the bounty, and risking the chance of recapture and official cleinency : HEADQUARTERS ARMY O 1 THE POTOMAC, Au. , ust 23, 1863 Gnsran.ar. ORDER No. 84. , —First. Before a general court martial, convened' at the headnuarteni of the 2d Brigade, let Division, sth Corps, in pursuance of General Order No. 35, of August ifith,lB63, and of which Col. JOSEPH HAYES, of the 'llth Massa chusetts Regiment, is president, were tried -First. 0-. Rum/ alias G. Wurk, a recruit in the 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, charged with desertion. The specification in this case was, that he, the said G. Manx, alias G. Weis, a recruit of the 118th Pennsylvania Regiment, did desert' from the service of the United States, and from his escort, who were conveying him to his regiment, on or about the 6th day of August, 1963, and did re main absent from said service until delivered up as a prisoner at the camp of the.. 118th Pennsylvania VOlunteeers, near Beverly Ford, on or about the 13th day of August, 1863; to which charge and speci fication the accused, G. Kurix, alias G. WEIK, a recruit of the 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volun teers, pleaded as follows : ' To the specification of the charge, not guilty. To the charge, not guilty. Finding—Of the charge, guilty. To the specifica tion, guilty. And the court does, therefore, sentence him, the said Private G. KUHN, alias G. Werra, of the IlBth - Pennsylvania Volunteers, to be shot to death by musketry in the presence of the division, 'at such time and place as the commanding general shall order and direct, two thirds of the members of the court concurrring therein. ' Second.. Private JOHN FOLANCItOIiai GRAOINTI3 LEROHINB, recruit of Company I, 118th Pennsyl vania Volunteers. Charge, desertion. Specifica tion—ln this, that he,ithe said .Tonsr FOLANOY, alias GRACINTE LHECHINN, recruit of Company I, 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, did desert from the service of the United States and from his company and his regiment at the camp near Beverly Ford, Virginia, on or about the Bth day of August, 1863, and did remain absent from the service until de livered up [as -a prisoner at the camp of the 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, near Beverly Ford, Virginia, on or about the 13th day of August, 1863 ; to which charge and Specification the ac cused, JONH FOLANOY, alias GRAOINTE LICROHINE, recruit of Company I, 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, pleaded as follows: To the specification of the charge, not guilty. Of the charge, not guilty. - • The finding of the court was : Of the specification, guilty. Of the charge, guilty.. And the oourt does therefore sentence him, the said private Joan' Fo- LANCY, alias GRAOINTR, LEROHINE, 011100tapally I, 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer, to be shot to death, by musketry, in the presence of the, divi sion, at such time and place as the general com manding shall order and direct, two-thirds of the Members of the court concurring therein. {Third. CHARLES WALTER, alias 0. ZICENE, a re emit of the 118th Regiment •Pennsylviinia Volun teers—charge desertion. Specification in this—that he, the said CHARLES WALTER, aIIaaO.IZRENIC, a recruit of the 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers, did desert from the service of the United States,' and from hie escort, who were carrying 'him to his regi ment, on or about the 6th day of August, 1863, and did remain absent from the said service until de livered up as a prisoner at the camp of the 118th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, near Beverly Ford, Va., on or about the lath day of August, 1863. To which charges and specifications the accused, CHARLES WAITER, alias 0. ZEENR, a recruit ot the 118th Regiment Pednsylvania Volunteers,pleaded as 'follows : To the specification, &c., not guilty. To the charge, not guilty. Finding—Of the specification, &c., guilty; of the charge, guilty. And the court does, therefore, sentence him, the said Private CHARLES WALTER. alias 0. ZBENE, of the 118th RegimentPennsylvania "Volunteers, to be shot to death by musketry, at such time and place as the commanding general shall order and direct, and in the presence of - the division, two-thirds of the memberi of the court concurring therein. - Fourth and Fifth, The same findings and sentences are made in the cases of Joan Raceway alias -GEORGE 'LIONIZE, and Erma LAI alias E. DuFrin,_ both of the same regiment , • Sixth. The proceedings in the foregoing came having been approved by the division commander;. and forwarded to the major 'general commanding, the following are the orders thereon. The pro ceedings, findings, and sentences in the ease of G. Ruth' alias G. WEIR, JOHN FOLANOY alias GR'A... OINTO LEM:MINA CHARLES WALTER alias 0 Zirann, JOHN RENEAR alias Geo RINRZ, and EBITLE: LAI alias E. Dtreeni, all recruit's of the 118th Penh. Sylvania Volunteers, are approved: , These men evidently belong to that Mass who are trading upon the necessities of the country, and have embraced enlistment with a view to desertion for the purposes of gain. It is hoped that the prompt punishment awarded to their crime will have the effect to deter others from attempting a like crimi nal and dishonorable course of conduct, as the com manding general will unhesitatingly punish all such cases with the severest penalties of the law. , The - sentences of the court will be carried into effect in the presence of the division to which the prisoners belong, on Wednesday,.the 26th instant, between the hours of 12 Pd.. and 4 o'clock DE This orderwill be published to every company is this army at the'ilist parade after its receipt. , - •Byeommand of ' Major General MEADE. S. WiLiwits, A. Ct. The Late Mr. Peacock. Iy"A.SI-311N - Grri'ClN; Agricultural Report. Eastern Virginia. Confiscation. statutes. CHARLESTON. The Grand Attack on Fort Sumpter. FORT WARNER SILENCED AND SUMPTER GREATLY DAMAGED. THE FLEET UNINJURED -.Death of the Fleet Captain, Rodgers. STONO RIVER AND THE HARBOR FILLED WITH TORPEDOES. The 'United States steamer Arkansas, Lieut. West commanding, 'arrived at our naval station yesterday morning, having left the fleet off Charleston, S. C., at seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, the 20th inst. We gleaned some interesting and reliable facto on board the Arkansas yesterday afternoon. At the time the Arkansas left, a perfect gale was blowing. The voyage, nearly all the way up, and particularly off Cape Hatteras, was severe indeed, which delayed the steamer at least two days on the trip. The bombardment, in which the monitors, the New Ironsideii, and the shore batteries were all engaged, was continued on Tuesday and during Tuesday night. The scene is described as being thrilling [in the extreme. A. shell burst inside of Fort Sumpter, quite a number over it, and many, around It. In the morning there arose :in im mense column of white smoke from within the peppered walls of Sumpter. It was evident that the cotton which the rebels thought would enable them to successfully resist the projectiles from Union guns had taken fire. The white smoke arose above the shattered battlements and was whirled away by the northern mile with fierce impetuosity, to be followed again by more dense clouds belching upward from the burping pile, There were many holes through the thick walls. Sand bags, false walls, bales of cotton, all fell before the mighty power of .the - peace-makers pithy, Union batteries. When the Arkansas left it seemed - that Sumpter could not stand much longer. The resist ing power of its walls exposed -to the batteries was destroyed. The monumental pile of bricks, that dashed back the surging waves of the ocean for years, is now honey-combed, and tottering to its foun dation. Its fire was feeble, its Ilag.staff shot away, its guns almost silent, it became almost an unresisting target for the gallant sons of Columbia manning our Union guns on land arid sea. During Tuesday night, which is a later period than that sent by the agent of the Associated Press, the bombardment was continued without cessation. Twenty shells at a time coursed their way through the air, falling with remarkable precision, where they did the most ems oution, adding to the cherished hope of a conquered peace. Fort Wagner, however, still held out; but the guns of Fort Gregg were entirely silenced. We learn that Fleet Captain Rodgers and Paymaster Woodbury were killed within the first half hour of the engagement. It was a solid shot that struck the pilot-house. It broke into many fragments and fell on deck. The pieces were pinked up and preserved, as relics of the death of the great and good Captain Rodgers, who had fallen. One of the pieces, weigh ing nearly a pound, was brought up on the Arkansas. The bodies of Captain Rodgers and . Mr. Wood bury were undergoing the process of embalming when the Arkansas left. Their remains were re moved to Port Royal, and will probably be sent North in the next steamer. The Arkansas brings nearly two hundred invalid seamen and other gallant fellows who have done the State some service. There are also on board two refugees from Savannah, flanked John. C. Colima and Jaines H. Calif. These men say that the people of Savannah are in desperation ; starvation stares them in the face ; that counterfeit Confederate notes pass as freely as the genuine, and that people regard one set as good as the other, and they begin to think that neither are worth a cent. In regard to the sale of negroes in Georgia, there is considerable sham about it. The prices affixed to the names of those who are sold is at the Con federate scrip rate. Everything is going to de struction, and what the war haeleft undone will be swallowed up by famine,-unless the UniOn army triumphs speedily, One of these men had on a pair of pantaloons made of black cloth out of a dregs skirt worn some time since _by a Southern lady who reached the South from some Northern part. The otlfer had on a suit of clothes that coat him $4BO in Confederate money. His one pair of boots alone coat him $lBO of theqameieurrency. Both these men say that gloom intensified prevails. The people do not fear the approach of the Union soldiers, but they do fear starvation. • There is another individual on board, named Dr. Robert Gibbs, the surgeon of the captured rebe ram Fingal, otherwiee known as the Atlanta. This man was educated at West Point at the expense of tbe United States Government. He will be de . tained, probably, until this "cruel war is over." Haider+ this ingrate, there are six " butternuts," who do not seem to have been educated at anybody's expense. They will probably be provided with quarters at the "Pea Patch." The gentlemen from whom we derived some of the above information feel quite sanguine that the next authentic news that reaches the North will be that the stars and' stripes are Reeling over the ruins of Fort Sumpter. We have before us a pencil sketch of the scene of bombardment. It was done by Mr. E. A. Duncan, the steward of the Arkansas, whose artistic powers are (aptly delineated. There are several land bat teries at work, Fort 'Wagner is replying, the moni tors and the Ironsides are lively, and also one or two wooden vessels. Mr. Duncan presented the same to Mr. President Cooper, of the Cooper-shop Committee, who intends to have it framed and hung in the gallery of arts and trophies of the in stitution. The following despatch is from Mr. C. C. Fulton, the agent of the Aasociated Press : FLAG-SHIP DINSMORE Tuesday morning, August 18. The attack on Fort Sumpter was commenced at daybreak yesterday morning by the siege guns of General Gilmore and the naval battery on shore. At six o'clock Admiral Dahlgren proceeded on board the Weehawken, and, with the Ironsides and the entire monitor fleet, attacked Forts Wagner and Gregg with great fury, completely silencing Fort Wagner and almost silencing Fort Gregg. — The wooden gunboats, seven in number, alsojoined in the assault, and enabled all of the shore batteries to pour their shot and shell into Sumpter. At 10 o'clock the Admiral changed his flag to the E .passaic, and with the Patapsco proceeded to within about 1,400 yards of Fort Sumpter and shelled the sea-wall with the rifle guns of those vessels for about an hour with marked effect. Sumpter fired almost fifty return shot, doing• no damage to the vessels, whilat the wall of Sumpter was badly scarred. Fleet Captain [Henry W. Rodgers took] command of his old vessel, the Monitor . Catskill, and went up into the fight, going within one, hundred and fifty Verde of the beach-front of Fort Wagner. After firing a number ofiihot, a shot front Wagner broke loose a piece of the interior lining of the pilot-house, which struck on the head of Commander Rodgere, instantly killing him, as well as Paymaster Wood bury, who was standing at his side. Both of their heads were split open. These were the only persona . injured on land or water during the six hours' en gagement. The damage done to Fort Sumpter by the siege bat teries of Gen. Gilmore is visible without the aid of glasses. The rebels had erected a false wall against the wall exposed to the army batteries. It extended to within ten feet of the top of the wall, was over forty feet high, and ten feet thick. This wall is now a mass of ruins, whilst the old wall Is bored full of deep holes, the parapet crushed and ragged, and the northwest corner gashed , and cracked down almoat to the water's edge. The harbor and Stono river are filled with tor pedoes, &bent a dozen of which have been picked up in Stono, and one was exploded under the Patapsco, raising her a foot out of water, but 'doing no harm to the veibel. None of the vestal Were injured In the least, and the Admiral and his officers are confident in the ability of the monitors to batter down Sumpter. The Admiral is anxious, however, to save the yes eels for the heavy work required , of them after Sumpter is taken, and to iet the army reduce Fort Sumpter, if possible. The fleet, except the Weehawken and Nahant, all retired before 2 o'clock, but they remained to keep Wagner silent during the afternoon, and to prevent the remounting of the guns. The shore batteries continued firing all the after- Loon and, night on the walls of. Sumpter with good effect. • . This morning the weather is cool and olear, and the batteries steadily at work. The Weehawken and Palliate are keeping Forts Wagner and Gregg silent, and np to noon, when the Arkansas sailed, the remainder of the - fleet were lying at their moor ings. The bodies of Captain Rodgers and Paymaster Woodbury have been embalmed, and will go North on the, Arkansas. General Gilmore announces that the work thus far has been entirely satisfactory; that the fort is badly damaged, and the work progressing finely. : Admiral Dahlgren is much depressed by the loss Of his fleet .captain but is highly gratified with the operations of the fleet and army, and very hopeful of ultimate enema. • - Up to the moment of the sailing of the Arkansas, at noon 'thn siege guns have been hurling about• five 'shell :per minute, during the morning, at Fort Sumpter, with marked effect, • . Two of the monitors, the Ironsides, and some of the gunboats, are shelling-Forta Wagner and Gregg. C. C. F. Advance of Bosecrans and Burnside. CmcirrivATl, August 22.—The Gazette has received advises from Roseanne' army to the 15th, and from Burnside's to the 19th. Both armies had commenced a forward movement—the former for Chattanooga,. and the latter for Knoxville. The troops were in good condition and fine spirits. Movements of Troops. NEW You x, August 23,—The United States steamer Atlantic arrived to;day from Alexandria, baying on board the lit Minnesota, 7th Ailehigan, 4th and Eitli Colgo, and 14th Indiana Reglittenth NEW OBLEINS. Papers from Mobile—Beauregard manded. New Your:, August 23.—The steamer Cromwell, from New Orleans on the 15th instant, arrived here to-day. The Mobile Tribune copies approvingly an article from the Charleston Mercury, which says that since the" Federal successes Beauregard had better lay aside his engineering anfl • , artillery duelling, which are now played out, and take to the bayonet ; and advises the authorities to reinforce Morris Island, or else abandon Charleston to flames. Gen. Pemberton has issued an order, calling upon his troops to assemble within thirty days at Demopolis, Ala. He compliments them upon their valor- at Vicksburg. Franois Scott was - executed at New Orleans on . the 15th, for the murder of Major Millen, of the 20th Maine Regiment, on the sth of Slily. The opening of the New Orleans, Opelousas, and Great Western Railroad through to Brashear City, is a great event in thiadepartment. At a Government sale on the nth, 338 bales of cot ton brought , prices ranging frol 5340, to 6mo. per pound. The rebels had sent a flag of truce into Brashear City to get permission for Mis. Gardner, the wife of General Gardner, late of Port Hudson, to go to New Orleans, to be with her husband. Everything was quiet at that place. A man, named A. H. Church, had been killed at Brashear City by B, F. Shattuck, agent of the Go vernment. Apolitical dispute was the cause. Shat tuck had been arrested. NORTH CAROLINL A Rebel Cargo Seized by the People of 'll7lliiiington. The Philadelphia correspondent of the Cincin nati Gazette has learned the following from private sources: . . " On the Bth a vessel ran the blockade at Cape Fear river. She was loaded with subsistence for the rebel army. The colonel in command of a part of the rebel forces detained the vessel at what he called the quarantine. The people of Wilmington, N. 0., demanded of the Colonel to surrender the cargo to them. He imperiously refused. They called upon Governor Vance, who finally gpt on a stall in the market house and addressed them. He said they should be protected. The Governor made a formal demand of General Whiting, to deliver the vessel to bim at the Wilmington wharf. The Gene ral hesitated, the people became infuriated, and flashy-Genonal 2 Whdting.lo appease them, acceded to the demand of the Governor. After - this the peo• ple demanded the removal of the colonel. This was also granted. You can judge from this how the 'general pulse beats in that well-fortified city." THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST. Important Raid to Grenada, Miss.-litreat - Destruction of Railroad Property. lam:trills, August 9.o.—About two weeks since Major Gen. Hurlbut ascertained that there was a large amount of railroad stock at Grenada, which the rebel's were endeavoring to. get of South by making temporary repairs to the railroad. With his'usual energy and promptness, General Hurlbut arranged - an expedition to destroy this stock, send ing a request to GFen. 0-rant to make a diversion from the south to aid in the enterprise. , The expedition started from Lagrange, Tennes see, on the 13th inst., under command orLieut. Col Phillips, of the 9th Illinois mounted infantry, and reached Grenada on the 17th, driving Gen. Slemmer, with two thousand men and three pieces of artillery, from the place. They destroyed fifty-seven locomo tives, upwards of four hundred cars, together with the depot buildings, machine shops, black smith shop, and a large quantity of ordnance and commissary stores. They also captured about fifty railroad men, and a number of other prisoners, After Colonel Phillips had thoroughly accomplished his work, Colonel Winslow, from General Grant's army, arrived with a force from below. The expe dition returned to Lagrange today. Great praise is certainly due Colonel Phillips and his command for enduring the hardships of such a march through Central Mississippi in mid-August, and so thoroughly clipping the remaining energy of the rebellion in the Southwest, A band of guerillas drove in the pickets at La fayette, Tenn., at midnight. Our boys rallied and followed them a few miles, killing four and captur ing seven, with which they returned well satisfied with the night's adventure. The movements of our forces below are contraband. The weather is very hot. There is considerable cotton coming into Memphis by wagons. CALIFORNIA. • SAN PRA - Noma°, August 2i.—The steamship Mo ses Taylor arrived here taday from Panama. Tho ship Hoogley, from Boston, has also arrived ; The money market is easy, Considerable wimp 090.1 Tai to arrive from the East for jo.7estment in mining stocks. liiiantic Currency Exchange is quoted at 21@23 per cent. premium for gold in New York.' Green backs, 80. Sterling xchange, 48 per cent. 'pre. mium. The leading mining stocks, excepting Ophir, have declined. Ophir is worth $2,400 per foot, and Gould & Curry $47. - A large amount of unemployed tonnage is in port. Some favorable charters for grain to Europe have been made. The political contest is active, and the election takes place on the first Wednesday in September. Messrs. Weller, Tod; and Robinson are canvassing the State. SAN PEANCISCO, August 22.—The steamer -St Louis sailed to-day for Panama, carrying 135 passen gers, $lB,OOO in treasure for We* York, and $BOO,OOO for England. - SAN FRAVOISOO, August 22.—The steamer St, Louis started to-day for Panama, carrying 136 pas sengers, $18,009 in treasure for New York, and $BOO,OOO for England. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22.—pueinese is generally dull, and there is no news of importance. Public attention is engrossed in local politics, which have caused much excitement The Union Convention having nominated a ticket for the Legislature widch is not received favofably in some quarters, an inde pendent opposition ticket will be brought out Fortress Monroe. FORTRESS PdorrnoE, August 21.—The steamer - United States, Captain Beymour, arrived here this morning, from off' Charleston. She left there on Sunday last, and, consequently, has no later news than we have received. She 'was detained two days off Cape Hatteras in a storm. A ilag of truce is now due from City Point Ain - ong the list of deaths in the Chesapeake and Hampton hospitals are the following: Philip Met• ziller, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry, August 7th; Alex ander Clinger, 166th Pennsylvania Volunteers, Au gust 19th. From Boston. , Bosmorr, August 22.—Dr. J. W. Stone, collector of internal revenue for the 3d Massachusetts dis trict, died last evening. The machine shop of Milliken & Brothers, in East Boston, was destroyed by fire last night. The lose amounted tollo,ooo. Sale of Coffee. BAT,TnroYm, August 23.—The cargoes of Rio cof fee of - the barks Lapwing and Washington, com prising some 6,300 bags, were sold here on Saturday to go out of the market on private terms. . Arrival of the Steamer Ericsson. Naw Yoax, August 22.—The steamer Erionson arrived up tonight. She te from Alexandria on the 19th - inst„ with troops, and, of course, brings no LIMO. Death of Simeon Loomis, of Hartt'ord. HARTFORD, August 23.--Simeon L. Loomis, the venerable president of the Phrenix Fire Insurance Company, of this city, died at noon to•day. • Important Circular from the Provost Mar- shal General. The following circular is issued by the Provost Marshal General : CIRCULAR No. '73. WAR DEPARTMENT, PROVOST MARSHAL GRIPER:WS OFFICE Wafilirricrrox. August 20 1863 , _ . The following opinion. of Colonel Joseph Holt; Judge Advocate General, is published for the in formation and guidance of all officers of this bureau In the case where there are only two sorts of aged and infirm parents and both ,are drafted. (Clause 4, section 2, enrolment act.) • Oprurox.—" Where, through inadvertence or ignO ranee of the law, aged or infirm parents, having two sons, have omitted, before the draft, to elect which shall be exempt, and both have been drafted, it seems that the right of election should still be allowed to be exercised at any time before the notice to report to the board of enrolment expires. The reason of the rule heretofore established, requiring this election to be made before the draft,was that a different course would result in a practical exemption of two sons instead of one. , This reason, however, does not apply in the case—necessarily of rare occurrence—where bbth sons have been drafted, since whichever may be elected, one still remains for the military service, which is all that the law clams or contemplates. The reason of the rule failing, the rule itself should be relaxed in such extreme cases, since the object of the law will thereby be accomplished, without the slightest hazard of compromising the public in terests." With regard to the meaning of the word "labor," in eeetion 2 of the enrolment act. Orixtox.—" Labor is defined to be bodily or men tal exertion.' It may, within the meaning -of the law, be either physical or intellectual ; it may be profes atonal, commercial, or agricultural ; and each of these forms of labor may exist under modifications, or in combinations with each other. The means for the support of the parent or widow must be produced by this labor, whatever may be its character. It need not be wholly produced from it, but it must be mainly so. A parent or widow receiving support from a son whose income is derived from dividends or rents, can not be said to be dependent on his labor ; but if that income were entirely from the frbit of professional or physical - toil, then the case would be clearly within the purview of .the law. In mixed cases, where the income is the product of labor and capital cooperating together, the application of the law bl rendered more difficult. Its object will probaillY be best secured by holding, as suggested,. the in such cases the income which furnishes the Support must be mainly derived from the personal labor of the son. If, for. example, the son bee merchant 'or manufacturer, whose Business, under his personal Fuperintenderice, yields hint an annual revenue of slo,ooo—and such personal superintendence could not be estimated as worth more than $3,000 - per an num—it could not be said, in the sense of the law, that his labor yielded the income to which his parent looks for sunport. It, is, true, an element in the production, but not a preponderating one. - A test may be found in an answer to the question, whether, if the son's personal labor were withdrawn by calling him to the military service, a support for the parent or widow would remain. If it would—and in the case supposed it would, since his superintendenee could be supplied, and the productive capability of his capital would remain—then the 01134111 to exemp tion cannot be allowed.” JAMES B. PRY, Provost Marshal General THE KING OF BELGIUM ND MEDIATION.--The London Post publishes the following despatch: • : "13Bussime, August 6.-,The King of the Bel gians gave an audience to-day. to Mr. Jewett, the American friend of mediation. The. Xing permits the publication of the substance of the `interview. The King believe s that the decision of a just tribunal' offers the only means for the restoration of peace. The abo- lition of slavery, if stipulated for at all,. should be gradual America and Europe should together make provision for the slave. Mediation is not in terference. The other . Governments should not be unwilling to join France in working in the interest of peace, now that the South favors such a policy. Force cannot secure the welfare of America ; and international judgoient would cement firmer the foundation pillar of American liberty. Ile would submit the matter' to the Queen and Cabinet of taretit Britain," • Dirt Lincoln in New York. Nnw YORK, August 22.—Mrs. President Lincoln has been staying in this city. for several days, but she has not miede her visit of any public notoriety. On Thursday, however, she expressed her' deter mination to pay a visit to the French frigate La Guerriere, thirty.eix 'guns, commanded by Admiral- Renaud. For this purpose the beautiful 'revenue cutter S. O. Winans was set apart for conveying the lady of the President of the 'United States and suite on board the Guerriere, now lying off the Battery, in the North river. On it being made known to the Admiral -that the distinguished personage ma's the wife of the President, she was 'received with all the becoming respect due to her e rank and position, not only by the Admiral, but also by all the French 01- sera on board, as well as by the orew. After survey ing the princinel compartments of the interior 'of the Guerriere, she expressed herself highly pleased, and thanked the Admiral for the respect and kindness which had been shown. She stated further, that she was much gratified and delighted in having paid a visit to a French man-of-war. Mrs. Lincoln was then taken down the river at some length, when, after participating in a pleasant sail, she was left on shore, and conveyed in a carriage, with her suite, to her hotel. The Latest and Noblest Work of Rebeldom. [From the Nashville 131Item] ,The rebellion has failed to produce one useful and humane invention. There has not been a redeeming trait of character exhibited in all the rebel crew. They have fought like wild cats against all the graces of civilization. They have exhausted their powers of invention in the channels of brutality. The civilized world is not prepared —it ila impossible for it to believe the half of the fiendish outrages that have been perpetrated by this race of incarnate devils. They have changed the whole moral code. Theft and murder and false hood, that were banished from earth among heathen races, have become objects of worship. Of all the outrages to which any people have been subjected, the last institute of torture devised for East Ten nessee is the most vile, the most brutal, and the most congenial to the morals and spiritual culture of the rebels. - - The women of East Tennessee have been forced to go into the fields, and labor to raise bread for them selves and children. They have toiled so earnestly and faithfully, and succeeded in raising such abundant crops, that the brutal leaders of this rebellion have appointed a commission to ac company the conscript agents to ascertain whether they are really women, or men in -disguise. This most inhuman commission is now sub jecting those patriotic mothers to an examination the most cruel and barbarous that has ever dis graced humanity. We know the education and in-. stincts of these animals and can-credit the state ments of men of verac who have recently tied from that persecuted land. Those persons who' are ignorant of their characters cannot believe such a cruel method of torture. When the annals of this barbarous rebellion are written a tale of cruelty will be unfolded worthy of the knights of the lash, revolver, and knife. This is but the male sidebf the story; : the female portion is still more painful and degrading. It is painful to contemplate the outrages now being enacted in that most loyal, most patriotic portion of this Union. When shall it end? The Stabbing Case at Boston. BOSTON, August Edward Owens, who is charged with having stabbed James M. Sawyer on Tuesday night last, was arrested this morning at Marblehead. Marine. NEW Yorx, August 23.—Arrived, ships Dread naught from Liverpool, Benjamin Adams from Liverpool; barks, _Vulcan from Bermuda, Hogue from Foo (Thow; brigs, William and Sane from Car diff. Resolute from Ponce, P. R. Nxw Yonx, August 23.- Arrived, ship Lotus, for San Francisco ; barks Glacier from Matamoros, Fortuna. from Waterford;,brigs Lilly Dale from Barbadoes, Oscar and Henrich from Glasgow, Ama zon from Sidney,O. B. Avon from Limerick,Bolivar from Aspinwall; ship Alexander Marshal, from Liverpool. Public Entertainments. OPENTN 010. , 41111 A aim's . OF MUSIC—Me. BOOTH. AS "Ricazirou."—Mr. Olarke has reason to be sa tisfied with the experiment of his summer dramatic season at the Academy of Music. There was a large and fashionable audience on Saturday evening, al though the weather was not comfortable, and "Riche lieu" is anything but a novelty. There were some new faces in the company, but the principal per formers were old friends and favorites, familiar to us in the stock companies -of our city theatres. It is an exceedingly difficult thing to call a company together at the beginning of a season, and give it effect and symmetry by arranging and dovetailing its various parts. There will always be awkward-. ness and embarrassment and want of harmony. Mr.. Clarke's company suffered from this, although it seems to have been more fOrtunate than opening companies generally are. There was some difficulty about the play. "Richelieu" can hardly be called a good test of actors' merits. The characters have little individuality, and the performers have merely to learn beautiful speeches. dress well, occupy their proper places on the Stage, and permit the leading character In make his various points. It is there fore too much for us to venture criticism upon gen tlemen who find themselves thus narrowed and con fined;ll" have so few opportunities of making - placed anon effect. The play ltsen. was etas with that degree of taste and splendok that Wik Sl ways see in the Academy of Music, and the various properties were carefully , distributed. We are glad to welcome Mr. Booth once more to a Philadelphia stage:- Re is an actor that we have always admired, and we are pleased to, say, from his reception on Saturday evening, that he co& tinues his high place in the esteem of the Philadel phia public. Nature has been very kind to him; he has an expressive face, a beautiful eye, and a voice of sympathy and sweetness. His elocution is marked with mannerism ; but even this is pleasant, when the ear is trained, and we fancied on Saturday evening that he bad greatly improved inthie respect, and l gave evidence of greater improvement. 'Riche lieu is one of his Most popular, but, by no means, his best, performance. /1. the first place, he must sub mit to a comparison that would be fatal to a greater man—the Richelieu of Edirin Forrest. That great tragedian has taken this character, and so stamped it by the force of his own genius, that every other im pression seems to be base and alloyed. His concep tion of the part is far different from that of Mr. Booth. His Richelieu is a grand old Oardinal-Duke —a minister of France—the ruler of a great people L - dispenser of woe and rapture, life and death, penury and wealth. It has all the attributes of, royalty, and throughout the play he never fails to impress us with the grandeur of the great, prime minister's genius. We have the skin of the lion as well as the skin of the fox. It is not so with Mr. Booth. His Richelieu is a" priest, and nothing more ; a traditional priest, of the Italian school 7 such a churchman as Boccaccio and Ra belais have so bitterly drawn; wily; 'crawl ing, cunning—polished graceful with few vir tues and many vices ; unscrupulous, patient, auda cious ; an ecclesiastic of Rome, and not a minister of France. As we look upon this as a mistaken'con ception, of course our criticism ends ; but we will do Mr. Booth the justice to say that the Richelieu - of his closet is the Richetieu of his stage. He is con sistent in his priesthood, and although we are not satisfied with his performance because we regard it as a misapprehension of the meaning of Bulwer, and of the character of Richelieu as he lived, he invests it with a great deal of beauty and force, and makes a chaste and agreeable personation. In the per formance of Saturday, there was a difficulty that seems to be inseparable from the Academy of Music. -When Mr. Matthews was here, he said in his amus ing way, that to succeed in the Academy of Music, the actors should have speaking-trumpets, and the audience telescopes. The finest effects Of the per former are lost, by reason of the distance that sepa rates the stage from the audience, and the eicieution is harsh and strained on account of the necessity that exists for forcing the voice. Many of Mr. Booth's finest passages were not heard, while the acting of some of the other characters was little more than a pantomime. Of the members of the company, we have a word or two to say. , Baradas was performed by Mr. Jam bon, an actor of much experience, we suppose, as he has not been here for thirteen years. We do not know much of Mr. Jamison, but he certainly de serves the credit of being the very worst Baradas that we have ever seen. 'Nor do we attribute the failure to any fault of his own. He seems to be ,careful, intelligent, and anxious to play properly, and we have no doubt that there are parte in which he would be unequalled. The heavy father, or the relentless villain, or the ruthless assassin who comes in at the window—or perhaps the jolly Jack Tar, With tarpaulin and whiskers, and an • irreconcilable feud with his eyes, might`suit Mr. TalAiltoll, but not such a part as Baradas. If Mr. Clarke can persuade Mr. Janiison to support his own Toadies as the in jured brother long lost and just come home—Or if he can be induced to bring out ,4 Uncle Tom" for the purpose of making a feature of Legree, he will find Mr. Samisou treasure—telt his performance of Baixdai on Saturday evening entirely satisfies us as to his capacity for illustrating a writer as full of fine fancy and delicate conceits as Mr. Bulwer. < Mr. Barrett as De Mauprat deserves all praise. We have rarely seen it performed to more advantage. This young man dale - ryes great encouragement—for be shows industry, taste, and talent. There is a boldness about his acting that indicates the true courage of genius, and we feel confident that if he continues to keep on in the path he has chosen,