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, <and bring to the dramatic art
the proper spirit of honesty and conscientiousness,
if he avoids the wretched mannerisms that so often
tempt young actors to seek the applause of the gal
leries, he may look forward to holding a high place
in his profession. Mr. Baker evidently thought
De Beringhen was a low.comedy part—a clown or a
dancing master—and he ambled over the stage in the
most peculiar manner. In this he makes a popular
mistake. .De Beringhen was a gentleman—a foolish
cowardly, vainglorious courtier=but still a gentle. ,
man of the fjoeft of France. He held a high place
at a refined court, and, with all his frivolities, never
forgot those amenities of life so much practised
among the French people. Mrs. Barrett, as Francois,
looked like a very. pretty boy, and made more of the
part than is generally made. Mrs. Baker, as Julie,
played with taste and care, but was disposed to be
tragical—a commendable thing in tragedies, but not
at all necessary in A play like Richelieu, Mr. Bas
comb appeared as Gaston" for this time only," which ,
means that he was ashamed of the part, and took: l it
under protest. And in such 'a
spirit he seemed to
play it.
' 6 Richelieu" will be repeated this evening.
TEM NIeW CHESTNUT-STREET TECIZATRZ.—This is
positively the last of the Martinettio and Mar
zetti, who for some time pact have kept intimate
favor with the best classes of our theatre-goers. A
very novel and very admirable bill of pantomime
and ballet is announced, in which the whole com
pany will exhibit their utmost versatility. Zan,
fretta will , give her airiest career upon the tight
rope, and the brothers Martinetti their busiest pan
tomime. The delightful divertisseroent of " Endy
mion's Dream," with Wine Marzetti and Wiles
Decirde and Lehman, and Messrs. Mathieu and
yelarde, will be - followed by the long-expected
"Red Gnome," for many days in diligent prepara
tion, with the brothers Martinetti. This pie - ceis
full of magic and humor.
"Tax GE owe," of which everybody has heard and
wondered, will be exhibited on Wednesday evening
at the Musical Fund Hall, under the direction of
Mr. Leonard Grover, the well-known Washington
manager. This is the genuine spectre which has
been haunting London, Paris, and tfew York for
some time past—the "Ghost, ,, though not the ap
parition of Prof. Pepper, P. R. S. of London—the
same Ghost that moves a terror through the plays,
and breathes, talks, and walks from the spirit-land
of invention. The present entertainment will he
Purely scientific, after the manner of the London
exhibitions, and there is not the ghost of- a chance
that it will be unpopular.
HAIBISBIJEG.
The Union State Central Conimittec-rk
pects of the Campaign—Rebel .Fotate*
the Shenandoah Valley.
HAIMI1381:1126, August 22, t2Be
[Correspondence of The Press-1
The State Committee of the NationalVnion Par
met here on Thursday night, and adjourned after
protracted aession,leiating several hours: UpWards
fifty members were preeent, after a four days' notl-
Thisltake to bea very decided evidence of the de
interest felt in the campaign. The utmost harmo
of views prevailed. Those present from the counti
of the Weat, which the " Copperheads" patronie
ly style "the disaffected district," spoke most ohee
in gly of the prospect of Governor Curtin's re•electio
-Among others whom I saw and conversed with .
length were the members of the committee from
legheny, They say that•the aggregate vote in the
county cannot be as great as in 1860; but they add.
emphatically that Curtin'a majority of that vo
would be relatively as large as it was in that yea
I have faith in their judgment, for they embrace
members of the Senate and House—the Livia l .
active, representative men of the party; men wh
mingle daily with their own people, and thoroughl
understand their feelings, wishes, and convictions.
I may add, in this connection, that I have see,
private lettere, written by the men in VTashingto.
and Butler counties, who most bitterly (woes
Governor Curtin's renomination, who say, in th
strongest possible terms, their determination is no
only to vote for him, but to stump for him. The
say, too, that large numbers of returned sick, wound
ed, argd disabled soldiers, whose proclivities hav:
heretofore always been Democratic, will vote for on
candidate. In those counties the Copperheads hav
denounced the army as " Lincoln's minions,'
" Curtin'stools," and the soldiers will quietly bu
vigorously repel these assaults at the ballot-box. I
am`further told, upon good authority, that the same
feeling prevails largely among the returned soldiery
all over the western and throughout the central parts
of the State. Could this election be left to the
soldiery who have bravely faced danger and death,
there could be no doubt of the result.
Information from Fayette shows that three hun
dred of the old-line Democrats of that county have
affiliated themselves with the Union Leagues. This
makes a hole in the ICane--Gilmer Copperheadism of
Fayette as large as General Gilmore's 200-pound
Parrotts have knocked in - the walls of Fort Sums
ter_ay...-....oscquence-is;-tnar - Kane, Gilmer, and
the other Copperhead leaders,"are excessively em
bittered against the leagues.
Gentlemen of high distinction, from Westmore
land, aver that Woodward cannot have more
than Mx hundred majority in that county. I, my
self, am inclined to believe that it can in no event
exceed eight hundred. 'Either estimate will be
sufficient for all purposes of success.
Governor Curtin will not follow a continuous
series - of appointments for public speaking. He will
not have the time. But he will speak frequently
during the canvass and at such times when his
friends may deem it of importance to the general
result. .
The ablest speaking talents of the State will be
evoked, and the canvass made thorough and com
plete. Eminent speakers from other States will be
invited. Among these, are prominently mentioned
Sickles, Dix, and Dickinson, of New York ; Logan
and McClernand, of.lllinois ; Blair and Brown, of
Missouri ; Steele, Dumont, and Kimball, of Indiana.
It is believed that the services of all can be procured
for a longer or shorter period. Thomas Frauds
Meagher is also on the list. This looks like work,
serious, earnest, thorough work.
Judge Agnew will, owing to the delicacy of his
position, decline all canvassing upon the stump.
There are very few military now in and around.
Harrisburg. - There is, however, a very fine body- of
six- months cavalry lying between this and the Poto
mac. It consista of Col. Wynkoop's regiment, (the
20th. Pennsylvania Oavalry,) 1,200 strong, in and
around Hagerstown; Col: Boyd's 21st, of equal
strength, at Ohambersburg, and an independent
battalion of four hundred—making in all nearly
three thousand cavalry. You can perceive, there
fore, that the Potomac is not unguarded, as
when Jenkins crossed it at Williamsport.
That part of Milroy's force, numbering about
three thousand men, which escaped by Bath and
Hancock from the Winchester affair, are lying along
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at !Ind above Mar
tinsburg, and occupy Winchester 'with a portion of
their cavalry.
The only rebel troops known positively to be UP
the Shenandoah Valley above them and west of
them, are Imboden's Virginia Cavalry, the 62d Vir
ginia Infantry, and aorae 'scattered bands of horse
thieves ; in all twntrtive hundred men, and two
light field batterlia. Thus stood matters upon the
Potomac 511.0 go 'Valley ep,7lniraday :hat.
HARRISBURG.
I,vMr from Generalßuelt•
SAY.ATOGA August 5. 1863.
SIR : In the Official uaztue, o, Loe oLomo,
see a report of Judge Advocate Holt, dated the 27th
of March, relative to " an expedition set on foot in
April, 1862, under the authority and direction," ros
the „report says, "of General 0. AL Mitchell, the
object of which was tu. destroy the communications
on the Georgia State SEiiiii.?sd between Atlanta
and Chattanooga." The expedition wilie "set on
foot" under my authority. The plan was ar
ranged between Mr. Andrews—whom I had
hhd in employment from shortly after assuming
command in Kentucky—and my chief of stair, Col.
James B. Fry; and General Mitchell had nothing to
do either with its conception or execution, except
to furnish from his command the soldiers who took
part in it. He was directed to furnish six, instead of
that be sent twenty-two. Had he conformed to the in
structions given him, it would have been better ; the
chances of success would have been greater, and,
in any event; several lives would have been saved.
The report speaks of the plan as an emanation of
genius, and of the results which it promised as "ab
solutely sublime." It may be proper, therefore, to
say that this statement is made for the sake of
truth,.and not to call attention to the extravagant
colors in which it has been presented.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
• . D. 0. BUELL, Major General.
Gen. L. ThomaS Vt S , Army,
Washington.
FORE/6N SENTIMENT.—A letter dated Havre,
July 19, from an American abroad, recounts a brief
sojourn at Southampton, England: "From all I
could glean,' the sympathies of the people are mainly
with the South. At a newspaper shop we noticed a
sign written on a card, 'Lee's conquering army
marching on Washington and Philadelphia also
one other one: Pdaps of the seat of war of the rival
Confederacy.' We stopped in one of the shops and
bought one sheet of letter paper, for which we had
to pay two pennies (equal to four cents). The shop
keeper endeavored to impress upon us that Lee hgtet
Washington sure by this time, and that the Yankees;
were about played out;'and as soon as the South
had possession of Washington 'Hingland , would re.
cognize the South, which would finish the war.
Expressions of doubt from our aide upon his pre
dictions be pronounced stupidity and ignorance.
We were glad to leave the charitable town of South
ampton, last evening, for this place, where we /AN
rived by steamer this morning. I find here a de
cidedly better spirit manifested toward the Union.
People do not talk upon American matters with the
Seceah animus of those on the other side of the
channel. There is ,a general wish expressed that
Lee may be driven out of Pennsylvania and his
army dispersed."
TRIG CITY.
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TB BIRD-SEASON. -- TO-IROITOW week
the season for shooting rail and reed-birds will corn
menee. From present indications the season is
likely to be quite prolific. It is probably two
weeks earlier than usual, because of the length of
the recent heated term. In some places on the tens
of the Delaware rail have made their appearance in
great numbers, but as a general thing they are not
in good order. We have seen rail in the latter part
of July fat and 'plump as they generally are when
the first flight comes. In a few days they get to be
very thin and blue in color—mere skin and bones.
In a couple of weeks they becOme Very fikt i , large,
and white. At this stage they tire HtfOr the sports
man to shoot at. There is; - perhaps no greater deli
cacy than a ' , rail fat enough to fry itself: , The
same may tie said Of a reed-bird. These will be in
excellent cOnaltion probably not before the tenth of
the coming Month. Blackbirds are now plenty,
and in better condition than they will be a month
hence. is suggested to some of the sporting
gentlemen who go gunning after birds, that they
send at least some of the "game" to the military
hospitals, or to such ladies as will have the birds
properly cooked and placed at the disposal of the
sick and wounded soldiers.
AN INTERESTING SERVIGE.—On yester
day morning Rev. A. Manship, pastor of Redding
M. E. Church, =Sixteenth -and' Coates streets,
preached faithfully from "What shall it• profit a,
man if be gain the whole world and lose hie own
Boni?" In addition to the ordinary congregation,
there were quite a number of soldiers and officer.
present, by special invitation.' A part of Captain
Kevin's Lancaster Battery and a part of the lath
Pennsylvania Cavalry Were present ; among the
Officers we observed Major Hess, Colonel Cummings,
and Colonel Gregory, of the old 91st Pennsylvania
regiment. By request of the pastor, Col. Gregory
made the opening prayer, which was very appropri
ate and earnest, The trustees of the church pre
sented to every soldier and officer present s copy of
the Patriot , s Hymn-Book, which was used on this
occasion throughout the congregation, the soldiers
joining most heartily in this delightful part of the
exercises. All seemed highly. pleased with the
pointed, earnest services, and none more so than the
military in attendance. At a quarter before twelve,
the soldiers, in line order, returned to their camp
opposite Odd-Fellows' Cemetery.
DANGBBOUS COUNTEXPEIT. —A nesso coun
terfeit ,T,5 note on the Bank of Northumberland, Pie,
was circulated for the &at time in Philadelphia on
Saturday evening, The paper is not very good; the
engraving and filling are very well done. The note
is calculated to deceive. Two men engaged in pass
big the spurious r)aper suCeeeded in several instancee.
They conversed freely with each other in the
pretence of the storekeepers and their attendants
about shipping goods, what kind of a voyage one or
the other bad, &c.. all of which made it' appear that
both were engaged in the seafaring business. The
sharpers use many specious preterits - re disarm sus.
picion as to their true character. They generally
select Saturday nights to operate with new' counter
feit notes.
A FAREWELL SERAION.—The farewell
sermon of the Rev. Mr. Jenkins was preached yes.
terday morning, at the Calvary Church, Locust
street, above Fifteenth. The separation of congre
gation and pastor partakes, of a politico-religious
nature, the seeds of dissension being reported to
have been sown by the private expression of senti•
ments altogether unpopular. Mr. Jenkins who is
an eloquent and erudite diiine, return to his native
He land, with his family. H has been Uldely known,
loved, and respected here, and whilst the remem
brance of him will be that of regret, it, must be
owned that by a large portion of the congregation
the loss will net be felt to be Irremediable.
FATAL OCCURRENCE. —On Saturday,
Coroner Conrad held an inquest on the body of Wm.
H. White, seventeen year' of age. - The boy was
killed by falling off the 'wimp, the accident occurring
On Friday evening. At about - half•past eight he
went home, acting somewhat strangely. He went
up stairs, and a noise was- ;loon after heard in the
yard, and he was found lying on tee pavement, hie
skull completely fractured. He had fallen or jumped
from the roof. The house was No. 106 Prime street.
The jury rendered a verdict in accordance with the
facts PI the ease.
AN ATTEMPT AT DESERTION.—On Satur
day, at about half-past two A. Pd., two men, strug
gling in the water, were discovered near the re:
ceiving ship Princeton, by. -police police barge No. It.
When picked up they proved to be Huila - Straus
and William Smith, sailors. They, it seems, were
endeavoring to desert from the. Princeton. They
were fired at,by the guard, but the shot 'did not take
effect. They were returned to their quarters.
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