Vress. TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1863 CIIAIRLEsTON. Six months ago, when the first attack upon the defences of Charleston was in pro: greys, some of the sensation newspapers published maps of the scene of operation, with the startling and romantic caption, "TnE DOOMED CITY." But Charleston did not happen to be taken then ; and:, as an offset to our disappointment, we indulged in a hearty laugh at the sensation papers in question: At this late day we are prepared to do them justice, and are willing to admit that their powers of foresight are perfectly extrtiordinarY: '' the first failure, a great many people.of ordinary intelligence took it for granted that Charleston was not a doomed city—at least, not to any great ex . : tent. The few months of interval that have elapsed have proved the .fallacy of the as sumption. Charleston is doonied beyond a doubt this time, we think. _ According to all accounts, Fort Sumpter is virtually hors de combat. The Charleston papers have been endeavoring for some few weeks past to prove to each other's satisfaction that Sumpter was not of much importance as a defence of Abe city. It is true they never discovered this important fact until they had evidence of the equally important fact, that our artillery was capable of bat tering the fort into mineralogical specimens, and the value of the dis :overt' is; therefore, somewhat questionable. 'lt is presumable that the engineers' who . originally construct ed the defences of Charleston harbor had some little common sense, and that they would not have built an important work like Bumpter, one of the: largest forEffica tiona in the United' States, without paying some little regard to the value of its position. As a defensive position, it is strategically as valuable today as ever- it was. The improvements we have made in our artillery have enabled us to topple over its walls, but still it would be - a for fort to any but an iron-clad fleet, and in silencing its guns we' have gained an immense advantage, whether the Charlestonians think so or not. The most difficult portion of the work may remain to be accomplished. Perhaps it may be a. more troublesome operation to silence Fort Wagner than proved to be the case with its superannuated rival ; but the operation can be readily accomplished. So . much has been done already that all may undoubtedly be done. With the _map of Charleston be fore us uow, we can trace our course clearly enough up to the very wharves of the city. After Fort Wagner is passed, there are no batteries formidable enough to stay the pro gresS of our fleet, and probabll not a single gun 'of stiffielent calibre to penetrate the monitors, which have so far proved. invul nerable. Sonic night in the beginning of next month, or perhaps towards the close of this, we shall have a grand illumination, and the flag of the Union will be floating faun the battered parapet of Sumpter. • "The Integrity of the Party:, A correspondent, who is " A Constant Reader" of THE PRESS, and who belbngs to the National Union party of the Seventh ward, takes exception to certain comments we saw proper to make in our issue of yes terday upon the local elections. Among other things, he tells us that it is the duty of loyal newspaper, and one that is "particu larly the organ. of the Union party of Phila delphia," to place more confidence- in those who'manage its primary elections, and, "to impress upon the people the necessity of - maintaining • integrity, the of the party." We agree with the general tone of our cor respondent's- letter, although he does us perhaps too much, honor in making us the organ of any political organization in Phi ladelphia. It is a distinction we do not claim. The leadership of parties we leave to those who have the am bition to lead. We do not quarrel with the journalist who finds it a duty to blindly _ follow the judgment . of a. con vention, but we do not regard this as:the mission of THE PRESS. We represent great principles. We ate committed to a cause for which we would give up our live% We sustain the Administration because we be lieve that it is honestly laboring for the sal vation - of the Republic, and. that if it falls the Republic falls. We sustain the National Union party because_its principles are those of loire for the country and the cause, and because ibis. the . effective embodiment of loyalty. We support the nominations of the Harrisburg Convention because we know the men it has made candidates, and we know they are honest, loyal, and capable. Beyond this we cannot go. We shall do our best to contribute to the success of the Union party of Philadelphia in - October, but we must insist upon that party giving us able men for the Legislature and honest men for the city offices. This is with us a great consideration, and we live too much love and re spect kir the Union 'cause to neglect it. The supporters of that cause are our most eminent and worthy citizens. Wherever we find intelligence • . and wealth and coinfert, we find the friends of the Union in the ma jority. Thera never hat been an, Otgardza tion in -this country which contained the materials now composing that party, and it will be an act of wantonness and shame if . its conventions, and those who represent itS view's, fail to place pure and_ honored men in nomination for office. " The integrity of the party" is the first consideration of our correspondent, and he insists that it should be the first considera tion-of Tux PRESS. We can assure him that it is our first consideration, and this is why we say what we are saying. But " the in tegrity of the party" does not commit us to the defence of every primary convention, and the execution of the commands of a success - N. clique of wire-pullers. If a bad man seeks the, shelter of the Union party, and by taking advantage of the apathy of the good, and the cupidity of the wicked, becomes its nominee for an important office, we hold it to be our duty to warn the members of, the Union party against such a man, to de nounce hirn, and demand his defeat. This duty 'we do because we desire the "integrity of the party." In every wheat-field there will be tares. They grow and multiply, and destroy the crops, and cumber the ground. Because we desire the wheat, must we cultivate the tares ? Is it not the true policy to tear them up, and cast them away ? This policy certainly, applies to the organization which our correspond ent defends with so much enthusiasm. We share his feelings heartily. Believing that the Union party must save this coun try-that-its success is necessary to a proper settlement of our difficulties and the true en joyment of the blessings of peace—we desire its success—we desire to see it a mighty and powerful organization, embracing in its ranks the wealth, the intelligence, the ho nest labor of the land. For this we are la boring now, and shall so continue. There is but one way in which it can be done. Let the people quiety take the matter in their own hands. Let them at tend primary elections and conventions, and see that good men are placed in no mination. Avoid the taverns—turn away the rowdies and ruffians—make honesty and merit the test of their suffrages, and all will be well. Buell a party will succeed, because it deserves success; and such a party will be true to the principles of the Republic, to a war for the Union, and to the Administra tion in support of the war. To maintain the -"integrity " of that party is now the highest ambition of Tnx PRESS._ LET us attempt an "Iliac Airaerkana in Nuee," after the manner of bir„ CARLI7...E. IPeter of Me South to .Paul WOOL You r miserable Yankee, you, why don't you defend your soil ? ,Why not take-Vicks burg ? You have no courage. I shall burn, and slay, and lay waste, and Paul. Suppose you try it. [Gettysburg and Viciraburg ad . ints(74.] Peter. You miserable Yankee, yott have money, but you have no courage. You are rich, but you arc a coward ; I shall fight . to the last, I shall-- . .Paul. We shall see. The Punishment orDeserters. In discipline, American armies, as a gene ral rule, have never been equal to the armies of Europe. It has not pleased us to be told so by such supercilious critics as Dr. Hos- SELL, of the Times, but the fact is uncieki.: able. It would be strange indeed if it were otherwise, considering our American charac ter. We have always inclined rather to the triumphs of peace, than to the costly tri umphs of war; and have looked upon sol diers mainly as a necessary result of holidays and dress parades-,,-as a sort of moral support for the Fourth of July. The war has changed this nation; it has made 'us very rapidly a nation of soldiers ; but our armies are not yet French armies, for men cannot be converted Into machines in a year or two, and glory does not mean the same with us as it . does with Frenchmen. In point of :bravery, our troops are unsurpassed by any in the world, but they yet need to be educated in other essentials that make up the thorough soldier. - The practice of desertion, for instance, has always been more or less pre valent with our armies, in spite of the rigid penalties that nominally attach to the offence. It may not be the case so much in the SOuth west, for General GRANT is an inflexible commander, and is without mercy for of fenders. It may not be the case so much in Tennessee, for General ROSECRANS is equally rigid in - the dispensation of justice, and would as.soen think of shooting an innocent soldier as of neglecting to shoot a guilty one, unless the guilt was not clearly proven. Henceforth, we think it will not be so much the case in Virginia: . Heretofore, desertion has been practised almost 'With impunity in. the Army•of the Potomac, notwithatanding the dozens of,times it has been reorganized, notwithstanding the dozens of months it has spent mainly in the attainment of discipline. "The finest army on the planet,' - ' it has un doubtedly been in many respects, but in point of morale, it haS always been capable of improVement, and we have some as surance now that this improvement will be speedily observable. In a general order which we printed yes terday, General 311 ADE appioved the find ings and sentences of a court-martial, which had convicted five soldiers of the 118th Pennsylvania Regiment of the charge of desertion, and ordered that they be exe cuted on Wednesday, the 26th instant. No one will pretend to question the justice of this order. There are many tender-hearted people, however, who will feel impelled to characterize it as a piece of needless cruelty, and who will urge that the sentence should be revoked upon the score of humanity, and the soldiers set free with a reprimand. We think that _Deneral MEADE could not be guilty of a greater act •of inhumanity than, to do such a thing. It is a fearful thing to take away a human life, bUt to spare life in such a case as this would be a fearful wrong. It is not General MEADE who decrees that these men shall pay the penalty of their crime—it is justice, it is humanity. Upon what plea, then, can their sentence he set aside? If any just plea could be urged in extenuation of the offence, we shouldhe the first to urge it. We have always felt a pride in the 118th Pennsylva nia Regiment. It is a credit to the Com Ex change Association, through whose exer tions it was organized; it is a credit to Phi ladelphia.. No better or braver regiment ever left our city. At Sharpsburg, at Antie tam, at Fredericksburg, at Chancellorville, and at Gettysburg, it has borne a conspicu ous part, and its decimated ranks attest its worthy composition. _ It is a painful thing, that its fame should be tarnished now, after the splendor of its numerous achievements. It is a painful reflection, too, that the first men to be executed for having 'deserted and' rejoined the service as substitutes, should be Philadelphian& But it is just and right •, thinking men. will approve the inflexible comae of. General MEADE, who has thus shown that he, unites to the personal valor of the soldier the high executives qualities of the impartial disciplinarian. One such fearful example as he has ordained will have a more powerful effect in raising the standard of discipline in the Army of the Potomac than all. the general orders that ever were printed, and,. therefore, we would have no mistaken mercy set it aside. Massacre In Kansas. It is not our custom to cry out against every invasion of a North.ern town or' cityi or any act of cruelty on the -part of the Southern soldiers, as unjust and revengeful war. We know what it is for men to take up arms against each other, and we should be just even to our enemies. Therefore, we have rejected many of the stories that came to us from indignant writers heaping invec tives 'upon the leaders of the Southern army, and comparing LEE to ATTILA. The inva sion of Pennsylvania, (with the exception of the shelling of Carlisle, which was an act of wantonness that must forever bring infamy on the younger LEE,) was conducted without any extreme violation of the laws of war, and we are glad to say for the rebellion that most of its generals have exhibited as much justice and humanity as could be con sistent with their bloody calling. It is, therefore, with horror that we read of the destruction of the town of. Lawrence, Kansas, and the massacre of many of its inhabitants, by a band of guerillas under the command of a deSPerado named QUANTRELL." As we understand the details now slowly coming to us, and even with the allowance that must be made for the exaggeration 'of men driven in terror from their homes, a more -horrible crime does not stain the page of historY. QUAN TRELL, we believe, is a resident of Yirestern Missouri, and belonged to the men who be came notorious in 1.854 as Border Ruffians, oppressing the early settlers of Kansas, burning and destroying the houses of the pioneers, and endeavoring by fraud and rapine and murder to force slavery upon Kansas against the will of the people. Since the rebellion took place he has been an adherent of the Confederacy, and we have occasionally heard of his exploits as a leader `of independent guerilla bands, tear ing-up., rails and destroying communication between .military posts, driving in pickets, and =occasionally dapturing a wagon-train. At the 'head - of a 'number of'. his border ruffians, -however, he.arrimged.-an attack on the city of Lawrence, the metropolis - of Kansas, and one of the most progressive and enterprising towns in-the West. Lawrence was so far from the scene of actual hostilities that an attack was as improbable as an.at - tack upon: the city of Lawrence, in MasSa chuSetts: This feeling Of secnrity, ever, emboldened QiiANTEEEE,, and enabled him to strike with greater force and terror. He rushed into the peaceful city, and, with out a word of warning, butchered its most distinguished citizens to the number of two hundred, burned., their houses, robbed their banks, and quietly rode off to Missouri with . plunder to the amount of two millions of dollars. It is difficult to speak temperately when we comment upon a deed of such atrocity. We can imagine what war will bring upon a people—cruelty, . hardships, _ ,; desolation, death—but still; they come in the way, of war ; 'know what it means'; we can defend ourselves, and ifiv . ' e suffer it is because we are weak or cow ardly. We can imagine a raid upon a peaceful country, but still within the range of what might 'be called an army's operations, such a raid as that of STUART or MOIWAN. Then we can plead no excuse, for we live in a threatened community, and must expect to suffer from the vigilance of an enemy'unless we are prepared to defeat it. We can imagine such a thing as the sudden shelling of a peaceful town like Carlisle, and while we regard the deed as infamous be -cause no • time was given for women arid children to depart, the excuse. could be made that armed troops were in the town, and - it necessary to terrify them and impede iheir advance. We can imagine a guerilla party coming' suddenly, upon a sick. ' general in his ambulance, away from his command, and shooting him in his helplessness without giving him a moment to make peace with. God. That would bettiaassination, but. it would be the assassination of a man who ward a military uniform and held a high com mend; and whose death.was an injury to.the conntlY. The deed of QUANTRELL embraces the infamy of all these gradations and an in famy more fearful, for it was the desolation of peaceful homes, the •murder of peaceful men, and the.robbery of peaceful banks and places of' business. There is no military law, no military necessity, that will excuse such a crime. The rebellion-with its many horrors cannot equal it; . and we think that our Government would be justified in inflict ing a punisluaent upon its authors, so terrible that the world would stittill ap palled. When treason becomes rebellion, we meet it with the sword and musket. But when treason becomes massacre and robbery, we should meet it with fire and steel and the halter. The" Death of a 'Good Man. The death of a good man is an event of solemn beauty. It tells us that life is only - perfect when we leave behind us the love and :respect of those who are our compa nions in life. It gives us' pleasing as surances of the future, for we are told that the pure in heart are blessed, and shall see God. The death of a good . soldier pos sesses a solemnity that nothing on earth can equal. The soldier's life is onthe brink of eternity. It is a constant defiance of Death, and so constant that we learn to look upon the character as an exhibition of reckless ness and daring: Men die in the flush and exultation of battle, and the animal courage which courts such a fate has always been regarded by men as the highest evi dence of manhood. We s have seen it -in every war, from those of Josuu.s. to those of NAPOLEON, and it is there fore, the first and rudest sentiment in the human heart. The death of the soldier, whose life is a devotion to the Christian faith—whO adds to a love of country a love of God—and who walks the stern path of duty because the faith within hinr•prompts the sacrifice—such a death is an example to mankind, and the highest exhibition of manly truth and bravery. Captain Roo oEns seemed to realize and --illustrate the noblest type of a Christian sailor. In the service of his country he was brave, energetic, conscientious. In private life, we are told by those who knew him, that in his character " there was an almost fend; nine delicacy, gentleness, and sweetness of nature, - blending with the most heroic gal lantry." We are further told that " a predo minant trait in his character was a deep, natural piety, and that he passed the whole night before his death in reading the Scrip tures and prayer." A - character like this should not be forgotten. His example does not die Isith him Rather let us say that death sanctifies and brightens it, and sheds its glory over the world. The death that Cap tain RODGERS died gives us a higher vane rati on for our cause. It was a holy sacri fice to liberty, and in the time to come we and our children will feel prouder of our country that this sacrifice was made. In the army and navy . of the Union there are thousands of men* of whom it may be' said, as we sapof Captain RODGERS, that their characters 'are full of natural piety. They are men of prayer, and purpose, and enthu siasm. Let us give them this name, or whatever name we will, superstition, or fanaticism, or bigotry, we must all recog nize, whatever may be the faith within us, that they are men of lofty cou rage and high purpose. They may be grim, stern, uncongenial men; but they meet the cannon-ball and the bayonet - with an intrepidity that the scoffer and nnbeliever might envy.. At night reading the Scrip tures and praying ; in the morning far ih the advance, ." Captain RODGERS," writes Admiral DAHLGREN, " was determined to be closer to the enemy, if possible." The man of prayer was the man of action ; and he died in the attempt to bring his ship nearer to the enemy. Such a life - and such a death should never be forgotten. They belong to the history of the country, and the country will always he proud to honor a memory so Suggestive of courage'and de votion, and an example that time will only brighten and dignify. Mr. Carlyle's Iliad. It-seems irreverent of philosophy to say that Mr. Genr.vrE's last compositiim is like Mr. - ROEBUCK'S. last speech; but the rea soning and the unreasonable Englishmen have finally met on eVen terrns, and Mr. Rommores -- bluster is as sublime as Mr. CARLYLE'S . doctrines, On the question of slavery and cotton; Mr. CARLYLE has simply become master to Mr. RoHnucir as overseer. Henceforth let CARLYLE be, pa tron of. the• wrong, while Mr. Ro.Entrok lashes the question. It were glory enough for Mr..C_uvyyr,E's peculiar philosophy to prove, that absolute wrong was absolute right, as it would be for Mr. RommucK's re markable ambition 'to establish the Con federacy ; but Confederate Stocks, Southern chivalry, negro'slavery, and tyrant-worship have gone down with Mr. CARLYLE'S phi losophy. Public opinion was emancipated before Mr. CARLYLE attempted to enslave it. The .Thiglish philosopher considers it great to be absolute and strong, mighty to hold and oppress. This, in brief, is his physical minded heroism. The individual, rather than the . principle, is his belief ; and, follow ing out his theor3r, every successful cause is its OW go4pel and apology. Mr. CARLYLE is unscrupulously sincere. He sees in our war :only a difference between having ser. wants for the day or month, and having them - for a lifetime—the only difference which he perceives between freedom and slavery. But, for all, we are glad that Mr. CARLYLE acknowledges the issue, even - if it is only to ally himself with the oppressor. His ac knowledgment is vastly stronger for good than his - championship for evil. What of philosophy, when we have a revela tion? His pet theories of force must have been taught a severe lesson in the hard bloWs dealt at Gettysburg.. Having assumed the side of the Individual lords against thein telligence of the niany, the philosopher has something yet to. learn. The- people will' not be ,slaves ; - the lords shall not be tyrants. The conscience of public opinion is far -stronger than the minds of many .Carlyles. The wrong of:, the few is put down. by the rights - -of the many. Not a man, .but a people, becomes - the . conqueror; and the American' nation is greater ,than NAPOLEON or FREDERICK.. i .,General truth is victor over Mr. , C.A.BLTLE's muscular minded absurdity.' But We have dropped the nut; let us pick it up. Considered in itself, Mr. CARLYLE' s ‘‘ flias .Yuce'! • shows how little Mr. CAR : ryLn has put , in thenutshell. If the philb sopher were in the place. of its kernel,, the shell would hold. as' much. As the case stands, however, there is moral proof that Mr. • CARLYLE crept in with his -Iliad.- IT HAS become a favorite charge with dis loyalists that the Administration is endeavor ing to prolong the war that slavery may be exterminated. Yet, there is nothing that the so-called Democratic party dreads more than the suppression-of the -rebellion, and the close of the war`; foi. when the soldiers come home from the battle-field they will be enabled so to strengthen the Government by their votes, that its enemies will every where be defeated. It is the Democratic party that is prolonging the war by op posing the conscription law, and in -every possible way endeavoring to thwart the pur poses of the Govermnent. -It has made op position to the war its chief aim and inspi ration, and with the restoration of peace its mission will have been fulfilled, and it must die of inanition. WHO caused the war ? " The Abolition. ists.?' Who, is responsible for the war? "Mr Lticcolix," Who should stop the war? "The . • Adthinistration.” This is what'tlie sympathizers with secession:_ say. Who paSsed• resolutions of - secession? The Southern States.. Who plunde;red our arsenalS ? Southern statesmen. Who fired upon Port Sumpter ? Southern sOldiers. Who continue to defy the Union ? The Southern rebels. This is what history will say. • We can only reconcile history with the sympathizers by a very common illustra tion : " You trouble the waters I drink," said a wolf to a lamb one day. ",I beg your pardon," said the lamb, "I am drink ing below you," &c, &c. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1863. Ora of the most absurd, and yet most frequently reiterated assertions in which Secession. sympathizers .have delighted to indulge,:is the statement that the war is be ing waged solely for the purpose of placing the negro on an equality with the white man. In 1837 a constitutional convention was held in this State, at which Mr. GAGER offered a resolution, excluding negroes from State rights. To this Mr. Justice WOOD WARD offered the following amendment, placing foreigners in the same category " And that said committee be also in structed to inquire into the propriety of amending the Constitution as to prevent any foreigners who may arrive in this State after the 4th of July, 1841, from, acquiring the right to vote or to hold office in this, COnt- Inonicealth." [Vol. 5, p. 444 Debates.] How will foreigners like the idea of being:classed with the unfortunate race; "who have no rights which the white man is bound to re spect ?" Will they be magnanimous enough to vote for Mr. Justice WOODWAitD: after this revelation ? IMAGINE a venerable Copperhead, when this war is over, and these stirring times are forgotten, sitting at his home with his children around„ him. He may' tell them of the wars, and the sacrifices men made— and how people . rejoiced When the news of each victory came from the army. What will 1e say of his own part in that struggle ? "My children, in that sad : thud, when the country was in danger, I was against the country—my heart,was with the rebel— when he triumphed I' was glad—when he was defeated my heart was sore and heavy. My children, when I am gone, do not curse the traitor. Be silent. It is the only respect you can pay to your father's memory.” WE SEE that some of our cotempora.ries are publishing : letters of JAMES BUCHANAN to JEFFERSON 'Dkus, in which he talks about Southern rights, and does _all that a canny and faiut-hearted old public func tionary dare do :to excite the leaders Ol the South against the North, and to prepare their temper for a dissolution of the Union. We do not complain; for other men may have, done the same thing, who are HOW true and loyal. But will anybody send us a letter of Mr. BucnAntw's, written since 1800, in which he expresses the slightest sorrow for what has been, done, or the slightest sympathy with the Union ? For such a letter we shall_ give a very liberal reward.. • Now way should the nine-months volunteers of New England and Pennsylvania be exempt, while our New York militia, who were always called• upon in times of peril, and have never yet failed to respond, be liable to this draft? It Was bad enough not to credit New York city with their services, but the individual hardships to those who are drafted will be exceedingly onerous, glaringly un just. The above is, of course, from a disloyal newspaper, and is an evidence of what bad men will do to bring contumely upon the GovernMent. The statement that the militia, of Pennsylvania are exempt from the draft is untrue. There is no distinction between Penn Sylvania and the other States of the. North. The conscription falls upon all alike, and those who endeavor to create another impression bear false witness that they may injure the cause of the Union and` proinote the cause of treason. Special Despatches to. The Press. A gentleman who to-day returned from the Army of the Potomac says the regiments are daily filling up with recruits ; that the sanitary condition of our troops is good, and that recently three privates from Rhode Island, _who had just arrived, were, while in the act of deserting, shot by their escort ; also, that eleven recruits yesterday leaped from the cars while the latter were moving towards Warrenton, and succeeded,_for a time at least, in making their escape. A party was subsequently despatched in pursuit of them. Comparatively few of this class of soldiers manage to get beyond our military lines, as scouts are out in all directions in intercept them.. The order of Major General affEADa, approving the sentence of death in such cases, will, it is be lieved, effectually check further desertions. The order of the War Department is' imperative that passes cannot be,given to females to visit the Army of the Potomac. " Capture of. Rebel Soldiers. • . In aecordacce - with an order from Gen. HnrreizLe , NAN, COL SWAIN, of Scott's Nine Hundred, on Friday night sent a detachment of three cavalry companies to reconnoitre the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. By. Saturday noon they had made a circuit of forty miles, and captured seventeen re bel soldiers, with their horses • and equipments. These compose the party that recently plundered the canal company of its best horses, and commit ted other offences, including the burning of boats. The prisoners have been brought to Washington. EDIVARD L. PIERCE has been appointed collector internal revenue, district of Dlassachusetts, vice Dr. STOTNE, deceased. , , CHARLES H. UemoN, of Virginia, has been ap pointed consul to Geneva. He was despoiled of his home at Upton's Hill.by the ravages of war. Destruction of Rebel Railroad, Engines, and Cars—Seventy-seven Locomotives and Six Hundred Cars Destroyed. Caine, August 21.—[Special to the N. Y. Times.] The cavalry expeditions gent out from Vicksburg and Memphis met on the 18th at Grenada, the object being to capture or destroy the cars and locomotives run there from Jackson by the rebels for safety. The rebels were on the lookout, and the cars had been filled with fence:rails, ready to be fired on the ap , proach of ourtroops. The cars Were run over the bridge across the Yallabusha river, and the bridge burned. Fifty-seven locomotives and 400 cars were destroyed by the rebels. This snakes seventy-seven loeomotiveis and 600 cars captured or destroyed, as the direct result of the Vicksburg campaign, Tile Ship If. B. Cutting Captured by the NEW YORK, August 24.—The ship F. B. putting, Capt. Malone, arrived this morning, with 230' pas sengers, from Liverpool. She reports that ahe was captured by the pirate Florida in lat. 41° 10', long. 44° 20', on the 6th inst., but was bonded for $40,000, and allowed to proceed on her voyage. Thepirate showed only the American flag, and when last seen on the 6th was in chase of another large AMerican ship. The rebel officer that boarded-the Cutting stated that the Florida had burned two and bonded two other Limprican ships. He refused to give their names. . NEW YORK, August 24.—The drafting in the First, Second, and Third wards was performed without any difficulty. Numerous merchants, brokers, mem bers of the liress, and telegraphers were duly'elected. Gen: Arthur was among the lucky ones. , There were 663 deaths in this city last week.. Gold, after. the Second Board today, was 123%. A small detachment of the 71st militia was "at ttacked by about 200 villairilast_ night, wounding two of the former. On the arrival of reinfOreements, the gang dispersed. • _ ALBANY, August 'A.—Governor Seymour has de spatched a messenger to Washington to ascertain whether the excess of volunteers raised in different localities under former calls will be allowed in the present draft. In the meantime, all thelocal "E.su thorities are invited to communicate their . alai= on this account to the Adjutant General's Depart .... meat. BERLIN, Wisconsin, August :24.—A tOrnido swept over Buena Vista on Friday last: Every - house in the place was blown down. Three . perlioni4 were killed, and 14 wounded. ---- SuPpar.o, August 21.—Secretary Seward and the diploniatic party are expected here to-morrow-from Niagara Falls. . . . . A furious storm passed over the city this after. noon, unroofing houses, blowing down chimneys, signs, ' NEW Yonx, August 24.—The steamers Ellen S. Terry and Dudley Buck, from Newbern, with dates to the nth inst., have arrived, with. about two Min dred passengers. ' . BOSTON, kugust 24.—The Salem (Man.) pod office was broken into last night, and every letter stolen. New LONDON, August 24.—The Great Eastern passed here at 11.30 this morning. Her adviees have been anticipated. PLEASURE EXCURSION FROM" GERDIANY TO THE UNITED STATES.—The St. Louis. Republican says that a number of wealthy' Germane have agreed to undertake a gigantic pleasure excursion across the Atlantic to the United• States. They were to leave Vienna on the 15th of the present month, and the mail steamer Hansa was to take 'the party on board at Bremen on the 19th. From Bremen they will go to Southampton; where they will . remain some thirty hours to visit the surrounding scenery, and , the Isle of Wight, They will-then cross the ocean to New York, where excursions to Brooklyn, Hoboken, New Jersey, - Governor , s Island,,Staten Island,' etc.; will be the order of the day.-, A special steamer will take the excursionists up the HudsOn, where they • will visit Sing Sing, West Point, and Albany ;, they will also stop at Buf falo and Niagara Falls. From Buffalo a lake steamer is to take the party to Cleveland, where, they will take the cars for Pittsburg, Harrisburg, and Philadelphia. Next, 'the party will start for Baltimore and Washington, pay their addresses to President -Lincoln, visit the Capitol. Mount Vernon, and, if possible, the Army of• the Potomac ; thence to Fortress Monroe, and'finally back to Europe. TEI2 Louisville TOUIIIO/ is informed that in all sec tions, except Southern Kentucky, the draught has cut the tobacco crop short one half. - . - "VP.A_SIIINGrrI'CIPN". WASRINGTON, August 24, 1863 The Arn4 of the Potomac. - Per§olial. Consul Appointed. Florida. New York Althirs. The Draft In New York. Tornado in Wisconsin. The Diplomatic ' Tour. From Newborn, N. C. Post-office Robbery.. The Great Eastern. A BRITISH STEAMER DESTROYED, She Attempts to Run the tlookade. The. 'United .States Steamer 'Niphon De stroys the British Steamer Hebe. (Special Correspondence of The Press.] "UNITED STATES STEAMER ' , Timmy, OFF NEW INLET, N. C., August 19, i 663. Yesterday morning, about five o'clock, a steamer was reported coming down the coast towards New Iffiet. We immediately went in chase, and, when we got near her, she was run on shore, and deserted by her officers and crew. Our captain sent three officers and an armed tioat's crew to make arrange ments forgetting her off, if possible; if not, to set her on fire and abandon her. She proved to be the Bri tish 'steamer 'Bebe, with an assorted - cargo for the rebels. There was a heavy Bea running at the time we sent our boat to her, and the boat swamped along side tbe.llebe, shortly after our officers and crew ar rived on board of her. Capt. Breck, after receiving word that it would be impossible to get her off; sent our two remaining boats, with orders to set her on fire, and bring our officers and men on board. The sea had by this time increased so much that it was impossible for the boats to get alongside of her, and one beat, when near the beach, swamped, and all who were in her were taken prisoners by the rebels, who had collected in large numbers behind the sand hills with field pieces and rifles, and kept constantly firing at us. After the other boat had returned on board, and' our officers and men on board the Rabe had deserted her, Captain Breck ordered our guns to be trained on her for the purpose of destroying her, in which we were assisted by the United States gunboat Shokhokeen. The rebels all this time kept firing . briskly at us. I never heard such a whizzing before ; the balls fell as thick as hail all around us, eV a number entered the sides and dealt of our yes eel. At 11 o'clock the fiche burst out in a blaze, and we shortly afterwards left for our station. Sin gular to state, not one of our officers or orew was injured during the five and a half hours' engage went. The following is a correct list of officers and ercw who were taken prisoners: W. W. Orowninshield, acting ensign and ex officer. Wm. Blazon, acting third assistant engineer. John Paige, acting master's mate. Timothy Driscoll, captain forecastle. Frank Hansell, carpenter's .mete. Wm. A. Cooper, boatswain' mate. John C. Leroach, captain forecastle. Peter Hyland, seaman. John Reynolds, seaman. Robert Carr, ordinary seaman. John A. Rodgers, landsman. Theodore F. Naudin, seaman. John Guy, seaman. Charles Thompson, seaman. Bernard Hughes, second fireman. The Niphon was built by R. B. Forbes, at East Boston, for river trade in China, and when finished was purchased for blockade duty. She went into commission at Boston, in April last. Her arms went consists of four 32-pounders, one 20 , pounder Parrott, and two 12 pounder rifled howitzers. Her average speed is about twelve knots. The following is a list of her officers at the pre sent time, viz : J. B. Breek, acting ensign commanding. John J. Reagean, acting ensign. Ephraim H. Dewey, acting ensign. Thomas L. Churchill, third assistant engineer. James Portions, acting master's mate. William B. Ingraham, paymaster's clerk. Theo. Barker, acting assistant paymaster. Wm. G. Bruce, acting assistant . surgeon. Rodney Nichols, acting second assistant engineer. James Sullivan, third assistant engineer. Ernest Hodder, acting master's mate. Francis C. Belmana, surgeons' steward. Charles H. Hyde, yeoman. NORTH CAROLINI, Affairs in the Department—The. Popular Feeling. - Forrrnmse Molimo's, August 23.—Evening—The Mail, just arrived from Newbern, N. C., with yester day's dates from our correspondent, saying: "The rebel papers in this State and Virginia clamor loud ly for the suppression of the Raleigh (N. C.) Stan dard,-the official State paper, which bids defiance to Jeff Davis and all the destructives in the Southern Confederacy. Its circulation is larger than any other journal in the South, and is rapidly increasing, which, with the enarsement of its course received through' public meetings, from different parts of the State, is all the vindication desired, which should satisfy all thist its utterances are those of the people. Its columns are open to the ablest, writers in the State; whose statesmanlike arguments against Se cession are unanswerable. Its editor, Eon. W. W. Holden, who caned the rebel editor of a Raleigh paper a short time since, threatens 'John Mitchell, of the Richmond Examiner, with like treatmeht. Intelligence from Gen. Wild's African brigade, now in South Carolina, states that the colored troops are very eager for the fight to commence—that their discipline is good. The recent regulations established hereby Colonel David Heaton, agent of the Treasury, who has en tire control of the commercial affairs of this depart ment, sand also acting as military governor, has effectually stopped all commercial intercourse with parties outside our lines, and gained for him the en tire ionfulenee and good will of the army, navy, and Union citizens. The health of this department continues good. Major Gen. S. J. Peck, with staff, has arrived here, and taken command of the ihdon forces in North Carolina. --- HEADQUARTERS 13TIT ARMY.OORPS, - NEWBERN, N. 0., August 18,1863 OE . ,.NERAL" ORDERS NO. I.—ln accordance with orderi from Headquartera .Department of Virginia and NortliOarolina, the undersigned assumes corn- Mand of the 18th Army Corps. - All existing orders and regulations will remain in force until modified or rei,oked. The following officers are announced upon the staff of the major general commanding : Major Benjamin B. Foster, assistant adjutant general ; Surgeon D. W.' Hand, medical director ; Lieut. Colonel Francis Darr, chief commissary of subsistence ; Captain R. C.;Webster, chief quarter. master; .Lieut. Charles R. Sterling, aid•de-camp ; Limit. jellies D. Outwater, aid-de-camp. The re mainder of the staff \gill be - announced in future orders'. JOHN J. PECK, Maj, General. Steamer New York, Capt. Chisholm, arrived from Annapolis, and will leave for City Point to-morrow morning, witli Gen. Meredith, who goes up on busi- nese. They also take up 340 rebel prisoners, in charge of Major Mulford. Injunction Granted. CHICAGO, Auguat 24.--Judge Williams, of the circuit' court, today granted an injunction restrain ing the directera of the Chicago and Alton Railroad from paying the dividend due in New York to morrow. Rebel News by Fortress •Monro'o_, Fountirss Illoicuoa., Va., August 2?-The flag. of•truce steamer New York, Captain Chisholm, ar rived at six o'clock last evening from City Point, bringing down about three hundred prisoners of war in charge of General Flag-of-truce Officer Major Mulford. They also brought a large number 'of women, and four times as many- children, from the South, seeking - better homes at the North. The steamer sailed for Annapolis at eight o'clock last The Richmond Whig of August 21st says in an ed itorial: "The loss of Vickaburg and the failure at Gettysburg are the two events of the year, which seem to render highly probable a long and almost' indefinite continuance of the war.. "Apart from the victories we may achieve in the field, there are but two means for counteracting the baneful effects of the events, and bringing hostilities to an earlier close. These are. either foreign inter vention Or a determined and successful resistance by the conservative masses of the North to the Aboli tion faction, which has control of the. Government at Washington. A long and protracted)war would prove a great evil, wholly unmixed with good; for the longer the war continues, the more thoroughly saturated the Southern heart- would become with the whole Yankee race and Yankee institutions. We want the aid of France. We are able to pay for it.- Let us do it. We shall then have peace or the power to wreak a rich revenge on our foul foe." "MORTON, Miss., August 1.9.—N0 further news from the Yankee raid on the. Mississippi Central Railroad. <The raid consisted - of 1,260 men, who' started from YfIZOO City; and intercepted two trains at Durant. 'The last heard of them they were taking the trains up the road, and Gen. Whitfield's cavalry were in hot pursuit." : - - _ " Governor Leteher, of Virginia, hat; issued a pro clamation calling the members of the Legislature to convene at the capital, Richmond, on the seventh day of September next, for the purpose of devising means for the public defence ; to enroll an additional force of militia, beyond the conscript age, for local as well as general protection ; to provide for, arming and equipping such additional force, and furnishing the means lifer , rendering their services ; .,.ay.ailable ,when necessary," &c.., &c. - ' ~ "The supply of ice in Richmond is nearly ex heated; we heard of sales yesterday at $l5 per bushel. In consequence of this advance, the price of common whisky juleps has advanced from $1.50 to .$2, and French brandyjuleps from $2 to $2.50.". "FROM TRIZNESSRE.—The Holston Journal, speak ing of the condition of affaira in East Tennessee, says : What of Bragg? We do not know the strength of his army, snd if we "did it would be improper to make it known ; but - we ` may say , that, taking the present status of his antagonist into acoount, and his well known sagacity , arid adroitnesi, he will find his situation a most hazardous and pernleXing one, unless there is ,a greater energy andpromptness Shown than now seem to exist in this department. It is apparent that Rosecrans intends to Rank him upon both sides ; that he willno doubt throw a mas sive eolunan into Northweetern Georgia and another into East Tennessee by way of Sparta. Suppose the former ensues, what other security has Bragg than, to fall back to Atlanta 1 and if he does this, 'what will become of East Tennessee?" The Diplomatic Party at Auburn. arom the Auhuin Advertiser and Union, August 20.1 Secretary Seward and the party of foreign diplo mats and their attachda, en route to Niagara Falls, arrived in this city last evening, eta quarter past six o'clock. They were met at the ddpOt by a large delegation of citizens, and, after entering carriages were taken to the residence of Secretary'Seward: and became his guests. The party numbers sixteen, and includes the following distinguished gentlemen: Baron Gerolt, the Minister of Prussia; Mr. Molina, the Minister of Nicaragua ; Mr. Tamara, the Minis ter of Spain ; Lord Lyons, the. British Minister; Baden Stoeckel, the Russian Minister; M. Mercier, the French Minister; M. &Weider, the Hanseatic Minister; M. Bernatti, the Italian Minister ; Count Riper, the Swedish Minister ; M. Astaburager, the Chilian Minister; ' • - This morning the party visited Fort Hill Ceme tery, the Auburn State Prison, the Insane Asylum . for Convicts, and other places of public interest. This afterroon they are enjoying the scenery, about - Owasco Lake, and a ride in Secretary Seward's . lifeboat, Which, fortunately for, the occasion, ar rived from 'Washington two or . three days since. ' After the other exercises at the lake are concluded the party repair 'to the extensive and splendid grounds of E. T. T. Martin, where a collation will be prepared for them. The guests, will return to the city about six o'clock P. LK. It is expected the : Mayor, the CoMnion Council;the Profesaora in the Theological Seminary, and the clergymen of the city will pay their respects to the distinguished gen tlemen this evening in a body. Such other of our_ citizens as may find it convenient to call will do so at their pleasure dining the evening. - ' Flags are flying in all directions, to.dny, in honor of the distinguished visitors. Auburn is a quiet,. modest town ; but no one can blame her if she puts on airs on the present:occasion. A man might live a generation in any of our small neighboring cities, and never have an opportunity of paying his re , spects to so many of the, representatives of foreign nations. It is an interesting, event in the history of Auburn. ; The party will leave the city for Niagara Falls to morrow morning. - - THE KANSAS MASSACRE. List of .Killed and Wounded. LEAVENWORTH, August 24,—1n addition to the list of names of the killed at Lawrence already sent, we have obtained the following : John Fromley, Mr. West, E. P. Fitch, Chas. Pal mer, John Dager, Semi. Jones, Geo. Coates, John C. Cornell, A. Kednuler, Robert Martin, Otis Lang ley, John W. Loune, Wm, Loune, James Roach, Michl. Meekey, Jas. Bretshelboner, Dennis Murphy John Zimmerman, Carl Engler, Jacob Pollock, Fred Klein:, Mr. Earle, Daniel McClellan, Samuel Reynolds, George Gerrard, Charles Allen, James Wilson, Charles Riggs, A. J. Woods, Charles An derson, W. B. Griswold, A. F. Cooper, Asbury Murkle, David Murkle, Lewis Murkle, Aaron lial derman, Addison Waugh, and seven others of the 14th Kansas. Wounded—Dennis Berryman, G. Smith, Joseph Halmerson, H. Hays, and Mr. Sawyer. Chancey Dix, reported killed, was not hurt. Wm. li. R. Lykine was not hurt. Up to this morning twenty-eight bodies havebeen buried, but it is still utterly impossible to obtain a complete list of their names, as many are so much disfieured as to prevent recognition, while others are still missing, and are supposed to be concealed in the woods near by, or they may be in tho ruins of the buildings. Besides, many left with Gen. Lane, in pursuit of the murderers, and have not yet re . turned. The citizens are continually passing back and forth between this place and Lawrence, and the details they bring of the scenes that occurred in the streets and homes of the doomed city are heartrending and sickening. The last account we have of Quantrell and his Inca is up to Saturday night, at which time he was being closely, pursued by Lane, who had been skirmishing - with him constantly since he left Lawrence, Lane's force being increased rapidly by the farmers, who were flocking to him with their arms, and it was the determination to follow him into Missouri, and, if he disbanded his gang, they would hunt them down like wolves, and shoot them. One of them was captured near Olathe, and gave the names of Quantrell'e gang, who were citi zens of Jackson county, Missouri, and are well known here, and have always been considered Union men. The best-informed citizens of Lawrence are of opinion that Quantrell's troops are •mainly" coat , - posed of paroled prisoners from Pemberton's army, and some of them from Price's command, from the fact that they are much sunburned and have the appearance of having been long in the service. After they had accomplished the destruction of Lawrence some of them became intoxicated ; but being strapped to their hofses, none of them were left behind to give information as to who they were or where they came from. We learn from a gentleman who arrived by the coach this evening, that Quantrell was overtaken near the State line, and twenty of his men killed, Further details are looked for hourly. THE FRENCH IN -MEXICO. Prince Napoleon's Organ Condemning the Emperor's Policy in Annerica. aranslated for tke p:Tew:York Eferald from L'Ordaion Nationale; Aninst We are about to find ourselves placed, in Mexico, in a situation perfectly analogous to that which we have made to ourselves at Rome, between the libe rals, who vainly ask us to go forward, and the re actionists, whom we refuse to follow in their back ward course. The clergy applaud us to-day at Mexi co. just as the black party applauded us at Rome in 1949. • But if Marshal Forey continues to speak of liberty of religious worship, if he refuses to reato;e the property of the convents, if he permits himself to resist the Archbishop of Mexico, he must expect to see the party which had so warmly acclaimed us, treat us Boon as we were treated at Rome, by the Mmodua and the Antoneills. And then, no matter how little the situation may be complicated, we 'may calculate on General Bazaine, who is charged with the maintenance of public tranquility, writing here that fifteen thousand men is too small a force for him, and demanding reinforcements. We do not yet know what the Government of Mexico will be, whether it will be monarchical' or republican, nor particularly on what broad shoul ders we are going to place the heavy burden of re habilitating a bankrupt nation. In any event, we have cause to believe that that laborious work will fall entirely to our charge. In fact, what they are a little deficient in everywhere, but at Mexico more than anywhere else, is capable men. It will be for ua to organize the army, the finances, public educa tion, highways, and the - administration. We will find ourselves compelled, by the dearth of materials, to do everything by ourselves. We will have to ad minister a great empire; we will be responsible for its destinies, and if success is to redound to our glory it must be admitted that, by a fair return, its failures will be imputed to us. d. considerable share of our attention, of our surveillance, will have to be devoted to Mexico ; and hence will come embarrass inents, difficulties and complications, the responsi bility of which we will be no longer free to decline. In vain shall we ask ourselves whether Alla useful or advantageous for France to go so far triseek grave cares—to neglect its internal- affairs, its European work, for the sake of undertaking education at a re mote point, and of unnecessarily charging ourselves with desperate cures. The answer will be, that it is too late, that we are engaged, and that the honor of the flag does not permit us to abandon the work commenced. This prospect is so much the less en couraging as it is plain that, besidee questions of in ternal organization—always very grave and very complicated—Mexico is destined within a very few years, perhaps months, to raise for us grave fn. reign thfficultiea with the - United States, and to draw us, perhaps, into an absurd and moat deplora ble strife. It is a curious and characteristic but inconteati ble fact that in 'France at the present day no one knows exactly why we have gone to Mexico. It is simply a piece of obstinacy that has grown serious by the very obstacles which - it has encountered. Is it a vast project,- maturely weighed, to give to France an American India,' to be governed and exploited as England governs and exploits Asiatic India? No one can say with certainty. But certain indications permit the supposition that this enter- Prise had, -- in - the idea that litnaccived — lt, - a - certain connection, difficult to be defined, with the events that are passing in North America. Every one has remarked the eolicitude, unexpected enough, which the French Government has evinced for the Southern Confederacy, and its oft-repeated attempts upon the English. Government, fortunately repellea by the latter, to give a united recoguitionto the slaveholdin,g republic, of which Mr. Jefferson Davis is the President. Public opinion in France hae not understood the reason for this preference. In principle, the South is' founded upon slavery—an institution that is immoral and profoundly opposed to our icleae and our manners. It is the South that has commenced the rupture with the North. Un doubtedly, in point of view of the production of cot ton, the South can interest us. But that question interests. England still more than us, and yet she has not wished, up to this time, to recognize the South ; and it is she who has stopped the impatient ardor or the French Government in that direction. On the other hand, and admitting that the South may form a separate State, and that the recognition of France may aid her in doing so, it is certain that our presence in Mexico will be still more disagreea ble to her than it can be to the Republic of the North. • In fact, the elaveholding South has only one chance of living and resisting the hostile brethren from whom it seeks to separate; and that is to expand and propagate around it its domestic institution. Slavery, restricted, will be secretly undermined or violently overthrown by the - North. The South can live only by assuming the offensive. It has long recagnized that fact; and its efforts to acquire or conquer Cuba, Nicaragua; and the small Central American Republics, and the absorption of Texas, already consummated, show clearly enough, that the South comprehends the necessity that weighs upon it, and that drives it to conquest and to the propa ganda of slavery. If, therefore, the South should succeed in consum ite separation, it is not doubtful that it would regard with the greatest disfavor the French flag floating over the soil of Mexico, and protecting it from its avowed covetousness- Our Moslean es tablishment will then have a dangerous, threaten ing vicinate, So it is one of not the least astonish ments provoked by this expedition that the French Government should persist in seeking to induce England to recognize with it the Southern republic, whose attacks the French flag, if it remains in Mexico, will evidently have to repel. If, then, as is believed, and as facts appear to indicate, there is a connection between our expedition to Mexico> and the policy pursued in respect to the Southern Con federacy, it must be acknowledged, that that mys terious connection escapes, all our explanations. The only point that remains evident is that if we re main at Mexico, and if the South succeed, it will resume its projects of conquests, that have been snspended by the civil war, and we shall hav%to re pel an inevitable invasion. If, on the contrary, the South succumb and the great Reputtlic be reconstituted, we- cannot expect any better fortune. It will not be, indeed, for - the,. purpose of spreading slavery, which it will have abolished at home,that it tvill menace our Mama& lantic pupils, but rather for the purpose of: repelling European influence, of maintaining intact the more or lees authentic Monroe doctrine, and, perhaps, `also, of giving • employment to the generals and the five or, six hundred thousand soldiers who have con tracted the habits of war, and whom the cloae of the civil War will have left without employment. - We do not dread war when it is useful, when it is bjustified by the success of -.a great cause, when the lood shed is the redemption for a great injustice, and the price of a great step towards the normal re constitution of nations. But' really to provoke a certain war with North America—certain in both hypotheses, whether of eeparation or of reconsti-- all for the vain glory of weaning .an old colony which our diplomats have mistaken for a young nation, would' appear to us so deplorable, so senseless, so perilous, so perfectly opposed to the interests, instincts, and aptitudes of our country, that it is not without profound apprehension that we see our Government plunge, without care, and, as it were, in a • fit of- distraction, into this fatal course. At this moment the whole swarm of eon ,tractors le buzzing around it. Nothing is spoken of but railroads and canals to be built, mines of gold and silver to be worked. But, alas f " all that glit ters Is not gold," and if the Government is . wise it will hasten to profit by the temporary pacification at Mexico by promptly constituting there the best- Government possible, and bringing back our troops and our flag. • • Let it give advice, let it lend skilful men, if it has any to spare, but let it not muffle itself up in a guar dianship of whie,h the present generation would not seethe end. AbOve all, let it not be seduced bythe fallacious hope• of recovering the expenses of the expedition; otherwise it will soon have • expended a thousand millions to gain,back three hundred mil- Boni If - these three hundred millions are lost, so much the worse. Let us pees them to the account' of profit and loss, and let us not engage blindfold in an unknown way, at the end of which is to be seen Only a certain war with North America. Let us bring back our troops to Europe : they will not be at any loss for employment; and if Mexico falls back again into disorder, let not France be drawn into a solidarity which nothing justifies, nor be paralyzed by a transatlantic Algeria, which she would have to protect against enterprising and for midable neighbors. " •- A CURIOUS CASE.—In the suramer of 1861, a clerk connected with the Interior made application for a certain amount of salary due, but upon being in formed that before he could receive his pay or re sume his situation, it would - be necessary for him to give fresh proof of his loyalty by renewing his alle giance to Vie Government,.he turned upon his heel and departed without uttering a syllable. Last week an unforturate•looking person, clad in a dilapidated suit of gray, presented himself at the office of the disbursing clerk, when the following dialogue en sued "Sir," said he, "I have called for an amount of money due me as a clerk in the_ bureau since since 4661 I" ejaculated the clerk, "why'? why have you not settled before'l" " Because, eir;itt, that - time I was required to take "the oath of allegiance ; and, being a Democrat, I could, not conscientiously affix my name to any psper which abbuld virtually4.rove an evidedee of my en dorament of the Administration." "But," he cow' tinned, glancing at 'hie tout ensemble, - (1)- " a change -Lae come over rae• (whether -he meant his mind or his clothes .we do not know), for I believe the ac cursed • retiellion is played out and the So ern Confederacy a d—d failure ; I have taken th ath, and I intend to abide by it, and if , you examine the books you will find that my name is and that the bureau owes me three months' = • An examination proved the truth of the man's statement ; and, we are informed, he will probably receive the amount due. The episode would make a clever chapter in the" romantic pictures " in the history of the rebellion. IT is stated that Governor Curtin will start on his canvassing tour in about two weeks,' and that Erie - will be hie starting point. If so, we presuthe Meadville will be visited next A State Militia Organization. To the Editor of The Press: Sza : What a whirl of excitement was that from which yliu have just emerged 1 I hope the recruit ing fever will not vanish with the de parting columns of the rebel enemy. It is an ignominious and time serving policy—that which .our great State has fol lowed for the last' two years. The Reserve Corps raised by Pennsylvania in time to avert the disasters that might otherwise have followed the unfortunate result at Bull Run, showed so plainly the advantages of being prepared, that it is all the more to be won dered at that we stopped there and paid no attention to'the organization of a militia system. Even after the intelligible warning the State got when Long street came to her borders last summer, nothing was done to pr9vide against the possible future defeat of our Potomac army. The Home Guards, from which so much was expected, have proved of no value, ex cept to furnish soldiers and officers to the , regiments In the field. Now, that Pennsylvania his just re covered, from a second great quake, will the lessons of the past be heededi Surely there are wise men enough in the State to insist now that a comprehensive, well-organized, and vital militia system should be adopted. It has come to this, every man in the North must be a soldier, as every man in the South has been for a year past With us, it is not necessary, it would be injudicious, to put every man in active service. But every one should belong to some regular military company, and every company should be attached to some regiment, which should have its colonel, field and Staff (quartermas ter, commissary, and surgeon particularly); also, its tents and wagons. Every four regiments should form a brigade, and every four brigades a division, and every three divisions a corps ; and there should be two corps, one east of the mountains and one west The brigade, division, and corps commanders, selected from officere who have served in the field, should be appointed, and their staff (except the'A. D. C.'s) appointed and put on duty. All these staff officers should be on regular pay and the line and general officers also—or at least such of them as it might be desirable to have attend to their military duties and nothing else. The damage done by •the last rebel invasion would cover the whole ex pense of such a system for several, years, while in credit every Pennsylvanian could feel proud of his native soil, instead of ashamed of her. There are enough men to fill these one hundred regiments— stout, able-bodied young men—and they should be kept filled to their maximum, and should drill faith fully, twice a week, by companies - and regiments {oftener at rust), and once a month by brigades, and once in two months by divisions, and once in three months the whole corpa should assemble, by regular marches at some point in the department, and should encamp and live together for a week, and drill and fire at targets, and scout, and go on picket, and per form all other military duties and exercises, living, meanwhile, on coffee, hard tack and pork. There should be no pic-nic about it, and no do as you please, or come or stay, as you feel like it, but strict discipline and soldierly subordination. Absence Without leave, and deaertion, should be punished as it is in the army. At least twenty-five of the regi ments should be cavalry; these should mount them selves, and receive forty cents per day, the year round, for the use, risk, and keep of their horses and meddles. They should use their country saddles and bridles, would only want spurs in addition, and should be armed with pistols and sabre, and taught to rely particularly on the latter. The artillery should be in batteries, not regiments, and there should be one six-gun battery to each brigade, with a reserve for each division, and a larger reserve for each corps ; and each regiment of cavalry should have a section of a horse battery of light pieces. All this would give some . trouble, and would ab stract a few days in the year from money-making; but I think business would soon accommodate itself to the change, if made compulsory with all able bodied men between the ages of eighteen and forty five years. While what a manly satisfaction and proud confidence would be felt by every Pennsylva nian when next the herald brought word that the enemy were approaching the border! Now - that we have'taken up the sword, we shall assuredly perish by the sword, unleas we wield it with all our might ' If the different States do not voluntarily adopt soon an efficient militia organiza tion, it ought to be done by a National enactment I am, respectfully, yours, P. The Economy of the State Administration. [From the Harrisburg Tekg,raph, 19th instant.] . . When Andrew G. Curtin assumed the powers and the duties of the Executive office of Pennsylvania, we will not say, that the condition of the State, in the various departments of her Government, in the various industrial pursuits and corporate enter prises of the people, was not prosperous. It was at a period of profound peace, notwithstanding it was at a time when the Democratic slave-drivers of the South, with their doughface sympathizers of the North, were completing their plans to overthrow the National Government. In the year 1862 the re ceipts from ordinary sources of revenue Were in exceea of receipts from the same sources in 1861 one million three thousand one and seventy-six dollars and eighty-two cents (the excess of interest paid in 1862 over that of 1861 being- $144,095.37), and that the ordinary expenses for 1862 were ninety-five thousand thirty hundred and seventeen dollars and sixteen cents less than the year previous ! This healthy condition of the revenues and the ex cess of the receipts over the expenditures, secured by the rigid and general economy which was insisted upon by Governor Curtin in every department of the State Government, induced him to recommend to the Legislature a revision of the revenue laws, with a view to the legalizing of the burdens of taxa tion. At the same time, Governor Curtin also re commended to the Legislature the justice and expe diency of restricting the rate of local taxation, which has been and still le, in some parts of the Common wealth, oppressive. Considering the increase of taxation by the National Government and consider ing, too, the enormous enlargement of the war ex penses, these figures at once redound to the credit of Governor Curtin and the people of Pennsylvania. We want the-tax-payers'carefully to ponder these facts. We want the tax-payers to remember, in the first year of Andrew G. Curtin's administration, .shea he-increased the revenues of the State. one million thirty thousand one hundred and sixty six dollars and eighty two cents; and that the tirdivary expenses of the State for the year 1862 were ninety:five thousand three hundred and seventcen - clollarsless than the year previous; and That Andrew G. Curtin ' by the rigid economy which he enforced during his entire administration, even while he was equipping and sending out thou sands of soldiers. while he was relieving the wants of the soldier's family, while he was succoring the sick and wounded, and bringing the dead from the battle- field home to be buried among their kindred, was enabled to recommend, in the face of these extraordi nary eapenses, a revision of the revenue laws, with a view to the reduction . of the rate of local and Slate taxation! _ The Administration of no other State Government in the Union can point to such a record for the past three years. The history of no Government in the world exhibits such results. These facts prove a rigid economy and a wise statesmanship entirely due to An drewG. Curtin. They put to rest all doubt as to his claims to a re-election. They prove that in his hands the interests of the State and the wel fare of - the people ire safe. Will the-taxpayers of Pennsylvania - accept the prooft Will the people continue to repose' in Andrew G. Curtin the confidence and approval with which they attend ed his steps during the past, for the coming three yearsl If they do not, they mutt expect increased taxation and enlarged indebtedness. If they do—if the people of Pennsylvania decide (as we believe they will) to re-elect Andrew G. Curtin Governor of the State, just in proportion at the revenues have been increased and the Stet?, taxes were reduced for the -past, so will those revenuqs be increased, and that taxation reduced in the confine years of another administration. This is an important fact. It can be viewed only in one light. It cannot be distorted or misrepresented. The result in figures of the in crease of our revenlies, and the reduction of the State taxes, depend entirely upon the contingency that Andrew G. Curtin becomes Governor of Penn sylvania for three years after the expiration of his present lorm I Tax•plyers of Pennsylvania, remember these facts! John Mor. , an and his Men in the Ohio Penitentiary. • The chaplain of the Ohio penitentiary writes to the Christian Advocate that there are sixty. eight of Morgan , s,efficers in the prison. They occupy the south side of the now hall, each end of which is tem porarily closed. They are locked up separately in cells at 7 o'clock in the evening, and are unlocked at about 7in the morning. They enjoy the privilege of walking the hall through the day, which is, per haps, one hundred and fifty feet long and twelve feet wide. At S A. M. and 3 P. M. they are conducted to the common dining hall, and have prison fare, with, I believe, the addition of coffee and sugar, and some few articles furnished by themselves. Morgan had no "belt filled with gOldigreenbacks, and Confederate notes." His valuables amounted to $23 and a butternut breastpin. The amount of our Government and postal currency found on the persons of the other officers was not large. They had considerable sums in Confederate money. Morgan and his men are-all shaved and trimmed, in accordance with the"rule of the institution. This' is the abstoM, I suppose, for two' reasons : First; to secure:Personal cleanliness • second, to give a :mi.: form 'appearance to the pd.:di:era, so that detection would be more easy in case. of - an attempt to-escape.' Morgan is fall six feet, high, straight, and well built, with an elastic step and something of a -com manding presence. His upper lip is short and some what sunken, so that his front teeth are slightly ex posed. His complexion is sandy, and the hair quite thin on the top of his head. He looks to be an ordi nary_man,intellestually. He has, however, one of.. the qualifications of a good commander, he knows how to obey. He conforms strictly to the rules of the establishment, and enjoins obedience on the part of his fellow-prisoners. Colonel Oluke , is three or four inches taller than •Morgan, very slender, with a thin, sharp face and resolute, eye. I suppose, from his appearance, he has more dash and daring than Morgan himself. .„ Basil Duke is a small man, firmly built, and mus cular. His • complexion is dark, and his eye - and head indicate some - mind and a bad heart. He is much the most intelligent-looking man of the crowd. PENNSYLVANIA SOLDIERS' RELIEF Assodivrtox oP WasarzzoTorr.We have received she first an nual report of the Pennsylvania Relief Association of Washington; D. 0. One year'ago, when thou sands of sick and wounded citizen soldiers were pouring into the hospitals of Washington from the malarious swamps and disastrous fields of the Pe ninsula, this association was formed. It seemed to those who constituted the society, loyal citizens of Pennsylvania, either dwelling or sojourning in Washington, that they might co-operate with the Government in its unremitting efforts to alleviate the pains, and cheer the'siiiiits of the sufferers. Ac cordingly, public meetings were held, the object and aims of the proposed association, disclosed, funds subscribed, a constitution approved and adopted. officers duly elected, and the association commenced itiwork.' It has received during the year, from do nations and other sources, $6,403 42, and expended the surrief 0,650 29, leaving a balance in the trea sury (deducting outstanding warrants), of $.767.90. The Executive Committee, in their report, say: It is hoped that for want of means we shall .not be obliged to intermit our efforts in the cause. If less of our care is needed in the hospitals here, we shall enjoy the more time and opportunity to extend it elsewhere ; to the army in the field, and to the lios pitals further trona the great centre of supplies in this city. We again appeal to our people at home. If what we have already done meets with their ap proval, we pledge ourselves here to continue our 'efforts, and their aid will even stimulate us to re , hewed exertions." LARGE POSITIVE SALE OF _FIRST-CLASS BOOTS SHOES, &C.- 'hie partliular attention of dealers is requested to the large and valuable assortment of, bobts, shoes, brogans, Balinorals, mairacing' sainples of 1,100 packages of prime and fresh goods, of city and Eastern manufacture, to be peremptorily sold, by catalogue, on four months' credit, com• mencing this morning, at ten o'clock precisely, by John B. Myers & Co., auctioneers, Noe. 232 and 284 Market street. ENGLISH NEWSPAPER.S.—Froth Mr. J. J. Kromer, 403 Cheetnut street, we have the London Netes of the World, of August 8, and Illustrated London News of name date; both are of average merit, the ftrst in news, the other ingraVings. ATLANTIO tiotivrtLi.—The September nu,naber, received from T. B. Pugh, Chestnut street, THE GfrosT.”--Wedneaday evening hes been changed to Thursday- evening in the Ghost'e pre gramme at MusicarFund Hall. Owing to various pre•engagemente of Wednesday evening, this change will belt suit the public and the manager. The Ghost, in the meanwhile, will have lost nothing of his terror. Tun NATIONAL FINANCES.—The scription agent reports the !ale of $6.26,400 five twenties on Monday by the various agencies. De liveries of bonds are making up to July 21th. inclit sive. THE ATTENTION of the voters in the Tenth Ward is invited to a card in the advertising columns of to.dsy's paper. AN ARREST—Pat. Donnelly and John Casey, the parties implicated in the stabbing of ()ra cer Huhn, have been arrested. FINANCIAL AND CONDIERCLIL. THE MONEY .MARKET. PFITLADELPHIA, Aug - uat 24, 1.863 Tile demand for money today was very moderate,. and borrowers had no difficulty in getting it at nraS 17 cent., according to the quality of ttieir securities. Large amounts were seeking temporary employ. meat at 4@i434. Gold opened very weak at 124, and fell off to 12.3 k on the news from Charleston, but rallied under the pressure of the " shorts" to 124 k, and fluctuating between that and 123% up to the clime. So general is the idea that Charleston must soon fall, that few are found willing to buy gold for a rise, moat opera tors preferring a new reading to an old saw—that "discretion is the better part of prudence." Under this feeling the gold market lags. The firmness of Government securities and the operations of the five-twenty loan is suggestive of a comparision of what the market value of Govern ment would be were the live-twenty loan at par out of the market. When the last of the seven•thirtiea were open to bidders, at a really gloomy period of: the war, they were mostly taken at 110. At that time there was no loan before the people, and those desiring - investment had to operate through the brokers and pay the mr..kci. price. Now Govern ment losr,..re ueeidedly the best investment on the market ; as their interest is payable in gold, and the prospects of crushing the rebellion have considers.- his . brightened since the seven-thirties were sold, and the question now is, what would be the pre mium at ,which a loan of fifty millions national twenty-year sixes could be sold? If Government* a year ago were eagerly taken at 110, would they not be sought now at a much higher figure?. We do not imagine that such a loan will be offered, nor do we see the necessity, as Mr. Chase can Bee his way clearly without it for a good six months yet. We merely ask the question to show the price at which Government loans would be selling were an avenue not open to obtain them at par. It is the five twenties alone which keep the price down, and we look upen it as a kindly evidence of our Secretary's regard for, the good of a great peoplethat he eschews the mere process of money making to accommodate the necessities and interests of those who have up held a long and terrible war. Until the five-twenties are all taken, we may not expect much advance in Government securities. The speculative movement at the Stock Board has come to a pause, not an awful pause, however, for it is a lull rather than an entire break. Prices are generally steady, and it would seem that an outside interest was at work preventing operators giving that attention which produbes a brisk business; such an interest is excited by the movements around Charleston. State and City loans were steady, Reading was moderately active at 60. Cam-" den and Atlantic sold at 20. Philadelphia and Erie at 26%. Little Schuylkill at .18. Pennsylvania at 65%. Cimden and Amboy at 160. Fifth and Sixth. streets at 66. Race and Vine•streets at 10,5. i% Schuyl kill Navigation preferred sold at The market closed irregular. Drexel dr Co. quote: United States Bonds, IES/ 1053570)10f S. new Certificates of Indebtedness 9914@ , 11. S. old Certificate.. of Indebtedness .10l 101 United States 7 3-10 Notes (October) IPS% tenet Quartermasters' Vouchers c9.1., , Ai 593' . . Orders for Certificates of Indebtedness Go'd' iterling Exchange grAit Jay Cooke Sc. Co. quote Goierntnent securitlu i as follows : United States 65, 1E131. Eir,ited States 7 8-10 Notes... .... ~_.—.1065114107 Certificates of Indebtedness. 01d.... 1 01 14:0134 Certificates of Indebtedness. new ... . ... 993Sfio 9931 Quartermasters'Yonchers c%;rd+ 9 4x Demand Notes 123 @124 Gold in @Lt Sales of thre-twenfier, $626,400. WROMPAIMMg3i twaglggitnt§§§Ml 41. ; §ggE9VVAYE-0-120'?-grgIA§1 • mm„,mtErttßZlttltza' • Bs&esltsgr r •ari . gbl 8.67276 • eft.,. C... 0 828',EFTTA-8 8 2,28,8. YR .:.id 50 . 1 X.....1-aat.m-..7 v -4 .- mcbcm-4..m,,..,...-4m Clearings. Balances. • 4 1 3,210,557 30 $467,858 46 . 2,504,216 35 3.90,0E6 46 . 2,968,379 47 351;48 39 2,8.50,659 (4 332,3 9 7 CO : 3,080,C00 33 3.54,442. 29 .. 2,098,261 43 237,331 CO ------ C 7,612,713 97 $2.163.:195 C 4 ..knust 17 15. " 19. • 20. • 21. • 22 . The following statement shows the condition oe the Banks of Philadelphia at various times daring 1862 and 1863: 1882. Loans. Specie. eircul. Deposits - - January 6 - 11.016,337 5,6138,728 2,145,219 21,596,034 August 4 33,517,900.3,660,187 5,9 26 ,070 24.658;09 . September 1 . 0,699,351 3,543,160 5,071,855 14,597,693 October 6 0.4,06,1611 5,435,746 1,095,704 0,419,340 November 3 15,614,335 5,453,00 4,8E900 93,938,714 December 1. - - 06,774,70 5,485.631 4,641,934 0,05,225 January 6,1863 07,679,675 4,610:750 4.501,115 5 5,429,189 February 2 37,268,04 1,56295014,181,603 29,231,753 March- 2 37,901,00 4,267,6%13,606,097 31178,613 9 49,,603571 4,249.915 1 3,608,674 30.670,269 • " 16 29,`206,00 4 ,247,91711,534,630130.610,581 •t 93 39 40,334 4,247,06,3,05.662130,06,136 090,612 ` 11 , 170413 ,930,194129,171, 9 J13 April '6 - 37,0165204 , 4 5213,574.41.010,531,50 13 56 , 249 , 40 : ; 4 , 14 3,242'3,86,66:530, 117,527 36,193,644.4,343,9013,163,01215100.614 27.,,,;,.:,:.136,489,05814,346,37713,078,82 - 113142m96 May 4 ' 0.557,2944,30.324:2,90,428130,80,611 13 56,593,17914,359,21 2,901,60091,949,721 '' 13....... .. .. 36,887,301 43,57,119 2.866,121 , 31,90,033 •• 96 97 116,09314.337,169 . 2,915.100102,455.110 June 1 37,143,957 4,337,02112,706,953131,883,763 8 ....... ... 37,157,769 4,357,076 1 2.649,233.34549,09 15 37.157,703 4,257.076'2,649,0031,519,30 - 22 ....... ... 67, 2 19,216 1 4,356.74412,596,115131,293.600 • ' 0 37,150,66314 3 , 59,61312,656,83,5 1 31.436,203 - July 6 35 , 8 3 5 ,31114 3'0,745 1 2,561,658 23.01,544 " 13.......... 34,866,84214.30,2 3 2 2607,720 28,701,813 " 20 34,662,9664,331,899 2,482,986 29931,593 • ' 27 34,517,3471.4,07,448 1418.463 30.416.430 ' August 3 34.00,179 4,157,M611,417,739 30,799,448 10 34,645,243;4.112 01312,330,70 9),613.96/ 17 36.111,24714,112.54212.35:3318 ;0,90,127 " 21 12 7 176,71414,113,C0.012.32 1 .551 ! 0.975,947 The New York Herald says The trade tables, published this morning, show a falling off of $4,700,000 in the imports for consump tion, and an increase.of.sl l soo,ooo in the imports en tered for warehouaing, a diminution of $1,150.000 in -free goodainiported, and of $30,000 in specie—all as compared with July, 1862. The specie imported was but $182,000 for the month, so thoroughly have the privateers diverted the'current of California gold to England. The cash duties for the month were near ly live millions—a falling elf of two millions and a quarter from same month last year.. The export ac count still.confinues high, domestic produce figuring for $18,298,000, against a trifle over $14,000,000 last year, while the direct shipments of bullion have lath n from eight millions in July, 1962, to tire and a quarter this past month. -- The iniports bear a fair proportion to the exports, and the amount of business must be considered healthy under existing circumstances. The New York Evening Post of to-day says The bank statement this week• shows an increase in deposits of $638,062, and in loans of $407,163. The specie has decreased $1,054,414, and the sir e-illation $67,207. This statement is evidently a very favorable one, and both indicates and foretokens the continued accumulation of unemployed capital. The loan market continues to work with in creasing ease, and, With the exception of an -occa sional spasmodic movement from sudden changes in loans, there to no special activity. Hence, the posi tion of the borrowers is very comfortable, and few persons have the slightest difficulty in raising, on miscellaneous securities, all the money they want at 5@6 per cent. The stock market opened with considerable ani mation. Governments are strong; - New certificates have sold this morning at 99%, and are expected to Rto par, as they are in considerable request. ailroad bonds are firm, Border State bonds im proving, bank shares quiet, and railroad shares irregular. The appended table exhibits the chief movements of the market compared with the latest prices of Saturday. evening: Mon. Sat. Adv. Des. 11. S 6s, 1831, rex ----lee 106 .. U. 8.63, MI, c0u....---...1C6.% 107:5 . 4 .. U. S. seven-thirties. ••• 107 107.. .. 'U.S. lyear Corti' g01d..101% 101% K ..., U.S. l yr. Cert. cruel:my 99% 99% % American gold ...........124 • /24% .. ;le' Tennessee 60. ——•• • • 03 66 .. Missouri 68...........4.--.. 7[ 7034 34 .. Paella Mall. -- -- —230 230.. N.Y. Central _... 104% 131 2K Eris ... . .. —....—.....-119% 1'20% .. I Erie preferred............. 10935 149% ... .. Ilsolson River— --IV; 14S 2 .- - - Harle Ilarlion preferred 111111 MI Readinji . ..... Brick. Centra1........ Mich. Southern .—... 120 11.9,14 1193i' 117Yi 2 x 10730 105.14 . . . , .. ... . . Mich. So. Attar ---. . 737 X 115. 73.1 Illinois Can scrip -1 9 .93 r; 126 X 2X Clevelead&Plitabarg...ll o3 .l. " 1 1012X1; llg Galena l Cleveland&Toiedo PO 121%; .. (Mango a gook Island. 113 X 113:fic • Prairie du Chien S 3 79 4 Fort Wavile--,. --. 91% 91 X Alton & Terre Halite... 64 ' 62 2 . . . . .. • Chicago atloxthwest'n. 36X 341; 22i -- ..... .... 356" &IA • • _ Philade"; Stopk Exc &i,Dorte4b7 a B. SLA FIRST I 500 Penna ss. ADO% I 160 Lit Schttyl R.... b3O 4S - 20 Race & Vine R.• •• • 1034' .-- 70,, . 10)4 50 Cam 6c Aden wit:. 20 200 Sch Nar Prof 22% 100 do Pr0f...1330 25% do prat 2534 6 Reading E. 60 BETWEEN 106 06Y. %1 1. 3000 Patina coup 6s• • • • •12. 530 Philo St Erie..•••bs 280( 400 do ••• • • •b 5 26X 34 do 23. X. 4 Cam & Amboy 8:.165 9 Penna R 65!-4 - ' 10 6th 3: 6th 66 '.600 City 69, & 101 MO IT 6e, '81.... 200 City 6s. new. - - SECOND 600 6ch Nay 6s. '83.• •• •• 825 1000 Allegheny co es• • • 63 IeCO do 83 300 Cit yas 101 R bS ag 50 Delaware Div 100 Big Mountain 1283124 ge SalesjAut. I'a 114, 1%11 - 01111th Zchange. , OAED. " BOARDS 7603 city 9s. R 101 Norristown R-• • • • 90K 5000 Union Ca" 6s. • axle Nit 1000 do b9O 26X 6 Penns .11 65}‘ 200 Reading . R -60 V3OO CRY 6s. Gas 1.01. 1 , 160 P.bila & Brie E. ..s5 If 50 i 0
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