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IVELDWin DAILY (NONUAYs UX(;I3PTED).
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mission may be mode during the week pr.ceding, be
tween 10 and 12 o'clock A,
' • JAMES W. R 081,14, A K.
aul7-murfew Tl , ad Koeer.
THE MISSES CHAPMANN 4- HOARD-
ING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES
will reopen SEPT. 1. Cirettiare may be ohtal lied of Mr.
BILL, WI Walnut et.; of Mews LIN PS &BL (CH.
IS/TM:Z.24S South Sixth et., or by application L. , the Prin
eipale at Holmesburg. Pa. 3 yr.'. mtyfAms
'THE MJSSE RoG F, Rs" EN 0- GES EI
AND FRENCH BO ARDIDA AND D sqaoor,
for Young LadiPP win ronpen TVE , DAY, •iontember Ist,
at 350 South FIFTEENTH street. an26-wrmlBt
SM. CLEVELAND'S 8111-1(o , :n., FOR
• BOYS re-open SEPTRNIBER 7th applioa•
Hen Lobe made at No. 307 3. THIRD .trees, between
9A. M. and 2P M. atil9-wfM-6t
BKENDALL'S OLASSIO A L A.ND
• SNOT.ISH 8 , 1400 L. S. B cornPi - I RTEBTPI4
alid LOCUST ptreet.9, will reopen MONDAY Septem
ber 7th Anil m*
MRS. E. B ALL'S 'PE FOR
YOUNG LLOTEi, southflast c me^ a DELL Vir
and GREEN Street s. The dubes the festituti,u wi ll
be resumed on MOND .O.V. Sort. 7 'MA sate..Ut*
TNSIRUOTION
-•-• OBJECTS, AND PIGTUFki —T Khan reopen my
School for Boys and Girls on the 7th of 4notemhAr.
AN DI iftiON,
108 South Eta HTERN r g ifreet.
an27.thitu tf
pLA SS I CAL INS'PITUL DAN
Street, above Spruce>-Th. duties of the Classical
Institute will be resumed SEPTEMBER 7-h,
a027-2m* J. W. FAIRER, D. D., Principal.
SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND i4IRLS,
CHERRY STREET, WEST OF TWEITt ECH sr.—
A School for Boys nod Olris, mill be op mied in he erat
floor of the NEW JERUSALEM uFil RUH. inO9ERRY,
west of Twentieth street, on the SE - 10 VD NMI DAY in'
September, by Mits M. S PuESTON. Moo Preston has
had many years Of successful experieuce tte a Teacher
and Principal of one of the laxgeat Gramniar Schools in
the city of New York. The course of stniie+ will corn
priae the usual rranebes of inetraction, hesidealatin,
French, and Drawing, at the option of the parents.
Terms—For Pupils over t 0 years of age, per school
year of 10 months $5O
For Pupils of 10 yearn of age and under 25
Applications may he n• 1 dressed to the care of W. H.
BENADE, P. 0.,' Philada. au26-I.m.
3- HENRY WOLSIEFF O R, PROFh'S
, • SOR of Music No. 480 N. SEXTIII an 26 lm*
T BRA. N TLY L A.N GTO -`) • A.O
• may for Boys, No. 1.4-`7 North TRNTH Street,
will be reopened on MO SO A.Y, September 7th, tin2d lm
THOMAS BALD te
S ,N 44 [Asa
-a- Mathematical and Classical- School for Boye, MiS.
corner BROAD and &ROB, will reopen Sept 1. HAIM-Im*
MRS. MARY W. D. SOH 4.F E'ER
will opixi her SCHOOL FOR GIRL 4. from eight
to fifteen years of age, at 1037 WALNUT htroet. on
MONDAY. SeptembPr 7,1863. en!B.l at*
THE CLASSIC AL,MATH EM Al' EC AL,
-A- and BUSINESS INSTITUTE for Thong Men and
Boys, corner of EtGIIT Ef and 13 ITTON WOOD streets,
reopens on MONDAY, September 7th.
Wain .1. P, BIRO 1. A. MN.
MARGARbT ROBINNON W LL, RE
OPEN her echool for Girls, RACE Street, above
FRANELIN, on the 7th of 9th- Month. Apply to M.
ROBINSON, COTTAGE ROW. Germantown, Oft.
LINGRADI, 1235 ERRING GA/C.)101 ticroot, Phila
delphia. • au26-12t*
WEST ARCUSTRERT INSTITUTE,
1733 ARCH,
Rev. P. GRIFFON: A. 8., IPrumP-
Mrs. GRIFFON;
The IiIINTH SEMI ANNUAL E qSioti" commences
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7 h
For terms and ctranlarg anpb as above.
YOUNG LADIEh' INSTITUTE OF
HATBORO, Pa., Rev. OEO. HAND. b. M - . Prin
cipal. A Fanely Boarding School, deliglyfully and
healthfully boat 15 WI iiPS north or Philadelphia.
Duties resumed 510 :4DAY, Sernembe , 7th.
For circulars, call at 530 ARCH scr et, or addregs the
arr2s.6t*
aIRMANTOWN FEMAI li 514.34.1 NA-
' GREEN street. sonth of WALNUT LS E,
will reopen September 9. Circulars mAy .be obtained at
the Seminary.
Professor WALTER S. PORT BS JUG, .a. R.,
an26•tf Priccipal.
MISS C. A. BURGIN WILL REOPEN
her SCHOOL FOR YOUNG L &DEBI, No. 1037
WALNUT St., SEPTEMBER 14 1863 art. 2.6-361.
F RIENDS' AOADENIY 6 1 0 Et BOYS,
rear of -la North 13.1,2VENTH Street f $l2 per term
of twenty-two weeks. All denomination. admitted.
One session from 9 till 2. Reopens 9th month, Sept. Ist.
an.24.1m. S'i" fITALL.
YOUNG LADIES' SCHOOL, AND
CLASSES FOB HONE STUDY, No. 0014 CLINTON
Street. Established by Prof. C. 1). CLEVELAND in 1831.
Fall Term commences September 14
an24-2m
CENTR.AL INSIPITITT 14) N W
corner TENCH and SPRING GARDEN Streets, will
REOPEN SEPTEMBER lat. Boys prepared for any Di
vision of the Puble Grammar Schools, f oilege, or for
Business, CauSi-inin 11. G. Mean RE, k. A. Prin.
iLI
MADAME MASSE AND 'LLE MO.
Rik wilt reopen their FRENCH AND ENGLISH
BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FORYOIING LADIES,
1344 SPRUCE Street, on the 14th of BE-4 R WEI
For circulars or other particulars apply at the above
- number. e.ul4-2m
BE OPENED .ON MONDAY,
TO Sept. 7th. BROAD-STREET AIIaDERY, for BOYS.
'337 South BROAD etreet, opposite Deaf and Dumb
Asylum, EDWARD ROTH, A. et, Princlp Lt. A Pee
tarrittinx_rY, e. rtta t
t fo e r at s r t : a Al e a r rat o . ys t . er e gis n p a : l ctg',
direct DOE 2EVs P. 0., or` call at Sty. LBYPOLD S. JO
EIPER and. CREMUT, or at the Academy. from
August Slat • au24-12t.
R.ELEOT SCHOOL TOR -GIRLS, 1030
SPRING GARDEN Street, will be re-opened on
September 7th. For Circulars apply to
au22-12t. MISS R. T. BIICKM AN, Principal.
A LEXANDE R BAC B MANN,
PIANIST 'and ORGANIST, will regime ihe duties
•of his profession Septentberist. Residence 624 North
'ELEVENTH Street. a.‘o2-I.m•
TROY FEMALE SEMINARY.-THIS
-a- Institution offers the accumulated advantages of
Ott years of euccessfnl operation.- •
Every facility is provided for a through course of use
-.ftd and ornamental education. under the direction of a
•corps of more than twenty professors and teachers,
For Circulars, apply to
a2O-36t JOHN ,H. WILL aRD. Troy, N. Y.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM IL FENNEY
.
if ,": announces to his Pupilsthat he will return to the
. 4, "% m "•t e . Vfts to retume.his lessons. on the 2 , 1 or sth of hen
he latest. Address. MesBrs A SDRE & CO.'S
-Mtia '' S to gy . lll Ol CHESTNUT. Street. ' .au2A-tseSs
pHILADWHIA PROFESSIONAL
INSTITUTE. , tr. ..,or. THIRTEENITI and CHEST
NUT Ste :, will °peanut - neap y Sep t.L 1
of Training is peculiar t 0..., : The Cours
Lf4 l A n .itut. . I' t' 6
ott or par ictt-
Aare and circulars send to lee
'Philada. Cauls-1.2030rth ELEVENTH St„
- ' I. NEWT' ' 'N. PEIRCE, Principal.
. ~
'THE PHILADELPHIA:' , 4xIIIOOL OF.
-a- DESIGN FOR WOMEN, - 11.331', CHonumpr s tree t . _
ire-opens on SEPTEM SKR For co„admisSion
=apply at the School Rooms.
aulS•lBt T. W. BRAIDWOOD,
VEMALE PENNINg:
-IL TON, N., S.—The FALL TERM opens AUGUST 30, ,
.Namber Of Pupils limited to twenty. Board, &c., with
•Common English, tin per quarter. For other informs
addreos A. P LAMER,
anl2-lm Principal.
`THEMISSES CASEY & HRS. BEEBE'S
French and English Boarding and Day-School. No.
:1703 WALNUT street, will re-open on WEDNESDAY.
, September 16. . _ . nag 7-2 m
VEMALE COLLEGE, BO RD ENT 0 VV - N,
-a- N. .T.—Pleasantly:situated on the' Delaware River,
thirty-miles north of Philadelphia. The very best ad
vantages in all 'departments of a thorough and =corn ,
.plished BDUCATION furnished in connection with - a
pleasant home. ,
Only'a few vacancies for the Fall Term, commencing
bEleptember 16th. For catalogues address
au6.6w Rev. JOHN H. BRARREIRY,
TPHIL.A.DELPHIA COLLEGIATE IN
sTrivrE ter Young Ladies. MO ARCH Street. Rey.
• CHARLES A. willH, D. MONDAY,ipaI.. The ninth
...Academic Year begin on Setitember Uth.
:Tor circulars, and other information, address Box
^3.611?. 0. . : je26.3m.
BRISTOL • BOARDING SCHOOL FOR
GIRLS, applytop on MANN 7th ef Ninth month.
boy Circulars, ROM A PRIEBE, Bristol.
"Backs co.. Pa. 3e17-3m*
41HESTN UT STREET FEMALE .SE,MI
- —English and French Boarding , and Day
School. Principals, Miss Bonney and Miss Dillaye.
Me twenty. seventh-semi.annnal session will open Wed
mesdayA September 9, at 1615 Chestnut Street, Philadel
phia. Particulars from circulars, an19•tool
FAIRVIEW BOARDING SCHOOL,
NORRISTOWN, Pennsylvania, for Boys and Young
Men, mill commence the next session on the 29th SEP•
TENSER, For circulars address the Principal,
anl9-2M , GEO. A. NEWBOLD.
:THE HANNAH MORE AC ADEMY,
WILMINGTON, DELAWAIMI—The duties of this
'Seminary will be resumed on MONDAY, , September 7,
1863. For terms apply to the prhicipals.
anl9-lm C. & J. GRIMM:I aW.
TIME CLASSICAL AND kINGLISH
SCHOOL OF R. D. GREGORY, A. Pit. No. HOS
d.IIIIIIIIT Street, will REOPEN on TUESDAY. Sentein
lber let. at[l9.lre
MISS. MARY R THROPP WILL RE
open her Easlith and French .Boardinuand *Day
School tor Torun Ladies. .at 1841 CHESTNUT Street.
AIL the 14th of September,. For circulars. until Septem-
Vsertstp_APPly at the Stuiday-school Times 148 South
FOURTH street, Phila., .or address Mice Thropp at Val
'ley Forte, Penna.: • m716-Ink*
THE DIVINITY SCHOOL OF THE
P. E. CHURCH_ IN PHILADELPHTA will commence
'lts second year oa.T.EHRSDAF, Septene her 17th • at the
new buildings in West Philadelphia. Fall and thorough
.courses of instruction, adapted to candidates for the
'Diaconate and for the Priesthood, will be givenStu
4ents desiring to room and board in the main building
should. give notice or their wishes immediately. Board
can be obtained in the vicinity, and in Philadelphia (east
of the Schuylkill), at different pricer; from $4 upwards.
The Library, enriched by the books of - the lath Pro
fessor Turner, and by handsome contributions from two
or three members of the Church, comprises all the works
nnost needed for study and reference.
Application may be made to the undersigned, or to any
of the Professors of the institution
JOHN A. CHILD:4. Secietary,
:a.ulB-tuflOt Episcopal Rooms, 709 WALNUT Street.
IIDENNSYLVANIA MILITARY &OA
DICEY, AT WEST CHESTER. (For Bearden only.)
'The duties of this Seadeniy will be resumed on FE( CRS
- DAY, September Sd. The following gentlemen c , mpose
;the Board otTrn. tree:
Hon.:JAMAS PoLLOCK, President.
Capt. N. M. APPLE, Vice President.
W. E,
EL
BARBER, Esq., Secretary.
JAMES - OEIIE, Esq., Treasurer.
: Rev, Thos. Newton. D. D., James L. Claghorn,
:Rev. Thos. Brainerd, D.D., Charles B. Dungan,
- Hon. Oswald Thompson, Geo. P. Russell,
7 - Hon. Chas O'Neill, Wm. L. Springs. .
:Hon. John Hickman, Geo. L. Farrell,
- Hon, W. E Lehman,. Addison May,
Col. Wm. Bell Waddell, T. B. Peterson,
.Jas. B. Townsend. Theodore Hyatt.
, The advantages afforded for the acquirement of a tho
..rongh,milltary education are second only to th4e of
`West Point. The Academic Staff is composed of tt o
roughly competent instructors. The Educational De
partment embraces Primary, Collegiate, and Scientific
, courses. The Mathematical and Military Department
- Wunder the charge of -a, Graduate of the United States
Military Academy of the flye.yeara course.
Careful attention is paid to the moral instruction of
• the cadets. Circulars may.be had of JAMES H. OR.NR,
, No. WIG Chestnut street, Philadelphia., or of
Col. THEO. HYATT,
atil2-Im West Chester. Pa.
Colonel WYATT will be at the Continental Hotel,
Philadelphia. on FRIDAY and SkTIIRDAY Mornings,
'from to 12 o'clock, on the 28th and 29th instant, and
- will be happy to see any of the patrons of the Academy,
•or others. on official business. an26-4t
AIRMOUNT CIOALOIL WORKS,
-a- THIRTIETH Street. behipw,Wlre Bridge; Office,
132 WALNUT Street.
Burning 01.1., li.ondod or free,, apts . on, 111 ol Tar
legirt., tor Painting , ecianti to Uar r o.!.ina. Deodorized
Lubricating "011 s, very anperlor,_ altiiys On hand,
varranted good for all kinds of Machinery. Rail road
Cltre. dto. rage, 40 to 50 cents. - a tSSE-Siepo
VOL. 7.-NO. 24.
Et't Vrtss.
LONG BRANOE, N. .T., August 27
[Correspondence of The Press.)
Byron evidently did not write Childe Harold at a
Watering-place, or he never would have written—
" There is society where none intrude',
By the deep tea, and music in ill roardl,
Music in its roar, of course, orchestral tumults
incessant and overwhelming, but as for the nobody
that intrudes, I do not see it in the same light as
Mr. Harold. On the contrary, solitude is about as
scarce as ice, and cannot even be obtained in the
churches on Sunday. Some seasons ago mass was
Celebrated in a large parlor of one of the
hotels; now there is 'a church for the accom
modation of Catholic worshippers, unfortunately
entirely too small. On Sunday it was over-crowded,
_and scores of people were obliged to _ worship
Heaven under no other roof than heaven itself. In
the afternoon, while walking with a friend, we ob
served forty or flfty carriages and a large crowd as
sembled in front of the Mansion House. We
thought it a race, but it proved to be a sermon. An
Indian preacher, who appeared to have very little of
the Indian in his nature, was speaking with much
fluency to respectful listeners. His subject was con
science, burro Politian had just dined very delight
fully hie conscience did not trouble him, and
he declined to listen to truths in which he had
no personal concern. In fact, -•I have never yet
heard a sermon addressed, to the wicked to which
I could listen without feeling like en eaves dropper.
When a good and holy man addresses an assemblage
of sinners, I feel instinctively that I have no more
right to listen than to open a letter not addressed to
me. There is a delicacy, too, which pmvents me
from intruding upon the confidence of a physician
and his patients. When I find a - company of ladies
and gentlemen earnestly hearkeningto a clergyman
who informs them - that _ they are utterly corrupt,
from the crown of the head to the sole of the -foot, I
sympathize at once with their shame in having their
conaition exposed to an utter stranger. ', Poor'
devils, and devilettes," I think, "I will spare you
that pain ;" and, like the sensible Pharisee, leave
the publicans to their misery, and pass by on the
other side, in the direction of the 'nearest sherry
cobbler. Religion, I say, is good for sinners, and I
desire all my readers to remember that, abstractly. I
approve ol virtuous admonition. , Personally, I
don't. Let the hungry seek food—the evil-doer, for
giveneis ; but Politian has had his dinner, and, as
for virtue, thank you, my dear sir, net a spoonful
more: I have already enough.
Don't throw down the paper, Madam, my dear
Madam, I beg of you. Don't wonder how your fa
vorite and high-toned Press can adMit such a re
.
probate to its columns. On my solemn word of
honor, I assure you that I am satirical.' You may
think it impossible, but I am. If you want me to, I
will be as great a sinner as you wish. But upon my
word, it is hard that if a man is a sinner, everybody
denounces him as such, and if he says ne is not, he
is abused• as a hypocrite. But lam not selfish In
these matters, and though I refuse to commit any
great crime, for politeness' sake, I' will oblige the
woridwith any littlepeccadillo they desire. So here
goes fora fib.
"There be none of Beauty's daughters
That is half so fair as thee; -
- And like moonlight on the waters
Is thy gentle voice to me,—"'
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It is true, my Mary Ann, let others say what
they of Kiss Johnson's beauty, thou art the
shrine at which I kneel, or would if the beach were
not so sandy. Bid me .do whatst thou willtst, but
say. motet Thou mustat go.' For thee will I die,
give up smoking, or perish in the briny deep. List,
lady, to my lute." [Politian sings.]
A sweet kind of wickedness is such fibbing, and,
like opium•eating, once acquired, I fear it would be.
come a habit impossible to-forego.
Venus no longer rises from the ocean, as I have
said, but she flirts upon its shores. What would be
the seashore without womanl—lovely woman, as I
think I have heard her called. How much the land
scape owes to her witchery 1 Far out at sea a white
mall, on the perfect blue, sleeps like a sea gull mo
tionless and calm; but on the bluff; with draperies of
snow and azurersails against the wind a little bark
freighted with all sweetness, like Cleopatra's barge
—such a bark as conveyed the seekers of the Happy
Islands to their blissful destination. To such a
trim boat would Politian commit his fortune. Yes,
and, if the wind was fair, the waters smooth, the
stars propitious, and, the heart of the adventurer
bold, the little bark might wander as she would, for
with Ulysses he would say :
"Itmay be that the seas will bear us down,
It may be we shall reach the Happy Isies,”
but at any rate—
• " The boat is waiting, the wind is fair, -
And I am ready for thee, Mary Ann."
PLTNY E. CHASE
There,ie not an ugly woman at any of ',,the hotels,
letting each lady be her own judge, which is only
fair. I sometimes doubt if women are human beings,
they are so pure and gentle and ethereal, and differ
so much from men. It depends a .great deal, how
ever, on the particular ease of entoozy-moOzy" what
one thinks. Sir Thomas Browne; an old rascal who
had three wives during his , life, wished women had
never been created, and that the race of man, was
propagated as trees are. For my part,.l am satisfied
with the world, as God'made it, and would rather
not have a crop of babies growing out of my arms,
like•fruit on a crabapple tree. An early frost might
depopulate the world. Man is a flirting animal, and
women were, therefore, wisely made. As for their
rank in the scale of creation, that is another matter.
.Angels before marriage ; after it they become cooks.
A Frenchman was asked which he preferred, women
or horses. He replied that he loved women the best,
but horses he most respected. Let him go to the deuce
with Sir Tommy Browne. A woman cannot be de
spised and loved at once. If they are generally vain,
it is because they have reason to be ; it is more than
any man can say of himself. That they all are vain,
no woman has ever denied ; it is a weakness in re
gard to whichwe reverse the assumptiono the law,
for of vanity all women are to be considered guilty
till they are proved innocent. It is one of their
charms. I saw the beautift,l Mrs. in the cars,
coming to the Branch, and though she did not
-Inok in the least vain, with her veil down, I thought
slieraust be, or she could not have looked eo charm
-Ipg."—f,anity maketh them all cultivate their beauty,
and drere with bewitching elegance. Let the cynic
say what he will, I say that women have a right to
live; at least for the sake -of man. If yon don't
believe it, kill your wife and take the conseeuence,
but! for myself, "Give me Anastasia, or give - me
death, with a decided preference for Anastasia. 7,
How can I speak of the many fair faces that float
near me, and which shall ever haunt my dreams?
Which of them is Florine Florin—sweet name,
which innumerable pencils have scribbled over all
the summer-houses on the bluff—shall I ever knoW
thy owner? Art thou, Flbrine, daughter of Zion,
whose midnight hair burning gold enwreatlis ? or
thou scornful beauty of the steel blue eyes? or she
who smiled so very sweetly when the clumsy Poll-
Ulm trod upon her gauzy skirts, and said, with
sublime !condescension, "It is not of the slightest
consequence?" Is she the houri in pink, or the
nymph in white, or the angel in transfigured lawn?
Tell me not in mournful numbers that Florine is
she who, at dinner, to-day, piled in so heavily on
the clam fritters, and made that miserable darky
waiter curse the hour that he was born. Remain,
rather, a mystery forever, Florine, and sleep with.
Junius and the Iron Mask.
Because I know her quiet-bright eyes will never
rest upon the lines which Politian has written, let
him whisper to the winds, of one who is fairer than
Florine—one whom he has passed in life as a lonely
bark passes a fairy island—" a ship at sea that'
cannot land." She is gone now; she went away in
the early cars, but many a heart went with her, and
heavy must have been the train loaded with those
melancholy passengerkwho,botight no tickets at the
office. To Politian at leait she will long be sweet
to: memory and dear to hope, and beautiful as is the
holy heaven to which his trembling soul aspires.
Hardly can he dare this nameless mention of her
worth, though none perhaps will ever lift the veil
in which her lovely image is draped, for he feels
that the veil itself should be hidden from the stran
ger's gaze. And he to her is a stranger—already for
gotten ! But it did not need years to teach him that
had Fate been kind, he might in her, some golden
day, have found a friend, for men too can feel, and
they also have an intuition. Alas ! she deserves a
better friend than Politian Could ever be :
Farewell—a lAng and lingering farewell, not like
that brief and cordial clasping of the hand in formal
parting ; but the farewell of the emir, which. like the
closing'cadences of a Divine melodk, refuses to die
and passes .moat tenderly ' into silence. Farewell—
and how reluctantly farewell no` voice can breathe..
She is gone ; but the rose, when it is withdrawn,
leaves its sweet, invisible spirit on the.aii; Fire
well ! Farewellt It is hard to say a word which
bath been and must be; but it is said. Would that
it were blotted from the melancholy world for fity
sweet sake ; but still farewell—with all my NMI,
farewell
Do you think me sentimental, Madam] Perhaps
I will think so, if there is ever a lee. Politian and
fdur or five young Politians; but pardon me, for I am
as yet unblessed with those treasures. Besides, if
you had seen her—but ask my friend, whom I shall
ever thank that I have had that haitPiness—ask him
if I am too enthusiastic. He, who is always elo
quent, would be more than eloquent on a theme for
which Demosthenes might have forsaken that, of
Grecian liberty, or he himself that of his country.
No more of sighing!lf we cannot be happy we
will be indifferent; for though man cannot beciome
as the gods; he can at least te—the neit beat thing—
the stole. I suppose you are anxious to know BOnle
thing of Long Branch, who is here, andwhat is dolng.
Why, then, if you must know, ex-Benator James . W.
Wall Is here, and has addressed a Democratic meeting
at-Red Bank. Did I hear him? Not I, by the soul
of my great-grandfather. I read one of his speeches
once, and made a horrible vow. If you want to
know all abodt Wall read your "Midsummer Night's
Dream: , Pyrannus and Thisbe saw through him,
and I suppose modern eyes are as. sharp. Poii.
ticiaris should have the precedence, I suppose, and
therefore Wall goes but it is With more
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TRH SEA-SHORE.
THE BEAOHL-WICEED THOUGHTS.
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"The brow that holds her in its thought
Should wear a golden crown."
PERBON'ASITIES.
pleasure that I mention the antipodes of a politician
Mr. Daniel Dougherty, who, unlike Demosthenes,
has no need to come to the seashore to study ora
tory with the help of pebble atones. There is also
here the author of the best poetry the war for free
dom has inspired, whose name fame is now carving
in marble letters, but which I write here as men
write upon sands, soon to be washed away by the
waves—George H. Boker, the author of "The First
Louisiana Regiment." Nor , is he the only poet at
Long Braila. Mr. John A. Dorgan, author of a little
volumeOf " Studies," which the world wilt yet learn
by heart, I saw in a heavy surf to-day, clearly as in
timate with old Nep. in his bathing dress as in his
singing robes, Mr. George W. Childs, whom every
body knows, but who doesn't know everybody, I had
the pleasure of meeting, with Mr. Drexel, to whom
Third street was evidently as a buried street in Her
culaneum. Others there are whose names history and
the hotel lists may register, but whom I have not
space to catalogue. Of literary people - I have been
few. Mr. I:Raney, of the New York Leader, is here,
and, I believe, Mr. Henry Morford.
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But I must not forget Dudley Kavanagh, who is
to billiards what Babbage's calculating machine is
to arithmetic. It was easy to see, in watching him
play a few games, that not only mental character,
but teniperament and physical nature, fitted' him for
pre-eminence. An active mind, true perception, a
steady hand, and a cool self-possession that never is
shaken—these qualities win hie games. His, play
has-the simplicity and grace which only a great mas
ter .can attain. He accomplishes impossibilities
almost without effort. A new Kepler, the move
ments of the balls, however irregular they may
appear to others, are orderly and systematic to him.
Like the worlds in .the archangellc chorus of the
prelude to Faust, they move,
--
"On their predestined orbits, rolled
With lightning speed."
I could not help comparing him, so young and so
preeminent in his vocation, with Morphy, and the
question would suggest itself to me whether the
mental powers of these champions might not, under
different circumstances of education, have qualified
them to exchange their respective thrones, and
given to .Kavanagh the empire of the chess hoard,
whilst placing in the hands of Morphy the sceptre
of the billiard table. Kavanagh is, I believe, a
good chess player, and the possibility I have sug
gested is based on his theory of culture.
El=
The sea! what adjective does not apply to it at
times—what mood se subtle that it cannot respond
with sympathy to its calls ? It is a Sbakspeare, know=
ing by intuition all possibilities of character; or a
Mozart, to whom in earliest childhood, in the child
hood of the world, all secrets of melody and harmo
ny have been revealed. Or, to seek similes from old
mythology, it now reminds us of "universal Pan,"
and now of changeful Protein. Like some of those
sweet wild airs of his Green Isle, which Moore has
married to immortal verse, it is by turns exultant
and despondent; imperceptible are the gradations of
its ascents to summits of joy—of its descents infi
nitely slow, and ! therefore, infinitely sad, into fa.
thornless depths of melancholy and despair. A la
byrinth without a clue, a mystery whose Rey is lost
forever; a poet's dream which mocks his feebleness
to utter it; a strain of music such as the dying hear,
but may not repeat; a horror such as those who had
entered the cavern of Trophonius beheld, so dread
that thenceforth never smile might light the eyes
which it had cursed. All these, art thou, oh, lonely
ocean ! but how much morel Too deeply hive I
felt thy spells, too gladly have I yielded myself to
the intoxication of thy siren songs, to profane thy
majesty with my feeble words.
Yet, why speak of profanation? The shrine of St.
Teter or the mosque of Omar may be polluted, but
the sea is too great in its infinity of space, in its
eternity of- duration, to heed or recognize the paltry
efforts of. man to degrade it. With god-like indif
ference it beholds his fruitless labors, nor smiles nor
scoffs when they pass away and" are no more. " Yet,
if Ocean old could be tempted from his serene isola
tion, provocation sufficient to justify any ebullition
of passion on his pert has long been heaped upon
him. For is not pis mission to agitate and gratify
the hearts of those, the elect, who fitly can appre
ciate his witcheries, who can gaze unwearied, lost
in accordant dreams, upon his shifting canvas with
its magical changes of form and color, who can listen
to the unwritten priems forever 'pouring from his
white-bearded lips, to the tender, yet stately har
monies forever flowingfrom those "unusual strings"
of .his lyre. And we, in our innate depravity,
make merchandise of this beauty, and trade across
these foaming billows, and fish off these enchanted
shores, and.bathe by these yellow sandewhioh have
been sanctified by the tread of the undying deep.
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If there is any crucial test of beauty, whether male
or female; assuredly it is to be found In the aesuinp
tion of, a bathing dress, and-exposure_ in its awk
ward folds to the vehemence of the breaking waves.
Beauty born of the sea foam! Why, the old my.;
thologist could never harelone to the sea shore in
summer, Nand propagated a fiction so Monstrous
thereafter. Loveliness emerges from it, transformed
into - a. damp, moist, draggled, limp,-briny, dripping
mass of tangled drapery and dishevelled hair. As for,
ugliness, it becomes exaggerated into monstrous and
incredible deformity. Hawthorne, in his. House
of the Seven Gables," fancies that every daguer
reotype is a revelation of the secret soul of the sitter.
Passing to-day by a photographer's office the idea oc
curred to me that this psychological revelation might
be madeabsolutely complete if its subjects were led
up froin the beach and seate‘before the camera in
their dank bathing costumes. Young couples feeling
some tender affinity with some spiritual attraction to
wards each other, might come to this oracle to con
sult it upon the wisdom or folly of their desires:
Yet, would the responses be held too harsh, unless
the magic of lociro' g hearts could draw presages of
happiness from words of ominous import. Perhaps
it is for this reason that the notion remains and is
likely to remain unrealized. Yet, if following this
suggeition, any lady fair should dare this unfiery
ordeal, she will confer a favor upon the undersigned
by enclosing to him a copy of her shadow-image, in
care of the editor of The Press, and he will ever re
main, fcc.
Tennyson Might have written his Day-Dream
here,. so wholly remote from all the.ordinary in
terests of every-day lire does the tranquil tide of
beint lapse away here. Here are neither ware nor
rumors of wars; politics are forgotten; all are Epi
cureans, and happiness their only earthly good:
The deliciously cool and soft sea-breeze tempers the
heart of the meridian sun, "the stately ships go on
toe their haven under the the beach swarms
with happy faces, and the air rings with merry
laughter. Life is a jest—creek it; a glass of cham
pagne—quaff it off; a rare cigar—puff it away. As
for those who abide not in our Paradise, who die
and think - they live in that world we have forsaken,
" let them rave !" Latin-eaters are we,:and care
notlor aught we have left behind. We stand upon
the shore and watch "the tender, curving lines of
creamy spray," and, profane the, great liureate's
verses by a yarody,mpsing
" thecotton kings
Have eaten,up our substance, overbold;"
Or if
"The minstrel sings
BefOre them of our three.years march on Richmond,
And our great deeds as half-forgotten things"—
Then we grow sentimental and condemn ourselves
for trillftg with poesy so splendid, or a war so holy,
and stop the newsboy, who passes with his. hot
pressed wares; to see how goes on the siege of
Charleston.
.
Yet, have all these interests, Which erewhile ab
sorbed us, a dimness and remoteness as of things
which had moved us in some past existeneeor
Like glimpses of the world to be,
1.• To_spirits folded in the womb."
POETRY OF THE REA.
There is a place for everything, and bythe sad sea--
waves is pre-eminently the place to read, or better,
to recall the lays of the poets. What fruitful inspira
tion have they received from its lips,! Where is the
bard who has not paid tribute to it? And if his song '
of it, as evermore will be found the case, has caught
the breezy music, the deep, throbbing swell of its
sUrges, who has not had his gentle homage requited
with noble largesse by the imperial deep 7' They
come, hour by hour, to me, in the Words of Long
fellow
1, Drifting, drifting, ever drifting
On the shifting.
..'Currents of my restless heart , '
They astonish•me with.their numbers and thrill
me with their beauty. ^Listen to these lines:
Two friends who wander on the shore
Look not upon.the self-same seas,
Hearing two voices in its roar,
Because of different memories.
To him whose love the sea bath drowned,
It moans the music of his wrong ;
To him whose love with life is crowned,
It breaks upon the beach in song.
Sea-like in their grace and!depth of power, oh
friend of mine ! are thy words.
I think of the sea and I think of Hamilton, who
seems to paint with foam, and deepen his tones
With the veritable sea.green that is moaning through
the hours of the night. I think of Dorgan, who
has given us one original simile about 'the sea,
which I find echoing in my memory as I walk along
the beach like a quaint and weird refrain :
Along the endless reaches -
Of bleak and barren beaches .
The billows comb and pour,
Mocking with bitter laughter
The hope of the hereafter,
The pride of heretofore.
Politian would be sorry to dwell upon the mockery
of the sea, for he is not in a cynical humor, and so
he calls up Longfellow's majestic stanza :
Ocean old,
Centuries old,
Free as youth and as uncontrolled,
Silently , pacing to and fro,
Up and down his sands of gold.”
How it is under the sea many a poet has imagined,
but few with more suggestivenels than Dir. Kane
O'Donnel :
In the sea's Valhalla sits . ,
Hoar Neptune on his throne;
. Round him the storm-gods rise,
Sea-elf and water.gnome.-
- Thro' the deep Domdaniel Caverns,
• . (Far underworld they
-be 1)
The angry demons come from hell
To cool them in the sea
* * * * *
Upon the ocean's floor
Lies the wrecked galleon's mine;'
Leviathan ponders by,
And dolphins light the brine.
And there the skeleton lieth
Of many a pirate bold
They cannot grasp, their bone-dead handi,
Those yellow treasures old !
Byron's . Poetry is oceanic, nor did his muse ever
rise higher, perhaps, than in his apostrophe to the
sea; and some otShelley's most etherial stanzas are
of the ungrateful waves which swallowed him.
Where were ye, nymphs, when
- the remorseless
deep,
Closed o'er the head of jour loved Lycidasl"
PHILADELPHIA, FRIDAY, A.UGU . ST 28, 1863.
What a foreboding, almost prophetic, in those
closing stanzas of 'Monate, or in those simple hues
in which, spealiing - 4 death, he cries,
" Who shall put forth on thee,
- Unfathomable sea?"
Then who has not seen, in dreams, Keats ,
"Fairy casements opening on the foam
Of perilous seas in fairy lands forlorn."
With Wordsworth we have beheld
Protein coming from the Sea,
And heard old'Triton blow his wreathed horn."
Of Shaltspeare, in this connection, it is labor lost
to speak. Perhaps no living author has given us co
many and such perfect pictures of the waves as Ten.
Dyson. In his verse
"You seem to hear them rise and fail,
Or war, rock-thwarted, under bellowing caves."
In the Idyls we have
" Still salt pool, locked in with bars of send,
Lett on the shore, which hears all night
Theplunging waves draw backward from the land
Their moon•ied waters white."
Here is a line which haunts me :
"Ind softer lapse on sunnier sands the waters of
the bay." -
A pleasant marine, pardye, by an Amelican artist.
As for Coleridge, ye " Ancient Mariner,"
" If none but those who share its dangers
Know the secret of the sea,""
What tales of hairbrAdth 'napes and ventures
Perilous, of shipwreck , and storm, he should have
been able to tell after his long wanderings to many
a coast of ancient fable and fear ! So Igo on, re
calling the wisdom of- a thousand years, and one
thinks might go bn forever, but I weary you with
these reminiscences.
As for myself, if I may speak of myself in the next
paragraph to these high old worthies, shall I con
fess that, though I am guilty, now and then, of
rhyme and rhythm, I cannot write poetry here, I
feel so profoundly the poetry around me. lam con.
tent to be an humble foot-note to one of these leaves
of the inexhaustible volume of nature. So, when I
was met on the sea• shore by a friend, who asked
"Had I written anything new about the seal"
No," was my reply; "I bathe' n it."
There is a fascination which would repay analysis
in the restless grandeur, as in the moody magnifi
cence, of the waves. Goethe felt
it when he wrote
his "Fisher," and Schiller when he' penned his
"Diver." Do you remember the stanza in the
former
"The sun and moon, do they not lave
, • Their foreheads in the deep,
And, doubly bright and doubly brave,
Arise as ont of steep?
Lures not thy soul•the fathomless,
The moist, transfigured blue?
Thine own fair face, bath it no spell,
Down in the eternal dew ?c
And who can forget this stanza, so worthily ren
dered by Bulwer in his translation of "Der Tau
cher 1" •
And it seethes, and it foams, and it hisses and
roars,
As_when fire with water is mixed and conten
ding,
And the foam of its spray to the welkin up pours,
Arid the roar of its surge hurries on never-end
ing ;
And it never shall rest, or from trara c il be free,
Like a sea that is laboring the birth of a sea."
A Novel War Vessel.
The following communication from Capt. Jurgen,
a Danish officer of high inventive genius, and ex•
tended reputation in naval circles, will convey a
general idea of the principles upon which hie new
War •vessel is proposed to be coustruoted: Aa will
be seen, these principles are novel, and as it strikes
us, exceedingly valuable. The invention has been
submitted to the naval board, and from the favor
with which it has been received, the board will
doubtless recommend that a vessel be Constructed as
an experiment. If it succeeds, it - will again revolu
tionize Our navy : •
To the Editor of The Press:
SIR : The primary object of my invention is to so
construct a vessel that she may be penetrated with
shot 'without injury to her vital parts—machinery,
armament, or crew. This object is accomplished by
forming that part of the ship above the water-line,
and below the upper deck, with a series of b liqu e•
sided chambers, passing transversely through the
ship,'wide at the centre and converging toward egch
side. .The aides of the chambers are covered with
metallic armor of moderate thickness, laid upon
wooden sheathing, with a body of india.rubber or
other elastic material placed between. The space
between the said chamber will thus be funnel shaped,
converging from each aide toward the centre.
Above the upper deck are bulwarks, stronglyiron
plated, projecting upward to a sufficient height, and
inclined inward from the perpendicular, at a suffi
cient angle to protect men and boats upon deck from
injury by an enemy's shot. On the outside of the
bulwarks are light iron bars, running fore and aft,
and furnished with-pikes projecting obliquely down
ward, to keep off boarders. The said pikes may be
raised and lowered simultaneously by means of
transverse connecting rode, worked by hand or by
machinery.
To protect the ship from the assaults of-rams or
other vessels, pivoted guard wings are employed,
projecting-from the sides beneath the water. When
not in use, the said wings, lay in parallel positions
against the side of the ship so fa not to retard-her
motion, but -they may be .thrown outward -at!pllY
suitable angle 'to sheer off the attack ;of a ram or
other vesiel, or to giapple and impede her motion
and manceuVres. - • -
The masts . are constructed in tubular form, with a
Central tube of iron, and a body Of india rubber,
cork or analogous material interposed between the
said tube and the outer shell of the mast.
. .
The step on which the central tube rests consti
tutes a swivel on which the tube may turn freely, so
that any shot striking the tube on either side of . its
exact centre will turn it within its elastic case, and
thus glance off. To increase the elasticity of the
'surrounding material and the freedom with which
the tube will turn, a small space is left between the
tube and its casing.
The smoke stacks may be let down to the level of
the top of the bulwarks, to preserve them from in
jury while in action. '
.To prevent injury,from hot shot lodging in the
timber of the ship's sides, it is proposed to use tubes
of India rubber or other-material placed within the
substance of the sides and extending to the upper
deck. In the event of fire, the smoke rising through
one or more of the said tubes will indicate its loos.
tion, and water may then be forced down the tubes
to extinguish it.
Suitable lookout spaces are provided in the upper
bulwarks for the use of the captain or helmsman,
but contracted
- in area so as to prevent the entrance
of shot.
The •intention with ,thisvessel is to fight. at close
quarters and deliver plimging shots to the enemy.
The peculiar construction is believed to render the
ship, in a great measure, invulnerable with any mis
siles in ordinary use.
For the purpose of destroying mail-clad vessels,
the inventor has devised & peculiar construction of
projectiles adapted to penetrate metallic armor at
whatever angle it may strike.
I am, sir, very respectfully yours, J.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 27, 1863,
The Policy, of. Freedom and Restoration.
EFrom the Virashington Chronicle ]
The followingdetter, written without any expec
tation of its meeting the public eye, is from the pen
of an attorney of standing in New York, formerly a
practising lawyer-and slaveholder in the South,
having been the principal attorney in one of the
most important cases in the Southern States, be-
tween Georgia and the Cherokees, and associated
with William Wirt and John Sergeant in that case
before the. Supreme Court of the United States:'
GILBERTSTILLE, August B.—l have been reading,
this morning, an abstract of the report of the com
mission on the freedmen. How wonderfully God, by
His providence, is educating this nation ! In all this
report I find my own opinions in regard to the blacks
--of their capabilities, dispositions, and-aptitudes—
opinions the result of upward of thirty years' ob
servation and reflection—all confirmed to the letter.
To, me this is but the realization, by experiment and
facts, of what have demonstrated to myself in
theory. The plans and suggestions of the commis:
Mon are in perfect harmony with my judgment. I
do hope the Government will carry them- out with
Steady and persistent energy. Everything of good
to the race, of prosperity, too, for the SOUth, depends
on the Administration meeting the large responsi
bility thrown upon it with manly and'cheerful cou
rage. Timidity is always a terrible evil, and in the
present position of the nation would be death. Our
safety, the future, wellbeing of this country, rests
on the moral courage of those who hold its destinies
fn their hands. This will arouse all the physical
courage that war may demand. -
The old -Whig party . always embodied a large
amount of intellect, right-mindedness, and moral
worth ; but it lacked courage ; 11 died of its timidity,
its cowardly, time•serving policy.
As suggested modestly in this report, the blacks
ought to be made to understand that the President's
proclamation of freedom will be carried out to the
letter. The country ought to. be emphatically: as
sured that slavery must cease in the rebel States so
fast as the power of the Government is made effec
tive within their limits. We are pledged before the
world to give freedom to every slave in these States.
Our faith and our honor are pledged to this ; and I
hope the President, in his next annual menage, will
make the country understand that this is not to be
brought in question;—cannot -be matter for nego
tiation or debate. The country will sustain this
position if boldly and firmly announced.
If you ever see 'the Preeident, tell him that the
country will back lum more energetically the more
decided and energetic his action against slavery.
We look with no confidence to any reconstruction
of the Union if slaverv.is to remain to struggle anew
for the inastery of the coantryi.. His last order in
regard to exacting, under the penalty of a Revere re
taliation, the treatment due to prisoners of war for
our- colored soldiers, has reinspired the confidence
which had begun to wane in regard to Me intended
course in this respect.
- The manner in which the effective power of the
Constitution is to be restored in the revolted States, -
and by what means these will regain their discarded.
rights, will require much thought. The course of
events may shed light on our path, or rather may
mark for us a path. A provision of the Constitu
tion; heretofore looked upon more as a flourish of
rhetoric than as having any practical efficacy, may
not unlikely be found to contain an unsuspected po
tency. I refer to the obligation assumed by the na
tion to gyaranty to each State a republican`form of go
vernment. How guaranty?. -By exercising all and
every power necessary to make the guarantee ef-
It must, in a refractory State, by some means
cause a State Government to be.
2. To cause it to be republican in form.
3. It must be a State Government holding the
State in its rightful relation to the nation and to the
National_Government. •
But a Government, republican in its form, implies
that it is 'a Government created; by the public or.
general voice. Suppose the body of the people re-
fuse to createsuch a- Government,- what is to be
done -None other than such a Government, co
connected, can •be permitted to, exist. Congreis,
then—war and the war power having ceased—must
necessai ily govern the refractory State in such mode
as it may see fit to'adopt.
There is a world of matter to be thought, out in
regard to - this clause of the Constitution, and in re
gard to the course hereafter to be adopted when the
rebel States are subjected to obedience, so as to place
them their proper relations to the other States
to the nation, and to the National Government, '
while the faith of the Government is maintained in
regard to the slaves. If the right to legislate has.
arisenlbecause there is no legitimate State Govern
ment now in existence; then a law may be enacted.
not only freeing the present bondmen, but forbidding
slavery hereafter. • '
The time is coming when 'we shall need good
. thieltersiAri the - couneils of the-nation, and men
watchfulto gain instruction from every new aspect
and . Phitabg Mat , Yourot
LETTER FROM ST. LOUIS.
Affairs in the Interior of idissonri-Guerilla
Outrages-RuantrelPs Operations, before
the' hestroction of *Lawrence- Who is
Blamed- for the Occurrence-News from
the=lndian Territory-Position of General
Binnt-Whereabouts and Strength of the
Enemy-. Affairs in 'Eastern Arkansai -
Movements of Gen. Steele-. Political Rat
ters In Alissourt-Conventionof the Radi
cals-Military Commanders Ordered to
GiVe Slaves Escort out of the State-Or
ganizing Colored Reginients-The Meat.
ST. Louts (Mo.), Aug. 24, 1863.
Since Marmaduke made his raid into southeast
DliCeouri to Cape Girardeau, and returned to Ar• '
kaneas as speedily as he came, there have been no
organized forces of the : , enemy within the State.
Though the war is supposed to be ended north of the
Arkansas borders, we are far from enj oving the com
forts of peace, From One end of the State to the
other, life and property are at the mercy of roving
bands of marauders. Every day or two a fresh out
rage is reported. This morning we have the storpof
the shooting, in eold blood, 'Dia Union man living in
the vicinity of WaYnesville; in Pulaski county. On
Thursday last a similar outrage was reported in
Boone county, on the north .aide of Missouri river.
Twice in one week the °each from Rolla to Spring.
field was stopped in broaddaylight and the passengers
robbed of everything of value, some escaping with
only a shirt and pair of drawers, without a pennyto
purchase a fresh supply of "outer garments. Threats
are thrown out that the railways will soon be inter
rupted in the northern part of the State, and several
bands of guerillas are knowato be in the vicinity of
the roads where they can fall upon thein at any mo
meat. The telegraph to Kansas City and Leaven
worth has been - working but three or four days
during the present menth, and the managers have
feared it would,be out off altogether.
'All the' guerilla operations in the State sink into
iilsigoilicance, When compared with the destruction
ofLawrence. For nearly fourteen months Quantrell
hes operated on the western border of the State,
•
deriving his submistence chiefly from the Union
people of Missouri.. `-He did not hesitate to take
whatever: he wished from his Secession friends,
though he always preferred to honor the loyal in-
habitants with his presence, and allow the disloyal
to go unmolested He made a few brief raids into
Kansas, but was always under-a wholesome fear
of .General Blunt. He sacked and partially burned
Olathe in Johnson county, Kansas, some months
ago, and a few weeks later visited Shawneetown in
the same , manner.
His visits to Kansas were invariably made iu the
most hasty manner, and his fear of the troops under
General Blunt, always sent him back to his hiding
plice the instant hie work was completed, Gin.
Bent had nearly succeeded in , finishing up Quart
trell's band at ,the time the change was made in the
department cornmanders. Gen. Schofield assigned
Blunt to the Indian station, and placed Gen. Ewing
in control 'of the border. By this change of com
manders, and the substitution of a conciliatory for
a vigorous policy, Quantrell was allowed a respite
from annoyance. For two months past he has been
preparing his - forces for a raid into Kamm that
should surpass all his former movements. On Satur
day morning the country was startled by the account
of the burning of Lawrence and the massacre of its
citizens. Vague threats had been thrown out that
tbo kansas Abolitionists would receive a lesson
Such as had never before been given them, but there
were few who sUpposed that such a fiendish outrage
would be perpetrated. Full accounts of the occur
rence have not yet been received in St. Louis, but
enough has mine to show that the affair is without
a parallel in the history of the rebellion. It is only
in the tales of Indian wars that we find deeds of
atrocity to eqUal it.
The friends of General Curtis are attaching much
blame to the present commmander of the depart
ment, alleging that the mild policy which he has
instituted has thus prOduced its fruit. A large
Portion of their malediction falls upon the State
officiate, who secured the change in commanders,
rather-than upon General Schofield himself. As
long as it was the plan to shoot and hang guerillas,
Wherever they could be found, there were but few
outrages. The experiment of winning them over
by loVe has been found a failure, and the sooner it is
abandoned the better— The State officials are advo
cates of mild measures, and are, no doubt, honest in
'their belief that kindness will produce order. The
practical workings of the plan are not in its favor.
From the Indian -nation we have tidings that
Gen. Blunt is in the face of the enemy with strong
prospect of a battle. It is no secret that the enemy's
forcee outnumber ours by more than one-third.
Neatly all the battles in the Southweat have been
fought against odds, yet our army has in most in
stances been successful. Our headquarters are at Fort
Gibson, in the Indian Territory, which is the key
to the country, between the. Arkansas and lied
rivers. The enemy is at Fort Smith, a post in the
western part of Arkansas, and famous for along
time as the locum tenens of Ben. ltloCulloch. General
.Steele, lately from Texas, is in command of the
rebels, his whole force, being not far from fifteen
thoeiand. It consists of-.TeXas and Arkansas .con
scripts, and the remnant of Albeit Pike's Indians.
..Until Steele's arrival,, Gen Copper was in aom.
,wand, displayed considerable energy. The 'ra
id_ officer is acknowledged by our commanders to
be the ablest rebel leader on the Soutliweatern iron.
tier,, and his own troops have always displayed
great confidence in him. Political, and nonmilitary,
reasons are alleged as ilk cause of- his being super
sided. A conflict may take Place at any time, be
tween Gen. Blunt and Gen. Steele. Each is prepa
rine to take the offensive. .
POLITIAN.
_ .
. In Eastern Arkinsas, the Federal General Steele.
Is on the war-path -in the direction of Little ROck.
The matter has been made public here, so, that the
information oan.by no means be considered contra
band. General Davidson, who recently left Pilot
Knob with a force of cavalry, will act in. conjunc
tion with him. It is, confidently expected that the
Stars and Stripes .will floe over the Arkansas
capitol before the Ist of September. Gen. Price is
defending Little Rock with a force of not far from
'14,000 men, most of them conscripts from Arkansas
and Northern Louisiana. There is now no doubt
of the death of General Holnies. Persons have ar
rived in this city who were in Little Rock at the
time of his death, and saw his body lying in state.
He succumbed -to the effects of bad -widelty,taken
in overdoses. -
In this State, political matters are of the liveliest
kind - imaginable. There is a constant and bitter
warfare carried on between the two, wings of the
Unionists, and it would puzzle the shrewdest politi
cal tactician to devise any measures that could Unit e
them. The Conservatives accuse the Radicals of
designing to revolutionize the State, and overthrow
the Constitution and everything else to secure the
immediate extinction of slavery. In return, the
Radicals charge that it is the wish of. the Conserve
tivea- to fasten slavery upon the State forever,
whether the means be constitutionalur not. The
Immediate Emancipationists hold a mass conven
tion at Jefferson City on the Ist of September, at
which they will probably pass strong resolutions in
favor of the instant destruction of slavery, and the
placing of Missouri on a free basis. The convention
bids fair to be largely attended. The Conservatives
are talking about making a counter demonstration,
but have not yet decided upon the matter.
A step solnewhat In advance of anything under
the civil law has been taken by Gen. Quincy, com
manding the district of the 'Border, with head quar
ters at Kansas City. On the 18th inst., he issued an
order, which bspnblished in the Democrat this morn
ing, requiring commanders of military stations in
Western Missouri to give escort out of the stife to
certain negroes. The order specifies those "who
were the slaves of persons who, since the 17th day
of July, 1862, have been engaged in the rebellion, or
have in, any way given aid and comfort thereto: ,
The effect of the order will be to free all, or nearly
all, the slaves in the western district of Missouri.
In sixty days from this time there will be very few
slaves left theie. Large numbers are now congre
gated at'the military posts, and have only been
awaifing.an opportunity like the one now afforded,
to make their way out of the State. The occupation,
of slave territory by our armies has thus far afforded
slaves opportunities to secure their freedom, but I
believe this is the first instance where it is made the
duty of military commanders to give them escort
out, of the land of bondage.
Three fiegro regiments have been 'formed in St
Louis, and more are in process of formation. The
Rapers of Saturday announced that a board of offt
cere would convene here this week for the examina
tion of candidates for commissions in colored reg,i
rants. I learn that the examination, will be very
rigid, and that none who are not thoroughly compe
tent will be allowed commissions. A full brigade of
Colored troops is to be organized here shortly for
service on the lower Mississippi. Tile recruits are
nearly all the slaves of disloyal owners.. Great
care has been taken to prevent a collision between
military and State officials in the matter of enlist•
leg negroes. Thus far the most perfect harmony
has prevailed. - . •
The heat during the past week has been intense,
but is modified greatly to-day. Since yesterday
noon the thermometer has fallen from 96° to 69°.
We hope cool weather may continue.
The) 58t1i Pennsylvania Regiment, Colo-.
The Chambersburg Repository makes the following
allusion to the 158th Regiment of Pennsylvania vo•
lunteers, and its return to Chambersburg. The com
pliment to Col. Mcliibbin is well deserved. He is a
brave officer, and worthy of all honor:
The 158th regiment of Pennsylvania drafted men
-returned here, to be mustered out of service, on
Thursday evening last, when the men were fur
loughed to go home until Monday. On that day
they returned, and were mustered out by Lieut. 0.
McKibben, U. S. army, and it' was expected they
would be paid today. As soon as paid they gill be
discharged. . .
This regiment is coMposed of inost of the drafted
men of this county—all hilt one company, we be
lieve, which joined the 165th Regiment—and all. - the
drafted men from Cumberland and Fulton. It is coil
ceded on all hands that in point of discipline, ef;
ficieney,and behavior generally,it was unsurpassed by
any. regiment in the service. The men, as a class,
were of our own best citizens, and they were most
fortunate in their officers. Col. David B. Iließibbin,
of the regular •• army, was entrusted with the com
mand,' and while he enforced the most thorough dis
cipline, he commanded the respect and affeetion of
his men. Indeed, ithas rarely been the fortune of an
officer to bring to such a high degree of drill, and
order generally, raw trcippa, and at the same time
preserve the ardent attachment of his command.
. We would indeed that no worse officers than Col.
Mellibbin wore the stars- of brigadiers. - 31e was
ably seconded in all his efforts by Lieut. Col.
Troxel; of this county, and Major Hall, of Cumber
land—both efficient, untiring, and brave officers.”
•• Ex-Mayor Wood, of New York, returning
from his visit to Halifax, carouse to New York, was
at - *Portland, Me., on Wednesday. The dittaertisfr
Says that at the solicitation of many he would ro.
ttlrA 41;4 Vet's, thete. t Vita evening proNs.bigs
PIEWAION r.
nel - Bavid B. McKibbin.
THE STATES IN REBELLION,
Interesting Letter from a Citizen of Gear ,
gin.
[From the Cincinnati Commercial.)
The following has been handed to us by a citizen
of Georgia who recently lelt that State and is now
in this city. He desires no personal notoriety, and
would not have his name made public but we may
observe it is a name not unfamiliar ine the history of
Georgia, The paper annexed hears ample internal
evidence of emanation from the pen of a South
erner. Combined with some curious misapprehen
sions:the reader will find much that is instructive,
and some stntementa of facts that are of considerable
importance : -
THE CONDITION OF THE BONTH AND THE rEE-Earros
Off THE BOOTHEEtH PEOPLE:
I am a native of the noble, but unfortunate, South,
and, in writing what -I shall I will be blamed by
many, both North and South; but I am now an old
man, and have never feared nor regarded the
opinions of men who found fault, unless I felt that
they had a right to do ao. I write for',the - sake of
truth, and I am.not without some credulity that can.-
did men will at leaat say that I have been faithful.
I am not disposed to name them, but many have
written and made speeches throughout the country
since the war began; and have poisoned the public
mind in a degree is the North, and embittered
Southern men—what their object has been is with
them and their God—but, to my knowledge, they
have.not acted in fairness to the country, and if, by
their acts; one man's blood has been shed, I never
can forgive them. The people North, East, West,
and South, in this nation, are my countrymen and
women, and I love them, and if I were to consult
my feelings in their errors, I would- persuade them
to do so ne more ; but the bright doctrine of our, Sa
viour, shown in the ease of theeinning woman, will
not do to apply to men who destroy Governments—
one, too, like this, built upon patriotic bones and
cemented with their blood. The doctrine of" the
hero of the Hermitage is the only one for us as 'a na
tion ever to regard: "By the Eternal, the Union
must and shall be, preserved."
The feelingof Southern men should not be weighed
by the say , so of every barroom brawler and syco
phant who comes to the North from the South;
they are a braise and a noble people, and intelligent
men here will not and cannot gainsay the truth of
this assertion.- They committed a.grievous error in
seceding from the Union, but that error does not ad
mit of other errors—if om steals a horse from Joe,
Joe has no right to steal a horse from Tom as a re
muneration; the law regulates all of these things.
If the North think all of the South are John Mor
gan men, and will sustain - his acts in this country
recently, they act as badly as the South, in her
ignorance of what the North is. In warfare both
parties have done things shameful to civilization,
and at which they will blush in the future.
The true feeling of the South is this: The pro
perty-holders of lands and slaves control- the
masses, and they will hold in the army, at all
he zards, the poor—feeling-thus, they must loose
every thing in case of failure—many of - them would
gladly go back to the old Union, though were this
fear not entertained, and the men, the poor men,
the gulled and abused men, by Yancey, - Toombs,
Ellett, and the infamous 'Howell Cobb, would go
home at any time if they could,
But how are they to do it ? If they leave the army,
and remain in the Southern limes, they will be shot
for desertion ;-and if they come to the North, their
families must suffer. They have now to pay, in.
Confederate money, $1 50 per pound for bacon, and
the same price per dozen for spun thread; and shoes
are "played out." This, ioo, in the sight of men
who were willing to give all they had to sustain the
rebellion; and said they would drink all the blood
that was spilled, in the outset of this war. Poor
mortality! One-third of the Southern army are to
day Union men, and never were in favor - of rebel
lion ; but the bayonet has done for them what it will
do for the whole land, unless it is guarded against.
To think of "starving the Smith out "-is all folly.
Everything is high there; in their currency, but they
have an abundance. Lee Jourden, in the State of
Georgia, made, last year, 100,000 bushels of corn.
They have good enough living, and plenty.. They
have suffered for the want of salt, but now they are
making it on the coast, and at several salt works,
and will soon have any quantity. I have known
salt to sell for 60 cents per s pound, but that will be
no more the case. A pair of jeans pants cost me
$2O in June. In fact, everything in the way of
clothing is high, and hard to be had. They have cot
ton, but no cards ; I have seen them sell at $.20 a
pair. '
This is the mighty land of wealth, bloom, and aria
tocracy that Jeff. Davis was to build. A man who
made hie last speech in the United States Senate for
the Union ; went home, turned Secessionist , and be
gan to steal. They paid twenty thousand dollars
a year, and he loved the dear people so well that he
took it, and in the army he has given every kinsman
that he has a high poeition—Bragg, Taylor, Van
Dorn, Lovel, and Devisee without number; even
fool Joe is a majongeneral, and to keep these fellows
'in cash, I presume he had Congress to make an ap
propriation of one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars in specie, to send North to the Fort Donelson
prisoners, and pocketed it himself; he sent none.
And no man can complain without being- placed in
prison. He put me in the tobacco factory with Co
lonic' Cochran, Ely, and a host of Federal soldiers,
on suspicion, andleft me there until he was forced
by, public sentiment to release me. Now, what can
a people hope for. with such a man to rule? And
how great is the obligation of the Government to
rid a misguided people of such a monster?
I cannot leave this connection without reference
to the brightest gem ever reflected from the purest
ray in the diadem of God, Alexander H. Stephens ;
and recently, if he had been permitted to go to
Washington,. the world would have felt his mission,
as becomes him. He is Vice President of the
Southern Confederacy, it is true, but to this me
ment he is a . Union man. I was born and raised
within eighteen miles of him, and no man knows
him better than I do ; we toiled together for the
Union, but when Toombs and the Cobbs kicked no
ble Georgia out of the Union, he felt that it was his
duty to play a part. That part will only be known
to that God who caused the shadow to go down
upon the dial of Ahaz. 'But, still, Stephens is a
Union man and a Christian.
The resources of the South have beea always
greatly misunderstood by-the North, and the Ad
ministration papers are to blame for it, or the autho
rities themselves. The South, by volunteers, and
by conscription up to thirty-five years raised an
army of five hundred and twelve thousand men, and
by the conscript act, up to forty-five Yeicre, she in
creased the army ninety•two thousand, making six
hundred and four thousand men she had before the
last conscription. I do not know how many men
that act will carry into the army, but, with the act
forcing all who have had substitutes into the army,
I-think the two will increase the army three hun
dred thousand men. That would make nine hun
dred and four thousand men that have bees and - are
in the army, without reference to losses in battle, or
those who have died from - disease. .
Now, what the losses are 1 - cannot say with ex
aetnese, but I am satisfied that the South has an ar
my of at least four hundred thousand effective men,
counting all losses, and her army is well provided &
with the munitions of war. These facts will astonish
the simple public, but the intelligent it will not. I
am not disposed to draw conclusions, and, in truth,
that is not my object, but to place the truth before
the people, and, in time. I trust that it will be "as
bread thrown upon the waters, to be gathered many
days hence."
I have been told that the erects of the war have
nob been felt in the North. Those who think an do
not know the truth.. It is felt now, and will soon be
seriously . felt. The Southern States are now raising
no cotton or sugar. The State of Georgia will only
permit the planting of one half acre of cotton to the
and. All of the Southern States have made simi
lar rules, and it is impossible to raise a trop the
nett year, if peace were made this winter. Then,
what reason have you to say you do not and will
not feel the effects of the war Where is all the'
Neiv England money that was in the country a
short time ago And where is the State money of
Ohio? And what State in this country is passing
its own paper as a circulating medium? I tell you
that the war is felt here, and unless it is speedily
stopped, yeirareruined with the South.
Bow to terminate this war has caused anxious
thought, and baffled the skill of many great men,
and I feel the most unfeigned distrust of my ability
to make a suggestion ; hut I will. In doing so, too,
I am emboldened by the fact of knowing the South,
her feelings and resources. If the war is to con
tinue, at the point of the bayonet let Chattanooga
at once be taken, and extend a line along the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad, owned, by the State of
Georgia, from Chattanooga to Atlanta, continuing
the line to Augusta, Georgia, on the eorgia Rail
road, then Georgia will be made useless to the
South, from whence nearly all supplies must come
in the future ; and more, the conservative men, in
the heart of the rebellion, will be enabled to return
home and be protected and if allowed to defend the
flag of their country, I' am willing to pawn my life
that this course will weaken the Southern army.
To overthrow Atlanta is the point that should at
first be regarded as the cardinal point; it is the core
of the whole South. In addition to this movement,
let there be no usurpation of power ; let the Consti
tution be regarded, and Lien cannot, be kept in the
Southern army.
I was in Bragg's lines when he fellback from Tul
lahoma; and his desertions were by the thousand.
Does this not prove my position? All the people
want is protection, to return to their homes.
I trust in God that this communication will be
read where it should be, and regarded. I have many
that are dear to me in the South, whom -I would
save. The graves of my-beloved mother and father
are there, and that of a brother.
Ply father was a Jackson Union man; a better
never lived. He named me after the' noble old hero
of - the Hermitage, and though I love the South, I
am a Jackson man yet. SOLErO.
EXCHANGE OF "PRISONERS—"No QUARTER "
RECOMMENDED.
[From the Richmond Enquirer, 24th.] .
This day Mr. Commissioner Ould meets for the
first time the new Federal commissioner, a certain
Gen. Meredith, to confer on the terms of the cartel,
and endeavor to settle the principle of exchange for
the future. < It, is scarcely possible to hope that any
conclusion satisfactory to both sides can be arrived
at in this conference. The Federal. Government
has planted itself insolently upon the demand that
our runaway negroes, when taken in arms against
their masters, shall be treated as prisoners of war,
and shall be exchanged against white men. ileac.
derates have borne and forborne much to mitigate
the atrocities of war ;'but this is a thing which the
temper of the country cannot endure: Our Govern
ment has issued an order as to the treatment of re
voltednegroes when captured. Certain captured
negroes, under that order, have been imprisoned at
Charleston, to await the disposition of the State
Government. Thereupon, the Yankee War Depart
ment sent forth this letter to their Secretary of the
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON CITY,
Aukust 80863.
: Your letter of the 3d instant, calling the
attention of this department to the eases of Orin a.
Brown, William H. Johnston, and William Wilson,
three colored men, captured on the gkinboat Isaac
Smith, has received consideration. -This department
lair directed that three rebel prisoners of South Caro
lina, if there be any such in our possession, and if
not, three others, be confined in close custody and
held as hostages for Brown,- Johnston, and Wilson,
that the fact be communicated to the rebel authori
ties at Richmond.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
•_ EDWIN M. STANTON, Sec'y of War.
Hon: GIDEON:W_ ELVES, Sec'y of the Wavy.
Thus issue is joined. We take it to be quite im
possible that our government will yield one jet on
thilevital point; but the, first demand of the new
Federal commissioner will be, thatwe at once con
sent to put the negroes on the fooling of our own
troops, and value them against eaah other, man for
man, grade for grade. That being refused, as it
must be, the conference, no dou:ot, will be broken
off, and there is an evil of the cartel, and of all ex;
change of prisonora. .
This attempted outrage by the Yankee Govern
ment is the firstfruit of their temporary luck in hold
ibg an excess -of prisoners. WAS sorely against
their will at fkat that they consented to any cartel
at all, and regarded Confederate prisoners in any
other light than that of captured malefactors. due to
the, penitentiary or the gallows. With spiteful rage
they found themselves compelled to provide for the
safety of their own peat multitude of prisoners in
our hands, by an arrangement for exchange, which
we might be sure would be observed only so long at
they thought they would suffer, more than we, for
want of Ouch an arrangement. They avail them
selves of the first opportunity to reasaert their ori
ginal theory—namely, that we are rebele and Mita.
nalo, and have no-righte. All the rights are on the.
side of what they call "the law ; 'they are suppress
ing an insurrection, they say, in their own country ;
and all means are legitimate.
Thus, they not only_ adopt the utterly barbarous
expedient of exciting servile insurrection, but they
inform us that if those revolted negroes are restored
to their masters, n hhey. will put an equalnumber of
Confederate citizens to bard labor. It is not merely
the insolent pretension of a regular Government
affecting to- deg " rebels 1"! Mt it ip Sidetulay
THREE CENT'
stab, which they are aiming at our institutions
themselves, because they know that if we were in
sane enough to yield this point, to treat black men
as the equal of white, and insurgent' slaves Eklf eclat
valebt to our brave soldiers, the very foundation of
slavery would be fatally wounded.
The , pretension to treat us no longer awbeliige.
rents, but as malefactors ;to deal with us, not by the
usages of civilized warfare, but by the rules' of cri
minal jurisprudence, is a fact which we have now to
look full in the face, and to meet as best we can. Thee
theory is very well expounded by a passage which
we rind in the letter of an Ohio correspondent to the
Blew York Tribune, describing the unmanly- out
rages perpetrated upon_our gallant Gen. Morgan
and his officers. The writer says:
"Shave and wash and clothe a general, like a'
general convict[-If you explain that it is John's
due, as a horse-thief, they are so angry that they
tell you it is just what the Federal Government has
been doing all through. When'you point out that a
government clan do some things which private bodies
can't--as a sheriff can take lawfully what a burglar
cannot—they tell you—those who knoni they do so
safely—that one is just as much a government as
the other; that the one is a government and the
other is not, and so on."
Just so ; here is the principle stripped naked. The
enemy has a right to take horses and everything
else in our country; we, if we retaliate, are horse.
thieves. Milroy, and Butler, and Banks are agents
of the lawful Government; but Lee is a private
person, merely Stealing. They are the constituted
authorities; we are lawlesa persons, evading or re
sisting the sheriff's officers. Their prisonere in our
hands are entitled to respectful usage ;-ours cap
tured by them are entitled to nothing but condign
punishment for their crimes. If they yielded for a
time to our superior force. and agreed to exchange
on equal terms, it was still under protest, and with
the firm resolution to make us suffer for it ten.
fold the moment they should have the advantage.
On - the same principle, also, the forbearance of Gen.
Lee in Pennsylvania was received as matter of right;
for the criminal at large has no title to retaliate
upon the officers ofjustice; and, the enemy looked
upon that chivalrous forbearanoe with sincere,-plea
sure, not so much because their people were spared
as because ours were degraded by it. Our refrain.
ing from retaliating the desolation which they had
visited upon our country, had at least the appear
ance of accepting on our• part, that charaster of
criminal which it is their poliey to Impose upon us.
Under these circumstances, what hope is there of
the arrangement of, the cartel upon a footing' of
equality t Will Lincoln's Government 'renounce
that audacious pretension to treat us as criminals?
Or will it, after deliberately enlisting , our runaway
negroes into its military service, consent to give
them up to be dealt with by our State laws -as
insurgents?` We know very -well what these
question's all tend to. We have, long perceived
that the time is at hand when no more
prisoners will be exchanged and no more
prisoners will be taken. Our people and our
troops are entitled, at, the hands of their
Government, to such , protection as a Government
can afford them. Our soldiers entered the Con.
federate service as the soldiers of a regular Govern
ment, and they cannot afford to meet the enemy in
the character of malefactors. If there is to be no
exchange on equal terms, better there should be no
exchange at all—better that the enemy should un
derstand there will be no quarter asked nor given ;
and then at last there will be equality. .
We await with impatience the result of the con
ference between the two exchange commissioners,
but strongly apprehend that the occupation of those
gentlemen is almost gone.
1 - 'OIING HIM ENROLLED AS SOLDIERS-THE BOYS IN
A notice to the following effect eippears in the En
qufrer :
ATTEIMON ! YOUNG.IYIEN.—Having been author
ized to raise a company of youths, from 16 .to 18
Tears of age, I would call the attention of the boys
of the country to the opportunity now offered them
of doing service to their country, and .honor to'
themselves. Comfortable quarters and rations fur
nished from day of enlistment. Uniforms furnished
as soon as the company is organized. Apply at'
once, at the 1 - 1 - 7 zig Office, to
G-EO. P. BONDTJRANT, •
Captain and Recruiting Officer.
WHAT A SUBSTITUTE COSTS IN THE CONFEDERACY.
83,000 will be paid for a substitute, to go iniprin ar
tillery company now stationed near Orange Court
House. The substitute must be a Virginian, and
over 45 years of age. Apply at the 'Enquirer Office,
immediately.
THE BOMBARDMENT OP PRIDAY
CHARLESTON, August 22. , Fr0m 6 o'clock M.
until '7 O'clock P. M. yesterday the enemy's fire on
Fort Sumpter was very heavy. Nine hundred and
twenty-three shots were fired, and seven hundred
and four struck the fort either outside or inside.
The eastern face of the fort was badly battered.
Some guns on the east end and the northeast face
were disabled. The flag was shot down four times.
Five privates and two - negroes were wounded in
Sumpter.
The enemy's fire on Wagner caused five casualties,
including
• Capt. Roliert Pringle, killed. Our sharp
shooters are annoying the Yankees. considerably.
It is supposed that the enemy bursted one of their
Parrott guns yYesterday afternoon.
At 11 'o'clock last night a communication from the
enemy, unsigned, was sent to. Gen. Beauregard, de
manding the surrender of Sumpter and the Morris
Island batteries, with a notification that the city
should be shelled in four hours if the demand was
not complied with. Beauregard was on a rearm.
noissance, and Gen. Jordan returned it for the sig
nature of the writer. About 2 o'clock this morning
the enemy began throwing shells into the city from
a battery on the marsh, between Morris and James
Islands, and distant - eight miles from the city.
Twelve 'B.inch Parrott7shelle fell in the city, but
caused no casualties. The transaction is looked on
as an outrage on civilized warfare. The shelling
had a good effect in hastening the exodus of non
combatants.
At daylight this • merning the enemy opened fire
vigorously on Sumpter. The Ironsides has since
opened. Sumpter is replying. Wagner is firing
briskly on the enemy's advanced works, four hun
dred and fifty yards from our battery.
FORTRESS IYIO3 . gROE, .Auguitt 25.—The rebels' are
very despondent at City Point. and in fact, through
out the entire-Confederacy, as to the fate of Charles
ton% and, independent of the telegraphic despatches,
their newspapers ‘ publish nothing whatever con
cerning the 'impending crisis.”
No more - In acado that the "throat to the harbor
of -the doomed city is strongly fortified with sand
batteries,-which will defy all the Yankee guns and
monitors, ,, is published, and the rebel papers bdito•
rially make no remarks on existing affairs.-
THE KANSAS MASSACRE.
Additional Details of the Tragedy at Latin-
LUAVENWORTH, Aug. 2L—The Conservative -pub
lishes the following account of the Lawrericemas
aacre,:from one of ita editors,just returned froMthe
ruins:-,
We arrived in Lawrence at seven o'clock. Fly
ing rumors had painted a terrible picture, but- f a e
reality exceeded the reports,
We found MassactUsetts street one mass of
smouldering ruins and crumbling walls, the light
from which cast a sickening glare upon the little
knots of excited men and distracted women, gazing
upon the ruins of their once happy homes and pros
perous business. Only two business houses were
left upon this street one known as the Armory, and
the other as the old Miller block.-
About one hundred and twenty-$V$ houses, in all,
were burned, and only one or two escaped being
ransacked and every thing of value carried away
or destroyed.
Six or eight soldiers who camped uponthis side.
of the river, and who ered across at every rebel who
appeared upon the bank, deterred the cowards from
destroying some of the houses near-the ferry, and
from cutting down the flag-pole. The force of-the
rebels is variously estimated from 250t0 400:
Reliable parties place it at 300. Their every act
during their stay in the city was characterized by
the most cowardly barbarism. They entered the
town• on the -gallop, firing into every, house, and•
when the occupants appeared at the door they were,
shot down like dogs. Five bodies, burned to a crisp,.
lay near the ruins 01 the Eldridge House. They
could not be recognized? Eighteen out of twenty
two unarmed recruits, camped south of town, were
murdered in their tents. Their bodies lay in the
colored church when we arrived. Messrs. Trask,
Dr. Griswold, Baker,
and Thorp, were shot down in
theyard of Dr. G. before the eyes of their families.
Judge Carpenter was wounded in his yard, and fell,
when his wife and sister threw themselves upon his
body, begging fer mercy,but to no avail. The fiends
dismounted, stuck their pistols between the persons
of his protectors, and fired.
Miss Stone, daughter of the proprietor of the City'
Hotel; bad a diamond ring stolen from her-finger.
Quantrell obliged the man to restore it. In revenge
for this the ruffians afterward cameback and shot her
father before the mother'weyea. They also tried to
kill Miss Stone.
General Collamore went into his well to hide,
and the bad air killed him. His son and Pat Keefe
lost their lives trying to get the father out.
The life of- District Attorney Riggs was saved
by the heroism of his wife, who seized the bridle
of the rebel's horse, who attempted to shoot him as
he ran.
Several cases of remarkable bravery of women
were related to 118.
The wife - of Sheriff three successive times
Put out, the fire kindled to burn the house. Her hus
band was hidden under the floor. The house was
saved by her heroism.
The offices'of the Journal, Tribune, and Republican
were, of course, levelled to the ground. John Sheel,
Jr., of the Tribune, otarted for his home from the
office after the rebels came in. Mr. Murdoch, a
printer in the office, tried to induce him to accom
pany him into a well near by for safety, but he would
do nothing but go home to defend the house, which
he did, and was killed.
Murdoch went into the well add was saved. A
younger eon of John Spear, Sen., killed a rebel and
left. The guests at the Eldridge HOUse were ordered
out, their rooms pillaged, and some of the people
shot. Two men from Ohio were wounded there,.
and are now in this city. Only the presence and
peremptory orders of Quantrellprevented the mas
mere of all the occupants after they had been march
ed out on the street.
The rebels were told that there was a negro baby
still in the house, but they said, "We will burn the
o—d d—d little brat and they did. We saws its
charred remains, burned black as the heart of: its
murderers. The books of the county and district
clerks were burned, but those of the register of deeds
were in the. safe, and are supposed to have• been
saved. Every.safe in the city but two were robbed,"
in the Eldridge store.
`"ail
Eldridge and :Fames
Perrine gave the rebels all the money in the safe,
and were instantly shot down. All the hotels were
destroyed except the City Hotel. The lossin•cash is
estimated at $2.50 1 000, andtin property and all at
$2,000,000. That is a low enough estime,te..—Cfncin
not/ Commercial.
POP,TRAIT:',OI^,_FDREIGN MINISTEIL9,-,A corres
pondent of the 'New Bedford Mercury, at auburn,
N: Y., thus describes some of the foreign. minis term
who visited that town upon the invitation of Mr.
Seward
"Are youtuntravelled readers interested in know
ing how foreign Governments look.in the persons of
their representatives Russia ie.portliest in figure
and moot impressive in face of all,,sonsewhat Web
oterian. The Hanseatic Leave. (German) comes
next. in presence, with the _additkm of smiling
sprightliness, but the subtraction of hair from nearly
the entire caput. Then corona_England, full propnr,
tinned,` dark complexioned, with much energy, of
face and voice in speaking. but soon relapsing into
silence and a ratherish simple expression, that is
redeemed by a thoughtfal• forward leaning of the
head, and an occasional wary glance of the egos- al.
ways very self-possessed - and dignified withal, even
to the verge of precision. Sweden is the .fourth of
the rotund gentlemen.. very. fat, squat and roily, with
a jolly round-top felt hat. and a young face,
" Of the 'lean kindi'• Italy takes' lead; eminently
tall and dark, frowsy haired, and a bit Quilandieb in
dress. France is hardly leas in heitht.iiieasant face,
strong nose, off-hand manner, jos ye urea,—altoge
ther quite American,in appearance. Spain is long
faced, short in stature, with heavy brown mous-
tache, lively and, conceited way—not Spanish in
look. Nicarnanakinoffensive and otherwise as might
be expected. Strange to say, young Chili is very
handsome and of fair complexfron, the dandy of all,
and very intelligent and aristocratic of face and
bearing—nothing South American whatever.'l
THE 144T8 JOSEPH DTII,,LAR.M.Etik, Lemon, ad
ministrative editor of / ,, u , announces -a new
"Joe It will be entitled " The.Ust Book,
the Choicest Anecdote". and Sayings, illustrating
Wit and Humor." -It Is doubtful whether the real
Joe Miller, a comedian attached to ono of the Lon
do.ii theatres, ever made a pun or told a lively story
hi his life. He is said to have been suoh a grave,
saturnine man, that when any one delivered a wit
ticism with the addition of This is Joe's last,. the
mirth was' ineleased at the ludicrous Idea of such a
melancholy Jacqueli being guilty of perpetrating
nythinr, loome‘ .
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POLITICAL.
Peace Democrat is one who believes in the'
docti inn of State Rights, as interpreted by the
South. —that is, that Southern States have rights,
w hil e Akorthern Slates have none. South Carolina
has a to imprison citizens of Massachusetts,
but Massachusetts has no right to remonstrate. A
Southern Slate has a right to array her citizens in
arms against the Government of the United States,
but the North ern States may not call upon her eons
to defend it... Hebeliever le the rights of men,but -
the most sacred althea° rights indeed, the only one
worth mentioning—is the right to take from other
men their right& He believerrin maintaining the
Constitution as it is interpreterny rebels in arms to
destroy it He believen all men to It equal before
the law—eapecially bn believes the poor man ter
be the equal of the rich nifine‘he laborer ter be as
good as the capitalist; yet he actively and nor:
dially sympathizes with those who deluge hia
country in blood, because tit* . are toogood gentle:
men to submit to the election - of - a rail-splitter. ire•
believes the Democratic party to have a divine right.
to govern the country, whether it has a majority of
votes or not; and be is convinced that the question,
which is the "Dmnocratic " party of the country at
the present crisis, is absolutely db'termined by the
name which itself haa assumed ; call'a horse "Spry "
and you can safely bet upon him for speed. He
calls it fair play to go to an election, and refus&to
abide by its clear result. He likes tlte views of a
two.tisted countryman of Rob Roy, who played earde.
with some Hebrews, and lost his money ; he at once'
seized the "pile," and shook his first at his fellow ,
gamblers, saying,'" Dom. me, ye are all enemies of
our Lord!"-He thinks the United States have a
~right to Cuba, and no right to prevent Kentucky
'front being stolen from us. These several points of
belief show on what a solidhasis of consistency and
intelligence the faith of the peace Democrat rests:— _
Boston, Transcript.
-- It appears that, in Northumberland county, a ,
lady may not only be kicked with inspunitY, for ut
tering ,Union sentiments; but the sex is also liable
to excommunication from the Church for the exec
else of "free'speech." This - remarl: is suggested by
information we have received, that on last Sunday
a young lady. of Milton was publicly "read out " of
church, for calling the preacher a Copperhead. The
bull excommunicating the offendinglady, was ful
minated from the pulpit by 'the exasperated-shep.
herd. We don't know which most to admire in this
reverend gentleman—his clerical dignity, or his
Christian charity. aln the matter of gallantry, he
might answer as a model.—Harrfsbum - Telegraph.
-- The following is Henry A. Wise's: opinion of
the fighting qualities of the negroes : " With white
officers I would fight a Tegiment of them against any
foreign troors which could land on our shores.
They are faithful and they are brave, and more dia."
interested than the white man They are joyous
in temperament and patient, as' their nerves are
coarse and strong."
Dr. M. F. Banzono, the distinguished New Or
leans philanthropist, who taught Ida slaves - to read
and write, with his windows barred against the ex
ecutors of the barbarous Louisiana law, is in Wish-
Mem, and hae had several interviews with Score
tarp Chase on the subject of confiscating'rebel es
tate& He says the policy of emploYing slave" labor
in Louisiana has been entirely exploded by the re
cent experiment with free labor among rice and cot
ton planter& Larger crops are raised at less ex- -
penie to the grower with free labor than with slave
labor. Dr. Banzono has been urged to assist in es
tabliehing an United States mint in Colorado Ter
ritory.
The Lancaster (Pa.) inquirei• says that a gentle.
man who has just returned from two, months' resi
dence in Ohio, gives a most cheering account of the
progress of the Union canvass in that State: The
enthusiasm forßrough, the Union candidate for Go
vernor, was the most extraordinary he had ever
witnessed. He cannot think there is a ghost of a
chance for Vallandigham.
—The New York correspondent of the Ptdiadei,
phis Inquirer reports that an overture was - made to
the Rochester Conventionists by the members of
the National Democratic Central Executive Com
mittee, who met at Newport several days ago. The
reply of the venerable pioneers of the next Brea.
dential campaign'has not transpired.
—His Excellency Oliver P. Morton, the'energetic
Governor of Indiana, is suggested in • some of the
Western papers as a candidate for the Presidency.
-- To mbintain its reputation, the Westmoreland
Repub/ican, one of the most disloyal papers in the
State, feels compelled to utter the following glaring
falsehood : "General-Hur . Uside has at laatwon a
victory In Kentucky. He has elected a Governor
and at least two Congressmen by an overwhelming
majority of bayonets."
PERSONAL.
—The following is a list of Americans registered
at Gun's American Agency, 17 Charlotte street, Bed•
ford square, London, England, for the week, August
loth: Wm. J. Tait, -Cleveland, Ohio ,• Wm. B.
Holmes and lady, New York; A. M. • Gay, Boston;
Henry Stevens, - 'Vermont ; John F. - Slate; San
Francisco, Cal.; Chas. Morgan, New York ; T. - L.
Andrews, New Orleans ; R. Marsh, New York ; E.
R. Beadle, Hartford, Conn.; Horatio Harris, Jr.,
Roxbury, Mass.; W. R. Nicholls, Roxbury, Mass.;
Richard Lathers, New York; Wm. Du Bois, Poug,h.
keepsie ; T. H. Blythe, San Francisco, Cal.; lames
Dennean, San Franclaco, Cal.; Augustus Rawlings
New York; Thomas Albert Williams, Philadelphia,
Penna.; H. D. Newcombe, Kentucky;,H. :V. New
; George W. Woodruff, - Litchfield, Coon
James D. Beetterson, Hartford, Conn.; Jonathan
Goodwin, Sr., Hartford, Conn ; JohnCollamoreand
daughter, Boston;'Ebenezer Collamore, Boston;
William Munroe, Boston ; N. H. EmEons,
Boston ; Mr. and -Mrs. A. F. Roberts, New York ;
D. T. Downes, Providence, R. I.
Rev. S. Sella Martin, from Boston, is one of the
most popular and eloquent preachers in London. A
paper in that city says of him :
“As our readers-are aware, the Rev. Sella Martin
was a fugitive slave, who has been born and bred
amid all the horrors of the ' accursed institution,'
contrived to make his escape, and by the exercise of
the most - extraordinary talents, and the natural
force of his character, to - elevate himself to a rank
equal to some of our most gifted and eloquent di
vines: Without - the buffoonery of a Spurgeon, the
&apostle extravagances of a Bellow, or the affecta
tion of other popular preachers, he has all their
force and expression. Earnest, logical, and simple,
he proceeds step by step to the ddeelopment of his
argument. Racy and humorous in his style, his il
lustrations are most vivid, while his mind revels in
an almost surpassing richness of the thought and
nobleness of sentiment. Every sentence has the
stamp of originality about it,-as all those who have
had the pleasure of listening to him will readily ra
tify. Little wonder need be excited at the crowds
mho have flocked to hear him since hehas assumed
the ministerial functions at Bromley Free Church,
and we doubt not but that his labors will yet be
blessed in a ten.folfldegree.”
A Hartford paper says of Commander Rodgers,
who dell before Fort Wagner, "His family on both
sides have been connected with the United Statea
Navy from the first His father was Com. George
W. Rodgers, who died in the service off the coast
of Brazil some:years ago,. and his mother was a
sis
ter of Commodore 0. -H. Perry, of Lake Erie fame.
His uncle was Commodore John. Rodgers who sur
rendered his disabled ship, the frigate President, to
the English fleet oft' New York, in the last war.
His brother, .0. R. P. Rodgers, is fleet captain of the.
South Atlantic Squadron.',
—Among the Mexican prisoners brought to France
by the transport Rhone, is a young Indian woman,
only twenty-three years of age, who was lieutenant'
colonel of the regiment of Zacatecas, and, who,
the course of seven Years, rose step. by step fromthe
ranks by her courage and talents. - She followedaler
husband to the army, and was aeon promoted to-the
rank of second lieutenant for her distinguinhedbra
very. The death of her husband, killed in action,
afforded her an opportunity of avenging him and of
rising another step. The French defeat at Guada
lupe on the 6th of May, 1662, obtained for her the
rank of lieutenant colonel, second in commend,of
a regiment, in which position she again- grnatly. dirt
tinguished herself during the siege of Puebla. This
singular woman handles the sword like n first-rate
fencing master, and she made herself not only re
spected but feared by her soldiers, who looked upon
her as a supernatural being. After Ortega surren
dered at discretion at Puebla, she was broughtto
Vera Cruz, and was lodged on board thc.„Rhone un
til that vessel sailed for. France. Har-nider of, ern-,
barkation mentions her rank and gives her a right
to sit at the field officers' table. ShoiS said to be”, of
agreeable personal appearance, although, as might, .
be expected, rather more masculine in her ways than,
altogether becomes her sex.
Miss Adelaide. Phillips, of Beaton, arrived hy
the Asia on Thursday last, and will: remain' in this..
country to enjoy a short, vacation previnus to her
return to Faris to fulfil.an engagement fer this win- .
ter. Miss Phillips has been singing : in many of the
principal cities in France, and,lma net with great
success. Speaking of "Lomorit," the Journak
&Amiens uses the followihq_bighly,.eomplAmenttay.
language :
"The part of Leonora; ned:lay the yams bane-,
fi c i ar y, Geared a fresh opportunity for thedispla - 7.'of -
all her versatility mid allthe charms of her genius.-
As she had shown herselteharming and sparkling in
gligoletto, and 'the 4 . Perber,' ea has she awn
hermit' impassioned and dramatic. in "11 - Trovatore
and 'La Favorite. , Floppy privilege of her glorious .
and flexible mezzo-soprano. voice, which peewit with
perfect ease, and equal and even beauty, from the
most delicate expression, frora.the lightest and - most
brilliant florfturi to the deepest . tones, to the most.
stirring accents. - We chronicle with pleasure the
tumultuous and hearty applause, the calls and the
`recalls, the bouquets, all which consecrated the
zling and legitim • sii,x3auccesa of Mins
—Gov. Andrew of. Massachusetts, while on. his
way to Fiyeburs,and near Conway, had, an oppor
tunity of taking the ,and,
an extemporized:fire de
partment. A, cerrespcmdent oftheliortsmOnth Jour.
. .
net says he Was atonetlme on thc,..reof surrounded
by smoke 113:0:burning cinders, tb.+.3a, at work at the
chaimpOmp, or carrying Ovate :?to the. chambers.
above. By, the vigorous effortanf l Gov. Andrew and_
his associates, a house was saled.from,the devouring,
element.
There died the other day, t Metz (France), a,
" gentleman connected With the press,” whO deserves . ,
a word of respectful memory from all the guild. Hic,
name was Collignon, prin,tev in that town, and, sop,
Of a printer in that town who WaS a son of onother
printing Collignort of,the same ilk, who was ditto to
ditto, and so on up-the unbroken honorable .and
ancient inky same family line to a primary Pietro
Collignon, printer at Metz, in the year Ag 46 p -
Mr. Vallandigham arrived at Windaer, C. W.,
opposite Detroit, Aug. 24th. He was cordially wel
comed upon hie arrival by a nAmbeer of prominent
citizens of the latter place, Hon. Mr. Pendleton is
also et Windsor, but leaves for 011ie to-morrow to
aid in the campaign.. 1H e, Vallanlighaul eieC4ZIVS
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